The Big Programming Thread - Page 431

On January 21 2014 05:15 Tobberoth wrote:
Damnit, the HSM-2 is just brutal on microcorruption.com. I'm at a point where I can direct the code where I want, even add a bit of assembly myself, but since I don't know the password and can't unlock the door from the code, I can't imagine how to proceed, other than sending random passwords to the lock which is obviously not an option.

I didn't even realize that's what the HSM-2 did at first, was quite disappointing to crack it enough to get "Access granted", yet no door opening ^^

EDIT: And there I solved it. I'm kind of surprised + Show Spoiler +.

On January 21 2014 08:55 XXXSmOke wrote:
Hey guys I am a programming Newb that started about 2 months ago. My focus is learning web design stuff on my own. I got HTML and CSS pretty easy and practiced making websites for the last month and a half. I am starting to feel pretty fluent in those languages where now I can think about what I want and then code it right out rather than having to look up how to do it. I learned Jquery during the last two weeks and that was pretty easy as well. I was able to use that on my websites and really get a good hands on learning experience with jquery as well

Now im learning Javascript and im in a rut. I am using code academy right now which is giving me good knowledge on things such as variables/arrays etc but I am having troubles in regards to actually practicing Java script as I dont really get how it translates into actual things on the web like HTML CSS and J query. If that makes any sense.

Does anybody have any good books they could recommend on javascript?

On January 21 2014 10:18 tofucake wrote:
have you tried get out?

w3schools is awful, never use it

On January 21 2014 08:55 XXXSmOke wrote:
Hey guys I am a programming Newb that started about 2 months ago. My focus is learning web design stuff on my own. I got HTML and CSS pretty easy and practiced making websites for the last month and a half. I am starting to feel pretty fluent in those languages where now I can think about what I want and then code it right out rather than having to look up how to do it. I learned Jquery during the last two weeks and that was pretty easy as well. I was able to use that on my websites and really get a good hands on learning experience with jquery as well

Now im learning Javascript and im in a rut. I am using code academy right now which is giving me good knowledge on things such as variables/arrays etc but I am having troubles in regards to actually practicing Java script as I dont really get how it translates into actual things on the web like HTML CSS and J query. If that makes any sense.

Does anybody have any good books they could recommend on javascript?

On January 21 2014 10:18 tofucake wrote:
have you tried get out?

w3schools is awful, never use it

On January 21 2014 14:40 icystorage wrote:
if you're in the software engineering field, should you get a masters? why? when should you get it?

On January 21 2014 08:35 Cyx. wrote:


I did Reykjavik the same way as you - I think that's the point of that one.

And they solve that exploit for the next one - if you figure it out let me know, I'm still working on it ^^ but I have some actual assembly homework to do now lol

On January 21 2014 11:27 Cyx. wrote:


I was going to inb4 this =D and then I realized I had better things to do with my life than that and I didn't. But I have a real question for you tofu - what do you think of http://eloquentjavascript.net/ ? I kinda wanted to learn js and I learned a bit from that book, it seemed nice to me but I dunno, I'm mostly a C++ programmer tt

On January 18 2014 08:14 BigFan wrote:

what's defined as functional language? java? c? c++?


I always viewed C as the more superior one On a more serious note, I think he feels more in control with C++, at least I felt that way as well. Most with C, least with java when I used to program.

On January 22 2014 10:54 mcc wrote:

Sorry did not notice the question. Functional languages are languages like Haskell, Erlang, Lisp,... . Main distinguishing features are declarative programming, no state and no mutable data. Of course there are ways to achieve that, but that is the main "tenet".

Things that are being imported to imperative languages like C++/C#/Java are lambdas, concept of pure functions, pattern matching. Java is probably slowest adopter of those though. In general I could not imagine working without lambdas, that is one of the reasons I considered Java inferior to C# in last years. On language design level at least, of course there are other considerations.

On January 21 2014 14:40 icystorage wrote:
if you're in the software engineering field, should you get a masters? why? when should you get it?

On January 23 2014 05:17 Morfildur wrote:


Wow, that article is... well, it's something alright...

"Let's keep the language worse than the competitors so we don't have to learn more stuff and so the language doesn't become bloated"

Too bad that, due to the Android, Java won't leave in the near future. It's certainly past it's time.

On January 24 2014 01:49 darkness wrote:
I've noticed that GsonBuilder creates a Gson object, so I've checked source code to see if it's indeed the Builder pattern. And yes, it is. However, I wonder why they just don't pass the Builder instance? The build method is like this:

public Gson create() {
    List<TypeAdapterFactory> factories = new ArrayList<TypeAdapterFactory>();
    factories.addAll(this.factories);
    Collections.reverse(factories);
    factories.addAll(this.hierarchyFactories);
    addTypeAdaptersForDate(datePattern, dateStyle, timeStyle, factories);

    return new Gson(excluder, fieldNamingPolicy, instanceCreators,
        serializeNulls, complexMapKeySerialization,
        generateNonExecutableJson, escapeHtmlChars, prettyPrinting,
        serializeSpecialFloatingPointValues, longSerializationPolicy, factories);
}

So why don't they have additional Gson constructor that just accepts a GsonBuilder instance? Much easier?