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mysql replication and clustering have advanced quite a bit in the last two years (as has all commonly used software really).
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bloodwine
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I'd rather stick with JavaScript than depend on Google to maintain Dart in the long-term.
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sas4740
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TIL lots of languages have magical data structures
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If this is the way this guy learns I'd be happy to have him in my team... in ten years or so.
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Became a quagmire when standards bodies became involved?
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codemarine
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[FTFY](http://i.imgur.com/VikOn.png)
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WheresMyElephant
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Oh, I didn't like the prequels either. But whether you count them or not, Star Wars is even lighter on economics than on combat, so I couldn't find another example. Besides, all we real Star Wars fans *wanted* to like the prequels, and so we paid more attention to the first ten minutes of Episode 1 than we had paid to any other thing in decades. I submit that if it were neurologically possible for a human being to make himself care about the economics of the Star Wars universe, we would all now be experts on the subject whether we liked it or not.
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pteranodonaces
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Good Point. Try Amazon Huge Savings. That link to save on electronics Amazon. Save around 80% on everything NOW http://tinyurl.com/3gg7jwm
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wayoverpaid
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As with every google technology, it's far more likely that a technology will make it as an open source clone once it shows actual use within Google. Nobody wants to jump on the go bandwagon until its proven to work. Ecosystems take a while to snowball.
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rizla7
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i stand corrected. thank you sir. and i dont see where the personal vendetta comes in. it was a honest mistake, hard to keep track of all the ceos, you know. the article does mention scott, but my memory was not serving me correctly.
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OceanSpray
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If all that is left to the compiler, then the language has no right to be called a "systems programming language".
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Clutter
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I fully cede the point. You're right, I was absolutely resolute that I would *memorize* that movie when I went in and it took the Red Letter Media review for me to understand the trade dispute...or that there *was* a trade dispute.
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bluGill
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> Git will (rightly) claim that you added one file and deleted ten files. Why? Those 10 changes are in the repository, but until I merge my changes they are not part of mine. My commit had nothing todo with your 10 deletes. My merge will have 10 deletes and 1 add, but that is a explicate action. > That's a great reason not to use pull. git pull does two things: git fetch followed by git merge. Thanks for the tip. As I said, I'm very new with git.
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rizla7
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http://www.mysql.com/why-mysql/marketshare/ http://www.informationweek.com/news/software/info_management/207402230 SQL Server = MSSQL in the first article. also, since its a mysql site, the first paragraphs are biased, but based on the graph you can see, more companies have mssql deployed than mysql. its most popular in terms of growth due to home enthusiasts and VPS hosting providers. in the IW article, the figures are misleading because the market share is determined by revenues, and oracle has the highest revenues simply because they make craploads of money from corporate support contracts. MSSQL on the other hand doesn't get as much revenue from that source, party because it is easier to administer.
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TheBobMcCormick
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Obvious troll is obvious.
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brehaut
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[Trevor Burnham's comment on Hacker News](http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2988807)
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shimei
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It's because you can get better error detection when you disable first-class functions. Quoth the [documentation](http://pre.racket-lang.org/docs/html/drracket/htdp-langs.html): > This restriction helps detect confusing misuses of parentheses, such as (x) where x is a function argument. DrRacket can detect such mistakes syntactically because Beginning Student does not support higher-order procedures.
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marisaB
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So make then?
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rizla7
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well, with the advance in batteries, i don't think something like a tablet will be considered low power any more, people will come to expect laptop-esque battery lifetimes and the cpus will only get more efficient.
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h3r3tic
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> While Walter isn't giving the "real story" he is summarizing the conditions which allows Tango code adopted by Phobos. How is that not changing the topic? > There was much misunderstanding, but in reality it doesn't matter. Tell that to the Tango folks who were hurt by such "misunderstandings" on several occasions. The litter in the streets doesn't exist either, eh? > iLiekCaeks' "Tango was ignored out of existence" (...) are both wrong statements I keep reading that as "The sky is green and I have absolutely no proof of that."
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reddddditer
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**I** stand corrected. You stand corrected again.
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Not sure if managed code is really as much of "the future" as you make it out to be (much to my displeasement TBQH, I write C++ and Java for work too!) Problems come in all shapes and sizes, and I'd be *quite* hesitant to boil down native code to such realms to "mainframes and low powered devices" entirely - as if that was even a *small* market anyway. I mean, programming languages are absolutely for the convenience of human beings, no doubt. I like abstract shit. But there are a million other factors when it comes down to putting money on the line and doing a job, and a programming language is only *one* of those, even if several others are also technological/design related (again much to my dismay. I'd be pretty confident that the work I do in C++ today, and probably a lot of the Java, could be done in a lot less code/much more correctly in Haskell, and still quite efficient, but there are again a million other factors to consider here.) Anyway, I use a language more expressive than C# and it compiles to native code, and I'm personally not lacking much there, so I think that's pretty good (although a million things could be like, a million times better, lemme tell ya.)
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BobTurbo
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Either: * The cross-compiler has to be extremely good. * Chrome quickly becomes the most popular browser. * The other browsers adopt Dart quickly regardless. As I do not wish to create a website that runs slow on the two most popular browsers.
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shimei
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Thankfully a lot of the people behind the next version of Javascript are affiliated with or talk to Mozilla, so this isn't so far-fetched.
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I worked with a brilliant guy who did this. He would rewrite all my code, and then the next day tell me how wonderful my code was that he had just "fixed". Fixed, meaning, almost completely replaced. I was kind of miffed and insulted for a while, but the guy was just so nice and friendly and instructive and helpful... One of my favorite mentors/co-workers in the end.
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BobTurbo
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GWT is not as fast as normal JS from what I have heard.
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h3r3tic
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*sigh*, the same void arguments all over again. If your purpose is to sustain the FUD, you're on a good path. Ask Walter if you actually care. When person A places blame on person B, how can you expect that any explanation from person B will be believed, especially if person A has higher authority/acceptance in a given group? > Walter is on one side, someone else must have been talking to him. They got tired of personal attacks on the NG. Hence the phone call and not a NG post. > It's a funny way of saying "yes, we believe it's a copy" without actually saying it. That's your interpretation.
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rizla7
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downtime is always an issue. when you have mission-critical applications, we're not talking about 'yea, lets take a chance with our connection'... real business don't operate this way. security/integrity: ill admit integrity isnt such a *huge* issue, but security still is, with the recent forging of CA keys.. or theft, whatever it was, all the sec. breaches, users revealing their passwords by mistake (think founder of openleaks, as high profile), etc... yea its a problem. latency/throughput: most businesses are not in a position to buy a fat pipe to get *all* of their employees using cloud apps. this is just an unrealistic expectation. also in cases where gigabytes must be transferred, it is simply impractical. data-mining is always an issue because even though your personal details might not be mined with a commercial package, your habits will. integration: lol@REST. sorry, had to laugh :D there just so much more you can do when you have complete control over your infrastructure. ext/scalability: this also includes integration, if it doesnt integrate, i dont consider it scalable. although, i do agree that by their very nature web apps are scalable for distributed computing. however, you might as well just run your own external server, and retain complete control.
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BobTurbo
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It does work reliably (I have unfortunately had to use this approach). It takes half an hour for the java applet to load though (loading the VM). Also, java applets are a security nightmare. Self-sign the certificate and do whatever you want with a person's computer...
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imaginaryredditor
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A monopolist has more market share? Crazy! Neither article says anything about the quality of the product, only its popularity, and neither address my point that MS-SQL is not the only alternative.
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Bjartr
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I expect it depends heavily on what parts of GWT you are using.
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[Semi-related.](http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/No,_We_Need_a_Neural_Network.aspx)
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rizla7
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future.. hmm, think RAD. faster dev times, faster time to market, faster future? hardware is just getting cheaper, faster, more efficient. the little efficiency increases you can get from hardware start to matter less when dev time is involved, which costs money in its own right. just take a look at browsers, theyve switched to a RAD model. it was bound to happen, only a matter of time. the only problem is, huge companies can afford to do RAD with unmanaged code lol. most businesses simply cant. especially startups, its very hard nowadays. time to market is just so fast. right, about the other stuff, but dart is more of an attempt at the client market for now, so i tried to keep things more or less in the context of clients, but its true, you still see a lot of unmanaged code on enterprise servers. future my friend, the future is near ;p but can you target all devices/platforms from haskell? ;p which is all that really matters in the end hehe.
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NoMoreNicksLeft
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Got an example? Mine allows all the special characters, all valid domains, etc.
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dar512
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Wow -16 points. I guess _somebody_ likes Mongo. And is a little overprotective.
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iLiekCaeks
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Google already has NaCL. Silverlight isn't comparable. It's not even open source, for starters.
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MatrixFrog
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I disagree. Nothing wrong with this as a way to *draw people in*. But it can only go so far. At some point they'll have to stop playing the game, open a text editor, and hack out some code.
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the-cakeboss
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Point taken about the leverage companies like Microsoft and Google can use to sway developers, but I still can't imagine a scenario in which any developer would use Dart without good reason. Incorporating Dart would of course mean learning a whole new language while only reaching 20% of their potential audience. It's not as if, come October 10th Javascript will obliterated and the only thins that remain are memories. If Dart does ever take hold, it will take a long time. As far as I can tell there would have to be considerable support for the language for the other major browsers to even think about supporting it.
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SuperGrade
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> The question is, how do you get people to "level up" or when do you decide that they aren't sufficiently dedicated to improvement. I really wish there was more talk/study on this topic - it's interesting and *very* relevant, especially in certain fields of business software. You've talked of cases involving switching the code between doing the same thing 2 different ways. Where it gets more painful is where the original is written to acommodate a subset of desired functionality; but you need to change how the code works (triggering the problem you mentioned) to get the full functionality. I mean, we don't use (what we deem) "better" coding style just to do the same program in the same time.
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rizla7
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not popularity really. each product fits a niche market, more or less, companies just choose those that meet their requirements :\ it so happens mssql meets most of those requirements. MS really isnt quite the beast it once was. I used to hate MS :D with a passion haha. they've opened up alot of their code to devs, made mass amounts of documentation available, dotnet is free, so is alot of other stuff. websitespark, dreamspark, one more but i forget, technet, msdn, lots of other stuff they made free, media player api, but that is deprecated, you can pretty much get most of their stuff royalty free, or dirt cheap if you meet the requirements. lots of offerings via their partner program, etc... theyre not quite as evil as they once were.
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munificent
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> The design choices made also lead me to believe that Eich had little experience with compiler/language design at the time. Don't forget that he designed *and implemented* the language in *ten days*. I think he did a better job than most of us would have. > I think Python 3.0 had the right approach. You say that in the past tense like it's over. And Python's job is *much* easier here: Guido and the foundation own the canonical implementation, and the majority of Python code is run in a context where one person controls both the script being run and the implementation running it. JS has no single canonical implementation, and the browsers running the code have no relation to the people who wrote it. > find fashionable and cool ... but some definitely are (a pseudo-class syntax Classes are older than prototypes. How are they fashionable? Part of the uphill battle with them is because in the JS community, classes are so *un*fashionable. > but it won't behave as you would expect, oh thanks What parts of the behavior do you find unexpected? The spec is still being worked on so this is something that we can fix. > I think these new features are mostly being added to keep JS on top of the current fads. How do you tell what's a new fad and what's just a good new innovation that should be adopted? > The goal is to attract more new developers, the kind that will go "oh, shiny new features!" and try JavaScript. Most of the features being worked on for ES.next aren't targeted towards new developers (though they are carefully being designed to not alienate them). JS has no shortage of new users. What I think it suffers from is a lack of features for experienced users writing large programs. Noob programmers don't show up and complain about a lack of a module system. That's the kind of thing you only care about once your codebase gets big.
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I am more worried about the lingering IE marketshare.
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pnpbios
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Aren't you already doing that with javascript :)
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slurpme
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Well thanks... Care to elaborate on your two points???
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AgentConundrum
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I'll see if I can find it, but IIRC the issue had to do with the length of the user portion of the address - the spec has a maximum length, and Facebook issues addresses (somehow.. I don't know where Facebook issues email addresses..) that exceed this value. I just sometimes feel developers over think email addresses in general, and when they do they end up breaking things. I can't count how many times I've got bitched at for using a `+` character in the address (yes, unlike some people I know it's useless for spam, but it can be really useful for label-routing), even though it's explicitly allowed. ETA: [Found it!](http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/fl6i0/email_address_validation_please_stop/c1gr1cg)
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RickRussellTX
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Relational databases have impotence mismatch!
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superiority
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> Presumably the compiled-to-JS code will be slower than normal JS. So they'll (effectively) make Dart run slowly for most users in order to encourage uptake of Dart?
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BinaryRockStar
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I've never used it but TFS has a feature called BranchCache which allows you to install essentially a caching proxy locally which your Visual Studio can talk to and it syncs up with the master TFS server when possible. It's specifically for geographically separate teams working from the same TFS getting acceptable performance.
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daigoba66
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git + jira + teamcity works pretty well for .NET development, and i feel it's WAY more flexible than TFS ever was/is/will be
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rizla7
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no, read the rest of my comments if you really care. ;) edit: i guess ill elaborate on #2 lol. ios, android, symbian, shit there like 50 of them lol. and on the webdev side, you got all these dif browser and web standards you gotta worry about. isnt it time we had some semblance of cohesion here? it's getting to be a bit crazy and really redundant from a developer's perspective.
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> future.. hmm, think RAD. faster dev times, faster time to market, faster future? hardware is just getting cheaper, faster, more efficient. What does RAD even mean here? Again I write C++ at work, and I've also given thought to if C# could do the same task. I think it could, although I don't know it that well. For context, we're talking about data backup software here. The C++ code does all the backup of a filesystem. It also has to communicate with drivers, and has a bit of involved logic, etc. None of this is truly user facing, it's all really a lot of heavy I/O work among other things, although like most we try hard as possible to trade disk time for CPU time if applicable (so very fast compression here helps tremendously.) There's a large client facing component of our software, but I just mean the C++ work (which is still quite important, and sees very active development, even if it is in ratio of LOC the smaller project overall.) I'd argue a lot of code falls into line here - needed, yet not visible. Does the term 'RAD' even mean a whole lot here, given what its definition was in the past? If that's the case for a large amount of work, is RAD just some meaningless/overloaded term for "using a high level language?" If that's what you're saying, I completely agree. In fact I think there is no reason why high level languages cannot also be very efficient, and as an example GHC proves to be quite a good compiler for the most part. Mostly I'm just not sure if I buy into the whole UNCOL story I guess - a single 'intermediate language to rule them all,' with the idea that "computers will always get faster, to where it doesn't matter how slow it is." Managed runtimes today cannot completely deal with all the languages and designs we put on them and as a result, those languages suffer either from warts, performance penalties, or both. Look at an example like LuaJIT: it is a high level language that is ridiculously fast (faster than any .NET implementation of Lua, I'd be willing to bet, or probably just about any .NET language for that matter) because it specifically *avoids* those generalities that lead to warts in the design or losses in performance. I don't think high level languages can't be fast, or that we shouldn't use them. Humans should take on the most abstract thing possible. I'm just not putting all my eggs in one gigantic basket, is all. > the only problem is, huge companies can afford to do RAD with unmanaged code lol. most businesses simply cant. especially startups, its very hard nowadays. time to market is just so fast. There are plenty of choices if you just want to write code in a high level language, and some can certainly give you more of an edge than others in terms of business and programmer efficiency, large or small. > but can you target all devices/platforms from haskell? ;p which is all that really matters in the end hehe. Windows, Linux, OS X, x86/x86_64 (modulo x86_64 windows :( ) and there's ARM support in GHC HEAD now, and there's been an iPhone port for a while, as well as a company working on an iPhone game in Haskell too (they apparently also are doing Android work.) There's a lot of active web development, and lots of people seem to think that's a very good niche too. I'd kill for a good native GUI toolkit for the main platforms however. Definitely something that needs to be done. But there's a million other things I could complain about too.
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oduska
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Reminds me of Famous Daves: http://www.famousdaves.com/resources/img/IMG_appPig.gif
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It's the early worm that gets eaten by the bird. Moral of the story: sleep in.
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kaabii
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>*Some seem to think this reddit is for "links that programmers might find interesting or funny". No. It's for programming links. Programming. Programming. Programming. >*Just because it has a computer in it doesn't make it programming >*If there is no code in your link, it probably doesn't belong here. I know I look like an asshole but I don't care.
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repsilat
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The "`--`" operator is used to decrease an integer by one. You can * put it before a variable name (`--x`), in which case the expression evaluates to the new value of `x`, or * put it after a variable name (`x--`), in which case the expression evaluates to the old value of `x`. For example: int x, y; x = 10; y = --x; printf("x=%d, y=%d\n", x, y); //"x=9, y=9" x = 10; y = x--; printf("x=%d, y=%d\n", x, y); //"x=9, y=10" The "arrow" `-->` is just the `--` operator followed by the `>` operator, so "`x-->5`" is the same as "`(x--) > 5`". It decreases `x` by one, and evaluates to true if `x` used to be greater than five. The dashes work similarly, expanding to the `--` operator and the `-` operator (in that order): "`x---5`" is the same as "`(x--) - 5`". That is, `x` is decreased by one, and the expression evaluates to the difference between the old value of `x` and `5`. In a logical test (like an `if` or a `while` statement) this expression is considered false if it is zero, and true if nonzero.
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hrm_what
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computer?
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-zorak-
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They aren't real operators. They are playing silly games with spacing of the operators. "-->" is really a "--" (decrement the preceding expression) and a ">" which is the good old greater-than operator. The second one may or may not work depending on the way the operands are written, but it will _always_ be resolved by the compiler as a "--" followed by a "-" because of something called the "maximal munch rule" that determines how tokens in the C language are recognized. If you have any other questions, I'd be happy to answer them. Good luck learning C!
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Look how well that has treated us so far. Until every browser agrees to use it right away, this is only going to hurt what we've been fighting for.
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Solon1
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The is a complete Silverlight VM available from one vendor, and some of the APIs depend on the presence of OS APIs. Moonlight is an interesting Silverlight-like implementation, but it is not complete nor will it ever be. Besides, no one cares about Silverlight save for the few that shipped something it, who are trying to pretend it is still viable. Silverlight failed in the consumer space. How many of those Silverlight video sites switched back to Flash? Not to mention, Silverlight will never be on iOS.
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tensezoophoric
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Wonderful Point. Try Amazon online Huge Savings. Use this link to save on many ebooks from Amazon. Save roughly 100% NOW http://tinyurl.com/3cvobe4
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mdm_
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You're not the asshole here. People who jump into communities with a flagrant disregard for their rules are assholes.
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LaurieCheers
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I've read proggit for as long as it has existed; the fussy sidebar about "what it's supposed to be for" was added less than a year ago. I don't know who wrote it, but I never voted for them to lead this community.
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NoMoreNicksLeft
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Here's an old version of mine: CREATE DOMAIN cdt.email TEXT CONSTRAINT email1 CHECK(VALUE ~ '^[0-9a-zA-Z!#$%&''*+-/=?^_`{|}~.]{1,64}@([0-9a-z-]+\\.)*[0-9a-z-]+$' AND VALUE !~ '(^\\.|\\.\\.|\\.@|@.{256,})'); The only valid objection anyone came up with was addresses of the type nmnl@[192.168.0.1]. I fixed it to allow those, but can't find the new version at the moment. It also chokes on embedded comments... but you never see that in the wild. Test it if you don't believe it works. If you do find something that it should allow but doesn't please let me know.
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tnecniv
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You may laugh now, just wait for it to take over the world.
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kunjaan
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"Last year I drew a little comic in pencil. It's secretly about programming. I hadn't seen it for months, but this morning I found it among the stuff on my desk at work, and was charmed enough to colorize it and make it look slightly more professional." is NOT an article.
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Toy language. Try Haskell.
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hazyarc
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I think you can use your palm to hit Ctrl.
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kunjaan
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If you have problems with the sidebar directions, message the moderators. Blatant disregard for directions is not appropriate when you are a part of a community.
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foldor
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It was written by Ketralnis who just happens to be one of our Reddit overlords.
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LaurieCheers
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...which is why I didn't bother linking to it.
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nascentt
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You're kinda right, but it's still good to link the original post of the comic for the creator's sake.
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nascentt
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The running of subreddits aren't a democracy.
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rizla7
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i would agree on JVM, but there was never any real confusion about js vs jscript, if any was attempted. i heard they just named it jscript cuz of licensing issues.
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michaelstripe
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What on earth is the connection to programming here even?
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friedsushi87
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I was aware of the increase/decrease thing. Also += or /= *= -=. So the gimmick is that it just looks like an arrow? Wow... Programmers are amused by the stupidest things.... :-P
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angrylawyer
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Why is the version in the repo like 1.4? They need to update that.
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ceolceol
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I think it's because programmers are problem solvers, and— often times— programmers will attempt to solve a problem without truly knowing what they're trying to solve or the best approach. But that comic could also apply to architects and ad agencies, so it doesn't really fit here.
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mhd420
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The moral of this story is to build your software with straw or sticks.
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LaurieCheers
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(Psst, I was the creator.)
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toastjam
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> *Some seem to think this reddit is for "links that programmers might find interesting or funny". No. It's for programming links. Programming. Programming. Programming. It's not programmer humor, though. It's humor related to programming. A metaphor about software engineering that contains some useful wisdom for programmers. Did you get it?
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rizla7
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the standards bodies are the only thing that keeps it somewhat sane. despite the minor flaws in some of their implementations.
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LaurieCheers
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I see your point. I might counter that blatant disregard for community opinion is not appropriate when you are the leader of a community... but maybe it's simpler to just unsubscribe. I used to like this subreddit. :-/
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joeframbach
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Official response regarding version numbering: > Executive decision that 1.10 is "ugly." Sorry, 1.10. I'm curious who this executive is.
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LaurieCheers
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That's what I just said.
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yeswecould
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A wise professor once joked: the difference between mathematicians and philosophers is that a mathematician will be happy with a few sheets of paper, a pencil and an eraser and a philosopher will be satisfied even without an eraser. I think the same goes for programming and writing prose.
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meteorMatador
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Dude, Google loves Python but Python is not perfect. It has a whole bunch of nose warts and ear hair and bionic lazy eyes and feet the size of mismatched clown shoes. **Multiple pairs** of mismatched feet. And it doesn't really fit inside a browser so you'd have to amputate. It would be a big mess. So they are probably making a language that takes a whole lot from Python but isn't exactly like it. Remember, it also has to be a lot like Javascript in certain ways in order to be of use to anyone for browser scripting. [There is already a language like that](http://jashkenas.github.com/coffee-script/), so even before their presentation you can get a pretty good idea of what they'll be able to change and what they probably just can't.
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Urcher
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The only problem with that explanation is the "you are paying" part. There's a bunch of cloud services that the end user doesn't pay for, the provider makes money off advertising or selling your data or writes it off as a marketing expense. Upvoted anyway because it's close enough and succinctly put.
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TideNinja
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It's actually been making steady progress, but it's slow because they are essentially coding the entire game from scratch.
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the-cakeboss
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What are we fighting for...? All I want is the best possible language to work with...
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grauenwolf
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Proprietary doesn't mean "runs on all hardware and operating systems". The only reason they can build Moonlight is the fact that the VM is a standard.
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AgentConundrum
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The link I gave in my last comment describes circumstances where Facebook was issuing addresses which were too long, so my assumption is that your 64 character limit on the user/local part would fail against such an address (since there are probably very good reasons not to go over the 255 total character limit). I'm not saying that it's a bad thing that you build this (it's not), I'm just saying that there are conditions where strict adherence to the spec isn't enough, and weird edge cases exist that could bite you at some point. You haven't even implemented a strict adherence here - for example, it's possible to use an `@` in the local part so long as it's escaped - but you *have* implemented a fairly practical solution that will handle the vast majority of cases. My only point was that the email spec is a lot more nuanced and complex than most people think, and much smarter people than either of us have taken runs at making a regex for it and ended up with a regex several pages long. If your validator works for you, then by all means keep with it. I just wanted you to be aware that there are weird edge cases where some people (including some major players, like Facebook) have made things that don't actually adhere to the spec you're validating against.
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grauenwolf
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> The is a complete Silverlight VM available from one vendor, and some of the APIs depend on the presence of OS APIs. Moonlight is an interesting Silverlight-like implementation, but it is not complete nor will it ever be. What is missing from Moonlight's support for Silverlight 3 besides DRM?
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merlinm
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you can do it without ctid, it just requires a join -- it's an optimization.
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bucknuggets
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He's honest enough to post an very embarrassing mistake along with a reasonably insightful analysis of it. Sounds like someone I'd definitely consider working with right now.
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untogethered
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Eh. Disregard for directions will result in downvotes. Except in this case it didn't, which might tell you something about how people feel about the rules in this subreddit.
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>Posted by Laurie Cheers at 11:36 AM OP's username: LaurieCheers
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imaginaryredditor
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The first hit is always free ;)
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Almafeta
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Plenty of games have hacking minigames these days. Imagine a game where the hacking minigame was, say, a Python interpreter. Or where critical plot hints and tips could only be found out by scanning source code for the part of the algorithm that diverges from what you can see otherwise.
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