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null | sacundim | null | A simple rule of thumb I learned from listening to OOP advocates: any good idea in programming is actually OOP. If the people who propose the idea say otherwise, that just means it's OOP in disguise.
(For example, tagged union types like in O'Caml, Haskell or F# are really OOP in disguise, because they simulate the ... | null | 0 | 1491600591 | False | 0 | dfz2a0z | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfyllwr | null | 1493887168 | 25 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | Pinguinsan | null | I think learning from the ground up in C++ really helped me out, because I've never really understood why people think it's so complex. | null | 0 | 1491600643 | False | 0 | dfz2bj1 | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfyngpm | null | 1493887189 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | Ghandithegman | null | >2.) The Computer Science degree is useless (if you want to learn something.)
Do you have a comp. sci degree, and if so did you learn anything from the courses themselves? | null | 0 | 1491600646 | False | 0 | dfz2bm0 | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfys204 | null | 1493887189 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | pdp10 | null | > I've seen too much Java code with obvious, unnecesary C-isms (like doing convoluted code in a method to avoid writing in more than one return satement)
What? One entry and one exit per function is considered ideal, but not mandatory, no matter the language. It seems pretty bizarre to blame this on C.
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null | MrRare | null | p.s. i know that i should start fixing my habbit instead of relying on something else... but hey, a man needs help when a man needs it x). So that answer I do have already ^^. | null | 0 | 1491600667 | False | 0 | dfz2c6e | t3_64398a | null | null | t1_dfz28xi | null | 1493887197 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | darktyle | null | I really like plain old C. | null | 0 | 1491600669 | False | 0 | dfz2c8a | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfybsj6 | null | 1493887198 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | Pinguinsan | null | Can you give a couple examples of the surprising and unintuitive behavior? | null | 0 | 1491600696 | False | 0 | dfz2d0o | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfyu6h2 | null | 1493887208 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | eridius | null | You obviously have no knowledge of what you're talking about. For anyone who knows anything at all about what it used to be like dealing with characters sets, Unicode is a godsend. Not only does it completely eliminate the fucking nightmare that was dealing with all the various character sets and figuring out what char... | null | 0 | 1491600706 | False | 0 | dfz2dbf | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfz25pn | null | 1493887212 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | nilamo | null | If you have just one project, it might not help. I can see it being useful if you have many projects. | null | 0 | 1491600707 | False | 0 | dfz2dbm | t3_6433jm | null | null | t1_dfz1itv | null | 1493887212 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | janxious | null | It sounds like it was designed well enough to survive until now, and the owners are unwilling to invest capital into maintenance. Designing with microservices first is no more "right" than monolith if you don't know what the system will look like and do 2y down the road. Microservices designed badly and maintained poor... | null | 0 | 1491600736 | False | 0 | dfz2e4r | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfz1yq1 | null | 1493887223 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | Liam2349 | null | It's alright, but coming from a C# background I get annoyed at the compile times. I actually got into C++ just for trying out the Unreal Engine, and it was a bad experience because you have to wait ages for your C++ to compile before you can test, and there's so much source code that the intellisense barely even works ... | null | 0 | 1491600791 | 1491601193 | 0 | dfz2fnx | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfybsj6 | null | 1493887243 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | tjsr | null | > Java & C# are painful languages without the JetBrains tools.
I've used Visual Studio since the turn of the century, Eclipse for a little less time, and trying to switch to Jetbrains tools is painful. IDEA, NetBeans and JDeveloper just need to be taken behind the barn and shot. | null | 0 | 1491600799 | False | 0 | dfz2fuc | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfyft9y | null | 1493887246 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | sternone_2 | null | Hi Eddy, how's your dad doing oh btw, we just lost another one this week, Steve, he called me to talk about it. He said your phone didn't answer. | null | 0 | 1491600848 | False | 0 | dfz2h9f | t3_60wlag | null | null | t1_dfamitx | null | 1493887265 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | BadGoyWithAGun | null | The "problem" is very neatly avoided by not dealing in foreign languages, and not mixing them unnecessarily when you have to. Fuck universalism in all its hateful, regrettable forms. | null | 0 | 1491600859 | False | 0 | dfz2hkg | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfz2dbf | null | 1493887269 | -1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | loup-vaillant | null | > I'm all for personal growth and learning but doing it on a company's dime is just ridiculous.
Taking it out of context, I personally think it is *legitimate*, not ridiculous. How am I going to be any better otherwise? Surely my growth should not stop once I go out of school? And I have a problem with being forced... | null | 0 | 1491600893 | False | 0 | dfz2ikl | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfya0gh | null | 1493887282 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | spliznork | null | > In my experience, this is determined at the injection site, ie it's completely local and obvious.
Can you give a non-trivial example?
I am suspicious of the "it's completely local" claim since the entire point of dependency injection is to bind parameters non-locally.
And, I expect "it's completely obvious" cla... | null | 0 | 1491600896 | False | 0 | dfz2ino | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfywdkz | null | 1493887283 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | Pinguinsan | null | >I like C++ in general, especially with C++11 stuff like lambdas and constexpr, but I wish it had more reflection capabilities at run-time. (I like Qt for the extra runtime reflection and signals/slots. )
>
>My biggest problem with it though is that people like to put it in the same bucket at Java/C#. It has ... | null | 0 | 1491600896 | False | 0 | dfz2io9 | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfyyjmj | null | 1493887283 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | XeonProductions | null | So some kind of low level database code? When am I going to write my own database engine though? | null | 0 | 1491600916 | False | 0 | dfz2j7h | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfywg6v | null | 1493887290 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | Pinguinsan | null | Which parts? | null | 0 | 1491600916 | False | 0 | dfz2j7v | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfyn513 | null | 1493887290 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | OffbeatDrizzle | null | To be honest it's not like you can't read into how it works... but when you want to do something like run some code on a schedule and it takes you literally 2 minutes to implement using a @Scheduled annotation it's no suprise that all these features have been put in and are widely used by business apps. What's the alte... | null | 0 | 1491600943 | False | 0 | dfz2jyo | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfycuc3 | null | 1493887301 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | SilasX | null | If it's not unpopular, why isn't there any real progress in replacing it? | null | 0 | 1491600981 | False | 0 | dfz2l14 | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfye4cg | null | 1493887315 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | tjsr | null | Java's threading model has a massive issue that could be solved by simply making Thread.wait() return boolean instead of void like C# does, without breaking backwards compatibility, and yet nearly 20 years on because of this alone I still prefer working with threads in C# over Java. | null | 0 | 1491600983 | False | 0 | dfz2l2w | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t3_63zg6f | null | 1493887316 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | the_evergrowing_fool | null | You arguing about the fact that there is more proliferation of CRUD than anything lately. What is the ratio of important software made recently using dylang against stalangs? Almost zero (CRUD is unimportant, you see)
Also, you are IDE is shit mine isn't. There is no need for more empirical evidence than that. | null | 0 | 1491600994 | False | 0 | dfz2let | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfyy1lp | null | 1493887320 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | OffbeatDrizzle | null | we got a badass over here | null | 0 | 1491601016 | False | 0 | dfz2lza | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfyk8vv | null | 1493887327 | 10 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | Apofis | null | No! Please no. It has already gone too far. Why not JavaFX there? | null | 0 | 1491601018 | False | 0 | dfz2m11 | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfyf5x7 | null | 1493887328 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | SilasX | null | Compared to what? is it your only language? | null | 0 | 1491601044 | False | 0 | dfz2mqt | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfy7pfn | null | 1493887338 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | WalterBright | null | > some secret sauce in DMD
Anyone could peruse the source code for the last 15 years or so, so if I've got any secrets left in the code they are amazingly well hidden. | null | 0 | 1491601056 | False | 0 | dfz2n32 | t3_6419py | null | null | t1_dfyslj8 | null | 1493887343 | 12 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | yousirnaime | null | lol you show up? | null | 0 | 1491601080 | False | 0 | dfz2nqg | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfyzqwl | null | 1493887351 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | tjsr | null | Pair programming is the cause of my most major frustrations dealing with people who don't know how to use the ide and tools they're working with. Don't get me started on people who constantly resize window portals while you're trying to read things. | null | 0 | 1491601106 | False | 0 | dfz2ofg | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfy9fp9 | null | 1493887360 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | tjsr | null | Pair programming is the cause of my most major frustrations dealing with people who don't know how to use the ide and tools they're working with. Don't get me started on people who constantly resize window portals while you're trying to read things. | null | 0 | 1491601106 | False | 0 | dfz2ofj | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfy9fp9 | null | 1493887360 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | sacundim | null | You may be joking, but it's actually a common experience in Haskell that the best way to understand a function that somebody else wrote is:
1. Delete its equations, leaving only the type declaration;
2. Write the function yourself from scratch until the program compiles and tests pass;
3. Look at the diff and marvel a... | null | 0 | 1491601121 | False | 0 | dfz2ov6 | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfyuyz9 | null | 1493887366 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | novanexus | null | Yes, and as far as I know for the first case, if the insurance company was willing to acknowledge their mistake in writing then there's some precedent for getting the IRS to at least reduce a fine if not forgive it altogether. I could be mistaken though. | null | 0 | 1491601146 | False | 0 | dfz2pk0 | t3_641hyk | null | null | t1_dfyt10y | null | 1493887375 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | SageEx | null | Another approach will be to get the graph in a adjacency list format, and then from any starting node move to a new node ( remember which nodes visited) following any of it's children. Repeat the steps for this node too. At the end of atmost *n* steps, you'll be at the hole. The hole has no children in its list.
Much ... | null | 0 | 1491601154 | False | 0 | dfz2prq | t3_63z9df | null | null | t3_63z9df | null | 1493887378 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | get_salled | null | [Bret's _The Future of Programming_](https://youtu.be/8pTEmbeENF4) is very informative and a little depressing. | null | 0 | 1491601173 | False | 0 | dfz2qb4 | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfyir96 | null | 1493887385 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | pdp10 | null | A lot of C++ programmers don't even use exceptions, and C programmers don't miss them a bit. I think I remain traumatized from Java stack traces and I've never even done any nontrivial programming in Java.
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null | brooklyndev | null | We as developers put way too much emphasis on naming conventions. When reading through code, what I'm generally struggling with, is to understand the flow, the moving parts, the intent of what the code is doing. Whether it's my_variable, or myVariable or m_myVariable, isn't going to impact my ability to understand the ... | null | 0 | 1491601212 | False | 0 | dfz2rds | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t3_63zg6f | null | 1493887399 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | SilasX | null | ROFL at people repeating DRY. | null | 0 | 1491601215 | False | 0 | dfz2rg9 | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfyf20y | null | 1493887400 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | sacundim | null | > Or more realistically, can't fail any tests if they're shit that doesn't measure anything important.
Oh god, I wish that statement was true, but it sure ain't. For example, shit tests routinely *overspecify* the expected outputs—i.e., they accept *some* correct outputs but reject others that would be just as cor... | null | 0 | 1491601236 | False | 0 | dfz2s2k | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfyjn5w | null | 1493887408 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | Mr_Buckets_ | null | For most coders, it's better to know 1 or 2 languages in depth (with a few associated frameworks), than have only basic knowledge in lots of languages.
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null | deannolan | null | Almost all programmers are overpaid. | null | 0 | 1491601292 | False | 0 | dfz2tmj | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t3_63zg6f | null | 1493887429 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | jonny2plates | null | Not necessarily the training is still Carried out in GPU | null | 0 | 1491601322 | False | 0 | dfz2uiq | t3_63zx9i | null | null | t1_dfyz77p | null | 1493887442 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | loup-vaillant | null | Good fucking luck with that. I've worked at 8 different companies, and interviewed at many more, and only *one* of them all used FP. (There is a second one, but it hardly counts since it was an academic setting, close to Ocaml's inventors.)
I do have an [example](http://loup-vaillant.fr/projects/ussm/) of my own, but ... | null | 0 | 1491601343 | False | 0 | dfz2v2a | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfyy1wq | null | 1493887449 | 8 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | nilamo | null | I should get shades and a crazy jacket, and walk in like a rockstar every day. This might be just the right amount of crazy: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01E9ZCM1G | null | 0 | 1491601356 | False | 0 | dfz2ver | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfz2nqg | null | 1493887454 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | K349 | null | I totally agree, but I think the community has spread out so far in so many directions, it has hurt the community has a whole: so many different flavors and setups make it difficult to support them. It seems when a third party company looks at linux support, they think "that's too expensive" and don't do it or don't gi... | null | 0 | 1491601372 | False | 0 | dfz2vvb | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfz099v | null | 1493887459 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | spliznork | null | > Plus, can't you use a debugger to find out which classes were injected?
I'd assert that needing to resort to using a debugger to figure out what code is executed where is a significant point _against_ a design pattern like dependency injection. | null | 0 | 1491601427 | False | 0 | dfz2xex | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfyxlca | null | 1493887480 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | agonnaz | null | You're doing God's work, friend. | null | 0 | 1491601462 | False | 0 | dfz2yd8 | t3_6419py | null | null | t1_dfyvsvb | null | 1493887495 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | mmstick | null | I'd think it would be better to do as in the IT industry -- ditch the need for colleges and just provide a series of internationally-recognized certification exams and recognized learning materials. As it is, IT and CS colleges are largely just paper mills, unless you are able to afford going a more prestigious univers... | null | 0 | 1491601471 | 1491601686 | 0 | dfz2ymb | t3_63sbtv | null | null | t1_dfyuj41 | null | 1493887499 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | kieranvs | null | I completely get and agree with your point, but haven't you lost some of the structure? The first example is neatly packaged and describes a public interface, and can hide private methods, while this is lost in the second? | null | 0 | 1491601499 | False | 0 | dfz2zew | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfyuzxr | null | 1493887509 | 17 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | pdp10 | null | I can never figure out if those who hate `make` know far more than I or the opposite.
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null | cresquin | null | > such a habit that being contrarian has become a knee jerk response. For what it is worth, I see this in myself
Same here. As evidenced by my proclivity to reply :)
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null | vivainio | null | Seems this is a chapter on an ongoing book. The previous chapter deals with nontrivial stuff, I.e. writing a parser | null | 0 | 1491601563 | False | 0 | dfz318b | t3_640uav | null | null | t3_640uav | null | 1493887534 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
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null | Liam2349 | null | Enjoy writing your getter and setter methods. | null | 0 | 1491601609 | False | 0 | dfz32gq | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfyd0yj | null | 1493887551 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | agonnaz | null | This is unarguably good news. I only hope that this leads to an uptake in D and D development (D-velopment?). I'd love to see more D projects floating around. | null | 0 | 1491601638 | False | 0 | dfz339l | t3_6419py | null | null | t3_6419py | null | 1493887561 | 10 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | SilasX | null | Article arguing for that: https://www.sandimetz.com/blog/2016/1/20/the-wrong-abstraction?duplication
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null | ashton_harding | null | Oh, no I learned a little *bit*. But I would've done better chasing a math degree, with a minor in computer science instead.
I'll put it this way: The majority of my classes, that took lots of money and 9 weeks to complete, covered all the basics I learned in two weeks on my own several years before through one of th... | null | 0 | 1491601698 | False | 0 | dfz34yd | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfz2bm0 | null | 1493887584 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | pdp10 | null | Clearly all developers were replaced by CASE tools in the 1980s, starting with a program called ["The Last One"](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_One_\(software\)) in 1981. | null | 0 | 1491601744 | False | 0 | dfz36aq | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfybvf2 | null | 1493887603 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | helm | null | I worked in this company too. We were 1 1/2 developers and 20 engineers. The engineers loved dirty fixes, as long as their two-phase simulation worked. | null | 0 | 1491601748 | False | 0 | dfz36e7 | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfyk7tl | null | 1493887604 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | durandall08 | null | or people are walking behind you constantly and talking loudly while they do so. | null | 0 | 1491601762 | False | 0 | dfz36ry | t3_63l7iv | null | null | t1_dfvierc | null | 1493887609 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | vattenpuss | null | Is there any real life example which shows how an OOP codebase is specifically easier to code, easier to maintain, and easier to scale than a comparable procedural codebase? | null | 0 | 1491601776 | False | 0 | dfz375q | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfynu2v | null | 1493887614 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | Farsyte | null | Not even the newish macro assembler. But then, I carefully palmed a card (systems that I work on); I'd use a good macro assembler for much much smaller systems (say, personal project or microcontroller) but the stuff I do for work is too big for more than the minimum assembly code, and that bit needs to be buried deep... | null | 0 | 1491601825 | False | 0 | dfz38je | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfz0reb | null | 1493887633 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | vattenpuss | null | Bugs come from every line of code you write. The fewer lines of code you have to write, the less bugs you will have. | null | 0 | 1491601837 | False | 0 | dfz38w4 | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfyifoo | null | 1493887637 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | oridb | null | It is not enabled by default, because you probably don't want it. Using a system which locks down access to the display server would be a crappy experience. Programs like `xbindkeys`, `scrot`, and other programs that handle global keybindings and actions will break.
Blacklists are ineffective: It would take all of 5 m... | null | 0 | 1491601847 | False | 0 | dfz3965 | t3_63rjtw | null | null | t1_dfyxfc0 | null | 1493887641 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | AeroNotix | null | > That would amount to mandatory unpaid overtime.
What are you smoking? For example -- you work creating Widgets using Java at your day job. Do you think it's reasonable to spend your working hours learning a completely unrelated framework designed to create completely unrelated kinds of applications?
Your employe... | null | 0 | 1491601892 | False | 0 | dfz3agx | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfz2ikl | null | 1493887659 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | vattenpuss | null | https://vimeo.com/9270320 | null | 0 | 1491601926 | False | 0 | dfz3bdt | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfyfzgh | null | 1493887671 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | twohams | null | `D${letter3}n'${letter4} ${letter1.toUpperCase()}${letter2}p${letter2}a${letter4} Y${letter3}u${letter1}s${letter2}lf` | null | 0 | 1491601940 | False | 0 | dfz3bsx | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfy7bpd | null | 1493887678 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | Ghandithegman | null | Interesting. I'm doing a second bachelor's, so my minor and extra courses are pretty much taken care of. I have about 2 years and then I'll have a Computer Science degree. I'm thinking of doing a lot of self-study though, as that's the general advice I've gotten. | null | 0 | 1491601970 | False | 0 | dfz3co6 | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfz34yd | null | 1493887689 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
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null | ang3c0 | null | For C programming it's the best way to make sure you don't leak memory. Declare pointers at the start of the function as null.. Any error "goto cleanup", at cleanup if not null, free. Simple and clean. | null | 0 | 1491602009 | 1491606814 | 0 | dfz3dsq | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfyeafa | null | 1493887704 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | get_salled | null | Knuth's quote:
>"Programmers waste enormous amounts of time thinking about, or worrying about, the speed of noncritical parts of their programs, and these attempts at efficiency actually have a strong negative impact when debugging and maintenance are considered. We should forget about small efficiencies, say about... | null | 0 | 1491602031 | False | 0 | dfz3efp | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfyw9y4 | null | 1493887712 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | helm | null | Fire up a redmine server, keep the bugs there. Not perfect, but better.
Also, do keep notes and go through them once a week or so, to toss duplicates, clarify and prioritise. | null | 0 | 1491602091 | False | 0 | dfz3g6k | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfyl3xg | null | 1493887736 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | adrianmonk | null | > memorize every bit of language syntax or the names of functions
If your interviewer is expecting you to write everything out perfectly with zero syntax errors, the problem isn't the whiteboard, it is that your interviewer is a total fucking moron. | null | 0 | 1491602092 | False | 0 | dfz3g6v | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfywbsk | null | 1493887736 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | jrhoffa | null | You probably put fruit on your pizza. | null | 0 | 1491602275 | False | 0 | dfz3lbh | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfy7pfn | null | 1493887804 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | YourFurryFriend1 | null | >Dynamically typed languages make for a horrible maintenance nightmare.
I think this is more of an issue with lack of commenting and lack of unit tests than the fact the language is dynamically typed.
Statically typed languages are more "self-documenting" since the developer is forced to be precise about what kin... | null | 0 | 1491602286 | False | 0 | dfz3llh | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfyapv3 | null | 1493887809 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | wh33t | null | There is too many frameworks. People learn frameworks these days instead of the languages themselves which in my opinion leads to a huge surplus of "script kiddies".
This huge surplus of subpar programmers (component installers as I like to call them) lowers the economic viability of being a programmer while at the s... | null | 0 | 1491602286 | False | 0 | dfz3lm1 | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t3_63zg6f | null | 1493887809 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | Rock48 | null | Probably even longer than that tbh | null | 0 | 1491602288 | False | 0 | dfz3lny | t3_6419py | null | null | t1_dfyrsb5 | null | 1493887810 | 14 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | Rock48 | null | D is probably my favorite compiled language. It works amazing for games - any C library and many C++ libraries can be easily ported over to it! | null | 0 | 1491602332 | False | 0 | dfz3mtw | t3_6419py | null | null | t1_dfyz8jn | null | 1493887825 | 9 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | twowheels | null | Agreed, but that's orthogonal to my point. :) | null | 0 | 1491602362 | False | 0 | dfz3nns | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfz0vci | null | 1493887837 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | viewtouch | null | I agree completely and have always guided my management of software development with an awareness of these points. | null | 0 | 1491602400 | False | 0 | dfz3oq0 | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfz0ggx | null | 1493887850 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | wh33t | null | And then comment it anyway! | null | 0 | 1491602424 | False | 0 | dfz3pcv | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfyvghv | null | 1493887860 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | davidk01 | null | Because docker is a complicated piece of shit. This gives you an isolated filesystem to work with without all the other crap. Sometimes you just need to compile, package, and ship some binaries. Docker and its tooling is just way too much hassle for those use cases.
Also, I never thought simplicity would be argued aga... | null | 0 | 1491602435 | False | 0 | dfz3pmy | t3_63xbbn | null | null | t1_dfy6hi8 | null | 1493887863 | 9 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | SilasX | null | I can see how it can be a waste when done all the time. But it's extremely useful as knowledge transfer and learning good techniques. | null | 0 | 1491602525 | False | 0 | dfz3s3b | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfy791w | null | 1493887896 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | hireThisMarine | null | I've met and worked with 5 coding superstars. With [one exception](https://youtu.be/0tFxdreVx6s) they all started to bum me out with their attitude toward giving of themselves. When gaming they would refuse to play support, and when you went out drinking they seemed to always miss their rotation as DD. The genius(no... | null | 0 | 1491602578 | False | 0 | dfz3tgk | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfy7mkv | null | 1493887914 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
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null | davidk01 | null | Great work OP. Keep up the good work. Put up a patreon page as well. I'm tired of shit tooling shipped by corporations funded by VC money. I think it's time to start supporting the smaller upstarts like yourself. | null | 0 | 1491602598 | False | 0 | dfz3u03 | t3_63xbbn | null | null | t3_63xbbn | null | 1493887922 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | creampan | null | Can we also get an Initial D Compiler that just plays [this song](https://youtu.be/XCiDuy4mrWU?t=23s) on successful compilation? | null | 0 | 1491602623 | False | 0 | dfz3unb | t3_6419py | null | null | t3_6419py | null | 1493887930 | 26 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | jackmott2 | null | it is a large solution with a moderate number of projects. like 8 or so. I've edited my comment to say solution onstead of project. | null | 0 | 1491602645 | False | 0 | dfz3v7t | t3_6433jm | null | null | t1_dfz2dbm | null | 1493887938 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | pdp10 | null | `clang-format`. C-style preprocessor macros bedevil any attempt to achieve perfect symmetric translation between a C code and its AST.
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null | sacundim | null | > Dependency Injection is just the most straightforward way to do Dependency Inversion.
This statement has just way too many assumptions built into it. For example, it seems to build in the assumption that you're working in a language like Java—you know, the sort of language that dependency injection was invented ... | null | 0 | 1491602681 | False | 0 | dfz3w5f | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfyh2vt | null | 1493887950 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | pdp10 | null | CamelCase comes from Smalltalk by way of Microsoft C++. It's not idiomatic in Unix/POSIX, for all that's worth.
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null | krum | null | You clearly haven't tried to read obfuscated native code. Tools like Arxan GuardIt will render compiled machine code completely incomprehensible. | null | 0 | 1491602813 | False | 0 | dfz3zmi | t3_642p3k | null | null | t1_dfyzgp7 | null | 1493887997 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | esbio | null | inheritance is just glorified monkey patching.
github has a retarded interface, and it fails at easing the most common use cases.
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null | sabas123 | null | Your right, I never had to use it for that purpose so I disn't really thought it through. | null | 0 | 1491602847 | False | 0 | dfz40kr | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfz2xex | null | 1493888009 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | Tipaa | null | ~~Super Guru Rockstar~~ Ninja foods | null | 0 | 1491602848 | False | 0 | dfz40lh | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfyzqy1 | null | 1493888009 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | vattenpuss | null | RMS is not really crazy at all, he has one of the most sane interpretations of freedom out there. | null | 0 | 1491602861 | False | 0 | dfz40yb | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t3_63zg6f | null | 1493888014 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
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null | mini-pizzas | null | I know little about the Windows kernel but are you calling the Linux kernel an example of functional programming? Most of it is very, very imperative and procedural and not remotely functional. | null | 0 | 1491602921 | False | 0 | dfz42hu | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfz06ja | null | 1493888035 | 12 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | hn17 | null | Thanks! /u/jpfed already linked to this talk. I've seen half of it now, it's very interesting. | null | 0 | 1491602953 | False | 0 | dfz43c9 | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfz3bdt | null | 1493888046 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | pdp10 | null | It's hard being the world's most unpopular flavor of Lisp.
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null | loup-vaillant | null | My approach is to stop worrying and just stick to "good" programming, whatever that means to me at the moment. Ultimately, you don't care about OOP, you just care about writing a correct, efficient enough, maintainable program. | null | 0 | 1491602971 | False | 0 | dfz43sn | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfyllwr | null | 1493888053 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
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