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True | cdsmith | null | If you think Google is going to intentionally make the user experience on google.com worse for non-Chrome users, you're wrong. They make their money from people using google.com. They make approximately $0 for every new Chrome user. If you're the paranoid sort that can't believe Google is trying to be ethical, fine.... | null | 0 | 1315777360 | False | 0 | c2j4u6k | t3_kc9ai | null | t1_c2j4u6k | t1_c2j43mx | null | 1427587342 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | Something does have to come along and replace JavaScript unless some serious work goes into JS to improve it rather than relying on others to fix its problems (ie the fact a framework is virtually required to use JS) and some sort of enforcement is put in place to stop companies from having their own version of JS or a... | null | 0 | 1315777376 | False | 0 | c2j4u8y | t3_kc9ai | null | t1_c2j4u8y | t1_c2j43is | null | 1427587343 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | pivo | null | The keyboards in use when Emacs was written had Ctrl keys in about the same position that the caps lock key occupies on PC keyboards. It's easier to just swap Ctrl and Caps Lock keys. | null | 0 | 1315777391 | False | 0 | c2j4ube | t3_kbz68 | null | t1_c2j4ube | t1_c2j4bwq | null | 1427587352 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | 43v3r | null | Except ActiveX only runs on one platform a closed proprietary platform and I do believe nothing is open or standardized. | null | 0 | 1315777406 | False | 0 | c2j4udp | t3_kawp5 | null | t1_c2j4udp | t1_c2j3r18 | null | 1427587345 | 10 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | MarshallBanana | null | What Microsoft has been doing in IE is mostly trying to catch up with current standards. | null | 0 | 1315777415 | False | 0 | c2j4uf9 | t3_kc9ai | null | t1_c2j4uf9 | t1_c2j4tgj | null | 1427587345 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1315777419 | False | 0 | c2j4ufw | t3_kc9ai | null | t1_c2j4ufw | t1_c2j4oc3 | null | 1427587345 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | gschizas | null | When you are not paying, you are the product. | null | 0 | 1315777465 | False | 0 | c2j4uma | t3_kawp5 | null | t1_c2j4uma | t1_c2j3vmp | null | 1427587347 | 25 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | ElSherberto | null | >I'd much rather have a new bytecode VM embedded in the browser.
This is sort of what Google is doing with [Native Client](http://code.google.com/chrome/nativeclient/). It's different than specifically what you described because it runs native code, not bytecode. It allows you to write code in any GCC language, pro... | null | 0 | 1315777479 | False | 0 | c2j4uo5 | t3_kc9ai | null | t1_c2j4uo5 | t1_c2j4hjd | null | 1427587347 | 24 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Paradox | null | Last year, I tried to make the switch, tried for a good month, but couldn't do it. Vim is just too damn good | null | 0 | 1315777480 | False | 0 | c2j4uo9 | t3_kbz68 | null | t1_c2j4uo9 | t1_c2j4u5a | null | 1427587347 | -8 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | bramblerose | null | And non-gettext based translations. It's easy enough to write a new provider that creates a format practical for your project. For instance, pywikipediabot has a dictionary-based system that can be accessed directly from python. It's language fallback system should be general enough to use anywhere: http://svn.wikimedi... | null | 0 | 1315777500 | False | 0 | c2j4urf | t3_kb5hm | null | t1_c2j4urf | t1_c2j1j07 | null | 1427587347 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | I agree and I wouldn't use it but anything standard (ie a standar virtualised linux environment for Python development) could be moved onto any server. That is the sort of thing companies should be using. | null | 0 | 1315777565 | False | 0 | c2j4v1n | t3_kc9ai | null | t1_c2j4v1n | t1_c2j4m6m | null | 1427587350 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | nascentt | null | Let's hope they don't. I left IE to avoid that crap. | null | 0 | 1315777618 | False | 0 | c2j4v9l | t3_kawp5 | null | t1_c2j4v9l | t1_c2j4ri8 | null | 1427587355 | 13 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | bobindashadows | null | The point of dash, if you read the linked article, is to bring a new language to the web, and hopefully get other vendors to support it. It says so very, very early on: high risk, high reward. The risk is that others do not adopt it. The reward is a satisfactory web programming language with semantics that lend themsel... | null | 0 | 1315777625 | False | 0 | c2j4vaq | t3_kc9ai | null | t1_c2j4vaq | t1_c2j3rna | null | 1427587355 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | littleendian | null | Yes. I think we're all saying the same thing. | null | 0 | 1315777658 | False | 0 | c2j4vfg | t3_kc5di | null | t1_c2j4vfg | t1_c2j4mdx | null | 1427587355 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | zmeefy | null | > Isn't that more or less what Microsoft has been doing with IE or am I missing something?
Precisely. Or what Oracle is doing with Java. That's just marketing rap for proprietary in a world where anything proprietary looks bad. | null | 0 | 1315777706 | False | 0 | c2j4vmr | t3_kc9ai | null | t1_c2j4vmr | t1_c2j4tgj | null | 1427587357 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | bobindashadows | null | It's more fiddly to do most things in Java. Its more fiddly to write hello world in java, and people don't write articles about it; this article is only slightly more sophisticated than hello world. | null | 0 | 1315777726 | False | 0 | c2j4vpp | t3_kc437 | null | t1_c2j4vpp | t1_c2j41ia | null | 1427587358 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1315777735 | False | 0 | c2j4vqx | t3_kawp5 | null | t1_c2j4vqx | t1_c2j4piv | null | 1427587358 | -8 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | nascentt | null | The first hint of this was when I saw Google's Toolbar being pulled from Firefox, their site tells us to upgrade to a more modern browser: Chrome. The toolbar had language translation built in, so automatic translations could be made on the page. Now they say, only Chrome is capable. Funny how that changed. | null | 0 | 1315777763 | False | 0 | c2j4vut | t3_kawp5 | null | t1_c2j4vut | t1_c2iwb68 | null | 1428194459 | 12 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | nascentt | null | The first hint of this was when I saw Google's Toolbar being pulled from Firefox, their site tells us to upgrade to a more modern browser: Chrome. The toolbar had language translation built in, so automatic translations could be made on the page. Now they say, only Chrome is capable. Funny how that changed. | null | 0 | 1315777763 | False | 0 | c2j4vuy | t3_kawp5 | null | t1_c2j4vuy | t1_c2ivucx | null | 1428194459 | 15 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | execute85 | null | And we all know that the best languages were created by CS PHDs. C and Java were written by PHDs, but plenty of other successful languages are PHD-free (I can think of Perl and Python immediately but you can search a bit).
If you were to write a new language, I would actually guess that an army of CS PHDs would make y... | null | 0 | 1315777810 | False | 0 | c2j4w1p | t3_kc9ai | null | t1_c2j4w1p | t1_c2j4tc5 | null | 1427587360 | -3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1315777840 | False | 0 | c2j4w5w | t3_kawp5 | null | t1_c2j4w5w | t1_c2iyhq9 | null | 1427587363 | -2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | nascentt | null | What open standard did IE release to other browsers? | null | 0 | 1315777863 | False | 0 | c2j4w9c | t3_kc9ai | null | t1_c2j4w9c | t1_c2j4tgj | null | 1427587363 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | mistralol | null |
There is almost no gain for what we use it for. We would only have to retrain people and rebuild a few other tools as well. | null | 0 | 1315777921 | False | 0 | c2j4wie | t3_kc5di | null | t1_c2j4wie | t1_c2j4kbh | null | 1427587375 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | Fuck you MS. | null | 0 | 1315777937 | False | 0 | c2j4wkz | t3_kc9ai | null | t1_c2j4wkz | t3_kc9ai | null | 1427587366 | -6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Shaper_pmp | null | Yes. My point is merely that the stated reason for needing to do so that I quoted is bunk.
There's nothing wrong with bringing even more innovation to the web... but where you start offering unsupported and wholly inaccurate characterisations of the state of the web *without* your chosen bit of innovation is where I ... | null | 0 | 1315778054 | False | 0 | c2j4x1o | t3_kc9ai | null | t1_c2j4x1o | t1_c2j4rwz | null | 1427587379 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | ElSherberto | null | There is a slim-to-none chance this will ever catch on beyond Google. Because it is created by Google, it's doubtful that Apple or Microsoft will ever adopt it, similar to the situation with WebM. Since the browser market is highly dependent on the choices Microsoft and Apple make, I think it will be hard to get moment... | null | 0 | 1315778068 | True | 0 | c2j4x3b | t3_kc9ai | null | t1_c2j4x3b | t1_c2j4sak | null | 1427587377 | -1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | WalterBright | null | Yes, BSD is a popular open source license. So is GPL. Neither meet the open requirements for Phobos.
>why did you not communicate with Tango to solve this issue?
I have talked with Tango devs many times about changing the Tango license so Tango code can be incorporated into Phobos. Many devs did so, and their code... | null | 0 | 1315778074 | False | 0 | c2j4x44 | t3_kaxjq | null | t1_c2j4x44 | t1_c2j4rf1 | null | 1427587377 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | TotempaaltJ | null | There's nothing mysterious about how they make money, as patejam mentioned in the other [reply](http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/kawp5/the_goal_of_the_dash_effort_is_ultimately_to/c2j4a9a) on your comment. | null | 0 | 1315778090 | False | 0 | c2j4x65 | t3_kawp5 | null | t1_c2j4x65 | t1_c2j3vmp | null | 1427587379 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | asegura | null | Yes, but I think we were at last kind of approaching that *one web* lately with HTML5 as a target, and the big browsers finally agreeing on most of it. It is now easier to make rich web applications that work on all browsers than in was 5 years ago (not counting IE<9). This dash seems to come to break this balance.
... | null | 0 | 1315778154 | True | 0 | c2j4xew | t3_kawp5 | null | t1_c2j4xew | t1_c2j2z73 | null | 1427587382 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | munificent | null | > new standard
This is an oxymoron. If it's new, it's not standard.
> temporary monopoly
If it's temporary, it's not a monopoly. | null | 0 | 1315778221 | False | 0 | c2j4xo7 | t3_kawp5 | null | t1_c2j4xo7 | t1_c2j4vqx | null | 1427587395 | -4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Magnesus | null | They want developers to target Chrome-only not to make Chrome the only browser but to make others implement Dash faster in their browsers. | null | 0 | 1315778265 | False | 0 | c2j4xug | t3_kc9ai | null | t1_c2j4xug | t1_c2j4tk9 | null | 1427587386 | 24 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1315778353 | False | 0 | c2j4y87 | t3_kc9ai | null | t1_c2j4y87 | t1_c2j4qqu | null | 1427587391 | 8 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Magnesus | null | You don't need certificate to use your own key. And if you don't give private key to anyone it's safe. | null | 0 | 1315778374 | False | 0 | c2j4yaz | t3_kc9ai | null | t1_c2j4yaz | t1_c2j4puv | null | 1427587392 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | harlows_monkeys | null | OK, but I still don't see how that implies starting with 0. Generally when people number things, they start with 1 ("my first child", "my first car", "my first indictment on espionage charges", and so on).
Aside from some uses in set theory, where enumeration can mean exhibiting a one-to-one and onto mapping from a co... | null | 0 | 1315778378 | False | 0 | c2j4ybg | t3_kbdgw | null | t1_c2j4ybg | t1_c2j1rr9 | null | 1427587392 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | HeWhoWas | null | So, just to recap:
Dash will have the functionatlity of JavaScript, without a few pitfalls. We would like people to use Dash. | null | 0 | 1315778380 | False | 0 | c2j4ybr | t3_kc9ai | null | t1_c2j4ybr | t1_c2j4tk9 | null | 1427587392 | 153 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | greenwizard88 | null | What? Silverlight came out years before HTML 5. | null | 0 | 1315778385 | False | 0 | c2j4ycf | t3_kc9ai | null | t1_c2j4ycf | t1_c2j4p8v | null | 1427587392 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | horsebees | null | Mathematica's help is easily the most fluid help of any program. If you didn't know a thing about image processing, you could still accomplish the feats described in this blog within hours. | null | 0 | 1315778395 | False | 0 | c2j4ydm | t3_ka5os | null | t1_c2j4ydm | t1_c2j1n8t | null | 1427587392 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | mightylobster | null | Clear your cookies and your cache. | null | 0 | 1315778409 | False | 0 | c2j4yff | t3_kc9ai | null | t1_c2j4yff | t1_c2j4t2o | null | 1427587394 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | five9a2 | null | Umm, it's pulling 600MB resident right now. Granted, I have over 1000 open buffers and haven't restarted in three weeks, but that seems like a normal use case to me. | null | 0 | 1315778455 | False | 0 | c2j4ymw | t3_kbz68 | null | t1_c2j4ymw | t1_c2j44sw | null | 1427587398 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Magnesus | null | If it's in webkit code of Google all webkit browser will have it in matter of minutes. And Mozilla will want to have it too. Safari and IE are not important. | null | 0 | 1315778476 | False | 0 | c2j4yq3 | t3_kc9ai | null | t1_c2j4yq3 | t1_c2j4x3b | null | 1427587397 | -1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | five9a2 | null | Or `M-x viper-mode` | null | 0 | 1315778513 | False | 0 | c2j4yv2 | t3_kbz68 | null | t1_c2j4yv2 | t1_c2j4s0m | null | 1427587400 | 10 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | therapy | null | > If you think Google is going to intentionally make the user experience on google.com worse for non-Chrome users, you're wrong.
I hope you are right. You seem very certain of this - do you have inside information?
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True | cunningjames | null | > we've already had this battle, and the web won it
Sure, the web won it — *for email clients and discussion media*. Word processing? Text editing? Image editing? Software development? Playing text adventures? Reading books? Managing a music library? Whenever I do any of these things I use a native application. Sur... | null | 0 | 1315778550 | True | 0 | c2j4z0k | t3_kc9ai | null | t1_c2j4z0k | t1_c2j4si3 | null | 1427587400 | 16 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | cl3ft | null | How about a motto of don't be evil. Or do you believe that was a cynical marketing ploy? | null | 0 | 1315778558 | False | 0 | c2j4z1w | t3_kawp5 | null | t1_c2j4z1w | t1_c2j4tr9 | null | 1427587400 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Rad777 | null | anyone who uses the word 'kiddie' to reference a programming language doesn't know left from right | null | 0 | 1315778559 | False | 0 | c2j4z23 | t3_kc9ai | null | t1_c2j4z23 | t1_c2j4joc | null | 1427587400 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | andybak | null | Javascript has flaws but it's proved remarkably adaptable. Someone managed to slip a dynamic language with first-class functions and closures into a mainstream product into a mainstream product. We are *very* lucky we didn't end up with something closer to VBScript. | null | 0 | 1315778589 | True | 0 | c2j4z6s | t3_kc9ai | null | t1_c2j4z6s | t1_c2j4nav | null | 1427587402 | 8 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | iLiekCaeks | null | >As far as I know LDC and GDC are not really usable, specially for D2 development.
The newer GDC fork should be able to do D2 as well as dmd now. LDC for D2 is still dead-ish.
>But then AFAIK DMD doesn't even implement all of D2 either.
This is true. And where it does implement it, you can expect tons of bugs. | null | 0 | 1315778592 | False | 0 | c2j4z70 | t3_kaxjq | null | t1_c2j4z70 | t1_c2ix2te | null | 1427587402 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | cdsmith | null | > > the identity function
> This part isn't as clear.
It certainly *is* the identity function on the empty set. The identity function on any set maps any element to itself, as this one trivially does. cgibbard's point was that it's rather fundamentally important that every set -- even the empty set -- has a... | null | 0 | 1315778663 | False | 0 | c2j4zi5 | t3_kbgvc | null | t1_c2j4zi5 | t1_c2j1tyr | null | 1427587404 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | therapy | null | I think you are using the term 'proprietary' where 'nonstandardized' would make more sense. But otherwise I see your point in the first part.
Where I disagree is in the rest of it. Mozilla and Opera implemented prototypes of WebGL, and Apple of Canvas. But that was mostly it. Google on the other hand is both implement... | null | 0 | 1315778686 | False | 0 | c2j4zmd | t3_kc9ai | null | t1_c2j4zmd | t1_c2j4sa7 | null | 1427587405 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1315778719 | False | 0 | c2j4zqp | t3_kawp5 | null | t1_c2j4zqp | t1_c2j4vut | null | 1427587406 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | Would you really want something like Perl/Python/Ruby/PHP to replace JavaScript? That would be a huge step sideways (if not down) in my mind. None of those languages did *anything* to advance the field. They are pretty much the same language with different syntaxes.
Preferably, something like NaCl would prevail, becau... | null | 0 | 1315778731 | False | 0 | c2j4zsp | t3_kc9ai | null | t1_c2j4zsp | t1_c2j4w1p | null | 1427587406 | -1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | therapy | null | It has risks, but look how well it worked for WebGL and the other examples being discussed elsewhere in this thread. | null | 0 | 1315778736 | False | 0 | c2j4ztf | t3_kc9ai | null | t1_c2j4ztf | t1_c2j4q1x | null | 1427587406 | -2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Shaper_pmp | null | True, dat. I have a great deal of respect for expertise, but I've noticed in myself and others that as expertise grows, so typically does the desire to get everything right first time. I think of it as akin to [writer's block](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Writer%27s_block), where the better you know you are, the high... | null | 0 | 1315778761 | True | 0 | c2j4zxd | t3_kc9ai | null | t1_c2j4zxd | t1_c2j4w1p | null | 1427587408 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | yogthos | null | That's why the devs have to decide if it's worth the effort or not, certainly not a reason why Google shouldn't be allowed to do it. | null | 0 | 1315778764 | False | 0 | c2j4zxv | t3_kawp5 | null | t1_c2j4zxv | t1_c2j4con | null | 1427587408 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | ElSherberto | null | I didn't mean to imply it's a requirement. I was only pointing out to the OP that they most certainly have an understanding of programming language theory. This is also demonstrated by the fact that they have already [invented a programming language](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go_%28programming_language%29). | null | 0 | 1315778775 | False | 0 | c2j4zzm | t3_kc9ai | null | t1_c2j4zzm | t1_c2j4w1p | null | 1427587408 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | NitWit005 | null | Most browsers have added things in the hope of having them more generally adopted. You have to have a working example for anything complex if you want to push for some new standard. | null | 0 | 1315778828 | False | 0 | c2j506r | t3_kc9ai | null | t1_c2j506r | t1_c2j4tk9 | null | 1427587412 | 14 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | crdoconnor | null | Tried *that* three times. Didn't work. | null | 0 | 1315778850 | False | 0 | c2j509q | t3_kc9ai | null | t1_c2j509q | t1_c2j4yff | null | 1427587413 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | taw | null | JavaScript is still based on 1995 design from times where web was nothing like it is now. By even the most optimistic schedules Dash might start seriously replacing it for some advanced high performance stuff by 2015, and become dominant by 2020. That's 20-25 years of JavaScript being dominant technology while everythi... | null | 0 | 1315778882 | False | 0 | c2j50e5 | t3_kc9ai | null | t1_c2j50e5 | t3_kc9ai | null | 1427587414 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
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True | Sp1ffy | null | Google does it better. | null | 0 | 1315778926 | False | 0 | c2j50kl | t3_kawp5 | null | t1_c2j50kl | t1_c2j3lt4 | null | 1427587416 | -1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | iLiekCaeks | null | >nor did Tango involve me in any way when they chose BSD.
Oh really. Did you when you chose Boost?
>std.loader's license does not include that line, nor do any others.
But it did. You can check [github](https://github.com/D-Programming-Language/phobos/).
>many modules, such as std.algorithm, are innovative... | null | 0 | 1315778958 | False | 0 | c2j50ow | t3_kaxjq | null | t1_c2j50ow | t1_c2j4x44 | null | 1427587418 | -2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Greydmiyu | null | 2 platforms, both closed. | null | 0 | 1315779023 | False | 0 | c2j50yj | t3_kawp5 | null | t1_c2j50yj | t1_c2j4udp | null | 1427587423 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
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True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1315779101 | False | 0 | c2j519z | t3_kc9ai | null | t1_c2j519z | t3_kc9ai | null | 1427587435 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | cl3ft | null | We would have to wait years, HTML5 took forever. Sometimes a company has to take the initiative. | null | 0 | 1315779118 | False | 0 | c2j51c1 | t3_kawp5 | null | t1_c2j51c1 | t1_c2j4xew | null | 1427587427 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | NitWit005 | null | I would differentiate "intentionally different just to be incompatible" and "trying to make things better".
I don't think Google's goal here is to force people to use Chrome. If it was, they wouldn't be releasing it open source or providing a cross compiler to Javascript so you can get your stuff working in other brow... | null | 0 | 1315779161 | False | 0 | c2j51hr | t3_kc9ai | null | t1_c2j51hr | t1_c2j4tgj | null | 1427587437 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | grauenwolf | null | > Compared to that the web offered (and offers) all the same, plus location-based services, offline storage and even entire applications
And in another ten years we may get to the point where two different applications can share the same offline files.
> mash-ups
Huray. You've discovered functionality that was... | null | 0 | 1315779221 | False | 0 | c2j51qk | t3_kc9ai | null | t1_c2j51qk | t1_c2j4si3 | null | 1427587436 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Tuna-Fish2 | null | You might have been serious -- andralex wasn't. | null | 0 | 1315779302 | False | 0 | c2j521n | t3_kaxjq | null | t1_c2j521n | t1_c2j10lr | null | 1427587440 | 9 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | Awwwwwwww | null | 0 | 1315779314 | False | 0 | c2j5231 | t3_kawp5 | null | t1_c2j5231 | t1_c2j4z1w | null | 1427587439 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | randomyst | null | Why do people keep thinking that asking puzzles like this has any real use in detemining who is the best programmer for a job? | null | 0 | 1315779318 | False | 0 | c2j523k | t3_kcf1k | null | t1_c2j523k | t3_kcf1k | null | 1427587439 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Shin-LaC | null | > JavaScript is derived from ECMA script which was not built with the web in mind.
lol no. JavaScript was developed (in record time) at Netscape specifically for scripting web pages. ECMAScript was a standardization effort of JavaScript that came much later. | null | 0 | 1315779388 | False | 0 | c2j52ed | t3_kawp5 | null | t1_c2j52ed | t1_c2j4n5t | null | 1427587443 | 9 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | five9a2 | null | It would actually be useful for some numerical tasks, especially distributed-memory with structured grids, to be able to have arrays with an arbitrary starting index (possibly negative). It makes handling overlap, enforcing boundary conditions, and sometimes defining coefficients far simpler for the programmer.
You ca... | null | 0 | 1315779390 | False | 0 | c2j52eo | t3_kbdgw | null | t1_c2j52eo | t3_kbdgw | null | 1427587443 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Porges | null | Haskell makes a distinction between the two, and they're defined this way. All is right with the world.
There are actually three exponentiation operators: `^`, `^^`, and `**`, the first two with integral powers, and the last for real numbers. | null | 0 | 1315779408 | True | 0 | c2j52hj | t3_kbgvc | null | t1_c2j52hj | t1_c2j0lqs | null | 1427587442 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | alfador | null | Hint: You can do it in one pass over the people :) | null | 0 | 1315779419 | False | 0 | c2j52j9 | t3_kcf1k | null | t1_c2j52j9 | t3_kcf1k | null | 1427587442 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | grauenwolf | null | > The web buried all its competing media because it was accessible, scriptable, parseable and pretty enough.
And then RSS buried the web. I'm using stand-alone applications, not a web browser, to get my news and other content.
For videos I am also moving away from the web. Netflix is delivered to my TV and phone v... | null | 0 | 1315779425 | False | 0 | c2j52k3 | t3_kc9ai | null | t1_c2j52k3 | t1_c2j4si3 | null | 1427587443 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | freeall | null | They should still be judged by what they do and not by a motto they made over ten years ago. And then it's also a matter of definition.
As an example I really dislike vendor lock-in like for instance Apple is masters of. To me that is being "evil". But for someone else that's defined as providing a better product beca... | null | 0 | 1315779426 | False | 0 | c2j52k4 | t3_kawp5 | null | t1_c2j52k4 | t1_c2j4z1w | null | 1427587443 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Shin-LaC | null | Browsers already include VMs for JavaScript, though. | null | 0 | 1315779438 | False | 0 | c2j52m3 | t3_kawp5 | null | t1_c2j52m3 | t1_c2j45o0 | null | 1427587443 | 10 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | jammus | null | Don't be intimidated by the word algorithm. All an algorithm is is a series of steps that get you to a solution. Just try and think about how you might go about finding the celebrity using that function. Do you want to put every combination of guests through it or is there a more efficient way? How many times would you... | null | 0 | 1315779527 | True | 0 | c2j52yv | t3_kcf1k | null | t1_c2j52yv | t3_kcf1k | null | 1427587448 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | yogthos | null | >I can get not killing off existing projects using WebSQL, til replacements are ready. But Google just launched new services using it.
The issue is that there is currently no alternative, and it does improve user experience. So, if W3C deprecated it and provided a different way forward, then implementing WebSQL wou... | null | 0 | 1315779577 | False | 0 | c2j534r | t3_kawp5 | null | t1_c2j534r | t1_c2j32ja | null | 1427587450 | -1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | sltkr | null | For an O(N²) algorithm, simply query all possible pairs of people, and find the person with indegree equal to (N - m) and outdegree equal to 0. (This works for an arbitrary number of *m* celebrities.)
This can be optimized somewhat by picking a "candidate" celebrity and stopping calculating out-degree as soon as it be... | null | 0 | 1315779587 | True | 0 | c2j537p | t3_kcf1k | null | t1_c2j537p | t3_kcf1k | null | 1427587450 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Bravais | null | <- Left Right ->
Kiddie yes. As in a small simplistic language without innate large scale software features.
Hell, it didn't even get scoping correct and that will drop you a grade on your Sophomore CS year "build a small interpreter project". Failing to get equality right drop you another. C+ at best for... | null | 0 | 1315779608 | False | 0 | c2j53aq | t3_kc9ai | null | t1_c2j53aq | t1_c2j4z23 | null | 1427587452 | -3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | grauenwolf | null | WebGL, the hacker's new best friend.
OR
ActiveX's little brother takes the spotlight. | null | 0 | 1315779627 | False | 0 | c2j53cr | t3_kc9ai | null | t1_c2j53cr | t1_c2j4ztf | null | 1427587453 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | postmaster3000 | null | Step back for context. *Embrace* HTTP / HTML / JS, which are open standards. *Extend* with "something new." | null | 0 | 1315779630 | False | 0 | c2j53db | t3_kawp5 | null | t1_c2j53db | t1_c2j4piv | null | 1427587453 | 18 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | gschizas | null | Hey, I happen to like VB.NET (and I also have a plan)! | null | 0 | 1315779651 | False | 0 | c2j53gs | t3_kc5di | null | t1_c2j53gs | t1_c2j41zz | null | 1427587454 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | masta | null |
> This statement alone smells like FUD of the worst kind - unsourced and indefensible assertions offered by someone with an axe to grind or agenda to promote, thrown out to stick in people's minds and then quickly papered-over and moved past before anyone can recognise it or call it for the complete horseshit it is... | null | 0 | 1315779694 | False | 0 | c2j53nb | t3_kc9ai | null | t1_c2j53nb | t1_c2j470o | null | 1427587457 | -1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | jammus | null | Because some familiarity with algorithm design is a desirable quality. It's not like "why are manhole covers round?" or some only-obvious-if-you've-heard-it-before brain teaser. | null | 0 | 1315779743 | False | 0 | c2j53ud | t3_kcf1k | null | t1_c2j53ud | t1_c2j523k | null | 1427587458 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | cdsmith | null | Nope, I have no more inside information than anyone. It just doesn't make a lot of sense for them to do that. It would cost them a *lot* of money to lose those search users, and it would be contrary to everything they've done in the past. | null | 0 | 1315779859 | False | 0 | c2j54b6 | t3_kc9ai | null | t1_c2j54b6 | t1_c2j4ywg | null | 1427587466 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1315779875 | False | 0 | c2j54ds | t3_kcf1k | null | t1_c2j54ds | t1_c2j52j9 | null | 1427587466 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | recursive | null | Feel free to believe what you want. Imagine you have a comma delimited list of single digit numbers, and you need to replace every other one.
Insert destroys the shift arrow method plus any other you may care to mention. | null | 0 | 1315779899 | False | 0 | c2j54hj | t3_k8w37 | null | t1_c2j54hj | t1_c2ir3vr | null | 1427587468 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | myztry | null | I would rather have the private key on a USB device with onboard hardware based crypting specifically so that software (including the OS) can't access the private key.
Otherwise you are repeating the flaw of passwords where you need to give the secret away. The best way to keep a secret is to never let it be known.
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True | redditnoob | null | Ok, is the empty function constant? It seems to turn out (based on another reply to me) that the answer is usually "no" by convention to make some other properties work out. But is this natural, in any unambiguous sense?
I feel like whether a function is identity or not is like this... It is only really natural to spe... | null | 0 | 1315779995 | False | 0 | c2j54w8 | t3_kbgvc | null | t1_c2j54w8 | t1_c2j4zi5 | null | 1427587473 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | therapy | null | They wouldn't lose any users, if they make google.com **better** on Chrome but still the same as before for other browsers.
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True | [deleted] | null | Evolution generates extreme complexity and brings you to local maxima. The pinnacle of CS is to provide simple solutions to complex problems, and that requires design. Languages made by people without PLT education is usually riddled with special-case features that end up preventing essential features. | null | 0 | 1315780049 | False | 0 | c2j553i | t3_kc9ai | null | t1_c2j553i | t1_c2j4zxd | null | 1427587476 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | crankybadger | null | If it isn't invisible, or very nearly, then it's in the way. GitHub, by way of example, is so simple it's almost not even there for most use cases. Most things are exactly where you expect to find them, or very nearly. SourceForce is an example of the polar opposite, where nothing makes sense and yet, technically, ever... | null | 0 | 1315780099 | False | 0 | c2j55aw | t3_kc5di | null | t1_c2j55aw | t1_c2j44jb | null | 1427587479 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | adoran124 | null | Those buttons are a real pain in the ass to use. | null | 0 | 1315780117 | False | 0 | c2j55dk | t3_kcf54 | null | t1_c2j55dk | t3_kcf54 | null | 1427587479 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | That particular programming language pretty much disregards PLT when it comes to its type system, which is completely broken as a result (you can't even write a type safe identity function). | null | 0 | 1315780167 | False | 0 | c2j55kv | t3_kc9ai | null | t1_c2j55kv | t1_c2j4zzm | null | 1427587482 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | thcobbs | null | Bullshit.
Chrome is their ultimate data-mining app for their advert business. | null | 0 | 1315780168 | False | 0 | c2j55kx | t3_kc9ai | null | t1_c2j55kx | t1_c2j4xug | null | 1427587482 | -14 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Shaper_pmp | null | > Sure, the web won it — *for email clients and discussion media*.
True - e-mail, general content and discussion media are the only cases I can think of where the web has almost *finished* burying desktop apps, but the trend over time is still surprisingly pronounced, even with media players (Youtube/streaming site... | null | 0 | 1315780181 | True | 0 | c2j55mv | t3_kc9ai | null | t1_c2j55mv | t1_c2j4z0k | null | 1427587483 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | therapy | null | Well, we will have to agree to disagree then. I think we both stated our positions clearly, and while we don't see eye to eye I hope we can respect each others' opinion.
Thanks for an honest and open debate. Not often seen on the web sadly ;)
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True | [deleted] | null | Your point being? Python brings nothing new to programming languages, and is poorly designed in a number of ways (the scoping rules for example). | null | 0 | 1315780233 | False | 0 | c2j55uh | t3_kc9ai | null | t1_c2j55uh | t1_c2j4y87 | null | 1427587485 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
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