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null | sou1eater | null | This list is quite old | null | 0 | 1492400648 | False | 0 | dgd29yt | t3_65oh83 | null | null | t3_65oh83 | null | 1494131907 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | firagabird | null | No way, it's just insufficient for mobile use cases, Mir is clearly the way to g- oh wait. | null | 0 | 1492400702 | False | 0 | dgd2b5x | t3_65qqfr | null | null | t1_dgcl5aj | null | 1494131923 | 32 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | archpuddington | null | No, just a strict finite state machine. | null | 0 | 1492400749 | False | 0 | dgd2cau | t3_65oh83 | null | null | t1_dgczzj0 | null | 1494131938 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | firagabird | null | And then C a year after that. | null | 0 | 1492400766 | False | 0 | dgd2cos | t3_65qqfr | null | null | t1_dgcsidi | null | 1494131943 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | RiPont | null | While real-time game logic should never be done in a GC-at-random-times framework, there are plenty of game services that aren't the real-time game logic.
Social features, cloud saves, matchmaking, etc. are all services on the backend that make way more sense to write in a modern language you can host on a PaaS cloud ... | null | 0 | 1492400777 | False | 0 | dgd2cxb | t3_65qqfr | null | null | t1_dgct7xb | null | 1494131946 | 11 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | trrSA | null | Whaaat? | null | 0 | 1492400891 | False | 0 | dgd2fjt | t3_65njzp | null | null | t1_dgd0yel | null | 1494131982 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | sensirgo | null | I guess this is the end of it because I'm not working on the same codebase as you to give you concrete examples and you don't seem to understand hypothetical examples. | null | 0 | 1492400971 | False | 0 | dgd2hcd | t3_65njzp | null | null | t1_dgd1xbu | null | 1494132006 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | RiPont | null | Between scoping and side-effects, I'm not sure there is actually a way to produce a translator from perl to python that can be guaranteed to be correct.
...and a translator that doesn't produced guaranteed-to-be-equivalent output code that looks like line noise (well, the source is in perl, so it already looked like l... | null | 0 | 1492401131 | False | 0 | dgd2l27 | t3_65qqfr | null | null | t1_dgctixm | null | 1494132056 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | Tom_Cian | null | There is no question that C# (and the JVM) will run rings around any Ruby/Python implementation. As in "Just translate the code token for token and it will go ten times faster".
That's a fact.
Now the question is: does your back end need it? Are you having performance problems?
In the affirmative, your tech lead sho... | null | 0 | 1492401145 | False | 0 | dgd2ldl | t3_65qqfr | null | null | t1_dgcq9ly | null | 1494132060 | 8 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | flyinglotus1983 | null | Yea, I wouldn't recommend it for business. Netscape famously tried it and lost the Browser Wars of the '90s. But for open source projects, the development cost is incurred by 'some random dude', not a corporation or the community at large. Therefore I'm arguing that for open source, the costs are low and the benefit... | null | 0 | 1492401236 | False | 0 | dgd2nfq | t3_65qqfr | null | null | t1_dgd279a | null | 1494132088 | 28 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | RiPont | null | No. Because perl is too loose in scoping and side-effects.
Java to C# or vice versa could be doable. Pascal has been done.
Perl translated to python would both look unintelligible and be untrustworthy. That combination is worse than useless. | null | 0 | 1492401267 | False | 0 | dgd2o43 | t3_65qqfr | null | null | t1_dgcwact | null | 1494132096 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | MonkeeSage | null | I'm not very familiar with barns, but in my 15 years of building carports we found that modularity wasn't a big problem, it was mainly efficient use of space that we had problems with. | null | 0 | 1492401306 | False | 0 | dgd2ozz | t3_65qqfr | null | null | t1_dgcyrgs | null | 1494132109 | 23 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | nicksvr4 | null | I went straight to comments before opening link. Literally thought it was in regards to X vs Wayland. | null | 0 | 1492401306 | False | 0 | dgd2p0f | t3_65qqfr | null | null | t1_dgcxz7j | null | 1494132109 | 13 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1492401344 | False | 0 | dgd2puq | t3_65njzp | null | null | t1_dgd0kvf | null | 1494132120 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | hotoatmeal | null | DCE tends to speed up compilers. There's no use in spending time optimizing code that won't ever be executed at runtime. Likewise canonicalizations can have a positive effect. | null | 0 | 1492401617 | False | 0 | dgd2vsr | t3_65pxv9 | null | null | t1_dgcn1to | null | 1494132199 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | ItzWarty | null | The average webpage is going to have a hard time doing stuff like file I/O, though, and rightly so. Same with pinging external services (e.g. source code providers, npm). | null | 0 | 1492401643 | False | 0 | dgd2wd8 | t3_65pxc0 | null | null | t1_dgcq8k8 | null | 1494132207 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | turkish_gold | null | This isn't about making a product competing in the same field; its about asserting that Facebook has violated your patent.
The language is simple: you can use our patent-derived products so long as we aren't in a dispute over who owns which patent, and *you* initiated this dispute.
If Facebook sues you, and you cou... | null | 0 | 1492401806 | 1492402054 | 0 | dgd2zyw | t3_65s3ze | null | null | t1_dgcsxt1 | null | 1494132255 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | StupotAce | null | If you don't understand the problems and requirements, you aren't fit to maintain the app as it is. I've run across code that no one wants to touch because they are scared to break things. To me, that means the code isn't maintainable and needs immediate attention. | null | 0 | 1492401822 | False | 0 | dgd30bk | t3_65qqfr | null | null | t1_dgd1rwp | null | 1494132260 | 17 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | Plazmatic | null | I wouldn't say it would run things faster than python because with python you could just piece wise use C++ underneath with Cython. In fact, you would just re-write the tight code in C++ without touching the rest minimizing the amount of work needed to be done, I don't know if this is possible with Ruby but if it is t... | null | 0 | 1492402041 | False | 0 | dgd353n | t3_65qqfr | null | null | t1_dgd2ldl | null | 1494132324 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | tkannelid | null | When I loaded that page, it burned my eyes out with its magmatic magenta glow. I no longer trust arbitrary websites to use CSS. | null | 0 | 1492402149 | False | 0 | dgd37ii | t3_65qqfr | null | null | t3_65qqfr | null | 1494132356 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | tkannelid | null | https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/disable-css/ | null | 0 | 1492402230 | False | 0 | dgd39eh | t3_65qqfr | null | null | t1_dgcrev5 | null | 1494132381 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | Tom_Cian | null | If your point is that Python when rewritten in C++ is as fast as C++, I'm not going to disagree :-)
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null | Allways_Wrong | null | Flash? | null | 0 | 1492402401 | False | 0 | dgd3d5d | t3_64oqaq | null | null | t1_dg42rj6 | null | 1494132432 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | dmgctrl | null | huge pet peeve of mine. Spend the time to write a tutorial on XYZ. "Why not do it "ABC" because I wrote a tutorial on XYZ asshole. | null | 0 | 1492402444 | False | 0 | dgd3e3s | t3_65qqfr | null | null | t3_65qqfr | null | 1494132444 | 10 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | regeya | null | OK, so as a rank amateur who, at 42, isn't planning on being anything other than a rank amateur anymore, here's my question: rather than getting angry about this, wouldn't it be better to concentrate on Electron memory use? My interest is that while I'd rather have native apps, I'm not holding my breath for Skype to r... | null | 0 | 1492402859 | 1492404983 | 0 | dgd3mwu | t3_65k067 | null | null | t3_65k067 | null | 1494132561 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | Furyhunter | null | this headline is bait lmao
_(it is a good article)_ | null | 0 | 1492402929 | False | 0 | dgd3odo | t3_65rdta | null | null | t3_65rdta | null | 1494132582 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | Princesseuh | null | He forgot to mention, we have **safe** cookies! | null | 0 | 1492403090 | False | 0 | dgd3rtq | t3_65qqfr | null | null | t1_dgcyo2h | null | 1494132629 | 8 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | flyinglotus1983 | null | In my particular case (the 1978 FORTRAN ionospheric propagation code), I do understand the problems and the requirements. I've got expensive books on it.
Now, with that being said...
Am I an industry expert? Fuck no. I dropped out of college because my calculus professor was an asshole.
Am I motivated? Apparentl... | null | 0 | 1492403174 | False | 0 | dgd3tp9 | t3_65qqfr | null | null | t1_dgd30bk | null | 1494132654 | 28 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | badsectoracula | null | A part of me died when he called running an entire program inside a web browser control as "native".... but i suppose that is a sign of the times. | null | 0 | 1492403329 | False | 0 | dgd3x0v | t3_65rme3 | null | null | t3_65rme3 | null | 1494132699 | 68 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | Harha | null | I don't know what ruby-isms are and tbh I probably do not want to know. D: | null | 0 | 1492403521 | False | 0 | dgd40zx | t3_65qqfr | null | null | t1_dgd0jrn | null | 1494132753 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | cbmuser | null | What's wrong with FORTRAN though? It's not that the language is stuck in the 70ies. Modern FORTRAN has lots of nice features like Co-Arrays and is well supported on large compute clusters. | null | 0 | 1492403536 | False | 0 | dgd41b6 | t3_65qqfr | null | null | t1_dgd1rwp | null | 1494132758 | 10 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | kurashu89 | null | > The example replaces an except: without a type with an... except Exception:, which is only marginally better.
It's actually a lot better as a bare except all catch everything, including KeyboardInterrupt and RuntimeError.
You should still catch only what you want, but at least this way you won't catch literally... | null | 0 | 1492403581 | False | 0 | dgd4298 | t3_65m420 | null | null | t1_dgbq513 | null | 1494132771 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | angryrancor | null | Hey, my apologies. I understand what your issue with what I am saying is now.
That is absolutely a concern. It is entirely unreasonable to expect someone to perform their *entire* job during the interview time slot, even if it's a full-day interview, like a lot of big corps impose on us (yes, I agree that is egregio... | null | 0 | 1492403616 | False | 0 | dgd42ys | t3_65njzp | null | null | t1_dgd2puq | null | 1494132780 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | imfineny | null | Oh god not fucking Python! Of all languages, write it in some other language whose maintainers don't just break shit all the time! | null | 1 | 1492403630 | False | 0 | dgd439s | t3_65qqfr | null | null | t3_65qqfr | null | 1494132784 | -4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | cbmuser | null | And only stable support for x86.
Sponsored by Intel(R). | null | 0 | 1492403748 | False | 0 | dgd45ou | t3_65qqfr | null | null | t1_dgcy88u | null | 1494132818 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | paultypes | null | > Also if you focus on that technological stack too much, outside of expensive and suffocating technological hubs (e.g. Silicon Valley) you'll find yourself with job offers coming only from consulting companies that grow with their head count and that use technologies as buzzwords, because there isn't much else they... | null | 0 | 1492403804 | False | 0 | dgd46u4 | t3_65knzb | null | null | t1_dgbrk2t | null | 1494132833 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | dmgctrl | null | Powershell it is bitchs.. :-D | null | 0 | 1492403841 | False | 0 | dgd47jr | t3_65qqfr | null | null | t1_dgd439s | null | 1494132842 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | cbmuser | null | No, it isn't. So far the only project I know to have to it is *librsvg*. All the other projects like *remacs* are more hobby projects than serious attempts. | null | 0 | 1492403867 | False | 0 | dgd482b | t3_65qqfr | null | null | t1_dgczrxk | null | 1494132849 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | Derpscientist | null | I enjoy your breakdown. It is impressive to note that Ada is probably the most widely used language missing. However, is this breakdown useful? From a programming languages marketing perspective we could formulate a different criteria.
* Is the quality of the tooling superb? C#, Java
* Is the breadth of the ecosystem ... | null | 0 | 1492404174 | 1492405136 | 0 | dgd4e78 | t3_65pbcb | null | null | t1_dgd233z | null | 1494132931 | 8 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | flyinglotus1983 | null | Because *why not just rewrite it in X?*
lol but seriously, I don't really have a good answer to that, other than the fact that it's a good exercise for me to fully understand the math and the workflow until I've transcribed it into a language that I'm more comfortable with. It's really more about the journey and the ... | null | 0 | 1492404185 | False | 0 | dgd4efh | t3_65qqfr | null | null | t1_dgd41b6 | null | 1494132934 | 12 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | neoform | null | That's not a bad strategy. I rarely do interviews since I'm quite happy with my current job, and very few companies would offer me something better than what I'm getting.
I only did that interview because where the interview was at. I'll definitely keep those tips in mind next time something like this comes up. :) | null | 0 | 1492404363 | False | 0 | dgd4hww | t3_65njzp | null | null | t1_dgd20k0 | null | 1494132981 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | assassinator42 | null | I'm curious, which OS were you using?
I remember Quicktime being a major PITA as a Windows user. Apple charged for the ability to enter and exit full screen from the menu. They wanted you to buy Quicktime Pro.
Plus there was the struggle with codecs. Firefox would say I needed to install QuickTime, only for QuickTime... | null | 0 | 1492404627 | False | 0 | dgd4mys | t3_65k067 | null | null | t1_dgbflr0 | null | 1494133050 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | rydan | null | It does mention boot in the article. | null | 0 | 1492404702 | False | 0 | dgd4oe2 | t3_65rdta | null | null | t1_dgd0ql4 | null | 1494133069 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | EntroperZero | null | Shouldn't it at least be fanchildren? | null | 0 | 1492404731 | False | 0 | dgd4oyt | t3_65qqfr | null | null | t1_dgcpa3q | null | 1494133077 | 12 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | AmalgamDragon | null | Personally, I'd rather have no documentation than significantly wrong documentation. There's a lot of information contained in working code. Even it isn't the most efficient way to get it, I'd rather spend my doing that then first spending time getting the wrong idea in my head and then having to sort out the reality... | null | 0 | 1492404879 | False | 0 | dgd4rso | t3_65n5df | null | null | t1_dgbx377 | null | 1494133114 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | Gotebe | null | I gave you an upvote, but...
It's all about gauging the risk involved.
For you (I see the other post you made, about dropping out etc), the risk is definitely worth it.
For the business, perhaps. Even if you fail, the old code is still there... | null | 0 | 1492404923 | False | 0 | dgd4sm5 | t3_65qqfr | null | null | t1_dgd1rwp | null | 1494133126 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | unbounded_recusion | null | Come back when you have something useful to say. | null | 0 | 1492405239 | False | 0 | dgd4yf3 | t3_65r5mq | null | null | t1_dgd1o9s | null | 1494133203 | 24 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | eckyp | null | What do you mean by Spark being "synchronous only"?
| null | 0 | 1492405312 | False | 0 | dgd4zqp | t3_65rdta | null | null | t1_dgd07af | null | 1494133220 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | spacelibby | null | I mean, you can try the language specification. They're usually pretty boring, but they do a good job of getting to the syntax. | null | 0 | 1492405463 | False | 0 | dgd52nh | t3_65pbcb | null | null | t1_dgcpiof | null | 1494133259 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | readams | null | the best humans actually beat the best bots in starcraft despite apm advantages. Starcraft bots are pretty primitive still. | null | 0 | 1492405644 | False | 0 | dgd560x | t3_65pgh7 | null | null | t1_dgc59aa | null | 1494133305 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | Shautieh | null | > And then you repeat. And keep repeating until you have 500 different systems all in some state of disrepair.
Gotcha | null | 0 | 1492405691 | False | 0 | dgd56vd | t3_65qqfr | null | null | t1_dgcxbkw | null | 1494133316 | 78 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | Shautieh | null | > but I like obsessive detail work
Should be the TL;DR. ;) | null | 0 | 1492405740 | False | 0 | dgd57rc | t3_65qqfr | null | null | t1_dgcz7t4 | null | 1494133327 | 50 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | EntroperZero | null | > Nobody does anything, the original programmers die or retire, and everyone's standing around with their dicks in their hands with no fucking clue what to do.
Source: People still trying to hire COBOL programmers. | null | 0 | 1492405816 | False | 0 | dgd5931 | t3_65qqfr | null | null | t1_dgd1rwp | null | 1494133345 | 16 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | mindbleach | null | Windows 95, later Windows ME (*ptoo!*). I just installed the old version from before Apple hid the ability to save a goddamn file. It was probably my first experience with software that actively opposed me as a user. Something that could have worked... but chose not to. I didn't stand for that shit then and I won't sta... | null | 0 | 1492405902 | False | 0 | dgd5alt | t3_65k067 | null | null | t1_dgd4mys | null | 1494133366 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | ComradeGibbon | null | With any complicated application the impedance mismatch between the language and the problem results bugs and difficult code in places where they don't match up very well. Change language and you can now have bugs and shit code in different places.
| null | 0 | 1492406012 | False | 0 | dgd5ck2 | t3_65qqfr | null | null | t1_dgcpbr0 | null | 1494133391 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | theOPindian | null | As someone who's still a sophomore in university, do you recommend any websites in particular to learn how to become better at unit testing and practice testing problems? | null | 0 | 1492406104 | False | 0 | dgd5e6m | t3_65njzp | null | null | t1_dgcd3er | null | 1494133413 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | SanityInAnarchy | null | Well... except for the even more frustrating times when they're exactly right, and the statement following the "just" is an incredibly simple thing you haven't thought of. | null | 0 | 1492406318 | False | 0 | dgd5i2z | t3_65qqfr | null | null | t1_dgcwjhb | null | 1494133466 | 37 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | yogthos | null | lim (micro) → ∞ | null | 1 | 1492406339 | False | 0 | dgd5ift | t3_65rdta | null | null | t3_65rdta | null | 1494133471 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | Ham62 | null | I'm kind of the same way, I just find it fun to take a project I've worked on and port it from C# to FreeBASIC or back to QuickBASIC/ASM or from there to C or something.
It's just a fun little challenge that I enjoy wasting time on and usually find places I could have improved the old code while I'm writing the new o... | null | 0 | 1492406412 | False | 0 | dgd5jr1 | t3_65qqfr | null | null | t1_dgcz7t4 | null | 1494133489 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | achacha | null | junit, mockito, findbugs are 3 popular libraries I use with java. I often create a test class for the class I am writing with tests to verify what my intention was while designing and at the same time it becomes part of the test suite. It makes it easier to isolate and test your code in a large application.
Each lan... | null | 0 | 1492406448 | False | 0 | dgd5ken | t3_65njzp | null | null | t1_dgd5e6m | null | 1494133497 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | almkglor | null | Basically, he was pointing out that one way of proving termination in a total language (i.e. proving that you will exit a loop that has some complex condition for stopping the loop) is to add a maximum number of iterations. You just hard exit when the max number of iterations is achieved.
This is similar to the fuel ... | null | 0 | 1492406563 | False | 0 | dgd5mgi | t3_65pxv9 | null | null | t1_dgcywe6 | null | 1494133525 | 9 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | sedict | null | Maybe, but some combinatorics related problems are easy once you learn a few basic principles | null | 0 | 1492406752 | False | 0 | dgd5pwv | t3_65oh83 | null | null | t1_dgclbbd | null | 1494133572 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | SanityInAnarchy | null | > ...hopefully you have a working program in the meantime, or how could the tests pass?
Plenty of ways. For example, say there's a typo in your conversion script which leads to your "test" methods being called "Test" methods, so some tests don't run at all, so when you invoke the "just test everything" all the test... | null | 0 | 1492406813 | False | 0 | dgd5r0u | t3_65qqfr | null | null | t1_dgcw5un | null | 1494133588 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | zem | null | agreed, i really enjoy converting projects between languages, especially when the new code ends up looking a lot cleaner | null | 0 | 1492406958 | False | 0 | dgd5tjj | t3_65qqfr | null | null | t1_dgcz7t4 | null | 1494133621 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | yogthos | null | Here's the thing to realize though. Js/HTML runtime is a portable VM that's been implemented on every popular platform now.
When you write an app using a stack based on Js/HTML, then you can run it on the web, Linux, MacOS, Windows, Android, iOS, and so on. You don't have to compile your app against each platform, dea... | null | 0 | 1492407047 | False | 0 | dgd5v4i | t3_65k067 | null | null | t1_dgayrgn | null | 1494133642 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | SanityInAnarchy | null | Having worked with both...
> ...all the extra debugging time spent tracking down where you had an uncaught typo or assigned an int to something that should be a string...
The number of times I've *actually* had to debug this kind of type error is on the order of once or twice per *year.* Typo errors tend to be cau... | null | 0 | 1492407259 | False | 0 | dgd5ysi | t3_65qqfr | null | null | t1_dgd0ndz | null | 1494133692 | 19 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | woztzy | null | As I said, I'd be surprised if an experienced Scala developer had issues following code written in a less familiar style.
Yes, tests still help in a statically typed setting, but having the type system *prove* that certain states are impossible is a big help, too, for both preventing errors and for local reasoning. It... | null | 0 | 1492407336 | False | 0 | dgd604j | t3_64ui55 | null | null | t1_dgcx9d0 | null | 1494133710 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | eazolan | null | > I never understood the need to trick people in interviews or ask trivia, that's not what they will be doing after they get hired.
(eyes narrow)
Is that a trick statement?
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null | cat_in_the_wall | null | this sounds to me like it isn't a real problem. .net fails to load types if the assembly isn't loaded, and further, will fail to load types if the assembly was loaded explicitly, and *further*, will fail to load types if that assembly was loaded in a way that did not allow for transitive type loading.
at worst this se... | null | 0 | 1492407423 | False | 0 | dgd61l5 | t3_65r5mq | null | null | t1_dgcxkhs | null | 1494133731 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | sedict | null | Well yea, but to be fair most of those are standard CS questions. Knowing your DS means you can efficiently implement them, otherwise you are left with copy-pasted code that looks like a mess and even you don't understand how it works.
I guess it also depends on the job you are applying for. | null | 0 | 1492407598 | False | 0 | dgd64my | t3_65njzp | null | null | t1_dgcguo3 | null | 1494133771 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | cat_in_the_wall | null | i don't think the language should have to "adapt", at least not to trends. but it should be expressive enough to handle what people want to use it for. java is way behind on this.
c# on the jvm is a dream. but, type erasure. | null | 0 | 1492407816 | False | 0 | dgd68cn | t3_65r5mq | null | null | t1_dgct5wc | null | 1494133820 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | cbmuser | null | Unless you break alignment. Then speed goes down dramatically or you'll end up with a Bus Error (SPARC). | null | 0 | 1492408016 | False | 0 | dgd6bwx | t3_65pxv9 | null | null | t1_dgclyje | null | 1494133869 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | occz | null | If it comes to that, can't you just swap react for preact and call it a day? | null | 0 | 1492408195 | False | 0 | dgd6f6z | t3_65s3ze | null | null | t3_65s3ze | null | 1494133912 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | kmeisthax | null | Yes, but you have to borrow the cookies and give them back to the owner when you're done. | null | 0 | 1492408212 | False | 0 | dgd6fh7 | t3_65qqfr | null | null | t1_dgcy88u | null | 1494133916 | 9 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | msiekkinen | null | Im not racist, but... | null | 0 | 1492408365 | False | 0 | dgd6i5h | t3_65qqfr | null | null | t1_dgcwjhb | null | 1494133951 | -6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | tdihp | null | > If a project is implemented in C++ and is going to be used in production, it needs to be ported to C first.
I don't think so. However I find C++ interfaces tend to be a problem as it's harder to maintain a consistent ABI, thus harder to be accessed outside of the original C++ code, while it's much less a problem ... | null | 0 | 1492408384 | False | 0 | dgd6igd | t3_65ng32 | null | null | t3_65ng32 | null | 1494133955 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | rlrl | null | > You're going to make a lot of those same bugs again with your new code.
Plus, you're going to invent new bugs. | null | 0 | 1492408468 | False | 0 | dgd6jvo | t3_65qqfr | null | null | t1_dgcpbr0 | null | 1494133975 | 9 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | yogthos | null | >As I said, I'd be surprised if an experienced Scala developer had issues following code written in a less familiar style.
I'd be surprised if they didn't. You see experienced Scala devs struggle with stuff like scalaz all the time.
>Yes, tests still help in a statically typed setting, but having the type syste... | null | 0 | 1492408488 | False | 0 | dgd6k7d | t3_64ui55 | null | null | t1_dgd604j | null | 1494133979 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | tywkeene | null | This is so fucking annoying.
I asked "Hey guys how would I go about doing X with Y?"
Then someone comes in saying "Why not use Z?"
Because I already did the research and have decided on Y and for some reason I decided against Z.
Younger programmers fall for this a lot, especially when it's a shiny new technology th... | null | 0 | 1492408496 | False | 0 | dgd6kbj | t3_65qqfr | null | null | t3_65qqfr | null | 1494133981 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | elamator | null | And then someone will discover ruby | null | 0 | 1492408678 | False | 0 | dgd6na8 | t3_65qqfr | null | null | t1_dgd2cos | null | 1494134021 | 42 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | fijt | null | > I've converted a lot of the DMD compiler from C++ to D
Why not just do that again in E-- ? | null | 0 | 1492408814 | False | 0 | dgd6pio | t3_65qqfr | null | null | t1_dgcz7t4 | null | 1494134051 | 10 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | bwainfweeze | null | Therapy is more expensive. Maybe try a human.
Even an email can work. I typically only send about half of them. | null | 0 | 1492408916 | False | 0 | dgd6r87 | t3_65pdx1 | null | null | t1_dgcg5yx | null | 1494134073 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | SkatingOnThinIce | null | This would be very cool if you saved in HTML/CSS | null | 0 | 1492408971 | False | 0 | dgd6s4g | t3_65pxc0 | null | null | t3_65pxc0 | null | 1494134086 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | TSPhoenix | null | I was referring more to codebases that started life because someone wanted to learn to make an app and just started coding as opposed to a career coder with a strong understanding of data structures, etc. | null | 0 | 1492409274 | False | 0 | dgd6x40 | t3_65qqfr | null | null | t1_dgd1d6h | null | 1494134152 | 12 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | cat_in_the_wall | null | yes it does. most of us programmers just consume apis. typescript allows you to create a border between typed land and untyped land. interfaces. these are basically promises to the compiler about the data in that interface. that in a nutshell is structural typing. but tsc cant enforce that binding. it has no idea when... | null | 0 | 1492409383 | False | 0 | dgd6yur | t3_64u2vh | null | null | t1_dg7q3ej | null | 1494134176 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | cxq2015 | null | This is what happens when totally unqualified people with a weak grasp of English, let alone legal English, attempt to interpret legal language.
This clause revokes your React license if you sue Facebook for patent infringement. *NOT* if you compete against Facebook. Note that it even exempts countersuits --- if Faceb... | null | 0 | 1492409477 | False | 0 | dgd70gr | t3_65s3ze | null | null | t3_65s3ze | null | 1494134198 | 22 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | glacialthinker | null | Ugh... I hate how the cookie jar makes sound, so Mom always knows when you've grabbed a cookie. | null | 0 | 1492409502 | False | 0 | dgd70un | t3_65qqfr | null | null | t1_dgd3rtq | null | 1494134203 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | gmaggior | null | So constantly printing the session to see what its contents are is something you do twice a year?
I see devs doing it twice an hour. | null | 0 | 1492409670 | False | 0 | dgd73j2 | t3_65qqfr | null | null | t1_dgd5ysi | null | 1494134239 | 8 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | gmaggior | null | Because he is a good programmer?
Because he brings new insight to the process? | null | 0 | 1492409697 | False | 0 | dgd73z5 | t3_65qqfr | null | null | t1_dgcy8es | null | 1494134244 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | Benaaasaaas | null | Then why did he pass probation period? I'd fire his ass first mention of a rewrite of any kind. | null | 0 | 1492409794 | False | 0 | dgd75nk | t3_65qqfr | null | null | t1_dgcyori | null | 1494134266 | -13 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | Me00011001 | null | > How legible their writing is
If only we had things that could make it so people don't need to write things by hand. Do you also deduct points from people that go super slow, just so it's legible enough? Have you also considered that some people are incapable of having neat hand writing? | null | 0 | 1492410122 | False | 0 | dgd7aux | t3_65njzp | null | null | t1_dgcp1u5 | null | 1494134337 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | CODESIGN2 | null | Never underestimate the number of people that will insist to you, even after you give them an out that they programmed (not disassembled or analysed) in binary or hex... Maybe they are not all liars but it's something a person can say that Immediately makes me think they were dropped on their head at height multiple ti... | null | 0 | 1492410333 | False | 0 | dgd7eho | t3_65njzp | null | null | t1_dgc61bl | null | 1494134386 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | ImprovedPersonality | null | But sometimes experience can be a problem. A group of programmers in their forties might insist on C (and C89 at that!) simply because they never bothered to keep up with new developments. | null | 1 | 1492410355 | False | 0 | dgd7eu7 | t3_65qqfr | null | null | t1_dgcpe6l | null | 1494134390 | 8 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | The_frozen_one | null | Silverlight? | null | 0 | 1492410610 | False | 0 | dgd7itv | t3_64oqaq | null | null | t1_dgd3d5d | null | 1494134444 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | Tubbers | null | Sometimes rewriting things is actually correct. Imagine if it weren't written in Ruby, but instead COBOL, or ColdFusion, or what if it were actually some in-house language that was created and nobody else even knows? Also imagine that it was filled with bugs from overly complicated logic and Frankensteinish bolting on ... | null | 0 | 1492410735 | False | 0 | dgd7kpe | t3_65qqfr | null | null | t1_dgd75nk | null | 1494134468 | 12 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
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null | kazagistar | null | In case you are curious:
The vtables for boxed traits in Rust are stored alongside the data pointer on the stack, trading off larger size for less pointer chasing. (Unboxed traits don't need vtables since they are known at compile time). | null | 0 | 1492410881 | False | 0 | dgd7n15 | t3_65pxv9 | null | null | t1_dgcmnhc | null | 1494134500 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | ess_tee_you | null | It looks like you're trying to write a Natural Language Parser, would you like help?
Fuck off you paperclip bastard! | null | 0 | 1492410974 | False | 0 | dgd7ol3 | t3_65njzp | null | null | t1_dgcnced | null | 1494134520 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | kazagistar | null | I am [Aware](http://docs.spring.io/spring/docs/current/javadoc-api/org/springframework/beans/factory/Aware.html) of this fact. | null | 0 | 1492411012 | False | 0 | dgd7p5i | t3_65rdta | null | null | t1_dgcsa5t | null | 1494134529 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | TheHobodoc | null | Its not really about type loading, java already does this. Its about dealing with different versions of the same type and hiding library internals.
Lets say you have a project that uses a rest library and a oauth client. Both uses the same http client but different versions. At the moment you can only load one version... | null | 0 | 1492411227 | False | 0 | dgd7sf8 | t3_65r5mq | null | null | t1_dgd61l5 | null | 1494134572 | 11 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
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