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True | adrianmonk | null | Parking (surface-level). | null | 0 | 1315724303 | False | 0 | c2j0pbc | t3_kbdgw | null | t1_c2j0pbc | t1_c2izt6d | null | 1427585329 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1315724717 | True | 0 | c2j0qd5 | t3_kawp5 | null | t1_c2j0qd5 | t1_c2ivtoy | null | 1427585337 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | ManicQin | null | Ah... ... ... ... shit.
:( my bad. | null | 0 | 1315724758 | False | 0 | c2j0qgs | t3_kbbbu | null | t1_c2j0qgs | t1_c2iyfi5 | null | 1427585338 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | rated-r | null | Not undefined behaviour as per that section because the result of malloc isn't an array. | null | 0 | 1315724874 | False | 0 | c2j0qr6 | t3_kbdgw | null | t1_c2j0qr6 | t1_c2iyeye | null | 1427585339 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | curien | null | >While pow(0,0)==1 in C.
That is incorrect. `pow(0, 0)` is a domain error in C, which results in an implementation-defined value. I.e., your implementation may document that it returns 1, but another implementation (or even another version of your implementation) might return some other documented value. | null | 0 | 1315724879 | False | 0 | c2j0qrk | t3_kbgvc | null | t1_c2j0qrk | t1_c2ixeny | null | 1427585340 | 8 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1315725102 | False | 0 | c2j0rb7 | t3_kaytk | null | t1_c2j0rb7 | t1_c2iwj0a | null | 1427585358 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | jiiyag | null | It doesn't matter who is confused and who is awesome. When you're talking about math, the important thing is that everybody is talking about the same thing. Nobody cares about your ego.
It's pretty clear that some ambiguity exists because it was not obvious to everyone involved what was meant. That does not make yo... | null | 0 | 1315725281 | False | 0 | c2j0rrk | t3_kbgvc | null | t1_c2j0rrk | t1_c2j0cm8 | null | 1427585351 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Darkmoth | null | Maybe I need a little clarification as to the core of your objection. I assume you're OK with this:
int i = i + 1;
and probably this:
string sentence = sentence + "suffix";
but not this
Dog fido = fido.WearLeash(favoriteLeash);
or this
Dog fido = groomer.SnipSnipWash(fido);
Is that accurate? If ... | null | 0 | 1315725294 | False | 0 | c2j0rsi | t3_k56t1 | null | t1_c2j0rsi | t1_c2j0abj | null | 1427585351 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | kamatsu | null | Algebraic data types can be understood by young children. I know because I've explained it to them. You're saying Joe Average isn't as smart as a 10 year old? | null | 0 | 1315725322 | False | 0 | c2j0rve | t3_k9ud6 | null | t1_c2j0rve | t1_c2ix327 | null | 1427585352 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | abeliangrape | null | I'm not sure if mathematics is that rigid about this. I'd say it depends on personal preference, what's convenient in the context, what's been established in the literature etc. I know I've used both before and most of the time I don't even bother to pick one. While doing induction or recursion, the meat of the proof o... | null | 0 | 1315725488 | False | 0 | c2j0s9d | t3_kbdgw | null | t1_c2j0s9d | t1_c2j0ol5 | null | 1427585357 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | periphrasis | null | "Colonel" was originally spelled "coronel". It was respelled ca. 1600 to match the Italian and Latin spellings. Yay, spelling reform. | null | 0 | 1315725497 | False | 0 | c2j0sa3 | t3_kbbbu | null | t1_c2j0sa3 | t1_c2ix3v1 | null | 1427585357 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | i'm eager to try out typed racket. does it improve performance? | null | 0 | 1315725822 | False | 0 | c2j0t2l | t3_kbt85 | null | t1_c2j0t2l | t3_kbt85 | null | 1427585368 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | MrMojoRisin68 | null | That fits in with my several more reasons I didn't mention. | null | 0 | 1315725996 | False | 0 | c2j0tge | t3_kbdgw | null | t1_c2j0tge | t1_c2j0p8j | null | 1427585373 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | almafa | null | We were talking about arrays, not induction. Matrices are always indexed from 1, except when there are custom index types. | null | 0 | 1315726099 | False | 0 | c2j0tpn | t3_kbdgw | null | t1_c2j0tpn | t1_c2j0s9d | null | 1427585377 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | luigiagosti | null | just a note ... there are a few changes made to the costs, have a look to the official blog http://googleappengine.blogspot.com/2011/09/few-adjustments-to-app-engines-upcoming.html for example is not 24h anymore but 28h ... | null | 0 | 1315726127 | False | 0 | c2j0ts7 | t3_kb0z2 | null | t1_c2j0ts7 | t1_c2iwdvr | null | 1427585379 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | kamatsu | null | >V8 is probably the absolute best performing platform to build a webservice on, short of writing your own assembler compiled webserver.
Wow, you haven't used many languages then. Haskell, Java, even LuaJIT can perform much better than V8 in various scenarios. Certainly, Haskell seems to scale far better than node.j... | null | 0 | 1315726349 | False | 0 | c2j0ubk | t3_kajta | null | t1_c2j0ubk | t1_c2iwdgw | null | 1427585394 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Camarade_Tux | null | Well, yeah... The point was that it should. | null | 0 | 1315726383 | False | 0 | c2j0uel | t3_kaxjq | null | t1_c2j0uel | t1_c2iyzmt | null | 1428194549 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | happyscrappy | null | Same with Pascal. In Pascal every array had to be defined with a range, like 1..427.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pascal_(programming_language)#Data_types | null | 0 | 1315726504 | False | 0 | c2j0upq | t3_kbdgw | null | t1_c2j0upq | t1_c2ixzeh | null | 1427585396 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | shimei | null | Yes, it has a [type-driven optimizer](http://docs.racket-lang.org/ts-guide/optimization.html). | null | 0 | 1315726543 | False | 0 | c2j0usc | t3_kbt85 | null | t1_c2j0usc | t1_c2j0t2l | null | 1427585406 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | lethalman | null | True, posix is well defined though.
pow(x,y)
"For any value of x (including NaN), if y is ±0, 1.0 shall be returned." | null | 0 | 1315726637 | False | 0 | c2j0uzs | t3_kbgvc | null | t1_c2j0uzs | t1_c2j0qrk | null | 1427585398 | 12 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | xebo | null | Two downvotes right off the bat with 0 responses. Stay classy reddit | null | 0 | 1315726647 | False | 0 | c2j0v0p | t3_kbgvc | null | t1_c2j0v0p | t1_c2izxt3 | null | 1427585399 | -5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | jiiyag | null | I can hardly imagine what old mathematicians did without axiom sets. | null | 0 | 1315726698 | False | 0 | c2j0v4v | t3_kbgvc | null | t1_c2j0v4v | t1_c2j0lqs | null | 1427585401 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | millstone | null | There's no single correct answer. In category theory, as you point out, the empty set needs an identity function, so there it's convenient to define one.
But now consider analysis. This function is continuous, as the preimage of its range is the empty set, which is open. Furthermore the empty set is connected and com... | null | 0 | 1315727087 | False | 0 | c2j0vzd | t3_kbgvc | null | t1_c2j0vzd | t1_c2iythi | null | 1427585414 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | PurpleHighlighter | null | Because little birds looking up have NO PLACE in our code. | null | 0 | 1315727219 | False | 0 | c2j0w9l | t3_kbgvc | null | t1_c2j0w9l | t3_kbgvc | null | 1427585418 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Lighioana | null | I was about to rage | null | 0 | 1315727431 | False | 0 | c2j0wre | t3_kbdgw | null | t1_c2j0wre | t1_c2iwq8w | null | 1427585423 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Almafeta | null | TIL "GPL-incompatible" means "proprietary". | null | 0 | 1315727445 | False | 0 | c2j0wst | t3_kbbbu | null | t1_c2j0wst | t1_c2ix633 | null | 1427585423 | 16 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Darkmoth | null | Well, first I'd need to know the gravitational constant of oranges. | null | 0 | 1315727531 | False | 0 | c2j0x0d | t3_ka3kw | null | t1_c2j0x0d | t1_c2iwt9v | null | 1427585425 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | gamesterx23 | null | I've never used python . . . actually I don't know *any* programming languages and I understood it. What was so unclear?
| null | 0 | 1315727560 | False | 0 | c2j0x2h | t3_kbdgw | null | t1_c2j0x2h | t1_c2iwq8w | null | 1427585425 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | macca321 | null | That sounds like you are trapping yourself in a box then. It's recommended when using NHibernate which is used in plenty of non-research projects. | null | 0 | 1315728063 | False | 0 | c2j0y6i | t3_kaj03 | null | t1_c2j0y6i | t1_c2izixg | null | 1427585435 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Slime0 | null | > Many people cite Dijkstra, but he's also the guy a lot of people cite when claiming goto is bad, when it's not.
When he made his claim that goto is bad, it was way overused. Eliminating its usage led to the commonplace adoption of a number of superior control structures. Goto is still occasionally useful, but it ... | null | 0 | 1315728258 | False | 0 | c2j0yl7 | t3_kbdgw | null | t1_c2j0yl7 | t1_c2j0cek | null | 1427585439 | 16 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | evilgwyn | null | The differences between VB6 and VB.Net are both subtle and infuriating. For instance, they removed the "Set" statement, instantly breaking pretty much all code. On the other hand, they left the original meanings of the And and Or operators. It's almost arbitrary how badly they fucked up improving the language. Fortunat... | null | 0 | 1315728433 | False | 0 | c2j0yxq | t3_kbdgw | null | t1_c2j0yxq | t1_c2j0izl | null | 1427585444 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | californicating | null | I really wish more languages worked this way. I don't often need to switch indexing in fortran, but it's nice that I can when I need to. | null | 0 | 1315728606 | False | 0 | c2j0zac | t3_kbdgw | null | t1_c2j0zac | t1_c2j0lvj | null | 1427585448 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | ChesFTC | null | Particularly in regards to error / information messages. For example:
$ git push github master
To git@gitproxy:rip747/cfwheels.git
! [rejected] master -> master (non-fast forward)
error: failed to push some refs to ‘git@gitproxy:rip747/cfwheels.git’
Why not just say "Please pull changes prio... | null | 0 | 1315728800 | False | 0 | c2j0zod | t3_k8vpn | null | t1_c2j0zod | t1_c2ike43 | null | 1427585453 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | eruonna | null | Well, the Extreme Value Theorem should really have an exception for the empty set. All the theorem really is is a description of the compact subsets of R, of which the empty set is one. But I agree with your broader point that we get to make the definitions. I just don't care as much about analysis, so I make my def... | null | 0 | 1315728851 | False | 0 | c2j0zrc | t3_kbgvc | null | t1_c2j0zrc | t1_c2j0vzd | null | 1427585454 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | Fuck, I barely understand a word of this.
A vertex shader just works out the color/position of each of the three vertices of a triangle?
A fragment shader gets called for each pixel or fragment within the bounds of the triangle?
Is this how it works? Or is the geometry shader called for all the pixels, I don't under... | null | 0 | 1315729067 | False | 0 | c2j1069 | t3_kb6uu | null | t1_c2j1069 | t3_kb6uu | null | 1427585460 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | poorly_played | null | Can't tell if you're trolling.... | null | 0 | 1315729144 | False | 0 | c2j10au | t3_kawp5 | null | t1_c2j10au | t1_c2it7e4 | null | 1427585461 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Slime0 | null | One point I don't see made very often in this sort of discussion is the usefulness of zero-based indexing for multidimensional arrays.
If you have an array of 100 elements, meant to represent a 10 x 10 matrix, you can find the row and column of an element by doing
row = index / 10; // assuming integer division th... | null | 0 | 1315729183 | False | 0 | c2j10de | t3_kbdgw | null | t1_c2j10de | t1_c2iwoxi | null | 1427585462 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | I don't understand, do you disregard data unless they fit your wishes?
This was a serious question, why all the downvotes? | null | 0 | 1315729295 | True | 0 | c2j10lr | t3_kaxjq | null | t1_c2j10lr | t1_c2ivzfy | null | 1427585465 | -13 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1315729307 | False | 0 | c2j10mm | t3_k7qvj | null | t1_c2j10mm | t1_c2i7lc5 | null | 1427585465 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Sunny_McJoyride | null | How would a "non-programmer" discover a closure for the first time? | null | 0 | 1315729356 | False | 0 | c2j10q2 | t3_kajta | null | t1_c2j10q2 | t1_c2is664 | null | 1427585467 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | grauenwolf | null | I'm not terribly interested in ORMs outside quick and dirty prototypes. The data access patterns they are are just plain horrible for stateless servers such as those used by websites and n-tier applications. And you end up with public APIs which are incredibly brittle. If you don't know exactly how the object was creat... | null | 0 | 1315729441 | False | 0 | c2j10vr | t3_kaj03 | null | t1_c2j10vr | t1_c2j0y6i | null | 1427585469 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | Surely this subject is important enough for the video to be available in H.264? | null | 0 | 1315729600 | False | 0 | c2j116k | t3_kb0bx | null | t1_c2j116k | t3_kb0bx | null | 1427585473 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | abeliangrape | null | What you said about matrices is definitely correct. | null | 0 | 1315729703 | False | 0 | c2j11dq | t3_kbdgw | null | t1_c2j11dq | t1_c2j0tpn | null | 1427585475 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | Agreed. What were they thinking? | null | 0 | 1315729883 | False | 0 | c2j11qt | t3_kbdgw | null | t1_c2j11qt | t1_c2iysrn | null | 1427585480 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | alephsyzygy | null | The empty space is not connected. Wikipedia says it is, but see the reasons in [nLab](http://ncatlab.org/nlab/show/empty+space) for why it should not be connected. | null | 0 | 1315730020 | False | 0 | c2j11zm | t3_kbgvc | null | t1_c2j11zm | t1_c2j0vzd | null | 1427585484 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | molslaan | null | how should they change AND and OR then? | null | 0 | 1315730030 | False | 0 | c2j120c | t3_kbdgw | null | t1_c2j120c | t1_c2j0yxq | null | 1427585484 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | fatnino | null | just think how much easier it will be to program elevators!
| null | 0 | 1315730157 | False | 0 | c2j128q | t3_kbdgw | null | t1_c2j128q | t1_c2ixbyb | null | 1427585487 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | evilgwyn | null | They should short-circuit like every other programming language, rather than introducing AndAlso and OrElse. | null | 0 | 1315730198 | False | 0 | c2j12ay | t3_kbdgw | null | t1_c2j12ay | t1_c2j120c | null | 1427585488 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | Consider it done. | null | 0 | 1315730241 | False | 0 | c2j12di | t3_kbdgw | null | t1_c2j12di | t1_c2ixbyb | null | 1427585489 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | slurpme | null | Google thinks it's 1, Wolfram Alpha think "indeterminate"... | null | 0 | 1315730622 | False | 0 | c2j1318 | t3_kbgvc | null | t1_c2j1318 | t3_kbgvc | null | 1427585498 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | a <- somethingThatCouldFail
b <- somethingOtherThatCouldFail
return (a, b)
These two functions can have side effects, right? | null | 0 | 1315730888 | False | 0 | c2j13h9 | t3_k9ud6 | null | t1_c2j13h9 | t1_c2il0c9 | null | 1427585504 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | wolflarsen | null | **Global interpreter lock**
You're request is invalid. | null | 0 | 1315731009 | False | 0 | c2j13oa | t3_kbdgw | null | t1_c2j13oa | t3_kbdgw | null | 1427585506 | -8 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | arnedh | null | 4,3,2,1,L,P,B1,B2,B3,H (for Hell). | null | 0 | 1315731239 | False | 0 | c2j143n | t3_kbdgw | null | t1_c2j143n | t1_c2ixdp3 | null | 1427585512 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1315731581 | False | 0 | c2j14mm | t3_kbbbu | null | t1_c2j14mm | t1_c2j0nxf | null | 1427585520 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | macca321 | null | I'm not going to change your mind about ORMs in reddit comments, and I suspect we have quite different approaches when writing software. Suffice to say I think you're missing out. | null | 0 | 1315731778 | False | 0 | c2j14y6 | t3_kaj03 | null | t1_c2j14y6 | t1_c2j10vr | null | 1427585525 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | scriptsvcs | null | My hovercraft is full of eels. | null | 0 | 1315732349 | False | 0 | c2j15u7 | t3_kb5hm | null | t1_c2j15u7 | t3_kb5hm | null | 1427585535 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1315732382 | False | 0 | c2j15vy | t3_kb35n | null | t1_c2j15vy | t1_c2j0g86 | null | 1427585535 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Yackyackyack | null | That isn't really the point, because if your house is the 50th on the street, for example, if you were standing in front of it, you would move a distance of 0 houses to get to it, and still be at the 50th address on the street. Sure, that place may contain a house, be it large, small, blue, orange, but it is still a ho... | null | 0 | 1315732501 | False | 0 | c2j162m | t3_kbdgw | null | t1_c2j162m | t1_c2j0iha | null | 1427585538 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | EdgeOfDreams | null | Most serious programmers would never consider starting an array from index 1. Using index 0 as the base makes a lot of sense due to the way binary works - a string of 1's and 0's always has 00000000 (however many 0's) as the lowest possible number (assuming you're only representing positive numbers). Starting from ze... | null | 0 | 1315732713 | False | 0 | c2j16ex | t3_kbdgw | null | t1_c2j16ex | t1_c2j0x2h | null | 1427585542 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Taladar | null | That was pretty much was I had in mind when I wrote "offset calculations". | null | 0 | 1315732795 | False | 0 | c2j16j0 | t3_kbdgw | null | t1_c2j16j0 | t1_c2j10de | null | 1427585544 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | batiste | null | Can´t we have a powerful virtual machine in the browser instead? With it we could have the programming languages that we really want. | null | 0 | 1315732875 | False | 0 | c2j16nm | t3_kawp5 | null | t1_c2j16nm | t3_kawp5 | null | 1427585547 | 11 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | bollockitis | null | [This is due to database conventions](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/616135/in-jdbc-why-do-parameter-indexes-for-prepared-statements-begin-at-1-instead-of-0). | null | 0 | 1315733128 | False | 0 | c2j170c | t3_kbdgw | null | t1_c2j170c | t1_c2iysrn | null | 1427585551 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | henk53 | null | >Extremely maintainable code is more important than extremely fast code.
I agree fully with this. In Java, but even more so in C++, it's possible to write extremely efficient code, that's downright impossible to understand.
A trivial example that's not that extreme, but to demonstrate the idea;
int sz = someArray... | null | 0 | 1315733412 | False | 0 | c2j17fb | t3_kaxjq | null | t1_c2j17fb | t1_c2iyksb | null | 1427585557 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Peaker | null | I could restructure those not to use yield. Also, C# already has support for generators.
Do note that the two examples I give are from very different turfs.
In addition to generators, Python also has:
* Types as objects
* list comprehensions, generator comprehensions
* No need to [re-]specify types of things, t... | null | 0 | 1315733508 | False | 0 | c2j17kh | t3_kaxjq | null | t1_c2j17kh | t1_c2iz8x2 | null | 1427585560 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | earthboundkid | null | There are some buildings that do that in the US, but it's certainly not the standard. It's more common when you have a lobby level of some sort, and then the "first floor" is the "first normal floor." In general in US English when someone says "first floor" the name is synonymous with "ground floor." | null | 0 | 1315733931 | False | 0 | c2j185k | t3_kbdgw | null | t1_c2j185k | t1_c2j0cle | null | 1427585568 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Nekuromento | null | Pascal is widely used in post-USSR countries in schools and freshman classes | null | 0 | 1315734111 | False | 0 | c2j18dz | t3_kaxjq | null | t1_c2j18dz | t1_c2ixbf0 | null | 1427585570 | 10 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | earthboundkid | null | Finally, someone who realizes that Dijkstra is overrated when it comes to programming language design! Can I marry you? (After I get divorced first… and it may require a change in the law depending…) | null | 0 | 1315734194 | False | 0 | c2j18i9 | t3_kbdgw | null | t1_c2j18i9 | t1_c2j0cek | null | 1427585572 | -3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | earthboundkid | null | In a modern language, why would you represent a 2-D array with a 1-D data structure? Yes, it's all 1-D in the end when it gets into the memory, but a higher level language like Python should hide that detail from the programmer. | null | 0 | 1315734291 | False | 0 | c2j18n5 | t3_kbdgw | null | t1_c2j18n5 | t1_c2j10de | null | 1427585572 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | earthboundkid | null | Lua's 1-index strikes me as a reasonable decision, but using just one kind of data structure for lists, arrays, hashes, and everything else has got to cause a lot of headaches in the long run, no? /curious about Lua. | null | 0 | 1315734458 | False | 0 | c2j18vn | t3_kbdgw | null | t1_c2j18vn | t1_c2ixbcm | null | 1427585574 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | earthboundkid | null | I do not have enough down votes to express how much I hate that link. | null | 0 | 1315734542 | False | 0 | c2j18zw | t3_kbdgw | null | t1_c2j18zw | t1_c2iyrvu | null | 1427585576 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | earthboundkid | null | Really? I use 2.7 for day to day stuff, but I have a `from __future__ import print_function` in my start up script because I prefer it. Setting the separator and line ending is much more logical with the function version. | null | 0 | 1315734690 | False | 0 | c2j1977 | t3_kbdgw | null | t1_c2j1977 | t1_c2ixe84 | null | 1427585587 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | internetinsomniac | null | > Google secretly develops special features for it, that work on google.com,gmail, etc.
I'm inclined to agree on this. I wouldn't be particularly excited about implementing a google developed language even if it did end up being better than javascript, simply because of the lack of input of the wider community. Som... | null | 0 | 1315734914 | False | 0 | c2j19hs | t3_kawp5 | null | t1_c2j19hs | t1_c2iyfih | null | 1427585583 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | earthboundkid | null | No, but in Japan, the length of pregnancy is traditionally described as being "10 months."
http://www.politedissent.com/archives/1227 | null | 0 | 1315734917 | False | 0 | c2j19hx | t3_kbdgw | null | t1_c2j19hx | t1_c2j0ez0 | null | 1427585583 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | jyper | null | It doesn't although its nice to choose a gpl compatible license. But the non commercial clause makes it both non gpl compatible and non open source. | null | 0 | 1315734920 | False | 0 | c2j19i4 | t3_kbbbu | null | t1_c2j19i4 | t1_c2j0wst | null | 1427585583 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | skulgnome | null | It might as well be. | null | 0 | 1315734952 | False | 0 | c2j19jt | t3_kbbbu | null | t1_c2j19jt | t1_c2j0wst | null | 1427585584 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1315735380 | False | 0 | c2j1a4o | t3_kbgvc | null | t1_c2j1a4o | t3_kbgvc | null | 1427585596 | -5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | imjp | null | Seems like this website hasn't been updated since 1994, lol. | null | 0 | 1315735708 | False | 0 | c2j1aki | t3_kbgvc | null | t1_c2j1aki | t3_kbgvc | null | 1427585601 | -1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | fas2 | null | VB.NET is literally a new programming language, it has barely anything to do with VB6. Breaking all code? It was not meant to be backwards-compatible. | null | 0 | 1315735925 | False | 0 | c2j1ava | t3_kbdgw | null | t1_c2j1ava | t1_c2j0yxq | null | 1427585605 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | evilgwyn | null | Sure, so what is the point with sticking with the crazy And/Or semantics? It shows a lack of overall thought went into the design of the language. | null | 0 | 1315736159 | False | 0 | c2j1b6p | t3_kbdgw | null | t1_c2j1b6p | t1_c2j1ava | null | 1427585609 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | lancerfour | null | <3<3<3 | null | 0 | 1315736382 | False | 0 | c2j1bhm | t3_kbbbu | null | t1_c2j1bhm | t3_kbbbu | null | 1427585614 | -1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | >Whether or not year 0 exists depends on what calendar system you use, it does not exist in the Gregorian calendar.
Of course because Catholics are idiots. | null | 0 | 1315736428 | False | 0 | c2j1bjm | t3_kbdgw | null | t1_c2j1bjm | t1_c2izadg | null | 1427585613 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | fas2 | null | I don't remember what was special about those operators. Care to enlighten me? | null | 0 | 1315736563 | False | 0 | c2j1bpz | t3_kbdgw | null | t1_c2j1bpz | t1_c2j1b6p | null | 1427585616 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | strattonbrazil | null | That's the basic idea. The shader program gets a list of vertices and a list of primitive indices. The vertex program goes through each vertex in the list transforming and changing the properties of each vertex. The geometry shader (if present) gets a "chunk" of vertices with their attributes (in a triangle case, th... | null | 0 | 1315736715 | False | 0 | c2j1bx8 | t3_kb6uu | null | t1_c2j1bx8 | t1_c2j1069 | null | 1427585618 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | great-pumpkin | null | Man there are [so many programming language names](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_programming_languages), and further little obscure research ones on top of those - you can't avoid them all. You'd have to go like movie ids, name + year. | null | 0 | 1315736734 | False | 0 | c2j1by7 | t3_kawp5 | null | t1_c2j1by7 | t1_c2iuim6 | null | 1427585618 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | pozorvlak | null | Perl also lets you set this (at runtime, no less). It's probably Perl's most-deprecated feature :-) | null | 0 | 1315736764 | False | 0 | c2j1bzp | t3_kbdgw | null | t1_c2j1bzp | t1_c2j0ol5 | null | 1427585618 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Taladar | null | Maybe it is a joke referring to the homepage of Transifex where it says "Localize your proj" and "Manage translatio". | null | 0 | 1315736804 | False | 0 | c2j1c19 | t3_kb5hm | null | t1_c2j1c19 | t1_c2iuufu | null | 1427585618 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1315736889 | False | 0 | c2j1c50 | t3_kbdgw | null | t1_c2j1c50 | t1_c2j0tpn | null | 1427585627 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | 1lov3 | null | Hi, i'm not using python much anymore, but when I was this was one of the things that was sorely missing from the scene. I searched and searched for something similar, but to no avail! So, nice work :) | null | 0 | 1315737144 | False | 0 | c2j1cfo | t3_kbbbu | null | t1_c2j1cfo | t3_kbbbu | null | 1427585627 | -1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | niczar | null | A very close integration is required to make that kind of things work well enough, both in terms of performance and stability. That means that both components have to be developed together to achieve both goals, an API with pluggable engines will achieve none.
This was the rationale for HTML5 video, despite the decad... | null | 0 | 1315737231 | False | 0 | c2j1ck6 | t3_kawp5 | null | t1_c2j1ck6 | t1_c2iwxd5 | null | 1427585629 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | internetinsomniac | null | Which is why those sorts of examples can be useful in the "what the heck do they mean by inheritance" phase of learning, but no so much in the "what's a practical application of inheritance" phase. "What do these two pieces of code/functionality have in common, that I can abstract into common shared code?" is a far mor... | null | 0 | 1315737342 | True | 0 | c2j1cop | t3_ka3kw | null | t1_c2j1cop | t1_c2iq7mv | null | 1427585632 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | niczar | null | Not the code itself, damn it. Java has excellent performance too nowadays, how well do applets work, again?
No I'm talking about the integration of both. Look at Mozilla's departure from XPCOM-everything ... actually they started doing that a long time ago.
Both component (browser and scripting language) have to be ... | null | 0 | 1315737476 | False | 0 | c2j1cv3 | t3_kawp5 | null | t1_c2j1cv3 | t1_c2iwvtu | null | 1427585634 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | xiongchiamiov | null | Oh, Java. Had to get to the end of the article to find out what damn language he was talking about (I couldn't tell from the code snippet if it was Java or C#). Since this is in proggit, not /r/java, it wouldn't been nice to tell me it's something I don't care in the least about before I clicked it...
Edit: Also, wh... | null | 0 | 1315737500 | False | 0 | c2j1cwe | t3_kb1gc | null | t1_c2j1cwe | t3_kb1gc | null | 1427585634 | -2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | skocznymroczny | null | rox | null | 0 | 1315737592 | False | 0 | c2j1d0i | t3_kaxjq | null | t1_c2j1d0i | t1_c2iwsj1 | null | 1427585634 | 10 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | joesb | null | Integer are more often initialized to 0 than to 9. | null | 0 | 1315737657 | False | 0 | c2j1d3u | t3_k8w37 | null | t1_c2j1d3u | t1_c2ioy4l | null | 1427585636 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | roerd | null | I've just looked up the Algol 60 way to complete this history excursion: in that language you had to specify both the lower and upper bound in each array declaration. | null | 0 | 1315737668 | False | 0 | c2j1d48 | t3_kbdgw | null | t1_c2j1d48 | t1_c2iyuyx | null | 1427585636 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | evilgwyn | null | Unlike every other programming language in existence, the And and Or operators in VB6 did not short circuit. With VB.Net, they had the opportunity to fix this, but instead they kept the old non short circuiting behaviour and added two new operators AndAlso and OrElse that did short circuit. | null | 0 | 1315737695 | False | 0 | c2j1d5k | t3_kbdgw | null | t1_c2j1d5k | t1_c2j1bpz | null | 1428194536 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | bnolsen | null | I've found that a time tagged splay tree works very well, reducing the problem to a single data structure with efficient lookup capabilities. | null | 0 | 1315738704 | False | 0 | c2j1efn | t3_kb35n | null | t1_c2j1efn | t3_kb35n | null | 1427585655 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | jan | null | and Matlab. dito | null | 0 | 1315738711 | False | 0 | c2j1efu | t3_kbdgw | null | t1_c2j1efu | t1_c2ixnbu | null | 1427585655 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | jan | null | useful, but no need need to call it A[[0]] | null | 0 | 1315738847 | False | 0 | c2j1em0 | t3_kbdgw | null | t1_c2j1em0 | t1_c2izur9 | null | 1427585658 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | henk53 | null | It's a static analyzer... | null | 0 | 1315739009 | False | 0 | c2j1esx | t3_kb1gc | null | t1_c2j1esx | t1_c2j1cwe | null | 1427585660 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
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