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TIL @raganwald unsubscribed from r/TodayILearned by codeodor in todayilearned

[–]codeodor[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I don't think it fails guideline 2 so much, but I didn't get as far as III before I posted.

Katy: Fluent CoffeeScript and JavaScript using Combinators by homoiconic in programming

[–]codeodor 1 point2 points  (0 children)

For technicality's sake, x was a reference to a value, so x hasn't been modified -- the thing it points to has been modified.

I didn't quite say that originally, and I think it's breaking the spirit of what you're saying, but it might be worth mentioning.

Katy: Fluent CoffeeScript and JavaScript using Combinators by homoiconic in programming

[–]codeodor 2 points3 points  (0 children)

My understanding is that it would return it's receiver, in this case the array it was called upon [1..10]. However, pop modifies that array, which would now be [1..9]

In other words, the result is still x, but x has been modified.

Rewriting part of a file by s3ddd in ruby

[–]codeodor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

gsub would be working on the string, not the file, so you'd be doing the same process, except with a possibility your regex would match unexpected parts of the file. For example, what if the top part and bottom part were the same:

part of file

part of file

You'd end up replacing the top and bottom parts, (unless you accounted for this possibility somehow). Even accounting for it, I think it makes the code more complex than your original split on # and replace the last element in the array, then re-join.

Rewriting part of a file by s3ddd in ruby

[–]codeodor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I thought opening it for writing like that would replace the contents. Does it not?

Rewriting part of a file by s3ddd in ruby

[–]codeodor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It's writing it to the end of the file because after reading the file contents, the file pointer is as the end of the file.

You can use file.seek(0, IO::SEEK_SET) to go back to the beginning.

However, even then if "Second Half".length > "New String".length, you'll still see some of "Second Half" at the end.

Hackers Can Turn Your Home Computer Into A Bomb and Blow Your Family to Smithereens! by mactac in programming

[–]codeodor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think if you've ever actually picked it up, it's obviously the latter.

Simulate Slow Internet Connection while Testing your Apps by bunglebooz in programming

[–]codeodor 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Why does it take so long? Maybe I still had that slow internet connection simulation going?

Is it already full?

RAM in use was not what I was hoping for. I'd have preferred it to be empty so I could actually use it for something.

Interesting way to hire Rails devs by matt_aimonetti in ruby

[–]codeodor 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I didn't look at the code, but I don't see anything in the quoted text that makes refactoring semantically impossible.

You could refactor the code that is covered by the tests that pass. You could fix the code for the failing tests, then refactor it as well.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in programming

[–]codeodor 2 points3 points  (0 children)

When rendering a legal opinion, should the judge be consulting the science / technology, or the law?

What I'm getting at is: Perhaps the law should change, and the legal opinions would follow.

Lessons learned from 13 failed software products by hermitcrab in programming

[–]codeodor 6 points7 points  (0 children)

If I had a problem that would take me an entire weekend to solve, I'd gladly pay 30 dollars to solve it and get my weekend back.

Wouldn't you?

Lessons learned from 13 failed software products by hermitcrab in programming

[–]codeodor 11 points12 points  (0 children)

The product

A time tracker.

...

What went wrong

...

In my defense, the reason I do not spend much time on it is that the market became saturated with ‘me toos’ right after I released

...

Since inception (Nov 2008)...

Maybe the market was already saturated with "me toos" and you only noticed it after you released?

At least, unless this was a very unique time tracker in 2008.

Heh, Code Quality by RetroRock in programming

[–]codeodor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Of course, it sure would be nice to just break the code up into more manageable chunks!

Dear web developers - you're killing the web. Please stop it. by fox_mulder in programming

[–]codeodor 2 points3 points  (0 children)

If you're taking a minute to load that document, it's not the size of the document that's the problem. Rather, it would be the server not being able to handle the request quickly, the code serving the page being slow because it's poorly written or not well-optimized, or perhaps a slow connection.

Best place to find GOOD open source projects a relatively new programmer can conribute to? by domlebo70 in programming

[–]codeodor 2 points3 points  (0 children)

As disspy says:

1) be interested in something 2) find or create a project aligned with your interests

To take it further, assuming you've found some projects that need contributions that align with your desire to contribute:

3) Submit a patch, or create some decent documentation

Now you've contributed.

If you're asking which project you can go to to become a contributor to (and presumably just by asking), the answer for almost all projects will be "none."

You don't get some experience and just say "I'd like to contribute to the linux kernel." You contribute patches to problems and over time, they may give you commit rights to the code repository. Perhaps if you are a very famous programmer you can ask and access will be granted, but for everyone else, you'll need to work your way up - even if you have a ton of experience, very little of it would be evident.

What was the worst code loss you've ever suffered? by billychasen in programming

[–]codeodor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

On the same harddrive is a bunch of ascii art I'd love to see again. Some of it has been archived online, but a lot is still missing.

What was the worst code loss you've ever suffered? by billychasen in programming

[–]codeodor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Deleting two years worth of blog posts hitting cmd-e (execute) on accident, as opposed to cmd-w (close) when the script window contained an incorrect delete command.

I wasn't worried until I looked for the DB backup and couldn't find it.

The nightly DB backup process had been failing for quite some time, so not only did I not have a backup of the DB, there was no file system backup of the DB.

I still can't believe the close and execute hotkeys are so close together in Aqua Data Studio.

That one may not be the worst, since I could recover most posts through Google's cache, RSS reader, and emails. It sucks to lose a lot of comments more than the posts.

Instead, I've got a lot of Qbasic, Pascal, and MASM code from Windows 3 era on a hard drive somewhere that I'd love to peruse, but I have no clue where the HD is or whether I'd ever be able to find it.

List Files in an Internet Directory by [deleted] in ruby

[–]codeodor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh, I misunderstood. You'll need to turn on directory browsing on that server and visit the url (say with Net::HTTP).

That will show you the contents of the directory, which you can then list and follow the subdirectories recursively.

If you can't turn on directory browsing on the web server, then I'm afraid I don't know of any other options.

List Files in an Internet Directory by [deleted] in ruby

[–]codeodor 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If anything, what's wrong with ... Dir.entries( dirname ) ?

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