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True | paranoidray | null | great tutorial.
I don't understand why this gets downvoted. | null | 0 | 1315214262 | False | 0 | c2hleji | t3_k4qrh | null | t1_c2hleji | t3_k4qrh | null | 1427560533 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
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True | mikaelhg | null | Or communicating with others. Or understanding the business you're serving. | null | 0 | 1315214732 | False | 0 | c2hlfd8 | t3_k55g9 | null | t1_c2hlfd8 | t1_c2hlcay | null | 1427560539 | 9 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | bobindashadows | null | He was being sarcastic. | null | 0 | 1315215030 | False | 0 | c2hlfvl | t3_k42i7 | null | t1_c2hlfvl | t1_c2hg3ym | null | 1427560550 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | bobindashadows | null | Which eclipse button was that? I can't be bothered to learn manual refactoring. | null | 0 | 1315215079 | False | 0 | c2hlfyf | t3_k42i7 | null | t1_c2hlfyf | t1_c2hkkmh | null | 1427560548 | 10 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | It's the button that reserves all the memory and then a bit more. | null | 0 | 1315215339 | False | 0 | c2hlgdo | t3_k42i7 | null | t1_c2hlgdo | t1_c2hlfyf | null | 1427560552 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | kolme | null | My bullshit detector just went ring-a-ding-ding:
«Step #n to become a great programmer: Don't use this programming language because I personally don't like»
Edit: [Wrong tab](http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/k42i7/how_to_become_a_great_software_developer_because/) | null | 0 | 1315215425 | False | 0 | c2hlgio | t3_k55g9 | null | t1_c2hlgio | t3_k55g9 | null | 1427560554 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | johnwaterwood | null | Maybe it's because of a double Pavlov reaction by some guys who merely see the words "java" and "jsf" and downvote right away without even reading it?
Or maybe it are some RoR guys who can't stand that JSF is now easy too? :p | null | 0 | 1315215644 | False | 0 | c2hlgvn | t3_k4qrh | null | t1_c2hlgvn | t1_c2hleji | null | 1427560559 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | bobindashadows | null | He's pointing out that you need to duplicate the method for each type - iEnumerable, Iobservable, and so on. Higher-order type constructors (as seen in Haskell, ML, Scala) let you write the method once, while retaining type-safety. | null | 0 | 1315215807 | False | 0 | c2hlh5n | t3_k3pyu | null | t1_c2hlh5n | t1_c2hl4qx | null | 1427560563 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | millstone | null | OO programmers have a critique of design patterns in Java, but it's from the opposite direction, that Java is insufficiently OO. Many of the traditional design patterns are necessary in Java only to work around insufficient dynamism in the language. For example, the various Factory patterns would be trivial if Java c... | null | 0 | 1315215989 | False | 0 | c2hlhge | t3_k56t1 | null | t1_c2hlhge | t3_k56t1 | null | 1427560567 | 23 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | BioQuark | null | bettse | null | 0 | 1315216012 | False | 0 | c2hlhhc | t3_k4uxf | null | t1_c2hlhhc | t1_c2hlf1v | null | 1427560569 | 14 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Pie21 | null | Something non-programming-related on a programming-related site is still nothing to do with programming.
"Some seem to think this reddit is for "links that programmers might find interesting or funny". No. It's for programming links. Programming. Programming. *Programming*." | null | 0 | 1315216023 | False | 0 | c2hlhi0 | t3_k3jqa | null | t1_c2hlhi0 | t1_c2h8jjv | null | 1427560569 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | akdas | null | I really like this article even if it could be augmented, because it drives home the point that you really have to keep practicing, and paying attention along the way.
Incidentally, this is why a formal education at a good university is helpful. Essentially, you'll be doing exactly this, alongside theory hopefully to ... | null | 0 | 1315216072 | False | 0 | c2hlhkp | t3_k55g9 | null | t1_c2hlhkp | t3_k55g9 | null | 1427560569 | 31 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | bobindashadows | null | Come on man, most programmers even interested in monads have seen the semicolon. Even the web-dev kids who have only touched Ruby have probably seen semicolons in JavaScript (unless they suk at JavaScript) | null | 0 | 1315216073 | False | 0 | c2hlhkv | t3_k3pyu | null | t1_c2hlhkv | t1_c2hil9z | null | 1427560569 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | CyberDiablo | null | [It's already hosted there.](https://github.com/git/git) | null | 0 | 1315216719 | False | 0 | c2hlimi | t3_k4uxf | null | t1_c2hlimi | t1_c2hklp6 | null | 1427560585 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | phaker | null | It's not that bad unless your ratio projects started / projects finished is `DIVIDE BY ZERO ERROR`. | null | 0 | 1315216960 | False | 0 | c2hlj0j | t3_k55g9 | null | t1_c2hlj0j | t1_c2hld80 | null | 1427560587 | 54 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | luckystarr | null | Not sure what you mean by *more object oriented* wrt constructors and procedure calls.
I always though that the missing first class functions (and stand alone functions in general) that restricted Java to these byzantine command pattern constructs. | null | 0 | 1315216970 | False | 0 | c2hlj15 | t3_k56t1 | null | t1_c2hlj15 | t1_c2hlhge | null | 1427560587 | 14 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | perlgeek | null | That's why programming in your free time is still much fun, and will stay that way: you just chose to do those things that are fun to you.
This can be working on challenging algorithms (even if somebody might have implemented something similar already -- who cares if it's for fun anyway?), or throwing together some co... | null | 0 | 1315217053 | False | 0 | c2hlj64 | t3_k42if | null | t1_c2hlj64 | t3_k42if | null | 1427560590 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | rib-bit | null | > Incidentally, this is why a formal education at a good university is helpful.
I found this to be true when I went but I found CS grads these days don't have a lot of theory. they don't get orders of magnitude, set theory, etc. | null | 0 | 1315217059 | False | 0 | c2hlj6h | t3_k55g9 | null | t1_c2hlj6h | t1_c2hlhkp | null | 1427560590 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | tamrix | null | >A lot of people in this thread saying C# is better, have not used C#.
Programming languages are just memes as well.
Whatever opinion is most up voted just circle jerks it's way into similar threads. After you read reddit long enough everyone just says the same shit again and again. | null | 0 | 1315217463 | False | 0 | c2hljtn | t3_k3ivo | null | t1_c2hljtn | t1_c2hbeo4 | null | 1427560603 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1315217519 | False | 0 | c2hljwz | t3_k4uxf | null | t1_c2hljwz | t1_c2hkrg0 | null | 1427560604 | -1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | wicked | null | Let me explain better. I wrote a Monte Carlo program that takes two unbiased sources of 8 bits, multiply them together and return the lowest 8 bits. Here are the results for the first 10 numbers.
0: 0.019601
1: 0.001977
2: 0.003907
3: 0.001992
4: 0.005882
5: 0.001953
6: 0.003839
7: 0.001955
8: 0.00792... | null | 0 | 1315217559 | False | 0 | c2hljz4 | t3_k0y50 | null | t1_c2hljz4 | t1_c2gt7im | null | 1427560604 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | glados_v2 | null | I think the point of ezekiel is that people use unnecessary libraries and OOP to the extreme. | null | 0 | 1315217601 | False | 0 | c2hlk1s | t3_k42if | null | t1_c2hlk1s | t1_c2hk7a9 | null | 1427560604 | 8 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | divbyzero | null | Does anybody really like unqualified imports? Sure it makes the code a little neater looking but for anything larger than a toy example it it a nightmare for readers of your code.
For somebody unfamiliar with the code, it's impossible to tell where a module boundary ends without jumping into every function. Maintainin... | null | 0 | 1315217832 | False | 0 | c2hlkdj | t3_k325t | null | t1_c2hlkdj | t1_c2h8zoy | null | 1427560606 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | jaryl | null | To be fair, GitHub contributes to OS projects and put up some of their internal tools on GitHub. So technically, parts of GitHub are on GitHub. | null | 0 | 1315217942 | False | 0 | c2hlkkk | t3_k4uxf | null | t1_c2hlkkk | t1_c2hl35r | null | 1427560609 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1315218275 | False | 0 | c2hll2k | t3_k42i7 | null | t1_c2hll2k | t1_c2hkqla | null | 1427560615 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | codeshite | null | Yes I really do. I'm not poking fun at 'n00bs', they are the ones who haven't yet lost their common sense. | null | 0 | 1315218475 | False | 0 | c2hlldz | t3_k42i7 | null | t1_c2hlldz | t1_c2hkekg | null | 1427560618 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | that is fucking nonsense and you are dealing with grads who were terrible or from terrible programs.
| null | 0 | 1315218530 | False | 0 | c2hllgz | t3_k55g9 | null | t1_c2hllgz | t1_c2hlj6h | null | 1427560620 | 46 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | perlgeek | null | And yet I would like to see more jquery tutorials spending a bit of time on that point. | null | 0 | 1315218641 | False | 0 | c2hllnb | t3_k1bq3 | null | t1_c2hllnb | t1_c2gsrr5 | null | 1427560624 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | What does advanced Javascript actually mean? | null | 0 | 1315218693 | False | 0 | c2hllqw | t3_k4vwc | null | t1_c2hllqw | t1_c2hl80b | null | 1428195514 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | rib-bit | null | thank you for your intelligent response | null | 0 | 1315218798 | False | 0 | c2hllvy | t3_k55g9 | null | t1_c2hllvy | t1_c2hllgz | null | 1427560633 | 9 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | bobappleyard | null | > C is a good at lot of things, but C ain't one of them.
Haha | null | 0 | 1315218847 | False | 0 | c2hllyp | t3_k3un1 | null | t1_c2hllyp | t1_c2hl895 | null | 1427560634 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | MarshallBanana | null | Chrome's built-in reader is actually Foxit. | null | 0 | 1315218991 | False | 0 | c2hlm72 | t3_k4jfq | null | t1_c2hlm72 | t1_c2hkjpl | null | 1427560639 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | tamrix | null | > java is competing with python, php, C#, ruby, javascript etc
So then who does scala, groovy, clojure compete with? I see Java as an enterprise language competing with C#, C++ and Objective C. Not with scripting languages you kids write small websites with.
>from my perspective C++ is a low level systems progr... | null | 0 | 1315219018 | False | 0 | c2hlm8t | t3_k3ivo | null | t1_c2hlm8t | t1_c2he3ro | null | 1427560639 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | perlgeek | null | The problem is that somebody might provide a link to your page which injects code into the page -- somebody might accidentally follow the click, and be vulnerable on your page, without having conciously done anything wrong. | null | 0 | 1315219211 | False | 0 | c2hlmja | t3_k1bq3 | null | t1_c2hlmja | t1_c2gymi3 | null | 1427560641 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | deong | null | Mocks and DI were developed to solve the problem of components that were so tightly integrated that they couldn't be tested independently or used together in any way other than their original intent.
How do you replace them with simple pure functions? Write simple pure functions that don't share those faults. You can ... | null | 0 | 1315219421 | False | 0 | c2hlmuc | t3_k42if | null | t1_c2hlmuc | t1_c2hk7a9 | null | 1427560652 | 33 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | "kids these days don't understand big-o notation" deserves nothing less. | null | 0 | 1315219502 | False | 0 | c2hlmy3 | t3_k55g9 | null | t1_c2hlmy3 | t1_c2hllvy | null | 1427560645 | 32 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | dumdedum_moar | null | Exactly. The most famous part being an object-oriented Ruby git library:
https://github.com/mojombo/grit/
Also worth mentioning, for those wanting a private GitHub instance, Github Firewall Install may be for you:
http://fi.github.com/ | null | 0 | 1315219618 | False | 0 | c2hln41 | t3_k4uxf | null | t1_c2hln41 | t1_c2hlkkk | null | 1427560649 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | jkreijkamp | null | That, and being a good programmer, makes you a good software developer/engineer.
Being a good programmer, means you're good at programming. To be useful to a company you need to be able to be more than being a good programmer. | null | 0 | 1315219904 | False | 0 | c2hlnjo | t3_k55g9 | null | t1_c2hlnjo | t1_c2hlfd8 | null | 1427560657 | 20 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | robgleeson | null | a lot of forks go nowhere, you're right, but they shouldn't expire "in a day" because sometimes I fork, plan to contribute, and something at work happens, or it's the weekend and something comes up.
I only fork a project when I'm going to contribute to it, but time constraints don't mean I'll be able to do that "in a ... | null | 0 | 1315219973 | False | 0 | c2hlnnf | t3_k4uxf | null | t1_c2hlnnf | t1_c2hl3yn | null | 1427560659 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | davehope | null | In particular:
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1187922
>>On Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 6:09 PM, Mithrandir <mithrandiragain <at> lavabit.com> wrote:
>> Just wondering: when master.kernel.org gets back up, will this be 'just a
>> mirror' or a separate place to develop? Perhaps I'm th... | null | 0 | 1315220385 | False | 0 | c2hlobg | t3_k4uxf | null | t1_c2hlobg | t1_c2hl03i | null | 1427560666 | 37 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | johnfredcee | null | Interesting. I appear to be badly stuck on step five (assuming learning Prolog counts as learning a declarative language)... | null | 0 | 1315220467 | False | 0 | c2hlogb | t3_k55g9 | null | t1_c2hlogb | t3_k55g9 | null | 1427560666 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | tamrix | null | Come on it's an extremely obvious satire from the first point. You have to remember though only a small portion of redditors in here are actually programmers. A lot just read an online tutorial for python over the weekend and call themselves programmers. | null | 0 | 1315220488 | False | 0 | c2hloh9 | t3_k42i7 | null | t1_c2hloh9 | t1_c2hiy62 | null | 1427560666 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | eric_t | null | Author here. As I say on the site, I would be happy to get suggestions and criticism. | null | 0 | 1315220522 | False | 0 | c2hloj8 | t3_k58pi | null | t1_c2hloj8 | t3_k58pi | null | 1428195510 | 35 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | oSand | null | > Or communicating with others. Or understanding the business you're serving.
Yes. Avoiding communication with others is the key to being a productive programmer. | null | 0 | 1315220957 | False | 0 | c2hlp6c | t3_k55g9 | null | t1_c2hlp6c | t1_c2hlfd8 | null | 1427560673 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | sebidenes | null | that's missing indeed :) | null | 0 | 1315221234 | False | 0 | c2hlplk | t3_k42i7 | null | t1_c2hlplk | t1_c2hgp6v | null | 1427560678 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | OopsLostPassword | null | Is that a serious question ? Do you really think that there are no topic more advanced in javascript that knowing what *this* is ? | null | 0 | 1315221355 | False | 0 | c2hlps3 | t3_k4vwc | null | t1_c2hlps3 | t1_c2hllqw | null | 1427560679 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | deong | null | It's really not, though. I've worked at big boring corporations before, and I'd like nothing more than to give them software that works. You can't. And the reason you can't is because the "new" way of writing software is so complex that mortals can't reason about it.
Before I left my last job to return to academia, I ... | null | 0 | 1315221475 | False | 0 | c2hlpz1 | t3_k42if | null | t1_c2hlpz1 | t1_c2hcsft | null | 1427560680 | 22 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | Yes it is a legitimate question. So give me at least an example of what might be advanced Javascript. | null | 0 | 1315221839 | False | 0 | c2hlqk5 | t3_k4vwc | null | t1_c2hlqk5 | t1_c2hlps3 | null | 1427560686 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | shenglong | null | Cool. Looks like it's come a long way since the first time I tried it. I'm now going to use this as a replacement for SnippetCompiler.
http://www.sliver.com/dotnet/SnippetCompiler/ | null | 0 | 1315222173 | False | 0 | c2hlr2j | t3_k4jik | null | t1_c2hlr2j | t3_k4jik | null | 1427560693 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | ezekiel | null | Yes.
The saddest is to join a team a month or two into a project and all they have done is generate thousands of lines of code to interface to a giant logging framework.
This kind of strange approach to programming does not seem localized or limited. We as an industry have taken a wrong turn. | null | 0 | 1315222199 | False | 0 | c2hlr43 | t3_k42if | null | t1_c2hlr43 | t1_c2hlk1s | null | 1427560693 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | ezekiel | null | > That is ridiculous. Was it Java-based?
Essentially, yes. It was C#. But, I have seen quite a few similar disasters in both Sun/Oracle's version of Java and Microsoft's. | null | 0 | 1315222288 | False | 0 | c2hlr9c | t3_k42if | null | t1_c2hlr9c | t1_c2hk7a9 | null | 1427560695 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | deong | null | > But that's progress. In the end, it's about meeting the customers' needs faster and more reliably.
The problem is that the overwhelming evidence is that we aren't doing this at all. Systems today are not optimized for the client needs, they're optimized for developer convenience. Or rather, I'd argue, for a misgu... | null | 0 | 1315222416 | False | 0 | c2hlrgx | t3_k42if | null | t1_c2hlrgx | t1_c2hk85k | null | 1427560699 | 21 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | johnwaterwood | null | didn't someone once said: objects should be the only components? | null | 0 | 1315222492 | False | 0 | c2hlrmd | t3_k56t1 | null | t1_c2hlrmd | t3_k56t1 | null | 1427560700 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | gobacktolurking | null | Fuckin' Melvin. <3 | null | 0 | 1315222764 | False | 0 | c2hls2h | t3_k4uxf | null | t1_c2hls2h | t1_c2hkz4n | null | 1427560707 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | tinou | null | > Not sure what you mean by more object oriented wrt constructors and procedure calls.
If new is a class method, you can overload "object creation" and this is more powerful than factories, dependency injection, etc. | null | 0 | 1315223103 | False | 0 | c2hlsmd | t3_k56t1 | null | t1_c2hlsmd | t1_c2hlj15 | null | 1427560713 | 16 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | ezekiel | null | > And the reason you can't is because the "new" way of writing software is so complex that mortals can't reason about it.
> but we know that what we're doing now doesn't work
Exactly. This is the quagmire we are in. Business software really can be written so that it is understandable and nearly bug-free. There... | null | 0 | 1315223170 | False | 0 | c2hlsqc | t3_k42if | null | t1_c2hlsqc | t1_c2hlpz1 | null | 1427560714 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | Java is not a dog. People *perceive* it that way because they perceive incorrectly but believe their intuition more than numbers. In what way does Java cross-platform support fail??? And I don't agree about static typing. It's my 2nd requirement after cross-platform and an absolute must. It is dynamic typing that ... | null | 0 | 1315223244 | False | 0 | c2hlsuy | t3_k3ivo | null | t1_c2hlsuy | t1_c2hjyqa | null | 1427560716 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1315223415 | False | 0 | c2hlt5e | t3_k56t1 | null | t1_c2hlt5e | t3_k56t1 | null | 1427560720 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | bobindashadows | null | The hard part for hobbyists is to quantify when something is "finished". When you're on the job you have requirements; nothing is required in a hobby project, so you can never complete them.
The projects that have meaningful releases are typically those that aren't hobbies anymore. | null | 0 | 1315223520 | False | 0 | c2hltbz | t3_k55g9 | null | t1_c2hltbz | t1_c2hlj0j | null | 1427560722 | 37 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | bobindashadows | null | Honestly, it's the only real answer. It just isn't worded very politely. | null | 0 | 1315223601 | False | 0 | c2hltgt | t3_k55g9 | null | t1_c2hltgt | t1_c2hllvy | null | 1427560724 | 26 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | RiotingPacifist | null | Less then 10hrs between it being posted here and him turning off most of the community features such as the issue tracker, but hey it's to be expected as the github community to tend to act like idiots, I think the first "issue" was "does not run ms office". | null | 0 | 1315223603 | False | 0 | c2hltgw | t3_k4uxf | null | t1_c2hltgw | t3_k4uxf | null | 1427560724 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | pointy | null | Yes, fair enough. | null | 0 | 1315223697 | False | 0 | c2hltmb | t3_k4vwc | null | t1_c2hltmb | t1_c2hknm7 | null | 1427560726 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | ezekiel | null | The management of businesses *imagine* that software development is like production jobs. They have to imagine that, because if it isn't then they cannot control it. They choose control instead of results.
Software development is getting *farther* away from being repeatable production work due to the problem described... | null | 0 | 1315223745 | False | 0 | c2hltpn | t3_k42if | null | t1_c2hltpn | t1_c2hl92f | null | 1427560727 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | n1c0_ds | null | Same here. Now I release a very small original product, then work on improving it. I now work on small programs like [Ticks](http://nicolasbouliane.com/ticks) instead of attempting the impossible.
Either way, the learning experience alone is worth it. No need to feel bad about scrapping a project. | null | 0 | 1315223777 | False | 0 | c2hltrg | t3_k55g9 | null | t1_c2hltrg | t1_c2hld80 | null | 1427560728 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | n1c0_ds | null | This is important. I wouldn't stand most of the egomaniac programmers that write most programming articles. You're only here to perform a job, just like the accountant and the rest of the engineers. I don't see those people being a dick about making your pay or building the next generation of toilet paper. | null | 0 | 1315223960 | False | 0 | c2hlu2o | t3_k55g9 | null | t1_c2hlu2o | t1_c2hlnjo | null | 1427560732 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | vintermann | null | Android game development in C++ on Windows is not what I'm interested in right now, but this idea in general - a fully configured standard repository, set up to work with revision control and build systems, so you can just clone it and get to work - is an idea I really like. I spend far too much time agonizing over dif... | null | 0 | 1315223975 | True | 0 | c2hlu3p | t3_k59d4 | null | t1_c2hlu3p | t3_k59d4 | null | 1427560732 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Tuna-Fish2 | null | This is not a mirror. While master.kernel.org is down, this is where Torvald's primary dev tree lives. | null | 0 | 1315224246 | False | 0 | c2hlukc | t3_k4uxf | null | t1_c2hlukc | t1_c2hj8l2 | null | 1427560738 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | mikaelhg | null | No, that's what programming meant in the 70s, and some CS textbooks. These days, it's specifically called "cowboy" or "rockstar" to indicate the deficiency of this way of thinking in no uncertain terms. | null | 0 | 1315224390 | True | 0 | c2hlusw | t3_k55g9 | null | t1_c2hlusw | t1_c2hlnjo | null | 1427560741 | -1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | bureX | null | I just thought they were really crappy ideas until I reached the "Java is dead" part. | null | 0 | 1315224397 | False | 0 | c2hluti | t3_k42i7 | null | t1_c2hluti | t1_c2hg884 | null | 1427560741 | -2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | shutmeup | null | "the idea of creating a LightOnCommand class that implements the Command interface to encapsulate the act of turning a light on feels like such a waste of brainpower, bytes, and sanity. "
Ok, just create a unique class that does all that and much more that you want... I guarantee you will have trouble changing somethi... | null | 0 | 1315224426 | False | 0 | c2hluvr | t3_k56t1 | null | t1_c2hluvr | t3_k56t1 | null | 1427560742 | -3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | bobindashadows | null | Personally, there's dozens of forks of my projects, and only 4 of those forks so far have resulted in a commit. It's fucking annoying because I keep on tricking myself into thinking those people are going to commit. Which is what I thought a fork was for.
At least all 4 of those were good commits and ended up merged b... | null | 0 | 1315224631 | False | 0 | c2hlv9p | t3_k4uxf | null | t1_c2hlv9p | t1_c2hl3yn | null | 1427560748 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | forcedtoregister | null | Nice. I've been thinking that I'm going to have to take a look at Fortran at some point, given the kind of work I've been doing recently.
If you happen to need some Fortran speed and expressiveness with matrices in C++ then the [Eigen](http://eigen.tuxfamily.org/index.php?title=Main_Page) library is a good start. The ... | null | 0 | 1315224664 | False | 0 | c2hlvbx | t3_k58pi | null | t1_c2hlvbx | t3_k58pi | null | 1427560749 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | skilldrick | null | I'm focussing on Java because the book focusses on Java. You wouldn't have to create a new class to encapsulate the act of turning on a light in a lot of languages, you could use a lambda or some equivalent functionality. The problem is in Java, pretty much *all* you have is classes, so every abstraction problem *has* ... | null | 0 | 1315224699 | False | 0 | c2hlvef | t3_k56t1 | null | t1_c2hlvef | t1_c2hluvr | null | 1427560750 | 10 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | twhittock | null | Sorry, apart from RoR (which I hadn't considered the parallels to before) I can't think of anything similar.
I only did it because it's such a pain to get started on Android/C++ if you're not interested in doing JNI work and learning about manifests etc.
Oh, and it's not really Windows specific as such - it uses the ... | null | 0 | 1315224748 | False | 0 | c2hlvhg | t3_k59d4 | null | t1_c2hlvhg | t1_c2hlu3p | null | 1427560751 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | meatgrinder | null | I find it ironic that the Linux kernel README needs a section entitled "What is Linux?". If you've found your way to a kernel source tree, you should have at least a casual idea what you're looking at. And if not, I doubt that blurb will help.
But it's tradition more than anything, I suppose. | null | 0 | 1315225124 | False | 0 | c2hlw7b | t3_k4uxf | null | t1_c2hlw7b | t3_k4uxf | null | 1427560759 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | robertcrowther | null | Assuming the goal of a hobby project is to learn something, rather than just to release something, that's OK as a workflow.
--edit
D'Oh! Wrong way round | null | 0 | 1315225148 | True | 0 | c2hlw8t | t3_k55g9 | null | t1_c2hlw8t | t1_c2hld80 | null | 1427560760 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | bobindashadows | null | Wonderful post. It's always annoying to hear people bash things they don't understand, and this post does a great job explaining why fortran's still alive and kicking.
Though....
> Fortran actually has generics, but the implementation is not great, you still have to write code for every type you want to support.
... | null | 0 | 1315225282 | False | 0 | c2hlwiy | t3_k58pi | null | t1_c2hlwiy | t3_k58pi | null | 1427560764 | 9 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | eric_t | null | What work have you been doing? I have played around a bit with Eigen for some particle physics stuff, and it really is an excellent library.
I would also like to mention [PETSc](http://www.mcs.anl.gov/petsc/petsc-as/), which is a library for parallel linear algebra computations. It's written in C, but has great bindi... | null | 0 | 1315225553 | False | 0 | c2hlx2x | t3_k58pi | null | t1_c2hlx2x | t1_c2hlvbx | null | 1427560772 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1315225599 | False | 0 | c2hlx66 | t3_k42i7 | null | t1_c2hlx66 | t1_c2hg884 | null | 1427560772 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | bobindashadows | null | A simple example is stateless visitors. In Ruby you just call `container.each` and provide a block/`Proc` object. Of course, Ruby is still single dispatch, so you need visitor-like patterns for a stateful visitor. | null | 0 | 1315225787 | False | 0 | c2hlxjz | t3_k56t1 | null | t1_c2hlxjz | t1_c2hlj15 | null | 1427560785 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | mooli | null | This is a thread about Quake3 (an action game) networking in which someone said:
> WTF? UDP? Use TCP retards.
As a gamedev that uses both TCP and UDP in games, I know full well that there is a place for each. That said, I thought that the quote - from the first google result on "TCP vs UDP in games" - was a succin... | null | 0 | 1315226068 | False | 0 | c2hly5c | t3_k4m3q | null | t1_c2hly5c | t1_c2hij0b | null | 1427560786 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | stuhacking | null | It sounds like you're saying that every language should have everything but the kitchen sink thrown in. The argument could equally be applied to Scheme (every solution looks like a function), or Prolog (every solution looks like a rule definition).
Of course, it's perfectly reasonable to write a very basic, imperative... | null | 0 | 1315226352 | True | 0 | c2hlyq9 | t3_k56t1 | null | t1_c2hlyq9 | t1_c2hlvef | null | 1427560793 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | eric_t | null | > Is the only benefit then that you can keep using the same name "List" everywhere instead of "StringList", "RealList", "IntegerList"?
Exactly :) I have used it sometimes when I want to have the same function name but want to support both real and integer arguments. In that case it is not too much work, but yeah, i... | null | 0 | 1315226390 | False | 0 | c2hlysw | t3_k58pi | null | t1_c2hlysw | t1_c2hlwiy | null | 1427560794 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | Java has it's flaws, but there are advantages in its limitations. The fact that there's a fairly limited set of patterns to choose from means that you're going to have to put more work into the design end of things to make it fit your needs, and it's never going to be as efficient as some languages, but the actual codi... | null | 0 | 1315226524 | False | 0 | c2hlz2x | t3_k56t1 | null | t1_c2hlz2x | t1_c2hlvef | null | 1427560798 | -1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | jediknight | null | A lot of the new programmers come from ecosystems created by a language. It would be great if you could describe a little bit the Fortran ecosystem.
My questions would be:
1. How can one program in Fortran one the 3 big platforms (Win, Linux, OS X)
2. Is there a standard library? What does it includes?
3. Is there... | null | 0 | 1315226556 | False | 0 | c2hlz5h | t3_k58pi | null | t1_c2hlz5h | t1_c2hloj8 | null | 1427560799 | 45 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | skilldrick | null | I get your point, but that's not really what I'm saying. Scheme functions are a *lot* more flexible than Java classes. Java classes are for specifying objects. You can do that with a Scheme function if you want (with closures), but there are lots of other things you can do with first-class functions (for instance). | null | 0 | 1315226590 | False | 0 | c2hlz7v | t3_k56t1 | null | t1_c2hlz7v | t1_c2hlyq9 | null | 1427560800 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | yet another site abusing that stupid ninja nonsense. | null | 0 | 1315226592 | False | 0 | c2hlz80 | t3_k3nab | null | t1_c2hlz80 | t1_c2he580 | null | 1427560800 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | vintermann | null | Thanks to you reminding me, I did some googling around, and this is the first I found:
http://code.google.com/p/cpp-project-template/
It apparently has sister projects for java. | null | 0 | 1315226606 | False | 0 | c2hlz8x | t3_k59d4 | null | t1_c2hlz8x | t1_c2hlvhg | null | 1427560800 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | skilldrick | null | I think passing an anonymous function is much easier to understand than creating an entire class hierarchy to encapsulate a single type of action. | null | 0 | 1315226674 | False | 0 | c2hlzeo | t3_k56t1 | null | t1_c2hlzeo | t1_c2hlz2x | null | 1427560806 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | TheCritic | null | Link? | null | 0 | 1315226721 | False | 0 | c2hlzic | t3_k4uxf | null | t1_c2hlzic | t1_c2hlefh | null | 1427560803 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | JPMoresmau | null | "When you're on the job you have requirements". Ha! Ha ha! Ha ha ha! Sob. | null | 0 | 1315226756 | False | 0 | c2hlzl2 | t3_k55g9 | null | t1_c2hlzl2 | t1_c2hltbz | null | 1427560804 | 71 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | slgard | null | you know that "etc" means "and all the rest" ? If I was going to have to list all the programming languages that could possibly compete with java it would make for a very long (and unrealistic) list.
Of course C++ is a high level programming language based on a definition from the 20th century (ie compared to assembly... | null | 0 | 1315226821 | False | 0 | c2hlzp2 | t3_k3ivo | null | t1_c2hlzp2 | t1_c2hlm8t | null | 1427560807 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | I would love to discuss this with you a bit more, but you have downvoted my posts just because you disagree which leads me to believe that you're not sophisticated enough to deal with the issues involved. | null | 0 | 1315226843 | False | 0 | c2hlzqp | t3_k3ivo | null | t1_c2hlzqp | t1_c2hlsuy | null | 1427560807 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | rvirding | null | Of course, but never worried about it being a state machine internally. Unless, of course, I was implementing a regex package. | null | 0 | 1315226893 | False | 0 | c2hlzud | t3_k12ka | null | t1_c2hlzud | t1_c2h6xwk | null | 1427560818 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | jseigh | null | I'm somewhat familiar with the techniques used here. They're using RCU to take care of race conditions that would otherwise be present in accessing and updating the reference count. The reference counted pointers here are meant to be used atomically hence all the memory barriers and such.
You can contrast this wit... | null | 0 | 1315226912 | False | 0 | c2hlzvq | t3_k4jfq | null | t1_c2hlzvq | t3_k4jfq | null | 1427560818 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Kaitnieks | null | I'm watching you code/paint live all the time on the 2nd monitor. The strange reason for it is that it actually helps me work. I'm working from home and hearing/seeing someone else makes me feel like a part of a group and increases my productivity. | null | 0 | 1315226915 | False | 0 | c2hlzw5 | t3_k4395 | null | t1_c2hlzw5 | t3_k4395 | null | 1427560818 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | quotemstr | null | Is that how you dismiss all criticism? | null | 0 | 1315226941 | False | 0 | c2hlzyn | t3_k42if | null | t1_c2hlzyn | t1_c2hj73t | null | 1427560817 | 10 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | hopfrog187 | null | This article isn't about business software. It's about becoming a good programmer, and that is more about expanding the scope of what you're capable of and less about delivering something tangible.
And actually, the advice given was pretty good. | null | 0 | 1315226961 | False | 0 | c2hm005 | t3_k55g9 | null | t1_c2hm005 | t1_c2hlfd8 | null | 1427560810 | 10 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
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