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Update: I've found someone. Thanks to all those who offered.

Vale, Slasher. You will be greatly missed. Slasher's games were a guilty pleasure for us on IRC. I remember we were all playing one of his games together one night. I don't know if his games were intended to be funny, but they were just so absurd and full of heart. A great author who didn't mince words and produced so much.

Hello,

Long time, no post. I tried to think of a forum with a lot of British members.

I'm currently doing a family tree project and I have a lot of English ancestors. I've been ordering birth certificates through the GRO (gro.gov.uk), but the service that posts to Australia is very expensive - £25 per record. There's a cheaper, non-registered service (£11), but it's only available to domestic addresses.

Would anyone with a British postal address care to help me out? All I need you to do is receive some birth certificate copies in the post and email me a colour scan of each one.

I'm only interested in the information in the records and not copies of the documents themselves, but that sadly electronic copies aren't an option for all records at the GRO currently.

I have 6 certificates I'd like to obtain at the moment. I can pay you £4 per certificate on top of the £11, so total £15 x 6 = £90 for me, and a tidy £24 profit for you, ex. scanning cost.

Hope you get this one done, Dave. I love Captain Disaster's new style. I've been following this one on Twitter too. All the best!

This is terrible. 

Nice idea. Perhaps even with support for an annotation a la

Code: ags

// $AUTOCOMPLETEIGNORE$

that will tell the compiler not to spit a warning for a particular function.

Death by encoding!

I vote for #1! It's also #1...

[this.Length - token.Length + 1]

You could also similarly optimise the constructor for the array.

This was the part I was most interested in trying to optimise, but maths isn't my strong suit. I would guess that trying to work out the maximum number of delimiter instances that yield a value would allow the array size to not be so large, but the substring checks required would just present a similar problem to the string splitting, and performance wise it is just better to over-commit the array size?

I just meant you could use this.Length - token.Length + 1 for the constructor. I suppose you could do (this.Length / token.Length) + 1 for the maximum you're talking about. Not sure about performance, but I'd say there'd be an additional cost for very small arrays and a significant saving for large ones.

So who gets which trophies?

[this.Length - token.Length]

MorganW sent me an alternative version that would be case sensitive. My problem is restricted to symbols and numbers, but I will leave this here in case it's useful to anyone.

I would make a few small amendments to MorganW's version. The limit of the for loop can be this.Length - token.Length instead of this.Length. You don't need the last few iterations as any substrings won't be the length of the token and so won't match. You could also similarly optimise the constructor for the array. This might be personal taste, but I would keep zero-length matches and allow splitting by a zero-length delimiter (e.g. "abc".Split() => ["a", "b", "c", null]).

I finally got around to listening to this. Gurok, yeah wasn't a super intense interview or anything, but why do you say you think Bernie was softballed?

I don't think he was. It was a reference to earlier comments about right-wing pundits being softball interviewed on the show. Looking back on it, it was an interesting listen and I'm glad he got some airtime. As one of the most anit-establishment left-wing candidates of the 2016 US election, he had a modicum of appeal to me.

Hi eri0, I've uploaded it here: https://github.com/gurok/AGSNotes

First: #5
Second: #6
Third: #9

I'm actually glad that discussions with Jack make people like Ali feel uncomfortable. I can't stand people being complacent in their belief that these threads should be cheer squads for whatever politics they side with. I also think people should consider carefully the outcome when they make threads like these. You all know it has no bearing on AGS. It was just an ill-fated attempt to contrive a circlejerk.

I hope every Brit who's posted here fearing Brexit gets the hardest possible Brexit.

This is my jam! https://youtu.be/zPGf4liO-KQ

A lifeguard! Now I know I'll be safe in the waters up ahead.

[imgzoom]http://ags.pics/cOZz.png[/imgzoom]

Someone left an ice-cold bottle of Heat Stroca-cola just lying out here in the sun!

[imgzoom]http://ags.pics/DRwG.png[/imgzoom]

Edit: And a Sahara Soaker! Cool!

[imgzoom]http://ags.pics/DUC7.png[/imgzoom]

Edit: And a fan! If only there were somewhere to plug it in.

[imgzoom]http://ags.pics/DZ7P.png[/imgzoom]

Going to give my standard answers here.

Limbo of the Lost
Big Rigs: Over the Road Racing
Bad Rats
Ninjabread Man

Bernie Sanders was recently on the show. Nice, long interview with a lot of in-depth replies:

https://youtu.be/2O-iLk1G_ng

Just wondering if anyone thinks he was softballed

Actually, I'm a little annoyed that they didn't touch on how he was screwed over by the DNC (leaked in emails)