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mootinator

2:43 AM

Additional +1 to break the silence.

Shog9

3:31 AM

+1 for silence

Chris

5:36 AM

plusoneme.com

Moshe

10:35 AM

Anyone here?

Sathya

yeah

Moshe

11:07 AM

@Sathya, hey. I'm working on something over here and I was wondering, if anyone knew, at least conceptually, what the right way to handle a bunch of similar - but differently typed - objects in a menu.

In other words, I have a menu of a bunch of "slides" similar to powerpoint.

Sathya

@Moshe I'm not sure I'm the right one to ask :)

Moshe

Ok

Also, @Sathya - Did I mention that I finally got an unlock for that Android? And that it says that it worked, but the phone refuses to connect to AT&T?

Sathya

@Moshe yep.. you were asking for access points the other day

Moshe

Right, ok.

Well, that's where it's at.

Sathya

I'd mentioned you to give AT&T support a call & ask for APN

Moshe

11:10 AM

Right, I think I'll do that, but it's not even getting phone service, and IIRC, APN is just for data.

Sathya

seems like the unlock didn't unlock

Moshe

That very well might be, or the SIM reader is damaged, which I don't believe - but someone at a shoddy phone shop over here suggested.

So in that case, I'm still looking for an unlock code. ;-)

Sathya

hmm

I'm just glad that the concept of unlock is alien here

Moshe

There's no gain for T-Mo to keep the phone locked and yet they insist on doing so.

I'm not going to sign up for a plan with you guys just because you insist on being idiots and not unlocking MY hardware.

Although... @Sathya - Is it possible that the unlock worked but the Android build is a custom T-Mobile ROM that's enforcing the lock at the OS level?

Sathya

@Moshe unlikely, but possible

Moshe

11:19 AM

Ok, thanks.

I'm going to get back to being productive. Thanks for the insight. Cheers! :-)

Sathya

have you tried asking the guys @ XDA forums?

there's someone bound to have stuck with the same problem @Moshe

@Moshe Cool, cheers!

also, WUT>

Public Function EmailList() As Boolean
    Try
        Return True
    Catch ex As Exception
        Return False
    End Try
End Function

thedailywtf.com/Articles/The-True-Alternative.aspx

George Marian

11:54 AM

Nice.

mootinator

2:21 PM

@TimStone Around?

Oh great, I just DOSed myself.

waits patiently

Oh my hosting provider is not going to be happy with me.

mootinator

2:53 PM

So, I can't be entirely sure, but I think testing this answer may have done that:

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A: .htaccess rewrite GET variables

Is this what your looking for? This example demonstrates how to easily hide query string parameters using loop flag. Suppose you have URL like http://www.mysite.com/foo.asp?a=A&b=B&c=C and you want to access it as http://www.myhost.com/foo.asp/a/A/b/B/c/C Try the following rule to achie...

Pekka

3:19 PM

There is a ghost haunting the PHP tag.

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I call him (or her) the upvote ghost.

They will give an upvote to every question if it's from a newbie.

And I mean every one.

No matter how crappy, careless, or the 3000th duplicate. It needs an upvote.

mootinator

:/

So, that rewrite rule just took out my workstation... twice.

Chrome: "Do you want to reload all your tabs?" Me: "Sure, why not!"

Tim Stone

@mootinator I am now

What's up?

mootinator

@TimStone Being one of our resident .htaccess experts I was going to ask whether my edit on that answer was appropriate.

Though it would appear not since I changed it from completely incorrect to incredibly dangerous.

So, maybe I should just roll that back O_o. I'm not sure.

Popular Demand

Argh. I know how the following syntax works, but I don't know what it's called. Help?

Tim Stone

Hmm, I wonder what LP was supposed to mean anyway.

But yeah, I'm not sure...that question is a duplicate anyway, but.

Popular Demand

3:29 PM

SELECT foobar FROM (SELECT mroozek FROM barchern)

mootinator

Well he said 'LOOP' flag in the answer, so I assumed he was going for 'N'.

Subquery?

Tim Stone

Ahh

mootinator

Is there a mod_rewrite question which isn't a duplicate, really ;)

Tim Stone

Well, true.

Popular Demand

Ah. For some reason I was thinking of "subordinate clause," like it's English or something. Thanks.

Tim Stone

3:32 PM

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Q: Rewriting an arbitrary number of path segments to query parameters

I have this .htaccess rule: RewriteRule viewshoplatest/(.*)/(.*)/(.*)/(.*)/(.*)/(.*)/(.*)/(.*)/(.*)/(.*)/(.*)/(.*)/(.*)/(.*)/(.*)/(.*)/$ /viewshoplatest.php?$1=$2&$3=$4&$5=$6&$7=$8&$9=$10&$11=$12&$13=$14&$15=$16 It should map a URL like this: http://www.veepiz.com/...

No one reads the mod-rewrite FAQ shakes head ...or knows that it's mod_rewrite enough to include said tag on the question.

mootinator

That question needs more upboats.

And a flag.

Tim Stone

A flag? :o

Popular Demand

Bo** programming is offensive, after all. (EDIT: sorry for writing that out without the expletive stars originally; see the revision history if you have a strong stomach.)

mootinator

@TimStone There was a "not an answer" in there.

Oh wait, that was a self answer.

Tim Stone

Aye

mootinator

3:36 PM

It was just written in such a way that it tricked me.

Oh well.

C'est la vie.

Popular Demand

"Close posse of late 2011"-cast close votes are expiring before questions actually get closed. Sigh.

mootinator

3:48 PM

We must be vigilant.

Now I need to figure out my stupid NHibernate problem.

Tim Stone

Is your NHibernate problem NHibernate?

mootinator

It's that I configure an entity for read-write cache, then it throws an exception for trying to write to a read only object.

So, to answer your question @TimStone, yes.

Tim Stone

Ah ha

Yi Jiang's 独角兽

WTF is with the new Google Reader design...?

Of all the redesigned Google products, this seems to be the only one that has actually become worse with the redesign

mootinator

I had to change my GMail theme because the one I was using became unreadable.

Though only at the 'comfortable' and 'cozy' spacings.

It actually looks fine compact.

Moshe

4:15 PM

This should be on a water bottle:

mootinator

Indeed.

I want 100% hydrogen peroxide now to see if it really makes your head swell up like that.

mootinator

5:04 PM

wonders what made the OP of that mod_rewrite question ignore my answer, but respond to someone who left the same one three days later with the main difference being an explanation that it does, in fact, answer the question.

Moshe

5:22 PM

^---What's wrong with that pic?

mootinator

It won't load!

Fosco

"OK" is not a word.

mootinator

Or do you mean something else.

Moshe

@Fosco Yup, hehe.

mootinator

I feel left out.

Oh, there is is.

What I saw looked more like this:

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^---What's wrong with that pic?

Fosco

5:28 PM

the background isn't transparent. ;)

mootinator

Yeah, that was my thought.

It would have been a lot more fun to find the correct URL in the css and/or script but meh.

mootinator

6:16 PM

Oh no, my NHibernate problem was me.

Fosco

NHibernate problem? no way...

mootinator

What's with all the NHibernate hate.

Fosco

I have much hate for ORM in general, but especially NHiberHATE.

mootinator

Okay that's fair.

Having used Wilson ORMapper n the past, Fluent NHibernate feels like a polished, useful product :P

Fosco

6:38 PM

I couldn't accept the ungodly queries it was generating at a past job. 20,000+ character sql queries for simple things.

mootinator

6:51 PM

Hehe.

Well, I think this thing is finally more stable than when I started refactoring on Monday. I think I'll eat lunch today.

Fosco

\o/

mootinator

7:12 PM

/o\

Tim Stone

7:26 PM

@mootinator To be fair, we use Hibernate in our Java stuff. But in .NET, using Dapper is just too awesome to want to use anything else.

On a related note, the fact that SQL Server is only getting sensible paging in Denali makes me a bit sad.

mootinator

lol

I can't wait to get the NHibernate update to make the paged queries 1/4 of the size.

Tim Stone

And by a bit sad I mean that I wanted to strangle someone yesterday, but yes. :P

The fact that you can't reference ROW_NUMBER() from the current query is the worst, since having to wrap the SELECT as a subquery to do the record limiting means that you have to disambiguate all of the columns being returned (which sucks with Dapper, because it means that you can't do multi-mapping). MySQL has a sane LIMIT to begin with, but it also allows you to reference columns from the SELECT in a HAVING clause if there's no grouping, which I could live with...

A la SELECT ROW_NUMBER() AS RowNumber FROM ... HAVING RowNumber BETWEEN @start AND @finish

mootinator

7:50 PM

Yup, it's pretty ridiculous.

Much easier to just close your eyes and let NHibernate vomit 123 lines of query at SQL server. :P

Tim Stone

You'd best not install the MVC miniprofiler then, it's so easy to feel the server's pain when the impact of those nasty queries is spewed out before you :P

Shog9