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null | kaze0 | null | now everyone can get the D for free | null | 0 | 1491590200 | False | 0 | dfytb1d | t3_6419py | null | null | t3_6419py | null | 1493882829 | -21 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | SirClueless | null | Not really. In git, when you want to send a merge to someone, you need to send all the data that goes into that merge.
It's more like [Homomorphic Encryption](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homomorphic_encryption) for machine learning. You want to compute a function using my data as inputs. Instead I will compute some ... | null | 0 | 1491590243 | False | 0 | dfytcgh | t3_63yka1 | null | null | t1_dfysdkr | null | 1493882848 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | akkartik | null | [Hallellujah!](http://akkartik.name/about) | null | 0 | 1491590263 | False | 0 | dfytd4g | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfyhf5u | null | 1493882856 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | sultry_somnambulist | null | okay that makes sense. The article mentions supervised learning (example classifying dog breeds) as an example that still runs in the cloud. Is there some theoretical limitation to what kind of learning can work in this distributed manner and what can't?
If you update the model in decentralised manner it should be pro... | null | 0 | 1491590277 | False | 0 | dfytdm7 | t3_63yka1 | null | null | t1_dfyszq5 | null | 1493882864 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | Lanza21 | null | >None of this however is normally obvious to someone who has never done serious work in a proper typed language, and since none of the mainstream programming languages is properly typed, this is unfortunately the vast majority of programmers in the world.
Could you elaborate? I've only been programming for ~ two ye... | null | 0 | 1491590279 | False | 0 | dfytdp1 | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfy8j2a | null | 1493882865 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | pinnr | null | Waterfall style project management was a *required* course at my university and I worked on projects that didn't deliver any software for over a year.
I worked on projects where 1/3 of the total project time was spent on planning and writing mountains of UML diagrams. It's most important to get the UML right up-front ... | null | 0 | 1491590308 | 1491593202 | 0 | dfytels | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfyt43q | null | 1493882877 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | kungtotte | null | The other day I read a blog post going into why it's a bad idea to start out trying to abstract your code and make it reusable from the get go; he set a rule for himself that he didn't even bother until he had at least two confirmed cases of code duplication.
That's when you know you can bother with making a function,... | null | 0 | 1491590325 | False | 0 | dfytf52 | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfyj9y0 | null | 1493882885 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | kirbyfan64sos | null | Well, the `image.*` commands are all related. For instance, there's `image.add`, `image.list, and `image.remove`. Similarly, you have the `box.*` commands, etc. (FWIW the reason for the image vs box distinction was just to make things easier to get into.)
The required command line options thing is something that bugs ... | null | 0 | 1491590339 | False | 0 | dfytfka | t3_63xbbn | null | null | t1_dfyrvhf | null | 1493882891 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | tvwxyz | null | I totally agree. Most programming jobs I have applied for want me to give a link to my Github account. So I created one. It's completely empty and doesn't showcase any of my talents. But they want one so I made one. Because that alone proves I am such a great programmer. | null | 0 | 1491590361 | False | 0 | dfytgaa | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfyk349 | null | 1493882901 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | AbstractOperator | null | No. Look at my previous comment, you'll understand. | null | 0 | 1491590365 | False | 0 | dfytge7 | t3_6419py | null | null | t1_dfyros9 | null | 1493882903 | 10 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | akkartik | null | [I write in C++ but call it C.](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13345844) | null | 0 | 1491590370 | False | 0 | dfytgk0 | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfyi2xi | null | 1493882905 | 8 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | AerieC | null | Totally agree. I'm a *huge* fan of automated testing, and I believe that all code that can be reasonably tested with unit tests should be.
But TDD, at least as its typically explained, is a greedy algorithm. At any given time, you're only focusing on the step immediately in front of you: "write a test for a very small... | null | 0 | 1491590383 | False | 0 | dfyth0e | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfyf7fg | null | 1493882911 | 20 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | WJTDroid | null | This is the reason C++ is the next language I plan to learn as a beginner. I realise that even though I understand programming basics, memory management is just an obscured concept for me and I have little to no idea how much the programs I write have in terms of memory cost. | null | 0 | 1491590413 | False | 0 | dfythyc | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfykept | null | 1493882924 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | Lanza21 | null | >Design patterns should not be studied in books, they should be observed in the wild. Good design requires experience, not rote memorization and application of patterns. This isn't your DiffEq homework.
Are we supposed to just synthesize good design patterns naturally? I'm not that clever. | null | 0 | 1491590548 | False | 0 | dfytmeo | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfy9doo | null | 1493882984 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | bro-away- | null | Go is actually harder to swallow than Rust.
The lack of generics AND dynamicism is just such a huge turnoff. It actually makes expressing problems harder and more complex..
Eventually, people are going to realize that using TypeScript is the best compromise. Most JS devs known at least some TypeScript. Structural ... | null | 0 | 1491590630 | False | 0 | dfytp3t | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfypoqc | null | 1493883020 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | maxm | null | Write and refactor is better than doing detailed design. Nobody really know what they are doing anyway. Unless you are writing code you have written before. | null | 0 | 1491590630 | False | 0 | dfytp4c | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t3_63zg6f | null | 1493883021 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | FUZxxl | null | That's only O(V) if you have an adjacency matrix. If you have adjacency lists, it's O(V+E) as you have to traverse every entry in every adjacency list you encounter. | null | 0 | 1491590693 | False | 0 | dfytr79 | t3_63z9df | null | null | t3_63z9df | null | 1493883049 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | WalterBright | null | We have plans to convert the back end to D as well, then dmd will be implemented in 100% D. (Currently the front end is 100% D.) | null | 0 | 1491590699 | False | 0 | dfytrft | t3_6419py | null | null | t1_dfyt6k7 | null | 1493883052 | 87 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | chunes | null | * Type systems should largely be mnemonic.
* User-defined types should be tuples of primitives.
* Haskell's type system is a crime against humanity.
* OOP is terrible.
Basically, the more your language makes me think about types, the worse it is. | null | 0 | 1491590726 | 1491592392 | 0 | dfytsbp | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t3_63zg6f | null | 1493883063 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | sultry_somnambulist | null | thanks. To how much of the machine learning space is this applicable? I'm not very familiar with it but I imagine there are operations that are not partionable in the same sense that not every algorithm is parallelizable? Or does this actually work on a wide range of problems?
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null | duheee | null | I've also worked on the frontend. And it's a fucking minefield over there. | null | 0 | 1491590754 | False | 0 | dfytt82 | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfyaofb | null | 1493883076 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | monocasa | null | We can call it 'left-for' since the for is on the left side.
Also because my brain has 'left-for' the hills. | null | 0 | 1491590766 | False | 0 | dfyttmc | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfyfx8b | null | 1493883081 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | adrianmonk | null | > Chances are, if you have someone doing a good job of whiteboarding code, they practiced specifically at it
What? I'm pretty good at whiteboard coding, and I definitely have never specifically practiced it. Nor do I understand why anyone would need to.
It's the same code I'd type into a text editor, except I writ... | null | 0 | 1491590768 | False | 0 | dfyttp5 | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfymygq | null | 1493883082 | -7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
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null | kungtotte | null | > Authorial stubbornness?
Almost certainly a large portion of that, yes, along with the general "Linux geek" attitude of welcoming and taking pride in mastering terrible UX. | null | 0 | 1491590773 | False | 0 | dfyttv8 | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfyh01s | null | 1493883084 | 12 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | theHazardMan | null | In the context of language features, the number of keystrokes required to do something is probably the last thing I care about.
Seriously, the actual typing of code should only be a small portion of your job. Optimize the way you and other coders can _reason_ about the code, not how many keys they have to press to wr... | null | 0 | 1491590789 | False | 0 | dfytudj | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t3_63zg6f | null | 1493883091 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | nsn | null | source code is worthless, knowledge about code and systems is valuable. | null | 0 | 1491590812 | False | 0 | dfytv54 | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t3_63zg6f | null | 1493883102 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | Pomnom | null | Does your mock database check for query syntax error?
* If it doesn't, how confident are you to make changes with your test?
* If it does, are you sure you implemented the spec correctly? | null | 0 | 1491590853 | False | 0 | dfytwga | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfyg7pn | null | 1493883121 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | Me00011001 | null | Whitespaces and formatting matters. A nice clean well formatted code base makes it a lot easier to read than one with 20 different styles and whitespace usage. | null | 0 | 1491590853 | False | 0 | dfytwgu | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t3_63zg6f | null | 1493883121 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | SupersonicSpitfire | null | Scrum makes everyone feel like they are running in virtual hamster wheels. | null | 0 | 1491590862 | 1491604421 | 0 | dfytwr9 | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t3_63zg6f | null | 1493883124 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | s-expression | null | This is one thing Go got right. Using symbol names to indicate visibility (package local or global) was smart too... no more bikeshedding or bickering over coding style, naming convention, etc... It's such a waste of time.
Rust is doing this too through `rustfmt` which is great. It's very refreshing when *all* code, b... | null | 0 | 1491590892 | False | 0 | dfytxra | t3_63zjbj | null | null | t3_63zjbj | null | 1493883138 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | BigOzzie | null | I'm a math major who works in web development. I took exactly one programming class in high school, and a few courses in college that involved theories and abstractions without writing any actual code. I'm not going to be able to prove that I'm a competent developer through a Reddit comment, but I am.
I can count on... | null | 0 | 1491590902 | False | 0 | dfyty2t | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfyp26u | null | 1493883142 | 17 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1491590950 | False | 0 | dfytzn1 | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfyr4jb | null | 1493883162 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | AbstractOperator | null | By hand or using D. Murphy's converter ? | null | 0 | 1491590954 | False | 0 | dfytzsm | t3_6419py | null | null | t1_dfytrft | null | 1493883164 | 18 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | industry7 | null | I've really only used Eclipse and IntelliJ for Java development, and they seem about the same to me. | null | 0 | 1491590958 | False | 0 | dfytzxg | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfyqzq6 | null | 1493883166 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | duheee | null | That is wrong. ctrl-a shift-del in a file manager (dolphin for example) will remove all the files (rm -rf * will work too). What you're doing in that "thing" you call an editor with gg dG is removing lines in the current file. Too small. Too little. | null | 0 | 1491590962 | False | 0 | dfyu01s | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfyagjn | null | 1493883167 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | AerieC | null | Agree on this. It's far more about decision making than actual programming speed.
A big part of that is how rigorously the developer tests their code, and/or how robustly they design it. Countless times over my career now, I've seen a simple feature cause headaches for months, sometimes **years** (I'm talking constant... | null | 0 | 1491590986 | False | 0 | dfyu0ta | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfycyxv | null | 1493883178 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | tvwxyz | null | A valid point but practically every programming language ever created -- except APL and maybe Forth -- uses English keywords. Create a new (programming) language using whichever (human) language you want but good luck getting widespread acceptance with it. | null | 0 | 1491590993 | False | 0 | dfyu11y | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfylw0f | null | 1493883181 | 8 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | LpSamuelm | null | It probably isn't just (or even mainly) due to the license. Tradition, bad outreach, being unexciting, using a garbage collector... There are multiple factors that may have contributed to D's relative obscurity. | null | 0 | 1491591004 | False | 0 | dfyu1ds | t3_6419py | null | null | t1_dfyqt8b | null | 1493883186 | 65 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | SupersonicSpitfire | null | What's the «var» keyword for? Isn't it always a variable? When would you not need «var»? | null | 0 | 1491591042 | False | 0 | dfyu2n7 | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfymy8l | null | 1493883203 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | Yelnik | null | Fancy code isn't any better or more useful than very simplistic, easily readable code | null | 0 | 1491591084 | False | 0 | dfyu40z | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t3_63zg6f | null | 1493883221 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | Beckneard | null | If your duplication seems better than the equivalent abstraction that means your language is shit.
Just to avoid discussion: yes I do mean most really popular general purpose languages are shit. Fight me irl. | null | 0 | 1491591097 | False | 0 | dfyu4f2 | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfy7bpd | null | 1493883226 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | be_bo_i_am_robot | null | Perhaps I'm not very imaginative.
What might be a better way? | null | 0 | 1491591150 | False | 0 | dfyu658 | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfykevn | null | 1493883250 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | s-expression | null | > I don't understand why so many people hate it
Because it's full of completely surprising and unintuitive behaviour unless you've memorized over half the spec *and* understand how your particular compiler works.
The same is partially true for plain C however the surface area of fuckery is much smaller... small en... | null | 0 | 1491591159 | False | 0 | dfyu6h2 | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfylznz | null | 1493883256 | 31 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | wrzoki | null | Thanks - the JavaScript generator is handy!
P.S. Maybe change [1](http://tholman.com/bezier-curve-simulation) to [Link 1](http://tholman.com/bezier-curve-simulation) or something descriptive like [Tim Holman's awesomeness.](http://tholman.com)
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null | gfody | null | VS and VSCode allow you to set breakpoints in the middle of a line, e.g.: https://cloud.githubusercontent.com/assets/1926584/22971375/c4b9837a-f375-11e6-80fa-e1051cf97e29.gif | null | 0 | 1491591200 | False | 0 | dfyu7s4 | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfyighx | null | 1493883273 | 19 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | sfultong | null | Turing completeness is unnecessary and undesirable. | null | 0 | 1491591202 | False | 0 | dfyu7v6 | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t3_63zg6f | null | 1493883274 | 15 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | paul_h | null | QML supports Turing completeness, wheras Ammy does not (?)
This - https://github.com/trollixx/node.qml - is a stroke of genius tech based on QML that's paused indefinitely (unfortunately). | null | 0 | 1491591331 | False | 0 | dfyuc7y | t3_63qvje | null | null | t1_dfwhmjb | null | 1493883334 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | s-expression | null | And yet trying to use C++ pragmatically like this earns you hate from C++ zealots who think over half your program should be template metaprogamming. | null | 0 | 1491591349 | False | 0 | dfyucsl | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfyn513 | null | 1493883342 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | Fordiman | null | Say what? "Javascript is cancer" is not really an unpopular opinion?
I use javascript daily, in concert with Java. I have to. Even if I used one of the thousand "not really javascript but, no, really, it makes javascript" bullshits, I'd have to do stuff with javascript for performance and introspection. It's just ... | null | 0 | 1491591352 | 1491591788 | 0 | dfyucx1 | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfyfguj | null | 1493883344 | 10 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | TotalInvisibility | null | Wait, I thought the impetus for wayland was 'we don't need all those pointless features like 'over network' displays' ?
At this point you're just rewriting X, but without much of a plan or good design. | null | 0 | 1491591354 | False | 0 | dfyucyr | t3_63yn9l | null | null | t3_63yn9l | null | 1493883345 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | troyunrau | null | Matlab is also getting clobbered by Python and R right now. Might be a few years yet, but their license will be what sunk the company in the end. | null | 0 | 1491591356 | False | 0 | dfyud1f | t3_6419py | null | null | t1_dfyqt8b | null | 1493883346 | 27 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | s-expression | null | What you're looking for is Rust. C++ will never get these things, and if it does, it will be in 20 years and won't work the way anyone hoped. | null | 0 | 1491591415 | False | 0 | dfyuewy | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfyo751 | null | 1493883372 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | Yelnik | null | All my js code pretty much looks like C so I don't see what the problem is | null | 0 | 1491591435 | False | 0 | dfyufl4 | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfy7pfn | null | 1493883382 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | doom_Oo7 | null | The thing is, in other languages you aren't even given the choice: you have to use the idiomatic way, and will have to rely on your compiler / interpreter if you want it to be fast. You could just do the same in c++. But you want it to be fast, and with c++ you will be able to optimize afterwards as much as you want | null | 0 | 1491591439 | False | 0 | dfyufqe | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfypbmd | null | 1493883384 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | gendulf | null | Comments are missing most context. For example, the diff commands -- what are they comparing against? What does the 'push.default current' git config do? | null | 0 | 1491591457 | False | 0 | dfyug9q | t3_63uf19 | null | null | t3_63uf19 | null | 1493883392 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | helm | null | Yup. Ran into that recently with my own code. Not short, but clever code. Developed some advanced algorithm so I could get everything I needed from one SQL query instead of several. I spent far too many hours on it. It worked 99% of the time but had some issues. I realised that tossing the algorithm and doing several S... | null | 0 | 1491591462 | False | 0 | dfyugff | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfyb7ko | null | 1493883394 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | AerieC | null | How about this case:
When redeploying changes to your environment takes ~5 minutes.
I work on embedded devices, and for some projects, there is a *huge* lag time between when you write the code, and when you see it running on a device.
I can move 10x faster by writing small, simple unit (or integration) tests on my ... | null | 0 | 1491591463 | False | 0 | dfyuggx | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfyfw49 | null | 1493883394 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | SailToTheSun | null | I just learned something new today. | null | 0 | 1491591474 | False | 0 | dfyugty | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfyu7s4 | null | 1493883399 | 8 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
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null | industry7 | null | If there are .1x developers, then 1x developers are effectively 10x compared to them. | null | 0 | 1491591478 | False | 0 | dfyugym | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfyaoli | null | 1493883401 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | doom_Oo7 | null | Why do at runtime what you can do at compile time ? It is disrespectful to the users of your software to not try to achieve maximal efficiency. | null | 0 | 1491591520 | False | 0 | dfyuic4 | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfyucsl | null | 1493883418 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | migdalofbabel | null | Seriously, if someone is more than capable of getting a degree in computer science, who cares about a few ten thousand of dollars you spent during those 3 to 5 years? Two years after I got my degree I was basically already clear of dept -- thanks to my degree which brought me lots of nice job offers -- and I didn't eve... | null | 0 | 1491591544 | 1491591949 | 0 | dfyuj41 | t3_63sbtv | null | null | t1_dfyrqyf | null | 1493883428 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
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null | EtherCJ | null | I actually believe JavaScript is just one piece of the issue. Trying to shoehorn dynamic apps into the HTTP model has been a nightmare. Then the DOM and JavaScripts are just more issues in that line of thought. | null | 0 | 1491591557 | False | 0 | dfyujjt | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfy7o3h | null | 1493883435 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | jerf | null | My favorite thing about strong type systems is that you can encase your foot immaculately in the strongest armor, with no weak points, resistant to any conceivable bullet, only to discover that you urgently need to do surgery on your foot bones and now you can't get in.
With some experience you can learn how to avoid ... | null | 0 | 1491591593 | False | 0 | dfyuko0 | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfyq3vt | null | 1493883450 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | doom_Oo7 | null | How would autocompletion work in templates ? With concepts I could understand but with plain templates it does not make sense | null | 0 | 1491591597 | False | 0 | dfyukrh | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfyo751 | null | 1493883451 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | drjeats | null | I'd upvote if you struck "decent" from your comment :P | null | 0 | 1491591606 | False | 0 | dfyul26 | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfy8ms8 | null | 1493883455 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
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null | s-expression | null | > especially when it comes to libraries
Libraries are my least favorite part of C++. Because there are so many different language subsets used in the wild, finding libraries that "fit" into whichever subset your project is using is a bit... frustrating.
Half your code uses exceptions, the other half doesn't, parts... | null | 0 | 1491591664 | False | 0 | dfyumyl | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfyrv69 | null | 1493883480 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | mdatwood | null | Ah, I remember doing the same in [Rational Rose](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_Rational_Rose_XDE) at some point. By then though, I was delivering working software and only had to do UML to satisfy random managers. | null | 0 | 1491591691 | False | 0 | dfyunua | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfytels | null | 1493883493 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | industry7 | null | The Linux kernel? Supposedly that's pretty good, although I haven't read very much of the code myself. I don't know how OO the LLVM code is, but that's written in C++ and I've heard from many sources that it is architecturally gorgeous. | null | 0 | 1491591750 | False | 0 | dfyuppt | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfyrnbs | null | 1493883518 | 8 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | helm | null | vector, map, and set that's a plenty. | null | 0 | 1491591764 | False | 0 | dfyuq6g | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfypkrx | null | 1493883524 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | s-expression | null | I too love incomprehensible compiler errors | null | 0 | 1491591780 | False | 0 | dfyuqog | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfykh19 | null | 1493883530 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | mrand01 | null | > flowtype
I prefer TypeScript, but I suppose they both fill the same hole, so whatever. | null | 0 | 1491591785 | False | 0 | dfyuqu4 | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfygfc6 | null | 1493883532 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | hyperforce | null | > **duplication is better than a bad abstraction**
Let's bold and placard this. | null | 0 | 1491591804 | False | 0 | dfyurf2 | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfy7bpd | null | 1493883540 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | depletedvespene | null | Don't you remember how JavaScript source needed to test whether it was running over Firefox/Opera/Safari/... or Explorer 5,6,7 and based on that do things in different ways? It was *awful*, and bug prone, and a nightmare. | null | 0 | 1491591806 | False | 0 | dfyurhj | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfyr866 | null | 1493883541 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | Major_Butthurt | null | Wait 'till I tell you how much I love PHP | null | 0 | 1491591864 | False | 0 | dfyuta4 | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfydjzx | null | 1493883565 | 12 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | sobri909 | null | > Text obfuscates meaning and emotion.
Learn to write better then.
Face to face meetings allow the most charismatic to win technical decisions, instead of the best arguments winning. Face to face meetings tend to be 80% about smiling and displays of group support and basically ape grooming rituals, and the remain... | null | 0 | 1491591893 | False | 0 | dfyuu6t | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfyfe1s | null | 1493883577 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | ggtsu_00 | null | Modern C++ is pretty nice if you avoid the legacy parts and use templates or macros only very sparingly. It is possible to write very safe code if you avoid raw pointers and arrays and instead use abstractions like iterators. | null | 0 | 1491591915 | False | 0 | dfyuuwd | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfybsj6 | null | 1493883587 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | Fazer2 | null | And then you have to remember to fix bugs in all duplicated places. No, thanks. | null | 0 | 1491591929 | False | 0 | dfyuvdd | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfy7bpd | null | 1493883593 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | s-expression | null | There's a difference between using templates to create generic containers and algorithms, and using templates for programmable logic (metaprogramming).
Once people discovered that templates were turing complete, the community got an instant hard-on for template metaprogramming and a decent part of recent standards pro... | null | 0 | 1491591938 | False | 0 | dfyuvn4 | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfynb3c | null | 1493883597 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | SuperImaginativeName | null | `var` is already a part of C#.
So instead of typing:
Dictionary<string, int> myCoolDictionary = new Dictionary<string, int>();
You can just type:
var myCoolDictionary = new Dictionary<string, int>();
There's nothing special about it, it's just a syntax shortcut. There's no dynamic crap go... | null | 0 | 1491591947 | False | 0 | dfyuvwk | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfyu2n7 | null | 1493883600 | 10 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | aazav | null | What the fuck does "free as in freedom" mean?
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null | MagicMurderBagYT | null | And what would be functional equivalents to globals? | null | 0 | 1491591948 | False | 0 | dfyuvyo | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfyq8p1 | null | 1493883601 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | CyanMagus | null | There's a technical paper that explains the exact algorithm.
http://eprint.iacr.org/2017/281.pdf | null | 0 | 1491591994 | False | 0 | dfyuxdz | t3_63yka1 | null | null | t1_dfykapu | null | 1493883620 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | helm | null | In an environment with no software project know-how at all ... getting an external agile coach was a godsend.
What we had before that was a inapplicable waterfall model designed for building (physical) industrial applications. | null | 0 | 1491591996 | False | 0 | dfyuxfr | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfypjsd | null | 1493883621 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | Fordiman | null | That both opinions exist _within me_ is interesting. See [here](https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/63zg6f/what_unpopular_opinions_do_you_have_about/dfyucx1/). | null | 0 | 1491591999 | False | 0 | dfyuxk6 | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfyge01 | null | 1493883623 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | monsieursquirrel | null | C++ has a lot of good stuff but I feel that at this point it needs a syntax redesign. In some situations clang will specifically say its disambiguating code one way and suggest changes to get the other possible meaning. There's been too much bolted on. | null | 0 | 1491592019 | False | 0 | dfyuy7x | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfybsj6 | null | 1493883631 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | Major_Butthurt | null | Some people also love to shove things up their ass, but most of them are not proud of it. | null | 0 | 1491592020 | False | 0 | dfyuy9b | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfyd0yj | null | 1493883632 | -2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | Peaker | null | D has ldc, a good quality compiler that has been Free Software for a while.
D hasn't caught on for various reasons, I don't think this is a significant one. | null | 0 | 1491592028 | False | 0 | dfyuyij | t3_6419py | null | null | t1_dfyqt8b | null | 1493883635 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1491592039 | False | 0 | dfyuywx | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfyrxau | null | 1493883641 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | s-expression | null | Bro do you even Haskell or Scala? Write-only languages are the future. You're just too dumb to get it. | null | 0 | 1491592042 | False | 0 | dfyuyz9 | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfyb7ko | null | 1493883642 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | Xuerian | null | The combination of the API and the "Living Standard" (Which is to say, things like IE and Safari being utter shit at their jobs) are the true crime of web development, IMO.
Right behind CSS standards. (And I *like* css) | null | 0 | 1491592044 | False | 0 | dfyuz2l | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfy8zdr | null | 1493883643 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1491592049 | False | 0 | dfyuz91 | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t3_63zg6f | null | 1493883646 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | mrintercepter | null | As a spoiled brat: can confirm | null | 0 | 1491592053 | False | 0 | dfyuzd8 | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfyb01n | null | 1493883647 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | drjeats | null | if I take this
class Thing
{
const char *name_;
public:
Thing(const char *name) : name_(name) {}
void introduce();
};
void Thing::introduce()
{
std::printf("my name is %s\n", this->name_.);
}
and rewrite it like this
struct Thing
{
c... | null | 0 | 1491592072 | 1491677208 | 0 | dfyuzxr | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfyf0ox | null | 1493883654 | 41 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | SailToTheSun | null | I'm less worried about it blowing up the entire app, than introducing unintended side-effect behavior that isn't noticed right away. | null | 0 | 1491592087 | False | 0 | dfyv0ei | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfycaey | null | 1493883660 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | hyperforce | null | **Whitespace is important.** Writing code without tasteful, proper use of whitespace should be ridiculed the same way prose without whitespace is. I.e. completely unacceptable for professional works. | null | 0 | 1491592126 | 1491599468 | 0 | dfyv1lg | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t3_63zg6f | null | 1493883676 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
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