Alicia

hmm.. OK, thanks.

I was kind of surprised to run a scanner and find no network at 5 GHz in my building, which is usually so full of access points that the network selection menu fills several times the height of my laptop

@RoryAlsop Sorry, I was referring to wifi-n networks.

Have you ever seen a 5 GHz wireless network?

@Adnan I doubt it. They'll bump you with something new.

Indeed.

@AviD It's a way to see it...

Hi

Tell me I am wrong. Did they have an outdated Xen affected by 47 known vulnerabilities for years in one of their Enterprise versions?

I received this yesterday on the SUSE security mail list lists.opensuse.org/opensuse-security-announce/2014-03/…

Well, call them 'verbosely typed languages' then.

@JasperLoy, I love you too.

(Or maybe not. See gevent.)

@Robusto Yeah, but sometimes I have had to deal with failure.

It also helps to make it annoyingly verbose, right.

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 no, the buffered one.

Sometimes you just want to monkey-patch something.

Bigger problem is the need for explicit interfaces.

@MrHen Well, I said 'slightly'. I didn't mean it was a big problem.

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 Oh, the FileReader API...

Good Python code is not type-checked and uses to be pretty readable.

Because 1/3 of the line length is a type declaration, when you can just focus in your variable names.

Type-checked languages are slightly harder to read.

Maybe because he?/she?/they? fear having to read code in TS.

@MrHen there are ES6 to ES5 compilers.

Sometimes I think about using one of those awkward abstractions just to avoid writing 'function () {}'. Having a template defined for it alleviates it something, but not entirely.

It does not answer my question, but cool snippet.

@Robusto does that answer my question?

How would you extend a method to provide aditional functionality in a better way?

I don't refer to that, but to MySuperclassName.prototype.randomMethod.call(this, arguments) instead of just super.randomMethod(arguments)

('pretty ugly', cool)

@Robusto I already do that, but I think it's pretty ugly.

I'm searching "the user" in the documentation of several projects to see how they handle it.

@Robusto What do you think about invoking methods of superclasses?

I'm not sure yet about what to do with this.

@KitFox Then if I was named Eve I would be offended by reading documentation about cryptography?

What do you mean?

'when there is people in my technical documentation'?

May I ask, is really something wrong with using just 'he'? Do people really get offended?

But it's not a bad tip, thanks.

hmm... that may suit for this case, but not for all.

@Mr.ShinyandNew安宇 The current phrase is "Once a user has been authenticated, messages sent by them ..."

(please)

@MrHen hmm... could you show me an example?

If I've ever seen it, I didn't notice.

The third is the most common?

@MrHen problem with that is that you are restricted to simple phrases.

I saw many people talk about "singular they", but I find phrases composed with it sometimes harder to catch.

When I write documentation for my software projects I often compose phrases with 'the user', and I feel confused about if I should write them in a gender-neutral way and how.

Hi.