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Mahz's Dev Journal

@Mahz
Simple solution to the subscription page issue: Direct the arrow to the last unread post, direct the timestamp to the latest post, and link the thread title to the first post.

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Thats true, @LegendBegins. But features that have been implemented and are mentioned as such here are naturally free to share among any number of friends you might have who could find such useful.

@Ellri

I never claimed they were not. I simply said to be careful how you word the information, as to not raise any false hopes.

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With 225+ users online at the moment, I think I may have caused a sudden influx of friend adds. :p

Would it be right to say that features posted here can be spread amongst the community? Or are they still not meant for the masses yet?

@SilverRain

The features and corrections discussed here are simply for development purposes. While you could tell others about what we have discussed (it's no secret; they could check here themselves), it may create false hopes, as some of the features are staged for the future, short or distant. The best case scenario is that they understand that fact and regard it with interest, but the worst case scenario is that they hound Mahz to implement a feature that wasn't planned to be included for a long duration of time.

TL;DR Be careful about what you promise to others, and how you tell people about things, because they may interpret it incorrectly.

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I don't even like it for making sure everything is spelt correctly, I like it so that I can type much less

For example, I can type Sys>enter>enter>enter instead of System.out.println and get the same thing. 6 keypresses vs 18 is quite a difference.

@TheMaster99

I like writing out my words, unless I have a lot of them on the clipboard; I feel closer to and more involved with my code. Just weird habits of mine.

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Maybe @TheMaster99 can fix his green postbit for, apparently, tablets/mobile devices.

I've started fixing the dev build. It's missing heaps of the database schema.

@Mahz

You know what they say: Copy/paste is a programmer's best friend.

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@LegendBegins It isn't really a problem with the Github repo, but that he has added more and more to his local build, without updating the generic dev build, so as a result it won't compile, and the test database is missing entries, etc. I did remind him earlier today of the issue, so hopefully it should be resolved before long so that I and/or others may contribute once more

@TheMaster99

I plan to be contributing as soon as that issue is fixed. In reality, I wanted to contribute as soon as everything with my device was repaired, but then that happened. You know, life.

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@LegendBegins

I either create a Github issue, scribble it into a page of a notebook I have on my desk, jot it down into some loose leaf file on my computer, sketch it into the guild's README which I usually don't commit to version control because I store private credentials there , or fold it into my brain and hope for the best.

I generally remember decisions made here, though.

However, small-but-nontrivial tweaks are what I struggle with. Like @Ellri's annoyance with the @Mention system. It annoys me too, but it's not something I will take a break from my real job/work to address. And by the time I get home, I either want to avoid my computer or spend the free time on crunching through a harder guild feature.

But let it be known that there exists a formal Github issue for the @Mention annoyance: github.com/danneu/guild/issu..

@Mahz

Are the github issues that prevented other individuals from contributing that TheMaster99 mentioned during your absence fixed now?

Selfish question: Are the skins being considered, or is it already decided? That was never really clear.

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@Mahz
When something is decided in the Dev Journal (such as this) and put off until later, is it written down somewhere, or solely committed to memory?

Programmin'

A habit of mine is to not increment my do whiles. Crash, make changes, run, infinite loop. Repeat.

I'm not a Unix person (I just code), but I do love recursion with GNU's Not Unix. It's the most novel acronym I've come across.

Anyhoo, I'm curious. Any COBOLs or FORTRANs here? I heard they're a rare bunch these days. But I wonder, what was the programming world like before COBOL? Was it punched cards?

@SilverRain

We don't speak of the olden days. But in all seriousness, it was painful prior to some of the more user-friendly languages. It makes me question how high of a level programming languages can actually become.