Logging in like a bot.

Science & Technology
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I saw in some thread someone make a remark about a thread having been created by a robot. So I wondered how hard/easy it would be to log in as a bot. So I tried. Turns out it is easy. I wonder if someone made an Android app.
Google is my coding teacher so let have this moment.
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your handle betrays you

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Haha. Yeah… I tend to do stuff like this all day. I mean stuff that are an absolute waste of time.

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Get a job.

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Make a robot to login and start flirting with fieldmarshall potato.

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Lesson number 1.

A while true loop is outrightly bad programming practice

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I have lot’s to do.
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I am no developer. I just like to code now and then. I really don’t know the best practices (no comp sci degree here). I fact I will leave the zip here. Maybe you can share more.

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Wacha niupload code ya @Nefertities bot though tuliandika in python.

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Ama sijui niweke @Meria Mata bot which we coded to scrap for news from other websites n post em here ama ya nef which scraps for gifs

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Ebu niekwe group ya ma programmer 0710713105

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This might help, extracted some parts from something am working on (not the complete class but enough to show a sample use of while{})

void ServiceMain(int argc, char** argv) 
{   
    while( serviceStatus.dwCurrentState == SERVICE_RUNNING )
    {
        try
        {
            DWORD hExitCode = 1;
            ::GetExitCodeThread( _threadHandle,&hExitCode );
            if( hExitCode != STILL_ACTIVE )
            {
                try{
                    if (!  _workerThread.StartThread()  ) 
                        //put error handling here
                    else
                        SetThreadPriority( _threadHandle ,THREAD_PRIORITY_TIME_CRITICAL );
                }
                catch(...)
                {
                    //put error handling here
                }
            }
        }
        catch(...)
        {
            //put error handling here
        }
        //be sure to peek and dispatch from MSGPUMP queue
    }
}
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eti mlifanya nini?
going into robot mode in 120 minutes

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Nyamaza robot ama i will delete you

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Aah… Windows service. I did that once while writing a memory monitor bullshit back when I had 512MB. Very interesting stuff!
Anyway, on the code I had the option of goto and using infinite loop then breaking. I chose infinite. I was hoping you’d tell me a better way to do it. I have the basic control structures down.

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Am curious. Is there a programming group in here? Add me too on there if it exists.

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Noticed that as well

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the “better way to do it” is subjective, will vary from developer to developer, the one thing that’s constant is all developers agree that using a while (true){} or for(; ; ) {} is not good practice, there is nothing logically wrong with it however the problem comes in when you handover project to another dev and they then have to look at a different location to find out when and why the loop exits. and then you find the original developer did not even comment their code. then you are forced to become a telepath to figure out their thought trail

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You never use an infinite loop, anything can go wrong there because it may take infinite/2 to break and you know what the answer is. It only means you have not figured out a proper way to go about your problem

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none that i know of, maybe we should collect enough signatures and petition @admin to create a programming board/forum here. not sure how many signatures they would need