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8:00 PM
It has some deleted spam, too. If it weren't for the answers, I would've been tempted to nuke the whole thing from space.
 
Thank you. You answered a question on stackexchange.com, I wanted to thank you. Now I am self-taught and barely at that. I would like to know how much you would charge me for a lesson so I can apply your answer to my work in progress. Between what I know and what I need I would probably need an hour.Thank you. — Mindkind Oct 2 '11 at 6:04
Nice :P
 
@CaptainObvious Aaand... ragequit.
 
Ugh, someone thought it was a good idea to make a presentation with white and sky blue characters on a bright pink background. My eyes are bleeding ç___ç
 
Did it have Comic Sans?
 
> PHP is this hand-me-down deathtrap that you only use because you're stuck with it, and when you hit a speed bump the wrong way it sets you and your passengers on fire.
> COBOL probably seemed like a good idea at the time.
 
@Jamal Fortunately, there is a nice professional-looking sans serif font.
 
> This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a fucking golf cart.
 
8:24 PM
I always said that Javascript was a code golf language.
 
@skiwi TS ^^
 
Disciplined Duck wants his badge.
Hey! Glad you came back! Unfortunately, I'm not sure this question is on topic. Particularly, asking us to help you change what the code does is off topic and better suited for Stack Overflow. Once it works, we'd be happy to take another look. — RubberDuck 19 mins ago
 
Is there any Haskell programming here? I 'm trying to learn it and I don't see much activity.
Now I'm trying to answer some question, even if I am really a beginner. Do you have any comment to an answer like this? Is it still useful?
http://codereview.stackexchange.com/questions/62917/implementing-split
 
Haskell sounds like an interesting programming language, but appart from what I learnt reading the first pages from Learn You a Haskell, I hardly know anything :/
 
Seems like a reasonssble review to me @mario.
Of course, I know less Haskell than Morween^
 
8:31 PM
Haskell... from the looks of it... Should be called Hasbrackets......
 
Not that I know it much more. I went through all the book and I have a small experience in F#. I'd like to learn it and I think that reading other code and thinking about it could be very useful
Actually I think that most of the brackets are due to me being a beginner
 
I am beginning to grasp the concept of monads too, because the modern C++ community is beginning to love functional programming more and more.
 
But for now I think they -for me- improve readibility
 
There is even a proposal to add an equivalent of the Expected monad to the standard library.
 
That's interesting. I think that moving towards a more functional style could be beneficial in general also in other programming languages
I'm sure my C# improved a lot since I started looking at functional programming languages
 
8:35 PM
@mariosangiorgio may I suggest lurking on StackOverflow and Programmers and find questions and answers with that tag? I think particularly Programmers
159 questions
 
I'll have a look at it
 
What does the : stand for in Haskell?
Oh, probably the head:tail list syntax like in Prolog?
 
Yes, exactly. You can use it both to construct a new list concatenating an element to an existing list
or for pattern matching
 
@Morwenn the ":" operator is usually called "cons" if used to construct lists
 
@RubberDuck looks like that got edited by OP to read like a CR question.
 
8:42 PM
@amon Ok, I didn't know (or I knew and then forgot) :)
 
for instance, dropSeparator separator (x:xs) = ... means that it is a function taking as input a first argument called separator and another argument that is a list. Since : is a list constructor you can use it to decompose the argument in its subparts: x (the head) and xs (the tail)
 
Would be drop_separator(Sep, [X|Xs]) :- ( X == Sep -> Xs ; [X|Xs] ). in Prolog. This is kind of close.
 
@Jamal asked Oct 7 '11 at 7:19.... really Jamal?
 
Yes, it's quite old.
 
@Morwenn A golfing language would not use a function keyword to introduce functions.
 
8:53 PM
I was more thinking: You haven't Jamalized it until now!?
@Mat'sMug got the newsletter today, shall I forward it to you who are always two days late? :)
 
@200_success Unless it is a very poorly designed golfing language.
 
Well, that JS is very poorly designed is nothing new, is it?
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@SimonAndréForsberg I was looking for Microsoft Word questions, and I came across that one (although it's not relevant enough for a tag). I wonder if I should run a search for "significant other" and "Real Housewives" and "deathmarch"...
 
Are Microsoft Word questions a thing on Code Review?
 
@Jamal can't hurt searching :)
@mariosangiorgio No, but project-euler, fizzbuzz, and linked-list are.
 
8:59 PM
Actually, JavaScript is a remarkable feat, considering that it was implemented in about a week.
Brendan Eich (/ˈaɪk/; born 1960 or 1961) is an American technologist and creator of the JavaScript scripting language. He co-founded the Mozilla project, the Mozilla Foundation and the Mozilla Corporation, and served as the Mozilla Corporation's chief technical officer and briefly its chief executive officer. == Early life == Brendan Eich received his bachelor's degree in mathematics and computer science at Santa Clara University. He received his master's degree in 1980 from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Eich started his career at Silicon Graphics, working for seven year...
PHP, though…
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@SimonAndréForsberg I know, I know :)
 
@SimonAndréForsberg TS
 
Evolution of C: "let's add a long long long int type that's at least 128-bits".
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@Jamal you got small balls, nice edit!
ttgtb, bye all
 
9:06 PM
Evolution of C++: "is there yet another part of Boost that we could standardize?".
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Evolution of Python: "why did you reject my switch proposal?".
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Retracted my close vote @Phrancis.
 
@Morwenn I've never understood why they insist on making long long stuff... isn't one long enough?
(I guess it isn't, which is why they add it...)
 
@SimonAndréForsberg They needed a type that was at least 64 bits. Because long is only "at least as big as int and at least 32 bits" if I am not mistaken.
 
Explains it.
 
It is somehow useful for 64 bits systems.
 
9:12 PM
I forgot that C was so dependent on the architecture of the computer...
 
@SimonAndréForsberg YES!
 
I like Java, an int is always 32 bits and a long is always 64 bits.
 
(got my email?)
 
@Mat'sMug what's your mail? (you can send it in a message on FB if you want)
 
And C++11 standardized long long because it was already support by almost every compiler anyway.
 
9:13 PM
In breaking news today... Simon likes Java!
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retailcoder at gmail.com
 
@Morwenn almost?
@Mat'sMug got it
 
And in Python 2, int is the equivalent of C long, so at least 32 bits. And long is infinite.
In Python 3, int is infinite, and there isn't a long type anymore.
 
@SimonAndréForsberg my phone's only got 2% battery left, I'll probably only be able to read it after I get home :(
 
@Mat'sMug message has been sent
 
9:15 PM
gr8
 
@SimonAndréForsberg Some compilers implemented only C90/C++03, so no long long.
 
@Mat'sMug Don't your phone die on me!
 
Bottom line: don't use integer types. At least, floating point types are fixed-sized.
 
Speaking of Python 2 and 3... why didn't they make Python backwards-compatible? like... cough Java
 
@Mat. 6 bottles of beer on the wall.
 
9:16 PM
That's obviously an aweful guideline.
 
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Q: Searching a Word Document from Excel - v2.0

slow_excellenceMy first question: Searching a Word Document from Excel Since then I have implemented most of the suggestions by @RubberDuck and @Comintern. I have also added functionality for different-sized spreadsheets (horizontal and vertical), read multiple files in during a single run of the macro, and a...

 
@RubberDuck I thought you were @CaptainObvious... I was thinking: again!?
 
@SimonAndréForsberg Because they felt that some things were just plain wrong and keeping it backward compatible would force users to write bad code. That's why Java users still write bad code.
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@SimonAndréForsberg yay, made it to the newsletter!
@RubberDuck well that's exciting!
 
@Morwenn Java users don't write bad code. Only JAVA users does.
 
9:21 PM
@SimonAndréForsberg C/C++ users too.
 
TTQW - later @all!
 
@Mat'sMug See you later :)
 
Later!
> It was working. Played with it. What's the current rate for air conditioning repair database programmers?
I found this interesting, for those that like SQL:
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Q: Using JOIN keyword or not

TokenMacGuyThe following SQL queries are the same: SELECT column1, column2 FROM table1, table2 WHERE table1.id = table2.id; SELECT column1, column2 FROM table1 JOIN table2 ON table1.id = table2.id; And certainly result in the same query plans on every DBMS I've ever tried. But every so often, I read o...

 
9:47 PM
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Q: Find number of times that difference of array values are equals to the number?

JackI wrote the following code to answer "find number of times that difference of array values are equals to the provided number", but I am wondering if there is any better approach. For example If following array is given {10,21,34,45,56} we should find the differentiate of each number with other ...

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Q: Read CSV with 3 columns and group some elements

bthompsI have a csv with 3 columns (date, name, number) and it is about 20K rows long. I want to create a dictionary keyed by date whose value is a dictionary of name:number for that date. On top of that, I want add some elements together if the name contains a key word so they would be listed as keywor...

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Q: Find sum of number of times that each character of source occurs in the target

JackI wrote the following code in response to this question "find sum of number of times that each character of source occurs in the target", is there any better solution for it? The source is ardx and target is alex alexander;therefore, characters of source that exist in target are like a--x-a--xa-...

 
TTGH!!!
 
TTGTB
 
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Q: PHP Session Wrapper Class

Nathan FitzgeraldI recently worked on a system for the company I work for and would love some feedback on the following class for managing sessions. I don't claim to be a PHP guru but I like to think I give it a try! <?php /* * CLASS: Session * * @author Nathan Fitzgerald */ class Session { var $user; ...

 
TTC!!!!!!!! (Time To Code)
Although I'm already doing that... hmm....
 
10:07 PM
I added a last answer for today so it's TTGTB for me too
 
10:28 PM
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Q: Search shows question as not having an accepted answer, but an answer was accepted

DrewSearch for emacs (the word, not a tag). On the second page of search hits, you will see an entry for this post which has an accepted answer (from some time ago), but the search-hit entry does not indicate acceptance. Seems like a bug.

 
gimme tez code... after I gave him the algorithm
thanks, would you please provide me with a better algorithm, I need to compare that with mine to learn more. — Jack 6 mins ago
 
@StackExchange [status-bydesign]
 
Is he trying to have me do his homeworks? codereview.stackexchange.com/questions/63083/…
 
How about this comment @rolfl ?
@Jack This answer should have given you a good starting point for how to improve your code. Reviewers have no obligation to provide you with the final result, I suggest that you spend some time reading and understanding the answer and trying to make your code better. It is, after all, your code, not rolfl's. — Simon André Forsberg 12 secs ago
@Jack This answer should have given you a good starting point for how to improve your code. Reviewers have no obligation to provide you with the final result, I suggest that you spend some more time reading and understanding the answer and trying to make your code better with this answer in mind. It is, after all, your code. — Simon André Forsberg 13 secs ago
 
10:44 PM
Thanks for the comment @SimonAndréForsberg
Not TTGTB for real
See you later
 
Cheers @mariosangiorgio
Nice answer.
 
@rolfl Now with a competing answer!
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A: Find number of times that difference of array values are equals to the number?

Simon André ForsbergInitialize List Your List<Integer> can be initialized as the following: List<Integer> a = Arrays.asList(10, 21, 34, 45, 56); Actually, as you are dealing with a fixed-length size list, you can just use a regular array. int[] a = new int[]{ 10, 21, 34, 45, 56 }; Spacing I strongly recomm...

focusing on entirely different things
 
hand holding lots.
 
beaten by the monkey, I was just about to post a link to meta.codereview.stackexchange.com/questions/1065/…
seems like he 'accepted' my comment though. That one goes straight into the auto-comments script!
I really don't understand my favorites sometimes...
Why did I add this question to my favorites?
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Q: Simple sparse array

MorwennToday, I tried to create a really simple sparse_array container adapter. I did not provide all the STL-like functions, only the elementary ones as a proof of concept. I also trimmed the class from its copy constructor and all the unecessary things for this review actually. Here is the code: #inc...

Sorry @Morwenn, I am un-favoriting your question.
 
11:23 PM
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Q: abort() vs raise(SIGABRT)

Amr AymanI was tinkering with the signal function recently, trying to explore its dark effects. One thing I found strange is that signal can handle raise(SIGABRT) but can't quite take control over abort(). When I read the abort manual page I found that it said: If the SIGABRT signal is ignored, or ca...

 
11:37 PM
yay, +40 today! I haven't gained this much reputation since september 12th (sad, but true)
 
slowing down, are we?
 
waiting for you to catch up I guess
 
lol
testing...
Automagic Unit Tests in VBA! #codereview #vba http://codereview.stackexchange.com/q/63004/23788
oh nice
 
your second tweet ever?
 
first original tweet actually. others were retweets!
 
11:41 PM
it was time, then :)
 
did I forget a hashtag?
 
11:52 PM
Doorknob is jealous:
 
@200_success funny I was just looking at this very same page, from following a link on Twitter!
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