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True | krum | null | Honestly, that's about a hundred-fifty thousand lines of code, *at least*. You could do the same thing in C in a few lines of code too, when you have a library backing it.
| null | 0 | 1315693556 | False | 0 | c2ixpjh | t3_ka5os | null | t1_c2ixpjh | t3_ka5os | null | 1427583925 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | joeshlub | null | Oddly, a large portion of the native English speakers I've discussed that phrase with get it wrong (all intensive purposes), whereas most people I've met where English was a second or third language used it correctly. After discussing it, I use it correctly for a week and then slip back into the incorrect way. | null | 0 | 1315693583 | False | 0 | c2ixpmx | t3_kajta | null | t1_c2ixpmx | t1_c2ixjks | null | 1427583920 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | davidbuxton | null | Downvote no deserve, thin people no notic erro in submissio titl. I wan to. | null | 0 | 1315693592 | False | 0 | c2ixpnu | t3_kb5hm | null | t1_c2ixpnu | t1_c2iuufu | null | 1427583921 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | ivix | null | I'd take js over php anyday. | null | 0 | 1315693696 | False | 0 | c2ixq2e | t3_kajta | null | t1_c2ixq2e | t1_c2iwcif | null | 1427583931 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | AlSweigart | null | Oh man. I completely forgot that Pyweek starts soon. Now I'm going to be chained to my email ready to push out bug fixes as they come up. :P
And anyway, the module is really easy to use:
import pygcurse
win = pygcurse.PygcurseWindow(50, 25, 'Window caption text here')
win.cursor = (10, 20)
win.fgcolor... | null | 0 | 1315693763 | True | 0 | c2ixqby | t3_kbbbu | null | t1_c2ixqby | t1_c2ixnt8 | null | 1427583934 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | therapy | null | The leaked email says that only a **subset** of Dash will compile to JS.
| null | 0 | 1315693783 | False | 0 | c2ixqen | t3_kawp5 | null | t1_c2ixqen | t1_c2ixlbx | null | 1427583928 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | cgibbard | null | Also more commonly known as the empty string. | null | 0 | 1315693906 | False | 0 | c2ixqvb | t3_kbgvc | null | t1_c2ixqvb | t1_c2ixn4h | null | 1427583936 | 8 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | joe_n | null | Indices with a 4 in them must not be allowed. So 12 must be followed immediately by 15! | null | 0 | 1315693914 | False | 0 | c2ixqwg | t3_kbdgw | null | t1_c2ixqwg | t1_c2ixbyb | null | 1427583936 | 14 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | bloodredsun | null | Except that you took a study around the creation of a small project (less than 12 hours) and extrapolated it to the entirety of development (your headline of "Static typing increases development time") so yes in that respect it is worthless to what we do day in and day out.
It's an interesting study but its "in-vitro"... | null | 0 | 1315693949 | False | 0 | c2ixr1j | t3_k7o9e | null | t1_c2ixr1j | t1_c2id07y | null | 1427583936 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | therapy | null | Other browsers will work with you if you work with them. But writing a complete language and throwing it out there is normally not a successful way to get them to cooperate. That has been the case so far with all of Google's extensions to the web: O3D, NaCl, Gears.
The worst part is Google's plan to ship Google websit... | null | 0 | 1315693952 | False | 0 | c2ixr23 | t3_kawp5 | null | t1_c2ixr23 | t1_c2ixeku | null | 1427583939 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | azakai | null | The article says only part of Dash will be compilable to JavaScript. And that is before they actually wrote it - their estimates are likely optimistic, making things even worse. | null | 0 | 1315694068 | False | 0 | c2ixrih | t3_kawp5 | null | t1_c2ixrih | t1_c2ixlbx | null | 1427583944 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | This could potentially be great for terminal-based scoreboards and such! At least on my non-GPU Macbook, pygame's font rendering is slow as hell. | null | 0 | 1315694088 | False | 0 | c2ixrl0 | t3_kbbbu | null | t1_c2ixrl0 | t3_kbbbu | null | 1427583944 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1315694122 | False | 0 | c2ixrpb | t3_kbgvc | null | t1_c2ixrpb | t1_c2ixjgo | null | 1427583947 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | Well, I don't know. I would think that if more people use OOP than functional languages, then an article dealing with "10 Technical Papers Every Programmer Should Read" should not be biased towards a programming paradigm that fewer people actually use every day.
Short of that, it comes out as the author trying to push... | null | 0 | 1315694303 | False | 0 | c2ixse5 | t3_kadw2 | null | t1_c2ixse5 | t1_c2iwo7q | null | 1427583961 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1315694471 | False | 0 | c2ixt2o | t3_kajta | null | t1_c2ixt2o | t1_c2ixpmx | null | 1427583973 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | igouy | null | > Part of having an array is being able to quickly spot mistakes with trying to misuse the array.
Nope - and if you "have an object in my code that I think is an array, and I accidentally assign a value to the "test" key of that object" then you'd be behaving in a weird and very pointless way :-)
> I assume Lua... | null | 0 | 1315694621 | False | 0 | c2ixtn8 | t3_k9ud6 | null | t1_c2ixtn8 | t1_c2iwnlf | null | 1427583978 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | cgibbard | null | 0^0 = 1 isn't really very questionable any more.
Despite the fact that the power function is discontinuous at (0,0), there are a lot of good reasons that 0^0 should be 1 regardless.
For natural numbers n and m, we can actually define n^m as the number of functions from a set of size m to a set of size n. This gives 0... | null | 0 | 1315694661 | True | 0 | c2ixts6 | t3_kbgvc | null | t1_c2ixts6 | t3_kbgvc | null | 1427583985 | 51 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | gwern | null | Small evidence is still evidence.
> It's an interesting study but its "in-vitro" nature makes it easy to dismiss.
Anything is easy to dismiss when you want to dismiss it. Had this been a big industrial study with experienced developers, then that'd provide all sorts of convenient excuses no matter how the results ... | null | 0 | 1315694696 | False | 0 | c2ixtww | t3_k7o9e | null | t1_c2ixtww | t1_c2ixr1j | null | 1427583981 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | yogthos | null | Well, if Google apps are as important as you believe they are, and if this will drive users to use Chrome, then the other browsers will have a lot of incentive to implement the language support.
| null | 0 | 1315694883 | False | 0 | c2ixuml | t3_kawp5 | null | t1_c2ixuml | t1_c2ixr23 | null | 1427583989 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | a_redditor | null | I'm pretty sure that most spell-check algorithms treat any two valid words separated with a hyphen as a legitimate-word. | null | 0 | 1315694917 | False | 0 | c2ixuqm | t3_kbbbu | null | t1_c2ixuqm | t1_c2iwntg | null | 1427583996 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1315694929 | False | 0 | c2ixus9 | t3_kaoq6 | null | t1_c2ixus9 | t1_c2ivj6c | null | 1427583990 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | ComputerDruid | null | Git hasn't required cygwin for a very long time | null | 0 | 1315694949 | False | 0 | c2ixuus | t3_k8vpn | null | t1_c2ixuus | t1_c2irc8o | null | 1427583991 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1315694996 | False | 0 | c2ixv1u | t3_kbgvc | null | t1_c2ixv1u | t3_kbgvc | null | 1427583994 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | ComputerDruid | null | I for one am now tempted to write code to create a git reset --badass. Anyone have any good suggestions for what it should do? | null | 0 | 1315695032 | False | 0 | c2ixv6j | t3_k8vpn | null | t1_c2ixv6j | t1_c2ike43 | null | 1427584006 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | therapy | null | Indeed so, but do you think this is fair on Google's part?
| null | 0 | 1315695080 | False | 0 | c2ixvcr | t3_kawp5 | null | t1_c2ixvcr | t1_c2ixuml | null | 1427583999 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1315695187 | False | 0 | c2ixvqs | t3_kbbbu | null | t1_c2ixvqs | t3_kbbbu | null | 1428194629 | -1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | selectiveShift | null | >WE need to do this to English one day.
Then we could start deprecating words too! | null | 0 | 1315695225 | False | 0 | c2ixvw9 | t3_kbbbu | null | t1_c2ixvw9 | t1_c2ix3v1 | null | 1427584008 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | sec_goat | null | But the rules say release at least a month in advance! Well I still suck any way so it doesn't really matter, I'm not a real competitor. Just here to challenge myself to finishing. | null | 0 | 1315695345 | False | 0 | c2ixwb5 | t3_kbbbu | null | t1_c2ixwb5 | t1_c2ixnt8 | null | 1427584014 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | bloodredsun | null | > Small evidence is still evidence.
100% agree but it's size makes the title nothing more than flamebait and I think that most of the pushback is due to this.
I completely agree with the findings - my experience is that small projects with zero refactoring will always be developed faster using dynamic languages. ... | null | 0 | 1315695405 | False | 0 | c2ixwk0 | t3_k7o9e | null | t1_c2ixwk0 | t1_c2ixtww | null | 1427584016 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | selectiveShift | null | Only primes should be used for indices. So, we can't have 12 nor 15. Unfortunately, that means 13 is back in. | null | 0 | 1315695420 | False | 0 | c2ixwlt | t3_kbdgw | null | t1_c2ixwlt | t1_c2ixqwg | null | 1427584026 | 14 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | parowe | null | Can anyone tell me what to do with the zip file after it is downloaded.
I tried running the tuturial program and it said pygcurse can't be imported. | null | 0 | 1315695486 | False | 0 | c2ixwup | t3_kbbbu | null | t1_c2ixwup | t3_kbbbu | null | 1427584021 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | selectiveShift | null | or the empty set | null | 0 | 1315695626 | False | 0 | c2ixxdr | t3_kbgvc | null | t1_c2ixxdr | t1_c2ixqvb | null | 1427584027 | 8 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Strings | null | Nice one dude <3 | null | 0 | 1315695794 | False | 0 | c2ixy21 | t3_kbbbu | null | t1_c2ixy21 | t3_kbbbu | null | 1427584041 | -5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | gwern | null | > 100% agree but it's size makes the title nothing more than flamebait and I think that most of the pushback is due to this.
While you're being annoyingly sensible, I will admit I chose the title out of simultaneous equal desires to 1) convey the most important statistically significant result in a very concise, re... | null | 0 | 1315695815 | False | 0 | c2ixy4l | t3_k7o9e | null | t1_c2ixy4l | t1_c2ixwk0 | null | 1427584032 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | ManicQin | null | [Not Libre](http://i.imgur.com/lcAJv.png)
Your move MS Office. | null | 0 | 1315695837 | False | 0 | c2ixy7i | t3_kbbbu | null | t1_c2ixy7i | t1_c2ixuqm | null | 1427584033 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Quxxy | null | From experience in using languages that do it both ways, 1-based arrays just seem to complicate things. Offset calculations and splitting a range are the two that come to mind immediately.
Personally, I think this is a failing of our language more than anything: we're brought up thinking in 1-based, when 0-based is (... | null | 0 | 1315695967 | False | 0 | c2ixyqn | t3_kbdgw | null | t1_c2ixyqn | t1_c2ix5pf | null | 1427584043 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | a_redditor | null | http://i.imgur.com/sdKM0.png | null | 0 | 1315696014 | False | 0 | c2ixyxg | t3_kbbbu | null | t1_c2ixyxg | t1_c2ixy7i | null | 1427584055 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | gc3 | null | You're exactly right, it's been a year or two since I used lua. The negative number indexing only applies to the stack. | null | 0 | 1315696093 | False | 0 | c2ixz8h | t3_kbdgw | null | t1_c2ixz8h | t1_c2ixobw | null | 1427584049 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | cgibbard | null | I actually rather like the way that Haskell solves this problem in its array library: when you construct an array, you define its bounds explicitly, including the lower bound. If you want an array whose indices go from 1024 to 2047 because that makes sense in your program for whatever reason, you can have it.
This als... | null | 0 | 1315696142 | False | 0 | c2ixzeh | t3_kbdgw | null | t1_c2ixzeh | t3_kbdgw | null | 1427584051 | 15 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | njharman | null | Given the fact I'm reading this on reddit, and don't even know what mefi is your statement is obviously & factually wrong. | null | 0 | 1315696184 | False | 0 | c2ixzjo | t3_kajta | null | t1_c2ixzjo | t1_c2itbju | null | 1427584057 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | yogthos | null | I'm not sure how it's unfair on their part, obviously they will spend their time on developing their technologies. It would be unfair if they prevented others from implementing it, by not releasing the spec, obfuscating it, or tying it to their platform, as MS likes to do with things like ActiveX.
Fact is that Chrome ... | null | 0 | 1315696233 | False | 0 | c2ixzqn | t3_kawp5 | null | t1_c2ixzqn | t1_c2ixvcr | null | 1427584057 | 8 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | alexvasi | null | > This means that the use of the <= operator is eliminated when iterating 1-indexed arrays, and thus one of the biggest "one-indexed gripes" of all time is eliminated.
That's not all about condition during iteration. [Here is](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/393462/defend-zero-based-arrays) more arguments in ... | null | 0 | 1315696241 | False | 0 | c2ixzrp | t3_kbdgw | null | t1_c2ixzrp | t1_c2ixoah | null | 1427584058 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | nwhitehe | null | Unfortunately that is not guaranteed to work in C, after decrementing foo accesses through foo are implementation defined (just as dereferencing the NULL pointer is). | null | 0 | 1315696244 | False | 0 | c2ixzs9 | t3_kbdgw | null | t1_c2ixzs9 | t1_c2ixbni | null | 1427584058 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | ManicQin | null | Apparently, you were wrong :) | null | 0 | 1315696256 | False | 0 | c2ixzu3 | t3_kbbbu | null | t1_c2ixzu3 | t1_c2ixyxg | null | 1427584058 | -2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | henk53 | null | Okay, the right tool for the right job.
But if you're talking about programming languages, then a lot of them are basically suited for everything.
Objective-C is not inherently more suited for mobile development than Java is for server side development. It just happens to be that a specific mobile platform that happ... | null | 0 | 1315696281 | False | 0 | c2ixzxp | t3_kaxjq | null | t1_c2ixzxp | t1_c2iwa00 | null | 1427584060 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | njharman | null | http://javascript.crockford.com/ | null | 0 | 1315696319 | False | 0 | c2iy02r | t3_kajta | null | t1_c2iy02r | t1_c2ivmgu | null | 1427584060 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1315696320 | False | 0 | c2iy02z | t3_kbdgw | null | t1_c2iy02z | t1_c2ix1z3 | null | 1427584060 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | grauenwolf | null | Hell, why not embed the CLR into the browser and let people use whatever damn language they want? | null | 0 | 1315696352 | False | 0 | c2iy080 | t3_kawp5 | null | t1_c2iy080 | t1_c2ivof7 | null | 1427584063 | 9 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | It actually heads off and hits the DB via the magic of Hibernate criteria, but interesting concept nonetheless.
(The data returned is various useful statistics for the account's websites for the given date range) | null | 0 | 1315696370 | True | 0 | c2iy0ad | t3_k7pwu | null | t1_c2iy0ad | t1_c2iuz0t | null | 1427584063 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | midir | null | >I think it is a very sound and logical one from this perception alone.
I understand where you're coming from, and I used to think so too, but once one gets used to zero being the index of the first element, it feels just as "sound and logical"
>So what are the real reasons that it is not done in ANY programmin... | null | 0 | 1315696600 | False | 0 | c2iy15j | t3_kbdgw | null | t1_c2iy15j | t1_c2ix5pf | null | 1427584082 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | AeroNotix | null | But we should make it only on Sundays, and especially not on Fridays. | null | 0 | 1315696618 | False | 0 | c2iy185 | t3_kbdgw | null | t1_c2iy185 | t1_c2ixwlt | null | 1427584082 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | notfancy | null | You mean the joke is that GvR had the gall to compare
himself to EWD, right? | null | 0 | 1315696781 | False | 0 | c2iy1tu | t3_kbdgw | null | t1_c2iy1tu | t1_c2iwq8w | null | 1427584081 | 11 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | ethraax | null | > Nope - and if you "have an object in my code that I think is an array, and I accidentally assign a value to the "test" key of that object" then you'd be behaving in a weird and very pointless way :-)
I assume you never use your Backspace key, because you never make a mistake.
Also, let me point you at the offici... | null | 0 | 1315696824 | False | 0 | c2iy204 | t3_k9ud6 | null | t1_c2iy204 | t1_c2ixtn8 | null | 1427584087 | -2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | anacrolix | null | +1 for you my man. I stand corrected. | null | 0 | 1315696869 | False | 0 | c2iy265 | t3_kadw2 | null | t1_c2iy265 | t1_c2iv8l1 | null | 1427584091 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | njharman | null | The cool parts are the huge amount of shipped functionality inherent in Javascript's runtime (aka browsers) and presentation layer (css/html) and the mindboggling large user base that can run javascript. Every desktop/laptop computer, most recent smartphones, most recent tablets.
And yes you could theoretically have ... | null | 0 | 1315697092 | False | 0 | c2iy2yb | t3_kajta | null | t1_c2iy2yb | t1_c2irn37 | null | 1427584112 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | gmartres | null | If your system state can be represented with one bit, it has two states, (for example, the system is a lamp torch and the bit controls whether it is on or off), if your system state can be represented with zero bit, it has only one state(it's immutable), what this state is depends on what your system is. | null | 0 | 1315697117 | False | 0 | c2iy31k | t3_kbgvc | null | t1_c2iy31k | t1_c2ixjgo | null | 1427584104 | 13 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1315697412 | 1416184531 | 0 | c2iy45g | t3_kbgvc | null | t1_c2iy45g | t3_kbgvc | null | 1427584117 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | therapy | null | Google does free its (client-side) technologies, but only once Google thinks they are finished. This lets Google leverage its position on the web to dictate things: Chrome will always be ahead since Google secretly develops special features for it, that work on google.com,gmail, etc., but later on the code is dumped an... | null | 0 | 1315697535 | False | 0 | c2iy4lq | t3_kawp5 | null | t1_c2iy4lq | t1_c2ixzqn | null | 1427584121 | 9 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | sakabako | null | But the first month of the year is 1. The first day of the month is 1. The first TV station is 1. The first value meal is #1. | null | 0 | 1315697557 | False | 0 | c2iy4oa | t3_kbdgw | null | t1_c2iy4oa | t1_c2ixbf5 | null | 1427584122 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | ysangkok | null | GPL v1? I thought nobody used that anymore. | null | 0 | 1315697909 | False | 0 | c2iy5xy | t3_kaxjq | null | t1_c2iy5xy | t1_c2iujk0 | null | 1427584138 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1315698290 | False | 0 | c2iy7ax | t3_kbdgw | null | t1_c2iy7ax | t1_c2ixj0f | null | 1427584161 | -2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | jyper | null | not in an OO langauage, although we could wish for a nice lambda syntax. | null | 0 | 1315698312 | False | 0 | c2iy7dw | t3_kawp5 | null | t1_c2iy7dw | t1_c2iwupl | null | 1427584154 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | gospelwut | null | I think it's made a certain sub-sect of people that would normally be nearly flawless spellers lazy. If used properly, it probably helps most people (or at least covers up their mistakes to a certain degree). If you would like, I can go dig up the jobs@ mailbox from work to show how horrific it can get. I imagine a spe... | null | 0 | 1315698620 | False | 0 | c2iy8jf | t3_kbbbu | null | t1_c2iy8jf | t1_c2iwkqp | null | 1427584164 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | AlyoshaV | null | *G*erund. | null | 0 | 1315698697 | False | 0 | c2iy8tn | t3_kbdgw | null | t1_c2iy8tn | t1_c2ixdg4 | null | 1427584167 | -1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | juancn | null | I tried it, but it's slower. The fast version is so fast that the overhead of the parallel collections slows it down. I'll give it a go with a larger problem and post the update if I can. | null | 0 | 1315698779 | False | 0 | c2iy956 | t3_k81ic | null | t1_c2iy956 | t1_c2ingvg | null | 1427584178 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | AlyoshaV | null | Sure if you completely ignore [all the reasons behind it](http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-3105/) | null | 0 | 1315698784 | False | 0 | c2iy95t | t3_kbdgw | null | t1_c2iy95t | t1_c2ixmv5 | null | 1427584178 | 23 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | gospelwut | null | Nothing i have read in this thread (or generally in /r/programming) comes to close to the median of typing capability I have seen. I'm recently reminded of this with our drive to hire new people. Every email I read slowly chips away at my deep sympathy for those without jobs. | null | 0 | 1315698812 | False | 0 | c2iy9ai | t3_kbbbu | null | t1_c2iy9ai | t1_c2iwlpb | null | 1427584171 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | Downvote for completely derailing the discussion. | null | 0 | 1315698878 | False | 0 | c2iy9ij | t3_kbbbu | null | t1_c2iy9ij | t1_c2iwg30 | null | 1428194619 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | singron | null | Someday maybe that will change...
| null | 0 | 1315698937 | False | 0 | c2iy9qe | t3_kbdgw | null | t1_c2iy9qe | t1_c2iy4oa | null | 1427584178 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | CrosseyeJack | null | <sarcasm>But my TV has a Channel 0, its where my VCR is tuned to.</sarcasm> | null | 0 | 1315698975 | False | 0 | c2iy9vd | t3_kbdgw | null | t1_c2iy9vd | t1_c2iy4oa | null | 1427584180 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | njharman | null | > might be useful to me
Unless you work at google, facebook, ebay, amazon, NSA or some other user epically large / loaded caches, it's not (beyond education value). | null | 0 | 1315699013 | False | 0 | c2iya0g | t3_kb35n | null | t1_c2iya0g | t1_c2iwcw5 | null | 1427584181 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | tricolon | null | Whenever I return to MATLAB I spend a few hours wondering if I'm stupid. | null | 0 | 1315699192 | False | 0 | c2iyamw | t3_kbdgw | null | t1_c2iyamw | t1_c2ixnbu | null | 1427584188 | 36 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | bready | null | I loathe the GPL. I do not know why so many still push for it. Apache is 'more free' and gives me peace of mind. | null | 0 | 1315699556 | False | 0 | c2iybzv | t3_kbbbu | null | t1_c2iybzv | t1_c2ix633 | null | 1427584206 | -12 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | evilgwyn | null | Visual Basic has 1 based arrays. The kicker is that if you create an array of size 1, then you can set/get the items at index 0 and 1. So:
Dim a(1)
for each i in a
print i ' prints twice
next | null | 0 | 1315699608 | False | 0 | c2iyc6y | t3_kbdgw | null | t1_c2iyc6y | t3_kbdgw | null | 1428194616 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | maskull | null | Not only has Mozilla had those for years, but when Chrome/V8 came out, Google explicitly said that they would *not* be adding support for them. | null | 0 | 1315699742 | False | 0 | c2iycos | t3_kawp5 | null | t1_c2iycos | t1_c2iwupl | null | 1427584216 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | Moving data from memory to CPU cache/registers still takes some time, although this depends heavily on the data structures used and access patterns. Also CPU caches are still only few megabytes, so if you can fit more often used data into it with 32-bit pointers, you'll win. | null | 0 | 1315699768 | False | 0 | c2iyct1 | t3_k5z3o | null | t1_c2iyct1 | t1_c2ix8ni | null | 1427584219 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Peaker | null | How would you write this kind of Python in D?
from struct import Struct
def decode(buf):
while buf:
s = Struct(buf[0])
val, = s.unpack(buf[1 : 1 + s.size])
yield val
buf = buf[1 + s.size:]
Or this:
def powerset(items):
if not items:
... | null | 0 | 1315699793 | False | 0 | c2iycwb | t3_kaxjq | null | t1_c2iycwb | t1_c2iv619 | null | 1427584218 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1315699862 | False | 0 | c2iyd5j | t3_kajta | null | t1_c2iyd5j | t1_c2ixzjo | null | 1427584221 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Peaker | null | In my company, Python is used for everything that isn't performance critical. While that is definitely nice compared to, say, Java, I would really like them to use Haskell for these tasks. As it is another step in the same betterment direction. | null | 0 | 1315699938 | False | 0 | c2iydfq | t3_kaxjq | null | t1_c2iydfq | t1_c2iwa00 | null | 1427584223 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | SiegeX | null | Actually, it's even worse as it's **Undefined Behavior**. You're only allowed to point to one past the *end* of the array.
> C99 . 6.5.6/8 - If both the pointer operand and the result point to
elements of the same array object, or one past the last element of the
array object, the evaluation shall not produce an... | null | 0 | 1315700377 | True | 0 | c2iyeye | t3_kbdgw | null | t1_c2iyeye | t1_c2ixzs9 | null | 1427584254 | 17 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | a_redditor | null | What do you mean? Did you maybe read my original comment incorrectly? | null | 0 | 1315700528 | False | 0 | c2iyfi5 | t3_kbbbu | null | t1_c2iyfi5 | t1_c2ixzu3 | null | 1427584260 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | yogthos | null | >Google does free its (client-side) technologies, but only once Google thinks they are finished. This lets Google leverage its position on the web to dictate things: Chrome will always be ahead since Google secretly develops special features for it, that work on google.com,gmail, etc., but later on the code is dumpe... | null | 0 | 1315700531 | False | 0 | c2iyfih | t3_kawp5 | null | t1_c2iyfih | t1_c2iy4lq | null | 1427584260 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | cark | null | That's not pattern matching, it's destructuring. | null | 0 | 1315700757 | False | 0 | c2iygcs | t3_kawp5 | null | t1_c2iygcs | t1_c2iwupl | null | 1427584272 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | distantstar | null | And that's why 10[x] works! | null | 0 | 1315700780 | False | 0 | c2iygg9 | t3_kbdgw | null | t1_c2iygg9 | t1_c2ix80n | null | 1427584272 | 8 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | ReinH | null | LMAO | null | 0 | 1315700948 | False | 0 | c2iyh2u | t3_kaoq6 | null | t1_c2iyh2u | t1_c2ixus9 | null | 1427584278 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | SteveMcQwark | null | I don't think he'd want to program in MooSlimScript, or GeesuScript either... | null | 0 | 1315700986 | False | 0 | c2iyh7u | t3_kawp5 | null | t1_c2iyh7u | t1_c2ivtoy | null | 1427584279 | 8 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | MarshallBanana | null | > Don't implement it in Chrome and on Google websites before even telling the world about it. You won't have much of a chance to convince the standards bodies that way - which implies you don't care about standardization.
This is nonsense. That is exactly how HTML is developed at the moment! | null | 0 | 1315701117 | False | 0 | c2iyhq9 | t3_kawp5 | null | t1_c2iyhq9 | t1_c2iwg32 | null | 1427584293 | 22 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | I don't debate that JavaScript has a cache of libraries large enough to rival that of the JVM. I was responding to the OP's assertion that JavaScript is "kinda cool". Even barring the enormous clusterfuck that is the HTML DOM, JavaScript is far from cool. Object traversal was hobbled from the get-go, it's way too easy ... | null | 0 | 1315701353 | False | 0 | c2iyild | t3_kajta | null | t1_c2iyild | t1_c2iy2yb | null | 1427584294 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | > Where the hell is the 'r' in colonel?
I think only Americans pronounce it like that? | null | 0 | 1315701485 | False | 0 | c2iyj39 | t3_kbbbu | null | t1_c2iyj39 | t1_c2ix3v1 | null | 1427584298 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | That's not surprising, but it's important information about the costs of parallelism. | null | 0 | 1315701494 | False | 0 | c2iyj4r | t3_k81ic | null | t1_c2iyj4r | t1_c2iy956 | null | 1427584298 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | > I go to Metafilter for the comments, which thanks to the $5 entry fee are pretty good signal/noise-wise, and almost uniformly free of bigotry.
Eloquence is unrelated to truth. MeFi comments are linguistically well composed, but the website's echo chamber is comical in its absurdity. | null | 0 | 1315701593 | False | 0 | c2iyjhm | t3_kajta | null | t1_c2iyjhm | t1_c2iupkp | null | 1427584301 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | strattonbrazil | null | Sorry, I should have listed the benefits and cons on the page. Pros: several factors faster than gl_lines, antialiased except at silhouettes, no polygon offsets or slope calcs. The paper I link to on the first page goes more into depth. It's a really easy read and only a half a page of text. If you're into gpu rende... | null | 0 | 1315701810 | False | 0 | c2iyk8z | t3_kb6uu | null | t1_c2iyk8z | t1_c2iwjt1 | null | 1427584315 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | bucknuggets | null | > Because of its abysmal performance and lack of rigid constructs, I guess Python should only be used for scripting. You seem to be attacking Java for the fact that it's used for many projects, but you advocate that's it's okay to use Python for nearly everything?
In data warehousing you often end up with 20+ ext... | null | 0 | 1315701951 | False | 0 | c2iyksb | t3_kaxjq | null | t1_c2iyksb | t1_c2ixzxp | null | 1428194606 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | Or when the array address doesn't change inside the loop...
Or if the compiler is any good at optimizations. I mean, Fortran used 1-based indices last time I looked, and it's not exactly known as being sluggish. | null | 0 | 1315702012 | False | 0 | c2iykzs | t3_kbdgw | null | t1_c2iykzs | t1_c2ixmk9 | null | 1427584324 | 15 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Taladar | null | Calculating array indexes is not math?
You still have to name a single advantage of 1-indexed arrays other than "those poor people in everyday life won't understand it" which could be used to screw up pretty much any language completely for those people who actually have to use them. | null | 0 | 1315702118 | False | 0 | c2iylcv | t3_kbdgw | null | t1_c2iylcv | t1_c2iy7ax | null | 1427584328 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | crusoe | null | THANK GOD | null | 0 | 1315702145 | False | 0 | c2iylfw | t3_kawp5 | null | t1_c2iylfw | t3_kawp5 | null | 1427584330 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | strattonbrazil | null | Yeah, paper uses geometry shader, example code uses vertex shader. The difference is you have to send an extra attribute on each vertex about its two neighbors to calculate the altitude. You also need to pass the corner id (1,2 or 3) of each vertex to know which channel to put the distance going to the fragment shade... | null | 0 | 1315702270 | False | 0 | c2iylwf | t3_kb6uu | null | t1_c2iylwf | t1_c2iwhaz | null | 1427584342 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Taladar | null | If there is no traditional for loop the logical conclusion would be that indexes aren't necessary at all, nor is random access in general, in fact for that kind of use case (in-order iteration) a linked list would be much more suitable and is in fact used in all languages that actually do completely eliminate for loops... | null | 0 | 1315702337 | False | 0 | c2iym5l | t3_kbdgw | null | t1_c2iym5l | t1_c2ixoah | null | 1427584341 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1315702491 | False | 0 | c2iympw | t3_ka5os | null | t1_c2iympw | t3_ka5os | null | 1427584348 | -1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | scook0 | null | The code execution is implicit at the point that it runs, but it's fairly explicit at the point that it scheduled, which is in the same scope. It's not as bad as you make it sound.
If I were designing a language with this capability I would give the scheduling part a distinctive syntax, to make it clear that block-exi... | null | 0 | 1315702583 | False | 0 | c2iyn2s | t3_k8gr4 | null | t1_c2iyn2s | t1_c2ixa03 | null | 1427584352 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
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