The 2nd Monitor

5:04 PM

0

I made this IRC client ages ago in Python, and thought I'd revisit it for Python 3.5 (I'd like to play with asyncio). Before I start, I'd like to have an overall design review about this. Known issues, although feel free to comment on them: I do too much in one class There is a fair bit of re...

Simon Forsberg

@Quill I demand a recount!

Mast

@Mat'sMug Looks all-right.

Mat's Mug

@SimonForsberg reminds me of a certain post...

Simon Forsberg

@Mat'sMug A certain counting stars?

Mat's Mug

31

Q: We'll be counting stars

Lately, I've been, I've been losing sleep Dreaming about the things that we could be But baby, I've been, I've been praying hard, Said, no more counting dollars We'll be counting stars, yeah we'll be counting stars (One Republic - Counting Stars) The 2nd Monitor is known to be a quite star-happy...

python python-3.x stackexchange web-scraping beautiful-soup

got it

oh wow

> ('retailcoder', 749)
("Mat's Mug", 931)

Simon Forsberg

5:14 PM

geez, thanks Community

Mat's Mug

IKR

Simon Forsberg

@Mat'sMug stars != pings though

Mat's Mug

oh right

nevermind then

Simon Forsberg

Thanks for the upvote, I've been waiting for that!

Dan Pantry

hello

Simon Forsberg

5:17 PM

3

Mat's Mug

nice!

Dan Pantry

It's over 9000

2

Heslacher

Congrats @SimonForsberg

Zak

@SimonForsberg @Mat'sMug is still very close to coming out on top. And it has been tied at several points so far.

Mat's Mug

I predict @Zak's tagline will win

and it would be a shame if he didn't get a t-shirt for that

Captain Obvious

5:22 PM

0

Q: Convex envelope algorithm of random set of points

This is my "naive" implementation of a convex hull algorithm. By naive I mean that I am not using any of the advanced algorithms that exist to solve this problem. using System; using System.Collections.Generic; using System.Diagnostics; using System.Drawing; using System.Linq; namespace SO { ...

c# linq

0

Q: C++ Qt - Replacing certain characters in a QString

This question is kinda similar to mine. However, I am using C++ with Qt instead of C#. How would I efficiently and easily remove all accents and special characters like !"§$%&/()=? etc. from a QString ? So "áche" should turn into "ache" or "über dir" to "ueber dir" (in german ü,ä,ö can be cha...

c++ strings qt

Simon Forsberg

@DanPantry what is?

Dan Pantry

@SimonForsberg your rep :-)

Simon Forsberg

yeah, I guess you could call it that :)

unfortunately, my SO rep isn't.

Mat's Mug

wow this guy totally missed the point

-1

A: Let's pick t-shirt tagline!

Code not saved. Will be lost :D Every code not saved will be lost

@Zak reminds me of something..

> [...] by being less being less focused on ~~ranking ahead of @SimonAndréForsberg~~ my own account and more on the site itself, its content and, more importantly, its users.

Simon Forsberg

If anyone wants to get "Peer Pressure" on Meta, now is their chance.

2

SuperBiasedMan

5:29 PM

Are you pressuring people into getting [badge:peer-pressure]?

skiwi

@DanPantry lol

It's hard to debug why my PC smells so weird when playing some games :|

Captain Obvious

0

Q: Improved NullGuard that supports property chains

While working on my simple NullGuard recently I quickly came to the conclusion that this is not enough. With some help (thx to @Servy & @Shlomo) I managed to rewrite it and this is what I have now: Basicly the new implementation gets each partial expression and checks whether it returns a valid ...

c# tree error-handling null

Mat's Mug

man that userscript is awesome

oh wow

-25

Q: A New Code License: The MIT, this time with Attribution Required

A month ago we proposed new licensing terms to cover code posted at Stack Overflow and across the Stack Exchange network. Hundreds of you voted on the proposal, and many of you let us know how we could improve. We considered all your feedback, and after careful consideration we have modified the ...

discussion featured feedback licensing creative-commons

@Mast 69 upvotes

skiwi

Help, how do I figure out how a certain smell is named :P

Mat's Mug

@skiwi open up your Clean Code book

skiwi

5:41 PM

I mean a real smell... you know in the real world ;)

Mat's Mug

the wat?

you mean smell isn't only a bad code thing?

skiwi

Well, or you're implying that the code of this game I'm playing is so badly written that it causes physical smell to come out of my PC...

Mat's Mug

in VBA Rubberducking, 3 mins ago, by RubberDuck

@Mat'sMug we've made it. We're getting spam and free license offers.

in the Rubberduck contact@ inbox

Mast

@skiwi If it smells burned, turn it off and investigate.

Mat's Mug

Personally, I'd rather not have my name attached to all possible closed source projects that might reuse my code. For instance, if a pornography website uses a bit of SQL that I contributed to Stack Overflow, they are welcome to the code without attribution since I don't want my name publically associated with that sort of thing. In general, I would be fine with attribution in a comment regardless of how visible the code is. The important thing (to me at least) is get credit from the people who really appreciate my contribution: the project's developers. — Jon Ericson ♦ 1 hour ago

skiwi

5:46 PM

@Mast It doesn't smell burned, that's why I can't really figure out what the smell is

Mat's Mug

> +37/-65

I wonder if they'll still call it "positive"

skiwi

Erhm... I'm really hoping this Open Hardware Monitor tool is not reading out the values correctly

That's idle ^^

Mat's Mug

@skiwi I think I would uninstall that game

Mast

@Mat'sMug One of the first edits indicate they aren't too sure themselves either.

Hosch250

What would it take to start a competing business with CC-by-SA?

Probably a lot of money.

Mat's Mug

5:55 PM

> Post Closed as "unclear what you're asking" by Deer Hunter, bjb568, nicael, Thomas Owens, Tim

hahaha

Hosch250

LOL.

Spam flags, please: outdoors.stackexchange.com/a/10578/8573

Captain Obvious

6:08 PM

0

Q: Improving the code design of my JavaScript Canvas game?

I created a canvas game that works well, but I'm trying to become a better programmer. I believe my code design could be much better. I'd like to know how I could improve this code. Here were my objectives for this code Create descriptive variable names and functions so anyone can tell what th...

javascript html5 canvas

Phrancis

from time import sleep

Wouldn't that^ be nice if it worked for insomnia :)

:(

Jeroen Vannevel

Lol. The is/cast vs trycast/nullcheck analyzer fires off a diagnostic when it finds as or a direct cast but the corresponding code fix only handles as. And there are explicit tests that verify a warning is shown in that case but they don't verify the source code got replaced

no wonder it went unnoticed

Mat's Mug

@Phrancis comment with a link to that picture!

Phrancis

Genius!

This: enough said — Phrancis 28 secs ago

Ethan Bierlein

6:24 PM

Monking

Duga

Try Code Review — jonrsharpe 48 secs ago

Questions about code that works should be asked here: codereview.stackexchange.com — Idos 49 secs ago

Phrancis

@EthanBierlein Hey!

Duga

As suggested above, I will take this question up with link — Markus Heller 40 secs ago

Vogel612

so is it just me or has SE gotten worse at meta?

Phrancis

@Vogel612 Define "worse"?

Vogel612

6:29 PM

backlash, (unintentional) misinformation, failure to accept critique, ...

see MIT License changes, Jobs unification, "Developer story", Design independed graduation, ...

Mat's Mug

Define "showstopper"? The feedback from the previous round and this round are both overwhelmingly negative. What's it going to take to drop this altogether? — 200_success 41 mins ago

Vogel612

^^ that

Phrancis

I have a feeling some people who really have cared about SE/SO are becoming cynical?

Vogel612

oh that's been going on for months if not years already

Phrancis

I can't say I blame SO/SE for wanting to monetize, they are a for-profit company after all. And it seems clear that they are going to roll this license thing out regardless of feedback

Vogel612

6:33 PM

hmm... they might

Phrancis

The way they worded it though, makes it sound too much like a sales pitch

Vogel612

interestingly that license change doesn't give them monetization changes

Hosch250

I think it is time they have competition.

Vogel612

@Phrancis apart from the fact that they started this off the wrong way

like.. completely

Phrancis

That too

Hosch250

6:34 PM

I need to start a competing business. I'll invite PPCG to start up over there again and let them graduate too. Same for CR.

Mat's Mug

Snack Exchange LLC?

Hosch250

The biggest question is preventing lawsuits from SO. People would likely need to cite their material if it was posted in SE first.

@Mat'sMug How about Snake Exchange?

Nah, something more serious :P

Duga

This will probably get closed as off topic, try programmers or codereview stack exchanges — Miserable Variable 9 secs ago

Phrancis

Personally, I would have preferred for them to just plain say "Hey listen, we're going to do X because Y we just wanted to let you know ahead of time so that you can decide for yourself whether or not you will stick around after the changes"

Captain Obvious

0

Q: Is it possible to simplify this python code?

This is the (hopefully) final version of my script for my file comparison problem mentioned previously in two posts on stackexchange (http://stackoverflow.com/questions/34702571/compare-lines-in-2-text-files and http://stackoverflow.com/questions/34753845/compare-lines-in-2-text-files-with-differ...

python python-2.7 csv

CommitStrip

6:37 PM

http://www.commitstrip.com/en/2016/01/14/a-story-about-timestamp-and-timezone/
CommitStrip
A story about timestamp and timezone
CommitStrip
1452796443

2

Duga

Maybe a good candidate to codereview.stackexchange.com — JFPicard 41 secs ago

Phrancis

@CommitStrip LOL time zones are fun

Mat's Mug

@Duga flagged for migration. we'll need a better title

Ethan Bierlein

@CommitStrip lol

I hope SE grows a brain and decides to not go through with this stupid MIT License crap.

Phrancis

@Mat'sMug speaking of timestamps, do you know if it's possible to get the int/numeric version of CURRENT_TIMESTAMP in TSQL?

Mat's Mug

6:48 PM

uh, what's wrong with select cast(CURRENT_TIMESTAMP as int)?

Phrancis

It gives me 42382 that doesn't sound right...?

As in, I would expect a much bigger number

Hosch250

Cast to BigInt instead?

Phrancis

Same thing

Hosch250

OK.

Mat's Mug

select cast(42382 as datetime) returns 2016-01-15 00:00:00.000

Phrancis

6:50 PM

Ahhh

Dan Lyons

@Phrancis good old excel-style dates, stored as a number of days

Mat's Mug

BTW don't cast dates into ints

datetime is a legacy type

Phrancis

So is a datetime field really two values (date + time)

Hosch250

You want SecondsDiff.

SECONDSDIFF( timestamp_ , TIMESTAMP('1970-01-01-00.00.00.000000') ) integer_value

Or something like that.

Ethan Bierlein

*sigh*

Dan Lyons

6:52 PM

date functions in SQL server make me want to find the nearest living thing and kill it :|

4

Captain Obvious

0

Q: Generic Singly Linked List in C

As you guys may or may not know, I'm more of a C++ guy than a C guy. Anyway, I decided to learn generic programming in C (and take a break from templates in C++) by implementing my first simple data structure in C : the singly linked list. What I'm looking to gain out of reviews is: Comments o...

c data-structures reinventing-the-wheel

Mat's Mug

@CaptainObvious we don't ~~know~~ care either

at least it wasn't a whole paragraph of bio

Ethan Bierlein

lol

Phrancis

SELECT CONVERT(BIGINT, CONVERT(DATETIME2, CURRENT_TIMESTAMP));
/*Msg 529, Level 16, State 2, Line 1
Explicit conversion from data type datetime2 to bigint is not allowed.*/

:|

Jan 10 at 21:27, by Morwenn

> I’m a physicist

Hosch250

@Phrancis Try the SecondsDiff() thingie.

Ethan Bierlein

6:58 PM

"so please let us know what you think about this proposed change" - People have been telling SE what we think, and the general consensus as far as I can see is "we don't want it because of x", or "this isn't a good idea because of x" and overall disagreement with the proposal. — Ethan Bierlein 1 min ago

Phrancis

SELECT DATEDIFF(SECOND, CONVERT(DATETIME, '1970-01-01 00:00:00.000'), CONVERT(DATETIME2, CURRENT_TIMESTAMP)) --1452779939
SELECT DATEDIFF(MILLISECOND, CONVERT(DATETIME, '1970-01-01 00:00:00.000'), CONVERT(DATETIME2, CURRENT_TIMESTAMP))
/*Msg 535, Level 16, State 0, Line 6
The datediff function resulted in an overflow.
The number of dateparts separating two date/time instances is too large. Try to use datediff with a less precise datepart.*/

@Hosch250 SecondsDiff is not a real function (although it would be easy to write a UDF for it)

Hosch250

Oh, maybe that is a different SQL.

I found it somewhere on the web.

Mat's Mug

datetime type will eat away your sanity

Phrancis

Ain't that the truth

Transcript for