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True | codepoet | null | I'm 30 (-ish) and I've been doing this in some form since I was a kid. I'm just starting to reach a decent momentum and pick up numerous languages and concepts with ease.
This isn't to say "don't try" but "have patience". | null | 0 | 1315236251 | False | 0 | c2hmq5t | t3_k55g9 | null | t1_c2hmq5t | t1_c2hmcl4 | null | 1427561152 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1315236253 | True | 0 | c2hmq62 | t3_k55g9 | null | t1_c2hmq62 | t1_c2hmcl4 | null | 1427561152 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | NegativeK | null | Dude.. In 10 years, you'll have half (based on average) your life left.
"Good", by the way, isn't a requirement for a job -- if that's what you want. There are jobs where less than ten years of demonstrated ability are okay. The devs I work with are definitely comprised of people who haven't busted ass at programming ... | null | 0 | 1315236264 | False | 0 | c2hmq7r | t3_k55g9 | null | t1_c2hmq7r | t1_c2hmcl4 | null | 1427561152 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | frogfury | null | In 10 more years all the technology that exists now will be obsolete, as will the software running it. You can't just learn C and say you're good for a life time (like you can do with, say, sewing). It's an ongoing process of keeping yourself updated and practicing constantly. | null | 0 | 1315236353 | False | 0 | c2hmqix | t3_k55g9 | null | t1_c2hmqix | t1_c2hmcl4 | null | 1427561155 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1315236387 | False | 0 | c2hmqn5 | t3_k42i7 | null | t1_c2hmqn5 | t1_c2hg884 | null | 1427561157 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | skilldrick | null | You don't need to dare me to read Clean Code, it's on my wishlist :) I'm not saying "ggrrr classes are bad oop is dumb", I'm saying that in Java, if you want to encapsulate behaviour you need to create a class, which seems like overhead to me.
The point is, programming is about abstraction and reducing complexity. If ... | null | 0 | 1315236392 | False | 0 | c2hmqo4 | t3_k56t1 | null | t1_c2hmqo4 | t1_c2hmoy6 | null | 1427561157 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | diamondjim | null | You don't need to implement a LightOnCommand to switch on a light. Just call the SwitchOn method of the LightBulb class. There's always more than one way to skin a cat.
The problem with Java isn't the language, but the community which has become too focussed on patterns and abstractions and the whole "We Are Enterpris... | null | 0 | 1315236397 | False | 0 | c2hmqot | t3_k56t1 | null | t1_c2hmqot | t1_c2hlvef | null | 1427561158 | 15 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1315236450 | False | 0 | c2hmqv4 | t3_k42i7 | null | t1_c2hmqv4 | t1_c2hlx66 | null | 1427561160 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | mushrooshi | null | Bjarne Stroustrup, inventor of C++ | null | 0 | 1315236462 | False | 0 | c2hmqwt | t3_k5e6k | null | t1_c2hmqwt | t3_k5e6k | null | 1427561160 | 12 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | atred | null | it's for real, but it might be only a temporary solution. (don't know why an asshole downvoted you for asking a question). | null | 0 | 1315236478 | False | 0 | c2hmqz8 | t3_k4uxf | null | t1_c2hmqz8 | t1_c2hk2z5 | null | 1427561161 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | droid_of_flanders | null | Well, the article starts off step 3 by saying "Once you have a small body of projects accumulated, start reading other people's code." I would think that the statement is primarily directed to novices or coders with relatively less experience.
I would think you are also partially correct, after a few months (more or l... | null | 0 | 1315236528 | False | 0 | c2hmr5v | t3_k55g9 | null | t1_c2hmr5v | t1_c2hm2j0 | null | 1427561165 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | shutmeup | null | That is nice!! It happened to me in C++ and Java with Factory Method pattern. I was not aware of design patterns...and later I discovered that the way i used to instantiate objects was a pattern ^^
The code is really cleaner and anyone who looks at my code and see " Xyz omg = XyzFactory.getXyz(lol) " knows instantly wh... | null | 0 | 1315236893 | False | 0 | c2hmsj6 | t3_k56t1 | null | t1_c2hmsj6 | t1_c2hmp05 | null | 1427561182 | -1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | aerno | null | something like that | null | 0 | 1315237031 | False | 0 | c2hmt0k | t3_k4uxf | null | t1_c2hmt0k | t1_c2hm3h7 | null | 1427561189 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | I don't downvote posts I respond to. If a post is worth responding to, it's not worthy of downvoting. | null | 0 | 1315237034 | False | 0 | c2hmt11 | t3_k3ivo | null | t1_c2hmt11 | t1_c2hlzqp | null | 1427561189 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | deong | null | I think that's an overly idealized version of the reality that most people experience. I might want to write in Haskell, but if my code is going to be like that 20 year old C code, then I need to account for what the next 20 years of its life are going to look like, including the people and processes that are going to ... | null | 0 | 1315237070 | False | 0 | c2hmt5z | t3_k42if | null | t1_c2hmt5z | t1_c2hmmye | null | 1427561191 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | >if you want to encapsulate behaviour you need to create a class, which seems like overhead to me.
Seems a lot like saying putting your functions into a namespace is just too much overhead for you.
public class X {
}
Yeah, that's brutal. | null | 0 | 1315237412 | False | 0 | c2hmug4 | t3_k56t1 | null | t1_c2hmug4 | t1_c2hmqo4 | null | 1427561208 | -4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | forcedtoregister | null | Yeah definitely. I think I might make a few of these myself... | null | 0 | 1315237451 | False | 0 | c2hmul2 | t3_k59d4 | null | t1_c2hmul2 | t1_c2hlu3p | null | 1427561211 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Testiclese | null | It's true that C#/Java make it extremely easy to write bloated software, partly because it's so easy to reuse libraries written by others. So take that (a very good thing), put it in the hands of not-so-competent people and you get bloat.
In the C/C++ world, code reuse is much more difficult. All libraries seem to us... | null | 0 | 1315237526 | False | 0 | c2hmuuj | t3_k42if | null | t1_c2hmuuj | t1_c2hlr9c | null | 1427561220 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | radarsat1 | null | Ideally I think Fortran would be great as a companion to SciPy/NumPy. It's already very useful that way through f2py, but what I think would rock would be to be able to embed short Fortran functions in your Python scripts and have them be recompiled on the fly, so that you don't have to worry about having your Fortran... | null | 0 | 1315237558 | False | 0 | c2hmuyf | t3_k58pi | null | t1_c2hmuyf | t3_k58pi | null | 1427561215 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | hackinthebochs | null | I agree with this actually. Ideally we would work to memorize the grunt work inherent in programming so that our minds are elevated to a higher level. If we memorized common api's and common algorithms we would be more productive by a large factor. The point about flow is real, in that constantly looking up api's and c... | null | 0 | 1315237565 | False | 0 | c2hmuz9 | t3_k42i7 | null | t1_c2hmuz9 | t1_c2hmmdc | null | 1427561215 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | POTUS | null | It's not entirely accurate to say that parameterized queries are sanitized. The data is put into the database (or used as a select criteria) never having seen an escaping function, which would leave holes for errors and security vulnerabilities (and would defeat the purpose of parameterization anyway).
Modern SQL lib... | null | 0 | 1315237662 | False | 0 | c2hmvck | t3_k1bq3 | null | t1_c2hmvck | t1_c2hmoa2 | null | 1427561221 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | omeganon | null | Totally missing my point. If you're going to tout that you've done something in 40 lines of code, you should be doing it in only 40 lines of code. For example, if someone wrote 40 libraries that do everything I need done in a program with all the interrelationship logic embedded within them, and then I write a program ... | null | 0 | 1315237913 | False | 0 | c2hmw9t | t3_k2x8k | null | t1_c2hmw9t | t1_c2he05e | null | 1427561232 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | ceolceol | null | This is very true. I find myself barely writing a list of what I need done for a pet project, let alone a date when it should be. | null | 0 | 1315237920 | False | 0 | c2hmwal | t3_k55g9 | null | t1_c2hmwal | t1_c2hltbz | null | 1427561232 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Timmmmbob | null | Just in case you weren't being a condescending idiot, I was asking a serious question. Nearly all the functional programming tutorials I've read teach you stuff that is conveniently suited to functional programming. The factorial function is the "hello world" of the functional programming world.
They never seem to mov... | null | 0 | 1315238094 | False | 0 | c2hmwz8 | t3_k3bse | null | t1_c2hmwz8 | t1_c2hmoue | null | 1427561241 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | ghjm | null | In most other professional jobs, it takes much longer. | null | 0 | 1315238154 | False | 0 | c2hmx61 | t3_k55g9 | null | t1_c2hmx61 | t1_c2hmkrf | null | 1427561243 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | helm | null | I recently wrote a dice-rolling program. I finished it too!
It was 25 lines of code. In c (as in, four lines actually did anything). | null | 0 | 1315238197 | False | 0 | c2hmxbt | t3_k55g9 | null | t1_c2hmxbt | t1_c2hld80 | null | 1427561247 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | ezekiel | null | Yes. | null | 0 | 1315238206 | False | 0 | c2hmxcs | t3_k42if | null | t1_c2hmxcs | t1_c2hmdgq | null | 1427561247 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | masklinn | null | > You can (Class Class<?> has a method .newInstance(Object... args)),
That's not instantiating classes with your own metaclass, since you can't extend Class (it's final), meaning you can't create your own metaclass.
You can create a class instance through reflection, but that's not the same thing.
Although ... | null | 0 | 1315238253 | False | 0 | c2hmxj5 | t3_k56t1 | null | t1_c2hmxj5 | t1_c2hmlf7 | null | 1427561256 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Testiclese | null | Are pure virtual functions that used in C#/Java? Those two ecosystems are where I've seen DI + mocks used the most and they're not functional programming languages (although C# maybe gets a little closer to that than Java with LINQ and all). You are pretty much encouraged to have state and side-effects.
I'm not sayin... | null | 0 | 1315238280 | False | 0 | c2hmxn6 | t3_k42if | null | t1_c2hmxn6 | t1_c2hlmuc | null | 1427561250 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | thesystemx | null | >21 lines of code to render a value in a web page. Having to write this should piss you off
Sorry, but that's a little silly. You can of course render a value on a web page without the need to write a custom component. This is just an example of how you would create a component, with the actual rendering doing some... | null | 0 | 1315238383 | False | 0 | c2hmy1q | t3_k4qrh | null | t1_c2hmy1q | t1_c2hmhmi | null | 1427561256 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | dtrebbien | null | I will find this interesting once the first GitHub pull request is actually merged into master. Until then, how is this different from just another mirror? | null | 0 | 1315238400 | False | 0 | c2hmy41 | t3_k4uxf | null | t1_c2hmy41 | t3_k4uxf | null | 1427561257 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Testiclese | null | It's easy to get carried away, true.
Recently, I decided (it was really late, my brain was tired) that I can't just use log4net, I had to write my own logging abstraction layer so that I can swap logging frameworks in/out at runtime based on a config setting.
I then proceeded to vigorously slap myself silly and tore... | null | 0 | 1315238573 | False | 0 | c2hmyr3 | t3_k42if | null | t1_c2hmyr3 | t1_c2hlk1s | null | 1427561265 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Testiclese | null | And to add insult to injury, they then tell us that we are exempt from overtime pay ? :) | null | 0 | 1315238610 | False | 0 | c2hmywc | t3_k42if | null | t1_c2hmywc | t1_c2hl9mh | null | 1427561266 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | ef4 | null | I agree. I think the biggest hole in the average programmer's background is that he or she hasn't read enough code. Most people just get too excited about jumping in and writing things.
It's like trying to become a great author without reading any great books first.
I think the ideal training for a beginning prog... | null | 0 | 1315238711 | False | 0 | c2hmza2 | t3_k55g9 | null | t1_c2hmza2 | t1_c2hm2j0 | null | 1427561272 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | EdgarVerona | null | Yes, this. This drives me nuts about myself. Outside of work, I start a million projects... I hardly ever finish any of them. :( | null | 0 | 1315238814 | False | 0 | c2hmzoz | t3_k55g9 | null | t1_c2hmzoz | t1_c2hld80 | null | 1427561277 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Testiclese | null | I think I see what you're saying, it's a very interesting angle on this global vs local complexity.
I think the problem is not with modern programming *languages* per se, but with how people misuse them. I've been guilty of this numerous times myself.
It almost became a competition to see how far I could go with so... | null | 0 | 1315238927 | False | 0 | c2hn03i | t3_k42if | null | t1_c2hn03i | t1_c2hlrgx | null | 1427561282 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | yolesaber | null | Where did they graduate from? I went to a small liberal arts school whose CS program is less than a decade old but my first semester I was taking courses in discrete math and linear algebra. | null | 0 | 1315239032 | False | 0 | c2hn0hz | t3_k55g9 | null | t1_c2hn0hz | t1_c2hlj6h | null | 1427561288 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | This sounds too interesting not to be explained -- what's the arithmetic IF, for those of us who will hopefully never run into one? | null | 0 | 1315239033 | False | 0 | c2hn0i7 | t3_k58pi | null | t1_c2hn0i7 | t1_c2hmgma | null | 1427561288 | 11 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | pozorvlak | null | Pick the *smallest possible increment of useful functionality*.
No, smaller than that.
That's more like it.
No! It *wouldn't* be just as easy to make it do that other thing as well. Just stick to the first thing. Plenty of time to add other features later.
OK, good, you've got the smallest increment of functionalit... | null | 0 | 1315239073 | True | 0 | c2hn0ne | t3_k55g9 | null | t1_c2hn0ne | t1_c2hme33 | null | 1427561291 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | ef4 | null | If you don't actually like programming and don't want to do programming, trying to learn programming will be excruciatingly painful.
I have never met anyone who could put in the necessary time (years) and concentration (intense) who wasn't motivated by a genuine interest in the subject.
The one exception to this rule... | null | 0 | 1315239119 | False | 0 | c2hn0ts | t3_k55g9 | null | t1_c2hn0ts | t1_c2hm1iv | null | 1427561292 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | I think hiding monad from from the conversation would just be a "lowest common denominator" move ... we don't hide the word function. Monads are better functions and we have to get used to it. | null | 0 | 1315239150 | False | 0 | c2hn0xo | t3_k3pyu | null | t1_c2hn0xo | t1_c2hcxjh | null | 1427561293 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1315239188 | False | 0 | c2hn12u | t3_k58pi | null | t1_c2hn12u | t1_c2hmcfv | null | 1427561296 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | pozorvlak | null | I've found the opposite - I've met lots of CS grads who are razor-sharp on the theory, but whose code is an illegible mess of copy-and-paste.
[I've also met CS grads whose code is clear and well-written. But they've typically had some industry or open-source experience too.] | null | 0 | 1315239205 | False | 0 | c2hn155 | t3_k55g9 | null | t1_c2hn155 | t1_c2hlj6h | null | 1427561296 | 11 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1315239255 | False | 0 | c2hn1ct | t3_k5d4v | null | t1_c2hn1ct | t3_k5d4v | null | 1427561299 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | That's not true, just read http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/wadler/papers/marktoberdorf/baastad.pdf and tell me Haskell monads are not the same as category theory monads. | null | 0 | 1315239365 | False | 0 | c2hn1sk | t3_k3pyu | null | t1_c2hn1sk | t1_c2hfmyu | null | 1427561304 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | GeorgeForemanGrillz | null | How to rehash what has already been said plenty of times before so you can sell a blog article and pretend to be a great programmer in 1 day. | null | 0 | 1315239393 | False | 0 | c2hn1wl | t3_k55g9 | null | t1_c2hn1wl | t3_k55g9 | null | 1427561306 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | tragomaskhalos | null | There is a special place in hell reserved for people who think that <:<, <<? and <> are good names for methods.
| null | 0 | 1315239396 | False | 0 | c2hn1x3 | t3_k5d4v | null | t1_c2hn1x3 | t3_k5d4v | null | 1427561306 | 26 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | eric_t | null | Do you mean the fact that you need to specify what pointers can point to with the target attribute? I agree that pointers are a bit cumbersome, but this is done to allow for better optimization. I have never compared pointer performance to C, though.
What systems do you develop on? I have never run into the I/O issues... | null | 0 | 1315239421 | False | 0 | c2hn20q | t3_k58pi | null | t1_c2hn20q | t1_c2hmmmx | null | 1427561306 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | pozorvlak | null | Does anyone have any recommendations for programs which are good to read? | null | 0 | 1315239430 | False | 0 | c2hn220 | t3_k55g9 | null | t1_c2hn220 | t3_k55g9 | null | 1427561308 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1315239560 | True | 0 | c2hn2jv | t3_k3l0g | null | t1_c2hn2jv | t1_c2h9e6d | null | 1427561314 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Swordsmanus | null | [You sure about that?](http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=the-expert-mind)
Granted, "effortful study" is required to progress over time, rather than just going through the motions. | null | 0 | 1315239612 | False | 0 | c2hn2r6 | t3_k55g9 | null | t1_c2hn2r6 | t1_c2hmx61 | null | 1427561317 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Xavier_OM | null | And this article is just about names.
Enjoy and fear the internationalization :
http://www.codeproject.com/KB/locale/Deliver_SW_GlobalAudience.aspx | null | 0 | 1315239617 | False | 0 | c2hn2s0 | t3_jzpo5 | null | t1_c2hn2s0 | t3_jzpo5 | null | 1427561317 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Syn3rgy | null | Facebook is not that complicated and certainly had a lot less features when he created it.
The more impressive part was coming up with the idea. | null | 0 | 1315239653 | False | 0 | c2hn2wz | t3_k55g9 | null | t1_c2hn2wz | t1_c2hmq62 | null | 1427561319 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | notomniscient | null | You're trying really hard to win a debate of your own making. I merely implied sanitisation of input was a good thing and it's not specific to jQuery. | null | 0 | 1315239691 | False | 0 | c2hn326 | t3_k1bq3 | null | t1_c2hn326 | t1_c2hmvck | null | 1427561321 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | eric_t | null | Here's the example from the legacy code I was talking about:
3 IF((Y(I)*X(J)-X(I)*Y(J))/(X(J)-X(I))) 2,4,5
4 INOUT=0
RETURN
5 INOUT=-INOUT
2 CONTINUE
If the expression inside the parenthesis is negative, the execution jumps to label 2. If it is zero, it jumps to 4, and if it is positive it... | null | 0 | 1315239773 | True | 0 | c2hn3d6 | t3_k58pi | null | t1_c2hn3d6 | t1_c2hn0i7 | null | 1427561332 | 28 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | homoiconic | null | My experience with Java is that there are two issues which need to be teased apart to understand why many things seem to unnecessarily difficult.
The first is that everything is an object, therefore everything looks like a class, just as you say. The second is that the language itself is remarkably verbose.
In langua... | null | 0 | 1315239997 | False | 0 | c2hn487 | t3_k56t1 | null | t1_c2hn487 | t3_k56t1 | null | 1427561344 | 8 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | armlesshobo | null | Step 7: Don't shave | null | 0 | 1315240015 | False | 0 | c2hn4aq | t3_k55g9 | null | t1_c2hn4aq | t3_k55g9 | null | 1427561345 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | snarfy | null | Projects are fun and exciting when you start them. They are boring, tedious, and a lot of work to finish them. | null | 0 | 1315240109 | False | 0 | c2hn4os | t3_k55g9 | null | t1_c2hn4os | t1_c2hld80 | null | 1427561351 | 11 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | ruloaas | null | Thank you for your very helpful reply. | null | 0 | 1315240260 | False | 0 | c2hn59j | t3_k55g9 | null | t1_c2hn59j | t1_c2hmq5t | null | 1427561358 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | BufferUnderpants | null | You probably haven't been overflowed with answers because your question is so common, but you could always start at the [FAQ](http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/faq#Imnotaprogrammer.HowdoIstart).
Since programming is a lot of things to many people --you can see below an Enterprise programmer protesting that the page ... | null | 0 | 1315240280 | False | 0 | c2hn5ce | t3_k55g9 | null | t1_c2hn5ce | t1_c2hm1iv | null | 1427561358 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | Wow. That's awesome. Obfuscated quaternary goto operator FTW. | null | 0 | 1315240286 | False | 0 | c2hn5d0 | t3_k58pi | null | t1_c2hn5d0 | t1_c2hn3d6 | null | 1427561360 | 22 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | SteveTheSultan | null | Agreed, 1/2 of career level programming is taking an existing project, updating it and getting the job done. Good programmers can do this. Bad programmers wine about how bad the code is. It doesn't matter how beautiful the recursive loops are, it just matters that the client likes it an pays the bills.
Programming... | null | 0 | 1315240327 | False | 0 | c2hn5iz | t3_k55g9 | null | t1_c2hn5iz | t1_c2hlcay | null | 1427561360 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1315240464 | False | 0 | c2hn61s | t3_k5d4v | null | t1_c2hn61s | t1_c2hn1x3 | null | 1427561363 | -1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | vawksel | null | I thought forking was bookmarking, but on github. | null | 0 | 1315240529 | False | 0 | c2hn6ay | t3_k4uxf | null | t1_c2hn6ay | t1_c2hl3yn | null | 1427561365 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | snarfy | null | The source code to [Lua](http://www.lua.org/) is beautiful.
If you are into game development, [irrlicht](http://irrlicht.sourceforge.net/) is pretty well written. | null | 0 | 1315240633 | False | 0 | c2hn6q0 | t3_k55g9 | null | t1_c2hn6q0 | t1_c2hn220 | null | 1427561368 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | andytuba | null | Your first group might be better off in the computer *science* side, inventing brilliant algorithms -- but let the second group, the "software engineers," handle the practical implementation. There's a place for everyone... | null | 0 | 1315240709 | False | 0 | c2hn70r | t3_k55g9 | null | t1_c2hn70r | t1_c2hn155 | null | 1427561372 | 8 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | unoriginal42 | null | No. | null | 0 | 1315240741 | False | 0 | c2hn75a | t3_k55g9 | null | t1_c2hn75a | t1_c2hlogb | null | 1427561374 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | andytuba | null | That's no red herring. I have to log my time in fifteen-minute increments, so I can produce quantifiable proof about how much time the goddamn CSS vacuums up.
EDIT: I log time to help with estimating time in the future, not to measure productivity. No, I'm not super-exact about it. | null | 0 | 1315240811 | True | 0 | c2hn7ff | t3_k55g9 | null | t1_c2hn7ff | t1_c2hmi8z | null | 1427561377 | 9 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | agonetwothree | null | What about the following two issues:
1. In F90 you don't really have associative arrays (like maps in C++ or dicts in python).
2. Each variable's live time (as per McConnell's definition in "Code Complete") is potentially huge, as you cannot define a variable e.g. for the sake of your loop only. | null | 0 | 1315240817 | False | 0 | c2hn7g9 | t3_k58pi | null | t1_c2hn7g9 | t1_c2hn20q | null | 1427561378 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | knubo | null | You don't become a poet by reading poetry alone. It takes practice practice practice. | null | 0 | 1315241011 | False | 0 | c2hn86z | t3_k55g9 | null | t1_c2hn86z | t1_c2hm2j0 | null | 1427561387 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | mcandre | null | Great article. Minor point: After "Learn Haskell", the author says to learn a declarative language (SQL). Haskell _is_ a declarative language. | null | 0 | 1315241027 | False | 0 | c2hn8am | t3_k55g9 | null | t1_c2hn8am | t3_k55g9 | null | 1427561389 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | chengiz | null | It's been aeons since I coded in fortran, but I distinctly remember fortran 77 not being uppercase. It was case-insensitive, but did not force uppercase.
| null | 0 | 1315241219 | True | 0 | c2hn91g | t3_k58pi | null | t1_c2hn91g | t3_k58pi | null | 1427561399 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | BlackPride | null | Thank you. | null | 0 | 1315241294 | False | 0 | c2hn9cn | t3_k55g9 | null | t1_c2hn9cn | t1_c2hn5ce | null | 1427561403 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | chris7197 | null | I've been a full time software developer for a year now and this is exactly what I've done. It's amazing looking back on old code (cringeworthy, but amazing) because it's then it hits you how much you've learnt since you coded that. | null | 0 | 1315241369 | False | 0 | c2hn9nq | t3_k55g9 | null | t1_c2hn9nq | t1_c2hmlvo | null | 1427561407 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | aaronla | null | It depends on the query, but I wouldn't bet on the query timing being "random" enough to defeat a good cryptanalyst. Database engines do a lot of work to produce optimized queries, giving the attacker a lot of raw material to work with. | null | 0 | 1315241461 | False | 0 | c2hna00 | t3_k1owo | null | t1_c2hna00 | t1_c2hl9gq | null | 1427561412 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | sheepsy | null | Holy shit. Fifteen minutes?!
How long does it take you to fill the timesheet everyday? | null | 0 | 1315241468 | False | 0 | c2hna0y | t3_k55g9 | null | t1_c2hna0y | t1_c2hn7ff | null | 1427561412 | 10 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | UniversalOutlet | null | Ideas are not terribly hard to come by in my experience. I work with a lot of developers that have good ideas but for one reason or another they never act on them. I'd say with good ideas you also need a lot of initiative and the ability to effectively communicate your ideas. I also know a lot of developers that may h... | null | 0 | 1315241469 | False | 0 | c2hna11 | t3_k55g9 | null | t1_c2hna11 | t1_c2hn2wz | null | 1427561412 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | jalla2000 | null | it's not supposed to be impressive. i'm not trying to show off. it's just a fun hack i threw together in a couple of hours, and i wanted to share the fun. | null | 0 | 1315241485 | False | 0 | c2hna37 | t3_k2x8k | null | t1_c2hna37 | t1_c2hmw9t | null | 1427561413 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | GMNightmare | null | My degree is absolutely worthless. It's a piece of paper that others think have worth that helps in job seeking alone. From my experience, I wouldn't trust anybody in programming who claims that it is worthwhile actually.
The only worth I found in it was the free time I got to program on my own. | null | 0 | 1315241486 | False | 0 | c2hna3g | t3_k55g9 | null | t1_c2hna3g | t1_c2hlhkp | null | 1427561413 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | palordrolap | null | Most dialects of BASIC (say what you will about it) had a similar construct in ON <positive int> GOTO <line/label>, ... . Some equivalent code:
30 ON 2+SGN(FNY(I)*FNX(J)-FNX(I)*FNY(J))/(FNX(J)-FNX(I))) GOTO 120,40,50
40 LET IO=0:RETURN
50 LET IO=-IO
120 NEXT
Use of 2+SGN() brings t... | null | 0 | 1315241518 | False | 0 | c2hna7q | t3_k58pi | null | t1_c2hna7q | t1_c2hn5d0 | null | 1427561423 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | chengiz | null | [This](http://www.nikhef.nl/~templon/fortran/fortran_style) is your father's Fortran. | null | 0 | 1315241585 | False | 0 | c2hnahj | t3_k58pi | null | t1_c2hnahj | t3_k58pi | null | 1427561418 | 9 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | seydar | null | Not programming. | null | 0 | 1315241593 | False | 0 | c2hnaim | t3_k5e6k | null | t1_c2hnaim | t3_k5e6k | null | 1427561418 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | gronkkk | null | Nothing about canvas inability to use scene graphs? | null | 0 | 1315241617 | False | 0 | c2hnamd | t3_k5geu | null | t1_c2hnamd | t3_k5geu | null | 1427561430 | -3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | drhugs | null | > "When you're on the job you have a vague idea of what the project ~~will be~~ was expected to do ~~at some point in the future.~~ two days ago." | null | 0 | 1315241747 | False | 0 | c2hnb5l | t3_k55g9 | null | t1_c2hnb5l | t1_c2hm05x | null | 1427561437 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | mcandre | null | Does Fortran still have comma/space ambiguity? I remember Fortran being used as an example of an ambiguous grammer in a compiler class. | null | 0 | 1315241764 | False | 0 | c2hnb7w | t3_k58pi | null | t1_c2hnb7w | t3_k58pi | null | 1427561428 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | It would be helpful and easy if it was required to supply an english word name for such methods as well, so that a) people could use either and b) when in the IDE and hovering over <<?:, the english word version appears in the tooltip. | null | 0 | 1315241850 | False | 0 | c2hnbjz | t3_k5d4v | null | t1_c2hnbjz | t1_c2hn1x3 | null | 1427561433 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1315241864 | False | 0 | c2hnblr | t3_k55g9 | null | t1_c2hnblr | t1_c2hmlci | null | 1427561442 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | seydar | null | didn't someonce one said english plz | null | 0 | 1315241916 | False | 0 | c2hnbta | t3_k56t1 | null | t1_c2hnbta | t1_c2hlrmd | null | 1427561437 | -13 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | andytuba | null | In theory, I fill it out several times during the course of the day so it's 1-5 minutes every hour, which comes to about half an hour a day. These are pretty detailed logs, mentioning specific tasks I did.
In theory, I fill it out at the end of the day, so it's 15 min/day while I review my ManicTime logs. These are mo... | null | 0 | 1315241953 | True | 0 | c2hnbyy | t3_k55g9 | null | t1_c2hnbyy | t1_c2hna0y | null | 1427561447 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | seydar | null | Shit on Java all you want, but it is hugely important historically and linguistically and it is the reason we are where we are today. Discussing what made it good and what made it bad is of huge import. | null | 0 | 1315241982 | False | 0 | c2hnc2t | t3_k56t1 | null | t1_c2hnc2t | t1_c2hm5zw | null | 1427561442 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | drhugs | null | The posted article refers to a forum comment on LISP that says:
> Finally, if there exists a language in which it is easier (than in Lisp) to clearly define deeply nested layers of abstraction to solve complex problems, I personally am not aware of it.
Reminded me, I never hear anything about Forth these days... i... | null | 0 | 1315242060 | False | 0 | c2hncdh | t3_k55g9 | null | t1_c2hncdh | t3_k55g9 | null | 1427561447 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | rm999 | null | There are lots of non-programming jobs that (should) love people who can program, or at least write simple scripts. | null | 0 | 1315242075 | False | 0 | c2hncfk | t3_k55g9 | null | t1_c2hncfk | t1_c2hmlci | null | 1427561447 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | I didn't note this, but you find a lot of these symbolic method names when they are expected to be used like operators, and once you think about HTTP interaction, they make some sense:
* <:< is "add headers to the request." The left brackets suggest "request;" the ":" reminds me that they're name:value pairs.
* ... | null | 0 | 1315242118 | False | 0 | c2hnckv | t3_k5d4v | null | t1_c2hnckv | t1_c2hn1x3 | null | 1427561449 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | sheepsy | null | What type of work do you do? Advertising agency? | null | 0 | 1315242154 | False | 0 | c2hncq9 | t3_k55g9 | null | t1_c2hncq9 | t1_c2hnbyy | null | 1427561451 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | bucknuggets | null | The root of this problem is that our tools frame how we think about our problems.
Because of this almost all requirements are merely incremental improvements to an existing tool. Very few people have the ability to imagine 2-3 steps in the future or to start from scratch and imagine a few different ways to solve the... | null | 0 | 1315242172 | False | 0 | c2hncsq | t3_k5gl4 | null | t1_c2hncsq | t3_k5gl4 | null | 1427561451 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | MarkTraceur | null | They are being tricked by appeals to their good nature--otherwise intelligent people are falling for the charitable cause, and giving in to their good nature.
> Photoshop is industry standard.
I have yet to hear what international organization gave out that standard. Was it the Adobe Board for Furthering Their Own... | null | 0 | 1315242271 | False | 0 | c2hnd7n | t3_k4395 | null | t1_c2hnd7n | t1_c2hl4ig | null | 1427561456 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Taladar | null | A class method is a fancy name for a namespaced function.
There is nothing fundamentally OO about overloading. | null | 0 | 1315242346 | False | 0 | c2hndia | t3_k56t1 | null | t1_c2hndia | t1_c2hlsmd | null | 1427561460 | -1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | kolme | null | Jepp, I realized it later. Which is good because my bullshit detector did what it was supposed to do: detect bullshit. | null | 0 | 1315242416 | False | 0 | c2hndta | t3_k55g9 | null | t1_c2hndta | t1_c2hmhmy | null | 1427561466 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | unklespaz | null | Nice... no beard anymore. Awesome pic | null | 0 | 1315242608 | False | 0 | c2hnem8 | t3_k5e6k | null | t1_c2hnem8 | t3_k5e6k | null | 1427561475 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | innervision | null | Ah, I had seen some forks before, didn't know there was an 'official' clone there. | null | 0 | 1315242637 | False | 0 | c2hneq7 | t3_k4uxf | null | t1_c2hneq7 | t1_c2hlimi | null | 1427561476 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
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