The 2nd Monitor

Captain Obvious

20:13

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Q: QuickMergeSort — The power of internal buffering

Amongst the lesser-known sorting algorithms is the QuickXsort family of algorithms, as described in QuickXsort: Efficient Sorting with n log n - 1.399n +o(n) Comparisons on Average by Stefan Edelkamp and Armin Weiß. This family of sorting algorithms tries to exploit the technique of internal buff...

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skiwi

I'd star if I could

Vogel612

Rsa

skiwi

IWSIIC

EBrown

@skiwi I would star if I could?

skiwi

@EBrown YTIC

EBrown

20:23

@skiwi Yes, that is correct?

skiwi

@EBrown YTIC

EBrown

Dang I'm good

What's curious is that from a protocol standpoint I might have gotten both of those wrong. We never established a baseline for Yes and No, so both of those YTIC messages could have been no's.

skiwi

It could be, correct

Mangling YTIC to a no is more difficult though

EBrown

Yes it is. Lol

Mast

20:41

@skiwi RSA

Duga

Code Review — Johnny Mopp 38 secs ago

Morwenn

Wow, I forgot this chatroom was StarOverflow.

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Mast

Anyone any idea what to do with this question?

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Q: How to do a search and find in user forms for Excel

So I am working on doing the inventory for the school shop that I work at. Now my dilemma is that because I have such a large data base to pull from that some information may get put on twice if I am not careful, so what I want to know is there a way in the coding of the user form to do a search ...

vba excel

It's closed and after closing OP removed the code and made a comment. Now we could roll it back without purpose, it's closed anyway, or we can simply delete it.

Of-course, I don't have deletion privileges unless it's a closed question and downvoted enough, so I'll leave it here in case anyone has the urge to clean-up.

Dan Pantry

21:01

does it matter what we do with it given that it's closed?

I'd just leave it alone tbh

skiwi

21:18

lists.freedesktop.org/archives/dri-devel/2016-December/… - wow AMD got pissed

It's something about Linux not approving AMD-driver code in the kernel, only got a Dutch source though

Mast

@skiwi Without context it's hard to see what's going on. Do you have a Cliff's notes version?

Vogel612

@skiwi not necessarily for the wrong reasons, I'd say

skiwi

21:46

@Mast tweakers.net/nieuws/118847/… Might as well share it as you can read it

Mast

Hahahaha

I can understand why they refused it and why AMD got pissed.

I wonder how it will end though.

If AMD concedes, everybody except AMD wins (and even they will win a bit)

If AMD doesn't concede, this could lead to a whole lot of trouble.

Hosch250

Clean Code came a day early.

Let's see if I can't finish my DI book by Christmas.

Mast

I've heard it's a good book, Clean Code.

Hosch250

Yeah, Heslacher and Mat both told me to read it.

Captain Obvious

22:02

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Q: PHP SignUp and Validation

I have created php signup page and it was working fine until I add Validation, Then I found out that it saves data into database despite wrong info, As if I didn't add Validations. Thanks http://pastebin.com/BUMbUEYC

php

Mat's Mug

@Hosch250 that's the book I gave Quill during last year's Secret Santa :)

Hosch250

@CaptainObvious Broken, and no code.

I've not seen Quill in ages.

BTW, how is your cold going?

Mat's Mug

he was appointed pro-tem mod on another site IIRC. or elected?

@Hosch250 okay-ish

for now

it tends to get worse later in the evening

Hosch250

Whoa, YouTube got a CSS stylesheet.

Mat's Mug

anyway, TTQW

Mast

22:04

@CaptainObvious I was going to VTC, but got ninja'd by 20 seconds.

Hosch250

@Mat'sMug Brush your teeth really good. Minty toothpaste helps clear my head out.

Mast

@Mat'sMug Pro-tem on some language site IIRC.

Hosch250

@Mast Language Learning

Mast

Language Learning SE

@Hosch250 That makes modifying how it looks a lot easier :-)

@Mat'sMug Go to bed early.

Hosch250

Yeah, everything is in the same place, just a new look.

Except for a Restore Classic YouTube button.

Mast

22:07

@Hosch250 Not what I meant, now it's easier to write a userscript changing the looks.

Hosch250

Oh, I see.

I like the old one better. The new one looks like iOS.

Mast

I honestly hadn't noticed the difference yet.

Hosch250

It just changed in the past hour or so.

I know, because I opened it shortly before I left, and it was the old one.

Mast

> What is What is mystring=(80000000)?Is it a virus?I know it is suppose to make your pc go faster but is it a................
virus?
spyware?
malware?
Is my computer infected?

I shouldn't be laughing so hard, but I can't help myself.

> You can also change the number (80000000) to a higher number so it will speed up your computer even more! Just be careful. If you make the number too high, it could cause glitches on your computer.

The crap people tell each other on the internet.

Hosch250

LOL!

Mast

22:32

I have no clue why my code is doing what it's doing instead of what it's supposed to do.

Interesting.

Monking @forsvarir

Morwenn

@Mast A coder's life.

Mast

Basically, yea.

Although usually I've figured it out by now.

Might be a case of the Friday nightsies.

Stack Exchange

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Q: Can you have an answer without any code in the question?

I was doing some reviewing earlier when I came across this question, which in my view doesn't have sufficient code to constitute a reviewable question. It essentially consists of a data structure short[3][3] and a description of how values can be stored/updated in it. Edward had already left a ...

discussion flagging

Mast

@StackExchange @forsvarir Wrote you an answer. If anything is unclear, feel free to ping.

skiwi

@Mast I guess it teaches eh clean code?

forsvarir

22:44

@Mast Thanks, my working assumption is that I'm doing roughly the right thing, I'm just not really sure how much context mods have when handling flags.

skiwi

Hmm... when knowing multiple languages it can become difficult to choose the language to code in

Mast

@skiwi The reason I learned multiple languages was because every problem had another 'optimal' way of getting solved.

So take that one.

The optimal language for the problem.

And no, ASM is never the optimal language nowadays.

You're doing it wrong.

skiwi

@Mast Programming in ASM probably no, emitting ASM can be

The project I'm trying to decide the language for is the Hearthstone simulator

It's mainly a bunch of logic, likely OOP design but state will be immutable so FP is a possibility, the usual stuff and then there's a part where every card needs to be described

I'm tempted to try C++ as I would also need to know it on the new job but it seems overkill, C# is another good candidate but with my Java experience I can program it faster

Mast

23:00

Do you want a GUI?

skiwi

Not a priority

Mast

Irrelevant.

Do you want one or not?

skiwi

I don't know yet

Mast

Would you like the possibility of a GUI in the future?

skiwi

Maybe

Mast

23:01

...

Let's assume that's a yes.

skiwi

Also, I would like to dynamically create the cards, but they have to be compiled somewhere down the line because I cannot afford to run them interpreted when dealing with a large amount of board states

Mast

GUI in C++ isn't fun.

skiwi

I was thinking C++ and Lua might work, but maybe C# and Lua does too

Running the application natively would be a pro, so that's a con for Java

Mast

You could very well write your simulator in C++. The language is almost perfect for it. Except you never want to write a GUI in C++.

I don't see why you'd need Lua though.

skiwi

I don't want to put the cards details in the source code

Hosch250

23:03

@Mast Write your simulator in C++.

If you need a GUI, you can make the C++ think into a library that your C# UI can use.

Mast

@forsvarir You found a question which got answered which shouldn't have been answered. Yes, that can be confusing at times. Nuke the answer, keep the question closed till it's fixed. If it's fixed, the answer was useless anyway and should've been gone by now.

skiwi

A solution could be JSON, but having a form of cod eavailable in the cards would be a pre

Mast

You can put the card details in anything you like.

Make it a CSV for all we care.

Hosch250

I know that Linq works nicely with XML.

Mast

Not sure why you'd want something like JSON, that's needlessly complicated for a card IMO.

Hosch250

23:05

I don't know how well it works with JSON and CSV.

skiwi

Hmm that's a bit big for chat :/

But the idea is that it's an OnPlay effect that deals 1 damage to all other minions, I need to code that for the card

And Lua is used a lot for game engines, so might be worth it performance-wise

Hosch250

Down to one class!

Duga

Glad it helped. If you'd like some refactoring suggestions, you might want to post this on Code Review as well. — gyre 40 secs ago

skiwi

@Mast And that's why a CSV won't work, if it only had cost/attack/health/rarity then it was easier

Captain Obvious

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Q: Mysql in container or different VM

I am running MySQL database on different VM (separate from web server). With docker I can set up LAMP server in one container and MySQL in other. How secure and scalable is this solution?

mysql collections virtual-machine dockerfile

Thomas Ward

23:13

@CaptainObvious That is not code review

Hosch250

I flagged as too broad, but maybe a custom flag would be better.

Thomas Ward

I think the standard "Blatantly Offtopic" offtopic flag works since it's not code review requests at all

Peilonrayz

@skiwi That's just a list? Of Effects, like Battlecry|Splash|1, IIRC the effects are pretty simple and are all very alike

Mast

@skiwi If you can choose between Lua and C++ and performance is your main problem, you don't need to consider Lua.

Thomas Ward

:34023913 lol

Mast

23:21

i-am-doing-it-wrong

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I give up, I'm going to bed.

I'll sort this mess out tomorrow.

skiwi

@Peilonrayz Except there's a ton of exceptions to the rules, because... Blizzard

Thomas Ward

@Mast i could give you some tea if you'd like. Or you can sleep.

Mast

My wife would probably prefer the latter :-)

Cya!

Captain Obvious

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Q: Securing a file encryption(ECIES) protocol using Scrypt + Inferno

I'm evaluating the security level of a file encryption app, which implements Scrypt and Inferno, in an ECIES context. The encrypted files are either stored on the user's PC/laptop, either sent with gmail. I must reach a security level appropriate for files containing sensitive data like credit ca...

c# security cryptography

skiwi

@Mast It's not or it's and

Thomas Ward

23:24

see ya, Mast.

skiwi

Night @Mast

Peilonrayz

@skiwi Is there, I've not played it that much. The biggest card game I played was Yu-Gi-Oh, and it's much simpler than that. :)

skiwi

@Peilonrayz I'm not so sure, hard-coded text seems like a bad idea to me

Peilonrayz

@skiwi I meant them to be ID's and don't think int id's are the best there (They're confusing). I don't remember many that require more than time of activation, effect and a couple of arguments

Hosch250

If I were you, I'd do XML.

You can use whatever tags you like.

And .NET has a bunch of methods built in for reading, writing, and parsing it.

skiwi

23:45

I'll still think about it

Jeroen Vannevel

what's wrong with a db?

much more flexible than xml or hardcoded

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