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True | [deleted] | null | I kinda like that fact though, I dunno why... | null | 0 | 1315254819 | False | 0 | c2hor3g | t3_k56t1 | null | t1_c2hor3g | t3_k56t1 | null | 1428195470 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | BioTronic | null | Do you have *proof* there are projects that are not like that? | null | 0 | 1315254924 | False | 0 | c2horir | t3_k55g9 | null | t1_c2horir | t1_c2hm8dp | null | 1428195470 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | Well re-license it as GPL/MIT/BSD for yourself, nothing stopping you... | null | 0 | 1315254970 | False | 0 | c2horpd | t3_k59d4 | null | t1_c2horpd | t1_c2ho4zm | null | 1427562115 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | It's not the only language that does that, C++ for instance.
| null | 0 | 1315255009 | False | 0 | c2horvf | t3_k58pi | null | t1_c2horvf | t1_c2hmg5c | null | 1427562117 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | BossOfTheGame | null | No it didn't. It would have been funny if you left out the *Had to be done.* | null | 0 | 1315255167 | False | 0 | c2hoshv | t3_k55g9 | null | t1_c2hoshv | t1_c2hoenj | null | 1427562127 | -6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | big-o-notation | null | That patent is probably useless due to prior art. Filed 2003... I mean, come on. | null | 0 | 1315255201 | False | 0 | c2hosme | t3_k4jfq | null | t1_c2hosme | t1_c2hlzvq | null | 1427562138 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | harlows_monkeys | null | Many are calling this sarcasm. I disagree--it was satire. | null | 0 | 1315255377 | False | 0 | c2hotaw | t3_k42i7 | null | t1_c2hotaw | t3_k42i7 | null | 1427562141 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | masklinn | null | > Simply using a Constructor is flexible enough for lots of occasions.
And when it's not, you're hosed, or you have to rely on a factory pattern which the language won't support you in using. | null | 0 | 1315255546 | False | 0 | c2hoty8 | t3_k56t1 | null | t1_c2hoty8 | t1_c2hopy1 | null | 1427562147 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | comment-dwim | null | I'm yet to see a single C project of moderate size that doesn't use pointers. Can you do dynamic memory allocation without pointers or implement a linked list? Can you open a FILE without using them?
| null | 0 | 1315255854 | False | 0 | c2hov4d | t3_k56t1 | null | t1_c2hov4d | t1_c2holh5 | null | 1427562159 | 8 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | criticismguy | null | So, "a lot"? Not sure what you're getting at here. | null | 0 | 1315256020 | False | 0 | c2hovsu | t3_k5d4v | null | t1_c2hovsu | t1_c2hodl8 | null | 1427562169 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1315256323 | False | 0 | c2howzn | t3_k5e6k | null | t1_c2howzn | t3_k5e6k | null | 1428195467 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | criticismguy | null | I think what you describe is still what he's talking about. You're gluing together iOS libraries, but what's the last algorithm you wrote?
These frameworks that you like, when did you learn them? The iPhone dev kit was only released 3 years ago. You're learning some new API because the manufacturer requires that yo... | null | 0 | 1315256352 | False | 0 | c2hox3d | t3_k42if | null | t1_c2hox3d | t1_c2hgs8r | null | 1427562186 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | skilldrick | null | Basically, any book on the first page of http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1711/what-is-the-single-most-influential-book-every-programmer-should-read is worth reading (and the three you mentioned all are). Read lots, write code that takes into account what you've read, goto 1. The most important thing is wanting to le... | null | 0 | 1315256436 | False | 0 | c2hoxfq | t3_k56t1 | null | t1_c2hoxfq | t1_c2ho8nw | null | 1427562189 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1315256542 | False | 0 | c2hoxuk | t3_k42i7 | null | t1_c2hoxuk | t1_c2hotaw | null | 1427562195 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | skilldrick | null | Uuuuhh, care to elaborate? | null | 0 | 1315256621 | False | 0 | c2hoy4s | t3_k56t1 | null | t1_c2hoy4s | t1_c2hnoa2 | null | 1427562209 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | MarshallBanana | null | > I'm yet to see a single C project of moderate size that doesn't use pointers.
Well, that is how things are usually done on desktop and server platforms. But, for example, an embedded system the situation looks very different.
> Can you do dynamic memory allocation without pointers or implement a linked list?... | null | 0 | 1315256722 | False | 0 | c2hoyj2 | t3_k56t1 | null | t1_c2hoyj2 | t1_c2hov4d | null | 1427562204 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | bluGill | null | No, the first group is worthless for inventing brilliant algorithms. What we need is the second best of the second group who are razor sharp on theory. There are not many simple algorithms left to invent: what is left is complex algorithms - in most cases referring to simple lemmas in the form of previous algorithms... | null | 0 | 1315256824 | True | 0 | c2hoyx9 | t3_k55g9 | null | t1_c2hoyx9 | t1_c2hn70r | null | 1427562210 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | criticismguy | null | The one question I want answered is: "why?". Modern Greek isn't ancient Greek, either, but I still have no desire to learn it. (Actually less, since it's not what the classics are written in -- in both the Greek and Fortran cases.)
What I got from this is: Fortran is much better than it was in 1977, but it's still n... | null | 0 | 1315256981 | False | 0 | c2hozit | t3_k58pi | null | t1_c2hozit | t1_c2hloj8 | null | 1427562218 | 9 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Magnesus | null | It's more like "How to waste your time you could be coding sth that will get you money in six really hard steps". | null | 0 | 1315257023 | False | 0 | c2hozoh | t3_k55g9 | null | t1_c2hozoh | t3_k55g9 | null | 1427562222 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | bluGill | null | Not anymore. They don't flip burgers anymore, and haven't for 15 years - except in small town cafes. (The best cooks in the world work at some of those cafe's - but they will never get anywhere outside of their small town) | null | 0 | 1315257032 | False | 0 | c2hozpt | t3_k55g9 | null | t1_c2hozpt | t1_c2hoejt | null | 1427562220 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | andytuba | null | That's a good point. We're certainly past the era where all the CIS professors did their undergrads in engineering, physics, math, and linguistics. | null | 0 | 1315257094 | False | 0 | c2hozyi | t3_k55g9 | null | t1_c2hozyi | t1_c2hoyx9 | null | 1427562223 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | lbzip2 | null | > how can smaller projects get money
Sorry for sounding negative, but I don't think they can "get" money.
If you make money yourself with the project, you can afford spending on bug bounties.
"Dopamine" is only a motivator if the project is high-profile (either by nature or by maintainer), giving bug reporters, c... | null | 0 | 1315257234 | True | 0 | c2hp0hp | t3_k5czl | null | t1_c2hp0hp | t1_c2hodop | null | 1427562230 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Magnesus | null | x86 is really bad. I really admire those who make compilers for x86 (and I'm saying to as someone who programmed in assembler for x86 and other systems, extreme RISC included). | null | 0 | 1315257253 | False | 0 | c2hp0jx | t3_k5f5h | null | t1_c2hp0jx | t3_k5f5h | null | 1427562230 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | bluepaper | null | Thank you for your reply to my rambling comment, I appreciate it. Will continue reading, learning and programming then. | null | 0 | 1315257403 | False | 0 | c2hp12u | t3_k56t1 | null | t1_c2hp12u | t1_c2hoxfq | null | 1427562237 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | sreguera | null | If you are really interested and can afford it, I would recommend [Lisp in Small Pieces](http://pagesperso-systeme.lip6.fr/Christian.Queinnec/WWW/LiSP.html). It shows several Scheme interpreters, each time using a more basic subset of Scheme in the implementation and after that it shows a bytecode and (to) C compilers. | null | 0 | 1315257421 | False | 0 | c2hp15b | t3_k55g9 | null | t1_c2hp15b | t1_c2hoeg9 | null | 1427562239 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Snefl | null | TIL Bjarne Stroustrup invented C++. | null | 0 | 1315257485 | False | 0 | c2hp1eg | t3_k5e6k | null | t1_c2hp1eg | t3_k5e6k | null | 1427562244 | -8 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | kawa | null | Except that you don't have to create "an entire class hierarchy". You only have to create a single interface (which declares the "function type"). Deep class hierarchies are a design smell, btw. | null | 0 | 1315257525 | False | 0 | c2hp1k1 | t3_k56t1 | null | t1_c2hp1k1 | t1_c2hlzeo | null | 1427562255 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | 9numbernine9 | null | [JSF*ck](http://utf-8.jp/public/jsfuck.html). | null | 0 | 1315257633 | False | 0 | c2hp1y3 | t3_k5f5h | null | t1_c2hp1y3 | t1_c2hoeoi | null | 1427562256 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | sreguera | null | OTOH, you don't need 10 years to be good enough. | null | 0 | 1315257732 | False | 0 | c2hp2bm | t3_k55g9 | null | t1_c2hp2bm | t1_c2hmcl4 | null | 1427562260 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Rusky | null | Not pure virtual, just pure. As in no side effects, no referencing a billion dependencies that make mocks necessary. | null | 0 | 1315257762 | False | 0 | c2hp2gm | t3_k42if | null | t1_c2hp2gm | t1_c2hmxn6 | null | 1427562266 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | Yeah because I view all my hobby projects as jobs. I appoint my cats as the business interest and have to report to them through weekly meetings on all my little hobby projects.
Oscar is in a real mood because some image generation stuff I'm doing is a whole 2 weeks over schedule. | null | 0 | 1315257800 | False | 0 | c2hp2m9 | t3_k55g9 | null | t1_c2hp2m9 | t1_c2hlcay | null | 1427562263 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1315257802 | False | 0 | c2hp2mr | t3_k55g9 | null | t1_c2hp2mr | t1_c2hmqix | null | 1427562263 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | lbzip2 | null | once fortran, always fortran
I guess for numerical analysis, nothing beats fortran, for anything else, fortran beats nothing
Edit: I have no idea of what I'm talking about; just trolling! :) | null | 0 | 1315257861 | False | 0 | c2hp2v9 | t3_k58pi | null | t1_c2hp2v9 | t3_k58pi | null | 1427562272 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Tordek | null | > updating to the functionality in OOP
> "spiritual successor" to old Fortran
You do realize the point of using Fortran is usually speed, right? It's faster than C for some tasks like matrix multiplication, due to implicitly unaliaseable pointers. | null | 0 | 1315257871 | False | 0 | c2hp2wt | t3_k58pi | null | t1_c2hp2wt | t1_c2hm8jr | null | 1427562268 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1315257980 | False | 0 | c2hp3bd | t3_k55g9 | null | t1_c2hp3bd | t1_c2hnerw | null | 1427562273 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | lbzip2 | null | > If the only tool you have is a hammer, everything looks like a **thumb**
FTFY | null | 0 | 1315258022 | False | 0 | c2hp3hh | t3_k56t1 | null | t1_c2hp3hh | t3_k56t1 | null | 1427562274 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | thoomfish | null | He needs the other 20,158 minutes to figure out what the fuck is going on in the godawful quagmire of Java build systems, rather than blindly making a change, praying it works, and then despairing when it doesn't. | null | 0 | 1315258091 | False | 0 | c2hp3r5 | t3_k42if | null | t1_c2hp3r5 | t1_c2hhd6i | null | 1427562277 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1315258151 | False | 0 | c2hp3ys | t3_k55g9 | null | t1_c2hp3ys | t1_c2hn7ff | null | 1427562279 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | lbzip2 | null | Please split this into two separate statements, I'd like to upvote both. | null | 0 | 1315258172 | False | 0 | c2hp41r | t3_k4395 | null | t1_c2hp41r | t1_c2hfgaq | null | 1427562279 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | benihana | null | Reminds me of [how to draw an owl](http://i.imgur.com/zS7s2.jpg) | null | 0 | 1315258194 | False | 0 | c2hp44j | t3_k55g9 | null | t1_c2hp44j | t1_c2hlakr | null | 1427562281 | 22 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | decadence | null | Well, they say 10K for an activity. Would a piano player that has invested 10K be good at trumpet? They'd be better off than someone starting.
Programming is as multidisciplinary as something like management. A "programmer" could be a master at algorithms who has spent 10K hours on nothing much outside the scope of si... | null | 0 | 1315258289 | False | 0 | c2hp4h4 | t3_k55g9 | null | t1_c2hp4h4 | t1_c2hnfcc | null | 1427562290 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | MarshallBanana | null | How about one for plain C, for those of us who prefer that (or want to link in some other language through C)? | null | 0 | 1315258358 | False | 0 | c2hp4qy | t3_k59d4 | null | t1_c2hp4qy | t3_k59d4 | null | 1427562287 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1315258420 | False | 0 | c2hp500 | t3_k55g9 | null | t1_c2hp500 | t1_c2hoshv | null | 1428195465 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | xon_xoff | null | This post would have been much better without the rant about tabs vs. spaces. Indentation is up to the preferences of the developers and most arguments about one being better than another end up being personal issues more than anything else. Quality software has been written both using hard and soft tabs and a good pro... | null | 0 | 1315258459 | False | 0 | c2hp563 | t3_k5kxq | null | t1_c2hp563 | t3_k5kxq | null | 1427562302 | 21 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | akdas | null | Very nice! My experience comes from an SICP-based class, in which we built up an MCE to the point of an analysis interpreter, but the rest of the dialects (like the declarative one) were implemented already.
This looks like a lot of fun! | null | 0 | 1315258496 | False | 0 | c2hp5b1 | t3_k55g9 | null | t1_c2hp5b1 | t1_c2hp15b | null | 1427562300 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | andytuba | null | No, dude, it really is one of my required tasks at work. I typically just write in stuff like "3.5 hours of Project X" or "15 minutes for some helpdesk tickets," but our time-logging system is built to accept 15-minute or 1-hour intervals per line. | null | 0 | 1315258519 | False | 0 | c2hp5eh | t3_k55g9 | null | t1_c2hp5eh | t1_c2hp3ys | null | 1427562303 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | comment-dwim | null | When I dipped my toes into embedded systems programming, things like pointers to memory-mapped registers (for I/O) or to handle interrupts were commonplace.
Then again, I'm not an expert and things might have changed. Now, I don't know if I should feel relieved that I work on the desktop or that I could get by without... | null | 0 | 1315258615 | False | 0 | c2hp5rg | t3_k56t1 | null | t1_c2hp5rg | t1_c2hoyj2 | null | 1427562305 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | astrangeguy | null | > A static "method" is a fancy name for a namespaced function.
FTFY
Java/C# and C++ do not have class methods, they have non-polymorphic namespaced functions | null | 0 | 1315258753 | False | 0 | c2hp69c | t3_k56t1 | null | t1_c2hp69c | t1_c2hndia | null | 1428195465 | 11 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | MarshallBanana | null | Sure, those are often pointers, but they are not pointers used as a tool to build anything bigger. Most of the time you can encapsulate them in a macro so that you never even see a pointer is being used. That hardly counts, for the purposes of this discussion. | null | 0 | 1315258849 | False | 0 | c2hp6lj | t3_k56t1 | null | t1_c2hp6lj | t1_c2hp5rg | null | 1428195460 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | codeincarnate | null | Indeed it is, very common model in real time strategy games due to the large number of units in play at any time. | null | 0 | 1315258865 | False | 0 | c2hp6o6 | t3_k4m3q | null | t1_c2hp6o6 | t1_c2hoqjv | null | 1427562322 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | 00kyle00 | null | Tabs vs spaces.
Generations to come will have to solve this problem.
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True | astrangeguy | null | If this were true, then we would not have dependency injection frameworks. | null | 0 | 1315258958 | False | 0 | c2hp70u | t3_k56t1 | null | t1_c2hp70u | t1_c2hopy1 | null | 1427562327 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | decadence | null | When I read Inside the C++ Object Model, and especially the Design and Evolution of C++ it changed the way I looked at the language. I began to have questions that I would have never thought of before.
Before the language rules seemed arbitrary. However knowing the "why" behind everything instead of just the "what" h... | null | 0 | 1315258968 | False | 0 | c2hp71y | t3_k55g9 | null | t1_c2hp71y | t1_c2hoj2q | null | 1427562334 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1315259001 | False | 0 | c2hp76g | t3_k55g9 | null | t1_c2hp76g | t1_c2hmcxj | null | 1427562331 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | tnecniv | null | When would I want to use FORTRAN today over modern languages or C/C++? | null | 0 | 1315259018 | False | 0 | c2hp791 | t3_k58pi | null | t1_c2hp791 | t1_c2hloj8 | null | 1427562331 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Odersky | null | I definitely would prefer
withHeaders over <:<
withParameters over <<?
mapXML over <>
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True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1315259132 | False | 0 | c2hp7oq | t3_k55g9 | null | t1_c2hp7oq | t1_c2hmlvo | null | 1427562337 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | berlinbrown | null | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dennis_Ritchie
Actually, this guy is the main conspirator.
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True | tamrix | null | >Mainly the need to handle your own memory allocation and garbage collection are the reason that I (and I think 95% of programmers?) would describe C++ as a relatively low level language.
What's assembler then a double low level language? What's straight machine code, a triple low level language?
C++ is a fucking... | null | 0 | 1315259455 | False | 0 | c2hp8yr | t3_k3ivo | null | t1_c2hp8yr | t1_c2hlzp2 | null | 1427562362 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | parunach | null | My biggest problem with writing code is forgetting. I was a good C++ programmer for over 12 years. I moved to a new firm that forced me to move to Java, I forgot my C++ intricacies within 8 months. Now, I am good at neither and need to do a rapid retrain on C++. | null | 0 | 1315259506 | False | 0 | c2hp96h | t3_k55g9 | null | t1_c2hp96h | t3_k55g9 | null | 1427562355 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | taw | null | > 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 reversed, then ST0 and MMX0 would already overlap.
MMX registers don't have any inherent order. Your compiler can start allocating them from MMX7, MMX... | null | 0 | 1315259634 | False | 0 | c2hp9of | t3_k5f5h | null | t1_c2hp9of | t1_c2hnnx8 | null | 1427562369 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | sander314 | null | As someone who's been forced to code fortran in large numerical/scientific projects and haven't been very happy doing so, here's some of my major complaints.
1. Lack of storable function pointers. Giving generic code an ODE problem to solve, material properties to use or anything of the sort seems to involve har... | null | 0 | 1315259644 | False | 0 | c2hp9pt | t3_k58pi | null | t1_c2hp9pt | t1_c2hloj8 | null | 1427562369 | 11 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | valereck | null | So..Just for the record.. this is mostly terrible advice. I mean really really bad.. Lord it sucks..
one word:Lisp
this isn't a programmer, its an out of work grad student. | null | 0 | 1315259663 | False | 0 | c2hp9sm | t3_k55g9 | null | t1_c2hp9sm | t3_k55g9 | null | 1427562360 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | aselbst | null | Lawyers at most firms bill in 6 minutes increments. Apparently you just get used to it. | null | 0 | 1315259869 | False | 0 | c2hpalk | t3_k55g9 | null | t1_c2hpalk | t1_c2hna0y | null | 1427562371 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | codeshite | null | You think I should go soft rock, or straight in with the thrash metal?
The second album is always difficult... | null | 0 | 1315259982 | True | 0 | c2hpb16 | t3_k42i7 | null | t1_c2hpb16 | t1_c2hl5c7 | null | 1427562382 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1315260021 | False | 0 | c2hpb5w | t3_k55g9 | null | t1_c2hpb5w | t1_c2hp5eh | null | 1427562383 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | simpleuser | null | I updated the page about SAL and CRC32. Thanks for the feedback. | null | 0 | 1315260115 | False | 0 | c2hpbk2 | t3_k5f5h | null | t1_c2hpbk2 | t1_c2hnnx8 | null | 1427562385 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | ruloaas | null | I just want to be good enought to wite something for my own personal use. I'm not looking to have a career as a programmer (even though I work in IT), I just want to add a new skill (and feel good about myself for learning something). | null | 0 | 1315260129 | False | 0 | c2hpbls | t3_k55g9 | null | t1_c2hpbls | t1_c2hp2bm | null | 1427562388 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | bobindashadows | null | Lots of languages have overloading. Fortran is the only one I've heard of that calls them "generics". Other languages reserve that term or parametric polymorphism. | null | 0 | 1315260149 | False | 0 | c2hpbol | t3_k58pi | null | t1_c2hpbol | t1_c2horvf | null | 1427562387 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | s73v3r | 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.
Horse shit. They're giving because they want to. They were not tricked in any way. They knew before giving that these people were using haXe. If you don't b... | null | 0 | 1315260216 | False | 0 | c2hpbxq | t3_k4395 | null | t1_c2hpbxq | t1_c2hnd7n | null | 1427562390 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1315260307 | False | 0 | c2hpca1 | t3_k55g9 | null | t1_c2hpca1 | t1_c2hm1iv | null | 1427562394 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | eyal0 | null | Is the Castagnoli polynomial a primitive polynomial? | null | 0 | 1315260562 | False | 0 | c2hpd9e | t3_k5f5h | null | t1_c2hpd9e | t1_c2hoqnx | null | 1427562409 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | verisimilarity | null | **How to become a better athlete.**
- Work out so your muscles become bigger.
- Run a lot to become faster.
- Try not to not exercise.
- Try doing multiple types of exercises.
- Go to reddit and post this sort of thing, but no actual exercising tips or articles. It will get upvoted. | null | 0 | 1315260601 | False | 0 | c2hpdf1 | t3_k55g9 | null | t1_c2hpdf1 | t3_k55g9 | null | 1427562410 | 10 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | adaptable | null | >k = i / 10;
>This drives beginners crazy.
Really? If I pretend I know nothing of programming, but assume I've taken middle school algebra, then the only oddity there is the semicolon. Otherwise just read it aloud: "k equals i divided by 10". | null | 0 | 1315260637 | False | 0 | c2hpdkn | t3_k5cgw | null | t1_c2hpdkn | t3_k5cgw | null | 1427562422 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | johnwaterwood | null | Quite a number of those items were actually the same ones that made me choose Java for my next project a while back (maybe Adam was inspired by my blog posting about it :p).
So far no regret about my choice. | null | 0 | 1315260716 | False | 0 | c2hpdv2 | t3_k5p3f | null | t1_c2hpdv2 | t3_k5p3f | null | 1427562417 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | jackkinsella | null | I'm the author of the article. I think it would be a good idea of add in a section on syntax highlighting since Textmate users might presume it isn't there. | null | 0 | 1315260726 | False | 0 | c2hpdwg | t3_k5dwr | null | t1_c2hpdwg | t1_c2hof6r | null | 1427562417 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | andytuba | null | I think you misunderstand: we're measuring how long it takes to do a task, so we make better time estimates in the future. Productivity is measured in output, which is necessarily a bit more qualitative.
Since I'll take the occasional "smoke break" as a matter of course, then "three hours of programming" does include... | null | 0 | 1315260820 | True | 0 | c2hpe8c | t3_k55g9 | null | t1_c2hpe8c | t1_c2hpb5w | null | 1427562421 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | > blindly making a change, praying it works, and then despairing when it doesn't.
Maven builds aren't that hard to understand, (unless of course you're jury rigging a bunch of scripting into one) and if you're resorting to spray and pray tactics to change a build, you're a bad programmer. | null | 0 | 1315260832 | False | 0 | c2hpeb6 | t3_k42if | null | t1_c2hpeb6 | t1_c2hp3r5 | null | 1427562424 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | pollodelamuerte | null | You realize that the developers at Naughty Dog wrote several of their games in LISP? It's a very good language, and teaches you a different way to solve problems that you can then hopefully use in your preferred language of choice. | null | 0 | 1315260834 | False | 0 | c2hpebe | t3_k55g9 | null | t1_c2hpebe | t1_c2hp9sm | null | 1427562424 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | homoiconic | null | The whole thing will generate lots of typical banter, of course. I will skip the usual bickering that has been done a jillion times before and just single this statement out:
> The probability to find skilled developers is higher, than in the case of a fancy, esoteric language
I don’t know that this follows from a... | null | 0 | 1315260875 | False | 0 | c2hpegb | t3_k5p3f | null | t1_c2hpegb | t3_k5p3f | null | 1427562434 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1315261020 | False | 0 | c2hpexy | t3_k55g9 | null | t1_c2hpexy | t1_c2hmcl4 | null | 1427562438 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | kolme | null | Sarcasm detector
0 [··········#] 11 | null | 0 | 1315261038 | False | 0 | c2hpf0o | t3_k55g9 | null | t1_c2hpf0o | t1_c2ho8nc | null | 1427562439 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | thoomfish | null | The problem comes when you're trying to fix someone else's stupid build system that relies on 5 different layers of middleware and generated code. In my experience, spaghetti builds are the rule rather than the exception. | null | 0 | 1315261160 | False | 0 | c2hpfh6 | t3_k42if | null | t1_c2hpfh6 | t1_c2hpeb6 | null | 1427562442 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | holyshit man u pwned that guy lol | null | 0 | 1315261240 | False | 0 | c2hpfs5 | t3_k58pi | null | t1_c2hpfs5 | t1_c2hozit | null | 1427562445 | -9 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | alofons | null | Offtopic: Found this following links in the original file. People who like this may like it. ["Halt and catch fire" instruction](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halt_and_Catch_Fire). | null | 0 | 1315261296 | False | 0 | c2hpfza | t3_k5f5h | null | t1_c2hpfza | t3_k5f5h | null | 1427562446 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | Not trying to be racist, but he was just living up to his name bro. | null | 0 | 1315261302 | False | 0 | c2hpg08 | t3_k55g9 | null | t1_c2hpg08 | t1_c2hoshv | null | 1427562446 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | astrangeguy | null | Doesn't scala support named parameters?
val request = API(getParameters = params,
headers = defaultHeaders concat Map("User-Agent" -> "Virginia/1.0")) | null | 0 | 1315261335 | False | 0 | c2hpg5c | t3_k5d4v | null | t1_c2hpg5c | t1_c2hns69 | null | 1427562449 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1315261515 | False | 0 | c2hpgtp | t3_k55g9 | null | t1_c2hpgtp | t1_c2hlogb | null | 1427562460 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | dlsspy | null | #5 is amazing bullshit. I think roughly the same number of good developers exist for any given language. With java, they hide in massive crowds of bad programmers. | null | 0 | 1315261628 | False | 0 | c2hph9n | t3_k5p3f | null | t1_c2hph9n | t3_k5p3f | null | 1427562464 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | Hmm, generated code can be a giant PITA admittedly. Annotation processors annoy me because I have to manually configure support for them in my IDE. Worst build I've ever dealt with was [FlowPlayer](http://flowplayer.org/) - the Ant script had several dependencies with relative paths to directories under the developer's... | null | 0 | 1315261673 | False | 0 | c2hphfw | t3_k42if | null | t1_c2hphfw | t1_c2hpfh6 | null | 1427562465 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | sheepsy | null | Wow. Didn't know that. | null | 0 | 1315261699 | False | 0 | c2hphjf | t3_k55g9 | null | t1_c2hphjf | t1_c2hpalk | null | 1427562466 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | andyrocks | null | > to adhere to a certain philosophy that is generally the best loved philosophy in industry
That is utter horseshit. | null | 0 | 1315261725 | False | 0 | c2hphnc | t3_k56t1 | null | t1_c2hphnc | t1_c2hohn4 | null | 1427562478 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | SnowdensOfYesteryear | null | My brain is broken :( | null | 0 | 1315261732 | False | 0 | c2hpho8 | t3_k3un1 | null | t1_c2hpho8 | t1_c2hllyp | null | 1427562478 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | MrMojoRisin68 | null | Write programs that you want to write, on the side. Some program that is difficult and a challenge, yet fun for you. You will want to learn and will learn better by doing this.
Focus on only a few languages too.
Drink a lot of caffeine (pop or coffee) | null | 0 | 1315261824 | True | 0 | c2hpi0q | t3_k55g9 | null | t1_c2hpi0q | t3_k55g9 | null | 1427562471 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | Couldn't have put that in the title? Also:
> Some seem to think this reddit is for "links that programmers might find interesting or funny". No. It's for programming links. Programming. *Programming*. **Programming**. | null | 0 | 1315261848 | False | 0 | c2hpi30 | t3_k5e6k | null | t1_c2hpi30 | t1_c2hmqwt | null | 1427562481 | 9 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | jackkinsella | null | I added your '==' and '=' indentation tips to the original article, alongside your visual block tips. | null | 0 | 1315261855 | False | 0 | c2hpi44 | t3_k5dwr | null | t1_c2hpi44 | t1_c2hnlde | null | 1427562481 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | >The point is they're only cryptic the first time.
No they don't because their definitions are always dependent on the software project. | null | 0 | 1315261871 | False | 0 | c2hpi68 | t3_k5d4v | null | t1_c2hpi68 | t1_c2hns69 | null | 1427562483 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | LuxOFlux | null | Well ran! | null | 0 | 1315261888 | False | 0 | c2hpi8d | t3_k5e6k | null | t1_c2hpi8d | t1_c2hmqwt | null | 1427562478 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1315261903 | False | 0 | c2hpi9z | t3_k55g9 | null | t1_c2hpi9z | t1_c2hpe8c | null | 1427562478 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | andyrocks | null | Oh come on. C#'s object system does not "suck balls", unless you approach it from some academic and largely useless point of view. It's a fine language for getting OO code written, and is used by hundreds of thousands of developers writing OO code. | null | 0 | 1315261950 | False | 0 | c2hpig6 | t3_k56t1 | null | t1_c2hpig6 | t1_c2hnpzj | null | 1427562481 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
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