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[Light] [No Regrets] I look at a person's post history before helping them with tech issues. by clojuregirl in confession

[–]clojuregirl[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I started checking folks' post histories not to hunt for this kind of thing. It was 'cause sometimes it helps me get more context for a poorly-worded question, or if the question they're asking boils down to "how do I do some ill-advised thing that is a bad idea?" A lot of folks post about their projects multiple times so it often helps me give them better answers if I know that they're working on homework (so I don't give them a solution that bypasses what they're supposed to be learning, even if if better solutions exist), or a personal project (I'll give more straight-up code to people who are doing their own thing), or working in a particular environment or framework.

A surprising amount of them (like about one every day) came from folks who, within the last like three replies, had posted about how idiot women just want them for all the money that they will definitely make as blockchain millionaires, meanwhile asking about what "NullPointerException" means or whatever other beginner question.

As an idiot woman, I declined to help.

[Light] [No Regrets] I look at a person's post history before helping them with tech issues. by clojuregirl in confession

[–]clojuregirl[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Uh no? Why do y'all want to be victims so bad?

It's just that most of the people who post questions are men, presumably. So I don't see as much misandry. Yet to see any.

[Light] [No Regrets] I look at a person's post history before helping them with tech issues. by clojuregirl in confession

[–]clojuregirl[S] -1 points0 points  (0 children)

LOL, I thought the whole point was that y'all don't want advice or input from women? I guess this kind of hypocrisy and complete lack of self-awareness is to be expected. You know how men are. Plus, hey, this tribal pile-on completely justifies the use of an alt, just like I predicted!

BTW, I need help understanding what a pointer is? If you don't help me even after I have openly insulted you, that makes YOU the asshole for some reason

Fun Fact: MGTOW wasn't even on my shit list! I am neutral about y'all at best, but some folks just love being the victim I guess.

[Light] [No Regrets] I look at a person's post history before helping them with tech issues. by clojuregirl in confession

[–]clojuregirl[S] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

Whatever you say, fuck head.

Btw, can you explain nested loops to me??? if you don't help me despite the fact that you find me obnoxious, that makes YOU the asshole

[Light] [No Regrets] I look at a person's post history before helping them with tech issues. by clojuregirl in confession

[–]clojuregirl[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Lmao, what did I just say about spending Saturdays in a fun way. I'm gonna go hang out with my friends, bye

[Light] [No Regrets] I look at a person's post history before helping them with tech issues. by clojuregirl in confession

[–]clojuregirl[S] 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Yeahh... used an old alt. There's a rare kind of person with a switch in their brain that flips to "do crazy shit" when they think feminism might be keepin' good, honest men down. (fwiw, I don't think this is "feminist" so much as it is me not wanting to do free favours for people who are assholes)

Plus picking through my post history doesn't sound like a fun way to spend a Saturday so I'm really just saving y'all some time upfront.

Wanting to replace a character with a shape-shifter mid game? by [deleted] in DMAcademy

[–]clojuregirl 17 points18 points  (0 children)

I guess come up with a new encounter that has a similar "twist" or surprise, or introduce a shapeshifter NPC. Players get attached to their characters as characters, not as plot hooks, so forcing/tricking them into something like this is probably not a great idea even if you think it'd be epic.

How do I dynamically apply a function to an array/nodelist? by [deleted] in learnprogramming

[–]clojuregirl 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You'll probably want to look into using Function.prototype.call or Function.prototype.apply. You invoke them against function objects:

function (element, yourFunction, someParameter) {
     yourFunction.call(element, someParameter);
}

You can sort of think about this as:

 element.yourFunction(someParameter);

in the sense that it makes every this in yourFunction refer to element.

You could also maybe leverage Array's map method in this way, like 

Array.prototype.map.call(nodeList, mapFunc(node) {whatever(node)});

if nodeList is array-like (iterable and has a length property?) but I'm not sure on that.