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null | videomorphic | null | >Frankly, most CS students don't really do the "doing" part - that is, pursuing real side-projects with nontrivial time commitment and technical challenges.
Why would they? Nobody expects physics students to do 'side projects' of designing buildings. If you want to be a structural engineer you do a civil engineerin... | null | 0 | 1492427841 | False | 0 | dgdd7io | t3_65r060 | null | null | t1_dgcjbvj | null | 1494137191 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | tf2ftw | null | I don't t agree except for your last point. All new code could have bugs regardless if the system is ancient or brand new. A new system might even eliminate some of the bug potential. The programmers that originally worked on it work at a time when the business requirements were different then now. If they are the same... | null | 0 | 1492427939 | False | 0 | dgdd8us | t3_65qqfr | null | null | t1_dgcpbr0 | null | 1494137209 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | sabas123 | null | I agree with you, the person I commented on said that CS students don't do the "doing" part enough, so I wondered what he meant by this. | null | 0 | 1492427979 | False | 0 | dgdd9em | t3_65r060 | null | null | t1_dgdd5od | null | 1494137217 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | stefantalpalaru | null | They've been sabotaging Python2 all this time, in order to force people to jump ship to the slower and shittier descendent.
The last FUD I heard from that crowd is that Python2 does not support Unicode and you absolutely need Python3 for that :-) | null | 0 | 1492428037 | False | 0 | dgdda93 | t3_65qqfr | null | null | t1_dgd9w57 | null | 1494137228 | -1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1492428096 | False | 0 | dgddb2o | t3_65rdta | null | null | t1_dgcyzk5 | null | 1494137239 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | steelcitykid | null | I mean, what do you suggest as an alternative? It's ubiquitous as is, and is almost always used to mean some program running on a mobile device be it phone or tablet. | null | 0 | 1492428371 | False | 0 | dgddeuq | t3_65rme3 | null | null | t1_dgdb5xw | null | 1494137290 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | lisbonant | null | If you're just looking, though, pass that baby around, everybody gets a peek! | null | 0 | 1492428375 | False | 0 | dgddewl | t3_65qqfr | null | null | t1_dgdd5bf | null | 1494137291 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | MEaster | null | Moving from JavaScript to TypeScript is not really a "re-write" as such, in that JavaScript should be valid TypeScript. | null | 0 | 1492428449 | False | 0 | dgddfzh | t3_65qqfr | null | null | t1_dgdbshy | null | 1494137306 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | sigma914 | null | And large chunks of it have been moved into C++ over time | null | 0 | 1492428483 | False | 0 | dgddggf | t3_65qqfr | null | null | t1_dgdbdpd | null | 1494137311 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | nakilon | null | Master has no time and need to share his knowledge with those who express so much anger and sarcasm. Masters differ from others in that way that they have a lot of ideas and abilities to use all their time for job that pays and so for other masters, than to try to teach aggressive nonperspective ragekids. | null | 0 | 1492428523 | False | 0 | dgddh0o | t3_65njzp | null | null | t1_dgby8bm | null | 1494137319 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | Regular_Expressions | null | Rust evangelization squad, GO! | null | 0 | 1492428566 | False | 0 | dgddhlw | t3_65qqfr | null | null | t1_dgcstce | null | 1494137329 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | ----_____--------- | null | > AST / strong typing
Python has "AST" and strong typing just as much as C# does.
> I've used both and it takes 10x longer to do even a small thing in a Ruby or Python evrionment for something the scale of a web app [...]
I don't have a lot of experience with C# web dev, but after having to work with java, I c... | null | 0 | 1492428579 | False | 0 | dgddhs7 | t3_65qqfr | null | null | t1_dgd0ndz | null | 1494137331 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | Regular_Expressions | null | Just give someone a slice | null | 0 | 1492428597 | False | 0 | dgddi1z | t3_65qqfr | null | null | t1_dgd6fh7 | null | 1494137335 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | kefeer | null | It will be 364 still. | null | 0 | 1492428622 | False | 0 | dgddig3 | t3_65njzp | null | null | t1_dgdd57c | null | 1494137340 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | BrightCandle | null | Spring boot, there prior version of making a simple service requires 384MB of RAM to run an API that returns some basic JSON. It produces a fat jar that is at least 80MB. Spring roo required their IDE and it crashed repeatedly and was a disaster to work with, way too much magic in both.
So I hope they get this right b... | null | 1 | 1492428633 | False | 0 | dgddilw | t3_65rdta | null | null | t3_65rdta | null | 1494137342 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | LEmp_Evrey | null | It is the only protection against homoglyph attacks we have right now, until only subsets of Unicode are allowed in domain names that do not include any kind of homoglyphs.
Thus, this "fixes" the danger of homoglyph attacks by making the most common attacks look very, very suspicious. | null | 0 | 1492428650 | False | 0 | dgddiui | t3_65cf1u | null | null | t1_dgdd367 | null | 1494137346 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | dpash | null | > The license granted hereunder will terminate, automatically and without notice,
if you (or any of your subsidiaries, corporate affiliates or agents) initiate
directly or indirectly, or take a direct financial interest in, any Patent
Assertion: (i) against Facebook or any of its subsidiaries or corporate
affiliates... | null | 0 | 1492428654 | False | 0 | dgddiwq | t3_65s3ze | null | null | t1_dgd70gr | null | 1494137347 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | sigma914 | null | > string identifiers [...] would have to be replaced with integer constants [..] for performance reasons
Was the application written in C? String interning should turn this into apointer comparison in any language with a vm | null | 0 | 1492428767 | False | 0 | dgddkkm | t3_65qqfr | null | null | t1_dgda7kw | null | 1494137369 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | codebje | null | Markdown converts to PDF nicely enough with [pandoc](http://pandoc.org/), syntax highlighting and all. | null | 0 | 1492428964 | False | 0 | dgddnee | t3_65pxc0 | null | null | t1_dgct8k4 | null | 1494137407 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | ItzWarty | null | Theoretical CS is awesome, but it's often mathematically rigorous and completely irrelevant to software engineering because software engineering isn't cs.
The problem is that frankly you shouldn't need a cs degree to land a job in the swe industry (and that's certainly the case based on many drop-outs I know), but re... | null | 0 | 1492429005 | False | 0 | dgddo09 | t3_65r060 | null | null | t1_dgd9u8l | null | 1494137416 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | Shautieh | null | *The* local*e*, with no 's'? We are talking about detecting any kind of keyboards installed, not just the current locale.
I have no idea if there is an easy way to get all installed keyboard layouts that would work with all flavours of Linux... Hopefully it is easy indeed, and FF implements that. | null | 0 | 1492429017 | False | 0 | dgddo5p | t3_65cf1u | null | null | t1_dgdd023 | null | 1494137418 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | codebje | null | > Does the Markdown flavor support LaTeX equation typesetting?
It doesn't seem to, with my experiments.
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null | unruly_mattress | null | It was Java, and they were just keys to be looked up in a hash table on configuration change. | null | 0 | 1492429112 | False | 0 | dgddphd | t3_65qqfr | null | null | t1_dgddkkm | null | 1494137435 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | vattenpuss | null | > Already in the top .x ÷ of programmers/humans.
Are they? How do you know? Top in which respect? (I'm assuming by "top .x ÷" you mean top fraction of a percent.) | null | 0 | 1492429187 | False | 0 | dgddqk4 | t3_65njzp | null | null | t1_dgbzhkd | null | 1494137450 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | shevegen | null | I take care to not get burned out through side projects. That also means to only invest time when it is either fun/interesting or at the least not dull.
I have also noticed that larger side projects suck up exponentially more time than smaller-to-medium ones.
While this may be a logical observation (more code, more co... | null | 0 | 1492429188 | False | 0 | dgddqkr | t3_65uonl | null | null | t3_65uonl | null | 1494137450 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | shevegen | null | You always complete all projects? Never abandon any single one?
I find that hard to believe... | null | 0 | 1492429207 | False | 0 | dgddqtv | t3_65uonl | null | null | t1_dgdd4f8 | null | 1494137453 | -7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | sigma914 | null | Yup, Java has string interning, the only thing converting to ints would do is maybe let you pack more bits into a cache line, but I don't even know if that kind of memory optimisation is a thing in java land. Dude's an idiot. | null | 0 | 1492429232 | False | 0 | dgddr7l | t3_65qqfr | null | null | t1_dgddphd | null | 1494137458 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | masklinn | null | > Can you really mess UTF-8 decoding so bad that it becomes a rate limiter in your software?
1. you do realise that's the entire point of the article right?
2. absolutely, especially for "line" devices (proxies and security appliances) which don't generally have a huge amount of raw power to perform whatever task ... | null | 0 | 1492429331 | False | 0 | dgddso8 | t3_65ke97 | null | null | t1_dgc9nia | null | 1494137478 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
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null | saijanai | null | > It looks like you're trying to write a Natural Language Parser, would you like help?
> Fuck off you paperclip bastard!
It turns out that Bill Gates' wife was in charge of that project in the form of Microsoft Bob before they got married. | null | 0 | 1492429372 | 1492429618 | 0 | dgddtab | t3_65njzp | null | null | t1_dgd7ol3 | null | 1494137487 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | codebje | null | Given this app works with an import/export notion of "files" anyway, and saves content in an internal JSON representation, it could moderately easily have been done using web storage with import/export to something like gist or github.
Not that I mind Electron, 167Mb is large for a relatively feature-poor editor, but ... | null | 0 | 1492429375 | False | 0 | dgddtbi | t3_65pxc0 | null | null | t1_dgd2wd8 | null | 1494137488 | -1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | dpash | null | Spring is micro in the same way that LDAP is lightweight. It is compared to the alternative when it was first created. Compare Spring 1 and J2EE in 2004 (J2EE 1.4). | null | 0 | 1492429402 | False | 0 | dgddtq0 | t3_65rdta | null | null | t1_dgcsa5t | null | 1494137493 | 9 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | ItzWarty | null | Because this article is about a shortage in talented engineers. Perhaps this is regional, but I'd argue in the US the majority of degrees are in CS; I've never really heard of a degree in software engineering, though there are CS+eng degrees.
Regardless of your degree, what tends to speak words to recruiters and engin... | null | 0 | 1492429670 | False | 0 | dgddxq0 | t3_65r060 | null | null | t1_dgdd7io | null | 1494137547 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | jackmott2 | null | I understand how things are, I am proposing that things be better. You can say it is not realistic but better already exists for people who have put in just a little more effort. (i.e., Jetbrains, Sublime, etc vs VCCode/Atom)
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null | matthieum | null | I enjoy cleaning up in general (is that masochism?), to new idioms, new libraries, new utilities, ...
I particularly get a thrill when:
- the diff has a negative line count,
- the effort reveals issues that went unnoticed with the old way.
I like tidy things, and if they're not I'd rather tidy them than leave the ... | null | 0 | 1492429813 | False | 0 | dgddzvw | t3_65qqfr | null | null | t1_dgd5tjj | null | 1494137576 | 10 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | Flerpinator | null | The last time I explained bike shedding I was given a twenty minute rant about how critically important the bike shed actually is, and how lucky and blessed I am to have management that actually gives a shit about fixing the flaws in the shed, which by the way nobody on the engineering team was smart enough to catch. M... | null | 0 | 1492429830 | 1492439428 | 0 | dgde064 | t3_65qqfr | null | null | t1_dgcyja9 | null | 1494137579 | 9 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
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null | counters | null | You can't use those nice, modern features in old codebases. Plus, integration with MPI may be very, very low level (dictating the structure of the code itself), so you're locked into ways of tackling the core problem which may not be efficient for modern system architectures.
It's really a huge, huge problem | null | 0 | 1492429917 | False | 0 | dgde1gp | t3_65qqfr | null | null | t1_dgd41b6 | null | 1494137596 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | frezik | null | Yes. I'll slap something together out of a Raspberry Pi and OpenCV image recognition. That'll be $10,000. | null | 0 | 1492430081 | False | 0 | dgde40x | t3_65qqfr | null | null | t1_dgdasp1 | null | 1494137630 | 18 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | necesito95 | null | Not sure why you replied to me with same content which was in my comment :)
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null | geodel | null | Turd for me, for management it is golden egg. | null | 0 | 1492430155 | False | 0 | dgde552 | t3_65rme3 | null | null | t1_dgda2fv | null | 1494137646 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | Sun_Kami | null | Why is that the wrong approach? Spring has a lot of features because it's supposed to do a lot, and support a lot.
If you want something light that just gives you routing and http, use Sparkjava or something. | null | 0 | 1492430174 | False | 0 | dgde5go | t3_65rdta | null | null | t1_dgddilw | null | 1494137650 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | Staross | null | I think it created the optimal syntax to work with vectors and matrices, things like x(1:4,4) or reshape, which makes it nice to do numerical/scientific computations. Matlab and Julia have similar syntax. Matlab was too slow to replace it completely though. | null | 0 | 1492430255 | False | 0 | dgde6ps | t3_65qqfr | null | null | t1_dgdaa9s | null | 1494137666 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
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null | geodel | null | I agree. Mainly because it is few 1000 classes in few 100 directories. | null | 0 | 1492430326 | False | 0 | dgde7su | t3_65rdta | null | null | t1_dgd1o9e | null | 1494137681 | -4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | eythian | null | I think maybe you missed the:
> doesn't 'go insane' over not completing things,
bit. | null | 0 | 1492430402 | False | 0 | dgde8zr | t3_65uonl | null | null | t1_dgddqtv | null | 1494137697 | 21 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | pcdinh | null | How does Go's garbage collector work in that case? Can GC pause stop PostgreSQL? | null | 0 | 1492430462 | False | 0 | dgde9vv | t3_65ur49 | null | null | t3_65ur49 | null | 1494137708 | 9 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | craftytrickster | null | In my experience, Atom is slow. However, VsCode is not, but they are both built on electron.
Nevertheless, electron does seem to consume a lot more resources than a traditional native app, and it would be nice if people opted for those solutions instead. | null | 0 | 1492430488 | False | 0 | dgdeaak | t3_65rme3 | null | null | t1_dgdavuo | null | 1494137715 | 9 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | flyinglotus1983 | null | Out of all the 60-ish year old 'ancient' languages out there, it's the one I want to learn the most. More than COBOL, more than ALGOL, and yes, more than LISP (not try to start a flame war, FORTRAN is just used more in my line of work than LISP is) | null | 0 | 1492430509 | False | 0 | dgdeam2 | t3_65qqfr | null | null | t1_dgdaa9s | null | 1494137718 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | okiyama | null | The latest version of Java is actually pretty good. A couple versions back they had the Oh shit realization that they were losing ground on C# so they started porting all the features over. | null | 0 | 1492430578 | False | 0 | dgdebou | t3_65qqfr | null | null | t1_dgd9cww | null | 1494137733 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | frezik | null | A while back, I wrote a system for the committees that handed out academic rewards in a certain field. Officially, they were all supposed to gather together and vote on the candidates, so I dutifully went off and wrote the system that way.
When it went into actual use, it turned out that nobody actually did that. The ... | null | 0 | 1492430595 | False | 0 | dgdebym | t3_65qqfr | null | null | t1_dgd0q0d | null | 1494137736 | 25 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | woztzy | null | > Static typing is not free either. It's necessarily more restrictive, so you can't always solve the problem the most direct way. You have to solve it in such a way that the compiler is able to verify. This can result in code that's provably consistent, but harder for the human to understand and therefore it's hard ... | null | 0 | 1492430655 | 1492434543 | 0 | dgdecwb | t3_64ui55 | null | null | t1_dgd6k7d | null | 1494137748 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | cryo | null | The difference is that piracy is illegal. | null | 0 | 1492430741 | False | 0 | dgdee8w | t3_65nfib | null | null | t1_dgbz9f3 | null | 1494137767 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | karmahawk | null | One of the issues regarding, "not knowing how to code" these days is lots of younger folks simply don't read. They're too caught up in the churn, so they're dismissive of anything written more than a couple years ago. Even then that's 'too old' for a lot of folks these days. Its all about having instant results.
Not t... | null | 0 | 1492431083 | False | 0 | dgdejsa | t3_65qqfr | null | null | t1_dgcz9mv | null | 1494137841 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | MagicMurderBagYT | null | C is almost never a good choice for any problem that doesn't exactly require the pros that C gives you. Python is applicable in a much broader spectrum than C. | null | 0 | 1492431107 | False | 0 | dgdek7n | t3_65qqfr | null | null | t1_dgda9ov | null | 1494137846 | -6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | [deleted] | null | Guess what, princess. The same can be said about most "big boy software" too. Get over yourself. | null | 0 | 1492431324 | False | 0 | dgdenyg | t3_65qqfr | null | null | t1_dgdbi6t | null | 1494137897 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | MagicMurderBagYT | null | Because there's no reason to use C just because a programmer knows it, if the code in is more error prone (respectively requires a good amount of concentration and effort on the programmers side just to avoid problems that arise from the low abstraction of the language) and hampers programmer productivity compared to d... | null | 0 | 1492431394 | False | 0 | dgdep54 | t3_65qqfr | null | null | t1_dgd8e0u | null | 1494137912 | 8 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | MagicMurderBagYT | null | That's not the point at all... | null | 0 | 1492431512 | False | 0 | dgder6m | t3_65qqfr | null | null | t1_dgdbjpd | null | 1494137940 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | castro1987 | null | Arguably, so is some of the stuff that advertisers are doing. It depends on where you are in the world. | null | 0 | 1492431560 | False | 0 | dgdes0z | t3_65nfib | null | null | t1_dgdee8w | null | 1494137951 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | MagicMurderBagYT | null | > C's syntax is the only language I've seen that makes any damn sense.
"I only know C and would never bother to look at anything else, so it's obviously the best language there is. Everyone else is an idiot."
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null | slfjlqeun | null | `isohybrid` allows you to cp/dd an .iso to a USB device directly and have it bootable. At least some of the distros that provide .iso files postprocess them with `isohybrid` for better usability. From the syslinux 'isohybrid' wiki page:
> ISO 9660 filesystems created by the mkisofs command as described in the ISOLI... | null | 0 | 1492431597 | False | 0 | dgdesox | t3_65oexy | null | null | t1_dgckogk | null | 1494137960 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | enteleform | null | That's my go-to for trying out new languages.
[**HyperPolyglot**](http://hyperpolyglot.org/) is another good one, it has some pretty useful side-by-side comparisons.
Something in-between the two would be ideal, where you could select specific languages to compare. | null | 0 | 1492431697 | False | 0 | dgdeugw | t3_65pbcb | null | null | t1_dgcna34 | null | 1494137985 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | Tarmen | null | I think I might recommend scheme as lisp for people who aren't already in the java ecosystem. It probably is less useful in the real world but I think its clearer and stm is already in the mix thanks to haskell. | null | 0 | 1492431762 | False | 0 | dgdevly | t3_65pbcb | null | null | t1_dgcwew9 | null | 1494138000 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | djhworld | null | I've given technical tests to people in interviews before, and the problem has always been the same one, with a bit of tweaking here and there. The test lasts 90 minutes, using a laptop with an IDE.
To tell the truth I hate doing it, mainly because when I got asked to give the test, I spent some time tackling the pro... | null | 0 | 1492431866 | False | 0 | dgdexfi | t3_65njzp | null | null | t3_65njzp | null | 1494138024 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | brtt3000 | null | But those micro parts are easier to specify and test individually! \s
All we need now we need now is a way to specify and test the interaction of 500 little systems.
You like mocks? Because we're going to mock the shit out of everting until we mock the mocks. Just managing and versioning and verifying the mocks need... | null | 0 | 1492431937 | False | 0 | dgdeypx | t3_65qqfr | null | null | t1_dgcxbkw | null | 1494138041 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | helm | null | People didn't know how to code 30 years ago either. Try rewriting Fortran 77 code written by metallurgists ... | null | 0 | 1492431999 | False | 0 | dgdeztr | t3_65qqfr | null | null | t1_dgcz9mv | null | 1494138056 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | Stimzz | null | Modern C++ is very different and have made many steps forward. Depending on which version of C++ you lasted used that assertion may or may not really hold true any more.
I myself would be very careful about making so broad statements about major languages having no benefit anymore. I don't think the Linux kernel deve... | null | 0 | 1492432092 | False | 0 | dgdf1hs | t3_65qqfr | null | null | t1_dgdb75x | null | 1494138078 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | user_naem | null | This is exactly why Fortran lives. Anyone who has ever done numerical computing will have implemented algorithms which are "do this thing to this array slice and iterate". This is *very easy* in Fortran, even with things like array indexes which vary by dimension and start at negative numbers. Try doing this kind of th... | null | 0 | 1492432129 | False | 0 | dgdf25h | t3_65qqfr | null | null | t1_dgde6ps | null | 1494138087 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | combinatorylogic | null | Program. Application. | null | 1 | 1492432133 | False | 0 | dgdf291 | t3_65rme3 | null | null | t1_dgddeuq | null | 1494138088 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | OffbeatDrizzle | null | With the amount of use java sees these days you'd think she was getting a LOT more dates than the hot girl... almost as if she were the non-dramatical down to earth friend instead | null | 0 | 1492432174 | False | 0 | dgdf2yt | t3_65pu1j | null | null | t1_dgdb0l4 | null | 1494138098 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | stovenn | null | but bikes crave sheds. | null | 0 | 1492432186 | False | 0 | dgdf36i | t3_65qqfr | null | null | t1_dgde064 | null | 1494138101 | 8 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | Isvara | null | I don't want apps that are "visually stunning". I want apps that look and behave consistently with the rest of the platform. That used to be a prime goal, but everyone seems to have forgotten about it. | null | 0 | 1492432297 | False | 0 | dgdf5a9 | t3_65pxc0 | null | null | t1_dgcocmc | null | 1494138129 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | Isvara | null | Electron. Not even touching this. | null | 1 | 1492432361 | False | 0 | dgdf6h8 | t3_65pxc0 | null | null | t3_65pxc0 | null | 1494138145 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | alek_sys | null | Spring Boot is not really a *prior version*, it is here to stay. Spring Boot 2.0 based on Spring 5. Also, Spring Boot is not another framework, it is just a set of tools to help configure and run Spring apps easily and with minimum setup.
384 Mb of RAM could be the case - but it all depends from the libraries and the ... | null | 0 | 1492432376 | False | 0 | dgdf6ri | t3_65rdta | null | null | t1_dgddilw | null | 1494138148 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | djhworld | null | > looked for people who properly commented their code.
Some people think your code should be clean and readable enough not to warrant excessive commenting, as there's a risk that comments can go stale as code is maintained (see _Clean Code_ by Robert C Martin ) and just act as noise.
It's a tricky one that's fo... | null | 0 | 1492432431 | False | 0 | dgdf7qg | t3_65njzp | null | null | t1_dgcpyb1 | null | 1494138162 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | fiah84 | 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.
this is true for a lot of production software anyway | null | 0 | 1492432494 | False | 0 | dgdf8w0 | t3_65qqfr | null | null | t1_dgd1rwp | null | 1494138177 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | reluctant_deity | null | Telepathic Clippy. | null | 0 | 1492432722 | False | 0 | dgdfd3z | t3_65qqfr | null | null | t1_dgdcqhr | null | 1494138234 | 11 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | dpash | null | I didn't like them when I first saw them in anger. They seemed confusing and less readable. Then I started converting my code to use them and OMG, they really do make things easier and more readable. It's far easier to understand what a stream operation is doing compared to the equivalent foreach loop. Especially if yo... | null | 0 | 1492432741 | False | 0 | dgdfdh5 | t3_65pu1j | null | null | t1_dgdbssx | null | 1494138238 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | SecretDragoon | null | > Because there's no reason to use C just because a programmer knows it
Except in domains without an operating system where it's the only language you can use besides assembly. | null | 0 | 1492432828 | False | 0 | dgdff36 | t3_65qqfr | null | null | t1_dgdep54 | null | 1494138259 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | 9peppe | null | Nothing is wrong with FORTRAN, it's just that the Python scientific stack is way easier to use and more comfortable to write and maintain, without significant performance downsides: NumPy is mainly glue between FORTRAN and C, C++ libraries. | null | 0 | 1492432869 | False | 0 | dgdffvo | t3_65qqfr | null | null | t1_dgd41b6 | null | 1494138271 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | Vakieh | null | You're telling me he wasn't? [But I *was* writing a ransom note](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dP98Pb50T-U) | null | 0 | 1492432973 | False | 0 | dgdfhvp | t3_65qqfr | null | null | t1_dgdfd3z | null | 1494138296 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | Staross | null | The typical OOP syntax is also not as nice as having these things built in:
https://docs.scipy.org/doc/numpy-dev/user/numpy-for-matlab-users.html
Julia goes beyond all that with Cartesian ranges and syntactic loop fusion, but it remain to be seen if it can replace Fortran in its last bastions. | null | 0 | 1492433101 | False | 0 | dgdfk7p | t3_65qqfr | null | null | t1_dgdf25h | null | 1494138328 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | Brjl | null | These are the people normal programmers are taking advice from today. People that don't know the difference between ROM and disk space. | null | 0 | 1492433103 | False | 0 | dgdfk93 | t3_65rme3 | null | null | t1_dgdak2v | null | 1494138328 | 13 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | steelcitykid | null | App == Application. Is anyone confused by this? Why does it need to change in your opinion? | null | 0 | 1492433123 | False | 0 | dgdfkn2 | t3_65rme3 | null | null | t1_dgdf291 | null | 1494138333 | 9 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | rlyacht | null | It comes bundled with the SAS university edition! | null | 0 | 1492433146 | False | 0 | dgdfl2g | t3_65pxc0 | null | null | t1_dgcmce0 | null | 1494138340 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | tech_tuna | null | Yes, can you put that on a whiteboard? | null | 0 | 1492433232 | False | 0 | dgdfmpy | t3_65njzp | null | null | t1_dgdahll | null | 1494138361 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | HSP95 | null | Well, except I'm still getting kicked off after a day or two.
Account: "HSPSoftware" (it's not really a secret) | null | 0 | 1492433270 | False | 0 | dgdfneu | t3_64zhxe | null | null | t1_dg6njf3 | null | 1494138370 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | 112-Cn | null | > Ideally, I'd use a pragmatic language that has a great static type system but still compiles quickly. But since that doesn't seem to exist,
Go? The rigour of the C type system along with lightning-fast compilation time :) | null | 0 | 1492433336 | False | 0 | dgdfooq | t3_654yyp | null | null | t1_dg7t2c3 | null | 1494138388 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | sbegaudeau | null | OSGi would allow you to use multiple versions of the same HTTP client. Jigsaw does not allow you to have multiple versions of a module. Since it uses only one classloader for all the modules and since a class is identified by its classloader and its qualified name, you cannot have two occurrences of the same class in J... | null | 0 | 1492433357 | False | 0 | dgdfp49 | t3_65r5mq | null | null | t1_dgd7sf8 | null | 1494138393 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | robstewartUK | null | From the comments:
> IMVHO rewrite means: start over.
This.
The suggested approach of
1. Manual syntax conversion
2. Fixing bugs caused by conversion errors
3. Converting code to idiomatic target language
Might work if all you want to achieve is to make the parser of the new language happy. But number one sure... | null | 0 | 1492433384 | 1492433834 | 0 | dgdfpml | t3_65qqfr | null | null | t3_65qqfr | null | 1494138400 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | 9peppe | null | C is an high performance low level language. It requires time, to write something that is not full of memory leaks and buffer overflow vurnerabilities. Because C gives you the power to shoot yourself in the foot. And this is not very appreciated in the industry, today.
C is, and will always be, a language for nerds; a... | null | 0 | 1492433399 | False | 0 | dgdfpwx | t3_65qqfr | null | null | t1_dgd9c7n | null | 1494138404 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | gibbonatchi | null | It's not too hard to get hit up by the big four's inhouse recruiters -- I've had it multiple times over, and don't consider myself to be particularly good on paper. | null | 0 | 1492433409 | False | 0 | dgdfq3k | t3_65njzp | null | null | t1_dgcxkrr | null | 1494138406 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | reckoner23 | null | I found the word 'native' to just be more of a buzzword these days. It doesn't actually mean much. Especially in mobile development. | null | 0 | 1492433487 | False | 0 | dgdfrm2 | t3_65rme3 | null | null | t1_dgd3x0v | null | 1494138427 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | muuchthrows | null | The thing is I think the concept of a platform is disappearing, albeit more slowly than some Web fanatics claimed X years ago. The majority of users don't care about platform consistency, since what they do is more or less the same regardless of platform. At work it's a mail client, Word/Excel and some crappy inhouse i... | null | 0 | 1492433559 | False | 0 | dgdft1x | t3_65pxc0 | null | null | t1_dgdf5a9 | null | 1494138445 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | Sullane | null | It takes a long time to boot it and runs slowly for me on a mid 2014 macbookpro. I saw it suggested, tried it three times before giving up and going back to sublime. | null | 0 | 1492433588 | False | 0 | dgdftn5 | t3_65rme3 | null | null | t1_dgdavuo | null | 1494138453 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | sabas123 | null | >The problems we have is how some of us write our queries, not the language itself.
Could you give an example? | null | 0 | 1492433826 | False | 0 | dgdfyhm | t3_65qqfr | null | null | t1_dgd8npe | null | 1494138519 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | OnlyForF1 | null | Guys, this analogy isn't working. | null | 0 | 1492434034 | False | 0 | dgdg2rc | t3_65pu1j | null | null | t1_dgdf2yt | null | 1494138575 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | KaseyKasem | null | Well, I guess it really depends. Photoshop started as a side-project in Pascal. | null | 0 | 1492434154 | False | 0 | dgdg58x | t3_65qqfr | null | null | t1_dgd6x40 | null | 1494138608 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | TwelveParens | null | Ok, neat.
Now, how do I disable cursor manipulation by webpages? | null | 0 | 1492434206 | False | 0 | dgdg6d1 | t3_65uday | null | null | t3_65uday | null | 1494138623 | 15 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | mccoyn | null | Great code doesn't need comments, but we have a deadline so please comment on all of the things you didn't refactor to absolute perfection. | null | 0 | 1492434227 | False | 0 | dgdg6tb | t3_65njzp | null | null | t1_dgdf7qg | null | 1494138630 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
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