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@Phrancis Your Mileage May Vary
00:14
@Olzhas jetbrains.com =)
@Mat'sMug, I've already got a student license, thanks
trying to write domestic C++ application. Not really sure if I'm being brave or masochistic
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try doing it in VBA, you'll redefine masochistic
2
especially if it involves ACCPAC/SAGE API
I've found a site where authors of code don't seem to know what is indentation. Looks quite scary, yeah
@Mat'sMug, not on SO. I know that lots of people go there, but usually they don't write in notepad
from looks on SO posts VBA doesn't look that much bad. The only thing is lots of typing in a very weird casing
00:26
lol
0
Q: Coding Style: Game of Life in C

John Doe JrI am new to C, but have experience with Python and R. The following code implements the Game of Life ((https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%27s_Game_of_Life) and represents my first finger exercise in C. I would like to have some feedback regarding the coding style and conventions in the C commun...

CLion is genius: it proposes a variable name of const questions& to be questions1.
00:44
What's the & suffix for?
@Olzhas LMAO
@Phrancis, reference. Kinda non owning pointer
@Olzhas Is it a variable, or a method parameter?
@EBrown, a method parameter. Basically I pass in const questions& for printing into stream
01:09
0
Q: Recursive Word Ladder with Word Bank

Roger99I am creating a word ladder program that calculates the closest distance between two words by means of changing one letter to get from one word to another by using only options in a word bank. ex. Start: AAAAAAAA End: GGAAAAAA Bank: GAAAAAAA AAGAAAAA AAAAGAAA GGAAAAAA...

I've just been asked by my neighbor about creating creating stackoverflow in the most simple way:. My answer was this: bool operator<(const int& lhs, const int& rhs) {return lhs < rhs;}. Is it worth posting on code golf?
01:43
@Olzhas I'd be surprised if that wasn't already a challenge there, if so you could post an answer
01:59
Function A() : A = A() : End Function
IMO it's kinda boring, no? (no offense intended)
hmm I'd have to call A() somewhere to actually overflow
relevant:
147
Q: Weirdest way to produce a stack overflow

masterX244As a programmer you certainly know the error of a stack overflow due to an obvious recursion. But there are certainly many weird and unusual ways to get your favourite language to spit that error out. Objectives: Must cause a stack overflow which is clearly visible on the error output. Not a...

locked for historical significance
I wonder if you can make SO with SQL
does outgrowing the transaction log count?
@Phrancis try googling that without hitting "newest t-sql questions on Stack Overflow"
I guess if you had a SP that called itself indefinitely...
02:16
@Mat'sMug does not appear possible, since there's probably another layer outside SQL that controls its memory usage
Just searched and only examples I could find were related to C# or Linq along with SQL
0
Q: Add score to total score

john.M.LanelySo i have an app or game that when you die it shows your score. I'm wondering if there is a way that i can add this score to a total score, and each time you die the score is added. totalScoreLabel.fontSize = 250 totalScoreLabel.text = "\(scoreNumber)" totalScoreLabel.fontColor =...

02:53
0
Q: Occurrences in python list where k is a multiple of j, and j is a multiple of i

LiamJCA challenge I'm completing asks that I return the total number of triplets in an argument. The triplets are 3 integers: i, j, k; such that k is a multiple of j, and j is a multiple of i. i must be at an earlier index than j, which must be at an earlier index than k. Example: l = [1,2,3,4,5,...

03:26
0
Q: Spring MVC dynamically adding form elements

Ivan TI made a simple form with an option of adding one text field dynamically on mouse click. And I will be grateful for suggestions on how I may improve the code. @Controller public class MyController { public ArrayList<NewField> fieldArrayList; @RequestMapping(value="/create", method= RequestMetho...

@CaptainObvious wow, that framework really puts the in
03:48
32
A: Weirdest way to produce a stack overflow

Eric LippertC#, at compile time There are a number of ways to cause the Microsoft C# compiler to blow its stack; any time you see an "expression is too complex to compile" error from the C# compiler that is almost certainly because the stack has blown. The parser is recursive descent, so any sufficiently d...

04:04
@Mat'sMug uh, no JavaScript there :p
@Phrancis click the "run snippet" button
oh damn
13 hours ago, by Mat's Mug
oh I'm so dumb
nevermind
#MugsDontRead
Well OK there's a little jQuery, which is technically JavaScript
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Q: sql query for search from multiple table

elsaI have problem to get data from multiple table for search. But I use almost same query just to show table and it work. I also already try search using 1 table and it work. So I don't know what to do right now. Can anyone help me. Here code I use to show table: $sql = "select s...

04:24
@CaptainObvious voted UWYA
@Legato I don't get it...
@Phrancis you need an adapter
We were talking about the new MBP earlier, so it lacks some context but the point of the image is to point out the irony in Apple's oft used line/something its proponents echo "It just works."
Uh an adapter for... plugging in a phone via USB?
04:38
and then another to charge it
Wait... what!? Shouldn't the MBP charge the phone via USB...?
I've no idea, I just like bashing on iStuff
iAdapters
I would never have guessed ;P
04:39
There's an adapter for everything!
takes an iLoan to get an iPhone these days
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NINETY NINE DOLLARS!?
iGiveUp
2
iStargree
0
Q: Calculator HTML CSS JS

ATruongXCode Review! I was googling around and wasn't able to find any resources that could help me complete my calculator. I would really appreciate it if someone could show me the ropes or help me complete it. JSfiddle down below. https://jsfiddle.net/nvtaz0mj/

@CaptainObvious nope
TTGTB
Even more than code review, you don't have time to not use source control. This guy is one hard drive failure away from setting the company back years. This is more basic than code reviews. — John Walthour 9 hours ago
DYHNQ
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Q: How to deal with a coworker that writes software to give him job security instead of solving problems?

bob glauslI have a coworker that primarily develops programs for internal use in the company. They design their programs in such a way that they progressively consolidate their position within the company so that they are gradually more difficult to replace. Some examples: Don't check their code into com...

05:00
DYHNQ?
05:52
@Phrancis My iMac doesn't charge my iPhone through USB -> Thunderbolt, but it charges my Magic Mouse, Trackpad and Keyboard through it.
Meta question coming in.
@EBrown Very strange. Both my old MacBook and this new MSi charge my old iPhone, through regular USB... is it the case that Thunderbolt just can't do that?
I think it's the cable maybe?
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Q: Bug with empty div container in main site

EBrownNoticed this a while back, forgot to say something (I think, could be dupe, no idea), but I have an empty div on my main site view underneath my favourite tags, and above the newsletter (which I have no intention of participating in, so it does me no good): The div class is everyonelovesstacko...

I'm using the cable provided with the iMac itself rather than the one with my iPhone.
06:37
Names	NumberOfMessages	FirstMessage	LatestMessage
Mat&#39;s Mug,lol.upvote,retailcoder	67670	2013-11-14	2016-11-01
rolfl	61820	2013-11-21	2016-10-07
Hosch250,Hosch250 Looking for Hats,hosch250	45608	2014-11-12	2016-11-01
skiwi	43476	2014-02-24	2016-11-01
Phrancis,Pin Crash,sᴉɔuɐɹɥԀ,Francis Veilleux-Gaboury	42252	2014-05-20	2016-11-01
@Mat'sMug ^^ Upside-down @Phrancis is fixed.
Oh nice!
Was it an encoding or character set issue?
@Phrancis It was a 'me being an idiot' issue.
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See below area in the transcript:
13 hours ago, by EBrown
Note to self: never use WebClient.DownloadString.
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Q: Print the next smallest and next largest number that have the same number of 1 bits in their binary representation

AbhijithGiven an integer , print the next smallest and next largest number that have the same number of 1 bits in their binary representation. How can I improve this? void printNextNumber(int num){ int inputNumOfBits = calcBits(num); int nextLargest = num + 1, nextSmallest = num - 1; //n...

06:43
@StackExchange @EBrown can't reproduce
@Phrancis Funny, because it showed up this time.
Did find this strange missing span/link that is not shown or clickable on the page
@Phrancis Edited.
Maybe it's a filler used when the newsletter section is present?
Does that div also have the everyonelovesstackoverflow class when the ad is displayed? (rather than not)
@Phrancis Interestingly, no.
06:58
0
Q: Converting a string (in any base) to a float

Zach PWhat are some problems or inaccuracies that could occur (assuming valid input) with the following code? float new_strtof(char* const ostr, char** endptr, unsigned char base) { char* str = (char*)malloc(strlen(ostr) + 1); strcpy(str, ostr); const char* dot = "."; //Let's assume inp...

07:10
Happy Birthday @JeroenVannevel!
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07:27
@Mat'sMug I fixed your name in the DB:
["Mat\u0027s Mug"]
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07:50
possible answer invalidation by nn4n4s on question by nn4n4s: codereview.stackexchange.com/posts/145718/revisions
08:20
Ripe zombie; open question with answers, at least one answer having score 0, no answer having score > 0: Currency converter built with AngularJS
Monking all
Kaz
Kaz
08:49
Monking @all
09:23
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Q: Generalized Project Euler #11 in python : Largest product in a grid

Amey DahaleThis solves Project Euler #11: In the 20×20 grid below, four numbers along a diagonal line have been marked as bold. 08 02 22 97 38 15 00 40 00 75 04 05 07 78 52 12 50 77 91 08 49 49 99 40 17 81 18 57 60 87 17 40 98 43 69 48 04 56 62 00 81 49 31 73 55 79 14 29 93 71 40 67 53 88 30 03 49 1...

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Q: Swaping Diagonal

ArdleyI am required to write a simple matrix program and swap the diagonal Here is my code : public static void main(String[] args) { int i,j = 0,m,k; int Number[][] = new int [3][3]; Scanner scanner = new Scanner(System.in); System.out.println("Enter the elements of matrix"); fo...

monKING @everybody
09:40
I walked a lot yesterday.
monking
(And I forgot to turn Pokemon Go on)
@DanPantry what app is that ?
Which app? Pokemon Go or the screenshot?
the screenshot
It's the in-built Health app for iOS
ohh, then I should have it already
09:53
Monking
monking @Vogel612
10:07
0
Q: All RGB colors in one image

Utku DemirThis is a program to solve: http://codegolf.stackexchange.com/questions/22144/images-with-all-colors This is my first Scala application, and my first Object Oriented application for a long time. So, I have a Picture class where you can manipulate(get/set) pixels; and an abstract Painter clas...

@CaptainObvious CBL
Could make for a decent question eventually.
Things I learn:
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A: Why is the size of my email about a third bigger than the size of its attached files?

David SchwartzYour data was 17 MiB. There are 1024 KiB in an MiB. There are 1024 B in a KiB. There are 8 bits in a byte. So that's 142,606,336 bits. Base 64 encoding encodes every six bits as a separate byte. So we need about 23,767,722 bytes. Dividing by 1024 twice gets us 22.67 MiB. So that's where the 22 M...

I always wondered why the sizes varied.
Did you guys see this awesome answer from PPCG ? codegolf.stackexchange.com/a/22326/49862
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Q: Visual boardgame

Jon DierThe visual boardgame is currently a game in unity, where I've created a map and a grid. The visualization is like this: Making this code obviously needed nested for loops and the like, but developing this I mainly had the attitude "just go with it", which means I now have a rather confusing cod...

10:24
@Dex'ter Wat.
That's awesome.
I have no clue why it works, but it
it's
pretty.
Darn Return got stuck...
10:38
0
Q: Check if type meets requirements

tobi303Mainly for documentation I want to check in tempaltes, if a type T meets some requirements. Maybe there is a simple standard way to do this and I am just missing some rtfm. However, this is what I wrote: template <typename T> struct hasSize { hasSize() { int t = sizeof(T::size); } }; template

Hm. On second thoughts maybe it's okay but IMO borderline... maybe a C++ person should take a look
@Mast yep. It's really awesome. If you have time, look at the next 3-4 answers as they're pretty cool too
10:55
possible answer invalidation by Mihai Neagoe on question by Mihai Neagoe: codereview.stackexchange.com/posts/145611/revisions
11:16
(Monking)
@DanPantry VTC'd for hypothetical, UWYA would fit as well.
@DanPantry Whoops, I was trying to figure out how on earth you could've walked only 0.26km yesterday
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Q: Seperation one list into 2 list by one key

Mehmet Eren YenerIs there any other way to write this seperation ? public Parent Method() { Parent parent = new Parent { ChildA= new List<Child>(), ChildB= new List<Child>()}; List<Child> allChildren = _manager.GetChildren(); foreach (Child child in ...

@skiwi he went on the fridge and back
twice
:D
Not that I would walk a whole lot more if I'd live in an apartment, but I happen to live in a house with my parents, so the distances are bigger :P
11:22
or he just left his phone in the fridge and forgot it there while he was in town
:D
I should really write some code today
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Q: Images with all colors

Mark JeronimusSimilar to the images on allrgb.com, Make images where each pixel is a unique color (no color is used twice and no color is missing). Give a program that generates such an image, along with a screenshot or file of the output (upload as PNG). Create the image purely algorithmically. Image must ...

I'm tempted to try this with Clojure...
@DanPantry wanna see some magik code ?
_endmethod
$

_pragma(classify_level=basic, topic={course}, usage={subclassable})
_method rwee_map_details_app_plugin.build_gui(p_parent, _optional p_xml_element)
	##
	##
	_local l_p << panel.new(p_parent)

	l_p.start_column()
	l_p.start_row()

	label_item.new(l_p, _self.message(:selected_object))
	l_p.start_row()

	tree_item.new(l_p,
		      :aspect, :visible_objects,
		      :model, _self,
		      :data_selector, :|get_visible_objects()|,
		      :display_tree_convertor, :|object_as_display_tree()|,
wtf language is that
magik
from smalltalk
Magik is an object-oriented programming language that supports multiple inheritance, polymorphism and is dynamically typed. It was designed implemented in 1989 by Arthur Chance, of Smallworld Systems Ltd, as part of Smallworld Geographical Information System (GIS). Following Smallworld's acquisition in 2000, Magik is now is provided by GE Energy, still as part of its Smallworld technology platform. Magik (Inspirational Magik) was originally introduced in 1990 and has been improved and updated over the years. Its current version is 4.0 or Magik SF (Small Footprint). In July 2012, Magik developers...
but it's not open-source, that's the problem. It's widely used in GIS applications (on large scale apps)
11:30
It looks like a mix of everything
Wow, some of the images from the PPCG contest look even cooler than modern art
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@skiwi it is. Let's call it the predecessor of ruby :P (which it really is)
and by the way, some of those answers from PPCG are pure art.
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A: Disproving Euler proposition by brute force in C

ZetaA study in assembly Lets have a look at your code. Well, not yours, but the assembler the compiler generates. You can use gcc -S -O3. On my platform, this results in the following "hot" section in main: .L6: movapd %xmm6, %xmm1 movapd %xmm10, %xmm0 call pow movapd %xmm6, %...

Reading this I wonder if Java's Math.pow is an issue too
Assembly optimization is really interesting
Kaz
Kaz
11:48
@Dex'ter ?
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@Kaz I'd rather say
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Rather than being adversarial and going Look! He's entrenching himself! Unfair! you should make a case to management for being prepared for your colleague to getting hit by a busrath 12 hours ago
Someone approaching your manager and telling him: "Well... what if person X would get hit by a bus... like tomorrow?" doesn't sound like a great idea
@skiwi "That's some nice code you've got there... would be a shame if.... you got hit by a bus"
Proceeds to drive a bus the next day
11:56
@skiwi When I was reading the question I was like
"why is making internal projects to give yourself job security a bad thing?"
and then I kept reading.
That guy is being obtuse at best
-1 for not mentioning documentation. — Yannis Jan 24 '13 at 1:44
haha
@Dex'ter This offense has now been documented.
So now you've got documentation about not having documentation
@skiwi auch, indeed
docu-what
12:23
:/ They'll remove sirens from The Netherlands in 2020, every town right now has multiple of those sirens/loudspeakers
12:40
Has anyone here ever looked at creating some kind of bot (hopefully within the rules of whatever service it uses) to make tiny bits of (virtual) profit?
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Q: parse chat message data modeling

Finkiei'm looking for the best way to model my chat app data using parse.com. i have to send different type of message in the same thread. text, image and other stuff like receipt. this is what i'm doing for sending text message: function sendMessage() { var message = new Messages(); message.se...

@skiwi what do you mean ?
One idea I had were things like a Bitcoin trader that buys and then sells at a later point
Just want to program something while knowing it's not completely pointless :)
@skiwi that's a nice idea but be aware the bitcoin fluctuated drastically in the last year. You'll do it on your own risk :P
Kaz
Kaz
@skiwi That's definitely not virtual profit. If you can build a bitcoin trader that'll consistently make a profit, well, there's already $500 Million of assets in "Bitcoin Investment Funds".
12:53
In theory I don't really see why it wouldn't work, in practice theory likely would fail
Kaz
Kaz
@skiwi In theory, theory and practice are the same. In practice, not so much.
@Kaz No no, but you can do things on Steam trading sites as well, and that's kind of virtual just as an example
Kaz
Kaz
@skiwi You might want to look at stockfighter.io
You'd say in the Bitcoin case that if you'd buy at time X and then hold onto it until there's a drop, you should make profit...
But I'm not an economist
Actually that would hold for any kind of stock
Kaz
Kaz
@skiwi I think you mean "Buy, wait until it goes up, then sell"
And yes. You can make a trading bot that does that, for just about any kind of electronically tradable market.
12:56
@Kaz Not exactly, more like "Buy, wait until it shows the first sign of going down, then sell"
Yes, you could make instant losses by selling next timestamp, but you'd have longer periods where the trend would be rising
@skiwi I suppose you meant: "Buy, wait until it raises a bit, then sell until it shows the first sign of going down"
> 504 Gateway Time-out
@Dex'ter Not sure :D I'd just hold onto it until it decreases for the first time, then sell
but that won't bring you any income
Looks like it got shut down last 18 October
Kaz
Kaz
@skiwi Oh. Pity.
Guess I'll be deleting that bookmark.
On a serious note, there are Billion-Dollar Funds that spend hundreds of millions hiring world class mathematicians, programmers and theorists to try and build trading rules that will consistently be profitable.
12:59
@Dex'ter How not? You buy when value is 200 at X, then either at X+1 the value is lower, then you sell, or it rises, then you hold onto it, and then at X+50 it could be 300, and at X+51 it's 295 and you sell
@Kaz Yeah, I'm aware of that, that's why I have a feeling that my efforts would be pointless
Kaz
Kaz
@skiwi This assumes that the thing you're buying will eventually turn into a profitable trade.
Likely they have a better clue of what they're doing than me
@Kaz Correct
Kaz
Kaz
@skiwi Depends. If your goal is to learn how to build one, and some of the underlying principles and considerations, very useful.
You could mitigate the risks by only buying once you've seen it switch from negative trend to a positive trend
Kaz
Kaz
If your goal is to build a black box that prints money, I'd say it's unlikely.
13:01
Okay, so put a bit more concise, buy when trend switches from negative to positive, sell when trend switches from positive to negative
Kaz
Kaz
@skiwi You can build a bot that will do it. The bot will, on average, lose money, but you can do it.
How will it lose on average? I don't understand that part, and that's why I'm wary of building it :P
Kaz
Kaz
@skiwi Basically because markets are, fundamentally, random and chaotic.
As far as I'm aware increases happen slowly over time and decreases could happen very quickly, so you'd need to make sure that the increase is more than the decrease
Kaz
Kaz
There is a friction cost associated with trading.
13:06
@Kaz That mainly depends on the Bitcoin Exchange, I'm telling everything until now under the assumption of minimal friction cost... If the friction cost would be big, then there would be a big problem
Kaz
Kaz
@skiwi The friction cost is not just the transaction cost.
It's more, if you sell as soon as something starts going down, it will have lost, say, 1% by the time you sell it?
And if you buy as soon as it starts going up, it will have gone up by, say, 1% by the time you buy it.
So it's more or less the time you're lagging behind the events?
Kaz
Kaz
@skiwi Under ideal circumstances, yes.
Like you calculate something but that calculation no longer holds because time has moved on?
Kaz
Kaz
@skiwi And that. At the "serious" end, trading latency is measured in microseconds.
13:09
Solution: Buy a faster PC :P
And internet
Kaz
Kaz
@skiwi These are people who purpose-built microwave transmitters to send trading data from NY to Chicago because Fibre Optic Cables take too long.
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I think it's wrong though to base my own timestamps on milliseconds, they could be based on minutes or hours even
@Kaz wat
Kaz
Kaz
@skiwi And laid their own $300M Transatlantic cable to shave 6 milliseconds off the latency between London and NY.
Why not run the program on hardware located in NY?
Kaz
Kaz
@skiwi They literally pay Millions of dollars to have their servers physically next to the exchange servers.
13:13
I'd hope the Bitcoin (and any newer variant) isn't as hardcore as the stock market
0
Q: Find maximum-element in stack

VksghI was solving hackerrank problem .I used Arraylist and solved the problem But getting error for many test cases.Can anyone help me plz.Question i and solution I have given below Qstn-*You have an empty sequence, and you will be given queries. Each query is one of these three types: Push the e...

Kaz
Kaz
@skiwi There's less money in it, so they aren't quite as excessive. Yet.
If we ignore the profit here for the time being... The losses should be manageable, right?
Kaz
Kaz
Just making the point that "trading" (as opposed to "investing") is not something you should expect to be profitable. Great for learning and teaching yourself though.
If I treat it as an exercise
Kaz
Kaz
13:16
@skiwi Sure. Just trade with tiny amounts of money, or find a website that will let you "shadow" trade.
Where they tell you how much money your trades would have made (or lost), but it's just a giant spreadsheet rather than actual transactions.
Well, that depends on if the exchanges have linear cost and whether they have a fixed cost for transactions
As far as I'm aware the Bitcoin crashes still happened pretty slowly... but I suspect stock crashes happen within milliseconds?
Kaz
Kaz
@skiwi Depends on your definitions and your timeframes.
Right
Another completely unrelated idea would be a Hearthstone bot with proper AI, but bots are against the ToS :(
Kaz
Kaz
@skiwi If you want, I've always wanted to build my own trading bot as a project, I'd be more than happy to help/advise further.
@Kaz Sure, I suppose we should move somewhere else though
Kaz
Kaz
13:30
@skiwi I can't do much now, gotta get back to work, but feel free to put it together and I'll get back to you later.
Work? Oh..
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0
Q: VBA Excel: Loading Image error

NamraI am learning to code on VBA for MS Excel. I am trying to create a basic Picture Viewer that I got from a beginners' website, but it will not work. I just get a "could not load images" error message. The images are in: "C:\Computers\VBA\images" The workbook is in: "C:\Computers\VBA\sheets" `M...

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14:11
Rmonking
CRmonking @Vogel612
14:46
0
Q: Extracts specific rows from a specific column of a dataframe

AizzaacIs there a better way to get the values in Figure C from Figure A? I have specified what figures are obtained after some lines of code. Ex: FIGURE A: Is the original dataframe that I am uploading. FIGURE B: Is what I get after some lines of code. FIGURE C: Is what I need. df = pd.read_pickle...

14:57
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Q: Python trouble shooting program, I have worked out q1 but having problems with this questions

ray BeardmoreSome automated troubleshooting programs identify certain keywords in the customer’s query to provide potential solutions to the query. For example, ‘There is no display on my mobile phone screen.’ The keywords ‘display’ and ‘phone’ would link to common problems with a phone display. Analyse th...

0
Q: Xoring in constant time in Java

Maksim DmitrievI was inspired by this answer and the explanation and decided to support negative numbers. While testing, I noticed that the solution didn't handle the case with one number in the given range. A quick way to fix it was just adding else if (a == b) { return 0; } Here is what I have: packa...

@Duga rolled back
15:16
@Mat'sMug Wow, that's an odd question.
@Kaz We live in a time where the technology is so powerful we're limited by the laws of physics for what we can create.
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Mad things start happening to work around limitations.
Kaz
Kaz
@Mast I love reading about High-Speed trading infrastructure. Because it is literally a case of "whoever's information gets there first will make a ton of money", and there are billions to be made, so crazy things get done. They're one of the biggest employers of devs, simply because they have billions to spend and there are no limits to how far they need to optimise their execution speed.
Yup, even the fastest is not fast enough.
We don't need no COBOL, the PC is on fire
Kaz
Kaz
15:43
For reference, the cost to put a server rack in the same building as an exchange is about $300,000 per rack per year.
damn. what's the cost of 6ms??
Kaz
Kaz
@Mat'sMug Right now, about $300,000,000
In the meantime I have 87ms to Washington on a home connection.
14-20 to a local server.
Today it's 10ms to Harderwijk.
In my book, that's fast.
For them, not nearly fast enough.
Kaz
Kaz
IIRC, the math is something like $10,000 per microsecond delay per year.
Pricing also rapidly goes up if you want a downtime of less than a few minutes a year.
Kaz
Kaz
15:58
Also, you can get interesting data sets. The fastest way to transmit data is ultra-short microwave networks. But the wavelengths are so short that a good rain shower will render them inoperable. So you can observe market conditions when it's raining and when it's not raining, and that has real, direct impacts on the trading environments.
Also, it turns out rain increases liquidity
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@Kaz Well, yeah, water is wet
Can I add you somewhere private btw @Kaz?
Kaz
Kaz
@skiwi You mean on SE chat, or offsite?
@Kaz Offsite might be better, otherwise SE would work too
Kaz
Kaz
@skiwi Up to you. If you want to do it offsite, you can email me at [email protected]
Where they are, respectively, "Zak","Michael" and "Armstrong"
Depends if you're using IM as much as SE chat :P
Kaz
Kaz
16:09
@skiwi If you want semi-realtime communication, go with chat.
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Q: RingBuffer with single producer and single consumer

user64287The below code doesn't result in the intended result. I want to use a ring buffer with writing to the index should be avoided when the item is not read. Atleast it has to wait until the read or acknowledge is received. But when the read and write pointer again points to the same index, I don't...

@Kaz Okay, let's do chat then
Chat rooms are free, use them.
Just not entirely private.
preferably a chat system that includes stars, I guess
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@Mast not entirely...
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 Skiwi's Crazy Ideas

Just a bunch of crazy ideas, some may even be realized
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Does this sound about right?
on that note .... CRItter Collaboration has been frozen ...
and our HasStackSTV isn't finished either @Mast :)
link? (if you want it unfrozen, that is)
@Vogel612 No, it isn't.
Reality caught up with me I'm afraid, sorry about that.
@Mat'sMug meh .... not really..
@Mast as it did to me, so don't worry about it ;)
Last month has been extremely busy and my current schedule is, fluid at best.
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I've been working on the same PR to my pet-project for Rubberduck for about 6 months now, soo ....
I got a TODO list so fragmented it's on multiple TODO lists to merge them.
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My windows 10 insider preview on my SSD expired whilst my PC was in storage.
Wat.
So now I have to do a clean install
and i have no removable media.
So, this will be fun.
Don't forget to make a back-up of your disk first.
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There's nothing on it worth saving
it was newly installed when I moved
yeah, a bricked OS is always useful
So now you'll have to replace your new install with a new install.
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Almost sounds like you got nothing better to do :P
From my old install on my HDD
Ironic that my legitimate version expired before my pirated one did.
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If your pirated version expires, you haven't pirated it very well.
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missing "arrrr matey"
yarrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
eats oranges
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Q: Everything you might want to know about an element

googabeastI am working with a lot of DOM manipulation and need to know several values of an element to determine its position within the DOM and I have written the following to help scrape several of the bits of information I need to proceed. To me this looks very heavy and there might be some room to hel...

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Q: Semaphore based concurrent work queue

OstatiThere's a need to have a mechanism in place that will process messages received from the network concurrently. However, only X number of messages can be allowed to be processed concurrently and there's a restriction: Similar messages must be processed sequentially. For simplicity's sake, similari...

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Q: Synchronous cipher

Alek DeplerCan someone please review this algo and say if it has some weak places and/or what kind of algo is this (caesar, block etc)? std::vector<unsigned char> TestCryptDecrypt(const std::vector<unsigned char>& data, const std::vector<unsigned char>& key, bool decrypt) { std::vector<unsigned char> r...

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Q: An easier way to update this table in one query?

DavidI've got a database table in my application called "periods". The structure of the table is; Year (Number) Month (Number) Period (Text) The Year column stores years (Say, 2016), Month stores months (1-12), and period stores the period of the month/year - eg; November 2016 = 11/16, so period =...

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