The 2nd Monitor

@RubberDuck Which means "Think of the worst biological weapons you can, so we're one-step ahead of any enemy, create it, then find out how to defend against it."

Jeroen Vannevel

Maybe they spray you with Ebola just to see if you can work under pressure

nhgrif

@RubberDuck I'm not suggesting people should work from home. I'm suggesting the programmers don't have to work on the same campus as the biologists.

RubberDuck

Fair eenough.

Duga

6:12 PM

Might be better suited to code review — OneHoopyFrood just now

RubberDuck

It does seem to be an actual programming job though.

> 1-3 years' experience developing applications using Microsoft Visual Studio (e.g., VB.NET) and Microsoft SQL Server or Oracle.
1-3 years’ experience operating or managing the Provantis computer system.
Write code

nhgrif

Right. So unless they're asking you to wear multiple hats and also be IT support or network admin, I can't understand why it's necessary for you to actually be in the building especially if it actually is the D.O.D. (versus just requiring DOD clearance)

skiwi

Dumb question: What's a DOD?

RubberDuck

Department of Defense.

nhgrif

It's only dumb if you're an American and at least old enough that you should be moderately informed about how your government works.

Other countries have their different abbreviations.

skiwi

6:15 PM

Not an American: check

But okay, now the whole story makes more sense

nhgrif

In the UK, Ministry of Defense would be the equivalent

Phrancis

If it has to do with the DoD databases I feel really strongly that they wouldn't want to allow a remote connection to their data...

nhgrif

I'm not talking about outside connections. I'm talking about programmers going to DoD campus A while the dangerous biological weapons are at campus B.

Jeroen Vannevel

There's no point in debating why or why not if you don't even know what the requirement is for though

nhgrif

You wouldn't even be working on live data anyway... unless the DoD is making rookie mistakes...

Phrancis

6:22 PM

@JeroenVannevel Good point!

RubberDuck

@nhgrif would you really put it past our gov't to be making rookie mistakes??

Healthcare.gov anyone?

Phrancis

Do I sense a hint of sarcasm? ;)

Duga

Sure Phil, I'm just not familiar with event to rewrite this to make use of the type instead of my interface. If I posted it to code review would you take a look? — C Bauer 30 secs ago

Mast

@RubberDuck Perhaps Rubber is going to be their new SysOp

Captain Obvious

6:38 PM

-1

Q: Generator checking not result

I created a question generator. It currently takes user input and displays questions and answer. What i want to do is generate questions(without answers) and based on the answer input being correct or incorrect go to specific secondary question. Example Generated question 1 if correct generat...

Phrancis

Isn't datetime stuff fun when working with time zones?

@Duga I didn't realize you scanned comments on answer posts as well!

janos

fun fun fun

Comprehensive map of all countries in the world that use the MMDDYYYY format http://t.co/jaOQp0oZyN

Tweeted by donohoe on May 11, 2015 at 9:29 PM

Phrancis

Hey @Janos thanks for the answer!

janos

anytime @Phrancis !

Phrancis

I have a feeling that bug would've drove me crazy if you didn't point it out, too many numbers in one place lol

Captain Obvious

6:46 PM

0

Q: Preserving Default Parameter Values in Wrapper Function

In Swift, if you wrap a function with default parameter values and want to expose the default parameter, there is no nice way to keep the default value. For example, I wrote a function to animate some items in a UICollectionView with a default duration func animateItem(index: Int, duration: NST...

swift

Phrancis

// calculations
let msPerDay = (60 * 60 * 24 * 1000);
let daysElapsed = Math.floor(( Date.parse(cancelDate) - Date.parse(purchaseDate) ) / msPerDay);
let totalDays = termInYears * 365;
let termUsed;
if (daysElapsed <= gracePeriodInDays) {
    termUsed = 0.0;
} else {
    termUsed = daysElapsed / totalDays;
}
let termLeft = 1.0 - termUsed;
let proratedRefund = purchasePrice * termLeft;
let finalRefund = proratedRefund - amtPaidInClaims;
if (finalRefund < 0) {
    finalRefund = 0;
}

Lyle's Mug

@janos lol

should be YYYYMMDD

janos

looking good @Phrancis

+ some input validation would be good too

Jeroen Vannevel

no datepicker?

don't make me input my own dateformat!

nhgrif

@CaptainObvious Offtopic.

@Phrancis uhm..

let secondsPerMinute = 60;
let minutesPerSecond = 60;
let minutesPerHour = 60;
let hoursPerDay = 24; // ish...
let millisecondsPerSecond = 1000;
let millisecondsPerDay = millisecondsPerSecond * secondsPerMinute * minutesPerHour * hoursPerDay;

@CaptainObvious This is hypothetical/stub code, etc. ... in places, etc.

RubberDuck

7:00 PM

@Phrancis I have no idea what you're talking about.

nhgrif

This question has some problems. First of all, we require your actual code. ... is not an acceptable replacement for any actual implementation. Second, some context (both within and surrounding) the code you have provided would be a useful means of turning this very nebulous opinion-based question into something concrete and reviewable. Third, and finally, for my own benefit, I'm confused what you mean when you say "But now there's two places to edit...", but this confusion is likely a result of the fact that you've put example code rather than real code in your question. — nhgrif 10 secs ago

(this question was also upvoted by someone...)

Phrancis

@nhgrif Um, slightly overkill there?

Duga

@gerty3000 - Other options: 1) Document the requirement and perform code reviews. 2) Aspect-oriented programming. — Andy Thomas just now

nhgrif

@Phrancis Or just write out whatever the number is, precalculated.

janos

lol, the opposite of my suggestion ;-)

Phrancis

7:11 PM

let daysElapsed = Math.floor(( Date.parse(cancelDate) - Date.parse(purchaseDate) ) / 86400000);

^^ Original code

nhgrif

let millisecondsPerDay = 86400000;
let millisecondsElapsed = Date.parse(cancelDate) - Date.parse(purchaseDate)
let daysElapsed = Math.floor(millisecondsElapsed / millisecondsPerDay);

@Phrancis ^^ Try this on for size.

skiwi

Can't use underscores in number literals?

Jeroen Vannevel

It's Javascript. You can probably use emoticons to create numbers

4

janos

I stand by my suggestion of 60 * 60 * 24 * 1000

Duga

@Vicent this code might be of interest then. — Mat's Mug 37 secs ago

nhgrif

7:19 PM

@janos Well... I'd look for some sort of Date/Time library in JavaScript. You shouldn't be doing any of this like this at all anyway.

Jeroen Vannevel

and use a datepicker

janos

easier said than done

Jeroen Vannevel

Doesn't HTML5 have a datepicker by default?

Gareth Rees

This seems suspicious: let totalDays = termInYears * 365;

nhgrif

What part is easier said than done? Using a datepicker? Or finding an existing JavaScript datetime library?

janos

7:23 PM

both

nhgrif

There aren't datetime libraries for JS?

Why isn't someone working on that?

You should never be calculating datetimes by hand like this. Ever.

At all

Under any circumstance.

janos

probably there are

Jeroen Vannevel

I'm with @nhgrif

shit's nasty

nhgrif

Never calculate date time by hand. This rule is more important than not using GoTo statements...

Gareth Rees

JavaScript Date methods documentation

Phrancis

7:28 PM

@GarethRees That's actually what the business rules are, I know it doesn't really make sense to not account for leap years but terms are counted in days

Gareth Rees

The line needs a cross-reference to the business rules, then.

Phrancis

That's a good point

Jeroen Vannevel

Part of me wants to release in shorter iterations

A bigger part of me is too lazy to go through all the hassle that comes with it

Gareth Rees

The key to rapid release cycles is to automate everything.

Or at least automate as much as you can.

rolfl

Yup, and when you can shorten the development chain by removing the human factor between Jira and Jenkins, then you're at the pinnacle....

Gareth Rees

7:40 PM

But do the automation in stages: do release 1 by hand, but as you do so, write down all the steps you carry out.

Then before making release 2, automate the most annoying bit (using the written procedure from release 1 to remind you of what the steps were) and update the procedure.

Rinse and repeat until all the annoying steps have been automated.

Jeroen Vannevel

I don't think there's much to automate. Create NuGet release, create Github release, fill some ReadMes, manually test diagnostics

Gareth Rees

Well, then, it won't take many release cycles before it's all done.

Writing READMEs shouldn't be a release step, by the way — keep the README up to date as you go along

Captain Obvious

7:57 PM

-1

Q: Enter a url in php using nano

Hello i'm a newbie trying to create a session based membership site. Right now, my page is located on the localhost. I keep getting an error and I'm pretty sure it's because when I type: $site = "http://localhost"; everything after the double forward slash is commented out. How do i prevent this?

php url

0

Q: Merge Sort in Perl

I'm new to Perl and have successfully written a merge sort program. I'll paste the entire program below, but would like mostly a review of the subroutines mergeSort() and merge(). I tried to use pass-by-reference as much as possible to make as it as fast as possible. Is there ways I can make...

perl mergesort pointers

0

Q: Method that renders all existing drawn lines on the view

I have several tabbed views with a Unity scene in them. What I do between scene is hide the elements in that scene, then render them if the right view is shown. The method below is the method that renders all the lines previously drawn in my view. The lines can be lines, angles, points, etc.. ...

c# unity3d

Phrancis

8:14 PM

@nhgrif Assuming the absence of comprehensive date functions in JS, can you think of an alternative to calculating dates "by hand" like that?

I saw a Date.getTime() function that apparently can be used: "The value returned by the getTime() method is the number of milliseconds since 1 January 1970 00:00:00 UTC"

Would that be a more "acceptable" way of comparing time elapsed between two dates?

Duga

Is there a particular issue with your code? Otherwise, this isn't the appropriate site, consider asking this in Code Review — JCOC611 34 secs ago

Yeah, codereview is the way to go for this. That and 'get rid of all the elifs', which I'm sure is what codereview will say :) — theodox 11 secs ago

I'm voting to close this question as off-topic because it belongs on Code Review — Peter Wood 41 secs ago

Captain Obvious

8:32 PM

-2

Q: leap year finding java

i am getting compilation errors while trying to find leap years. http://prntscr.com/79qj8a please help import java.io.*; class demo { public static void main(String...s) throws IOException { BufferedReader br=new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(System.in)); System.o...

java

Duga

If the code works as intended, this would be OK for Code Review. You may want to add more context though as to what this code is for to be better received there. — Phrancis 49 secs ago

Ethan Bierlein

8:55 PM

public enum Joke {
    JavaScript,
}

Duga

I don't think this is right for code review as it likely doesn't work at all (actually || is a syntax error so it doesn't). I just think the OP needs to clarify his problem. — JGreenwell 34 secs ago

nhgrif

@PeterWood Please don't use the custom close reason to direct questions to sites when the question would be off-topic at the target site. There are plenty of existing reasons you can use to close this as off-topic for Stack Overflow (unclear, too broad are the first two that come to mind). All you're doing is closing the question here with a massively inappropriate close reason and shuffling this bad question off to another Stack Exchange site where it'd still be off-topic (and closed there as well). — nhgrif 8 secs ago

Captain Obvious

0

Q: exception handling for switching structures for pthon

i am trying to make a inputin() function to take all the parameters input for the first time with exception and for individual parameter for the runtime proposition, i am thus looking forward to reduce code size or being more efficient coder with more pythonic procedures~~~ Please help def input...

python

Phrancis

9:12 PM

Ah well. Guess it was off-topic on both sites then.

Ethan Bierlein

2

Q: Support for searching chat messages with a regex-like syntax

Often times I want to search for messages containing words with varying lengths of characters, like, Shhhhh versus Shh, or Hellooo versus Helloo. It would be helpful if we could have a regex-like system for searching through chat messages. For example, I could type this: (s|S)(h|H)+\.* And it...

discussion feature-request chat chat-transcript chat-search

Captain Obvious

0

Q: Scala. Replacing all occurrences in a String

I have string like: val content = "some_text{macro1}another_text{macro2}text" I want to replace the {macro1} and {macro2} with macro1 and macro2, i.e. just to remove the { and }. I wrote some piece of code which works fine, but for me it seems very hard to read: val Pattern = """\{(.*)\}""...

strings regex scala

Ethan Bierlein

Gosh darn. My stream got interrupted by @CaptainObvious

Phrancis

9:31 PM

Um, WTF

"use strict";
let testDate = new Date(null);

if (!testDate || testDate === "Invalid Date") {
    console.log("Not a date");
} else {
    console.log(testDate);
}
// Thu, 01 Jan 1970 00:00:00 GMT

I guess Date() interprets null as 0

Ethan Bierlein

See, this is the problem with JavaScript. In other languages, that would throw an error, but because JavaScript = "Joke", it doesn't.

Ahm, is anyone else seeing two messages?

I think my internet just crapped out.

RubberDuck

> JavaScript, because it's better than PHP

Ethan Bierlein

User: "Here, take this PHP". PHP: "OH GOD WHAT IS THIS I'VE NEVER SEEN IT TIME TO CRAP OUT"

Phrancis

@EthanBierlein It's not just you

DJanssens

Evening all :)

Ethan Bierlein

9:41 PM

I have to thank today's commitstrip for my inspiration behind that joke.

Phrancis

@DJanssens Hey!

Duga

you might want to post this on code review stack exchange — Dan Beaulieu 1 min ago

DJanssens

@Phrancis! How are you doing? :)

Phrancis

Well, not bad. Just learning more every day about the quirks of JavaScript ;)

How are you?

DJanssens

cool :)

node.js?

Phrancis

9:45 PM

Nah, just POJS

DJanssens

aha :)

Working on my thesis.

@Phrancis any chance you know how duplicates are processed on SE? I know it needs 6 votes in order to be closed as duplicate. But does one initially have to find duplicates and then wait till 6 people find the same duplicate? :D

Duga

If your code works and you are looking for a way to improve it then you probably should post your question on codereview.stackexchange.com instead of Stack Overflow. — Pshemo 45 secs ago

Phrancis

@DJanssens I think it goes into the review queue like other VTC reasons

DJanssens

I see

I just noticed this picture i.stack.imgur.com/w9vuq.png

Ethan Bierlein

For those to lazy to click on that link ^^:

Phrancis

10:00 PM

function isValidDate(date) {
    if ( Object.prototype.toString.call(date) !== "[object Date]" ) {
        return false;
    } else if ( isNaN(date.getTime() )
        return false;
    } else {
        return true;
    }
}

DJanssens

but it seems that the suggested similar questions seem only based on the title.

Anyhow, it still needs someone manually to discover the link between duplicates I guess.

That happens pretty rare I guess :/

Phrancis

A bit clunky, but I guess it should work fine... For some reason when you pass an invalid value to Date() it looks like it converts it to the String "Invalid Date", but if ( myDate === "Invalid Date" ) doesn't work, because it's not a String

Jeroen Vannevel

@Phrancis this shit right there is why I hate JavaScript

And a few other kinds of shit

But that one the most

Ethan Bierlein

37 mins ago, by Ethan Bierlein

See, this is the problem with JavaScript. In other languages, that would throw an error, but because JavaScript = "Joke", it doesn't.

@JeroenVannevel ^^

Jeroen Vannevel

You'd think that one of the benefits of dynamic typing is that you don't have to care about the type

in reality.. not true

It's just a lazy language that takes away the need to specify types to compile, but still requires them to run

Ethan Bierlein

10:14 PM

That's where a lot of my frustration with JavaScript comes in. I once spent 25 minutes trying to figure out what was wrong with a program only to find out I was passing a string to the method instead of an integer. Except JavaScript didn't give two shits and said, "Whatever, who cares. Just run.".

DJanssens

Is someone here that has 3k+ reputation on SO? :D

Ethan Bierlein

@DJanssens @nhgrif Recently passed 18k.

Jeroen Vannevel

@DJanssens: what for?

DJanssens

@JeroenVannevel seems to be appropriate too :D

Jeroen Vannevel

Yes. Finally. Some recognition

DJanssens

10:17 PM

I need the number of questions in the to close queue

the number of questions that still need to be processed :D

Jeroen Vannevel

7.9k

DJanssens

Actually a screenshot would be even better :D

Jeroen Vannevel

but the real amount is probably 100k

Ethan Bierlein

I'm not sure why so many people are up in arms about this question..

DJanssens

Why is the real amount different?

Jeroen Vannevel

10:19 PM

At least that's how they did it after the rework of the queues: first they show only those with 1 more vote needed

then those with 2

etc

I don't know how many they need now

but considering the CV queue was over 100k..

DJanssens

I see

Jeroen Vannevel

DJanssens

they do this to not discourage people?

Jeroen Vannevel

yeah, pretty much

and to get the ones with most closevotes sorted out first

since I believe closevotes expire after some time

DJanssens

:D Thanks a lot Jeroen :D I'll put some acknowledgement in the back of my ppt :D

yep after 4 days

Jeroen Vannevel

10:21 PM

lol, thanks!

making me famous

4 days?! I was thinking 6 months

DJanssens

stackoverflow.com/help/privileges/close-questions

Close votes age away harmlessly after 4 days if the threshold is not reached. Each new close vote resets the timer, and close votes only start expiring if the question has had 100 views.

Jeroen Vannevel

ah okay, the 100 views thing might explain it

:)

CYALL

KTHXBAI

10:39 PM

0

Q: Web Scraping with Python + asyncio

I've been working at speeding up my web scraping with the asyncio library. I have a working solution, but am unsure as to how pythonic it is or if I am properly using the library. Any input would be appreciated. import aiohttp import asyncio import requests from lxml import etree @asyncio.coro...

python asynchronous screen-scraping

Duga

I'm voting to close this question as off-topic because it is asking for code review. — Felix Kling 33 secs ago

@axlpl: If you have a specific problem with the code you have, then explain it. Describe the result you expect and what you currently get instead. Code review by itself simply off topic. — Felix Kling 1 min ago

Mehrad

why do we still need to inform users that "the Start Date should always be less than the End Date", or that "First Name is a required field"? Since User.Current.Electrocute() won't be added to the .NET Framework until .NET 4.0, most of us generally have to resort to displaying some kind of UI cues to politely tell the user what they've done wrong - Paul Stovell

RubberDuck

I want that feature.

Duga

11:01 PM

There is no question. If you are looking for a review of your code I suggest: codereview.stackexchange.com — Walker 37 secs ago

This question appears to be about how to write new code and/or explaining code, which would be off-topic for Code Review in both cases. — Phrancis 36 secs ago

Jamal

Just one more answer and I'll have the homework tag badge.

Duga

It's not clear whether there is a problem or not, so I would recommend to hold off recommending Code Review until the author of the post clarifies their intent. — Phrancis 35 secs ago

Phrancis

@Jamal Is that a good or a bad thing? ;)

Jamal

Good thing, assuming it won't be burninated any time soon.

Phrancis

I don't guess it will be, otherwise you probably would have done so yourself a while back :)

Jamal

11:09 PM

There weren't very many disagreements against the tag on this site anyway. Regardless, I do need to post more answers overall.

Phrancis

I think homework is a good "meta"-ish tag. It certainly does say something about the kind of question one would expect