The 2nd Monitor

Mat's Mug

06:01

TTGTB

'night CRitters

Quill

Night @Mat'sMug

Phrancis

06:12

I'm taking a short hiatus from the internet for a few days. Taking a vacation of sorts. I'll respond to pings when I get back.

Thanks :)

Quill

Have fun, and good work lately

@QPaysTaxes Silly FACTORFELLOW

Mehrad

i am a GUY

Quill

Do you guys think a for loop bug question would be suitable for a programming interview?

	// (1 * 5) + (2 * 5) = (3 * 5) + (4 * 5) + (5 * 5) = 75
	public static int sumOfMultiples(int value, int multiple) {
    	var endValue = 0;
		for (var i = 1; i < multiple; i++) {
			endValue += value * i;
		}
		return endValue;
	}

Mehrad

@Quill abstraction factory method would be better :P

Quill

@QPaysTaxes sumOfMultiples(5, 5)

should return 75, but returns 50

(I see the bug)

Snowhawk04

06:22

address the first = in your comment too

Quill

@Snowhawk04 That too

C#

Mehrad

@Quill CamelCase your method name also :)

Quill

You really could one line that in Python

@Mehrad Yeah, I kinda just spewed it in chat, I didn't really even paste it from VS

Captain Obvious

0

Q: Comparing two objects having 2 Nullable Date Fields

ExpiryDates has two properties PSL_ExpiryDate and MNL_ExpiryDate of type nullable date. I am trying to compare two objects for having same or different values. Is there a cleaner way to do the same as the code below? private bool SameValues(ExpiryDates ExpiryDates1, ExpiryDates ExpiryDates2) ...

c#

Mehrad

@Quill I was just worried Camel might get offended that's all :)

Quill

06:25

BRB going home

That's cool

But my colleague asked me to help him write some questions and I kinda got a little mad cause hems already interviewed people without basically any structure

*He's

Hey hey

They all sounded alright

I didn't get to look at their resumes and LinkedIn was unhelpful as usual

Mast

@Quill I've seen worse.

Monking btw

Quill

06:40

In my office, the structure goes Top Dev (rarely in office) > Above Average Dev (Full Time, migrated from Front End Dev) > Me (School Holidays)

Vogel612

07:04

Monking

@QPaysTaxes that's because it's so dead simple

but you have to remember doing it

lemme guess.. tag excerpt?

Duga

This is more suited for Code Review — Gerald Schneider 11 secs ago

Vogel612

probably like 1 : 99

or even worse

forgetting : never meaning to

Captain Obvious

0

Q: Wordpress WooCommerce Responsive cart (github)

This is a great little plugin- a WooCommerce shopping cart. Only a few minor changes are needed to make it great. I have made some attempt on this- but not gotten far. All it should need is some minor PHP & css changes. The author has given his permission to work on this so please contribute. ...

php css wordpress

Vogel612

07:20

@CaptainObvious at the very least off-topic, if not worse.

Quill

@QPaysTaxes, I did all of those tag wikis, sorry, but out of curiosity, which one are you talking about?

Ah, that one was fun

Duga

"was wondering if you Java gurus would share your state-machine advise for this example" Belongs on CodeReview — Vince Emigh 37 secs ago

Captain Obvious

0

Q: jQuery range slider change text based on hidden field value

I am working on a jQuery ratings function that uses the Foundation range slider. My current implementation works correctly on 2 of 7 of my range sliders. However, I am quickly realising that my implementation will become bloated as I have to repeat myself for each of the 7 range sliders. HTML: <

jquery html foundation

Quill

Straight copy paste, and the article I copied the brief off had a different first name spelling Andrei instead of Andrey, they both apply but the second is what Wikipedia had

Mast

@QPaysTaxes To be honest, it's better than no wiki at all.

Vogel612

07:31

^ that.

Mast

I'm not good with licenses. Neither is the internet.

I know, and it should have been done.

But there's such a thing as writing iteratively.

In this case, one person decided to fill the wiki, the next has to make the sources look good.

That's not how it's supposed to work, but it works.

I never said there were.

The article is an obvious copy-paste, look at the style it's written in.

Quill

07:56

@QPaysTaxes, I was working off the logic that:

25 mins ago, by Mast

@QPaysTaxes To be honest, it's better than no wiki at all.

I did do like 50 something edits too, so that helped

But yeah, I understand

And your input is noted for next time

Actually, updated figure: 69 edits for today

*Two edits

There's the excerpt and the body, they're counted 1 each

@QPaysTaxes, isn't it 4am where you are?

@QPaysTaxes Sleep man, sleep

Mast

@QPaysTaxes Caffeine, alcohol, sugar and water (which is usually covered with the first two), that's all you need.

Sugar to keep your motor running, water to prevent dehydration, caffeine to stay a good programmer and alcohol to prevent hyperactivity.

If you try to stay awake for longer than 24 hours I'd recommend meat as well, keeps your stomach friendly.

Quill

You know what they say: Code drunk/caffeinated, Debug sober

Mast

08:11

If you write it the way you're supposed to there's no need for debugging, right?

Who needs unit-testing anyway...

/JK

Quill

Yeah, right, let your clients debug for you when they run the solution

Mast

@Quill Yea, or get a QA department.

@QPaysTaxes Does it taste like meat?

Somebody should write a 'LAN-parties for dummies' with tips like these.

Quill

@Mast I remember when I did those, long time ago, now it's just teamspeak ;-;

Vogel612

@Mast add in "Do not plug all Computers into the same (possibly even chained) multi-outlet"

"Do not start all Computers at the same time"

"Use simple tools: an unused router can do great as DHCP"

and so on..

Mast

@Vogel612 Haha, yea. I always bring a haspel exactly for that.

@QPaysTaxes Tell me about it. People think I'm an expert with all computers and everything else with a cord.

Being an EE engineer doesn't make you all knowing all of a sudden...

@QPaysTaxes Ooooh, those are awesome on the inside.

It's like a really old, specialised computer.

Arcade machines are pure gold, technologically speaking.

Vogel612

08:32

@QPaysTaxes on a related note: "Don't think that the heating of Computers is sufficient to party in a garage. in winter"

and don't plug in 2 2KW heaters to the same outlet

at all

Mast

08:48

@Vogel612 I don't know what the current rating there is, but here it's 16A. That's roughly 3.6kW per group.

Vogel612

yes, exactly..

Mast

However, if you have a 3-phase outlet, you can plug 3 identical devices in star and cut the nul-wire.

Vogel612

it boiled down to getting current from another separate circuit and plugging one heater and 2 Computers with attached stuff to each circuit

Mast

@QPaysTaxes P = U * I (Watts = Voltage * Amps)

Vogel612

@Mast that's ... hard wire already, right?

Mast

08:51

3-phase has L1, L2, L3 and something for the return current. It's called Nul here, not sure what the international name is.

@QPaysTaxes Basically, if you have 230 V on your outlet (most of Europe does afaik), you can draw at most 3680 W if you're current limited at 16A.

Yea, American housing has 120

But you probably have more Amps per group to compensate (I hope).

Another trick with LAN-parties is if you don't know how the groups are divided in a certain house you can always try the kitchen.

Kitchens should have at least 2 groups.

You'll blow the fuse if you draw too much, not short anything.

@QPaysTaxes A lot of high-power appliances, yes.

Shorting something is like connecting the two plugs of your outlet without sufficient load.

Blowing a fuse is often the result when shorting, so it's not that crazy.

You're drawing more power than the fuse allows you too. Shorting and using too many high-power appliances are the same in that regard.

Both will blow the fuse.

Vogel612

well shorting it usually makes it use the max current -> draws sh*tloads of power -> fuse blows

Captain Obvious

1

Q: Markov chain-based word salad generator

I like Markov chains. Last time I used one, I made one that generates words. This time, I made one that generates sentences, given a set of words and valid connections. This time, it's not weighted and it's reading from a JSON file, so the code is a bit simpler: require 'json' data = JSON[ARGV[...

ruby markov-chain

Vogel612

In Germany kitchens often get one standard circuit and one with rotary current for stove

and fridge, dishwasher often get a second standard circuit

Mast

@Vogel612 Define 'standard'?

Vogel612

but that one usually has no outlets.

16A/230V

Mast

09:00

@Vogel612 Allright, that's standard here as well.

Rotary != Alternating?

An old guide for LAN parties

Nothing about food and current division though...

Captain Obvious

0

Q: Count chars difference between two strings

Given two strings with the same length, we check how many chars on the same positions are different. For example: ABCD and ABBD should return 1. Here is a link to a gist with tests, to have a better understanding of what I'm building. Here is my solution: object Hamming { def compute(str1: St...

scala

Duga

@GeraldSchneider Only code that you wrote or maintain is on-topic on Code Review. — 200_success 44 secs ago

Mast

09:16

@Duga If he posts it here, it will be nuked instantly.

200_success

@QPaysTaxes Sorry, you'll have to practice your anger management. (In the grand scheme of things, that's hardly an atrocity.)

Quill

He is improving on self control, maybe from getting banned a few times, but nonetheless

200_success

Why don't you spew a few rainbows instead?

4

Quill

 10 sq 5 - .

eww

Mast

@QPaysTaxes I could write you some obfuscated Batch which would make your computer look for chat.stackexchange.com in localhost ^^

Quill

09:20

@QPaysTaxes I'm learning it now :-)

@QPaysTaxes If you're the unicorn, then @EthanBierlein is the blonde girl

@QPaysTaxes { 1 2 3 } [ "The number is " write . ] each

Mast

Is there a use-case for Factor or should it be considered an esolang?

Simon André Forsberg

Morning

Quill

Morning

Simon André Forsberg

@Legato As others said, you should look into Socket programming. Whatever language you are using, I'm sure it has a tutorial about that. For Java for example, refer to docs.oracle.com/javase/tutorial/networking/sockets

Captain Obvious

0

Q: Clean phone number

Program that cleans up user-entered phone numbers so that they can be sent SMS messages. The rules are as follows: If the phone number is less than 10 digits assume that it is bad number If the phone number is 10 digits assume that it is good If the phone number is 11 digits and the first numbe...

validation scala

0

Q: Find anagrams in a list

Write a program that, given a word and a list of possible anagrams, selects the correct sublist. Given "listen" and a list of candidates like "enlists" "google" "inlets" "banana" the program should return a list containing "inlets". Here is my solutions: class Anagram(word: String) { val sor...

scala

Duga

09:36

Might be a good question for codereview.stackexchange.com - please check their help before asking there. — Neil Slater 56 secs ago

Duga

09:53

@NeilSlater This code has been stripped down to a quite minimum example, which makes it a bad question for Code Review. — Simon André Forsberg 34 secs ago

Mast

@CaptainObvious I can't help but feel he's generating zombies.

Vogel612

meh..

call Donald, maybe he can shoot them

else I might go for them this weekend

Mast

@QPaysTaxes One of his questions is still on-hold.

Simon André Forsberg

Just as a general note, I'd recommend avoiding too many questions in a row, the reviews you get from one question can often be applied to other pieces of code you write as well. — Simon André Forsberg 22 secs ago

Vogel612

@QPaysTaxes concerning that scala answer...

> I'm not that deep into scala semantics, but as I understood it, words is a modifiable reference collection. While filters do not have an effect on the collection reference, map might ...

I don't actually know, but figured it'd be more java-like in that respect.

Duga

10:03

Voting to close as code review. — Ciro Santilli 六四事件法轮功纳米比亚威视 12 secs ago

Mast

@QPaysTaxes Why?

Also, why would you write a review so heavily based on assumptions? Are you sure your implementation is better?

@Duga That question is almost 2 years old.

Two years ago CR had a different status.

It isn't an exact review request either, more of a 'I don't understand this'.

Captain Obvious

0

Q: Count unique characters in a String and group the counts

We take a string as input that must contain only 'A', 'C', 'G', and 'T'. For instance, "AACCC" should return the Map that looks like this: Map('A' -> 2, 'C' -> 3, 'G' -> 0, 'T' -> 0). More detail can be found in a gist with specs This is my solution: class DNA(code: String) { val nucleotides ...

scala

0

Q: Does this code follow standard conventions, not redundant?

It's exercise from the java introductory book Write a hangman game that randomly generates a word and prompts the user to guess one letter at a time, as shown in the sample run. Each letter in the word is displayed as an asterisk. When the user makes a correct guess, the actual letter is th...

java

Mast

@SimonAndréForsberg He didn't take the hint.

@CaptainObvious VTC, UWYA

@QPaysTaxes Proves it's working. I asked if you knew for sure it's better.

@QPaysTaxes As would I, but I don't know. So I'm not suggesting it without knowing.

@QPaysTaxes G'Night

Captain Obvious

-1

Q: how to fetch Json data in iOS

i am working on Ecommerce app in that i inserted my product details,now want to fetch that data from json ,how i code for it?? i tried that using if([method isEqualToString:@"GET"]){ NSString *getURL = [NSString stringWithFormat:@"%@?productDescription=%@?productid=%@?productimg=%@&...

json ios server

Mast

10:20

@CaptainObvious Broken

Mast

10:33

Would it be good if I attach link on free-image hosting with image of block-scheme illustrating logic of my program, because it's not obvious how it work or it's not necessary? — Alexander 15 mins ago

Yes, charts, more, please.

10

Q: Imposing a sort order on a query

I've always been told "never use goto, there's always a better way" and for the longest time I just accepted it. Lately though, I've been running into such scenarios in which I have to repeat this bit of code every time I return early. I personally hate repeating myself, even the littlest bit of...

c# linq error-handling

goto in c#. Uh, no.

Duga

11:16

@CiroSantilli六四事件法轮功纳米比亚威视: that's not a valid close reason. Code review is not specifically off topic here. It could be too broad instead, at best. — Martijn Pieters ♦ 29 secs ago

Captain Obvious

1

Q: DataDictionary Application - Model

Following on from my previous question, I think my Entity Framework model code is now complete. First I'll provide a quick overview of the program - everything above the next horizontal rule can be assumed to be 'fixed' & not changeable by me. Because this is kinda long, I'm going to break th...

c# entity-framework

Duga

@MartijnPieters I think code review is very close to "why isn't this code working?". Too broad or unclear are other options for this one though. — Ciro Santilli 六四事件法轮功纳米比亚威视 48 secs ago

Captain Obvious

0

Q: DataDictionary Application - Controller

This is related to DataDictionary Application - Model I haven't done much on the controllers yet, as it's the first time I've written Controller-type classes and wanted some quick feedback on really simple stuff, so these presently just contain various Get methods. If this is ok for a start,...

c# entity-framework

0

Q: How to avoid code duplication for collection of $_POST data?

I have a backend API that I'm sure can a refactor, but I'm not exactly sure how to avoid repitition between the store method and the update method of this controller. Specifically, the collection of $_POST data is exactly the same. How can duplication be avoided? store public function store(Req...

php mvc laravel rest

0

Q: Interval Validation

We have three different web pages that contain grid which is for adding details of master entity. Grid is something like that: As you can see, detail object can be expressed in javascript by var detail = { Description: 'Detail', MinPercentage: 0, MaxPercentage: 20 } Now, we...

javascript algorithm

Duga

11:39

@dyp I completely understand, and it's a very well made point. I still think it smacks of premature optimisation. When are we ever going to be assigning multiple copies of the same vector of expensive (copyable) objects in a tight loop? Code like that would be unlikely to make it past code review. I guess ultimately arguments like this over philosophy are just that - we all have good reasons for what we say. I think we're as correct as each other. — Richard Hodges 8 secs ago

nhgrif

11:54

@Mat'sMug AppleScript is like talking to Siri with telegrams.

skiwi

Monking

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