The 2nd Monitor

Duga

21:00

By the way, there is another site (Code Review) if you'd like to post your routines for suggestions on how to improve them. There's not a big SAS community there, but if you do want to post some of this kind of thing, I would be happy to watch over there and comment on it. — Joe 1 min ago

N3buchadnezzar

@Phrancis Similarly crappy HTML is no excuse for a crappy website

Phrancis

@N3buchadnezzar Trickle down crappiness

N3buchadnezzar

But where is the starting point i wonder?

Duga

This is a good question for codereview.stackexchange.com. — flatmouse 47 secs ago

Phrancis

@N3buchadnezzar Probably here: <html>

I must say, writing HTML5 compliant website can be tricky in and of itself, and that still doesn't mean your website will not be crap

Duga

21:10

I'm voting to close this question as off-topic because this question belongs on codereview.stackexchange.com — Lol4t0 18 secs ago

N3buchadnezzar

@Phrancis Making a good website is easy. You need many advertisements. These has to be movies or atleast gifs, and have sound that start automatically. Then the entire website must fit on one page, be in comic sans hand have occasionally pop ups.

Duga

If the code works this would be OK on Code Review. Please be aware though that "shorter code" is not necessarily better code. Also, if you do post there, please write a title that describes what your code does. — Phrancis 13 secs ago

Phrancis

@N3buchadnezzar Don't forget all those links to other "articles" like "You won't believe X" and "Top 10 X"

N3buchadnezzar

@Phrancis Where each i in X is on it's seperate page.

It truly grinds my gears when a site divides a short article over several pages.

Phrancis

I'm actually pretty proud of the fully HTML5 compliant site I worked on for Cardshifter. It's not fancy, but it's clear and has no garbage

@N3buchadnezzar IKR

N3buchadnezzar

21:16

@Phrancis This page gave me a small boner fivegods.com.

Duga

@CraigEstey Ah ok. I tried to flag to have it moved, but codereview wasn't listed as an option. OP must delete this then. — flatmouse 6 secs ago

@flatmouse Ironically, I got the 250 min from your link ;-) I tried to close it with automatic migration to codereview, but only got 5 options for sites and none were applicable (and some were downright comical like a site for latex formatter) — Craig Estey 15 secs ago

Phrancis

FYI @all, chat search functionality should be fixed, per bluefeet

3

A: Chat search is returning no results

I don't know where the analyzer config went for that specific index, but it was missing. We're rebuilding the chat-stackexchange index, which will take some time to complete (probably under an hour or so?). Once that's done, searches should be fine again.

Or will be fixing itself, within the hour or so

Quill

21:39

monking

Phrancis

monking

@N3buchadnezzar it certainly looks very nice, and is not even that slow, for the amount of stuff on there

N3buchadnezzar

And there is just the stuff that is needed. Eg a tournament + where + who attends + how is it organized. All on one page

Phrancis

Even the source doesn't look bad, though it does have some strange commented-out HTML

<ul>
  <li>
    12:00 PM CST <br />
    <b>Group Stage - Part 3</b>
  </li>
  <li>
    <!-- 1:00PM CST <br /> -->
    <b>Playoffs Group</b>
  </li>
  <!-- <li> -->
  <!--   1:00PM CST <br /> -->
  <!--   <b>Winner's Bracket Round 1 (BO3)</b> -->
  <!-- </li> -->
</ul>

Captain Obvious

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Q: Spelling bee wep app crashes mobiles, glitches on IE, perfect anywhere else

Roughly one month ago I started teaching myself. I decided to make a spelling bee website for the language school I teach English at. This is the github project: https://github.com/evandocarmo/spellingbee/tree/v0.1 This is the url to visualize it:https://rawgit.com/evandocarmo/spellingbee/v0.1...

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Mat's Mug

nobody ever said "lol" in the 2nd monitor!

10

Phrancis

21:43

lol

5

They're still re-indexing, AFAICT

N3buchadnezzar

lmao

Phrancis

@Mat'sMug you should take a screenshot of that, since the link will work again shortly

Mat's Mug

Phrancis

@Mat'sMug mod-update that link up there with the pic :)

Quill

FR: can we pin that

Phrancis

21:48

Done

Duga

Hey, Welcome to SO! This question seems to be outside the scope of SO question as it is too broad / general. It is more suited for a forum or the stack exchange code review. Best of luck! — George H 57 secs ago

This would be off-topic on Code Review in its current form, as there is no working code to review. See A guide to Code Review for Stack Overflow users — Phrancis 41 secs ago

withoutaname I would look here: codereview.stackexchange.com you could even share some of your code there and get very useful tips. — George H 15 secs ago

Phrancis

Back to threads now, I suppose

Would it be alright if I posted some exercise code that I modified for review? Has to do with thread communication, it's pretty heavily modified from the book's exercise code... github.com/Phrancis/JavaExercises/tree/master/src/chapter11/…

Quill

@CaptainObvious off-topic

Phrancis

It works, but doesn't do much, it's more of an application of concept

> glitches on IE

Quill

IE is a glitch

Phrancis

21:59

In other news, water is wet

Even the new, re-branded Edge is still crap

Extremely slow, and not intuitive. And apparently they disabled the menus you can bring up in other browsers with Alt, which makes it that much less usable

Quill

either you put a fresh coat of paint on a piece of shit, or you rebuild from scratch and lose all the manhours you spent developing the platform

I think Edge did the latter and are now remembering they had devs work on more than the engine

Eᴀsᴛᴇʀʟʏ Iʀᴋ

22:18

@Quill lol

Captain Obvious

22:38

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Captain Obvious

22:59

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Phrancis

@CaptainObvious huh

Really not sure what to think about it, I guess the code works fine, it's mostly a code dump though

Captain Obvious

23:32

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Keep getting output of rx timeout:2500 while trying to add a path to google maps in xamarin android. what exactly is rx timeout and how do i avoid it? I can't find it on the internet :(

c# android xamarin

Phrancis

This is annoying that it doesn't work...

    // use an enum to control a switch statement:
    switch(tp) {
        case CAR:
            System.out.printf("A %s carries people", toLowerCase((String)Transport.CAR));
    }

Vogel612

it should...

Phrancis

Vogel612

oh that...

Phrancis

What am I doing wrong?

Vogel612

23:37

use .toString or String.valueOf()

the problem is, that enums cannot be cast into Strings, unless they extend String

which they can't, because String is final

sooooo...

Phrancis

Neither seem to work :(

N3buchadnezzar

Ohhhhhh

Phrancis

It's kind of odd because you can include the fooEnum.VALUE into a string with printf

But you can't manipulate it as a String type

Vogel612

wait... izzat groovy?

Phrancis

No it's plain old Java

Vogel612

23:41

then the problem is not the String.valueOf anymore, but toLowerCase, which does not resolve

N3buchadnezzar

I just saw Taxi Driver =)

Phrancis

Perhaps, I suppose... this resolves perfectly fine System.out.printf("Value is %s%n",Transport.TRAIN);

So, I was trying to treat it as a String, which, I guess, printf implicitly converts it to, but not in a way you can do anything with it before it's added to the formatted String

Vogel612

ohhh... I see where the problem is...

you can't just call a method like that.. it's java

Transport.CAR.toString().toLowerCase()

Phrancis

Can you expand on that?

Holy carp, that seems to work :D

Captain Obvious

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Vogel612

23:45

@Phrancis You cannot call a method just like that, unless it's defined in the static context or defined as an instance method on the current class

Phrancis

// use an enum to control a switch statement:
switch(tp) {
    case CAR:
        System.out.printf("A %s carries people", Transport.CAR.toString().toLowerCase());
        break;
    case TRAIN:
        System.out.printf("A %s carries goods", Transport.TRAIN.toString().toLowerCase());
        break;
}

works beautifully, thanks to @Vogel612

Vogel612

by defined in the static context I mean, that you import it statically:

import static com.acme.StringUtils.toLowerCase;

^^ note that Java doesn't have that

because toLowerCase is an instance method on String.

you can only call it on instantiated objects

Phrancis

Very inheritance, such instances, wow

That does explain a good bit, thank you @Vogel612

Vogel612

I gather there are some bits missing? Also I'm itching to rewrite that code up there...

Mat's Mug

@Phrancis that reads quite a lot like the ninja sword example in the Ninject wiki

Phrancis

23:51

@Mat'sMug ??

Vogel612

soo for reference, I'd write that code into something a little different:

Phrancis

@Vogel612 It's exercise code, I am open for ways to write it better though

Vogel612

System.out.printf("A %s carries %s", tp.toString().toLowerCase(), tp.getLoad());

Phrancis

The exercises don't try/cover including the value of the enums into a String, so I tried doing that myself, and that's what you helped me with

Mat's Mug

public static void Main()
{
    var warrior1 = new Samurai(new Shuriken());
    var warrior2 = new Samurai(new Sword());
    warrior1.Attack("the evildoers");
    warrior2.Attack("the evildoers");
}

class Shuriken : IWeapon
{
    public void Hit(string target)
    {
        Console.WriteLine("Pierced {0}'s armor", target);
    }
}

class Sword : IWeapon
{
    public void Hit(string target)
    {
        Console.WriteLine("Chopped {0} clean in half", target);
    }
}

Phrancis

23:53

@Vogel612 what is getLoad()?

Quill

in Tavern on the Meta on Meta Stack Exchange Chat, 1 hour ago, by sandwich

If anyone has podcast withdrawal, there is State of Programming with Jeff Atwood (from March, but I don't remember it posted here).

Mat's Mug

> Pierced the evildoers armor.
Chopped the evildoers clean in half.

Vogel612

@Phrancis that's the new exercise for you then :)

tip: In Java enums are actually classes with some syntactic sugar and compile time checks

Phrancis

Fair enough

Vogel612

in C# the code up there would be impossible to write with an enum alone

it might be possible with extension methods, but those are a tad annoying

Phrancis

23:55

So C# enums don't work quite the same eh?

Vogel612

nope. Neither do primitives

Mostly because they don't exist in C# :D

Phrancis

I only have a simple this

public enum Transport {
    CAR,
    TRUCK,
    AIRPLANE,
    TRAIN,
    BOAT
}

Mat's Mug

C# enums are actually enumerated constants

Phrancis

For exercise's sake

Quill

@Phrancis you're missing horseback

2

Mat's Mug

23:55

and BIKE

Phrancis

Oh, hush

Mat's Mug

and SUBMARINE

and DRAGON

Phrancis

and HOVERCRAFT

Not the point though :)

Vogel612

@Mat'sMug here-be-dragons-and-other-vehicles

Mat's Mug

missing TANK also

Vogel612

23:57

> WARNING:
Trespassers and thieves may be roasted by the parked Dragons

Phrancis

focus on enum not specific vehicles PLZKTHXBAI

Quill

@Phrancis is full of eels

Mat's Mug

but.. but... dragons....

Vogel612

@Phrancis If you want another hint feel free to give me a nudge. I'll be off for my night's sleep for now though

Phrancis

I'll dig around and see what I can find. It appears, at a glance, that Java enum are superior to C#/.NET though?

(heresy, I know, in present company)

Vogel612

23:59

it depends on how you define superior

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