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True | ApochPiQ | null | Not a bad point; I guess I kind of filed that under the "never stop learning" category and neglected to explicitly mention seeking out good resources for that learning.
I'd hardly limit that to books, by the way; I haven't read a programming book in years, but I constantly read academic papers, online articles, blogs,... | null | 0 | 1315292430 | False | 0 | c2hst7x | t3_k55g9 | null | t1_c2hst7x | t1_c2hoce0 | null | 1427564019 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | GMNightmare | null | Nope, encryption solves a problem. Care to give me an example of a problem it solves? How to encrypt something is not the problem, it is the solution. What were you really looking for? I've kept telling you... give me a problem. So you give me the solution, well, tada! You just gave me the solution to the problem you s... | null | 0 | 1315292689 | False | 0 | c2hstws | t3_k55g9 | null | t1_c2hstws | t1_c2hskst | null | 1427564029 | -1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | ApochPiQ | null | I've been gainfully employed as a programmer for many years.
Also, if you read the post I linked regarding Lisp, you'll note that I explicitly state that it isn't useful for practical work: "learning Lisp won't do shit for your real-world development directly, because you're not going to use it."
The point is that it... | null | 0 | 1315292774 | False | 0 | c2hsu4u | t3_k55g9 | null | t1_c2hsu4u | t1_c2hp9sm | null | 1427564035 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | fffernan | null | I've hired 15 engineers in Boston over the last year and the half. It was a struggle and very hard to find competent people. I'm in SF now doing the same thing and its even harder here. Everyone I talk to that says the economy is tough or they are having a hard time finding jobs I refer them to php.net and tell them... | null | 0 | 1315292834 | False | 0 | c2hsua4 | t3_k5zns | null | t1_c2hsua4 | t3_k5zns | null | 1427564037 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | ApochPiQ | null | It isn't a prioritization, it's a schedule.
IMHO you have to learn to write code before you've made enough mistakes to recognize what is worth reading and what is not. Otherwise, one risks reading a lot of _bad_ code and learning all the wrong things. This certainly has happened to me in various languages (my mishaps ... | null | 0 | 1315292862 | False | 0 | c2hsucw | t3_k55g9 | null | t1_c2hsucw | t1_c2hm2j0 | null | 1427564038 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | Reddit's a democratic place, and the people are helping this guy out. | null | 0 | 1315293494 | False | 0 | c2hsvvi | t3_k33jt | null | t1_c2hsvvi | t1_c2h9hb8 | null | 1427564253 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | Have a look at Scala.
Having a pure object-oriented language with immutable/lazy/parallel data structures and higher-order functions works perfectly well.
The problem is not that it is not possible, the problem is that most languages have just a piss poor execution of the "hybrid" approach (see OCaml, JavaScript, ...... | null | 0 | 1315293745 | False | 0 | c2hswil | t3_k56t1 | null | t1_c2hswil | t1_c2hs18x | null | 1427564270 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | generic_0 | null | The downvotes will generally converge to somewhere around 68%. In general, if you're in that range, you're good.
If there are actual downvotes, but the "not programming related" reason offered is probably the cause for these. It could also be hate on Vim because there always seem to be view Vim users as elitists.
I... | null | 0 | 1315293763 | False | 0 | c2hswke | t3_k5dwr | null | t1_c2hswke | t1_c2hplwh | null | 1427564263 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1315293770 | False | 0 | c2hswkz | t3_k55g9 | null | t1_c2hswkz | t1_c2hnerw | null | 1427564263 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | "Design patterns" are a prefect sign that your language isn't up to the task. | null | 0 | 1315293859 | False | 0 | c2hswsg | t3_k56t1 | null | t1_c2hswsg | t1_c2hoibj | null | 1428195409 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | It is not about the code you have to write once, it is about the dozens and hundreds of times people have to read it again afterward. | null | 0 | 1315293944 | False | 0 | c2hswys | t3_k56t1 | null | t1_c2hswys | t1_c2hpsko | null | 1427564271 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | wreckerone | null | Why didn't you just tell them "google how to be a good programmer and read a couple of the literally hundreds of articles"? This type of stuff in academics would draw open hostility and contempt. Could you imagine "how to be a good physicist"? Step 1: always check your calculations. Step 2: know how to use a compu... | null | 0 | 1315293990 | False | 0 | c2hsx28 | t3_k55g9 | null | t1_c2hsx28 | t1_c2hsrpf | null | 1427564272 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Rhomboid | null | Geez, could they have picked a more terrible and confusing name? Quick, without looking it up, which of the following are synonyms, which are distinct, and which are totally irrelevant (i.e. itanium):
x86
x64
x86_64
IA-64
amd64
i386
IA-32
x32
I know that most of you reading this subreddit probably ha... | null | 0 | 1315294033 | True | 0 | c2hsx5t | t3_k5z3o | null | t1_c2hsx5t | t3_k5z3o | null | 1427564274 | 20 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | biggerthancheeses | null | Although I like hearing that there are good opportunities in software, this is not programming. | null | 0 | 1315294244 | False | 0 | c2hsxog | t3_k5zns | null | t1_c2hsxog | t3_k5zns | null | 1427564286 | -6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | ApochPiQ | null | It's a lifetime discipline; of course a two page article isn't going to capture every detail of it.
Believe it or not, some people respond better to being linked to an actual resource rather than being told to "JFGI." And I made a point of linking one of the seminal and (IMHO) most articulate pieces on the subject, wh... | null | 0 | 1315294292 | False | 0 | c2hsxss | t3_k55g9 | null | t1_c2hsxss | t1_c2hsx28 | null | 1427564280 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | egonelbre | null | I would rather say, for good programmers it doesn't matter what language they are using ( - of course within the same paradigm). It'll just take them some time to get used to the new language. | null | 0 | 1315294345 | False | 0 | c2hsxwd | t3_k5p3f | null | t1_c2hsxwd | t1_c2hph9n | null | 1427564281 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | EvilTom | null | Ah, so Intel has made an instruction encoding analogue of RFC 3514. | null | 0 | 1315294519 | False | 0 | c2hsyb0 | t3_k5f5h | null | t1_c2hsyb0 | t1_c2hsjer | null | 1427564286 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | What about just using closures? | null | 0 | 1315294540 | False | 0 | c2hsych | t3_k56t1 | null | t1_c2hsych | t1_c2hqjte | null | 1427564286 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | geon | null | > You're gluing together iOS libraries, but what's the last algorithm you wrote?
Well, that is kind-of-true. But gluing libraries together into a unique application can be a lot of fun too. Besides, "pure" algorithms tend to be the kind of utilities you need to get real work done. When did you write a quicksort, or... | null | 0 | 1315294887 | False | 0 | c2hsz5t | t3_k42if | null | t1_c2hsz5t | t1_c2hox3d | null | 1427564297 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | alparsla | null | if you plan a career as a porn artist, then this is a good advice. | null | 0 | 1315294966 | False | 0 | c2hszcm | t3_k55g9 | null | t1_c2hszcm | t1_c2hoenj | null | 1427564299 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | klti | null | I had to do some assembler in university, but after that I never touched it again. Pretty much all I remember is that strings are a mess on that level. | null | 0 | 1315295049 | False | 0 | c2hszjo | t3_k5f5h | null | t1_c2hszjo | t1_c2hsr4f | null | 1427564302 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | bobappleyard | null | Do a Google search and you'll see that this is what everyone calls it. What "it" is is something that encapsulates the state of a graphics library. Not much more to it than that I'm afraid. | null | 0 | 1315295074 | False | 0 | c2hszlo | t3_k5geu | null | t1_c2hszlo | t1_c2hs32n | null | 1427564302 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | masklinn | null | > I've thought about this one of these days: why not use tabs for indentation and spaces for further alignment beyond the current indent line?
Do you realize that's what the ReactOS guidelines ask for, and the code is still fucked up?
Why not do it? Because in practice *it does not work*, people will *not* apply t... | null | 0 | 1315295184 | False | 0 | c2hszv3 | t3_k5kxq | null | t1_c2hszv3 | t1_c2hrsuj | null | 1427564306 | 10 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | masklinn | null | Why javascript tabs? | null | 0 | 1315295266 | False | 0 | c2ht01w | t3_k5kxq | null | t1_c2ht01w | t1_c2hrrpj | null | 1427564308 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1315295268 | False | 0 | c2ht023 | t3_k5d4v | null | t1_c2ht023 | t3_k5d4v | null | 1427564308 | -4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | joffotron | null | I'm in Melbourne, and am in the market right now. I basically have my pick of 3 offers at the moment | null | 0 | 1315295296 | False | 0 | c2ht04p | t3_k5zns | null | t1_c2ht04p | t1_c2hrvpx | null | 1427564309 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | LaserDinosaur | null | I think everyone assumes they can explains things better than other people? It's a strange thing. Plus they can get points from article X and article Y and put them into their own article Z. | null | 0 | 1315295398 | False | 0 | c2ht0d0 | t3_k55g9 | null | t1_c2ht0d0 | t1_c2hsx28 | null | 1427564312 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | mayjuly | null | Which is why http://hammerprinciple.com was created. | null | 0 | 1315295412 | False | 0 | c2ht0dx | t3_k56t1 | null | t1_c2ht0dx | t3_k56t1 | null | 1427564313 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | FeepingCreature | null | > XMM7, XMM6
/Total and utter nitpick
[edit] XMM are SSE. MMX are MM0-7. Too much SSE lately. :p | null | 0 | 1315295435 | True | 0 | c2ht0fh | t3_k5f5h | null | t1_c2ht0fh | t1_c2hp9of | null | 1427564313 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | killerstorm | null | 64-bit bloat is still very relevant. I've just had to switch from 64-bit Bitcoin daemon to 32-bit one (on 64-bit OS) because 64-bit one simply does not fit into available RAM while 32-bit one does (it is cheap 512 MiB VPS). With widespread use of virtualization memory size is very important -- it might define how much ... | null | 0 | 1315295519 | False | 0 | c2ht0ly | t3_k5z3o | null | t1_c2ht0ly | t1_c2hsayc | null | 1427564320 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | eric_t | null | Not sure if I understand you correctly, but you can pass functions which require additional arguments, either by using optional parameters or by wrapping them in a derived type. I see this done in C also all the time using some sort of "context" struct. | null | 0 | 1315295527 | False | 0 | c2ht0mn | t3_k58pi | null | t1_c2ht0mn | t1_c2hq9eb | null | 1427564316 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | FeepingCreature | null | You can save yourself some effort by using the stack for absolutely _everything_.
It'll be kind of shit slow though. | null | 0 | 1315295530 | False | 0 | c2ht0mx | t3_k5f5h | null | t1_c2ht0mx | t1_c2hp0jx | null | 1427564316 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | eric_t | null | Thank you for the summary, I haven't had the time or courage to try it out myself. It will be interesting to see if they can get acceptable performance eventually, but I suspect it will be several years before it is usable for real world projects. | null | 0 | 1315295654 | False | 0 | c2ht0vu | t3_k58pi | null | t1_c2ht0vu | t1_c2hq1nb | null | 1427564320 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | After that first release, I think soft-rock would be akin to retreating. Be experimental, give some progressive metal a go. | null | 0 | 1315295806 | False | 0 | c2ht16x | t3_k42i7 | null | t1_c2ht16x | t1_c2hpb16 | null | 1427564323 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | killerstorm | null | > As far as I can tell no one has been able to find an application (real, or a pre-existing constructed benchmark) which BOTH has enough register pressure to work faster with the extended registers AND enough pointer memory bandwidth bottlenecking to work poorly as a 64 bit app.
Why do you think it is a rare case a... | null | 0 | 1315295865 | True | 0 | c2ht1b4 | t3_k5z3o | null | t1_c2ht1b4 | t1_c2hskii | null | 1427564325 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | KayRice | null | > Now think how to save a new programmer opening the project's code from making guesses about what TAB size should be set in the editor's settings. Ideas like "they should have written it right from the beginning " are of no practical value.
Dipshit doesn't understand tabs at all... | null | 0 | 1315295927 | False | 0 | c2ht1f6 | t3_k5kxq | null | t1_c2ht1f6 | t3_k5kxq | null | 1427564326 | -12 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | eric_t | null | 1. I sort of address this in the article, in the trapezoidal integration example. The trapezoidal rule is generic and can be passed different functions. If you need additional state, it can be wrapped in a derived type and passed in as well. I have a code with generic hyperbolic PDE solvers that I use for a wide range ... | null | 0 | 1315295995 | False | 0 | c2ht1kk | t3_k58pi | null | t1_c2ht1kk | t1_c2hp9pt | null | 1427564328 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | henk53 | null | > Great programmers identify with interesting work and, while having opinions on languages, will ultimately be able to do any task in any language.
Well, I've personally started with C and picked up C++ rather easily, which I had been doing for years until I became part of a project that happened to use Java. So I ... | null | 0 | 1315296021 | False | 0 | c2ht1ms | t3_k5p3f | null | t1_c2ht1ms | t1_c2hprkc | null | 1427564330 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | eric_t | null | Well, in my humble opinion, it is suitable for all numerical programming tasks where performance is needed. I also miss the static typing when I program in Python. | null | 0 | 1315296135 | False | 0 | c2ht1ub | t3_k58pi | null | t1_c2ht1ub | t1_c2hp791 | null | 1427564331 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | CynicalDrunk | null | AFAIK, you cannot re-license or license anything under the GPL/MIT/BSD if you're not the copyright holder/author. | null | 0 | 1315296301 | False | 0 | c2ht26v | t3_k59d4 | null | t1_c2ht26v | t1_c2horpd | null | 1427564337 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | henk53 | null | Funny, I submitted two articles about Java and they consistently got the exact same number of down votes. Guess those are the same people who are just down voting everything Java related without even reading.
Imagine, "NP problem solved (example code in Java)" - 9 down votes just because some example is in Java. | null | 0 | 1315296537 | False | 0 | c2ht2oh | t3_k5pyx | null | t1_c2ht2oh | t3_k5pyx | null | 1427564342 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | _ak | null | That's exactly how Go does it. | null | 0 | 1315296573 | False | 0 | c2ht2rj | t3_k5kxq | null | t1_c2ht2rj | t1_c2hrsuj | null | 1427564345 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | _ak | null | > Why not do it? Because in practice it does not work, people will not apply this rule consistently
Because people don't realize that their tools (editors) are crap. It will never work as people use tools that stand in their ways of properly following the indentation guidelines. | null | 0 | 1315296627 | False | 0 | c2ht2ul | t3_k5kxq | null | t1_c2ht2ul | t1_c2hszv3 | null | 1427564345 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | _ak | null | Exactly. The lack of understanding that a TAB represents one level of indentation is exactly what people makes them mix with spaces. | null | 0 | 1315296750 | False | 0 | c2ht344 | t3_k5kxq | null | t1_c2ht344 | t1_c2ht1f6 | null | 1427564349 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | imasharkama | null | You're supposed to 'Do lot of seX' first I think | null | 0 | 1315296819 | False | 0 | c2ht38s | t3_k55g9 | null | t1_c2ht38s | t1_c2hoqmc | null | 1427564351 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | eric_t | null | > a well-designed and tuned C++ math library will be even more readable than FORTRAN while being just as fast.
I am a researcher. It is very rare that I can just glue libraries together to solve the problem I want to solve. My claim is that writing performant code is easier in Fortran, leaving me more time to think... | null | 0 | 1315296889 | False | 0 | c2ht3de | t3_k58pi | null | t1_c2ht3de | t1_c2hrpqv | null | 1427564351 | 9 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Kealper | null | Dits and dahs.
Dit-dit-dit-dit dit-dah dah-dah...73
(Sorry, couldn't resist) | null | 0 | 1315297000 | False | 0 | c2ht3la | t3_k55g9 | null | t1_c2ht3la | t1_c2hs3kl | null | 1427564358 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | paranoidray | null | why is this downvoted ? I am starting to hate this subreddit... | null | 0 | 1315297377 | False | 0 | c2ht4b3 | t3_k5pwj | null | t1_c2ht4b3 | t3_k5pwj | null | 1427564363 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | zokier | null | If used properly then no. Consider the following example, with tabs used for indentation and spaces for alignment, with two different tab widths:
class Foo{
<tab>foo(int bar,
<tab> int baz);
};
class Foo{
<_tab_>foo(int bar,
<_tab_> int baz);
};
You ca... | null | 0 | 1315297381 | True | 0 | c2ht4bc | t3_k5kxq | null | t1_c2ht4bc | t1_c2hsqck | null | 1427564363 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | scook0 | null | *XMM* registers are for SSE, not MMX. | null | 0 | 1315297625 | False | 0 | c2ht4sn | t3_k5f5h | null | t1_c2ht4sn | t1_c2ht0fh | null | 1427564371 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | paranoidray | null | what have you achived in your life to call him dipshit ?
What open source project have you analyzed for free to make it better ? | null | 0 | 1315297655 | False | 0 | c2ht4uv | t3_k5kxq | null | t1_c2ht4uv | t1_c2ht1f6 | null | 1427564372 | -1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | henk53 | null | Probably because it has "Java" in the title. I guess there are some 10 users here who just down vote everything Java related on sight.
A few rather different articles I submitted written by different authors almost instantly got the exact same number of down votes. The only relation between those was they all had "Jav... | null | 0 | 1315297990 | False | 0 | c2ht5ho | t3_k5pwj | null | t1_c2ht5ho | t1_c2ht4b3 | null | 1427564381 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Lowercase_Drawer | null | cite? | null | 0 | 1315298153 | False | 0 | c2ht5ss | t3_k28av | null | t1_c2ht5ss | t1_c2gytsq | null | 1427564384 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | scook0 | null | 4GB is a lot of RAM, but it's not a lot of address space.
With things like fragmentation and memory-mapped I/O it's not that hard to hit the limits of a 2-4GB address space without actually allocating gigabytes of memory. | null | 0 | 1315298257 | False | 0 | c2ht606 | t3_k5z3o | null | t1_c2ht606 | t1_c2hsmor | null | 1427564386 | 9 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | FeepingCreature | null | Googled it and MMX registers are MM0-7.
Edited post. | null | 0 | 1315298290 | False | 0 | c2ht62e | t3_k5f5h | null | t1_c2ht62e | t1_c2ht4sn | null | 1427564387 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | scook0 | null | I already want to slap the genius who thought `x64` was a good name. Adding `x32` into the mix is just insane from a naming standpoint. | null | 0 | 1315298442 | False | 0 | c2ht6cm | t3_k5z3o | null | t1_c2ht6cm | t1_c2hsx5t | null | 1427564391 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | akdas | null | That's very anecdotal, and ultimately, these people who can't program wouldn't have excelled at the craft on their own anyway. Thus, they wouldn't have wanted to do the steps outlined in the blog post, so they aren't the ones who would benefit from a formal education, even a good one. | null | 0 | 1315298464 | False | 0 | c2ht6dy | t3_k55g9 | null | t1_c2ht6dy | t1_c2hr391 | null | 1427564391 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | slgard | null | Ok, I'm 41 years old and I've been a professional programmer for 23 years.
I've programmed extensively (ie years) in about 10 different programming languages and dabbled in many others (including C++).
>Of course C++ is a high level programming language based on a definition from the 20th century
I know the defi... | null | 0 | 1315298465 | False | 0 | c2ht6e0 | t3_k3ivo | null | t1_c2ht6e0 | t1_c2hp8yr | null | 1427564391 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | JonDum | null | I wouldn't say so. With the tech bubble, VCs were investing in anyone with a business plan. With the .com bubble VCs were investing in anyone with a cool "Web 2.0" name. I think we've already established most of the Web 2.0 services now. (smart) VCs just won't buy into it. | null | 0 | 1315298556 | False | 0 | c2ht6iw | t3_k5zns | null | t1_c2ht6iw | t1_c2hsqgz | null | 1427564402 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | JonDum | null | Oh for the love of GOD. Please, PLEASE do not advise people to learn PHP on a whim. There are enough crappy PHP developers already; it gives PHP a horrible name. Tell them to learn Lisp or something. | null | 0 | 1315298733 | False | 0 | c2ht6uw | t3_k5zns | null | t1_c2ht6uw | t1_c2hsua4 | null | 1427564399 | 22 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | jackkinsella | null | Thanks for the advice guys. I'm coming here from Hacker News and the dynamic there is that down votes are rare and used only as punishments. | null | 0 | 1315298903 | False | 0 | c2ht75q | t3_k5dwr | null | t1_c2ht75q | t1_c2hplwh | null | 1427564413 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | jackkinsella | null | ahem ;-) | null | 0 | 1315298966 | False | 0 | c2ht79t | t3_k5dwr | null | t1_c2ht79t | t1_c2hpxcc | null | 1427564406 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | twhittock | null | There's a pretty thin C++ class wrapping the raw JNI, which is C. You could back the C++ class out and you're golden. | null | 0 | 1315299427 | False | 0 | c2ht83n | t3_k59d4 | null | t1_c2ht83n | t1_c2hp4qy | null | 1427564420 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Xarnon | null | There _was_ [/r/bots](http://www.reddit.com/r/bots/), but it's currently **forbidden** :/ | null | 0 | 1315299622 | False | 0 | c2ht8fu | t3_k2x8k | null | t1_c2ht8fu | t1_c2h41hx | null | 1427564431 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Xarnon | null | \- Carl Sagan | null | 0 | 1315299661 | False | 0 | c2ht8i9 | t3_k2x8k | null | t1_c2ht8i9 | t1_c2h8jj4 | null | 1427564424 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | It's public domain, there's no copyright to hold | null | 0 | 1315299722 | False | 0 | c2ht8mb | t3_k59d4 | null | t1_c2ht8mb | t1_c2ht26v | null | 1427564425 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | wot-teh-phuck | null | TIL I'm a regular user. ;-) | null | 0 | 1315300169 | False | 0 | c2ht9el | t3_k5z3o | null | t1_c2ht9el | t1_c2hsx5t | null | 1427564434 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | perlgeek | null | Has anything been done on the issue of calling C from Fortran and the other way round?
Last I looked it suffered from the fact that Fortran functions were name mangled in a compiler specific way, and the "interoperation" was that you statically linked to the compiled Fortran code, somehow[tm] figured out the name conv... | null | 0 | 1315300275 | False | 0 | c2ht9l8 | t3_k58pi | null | t1_c2ht9l8 | t3_k58pi | null | 1427564434 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Camarade_Tux | null | You're proving one can run 32bit applications just fine on 64bit kernel. You get a slight performance penalty but nothing horrible (10-15% worst case). Do you need that additional performance plus a few more percents? (honestly asking) | null | 0 | 1315300291 | False | 0 | c2ht9m4 | t3_k5z3o | null | t1_c2ht9m4 | t1_c2ht0ly | null | 1427564434 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | le_kommie | null | Could you elaborate on this a little please? | null | 0 | 1315300355 | False | 0 | c2ht9qg | t3_k5geu | null | t1_c2ht9qg | t1_c2hoa65 | null | 1427564436 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | tamrix | null | >from my perspective C++ is a low level systems programming language
>Of course C++ is a high level programming language
>That is why I would describe C++ as relatively low level.
>and I accept that C++ is both 3rd generation and "high level".
>(and I think 95% of programmers?) would describe C++... | null | 0 | 1315300730 | False | 0 | c2htad2 | t3_k3ivo | null | t1_c2htad2 | t1_c2ht6e0 | null | 1427564444 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | eric_t | null | Maybe you write different applications than me, solving linear equation systems is very often the bottleneck in my programs:) In fact, for some problems, I use a library written in C for this, since it uses a better algorithm for that particular problem. Algorithms are usually more important than languages, I am not af... | null | 0 | 1315300734 | False | 0 | c2htadc | t3_k58pi | null | t1_c2htadc | t1_c2hozit | null | 1427564444 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | qinyong | null | Interesting, it seems a helpful guide. | null | 0 | 1315300735 | False | 0 | c2htade | t3_k5pwj | null | t1_c2htade | t3_k5pwj | null | 1427564444 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Camarade_Tux | null | You've missed Seamonkey with 19GB VIRT yesterday. OK, that's an pathologic case, seamonkey is from mozilla. ;-) (*)
I agree that even 2GB is not something most applications need but some do. The reason for this new ABI is to have more performance.
How many applications needing more performance are going to work on d... | null | 0 | 1315300743 | False | 0 | c2htads | t3_k5z3o | null | t1_c2htads | t1_c2hsmor | null | 1427564444 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Camarade_Tux | null | IA-64 is Itanium, you wanted EM64T for intel's take.
edit: which you also mentionned. :-) | null | 0 | 1315300854 | False | 0 | c2htakr | t3_k5z3o | null | t1_c2htakr | t1_c2hsx5t | null | 1427564446 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Timmmmbob | null | What would you prefer? I'm way too lazy to write x86_64 all the time. amd64 could be ok.
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True | Camarade_Tux | null | Where is the benchmark page? I haven't spent a huge time looking but coudln't find it.
And +15% size is nothing. 4GB memory (which is the max size of the processes that could live with the x32 ABI) is a few dozen dollars. 15% of that is nothing.
Makes me feel like if someone in ten years, after IPv6 finally managed t... | null | 0 | 1315301292 | False | 0 | c2htbbs | t3_k5z3o | null | t1_c2htbbs | t1_c2hsjgh | null | 1427564456 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | qinyong | null | Nice article! Clear and easily to follow. Good to see that building a custom component is much simpler. | null | 0 | 1315301361 | False | 0 | c2htbfl | t3_k4qrh | null | t1_c2htbfl | t3_k4qrh | null | 1427564468 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | eric_t | null | I think functional programming is a very natural fit for scientific problems. However, having used Haskell quite a bit, I don't think it quite fits the bill.
Just look at what it takes to get within twice the time of Fortran on the [spectral norm benchmark](http://shootout.alioth.debian.org/u32q/program.php?test=spectr... | null | 0 | 1315301397 | False | 0 | c2htbhk | t3_k58pi | null | t1_c2htbhk | t1_c2hsr0g | null | 1427564468 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | kmmeerts | null | Huh? How can a project function at all with such serious bugs? | null | 0 | 1315301673 | False | 0 | c2htbyu | t3_k5kxq | null | t1_c2htbyu | t3_k5kxq | null | 1427564470 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Timmmmbob | null | Sure (and no idea why I've been down-voted; it *is* slow).
See for example, this worms clone I started writing a while ago: http://concentriclivers.com/CanvasWorms/
On my quad core desktop on chrome it gets 20-30fps. I think firefox was slower. I didn't try IE9 but I suspect it may run at a good speed because it is t... | null | 0 | 1315301834 | False | 0 | c2htc8p | t3_k5geu | null | t1_c2htc8p | t1_c2ht9qg | null | 1427564471 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | ascii | null | He said he's abitcoin miner. 10-15 % more performance means 10-15 percent more revenue. That's pretty huge. | null | 0 | 1315301918 | False | 0 | c2htcd1 | t3_k5z3o | null | t1_c2htcd1 | t1_c2ht9m4 | null | 1427564473 | -2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | sander314 | null | wrt (1), I know you can pass functions as parameters. The problem appears when you want to set it aside in a structure, and use it later. For example
set_material_properties(problem, materialfunction)
solve_problem(problem)
A lot of these cases start to appear when you want to make something large and f... | null | 0 | 1315302209 | False | 0 | c2htctw | t3_k58pi | null | t1_c2htctw | t1_c2ht1kk | null | 1427564476 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | Who cares? Indentation is indentations. It's 2011 - editors and IDEs should be smart enough to recognize that. | null | 0 | 1315302260 | False | 0 | c2htcw3 | t3_k5kxq | null | t1_c2htcw3 | t1_c2hr5wm | null | 1427564478 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Rhoomba | null | Want the expanded register set but 32 bit pointers? Use Java with CompressedOops :) | null | 0 | 1315302291 | False | 0 | c2htcxn | t3_k5z3o | null | t1_c2htcxn | t3_k5z3o | null | 1427564478 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | Because JavaScript is markup and not a real language? | null | 0 | 1315302368 | False | 0 | c2htd1t | t3_k5kxq | null | t1_c2htd1t | t1_c2ht01w | null | 1427564479 | -10 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Malfeasant | null | heh... and in turn that led me [here](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyper_Text_Coffee_Pot_Control_Protocol).
418 | null | 0 | 1315302631 | False | 0 | c2htdhe | t3_k5f5h | null | t1_c2htdhe | t1_c2hpfza | null | 1427564484 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | zapu | null | It quite does not... It's in alpha state and it's really hard to get it running and do something on it. | null | 0 | 1315302897 | False | 0 | c2htdxl | t3_k5kxq | null | t1_c2htdxl | t1_c2htbyu | null | 1427564490 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Malfeasant | null | start small. find yourself an old 8-bit machine. then you don't have to worry about playing nice with an os... and when you screw up, rebooting the machine takes a second. | null | 0 | 1315302902 | False | 0 | c2htdy2 | t3_k5f5h | null | t1_c2htdy2 | t1_c2hsr4f | null | 1427564490 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | CynicalDrunk | null | That doesn't mean you (the recipient) can change the license. It's also not really clear how "public domain" code affects licensing for software that includes it.
Which is why "PD" is regarded by many people as being more trouble than an explicit copyright license that gives the user all the relevant rights (like BSD/... | null | 0 | 1315302982 | False | 0 | c2hte1w | t3_k59d4 | null | t1_c2hte1w | t1_c2ht8mb | null | 1428195404 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | slgard | null | at *no point* have I said or even hinted that C++ isn't a 3rd generation language and I've agreed that it's a "high level" language.
my naive mistake was to say on /r/programming that from *my perspective* C++ is a low level language. maybe I should have said *relatively lower* level language to be utterly clear.
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True | comment-dwim | null | I thought of doing that and in fact I might if only for the sake of the program being re-entrant (as opposed to launch it multiple times for testing).
A similar approach could be having just a Site class that contains my global variables as fields. Not that it buys me much anyway. | null | 0 | 1315303199 | False | 0 | c2htee2 | t3_k56t1 | null | t1_c2htee2 | t1_c2hqog6 | null | 1428195403 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | weavejester | null | > That's not an example of your claim.
Why not? Catching NPEs at compile time is an advantage of statically-typed languages that Java cunningly manages to avoid.
If you want we could also talk about Java's sorry excuse for polymorphism? Type erasure? It's lack of type inference? Polymorphism over return values? La... | null | 0 | 1315303577 | False | 0 | c2htf0c | t3_k56t1 | null | t1_c2htf0c | t1_c2hra5s | null | 1427564510 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | killerstorm | null | `bitcoind` is not a miner, just a daemon which allows one to perform operations. (But it can be used in conjunction with miner, so maybe performance is relevant, e.g. for a mining pool operator.)
(I just run a site which uses bitcoin payments, I'm not into mining things.) | null | 0 | 1315303590 | True | 0 | c2htf19 | t3_k5z3o | null | t1_c2htf19 | t1_c2htcd1 | null | 1427564510 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | BeatLeJuce | null | HI there!
What, in your opinion, makes Fortran faster than C? The only thing I can think of is pointer aliasing, for which C99 introduced the 'restrict' keyword.
I've noticed the language shootout benchmark you cited doesn't use neither restrict nor inline. And in fact, when I take the basic C implementation of the s... | null | 0 | 1315303767 | False | 0 | c2htfb9 | t3_k58pi | null | t1_c2htfb9 | t3_k58pi | null | 1427564523 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | lally | null | Ha! My dad's actually a fortran programmer. This hits really close to home. The last time I saw, he was using MS EDIT in a DOS window.
In the last few years (2002+?), he's mostly been on matlab. | null | 0 | 1315303771 | False | 0 | c2htfbh | t3_k58pi | null | t1_c2htfbh | t3_k58pi | null | 1427564523 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | BeatLeJuce | null | The benchmark is severly flawed. Reproducing it I could find no evidence of the Fortran version being faster or less complex than the C version:
http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/k58pi/this_is_not_your_fathers_fortran/c2htfb9
Feel free to try it out yourself and report your numbers. | null | 0 | 1315303844 | False | 0 | c2htffh | t3_k58pi | null | t1_c2htffh | t1_c2hpjab | null | 1428195401 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | shaurz | null | They should have called it x86-64-32 ;-) | null | 0 | 1315303914 | False | 0 | c2htfja | t3_k5z3o | null | t1_c2htfja | t1_c2hsx5t | null | 1427564518 | 9 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | AlyoshaV | null | IA-64 is one of the distinct ones, i.e. not part of x86 or x64. | null | 0 | 1315303940 | False | 0 | c2htfke | t3_k5z3o | null | t1_c2htfke | t1_c2htakr | null | 1427564518 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | AlyoshaV | null | >Linux, it's not the kind of thing you'll run on your desktop | null | 0 | 1315304040 | False | 0 | c2htfpx | t3_k5z3o | null | t1_c2htfpx | t1_c2hsgma | null | 1427564532 | -3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
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