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null | polagh | null | Then it is for the best, because its market share is already so high that we might not be liking the monoculture that would result if it was any higher... | null | 0 | 1491598379 | False | 0 | dfz0i36 | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfyhxut | null | 1493886312 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | DonLaFontainesGhost | null | 99% of the time NoSQL is about developers who are afraid of SQL. | null | 0 | 1491598380 | False | 0 | dfz0i4q | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t3_63zg6f | null | 1493886312 | 9 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | xathien | null | I've gotten into a recent habit of creating a test plan before I work on something. Knowing _how_ I plan to verify I've made an acceptable thing helps me create an acceptable thing on the first try... but I don't actually write those tests until I'm ready for them.
The only time I use TDD (and I'm probably using it Wr... | null | 0 | 1491598430 | False | 0 | dfz0jpd | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfy9l2k | null | 1493886333 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | OffbeatDrizzle | null | eclipse is dog shit in comparison to intellij... | null | 0 | 1491598456 | False | 0 | dfz0kho | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfytzxg | null | 1493886344 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | pdp10 | null | The languages are without doubt divergent, but bear in mind that experienced C++ developers inevitably pick a subset of features to use. For an example, read [Google's C++ style guide](https://google.github.io/styleguide/cppguide.html). | null | 0 | 1491598527 | False | 0 | dfz0mkg | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfyi2xi | null | 1493886372 | 12 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | cresquin | null | Remember, half of all humans have an IQ < 100.
There are 160,000,000 workers in the US, and 1,250,000 software developers. That's < 1%. I don't think it's a huge reach to think that that < 1% of workers are near the top of the range. Probably in the top 10% | null | 0 | 1491598534 | False | 0 | dfz0mrz | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfyxhfn | null | 1493886374 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | durandall08 | null | Why is putty and filezilla in there when cygwin can do them all? | null | 0 | 1491598536 | False | 0 | dfz0mth | t3_641n0o | null | null | t3_641n0o | null | 1493886375 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | fr0z3nph03n1x | null | There is a time and place for this depending on the lifecycle of your company. If you are still trying to get product market fit the worst thing you can do is rewrite a piece of shitty code into a masterpiece only to throw it away 2 months later. The biggest issue I see with the rewrite discussions is they rarely look ... | null | 0 | 1491598539 | False | 0 | dfz0mwr | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfyhf5u | null | 1493886376 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | lingua_franca | null | pls try to benchmark w.r.t folly::MPMCQueue too | null | 0 | 1491598570 | False | 0 | dfz0nu0 | t3_61z8zo | null | null | t1_dfjgjoy | null | 1493886388 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | andralex | null | Thanks for your kind words! | null | 0 | 1491598626 | False | 0 | dfz0pje | t3_6419py | null | null | t1_dfz0dl7 | null | 1493886411 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | Zarutian | null | > There are no silver bullets.
Indeed there are no silver bullets but there are some weapons that work.
> TDD.
Testing is something that should be mandatory.
> No, your shiny new language isn't better than C for the real time embedded systems that I work on.
Not even the newish macro assembler that has hy... | null | 0 | 1491598686 | False | 0 | dfz0reb | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfyzitd | null | 1493886436 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | vine-el | null | Hail Satan. | null | 0 | 1491598703 | False | 0 | dfz0rxc | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfyradv | null | 1493886443 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | Phobos15 | null | Even if true, the source is not credible. | null | 0 | 1491598706 | False | 0 | dfz0s0y | t3_63t80h | null | null | t3_63t80h | null | 1493886444 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | MEaster | null | I've been fiddling with Rust for the past few weeks, and it actually does kinda feel like that once you get used to the borrow checker. It caught me by surprise a bit, as I was expecting it to feel more "low level". | null | 0 | 1491598747 | False | 0 | dfz0t7r | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfyv967 | null | 1493886461 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | Zarutian | null | They are not 'done' in any sense but they are pretty much like they have reached dead ends. | null | 0 | 1491598750 | False | 0 | dfz0tb9 | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfyz8oz | null | 1493886462 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | vine-el | null | That's essentially what idiomatic Clojure is. | null | 0 | 1491598804 | False | 0 | dfz0uwo | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfylhhu | null | 1493886483 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | Zarutian | null | Management that run programming teams like they run temp sales team should be gotten rid of. | null | 0 | 1491598819 | False | 0 | dfz0vci | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfyz24c | null | 1493886489 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | Raknarg | null | Looks correct, but your other problem is that if n is the number of vertices in your graph, then O(V+N) is the same as O(n^(2)), which we were originally trying to avoid in the first place. | null | 0 | 1491598850 | False | 0 | dfz0wa2 | t3_63z9df | null | null | t1_dfyztjz | null | 1493886502 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | FatalDosesOfOsmosis | null | Visual Studio helps though. | null | 0 | 1491598854 | False | 0 | dfz0wdw | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfym5zd | null | 1493886503 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | pdp10 | null | I wish. The amount of effort to change or revert product decisions is often so immense that quite a few organizations would rather continue to pay a million dollars a month in mainframe rent than figure it out.
| null | 0 | 1491598864 | False | 0 | dfz0wnt | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfyw9qi | null | 1493886507 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | OffbeatDrizzle | null | only because of all the indexing and inspections/integration helpers | null | 0 | 1491598911 | False | 0 | dfz0y1q | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfyoaeg | null | 1493886525 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | qchmqs | null | besides laravel and fuelphp, there is no proper framework that uses OOP sanely, the new codeigniter is taking ages to rewrite, everything else is a spaghetti mess, cakephp needs a rewrite as well | null | 0 | 1491598914 | False | 0 | dfz0y4p | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfyice8 | null | 1493886527 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | Farsyte | null | I once sent out an official kernel bug hotfix for SunOS (3.5.1? 4.0.1?) that was three lines of "echo this text to the debugger attached to your running kernel on your production server" ...
... I'm not that confident any more ;)
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null | Zarutian | null | I remember a system that had combination of GUI and command line.
At the bottom of the screen there is CLI. Using the GUI would write out the CLI commands there. Basically the GUI was implemented on top of the CLI. | null | 0 | 1491598940 | False | 0 | dfz0ywj | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfyytb4 | null | 1493886537 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | schlenk | null | Well, totally easy way to destroy it:
Put your fossil repo on a NFS drive, use it shared by multiple users.
Ok, thats not a supported mode of operation for SQLite, but hey, people still do that all the time. Been there, done that, seen the corruption.
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null | dfndoe | null | > Woz is great, but even he looked up to Jobs.
Yeah, there was some ridiculous cult of personality stuff going on there. The fact that someone I admire looked up to someone has no transitive property requiring me to do the same. Plenty of smart people have ideas I disagree with. | null | 0 | 1491598959 | False | 0 | dfz0zgz | t3_63z9ge | null | null | t1_dfyz920 | null | 1493886544 | 13 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | vine-el | null | Have you tried Clojurescript? | null | 0 | 1491598963 | False | 0 | dfz0zly | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfyl4n3 | null | 1493886546 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | jyper | null | Oom during compilation or runtime? | null | 0 | 1491599010 | False | 0 | dfz1109 | t3_6419py | null | null | t1_dfyxv5h | null | 1493886565 | 11 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | Zarutian | null | I would prefer dev interviews that give an realistic problem and ask the interviewed to describe or demonstrate how they would go about solving it. | null | 0 | 1491599025 | False | 0 | dfz11go | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfyy79u | null | 1493886572 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | cresquin | null | Software developers love to be contrarian because their job is to think critically about how to get things done. You have to know how every single step in a process will work without trusting in black magic to accomplish the task. EVERY SINGLE STEP, every single type, every single operator.
Most people don't have to d... | null | 0 | 1491599084 | False | 0 | dfz134t | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfynhrl | null | 1493886594 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | sabas123 | null | Ow man, that sounds horrible. | null | 0 | 1491599093 | False | 0 | dfz13e6 | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfz05l9 | null | 1493886598 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | srs1978 | null | The guys who did the first two Max Payne games then disappeared, then reappeared with the Alan Wake games and then Quantum Break. As far as I recall, this was just pseudo-related to the Quantum Break game. | null | 0 | 1491599127 | False | 0 | dfz14dm | t3_6419py | null | null | t1_dfyzgl1 | null | 1493886612 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | polagh | null | Honestly, I will be happy if Matlab disappears. I've had the honor to learn some of the nastiest details of the language, and they are some that are not even just not pretty; they are straight up insane! (in particular in the area of its object model, but even in matrix, and with bonus points if you mix the two)
Where... | null | 0 | 1491599144 | False | 0 | dfz14ui | t3_6419py | null | null | t1_dfyzt9u | null | 1493886618 | 12 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | damn_it_so_much | null | It's a long read so i've bookmarked it. Thanks! | null | 0 | 1491599161 | False | 0 | dfz15c6 | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfyzwnn | null | 1493886624 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | OffbeatDrizzle | null | Not really... when something goes wrong with them you spend 10x the effort having to work through the extra layer of what the ORM is doing to the DB to figure out what's going on. They're only great if you do lots of reading from the DB and don't use complex/propietary features | null | 0 | 1491599176 | False | 0 | dfz15rt | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfyouz2 | null | 1493886630 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | Raknarg | null | Nope... The user supplies a unique (or as unique as possible) hash code, which gets passed into a hash function.
Theoretically if this hashset was implemented, the hash code functionality would be hidden in the internals of the data structure/library, so the user wouldn't have to to anything.
e.g. Some hash function... | null | 0 | 1491599181 | False | 0 | dfz15x8 | t3_63z9df | null | null | t1_dfyzoz9 | null | 1493886632 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | Zarutian | null | If you have heard about futamura transforms and partial evaluation then you know the dynamic vs static typing is pretty much a false dicthomy. And do not get me started on the idioticy that is type ereasure or implict casting. (All casting should be explict).
Also many static languages fall into the categorization phi... | null | 0 | 1491599205 | False | 0 | dfz16kr | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfyy1lp | null | 1493886640 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1491599225 | 1491599900 | 0 | dfz174c | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfyg9hz | null | 1493886648 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | cresquin | null | To a point. Glue code usually doesn't need to be commented, but when carrying out complicated tasks, especially highly optimized tasks you should drop a note to future you about what's going on.
I've started leaving myself notes around why a loop is structured in a particular way, and what it's trying to accomplish. | null | 0 | 1491599240 | False | 0 | dfz17km | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfylvh0 | null | 1493886654 | 10 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | mdatwood | null | > 6) Skipping version control in a sufficiently large dev house should be a fireable offense.
Story time. :) In one my first jobs long ago I had a boss that would change sprocs on the live production MSSQL server and never put his changes back into SCM. Keep in mind I had written a migrate like process (this was w... | null | 0 | 1491599296 | False | 0 | dfz196h | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfyb8nu | null | 1493886675 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | xathien | null | You're right. We should probably be putting all our code back into assembly so that we can really show we understand what's going on. Except maybe you don't have any clue of what's happening with a JMP command, so you need to understand how the CPU is going to implement that. Better to implement our own NAND gates that... | null | 1 | 1491599318 | False | 0 | dfz19se | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfycuc3 | null | 1493886684 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | bkv | null | The fact that you have to define a static main method inside a class is a practically meaningless distinction. More meaningful: what is the primary means of encapsulation? | null | 0 | 1491599362 | False | 0 | dfz1azw | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfyyhxr | null | 1493886699 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | K3wp | null | > Google serves up pretty fresh results, which kind of precludes batch index reloads. I'm not sure what amount of caching happens, but (for instance) you can find tweets within a couple hours of them being posted.
I know that all the autocomplete searches, up to some defined depth, are cached. That's one of the re... | null | 0 | 1491599366 | False | 0 | dfz1b3o | t3_63qlz8 | null | null | t1_dfxubyx | null | 1493886702 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | shevegen | null | > Over the past 20+ years, I’ve followed every imaginable trend.
Wimp!
Once you have the true style, you do not need to change because it is the perfect style. | null | 0 | 1491599381 | False | 0 | dfz1bkk | t3_63zjbj | null | null | t3_63zjbj | null | 1493886707 | -1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | get_salled | null | Must be better now. I punted on C# in my VS 2013 + R# 8 (?) era because my 8-core, 16 GB desktop was underpowered for the combo...
EDIT: That was the final straw. I'm not a fan of verbose languages where a full-fledged IDE is required and was pretty happy to leave it. | null | 0 | 1491599399 | False | 0 | dfz1c1m | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfygx0b | null | 1493886714 | -2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | bobthecimmerian | null | Fast compiles are insanely convenient during development. I think the single biggest reason Perl/PHP/Ruby/Python/Node.js conquered the web was the fact that there is no time waiting for compilation. | null | 0 | 1491599402 | False | 0 | dfz1c4j | t3_6419py | null | null | t1_dfyxv5h | null | 1493886715 | 12 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | Zarutian | null | Yebb, I have seen code that uses too little and crams so much stuff together and I have seen code that uses too much and you have to
scroll for ages and know all the implict operations being performed. | null | 0 | 1491599415 | False | 0 | dfz1cjg | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfyv1lg | null | 1493886720 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | Zarutian | null | Heard of primitive recursive functions? Ya rekon that is enough for most thing except the outer event loop? | null | 0 | 1491599471 | False | 0 | dfz1e5s | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfyu7v6 | null | 1493886742 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | happymellon | null | > Java suffers because the tooling is crap. In order to do anything useful you have to first learn git, eclipse, maven, gradle, and a bunch of other neato-cool tools.
Erm. You don't need git to work with Java, or if you feel like you do then the same reason should apply for any language.
Eclipse? Well, I don't use ... | null | 0 | 1491599509 | False | 0 | dfz1f8c | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfyjb2d | null | 1493886756 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | codekiller | null | Even though I use it daily I have a lot of probably unpopular opinions about Javascript, especially that I think it is overused. | null | 0 | 1491599514 | False | 0 | dfz1fd7 | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t3_63zg6f | null | 1493886758 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | zsaleeba | null | Some interesting history:
Apple's Integer BASIC worked ok but their competitors had fully floating point capable equivalents so they needed to find a competitive solution. Microsoft BASIC had a strong reputation in the microcomputer world at the time and they'd already offered it to Apple previously but Apple original... | null | 0 | 1491599532 | 1491600104 | 0 | dfz1fvw | t3_63z9ge | null | null | t1_dfymgbn | null | 1493886765 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | cresquin | null | A lot of those systems aren't designed to be light, they're designed to be flexible. Flexibility is always going to cause overhead and bloat, but when you only need to change out one runtime lib instead of recompiling the whole system, to make that change, you learn to appreciate how the seemingly over-engineered syste... | null | 0 | 1491599537 | False | 0 | dfz1g0p | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfykxtq | null | 1493886767 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | hyperforce | null | Could you explain your opposition to relational databases? | null | 0 | 1491599573 | False | 0 | dfz1h12 | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfy767y | null | 1493886781 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | Zarutian | null | I am in the camp of programmers that dislike current half arsed IDEs.
Give us SmallTalk80 style tools or stay the fuck out of the way. | null | 0 | 1491599583 | False | 0 | dfz1hbd | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfytudj | null | 1493886784 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | ruinercollector | null | This. The node/javascript trend did a lot of good for software development in spite of the language:
- Promoted asynchronous programming
- Made the idea of an HTTP server simple again, and let everyone reconsider what abstractions were useful to build on that.
- Promoted a simple online module repository system
- Was... | null | 0 | 1491599612 | False | 0 | dfz1i2y | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfy8piv | null | 1493886794 | 22 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | snickerbockers | null | Companies should forgo code reviews for bug fixes. If you can't do something right yourself, then you can't tell me that I'm not fixing your problems the "right" way. | null | 0 | 1491599625 | False | 0 | dfz1igi | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t3_63zg6f | null | 1493886800 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | jackmott2 | null | lightweight solution load doesn't load our large solution any faster, and it doesn't remember what windows you had open. | null | 0 | 1491599637 | 1491602597 | 0 | dfz1itv | t3_6433jm | null | null | t3_6433jm | null | 1493886805 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | cresquin | null | You're right, but it's that way because PMs and Customers can't abstract their problems and think through the best way to solve them beforehand. | null | 0 | 1491599692 | False | 0 | dfz1kbn | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfyou0i | null | 1493886824 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | hyperforce | null | Might want to elaborate on this. | null | 0 | 1491599716 | False | 0 | dfz1l0n | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfylhhu | null | 1493886833 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | ruinercollector | null | The best languages let you write simple and boring code that stays brief and allows for a bit of cleverness when needed without overcomplicating things. | null | 0 | 1491599722 | False | 0 | dfz1l7c | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfyb7ko | null | 1493886836 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | superPwnzorMegaMan | null | A little duplication is better than wasting my time. | null | 0 | 1491599730 | False | 0 | dfz1lfh | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfy7bpd | null | 1493886840 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | bobthecimmerian | null | If you followed earlier discussions about the D language:
1. It's had fully open source compilers for years, only the reference compiler back end was non-free.
2. Walter Bright, the D language creator, didn't have the rights to relicense the code to the reference compiler back end himself. He had rights to use i... | null | 0 | 1491599752 | False | 0 | dfz1m3k | t3_6419py | null | null | t1_dfyqt8b | null | 1493886848 | 16 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | combinatorylogic | null | Why would I explain anything at all to an obvious troll? Get lost. | null | 0 | 1491599754 | False | 0 | dfz1m4r | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfz0325 | null | 1493886849 | -8 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | shevegen | null | Yeah. The linux kernel is even inconsistent.
Look at the file:
**linux-4.10.8/kernel/utsname.c**
At the end of this, at this struct:
const struct proc_ns_operations utsns_operations = {
.name = "uts",
.type = CLONE_NEWUTS,
.get = utsns_get,
.put = utsns_put,
.install = utsns_install... | null | 0 | 1491599762 | False | 0 | dfz1me6 | t3_63zjbj | null | null | t1_dfyl7r0 | null | 1493886852 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | GirthBrooks | null | >I punted on C# in my VS 2013 + R# 8 (?) era because my 8-core, 16 GB desktop was underpowered for the combo...
That sounds like an issue with your computer, not C# or VS. In grad school I had VS 2010 running on a netbook with 2GB of memory and it wasn't that slow. | null | 0 | 1491599773 | False | 0 | dfz1moz | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfz1c1m | null | 1493886856 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | cantwedronethatguy | null | Firefox too | null | 0 | 1491599794 | False | 0 | dfz1n93 | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfylv1u | null | 1493886864 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | eridius | null | Just because you personally use a language with a very limited set of characters doesn't mean Unicode is unnecessary. That's an incredibly arrogant and supremely ignorant point of view. | null | 0 | 1491599943 | False | 0 | dfz1rjb | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfyalnr | null | 1493886922 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | sfultong | null | Exactly! | null | 0 | 1491599973 | False | 0 | dfz1sdd | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfz1e5s | null | 1493886933 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | get_salled | null | "I really want to disagree with you here," so...
> Dynamically typed languages **DO NOT** make for a horrible maintenance nightmare.
My primary data point for a non-maintenance-nightmare is in Scala, a statically-typed language.
In other words, I have no data to refute /u/wavy_lines's claim despite the fact that ... | null | 0 | 1491599979 | False | 0 | dfz1sj3 | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfyhrbr | null | 1493886935 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | tjsr | null | I like C. I thoroughly dislike C++. Is that strange? :? | null | 0 | 1491600012 | False | 0 | dfz1th0 | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfybsj6 | null | 1493886948 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | Zarutian | null | I say that one should use asserts. Then write unit tests that deliberatly attempt correctness violations. If the asserts that should fire when said violations are attempted then something huge is wrong. | null | 0 | 1491600023 | False | 0 | dfz1tsg | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfyoioz | null | 1493886952 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | WalterBright | null | Daniel and I have done a lot of preparatory work on the C++ code to make it more tractable to conversion. I don't expect it'll be difficult to convert the rest. It'll probably be one one file at a time, as that makes things easier to incrementally test. Doing the whole front end at one go was jarring. | null | 0 | 1491600042 | False | 0 | dfz1ucl | t3_6419py | null | null | t1_dfz0f37 | null | 1493886959 | 23 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | loup-vaillant | null | That would be a hard one. [OOP](http://loup-vaillant.fr/articles/taboo-oo) is quite hard to [pin down](http://loup-vaillant.fr/articles/deaths-of-oop) in the first place. If someone showed such examples, a good deal of the audience would say they're strawmen, or not really OOP, or that OOP have better ways of dealing w... | null | 0 | 1491600060 | 1491643702 | 0 | dfz1uwa | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfynbfl | null | 1493886966 | 9 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | WalterBright | null | They're worth their weight in gold today :-)
I am secretly delighted that code I wrote circa 1984 is still in daily use by legions. | null | 0 | 1491600066 | False | 0 | dfz1v1q | t3_6419py | null | null | t1_dfywbaf | null | 1493886968 | 42 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | OffbeatDrizzle | null | yeah, but when you first get taught OOP you're given examples of how NOT to use it by putting common code in another class and then just extending it and overriding when necessary to change the behaviour... very few places actually teach you that you should favour composition over inheritence until it's too late | null | 0 | 1491600097 | False | 0 | dfz1vz7 | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfym11w | null | 1493886980 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | Zarutian | null | I do the same but mostly just for constants. | null | 0 | 1491600098 | False | 0 | dfz1w0n | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfyz7ja | null | 1493886981 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | OffbeatDrizzle | null | so... a shitsort? | null | 0 | 1491600130 | False | 0 | dfz1wvn | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfy8id6 | null | 1493886993 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | nomnommish | null | This is a great reply! There's a lot of truth in what you say, although I could argue that real engineering project plans and "attention to detail" is perhaps even more formidable than software engineering. But the point itself (you are making) is undeniable.
My point was not the merit or demerit of a contrarian argum... | null | 0 | 1491600137 | False | 0 | dfz1x21 | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfz134t | null | 1493886995 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | xathien | null | From my limited exposure of LINQ, LINQ is how we turn fast data queries into O(n) fusterclucks. | null | 0 | 1491600138 | False | 0 | dfz1x46 | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfylx2v | null | 1493886996 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | sacundim | null | You've more or less answered your own question, haven't you?
**EDIT:** Ok, that was a bit too snarky. Rust allows you to write stuff like this (which I've not double checked for correctness):
// do things in place, over two arrays at once, and use the index in the process
arr1.iter_mut()
.zip(arr2.iter... | null | 0 | 1491600142 | 1491605186 | 0 | dfz1x7v | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfyow5n | null | 1493886997 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | georgeo | null | It wasn't much slower, they actually could have made it without registers, but it probably would have made the chip *more* complicated. Zero page was a really nice compromise that made the 6502 both the cheapest *and* fastest 8 bit of it's day. | null | 0 | 1491600161 | 1491613929 | 0 | dfz1xrn | t3_63z9ge | null | null | t1_dfyzztw | null | 1493887004 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | get_salled | null | Great apples-to-oranges comparison. FWIW, I had several co-workers who reverted to 2010 after trying 2013 and some who never left 2010. | null | 0 | 1491600192 | False | 0 | dfz1yo2 | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfz1moz | null | 1493887016 | -1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | shinazueli | null | And my larger point was to design it fucking correctly in the first place to save future me and friends from pain. | null | 0 | 1491600194 | False | 0 | dfz1yq1 | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfz01kq | null | 1493887017 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | smiddereens | null | Use our product! | null | 0 | 1491600217 | False | 0 | dfz1zc3 | t3_641oop | null | null | t3_641oop | null | 1493887026 | 12 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | pdp10 | null | > 99% of programmers do not need C. Anything you can write in C, you can also write in C++ with more memory safety and more library options.
C is a sharp instrument, but anyone extolling the virtues of C++ should remember the quote from its primary designer: "In C++ it's harder to shoot yourself in the foot, but wh... | null | 0 | 1491600217 | False | 0 | dfz1zc5 | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfyir96 | null | 1493887026 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | OffbeatDrizzle | null | git is good but the commands are structured in the same way a kid with ADHD does his homework... | null | 0 | 1491600219 | False | 0 | dfz1zdq | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfye39n | null | 1493887026 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | tjsr | null | I love TDD, yet have never once worked in a business or project that functions in way where TDD is remotely viable in the real world. It gives you a massive advantage in ensuring you don't get months or years in to a project only to find you have no tests, either for an area or perhaps the entire project. | null | 0 | 1491600232 | False | 0 | dfz1zrx | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfy9l2k | null | 1493887031 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | depletedvespene | null | I'll share one of mine.
A certain large web app in active development had a menu, where the active items were specified in a text file (think of an old .INI - something very much like that). The guy (let's call him Kevin) who put each new item into production had to activate it by adding it to this text file... which ... | null | 0 | 1491600261 | False | 0 | dfz20ls | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfz196h | null | 1493887042 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | TinynDP | null | Not everything has to be a crusade.
Not having access to source code isn't what hurts users. Users doing dumb things hurts them. | null | 0 | 1491600277 | False | 0 | dfz2114 | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfyjsfy | null | 1493887048 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | romanows | null | I love maximum line length limits. I love the wooshing sound they make as they go by. | null | 0 | 1491600323 | False | 0 | dfz22db | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t3_63zg6f | null | 1493887066 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | Beckneard | null | You fucking ruin everything. | null | 0 | 1491600335 | False | 0 | dfz22pe | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfy6r7j | null | 1493887070 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | loup-vaillant | null | Man, it's scary how I end up agreeing with all of your points. Except maybe PHP, and only because I know nothing about it. | null | 0 | 1491600371 | False | 0 | dfz23rk | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfy8j2a | null | 1493887085 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | mdatwood | null | Stories like these are why 'devops' was invented. | null | 0 | 1491600383 | False | 0 | dfz244c | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfz20ls | null | 1493887090 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | BadGoyWithAGun | null | If other languages so desperately need more than 256 languages, I don't particularly care tbhfam. But unicode is completely unnecessary for languages that use any of the latin, cyrillic, greek or semitic scripts, just as examples. We don't want or need a universal character encoding. I swear we're building the fucking ... | null | 0 | 1491600440 | False | 0 | dfz25pn | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfz1rjb | null | 1493887110 | -1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | Pomnom | null | Correct behavior is what defined in ISO/IEC 9075. The value to the company is that you won't deploy code that may crash due to bad syntax or drop all the tables.
But you're right. It's difficult. So why mock the database?
When you use a mock, you make assumptions on how the real thing would behave. And most of th... | null | 0 | 1491600451 | False | 0 | dfz261l | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfyvf46 | null | 1493887115 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | OffbeatDrizzle | null | That's exactly why in things like java you have implementations that have already been written for you where all you have to worry about is calling add/remove etc. so you're not constantly re-inventing the wheel...
Or are you telling me that you always write the fastest implementation that has been battle-hardened and... | null | 0 | 1491600478 | False | 0 | dfz26sp | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfywg6v | null | 1493887125 | 9 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | Pinguinsan | null | This is mine too. I learned programming in C++, and I love it to this day. | null | 0 | 1491600515 | False | 0 | dfz27v4 | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfybsj6 | null | 1493887139 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | WalterBright | null | It had to be fast has hell to run on a floppy system.
I remember the end of the floppy development system. At one of the SD conferences (can't recall which one) there was a panel discussion of C++ compiler vendors. There was a guy from Microsoft C++, a guy from Borland C++, and me (for Zortech C++), and a couple other... | null | 0 | 1491600533 | False | 0 | dfz28ec | t3_6419py | null | null | t1_dfyww10 | null | 1493887146 | 84 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | tjsr | null | Java isn't perfect, but it's damn near one of the best things we've got.
Yeah, it's not without its problems. But every single time I'm forced to work in a new language, or pick a new one up by choice, no, after what things it foes differently I am always left with "I could do this easily in Java". I was recently se... | null | 0 | 1491600543 | False | 0 | dfz28pb | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t3_63zg6f | null | 1493887150 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | MrRare | null | Right, I do have question to go along with this. As you are probably reading through the horrible code... you might understand why I do want to rewrite the entire interface (I will get back on the server once that's done). I am just not sure which framework I should use for it, it's small, but I want a robust way to bu... | null | 0 | 1491600552 | False | 0 | dfz28xi | t3_64398a | null | null | t3_64398a | null | 1493887153 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
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