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True | MongrelNymph | null | just curious, why would anyone want to spend time developing or playing this when the new star wars mmo is about to come out? | null | 0 | 1315844961 | False | 0 | c2jbamq | t3_kctmn | null | t1_c2jbamq | t3_kctmn | null | 1427590459 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | html5 | null | better title: "New site on Apache's open source search technology" | null | 0 | 1315845042 | False | 0 | c2jbb06 | t3_kd6ni | null | t1_c2jbb06 | t3_kd6ni | null | 1427590459 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | grauenwolf | null | The VM for Silverlight isn't proprietary. | null | 0 | 1315845069 | False | 0 | c2jbb56 | t3_kcwx2 | null | t1_c2jbb56 | t1_c2j9okp | null | 1427590462 | -4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | troymg | null | this is crazy talk. first of all "dotnet" didn't exist whatsoever in 1993 - hell, VB6 (ugh) wasn't even out then. besides which, Microsoft is backing off of Silverlight and using HTML5 for the next gen UIs in Windows 8 and Mango.
fwiw, I was a .Net developer from launch until last year. I'm still [highly active in .Net OSS](https://github.com/troygoode), so I'm not just being a MSFT hater
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True | macrk | null | I think they mean the original version of the mmorpg Star Wars Galaxies | null | 0 | 1315845135 | False | 0 | c2jbbgq | t3_kctmn | null | t1_c2jbbgq | t1_c2jb5hi | null | 1427590464 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | TraxTech | null | PGCluster seems dead (last release is almost two years old)
PGPool introduces a single point of failure (no HA) | null | 0 | 1315845147 | False | 0 | c2jbbim | t3_kd0x9 | null | t1_c2jbbim | t1_c2jb8l5 | null | 1427590465 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | ICCULUSC | null | I know, I'm just a dick about phrasing. | null | 0 | 1315845195 | False | 0 | c2jbbqu | t3_kctmn | null | t1_c2jbbqu | t1_c2jbbgq | null | 1427590467 | -7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | October 10... did you not read the link? | null | 0 | 1315845211 | False | 0 | c2jbbtb | t3_kcwx2 | null | t1_c2jbbtb | t1_c2j9rtz | null | 1427590474 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | merlinm | null | sure. note the only thing I'm saying here is with current synch rep you have to handle outages (1+) at the network level and redirect *all* query activity to a new master chosen out of the slave pool. going multi master doesn't really buy you a whole lot -- you still have to relocate clients that were attached to the old slave (arguably simpler, but...) and the performance savings by distributing client workload do not compensate the more complicated architecture. | null | 0 | 1315845219 | False | 0 | c2jbbuh | t3_kd0x9 | null | t1_c2jbbuh | t1_c2jbacr | null | 1427590474 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | grauenwolf | null | > you'll need a windows server,
Why? | null | 0 | 1315845259 | False | 0 | c2jbc25 | t3_kcwx2 | null | t1_c2jbc25 | t1_c2ja4v6 | null | 1427590471 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | gthank | null | If I find I need to email a technical specification, I usually send the whole thing as a separate attachment (even though I use a desktop email client for work), but I can see how that would be a bad use case for GMail. Here's hoping they improve things so you can insert inline photos. | null | 0 | 1315845281 | False | 0 | c2jbc5r | t3_kc9ai | null | t1_c2jbc5r | t1_c2jb8vu | null | 1427590472 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | They should call the language ActiveG.
Google has a lot of technologies that could be moved to this new, alternative programming language - Chrome, Android, AppEngine. But Microsoft tried all of this before and it sounds exactly like ActiveX all over again. I think this is a desperate attempt for a company trying to remain relevant.
A lot of developers dislike Google, myself included. I see them as a sort of undead virus version of Microsoft. They release their products for free, hoping to stalk their users and turn them into the product. The centralized computing world that Google is trying to create, which makes them the center of everything, is exactly the sort of Orwellian computing nightmare that I want to avoid. | null | 0 | 1315845343 | False | 0 | c2jbcgg | t3_kcwx2 | null | t1_c2jbcgg | t3_kcwx2 | null | 1427590476 | 9 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | grauenwolf | null | It's only "open source" if you intend to only use it in projects that are completely open source. That means it isn't usable for commerical web browsers such as Opera.
And without an open standard no one can make their own version of the JRE without facing a lawsuit. | null | 0 | 1315845456 | False | 0 | c2jbczu | t3_kcwx2 | null | t1_c2jbczu | t1_c2jaxb0 | null | 1427590483 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | stun | null | The author seems like the typical masochistic open-source-crazy developer who likes to make their life more difficult.
I agree that TFS has its own weaknesses.
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But for him to suggest others to stitch together a myriad number of open source products, which sometimes can be very badly documented, is counterproductive. Therefore, I disagree with his post. | null | 0 | 1315845513 | False | 0 | c2jbd8c | t3_kc5di | null | t1_c2jbd8c | t3_kc5di | null | 1427590486 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | naturalistdag | null | Superb Point. Try Amazon online Huge Savings. Make use of this link to save on many ebooks from Amazon. Save about 99% on everything this year http://tinyurl.com/3gg7jwm
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True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1315845638 | False | 0 | c2jbdum | t3_kbdgw | null | t1_c2jbdum | t1_c2jaiqv | null | 1427590494 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | FlyingBishop | null | I can buy an Android 3.0 device, but I do not have access to the source. The manufacturer has access to the source, Google has access to the source, but I do not. That's no different from buying a closed-source machine - the fact that the source has a permissive license is irrelevant if it's not distributed.
Permissive license != open source unless the source is released. | null | 0 | 1315845764 | False | 0 | c2jbehr | t3_kawp5 | null | t1_c2jbehr | t1_c2j81vj | null | 1427590509 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | stillalone | null | Not as cool as the goatse operator in Perl =()=
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True | bretthoerner | null | lol, where on earth did you get that from my response?
My problem is that you don't seem to understand the (lack of) a difference between a fully interpreted runtime and a bytecode VM in regards to how "integrated" it is with everything else. Bytecode VMs don't suddenly open you up to world of exploits.
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True | cgibbard | null | Well, the type system has been compared to bondage before, but in my experience, it lets me get away with being a whole lot *less* disciplined while writing code.
Not having an expressive static type system doesn't mean you don't have to think about the properties that the types would express if they were there. It just means that you're personally responsible for those properties rather than letting the compiler do that job.
A type is a property of my program that I don't have to worry about enforcing, because the compiler will let me know if I ever break it.
I can get away with doing things like making some type-breaking change to a piece of code, and then just run the compiler over the result iteratively to find all the places where I need to continue working, and when it finally compiles, it almost always also works. It's pretty nice, especially when working with and trying to navigate through someone else's code. | null | 0 | 1315845949 | True | 0 | c2jbff8 | t3_kbgvc | null | t1_c2jbff8 | t1_c2ja751 | null | 1427590516 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | jmelesky | null | > what MSSQL does *not* have is
... exactly what the new Postgresql feature is. The other features you mention have been around for at least two years.
I'm not sure what you're talking about when you say "mixing transactions", as all of it would happens in a single statement, and thus within a single transaction or checkpoint. There's [an example of a reasonable use case](http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/What%27s_new_in_PostgreSQL_9.1#Writeable_Common_Table_Expressions) that might give you a better idea of the feature. | null | 0 | 1315845962 | False | 0 | c2jbfhl | t3_kd0x9 | null | t1_c2jbfhl | t1_c2jb5vz | null | 1427590518 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | JoeCoder | null | > there was a second phone call
The plot thickens! How long until this hits Hollywood? | null | 0 | 1315846036 | False | 0 | c2jbfvc | t3_kaxjq | null | t1_c2jbfvc | t1_c2j3m8z | null | 1427590522 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | Many, maybe even the majority, of buildings in the US with 13 or more floors will do something with the numbering so that there is no floor 13. | null | 0 | 1315846044 | False | 0 | c2jbfx9 | t3_kbdgw | null | t1_c2jbfx9 | t1_c2j4miy | null | 1427590522 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | TraxTech | null | DB are complicated, so must be replication ;)
I guess I'll have to stick with ha-jdbc for the foreseeable future. | null | 0 | 1315846045 | False | 0 | c2jbfxc | t3_kd0x9 | null | t1_c2jbfxc | t1_c2jbbuh | null | 1427590522 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | codesapien | null | http://nodejs.org | null | 0 | 1315846074 | False | 0 | c2jbg2x | t3_kcwx2 | null | t1_c2jbg2x | t1_c2jadur | null | 1427590523 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | mcguire | null | > **Erlang isn't general purpose**
>
> Erlang hates state. It especially hates shared state.... What should you do if you want to deal with a shared-state concurrency program in Erlang? The general advice is: don't. Erlang isn't designed for solving shared-state concurrency problems.
Could someone explain to me what a "shared-state concurrency *problem*" is? I've got a reasonable handle on what a "shared-state concurrency *algorithm*" would be, and I'm perfectly comfortable with something like a "shared-state concurrency *data structure*" or perhaps even a "shared-state concurrency *solution*".
But I've never run across a *problem* that came with a requirement that *thou shalt use shared-state concurrency*. Maybe some kind of class assignment or something?
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True | fcuk_yeah | null | you should be down voted to hell and back for misguiding people, el-get isn't the official package manager of emacs, the appropriately named package.el is (and it defaults to the ELPA [ elpa.gnu.org ] repo) | null | 0 | 1315846131 | False | 0 | c2jbgc1 | t3_kbz68 | null | t1_c2jbgc1 | t1_c2j1rnh | null | 1427590527 | -2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | AlSweigart | null | Thanks :) | null | 0 | 1315846145 | False | 0 | c2jbgeb | t3_kbbbu | null | t1_c2jbgeb | t1_c2ixeac | null | 1427590527 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | Reusing Titles Considered Harmful, or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying And Love the $LANGUAGE Ghetto...
I like titles like that because it's a blatant notice that the article will suck. It's as noticeable as lighting flares, or hosting things on a Gawker Media website.
I also ignore any posts that append the -gate suffix to anything. | null | 0 | 1315846159 | False | 0 | c2jbggg | t3_kcpdg | null | t1_c2jbggg | t1_c2j981m | null | 1427590528 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | lanbanger | null | Yup, or Google support it for a while, get a few players involved, and then pull the plug as they have on a number of their other products.
Why write a new language anyway? C# for example could be thinned out and turned in to a pretty good client-side scripting language in my opinion. It may work differently underneath to the Microsoft CLR version, but at least there would already be a core of developers who know the syntax. | null | 0 | 1315846161 | False | 0 | c2jbggo | t3_kcwx2 | null | t1_c2jbggo | t1_c2jbcgg | null | 1427590528 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | AlSweigart | null | Mom, stop using sock accounts to praise me. It's embarrassing. | null | 0 | 1315846190 | False | 0 | c2jbglf | t3_kbbbu | null | t1_c2jbglf | t1_c2ixnhv | null | 1427590531 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | Uhhhh, yeah, perhaps we're taking our Emacs package managers a little too seriously? I didn't intend to imply anything about the "official" and "appropriately named" package manager. I just like el-get. Which uses ELPA packages (and many others) transparently. Sheesh. | null | 0 | 1315846243 | False | 0 | c2jbgtv | t3_kbz68 | null | t1_c2jbgtv | t1_c2jbgc1 | null | 1427590533 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | jsled | null | The real article, BTW, is at http://www.java7developer.com/blog/?p=361 . javacodegeeks needs to stop stealing people's content. | null | 0 | 1315846249 | False | 0 | c2jbgvi | t3_kcvv3 | null | t1_c2jbgvi | t3_kcvv3 | null | 1427590535 | 17 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | yellowjacketcoder | null | Yes, this was in 2340. I am well aware that Squeak is a dialect of Smalltalk. I am also aware of the "but it's truly OO" reasoning for using it to teach Objects and Design.
It was not good at that. It wasn't good at it's original idea of being good to teach kids programming, and it wasn't better at showing college students "a truly OO language". I'm not saying this as a smalltalk hater, it was an easy language to pick up and I did fine in the course, but using it for the course had more to do with professor hubris than utility at getting concepts across. I've taken courses in Lisp and Lisp dialects (Scheme), and honestly, the language is just not that important to getting concepts across.
As an aside, I believe 2340 is taught in C# now. | null | 0 | 1315846336 | False | 0 | c2jbh8z | t3_kcii9 | null | t1_c2jbh8z | t1_c2jaw13 | null | 1427590539 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | TheWix | null | Perforce is excellent. Used it when I was with GE. Very very powerful. Although we were migrating from SS so there may be a bias there. I think at that point any source control system that didn't cause me to fear corruption at every commit was a good system. | null | 0 | 1315846397 | False | 0 | c2jbhix | t3_kc5di | null | t1_c2jbhix | t1_c2jasq4 | null | 1428194375 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | teamjimmyy | null | It's way less fun when you include all the facts. :) | null | 0 | 1315846412 | False | 0 | c2jbhm1 | t3_kcwx2 | null | t1_c2jbhm1 | t1_c2jayix | null | 1427590544 | 9 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | pnpbios | null | Internet explorer holds 40+ percent of the marketshare. They are not going to implement Dart natively. Google will have to write an activex component or a browser plugin to enable it.
Cross compiling to ecmascript is absolutely essential for early adaptation. | null | 0 | 1315846416 | False | 0 | c2jbhmo | t3_kcwx2 | null | t1_c2jbhmo | t1_c2jb9qk | null | 1427590544 | 14 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | richthegeek | null | Having gone to uni with 7 years of programming under my belt and being surrounded by people who were basically starting from scratch, I can tell you two important things if you ever hope to teach anyone a damn thing:
1. Make the lesson relevant to something they've seen (AJAX coolness over data-structure bores). This becomes less important over time.
2. Keep the number of lessons in an example to the minimum possible. The first lesson you have doesn't use arrays, context, multiple methods, visibility etc, it's just variables and simple math. Extending this throughout the initial weeks it's always introduce a single idea at a time or people get confused (often conflating the ideas if they are introduced simulataneously).
Further, I can say with much first-hand experience that it takes upwards of 3 months for newbs to even come close to understanding OOP. They usually don't get the difference between a class and an instance of it, or why the methods of a class aren't available in other classes, or how inheritance/extending works, or really ANY of the core ideas therein.
So taking into account rules 1+2 - shying away from PDO allows the learner to focus on the important bits.
That said, PDO is the way forward so a little disclaimer at the end saying "Real programmers use PDO" wouldn't be out of place.
Finally, fuck your language elitism, you hairy cock. | null | 0 | 1315846429 | False | 0 | c2jbhos | t3_kc166 | null | t1_c2jbhos | t1_c2j9vwo | null | 1427590545 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | rich97 | null | You realize that Google apps are all online? It's not about what backend technology you use (though I'm sure they would prefer people to not use proprietary languages of their competitors.) They need fast and accessible (easy to develop) client-side interaction because their aim is to move users and developers from an offline to an online paradigm. | null | 0 | 1315846490 | False | 0 | c2jbhzj | t3_kcwx2 | null | t1_c2jbhzj | t1_c2javub | null | 1427590549 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | kaiken1987 | null | Could we have this added to the sidebar? | null | 0 | 1315846498 | False | 0 | c2jbi11 | t3_kaytk | null | t1_c2jbi11 | t3_kaytk | null | 1427590551 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1315846666 | False | 0 | c2jbiuq | t3_k7o9e | null | t1_c2jbiuq | t3_k7o9e | null | 1427590560 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | schveiguy | null | There are two sides to a phone call. Walter is on one side, someone else must have been talking to him.
Seeing as how the phone call "misinterpretation" is mostly to the detriment of Tango, I find it hard to believe the other party on the phone has not come forward to dispell the "myths" of the phone call or its description, unless the description is accurate. God knows that if it was *me* getting misrepresented, I'd be defending myself in any way possible.
If what you say is true, then this is a blatant misrepresentation by Walter: http://lists.puremagic.com/pipermail/phobos/2010-April/000346.html I don't see how you can "misinterpret" that. Why doesn't the other party defend or clarify their statements?
The only statement we got from Tango is here: http://lists.puremagic.com/pipermail/phobos/2010-April/000370.html , which mostly states how Tango is in a pickle with regards to licensing, but briefly argues that copying Tango APIs is "difficult" without actually reading the source. It's a funny way of saying "yes, we believe it's a copy" without actually saying it.
I'd love to see a completion to this, but it seems like the only one interested in making clear statements is Walter, and everything he says goes against what all the Tango defenders say. The difference is, none of the Tango defenders are actually the ones who were on the phone. So I'll ask *you*, how about the real version of the whole story from the *ACTUAL PERSON* who talked to Walter?
None of this has changed my opinion/interpretation, which I stated openly here:
http://www.digitalmars.com/webnews/newsgroups.php?art_group=digitalmars.D.announce&article_id=18666 | null | 0 | 1315846674 | False | 0 | c2jbiw6 | t3_kaxjq | null | t1_c2jbiw6 | t1_c2j3m8z | null | 1427590560 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
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True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1315846764 | False | 0 | c2jbjdp | t3_kczbt | null | t1_c2jbjdp | t3_kczbt | null | 1427590567 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | nascent | null | I write all my code in Python 4, and I hate it. I don't know why they haven't built a compiler for it yet. And the documentation sucks! I'm going to stick with C-2015 at least I know that won't change on me. | null | 0 | 1315846774 | False | 0 | c2jbjfe | t3_ka4h8 | null | t1_c2jbjfe | t1_c2ip1cq | null | 1427590568 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | AlSweigart | null | Yes, but I wanted to have something that could add on to an existing library rather than yet-another-library. Also, this way the terminal console doesn't have to be the entire UI for the program. You can easily have the Pygcurse console drawn to a different surface (say, if you are making a game and you want a monospaced hacker-ish terminal in it, or simply want a debug terminal).
Its just a matter of calling the "myPygcurseSurfObj.blitTo(windowSurface)" method.
I should probably come up with a cook book style reference material for this library to answer these kinds of questions. | null | 0 | 1315846776 | False | 0 | c2jbjfl | t3_kbbbu | null | t1_c2jbjfl | t1_c2iysk2 | null | 1427590568 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | lanbanger | null | Damn right, and you can have a firing party straight afterwards too. | null | 0 | 1315846786 | False | 0 | c2jbjh8 | t3_kczbt | null | t1_c2jbjh8 | t1_c2jb16x | null | 1427590568 | 13 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | cdsmith | null | > Please note version 2.0 is a significant new release, but is 2.0 solely because 1.8 + 0.2 = 2.0
*sigh*
So add MongoDB to the list of those that don't understand version numbers. | null | 0 | 1315846842 | False | 0 | c2jbjq7 | t3_kd5f6 | null | t1_c2jbjq7 | t3_kd5f6 | null | 1427590572 | 15 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | lanbanger | null | I agree. However, to be fair to him, he does appear to be about 20 years old. Most developers are insufferable shits at that age. Nothing in his profile suggests to me that he's likely to improve with age, however.
EDIT
Activities and Societies: Aberystwyth Photography Society Safety Officer (2009-2010)
I bet he kept the flourescent jacket and had his name emblazoned on it too. | null | 0 | 1315846913 | False | 0 | c2jbk36 | t3_kczbt | null | t1_c2jbk36 | t1_c2jb04o | null | 1427590577 | 15 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | jgw | null | This is a stunningly uninformed comment. First off, practically all complex Ajax apps perform at least client-side UA-sniffing, and will break in some way if said sniffing fails. This is an unavoidable consequence of the gigantic morass of incompatibilities that is the web today. You can get to a certain point with "feature detection", but there's a nearly unbounded set of cases where this doesn't cut it.
Second, GWT (like many purely-Javascript libraries) lets you work directly with the native browser APIs, and there are some libraries available that abstract this away to some extent. This is true of everything from Dojo to YUI to jQueryUI and others.
Third, only a subset of Google properties are built using GWT. Many (e.g., Gmail) use the Closure libraries, which *also* provides similar (and similarly optional) abstractions for components.
Finally, tablet and mobile web UIs are a very new, and rapidly evolving space. New versions of mobile browsers come out frequently. This leads to unavoidable hiccups as web developers learn to work with the entirely new set of quirks, performance issues, and differences across mobile browsers. | null | 0 | 1315846936 | False | 0 | c2jbk7k | t3_kc9ai | null | t1_c2jbk7k | t1_c2j9wtg | null | 1427590578 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | AlSweigart | null | I saw a way to add something to the Pygame library. Also, several things about curses's legacy cruft annoys me (e.g. typing coordinates as y, x instead of x, y)
Also, because Pygcurse is built on Pygame, you can easily use all of Pygame's drawing functions in case you want to use non-ascii graphics mixed in. And with Pygcurse it only takes five lines of code to turn a normal Python stdio into a Pygcurse one that has color.
Basically, I didn't want to throw in yet-another "Brand New!" bespoke implementation that people would have to entirely switch to. | null | 0 | 1315847173 | False | 0 | c2jblg2 | t3_kbbbu | null | t1_c2jblg2 | t1_c2j0nxf | null | 1427590594 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | cybertron7 | null | player housing is working, most professions work pretty good. | null | 0 | 1315847280 | False | 0 | c2jbm0f | t3_kctmn | null | t1_c2jbm0f | t1_c2jaw95 | null | 1427590610 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | This proclamation would be more interesting after the factor of 2 improvements stop rolling out regularly.
> As Google pointed out, many of the properties that make Javascript Javascript are very performance-hostile.
There is a point of diminishing returns, but a JIT compiler only gains more and more information as the code runs to replace arbitrarily large blocks of code with optimized machine code. If you have some specific arguments about hard limits to projects like PyPy for Python, those could be discussed, but as a sweeping general statement it just is not true that dynamic code prevents compilation into optimized machine code using the information available to a JIT. | null | 0 | 1315847359 | False | 0 | c2jbmer | t3_kc9ai | null | t1_c2jbmer | t1_c2j4ncr | null | 1427590607 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | rizla7 | null | that isn't the point. the point being that you are introducing more security vulnerabilities for some thing that shouldn't be exposed to them. the html scripting facility... seriously... i don't know why people can't see that a script is *meant* to be a script, not an app. | null | 0 | 1315847362 | False | 0 | c2jbmf6 | t3_kcwx2 | null | t1_c2jbmf6 | t1_c2jbhmo | null | 1427590607 | -13 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | rich97 | null | Yes because it couldn't possibly be that the entirety of r/programming are making valid points towards you and you're doing the equivalent of "LALALALA. I can't hear you .NET is the best platform to every grace this earth." | null | 0 | 1315847371 | False | 0 | c2jbmgr | t3_kcwx2 | null | t1_c2jbmgr | t1_c2jbjbc | null | 1427590619 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | kankeroo | null | Why won't someone put lua in the browser? Luajit would be grand. | null | 0 | 1315847543 | False | 0 | c2jbndm | t3_kcwx2 | null | t1_c2jbndm | t3_kcwx2 | null | 1427590629 | 9 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | pnpbios | null | I don't understand how malformed Dart could be any worse than malformed ECMAScript. Your argument relies on JavaScript itself being insecure, which it probably is, but Dart isn't going to be any worse. A sandbox inside a sandbox. | null | 0 | 1315847609 | False | 0 | c2jbnpp | t3_kcwx2 | null | t1_c2jbnpp | t1_c2jbmf6 | null | 1427590630 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | the-cakeboss | null | I don't understand why it is such a problem that Google develops entirely new technologies. If people choose to adopt them because they are better then that is a win for everyone...no? | null | 0 | 1315847629 | False | 0 | c2jbntl | t3_kcwx2 | null | t1_c2jbntl | t1_c2jamil | null | 1427590632 | 10 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | joejance | null | Having worked with C++ on and off from 1992 through around 2005 and witnessing the process I cannot disagree with that statement strongly enough. The evolution of C++, the various committees and vendor standards was a complete and total clusterfuck. I don't know why you bring VB into it; whether any other language had good or bad evolution doesn't take away from the mess that was the evolution of C++, and that the result could have been so much cleaner and standardized so much faster. | null | 0 | 1315847651 | False | 0 | c2jbnxd | t3_kcwx2 | null | t1_c2jbnxd | t1_c2jb58c | null | 1427590633 | 18 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | cdsmith | null | > I think if wrapping up simple programming tasks in a linear FPS story is what it takes to engage someone enough to learn to program, they probably aren't cut out to be a programmer.
I tend to agree. If this had pedagogical benefits, it'd be one thing... but the first-person shooter aspect seems to have very little to do with the actual learning of programming. It's just more crap thrown in that you have to deal with on top of programming. | null | 0 | 1315847657 | False | 0 | c2jbnyb | t3_kcii9 | null | t1_c2jbnyb | t1_c2ja3z0 | null | 1427590633 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | dar512 | null | No ODBC or JDBC support. | null | 0 | 1315847720 | False | 0 | c2jboac | t3_kd5f6 | null | t1_c2jboac | t3_kd5f6 | null | 1427590635 | -20 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | jimbolla | null | It's not refactoring if it's not covered by unit tests. :D | null | 0 | 1315847822 | False | 0 | c2jboth | t3_kczbt | null | t1_c2jboth | t1_c2jaf3a | null | 1427590639 | 10 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | the-cakeboss | null | What is the problem with replacing JS completely? If Dart ever does get adopted, it will be due to Dart being a significantly better standard in the eyes of the developers. | null | 0 | 1315847837 | False | 0 | c2jbovq | t3_kcwx2 | null | t1_c2jbovq | t1_c2jb9qk | null | 1427590639 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | A Hurd of GNUnicorns | null | 0 | 1315848041 | False | 0 | c2jbpxs | t3_kcwx2 | null | t1_c2jbpxs | t1_c2jb5za | null | 1427590652 | 24 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | pseale | null | Having used TFS 2005, 2008 and 2010, and having blogged my "helpful tips" recently, this is timely.
For the most part I agree with the article.
I'd rate it as follows:
* source control is better than SVN, unless you work remotely or offline, then it's much worse than probably any other tool. Having seen the promise of "git cherry-pick" I can see how TFS' branching system needs fundamental changes to do what our users ask, e.g. "can you deploy that one feature you developed, but not the rest of them?" But, as long as everyone's local and you don't try to do a DVCS-style branching strategy, you won't feel that much pain.
* Work items and bugs are just another data entry system with minimal/rigid workflow, like most every other IT ticketing system I've seen. I would rate TFS (and most ticketing systems) somewhere about equal to using an Excel spreadsheet. There is some promise of being able to tie work items to source control checkins and then to releases, but I have, and mark this, **never ever seen an example of this.** As far as I can tell, integration is an empty marketing promise. Maybe TFS MVPs can patch together something to make it useful, but then again, maybe I could patch something together in Excel, given enough time and effort.
* The CI system is bad. And I say that having created and run builds with it. I'd recommend TeamCity over TFS **unconditionally**. There are glaring bugs with TFS' build status checker, the builds fail in non-deterministic ways, and what remains is much slower than TeamCity.
* The new 2010 build setup is the worst 'development' environment I've seen, and that includes SharePoint development. My current blanket recommendation is that if you need to set up a build in TFS, create a "build definition" that has a single call out to MSBuild or PowerShell or whatever you write your REAL build script in. The 'tragedy' of this is that the 2010 build system is actively worse than the 2008 build system. This is a classic example of Microsoft's customer-deaf terrible v1 products (or I guess, v1 features for a v3 product). | null | 0 | 1315848088 | False | 0 | c2jbq5w | t3_kc5di | null | t1_c2jbq5w | t3_kc5di | null | 1427590656 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | rizla7 | null | true, but its still akin to a interpretation layer, since the script is not delivered as bytecode, it is JIT compiled.. and you might as well call that interpreted.
reference: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interpreter_%28computing%29 | null | 0 | 1315848161 | False | 0 | c2jbqi2 | t3_kcwx2 | null | t1_c2jbqi2 | t1_c2jatxc | null | 1427590659 | -6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | id000001 | null | Would be lovely if more open source application software that are widely used fully support PostgreSQL, the only reason I use Mysql at the moment is because it have way more support from actual application that uses MYSQL. | null | 0 | 1315848204 | False | 0 | c2jbqos | t3_kd0x9 | null | t1_c2jbqos | t3_kd0x9 | null | 1427590663 | 15 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Cintax | null | You're comparing apples to oranges. Replacing an existing language and adding a language to fill a need are not even remotely comparable. | null | 0 | 1315848238 | False | 0 | c2jbqv4 | t3_kcwx2 | null | t1_c2jbqv4 | t1_c2jaqox | null | 1427590665 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | mcguire | null | I need to stop reading this one. It's getting to me.
> **Single assignment is just as problematic as destructive assignment**
>
> The first pattern matching expression binds the Foo variable to something. In the second case, we've mistakenly forgot Foo was already bound. What's the result?
>
> exception error: no match of right hand side...
This has nothing to do with single-assignment or immutability. Instead, it's Erlang's (perhaps Prolog-inspired) pattern matching at fault here. Most other pattern-matching languages *would* introduce a new Foo at the second expression. | null | 0 | 1315848271 | False | 0 | c2jbr0p | t3_kcpdg | null | t1_c2jbr0p | t3_kcpdg | null | 1427590667 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Concise_Pirate | null | This is a rather shabby attempt at engineering process analysis. | null | 0 | 1315848452 | False | 0 | c2jbrwu | t3_kczbt | null | t1_c2jbrwu | t3_kczbt | null | 1427590679 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | AeroNotix | null | Not sure if upvoting you is the way to go with this one.
*ahem* I agree. | null | 0 | 1315848457 | False | 0 | c2jbrxn | t3_kajta | null | t1_c2jbrxn | t1_c2izoek | null | 1427590679 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Cintax | null | That's not cooperation. HTC is one of their partners, fulfilling a need that Google cannot do alone to make Android successful. Cooperation means working with potential rivals to create a standard, not working with business partners. | null | 0 | 1315848502 | False | 0 | c2jbs5u | t3_kcwx2 | null | t1_c2jbs5u | t1_c2jb8ux | null | 1427590689 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Whiskey_Neat | null | They could just put them in the Google+ circle. | null | 0 | 1315848564 | False | 0 | c2jbsg9 | t3_kcwx2 | null | t1_c2jbsg9 | t1_c2jb6f8 | null | 1427590694 | 12 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | panfist | null | Actually I was the first droid engineer on my server after about 20 days, but since droid engineering was totally pointless, it really turned me off to the game. I was ridiculously wealthy from killing baz nitches so the only thing left to do was to wait until the resources reset to get an FWG that was 2% more effective than the last most effective one that could be made.
I was giving away mouse droids for 100 credits (practically free) to anyone that wanted one, which was basically no one, since they were pointless. I ended up getting into a huge flame war with a group of droid engineers that were trying to control prices and sell mouse droids for like 5000 credits. That was a hoot...but ultimately a pointless hoot. | null | 0 | 1315848632 | False | 0 | c2jbss0 | t3_kctmn | null | t1_c2jbss0 | t1_c2jb3xn | null | 1427590691 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | I want to send you some code for you to review before I check it in. You think an entire branch, as opposed to a set of files, is really appropriate for that? | null | 0 | 1315848769 | False | 0 | c2jbtfj | t3_kc5di | null | t1_c2jbtfj | t1_c2j9e21 | null | 1427590698 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | rizla7 | null | sure they do. the very word 'byte' implies an inherent security risk. its much easier to exploit the compiler than it is to exploit a script, which has strictly defined operational boundaries. why do you think people block plugins, flash, ax, java? just for fun? welcome to the real world pal. | null | 0 | 1315848791 | False | 0 | c2jbtj1 | t3_kcwx2 | null | t1_c2jbtj1 | t1_c2jbeju | null | 1427590700 | -10 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | hett | null | SWG was, in all forms, both before and after the Combat Upgrade, a shitty MMO. Neat sandbox, shitty MMO. | null | 0 | 1315848869 | False | 0 | c2jbty1 | t3_kctmn | null | t1_c2jbty1 | t3_kctmn | null | 1427590705 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | flamingspinach_ | null | WordPerfect. | null | 0 | 1315848877 | False | 0 | c2jbtzd | t3_kcwx2 | null | t1_c2jbtzd | t1_c2jajp7 | null | 1427590705 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | I was waiting for this release. | null | 0 | 1315848881 | False | 0 | c2jbtzz | t3_kd0x9 | null | t1_c2jbtzz | t3_kd0x9 | null | 1427590706 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | hett | null | >Never since has a real player economy
Uhhh...EVE? | null | 0 | 1315849043 | False | 0 | c2jbuqw | t3_kctmn | null | t1_c2jbuqw | t1_c2jb3xn | null | 1427590715 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | vplatt | null | If you're trying to claim that MUDS, MUSHES, etc. weren't/aren't MMOs, then I'll disagree with you. THE defining characteristic of MMOs is a game engine that shares and allows game state to be affected by many players at once. Having "graphics" is a pretty silly criteria.
And here is a list of [text-based MMORPGs](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_text-based_MMORPGs) if you're not convinced. | null | 0 | 1315849218 | False | 0 | c2jbvm6 | t3_kctmn | null | t1_c2jbvm6 | t1_c2ja5x7 | null | 1427590728 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | lunboks | null | Joke's on him. You can only get one of the link sharing badges for each question, and he already got the bronze one for this submission. | null | 0 | 1315849301 | False | 0 | c2jbw0h | t3_kchtc | null | t1_c2jbw0h | t1_c2j9m4s | null | 1427590741 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | rizla7 | null | actually, nobody here is backing up their **opinions** with any **facts** at all, just trolling. when you decide to back up your worthless opinions, let me know alright. i've backed up **literally** everything i've said in this thread with links, something you should try some day. welcome to *information* technology, where *information* matters and opinions mean nothing.
on top of this. i am going to save this thread and laugh at you all when my analysis comes true, and you'll all be sitting there with your **finger up google's ass**, hanging on to dying technologies. ;p | null | 0 | 1315849404 | False | 0 | c2jbwkv | t3_kcwx2 | null | t1_c2jbwkv | t1_c2jbmgr | null | 1427590739 | -8 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | bilygates | null | I love this one:
* Group by can guess some missing columns
It isn't by any means revolutionary, but it's now so much faster to write certain queries. For example, let's say I want to select a lot of columns from a table while grouping the rows by their ID.
**Before:**
SELECT id, a, b, c, d, e, ..., z FROM table GROUP BY id, a, b, c, d, e, ..., z;
**After:**
SELECT id, a, b, c, d, e, ..., z FROM table GROUP BY id
Yay! | null | 0 | 1315849425 | False | 0 | c2jbwod | t3_kd0x9 | null | t1_c2jbwod | t3_kd0x9 | null | 1427590741 | 19 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | kurin | null | > The reason here is that TFS will mark all files as read-only on the filesystem until you have asked the server to check them out for you. If you cannot communicate to the server, you cannot checkout the files and you cannot edit them
Holy shit, are you serious? That can't be true. Is that true? | null | 0 | 1315849434 | False | 0 | c2jbwpw | t3_kc5di | null | t1_c2jbwpw | t3_kc5di | null | 1427590742 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | rjberry | null | If it's a nice language to use and has none of the blemishes of JS, runs faster than JS and compiles into JS for browsers that do not run Dash ... I really can't see why it wouldn't be adopted by a lot of developers.
I quite like [the Crockford subset of] JavaScript. But a lot of developers hate ever having to write it. And I'm sure they'd flock to Dash.
That said, I'm sure JS will stay as well. | null | 0 | 1315849626 | False | 0 | c2jbxom | t3_kcwx2 | null | t1_c2jbxom | t1_c2ja9o9 | null | 1427590754 | 10 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Ventajou | null | Thank you for the enlightenment. | null | 0 | 1315849715 | False | 0 | c2jby5f | t3_kc9ai | null | t1_c2jby5f | t1_c2j8ljn | null | 1427590760 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | How is this awesome? It's not a new data structure at all. This library is simply a collection of functions that manipulate arrays; most of which already exist as of ES 5.1
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True | in-servicemisidentif | null | Terrific Point. Try The amazon marketplace Huge Savings. Utilize this link to save on Clothing Amazon. Save as many as 100% this month http://tinyurl.com/3gg7jwm
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True | grauenwolf | null | Has that ever been tested in a court of law? A lot of the stuff in EULA's are flat out illegal and much of the rest is on shaky ground. | null | 0 | 1315849913 | False | 0 | c2jbz5u | t3_kctmn | null | t1_c2jbz5u | t1_c2jb2iv | null | 1427590779 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Ventajou | null | Refactoring sucks and tooling sucks, I can relate to those assertions. JS simply does not scale well to large projects and quickly becomes difficult to maintain. | null | 0 | 1315849924 | False | 0 | c2jbz7m | t3_kc9ai | null | t1_c2jbz7m | t1_c2j8th2 | null | 1427590779 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | thekaleb | null | I use both. This site says alot: http://gitvsmercurial.com
I was wondering what your opinion is on the matter? | null | 0 | 1315849932 | False | 0 | c2jbz90 | t3_kcoyq | null | t1_c2jbz90 | t1_c2j9zb3 | null | 1427590775 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | xTRUMANx | null | Dude, you are the king of trolls. I can't believe people are arguing with you. This is hilarious. | null | 0 | 1315850013 | False | 0 | c2jbzoc | t3_kcwx2 | null | t1_c2jbzoc | t1_c2janoz | null | 1427590780 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | drysart | null | > This proclamation would be more interesting after the factor of 2 improvements stop rolling out regularly.
But they're *not* rolling out regularly.
Mozilla's currently running around touting that SpiderMonkey's Javascript will be 20-30% faster in Firefox 9; which is still achievable for them because [they have a pretty slow Javascript engine](http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/internet-explorer-9-chrome-10-opera-11,2897-6.html) so their improvements are merely playing catchup; they're not pushing the leading edge of Javascript engine performance.
The general leader in Javascript performance, Chrome's V8, took the crown with its last major performance improvement [a year and a half ago with Crankshaft](http://blog.chromium.org/2010/12/new-crankshaft-for-v8.html), which did improve performance when it finally got into their stable release over 6 months ago -- but if you look at the charts, you'll notice that other than the landing of Crankshaft, their performance improvements have flattened over time; and Crankshaft only really gives a factor of 2 performance boost in *some* operations. Overall it's only a 50% improvement; which is still nothing to sneeze at, but Crankshaft is a whole-engine shift -- it's certainly not something you're going to expect to see 'regularly'. Since Crankshaft, Google hasn't announced any similar forthcoming performance boosts in V8. (Oh, and by-the-by, Crankshaft made V8's performance squeak past Carakan, Opera's Javascript engine, so again, the leading edge of Javascript engine performance wasn't pushed forward 50%.)
Look carefully when you see a browser vendor proclaiming that they've improved Javascript performance, because most of the time they're just playing catchup. In fact, all the browser vendors are pretty much now beginning to converge on the leading edge in speed -- nobody's able to push past it significantly. (Which is why it's awfully important that Google, who currently holds the speed crown with V8, is saying that for future performance boosts we're going to have to ditch Javascript.) | null | 0 | 1315850016 | True | 0 | c2jbzpa | t3_kc9ai | null | t1_c2jbzpa | t1_c2jbmer | null | 1427590781 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | avarus | null | Google also doesn't give a shit about their users: http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=15408
Eat it or die; that's how Google treats their users. | null | 0 | 1315850025 | False | 0 | c2jbzr9 | t3_kcwx2 | null | t1_c2jbzr9 | t1_c2jamil | null | 1427590781 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | batiste | null | They already can do it with flash anyway so... | null | 0 | 1315850054 | False | 0 | c2jbzwd | t3_kcwx2 | null | t1_c2jbzwd | t1_c2jagtz | null | 1427590782 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | myztry | null | Certainly would be. I don't associates streams with filesystems in quite the same way as people tend to these day do to bad implementations since.
When I started using modern streams, it was back on the Amiga in the late 80's. Devices were pseudo oo so you could do streams functions (read, write, etc) against any device. Common virtual devices like the GUI console use the file path to in the URL to pass initiating arguments but they contained no file system. (eg. CON:title/xpos/ypos/width/height would create a GUI window. Writes would print. Reads would get keyboard input. The device driver implemented the standard functions as suited the function of the device.)
If you had crypting devices then you would add the relevant calls and all capable devices would implement them whether they were dongle based, wireless or whatever. The relevant point is the physical device would perform the encrypting away from the software - not even allowing access to the memory bus at all. Only the in and out buffer would be accessible and passed by the driver after commands were processed by the hardware.
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True | rizla7 | null | true, i was speaking natively ;p | null | 0 | 1315850202 | False | 0 | c2jc0og | t3_kcwx2 | null | t1_c2jc0og | t1_c2jbg2x | null | 1428194373 | -5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
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