Do you ever feel lost on the internet?

tar

Are there simply too many phenomena to keep track of? Don't worry: wikipedia has your back!

List of Internet phenomena - Wikipedia

Random highlight(s):

"The Fox (What Does the Fox Say?)" - A song and associated video by the Norwegian comedy duo Ylvis prepared for their upcoming television show. The song's verses note the noises other animals make, but in the chorus, ask what noise a fox makes, at which point the song offers nonsense phrases like "gering-ding-ding-ding-dingeringeding!" and "fraka-kaka-kaka-kaka-kow!", while the video takes a similarly funny turn. The video saw over 43 million hits within a few weeks of its release, topping music charts, and leading to Ylvis being signed for more music by Warner Bros. Records.^[187]

Benny Lava – A video created as a soramimi to Kalluri Vaanil by Indian dancer Prabhu Deva.^[244]

League of Ireland fan – An interview clip with a possibly intoxicated man claiming to be a supporter of Irish soccer team St Patrick's Athletic.^[289]^[290]

Tyson – Videos featuring a skateboarding bulldog.^[328]

Eh, bored now...

Filed under: thank you discourse for putting the cursor back at the start of the text window every time I Alt+Tab away, it's super effective...

Jaime

The key to life in the technology industry: be OK with not knowing everything.

RaceProUK

Discourse used CONFUSE!
@tar said:

it's super effective

tar

@RaceProUK used POKEMON REFERENCE!

It's not very effective...

Buddy

} catch (PokemonReference é) {
    //no comment
}

IngenieurLogiciel

catch(Exception e)
{
    //gotta catch 'em all
}

Masaaki_Hosoi

@RaceProUK said:

Discourse used CONFUSE!

I'm just gonna leave this here.
Johto Trainer Battle Theme - Pokemon Gold / Silver / Crystal – 03:47
— GamingThemes

tar

#THIS TOPIC IS NOW ABOUT PÖKĘMĂNS!!1one

http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Main_Page
My favourite plokemon is ????? wich is one of 'l) m) ZM-type glitch Pókémón!!!! It's sūpēr-ĕffēctívě!!1

But this one is a lady poakèmàn (apparently). and this one has a rocks for a face too!!!

Dõ you know there are ~~over nine-hundred-thousand~~ different pokėmåns and they all løøk ~~completely ridiculous~~!!?

Masaaki_Hosoi

@tar said:

Dõ you know there are over nine-hundred-thousand different pokėmåns and they all løøk completely ridiculous

Damn, thought I was done posting Youtube responses. Apparently I'm not.

Look it's a Pumbloom! - by Egoraptor | Game Grumps Animated – 00:56
— GameGrumps

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Wait, was there a topic to this thread? I can't remember what it was. Oh well.
Yay, Pokemans!
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tar

Pokémon YouTube Poop - Ash is a jerk – 11:59
— Mamachin2nd

Buddy

An antipattern I've been using lately is catch(Exception e) { Logger.Log(e);} where Logger.Log is just an empty method with a breakpoint in it.

tar

@Buddy said:

An antipattern I've been using lately is catch(Exception e) { Logger.Log(e);} where Logger.Log is just an empty method with a breakpoint in it.

What does that do?

Buddy

It lets me know when an exception is thrown, such that I could theoretically write code to handle it. Most of the time it's just easier to prevent the exception from happening in the first place.

Edit, clarify: these are personal/hobby projects that I'm talking about.

Masaaki_Hosoi

I feel like it'd make more sense for Logger.Log to actually do something (like, say, log a message), and then set the breakpoint on the place where you actually call it (in the catch block).

Unless that's what you actually meant, in which case ignore what I just said.

tar

I guess if you know that you've handled every exception then sure, ditch the try in the first place.

I think there should be one 'master' try block which surrounds each iteration of the main loop, and a corresponding catch block which tries to put you back into a state where you can keep running, or give up. (Ideally every iteration of your main loop ends with the moral equivalent 'commit this frame's transaction' because then you have a defined state you can fall back into...)

Then again, if you builld an API function doStuff(a, b, c) then it's kind of friendly to have a bool doStuffWillWork(a, b, c) that can be called first to avoid the exception. If you have T &Vector::operator[](size_t i) which throws if i is out of range, then it's nice to have size_t Vector::size() you can call first...

Buddy

@Masaaki_Hosoi said:

I feel like it'd make more sense for Logger.Log to actually do something (like, say, log a message), and then set the breakpoint on the place where you actually call it (in the catch block).

Well part of it is that I haven't yet decided what I'm actually going to do with the logs, and the other part is that for some reason I found it easier to have the breakpoint at just one place, and just step out of the method any time it is hit. I mean, I know I'm doing it wrong, it's just a case of not yet having taken the time to do it right.

@tar said:

I guess if you know that you've handled every exception then sure, ditch the try in the first place.

I definitely do want the try in there. If I ever get to the point of distributing the app to people other than myself I'm going to want to know if anything goes wrong. The only point of my setup is to have some kind of marker that “hey, something could go wrong here”. Really the point of this whole thing is: I just wish C# had checked exceptions.

tar

@Buddy said:

I just wish C# had checked exceptions.

Aha! Anders Hjelsberg thinks <a href=""http://www.artima.com/intv/handcuffs.html">you should be using Java! (well, kinda, ok it's a stretch but, he just doesn't want checked exceptions in C#...

Buddy

Well, they could at least have provided something like noexcept (or better: a way to statically prove that your method won't throw), instead of going ahead and designing a language where every single line of execution could potentially throw.

aliceif

The pokemon thread is elsewhere: http://what.thedailywtf.com/t/the-offical-child-animal-precious-color-abduction-cruelty-stone-recognition-appreciation-thread/5221

Jaime

@Buddy said:

An antipattern I've been using lately is catch(Exception e) { Logger.Log(e);} where Logger.Log is just an empty method with a breakpoint in it.

Did you know that Visual Studio allows you to break on an exception even if it's caught? You just invented "Break when an exception is thrown", but harder and less flexible.

tar

@aliceif said:

The pokemon thread is elsewhere

LIES!!

Youtube Poop: Pokemon - The Horrific Bike Accident – 03:58
— TheHastatus

tar

@Jaime said:

Did you know that Visual Studio allows you to break on an exception even if it's caught? You just invented "Break when an exception is thrown", but harder and less flexible.

Did you know that Visual Studio runs on Mac OS X, FreeBSD, Android and a variety of Linuxes^* (but not Gentoo, because that would be silly...)

* Linices? Linuxen?

aliceif

Now that you mention Linux, does Monodevelop have that VS feature?

Onyx

@tar said:

Linuxes

Linux distributions.

There is only one Linux kernel. There are multiple distributions built around it.

</pendant>

tar

@Onyx said:

There is only one Linux kernel.

Is it timeshared between all the users? It's very fast actually....

Onyx

Sometimes I feel like slapping people over the Internet...

Just a random observation there.

Jaime

@tar said:

Did you know that Visual Studio runs on Mac OS X, FreeBSD, Android and a variety of Linuxes* (but not Gentoo, because that would be silly...)

Linices? Linuxen?

@Buddy obviously does C#...

@Buddy said:

Really the point of this whole thing is: I just wish C# had checked exceptions.

.. unless he's talking about Mono, he's on Windows.

tar

Pokémon YouTube Poop - Misty is an idiot – 04:47
— Mamachin2nd

Luhmann

@Onyx said:

Sometimes I feel like slapping people

what's holding you back?

@Onyx said:

over the Internet

oh ...