Hughlander posted:

My favorite professor at school had his PhD in Computer Science Education. He wrote the syllabus for many classes and often taught the freshman weed-out course. He'd start the course the first day by taking panoramic photo of the 500+ students without saying anything and then start with, "I just wanted to get a picture of the class since this is the last day you will all be here." That fucker knew how to teach those who wished to learn and got rid of everyone else real drat fast.

WHOIS John Galt posted:

im dumbfounded i graduated

Condiv posted:

Why not just have static typing at this point and get it over with?

spongeh posted:

the problems i've seen usually consist of pockets from bad routing, like at home (at&t uverse thanks at&t!!!) i sometimes get 140 ping from TX to NY, but 110 ping from TX to the friggin UK. we run a whole bunch of gameservers at geographically diverse locations and we have periods where people will just have twice the ping they normally have, and it'll stay that way for weeks if not months or longer. they're all at different hosts on different continents even. sometimes if they can get a new IP they'll get lucky with a better route that doesn't travel an extraneous 1500 miles or hit a hop that slows everything to a crawl

but yea its basically a bunch of anecdotes, we don't have any hard data on anything like that. i think overall pings are lower but there's a lot more variance.

i'd be interested if someone here who actually knows better knows anything about the topic

Toady posted:

super portable netbsd's installer won't even boot on my leftover dell, but freebsd does

tef posted:

nginx is mostly used for ~performance reasons~

Tiny Bug Child posted:

wisdom

that "fractal of bad design" post was one of the stupidest things i've ever read. facile bullshit hand-crafted to appeal to useless perubython "developers", all of whom breathlessly recirculated it for a month

Jonny 290 posted:

well, see, it's funny, i worked with a new team on this and i know they didn't trust that i would deliver. so they lied to me about duedate, its being put into testing 8am monday. wanted to give themselves a chance to dig out of hole if i just gave them a file that was "use strict; print "lol owned bitches\n";return 0;"

however i know they were lying to me about the due date because walmart shuts down at 4pm on fridays p much. so i wanted to outsmug them and actually really have it @ 5 today.

due date poker
isnt there a system that literally does that? lets people bid time and poo poo

ps i got a raise yesterday sooooooooooo

rotor posted:

the purpose of an undergrad degree is to demonstrate to the student that after 12 years of primary school and 4 years of university exactly how little they know.

hobbesmaster posted:

.net has, but win32 still works, that's the point

Cybernetic Vermin posted:

i think the silverlight team did a wpf subset and actually faced the real World a couple of times and that fixed it up enough to make it winrt however you feel about that

Gazpacho posted:

unix shell scripts require "then" and i never forget it

great language btw, like APL except readable (and slow)

tef posted:

European nations would not be able to afford universal healthcare and all the welfare if they had to pay for their security. US bases in Europe are great financial aid.
I never hear discussions about Iran or Russia being a possible threat in Europe. I do in the US. Which is funny because it really is much bigger problem for Europeans to have guys like Putin and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad at their door steps. Never happens. The US bases and military spending is taken for granted. They prefer to talk about universal healthcare and help for the poor instead. As security is non-issue with the US soldiers deployed to this continent.
The thing that really gets on my nerves is that some politicians even want the US bases to be moved out from Europe. They simply don't understand the world in which they are living. Talking distances Syria is closer to Greece than Greece to Germany. Nobody thinks about it that way though.
The US pays the military bills for the whole of Europe and this amounts to money that can and is spent on social services.

ultramiraculous posted:

really? ...really?

Shinku ABOOKEN posted:

so i'm doing a little project in cpp and i can't tell if i'm leaking objects or not or whatever.

is there a valgrind-like program that actually work on windows. i tried app verifier and the thing itself causes segfaults when my program terminates and doesn't even detect the leaks that I intentionally put there.

pls help

Wheany posted:

PHP code:

$query = 'select * from users where user_id = ' . $_POST['uid'] . ' and password = ' . $_POST['passwd'];
$result = mysql_query($query);

supremacy

Condiv posted:

last time I used it, rust seemed like your average strongly typed language. which is good, gently caress c and c++'s middling type strength.

also, as an absolute beginner to the language, pointers were kind of tough for me (mainly because the program I wrote exposed like 6 compiler bugs), but not anything like the template errors in C++

Malcolm XML posted:

Rust .8 is out

Nomnom Cookie posted:

what I do on personal projects is use bootstrap + jquery for the frontend and the backend is a json api. also jsr 303 for input validation and a custom exception resolver. it makes controller code rly clean bc you only have to code the happy path--jsr 303 validates the input and if anything goes wrong (including validation) the exception resolver returns the error details.

idk how well it would scale to larger projects but making small webs is almost not painful at all doing it this way

Monkeyseesaw posted:

crosspost from the coding horrors thread (courtesy of Jewel)

http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2013/10/24/php-net-blocked-by-google-false-positive-or-not.html

~*php*~

Suspicious Dish posted:

if it isn't clear already i work at red hat on gnome3 all day so i'm happy to answer any questions you may have about this stuff.

Suspicious Dish posted:

its the only language thats sane and compiles to native machine code

well i mean theres like rust. i'd love to write new gnome components in rust and i already started working on that.

but do you have any better ideas?

abraham linksys posted:

qwerasdf posted:

so how about them programming languages

Cybernetic Vermin posted:

eh, vb6 catches a rather ridiculous amount of flak it feels like. it is absolute trash as a high-level language, but if you wanted to quickly knock out terrible lob apps that more or less worked on no budget it was pretty unbeatable.

really a sure sign that microsoft forgot all that made them successful when they killed vb, token updates for the next 50 years would have meant guaranteed money and more happiness for many for 50 years

MononcQc posted:

I thought "oh nice the thread is alive" but welp. Happy new year, PL thread.

MononcQc posted:

I don't know what are you trying to do?

It's a good full-stack framework if that's what you're looking for. Closest experience you may have to a ruby on rails that works better (i.e. does more than one request at a time), but I'm not necessarily a fan of all the syntactic sugar added around their models (I'm not even that much of a fan of models as provided by a web framework, personally). Otherwise, it's looking solid and is used successfully by a lot of people.

There's apparently a good concern about making things safe -- though I'm not sure CSRF was ever handled in it in any way back when I complained about it -- I haven't used it enough to point out serious flaws.

OBAMA BIN LIFTIN posted:

but for real, lol if you can't pick up a new language in like a day

Zombywuf posted:

One day I will write an amazing email client that is totally the best at everything.

PleasureKevin posted:

decided to undertake the "project" of switching to PDO from mysqli and it feels like it took 10 minutes. it was kind of sad deleting all those mysqli hacks, though.