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[ankhtahr]

I think I understand how the composed search terms are supposed to work, but I'm not getting anywhere. Besides, I have a terrible headache and feel sick. I definitely need to sleep, but I mustn't before I finished this task. Damnit.

[Loki]

Cannot help you there, unfortunately, except through moral support

[pwhodges]

I think I understand how the composed search terms are supposed to work, but I'm not getting anywhere.

Well, I have no idea about what framework you have available in modern programming, which may suggest or impose a particular technique; but I would have seen this as a very simple compilation problem: parse the command string into a tree structure, then walk that in reverse-Polish order doing the required tests and thus generating the answer.  Or have I missed the point of where your problem lies, through being so out of date?

[ankhtahr]

I think I understand how the composed search terms are supposed to work, but I'm not getting anywhere.

Well, I have no idea about what framework you have available in modern programming, which may suggest or impose a particular technique; but I would have seen this as a very simple compilation problem: parse the command string into a tree structure, then walk that in reverse-Polish order doing the required tests and thus generating the answer.  Or have I missed the point of where your problem lies, through being so out of date?

No, not really. I just didn't really think of such a solution. I've done basically everything in this task with regular expressions, so I only thought about regular expressions here as well.

I've managed to get a tiny bit further, which should give me at least a few points more, and now I'm so tired that I'll probably leave it at that and go to bed.

My horrible code can be found here if anybody feels like torturing themselves. I started out alright, but it got messier and messier with every hour. Now it's a trainwreck.

[ankhtahr]

So I'm now working on the second final task. Admittedly, I started very late (I have to be finished in 17 hours), but so far I don't see any big problems with it. It's a nice task. We have to model Conway's Game of Life with some variations. I'm considering throwing some design patterns on the task, but I don't think I really need to.

[Masterpiece]

I've done Convay's Game of Life before and I can give you some basic guidelines if you want.

[ankhtahr]

Nah, don't worry, I've got this so far. And my modelling seems to work well for once 

[ankhtahr]

Yep, for once my modelling didn't completely blow up in my face. I'm finished with 7.5 hours to go. My solution did work right on the first try. I was a little bit suspicious, but even more testing didn't show any real problems, except for one small OutOfBoundsException, where I had swapped two parameters. It seems like I can go sleep now. I didn't expect that to happen.

[ChaoSera]

So, I don't suppose anybody knows how to connect TRACE32 PowerView to a GDB-Server, so I can use remote debugging from Eclipse?

[Pilchard123]

Trying to learn my way around WCF. I left the book I've been using at work.

EDIT: I just wrote a method for copying a file that you can't select to a location that you can't change, using three different assemblies. For some reason I am proud of this.

[Pilchard123]

TIL that if you import antigravity into a python program, xkcd #353 is opened in the default browser.

[Schmee]

So I'm doing an assignment in C, and for one part of it I have to print a specific character depending on the value of a double, temp_spl.
Basically, if temp_spl is between 30 and 35 I print a 3, 35 and 40 I print a space, and so on up to 90.
The solution I have currently is here, but it seems really clumsy. Is there a better way?

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if (temp_spl>90.0){
printf("9");
} else if (temp_spl<30.0) {
printf(" ");
} else if (((int)floor(temp_spl))%10 >= 5) {
printf(" ");
} else {
printf("%d",(int)floor(temp_spl/10.0));
}


[ev4n]

If it works, that seems ok?

I can think of performance improvements, or ways that are more elegant, but I'm not sure why one would want to spend more time on improving a working solution without a good reason.

Sorry, maybe I'm being too cynical.

[ev4n]

Wait, Ecplise thinks that to run any kind of debugger, the top level make associated with the current workspace needs to be run?

What kind of moronic idea is THAT!?!?!?!

[osaka]

So I'm doing an assignment in C, and for one part of it I have to print a specific character depending on the value of a double, temp_spl.
Basically, if temp_spl is between 30 and 35 I print a 3, 35 and 40 I print a space, and so on up to 90.
The solution I have currently is here, but it seems really clumsy. Is there a better way?

Code: [Select]

if (temp_spl>90.0){
printf("9");
} else if (temp_spl<30.0) {
printf(" ");
} else if (((int)floor(temp_spl))%10 >= 5) {
printf(" ");
} else {
printf("%d",(int)floor(temp_spl/10.0));
}


I'd go with something a bit more nested, but that's just me:

Code: [Select]

char* result = "9";
if(temp_spl < 90.0 && temp_spl > 30.0){
  if(temp_spl % 10 < 5){
    result[0] = (int) floor (temp_spl/10) + 48;
  }else{
    result[0] = 32;
  }
}
printf("%s%n", result);

Some hacking in here with ascii tables and how C handles pointers/arrays, but it should work. You can always define result as char[]

EDIT: I just noticed that that doesn't take into account the possibility of the value being less than 30. Also, I found a way to express it in 1 line with ternary operators, just for funziez.

Code: [Select]

(temp_spl > 90.0) ? printf ("9") : ((temp_spl < 30.0) ? printf (" ") : ((temp_spl % 10 < 5) ? printf("%d", (int)floor(temp_spl/10.0)) : printf(" ")));

//"a ? b : c" stands for "if a, do b. Else, do c". a has to be a boolean or an expression that returns a boolean.+
//Example: Max(a, b) as ternary operation: a > b ? a : a < b ? b : a == b ? a : b;

[Loki]

What'd you need the third ternary for? Is there any case where !(a<b) && !(a>b) && !(a=b)?

[osaka]

Consistency. Technically, with the first two you've covered all possible outputs, but you have to define what happens when they're equal.

As a fun fact, that max(a,b) was actually a #define sentence made by a friend for our Operating Systems course. Knowing him, he probably didn't do the third part and either the compiler threw an error or the code segfaulted. So he added the third part.

[smack that isaiah]

Am I missing something, or couldn't a max function be done with just one ternary operation?

#define MAX(a, b) ((a > b) ? a : b)

if a is bigger than b, use a; otherwise use b (the otherwise necessarily being "if b >= a")

I think the main reason to use the more fleshed out version that osaka has posted would be if you're using objects which have overloaded the <, >, and == operators where it may not follow that {!(a > b) == (a <= b)} (imo, this means that these operators should never have been overloaded in the first place...).  Since this would be a #define, the types of a and b are not limited to int/double/float/etc.

[osaka]

Indeed it could be done. Once again, this was for Operating Systems, and things tended to get a bit overdone just to make sure.

[Masterpiece]

I have a problem, and was wondering whether you could help me out:

I have a method that is supposed to return a scaled instance of a Buffered Image I feed it. Since the program needs two different scaled versions of the same image, I first determine a scaling factor for the individual images and then feed that scaling factor to a general scaling method.

I know the scaling works, I also know that the methods propagate as needed. But the methods that are supposed to calculate the scaling factors always return zero. I have no idea why that happens, if I explicitly tell it that scale = 1.0, it works, but if I try to calculate scale as follows, scale will always be zero.

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private ImageIcon scaleFiltered(BufferedImage filtered){

double scale = (screenHeight - HEIGHT_SCREEN_PADDING) / filtered.getHeight();

// scale = 0.5;

return scaleImage(filtered, scale);

}
any thoughts?

[ChaoSera]

I suppose screenHeight and HEIGHT_SCREEN_PADDING don't have the same value? Also there might be cast errors if some of the values are integers. Casting from int to double does not always work as good as one might expect.

[Masterpiece]

The values are not the same.

What would you do instead of casting?

[ChaoSera]

Declare them as double to begin with, unless you're limited by some external framework. Alternatively cast them explicetly to double, which might help as well.
Another method, although not a pretty one, would be to create Integer objects from the int values and then use the doubleValue() of those objects.

[Sorflakne]

So for a final project in my web publishing class, I'm making a Monopoly clone.  However, things...got off to a hairy start.  We were given a base of code to build off of that included the game board, players, and an auto-mover that moves each piece in turn on page refresh.  We have to build the rest of the game.  My partner and I got it to where an actual dice roller is working, but each page refresh not brings back a random number of errors; sometimes only three, sometimes, as the pic shows, only three thousand...



As you can see, I'm still able to make fun of myself, so maybe there's hope.

[Masterpiece]

Reminds me of this:

[tweet]484373063077998592[/tweet]

[Pilchard123]

https://fortune.com/2015/05/26/google-oracle-api-supremecourt-obama-appeal/

Apparently, APIs can be covered by copyright.

[Masterpiece]

WHAT THE EFF, ORACLE.

[cesium133]

To be fair, Oracle has always been evil.

[pwhodges]

The report is unclear to me - it seems to say that Google was using a bit of the actual Java code to implement the API.  In that case, the copyright issue would lie with the code rather than the API itself, which there would be strong defences over, concerning the natural way to pass information (I was involved in an international software copyright dispute in the 1970s - but there's a lot more law to deal with now, I admit).

As for Oracle - evil?  Probably, just like pretty much any corporation of its size.  Incompetent?  You know how the current version of Java is [1.]8?  And updates for earlier versions are no longer available?  Well, my university's finance and student information systems are written by Oracle, in Java, and both were recently updated - they both will only run with Java [1.]6!  We get privately issued security updates for it (the last public update was #45, we're currently at #94), but there is a currently ongoing argument about whether our licence entitles us to use them!

[Masterpiece]

The problem is rather, that Oracle is suing Google because they're using API commands that have the exact same nomenclature in Java. In most cases, the only thing they kept is the method declaration, and changed the method bodies.

Oracle is suing Google because they used the same names for their API. Which I think is ridiculous.

[Masterpiece]

The wikipedia article

[pwhodges]

A new programming language

[hedgie]

Meh.  Perl or death for me.

[cesium133]

Randomly-generated ASCII characters do not a programming language make.