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True | thcobbs | null | More accurately....
We don't like Javascript because we didn't invent it/control it... use our custom version... we're not evil, we swear. | null | 0 | 1315780247 | False | 0 | c2j55wq | t3_kc9ai | null | t1_c2j55wq | t1_c2j4ybr | null | 1427587486 | -29 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | awap | null | Clock is better than LRU, but they still are both only good for certain access patterns (google "stack distance distribution"). A simple trick is to use clock, but randomize the order that you visit pages for eviction rather than going through them in order. This gives results similar to clock for access patterns tha... | null | 0 | 1315780322 | False | 0 | c2j567k | t3_kb35n | null | t1_c2j567k | t1_c2iyr49 | null | 1427587490 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | yogthos | null | Indeed, I do see your point and definitely sympathize with the position, all I'm trying to highlight is that Google is reasonably well behaved here. I think the core issue is that they've become so big that they have disproportional weight when it comes to web technologies.
Was good talking indeed, you did highlight s... | null | 0 | 1315780419 | False | 0 | c2j56mr | t3_kawp5 | null | t1_c2j56mr | t1_c2j55ql | null | 1427587495 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | seppo0010 | null | are you saying the algorithm only needs to call IsKnown N times, being N the number of people? | null | 0 | 1315780436 | False | 0 | c2j56p6 | t3_kcf1k | null | t1_c2j56p6 | t1_c2j52j9 | null | 1427587497 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | isarl | null | >If Napster wasn't peer-to-peer but it did let you type the name of a song and then listen to it, it would have been just as popular.
That Spolsky article is prescient for 2001, given that ten years later, Spotify, Rdio, etc., seem to be pretty popular for listening to music, and Netflix for watching movies. | null | 0 | 1315780475 | False | 0 | c2j56vk | t3_kc9ai | null | t1_c2j56vk | t1_c2j4zxd | null | 1427587500 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1315780531 | False | 0 | c2j5748 | t3_kc9ai | null | t1_c2j5748 | t3_kc9ai | null | 1427587502 | -1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | thcobbs | null | >They've accumulated an army of CS PHDs over the years.
So? An idiot with a degree is still an idiot
>Collectively I'd say they have some of the best concentration of minds capable of doing such a thing.
Really? I'd bet more on IBM for that level of expertise.
>Chrome launched with V8 which shows they h... | null | 0 | 1315780544 | False | 0 | c2j576f | t3_kc9ai | null | t1_c2j576f | t1_c2j4tc5 | null | 1427587511 | -8 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | ineedtosleep | null | lulwut? Not sure if serious. | null | 0 | 1315780576 | False | 0 | c2j57be | t3_kc9ai | null | t1_c2j57be | t1_c2j4zsp | null | 1427587504 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | 12358132134 | null | Somebody better tell Stallman what year we live in... Poor guy still lives in 70ties... | null | 0 | 1315780593 | False | 0 | c2j57e3 | t3_kbz68 | null | t1_c2j57e3 | t3_kbz68 | null | 1427587505 | -11 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | dafragsta | null | uuh... considering that Chrome is open source, yes. How could this be bad for the open web? It's time to pretend Microsoft doesn't exist. While we're at it, why even acknowledge ANY non open source browser?`
What's wrong with getting parity performance? | null | 0 | 1315780636 | False | 0 | c2j57l4 | t3_kc9ai | null | t1_c2j57l4 | t3_kc9ai | null | 1427587508 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | I am serious but deliberately provocative. Think about it, what does these languages bring to the table compared to JavaScript? | null | 0 | 1315780665 | False | 0 | c2j57pa | t3_kc9ai | null | t1_c2j57pa | t1_c2j57be | null | 1427587509 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | rizla7 | null | google has been doing this for years. it is anti-competitive bullshit. ever notice how many google pages, like login etc stopped working in all versions of IE a few years ago?
Whereas there are other pages on the net that don't work in one browser or another, it often is not done intentionally.
However, it is impossi... | null | 0 | 1315780678 | False | 0 | c2j57qo | t3_kc9ai | null | t1_c2j57qo | t3_kc9ai | null | 1427587510 | -3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Mourningblade | null | Safari is also webkit, though it's a separate line of development. | null | 0 | 1315780681 | False | 0 | c2j57r4 | t3_kc9ai | null | t1_c2j57r4 | t1_c2j4yq3 | null | 1427587510 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | >The reason it doesn't use STL, is probably historical: Not many years have passed since Microsoft's STL was still horribly buggy.
It's because Qt provides binary compatibility among major versions. If they used the STL they would not be able to ensure this. | null | 0 | 1315780685 | False | 0 | c2j57ro | t3_k85xr | null | t1_c2j57ro | t1_c2ijy5c | null | 1427587510 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Dhekke | null | I said that here months ago. Got downvoted to hell... Now there you go. | null | 0 | 1315780698 | False | 0 | c2j57tl | t3_kc9ai | null | t1_c2j57tl | t3_kc9ai | null | 1427587512 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | fas2 | null | Sorry to ask, but what is Dash? Can't find any useful info about it.
Edit: nevermind, it is in the email. A new language. | null | 0 | 1315780701 | False | 0 | c2j57u1 | t3_kawp5 | null | t1_c2j57u1 | t1_c2iwbfl | null | 1427587512 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | alfador | null | Yes. | null | 0 | 1315780707 | False | 0 | c2j57v6 | t3_kcf1k | null | t1_c2j57v6 | t1_c2j56p6 | null | 1427587512 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | ElSherberto | null | Safari & IE are incredibly important when choosing what technologies to use for real projects.
All iOS devices use Safari, and iOS is hugely influential in terms of mindshare. Even if it's not the most common phone or tablet, it's the one that clients *want to support*. Apple computers have also been growing in ma... | null | 0 | 1315780720 | True | 0 | c2j57wu | t3_kc9ai | null | t1_c2j57wu | t1_c2j4yq3 | null | 1427587513 | 8 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | bigfig | null | I always thought JNLP / Java Web Start were unappreciated as deployment options for corporate intranets. | null | 0 | 1315780745 | False | 0 | c2j580z | t3_kbdp7 | null | t1_c2j580z | t3_kbdp7 | null | 1427587515 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Shaper_pmp | null | True. However, sadly, while evolution doesn't give rise to *beautiful* solutions, it usually gives rise to *successful* ones. VB and PHP were steaming piles of shit, but they were vastly more successful in the marketplace than D or Haskell or the many variants of Lisp will ever be.
Hence the mantra "worse is better"... | null | 0 | 1315780765 | False | 0 | c2j583v | t3_kc9ai | null | t1_c2j583v | t1_c2j553i | null | 1427587517 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | bigfig | null | I am sure Oracle will find a way to mess this up. | null | 0 | 1315780797 | False | 0 | c2j588x | t3_kbdp7 | null | t1_c2j588x | t1_c2j2wl5 | null | 1427587517 | -1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | It's not *that* bad. It's not great, but it's as good as any mainstream dynamically typed language. | null | 0 | 1315780866 | False | 0 | c2j58j7 | t3_kc9ai | null | t1_c2j58j7 | t1_c2j4nav | null | 1427587521 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | >Yes, exactly. The "Not invented here!" mentality. So I have a project that heavily uses STL, now I need to move to Qt for a nice UI and....what?
There is absolutely no reason why you can't use both. Use STL for your model, business logic, and use Qt for the display aspect.
The reason why Qt provides its own dat... | null | 0 | 1315780947 | False | 0 | c2j58vf | t3_k85xr | null | t1_c2j58vf | t1_c2imcbp | null | 1427587524 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | TylerEaves | null | Say that to a windows user where terminal windows are somewhere between a 3rd and 4th class citizen. | null | 0 | 1315780961 | False | 0 | c2j58xm | t3_kbbbu | null | t1_c2j58xm | t1_c2j1n2e | null | 1427587525 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | SoPoOneO | null | What is Dash? I'm Googling, but can't find anything about a computer language or standard. Anyone have a link to an overview? | null | 0 | 1315781019 | False | 0 | c2j596o | t3_kawp5 | null | t1_c2j596o | t1_c2iwb68 | null | 1427587530 | 12 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | adrianmonk | null | No, it's "we make all our money off the web, Javascript makes the web non-optimal, and non-optimal things have a harder time competing with systems like iOS".
Although we redditors may spend a ton of time on our computers on the internet, there are people out there who don't have a computer or laptop and only access t... | null | 0 | 1315781025 | False | 0 | c2j597g | t3_kc9ai | null | t1_c2j597g | t1_c2j55wq | null | 1427587530 | 32 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | > TFS, as a tool, wholehearted embraces the culture of cradle-to-grave hand holding and dispassionate development. Good developers and organizations all have one thing in common: they are hungry.
Good developers are hungry to develop, not jack with their vc/build/bug software all day. The more those tools do, the ... | null | 0 | 1315781077 | False | 0 | c2j59fg | t3_kc5di | null | t1_c2j59fg | t3_kc5di | null | 1427587533 | 15 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | iLiekCaeks | null | What the fuck, this is not a "hidden" feature. | null | 0 | 1315781158 | False | 0 | c2j59r1 | t3_kcew5 | null | t1_c2j59r1 | t3_kcew5 | null | 1427587544 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | sreguera | null | Probably, cut and paste from pdf, where the "ffi" sequence is drawn as a single element due to [ligatures](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Typographic_ligature). | null | 0 | 1315781174 | False | 0 | c2j59ua | t3_kc6bw | null | t1_c2j59ua | t1_c2j4h9t | null | 1427587538 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1315781199 | False | 0 | c2j59ya | t3_kcf1k | null | t1_c2j59ya | t3_kcf1k | null | 1427587538 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | seppo0010 | null | I just figured out how, you are right. | null | 0 | 1315781353 | False | 0 | c2j5akx | t3_kcf1k | null | t1_c2j5akx | t1_c2j57v6 | null | 1427587548 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Shaper_pmp | null | > And then RSS buried the web.
[citation needed] ;-)
RSS has enjoyed some popularity, and it's great for some things, but the one thing it hasn't done is "bury" the web.
Indeed, surprisingly often RSS is used to *feed* other web sites, not replace the web.
RSS is just a transmission mechanism that allows you to ... | null | 0 | 1315781362 | True | 0 | c2j5am7 | t3_kc9ai | null | t1_c2j5am7 | t1_c2j52k3 | null | 1427587548 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | ashadocat | null | Can you name another license that doesn't allow the code to leave the open source software bubble while adding more freedom then the GPL? | null | 0 | 1315781462 | False | 0 | c2j5b1c | t3_kbbbu | null | t1_c2j5b1c | t1_c2j4jgz | null | 1427587554 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | iratefruit | null | That point, which is contentious at best, is completely orthogonal to the original argument.
Chrome is being used in the same way it was originally used, to push the envelop of the web. The V8 engine when it came out forced all browser makers to speed up along side, I call this an improvement. | null | 0 | 1315781484 | False | 0 | c2j5b4v | t3_kc9ai | null | t1_c2j5b4v | t1_c2j55kx | null | 1427587555 | 13 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | SOYOS | null | You can use this Button, if you have many different Versions of Downloads or for different Operating Systems....
| null | 0 | 1315781521 | False | 0 | c2j5bal | t3_kcf54 | null | t1_c2j5bal | t3_kcf54 | null | 1427587557 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | cdsmith | null | You may always feel free to substitute "the conventional definition in math" for "the definition" if it makes you feel better. Of course it's always possible to define things differently. It's just not very interesting.
> Ok, is the empty function constant?
I'd say yes, in the same trivial sense. Wikipedia agre... | null | 0 | 1315781565 | False | 0 | c2j5bhk | t3_kbgvc | null | t1_c2j5bhk | t1_c2j54w8 | null | 1427587559 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | > Something about the pay fee makes people think they're drawn from a pool of statistical outliers as well.
Oddly enough, they are. The paywall itself only filters out the stereotypical dunces who post comments on YouTube/Yahoo Answers, but the reason why MeFites tend to be statistical outliers is the hivemind. Bir... | null | 0 | 1315781568 | False | 0 | c2j5bi7 | t3_kajta | null | t1_c2j5bi7 | t1_c2j2mt3 | null | 1427587560 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1315781589 | False | 0 | c2j5bld | t3_kc9ai | null | t1_c2j5bld | t1_c2j55uh | null | 1427587561 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Synackaon | null | There needs to be a git-tfs command like git-svn. | null | 0 | 1315781744 | False | 0 | c2j5c71 | t3_kc5di | null | t1_c2j5c71 | t1_c2j3mta | null | 1428194458 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | GeorgeForemanGrillz | null | You have Google blinders on. | null | 0 | 1315781749 | False | 0 | c2j5c7u | t3_kc9ai | null | t1_c2j5c7u | t1_c2j51hr | null | 1428194458 | -2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | rizla7 | null | so you're saying, MS has the right to prevent installation of other browsers (or just refuse to support features than allow them to function) on windows then, because it is their product. sounds fair, lets give this a shot. wait a second... wouldn't that be anti-competitive? not like MS has ever done this, but they wer... | null | 0 | 1315781753 | False | 0 | c2j5c8g | t3_kc9ai | null | t1_c2j5c8g | t1_c2j5748 | null | 1428194458 | -1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | sfuerst | null | Right... Start with person 1 as a tentative celebrity. Check if person 1 knows person 2, 3, 4, etc.
Any person that person 1 doesn't know cannot be the celebrity. Conversely, if person 1 does know person m, then person m might be the celebrity, and we know that person 1 is not the celebrity. Now check if person m k... | null | 0 | 1315781756 | False | 0 | c2j5c92 | t3_kcf1k | null | t1_c2j5c92 | t1_c2j52j9 | null | 1428194458 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Ilyanep | null | And yet this article is still on the front-page and most of the people reading the headline won't bother delving into the comments... | null | 0 | 1315781841 | False | 0 | c2j5clo | t3_kc9ai | null | t1_c2j5clo | t1_c2j4fex | null | 1427587575 | 8 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Meyermagic | null | How is this hidden? If you have not been using slices, I can't imagine you have been programming in Python for more than a few minutes.
The Python documentation is very thorough. Relevant information here: [Sequence Types](http://docs.python.org/library/stdtypes.html#sequence-types-str-unicode-list-tuple-bytearray-buf... | null | 0 | 1315781874 | False | 0 | c2j5cqn | t3_kcew5 | null | t1_c2j5cqn | t3_kcew5 | null | 1427587577 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | redditnoob | null | I was referring to [this page](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Empty_function). Anyway, thanks for the clarification.
I will still continue to think that the patterns in math are suggesting in a vague philosophical (and non-mathematical) way that there is something funny about 0^0, even when reasoned about through functi... | null | 0 | 1315781930 | False | 0 | c2j5cz0 | t3_kbgvc | null | t1_c2j5cz0 | t1_c2j5bhk | null | 1427587580 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | adrianmonk | null | > I'd much rather have a new bytecode VM embedded in the browser.
They are trying to retain one of the appealing properties of Javascript: a newbie can get started with it with nothing more than a web browser (which they already have) and Notepad (which they already have). I think that's a very compelling propert... | null | 0 | 1315781955 | False | 0 | c2j5d2r | t3_kc9ai | null | t1_c2j5d2r | t1_c2j4hjd | null | 1427587581 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | > ever notice how many google pages, like login etc stopped working in all versions of IE a few years ago?
That's hearsay, google services all work in IE for me. | null | 0 | 1315782046 | False | 0 | c2j5dg1 | t3_kc9ai | null | t1_c2j5dg1 | t1_c2j57qo | null | 1427587585 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Kaerigan | null | A bearable syntax? | null | 0 | 1315782061 | False | 0 | c2j5di2 | t3_kc9ai | null | t1_c2j5di2 | t1_c2j57pa | null | 1427587585 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | zmeefy | null | I told you I don't feel like reading your mail today. | null | 0 | 1315782075 | True | 0 | c2j5djt | t3_kc9ai | null | t1_c2j5djt | t1_c2j4ta8 | null | 1427587587 | -1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Shaper_pmp | null | > And in another ten years we may get to the point where two different applications can share the same offline files.
Why is that remotely relevant? The whole point of the web is that all your data's on-line, so if apps need to share data they can do it on-line.
And in case you missed it, one of the biggest revol... | null | 0 | 1315782122 | True | 0 | c2j5dr3 | t3_kc9ai | null | t1_c2j5dr3 | t1_c2j51qk | null | 1427587589 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | cdsmith | null | Ah, I see.
Looks like I may be wrong about considering it obvious that the empty function is constant. That's not surprising; I'm often wrong.
I'd have said it was... but like I said, *all* definitions in mathematics are pretty much convention, and are chosen for the purpose of emphasizing one or the other of the as... | null | 0 | 1315782353 | False | 0 | c2j5eq0 | t3_kbgvc | null | t1_c2j5eq0 | t1_c2j5cz0 | null | 1427587612 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | IOveruseSmileys | null | Of the parts that are actually affected, I reckon 100% are open source. At first I was concerned, but thinking about it, this kind of thing just represents a "fork", doesn't it? I mean google are bold enough to try and tackle reengineering the web themselves (using open standards) and since the code is open it's our ch... | null | 0 | 1315782410 | False | 0 | c2j5eyr | t3_kc9ai | null | t1_c2j5eyr | t1_c2j4qqv | null | 1427587606 | 13 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | crotchpoozie | null | All monopolies that have ended were temporary.
I don't think you're using that word correctly. | null | 0 | 1315782410 | False | 0 | c2j5eyt | t3_kawp5 | null | t1_c2j5eyt | t1_c2j4xo7 | null | 1427587606 | 9 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | adrianmonk | null | According to the article, Dash has several points, and some significant ones can be retained even if cross-compiling to Javascript. One of them is better development tools. If Dash ends up with a wonderful IDE (or other set of tools) that everyone loves, that doesn't preclude spitting out Javascript at the end of the... | null | 0 | 1315782415 | False | 0 | c2j5ezq | t3_kc9ai | null | t1_c2j5ezq | t1_c2j3rna | null | 1427587616 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | rizla7 | null | ah, so its ok for google to be anti-competitive, but its not ok for MS. fanboyism at its best. this is why we cant have decent things. | null | 0 | 1315782495 | False | 0 | c2j5faw | t3_kc9ai | null | t1_c2j5faw | t1_c2j57l4 | null | 1427587613 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | IOveruseSmileys | null | I know, right! Everyone should be using the CorbaXMLJSONParserInterfaceFactoryFactory design pattern these days, it's reinventing the wheel! | null | 0 | 1315782498 | False | 0 | c2j5fb8 | t3_kc9ai | null | t1_c2j5fb8 | t1_c2j45ly | null | 1427587613 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | zmeefy | null | Believe it or not ActiveX is an open standard.... Being an open standard does not mean open source, or automatically translate to openness. It's mostly just marketing speak.
Java is an open standard, yet Oracle sued Google. | null | 0 | 1315782500 | False | 0 | c2j5fbh | t3_kc9ai | null | t1_c2j5fbh | t1_c2j4w9c | null | 1427587613 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | RiotingPacifist | null | SPDY / HTML / DASH.
If you go to google.com in chrome it doesn't use http any more. | null | 0 | 1315782513 | False | 0 | c2j5fdh | t3_kawp5 | null | t1_c2j5fdh | t1_c2j53db | null | 1427587622 | 20 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | MarshallBanana | null | Just read the damn thing already. | null | 0 | 1315782524 | False | 0 | c2j5fer | t3_kc9ai | null | t1_c2j5fer | t1_c2j5djt | null | 1427587622 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | NitWit005 | null | If you have evidence that Google is trying to force people to use Chrome through incompatibility, provide it, and I'll happily agree with you.
Vaguely dismissing someone because they said something non-negative about a company isn't exactly contributing anything. | null | 0 | 1315782563 | False | 0 | c2j5fkx | t3_kc9ai | null | t1_c2j5fkx | t1_c2j5c7u | null | 1427587618 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | IOveruseSmileys | null | It's fundamentally too loose. When you can do everything at any moment, the interpreter can't really prepare for anything. | null | 0 | 1315782564 | False | 0 | c2j5fl1 | t3_kc9ai | null | t1_c2j5fl1 | t1_c2j4ncr | null | 1427587618 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | zmeefy | null | Well if smoking dog shit could cause the damage other strong drugs cause I'd certainly feel guilty of my latest trip downtown, if you know what I mean.
> Why not? Is Google a charity or something? Or is Google a very intelligent corporation?
I'd say definitely an intelligent corporation, though lately the level o... | null | 0 | 1315782575 | True | 0 | c2j5fmv | t3_kc9ai | null | t1_c2j5fmv | t1_c2j51hr | null | 1427587616 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | honcas | null | That would probably be a clarification you'd have to ask for in the interview. Presumably everyone (celebrity included) knows themselves.
For the followup question to make any sense, you would need to clarify if celebrities know other celebrities or not. Otherwise, it's a paradox for there to be two celebrities. | null | 0 | 1315782591 | False | 0 | c2j5foq | t3_kcf1k | null | t1_c2j5foq | t1_c2j59ya | null | 1427587619 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | faassen | null | I think it actually probably worked fairly well with some RFCs, though I agree it's probably counterproductive to do it during the very early days, and it probably also depends on the complexity of the project.
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True | jadero | null | I've had a computer since about 1980 and I've been on line in one form or another since about 1982. I recently got a smartphone (Galaxy S running Android) and found that my personal on-line activities shifted almost completely to that platform. I'm composing this on a laptop, but that's because I had some other stuff t... | null | 0 | 1315782673 | True | 0 | c2j5g1j | t3_kc9ai | null | t1_c2j5g1j | t1_c2j597g | null | 1427587628 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | zmeefy | null | There are flying monkeys all over this room. | null | 0 | 1315782702 | True | 0 | c2j5g5f | t3_kc9ai | null | t1_c2j5g5f | t1_c2j5c7u | null | 1427587624 | -2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | naasking | null | > And we all know that the best languages were created by CS PHDs.
They were.
> C and Java were written by PHDs
C was created *over 40 years ago*, when we knew very little about programming languages.
As for Java, languages are not created in a vacuum. There were *business reasons* to design Java the way it i... | null | 0 | 1315782724 | False | 0 | c2j5g8d | t3_kc9ai | null | t1_c2j5g8d | t1_c2j4w1p | null | 1427587635 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1315782759 | False | 0 | c2j5gdp | t3_kcew5 | null | t1_c2j5gdp | t1_c2j59r1 | null | 1427587628 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | zmeefy | null | The evidence is written on walls from dog shit splattered in dirty hands. I'm just going to dismiss you with a vague and non-specific citation this time, I'm sorry.
So tell me, how did you become a religious Google fanboy anyway? Everyone who doesn't hate them sufficiently is a fanboy now?
Most companies do not, in f... | null | 0 | 1315782788 | True | 0 | c2j5ghm | t3_kc9ai | null | t1_c2j5ghm | t1_c2j5fkx | null | 1427587631 | -1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | MarshallBanana | null | Pretty much.
If you want to speculate about their ulterior motives, they are pretty obvious: Google has huge codebases they need to maintain, and doing so in Javascript is more work than it should be, so they would like there to be a widely-accepted language that creates less hassles for them. They would also like to ... | null | 0 | 1315782788 | False | 0 | c2j5ghp | t3_kc9ai | null | t1_c2j5ghp | t1_c2j4ybr | null | 1427587631 | 96 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | zmeefy | null | OK, I'm in there. You got 3 unread messages, one very special from a certain Suq Madiq from India. | null | 0 | 1315782865 | True | 0 | c2j5gub | t3_kc9ai | null | t1_c2j5gub | t1_c2j5fer | null | 1427587635 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | MarshallBanana | null | > Yes. My point is merely that the stated reason for needing to do so that I quoted is bunk.
What good would it do them to lie about their own motivations in an internal memo? | null | 0 | 1315782872 | False | 0 | c2j5gvj | t3_kc9ai | null | t1_c2j5gvj | t1_c2j4x1o | null | 1427587635 | 10 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | MarshallBanana | null | Everyone bitched quite a bit more when the W3C sat around doing utterly meaningless work on XHTML 2.0 for years. | null | 0 | 1315782918 | False | 0 | c2j5h2h | t3_kawp5 | null | t1_c2j5h2h | t1_c2j4w5w | null | 1427587637 | 18 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | > The web buried all its competing media because it was accessible, scriptable, parseable and pretty enough.
Consider a wider perspective -- web vs rich clients not only on mobile devices, but also on the PC.
I believe that the main advantage of web-based applications was security by default. Sure, there can be ho... | null | 0 | 1315782927 | True | 0 | c2j5h3v | t3_kc9ai | null | t1_c2j5h3v | t1_c2j4si3 | null | 1427587637 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | dafragsta | null | How is it anti-competitive if everyone has the source code? If anything, it's almost Stallmanesque. | null | 0 | 1315782948 | False | 0 | c2j5h6l | t3_kc9ai | null | t1_c2j5h6l | t1_c2j5faw | null | 1427587648 | -2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | MarshallBanana | null | Did you read it yet? | null | 0 | 1315782952 | False | 0 | c2j5h6y | t3_kc9ai | null | t1_c2j5h6y | t1_c2j5gub | null | 1427587648 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | teepark | null | my goodness. I didn't make any value statement or recommendation. you asked a question, I provided an answer. FWIW, I can't stand the all-async style. but by all means, shoot the messenger. | null | 0 | 1315782953 | False | 0 | c2j5h7a | t3_kb35n | null | t1_c2j5h7a | t1_c2j0g86 | null | 1427587648 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | nascentt | null | TIL. Pity, I shall have to avoid using that phrase in the future. | null | 0 | 1315782955 | False | 0 | c2j5h7o | t3_kc9ai | null | t1_c2j5h7o | t1_c2j5fbh | null | 1428194457 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | NitWit005 | null | > Why not? Is Google a charity or something? Or is Google a very intelligent corporation?
It is possible to succeed just by making a better product. That is how most companies do it.
> Open source is more efficient than closed source. Google isn't releasing it because they're nice, they're going open source bec... | null | 0 | 1315783003 | False | 0 | c2j5hew | t3_kc9ai | null | t1_c2j5hew | t1_c2j5fmv | null | 1427587647 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | naasking | null | [Client-side certificates](http://www.google.ca/search?q=client-side+certificates) | null | 0 | 1315783032 | False | 0 | c2j5hja | t3_kc9ai | null | t1_c2j5hja | t1_c2j4k7z | null | 1427587649 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | 43v3r | null | Windows and? | null | 0 | 1315783036 | False | 0 | c2j5hjr | t3_kawp5 | null | t1_c2j5hjr | t1_c2j50yj | null | 1427587649 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | markrmarkr | null | *This is a leaked internal document, isn't it?*
No, it's a message posted to a public discussion list a year ago. | null | 0 | 1315783072 | False | 0 | c2j5hp2 | t3_kawp5 | null | t1_c2j5hp2 | t1_c2ivucx | null | 1427587650 | 31 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | cpp_is_king | null | I like the part where people are waking up to the realization that being a corporation means putting profit first | null | 0 | 1315783271 | False | 0 | c2j5ii1 | t3_kc9ai | null | t1_c2j5ii1 | t3_kc9ai | null | 1427587658 | -2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | millstone | null | Thanks, I wasn't aware of the controversy there. It seems to be the same situation: we can choose whether or not the empty set is connected, which makes some theorems simpler and others less simple, but doesn't really change anything important.
If I encountered an unexplained 0^0 in a paper, I'd probably just think th... | null | 0 | 1315783344 | False | 0 | c2j5ist | t3_kbgvc | null | t1_c2j5ist | t1_c2j11zm | null | 1427587665 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | ker2x | null | indeed :( | null | 0 | 1315783404 | False | 0 | c2j5j1m | t3_kc6bw | null | t1_c2j5j1m | t1_c2j59ua | null | 1427587668 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | NitWit005 | null | I ask for evidence and just get dismissed again with a vague and non-specific citation. How helpful. How did I become a religious Google fanboy anyway? Everyone who doesn't hate them sufficiently is a fanboy now?
Most companies do not, in fact, try to break their software in strange ways to lock their customers. in. A... | null | 0 | 1315783414 | False | 0 | c2j5j32 | t3_kc9ai | null | t1_c2j5j32 | t1_c2j5ghm | null | 1427587670 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Shaper_pmp | null | I didn't intend to imply it was an intentional lie - just that it was silly and inaccurate.
I suspect various groups and departments (or just individuals) in Google are just as susceptible to group-think, myopia and/or wishful thinking as anywhere else... and if you're working on a replacement language for Javascript,... | null | 0 | 1315783434 | False | 0 | c2j5j62 | t3_kc9ai | null | t1_c2j5j62 | t1_c2j5gvj | null | 1427587670 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | julesjacobs | null | **SPOILER ALERT**
Let S be the set of celebrity candidates. Take any two people a and b in S. Then from the value of knows(a,b) you can remove one of these two people from the set: if knows(a,b) is true then a cannot be the celebrity and if it is false then b cannot be the celebrity. Repeat until #S=1. | null | 0 | 1315783437 | False | 0 | c2j5j6k | t3_kcf1k | null | t1_c2j5j6k | t3_kcf1k | null | 1427587670 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | happyscrappy | null | Says a guy from Mozilla.
And?
Mozilla stands to lose out financially if Chrome does well.
Sorry, the Mozilla guys currently have taken their eye off the ball and are losing out. Now they think trash-talking Google is the answer.
I'm glad we have competition in the browser space. It saves us both from Google's misst... | null | 0 | 1315783464 | False | 0 | c2j5jaj | t3_kawp5 | null | t1_c2j5jaj | t1_c2ivucx | null | 1427587672 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | X-Fi6 | null | Lots of movie stars know each other personally. | null | 0 | 1315783613 | False | 0 | c2j5jxk | t3_kcf1k | null | t1_c2j5jxk | t1_c2j5c92 | null | 1427587683 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | redderritter | null | You can always compile Chrome yourself and verify by hand that no unapproved data-mining is happening.
Edit: ElSherberto is correct that the open-source project for Chrome is Chromium and that you cannot compile the publicly-available version of the Chrome browser. | null | 0 | 1315783630 | True | 0 | c2j5k01 | t3_kc9ai | null | t1_c2j5k01 | t1_c2j55kx | null | 1428194454 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | rizla7 | null | its not hearsay... just look it up, or try it yourself, a lot of google logins/signups dont work (or at least didnt work for many months) in IE, and this happened more than once. this apps thing is no different than google docs/wave/maps etc which all at times didn't work in IE. in wave, IE support was dropped complete... | null | 0 | 1315783689 | False | 0 | c2j5k7w | t3_kc9ai | null | t1_c2j5k7w | t1_c2j5dg1 | null | 1427587687 | -2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | zmeefy | null | So tell me how did you conclude you got herpes from your best friend? | null | 0 | 1315783704 | True | 0 | c2j5ka2 | t3_kc9ai | null | t1_c2j5ka2 | t1_c2j5j32 | null | 1427587687 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | NitWit005 | null | It's this amazing thing called "logic". You use facts and evidence to try to reason about the world. | null | 0 | 1315783792 | False | 0 | c2j5kmn | t3_kc9ai | null | t1_c2j5kmn | t1_c2j5ka2 | null | 1427587692 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | zmeefy | null | Warning to anyone arriving now: Don't you dare criticize Google on this discussion or I'll reap your ass in two and feed you to my pitbull trained frogs.
Nothing to see here guys, move on. | null | 0 | 1315783870 | True | 0 | c2j5kxl | t3_kc9ai | null | t1_c2j5kxl | t3_kc9ai | null | 1427587695 | -2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | seiggy | null | hehe, the way I rank them in terms of worse to best is:
Source Safe
SVN
Serena Dimensions
CVS
TFS
the rest. (git, mercurial, etc)
so yeah, I agree it's a slightly better VSS | null | 0 | 1315783926 | False | 0 | c2j5l78 | t3_kc5di | null | t1_c2j5l78 | t1_c2j3bfc | null | 1427587697 | -1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | FredFnord | null | You used 'perl' and 'best languages' in the same sentence.
The only way to write good code in perl is to make sure that it isn't perl. | null | 0 | 1315783964 | False | 0 | c2j5ldi | t3_kc9ai | null | t1_c2j5ldi | t1_c2j4w1p | null | 1427587698 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | FredFnord | null | Perl? Are you for real? | null | 0 | 1315784008 | False | 0 | c2j5ljr | t3_kc9ai | null | t1_c2j5ljr | t1_c2j5di2 | null | 1427587699 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | igouy | null | > Then I thought about it for some time and changed my mind.
The thing that just a few days ago you were so completely convinced was correct that you shouted it out, you now think is wrong - maybe we should wait another few days and see what you think then? :-)
> I'm afraid I don't understand what you're trying... | null | 0 | 1315784030 | False | 0 | c2j5ln2 | t3_k58pi | null | t1_c2j5ln2 | t1_c2j3irr | null | 1427587700 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | seiggy | null | Not sure, that thing was purchased and setup before I got to the company. I was just happy to get rid of it. It supposedly had a SVN plugin, but we never could get it to connect to the SVN repo, and the VS plugin for it would crash VS no matter what you did. | null | 0 | 1315784051 | False | 0 | c2j5lpo | t3_kc5di | null | t1_c2j5lpo | t1_c2j4ix0 | null | 1427587702 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
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