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Matt Niznik: I accidentally denied Mark :( Anyone know how to undo that?

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Matt Niznik: Sorry Mark! Apparently typing while the auto-admit is going doesn't always work nicely.

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Matt Niznik: In web development, catching an error is the difference between showing the user a helpful error message vs getting an ugly error page

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Alan Brammer - NOAA Affiliate: I catch errors when downloading data from nomads.  catch a timeout error then try the ftp server instead

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Alan Brammer - NOAA Affiliate: you don't _need_ to catch exceptions. 

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Steven Miller: I'm mildly surprised that "oops" was not just converted into some integer value (via some "atoi()" built in...

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Matt Niznik: Yeah Steve, that's interesting considering Python is so loose with typing in general. In JavaScript for example, parseInt("oops") is NaN with no error

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Steven Miller: makes sense, thanks!

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Matt Niznik: PHP's intval("oops") returns 0 😆