The Big Programming Thread - Page 918

On November 16 2017 00:12 Manit0u wrote:


Atlassian maybe? Although from what I hear they're switching all of their architecture to Java now.

On November 15 2017 22:40 bo1b wrote:
That letter looks like it's from Victoria, Australia - most likely in melbourne. I didn't know we had any companies in this area which used erlang.

On November 16 2017 06:45 Silvanel wrote:


Out of curiosity, You based it on what?

On November 16 2017 06:45 Silvanel wrote:


Out of curiosity, You based it on what?

On November 16 2017 18:59 Manit0u wrote:
Is there a way to make JavaScript print 1.0 into JSON? It's super dumb considering that every number in JS is a float, but you can't display them as floats if they only have 0's in decimal places (and I need it to do so).

let encoded = JSON.stringify({num: 1.0}).replace(/(?!\.)\d+(?!\.)/,"$&.0")
console.log(encoded) // {"num":1.0}

On November 16 2017 23:21 Deckard.666 wrote:


Like this, maybe?

let encoded = JSON.stringify({num: 1.0}).replace(/(?!\.)\d+(?!\.)/,"$&.0")
console.log(encoded) // {"num":1.0}

Kinda ugly using regex to modify the JSON, but I don't think you can make JSON.stringify output it like that directly.

On November 17 2017 02:14 mantequilla wrote:
I need to build a simple Windows desktop app (not universal windows apps, for windows 7). What is the go to technology for that nowadays? Everything today is mobile and web apps

I am most familiar with java but I hate swing.

On November 17 2017 00:21 Manit0u wrote:


Unfortunately this won't fly. The problem is that we have to pass user input from the front-end form (many values are being passed, strings, floats, integers, booleans to the API as JSON, it is then passed on to external tools which require that all float values have decimal notation.

The input is validated for type and it would be stupid to convert some values to float since technically the user could input invalid float (passed as string and cast to float) and casting it could skew the validation.

JavaScript is so awful at times Would it be so hard for them to implement simple functions like toFloat() (kinda stupid for JS since every number is a float by default, they just show it as int) or toInt()?

On November 17 2017 00:21 Manit0u wrote:
JavaScript is so awful at times Would it be so hard for them to implement simple functions like toFloat() (kinda stupid for JS since every number is a float by default, they just show it as int) or toInt()?

On November 17 2017 07:47 WarSame wrote:

Could you hack around it by doing 0.0+x? Or x*1.0?

On November 18 2017 00:46 Manit0u wrote:
I second the C# and WPF option. Did that in the past. Worked fine.



This doesn't work in JS. It still outputs the number as if it were an integer.

On November 18 2017 01:13 AKnopf wrote:



Could you use toFixed() to convert the number into a string that looks like float first and then use JSON.stringify on the whole thing?
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/41399380/force-float-value-when-using-json-stringify#answer-41399477

On November 16 2017 15:40 bo1b wrote:

The letter referenced something called vcat. More than possible theres another tribunal somewhere around the world called vcat, but im fairly certain it's located in Australia, Victoria, Melbourne.

On November 18 2017 15:56 phar wrote:

Jesus $55/hr is the going rate for "lead developer" in Melbourne?

Actually nvm if the owner is still interviewing people that place has gotta be tiny as shit