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True | tanishaj | null | It certainly is controversial. I have many posts that say essentially "I really like Scala but it is too complex for most enterprise programmers and so Scala is unlikely to become the dominant language on the JVM." These get downvoted into the ground and the replies are often aggressive and indelicate. Try saying "but Kotlin has a good chance at being the most used language on the JVM" if you want an amplified response. Many Scala fans seem convinced that Scala is poised to take over the universe and see alternative worldviews as a threat to be eliminated. | null | 0 | 1316007212 | False | 0 | c2jstuo | t3_kf2xi | null | t1_c2jstuo | t1_c2jrp7m | null | 1427598841 | -2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | andallthat | null | I agree that if you know scala already, it's unlikely that you will go back to java of your own volition for problems of any size and difficulty.
However the common point I've read in both David Pollak's post and in the one I've posted is that while you can indeed solve easy problems with both scala and haskell (and while you can do so much more elegantly and succintly than in other languages), if your job is only about solving simple problems you may not find enough added value in scala (/haskell) to learn them in the first place. Especially if you are talking about migrating the competences of a large existing dev team.
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True | Ayjayz | null | I guess I just haven't really ever encountered a situation where a class reached that amount of complexity without being able to split it into smaller logical chunks.
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True | cupcake_hoarder | null | I was able to get it to run, but it's a bit slow. Using Virtual Box. | null | 0 | 1316007368 | False | 0 | c2jsudw | t3_kewkd | null | t1_c2jsudw | t1_c2jr679 | null | 1427598848 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | sod1864 | null | One outcome from this kind of testing. [Wolves now chase sheep](http://notch.tumblr.com/post/9896830082/you-know-whats-fun) in Minecraft. | null | 0 | 1316007374 | False | 0 | c2jsuel | t3_kepcp | null | t1_c2jsuel | t3_kepcp | null | 1427598848 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | I'll admit I'm most likely a total noob, but aren't you able to decide which services to run?
I've often played around with which services Windows is running. | null | 0 | 1316007387 | False | 0 | c2jsuge | t3_kejwo | null | t1_c2jsuge | t1_c2jraug | null | 1427598858 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1316007460 | False | 0 | c2jsuoa | t3_kf43e | null | t1_c2jsuoa | t1_c2jsrxn | null | 1427598855 | 27 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | axilmar | null | Some very important notes:
* when they say the Metro UI can be programmed in C++, they mean managed C++, i.e. C++/.NET. This is a very great problem, for those of us that use C++ for writing platform neutral code. The code we will write for the Metro UI will not be compilable for any other platform. [For example, the Button class](http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/apps/windows.ui.xaml.controls.button%28v=VS.85%29.aspx).
This means a hell of a lot more vendor lock-in than previously.
* the API is very complex. Most classes implement dozens of interfaces, with many many methods, and also classes have many many properties and events, most with very cryptic messages.
For example, the class [Button](http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/apps/windows.ui.xaml.controls.button%28v=VS.85%29.aspx):
* the inheritance tree is: Object -> DependencyObject -> UIElement -> FrameworkElement -> Control -> ContentControl -> ButtonBase -> Button.
WTF?
* The interfaces the class Button implements are, IDependencyObject, IUIElement, IUIElementOverrides, IFrameworkElement, IFrameworkElementOverrides, IControl, IControlOverrides, IControlProtected, IContentControl, IContentControlOverrides, IButtonBase, IButton.
That's 12 interfaces! for a single button!!!!!
The Button class also has:
* 31 events.
* 58 methods.
* 76 properties.
The above numbers do not include inherited events, methods and properties.
Some members' names are completely cryptic. For example, 'Background'. It's the Background brush actually. Why isn't it named 'BackgroundBrush'?
Others:
* CommandParameterProperty vs CommandProperty.
* ClickMode vs ClickModeProperty.
* Template vs ContentTemplate (hint: the former is a ControlTemplate. Why isn't named so?).
* ReadLocalValue (WTF?).
* MemberwiseClone (WTF?).
* GetAnimationBaseValue (WTF?).
I guess the words 'simple', 'sensible', 'orthogonal' and 'consistent' are words that are missing from Microsoft's dictionary.
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True | velit | null | Where you implement it makes no difference to how you implement it, this question is about how do you want to manage the data: in one, Y or Y*Z arrays or lists, I choose to manage one.
From concrete reasons it is tons easier to get the total amount of cells from the one list than it is to get from Y*Z lists. Doing other operations on all cells is equally as easy, where it is not on the latter case (I'm not saying it's super hard, I just think it's easier to do it with just one list). And the only thing you need to implement in order to have all this is the getter/setter/deleter method with the modulus calculation.
Okay sure, if you happen to do operations on the cells in the final list, which would be the case if you were for example writing line-wise on screen in some curses implementation (so you could do a loop on the lines separately and easily), yes in this case it actually does make sense (somewhat) to have a real multi-dimensional list, but usually this is not the case. Usually none of the dimensions are any more important than others, and in this case it makes sense to implement them in such a way in one big list/array. | null | 0 | 1316007470 | False | 0 | c2jsupi | t3_kbdgw | null | t1_c2jsupi | t1_c2jrt3w | null | 1427598855 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Ayjayz | null | A lot of people include using directives to pull in std though. | null | 0 | 1316007495 | False | 0 | c2jsusa | t3_kf43e | null | t1_c2jsusa | t1_c2jsrxn | null | 1427598856 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | jrochkind | null | Heh, the title should really have been "Majority of all Java developers are boring un-motivated numb-skulls, and trying to get them to learn Scala would be disastrous both to their shops and to Scala promotion efforts."
*I don't actually find this hard to believe.* | null | 0 | 1316007513 | False | 0 | c2jsuud | t3_kf2xi | null | t1_c2jsuud | t3_kf2xi | null | 1427598858 | 32 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | 4ad | null | > No offense, but you sound like a fanboy.
Hell no, I don't even like FreeBSD :-). At all. It's done by some people that have some principles I don't adhere to. I have other principles that contradict FreeBSD's principles.
That's ok, FreeBSD is not for me. Since FreeBSD is not for me I won't try to change anyone's mind about how it should be done. They have their principles, which is better than having no principles (most Linux distros, are you listening?).
FreeBSD people, hell, even most people would disagree completely with my principles. That's okay, it's room for everyone I guess.
> Where did I mention GNU or imply that GNU is better?
You didn't, but most pople do. I wasn't answering to you're particular post, but to some generic ideas I see all the time on the web.
> I'm not telling people what to use
You might not want to do that, but it's inevitable, that's how it's interpreted. You can't help it. When Sun decided to ship GNU userland in Solaris 11 **in parallel**, not to replace the existing one, the Solaris community went batshit insane. People don't want more stuff and don't want to be told what to do.
> Both OpenBSD and NetBSD have decent installers. FreeBSD is a train wreck. Package management is a real chore, especially upgrading.
Yeah. For you an me. Some people (most FreeBSD users?) would disagree completely. For them FreeBSD package management is the best. It solves **their** problems. They don't care that it doesn't solve yours. OpenBSD way is useless for them.
> You don't even need to compare this to apt-get or Portage or whatever.
It solves your problems, it doesn't solve mine at all. Doesn't solve the kind of problems FreeBSD users care about either. It's irrelevant to them.
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True | [deleted] | null | There is no scope for #defines, which is why this is used.
The standard specifies that identifiers beginning with a __ or an underscore followed by an uppercase letter are reserved strictly for implementation details. This is why you see code like in the standard library:
_Tp& __x
Neither the _Tp or the __x will clash with a macro.
Take a look at newer STL implementations and they jump through even bigger hoops to make sure that their code will not clash with user code. The code looks as if the entire thing is written using preprocessor directives beginning with underscores. I wouldn't be surprised if it's written using a normal C++ coding convention and then translated afterwards. | null | 0 | 1316007596 | True | 0 | c2jsv42 | t3_kf43e | null | t1_c2jsv42 | t1_c2jsrxn | null | 1427598861 | 12 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | voxoxo | null | Not exactly, there are limitations that arise from the design and capabilities of the language itself. Pretty heavy limitations, in the case of javascript. It is a fallacy to say that optimization is just a matter of implementation. | null | 0 | 1316007747 | False | 0 | c2jsvn4 | t3_kf4hn | null | t1_c2jsvn4 | t1_c2jslm1 | null | 1427598864 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | it-s_its | null | |...that's where it proves **its** salt. | null | 0 | 1316007768 | False | 0 | c2jsvq9 | t3_kepcp | null | t1_c2jsvq9 | t1_c2jo6sv | null | 1427598865 | 12 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | KumbajaMyLord | null | *sigh* you are trying to misunderstand what I am saying on purpose, aren't you?
Of course, Google needs to (and does!) care about the search user, but they could (but do not) excert pressure on website owners and force them to use proprietary standards or protocols in order to get them listed and ranked in their search results. And they could (but do not) create new google specific forms of advertisements, that advertiser will use, simply because Google is too important not to deal with. | null | 0 | 1316007925 | False | 0 | c2jswao | t3_kc9ai | null | t1_c2jswao | t1_c2jrjxi | null | 1427598872 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | VS2008 increases the size of the vector by the greater of of 10 and 50%. | null | 0 | 1316007959 | False | 0 | c2jswew | t3_kf43e | null | t1_c2jswew | t1_c2jsax3 | null | 1427598880 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | SCombinator | null | Suggested fix was use openjdk in the meantime. | null | 0 | 1316007966 | False | 0 | c2jswfz | t3_kcvv3 | null | t1_c2jswfz | t1_c2jsixj | null | 1427598875 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | ascii | null | Yes. In the case of Javascript, that factor seems to be around four. There is an x86 emulator that lets you boot up a virtualized Linux kernel inside of JavaScript. Not bad, I'd say... | null | 0 | 1316008183 | False | 0 | c2jsx83 | t3_kf4hn | null | t1_c2jsx83 | t1_c2jsvn4 | null | 1427598885 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | tau-lepton | null | Ext4 and btrfs? | null | 0 | 1316008218 | False | 0 | c2jsxbz | t3_kewkd | null | t1_c2jsxbz | t1_c2jsohv | null | 1427598895 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1316008249 | False | 0 | c2jsxgb | t3_kewkd | null | t1_c2jsxgb | t3_kewkd | null | 1427598892 | -16 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | ssam | null | Luckily, the LXDE project is providing that - if you want to keep the Windows 95 desktop metaphor, there's a healthy community maintaining a GNOME 2 based environment. I think it even has an Ubuntu remix (lubuntu) | null | 0 | 1316008250 | False | 0 | c2jsxgh | t3_kejwo | null | t1_c2jsxgh | t1_c2jrgxx | null | 1427598892 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | bitchessuck | null | >Some people (most FreeBSD users?) would disagree completely. For them FreeBSD package management is the best. It solves their problems. They don't care that it doesn't solve yours.
I can't really imagine that. These people are probably living in their own little FreeBSD world and don't really know what's state of the art or don't want to know. Again, I think the fact that there are countless little utilities that fix various things with the ports system or add functionality (and often BASIC stuff, like a usable search function) nicely demonstrate that something is wrong. | null | 0 | 1316008300 | True | 0 | c2jsxmi | t3_kejfs | null | t1_c2jsxmi | t1_c2jsuzb | null | 1427598904 | -3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | tanishaj | null | I am not sure most projects fail because of the programming. There are other problems.
One thing to remember, that is mentioned in the article, is that most of the programmers out there are working on CRUD style apps or similar. For these kinds of programs, Scala is not dramatically better enough to justify the cognitive load it introduces. For these kinds of programs you do not need Scala or Scala programmers. Run of the mill Java programmers work just fine.
Most of the money being made by software businesses is with programs which are not complex technically. It is therefore not a problem that most developers are not that advanced either. So, firing everybody is simply not required. Instead, take advantage of comparative advantage and have the less talented people write the simple, boring stuff and have the talented people write the exciting, difficult stuff.
Why do we want the rock stars writing payroll apps? It is boring for them and an expensive waste of resources for their employers. The good news is there exists a whole class of developers for whom implementing data layers, web front ends, rules engines, and web services for payroll apps is really exciting stuff. Let them do it. Don't make them do it in Scala if that only makes things harder for them. | null | 0 | 1316008373 | False | 0 | c2jsxvu | t3_kf2xi | null | t1_c2jsxvu | t1_c2jrp7m | null | 1427598900 | 12 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | tau-lepton | null | ~~Please edit your previous post, I was about to run off and see if I could enable 3d acceleration on my Windows 8 VM, but since the guest additions won't install that's not possible (last time I checked).~~
Apparently 3d does work after all
Edit, AngMoKio verified that 3d is enabled. | null | 0 | 1316008391 | True | 0 | c2jsxyc | t3_kewkd | null | t1_c2jsxyc | t1_c2jsqsy | null | 1427598900 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | shooshx | null | Never looked back since I moved to Google docs for my todo text file. | null | 0 | 1316008426 | False | 0 | c2jsy3h | t3_ketdw | null | t1_c2jsy3h | t1_c2jsm8j | null | 1427598903 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | majek04 | null | Let me add some more information. The main differences between SockJS and Socket.io:
* The protocol is simple, the intention is to make it very easy to create alternative server implementations - you should be able to use SockJS with any language on the server side ("polyglot" is the new buzzword :P).
* The API's are simple - very close to WebSocket API. You will be able to upgrade from SockJS to native WebSockets when they're ready.
* There are some technical low-level differences: cross-domain handling, cookies, misbehaving proxy detection etc.
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True | FlySwat | null | You wrote a very long post complaining that microsoft used composition and inheritance.
Have you never worked with any frameworks?
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True | honey_pie | null | **ARM ?**
I'm guessing you can't install to ARM with these downloads? Are there ARM downloads available elsewhere? (link mentions more for MSDN subscribers). ARM support is the most interesting thing about win8 so far, imo. | null | 0 | 1316008530 | False | 0 | c2jsyhf | t3_kewkd | null | t1_c2jsyhf | t3_kewkd | null | 1427598916 | 13 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | tanishaj | null | I do not always agree with you but when I do, it is now. | null | 0 | 1316008539 | False | 0 | c2jsyiq | t3_kf2xi | null | t1_c2jsyiq | t1_c2jsctk | null | 1427598907 | -5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | maep | null | Running a language in a language in a language always creates undesirable overhead. If you want to write code that runs in a browser, just use JavaScript. If you want to write a language interpreter, for god's sake, don't use a interpreted language. It's simply not the right tool for the job. | null | 0 | 1316008548 | False | 0 | c2jsyjx | t3_kf4hn | null | t1_c2jsyjx | t1_c2jscf2 | null | 1427598907 | -1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | killerstorm | null | SGI implementation is not heavily optimized. (It is one of the first.) Other implementations have more carefully chose factors. | null | 0 | 1316008621 | False | 0 | c2jsytr | t3_kf43e | null | t1_c2jsytr | t1_c2jss8i | null | 1427598912 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | axilmar | null | Is that what you understood from my post?
I am complaining about complexity, not composition and inheritance.
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True | Thirsteh | null | I haven't been able to run it in VMware (Workstation 7.x) -- there is some CPU instruction it doesn't support.
Works fine with VirtualBox. | null | 0 | 1316008656 | False | 0 | c2jsyyt | t3_kewkd | null | t1_c2jsyyt | t1_c2jr679 | null | 1427598914 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Tsen | null | No ARM support with the dev preview build yet, which sucks. Probably won't be available until it hits beta. | null | 0 | 1316008715 | False | 0 | c2jsz68 | t3_kewkd | null | t1_c2jsz68 | t1_c2jsyhf | null | 1427598915 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | nemtrif | null | > Metro UI can be programmed in C++, they mean managed C++, i.e. C++/.NET
From http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/apps/hh454076%28v=VS.85%29.aspx :
> If you are familiar with C++/CLI, you will notice that the Component Extensions look very similar to C++/CLI syntax. However, in a Metro style app or Windows Runtime component, all the C++ code is native. The /Zw compiler option causes the Component Extensions to be compiled for Windows Runtime. The /cli compiler option causes them to be compiled for C++/CLI. Currently, C++/CLI is not supported for Metro style apps | null | 0 | 1316008719 | False | 0 | c2jsz6q | t3_kewaq | null | t1_c2jsz6q | t1_c2jsup5 | null | 1427598915 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | ricodued | null | Of course. It's like an 80GB SSD, so most of my important stuff is stored on my other, much larger hard drives.
I'd install it on those but I'd rather not put a pre-beta OS on drives with important code and data.
I have a good feeling about this, though. I started using Windows 7 the second they released it (must've been beta 1) and never went back. So perhaps I'll have an equally good experience here, too. | null | 0 | 1316008728 | False | 0 | c2jsz7x | t3_kewkd | null | t1_c2jsz7x | t1_c2jso2l | null | 1427598917 | 9 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | joedev_net | null | >But every other performers used libraries, game dev frameworks.
I would disagree. Have you actually gone through all 599 games to see what each and everyone of them used. Also it's kinda a pointless thing to say, because Notch did technically use a library. Yes he manually drew the scene to the bytes of an image, but after that he had to render that image to the screen using Java2D.
I agree with your general point that his game was technically very interesting and I personally thought it was very fun, but as someone who submitted a game, it's a little bit frustrating to see someone incorrectly generalize all other entries in the competition.
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True | snotrokit | null | [This is me rubbing it in too](http://i.imgur.com/2zFnh.jpg) | null | 0 | 1316008739 | False | 0 | c2jsz9m | t3_kewkd | null | t1_c2jsz9m | t1_c2jpw7w | null | 1427598917 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Felicia_Svilling | null | We seem to discuss different questions. I'm talking about language design. If my language already have multidimensional arrays built in, it doesn't matter if they are indexed from 0 or 1. | null | 0 | 1316008743 | False | 0 | c2jsza3 | t3_kbdgw | null | t1_c2jsza3 | t1_c2jsupi | null | 1427598917 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | axilmar | null | The code produced is native alright. But it is not standard C++!!!! | null | 0 | 1316008800 | False | 0 | c2jszhq | t3_kewaq | null | t1_c2jszhq | t1_c2jsz6q | null | 1427598919 | -3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | pnpbios | null | Just everybody keep in mind that this is a developer preview. It's about making sure you can get a jump start on writing your applications, not to showcase the operating system. | null | 0 | 1316008802 | False | 0 | c2jszhz | t3_kejwo | null | t1_c2jszhz | t3_kejwo | null | 1427598919 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | spotsmcdots | null | Does anyone know if there is a place you can watch the screencast now? People are mentioning he talks about his thought process and I'd be interested in hearing that. | null | 0 | 1316008831 | False | 0 | c2jszlz | t3_kepcp | null | t1_c2jszlz | t3_kepcp | null | 1427598919 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | jimbokun | null | More organizations need to learn that writing software is not one of their competencies. No time nor the language skills to interview the programmers? Your organization should not be writing software. | null | 0 | 1316008908 | False | 0 | c2jszwu | t3_kf2xi | null | t1_c2jszwu | t1_c2js9a4 | null | 1427598924 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | Is it a "replacement" or merely another layer?
If it's a replacement, it seems fishy as though they merely extended the Win32 API.
If you look at IDeviceIoControl, DeviceIoControlAsync & DeviceIoControlSync it looks like they're just delegating the old DeviceIoControl for the Async and the Sync one looks identical.
I have a fishy feeling they are calling it a "new" API when in reality it's just another layer for the same old API likely with DRM and other things wrapped in.
Thoughts? Has Microsoft addressed this at all? | null | 0 | 1316008917 | False | 0 | c2jszy5 | t3_kejwo | null | t1_c2jszy5 | t1_c2jogsj | null | 1427598924 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | tanishaj | null | Do it.
Also you could play around with F# on .NET as well. It is a walk down a similar path. | null | 0 | 1316008942 | False | 0 | c2jt016 | t3_kf2xi | null | t1_c2jt016 | t1_c2jsovr | null | 1427598924 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | TomorrowPlusX | null | I'm not a windows dev (I used to do win32 in the late 90's but have been on a mac since 2002) but I find this decision to go with ref counting fascinating.
I am a staunch believer in shared_ptr<T> and weak_ptr<T> in all my C++ code. It's made my work so much easier, and avoiding cycles is trivial with weak pointers.
Recently, Apple announced "ARC" which is a clang/LLVM thing that automatically ref-counts objective-c for you (there's a _weak attribute you can provide with pointer declarations). I haven't used it yet since I'm in the middle of a C++ game project, but from what I read, it's amazing. In fact, it appears as if Apple's moving away from GC for ObjC all-together.
Maybe GC's just a poor fit for some kinds of system programming?
// p.s. you can pry deterministic destructors from my cold dead hands | null | 0 | 1316009000 | False | 0 | c2jt08i | t3_kejwo | null | t1_c2jt08i | t1_c2jrp00 | null | 1427598927 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | crt32 | null | >Since we have now learnt that elements are copied during every reallocation, it would be a much wiser choice to store pointers to objects in the vector rather than the entire objects. This improves performance as only addresses are copied (4 bytes) and not the objects along with their member variables
Isn't this something which has been 'fixed' by C++11's move semantics? | null | 0 | 1316009045 | False | 0 | c2jt0er | t3_kf43e | null | t1_c2jt0er | t3_kf43e | null | 1427598926 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | nemtrif | null | Never said it was :)
However, I stil hope this crazy syntax is optional. | null | 0 | 1316009074 | False | 0 | c2jt0j0 | t3_kewaq | null | t1_c2jt0j0 | t1_c2jszhq | null | 1427598928 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | keyo_ | null | I'm guess they still don't have scrolling on the window the mouse is pointed at. | null | 0 | 1316009078 | False | 0 | c2jt0jg | t3_kewkd | null | t1_c2jt0jg | t3_kewkd | null | 1427598928 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | ab9003 | null | The prospect of using an iPad like device as a tablet and adding an external bluetooth keyboard + mouse and then using it as a full windows computer is pretty exciting as a flash game developer. Much in the same way I can test my Computer designed games on my computer I'll be able to design tablet friendly games using a tablet. I feel like for a lot of independent developers this is going to mean really well made and well tested apps being built for Windows 8 PC's. I just hope Microsoft can deliver on this incredibly difficult premise. | null | 0 | 1316009105 | False | 0 | c2jt0n7 | t3_kejwo | null | t1_c2jt0n7 | t3_kejwo | null | 1427598928 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1316009129 | False | 0 | c2jt0q9 | t3_kewkd | null | t1_c2jt0q9 | t3_kewkd | null | 1427598930 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | axilmar | null | It is not. In order to use the components, you will have to use .NET references, for example. See the Button class above.
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True | quasarj | null | Anyone have any luck installing it on real hardware? I have a pretty simple test machine I popped it into last night, and I just get that "A CD/DVD drive driver is missing, please insert a disc with the driver" and that's all it will do.
I have a generic DVD drive, windows, how you gonna need a special driver? and on top of that, how are you gonna get it without a working cd-rom drive? >< | null | 0 | 1316009211 | False | 0 | c2jt116 | t3_kewkd | null | t1_c2jt116 | t3_kewkd | null | 1427598933 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Gotebe | null | Should be. However, it requires the move constructor to be there, and that, albeit fast, is not really "addresses are copied". It also requires that TFA had access to such an implementation etc. Dunno if it did. | null | 0 | 1316009333 | False | 0 | c2jt1is | t3_kf43e | null | t1_c2jt1is | t1_c2jt0er | null | 1427598940 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Gotebe | null | This is implementation-dependent, an indeed, there's implementation that uses 1.5, and I seem to remember seeing 1.25 as well. | null | 0 | 1316009401 | False | 0 | c2jt1sc | t3_kf43e | null | t1_c2jt1sc | t1_c2jss8i | null | 1427598943 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | finalcut | null | interesting that in the video the company is "Artist Exploitation Inc" and the website is Fog Creek Software.. Seems like a childish dig. | null | 0 | 1316009429 | False | 0 | c2jt1wc | t3_ketdw | null | t1_c2jt1wc | t3_ketdw | null | 1427598945 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1316009450 | False | 0 | c2jt1zc | t3_kewkd | null | t1_c2jt1zc | t1_c2jsqnf | null | 1427598946 | 25 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | ab9003 | null | Agreed. I always thought it was unintuitive how in OS X when you minimize a window of lets say safari, it goes into a right window with a little thumbnail. Eventually when you're minimizing a lot of stuff this right bar gets piled up massively and all of the bottom dock starts to shrink. With Windows 7 your windows minimize directly into the icon for the program, so you can easily go back and forth between them and it even gives full screen previews. I don't understand why this hasn't been adopted by the other OS's yet and why Windows would change a good thing. | null | 0 | 1316009455 | False | 0 | c2jt1zv | t3_kejwo | null | t1_c2jt1zv | t1_c2jseq0 | null | 1427598946 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | johnpowell | null | I got it to run using VMware on Lion. | null | 0 | 1316009466 | False | 0 | c2jt213 | t3_kewkd | null | t1_c2jt213 | t1_c2jr679 | null | 1427598946 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | ab9003 | null | I really feel like it'd probably be better to just have Windows 8 Touch, and Windows 8. Maybe have it so the Metro UI can be accessed but on non touchscreen systems it isn't the default. | null | 0 | 1316009564 | False | 0 | c2jt2fe | t3_kejwo | null | t1_c2jt2fe | t1_c2jrwlk | null | 1427598951 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | WinRT looks pretty scary IMO. For instance, let's look at the "new" IDeviceIoControl interface.
IDeviceIoControl exposes the following methods which are the apparent replacements for DeviceIoControl:
CancelOperation
DeviceIoControlSync
DeviceIoControlAsync
DeviceIoControl USED to live in Kernel32.dll and now lives in DeviceAccess.Lib.
If you look at the parameters for DeviceIoControlSync you'll notice they're identical to the old DeviceIoControl. So why the need for Async and CancelOperation? Any dev worth their salt will isolate the Device calls from everything else in a seperate thread beforehand.
I suspect this is merely another layer on top of an old API and it is likely there to add some sort of DRM when accessing media devices and probably other sorts of monitoring. Seriously, everything these three "new" functions do was done before in the past by the same functions. | null | 0 | 1316009626 | False | 0 | c2jt2o2 | t3_kejwo | null | t1_c2jt2o2 | t3_kejwo | null | 1427598955 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | clawoo | null | I only use C++ is when I feel that my life is on an ascending slope. Gotta keep that motherfucker in check. | null | 0 | 1316009666 | False | 0 | c2jt2t4 | t3_kf43e | null | t1_c2jt2t4 | t1_c2jsjq1 | null | 1427598956 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | mushishi | null | Cloud services can provide, and with a contract can be responsible for, to have a copy of the data available for export when the user decides to leave, or even whenever one wants.
Also, you don't need to put information that is crucial, and still have usable service that is accessible from many a place. | null | 0 | 1316009668 | False | 0 | c2jt2te | t3_ketdw | null | t1_c2jt2te | t1_c2jscdu | null | 1427598956 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | 4ad | null | No registration required either. Awesome.
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True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1316009747 | False | 0 | c2jt34c | t3_kepcp | null | t1_c2jt34c | t1_c2jsuel | null | 1427598960 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | BinaryShadow | null | We'll do it live! | null | 0 | 1316009773 | False | 0 | c2jt37u | t3_kewkd | null | t1_c2jt37u | t1_c2jsmc7 | null | 1427598962 | 15 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | kyz | null | I can't understand the Java hate going on here.
You can solve hard problems in Java. It might not be pretty, but who cares?
Java, however, solves a problem that many languages don't attempt; to still be usable when you have 50 not terribly great programmers that rarely talk to each other working on the same project. | null | 0 | 1316009799 | False | 0 | c2jt3bj | t3_kf2xi | null | t1_c2jt3bj | t1_c2jsmap | null | 1427598963 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | nplus | null | Why not pick up a small cheap hard drive and install Win8 on that? It'll leave Win7 intact and you have a better chance of not loosing data. If Win8 has access to your data drives it's entirely possible to lose the data through a bug so you should keep that in mind too. | null | 0 | 1316009864 | False | 0 | c2jt3kv | t3_kewkd | null | t1_c2jt3kv | t1_c2jsz7x | null | 1427598966 | -1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | nickdangler | null | The short answer is, "Yes." The longer answer is that your test cases are tests of the intended goal. At some level, you need eyes on the test to ensure it is "accurate", aka testing the intended goal. As otterdam said, (paraphrased) if you're not sure what the intended goal is, you probably not ready to start coding. | null | 0 | 1316009892 | False | 0 | c2jt3ot | t3_kepcp | null | t1_c2jt3ot | t1_c2jqp2i | null | 1427598968 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | BTMPL | null | Duno man, [I'm at home](http://i.imgur.com/Gk1XP.gif) and it's like ... $15/month? (50MBit pipe) | null | 0 | 1316009913 | False | 0 | c2jt3s0 | t3_kewkd | null | t1_c2jt3s0 | t1_c2jshgn | null | 1427598969 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | novagenesis | null | A lot of web people would love to see a few good CGI languages running inside Javascript. My first thought at this project (after wincing that it's Smalltalk, of course) was that a little good glue code would allow some crazy front-end/back-end integration, abstract out ajax, and let you act like you've just built a desktop app.
I'd love to add server-side handlers to client-side events with client rendering... without having to bend over backwards into ajax calls and catching runmodes.
Now if only it wasn't smalltalk... because I'll take the speed hit for that much dev-time saved anyday. | null | 0 | 1316009920 | False | 0 | c2jt3sz | t3_kf4hn | null | t1_c2jt3sz | t1_c2js6d6 | null | 1427598969 | -1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | edifus | null | Why not use VMware server and just build a VM off your storage drive? | null | 0 | 1316009924 | False | 0 | c2jt3tw | t3_kewkd | null | t1_c2jt3tw | t1_c2jsz7x | null | 1427598970 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | zzzeek | null | its funny, in 1997 or so I contracted at a bank called Bankers Trust, right across from world trade. There, every app they had was either in VB or Smalltalk. I was there to write them a new app, using this new thing called "Java". And wow were they skeptical, took months to get it approved by their systems guys, all that.
Compared to the tens of thousands of companies that built everything on VB, why would they have picked some new thing ? Better just to stick with COBOL right ?
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True | arixx | null | Open up regedit, go to HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Explorer
Change "RPEnabled" from "1" to "0" - Win7 start menu, Metro UI disabled | null | 0 | 1316009937 | False | 0 | c2jt3vn | t3_kejwo | null | t1_c2jt3vn | t3_kejwo | null | 1427598970 | 28 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | bulldada | null | Played with it for about an hour in a VM. It's pretty buggy, I wouldn't consider it usable enough as primary OS at present. The UI can't decide if it wants to be touchscreen or kb/mouse and ends up failing at both. | null | 0 | 1316009989 | False | 0 | c2jt434 | t3_kewkd | null | t1_c2jt434 | t1_c2jsz7x | null | 1427598973 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | mastry0da | null | its a VERY mature kernel and userland, GNU/LINUX won't match it in stability for a LONG time... i have freebsd system w/ uptimes over a decade now... | null | 0 | 1316010032 | False | 0 | c2jt49r | t3_kejfs | null | t1_c2jt49r | t1_c2jpp5s | null | 1427598975 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | That doesn't really make a big difference. The original C++ compiler generated C code, that doesn't make it a C compiler even if the code it generated used the same ABI.
This is still essentially a new language which is a superset of C++. | null | 0 | 1316010072 | False | 0 | c2jt4f9 | t3_kejwo | null | t1_c2jt4f9 | t1_c2jrogw | null | 1427598977 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1316010104 | True | 0 | c2jt4k7 | t3_kfc31 | null | t1_c2jt4k7 | t3_kfc31 | null | 1427598979 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | nickdangler | null | It *feels* really bad when the code crashes due to a functional defect. You can't capture the feel of the thing if it doesn't work in the first place. Programmatic tests are not intended to remove human beings from the entire test arena. They are intended to remove humans from the tedious, repetitive and error-prone tasks that computers are good at; considering that this type of testing is so tedious, repetitive and error-prone that most projects don't do it at any significant level. | null | 0 | 1316010118 | False | 0 | c2jt4m4 | t3_kepcp | null | t1_c2jt4m4 | t1_c2jobkv | null | 1427598980 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | bulldada | null | You can *install* them if you run the installer in Win7 compatibility mode, although I'm not sure how many of them actually *work*. The mouse integration doesn't at least, not sure about the others. | null | 0 | 1316010151 | False | 0 | c2jt4pz | t3_kewkd | null | t1_c2jt4pz | t1_c2jsxyc | null | 1427598981 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | ab9003 | null | 0% cut as in to Microsoft? I always thought this was the best route for app stores since Apple makes only an extremely small fraction of its revenues off the App Store. It only works to benefit sales of new iPhones/Macs (which it does do tremendously). | null | 0 | 1316010164 | False | 0 | c2jt4rl | t3_kejwo | null | t1_c2jt4rl | t1_c2js3cw | null | 1427598983 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | librarion | null | I'm trying to do the same but keep getting a "Not Implemented" error with the 64-bit. Did you run into that? | null | 0 | 1316010284 | False | 0 | c2jt5a0 | t3_kewkd | null | t1_c2jt5a0 | t1_c2jt213 | null | 1427598989 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | AeroNotix | null | Try a different architechture, 32/64bit and make sure virtualization is enabled in your BIOS. | null | 0 | 1316010298 | False | 0 | c2jt5bu | t3_kewkd | null | t1_c2jt5bu | t1_c2jsyyt | null | 1427598989 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | nascent | null | > You completely ignore community and project management issues.
No, I'm addressing the issue with license incompatibility. | null | 0 | 1316010307 | False | 0 | c2jt5d7 | t3_kaxjq | null | t1_c2jt5d7 | t1_c2jrmi1 | null | 1427598990 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | FlySwat | null | And in QT, a button has the following:
- 21 public functions inherited from QAbstractButton
- 217 public functions inherited from QWidget
- 29 public functions inherited from QObject
- 13 public functions inherited from QPaintDevice
- 14 protected functions inherited from QAbstractButton
- 37 protected functions inherited from QWidget
- 7 protected functions inherited from QObject
- 1 protected function inherited from QPaintDevice
- 5 public slots inherited from QAbstractButton
- 19 public slots inherited from QWidget
- 1 public slot inherited from QObject
- 4 signals inherited from QAbstractButton
- 1 signal inherited from QWidget
- 1 signal inherited from QObject
- 4 static public members inherited from QWidget
- 5 static public members inherited from QObject
- 1 protected slot inherited from QWidget
My point was that UI frameworks are fucking complex, and pointing out that a bunch of interfaces (which is a good choice in my opinion) are used to compose a widget doesn't really make any point.
At the end of the day, a button is simply:
var b = new Button();
or
<button/>
If you prefer XAML.
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True | chronoBG | null | > Because I wrote a GameBoy Color emulator in JavaScript, so I know how bad the DOM MANIPULATION is in HTML.
FTFY. If js is slow for you, then any scripting language would be slow for you.
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True | [deleted] | null | This is when you in the good old days used to see:
* ricodued Quit (Read error: Connection reset by peer) | null | 0 | 1316010419 | False | 0 | c2jt5ub | t3_kewkd | null | t1_c2jt5ub | t1_c2jsz7x | null | 1427598997 | 16 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | cubanjew | null | Anybody care to post some screenshots? | null | 0 | 1316010425 | False | 0 | c2jt5vj | t3_kewkd | null | t1_c2jt5vj | t3_kewkd | null | 1427598997 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Vaste | null | > You can solve hard problems in Java. It might not be pretty, but who cares?
The same could be said about brainfuck. | null | 0 | 1316010429 | False | 0 | c2jt5w8 | t3_kf2xi | null | t1_c2jt5w8 | t1_c2jt3bj | null | 1427598997 | -2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | useful_idiot | null | Notch is by no means an expert. Minecraft is one of the most horribly inefficient titles I have seen. My 6990 can power through crysis like a hot knife through butter, but I still see chunkyness and occassional slowdowns in minecraft. | null | 0 | 1316010481 | False | 0 | c2jt63e | t3_kepcp | null | t1_c2jt63e | t1_c2jox35 | null | 1427599000 | 14 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | Can you please create an IMGUR album with a few screenshots of Visual Studio 2011? A code view, a solution pane view, a create new project screenshot. Some templates? I'm itching to see these! :D Thank you! | null | 0 | 1316010511 | False | 0 | c2jt67e | t3_kewkd | null | t1_c2jt67e | t1_c2jslua | null | 1427599001 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | trades | null | > Amber is written in itself, including the parser and compiler, and compiles into efficient JavaScript
It's not a language interpreter, it's a compiler. | null | 0 | 1316010530 | False | 0 | c2jt6a3 | t3_kf4hn | null | t1_c2jt6a3 | t1_c2jsyjx | null | 1427599002 | 8 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | nyamatongwe | null | There's a shutdown menu on an icon in the bottom right of the login screen allowing Shut down and Restart. You get to the login screen by logging off the metro screen to the lock screen then dragging the lock screen up.
I'm not greatly enthused by the Windows 8 UI but I'm not hating it either. The tile applets aren't much so far. | null | 0 | 1316010737 | False | 0 | c2jt74b | t3_kejwo | null | t1_c2jt74b | t1_c2jr80j | null | 1427599014 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | cunningjames | null | > It's what made it easy to outsource … It's what made employee turnover not matter. Lead programmer wants a big raise? No big deal - you can hire any new grad who can read his code. Manager wants to micromanage? No problem - he can read Java too! It was everything Cobol tried to be long ago.
…
> But none have been as good for the average developer than Java.
Not that I’m arguing for languages to be unnecessarily complex (I don’t think Scala is, anyway), but all that sure sounds *great* for the “average developer” — why aren’t they lining to sign up? | null | 0 | 1316010941 | False | 0 | c2jt7za | t3_kf2xi | null | t1_c2jt7za | t1_c2js9a4 | null | 1427599027 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | mikaelhg | null | Being "hard" doesn't mean it's hard to pick up, it means that it introduces so much unnecessary non-value-producing complexity and upwards incompatibility that it's a loser for mission-oriented people who have already gained the value learning multiple languages gives one.
The less non-value-producing variance in expression, the better for your mission. More constraints is better than fewer, as long as they don't keep you from going where you need to go.
Kotlin, however, looks like it manages to circumnavigate Scala's pitfalls, by concentrating on actual use cases instead of academic papers. | null | 0 | 1316010958 | True | 0 | c2jt81v | t3_kf2xi | null | t1_c2jt81v | t1_c2jsctk | null | 1427599030 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Froglicker | null | [Sup mang $6/month](http://i.imgur.com/UJydb.jpg) | null | 0 | 1316010983 | False | 0 | c2jt85c | t3_kewkd | null | t1_c2jt85c | t1_c2jt3s0 | null | 1427599032 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Doomfield | null | Agreed. I'm hoping there's a more business-oriented second distro of Windows 8 made for traditional desktop workstations. Windows 8 looks great for tablets, so far, but we don't do everything on tablets at work. Or anything, really. I see the potential, but it's a long ways off for us. | null | 0 | 1316011003 | False | 0 | c2jt88l | t3_kejwo | null | t1_c2jt88l | t1_c2jt2fe | null | 1427599033 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Asians_and_cats | null | What I learned from watching notch code: eat all of the system RAM. **ALL OF IT.** | null | 0 | 1316011007 | False | 0 | c2jt89b | t3_kepcp | null | t1_c2jt89b | t3_kepcp | null | 1427599033 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Doomfield | null | Personally, I'm still mad that Progman is gone. | null | 0 | 1316011047 | False | 0 | c2jt8gb | t3_kejwo | null | t1_c2jt8gb | t1_c2jsosc | null | 1427599036 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
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