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null | thork | null | i will try that. thanks. | null | 0 | 1491637251 | False | 0 | dfznpnx | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfzncw0 | null | 1493897567 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | ComradeGibbon | null | I write a lot of C code. Found DI'ish techniques really helped reduce the header file madness.
| null | 0 | 1491637312 | False | 0 | dfznqee | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfykgiq | null | 1493897577 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | TinBryn | null | Did someone type ```surottoru_ni``` rather than ```surottoru_ichi```? | null | 0 | 1491637368 | False | 0 | dfznr2d | t3_63ldwg | null | null | t1_dfvvg6o | null | 1493897586 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | thork | null | ORMs can't handle complex queries. Sometimes you need performance and you move some of your code to stored procedures. In that case Sql becomes a terrible language and all SQL IDEs are horrible. | null | 0 | 1491637521 | False | 0 | dfznsxu | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfzk8wy | null | 1493897610 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | BroomShakzuka | null | And as long as you never decide to do any major refactoring | null | 0 | 1491637566 | False | 0 | dfznti9 | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfyt6rd | null | 1493897618 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | sacundim | null | Maybe the times he really gets distracted are when somebody is wrong on the Internet, so locking himself out of his account shields him from that particular failure mode. | null | 0 | 1491637666 | False | 0 | dfznumq | t3_63tmfn | null | null | t1_dfxvvtl | null | 1493897633 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | ionforge | null | Relational databases are based in mathematic relational algebra theory, there is no better way to store data right now, unless someone comes with a better theory.
| null | 0 | 1491637763 | False | 0 | dfznvqg | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfylcey | null | 1493897648 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | CyRaid | null | Glad you ask :) .. It's mostly because development time would be rock solid if it were development for local deployment. Not deferring everything through a local socket and inferring the overhead (I know it's not much, but still). Unless libwayland has a different layer that does it, and another for network.. but that'... | null | 0 | 1491637797 | False | 0 | dfznw4v | t3_63yn9l | null | null | t1_dfznn77 | null | 1493897652 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | ionforge | null | More code, more coders, what's so hard to understand? | null | 0 | 1491637823 | False | 0 | dfznwg9 | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfznj7d | null | 1493897658 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | robertacion | null | In my opinion, the "upvotes" are not for the algorithm itself, but for how the article is written. At least in my case. | null | 0 | 1491637962 | False | 0 | dfzny0o | t3_63z9df | null | null | t1_dfzclbn | null | 1493897679 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | sin2pifx | null | > You can pull that shit in Niche markets.
C wasn't free for a long time, but that never stopped its popularity.
IMO, D never hit the right spot. It was too eclectic and didn't offer a clear advantage. And indeed, that's the point where widespread availability could have made a difference, but it still would have ... | null | 0 | 1491638163 | False | 0 | dfzo0dx | t3_6419py | null | null | t1_dfyqt8b | null | 1493897710 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | comp-sci-fi | null | Let's vote for the most unpopular! | null | 0 | 1491638320 | False | 0 | dfzo28o | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t3_63zg6f | null | 1493897735 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | sin2pifx | null | > Is Rust chewing into D's share?
I've always been turned off by D, but Rust and Go interest me, so you might be right. Rust is a lot harder, though, once you start with complex data structures; Go is really easy to get into, and also has GC, but still pretty good performance. There is a wealth of choices now, and ... | null | 0 | 1491638391 | False | 0 | dfzo31z | t3_6419py | null | null | t1_dfzg7we | null | 1493897745 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | vattenpuss | null | I wrote "than a comparable procedural codebase". Was that unclear? | null | 0 | 1491638413 | False | 0 | dfzo3b2 | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfz6jgm | null | 1493897748 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | snaftyroot | null | > As a JavaScript developer I encounter many developers who are deathly afraid of the DOM,
does not compute. what's going on here? are these node developers who never step into the browser? | null | 0 | 1491638428 | False | 0 | dfzo3hg | t3_641oop | null | null | t1_dfyvdi7 | null | 1493897751 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | HeinzPanzer | null | That's really neat!
If you like those kinds of hacks, check out the DO macro in common lisp, or the LOOP macro. New brave world ;p! | null | 0 | 1491638494 | False | 0 | dfzo48p | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfyk95k | null | 1493897762 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | nilamo | null | For typescript, sure. But ES6? let, and new syntax for functions? That doesn't trascompile into anything. | null | 0 | 1491638538 | False | 0 | dfzo4rc | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfyzxgu | null | 1493897768 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | Lachiko | null | Personally I would have taken a more passive/fragmented approach when sharing knowledge as people seem to be more receptive to it (I wish it wasn't the case but it is what it is)
Basically give them the benefit of the doubt that they are familiar with the commands you're discussing by not elaborating what they do unle... | null | 0 | 1491638559 | False | 0 | dfzo4zp | t3_644jqe | null | null | t1_dfzmlsb | null | 1493897771 | 11 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | fagnerbrack | null | Software is hard, and for that reason we become mediocre easily which makes our craft to be considered a joke by many and not a real profession. [We are NOT accountable for what we do](https://hackernoon.com/the-doctor-and-the-scalpel-78656f508c9a), mostly because managers don't trust us to do our jobs.
Fortunately, I... | null | 0 | 1491638718 | 1491640346 | 0 | dfzo6u8 | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t3_63zg6f | null | 1493897795 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | i336_ | null | https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/41j1nm/check_out_ds_new_site/cz4hrn9/
What he \^ said. | null | 0 | 1491638925 | False | 0 | dfzo98l | t3_6419py | null | null | t1_dfza4vj | null | 1493897827 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | renatoathaydes | null | I can't tell you how many times I regretted not having made some small, simple utility more resilient and elegant the first time I wrote it... so I would not have suffered unnecessarily later when needing to add/modify/adapt functionality to new needs (shitness has a multiplying effect, it grows exponentially every tim... | null | 0 | 1491639093 | False | 0 | dfzob4c | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfzawft | null | 1493897853 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | anechoicmedia | null | Last I read here, the dubs were the result of some sudden trademark issue that arose at the time that required redacting portions of the dialog. | null | 0 | 1491639125 | False | 0 | dfzobhj | t3_622kkn | null | null | t1_dfkswu9 | null | 1493897857 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | ctlaltcmd | null | I don't consider goto harmful. | null | 0 | 1491639183 | False | 0 | dfzoc6r | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t3_63zg6f | null | 1493897867 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | RichardFingers | null | I agree. If two things are likely to diverge, don't couple them together. I see too many devs trying to force commonalities and tie two disparate concepts together unnecessarily. | null | 0 | 1491639258 | False | 0 | dfzod1m | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfy7bpd | null | 1493897879 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | bgusach | null | Bold statement. What if apart from mapping between objects and tables, you really need relational behaviour as well? like the classical: in what movies did this actor appear? | null | 0 | 1491639270 | False | 0 | dfzod6l | t3_63adw4 | null | null | t1_dfv7s8p | null | 1493897880 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | renatoathaydes | null | so, only for code you wrote within the last hour? | null | 0 | 1491639289 | False | 0 | dfzoddk | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfyt6rd | null | 1493897883 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | lobut | null | Yeah ... I literally have seen a 100+ line test that --- when you boil it down --- only tested that their mocking framework worked.
When I asked what/why/how ... they said that we need to get our test coverage up.
/sigh | null | 0 | 1491639340 | False | 0 | dfzodx1 | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfz01xv | null | 1493897890 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | MonkeyWithAnAxe | null | When you outsource to the cheapest overseas contractor, you always get a total pile of shit come back and the total cost of ownership is orders of magnitude greater than if you'd done it in-house.
I could never convince any manager of this unfortunately. They always claimed us British coders were 'just trying to prot... | null | 0 | 1491639417 | False | 0 | dfzoerg | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t3_63zg6f | null | 1493897901 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | oneonetwooneonetwo | null | Well, it's just EOL'ing it on that date. After that it might work, it might not. | null | 0 | 1491639630 | False | 0 | dfzoh3g | t3_6419py | null | null | t1_dfyo6ze | null | 1493897932 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | sammymammy2 | null | Yes but that doesn't change Common Lisp as a counter of ""making it work" over "making it right"". You said that dynamic implies "making it work" and I give you proof that that is not necessarily the case.
Now instead you are talking about type safety, which one is it? | null | 0 | 1491639707 | False | 0 | dfzohzq | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfyy6yu | null | 1493897944 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | bgusach | null | Still, I have to agree with Vhin... it is already enough of a pain to deal with "what? what does it mean editing the configuration file?". I can't imagine telling non-techies to open up a SQLite front end to change some values... | null | 0 | 1491639739 | False | 0 | dfzoibo | t3_63adw4 | null | null | t1_dftsf5v | null | 1493897948 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | LuminousElement | null | Sounds like enablement of bad practice to me. | null | 0 | 1491639848 | False | 0 | dfzojig | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfyu7s4 | null | 1493897964 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | LuminousElement | null | "Hello? Yes, this is dogrammer" | null | 0 | 1491639901 | False | 0 | dfzok2u | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfyskiw | null | 1493897972 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | silveryRain | null | Internet trolls get pissed off by CoC's. Good riddance, I say. | null | 1 | 1491640200 | False | 0 | dfzonc3 | t3_6419py | null | null | t1_dfz7kzl | null | 1493898015 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | yawaramin | null | Imho, non-techies shouldn't be asked to edit config files. They should be given config commands that allow inspecting and setting values. See e.g. `git config user.name="X Y. Z"`. | null | 0 | 1491640328 | False | 0 | dfzoord | t3_63adw4 | null | null | t1_dfzoibo | null | 1493898033 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | Jeff_Johnson | null | I was using DI pattern for ages (I didn't give it a name), and then every blog/buzz-feed like list/tutorial started mentioning it.
I was afraid to ask what is this new concept, and why I'm making cardinal sin for not using it...until I read what DI actualy is. | null | 0 | 1491640374 | False | 0 | dfzop9l | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfyb8nc | null | 1493898041 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1491640440 | False | 0 | dfzopyd | t3_6419py | null | null | t1_dfzic7o | null | 1493898050 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | LuminousElement | null | So what, go back to code pages? Fuuuuuck that.
Unicode is _far_ superior, despite the cancerous spread of emojis and ZWJ sequences. | null | 0 | 1491640555 | False | 0 | dfzor8r | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfya8ie | null | 1493898067 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | renatoathaydes | null | Groovy is the best language ever. | null | 0 | 1491640588 | False | 0 | dfzorl5 | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t3_63zg6f | null | 1493898071 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | silveryRain | null | So why aren't we using "libre" and "gratis" instead? "Free as in freedom" sounds so stupid by comparison. | null | 0 | 1491640620 | 1491641834 | 0 | dfzorya | t3_6419py | null | null | t1_dfywh3c | null | 1493898077 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | phurtive | null | Do you inject $ and _ everywhere? Why is String and Array allowed, you should inject them too. And inject the use of numbers. Inject plus, if you need to add. Inject the keyword "for" if you need to loop. It's too f'ing much.
I'm actually in favor of DI in 90% of cases. But in some cases it just means adding a b... | null | 0 | 1491640674 | 1491641427 | 0 | dfzosja | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfyx1lo | null | 1493898084 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | uzimonkey | null | Check out [Red](http://www.red-lang.org/). | null | 0 | 1491640710 | False | 0 | dfzosxd | t3_6419py | null | null | t1_dfzal8e | null | 1493898089 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | luckystarr | null | So the problem isn't the code but the coders? Then I'd say it's a management problem, not something inherent to the nature of code itself. You may elect to go the micro-services (or what I usually do: micro-monoliths) route if it makes sense. There are other strategies though. You can split the code into modules reflec... | null | 0 | 1491640957 | False | 0 | dfzovid | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfznwg9 | null | 1493898124 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | WArslett | null | factoring your code sometimes makes it less readable and less maintainable. There are lots of examples of this that frustrate me but the most common one I see is with SQL. Query builders are almost always unnecessary and harder to maintain and work with than pure SQL. I see people doing this kind of thing all the time:... | null | 0 | 1491640994 | False | 0 | dfzovxj | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t3_63zg6f | null | 1493898129 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | uzimonkey | null | Kinda. It's garbage collected which is a problem for games. If you're looking for a modern, new language to make games with the most promising IMO is Rust. It has memory safety, no GC, zero cost abstractions and FFI is supposedly very fast. | null | 0 | 1491641032 | False | 0 | dfzowbg | t3_6419py | null | null | t1_dfyz8jn | null | 1493898134 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | LuminousElement | null | `make` is brittle, complicated and ridiculously confusing.
Every abstraction layer on top of it (looking at you, CMake, but autotools is right up there) is equally confusing, just at a higher level. | null | 0 | 1491641114 | False | 0 | dfzox5i | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfz2zfp | null | 1493898145 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | donalmacc | null | I don't like the cult that comes with it but there is some merit to TDD (imo). Writing the tests first forces you to think about the API before you write the code, and to make the API make sense. While there are other ways of doing that, I've found pseudo-TDD to work for that. | null | 0 | 1491641135 | False | 0 | dfzoxdp | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfy9l2k | null | 1493898148 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | silent519 | null | yes, im very hard
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null | barnaba | null | Oh hey, I think we work together.
Don't worry though, all the new projects done entirely by juniors from now on will be fine, cause we have that glorious functional silver bullet everyone is so excited about coming up! | null | 0 | 1491641315 | False | 0 | dfzozc1 | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfz05l9 | null | 1493898177 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | vattenpuss | null | Why does the patch have changes outside of license headers? | null | 0 | 1491641356 | False | 0 | dfzozri | t3_6419py | null | null | t1_dfylizc | null | 1493898182 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | IHeartMustard | null | PRAISE BE TO THE HOLY SPJ | null | 0 | 1491641423 | False | 0 | dfzp0hn | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfylk59 | null | 1493898192 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | Berberberber | null | To me, the question to move something to an abstraction isn't "Do these do the same thing?" but "If the behavior of one needs to change, will the other change with it?" The answer is sometimes no, and in those cases you repeat yourself - and maybe add a comment to say "hey, this implementation is basically the same as ... | null | 0 | 1491641523 | False | 0 | dfzp1lu | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfy7bpd | null | 1493898206 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | phurtive | null | The disadvantages section here pretty much sums it up: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dependency_injection#Disadvantages
DI is good in 90% of cases but it's not a magic bullet. | null | 0 | 1491641641 | False | 0 | dfzp2wu | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfyg9pw | null | 1493898224 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | Berberberber | null | I think you're just going to see the same problems with Julia and SciPy code over time. "A Real Programmer can write FORTRAN programs in any language", etc. | null | 0 | 1491641704 | False | 0 | dfzp3lb | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfyon26 | null | 1493898233 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | MPComplete | null | The coding style is massively different even if a lot of the underlying implementations are similar. | null | 0 | 1491641741 | False | 0 | dfzp3yu | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfyzhvg | null | 1493898238 | 12 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | NoInkling | null | Those aren't exactly unpopular opinions. | null | 0 | 1491641878 | False | 0 | dfzp5dc | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfyapv3 | null | 1493898257 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | ConcernedInScythe | null | > Bugs come from logic error
remember when the curl dev said that and it turned out that in fact most of his bugs came from C's memory model | null | 0 | 1491641925 | False | 0 | dfzp5us | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfyifoo | null | 1493898263 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | silveryRain | null | So... [a book about hippies that are into software](https://www.google.ro/imgres?imgurl=http://t2.gstatic.com/images%3Fq%3Dtbn:ANd9GcRAcmg8WDAXGeQ9rSlkzIEJSMRn6cD9_7MAou41UhKgAYJVXsjM&imgrefurl=http://books.google.com/books/about/Free_as_in_Freedom_Paperback.html%3Fid%3DIELrzjhGFDQC%26source%3Dkp_cover&h=1080&a... | null | 0 | 1491641937 | False | 0 | dfzp5zf | t3_6419py | null | null | t1_dfyw86v | null | 1493898265 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | loup-vaillant | null | > My company uses Erlang heavily
Oh yeah, the OO language that calls itself functional. :-) Funny how vocabulary turned around. Erlang is closer to Alan Kay's idea of OOP than Java and C++. Mostly because in Erlang, message passing is more than a figure of speech. Yet at the process level, it *is* mostly functional... | null | 0 | 1491641989 | False | 0 | dfzp6j6 | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfzaf16 | null | 1493898272 | -1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | Metallkiller | null | Does that read "Dotsharp"? | null | 1 | 1491642037 | False | 0 | dfzp71y | t3_6419py | null | null | t1_dfzcjxi | null | 1493898279 | -1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | MPComplete | null | C++ has metaprogramming and duck typed templates? | null | 0 | 1491642093 | False | 0 | dfzp7mk | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfydedl | null | 1493898286 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | PrettyMuchBlind | null | html is the best language for easily writing and reading code!
| null | 0 | 1491642149 | False | 0 | dfzp886 | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfy7pfn | null | 1493898295 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | Darwin226 | null | I have plenty of trivial graph algorithm knowledge yet this was pretty unobvious to me. I also have a sneaking suspicion that not all articles on the internet are directed towards you. Just a hunch. | null | 0 | 1491642182 | False | 0 | dfzp8jz | t3_63z9df | null | null | t1_dfyr9fh | null | 1493898299 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | loup-vaillant | null | I know about that. That was the mantra of one of my teachers 13 years ago. I'm just saying a significant percentage of programmers, teachers, shops, and frameworks, still don't know about it.
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null | French__Canadian | null | I thought you had to specifically use the no-strict-aliasing flag for this.
Thanks for taking the time to explain. | null | 0 | 1491642259 | False | 0 | dfzp9cw | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfzdp0a | null | 1493898309 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | silveryRain | null | Why not use chroot instead? | null | 0 | 1491642264 | 1491642503 | 0 | dfzp9ec | t3_63xbbn | null | null | t1_dfxtb7e | null | 1493898310 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | i_spot_ads | null | question is, do I even need to learn it | null | 0 | 1491642335 | False | 0 | dfzpa4z | t3_644jqe | null | null | t1_dfzjgoy | null | 1493898320 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | ivquatch | null | Not many. Unfortunately, it's proprietary software. What I can say is that for one year, I wrote zero bugs in F#. Granted, it wasn't much code, but it was critical, and it was in production. I generally have peace of mind about functional code that I've written. It moves several million dollars a day without fail. | null | 0 | 1491642637 | False | 0 | dfzpdaw | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfzmfcj | null | 1493898365 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | loup-vaillant | null | Okay, we probably disagree less than we thought.
I wouldn't recommend choosing a technology or a methodology for a billable product just because that choice would make us learn more. The consequences of such choices tend to be unpredictable and far reaching. Also, as far as I am concerned, "elegant" mostly means simpl... | null | 0 | 1491642815 | False | 0 | dfzpf38 | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfzcx8s | null | 1493898389 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | Tarmen | null | Duck typing is actually really powerful in the sense that it solves the expression problem. Adding new functionality to existing code without modifying the old one is super easy. Plus all static languages forbid some valid but ill typed programs so there are more correct solutions in dynamic languages.
Of course if yo... | null | 0 | 1491642877 | False | 0 | dfzpfq7 | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfydedl | null | 1493898397 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | Berberberber | null | I disagree. That might have been true a decade or two ago but modern C++ is a completely different beast. If you're using raw pointers and index-based loops with C++ these days you're basically doing it wrong. Yeah, you *can* write C++ code that's still "C but with classes" but then you're missing out most of what make... | null | 0 | 1491643030 | False | 0 | dfzphch | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfyzhvg | null | 1493898419 | 9 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | vattenpuss | null | The Apple II shipped with one version of BASIC made by Wozniak, it was later replaced with a BASIC licensed from Microsoft.
Why would anyone need to steal anything? Can you be more specific? | null | 0 | 1491643118 | False | 0 | dfzpiax | t3_63z9ge | null | null | t1_dfyrnpb | null | 1493898433 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | kefeer | null | No. That's a trap. | null | 0 | 1491643138 | False | 0 | dfzpiih | t3_644jqe | null | null | t1_dfzpa4z | null | 1493898436 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | Berberberber | null | I'd rather have one big library that does everything I need but is 50% stuff I don't need than 10 small libraries that are 10% things I don't need. | null | 0 | 1491643145 | False | 0 | dfzpil6 | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfyb8wv | null | 1493898437 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | King_Flippynip_nips | null | Woops, wrote this a bit drunk. Meant to include myself in that statement as well.
Generally developers are okay; great even. Just kinda think ya need to have a mild god complex to be interested in this industry.
That said, I've made friends for life developing code as well. There nothing like writing an application w... | null | 0 | 1491643165 | False | 0 | dfzpisp | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfzmd3g | null | 1493898440 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | Berberberber | null | PHP is, somewhat paradoxically, a horrible programming language (not an unpopular opinion) but a unique and indispensable application development platform (probably unpopular). | null | 0 | 1491643266 | False | 0 | dfzpjst | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t3_63zg6f | null | 1493898453 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | combinatorylogic | null | And yet, Lisp is even older. Anyway, lambda calculus predates Turing machine, so functional programming was first indeed. | null | 0 | 1491643287 | False | 0 | dfzpk1l | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfzghd1 | null | 1493898457 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | ionforge | null | I just said that the problem is more code. More coders just mean even more code being write at the same time on the same monolith, making it harder to refactor, deploy, update and more bugs because the increased dependencies you are introducing. A big monolith makes it almost impossible to do continuous integration and... | null | 0 | 1491643473 | False | 0 | dfzplzv | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfzovid | null | 1493898482 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | Berberberber | null | I haven't read anything on this list besides the Gang of Four book, but I feel like eventual consistency is a cornerstone of cloud-type software design, and revolutionary enough to be worth discussing on its own. Maybe that falls under datacenter-related in your eyes, though. | null | 0 | 1491643540 | False | 0 | dfzpmpk | t3_63yj1f | null | null | t1_dfy7el7 | null | 1493898493 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | kefeer | null | What is your opinion on the SQL language then? | null | 0 | 1491643550 | False | 0 | dfzpmt2 | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfyapv3 | null | 1493898494 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | repeatedly_once | null | Every language has a flaw to some degree. I think Js gets a bad rep because it has such a low barrier of entry and because of it there is some awful code out there.
EDIT: I'd also argue they're not expecting in unknown ways. Once you know bout implicit typecasting you pretty much don't see anything unexpected. Once y... | null | 0 | 1491643685 | 1491646994 | 0 | dfzpo4i | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfzhxlc | null | 1493898511 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | combinatorylogic | null | True. Also: we do not need that many programmers. | null | 0 | 1491643699 | False | 0 | dfzpo9h | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfz2tmj | null | 1493898513 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | flying-sheep | null | SciPy code has been around for a long time. What hasn't happened by now won't be likely to happen in the future. | null | 0 | 1491643773 | False | 0 | dfzpozx | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfzp3lb | null | 1493898523 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | Berberberber | null | Nothing personal, but I hate this attitude. Of course you choose the right tool for the job. The question is, how do you identify what the right tool is? Sometimes "I already know Ruby" or "I want to try out Haskell" is the deciding criterion, and sometimes it's something else. | null | 0 | 1491643855 | False | 0 | dfzppv2 | t3_643kpm | null | null | t1_dfz5hnc | null | 1493898534 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | aldacron | null | The standard library does not use the GC as much as it used to. It's not 100% GC-free, but it's avoidable for those who need to. See [this recent post](https://dlang.org/blog/2017/03/20/dont-fear-the-reaper/) from the D blog which kicks off a series on D's GC. The next post will go into using language features, like `@... | null | 0 | 1491643873 | False | 0 | dfzpq1h | t3_6419py | null | null | t1_dfzn601 | null | 1493898537 | 10 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
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null | stefantalpalaru | null | Because it makes complicated things possible. Take a look at this project where I had to mix Go and C to make a library that allows the use of the gccgo runtime from C: https://github.com/stefantalpalaru/golib
I also had the chance of writing [a non-trivial patch](https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/yr180/thats_wh... | null | 0 | 1491644189 | False | 0 | dfzpt99 | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfzlqq6 | null | 1493898579 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | skocznymroczny | null | > It's garbage collected which is a problem for games.
So is JavaScript, Java, C# and countless other engines which have been successfully used for games. Yes, it can be an issue under some circumstances, but in 99% of usages it won't even be the case (GC won't kill the performance of a 2D indie platformer). | null | 0 | 1491644203 | False | 0 | dfzpted | t3_6419py | null | null | t1_dfzowbg | null | 1493898581 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | purtip31 | null | The OP doesn't seem to grasp, or at least is deliberately ignoring, the difference between written and spoke language.
While we could use IPA as an "international" language, it rather defeats the point of reading when you have to sound out every word in your mind. | null | 0 | 1491644206 | False | 0 | dfzptg2 | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfyagtu | null | 1493898582 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
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null | combinatorylogic | null | There are extremely popular languages with non-English keywords. Excel, for example. | null | 0 | 1491644241 | False | 0 | dfzptso | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfyu11y | null | 1493898586 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | combinatorylogic | null | I passionately hate everyone who shares the same opinion. You should not be allowed to exist. | null | 0 | 1491644300 | False | 0 | dfzpue2 | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfylvh0 | null | 1493898597 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | irqlnotdispatchlevel | null | This can even be done with C's (double) linked lists! | null | 0 | 1491644375 | False | 0 | dfzpv4v | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfyfx8b | null | 1493898607 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | arturaz | null | Visitor pattern is just a workaround for not having pattern matching (which is way more powerful) | null | 0 | 1491644401 | False | 0 | dfzpvdx | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfzffvw | null | 1493898611 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | aldacron | null | A few D game-related projects to check out:
[Voxelman](https://github.com/MrSmith33/voxelman)
[SpaceD](https://webfreak.itch.io/spaced)
[Avocado Engine](https://github.com/TeamAvocado/Avocado)
And here's an [interesting set of performance benchmarks](https://github.com/eBay/tsv-utils-dlang/blob/master/docs/Performance... | null | 0 | 1491644418 | False | 0 | dfzpvk5 | t3_6419py | null | null | t1_dfyz8jn | null | 1493898612 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | irqlnotdispatchlevel | null | I don't think you can apply TDD to everything. | null | 0 | 1491644430 | False | 0 | dfzpvog | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t3_63zg6f | null | 1493898615 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | irqlnotdispatchlevel | null | It's crazy how you can apply some of the OOP principles to non OOP languages. Is that OOP? Can I have OOP without classes? I should have, it's **Object** Oriented, not Class Oriented. | null | 0 | 1491644544 | False | 0 | dfzpwv8 | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfyf0ox | null | 1493898630 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | luckystarr | null | I get that it's a viable strategy though I don't believe it's inevitable. And the fact that a lot of companies are using this strategy right now doesn't mean it's a very good or even the best strategy. It only indicates that the promoters of it have good marketing skills.
There have been lots of trends in software dev... | null | 0 | 1491644569 | False | 0 | dfzpx4q | t3_63zg6f | null | null | t1_dfzplzv | null | 1493898634 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
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