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True | eric_t | null | 1. I mention that there is a lack of data structures and algorithms in the article. The associative array is an incredibly useful data structure, no doubt about it. In fact, it is so useful that the designers of the Go language implemented it even though the language lacks generics, which is not really a satisfactory ... | null | 0 | 1315242646 | False | 0 | c2hnerq | t3_k58pi | null | t1_c2hnerq | t1_c2hn7g9 | null | 1427561477 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | highwind | null | Become good at X:
* Expect to do X for long time.
* Do lot of X
* Watch other people do X who's better than you and learn from it
* Find a specific area of X and concentrate on it while having a broad knowledge of X
* Try to do X from bottom up
* Be a pioneer in doing X
Congratulations! Now you are good at X! | null | 0 | 1315242649 | True | 0 | c2hnerw | t3_k55g9 | null | t1_c2hnerw | t3_k55g9 | null | 1427561477 | 192 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | andytuba | null | Software development.
It's more important for the people who are doing billable time (on the phone with a customer, doing paperwork for a customer, writing code for a specific customer's request, on-site at customer site, etc.). It's not as big a deal for me, IMO, because all my projects are internal and just come ou... | null | 0 | 1315242651 | False | 0 | c2hnese | t3_k55g9 | null | t1_c2hnese | t1_c2hncq9 | null | 1427561477 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | matthieum | null | Sometimes a project just serves as a technical demo. I just wanted to check if my idea about doing something in such way was doable (use of meta-programming ?), so I'll start a little fresh project, tackle along, and either demonstrate feasability... or fail. The "project" itself is not really finished, but it does not... | null | 0 | 1315242655 | False | 0 | c2hnesr | t3_k55g9 | null | t1_c2hnesr | t1_c2hld80 | null | 1427561477 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | grauenwolf | null | Not really. Each of those functions he showed would actually be implemented in a different way. | null | 0 | 1315242684 | False | 0 | c2hnex2 | t3_k3pyu | null | t1_c2hnex2 | t1_c2hlh5n | null | 1427561478 | -1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | GMNightmare | null | 10 years...
Funnily, right around the 10 year mark I clicked. I was always a fairly good programmer, but after making a couple full games and applications, all of the suddenly my coding went to a whole new level.
But I was programming far more than 10,000 hours, this was like 10 hours a day for 10 years. Double that ... | null | 0 | 1315242794 | False | 0 | c2hnfcc | t3_k55g9 | null | t1_c2hnfcc | t3_k55g9 | null | 1427561482 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | johnfredcee | null | Why not? | null | 0 | 1315242824 | False | 0 | c2hnfgp | t3_k55g9 | null | t1_c2hnfgp | t1_c2hn75a | null | 1427561484 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | eric_t | null | It is true that some compilers allowed this, but it was non-standard behavior. | null | 0 | 1315242835 | False | 0 | c2hnfhn | t3_k58pi | null | t1_c2hnfhn | t1_c2hn91g | null | 1427561484 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | innervision | null | LOL, that article reads like some science fiction book:
> On November 2012 the Computon was turned on, to much glee and self-congratulatory cheering in the scientific community. On March 10 2013 Computon became self-aware.
And yeah, I'd love to see GitHub open sourced, but it's definitely not happening since they ... | null | 0 | 1315242980 | False | 0 | c2hng40 | t3_k4uxf | null | t1_c2hng40 | t1_c2hl1r3 | null | 1427561492 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Syn3rgy | null | I agree, the ability to motivate yourself and others also plays a huge part in it.
The point I wanted to make is, that Zuckerberg was/is not necessarily a programming genius and did not even need a lot of experience. | null | 0 | 1315243054 | False | 0 | c2hngfn | t3_k55g9 | null | t1_c2hngfn | t1_c2hna11 | null | 1427561496 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Taladar | null | While that is definitely an upside I wish gitorious wasn't so buggy. We run a private instance at work now for a few months and even with some things we fixed ourselves (and submitted to upstream where appropriate) it still feels very unpolished and slow. | null | 0 | 1315243085 | False | 0 | c2hngkq | t3_k4uxf | null | t1_c2hngkq | t1_c2hkwlx | null | 1428195488 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | grauenwolf | null | That is a quite good introduction to monads in haskell, but it says nothing about monads in mathematics.
I did stumble across something interesting. Turns out there is in fact are two uses of closure in methematics, but again it is in no way related to computer language design.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Closure_o... | null | 0 | 1315243445 | False | 0 | c2hnhzn | t3_k3pyu | null | t1_c2hnhzn | t1_c2hn1sk | null | 1427561516 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | grauenwolf | null | Well you certainly can't leave those out when proposing it as an alternative to a switch on strings. | null | 0 | 1315243485 | False | 0 | c2hni5o | t3_k3ivo | null | t1_c2hni5o | t1_c2hl76h | null | 1427561519 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1315243510 | False | 0 | c2hni8p | t3_k4uxf | null | t1_c2hni8p | t1_c2hm7lw | null | 1427561520 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | gnuvince | null | I'd say that Scheme's basic datatype is the function. | null | 0 | 1315243570 | False | 0 | c2hnihn | t3_k56t1 | null | t1_c2hnihn | t1_c2hmfex | null | 1427561531 | 12 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | comment-dwim | null | Dude, [WTF](http://code.google.com/p/corkami/source/browse/trunk/misc/jsfack.py#)?
| null | 0 | 1315243572 | False | 0 | c2hnihz | t3_k5f5h | null | t1_c2hnihz | t3_k5f5h | null | 1427561531 | -2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | mitsuhiko | null | > The crc32 opcode implements the full algorithm with a single operation, however, it's not the commonly used CRC32 (used in Zip), but actually the CRC-32C (Castagnoli CRC-32), which uses a different polynomial.
Which also renders it quite useless for where you need the actual CRC32 value for comparison. :( | null | 0 | 1315243600 | False | 0 | c2hnilq | t3_k5f5h | null | t1_c2hnilq | t3_k5f5h | null | 1427561530 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | BufferUnderpants | null | Pay it no mind, it's just an unoriginal joke about Prolog. | null | 0 | 1315243602 | False | 0 | c2hnim2 | t3_k55g9 | null | t1_c2hnim2 | t1_c2hnfgp | null | 1427561530 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | fjord_piner | null | The why not call <:< "addHeaders" and <<? "addGetParameters"?
What do you gain with these cryptic symbols, besides the need of having to explain them separately because you came up with your own rules ("left bracket suggests request") that nobody knows but yourself?
And the comparison with `+` doesn't sta... | null | 0 | 1315243612 | False | 0 | c2hninu | t3_k5d4v | null | t1_c2hninu | t1_c2hnckv | null | 1427561525 | 14 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | eric_t | null | As far as I know, F2PY is currently being rewritten to support exactly what you want, embedding Fortran as strings and evaluating them directly, similar to what the weave package does for C. I don't know how the progress is, though. | null | 0 | 1315243923 | False | 0 | c2hnjvb | t3_k58pi | null | t1_c2hnjvb | t1_c2hmuyf | null | 1427561541 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | MF-Brofist | null | Oh god...this is me. | null | 0 | 1315243930 | False | 0 | c2hnjw9 | t3_k55g9 | null | t1_c2hnjw9 | t1_c2hld80 | null | 1427561541 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | tragomaskhalos | null | This would be more impressive if the Great Datuval were a wild hermit-like character, living in the woods and only rarely sighted, as opposed to the rather more prosaic reality of his being a [university lecturer](https://parasol.tamu.edu/~bs/). | null | 0 | 1315244018 | False | 0 | c2hnk85 | t3_k5e6k | null | t1_c2hnk85 | t3_k5e6k | null | 1427561545 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | skilldrick | null | Well, Scheme is about lists *and* functions. | null | 0 | 1315244062 | False | 0 | c2hnkdr | t3_k56t1 | null | t1_c2hnkdr | t1_c2hnihn | null | 1427561548 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | grauenwolf | null | Here you go:
public static object New()
Now that you have "overloaded" new, what's changed? | null | 0 | 1315244074 | False | 0 | c2hnkf5 | t3_k56t1 | null | t1_c2hnkf5 | t1_c2hlsmd | null | 1427561548 | -1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1315244111 | False | 0 | c2hnkkg | t3_k56t1 | null | t1_c2hnkkg | t1_c2hndia | null | 1427561550 | -8 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | comment-dwim | null | In a sense, it is. I chose the list instead because of the homoiconic property of the language: data and code, both in lists. | null | 0 | 1315244136 | False | 0 | c2hnkod | t3_k56t1 | null | t1_c2hnkod | t1_c2hnihn | null | 1427561551 | 12 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | webby_mc_webberson | null | I taught myself C++ in 21 days about 10 years ago, and I still don't know C++. | null | 0 | 1315244170 | False | 0 | c2hnksu | t3_k55g9 | null | t1_c2hnksu | t1_c2hlakr | null | 1427561554 | 90 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | ross456 | null | At Microsoft, backwards compatibility is important, so they can't just throw away the entire old system overnight and say "deal with it" to its customers. Really, they are pretty limited to performing incremental improvements, which is what this is. Because anything else will alienate customers, or will break compatibi... | null | 0 | 1315244258 | False | 0 | c2hnl56 | t3_k5gl4 | null | t1_c2hnl56 | t3_k5gl4 | null | 1427561558 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | grauenwolf | null | Sounds like you are looking for is .NET's DynamicMetaObject. With this you can basically build your own dynamic type systems from scratch. | null | 0 | 1315244287 | False | 0 | c2hnl9f | t3_k56t1 | null | t1_c2hnl9f | t1_c2hm94g | null | 1427561570 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | dinkumator | null | Great resource for people making the switch. Personally, I've never used textmate and don't do ruby/rails, but here are some commands that I can't live without:
my most-used feature is visual block mode... hit 'I' to prefix each line of the block with something, or try 'c' to replace the block with other text.
search... | null | 0 | 1315244312 | False | 0 | c2hnlde | t3_k5dwr | null | t1_c2hnlde | t3_k5dwr | null | 1427561561 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | unoriginal42 | null | > Pay it no mind, it's just an unoriginal joke about Prolog.
Indeed, best of luck with Prolog though - I found it hard going. | null | 0 | 1315244375 | False | 0 | c2hnlmz | t3_k55g9 | null | t1_c2hnlmz | t1_c2hnim2 | null | 1427561565 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | matthieum | null | The author seems to believe that readability to a person not fluent in the language is more important than readability to a person fluent in the language. While I admit freely that some code appears obsfucated (perl ?), I would not go so far as pretending that verbosity improves readability.
The instructions of a prog... | null | 0 | 1315244434 | False | 0 | c2hnlvv | t3_k5cgw | null | t1_c2hnlvv | t3_k5cgw | null | 1427561569 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | elperroborrachotoo | null | Agreed, but poetry doesn't have many job openings in maintenance. Poetry is a a pinnacle of "creating output from nothing", software development is far from that. A "lyric translator" might be a better analogy.
I don't think reading is more important than writing per se - but I do see an immense imbalance: education,... | null | 0 | 1315244635 | False | 0 | c2hnmon | t3_k55g9 | null | t1_c2hnmon | t1_c2hn86z | null | 1427561578 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | ChirpSteak | null | I don't see why this is downvoted, I came here to ask the same thing. | null | 0 | 1315244701 | False | 0 | c2hnmx2 | t3_jklsd | null | t1_c2hnmx2 | t1_c2cyvv3 | null | 1427561591 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | > DIVIDE BY ZERO ERROR.
AKA having a full time programming job already. Doing new stuff is fun but you usually don't need to finish a project to have a good understanding of something new. | null | 0 | 1315244820 | False | 0 | c2hnndp | t3_k55g9 | null | t1_c2hnndp | t1_c2hlj0j | null | 1427561590 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | berlinbrown | null | It is always funny.
People will say, "Java sucks, I like JavaScript or C#".
...Yea. OK? | null | 0 | 1315244942 | False | 0 | c2hnnvb | t3_k56t1 | null | t1_c2hnnvb | t1_c2hnc2t | null | 1427561595 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | sltkr | null | Three comments off the top of my head:
> MMX and FPU registers are mapped on each others, but in opposite directions: 0, 1,2,3... mapped to 7,6,5...
This is very sensible; it allows you to use the first few MMX registers together with the first few FPU stack locations, without them overlapping. If the order was r... | null | 0 | 1315244955 | False | 0 | c2hnnx8 | t3_k5f5h | null | t1_c2hnnx8 | t3_k5f5h | null | 1427561595 | 41 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | Closures in CS are related to partially ordered sets in mathematics, and have a different definition, so try looking for information on partially ordered sets + closures, and very quickly you'll run into category theory again. | null | 0 | 1315244958 | False | 0 | c2hnnxq | t3_k3pyu | null | t1_c2hnnxq | t1_c2hnhzn | null | 1427561595 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | berlinbrown | null | Says the guy that is a heavy JavaScript user. | null | 0 | 1315245041 | False | 0 | c2hnoa2 | t3_k56t1 | null | t1_c2hnoa2 | t3_k56t1 | null | 1427561599 | -5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | akdas | null | I'm assuming you mean a computer science and computer engineering education at an institution at a good university, because that's the type of education that I think makes the steps outlined easier to follow than having to do it on your own. If it's not such an education, then yes, it doesn't make you a better software... | null | 0 | 1315245212 | False | 0 | c2hnoyo | t3_k55g9 | null | t1_c2hnoyo | t1_c2hna3g | null | 1427561608 | 12 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | grauenwolf | null | Closures is programming languages have nothing at all to do with partially ordered sets. So what is this other use of closures in CS that you speak of? | null | 0 | 1315245243 | False | 0 | c2hnp3l | t3_k3pyu | null | t1_c2hnp3l | t1_c2hnnxq | null | 1427561609 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | cyancynic | null | In Java, yes. In real OO languages, no, classes are reified as objects and class methods are polymorphic. | null | 0 | 1315245335 | False | 0 | c2hnph6 | t3_k56t1 | null | t1_c2hnph6 | t1_c2hndia | null | 1427561614 | 13 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | sltkr | null | I preferred the beard. | null | 0 | 1315245352 | False | 0 | c2hnpjr | t3_k5e6k | null | t1_c2hnpjr | t1_c2hnem8 | null | 1427561615 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | cyancynic | null | Its not polymorphic. | null | 0 | 1315245399 | False | 0 | c2hnppp | t3_k56t1 | null | t1_c2hnppp | t1_c2hnkf5 | null | 1427561617 | 12 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | akdas | null | > there is a lot more to learn when you can't rely on the underlying implementation.
Can you expand on this? It's not like you'd be using `eval`, or possibly not even `read` if you want to deal with parsing. | null | 0 | 1315245462 | False | 0 | c2hnpy5 | t3_k55g9 | null | t1_c2hnpy5 | t1_c2hm5kf | null | 1427561620 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | masklinn | null | > Sounds like you are looking for is .NET's DynamicMetaObject.
No.
> With this you can basically build your own dynamic type systems from scratch.
I don't want to build type systems, I want an object system which does not suck balls. Java's object system sucks a hefty amount of balls (and since you're bringing... | null | 0 | 1315245471 | False | 0 | c2hnpzj | t3_k56t1 | null | t1_c2hnpzj | t1_c2hnl9f | null | 1427561629 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | magcius | null | I use the term "qualified" as that's what's used in SpiderMonkey ([see JSRESOLVE_QUALIFIED](https://developer.mozilla.org/En/SpiderMonkey/JSAPI_Reference/JSNewResolveOp)). The ECMAScript standard considers them both to be "Function Calls":
CallExpression : MemberExpression Arguments
`thisVal` is determined by wha... | null | 0 | 1315245557 | False | 0 | c2hnqce | t3_k4vwc | null | t1_c2hnqce | t1_c2hm82c | null | 1427561628 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | IrrelevantElephant | null | I consider these *Learn to do X in Y days* type books to be roughly equivalent to something along the lines of a weekend fitness boot camp.
They teach you how to program in the same way that the boot camp would teach you how to do press ups. You'd have to be mad to assume a professional level of expertise would be ach... | null | 0 | 1315245608 | False | 0 | c2hnqk5 | t3_k55g9 | null | t1_c2hnqk5 | t3_k55g9 | null | 1427561632 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Teekoo | null | You should see my hamburger flipping abilities. | null | 0 | 1315245642 | False | 0 | c2hnqoz | t3_k55g9 | null | t1_c2hnqoz | t1_c2hmkrf | null | 1427561633 | 29 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1315245667 | False | 0 | c2hnqt2 | t3_k56t1 | null | t1_c2hnqt2 | t1_c2hlvef | null | 1427561635 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | masklinn | null | Unless you consider that an instance method is also just a fancy name for a namespaced function, then it is indeed otherwise. Java having a retarded object system does not mean its retardation is truth. | null | 0 | 1315245705 | False | 0 | c2hnqye | t3_k56t1 | null | t1_c2hnqye | t1_c2hnkkg | null | 1427561636 | 9 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | berlinbrown | null | Then use Scheme or JScheme. | null | 0 | 1315245763 | False | 0 | c2hnr65 | t3_k56t1 | null | t1_c2hnr65 | t1_c2hlz7v | null | 1427561638 | -1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | OMG_Ponies | null | Those are actually really good books if you already an experience programmer and looking to learn a new language... just sayin... | null | 0 | 1315245766 | False | 0 | c2hnr6r | t3_k55g9 | null | t1_c2hnr6r | t1_c2hnksu | null | 1427561639 | 13 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | masklinn | null | > The first is that everything is an object
No.
> In languages like Smalltalk, everything is also an object. Smalltalk isn’t a functional language
Uh... duh? Smalltalk is the ur-OO language...
> despite popularizing concepts like mapping and folding instead of looping over collections.
These concepts actu... | null | 0 | 1315245894 | False | 0 | c2hnrp0 | t3_k56t1 | null | t1_c2hnrp0 | t1_c2hn487 | null | 1427561644 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | greenspans | null | mac is a crippled expensive unix intended for those who like looks over capabilities. The ruby/textmate culture is cancer. | null | 0 | 1315245921 | False | 0 | c2hnrsr | t3_k5dwr | null | t1_c2hnrsr | t3_k5dwr | null | 1427561648 | -19 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | > The why not call <:< "addHeaders" and <<? "addGetParameters"?
I imagine (I didn't write Databinder Dispatch) that "addHeaders" and "addGetParameters" don't look like operators and are unnecessarily verbose.
> What do you gain with these cryptic symbols
The point is they're only cryptic the first ... | null | 0 | 1315246019 | True | 0 | c2hns69 | t3_k5d4v | null | t1_c2hns69 | t1_c2hninu | null | 1427561650 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | >I don't think it's necessary to create your own toy programming language.
I think it is. I've done it, although it's an esoteric programming language which doesn't have variables: http://esolangs.org/wiki/DevPerc | null | 0 | 1315246067 | False | 0 | c2hnse2 | t3_k55g9 | null | t1_c2hnse2 | t1_c2hmlvo | null | 1427561652 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | munificent | null | > Does anybody really like unqualified imports?
I do.
> 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.
It makes it a *lot* neater in a language like Magpie. In most OOP languages, methods are looked up directly on the receiv... | null | 0 | 1315246240 | False | 0 | c2hnt2f | t3_k325t | null | t1_c2hnt2f | t1_c2hlkdj | null | 1427561661 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | clawoo | null | If you are interested in something more cross-platformey you should try out [Cocos2D-x](http://www.cocos2dx.org).
You write C++ code that works pretty seamlessly on Android, iPhone and Win32 (with the help of an Open GL ES driver). | null | 0 | 1315246287 | False | 0 | c2hnt9m | t3_k59d4 | null | t1_c2hnt9m | t3_k59d4 | null | 1427561663 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | pozorvlak | null | Thanks! | null | 0 | 1315246424 | False | 0 | c2hnttg | t3_k55g9 | null | t1_c2hnttg | t1_c2hn6q0 | null | 1427561672 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | radarsat1 | null | Oh that's cool, thanks. I figured something like that must either exist or be in the works...
I find it frustrating that weave only compiles expressions, but not loops, since loops are usually what one needs to optimize. | null | 0 | 1315246663 | False | 0 | c2hnuub | t3_k58pi | null | t1_c2hnuub | t1_c2hnjvb | null | 1427561686 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | brandf | null | scrolled through article quickly. decided not to read after the author presented Apple's Finder as an example of a good design.
remember when everyone bitched about ribbon in office? after using it for a few years its now obviously better than the old model. not sure why this is getting re-hashed. | null | 0 | 1315246727 | False | 0 | c2hnv3x | t3_k5gl4 | null | t1_c2hnv3x | t3_k5gl4 | null | 1428195485 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | darchangel | null | Exactly. And the same as a undergrad college education. | null | 0 | 1315246890 | False | 0 | c2hnvsb | t3_k55g9 | null | t1_c2hnvsb | t1_c2hnqk5 | null | 1427561702 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | franktinsley | null | What if I make that game using an engine like Unity 3D? Because I've been able to teach myself how to do that in only a year or so. | null | 0 | 1315247062 | False | 0 | c2hnwh2 | t3_k55g9 | null | t1_c2hnwh2 | t1_c2hnfcc | null | 1427561716 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | ChrisAndersen | null | Regarding Step 3: read other people's code.
I've developed a technique I call "combing the code" for learning how other people's code works. I take their entire code set and comment out every single line of code. I then uncomment a few select pieces of the code (typically the launch points and the API entry points). W... | null | 0 | 1315247109 | False | 0 | c2hnwno | t3_k55g9 | null | t1_c2hnwno | t3_k55g9 | null | 1427561718 | 10 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | darchangel | null | I agree with everything you said except possibly the last point. What is an "average" programmer? A script kiddie? A professional coder? A professional non-coder streamlining their job by writing formulas in Excel? | null | 0 | 1315247141 | False | 0 | c2hnwsm | t3_k55g9 | null | t1_c2hnwsm | t1_c2hnfcc | null | 1427561719 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | ChrisAndersen | null | This reminds me of the #1 lesson I heard when it comes to being a writer: if you want to write, write. Good writers write a lot. Good programmers program a lot. Good musicians play a lot. Good athletes practice a lot. | null | 0 | 1315247188 | False | 0 | c2hnwzj | t3_k55g9 | null | t1_c2hnwzj | t3_k55g9 | null | 1427561721 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | AStrangeStranger | null | I'd get along with the ribbon better if it had replaced the toolbars only - for rarely used commands I still find easier to search a menu - Now I tend to end up in Google to find these | null | 0 | 1315247238 | False | 0 | c2hnx68 | t3_k5gl4 | null | t1_c2hnx68 | t1_c2hnv3x | null | 1427561723 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | gorilla_the_ape | null | That's good for users too. If they are presented with a totally unfamiliar tool, then they will find it difficult to operate it. A tool which is mostly familiar but has new features then they can use it, and learn the new functions. | null | 0 | 1315247247 | False | 0 | c2hnx7s | t3_k5gl4 | null | t1_c2hnx7s | t1_c2hncsq | null | 1427561726 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | le_kommie | null | I'm not an expert but so far I could do anything on Mac I could do on Ubuntu, thanks to MacPorts. I even share the same config on github for both.
EDIT: except figuring out where the hell they hid `/etc/nsswitch.conf` on Mac... That's a bit of a pain but it's prob because I'm a noob. | null | 0 | 1315247346 | False | 0 | c2hnxm0 | t3_k5dwr | null | t1_c2hnxm0 | t1_c2hnrsr | null | 1427561735 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | grauenwolf | null | What the need is a search command in the ribbon itself. They gad an impressive demo of it but it never made it to production. | null | 0 | 1315247435 | False | 0 | c2hny00 | t3_k5gl4 | null | t1_c2hny00 | t1_c2hnx68 | null | 1427561732 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Laziness | null | But you suck at Y. | null | 0 | 1315247501 | False | 0 | c2hny9z | t3_k55g9 | null | t1_c2hny9z | t1_c2hnerw | null | 1427561734 | 110 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | tyler | null | The first point or three are just good general advice for gaining mastery over anything - music, writing, sports, accounting, project management, whatever.
Malcom "Tipping Point" Gladwell suggests that you need to spend [10,000 hours](http://www.gladwell.com/outliers/outliers_excerpt1.html) on something to achieve mas... | null | 0 | 1315247585 | False | 0 | c2hnynl | t3_k55g9 | null | t1_c2hnynl | t3_k55g9 | null | 1427561748 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | WinterAyars | null | >...the only claim being made is that it makes the game feel more like it's being played on a LAN, which is the goal here.
Except that it doesn't, because the latency is *still there*.
>...that should be preferable to a netcode that forces us to manually compensate for latency throughout the entire game.
Aga... | null | 0 | 1315247866 | True | 0 | c2hnzub | t3_k4m3q | null | t1_c2hnzub | t1_c2hlcbz | null | 1427561754 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | AStrangeStranger | null | I am not sure searching is always the answer - structure can often be better.
e.g. If have all the table operations under one menu - then it doesn't matter if you call it "new row", "insert row" or "add row" - people can easily find it - but searching you have to think of all variations people might use. | null | 0 | 1315247897 | False | 0 | c2hnzzq | t3_k5gl4 | null | t1_c2hnzzq | t1_c2hny00 | null | 1427561755 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | cheatch | null | create a language? | null | 0 | 1315247938 | False | 0 | c2ho062 | t3_k55g9 | null | t1_c2ho062 | t3_k55g9 | null | 1427561756 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | cdsmith | null | There are plenty of universities... normally the non-flagship state colleges in the U.S. at least, where it's quite possible to obtain a degree without doing anything. Cheating (or approximations to it, like hounding every source of homework help the campus has set up until you get people to walk you through every ass... | null | 0 | 1315248039 | False | 0 | c2ho0lq | t3_k55g9 | null | t1_c2ho0lq | t1_c2hn0hz | null | 1427561763 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Kyrox | null | I'm not the only one who actually finds the COBOL code harder to understand, am I?
Looks like the same problem as with AppleScript, it tries to be english so it's "easy", but you still need to know what terms to use, and EXACTLY what order to put them in, so it turns out completely unintuitive and just as confusing as... | null | 0 | 1315248097 | True | 0 | c2ho0ud | t3_k5cgw | null | t1_c2ho0ud | t3_k5cgw | null | 1427561767 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | nuzzle | null | I want to be able to write
Computer, I want you to not
do something
instead of
for (WSBOTTLENUM = 98; WSBOTTLENUM < 2; WSBOTTLENUM--) {
}
| null | 0 | 1315248113 | False | 0 | c2ho0wo | t3_k5cgw | null | t1_c2ho0wo | t1_c2hnlvv | null | 1427561766 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | magruff | null | I'm (about to be) studying to become a programmer/software developer/whatever and this is my driving factor. There's always room at the top. | null | 0 | 1315248134 | False | 0 | c2ho0zs | t3_k55g9 | null | t1_c2ho0zs | t1_c2hmqix | null | 1427561767 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | ReinH | null | Real artists ship. | null | 0 | 1315248181 | False | 0 | c2ho16x | t3_k55g9 | null | t1_c2ho16x | t1_c2hlcay | null | 1427561768 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | GMNightmare | null | In your class I'm sure you have those fellow students who have those assignments done in an hour. I was one of those students.
I am baffled, at how you think you have some kind of authority to claim the usefulness of university classes when you're still in them. How useful they are will only be revealed to you after y... | null | 0 | 1315248200 | False | 0 | c2ho199 | t3_k55g9 | null | t1_c2ho199 | t1_c2hnoyo | null | 1427561769 | -8 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | inkieminstrel | null | I taught myself game development in 21 days in the late 90's. It was pretty much out-dated at that point, mostly dealing with mode 13H stuff, but it was still a really great book. I learned a ton about optimizing C++, bit twiddling, and similar topics that you usually don't encounter until you really need them.
Grea... | null | 0 | 1315248200 | False | 0 | c2ho19a | t3_k55g9 | null | t1_c2ho19a | t1_c2hnksu | null | 1427561769 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | noreallyimthepope | null | >The fact that you are being downvoted may correlate to people not caring about using open source services yet.
Or it may correlate to the fact that he needlessly whinges about something that nobody knows or cares about. | null | 0 | 1315248201 | False | 0 | c2ho19l | t3_k4uxf | null | t1_c2ho19l | t1_c2hk25h | null | 1427561769 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Forgery | null | I love textmate. The column editing, programmable bundles and syntax coloring make my life much easier. | null | 0 | 1315248242 | False | 0 | c2ho1fp | t3_k5dwr | null | t1_c2ho1fp | t3_k5dwr | null | 1427561770 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | adolfojp | null | http://www.ubit.ch/software/ubitmenu-languages/ | null | 0 | 1315248331 | False | 0 | c2ho1to | t3_k5gl4 | null | t1_c2ho1to | t1_c2hnx68 | null | 1427561776 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | nickik | null | The problem are not librarys. Its the problem that people cant write a library to solve a simple problem. Small, easy and composable librarys are the solution. | null | 0 | 1315248383 | False | 0 | c2ho21y | t3_k42if | null | t1_c2ho21y | t1_c2hlmuc | null | 1427561778 | 10 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | codeshite | null | > The point about flow is real, in that constantly looking up api's and code snippets for common tasks kills your ability to see the higher problem.
I'm sorry, but that's complete and utter nonsense. | null | 0 | 1315248386 | False | 0 | c2ho224 | t3_k42i7 | null | t1_c2ho224 | t1_c2hmuz9 | null | 1427561778 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | GMNightmare | null | Statistically, the "average" programmer is not a programmer. I'm sure you're aware of those 1 in 100 job applicants can actually program a basic problem...
If you can actually program something, anything, from scratch (no copy paste, no relying upon others) then you are a better programer than most who call themselves... | null | 0 | 1315248396 | False | 0 | c2ho23h | t3_k55g9 | null | t1_c2ho23h | t1_c2hnwsm | null | 1427561780 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | ReinH | null | I'm sorry, but logging your time in 15 minute intervals is stupid and counter-productive. It means your company doesn't trust you. [Hours are bullshit](http://zachholman.com/posts/how-github-works-hours/).
And yes, I've done thousands of hours of billable work too. It's still bullshit. What clients care about is that ... | null | 0 | 1315248403 | False | 0 | c2ho24a | t3_k55g9 | null | t1_c2ho24a | t1_c2hnese | null | 1427561780 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | berlinbrown | null | Exactly, with JavaScript, you may have just functions and operations.
Where is the abstraction there? | null | 0 | 1315248518 | False | 0 | c2ho2ki | t3_k56t1 | null | t1_c2ho2ki | t1_c2hndia | null | 1427561786 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | akdas | null | > In your class I'm sure you have those fellow students who have those assignments done in an hour. I was one of those students.
Nope. These projects take weeks for the top students.
> I am baffled, at how you think you have some kind of authority to claim the usefulness of university classes when you're still ... | null | 0 | 1315248632 | False | 0 | c2ho31b | t3_k55g9 | null | t1_c2ho31b | t1_c2ho199 | null | 1427561792 | 8 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | nephros | null | Uhm, that's trinary is it not?
Anyway, if used as a tri-state IF and not an obfuscated GOTO it can be quite useful methinks. | null | 0 | 1315248809 | False | 0 | c2ho3rn | t3_k58pi | null | t1_c2ho3rn | t1_c2hn5d0 | null | 1427561802 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | deong | null | It isn't obvious from my rant, but I completely agree with this. | null | 0 | 1315248811 | False | 0 | c2ho3s0 | t3_k42if | null | t1_c2ho3s0 | t1_c2ho21y | null | 1427561802 | 10 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | GMNightmare | null | You are indeed probably better than the "average" programmer already. I wouldn't qualify you as a real programmer yet, but I'd say you are on a good start really. That is actually somewhat how I started programming.
That is, as long as you can make a game using that engine from scratch. That means you have the capabil... | null | 0 | 1315249082 | False | 0 | c2ho4xd | t3_k55g9 | null | t1_c2ho4xd | t1_c2hnwh2 | null | 1427561817 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Drfuzzykins | null | It's pretty useful too, for doing things based on the comparison of two values. | null | 0 | 1315249085 | False | 0 | c2ho4xt | t3_k58pi | null | t1_c2ho4xt | t1_c2hn5d0 | null | 1427561817 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | 00kyle00 | null | >This project template is "Public Domain"
This is generous of creators, but really it may hurt adoption for license aware users. You really want to have some kind of license sometimes. MIT, BSD, or whatever permissive license would probably be a better option. AFAIK there is even no such thing as 'Public Domain' in... | null | 0 | 1315249097 | False | 0 | c2ho4zm | t3_k59d4 | null | t1_c2ho4zm | t3_k59d4 | null | 1427561817 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | HaMMeReD | null | As a college dropout and a lead developer on large projects I would have to disagree.
Sure the computer courses at college were OK, but the rest was a bunch of BS.
Basically this article. there are other things too, and this isn't a checklist. I'm pretty sure I did everything here except write a compiler and I have n... | null | 0 | 1315249203 | False | 0 | c2ho5f3 | t3_k55g9 | null | t1_c2ho5f3 | t1_c2hlhkp | null | 1427561823 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | comment-dwim | null | It's not only about not using 'eval' and 'read'. It's also about:
* how to represent conses? what's the cost of this or that representation?
* garbage collection
* continuations
* proper tail recursion (i.e: should I go stackless or can I use the stack?)
* how should I implement threading?
* what's a good FFI model?
*... | null | 0 | 1315249203 | False | 0 | c2ho5f5 | t3_k55g9 | null | t1_c2ho5f5 | t1_c2hnpy5 | null | 1427561823 | 10 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | grelphy | null | Speak for yourself. Not all compsci programs are as worthless as you believe yours to have been. | null | 0 | 1315249235 | False | 0 | c2ho5jg | t3_k55g9 | null | t1_c2ho5jg | t1_c2hna3g | null | 1427561825 | 15 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
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