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1:10 AM

I love how people put "The question is widely applicable to a large audience" bounties on their tumbleweed questions.

animuson

It is applicable to a wide audience, the audience just doesn't know it yet! >_>

Clearly everyone else doesn't know how to use Google to find their unanswered question.

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5:10 AM

Finished a HW assignment with 42 commits. Feeling awesome about it.

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1:08 PM

@Moshe I see the obligatory homework comments are as redundant as they've always been.

//
//  Opens an output stream
//

bool openOutputStream(ofstream &stream, string fileName){...

1:37 PM

@moot yea, I think professors prefer that.

1:55 PM

@Moshe I wish professors would teach something that doesn't make coders hate commenting when they come out of school.

Daniel Fischer

2:05 PM

@mootinator You wish professors tought obfuscated C?

ThiefMaster

commenting too much is contraproductive

import urllib # import the urllib module - saw this recently in a paste from #python. seriously, who needs such a comment

@Moshe: I think it'd be better to use std::endl instead of '\n' when writing to cout or cerr

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3:47 PM

Things which actually need good comments: 1. APIs and/or Interfaces. 2. Anything unclear, complicated, kludgey...

4:08 PM

Most of my comments come in the form of "... |:"

// FIXME: Probably shouldn't do this

That's self explanatory.

/* TODO: Implement less stupidly */

Heh, I actually have one that starts out "This is terrible, and I should be ashamed of myself."

/* TODO: You know, I bet the server could handle the 1k needed to cache this entire table instead of querying it every request. But that seems too much like work right now. */

Incidentally that's similar to how the rest of the comment goes.

4:12 PM

Parphrased, "It's easier than doing it in JPQL, and there's only a few elements in this loop"

I just ESD killed a process, whoops.

Fortunately that appears to be all I killed.

A tactical strike.

Anonymous

Jeremy Banks, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

20k 27 82 137

Anonymous

flashy level-up animation plays

Look at you, Mr. 20k

Congratulations :D

Anonymous

4:18 PM

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@JeremyBanks Well done, sir.

By 20k, you should be able to code up a flashy animation pretty quickly, so I'll expect to see that within the hour. Fanfare sound effect optional, but encouraged.

Anonymous

By 20k I have learned that $(".gravatar img").levelUp() is the way to go.

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Ugh, sorry to tell you this, but that displayed as code instead of the actual animation on my end, thanks to balpha and his no-random-eval() policy for chat.

@ThiefMaster Why's that?

ThiefMaster

cplusplus.com/reference/iostream/manipulators/endl

But I guess it doesn't matter if you don't need the buffer-flushing behaviour

4:27 PM

@ThiefMaster Ah, no, not here.

Anna Lear

@JeremyBanks An even 20k, too. Grats! :)

Yes, 10 necro reps. The incredibly passive scheme for Canada to take over SO is proceeding as planned.

Anna Lear

4:45 PM

@mootinator This scheme has been working quite well for me too lately.

5:42 PM

Anyone know of a legitimate place to buy TV shows online?

Anonymous

@Moshe Amazon Instant Video, though it's streaming only (and America-only, damnit.)

So not iTunes?

6:32 PM

@mootinator iTunes doesn't have the show I'm looking for.

@JeremyBanks Yea, that's annoying.

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Q: How can I throw an exception from XSLT?

7:44 PM

I'm amused by the attempt by the downtown mall here to make Black Friday happen.

It was basically empty, with the exception of the store that was giving away free Apple crap.

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8:07 PM

I want to throw an exception if one tag doesn't contain an attribute.

java xslt xslt-2.0 xpath-2.0 xslt-3.0

There's a minor argument in the comments about whether this is a real question or not. Am I an idiot for not seeing the OP's clear, legitimate question?

8:35 PM

@mootinator Giving away? Apple swag? I want.

Sadly, there are no direct flights between here and NYC, so you wouldn't even be able to pay thousands of dollars for a chance at free swag.

@mootinator :-/

Where's "here"?

YXE