At 2/26/10 07:05 PM, zrb wrote:

At 2/26/10 05:18 PM, Archon68 wrote: It avoids having to use pointless if/else statements to define variables, though, which is pretty damn useful.

Actually that's a very useful thing, I just turned around 10 lines of code into one thanks to that !

I wasn't being sarcastic. It is very useful and I use it all the time.

WINDOWS XP
Windows XP deleted the Administrator account on my computer for some reason. Apparently the user account file is corrupt. WTF.

The worst part? It was the only Administrator account on my computer, and it reset itself to a limited account, so now I have absolutely no (easy) way of accessing Control Panel, my hard drive, or anything else that would possibly help me fix this.

What the fuck, Windows XP? You make me want to upgrade to Windows 7.

I am seriously considering buying Windows 7.

At 2/26/10 08:42 PM, HDXmike wrote:

At 2/26/10 08:37 PM, Archon68 wrote: I am seriously considering buying Windows 7.

Hmmm archon wherever would you get that idea from ? you seemed like a solid XP dude to me

That was until Windows XP decided to randomly delete my Administrator Account. It just corrupted itself in the middle of me using it. How the hell does that even happen?

PHEW
I got everything back, except for my custom theme, which can be easily fixed. That was freakin' scary.

At 2/26/10 09:19 PM, Archon68 wrote: I got everything back, except for my custom theme, which can be easily fixed. That was freakin' scary.

Good. That was a tense 2 hours for all of us.

At 2/26/10 09:23 PM, Coaly wrote:

At 2/26/10 09:19 PM, Archon68 wrote: I got everything back, except for my custom theme, which can be easily fixed. That was freakin' scary.

Good. That was a tense 2 hours for all of us.

I pooped a little.

At 2/26/10 09:23 PM, Coaly wrote:

At 2/26/10 09:19 PM, Archon68 wrote: I got everything back, except for my custom theme, which can be easily fixed. That was freakin' scary.

Good. That was a tense 2 hours for all of us.

I'm so glad you care about me, Coaly. Your opinion valuable to me.

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At 2/26/10 09:34 PM, Archon68 wrote:

At 2/26/10 09:23 PM, Coaly wrote:

At 2/26/10 09:19 PM, Archon68 wrote: I got everything back, except for my custom theme, which can be easily fixed. That was freakin' scary.

Good. That was a tense 2 hours for all of us.

I'm so glad you care about me, Coaly. Your opinion valuable to me.

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this is pretty handy to me http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.as px?Item=N82E16822136469&cm_re=external_h ardrive-_-22-136-469-_-Product

At 2/26/10 09:36 PM, Starogre wrote:
this is pretty handy to me http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.as px?Item=N82E16822136469&cm_re=external_h ardrive-_-22-136-469-_-Product

this is pretty handy to me http://www.linux.org/

oh, what's that? 100 bucks for backup? no thanks. my computer doesn't have diarreah

54,999 post. Muahaha.

#55,000!

I WIN AGAIN.

At 2/26/10 09:53 PM, windowskiller wrote: 54,999 post. Muahaha.

Still doesn't beat my 49,999 post

At 2/26/10 09:53 PM, Archon68 wrote: #55,000!

I WIN AGAIN.

You need to get out more.

In other news:

I was stepping up there earlier, and I'd go up there now!

Someone really needs to explain to me the relevance of the whole post count thing. If I worried about stuff like that, I think it would get in the way of my true focus: being drunk all the time.

Someone really needs to explain to me the relevance of the whole being drunk thing. If I worried about stuff like that, I think it would get in the way of my true focus: having a high post count.

I guess that would mean more if I had a high post count.

At 2/26/10 07:13 PM, Toast wrote:

At 2/26/10 06:21 PM, meneldil wrote: Forgive me and my lack of sleep. I meant:
logical_expression ? return_this_value_if_true : return_this_value_if_false

it doesn't return any values.

Yes it does.

? : is an operation which returns a value ;)

Just as =, +=, -=, *=, /=, %=, ^= &=, |=, ||, &&, +, -, /, *, ^, &, |, %, >>, <<, >>>, >>=, <<=, >>>=, !, ~, ++, --, all return values too :P

The ?: operator is useful but it's slower than "if...else". Also it can become hell if you're to lazy to right a lot and you just end up with ???::?::?: kind of set up going on.

At 2/27/10 07:28 AM, Deadclever23 wrote: The ?: operator is useful but it's slower than "if...else". Also it can become hell if you're to lazy to right a lot and you just end up with ???::?::?: kind of set up going on.

Isn't it faster normally, but slower with nested statements or something?
I haven't checked the bytecode or done any speed tests, but I remember reading that this was the case for AS2.
Please correct me if I'm wrong.

I had meant to check this yesterday.

I just did a speed test and "if/else" is faster than "?:".

In my test, "if/else" took 3 ms and "?:" took 4 ms.

At 2/27/10 07:42 AM, Archon68 wrote: In my test, "if/else" took 3 ms and "?:" took 4 ms.

Your test is wrong, :) they both translate to the exact same bytecode

At 2/27/10 08:00 AM, Inglor wrote:

At 2/27/10 07:42 AM, Archon68 wrote: In my test, "if/else" took 3 ms and "?:" took 4 ms.

Your test is wrong, :) they both translate to the exact same bytecode

Meh.

At 2/26/10 11:27 PM, Kirk-Cocaine wrote:

At 2/26/10 09:53 PM, Archon68 wrote: #55,000!

I WIN AGAIN.

You need to get out more.

Agreed.

You can tell you're no longer a reg when you don't get a birthday thread.

At 2/27/10 08:34 AM, windowskiller wrote: Agreed

I waited like an hour for it to get to 54,999. I had that post all typed out and ready to go, and I was refreshing the page every few minutes when it was 54,998 so I wouldn't miss it. :O

I have way too much free time.

At 2/27/10 05:13 AM, dELtaluca wrote:

At 2/26/10 07:13 PM, Toast wrote:

At 2/26/10 06:21 PM, meneldil wrote: Forgive me and my lack of sleep. I meant:
logical_expression ? return_this_value_if_true : return_this_value_if_false

it doesn't return any values.

Yes it does.

? : is an operation which returns a value ;)

Just as =, +=, -=, *=, /=, %=, ^= &=, |=, ||, &&, +, -, /, *, ^, &, |, %, >>, <<, >>>, >>=, <<=, >>>=, !, ~, ++, --, all return values too :P

Eh, then it's just an argument about semantics, and I'm wrong about it. I had a different definition of "returning" in mind, which would only include &&, ||, <. >, etc (and "return" itself obviously.. lol), but not stuff like ++, --, and ? :. But I see why you say that. I don't see the point in it, but whatever. Disregard what I said

At 2/27/10 08:44 AM, Depredation wrote: You can tell you're no longer a reg when you don't get a birthday thread.

D'awwwww.

You're not on the NG Cal, how could we have known >:(

At 2/27/10 09:58 AM, Toast wrote: Eh, then it's just an argument about semantics, and I'm wrong about it. I had a different definition of "returning" in mind, which would only include &&, ||, <. >, etc (and "return" itself obviously.. lol), but not stuff like ++, --, and ? :. But I see why you say that. I don't see the point in it, but whatever. Disregard what I said

All these methods return a value.

the result, of =, is a reference to the lhs after the assignment, which is the reason why you can chain assignments like a = b = c = 10, being right-associative, this is equiv. to a = (b = (c = 10)) which is equiv. to c = 10; b = c; a = b;

similarly for all the operations like += which return a reference to the lhs after the operation, similarly for pre-increment/decrement, a = ++b; equiv. to b = b+1; a = b; whilst post-increment/decrement do it the opposite way round; a = b++; equiv. to a = b; b = b+1;

? : is an operation which returns one of two values dependant on the argument, the value before the ? symbol, you can chain them like an assignment to see this in effect.

c = ( cond ? a : b ) += 10;

equiv. to:

if(cond) { a = a+10; c = a; }
else { b = b+10; c = b; }

Intelligence
What would you guys say a good judge of intelligence is?

At 2/27/10 12:18 PM, Deadclever23 wrote: Intelligence
What would you guys say a good judge of intelligence is?

combination of recalling information and using logic to solve problems

At 2/27/10 11:20 AM, dELtaluca wrote: c = ( cond ? a : b ) += 10;

Ternaries have saved me a lot of time and lines in recent code. Although they take up more resources if i've been told correctly.