The Whiteboard

5:20 AM

@JimmyHoffa I love the juxtaposition of "ITS REALLY RELALY COLD IN CHICAGO" with "WHY HAVEN'T YOU WALKED A MILE AND A HALF FOR THIS FOOD PLACE I REALLY LIKE!?"

Maybe because it's like 2 degrees out Jimmy. Maybe that's why.

Or maybe I really don't trust your recommendations!

5:51 AM

@AshleyNunn Keep me in the loop - just finished Third Rail by Rory Flynn. Pretty good modern day Noir style book

It felt a little... thin some places, but I think that may just be the style of noir all-together

user15026

Will do :)

idk, haven't read a ton of that style, but I liked it and it had me hooked from the first chapter. Plus it's rather short and ties up all it's ends by the end of the book, so I enjoyed it.

I may be overly critical of books though

oh wow, it's 2 bucks for the kindle edition. I picked up my hard cover at a thrift store for that much. definitely worth the 2 bucks if you're into murder/mystery

The Whiteboard: Bookclub edition.

Looks at record storage on etsy

Jesus I need to make an etsy account

Jimmy Hoffa

@Ampt on the other hand, I want a snarfs sammich damnit. I demand that you allow me to enjoy one vicariously because I don't want to actually drive down the road and get one m'self

user15026

@ampt do you use Goodreads at all? (I am weirdly fanatical about tracking my books but a lot of that is so I don't waste time accidentally grabbing crappy books I have already read)

6:15 AM

I do, but not fanatically. More like frantically, as im standing in the bookstore trying to get a decent recommendation so i furiously try snd recall what ive read haha

I really ought to go through my bookshelf and add them all... only 23 books on there, and i have like 4 bookshelves worth of books, not including the digital gamut on my kindle

Robert Harvey

I don't want to ask permission because they might say no, so just tell me if it's legal to do it without asking.

Heslacher

6:37 AM

Hi, could you take a look at this Code Review question codereview.stackexchange.com/questions/116749/… if this would be a good fit for Programmers.SE ?

A: Should I always store parsed data in database before manipulating?

8:35 AM

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Nice.

You say you are being asked to do so. The person asking you thinks that you performing this task will add value to your organization. If you want to know what the nature of that value is ask that person, not strangers on the internet! We don't know what is going on inside that person's head. Perhaps the code is of such low quality that even novices can find problems. Perhaps the code is of such high quality that you will learn good habits from it. Who can say? Someone thinks it is of value; ask that person what the value is. — Eric Lippert 16 hours ago

Stan Shunpike

Hello

So I started coding for the first time in a while and the first time I plan to do it seriously.

My first assignment was to code some economic stuff in Matlab for my econ class.

And I had this horrible moment where I just could not understand my own code

and thought I had lost all the work I had done

Some of it was gone, but most of it was just I couldn't read my own code

and as a result felt it was lost because it made so little sense

This taught me a valuable lesson that I need to organize my code better or I risk having the same problem again.

Does anyone have any suggestions for where I should start?

I didn't have any conceptual problems coding. That's the funny part. But my code organization is dreadful.

10:28 AM

I think programmers.stackexchange.com is the more appropriate site to ask this kind of questions. — Martin Schneider 49 secs ago

11:08 AM

You should probably ask it here : programmers.stackexchange.com — xordux 50 secs ago

11:25 AM

@Heslacher I'm having trouble locating an actual question in there.

What's the specific software design problem you are trying to solve?

Heslacher

Oh, yes, thats right never checked for a real question there. My bad. Thanks anyway!

I'm pretty sure there is some version of the question that would be perfectly on topic here, and would probably get a few upvotes as well, but... the current one isn't it.

@StanShunpike Not familiar with matlab, but I'm guessing like every other language it has some sort of code style and/or readability guidelines. Either official, or popular enough to be considered defacto standard.

Tried searching for something of the sort?

12:35 PM

brightside.me/article/why-generation-y-is-unhappy-11105

This question is better suit for programmers — Henrique Barcelos 16 secs ago

@JimmyHoffa I might be blowing $429 from my FSA to not lose it, but I did get my companies $750/year HSA deposit still, so I came out way ahead luckily :-)

@enderland I don't see how this question can fit in "education advice" category described by this thread, which is refered to by programmer's on-topic help. — Henrique Barcelos 40 secs ago

"software architecture and design" is on-topic for programmers, so I really think that's the place for a question like this one. — Henrique Barcelos 47 secs ago

12:59 PM

@enderland I had the question migrated to Programmers. It's not asking for off-site resources or career/education advice. It's asking to explain a concept in a book and provide sufficient context for more concrete explanation.

@ThomasOwens really? I think that's a really weak question

@enderland I don't see how.

"explain to me" is not really a good question and it just feels weak

I don't think that explain X to me is a bad question, as long as it's reasonably scoped ("explain software engineering to me" or even "explain how to manage requirements" is too broad - there are whole books on that). But if you're reading something and don't understand, and then provide enough context that you have to work with, I think it works.

It's a problem that others may have too, if they are reading other sources.

Mathematics

1:28 PM

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║ ID ║ Name ║ RandomID ║
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║ 1 ║ a ║ 3 ║
║ 2 ║ b ║ 2 ║
║ 3 ║ c ║ 1 ║
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I have this result returning from a BIG select query
I need to add another column, which will be "RandomName"
but I have no idea how can I do this

Ixrec

1:42 PM

"explain X" can be an excellent question if it is sufficiently narrow, and the OP tried reading the Wikipedia page first and makes an effort to explain why that didn't cut it

@enderland @ThomasOwens what's the question?

Q: How to understand "Split Data Model" in book "Java Concurrency In Practice"?

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I'm learning java multithreading programming by the book "Java Concurrency In Practice",when I read chapter 9.4.2 Split Data Model,writing this: From the perspective of the GUI, the Swing table model classes like TableModel and treeModel are the official repository for data to be displayed....

It's a +3/-1 vote split and gnat has seen it without voting to close it. It must be a good question.