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True | bobindashadows | null | Sorry. That was insensitive.
"When you're on the job you have a vague idea of what the project will be expected to do at some point in the future."
... I hope I haven't made things worse. | null | 0 | 1315227029 | False | 0 | c2hm05x | t3_k55g9 | null | t1_c2hm05x | t1_c2hlzl2 | null | 1427560815 | 38 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | http://vimeo.com/28284322 | null | 0 | 1315227056 | False | 0 | c2hm07w | t3_k4uxf | null | t1_c2hm07w | t1_c2hlzic | null | 1427560815 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | stuhacking | null | Sorry, my initial reply wasn't good - I wanted to convey that I figure classes are just Java's tool for modelling that 'higher order' behaviour.
Of course, I agree with you that a functional language with a flexible type system will still be a lot more expressive.
I think there's a trade off between how happy manage... | null | 0 | 1315227112 | True | 0 | c2hm0bw | t3_k56t1 | null | t1_c2hm0bw | t1_c2hlz7v | null | 1427560817 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | hopfrog187 | null | What does getting some arbitrary job done have to do with improving one's programming skills? If there's some specific thing you're learning, you don't really have to concern yourself with its utility during the learning process. | null | 0 | 1315227271 | False | 0 | c2hm0nv | t3_k55g9 | null | t1_c2hm0nv | t1_c2hlcay | null | 1427560820 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1315227424 | False | 0 | c2hm0z3 | t3_k4uxf | null | t1_c2hm0z3 | t1_c2hlaff | null | 1427560828 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | I don't disagree. But over a large code base with a hundred different developers who might solve a problem a hundred different ways it's sometimes nice to be able to work out what's going on and make changes quickly. Admittedly sometimes that comes at the cost of doing things the hard way, but I suppose the idea is tha... | null | 0 | 1315227548 | False | 0 | c2hm19v | t3_k56t1 | null | t1_c2hm19v | t1_c2hlzeo | null | 1427560826 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | I feel you man. We've got this DWT GUI library - SWT ported to D - (and D has all the bells and whistles such as closures), but to make it easy to port new versions of SWT to D the same coding style is used as in Java. Even though creating a closure in D is a piece of cake, I can't use it in DWT. Seeing all those anony... | null | 0 | 1315227611 | False | 0 | c2hm1ek | t3_k56t1 | null | t1_c2hm1ek | t3_k56t1 | null | 1427560828 | 11 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | BlackPride | null | So, what are some good resources that can help me learn programming for free? I don't want a job in programming, but it might look good on a resume as a skill, and one that I can give evidence of even if I don't have a degree in any computer science. | null | 0 | 1315227671 | False | 0 | c2hm1iv | t3_k55g9 | null | t1_c2hm1iv | t3_k55g9 | null | 1427560830 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | POTUS | null | Many operations (for example, parameterized sql queries) are safe to perform on untrusted input. In fact in many cases, if you find yourself needing to sanitize an input, you're perhaps handling things in a slightly less than up-to-date way. | null | 0 | 1315227787 | False | 0 | c2hm1sg | t3_k1bq3 | null | t1_c2hm1sg | t1_c2hl0d6 | null | 1427560833 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | skilldrick | null | Yeah, I can understand that. I guess the only thing I'd have to add to that is that maybe we should try to avoid large code bases needing a hundred different developers. But that's another story :) | null | 0 | 1315227789 | False | 0 | c2hm1sj | t3_k56t1 | null | t1_c2hm1sj | t1_c2hm19v | null | 1427560833 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | hopfrog187 | null | Contrary to popular belief, programming hasn't changed in any meaningful way since the 70's. Computing power has improved dramatically and tools have improved quite a bit, but in terms of sheer capability we can't do all that much more now than we could then. | null | 0 | 1315227799 | False | 0 | c2hm1tp | t3_k55g9 | null | t1_c2hm1tp | t1_c2hlusw | null | 1427560833 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | shrewduser | null | a quick explanation of what this is? features?
the explanation on the wiki seems light on details... | null | 0 | 1315227848 | False | 0 | c2hm1xi | t3_k59d4 | null | t1_c2hm1xi | t3_k59d4 | null | 1427560835 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | mikaelhg | null | The article is about becoming a good lone wolf cowboy coder, which is mutually exclusive with being a good programmer. I was assuming that most people would be able to generalize the most common case of "understanding the business you're serving" to "understanding the mission you're serving" without me having to pre-sp... | null | 0 | 1315227930 | False | 0 | c2hm248 | t3_k55g9 | null | t1_c2hm248 | t1_c2hm005 | null | 1427560837 | -2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | atheistmil | null | I'd love to hear your story on that one. Some products require a massive ciode base one way or another. | null | 0 | 1315228071 | False | 0 | c2hm2gi | t3_k56t1 | null | t1_c2hm2gi | t1_c2hm1sj | null | 1427560841 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | elperroborrachotoo | null | Would it be beneficial to swap steps 2 and 3?
In reality, you will merge readingand writing lots of code anyway, but shouldn't we put more emphasis on *reading* first?
I've seen many beginners who can crank out code like mad - not even bad code - but "don't get along" with existing code, "just have to" rewrite it, an... | null | 0 | 1315228101 | False | 0 | c2hm2j0 | t3_k55g9 | null | t1_c2hm2j0 | t3_k55g9 | null | 1427560842 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | judofyr | null | > So I'm sure that GitHub would be quite cable of hosting the Git source. It would be even better to see the GitHub source on GitHub...
Of course GitHub is hosted at GitHub: https://github.com/defunkt/github. It's private though… | null | 0 | 1315228114 | False | 0 | c2hm2kg | t3_k4uxf | null | t1_c2hm2kg | t1_c2hl1r3 | null | 1427560843 | 13 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | mikaelhg | null | It has changed tremendously - groups of developers can now produce results groups of developers couldn't dream of a few decades ago. Even over the two decades of my own career, the scope of what we do and the understanding of how to optimize your investments for good long term results, have grown significantly. Some of... | null | 0 | 1315228297 | False | 0 | c2hm2zm | t3_k55g9 | null | t1_c2hm2zm | t1_c2hm1tp | null | 1427560851 | 9 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | elperroborrachotoo | null | I instantly cringed at the title of point 1, but it didn't dawn on me until point 5 that this was complete mockery indeed. | null | 0 | 1315228300 | False | 0 | c2hm2zu | t3_k42i7 | null | t1_c2hm2zu | t1_c2hg884 | null | 1427560851 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | Maybe with consistent abstraction patterns we could modularise development, but that's just the same problem another level up. | null | 0 | 1315228327 | False | 0 | c2hm32j | t3_k56t1 | null | t1_c2hm32j | t1_c2hm1sj | null | 1427560852 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | JW_00000 | null | Such as [https://launchpad.net/bugs/1](https://launchpad.net/bugs/1 "Bug #1 in Ubuntu: Microsoft has a majority market share")? | null | 0 | 1315228493 | False | 0 | c2hm3h7 | t3_k4uxf | null | t1_c2hm3h7 | t1_c2hkbus | null | 1427560862 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Raphael_Amiard | null | It's funny because i feel like i already read this article a thousand times .. And yet i did not. | null | 0 | 1315228697 | False | 0 | c2hm3xr | t3_k55g9 | null | t1_c2hm3xr | t3_k55g9 | null | 1427560862 | 17 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | manueljs | null | [relevant](https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/kernel/panic.c) | null | 0 | 1315228925 | False | 0 | c2hm4gl | t3_k4uxf | null | t1_c2hm4gl | t1_c2hlaff | null | 1427560868 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1315229015 | False | 0 | c2hm4pc | t3_k4uxf | null | t1_c2hm4pc | t3_k4uxf | null | 1427560879 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | comment-dwim | null | > writing a Lisp interpreter (bonus points for doing this in a Lisp dialect!)
In my opinion: bonus points for doing it in something that is NOT Lisp, unless you are writing a compiler. Meta-circular interpreters are nice, but there is a lot more to learn when you can't rely on the underlying implementation. | null | 0 | 1315229383 | False | 0 | c2hm5kf | t3_k55g9 | null | t1_c2hm5kf | t3_k55g9 | null | 1427560883 | 19 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | ... not to be a dick but two things that have been in ML since the seventies.
C# comments are always a great laugh to read in these threads about Java. | null | 0 | 1315229537 | False | 0 | c2hm5xz | t3_k3ivo | null | t1_c2hm5xz | t1_c2hbj1x | null | 1427560895 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | hopfrog187 | null | No, it's not about becoming a good "lone wolf cowboy coder." It's about expanding your horizons and being able to do more than just write CRUD applications for the man. A lot of the pain of programming comes from not knowing what you don't know and the resulting ham fisted approaches to problem solving.
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True | shevegen | null | Java sucks.
Nothing new here. | null | 0 | 1315229562 | False | 0 | c2hm5zw | t3_k56t1 | null | t1_c2hm5zw | t3_k56t1 | null | 1427560895 | -5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | C# is thirty years younger than ML and is still catching up. Why does it have to be like this? | null | 0 | 1315229614 | False | 0 | c2hm64e | t3_k3ivo | null | t1_c2hm64e | t1_c2h8wr2 | null | 1427560890 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | skilldrick | null | I don't have enough experience with large code bases to give a decent answer to that. But I believe that a lot of what ends up as large monolithic Java code bases could have been done better in a more modular manner with smaller teams, modules, and less code. | null | 0 | 1315229766 | False | 0 | c2hm6hu | t3_k56t1 | null | t1_c2hm6hu | t1_c2hm2gi | null | 1427560897 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | skilldrick | null | Yeah, I see what you're saying about classes just being the way Java does things, and I understand the "happy managers" point :)
No worries (about the votes)! I got back to par, that's good enough for me :) | null | 0 | 1315229866 | False | 0 | c2hm6qg | t3_k56t1 | null | t1_c2hm6qg | t1_c2hm0bw | null | 1427560908 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | eric_t | null | I have now added a quick example to the page showing how generic interfaces work. | null | 0 | 1315229885 | False | 0 | c2hm6sa | t3_k58pi | null | t1_c2hm6sa | t1_c2hlwiy | null | 1427560900 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1315229914 | False | 0 | c2hm6ut | t3_k4uxf | null | t1_c2hm6ut | t1_c2hlnnf | null | 1427560900 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | pollodelamuerte | null | The sbox idea came from research by Shannon which provided the needed diffusion and confusion to the plaintext. There are "theories" that when the NSA took the lucifer cipher they knew about differential cryptanalysis and used it to strengthen the sboxes. Though for whatever reason they reduced the key length to 56 bi... | null | 0 | 1315229916 | False | 0 | c2hm6v4 | t3_k3w0c | null | t1_c2hm6v4 | t1_c2hl61e | null | 1427560901 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | atheistmil | null | A lot of code bases *do* consist of smaller projects/modules but the overall system is still large. Yes, you can slice and dice it internally and every place I have worked at has but unless you're using a lot of external libraries or reusing stuff that already exists then you're stuffed.
Having small modules sure hel... | null | 0 | 1315230114 | False | 0 | c2hm7ck | t3_k56t1 | null | t1_c2hm7ck | t1_c2hm6hu | null | 1427560908 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | ef4 | null | I think "fruitless forks" are only a problem if you have the wrong expectations about them. Git is supposed to make forking something so cheap and easy that you do it casually, and github thoroughly supports that philosophy.
I have created forks that existed solely to curate other people's commits into my own "stab... | null | 0 | 1315230223 | False | 0 | c2hm7lw | t3_k4uxf | null | t1_c2hm7lw | t1_c2hl3yn | null | 1427560910 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | sreguera | null | (loop (print (eval (read))))
;) | null | 0 | 1315230226 | False | 0 | c2hm7m6 | t3_k55g9 | null | t1_c2hm7m6 | t1_c2hm5kf | null | 1427560910 | 18 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | kronosopher | null | So the only difference is whether or not you're expected to do it. Therefore, hobbyist programmers don't ever complete anything because no one expects them to. | null | 0 | 1315230348 | False | 0 | c2hm7x5 | t3_k55g9 | null | t1_c2hm7x5 | t1_c2hm05x | null | 1427560921 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | yiyus | null | The problem is that many times you have to work with code written in your father's Fortran. I'm currently working on mechanical modelling and I have to write Fortran subroutines for ABAQUS.
Although in theory you can use fortran90/95, every example or tutorial you can find is written in F77. Even the official document... | null | 0 | 1315230383 | True | 0 | c2hm7zy | t3_k58pi | null | t1_c2hm7zy | t1_c2hloj8 | null | 1427560914 | 16 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | masklinn | null | > Other trip-up: with the method syntax, it depends on how you call the function: fully qualified or unqualified.
The "method syntax" is the qualified one. The other one is the function syntax by default.
**As OP explains**, there's no "qualified or unqualified" in javascript, there's method (calling an accessed a... | null | 0 | 1315230409 | False | 0 | c2hm82c | t3_k4vwc | null | t1_c2hm82c | t1_c2hkvw7 | null | 1427560915 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | seppo0010 | null | https://lkml.org/lkml/2011/9/4/92 | null | 0 | 1315230415 | False | 0 | c2hm82x | t3_k4uxf | null | t1_c2hm82x | t1_c2hl4sr | null | 1427560915 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | ef4 | null | > Sometimes people like to have personal forks as well, no idea why, but they do, even if they don't make a commit themselves.
I have done this for two reasons.
The first is when you want to pick and choose fixes from a couple different forks. For example, somebody created a fork with some good stuff in it, but t... | null | 0 | 1315230506 | False | 0 | c2hm8bf | t3_k4uxf | null | t1_c2hm8bf | t1_c2hlnnf | null | 1427560918 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | bobindashadows | null | Well luckily, not all of us work under such conditions. The two are as similar as you describe only if, at work, your projects are painfully ill-defined, misunderstood by management, and inevitably cobbled together 2 weeks before the deadline by guessing as to what the goals originally were. | null | 0 | 1315230534 | False | 0 | c2hm8dp | t3_k55g9 | null | t1_c2hm8dp | t1_c2hm7x5 | null | 1427560919 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | shrapnull | null | "Modern Fortran" users don't only suffer from it being a bad language choice, they also suffer from smirks and grins when we hear other IT shops are still using Fortran or running their programming distribution from mainframes like the HP 3000. Yes, there is a stigma.
Fortran could use a rebranding with a new name an... | null | 0 | 1315230598 | False | 0 | c2hm8jr | t3_k58pi | null | t1_c2hm8jr | t3_k58pi | null | 1427560928 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | ef4 | null | True, though they have open sourced some good things. Like their ruby library for controlling git: [grit](https://github.com/mojombo/grit). | null | 0 | 1315230614 | False | 0 | c2hm8kw | t3_k4uxf | null | t1_c2hm8kw | t1_c2hkwog | null | 1427560922 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | masklinn | null | > Not sure what you mean by more object oriented wrt constructors and procedure calls.
if "constructors" are methods (as in Smalltalk, Python, Ruby, ...), you don't need a factory pattern because it's built into the language. And you generally get more flexibility (callables and "constructors" can be swapped) *and*... | null | 0 | 1315230827 | False | 0 | c2hm94g | t3_k56t1 | null | t1_c2hm94g | t1_c2hlj15 | null | 1427560930 | 9 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Benutzername | null | It's called `generic`, but its actually just explicit function overloading. | null | 0 | 1315230842 | False | 0 | c2hm95z | t3_k58pi | null | t1_c2hm95z | t1_c2hlwiy | null | 1427560930 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | bobindashadows | null | Can the number of arguments change? | null | 0 | 1315230917 | False | 0 | c2hm9co | t3_k58pi | null | t1_c2hm9co | t1_c2hm95z | null | 1427560938 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | forcedtoregister | null | It's fairly hard to describe what I've been up to, a great mix of things. Visualising 3D FEA data, implementing an optimisation that relied on lots of linear algebra and filtering, circuit simulation. I tend end up writing programs that are too big/demanding for non-programmer engineers to hack togheter in Matlab.
I l... | null | 0 | 1315231189 | False | 0 | c2hma3a | t3_k58pi | null | t1_c2hma3a | t1_c2hlx2x | null | 1427560943 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | RiotousHades | null | It's a template project that can be used as a starting point for developing C++ games (or applications I suppose) for the Android operating system. There are no features as such, since you're supposed to write the code yourself ;) This handles the connections required between Java (JNI) -> C++. | null | 0 | 1315231798 | False | 0 | c2hmbrn | t3_k59d4 | null | t1_c2hmbrn | t1_c2hm1xi | null | 1428195505 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | Oh christ, I actually read "Alec Baldwin" as "Arrec Bawwin" in my brain. What the hell. | null | 0 | 1315231982 | False | 0 | c2hmcab | t3_k4uxf | null | t1_c2hmcab | t1_c2hkg5c | null | 1428195502 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | eric_t | null | These are all great questions. I will think about how to integrate them into the site. For now, here are some quick observations:
1. GNU's gfortran works on all platforms and is a decent compiler. If you're not developing commercial stuff you can use the free edition of Intel's compiler, which in general is faster. Th... | null | 0 | 1315232034 | False | 0 | c2hmcfv | t3_k58pi | null | t1_c2hmcfv | t1_c2hlz5h | null | 1427560989 | 54 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | DRMacIver | 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... | null | 0 | 1315232039 | False | 0 | c2hmcgg | t3_k56t1 | null | t1_c2hmcgg | t1_c2hlz2x | null | 1427560989 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | RiotousHades | null | Very nice! I've been meaning to play around with JNI in Android, perhaps this will give me the kickstart I need :)
It might be worth x-posting this to r/androiddev if you haven't already. | null | 0 | 1315232054 | False | 0 | c2hmchz | t3_k59d4 | null | t1_c2hmchz | t3_k59d4 | null | 1427560990 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | ruloaas | null | Really? Ten years? It takes TEN YEARS to be good at programming? I'm 30, so I guess I shouldn't even start learning, then.
edit: wow, thank your for the response. I am now crushed and suicidal. | null | 0 | 1315232082 | True | 0 | c2hmcl4 | t3_k55g9 | null | t1_c2hmcl4 | t3_k55g9 | null | 1427560991 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | It doesn't sound like you understand the audience that author is speaking to. This article is on gamedev.net, and he is targeting potential *game developers*. For certain types of software development - like game development - proficiency at programming is incredibly important. Important enough to warrant its own art... | null | 0 | 1315232205 | True | 0 | c2hmcxj | t3_k55g9 | null | t1_c2hmcxj | t1_c2hlfd8 | null | 1427560995 | 15 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | refto | null | Was your 200k program also C#?
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True | phaker | null | > The hard part for hobbyists is to quantify when something is "finished".
One man's *finished* is another man's *first milestone*.
I'd be a very happy man if I could get some neat pet project finished enough so I could show someone what it does instead of telling them what it was supposed to do.
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True | sviperll | null | It works like this:
try {
try {
logger.fine("Allocating resource...");
Resource resource1 = Resource.getInstance();
logger.fine("Allocation done");
throw new Exception1();
logger.fine("Resource not needed any more");
} finally {
logger.fine("Freeing resou... | null | 0 | 1315232671 | True | 0 | c2hmea8 | t3_k3ivo | null | t1_c2hmea8 | t1_c2hhqxe | null | 1427561006 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | I_just_read_it | null | Where's the arithmetic IF? Now I need to through out all my punch card decks. | null | 0 | 1315232684 | False | 0 | c2hmebq | t3_k58pi | null | t1_c2hmebq | t3_k58pi | null | 1427561006 | 19 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | eric_t | null | Good point. I have to deal with quite a bit of legacy code myself.
It's not all legacy code either. I recently was involved in a flow simulation program which was written around 2005, in F77 because the author claimed it would run so much faster. I rewrote it using F90 and it ran about 10 times faster! The original au... | null | 0 | 1315232977 | False | 0 | c2hmf63 | t3_k58pi | null | t1_c2hmf63 | t1_c2hm7zy | null | 1427561012 | 10 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | comment-dwim | null | Well, this is true, but things aren't really different in pretty much any other programming language. Most of them are built around a single datatype:
Forth: stacks
C: pointers
Java: classes
Scheme: lists
Lua: tables
APL: arrays
Bash: processes
There will always be a point where "the language way" of do... | null | 0 | 1315233054 | False | 0 | c2hmfex | t3_k56t1 | null | t1_c2hmfex | t3_k56t1 | null | 1427561015 | 22 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | sviperll | null | I wanted to write the same thing. I don't understand where the first style come from and why it is repeated all over the place. If you read the [original proposal](http://mail.openjdk.java.net/pipermail/coin-dev/2009-February/000011.html) it uses the second style. And I don't get were this "must be defined before try b... | null | 0 | 1315233094 | False | 0 | c2hmfj1 | t3_k3ivo | null | t1_c2hmfj1 | t1_c2ha6ov | null | 1427561016 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | jediknight | null | Thank you for your thoughtful and considerate answer.
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True | eric_t | null | Yes. | null | 0 | 1315233272 | False | 0 | c2hmg2j | t3_k58pi | null | t1_c2hmg2j | t1_c2hm9co | null | 1427561029 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | bobindashadows | null | Well then that's just silly. | null | 0 | 1315233299 | False | 0 | c2hmg5c | t3_k58pi | null | t1_c2hmg5c | t1_c2hmg2j | null | 1427561022 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | skilldrick | null | I see your point, and I thought a similar thing as I was writing this. But I don't believe it's an apples-to-apples comparison. Most fundamental types in languages are flexible things that don't presuppose too much about their usage patterns. Java classes on the other hand are very well designed for doing one thing, bu... | null | 0 | 1315233425 | False | 0 | c2hmgiw | t3_k56t1 | null | t1_c2hmgiw | t1_c2hmfex | null | 1427561026 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | eric_t | null | Oh God, I recently came across this in a legacy code and had no idea what it did! I had to ask an old professor who managed to find an old, tattered book which explained it... | null | 0 | 1315233452 | False | 0 | c2hmgma | t3_k58pi | null | t1_c2hmgma | t1_c2hmebq | null | 1427561027 | 22 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Stormflux | null | >"When you're on the job you have a vague idea of what the project will be expected to do at some point in the future."
Sigh. That's too true. Where do you think most of my work time goes? Is it:
A) Writing code
B) Trying to solve a really tough code problem
C) Figuring out what the fuck the program is suppos... | null | 0 | 1315233727 | False | 0 | c2hmhhj | t3_k55g9 | null | t1_c2hmhhj | t1_c2hm05x | null | 1427561038 | 25 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | davetron5000 | null | You have a twisted version of easy; this is 21 lines of code to render a value in a web page. Having to write this should piss you off. | null | 0 | 1315233764 | False | 0 | c2hmhmi | t3_k4qrh | null | t1_c2hmhmi | t1_c2hlgvn | null | 1427561051 | -1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | bluefinity | null | In case you don't figure it out already, that entire article was sarcasm. | null | 0 | 1315233768 | False | 0 | c2hmhmy | t3_k55g9 | null | t1_c2hmhmy | t1_c2hlgio | null | 1427561051 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | bobindashadows | null | I gotta say, D is one hell of a red herring. | null | 0 | 1315233962 | False | 0 | c2hmi8z | t3_k55g9 | null | t1_c2hmi8z | t1_c2hmhhj | null | 1427561052 | 23 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | killerstorm | null | I see no problem here as long as at least something planned works and you've learned something.
Programmer's skill is in writing code that works, not in making releases etc.
And, BTW, if project is big enough there is simply no way to finish it, only to continue development, so abandoning it is the only possible out... | null | 0 | 1315233999 | False | 0 | c2hmicn | t3_k55g9 | null | t1_c2hmicn | t1_c2hld80 | null | 1427561052 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | wreckerone | null | Different people write this same article over and over and over because it implies that the author is a good programmer and an authority on good programming. | null | 0 | 1315234085 | False | 0 | c2hmin7 | t3_k55g9 | null | t1_c2hmin7 | t3_k55g9 | null | 1427561055 | 88 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Benutzername | null | Yes. | null | 0 | 1315234095 | False | 0 | c2hmiof | t3_k58pi | null | t1_c2hmiof | t1_c2hm9co | null | 1427561055 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | Become a Good Useless Article Writer in One Really Easy Step.
I'm tired of this stupid articles written by people who think they can take complex and very personal matter and narrow it to n steps that work for everybody. | null | 0 | 1315234106 | False | 0 | c2hmipu | t3_k55g9 | null | t1_c2hmipu | t3_k55g9 | null | 1427561055 | 13 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | ! I read every comment with excitement | null | 0 | 1315234459 | False | 0 | c2hmjwd | t3_k58pi | null | t1_c2hmjwd | t3_k58pi | null | 1427561070 | 13 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | eric_t | null | Thank you for your input. I agree that a spiritual successor would be great. In fact, I have high hopes for the [Chapel language](http://chapel.cray.com/) from Cray. It is developed with parallelism in mind and contains several features from functional programming.
However, for the niche Fortran is developed for, num... | null | 0 | 1315234626 | False | 0 | c2hmkgx | t3_k58pi | null | t1_c2hmkgx | t1_c2hm8jr | null | 1427561077 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Daversoft | null | Just like any other job, it takes 10 years to become an expert in your field. | null | 0 | 1315234719 | False | 0 | c2hmkrf | t3_k55g9 | null | t1_c2hmkrf | t3_k55g9 | null | 1427561082 | 22 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | fistoroboto | null | If you want something that looks good on a resume but aren't interested in actually having a job in programming, I'd say go with Java, XHTML/CSS, XML, and jQuery. For programming practice I really recommend [Project Euler](http://projecteuler.net/), for resources on learning programming for free...well...someone else ... | null | 0 | 1315234779 | False | 0 | c2hmkyy | t3_k55g9 | null | t1_c2hmkyy | t1_c2hm1iv | null | 1427561084 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | ThisIsADogHello | null | If you've made it this far already without having started learning already, then no, you really shouldn't. | null | 0 | 1315234844 | False | 0 | c2hml7d | t3_k55g9 | null | t1_c2hml7d | t1_c2hmcl4 | null | 1427561087 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | GenTiradentes | null | Why would you list programming on your resume if you don't want a job in programming? It's completely irrelevant.
You might just as well apply for a job in accounting, and list underwater basket weaving as a skill. | null | 0 | 1315234887 | False | 0 | c2hmlci | t3_k55g9 | null | t1_c2hmlci | t1_c2hm1iv | null | 1427561093 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | oorza | null | > as far as I know you can't really instantiate classes with your own metaclass,
You can (Class Class<?> has a method .newInstance(Object... args)), but like everything else in dealing with Java reflection, it's not easy or elegant. | null | 0 | 1315234912 | False | 0 | c2hmlf7 | t3_k56t1 | null | t1_c2hmlf7 | t1_c2hm94g | null | 1427561090 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | gregK | null | Rewrite lots of code. Write code then rewrite it to improve it. Then rewrite it again. Compare different versions for readability, efficiency and generality.
I don't think it's necessary to create your own toy programming language. But it's good to learn different languages first and know at least a couple in depth... | null | 0 | 1315235047 | True | 0 | c2hmlvo | t3_k55g9 | null | t1_c2hmlvo | t3_k55g9 | null | 1427561096 | 13 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | diamondjim | null | And yet people keep getting confused about it. I would like to believe that people aren't that stupid, but that the designers of JavaScript were tripping on some rather exotic cocktails when dreaming up the language. I like JS, but some parts could be simplified a lot.
BTW, I did a quick search on Advanced JavaScript ... | null | 0 | 1315235089 | False | 0 | c2hmm0o | t3_k4vwc | null | t1_c2hmm0o | t1_c2hl80b | null | 1427561099 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [Apparently yes](http://norvig.com/21-days.html). | null | 0 | 1315235123 | False | 0 | c2hmm4q | t3_k55g9 | null | t1_c2hmm4q | t1_c2hmcl4 | null | 1427561099 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | killerstorm | null | I was confused by programming Katas, could be a real advice, albeit a shitty one.
I was doing something like that when I was 9 year old -- I didn't know anything about programming, I've just copied programs from the book, then typed them from memory, then did little modifications to see how program's behaviour changes... | null | 0 | 1315235192 | False | 0 | c2hmmdc | t3_k42i7 | null | t1_c2hmmdc | t1_c2hg884 | null | 1427561106 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | joezuntz | null | I've written some moderately big fortran programs, and the main issues I have with it are:
- Lack of proper pointer support. This always bites me in the end. The pointers in f90 are deliberately crippled.
- There are some nice cool OOP features in F03, but there's only the intel compiler that supports those as of... | null | 0 | 1315235266 | False | 0 | c2hmmmx | t3_k58pi | null | t1_c2hmmmx | t3_k58pi | null | 1427561106 | 17 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | I give my company software that works by not telling them how I'm doing it, keeping it out of their source control, and refusing to work on inflexible teams.
I figure that by the time they find out I wasn't doing things their way the product will already be successfully implemented and the end users will be happy wit... | null | 0 | 1315235363 | True | 0 | c2hmmye | t3_k42if | null | t1_c2hmmye | t1_c2hlpz1 | null | 1427561110 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | BlackPride | null | > It's completely irrelevant.
I used to think this way, too. | null | 0 | 1315235655 | False | 0 | c2hmnze | t3_k55g9 | null | t1_c2hmnze | t1_c2hmlci | null | 1427561122 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1315235662 | False | 0 | c2hmo07 | t3_k4uxf | null | t1_c2hmo07 | t1_c2hkwlx | null | 1427561123 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | codeincarnate | null | Also, a very cool article on [engine architechture and networking in real time strategy games](http://altdevblogaday.com/2011/07/09/synchronous-rts-engines-and-a-tale-of-desyncs/). Interesting in that it's almost completely different. | null | 0 | 1315235694 | False | 0 | c2hmo3j | t3_k4m3q | null | t1_c2hmo3j | t1_c2hh8nk | null | 1427561124 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | tanishaj | null | Indeed. TIL my phone is wasting a lot of my time. | null | 0 | 1315235737 | False | 0 | c2hmo9m | t3_k4uxf | null | t1_c2hmo9m | t1_c2hkz4n | null | 1427561127 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | notomniscient | null | Ah, semantics. That's only because they (e.g. the parameterised sql queries) didn't trust _your_ input. I didn't say you had to write the sanitisation code yourself if it's built in to the library or API you're using - you're okay as long as it occurs before any potentially dangerous interpretation of said input.
I mu... | null | 0 | 1315235740 | False | 0 | c2hmoa2 | t3_k1bq3 | null | t1_c2hmoa2 | t1_c2hm1sg | null | 1427561127 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | comment-dwim | null | I agree. In Java that point comes relatively early. The problem (or at least my problem) is that in Java if you want to use anything it must be first encapsulated in a class. Sometimes that's just obnoxious.
Here is a (somewhat-related) rant:
Some time ago, I wrote a program that takes templates/data and after proces... | null | 0 | 1315235868 | False | 0 | c2hmoql | t3_k56t1 | null | t1_c2hmoql | t1_c2hmgiw | null | 1427561133 | 8 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | NyanCatHater | null | Yes, they explain map, fold and filter. Then you can use your brain to figure the rest out. | null | 0 | 1315235896 | False | 0 | c2hmoue | t3_k3bse | null | t1_c2hmoue | t1_c2hgnfc | null | 1427561135 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | fence300 | null | I turned on tchaikovsky and then had the automated reader on my computer sound this article out for me. It was epic. | null | 0 | 1315235914 | False | 0 | c2hmoww | t3_k55g9 | null | t1_c2hmoww | t3_k55g9 | null | 1427561136 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | shutmeup | null |
I'm sorry but it seems you don't understand Command Pattern or the OOP at all. You don't always need to have all that work to "turn a light on".
I mean, you could have "boolean isLightOn = true" or "boolean isLightOn = false" and change it whenever you want. But this has nothing to do with Command Pattern! That patt... | null | 0 | 1315235922 | True | 0 | c2hmoy6 | t3_k56t1 | null | t1_c2hmoy6 | t3_k56t1 | null | 1427561136 | -7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | mitsuhiko | null | The reverse is what's interesting. As a Python programmer you constantly write code and later on you notice that you were using different design patterns without considering them. | null | 0 | 1315235939 | False | 0 | c2hmp05 | t3_k56t1 | null | t1_c2hmp05 | t3_k56t1 | null | 1427561137 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Smallpaul | null | Not really. Rather, I feel compelled to correct illogic. That is not quite the same as having a positive enjoyment from the arguing. I would be quite happy if everywhere I went on the Internet I was surrounded by well reasoned dialog. But that will never happen. | null | 0 | 1315236118 | False | 0 | c2hmpoj | t3_k3w0c | null | t1_c2hmpoj | t1_c2hl5e3 | null | 1427561145 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | Programming is a lot like plumbing. Any moron can stick two pipes together, but if you want to put all the plumbing in the Empire State building, you better expect to have to learn WTF you are doing. | null | 0 | 1315236224 | False | 0 | c2hmq24 | t3_k55g9 | null | t1_c2hmq24 | t3_k55g9 | null | 1427561149 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
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