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Yi Jiang

1:08 AM

Odd... MSO seems to be down for me, but that downforeveryone website tells me it's only me....

Ah ha! It's working again

Mark E

1:21 AM

@YiJiang apparently it was you

oh geez

this guy posted an animated gif

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Q: Verify image sequence

Image sequence position and size are fixed and known beforehand (it's not scaled). It will be quite short, maximum of 20 frames and in a closed loop. I want to verify (event driven by button click), that I have seen it before. Lets say I have some image sequence, like: If seen, I want to see...

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thoughts anybody?

Brian Campbell

2:06 AM

@PopularDemand Svisstack is the one who was flooding boardgames.se

Popular Demand

2:26 AM

@BrianCampbell Thanks, I saw his last comment before I left.

spoulson

2:53 AM

Hello

@PopularDemand SO chat addict, much?

Tim Stone

Compared to many of us, I think he's in here only moderately, heh. :P

Yi Jiang

@TimStone Yawn Still here, yo

Tim Stone

3:18 AM

@YiJiang Have you killed all of SO's tables yet?

Yi Jiang

@TimStone Mmmhmmm? I've told Jeff that the one on the homepage can be removed without anything changing. The comment's table is far more interesting though

Mark E

sometimes I think it'd be easier if the people posting homework questions would just show us the assignment

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Q: How do I turn my custom linked list into an array?

I have to implement a method: E[] toArray(E[] a) // Pass an array, convert to singly linked list, then return the array. from java.util Interface List<E> As I mentioned, I have to pass an array, convert it to a singly linked list, sort it, then return the array. In the Node class I ...

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Tim Stone

Hm, 503 error on meta..

Mark E

yep

Yi Jiang

Sigh.... SO's code quality really sucks

Example:

<div onclick="window.location.href='/questions/3812484/replicating-codeigniters-humanize-and-underscore-function-in-javascript'" class="cp">

Mark E

3:23 AM

?

Yi Jiang

@MarkE Basically, those vote, answers and view counters would not be clickable if you turn off Javascript

Also, inline Javascript... blarrgg..

Mark E

neither would chat.

most of the site (not just those divs) require JS

it's a design decision

Yi Jiang

@MarkE Basic navigation, dammit... Also, inline Javascript events are a sign of bad code quality

Mark E

not a question of code quality

Yi Jiang

$('.cp').click(function(){ window.location.href = $(this).siblings('.summary > h3 > a').attr('href') });

What's so hard about this?

And additionally, it'll save a couple of hundred bytes from all of the questions page HTML

Mark E

3:31 AM

passing work to the browser isn't always good

Yi Jiang

@MarkE Eh.... no matter what you do you are passing work to the browser

Mark E

in the current code the work is deferred until a mouse is clicked

Yi Jiang

It's Javascript... where to hell do you think Javascript's run?

Mark E

in your suggested substitution you want the browser to load the whole page then go through and mess with the DOM to add links

the best thing to do would be to link the stuff properly using HTML

but there's less overall work on the client in the current method than in your jquery dom-editing method

and ultimately that means i can click the link faster = happier me.

Yi Jiang

@MarkE Read carefully - it doesn't change the DOM

The difference in performance is negligible.

@MarkE Also, click the link faster? What rubbish is that? Inline Javascript events breaks the cardinal rule of separating content and behavior, and if you want to talk about performance, slows down page rendering

Mark E

3:42 AM

so to execute the code you have written, it has to iterate through all divs of class cp

by my estimate that's ~100

i'll take the bytes.

i'd much prefer they transmit anchor tags

don't get me wrong

but putting in even more js to do the linking? that's just silly.

Popular Demand

3:59 AM

It's another one!

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Q: Stop closing legitimate questions that aren't complete spam and aren't hurting anyone.

This is in follow up to: http://meta.stackoverflow.com/questions/67166/stop-closing-legitimate-questions-should-closing-questions-be-made-harder I'm following up because examples were requested. I'm only using my own as examples because they're easy to find--I've seen other closed q's as well. ...

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Tim Stone

Ugh, heh.

As evidence I point out the high level of participation and interest

I like that part the best.

Yi Jiang

> closed as exact duplicate by random♦ 1 min ago

Irony alert!

Tim Stone

4:29 AM

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Q: in chrome or firefox,why has padding-bottom in this code?

i using doctype: http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd full code: <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd"> <HTML> <BODY> <div style="border:1px solid red;background-color:blue;"><img src="http://www.google.com/intl/e...