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True | simpleuser | null | you're right, but most docs I saw show that ST0 and MM0 overlaps, so most emulators might be wrong, so just one FPU call and MM7 check could be a way for a malware to determine if it's being emulated or ran on an actual machine. | null | 0 | 1315262040 | False | 0 | c2hpis3 | t3_k5f5h | null | t1_c2hpis3 | t1_c2hogc8 | null | 1427562491 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | EugeneKay | null | If I could figure out how to get Gitorious working(or find a CentOS/Scientific Linux-based VM appliance of it), I would suggest that.... | null | 0 | 1315262144 | False | 0 | c2hpj66 | t3_k4uxf | null | t1_c2hpj66 | t1_c2hln41 | null | 1427562503 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Rhomboid | null | Did you miss the last section? It's easier to write performant numerical code that isn't all uglied up with intrinsics or other extensions. Compare [this mess (9.88 seconds)](http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u32/program.php?test=spectralnorm&lang=gpp&id=6) to the [Fortran version (7.85 seconds)](http://shoot... | null | 0 | 1315262175 | False | 0 | c2hpjab | t3_k58pi | null | t1_c2hpjab | t1_c2hp791 | null | 1427562498 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | andyrocks | null | The trouble with that thinking is that every problem seems to have that solution in Java - just wrap it in more and more code. It's verbose and laborious. | null | 0 | 1315262188 | False | 0 | c2hpjc6 | t3_k56t1 | null | t1_c2hpjc6 | t1_c2hop61 | null | 1427562498 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | asdfman123 | null | C'mon, I don't have time to be good at both sex and programming. | null | 0 | 1315262199 | False | 0 | c2hpjdh | t3_k55g9 | null | t1_c2hpjdh | t1_c2hoenj | null | 1427562498 | 10 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | homoiconic | null | > they hide in massive crowds of bad programmers
This actually happens. Typically, it goes like this. A recruiter is cold-calling members of an Enterprise programming team and they speak to Samir, the smartest guy on the team. Samir wants nothing to do with leaving his job, but while Peter is a great guy, he’s a bo... | null | 0 | 1315262207 | False | 0 | c2hpjei | t3_k5p3f | null | t1_c2hpjei | t1_c2hph9n | null | 1427562499 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | andytuba | null | It works better than just trying to bullshit the hours. I've only been in the industry for a little over a year, so I'm still gaining data points. However, I'm definitely developing a better sense for how long projects take: my guesses are slowly approaching the real numbers.
Of course, you have to compare apples to ... | null | 0 | 1315262371 | False | 0 | c2hpk19 | t3_k55g9 | null | t1_c2hpk19 | t1_c2hpi9z | null | 1427562505 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | henk53 | null | I'm not sure. Suppose there are 100.000 really good programmers doing Java (just pulling a random number out my hat).
Then suppose there are 10.000 developers programming in Go (just as an example). Then it's fairly impossible that Go has 100.000 good programmers, isn't it? | null | 0 | 1315262377 | False | 0 | c2hpk1z | t3_k5p3f | null | t1_c2hpk1z | t1_c2hph9n | null | 1427562505 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | henk53 | null | +1 funny (but actually sad too that stuff like this does happen) | null | 0 | 1315262539 | False | 0 | c2hpknl | t3_k5p3f | null | t1_c2hpknl | t1_c2hpjei | null | 1427562511 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | andyrocks | null | It feels like you're losing this one. That's a shame, because you're right - you've simply enraged the Java developers. | null | 0 | 1315262562 | False | 0 | c2hpkqn | t3_k56t1 | null | t1_c2hpkqn | t1_c2hmqo4 | null | 1427562511 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | aaronla | null | Agreed, it's not much, but why give the attacker anything at all? | null | 0 | 1315262599 | False | 0 | c2hpkv9 | t3_k1owo | null | t1_c2hpkv9 | t1_c2homdw | null | 1427562513 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | malkarouri | null | > On March 10 2013 Computon became self-aware.
[Terminator](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0103064/quotes) much? | null | 0 | 1315262686 | False | 0 | c2hpl66 | t3_k4uxf | null | t1_c2hpl66 | t1_c2hng40 | null | 1427562516 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | jackkinsella | null | Can any one of the down voters offer advice on how I can improve the guide? I don't understand why it's getting so many down votes. | null | 0 | 1315262891 | True | 0 | c2hplwh | t3_k5dwr | null | t1_c2hplwh | t3_k5dwr | null | 1428195450 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | sreguera | null | That's exactly what I mean. You can not expect to become a good professional photographer is 21 days either, but you can learn enough to make a decent holidays album and know where to look to keep improving. | null | 0 | 1315262941 | False | 0 | c2hpm30 | t3_k55g9 | null | t1_c2hpm30 | t1_c2hpbls | null | 1427562526 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Rhomboid | null | > Whichever dick from gfortran who likes making the default to be enforcing the completely out of date language rules, like not being able to compare logicals with '==', generating warnings if tab characters are used, and not allowing lines longer than 80 characters (with no warning!).
Sounds like you're using the ... | null | 0 | 1315262979 | False | 0 | c2hpm8g | t3_k58pi | null | t1_c2hpm8g | t1_c2hmmmx | null | 1427562529 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | dlsspy | null | I can take a great programmer who's never seen go and add him to my group and have him help make our application move forward at a remarkable pace far faster than I can take a great java programmer and add him to a java project and have it move forward.
I've done both. | null | 0 | 1315262985 | False | 0 | c2hpm96 | t3_k5p3f | null | t1_c2hpm96 | t1_c2hpk1z | null | 1427562529 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | sltkr | null | The concept is cool, but it doesn't actually seem to work in Firefox. The console says "can't convert undefined to object"; am I doing something wrong or what? | null | 0 | 1315263014 | False | 0 | c2hpmd7 | t3_k5f5h | null | t1_c2hpmd7 | t1_c2hp1y3 | null | 1427562536 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | throwaway77432 | null | As Intel's docs state, it helps for things like network storage protocols (e.g. iSCSI and RDMA) and others like SCTP.
You could still use it as a very fast way to verify data integrity. It's just that the calculated values won't match what traditional CRC32 tools would calculate. Not that it matters in a lot of cases.... | null | 0 | 1315263339 | True | 0 | c2hpnm8 | t3_k5f5h | null | t1_c2hpnm8 | t1_c2hojjz | null | 1427562551 | 9 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | kawa | null | Yes its verbose, but thats the disadvantage of having a single paradigm language: You have to solve all things with the same basic concept (classes/objects in Java). The advantage is that you don't have to thing as much solving problems, because in most situation there is only one way.
This may sound a bit boring, bu... | null | 0 | 1315263348 | False | 0 | c2hpnnp | t3_k56t1 | null | t1_c2hpnnp | t1_c2hpjc6 | null | 1427562544 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1315263457 | False | 0 | c2hpo37 | t3_k5p3f | null | t1_c2hpo37 | t1_c2hpknl | null | 1427562553 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | kawa | null | A dependency injection framework create factories automatically via reflection from constructors but you have still the possibility to supply your own factories. So its kind of the best of both worlds (but with a small additional overhead both in performance and complexity). | null | 0 | 1315263536 | False | 0 | c2hpoew | t3_k56t1 | null | t1_c2hpoew | t1_c2hp70u | null | 1427562555 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | kawa | null | Ups, sorry, that was a mistake, forgot the "not" there. Fixed it. | null | 0 | 1315263581 | False | 0 | c2hpoks | t3_k56t1 | null | t1_c2hpoks | t1_c2hoty8 | null | 1427562556 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | andyrocks | null | I absolutely get your point. Don't get me wrong, Java is a great language for business and works well in large and distributed teams. It's just no fun and quite time inefficient to write ;-) | null | 0 | 1315263633 | False | 0 | c2hporq | t3_k56t1 | null | t1_c2hporq | t1_c2hpnnp | null | 1427562560 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | IntergalacticTowel | null | You're right. I've read this same article on a dozen different websites in that past few years, making the same tired points, and always (except for the original) from someone that thinks they are hot shit. As soon as I read the first paragraph I could accurately predict everything else this guy would say ... _because ... | null | 0 | 1315263692 | False | 0 | c2hpp0a | t3_k55g9 | null | t1_c2hpp0a | t1_c2hmin7 | null | 1427562560 | 10 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | BobTheSCV | null | Not tremendously difficult*, and takes you through a host of different areas of programming you're unlikely to have encountered otherwise. Putting together a toy programming language is a great educational project for intermediate level programmers.
\* unless you try to build a LALR parser by hand or something. Then ... | null | 0 | 1315263760 | True | 0 | c2hppa4 | t3_k55g9 | null | t1_c2hppa4 | t1_c2ho062 | null | 1427562562 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | want_to_want | null | The problem with defending the status quo is that it's a moving target :-) Some "academic and largely useless" idea of today is going to become dominant in the industry 30 years from now. | null | 0 | 1315263785 | False | 0 | c2hppdn | t3_k56t1 | null | t1_c2hppdn | t1_c2hpig6 | null | 1427562562 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Shaper_pmp | null | Don't lie. We've *all* been doing that since we were old enough to hold a mouse.
Or, for us creakingly ancient old geezers who even *remember* life before the net, since we could persuade our parents to spring for a dial-up modem, stayed up after our parents went to bed and hung on every line of pixels as a fuzzy JPE... | null | 0 | 1315263850 | False | 0 | c2hppmy | t3_k55g9 | null | t1_c2hppmy | t1_c2hoqmc | null | 1427562564 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | Believe me that when you work on an open source project that is, somehow, competing with another one that's making some money (maybe, consider it a poor strategy on these strange days), these small decisions can make the day of some developers.
Not crucifying Linus here, his stance with these gentle things is usually ... | null | 0 | 1315263980 | False | 0 | c2hpq5b | t3_k4uxf | null | t1_c2hpq5b | t1_c2ho19l | null | 1427562569 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | ElGuaco | null | What bug crawled up your method?
| null | 0 | 1315264010 | False | 0 | c2hpq91 | t3_k5e6k | null | t1_c2hpq91 | t1_c2hpi30 | null | 1427562570 | -3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_Kernighan
This guy helped co-author that damnable book! | null | 0 | 1315264113 | False | 0 | c2hpqn1 | t3_k5e6k | null | t1_c2hpqn1 | t1_c2hp8wu | null | 1427562572 | -1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | want_to_want | null | The managers who advocate safe and predictable static languages generally do so because they feel it will help developers later on, not because of some managerial caprice. The tradeoff is actually between the needs of green-field development and the needs of QA/maintenance work. I've seen many developers who prefer to ... | null | 0 | 1315264171 | False | 0 | c2hpqvp | t3_k56t1 | null | t1_c2hpqvp | t1_c2hm0bw | null | 1427562576 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | kawa | null | > It's just no fun
While I can kind of understand that, I now get most of the fun in programming by creating interesting solutions to problems. In other words: It's not the language or even the actual problem which brings the fun, its the way you solve it.
This may sound a big hard to understand, but after more t... | null | 0 | 1315264234 | True | 0 | c2hpr3s | t3_k56t1 | null | t1_c2hpr3s | t1_c2hporq | null | 1427562578 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | lnxaddct | null | The insight you're missing is that a great programmer doesn't identify with a single language. Great programmers identify with interesting work and, while having opinions on languages, will ultimately be able to do any task in any language.
When I interview programmers, if they identify with a single language there is... | null | 0 | 1315264372 | True | 0 | c2hprkc | t3_k5p3f | null | t1_c2hprkc | t1_c2hpk1z | null | 1427562584 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | maxbaroi | null | You mean grandfather's | null | 0 | 1315264555 | False | 0 | c2hps9n | t3_k58pi | null | t1_c2hps9n | t3_k58pi | null | 1427562594 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | isionous | null | \1: There are always downvotes. I believe reddit deliberately fudges the up-down numbers to some extent, but there are other reasons that "there are always downvotes".
\2: A common sentiment expressed on /r/programming is "this is not programming related [enough for my tastes]". Perhaps some downvotes are from those... | null | 0 | 1315264611 | False | 0 | c2hpsh9 | t3_k5dwr | null | t1_c2hpsh9 | t1_c2hplwh | null | 1427562596 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | I like Scala much better as well, but the belly-aching about Java is mostly just the cool kids dissing what is no longer cool in front of their friends. If using Eclipse, all you type for your code snippet is
Predicate[Integer] p = new
and
return x > 0;
and Eclipse puts the rest in for you. | null | 0 | 1315264636 | False | 0 | c2hpsko | t3_k56t1 | null | t1_c2hpsko | t1_c2hopft | null | 1427562598 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | ruloaas | null | Thank You, Michael! That was very encouraging. Please stop making movies! | null | 0 | 1315264756 | False | 0 | c2hpt1h | t3_k55g9 | null | t1_c2hpt1h | t1_c2hpexy | null | 1427562604 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | ruloaas | null | Yes, I guess it's only a matter of taking a chance. Thank You! | null | 0 | 1315264828 | False | 0 | c2hptas | t3_k55g9 | null | t1_c2hptas | t1_c2hpm30 | null | 1427562617 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Rhomboid | null | Because code snippets always look great when double-spaced and with all indentation removed due to just shoving them in a document CMS...
| null | 0 | 1315264868 | False | 0 | c2hptfu | t3_k5pyx | null | t1_c2hptfu | t3_k5pyx | null | 1427562609 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | AxiomShell | null | "don't think for yourself. ask someone else"
does this really work? can someone tell me? thanks. | null | 0 | 1315264888 | False | 0 | c2hptip | t3_k42i7 | null | t1_c2hptip | t3_k42i7 | null | 1427562612 | 8 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | stevewedig | null | brilliant, especially "Such buzzwords are made up by people who don’t really understand software development, or how it relates to martial arts and eastern culture in general."
Similar tone to this parody of lean startup junkies:
http://www.startuplessonslearned.com/2011/01/lean-startup-junkies.html | null | 0 | 1315265122 | True | 0 | c2hpuen | t3_k42i7 | null | t1_c2hpuen | t3_k42i7 | null | 1427562621 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | andyrocks | null | You, sir, are right on my wavelength.
I totally agree the fun becomes in actually solving problems, rather than exploiting language features. However - I don't want to spend my time writing loads and loads of boilerplate code to do it.
I'm a C# programmer - our worlds are not so different. A great example of where I ... | null | 0 | 1315265152 | False | 0 | c2hpuiv | t3_k56t1 | null | t1_c2hpuiv | t1_c2hpr3s | null | 1428195449 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | 1BP | null | You're right, the side bar means nothing. | null | 0 | 1315265198 | False | 0 | c2hpuos | t3_k5e6k | null | t1_c2hpuos | t1_c2hpq91 | null | 1427562625 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | GTFO. I'm the troll of this subreddit. | null | 0 | 1315265251 | False | 0 | c2hpuvb | t3_k5e6k | null | t1_c2hpuvb | t1_c2hp1eg | null | 1427562627 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | evanpez | null | Funny. But not the point. As more programmers flock to a platform, the spectrum of talent becomes more and more robust--from shitty all the way to super-talented. To say that an esoteric language will have as many good programmers as Java, C#, or Python is statistical nonsense.
No matter what platform a recruiter is h... | null | 0 | 1315265284 | False | 0 | c2hpuzi | t3_k5p3f | null | t1_c2hpuzi | t1_c2hpjei | null | 1428195447 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Kyrox | null | Haha, nice joke :) | null | 0 | 1315265405 | False | 0 | c2hpvft | t3_k5dwr | null | t1_c2hpvft | t1_c2hnrsr | null | 1427562636 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | stuhacking | null | I went for the TL;DR version. | null | 0 | 1315265440 | False | 0 | c2hpvkr | t3_k56t1 | null | t1_c2hpvkr | t1_c2hpqvp | null | 1427562647 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | robvas | null | Textmate is a hundred times easier to use, you just don't look like a wizard using it. | null | 0 | 1315265651 | False | 0 | c2hpweh | t3_k5dwr | null | t1_c2hpweh | t1_c2hof6r | null | 1427562648 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | thantik | null | You're right, it's the community that matters. | null | 0 | 1315265682 | False | 0 | c2hpwj0 | t3_k5e6k | null | t1_c2hpwj0 | t1_c2hpuos | null | 1428195446 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | GenTiradentes | null | I won't disagree with that. Looking at it again, the ability to write good code shows not only programming skill, but also problem solving skills, critical thinking, and many other useful skills outside of the field of computer science.
Again, it really still depends on the job whether or not programming experience is... | null | 0 | 1315265891 | False | 0 | c2hpxbn | t3_k55g9 | null | t1_c2hpxbn | t1_c2hncfk | null | 1427562670 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Kyrox | null | Awesome, thanks. I've been trying to make the switch recently. Almost did, but I got a bit fed up of not being able to quickly copy/paste things around, and missing some of my usual shortcuts. This is a great guide to keep around :D
Also, uhm, you may want to fix the typo in the "New tab" line. Right now it says "⌘ + ... | null | 0 | 1315265896 | False | 0 | c2hpxcc | t3_k5dwr | null | t1_c2hpxcc | t3_k5dwr | null | 1427562670 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1315265989 | False | 0 | c2hpxo9 | t3_k55g9 | null | t1_c2hpxo9 | t3_k55g9 | null | 1427562679 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | tootie | null | Lol. I have never seen a job req for D, haskell or scheme in my life. Java, C++ and C# pretty much dominate. | null | 0 | 1315266044 | False | 0 | c2hpxvt | t3_k56t1 | null | t1_c2hpxvt | t1_c2hphnc | null | 1427562682 | -2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | imgonnacallyouretard | null | The person you are responding to also said
> if you didn't notice the red lines in your IDE.
Of course it's horse shit, the person is retarded. | null | 0 | 1315266140 | False | 0 | c2hpy99 | t3_k56t1 | null | t1_c2hpy99 | t1_c2hphnc | null | 1427562679 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | Exactly. Those are old books but very enlightening. "*Design and Evolution of C++*" was the big eye opener for me. I realized everything is the way it is for very good reasons. Stroustrup is no dummy. Most of my previous naive/ignorant objections and rants about C++ vanished. I also remember liking the "Object Model" b... | null | 0 | 1315266152 | False | 0 | c2hpyaf | t3_k55g9 | null | t1_c2hpyaf | t1_c2hp71y | null | 1427562681 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | sidneyc | null | Your perspective seems narrow to me. I suspect that in a history of programming languages, to be written a few hundred years from now, Java will merit little more than a footnote, noting it as a big, costly, but ultimately temporary step in the wrong direction.
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True | BufferUnderpants | null | Half assing first-class functions like that is a language design smell. | null | 0 | 1315266219 | False | 0 | c2hpykg | t3_k56t1 | null | t1_c2hpykg | t1_c2hp1k1 | null | 1427562684 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | raymyers | null | It's all here in this handy diagram :) http://oreilly.com/news/graphics/prog_lang_poster.pdf | null | 0 | 1315266269 | False | 0 | c2hpyqx | t3_k56t1 | null | t1_c2hpyqx | t1_c2homzd | null | 1427562690 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | homoiconic | null | I didn’t say anything about whether an esoteric language will have as many programmers of any kind as a popular language. But I will say this: Most recruiters *are* complete dumbasses with respect to actually evaluating whether one programmer is skilled and the other simply has a lot of matching keywords. So while you ... | null | 0 | 1315266410 | True | 0 | c2hpza1 | t3_k5p3f | null | t1_c2hpza1 | t1_c2hpuzi | null | 1427562692 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | I dunno, there are a lot of people out there who are just beginning to find their way with programming and would love to hunt down minor, almost insignificant bugs in unknown projects.
You know, to get that rush from being able to accomplish or *fix* something. | null | 0 | 1315266470 | False | 0 | c2hpzhu | t3_k5czl | null | t1_c2hpzhu | t1_c2hp0hp | null | 1427562694 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | kawa | null | C# has some nice features, especially LINQ is a nice thinq. I like the concept of building concepts in a language which are designed to solve a certain kind of concrete problem, while I'm always a bit skeptical about concepts which are to "universal" (like macros for example). In Java a related thing (but on a much sma... | null | 0 | 1315266750 | False | 0 | c2hq0ml | t3_k56t1 | null | t1_c2hq0ml | t1_c2hpuiv | null | 1427562705 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | EdgarVerona | null | Aye, my projects often (by "often", I mean "all of them that didn't have someone specifically needing whatever I was making") end up this way as well: once I get to the point where I know I *could* finish it (i.e. the rest of it doesn't involve anything new or interesting to me), I stop. The frustrating part about tha... | null | 0 | 1315266784 | False | 0 | c2hq0rm | t3_k55g9 | null | t1_c2hq0rm | t1_c2hnesr | null | 1427562715 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | stevewedig | null | Love the parody, but it seems a little too anti-book (not that books are magic). Regarding your question from above, "Continuous Delivery" is a recent book of great value, even if much of the subject matter is sprinkled across previously existing books. If you buy that book and disagree, PM me and I'll buy you a beer.
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True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1315266944 | False | 0 | c2hq1c8 | t3_k42i7 | null | t1_c2hq1c8 | t1_c2hpuen | null | 1427562713 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | semiring | null | Chapel's design documents were exciting enough for me to try writing a small project in an early-release version of Chapel.
Briefly, my experience was:
- It's just as much fun to program in as it looks like. Maybe more. It's like when you see a motorcycle as a kid and think "Wow! That looks fun.". Later, when you act... | null | 0 | 1315267020 | False | 0 | c2hq1nb | t3_k58pi | null | t1_c2hq1nb | t1_c2hmkgx | null | 1427562726 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1315267550 | False | 0 | c2hq3pe | t3_k5e6k | null | t1_c2hq3pe | t1_c2homas | null | 1427562750 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | weavejester | null | That's still a lot longer than `_ > 0`, and it doesn't solve the greater problem of readability.
I don't think the problem with Java is just "belly-aching". It's more that it's very difficult to program in Java if you're familiar with better languages. It's a frustrating experience to discard good solutions to a pr... | null | 0 | 1315267569 | False | 0 | c2hq3rz | t3_k56t1 | null | t1_c2hq3rz | t1_c2hpsko | null | 1427562757 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | innervision | null | Yeah, I knew that sounded familiar but couldn't quite recall where. Thanks! | null | 0 | 1315267739 | False | 0 | c2hq4em | t3_k4uxf | null | t1_c2hq4em | t1_c2hpl66 | null | 1427562759 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | kawa | null | Again: Java was designed as a single paradigm OOP language. It's often seen as good design rule to design programming languages as "DRY" as possible: Each feature should be as orthogonal to all the other features instead of having features which are more or less variants of already existing features. In this sense, the... | null | 0 | 1315267784 | False | 0 | c2hq4ki | t3_k56t1 | null | t1_c2hq4ki | t1_c2hpykg | null | 1427562759 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | jzwinck | null | I guess C's ternary operator is so named for the fact that it has three operands, whereas others have one (unary, NOT) or two (binary, AND). | null | 0 | 1315267984 | False | 0 | c2hq5c7 | t3_k58pi | null | t1_c2hq5c7 | t1_c2homx7 | null | 1427562767 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | joezuntz | null | No, I'm using .f90. Gfortran 4.4 and above require you to compile with the flag -ffree-line-length-none to use longer lines in free form files and -fixed-line-length-none for fixed form. | null | 0 | 1315268037 | False | 0 | c2hq5jo | t3_k58pi | null | t1_c2hq5jo | t1_c2hpm8g | null | 1427562769 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | sockpuppetzero | null | You are running a server right? You are giving them something right there. You should fix that. =) | null | 0 | 1315268558 | False | 0 | c2hq7jx | t3_k1owo | null | t1_c2hq7jx | t1_c2hpkv9 | null | 1427562794 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1315268796 | False | 0 | c2hq8gz | t3_k55g9 | null | t1_c2hq8gz | t1_c2holqn | null | 1427562805 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | What and IDE does is not superficial and without an IDE, you don't have a full toolset, IMO. As I've said elsewhere, the problem with java is that it has what is necessary, but not what is sufficient. Most languages lack what is necessary in the first place (ie, dynamic languages). | null | 0 | 1315268848 | False | 0 | c2hq8od | t3_k56t1 | null | t1_c2hq8od | t1_c2hq3rz | null | 1427562807 | -1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | joezuntz | null | It's partly the "target" issue, but also the lack of void pointers is an issue. It makes it impossible to, for exampe, pass functions which require additional arguments to other functions (like wrappers or integrators).
I use mac laptops and desktops and Linux supercomputers. Various versions of gfortran requires env... | null | 0 | 1315269023 | False | 0 | c2hq9eb | t3_k58pi | null | t1_c2hq9eb | t1_c2hn20q | null | 1427562817 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1315269081 | False | 0 | c2hq9n1 | t3_k55g9 | null | t1_c2hq9n1 | t1_c2hppmy | null | 1427562821 | 8 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | bobindashadows | null | If you never heard the word matrix, you went to a shitty, shitty program. | null | 0 | 1315269115 | False | 0 | c2hq9rq | t3_k55g9 | null | t1_c2hq9rq | t1_c2ho5f3 | null | 1427562822 | 13 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | addandsubtract | null | Y U NOT NO Y? | null | 0 | 1315269266 | False | 0 | c2hqaek | t3_k55g9 | null | t1_c2hqaek | t1_c2holcd | null | 1427562830 | 35 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | SpasticusAutisticus | null | I love it, but that "do you want to save changes" dialog on shut down annoys the shit out of me. It would be much better usability if he'd just save to a temporary file somewhere and open it next time the program starts. | null | 0 | 1315269309 | False | 0 | c2hqakb | t3_k4jik | null | t1_c2hqakb | t3_k4jik | null | 1427562833 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | BufferUnderpants | null | Thank you for the detailed response.
Yes, Java's design decisions make sense from the perspective of Java and Sun at the time, of course.
But its design makes it impossible to benefit from the little efficiencies and neatness which are brought by having the freedom to define functions in any scope and being able to p... | null | 0 | 1315269360 | True | 0 | c2hqas4 | t3_k56t1 | null | t1_c2hqas4 | t1_c2hq4ki | null | 1427562836 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | asampson | null | Was I incorrect in assuming that the "on Rails" portion was not chosen randomly, but was meant to invoke the sense that as long as you remain on the track laid for you by the original developers things will be quick and easy? Like how when playing a "rail shooter" you have little to no control over your path through th... | null | 0 | 1315269439 | False | 0 | c2hqb3w | t3_jxy0j | null | t1_c2hqb3w | t3_jxy0j | null | 1427562840 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Zach_the_Lizard | null | In the latest Chrome I get this:
>Uncaught TypeError: Array.prototype.sort called on null or undefined | null | 0 | 1315269685 | False | 0 | c2hqc4z | t3_k5f5h | null | t1_c2hqc4z | t1_c2hpmd7 | null | 1427562853 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | notcorrelated | null | Looks like you need a factory in your factory. | null | 0 | 1315269780 | False | 0 | c2hqciq | t3_k56t1 | null | t1_c2hqciq | t1_c2hnppp | null | 1427562858 | 8 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | rhdoenges | null | Or fight about it! | null | 0 | 1315270267 | False | 0 | c2hqel6 | t3_k5kxq | null | t1_c2hqel6 | t1_c2hp6uk | null | 1427562886 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | Then why didn't you have one single original point to make? Why is your entire post nothing but a rehash of jokes we've been making here for years?
Do you seriously believe that the problem with programming is a lack of sarcasm? | null | 0 | 1315270319 | False | 0 | c2hqesi | t3_k42i7 | null | t1_c2hqesi | t1_c2hlldz | null | 1427562889 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | edzillion | null | *ahem* as a random spectator I would just like to point out that you are a pompous ass. good day sir! | null | 0 | 1315270427 | False | 0 | c2hqf7i | t3_k55g9 | null | t1_c2hqf7i | t1_c2ho707 | null | 1428195440 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | corwin01 | null | I want a book that will teach me to program in 5 easy steps and one complicated step. | null | 0 | 1315270477 | False | 0 | c2hqffj | t3_k55g9 | null | t1_c2hqffj | t3_k55g9 | null | 1427562898 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | I_just_read_it | null | Actually, for the CISC computers that were prevalent at the time, the Arithmetic IF compiled down to a single test and branch. This made for extremely performant code. | null | 0 | 1315270522 | False | 0 | c2hqfmp | t3_k58pi | null | t1_c2hqfmp | t1_c2hn3d6 | null | 1427562901 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | weavejester | null | Of course what an IDE does is superficial. An IDE cannot alter the syntax or semantics of a language, all it can do is to provide a layer between the developer and the language that attempts to hide or work around the language's flaws. That's the very definition of superficial.
I agree that Java has what is necessary,... | null | 0 | 1315270727 | False | 0 | c2hqghc | t3_k56t1 | null | t1_c2hqghc | t1_c2hq8od | null | 1427562911 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | mvaliente2001 | null | Oh, memories. Atari basic didn't have a ON ... GOTO, but it alowed GOTO expression, so you had to create a formula to map the result to the line number:
30 GOTO 50 - 10 *SGN(FNY(I)*FNX(J)-FNX(I)*FNY(J))/(FNX(J)-FNX(I)))
40 GOTO 120
50 LET IO=0:RETURN
60 LET IO=-IO
120 NEXT | null | 0 | 1315270745 | False | 0 | c2hqgjp | t3_k58pi | null | t1_c2hqgjp | t1_c2hna7q | null | 1427562912 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | ragaragi | null | > Simula itself was mainly influenced by Algol.
Simula wasn't *influenced* by Algol, it was built on top of Algol just C++ (or Objective-C) was built on top of C. Simula (like Smalltalk) is message based, implementing a event-driven simulation engine on top of Algol. In fact, the language that Dahl and Nygaard [des... | null | 0 | 1315270751 | False | 0 | c2hqgkn | t3_k56t1 | null | t1_c2hqgkn | t1_c2homzd | null | 1427562912 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | stevia | null | Some experiences of switching from textmate to vim:
[Jamis Buck](http://weblog.jamisbuck.org/2008/10/10/coming-home-to-vim)
[Yehuda Katz](http://yehudakatz.com/2010/07/29/everyone-who-tried-to-convince-me-to-use-vim-was-wrong/)
[Steve Losh](http://stevelosh.com/blog/2010/09/coming-home-to-vim/)
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True | pvera | null | My contempt for FORTRAN is due to the convoluted way in which my Alma mater taught it. The professor taught both '66 and '77 (this was 1988), the textbook was for WATFIV and the platform was actually a VAX 11/750. I don't even remember WTF version was running on that VAX. | null | 0 | 1315271035 | False | 0 | c2hqhps | t3_k58pi | null | t1_c2hqhps | t1_c2hloj8 | null | 1427562932 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | also a completely deluded narcissist. the top programmers in every class i took finished around the same time (I was often one of them, getting the random A+).
>Hell, you think anybody couldn't replicate what you're talking about in an hour with google? That's why theory is relatively worthless.
Yeah, I'm sure so... | null | 0 | 1315271168 | False | 0 | c2hqi7l | t3_k55g9 | null | t1_c2hqi7l | t1_c2hqf7i | null | 1427562935 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | >Of course what an IDE does is superficial. An IDE cannot alter the syntax or semantics of a language, all it can do is to provide a layer between the developer and the language that attempts to hide or work around the language's flaws. That's the very definition of superficial.
No, I'm sorry, you don't understand ... | null | 0 | 1315271209 | False | 0 | c2hqid7 | t3_k56t1 | null | t1_c2hqid7 | t1_c2hqghc | null | 1427562936 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | tenfef | null | >What the hell is that code even supposed to mean? That will return the method of the first form element on the page.
Thanks for asking. I wanted to return the method of the first form element on the page.
>it's a preposterous way to do things.
I use jQuery to get all my DOM attributes.
Call me insan... | null | 0 | 1315271268 | False | 0 | c2hqilr | t3_k1lj4 | null | t1_c2hqilr | t1_c2h4st0 | null | 1427562940 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | > This bug affects 915 people
Pretty sure a lot more than 915 are affected. | null | 0 | 1315271277 | False | 0 | c2hqimu | t3_k4uxf | null | t1_c2hqimu | t1_c2hm3h7 | null | 1427562940 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1315271371 | False | 0 | c2hqj1z | t3_k42i7 | null | t1_c2hqj1z | t1_c2hqesi | null | 1427562944 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | GMNightmare | null | You're not a spectator then. Also, ad hominem attacks a little, I don't know, fallacious no? The same to you, sir, except you don't have any arguments with it. | null | 0 | 1315271373 | False | 0 | c2hqj26 | t3_k55g9 | null | t1_c2hqj26 | t1_c2hqf7i | null | 1427562944 | -2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | ragaragi | null | How about this:
cancel.addSelectionListener(#{ SelectionEvent e -> System.out.println("Cancel") });
Which is the syntax for [Project Lambda](http://www.jcp.org/en/jsr/proposalDetails?id=335) closures on single method interfaces, which is supposed to go into Java 8. | null | 0 | 1315271557 | False | 0 | c2hqjte | t3_k56t1 | null | t1_c2hqjte | t1_c2hm1ek | null | 1427562954 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
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