The 2nd Monitor

9:00 PM

Naruto answer; accepted non-selfie answer with 0 score: Create a text index of files python performance data-structures sorting

Ripe zombie; open question with answers, at least one answer having score 0, no answer having score > 0: Organising JavaScript for small scale websites javascript jquery

Captain Obvious

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Q: XSS Sanitization of RSS Feeds using JS

I need to pull an rss feed with links, headlines, and descriptions onto the front page of a website, and while I would like to think the source is trustworthy, you can never rule out malicious actors. I also would like to avoid iframes, since a sufficiently secure iframe sandbox would impact the ...

Duga

Possible duplicate of How to check out changes from a code review in TFS — jessehouwing 14 secs ago

EBrown

chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/xkcd-substitutions/…

Simon Forsberg McFeely

@Duga Well that's a new one

Mat's Mug

9:26 PM

Thanks for the feed back Muggle. I'll start working on those points you listed. Give me about a week or so and I'll have the corrections, I hope. Really appreciate the help and support. — DKnight 39 secs ago

"Muggie"

no wait it's "Muggle"

geez

that's also a new one

EBrown

Yeah, I was gonna say.

There's no i in that word.

Phrancis

@Mat'sMug Should we start calling you Mr Muggle? ;)

Mat's Mug

NO!

>.<

Duga

possible answer invalidation by Matt O'Neill on question by Matt O'Neill: codereview.stackexchange.com/posts/116051/revisions

Mat's Mug

@Duga O'Bug!

@SimonForsbergMcFeely saw that? ^^

EBrown

9:31 PM

@Mat'sMug Alright Vernon.

Mat's Mug

grrrr

EBrown

You're name on my screen is now Vernon Dursley.

Mat's Mug

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Q: Incorrect year text

I have up voted answer some month ago, now I just tried to toggle it, throws correct error message, but incorrect year as seen in pic below Thanks, see you soon App Version: 1.4.2.3 Device: iPhone 5 (GSM) OS Version: Version 9.2 (Build 13C75)

bug ios-app

ironically, this just landed on MSE

EBrown

Oh no

This won't do at all.

Mat's Mug

@SimonForsbergMcFeely Duga's not alone ^^

EBrown

9:33 PM

If I refresh your name shows up as "Vernon Dursley" as expected, but when you send a new message it doesn't.

Well that's a bummer.

Captain Obvious

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Q: PHP Dependency Injection Container

I am currently working on a small framework and one of it's main components is a Dependency Injection Container I made. I am not a professional dev and I would like someone more experienced than I am to review this class. The class itself is pretty easy to use and documented, here it is: <?php ...

php collections dependency-injection

EBrown

So I sent a company wide email on our AS/400 reminding everyone of my hours, and one of our sales reps replied "elliot... im your #1 fan. that tis all, dueces!" I think I needed that boost for the day.

Phrancis

@EBrown I needed your sarcasm for the day :)

EBrown

9:52 PM

@Phrancis I wasn't sarcastic...lol

Now, I have to figure out how to connect to an NFS system through VB.NET.

Gustavo6046

nobody in the nth monitor?

nevermind

I'm back!

EBrown

I think I'm getting the hang of eating these elephants.

Gustavo6046

what

EBrown

It's a phrase coined by one of our members: importblogkit.com/2015/05/how-do-you-eat-an-elephant

Gustavo6046

reopening Code::Blocks...

does libcaca converts images into text and lets me print it into the console? I simply start the console and print some image as ASCII art?

Phrancis

10:04 PM

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Q: Is there a command-line program that can output ascii art as an image?

Is there a command-line program (for Linux) that can convert an image to ascii art and then save that output as an image e.g. jpg or png? To illustrate what I'm in need of, I want to convert the image below into ascii art The output that I desire from a program should be similar to this one, w...

images software-recommendations batch-processing image-processing ascii

Might help you

Gustavo6046

thanks :)

I don't want the ASCII art as a image, I want it printable into the console a text.

Phrancis

Look at the answers

Looks like that's exactly what they are doing

Gustavo6046

Ok, let's digest this elephant:
-A library that converts images into pure text ASCII art.
-Some way of posting it into the console in the middle of it.
Can this problem be breaked down further?

The 1st one might be Libcaca.
The 2nd one might be Curses.
I ain't sure. But also I don't know how to use them, if this is right, so I think I can't do my game with ASCII art graphics :(

Phrancis

Well it might be better to output the ASCII art to text file so you only have to convert them once and not every time you need them

Then it's easy enough to print the content of the text file to the console

Gustavo6046

Great idea! Thanks! But... it need to be printed relative to the console window so the graphics aren't linebreaked soon.

There are some ways:
-Somehow make the font size of Windows console relative to the console window size;
-Print the text only in some corner (or middle) of the console.

Phrancis

10:11 PM

That's a bit difficult. The console wasn't really designed for playing games.

Quill

Hey @Phrancis, an IDENTITY is like a primary key right?

Gustavo6046

Or we can maximize the console before printing the graphics... or doing Alt-Enter and making the console enter text mode. The latter might require Ncurses, and so might do the former...

Phrancis

If you really want to display images, it would make more sense to make a UI for it

EBrown

@Quill No

Not at all.

Phrancis

@Quill Not quite no

Gustavo6046

10:12 PM

I don't know how to make a UI. I want to make a console game, it's easier.

Quill

So what's the major difference?

EBrown

@Quill One is a constraint, the other is a trigger.

Phrancis

IDENTITY is analogous to AUTO_INCREMENT in other DBs like MySQL/PostgreSQL

It just increments your numbers, that's all. It can take two arguments, 1) the starting number, and 2) how much to increment each time

Captain Obvious

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Q: Calculating the change of a vending machine

I would like to know if this function is correct (I know that it works, but I have not got enough knowledege so as to demonstrate that it is correct). Indication: a colleccio is defined as a vector< int > always of size 12, so I can represent the number of banknotes and/or coins of value 50, ...

c++ algorithm

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Q: Small java auto-pinger, single class program

I have a problem with some remote devices at a lot of my manufacturing sites. There are two major problems: 1) the network is unreliable in terms of maintaining connections and 2) machines have duplicate IP addresses. Both of these are, naturally, catastrophic. To detect these conditions, I wrote...

java

Quill

Ah, not unique, auto incrementing

Phrancis

10:14 PM

Or defaults to IDENTITY(1,1) if you don't provide arguments

Mat's Mug

@Phrancis /Access ;-)

EBrown

Often times you see the two together, but that's just because a PK has to be unique.

So it's easy to define a PK as an auto-incrementing column.

But you can easily have one without the other.

Phrancis

@Mat'sMug Silly Mr Muggle, Access is not a real database ;)

EBrown

@Mat'sMug Still no answers to my WPF question. :P

Gustavo6046

who is captain obvious and why is he putting random questions in the chat? just a question, please don't get mad if this seems....

I forgot the term for it :P

EBrown

10:16 PM

@Gustavo6046 He's a feed.

Gustavo6046

oh ok thanks, I was afraid

EBrown

He posts what questions have just been asked on our site.

Phrancis

@Gustavo6046 Great question. It's a RSS feed that posts new questions

Gustavo6046

did he posted my questions?

EBrown

Yep.

Gustavo6046

10:17 PM

does cin.get() pauses include alt-enter input?

Quill

Speaking of mugs, they said in december they would ship the 10m swag in 2 weeks

also I got my MSE swag email last night

EBrown

7 hours ago, by Captain Obvious

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Q: C++ Not-So-Simple Entire HTML Generating Code v0.3

As a follow-up to my code's v0.1 revision, we now introduce V0.3, with capability for storage of attributes and a struct for each HTML tag! Just start the struct, call it's functions, change it's variables then use <fstream> to make the complete HTML file using generateHTML()! (53 lines! Now I a...

c++ html

@Quill I still haven't gotten mine.

Gustavo6046

:)

Quill

@EBrown For the Choose your own swag question?

Gustavo6046

cin.get() includes alt-enter or only enter?

EBrown

10:19 PM

@Quill Oh, no. From 10million.

Quill

Oh yeah, I haven't got mine from that either, but it should be soon (they actually put real times on it instead of 6-8 weeks)

Mat's Mug

Hey wait a minute... no mug? — Mat's Mug ♦ 13 secs ago

EBrown

@Mat'sMug I love my SO mug.

Same one you have, actually.

Mat's Mug

with the old black logo?

Quill

@Mat'sMug You should be getting >1 from the 10m events

Gustavo6046

10:22 PM

Erm... sorry for the dumb question. but... what is a swag, and what is a mug?

a mug from SE*

Mat's Mug

<-- mug

EBrown

Yep. The 6-block logo.

@Gustavo6046 "Swag" is branded merchandise.

Mat's Mug

I also got a 5-[orange]-block SO mug :)

EBrown

SE periodically gives away free goods.

@Mat'sMug Now I'm jelly.

Duga

@cFrozenDeath: ironically, the code you posted on codereview saves a salted hash, which is fine. The pre-hash of the password is redundant. — Jim Flood 46 secs ago

Mat's Mug

10:23 PM

but seriously.. there has to be a CR mug with the logo on one side and the t-shirt tagline on the other

EBrown

I got a shirt, some stickers, a notepad, and a mug from attempting to assist SE with a spam filter problem.

They actually gave me the motivation I needed to revamp my original php spam filter to c#.

Phrancis

lol php

EBrown

This was written before phpoop.

Quill

during one of the podcasts, there was talk of machine learning towards spam filters on SE

EBrown

Back when I was a php programmer.

Mat's Mug

10:26 PM

so, you're cured now?

EBrown

@Quill That's what my spam filter does.

@Mat'sMug No, sadly. I still have some php projects left out there yet to be converted.

I need to get an official API wrapped around my spam filter, then sell API access to it.

It's really cool, @Mat'sMug has seen some of the code before.

Which reminds me, if I send you that code again, can you look it for me again @Mat'sMug?

Mat's Mug

probably

EBrown

Alright. I might have to take you up on that later.

I need to build a Configuration class for it. Right now all the config elements are hard-coded constants.

(Fortunately, I do have config elements. I didn't hardcode actual values anywhere.)

Well, using var everywhere has done something to this.

Not sure if it's good or bad, yet.

@Mat'sMug Is it possible, in C#, to attach methods to enums?

Mat's Mug

nope

well, extension methods I think you might perhaps

EBrown

Bummer.

Phrancis

10:39 PM

TTQW - Today was a crap day, glad it's over.

Captain Obvious

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Q: Right triangle calculator

I'm trying to code Python in an object-oriented style, but it just seems very forced. Can anyone give me tips on this exercise of calculating the third leg of a right triangle from the other two? I'm not looking for input santitization help! I'm aware the project doesn't check if the input is ...

python oop

EBrown

// This logic doesn't always make clear sense at first.

Well, I suppose that's self-explanatory enough.

Quill

Is Entity Framework supposed to create classes based on your tables?

EBrown

Yes, if you enable Code-First Migrations.

asp.net/mvc/overview/getting-started/…

Duga

I think this belongs in codereview.stackexchange.com — David Wilson 16 secs ago

Jeroen Vannevel

10:48 PM

@EBrown From table to class is Database-First

If you want to create tables based on your code, it's Code-First

Quill

Yeah, I went through Database first but no classes were being made based on my tables

then I did it again, like literally the same thing

and it worked

EBrown

@JeroenVannevel Ah, I read his thing backwards.

Quill

I think it had to do with the primary key warnings

in JavaScript on Stack Overflow Chat, 4 hours ago, by ssube

sometimes CSS works, and sometimes CSS doesn't work, and other times CSS does work, and occasionally CSS doesn't do the work, but then CSS does do work that it does, except CSS doesn't not do the work it can't do

Hosch250

You'd think the main site would be more active considering how active chat is.

Gustavo6046

@Quill the easier is loaning Gmail's filter, it's overzealous enough for the job :) I got registration email detected as spam xD

Quill

10:56 PM

what

Gustavo6046

nvm, I was reading the top of the page and I didn't notice xD

when you said SE would have spam filters

Quill

oh yeah

Mat's Mug

@EBrown ah, so that is what "Migrations" are for!

wah

Gustavo6046

I could do a C++ spam filter that analyzes the e-mail word by word, and if the number of word coincidences with the spam word database was higher than a threshold (size of email in words multiplied by the scale in the user settings) it would be put in the Spam folder.

The user could mark the email as Spam. He would be prompted "Do you want to mark the words that are spam-ish?" and then he would contribute to the database.

Common spam words include "bank, form, information, credit, card" and even "poop".

Hosch250

@Gustavo6046 "You have won a trip to the Bahamas!"

EBrown

11:02 PM

@Gustavo6046 That's how Bayesian spam filter works, to an extent.

Hosch250

The last time I answered them, I told them to shut up. Shocked my sister, who didn't know who I was talking to.

EBrown

Naive Bayes spam filtering

Naive Bayes classifiers are a popular statistical technique of e-mail filtering. They typically use bag of words features to identify spam e-mail, an approach commonly used in text classification. Naive Bayes classifiers work by correlating the use of tokens (typically words, or sometimes other things), with spam and non-spam e-mails and then using Bayes' theorem to calculate a probability that an email is or is not spam. Naive Bayes spam filtering is a baseline technique for dealing with spam that can tailor itself to the email needs of individual users and give low false positive spam detection...

Gustavo6046

The badword database stores all words considered bad words, they are like spam words but they count as triple.

EBrown

I just have a static filter in my outlook that filters anything containing "Viagra" or "Cialis" to trash immediately.

That catches ~50% of my spam alone.

Quill

@Hosch250 or just answer and let them talk without responding

Mat's Mug

11:03 PM

lol

Hosch250

Also, you should give the first email received from an account a higher weight.

@Quill We usually hang up after the first couple words.

Quill

just leave them until they realise nobody is on the other side

EBrown

I always greet telemarketers with a generic hold announcement.

Quill

they're gonna waste your time, I'd waste their time in return

Gustavo6046

Burkina Faso is a common spam subject. "My father died in Burkina Faso, I'm about to die too and I want you to herald the lost family's money, just put your address and credit card code here and we will ---steal---give you the herald money". That's how most spam works.

EBrown

11:04 PM

"Thank you for calling! We appreciate your call. Please hold while we find someone to take your call."

Hosch250

They sound machine generated. I don't remember, but I think we are supposed to press a button to claim it.

EBrown

Then I put the phone down and leave it.

If they're still on the line after a few minutes, I repeat the message.

Quill

another good one is to start speaking another language back to them

of course the caveat is that you need to know another language

Mat's Mug

TTQW, finally got my report query up and running. tomorrow is another day - gotta consume that stored proc in SSRS now :)

EBrown

I don't know any languages except American English and British English.

@Mat'sMug Later. Have fun. :)

Hosch250

11:05 PM

@EBrown Same here, and I don't know much Br. English.

Mat's Mug

they.... don't quite count as two

Gustavo6046

I know both Portuguese, English, and a bit of Spanish, German and Japanese.

EBrown

@Mat'sMug Totally two different languages. Color vs Colour, completely different.

Gustavo6046

Hello in German is "Hallo", in Spanish is "Hola" and in Japanese is "Konnichiwa" (of course in japanese alphabet).

Mat's Mug

@EBrown I like the "Please hold the line, your call is important to us" variation better ;-)

Hosch250

11:06 PM

@Quill I like the one where the callee pretends to be a police officer.

Quill

Quite a few regulars here speak French too

EBrown

@Mat'sMug There are so many different variations. I like to switch them up regularly.

Hosch250

Or, you could immediately answer and say "You have won a free trip to ~~jail~~ the Bahamas!"

EBrown

@Hosch250 My friend answered a call for his dad from a bill collector, and told the bill collector his dad was dead and started crying.

Gustavo6046

French is "Bonjour", Italian is "Bonjorne" and Chinese is "Ni hao" in their alphabet.

Quill

11:08 PM

I like the one where you pretend like you know the person

EBrown

The bill collector called back like 5 days later, "we need a copy of the death certificate for ____", and his dad answered it and shouted "I'M NOT DEAD!"

Quill

> "Sarah? Is that you? It's been ages, how are you?"

Hosch250

@EBrown LOL.

Gustavo6046

@Quill "I DON'T KNOW YOU PLEASE STOP"

lol

my mouse is broken, I will need to use laptop's touchpad instead

EBrown

Now, better question: how do we keep ending up on this topic? I swear I've seen this topic in this room like 3 times now.

Gustavo6046

11:10 PM

move to the nth

Quill

because it's funny

Hosch250

Because cold-callers are so prevalent?

Spam filters?

EBrown

Ah, yes.

Spam filters.

Gustavo6046

make a spam filter like the one I said that could substitute Gmail's current overzealous one and you win a trip to ~~jail~~ the Bahamas!

Hosch250

Is room owner/mod around to kick the messages?

Gustavo6046

11:11 PM

@Hoach250 they put in the nth, they don't just kick

Hosch250

@Gustavo6046 I never get spam, so I don't need it.

@Gustavo6046 That's a new version of my name. The usual one is "Horsch".

EBrown

I am spam.

Gustavo6046

@EBrown *activating spam deleting systems*........100% done
*activating defense systems*..........100% done
*activating laser*........100% done
*shooting*

who here is alien?

Duga

I am not going to flag it as such, but I have feeling that this question would be better suited to Programmers Stack Exchange; or maybe Code Review if you can add some working code that can be discussed. — Mirosław Zalewski 26 secs ago

Hosch250

Quill

11:15 PM

lol

Dilbert was in our major standardised test (finals) last year

That one about not working to full capacity because it creates expectation

Hosch250

Seriously? What were they testing you on?

I think I'll create a room and put a Dilbert feed in.

Quill

Testing us what it meant, Visual Literacy, the unit was called

Hosch250

Hmmm.

Duga

This question is more appropriate for codereview.stackexchange.com — Jeremy Harris 11 secs ago

Quill

Response format was short response (a paragraph)

Of course, I'd seen that specific comic here before ;-)

Duga

11:27 PM

codereview.stackexchange.com/questions/79020/… — Jeremy Harris 1 min ago

SirPython

:26650106 You could read the file character by character, then print out each one.

EBrown

Only 3 minutes left.

Gustavo6046

what if it was a backslash?

@EBrown: for what?

Jeroen Vannevel

codepen.io/2015/popular/pens/10 holy shit

EBrown

@Gustavo6046 Until TTGH

Jeroen Vannevel

11:27 PM

these are incredible

Gustavo6046

TTGH?

EBrown

Time to go Home

Phrancis

@Gustavo6046 ^

Damn @EBrown you're fast today

SirPython

@JeroenVannevel They really are. They use some crazy css-magic

EBrown

@Phrancis What else am I supposed to do while I wait?

Also, will you be on Skype later? I might have a few SQL questions.

Phrancis

11:29 PM

Yeah just hit me up

Gustavo6046

How will I read the file character-by-character if it only reads via the >> method?

EBrown

Roger that.

Gustavo6046

Also how much of the file does each >> bites?

Phrancis

Can someone explain this to me? I'm not good enough at programming yet to understand why it's wrong

nothing justifies recursion here, nor to call level1Question2 from level1Question1 — njzk2 1 hour ago

SirPython

I'm sure there are other ways to read, but I only know how to do it in C.

Gustavo6046

11:31 PM

how do they guys put here Wikipedia articles and how did sirpython highlight the words "css-magic"?

SirPython

That was a tag syntax. I did it like this: [tag:css-magic]

Quill

magic use this format [tag:word]

Gustavo6046

and the Wikipedia articles? like:
:26649707

SirPython

As for wikipedia, some links, if posted alone in chat, will "one-box", or form a special box in the chat box.

Quill

codepen.io/kowlor/pen/MYOKRd

Gustavo6046

11:35 PM

lemme try :)

Phrancis

@EBrown Funny anecdote on that... at my last job my title was "Client Support Specialist". One day suddenly all me and my teams' emails were not delivering.

Quill

totally not appropriate discourse for chat

Phrancis

Hold on

→ 2 messages moved to Trash

Quill

this is a politically, racially and gender-biasly free zone @Gustavo6046

Thanks @Phrancis

Gustavo6046

ok

I didn't really understand what you said @Quill

Phrancis

11:38 PM

@Gustavo6046 This is a friendly, but firm warning. Please watch what you post in this room. If you want to talk politics with others, invite them to The Nth Monitor, that's what we created it for. Thank you.

Gustavo6046

ok

I'll try to avoid much politics here

Phrancis

Yes, very good, we all appreciate it :)

Gustavo6046

just a sec.... the nth has not a single post SINCE 4 HOURS AGO

Hosch250

People usually don't go there.

@Phrancis Did you get sidetracked?

Phrancis

@Hosch250 Huh?

Quill

11:41 PM

It's a side chat to here @Gustavo6046 not necessarily a main chat room

Hosch250

On your anecdote.

Quill

4 mins ago, by Phrancis

@EBrown Funny anecdote on that... at my last job my title was "Client Support Specialist". One day suddenly all me and my teams' emails were not delivering.

you were talking about emails not delivering

Gustavo6046

I am a pizza delivery service @Quilll

Phrancis

@Gustavo6046 If you want to talk with others there often you have to tell them you want to talk there, otherwise we often don't just "hang" there, it's very loosely moderated (unlike here)

@Quill @Hosch250 Oh right. Can you guess?

Hosch250

Spam filter went wild?

Quill

11:43 PM

You had an employee named "Cialis"?

Phrancis

"Client Support Specialist"

They had just enabled a new spam filter overnight :)

Quill

apparently whitespace is unnecessary then

Phrancis

It's 10K network wide @SirPython

Does anyone know how difficult it would be to script something specifically for SSMS? For example if I type a certain word in the editor set it to auto-complete, or link typing up a certain script in the editor to a keyboard shortcut?

Quill

the first is a namespace and the second no idea

Hosch250

in The Nineteenth Byte, 33 secs ago, by Sp3000

Cross-site challenge idea: Shortest golf which still passes code review.

Phrancis

11:59 PM

nooooooooo

Although, you'd have to define "passing" Code Review... guess not being VTC?

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