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True | ctrldavid | null | I haven't read any books, it was mainly just googling and reading specs. The canvas spec is pretty good to work from. The 3d stuff all came from wikipedia, and I think I could have probably chosen a better source than that. The javascript weekly email list probably helped too.
Edit:
I didn't actually hear about this t... | null | 0 | 1315458432 | True | 0 | c2iado4 | t3_k7ewc | null | t1_c2iado4 | t1_c2i9zac | null | 1427572631 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | wadcann | null | But decreases maintenance time. | null | 0 | 1315458563 | False | 0 | c2iae6h | t3_k7o9e | null | t1_c2iae6h | t3_k7o9e | null | 1427572638 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | mmelvin0 | null | You seem to miss the fact that (with Git) removing lines from a commit will, by design, alter every commit that came after it.
Having personally seen this several times, it is IMPOSSIBLE to miss when it happens, and if you have your push/pull set up properly, it's also very easy to determine who did it (and sometimes ... | null | 0 | 1315458748 | False | 0 | c2iaevz | t3_k7qvj | null | t1_c2iaevz | t1_c2i6xi7 | null | 1427572647 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | otterdam | null | obviously it's Microsoft's fault for not adding a double-secret-probation security level, designed to keep third party software out of the system files. | null | 0 | 1315458794 | False | 0 | c2iaf2q | t3_k7qe8 | null | t1_c2iaf2q | t1_c2ia4p9 | null | 1427572649 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | keyo_ | null | With Git's superior merging maybe they can merge in the short array syntax feature. /sarcasm | null | 0 | 1315458964 | False | 0 | c2iafrk | t3_k87wr | null | t1_c2iafrk | t3_k87wr | null | 1427572659 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | wadcann | null | >> A typical day in the hell of heavily utilized dynamic typing on a large project:
>>
>>* What the hell is the return type of this function? What are the parameter types? I guess I have to read the code line by line to see all the ways these objects are referenced.
>>
>>* Will this even r... | null | 0 | 1315459080 | False | 0 | c2iag88 | t3_k7o9e | null | t1_c2iag88 | t1_c2ia3br | null | 1427572664 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | keyo_ | null | It's back down now. Slow Drupal site? | null | 0 | 1315459152 | False | 0 | c2iagiu | t3_k6ceu | null | t1_c2iagiu | t1_c2hu39g | null | 1427572669 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | _georgesim_ | null | It's very hard to install software under elevated permissions in unix-like systems, unless you know what you're doing. Not so much in Windows (It may have changed in Windows 7, I haven't used it).
Furthermore, the unix-like philosophy of how to do things is much more elegant. Just look at the Kernel API's and tell me ... | null | 0 | 1315459292 | False | 0 | c2iah28 | t3_k7qe8 | null | t1_c2iah28 | t1_c2ia4p9 | null | 1427572677 | -5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | sisyphus | null | I didn't pay enough attention to the *Eclipse* part--I guess this isn't done in the Java world and I suppose it makes sense because it's a very verbose language and IDE's don't really seem amenable to maximizing your available editing area or efficiently working with a bunch of open files. | null | 0 | 1315459420 | False | 0 | c2iahi4 | t3_k7pwu | null | t1_c2iahi4 | t1_c2i8tpq | null | 1427572684 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | anacrolix | null | I'm glad you didn't mention Python. Try it. | null | 0 | 1315459468 | False | 0 | c2iahp9 | t3_k85xr | null | t1_c2iahp9 | t1_c2i821j | null | 1427572685 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | Is there water that isn't wet? | null | 0 | 1315459552 | False | 0 | c2iai0f | t3_k85xr | null | t1_c2iai0f | t1_c2ia5ii | null | 1427572689 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1315459586 | False | 0 | c2iai54 | t3_k85xr | null | t1_c2iai54 | t1_c2i9qam | null | 1427572698 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | smegnose | null | Git has a great GUI | null | 0 | 1315459635 | False | 0 | c2iaic0 | t3_k7qvj | null | t1_c2iaic0 | t1_c2i5ity | null | 1427572695 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | smegnose | null | [msysgit](http://code.google.com/p/msysgit/) | null | 0 | 1315459705 | False | 0 | c2iail3 | t3_k7qvj | null | t1_c2iail3 | t1_c2ia1on | null | 1427572699 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | _georgesim_ | null | This seems like a very contrived example. Can you write a custom memory manager in Lisp that looks this easier than its C or C++ counterpart? | null | 0 | 1315459821 | False | 0 | c2iaj02 | t3_k85xr | null | t1_c2iaj02 | t1_c2i9qam | null | 1427572702 | 8 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | smegnose | null | Fuck, I can't believe how many people are whingeing about Git.
It's awesome and very easy to use, start with the gui (`git gui` at the command line or, for windoze, install [msysgit](http://code.google.com/p/msysgit/)) | null | 0 | 1315459916 | False | 0 | c2iajc7 | t3_k7qvj | null | t1_c2iajc7 | t3_k7qvj | null | 1427572706 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Jookia | null | So I need to learn all that to simply make Vim copy character-for-character the whitespace from the previous line, which autoindent doesn't do? | null | 0 | 1315460026 | False | 0 | c2iajps | t3_k6hii | null | t1_c2iajps | t3_k6hii | null | 1427572711 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | rmxz | null | I like the justification for 80 cols in the Linux kernel coding style.
**TL/DR**: If you need more than 80 cols your code's too complex and needs refactoring anyway.
Linux kernel coding style:
> Tabs are 8 characters, and thus indentations are also 8 characters. There are heretic movements that try to make inde... | null | 0 | 1315460102 | True | 0 | c2iajzx | t3_k7pwu | null | t1_c2iajzx | t3_k7pwu | null | 1427572714 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Learfz | null | Actually, there's a strong movement to put a reactor in one of the Carolinas that will run off of the radioactive materials salvaged from decommissioned warheads. That's sort of peaceful. | null | 0 | 1315460254 | False | 0 | c2iakjo | t3_k7qvj | null | t1_c2iakjo | t1_c2i7j0m | null | 1427572721 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | smegnose | null | You're missing out. You don't need to know any of that to get started with Git. Try the GUI. | null | 0 | 1315460293 | False | 0 | c2iakop | t3_k7qvj | null | t1_c2iakop | t1_c2i7otd | null | 1427572724 | -1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | rmxz | null | > 80 characters? How am I going to fit my AbstractSingletonProxyFactoryBean there?
I'd hope your language lets you do
aspfb = org.springframework.aop.framework.AbstractSingletonProxyFactoryBean
my_aspfb = aspfb.new(...)
If not, perhaps try a more concise language to save yourself from carpal tunnel.
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True | smegnose | null | This. Add
[guitool "stash"]
cmd = git stash save
[guitool "unstash"]
cmd = git stash pop
to your `.gitconfig` file in your home dir (this file exists in Windows too) | null | 0 | 1315460531 | False | 0 | c2ialha | t3_k7qvj | null | t1_c2ialha | t1_c2i6b8i | null | 1427572733 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | yogthos | null | Most of the advantages of Lisp come from the grammer, it seems awkward at first, but once you start using it you realize why it is the way it is.
I think pretty much everybody who learns Lisp goes through a phase where they feel that the syntax sucks, but once you sit down and try to think how you'd improve it withou... | null | 0 | 1315460539 | False | 0 | c2ialig | t3_k85xr | null | t1_c2ialig | t1_c2ia5ii | null | 1427572734 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | blueshiftlabs | null | Dunno what granularity you're talking about (I've never used darcs), but git add -p lets you add (or not add) individual changes in a file.
[Check this out for an example.](http://blog.hackers-cafe.net/2011/01/git-add-p.html) | null | 0 | 1315460553 | False | 0 | c2ialk3 | t3_k7qvj | null | t1_c2ialk3 | t1_c2i7jwy | null | 1427572734 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | WalterBright | null | > The Lisp syntax tells you what is being done as opposed to how, the language abstracts the implementation details and allows you to chain the transformations by applying the relevant functions to the data.
Your comparison might not be quite fair, as it is making use of two non-language functions 'filter' and 'non... | null | 0 | 1315460560 | False | 0 | c2ialks | t3_k85xr | null | t1_c2ialks | t1_c2i9qam | null | 1427572736 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Darkmoth | null | I suppose I don't see the connection between a poorly-titled article and browsing r/programming.
Articles titled "simpler than you think" are in the same vein as "X for dummies": aimed at audiences who feel overwhelmed by perceived complexity. They generally provide a unifying view of a topic, glossing over details to... | null | 0 | 1315460619 | False | 0 | c2ialsd | t3_k7qvj | null | t1_c2ialsd | t1_c2i85lb | null | 1427572737 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | comex | null | I don't understand why people prefer dotfiles hidden away in directories. By default, dotfiles are hidden, so they're not cluttering up any display; but when you do want to access them, .whateverrc is a lot less typing than .local/share/whatever/whatever. (OS X is standardized on Library/Preferences, which is even wo... | null | 0 | 1315460625 | True | 0 | c2ialt2 | t3_k7qe8 | null | t1_c2ialt2 | t1_c2i8ycy | null | 1427572747 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | wadcann | null | I'm suspect that given the verbosity of Java and its APIs, that Java programmers don't actually fully type out function names, but rather use some sort of tool to auto-complete them. | null | 0 | 1315460700 | False | 0 | c2iam21 | t3_k7pwu | null | t1_c2iam21 | t1_c2ial2e | null | 1427572742 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | paul_mendoza | null | They don't know the cost of what they want. Tell them the cost and they can come up with a better estimation of what they actually want. | null | 0 | 1315460715 | False | 0 | c2iam48 | t3_k7e0u | null | t1_c2iam48 | t1_c2i2bhq | null | 1427572743 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | wadcann | null | It's useful to have a convention because then everyone can set up code-view windows with the same width, which allows everyone to make the best use of available space. You may have several of them side-by-side; I normally do. 80 just happened to be an existing convention. | null | 0 | 1315460740 | False | 0 | c2iam6v | t3_k7pwu | null | t1_c2iam6v | t1_c2i53rh | null | 1427572745 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1315460850 | False | 0 | c2iamkj | t3_k7qvj | null | t1_c2iamkj | t1_c2ia8zz | null | 1427572749 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | yogthos | null | >I know I'm missing the point, but why do you increment i if s isEmptyOrNull?
if You don't then you'll fail on this case
concatStrings(", ", "foo", "bar", "", "baz", null, "test", "")
and even the initial case will look like:
foobar, baz
>And just check before starting the loop if the length of strs ... | null | 0 | 1315460910 | True | 0 | c2iamsr | t3_k85xr | null | t1_c2iamsr | t1_c2iabv1 | null | 1427572751 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Darkmoth | null | Actually, I thought I specifically mentioned Win7 in [this](http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/k7qe8/why_is_the_registry_a_hierarchical_database/c2i6spx) comment, but I suppose I was still in design-rage.
Yes, dll hell is no longer an issue. In my defense, it was my single biggest Windows gripe for decades, ... | null | 0 | 1315460915 | False | 0 | c2iamtg | t3_k7qe8 | null | t1_c2iamtg | t1_c2iaa6k | null | 1427572751 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | rmxz | null | > newspapers, large books and magazines have columns.
I love this reason.
Anyone know of a good IDE that'll display source code that way so I can see more of it at once without scrolling?
No doubt someone have an emacs mode for it, no? | null | 0 | 1315460921 | False | 0 | c2iamu0 | t3_k7pwu | null | t1_c2iamu0 | t1_c2i8y69 | null | 1427572751 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | HostisHumaniGeneris | null | It's not just the heat that's the problem, it's the fact that the fuel slurry is highly corrosive. All of the materials science needed to build such a thing (corrosion resistant heat transfer systems) is still in the theoretical stage. None of it has been tested in production for extended periods of time.
Also I heard... | null | 0 | 1315460967 | False | 0 | c2ian0g | t3_k7qvj | null | t1_c2ian0g | t1_c2i8v5e | null | 1427572754 | 12 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | hobbified | null | > Is this starting to rival Flash games?
No, but it's vaguely okayish. | null | 0 | 1315461081 | False | 0 | c2iando | t3_k81qp | null | t1_c2iando | t3_k81qp | null | 1427572758 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | rmxz | null | 80 or under is easier to read on my phone
very nice when not at my desktop.
| null | 0 | 1315461101 | False | 0 | c2ianfp | t3_k7pwu | null | t1_c2ianfp | t3_k7pwu | null | 1427572760 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | hobbified | null | GIT stands for GIT Is Technology-related. | null | 0 | 1315461125 | False | 0 | c2ianiu | t3_k87wr | null | t1_c2ianiu | t1_c2i8a89 | null | 1427572760 | 23 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | allliam | null | Well, the why of fire is even more complicated than fission, but no one is running around complaining about how complicated fire is. | null | 0 | 1315461157 | False | 0 | c2ianmb | t3_k7qvj | null | t1_c2ianmb | t1_c2i7k3g | null | 1427572761 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1315461292 | False | 0 | c2iao3w | t3_k85xr | null | t1_c2iao3w | t1_c2iai0f | null | 1427572769 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Darkmoth | null | Applications no longer overwrite each other's (and the system's) dll's. The dll that manages windows no longer gets overwritten by joe_programmers windowed app, which in turn got overwritten by jane_programmer's app.
I think you lose that bet. | null | 0 | 1315461293 | False | 0 | c2iao45 | t3_k7qe8 | null | t1_c2iao45 | t1_c2ia7l1 | null | 1427572769 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | adelle | null | I'd add, that even on those occasions where abstraction _turns out_ to be a _good_ idea, you won't be doing it properly if you haven't written one draft that talks directly to the api that you're abstracting. | null | 0 | 1315461364 | False | 0 | c2iaoch | t3_k7rzz | null | t1_c2iaoch | t3_k7rzz | null | 1427572771 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | nfarina | null | You're quite welcome, thank you! | null | 0 | 1315461373 | False | 0 | c2iaodi | t3_k7qvj | null | t1_c2iaodi | t1_c2i8xc2 | null | 1427572771 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1315461472 | False | 0 | c2iaoq7 | t3_k7pwu | null | t1_c2iaoq7 | t1_c2i6asb | null | 1427572777 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | comex | null | On a tangent: from many perspectives the Windows registry is better than Unix configuration, but as long as I can use my favorite editor to edit the latter, view and add comments, even stick the configuration files in version control, easily, if I'm interested in tracking changes-- so that managing my configuration is ... | null | 0 | 1315461474 | False | 0 | c2iaoqm | t3_k7qe8 | null | t1_c2iaoqm | t3_k7qe8 | null | 1427572777 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1315461562 | False | 0 | c2iap0v | t3_k7pwu | null | t1_c2iap0v | t1_c2i9zoi | null | 1427572780 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | yogthos | null | The example isn't as contrived as it might initially appear. The whole idea in Lisp languages is that you have a small number of data structures, and a lot of functions that operate on them. [Clojure](http://clojuredocs.org/quickref/Clojure%20Core) used in the example, has a very rich standard library for dealing with ... | null | 0 | 1315461603 | False | 0 | c2iap5o | t3_k85xr | null | t1_c2iap5o | t1_c2iaj02 | null | 1427572791 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | alexeiz | null | The demo video is boring! And the screen font is too large - I could still read it. Can you make it smaller? | null | 0 | 1315461735 | False | 0 | c2iapji | t3_k6f0t | null | t1_c2iapji | t3_k6f0t | null | 1428195103 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Darkmoth | null | To my mind, the ideal situation was Macintosh circa-1999 System 7(?). Each application lived it it's own folder, and uninstalling that app was a matter of deleting that folder. The Mac equivalent of TSRs/Services were maintained in a different space than the System Folder, and were loaded after the system files. There ... | null | 0 | 1315461790 | False | 0 | c2iapq3 | t3_k7qe8 | null | t1_c2iapq3 | t1_c2ia4p9 | null | 1427572793 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Zamarok | null | You're the developer, right? I have a bug report.
When you jump in the air and shoot a bunch of pointy-things (swords?), after you land, you're unable to shoot more until you move the character. Using the latest Firefox, Windows7 | null | 0 | 1315461854 | False | 0 | c2iapxf | t3_k81qp | null | t1_c2iapxf | t3_k81qp | null | 1427572795 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | killerstorm | null | Actually I know nothing about ARMs, I've just copied it from wikipedia. :) That's the picture one gets when he doesn't understand nomenclature yet. | null | 0 | 1315461869 | False | 0 | c2iapz8 | t3_k5z3o | null | t1_c2iapz8 | t1_c2i745c | null | 1427572797 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | xTRUMANx | null | How does it fail on that case? Isn't `continue` going to increment the loop as well which will cause you to increment i twice which will then skip `"baz"`?
Also, wouldn't it b better to handle the edge cases **once** before the loop rather than having the `if` within the loop be executed for **every** iteration of th... | null | 0 | 1315461973 | False | 0 | c2iaqbm | t3_k85xr | null | t1_c2iaqbm | t1_c2iamsr | null | 1427572808 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | adelle | null | I think it must be difficult for anyone who didn't live through the win9x era to grasp just how bad it was.
Third party apps overwriting DLLs in C:\Windows\System32 wasn't just possible, it was considered the normal way of delivering certain system updates. If you built an installer using Microsoft's own tools, it wo... | null | 0 | 1315462053 | False | 0 | c2iaqlm | t3_k7qe8 | null | t1_c2iaqlm | t1_c2iao45 | null | 1428195101 | 11 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | lusion | null | No. If you google you will find a number of studies comparing static and dynamic languages on much bigger projects. Here the gains from dynamic languages are much bigger. In fact, big projects are likely to benefit dynamically typed languages more. Because in big systems you often need very different components to comm... | null | 0 | 1315462245 | False | 0 | c2iar84 | t3_k7o9e | null | t1_c2iar84 | t1_c2i5o97 | null | 1427572817 | -5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Iggyhopper | null | I think I mean not a bunch of a parens. | null | 0 | 1315462306 | False | 0 | c2iarez | t3_k85xr | null | t1_c2iarez | t1_c2iai0f | null | 1427572819 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | yogthos | null | well paste a working example :) | null | 0 | 1315462334 | False | 0 | c2iari1 | t3_k85xr | null | t1_c2iari1 | t1_c2iaqbm | null | 1427572823 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | yogthos | null | Both [filter](http://clojuredocs.org/clojure_core/clojure.core/filter) and [not-empty](http://clojuredocs.org/clojure_core/clojure.core/not-empty) are part of Clojure standard library.
edit: It's worth pointing out that in Lisp, majority of the language is written in itself. You have a tiny core of reserved grammar a... | null | 0 | 1315462391 | True | 0 | c2iarok | t3_k85xr | null | t1_c2iarok | t1_c2ialks | null | 1427572824 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | personanongrata | null | work smoothless on ff 6.x linux, maybe a plugin is slowing down the ff you are using like firebug etc... | null | 0 | 1315462444 | False | 0 | c2iarv0 | t3_k7ewc | null | t1_c2iarv0 | t1_c2i2ozq | null | 1427572826 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | rghd | null | >What we can conclude from this, paraphrasing Fred Brooks, is that regarding performance there is no silver bullet. The basics matter, maybe now they even matter more than ever.
Good god if I had a nickel for every time I heard programming jargon misused... | null | 0 | 1315462538 | False | 0 | c2ias5z | t3_k81ic | null | t1_c2ias5z | t3_k81ic | null | 1427572829 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1315462629 | False | 0 | c2iasgd | t3_k7qe8 | null | t1_c2iasgd | t1_c2ialt2 | null | 1427572838 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | vintermann | null | Tarballs? It's not as if git is the only alternative. As a long time hg fan, I'm a bit dismayed at articles like this that say git is incomprehensible, but we'll use it anyway because "it's winning on the internet". | null | 0 | 1315462705 | False | 0 | c2iaspb | t3_k7qvj | null | t1_c2iaspb | t1_c2i4yme | null | 1427572835 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | WalterBright | null | True, but they have nothing to do with the conciseness of the syntax of the language. | null | 0 | 1315462730 | False | 0 | c2iasrw | t3_k85xr | null | t1_c2iasrw | t1_c2iarok | null | 1427572835 | 17 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | lusion | null | Had the exact same experience. It was first when I sat down and read the git data model as described in the git community book that all the pieces fell in place. It is a beautiful and simple model which is much easier to understand than that of any other version control IMHO.
For some reason though the syntax of the ... | null | 0 | 1315462734 | False | 0 | c2iassd | t3_k7qvj | null | t1_c2iassd | t3_k7qvj | null | 1427572835 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | yogthos | null | am I sensing some butt hurt here? :P | null | 0 | 1315462738 | False | 0 | c2iassr | t3_k85xr | null | t1_c2iassr | t1_c2i99pa | null | 1427572835 | -2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | madjar | null | I have, that's what I usually use when merging manually but still. I guess I'll have to code this myself. | null | 0 | 1315462874 | False | 0 | c2iat7g | t3_k7qvj | null | t1_c2iat7g | t1_c2i7qap | null | 1427572840 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | comex | null | But this doesn't seem logical to me. The difference between "hidden" and "in a different directory" is mostly just arbitrary semantics...
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True | lusion | null | No, because the point being made is that your regular version controls data model is much more complicated than git. It is harder to truly understand something like perforce. On the other the interface is easier for someone starting out that git is.
And frankly a lot of perceived complexity of git is due to people doi... | null | 0 | 1315462987 | False | 0 | c2iatjc | t3_k7qvj | null | t1_c2iatjc | t1_c2i9ikd | null | 1427572843 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | aaronla | null | It looks like you're implying `,x` will be parsed as `(x` while `x,` as `x)`. But how are empty lists then handled? Is `,,,,` two empty lists `()()` or a nested empty list `(())`? | null | 0 | 1315463015 | False | 0 | c2iatm9 | t3_k6qbx | null | t1_c2iatm9 | t1_c2i3bg3 | null | 1427572843 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | antrn11 | null | Is there any practical use for this? It's probably slower than normal for-loop, or is it? | null | 0 | 1315463045 | False | 0 | c2iatpo | t3_k7v1z | null | t1_c2iatpo | t3_k7v1z | null | 1427572852 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | aaronla | null | The [original](http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/recursive.html) Lisp paper used commas, [see](http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/recursive/node3.html).
But yeah, ditto. | null | 0 | 1315463202 | False | 0 | c2iau65 | t3_k6qbx | null | t1_c2iau65 | t1_c2ia6jk | null | 1427572848 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | gronkkk | null | > Again, I'm not disagreeing with the basic premise that people say different things than they actually want.
That, and you should be careful to avoid asking leading questions. Opposing a leading question costs energy, and most people just go with the flow. | null | 0 | 1315463292 | False | 0 | c2iaugt | t3_k7e0u | null | t1_c2iaugt | t1_c2i76xg | null | 1427572860 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Darkmoth | null | I wouldn't disagree that objects are often associated with real things - this is generally true of database tables also. However, you can't take the metaphor too far, because you don't always write programs about real things, anymore than you store data on real things. Stacks and Sequence are much more concepts than th... | null | 0 | 1315463311 | False | 0 | c2iauj7 | t3_k56t1 | null | t1_c2iauj7 | t1_c2iaayl | null | 1427572854 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | yogthos | null | The conciseness is facilitated by the design decisions behind the language. Being able to add things like filter and not-empty to the standard library and make them generally usable is a direct extension of that. | null | 0 | 1315463381 | False | 0 | c2iauqe | t3_k85xr | null | t1_c2iauqe | t1_c2iasrw | null | 1427572857 | -2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Fabien4 | null | Usually, when someone tells you that most languages suck, what comes just after is "Lisp is so much better than everything else." | null | 0 | 1315463410 | False | 0 | c2iautv | t3_k85xr | null | t1_c2iautv | t1_c2iassr | null | 1427572859 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | joesb | null | Python programmer being an assed, yet people still find way to bash Ruby.... | null | 0 | 1315463605 | False | 0 | c2iavdx | t3_k6f0t | null | t1_c2iavdx | t1_c2hxgx0 | null | 1427572863 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | reddit_clone | null | I guess now a days you run something like 'Visual C++ 2008 Runtime' installer and be done with that.
It is better. But not a lot.
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True | yogthos | null | You don't have to be a Lisp zealot to realize that most languages do in fact have a lot of suck. People who get a chance to use a decent language like Smalltalk, Lisp, Haskell, or what have you can't go back to writing something like Java without the urge to vomit. | null | 0 | 1315463749 | False | 0 | c2iavsv | t3_k85xr | null | t1_c2iavsv | t1_c2iautv | null | 1427572868 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Darkmoth | null | Glad to see another grizzled vet, lol. Reading back through some of my comments, I realize that I just haven't gotten over the trauma yet :) It was especially exasperating because I was working on Mac and Win simultaneously, and "uninstalling" on the Mac was simply deleting a folder.
Win7 is much much better though, ... | null | 0 | 1315463790 | False | 0 | c2iavx4 | t3_k7qe8 | null | t1_c2iavx4 | t1_c2iaqlm | null | 1427572871 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | __j_random_hacker | null | Have to agree with FishToaster: it may well be in the interests of the company to continue training you, but there's no way that I see it as being their obligation. It's just a missed opportunity for the company if they don't. (Alternatively they may actually be correct in thinking that you're nearly at your limit of... | null | 0 | 1315463898 | False | 0 | c2iaw7r | t3_k7e0u | null | t1_c2iaw7r | t1_c2i59it | null | 1427572875 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | Is it different from flash? Last time I check flash had no builtin volume control, so if game didn't provide any, player was screwed | null | 0 | 1315463914 | False | 0 | c2iaw8z | t3_k81qp | null | t1_c2iaw8z | t1_c2ia5wq | null | 1427572875 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | TKN | null | Dylan and Logo | null | 0 | 1315463972 | False | 0 | c2iawef | t3_k85xr | null | t1_c2iawef | t1_c2ia5ii | null | 1427572877 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Darkmoth | null | You say that like it's a joke - that's *exactly* what they should have done. Programs that needed to patch system functionality should have run on the plugin model, where they are maintained in a different location than system software.
Again, Macs didn't have that problem. *Someone* found a way around the issue - jus... | null | 0 | 1315464218 | False | 0 | c2iax1s | t3_k7qe8 | null | t1_c2iax1s | t1_c2iaf2q | null | 1427572885 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | WalterGR | null | You said that part of the *core failure* of the design of Windows is software installation.
How is software installation on Windows different than on Linux or MacOS? | null | 0 | 1315464291 | False | 0 | c2iax8x | t3_k7qe8 | null | t1_c2iax8x | t1_c2iapq3 | null | 1427572888 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | mhd420 | null | It's not bad, but I think it would have more adoption in the enterprise if it used a more [standardized format](http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/wsdatap/v3r8m1/index.jsp?topic=/xs40/convertingbetweenjsonandjsonx05.htm). | null | 0 | 1315464320 | False | 0 | c2iaxbw | t3_k8jbq | null | t1_c2iaxbw | t3_k8jbq | null | 1427572898 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | cerebrix | null | when i saw this title i thought
GIT at musician's institute? maybe its simple for paul gilbert but not the rest of us. | null | 0 | 1315464339 | False | 0 | c2iaxe2 | t3_k7qvj | null | t1_c2iaxe2 | t3_k7qvj | null | 1427572890 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Darkmoth | null | Linux wasn't designed for the same audience Windows was, though. I'd argue that if you're doing sudo apt-get X, you have some idea of your consequecnes.
That's different from installing Solitaire and having it overwrite some critical file. That was a daily occurrence. It was especially fun when you installed an older ... | null | 0 | 1315464620 | False | 0 | c2iay48 | t3_k7qe8 | null | t1_c2iay48 | t1_c2i8b4o | null | 1428195099 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | > The example isn't as contrived as it might initially appear
Yes it is.
> The whole idea in Lisp languages is that you have a small number of data structures, and a lot of functions that operate on them
Same with C++'s standard library
Here's my version:
template <typename Iterator>
string Con... | null | 0 | 1315464683 | False | 0 | c2iayat | t3_k85xr | null | t1_c2iayat | t1_c2iap5o | null | 1427572902 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | comedian_x | null | Did you just recolor the player in BioLab? Tell me that's just temporary. | null | 0 | 1315465311 | False | 0 | c2iazwk | t3_k81qp | null | t1_c2iazwk | t3_k81qp | null | 1427572924 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | nuntius | null | You might like git-new-workdir (in git's standard contribs)
But I often find it is better to commit some junk, tag it, and reset master to before the junk. Cheap, private, disposable branches are a wonderful thing. Rebase, cherry-pick, and amend. | null | 0 | 1315465401 | False | 0 | c2ib04o | t3_k7qvj | null | t1_c2ib04o | t1_c2i66i9 | null | 1427572929 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Darkmoth | null | Well, when I say core failure of Windows design, I meant historically. Win7 has removed many of the warts. I'm also comparing Windows to System 7 Mac, as I haven't been a Mac Programmer since the late 90's.
So: When you installed software on the Mac, your software lived in it's own folder. Nothing about that software ... | null | 0 | 1315465538 | False | 0 | c2ib0hd | t3_k7qe8 | null | t1_c2ib0hd | t1_c2iax8x | null | 1427572933 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | __j_random_hacker | null | I think s/he was simply pointing out that it's possible to be a programmer and still prefer svn over git. This is worth mentioning, because the default attitude of many programmers is to place value on things that have a high barrier to entry, requiring lots of time and effort to understand (another example would be f... | null | 0 | 1315465565 | False | 0 | c2ib0ja | t3_k7qvj | null | t1_c2ib0ja | t1_c2i5ode | null | 1427572934 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | adelle | null | For not unrelated reasons, I still use Visual C++ 7.1. | null | 0 | 1315465765 | False | 0 | c2ib10o | t3_k7qe8 | null | t1_c2ib10o | t1_c2iavp1 | null | 1427572937 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | simonask | null | The exact same features are possible, nay existing, in the C++ standard library. | null | 0 | 1315465887 | False | 0 | c2ib1bf | t3_k85xr | null | t1_c2ib1bf | t1_c2iauqe | null | 1427572942 | 11 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Darkmoth | null | edit: As far as Linux, the equivalent situation would be if every program you installed patched the kernel and core services with files from the creator's machine. | null | 0 | 1315465974 | False | 0 | c2ib1im | t3_k7qe8 | null | t1_c2ib1im | t1_c2ib0hd | null | 1428195095 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | OmerRaviv | null | Am I the only one who thinks it's faulty logic to show a pie chart summarizing the expenditure of a cloud-based provider, say that the investment in people maintaining the cloud (sysadmins and so forth) is so small that it's not even in the chart, that 87% of it is power and power-related, and from that conclude that d... | null | 0 | 1315466082 | False | 0 | c2ib1s4 | t3_k85xr | null | t1_c2ib1s4 | t3_k85xr | null | 1427572948 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | howfun | null | Upvote this shit. We need more development in this area.
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True | bonzinip | null | > Unless your application is just a shitload of pointers referencing null, then it sounds like an acamdemic excercise / or worse a synthetic benchmark.
Let's take a virtual machine for any object-oriented language as an example.
In that case, most applications are a shitload of pointers (to objects) mostly referen... | null | 0 | 1315466296 | True | 0 | c2ib2a2 | t3_k5z3o | null | t1_c2ib2a2 | t1_c2i8q5g | null | 1427572954 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | caninestrychnine | null | git is not simple, **but**:
* github is the git killer app; doing for it what the browser did for the Internet.
* github / git make my 1-3 person team *much* more efficient.
* It can do anything, and it's always very easy to find the necessary incantation. | null | 0 | 1315466615 | False | 0 | c2ib301 | t3_k7qvj | null | t1_c2ib301 | t3_k7qvj | null | 1427572964 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Tordek | null | Parallellize Mandelbrot. | null | 0 | 1315466877 | False | 0 | c2ib3l9 | t3_k85li | null | t1_c2ib3l9 | t3_k85li | null | 1427572971 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | _maggus | null | If you have a running system availlable. Can you edit the registry from a Windows PE environment, in case your OS doesn't boot up? | null | 0 | 1315466907 | False | 0 | c2ib3nc | t3_k7qe8 | null | t1_c2ib3nc | t1_c2i6qy3 | null | 1427572972 | 8 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
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