Also. Don't assume me you are necessarily right. Be open to being proven wrong too.

Msys2

Yeah, in this case you are just writing a bit to play the game. It doesn't need to learn, it just needs to have enough logic in there to make it play the game.

@gosubinit I remember the days of paper manuals and semi useful offline docs.

@Sunsette in case you missed it, edited my last post with the git command.

@Sunsette turns out you can just do

git stash branch <branchname>

To create a new branch from your most recent stash.

Optionally you can specify a specific stash if it isn't at the top of your stack.

Edit: missing a branch in the command

Unlikely, the permission denied might just be that you have something open that's locking a file. Visual Studio maybe? A third party git client?

Failing that, stashes are stored as commits, with any luck you might be able to check out at the stash and just merge it into your branch?

If the system works, can still be deployed and developing it further isn't a complete nightmare. There's no reason to change the underlying tech. You'd do better refactoring and making that code as easy to maintain as possible.

Why doesn't the ppGame do it's own initialisation.

Why do those arrays need creating outside of the ppGame in the first place? So many if statements could just be removed by giving the ppGame a constructor that does all that.

Please please use empty arrays to mean no results. Not null/undefined. That way you can treat it uniformly everywhere.

Well, you kill a process, so the process must be able to die.

And if it won't die, then it's a zombie.

I might have done it for 50$ a day. Not 50$ overall. Sounds like the type of project that could easily have way more issues dragging on how long it takes to complete.

Ah, well we can all write code without coffee, but with coffee, we write the code that runs the universe itself.

@mazabin :)

When it comes to salary, always ask for a little bit more than what you'd be happy with.

Best case, you get it anyway.

Common case is you'll get negotiated down towards your actually happy value.

Worst case, they deny you the raise.

@mazabin I have one ssd that's my system drive and three HDD's (the hard-drive have accumulated over the years). The SSD for your system drive is definitely worth it for the speed, keeping the HDD for actual storage is still much preferred by me though just for the price to space ratio.

@Ju5tJ3N oh definitely.

We perhaps, as what was spoke about with the computer club mentioned above, should just pay a little extra vigilence that the extra support for women and minorities don't come with an extra cost towards men.

The gender neutral club and the women's club should of existed side by side and alternated use of the computer lab, for example, rather than the gender neutral club being shut down.

@Ju5tJ3N yeah, you are right that it's not the intent of anti-discrimination laws. How ever, people being people can get the wrong idea, or take stuff the wrong way or just go about things incorrectly.

However, on the flip side, some people can over estimate themselves and under estimate others and can equally come to wrong conclusions. "I'm better than that person, they must of been hired because of being woman/minority/friends with the boss".

Either side is a problem when they do occur. Thankfully I've not seen the former first hand in tech. But human nature being what it is, I don't doubt that it has somewhere.

The latter I've not really seen conclusively, only can make assumptions on the few complaints I've heard.

Hard to tell either way without evidence in each case.

@BitFlipped you said the whole world. You were being hyperbolic. It's okay to admit that.

But while we're here.

You were never called a sexist, you've decided thats what was being implied where it was not.

Second, if you notice, I've been taking part in the conversation.

Third, chill out. Your getting way to angry and making way too many assumptions for good discourse.

@BitFlipped well there are plenty of countries in the world where women don't have any equality. That is why I point it out as hyperbole.

@BitFlipped Every girl in the world? The whole world? Hyperbole much? That isn't even close to true.

@Hammster what I see is someone dismissing of points because of his preconceived notions. I assume, hopefully wrongly, so that you can dismiss them out of hand.

I did read the rest of your post.

But 1) no-one denied filling quotas for employing women is equally as sexist. I think I explicitly said people should be hired on merit.

2) blaming it on just parents, is a way to absolve yourself of ever needing to do anything to address the issue of sexism. Because after all, if it's the parents fault, whatever could you do to make stuff better.

You don't really even need to do alot. Just calling people out on sexism, towards either gender.

3) it's good that you judge developers for their ability. That's exactly what I said people need to be sure they are doing. When I was talking about biases, while yes sexism was the topic, there are many other biases people have that prevent merit being the sole judgement. Even right down to just you like the person better.

@Hammster I don't really get what you are saying. I've not accused this community of sexism, I've only pointed out sexism exists in our industry and that we, (I hope this community at large), shouldn't stand for it when it occurs, not should we be complacent, and definitely we should make sure individually that we aren't contributing to the issue.

So, thanks for misunderstanding my points. I hope this clarification will keep you from throwing names and negative labels at people in the future by making you take the time to try and understand the points being made.

Hurrah!

*stares at his own long journey ahead of him*

I can't empathise, didn't goto uni, and I love Maths.

Haha, I remember wiping a client database in a similar fashion. Luckily we had a backup of everything that had been processed into the system, just not a backup of the database. I was at my desk until 3am reprocessing everything in chronological order.

@ralsh learning and improving your coding will happen for your entire career as a developer. One of the wonderful things about the job. Always something to learn and improve.

@calmyourtities there's no reason we can't try to accelerate the overall change in attitudes.

If you think about it, the only reason attitudes are changing at all, is because people went out of their way to get people to see the old attitudes were wrong.

@calmyourtities Well, I don't mean violence. But I do mean taking whatever action (that not illegal) you feel you can to change the perception of the industry, and change or challenge behavior of those that help perpetuate it's currently negative image.

Also to encourage those women, that you know, that also have an interest I. IT to pursue that interest.

And also, to make sure you've addressed your own biases (whatever they are) so that from your own personal stand point you can totally say you've judged everyone based on their merit, and then encourage others to do the same.

@calmyourtities the rest of us. As in everyone in the industry that doesn't hold the horrendous views and behaviours that makes the industry seem hostile to women.

That means men and women in the industry alike need to fight the way society has painted our industry.

I don't know if you debilbrately put words on my mouth just to have something to attack, but I'd appreciate if you didn't do that.

@BitFlipped society already made the IT was a "mens" thing. Society has made the industry appear outwardly to be hostile to women. Some people in the industry do indeed hold the views and behaviours that make the industry appear as society paints it.

It's up-to the rest of us, to combat that image. To paint ourselves and truly be a place where gender doesn't matter.

It really doesn't matter how the industry may or may not actually be, if the people outside believe something else.