@drachenstern re PDF, yeah, for perfect multi-line templating there has to be a reflow inside the document, and for that to happen, there needs to be a text processing application that can do it.... I could live with one-line placeholders though. However, they couldn't be in a fixed position because the document comes from the user
@TimPost My project has a backend team and a frontend GUI team; I work on the former. You should see how ecstatic customers get over the simplest GUI thing, and then their eyes glaze over when the backend does some ridiculously complicated thing that took us 8 months to implement
There's a story on the daily WTF somewhere about a project that was trying to lower their memory usage and squeezing every last byte they could, and then the project manager took out a secret line of code he'd added ages ago that just allocated a random block of memory and never used it, which he'd been saving for exactly that purpose, so it was like they'd suddenly made a huge breakthrough
@Pekka this is why I don't think you're going to find anything. My advice is to go with that TeX option from before, or figure out some way to use PS as source files instead of PDF
@MichaelMrozek ah, that would be different. I'm pretty sure I've read all the TDWTF (which says something about my freetime during my collegiate days) and I've not seen that story that I recall
@TimPost libpq (the Postgres library) leaks memory too, which is really inconvenient when you use dmalloc to track memory leaks. We had to add a hack into our test infrastructure to say "btw, I'm using Postgres here, so there's going to be a memory leak"
There are parts of glibc that 'leak once' , which irritates me, but nothing compared to code I could fix if given the opportunity.
I asked a question about using rad hard boards on SO a few years back. There's still a lot of circumstances that preclude the use of dynamic allocation
We're looking at changing the front page of Stack Apps to look more like a proper app "marketplace" and less like a run of the mill Stack Exchange site.
Proposal
This would replace
The theory is that votes, answers, and views are completely useless. A picture is really needed, and most tag...
One of the things I like the most about Xen, I'm constantly writing code that has to behave well on something that has as little as 512 MB of RAM. The privileged domain is a very sensitive place.
I can't just go saying "Oh well, I'll just allocate a 10 MB pool and give slices of that with my own alloc routines"
@TimPost That sounds rather unpleasant too, I'm sorry to hear that. I'm in the middle of a mild self-doubt-induced anxiety attack, hooray! I also seem to have quite a headache.
@TimPost Ah, I'm not alone then. Somehow that's not comforting though. :P I have a little more time for my problem, but I'm afraid it's not going to be good enough, which would cause...serious issues.
@TimStone Problems I hate the most are those with circumstances that cause you to avoid resources that could really help. I can't ask about mine on SO, for instance, yet it would be an awesome question.
Heheh, that must be rather frustrating. I have it "figured out", but I'm afraid it's one of those things that is fundamentally flawed, even though it looks reasonable at a glance.
One of my coworkers is sick too, we ended up moving the meeting that was originally at 10 this morning (and then rescheduled to 2:30) to tomorrow as a result. I'm debating why I even got out of bed today
@TimStone If it gets too bad, we'll "throw mama at the problem" -- "Criss Cross" you solve mine, I'll solve your's. It's always easier to clean up someone else's mess.
Hahah, I really should just hire someone to take care of this particular area for me, since I'm certainly no expert..but unfortunately I'm not sure that's practical at the moment.
I ran mine in meta terms past a few experts I know, I got blank stares and condolences.
The most irritating part is here I sit, with thousands of programmers much better than me ready and willing to help, yet I can't tap that resource. Perhaps I am solving the wrong problem.
I've discovered that most of the "low quality" posts on /review are short, which is why they ended up flagged low quality in the first place. Comically, this means if they do have errors (and they generally do), there probably aren't enough to get past the character limit for suggesting edits, so that page is like a big list of broken posts I can't fix
The following is a "digest" version of the 2011 Moderator Election Town Hall Chat . The format, as described on Meta Stack Overflow, is one answer to this question for every question asked in the Town Hall, containing all the candidate's answers to that question.
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The keyboard shortcuts for bold and italics on SO et al is incorrectly implemented on Mac, IMHO.
On Mac, we use the ⌘ key to invoke keyboard shortcuts. However, on SO, I have to remember to use control.
Can we get the ⌘ for keyboard shortcuts implemented please?
@Trufa I vote when I think that the questioner doesn't try to answer, when the answerer shows a blatant disregard or ignorance of the subject matter, or when the answerer shows contempt or rudeness. I also either comment or upvote a previously left "-1 I downvoted because..." comment.
The Ask Ubuntu Town hall digest caused me to win the Mortarboard badge, yey!
But wait.
[Mortarboard] Hit the daily reputation cap for the first time
Per-site metas don't have any reputation... I am confused :-)
I know why I got the badge. Should I have?
provided, however that any such election will not serve to withdraw this License
Is the key phrase. They can change the license for any future distribution, but any distribution made prior to such a change is considered to be released under this license.
So in other words, once you post it ...
+13??? ZOMG WOWz
I also am not pleased that I was inb4 Tim and he still got moar pointz than me
I should probably try to give a shit about the leagues, but I can't really ... I know I'm about midaverage on collected knowledge, so I try to get by on actually doing things
If my wife goes to sleep before me again then I'm going to start transcribing my idea notes for my site that I want to create ... somebody remind me that about 8:30(cst) if I'm on
Why (I don't hear you ask)? Well it's because Jeff took a copy of the SO tables and dumped the questions and answers to create MSO. It's why my SO and MSO account IDs are the same.
@TheRenamedException I can only conclude from your testing that Safari sucks. I actually wish I had a Mac handy (and not just a Mac keyboard), since it'd be nice if the userscript worked with either key...Tyler said it didn't, but.
Right, right. I don't trust myself enough to put answers out there for most things. mod_rewrite I get away with a bit on account of having spent so much time in the source code, but for most other things I shy away.
Even Java stuff, which is what I do on a daily basis.
I don't mind being shown that I'm wrong, but between the personal embarrassment and potential to mislead the OP, eh...self-confidence issues FTW. ;)
I have the following code:
<?php
$FILE="giant-data-barf.txt";
$fp = fopen($FILE,'r');
//read everything into data
$data = fread($fp, filesize($FILE));
fclose($fp);
$data_arr = json_decode($data);
var_dump($data_arr);
?>
The file giant-data-barf.txt is, as its name suggests, a huge fil...
THIS IS A VERY BAD IDEA, that said, you'll need to set
ini_set('memory_limit',filesize($FILE) + SOME_OVERHEAD_AMOUNT);
because you're reading the entire thing into memory. You may very well have to set the memory limit to two times the size of the file since you also want to JSON_DECODE
NOTE ...
I have three input boxes; First Name / Last Name / E-Mail Address
A user can select from three groups of radio Buttons;
Service 1: Option 1 / Option 2 / Option 3
Service 2: Option 1 / Option 2 / Option 3
Service 3: Option 1 / Option 2 / Option 3
As part of the three services each option has a...
@TheRenamedException well I wasn't sure if I sounded like I was undercutting him somehow. I mean, obviously it's day one, and he needs to get immersed quickly in our site, but given the earlier conversations on meta I figured I should check to see if I'm "making someone cringe" :\
Your settings were imported, but there were some errors.
Error 1: Projects and Solutions: Unable to import property 'ProjectsLocation' because it contains invalid data 'F:\Development'.
Error 2: #200: Unable to import property 'TabSize' because it contains invalid data '4'.
Error 3: #200: Unable to import property 'AutoListMembers' because it contains invalid data 'true'.
Error 4: #200: Unable to import property 'IndentStyle' because it contains invalid data '1'.
Error 5: #200: Unable to import property 'HideAdvancedMembers' because it contains invalid data 'true'.
It's funny, you export a file from VS2010, you imagine you could IMPORT it with no problem :\
We're looking at changing the front page of Stack Apps to look more like a proper app "marketplace" and less like a run of the mill Stack Exchange site.
Proposal
This would replace
The theory is that votes, answers, and views are completely useless. A picture is really needed, and most tag...
The keyboard shortcuts for bold and italics on SO et al is incorrectly implemented on Mac, IMHO.
On Mac, we use the ⌘ key to invoke keyboard shortcuts. However, on SO, I have to remember to use control.
Can we get the ⌘ for keyboard shortcuts implemented please?
The Ask Ubuntu Town hall digest caused me to win the Mortarboard badge, yey!
But wait.
[Mortarboard] Hit the daily reputation cap for the first time
Per-site metas don't have any reputation... I am confused :-)
I know why I got the badge. Should I have?
provided, however that any such election will not serve to withdraw this License
Is the key phrase. They can change the license for any future distribution, but any distribution made prior to such a change is considered to be released under this license.
So in other words, once you post it ...
I have the following code:
<?php
$FILE="giant-data-barf.txt";
$fp = fopen($FILE,'r');
//read everything into data
$data = fread($fp, filesize($FILE));
fclose($fp);
$data_arr = json_decode($data);
var_dump($data_arr);
?>
The file giant-data-barf.txt is, as its name suggests, a huge fil...
I have three input boxes; First Name / Last Name / E-Mail Address
A user can select from three groups of radio Buttons;
Service 1: Option 1 / Option 2 / Option 3
Service 2: Option 1 / Option 2 / Option 3
Service 3: Option 1 / Option 2 / Option 3
As part of the three services each option has a...