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True | antonivs | null | You need to work on your reading comprehension.
Jabberworx claimed that the only reason people dismiss Silverlight etc. is because of anti-Microsoft fanboyism. In that context, the fact that Microsoft themselves are avoiding Silverlight in the Metro context directly contradicts his claim, unless we're accusing Micros... | null | 0 | 1316124474 | False | 0 | c2k616u | t3_kgb4h | null | t1_c2k616u | t1_c2k1aag | null | 1427605266 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | uhhhclem | null | This is excellent work and really fun to play with.
Three things that might improve it:
First, the data isn't meaningful without knowing what time period it applies to. 96,000 Chinese have emigrated to Korea. Since when? I'm guessing that the data must be comparatively recent (since there's no Irish immigration to... | null | 0 | 1316124595 | False | 0 | c2k61rl | t3_kgjcg | null | t1_c2k61rl | t3_kgjcg | null | 1427605270 | 8 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | pozorvlak | null | I'd assumed as much :-) I'm a pragmatist: the free market solves some problems very effectively, and states solve other problems very effectively. Both have a tendency to introduce undesirable side-effects: markets have negative externalities, and states are subject to regulatory capture. The best solution to these pro... | null | 0 | 1316124615 | False | 0 | c2k61uu | t3_kgbzq | null | t1_c2k61uu | t1_c2k5jyg | null | 1427605271 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | 11t1 | null | If you take Reddit hivemind opinions as fact during your early development as a programmer, you're going to enter the working world as some kind of retarded flipper baby. | null | 0 | 1316124651 | False | 0 | c2k620q | t3_kgq62 | null | t1_c2k620q | t1_c2k55rf | null | 1427605276 | 25 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | paulscode | null | There is an x86 version of the dynarec (it's taken from Ari64's Pandora port of Mupen64Plus 1.5). I currently have it disabled for testing on ARM devices first (would take minimal effort to set it up to compile the x86 version, but currently untested yet since I don't have an x86 Android device myself) | null | 0 | 1316124680 | False | 0 | c2k625b | t3_ker63 | null | t1_c2k625b | t1_c2jultz | null | 1427605274 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | They have to break that mindset. | null | 0 | 1316124682 | False | 0 | c2k625n | t3_kgb4h | null | t1_c2k625n | t1_c2k2jrq | null | 1427605274 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | pozorvlak | null | SCRIPTABLE COFFEE MACHINES! | null | 0 | 1316124686 | False | 0 | c2k626k | t3_kgbzq | null | t1_c2k626k | t1_c2k5lmx | null | 1427605274 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | henk53 | null | >As far as programming goes, object pools and other ways of avoiding generating garbage is usually the best bet.
Avoiding generating garbage is of course always a strategy, just as you generally try to avoid unnecessary allocations in say C++.
Object pooling can certainly help, but it's not as clear cut. In it's ... | null | 0 | 1316124812 | False | 0 | c2k62rz | t3_kgq62 | null | t1_c2k62rz | t1_c2k60cl | null | 1427605281 | 8 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | Is this just a decoder or encoder as well? | null | 0 | 1316124826 | False | 0 | c2k62ui | t3_kgqdd | null | t1_c2k62ui | t3_kgqdd | null | 1427605283 | 9 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | djdonnell | null | sup dawg, I heard you like NP problems ... | null | 0 | 1316124827 | False | 0 | c2k62uw | t3_kgfhb | null | t1_c2k62uw | t1_c2k4w32 | null | 1427605283 | -6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | albertzeyer | null | The change in CPython: https://github.com/albertz/CPython/commit/2670e621458fd80311fc02897b698ea2a36d494b | null | 0 | 1316124833 | False | 0 | c2k62vs | t3_kgzb1 | null | t1_c2k62vs | t3_kgzb1 | null | 1427605284 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | buciuman | null | Well, no, you are missing out on the point that what you call a brute force method is actually a great number of checks, which are easy to do on an individual basis. P problems are NP problems too because they are easy to check, BUT they are also easy to solve, which makes them a subset of NP.
I recommend you read aga... | null | 0 | 1316124899 | False | 0 | c2k636t | t3_kgfhb | null | t1_c2k636t | t1_c2k5rfr | null | 1427605287 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | punpunpun | null | attempt to sign in causes: "Internal Server Error"
FTW! | null | 0 | 1316124910 | False | 0 | c2k638d | t3_kgsnl | null | t1_c2k638d | t1_c2k53j7 | null | 1427605287 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | pozorvlak | null | I agree that public schooling (or, as we call it in the UK, state schooling :-) ) often has that structure. But that's not to say it *needs* to have that structure. | null | 0 | 1316124992 | False | 0 | c2k63l3 | t3_kgbzq | null | t1_c2k63l3 | t1_c2k2ozn | null | 1427605292 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | AeroNotix | null | They just read off the slides, mostly.
I think they could've just hosted the .ppt and be done with it.
Erlang sounds interesting though, I love that hot-code idea. Could breed laziness though. | null | 0 | 1316125008 | False | 0 | c2k63nv | t3_kfo63 | null | t1_c2k63nv | t1_c2jw151 | null | 1427605303 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | pozorvlak | null | Great article, BTW. | null | 0 | 1316125021 | False | 0 | c2k63q1 | t3_kgbzq | null | t1_c2k63q1 | t1_c2k2v43 | null | 1427605294 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | pozorvlak | null | Your challenge for the day: write such a rhyme. | null | 0 | 1316125090 | False | 0 | c2k641a | t3_kgbzq | null | t1_c2k641a | t1_c2k5dla | null | 1427605299 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | ... Fuck the world? | null | 0 | 1316125093 | False | 0 | c2k641s | t3_kgsnl | null | t1_c2k641s | t1_c2k638d | null | 1427605299 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | They have never been a "leapfrogging" company. They basically follow the market. Somebody introduces a successful product or service and a few years later Microsoft either comes out with their own version or buys a company and enters the market.
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True | tarantulus | null | I completely agree, an attempt should be made to provision it equally until aptitude (or lack thereof) is established. However discriminating based on financial means is a hideous proposition. | null | 0 | 1316125233 | False | 0 | c2k64p5 | t3_kgbzq | null | t1_c2k64p5 | t1_c2k5yrq | null | 1427605307 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | kierank | null | Just decoder for now. An encoder will inevitably appear. | null | 0 | 1316125236 | False | 0 | c2k64pp | t3_kgqdd | null | t1_c2k64pp | t1_c2k62ui | null | 1427605307 | 12 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | >I was taking particular issue with your phrase "every day the desktop becomes less relevant".
Guess what most of the "work" done on a desktop is browsing and consuming digital media these days. Outside of programmers I'd say way above 50%. For those people the desktop is redundant.
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True | captainAwesomePants | null | This is true, but one-time pads are useless for most Internet communication, and symmetric encryption similarly requires a shared secret. Yes, many simple encryption algorithms would still work, but most of the Internet encryption algorithms would not. | null | 0 | 1316125405 | False | 0 | c2k65gs | t3_kgfhb | null | t1_c2k65gs | t1_c2k575l | null | 1427605317 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | oakdog8 | null | Well, saying all P problems are easy it is a bit of an overstatement. The difference in P and NP problems really lies in the amount of time it would take to test all possible outcomes for a solution.
P problems are solvable in "polynomial time," for example: 2x tries. NP problems are solvable in "non-polynomial time"... | null | 0 | 1316125496 | False | 0 | c2k65u4 | t3_kgfhb | null | t1_c2k65u4 | t1_c2k59jj | null | 1427605331 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Pragmataraxia | null | Thank you. That whole paragraph was a horrible waste of time. Even if it didn't contain this ridiculous pair of definitions, at best it just explains things tautologically. Hurray! | null | 0 | 1316125508 | False | 0 | c2k65z0 | t3_kgfhb | null | t1_c2k65z0 | t1_c2k59jj | null | 1427605326 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Saivo | null | Nope. It seems that you've accidentally omitted wads of text from between those two statements.
In the first statement, I was discussing corporations being too stingy to move their enterprisey shit to some modern language.
In the latter statement, I discuss my personal preferences. Note the important distinction: I d... | null | 0 | 1316125557 | False | 0 | c2k665z | t3_kgq62 | null | t1_c2k665z | t1_c2k60bc | null | 1427605330 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | bonch | null | It's read-only and limited. Very boring. | null | 0 | 1316125706 | False | 0 | c2k66sp | t3_kgsnl | null | t1_c2k66sp | t3_kgsnl | null | 1427605335 | 26 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | punpunpun | null | Entry #1, not #2: http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=ftw | null | 0 | 1316125723 | False | 0 | c2k66v0 | t3_kgsnl | null | t1_c2k66v0 | t1_c2k641s | null | 1427605337 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | bonch | null | Prepare to get modbombed by the thousands of Google fanboys who frequent /r/programming. | null | 0 | 1316125745 | False | 0 | c2k66yr | t3_kgsnl | null | t1_c2k66yr | t1_c2k57l2 | null | 1427605337 | -26 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | bonch | null | Holy crap, look at that modbombing. All that for the sin of saying you stopped using a Google product. Frankly, after the pseudonym debacle and Eric Schmidt's admission that Google+ is an identity service rather than a social network, I don't get why there's any interest left at all. | null | 0 | 1316125789 | False | 0 | c2k6765 | t3_kgsnl | null | t1_c2k6765 | t1_c2k4m9i | null | 1427605340 | -7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | ondra | null | > Honestly, semantics.
Well, you started.
My point is that Visual Studio does hot code replacement in unmanaged C++. Nowhere does .NET enter the equation.
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True | more_exercise | null | not sure if serious... | null | 0 | 1316125796 | False | 0 | c2k677c | t3_kg44k | null | t1_c2k677c | t1_c2k0x8b | null | 1427605344 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | 8-bit_d-boy | null | I knew Elvis wasn't dead! I wonder what Tupac is reverse-engineering... | null | 0 | 1316125820 | False | 0 | c2k67bb | t3_kgqdd | null | t1_c2k67bb | t3_kgqdd | null | 1427605341 | 22 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | bonch | null | One for every active Google+ user. | null | 0 | 1316125924 | False | 0 | c2k67sj | t3_kgsnl | null | t1_c2k67sj | t1_c2k4yiz | null | 1427605346 | 33 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Shawnanigans | null | What I don't understand is why Google Plus was not released as a type of open standard akin to email, HTML or even Google Wave. Why not make Google Plus a protocol wherein Google's servers host a version but other people can host their own. Yet due to their usage of the same protocol can interact.
This helps solve on... | null | 0 | 1316126029 | False | 0 | c2k68ad | t3_kgsnl | null | t1_c2k68ad | t3_kgsnl | null | 1427605354 | 22 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | othermatt | null | So NP are problems that can be easily checked. And P are problems that can be solved without checking every possible answer?
Does it matter if the problem doesn't have a solution? For example, the rock pile problem where every rock except one weighs the same.
For that matter if the rock pile problem had every rock we... | null | 0 | 1316126106 | False | 0 | c2k68mi | t3_kgfhb | null | t1_c2k68mi | t1_c2k636t | null | 1427605358 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | acornalert | null | Unpopular culture reference noted. | null | 0 | 1316126115 | False | 0 | c2k68nw | t3_kewkd | null | t1_c2k68nw | t1_c2juv14 | null | 1427605359 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | bonch | null | That's not really true. If Minecraft was efficient enough to run on netbooks, for example, it would be even more successful. | null | 0 | 1316126120 | False | 0 | c2k68oo | t3_kfiuk | null | t1_c2k68oo | t1_c2k1r46 | null | 1427605359 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | antonivs | null | So to streamline things for tablet users, they avoided Silverlight. This refutes your claim that the only reason to dismiss Silverlight is petty fanboyism.
The point is that your claim was far too over-generalized. | null | 0 | 1316126121 | False | 0 | c2k68ot | t3_kgb4h | null | t1_c2k68ot | t1_c2k144a | null | 1427605359 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Baaz | null | At our company we use Flex to generate complex user interfaces in object oriented code. Works like a charm. I wouldn't want to miss it. | null | 0 | 1316126143 | False | 0 | c2k68s9 | t3_kgb4h | null | t1_c2k68s9 | t1_c2k3m9m | null | 1427605360 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | bonch | null | Have you looked at deobfuscated Minecraft code? It's pretty eye-opening in a bad way. | null | 0 | 1316126222 | False | 0 | c2k693d | t3_kfiuk | null | t1_c2k693d | t1_c2k0mgc | null | 1427605365 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Saivo | null | I think you are perhaps a little bit intellectually dishonest if you claim that the level of verbosity is the same between your example languages (C, C++, Objective-C, C#, Java). There are at least two, maybe three separate tiers there.
Java makes me write a lot of redundant stuff, and at some point it really starts t... | null | 0 | 1316126242 | False | 0 | c2k6965 | t3_kgq62 | null | t1_c2k6965 | t1_c2k5zhc | null | 1428193971 | -3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | some_dev | null | Can you give some examples of redundant stuff? I find that a lot of the supposed boilerplate that is "forced" on developers is actually just optional and foisted due to "best practices." | null | 0 | 1316126368 | False | 0 | c2k69os | t3_kgq62 | null | t1_c2k69os | t1_c2k6965 | null | 1427605380 | 8 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | bonch | null | Shortcomings can affect success, and I'm sure Minecraft's inability to run on netbooks, for example, has affected sales. | null | 0 | 1316126437 | False | 0 | c2k69zb | t3_kfiuk | null | t1_c2k69zb | t1_c2k45ac | null | 1427605376 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | kish22 | null | Build it and they will come. Maybe. | null | 0 | 1316126502 | False | 0 | c2k6a9o | t3_kgsnl | null | t1_c2k6a9o | t3_kgsnl | null | 1427605379 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Sc4Freak | null | Not exactly. Think of it as COM++. It's still 100% native, but they've added a bunch of stuff to COM (and syntactic sugar extensions to C++) to make it slightly less painful to use. This "super COM" is used to talk to WinRT. | null | 0 | 1316126525 | False | 0 | c2k6acm | t3_kgl4f | null | t1_c2k6acm | t1_c2k5hvy | null | 1427605380 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Freeky | null | Maybe you should look at Scala, or Clojure if Java-the-language offends you so much. Not like it's the only choice even if you are stuck with Java-the-actually-pretty-good-VM. | null | 0 | 1316126590 | False | 0 | c2k6ana | t3_kgq62 | null | t1_c2k6ana | t1_c2k6965 | null | 1427605384 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | BubblegumBalloon | null | May I ask what you are porting it to? :) | null | 0 | 1316126840 | False | 0 | c2k6bsl | t3_ker63 | null | t1_c2k6bsl | t1_c2k2rwf | null | 1427605399 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | St4ud3 | null | ah ok, that makes the most sense from all these answers :)
Thank you. | null | 0 | 1316126841 | False | 0 | c2k6bsv | t3_kgfhb | null | t1_c2k6bsv | t1_c2k4gig | null | 1427605399 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | Muphry's Law. | null | 0 | 1316126850 | False | 0 | c2k6buc | t3_kgb4h | null | t1_c2k6buc | t1_c2k2zdl | null | 1427605401 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | vocalbit | null | Care to share more? | null | 0 | 1316126862 | False | 0 | c2k6bwb | t3_kfvm7 | null | t1_c2k6bwb | t1_c2k32u5 | null | 1427605401 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | elpablo | null | I'm really surprised that it's so low. My parents both have an iPhone and neither of them even know how to update it. Surely there must be a lot of people that aren't up to date? My dad doesn't even plug his into his computer! | null | 0 | 1316126929 | False | 0 | c2k6c7k | t3_kfirl | null | t1_c2k6c7k | t1_c2k5j8g | null | 1427605406 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | icandoitbetter | null | They're not missing much. Coding anything substantial and sufficiently original is hard and takes too much time. Very rarely do I experience the feeling that I am really *expressing* myself through programming; I'm mostly gluing stuff and debugging. On the other hand, I can express myself through writing instantly.
A... | null | 0 | 1316126933 | False | 0 | c2k6c87 | t3_kgbzq | null | t1_c2k6c87 | t1_c2k2mzb | null | 1427605406 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | twooster | null | It does make sense, though... For mongodb, every .1 alternates between an unstable and a stable version. So, 1.8 was stable, 1.9 was the unstable development version that became 2.0 once it stabilized.
But yeah, it reads weird. | null | 0 | 1316126956 | False | 0 | c2k6ccp | t3_kggd3 | null | t1_c2k6ccp | t3_kggd3 | null | 1427605406 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Mylos | null | This was the first time I actually understood this! Thanks so much! | null | 0 | 1316127014 | False | 0 | c2k6cku | t3_kgfhb | null | t1_c2k6cku | t3_kgfhb | null | 1427605409 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Chroko | null | I've not started to dig into it, but the developer preview includes a retooled [Microsoft Expression](http://www.microsoft.com/expression/products/StudioWebPro_Overview.aspx), which can be used to graphically design the user interfaces and visual elements of HTML5 apps. | null | 0 | 1316127046 | False | 0 | c2k6cod | t3_kgb4h | null | t1_c2k6cod | t1_c2k4h60 | null | 1427605411 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1316127059 | False | 0 | c2k6ct8 | t3_kgb4h | null | t1_c2k6ct8 | t1_c2k4h60 | null | 1427605412 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | more_exercise | null | Wibbly wobbly timey-wimey... stuff, yes. | null | 0 | 1316127191 | False | 0 | c2k6dir | t3_kgl4f | null | t1_c2k6dir | t1_c2k5hvy | null | 1427605423 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | nrselleh | null | hot damn, you are bumping into a whole industry - [Geographic Information Systems](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geographic_information_system) - Can you hook this up to a SQL database in the backend? I know that would probably kill the performance, but if so you'd have the foundations of an "Enterprise" web application... | null | 0 | 1316127267 | False | 0 | c2k6dv5 | t3_kgjcg | null | t1_c2k6dv5 | t3_kgjcg | null | 1427605427 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Jookia | null | Ah. I look forward to messing around with it when Windows 8 officially comes out. | null | 0 | 1316127327 | False | 0 | c2k6e4n | t3_kgl4f | null | t1_c2k6e4n | t1_c2k6acm | null | 1427605432 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | brehaut | null | Firstly, CoffeeScript is a _giant_ leap in syntax from javascript; It is the semantics that it generally tries to maintain. Where there is a 1 to 1 mapping to javascript, CS maintains semantic equivalence.
Lets look at two examples: Examine the [Class syntax](http://jashkenas.github.com/coffee-script/#classes) and th... | null | 0 | 1316127422 | True | 0 | c2k6el5 | t3_kddpb | null | t1_c2k6el5 | t1_c2k00pj | null | 1427605441 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Saivo | null | I think the verbosity comes from a lot of small stuff that adds up as you write more and more code. Often seemingly minor things, for example initializing Java's basic data structures is often much more work than with C++ containers, and ends up to become a major pain in the ass in the long run. Or maybe I am just shor... | null | 0 | 1316127480 | False | 0 | c2k6eu8 | t3_kgq62 | null | t1_c2k6eu8 | t1_c2k69os | null | 1427605446 | -1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | Scumbag Fermat | null | 0 | 1316127489 | False | 0 | c2k6evw | t3_kgfhb | null | t1_c2k6evw | t1_c2k5b77 | null | 1427605446 | 14 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | mmccaskill | null | How long until they remove it like some of the other useful APIs? | null | 0 | 1316127548 | False | 0 | c2k6f5p | t3_kgsnl | null | t1_c2k6f5p | t3_kgsnl | null | 1427605450 | 14 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | x-skeww | null | Have you seen his 4k games? Do you think some average (=not even good) programmer could pull that stuff off? | null | 0 | 1316127636 | False | 0 | c2k6fk9 | t3_kfiuk | null | t1_c2k6fk9 | t1_c2k693d | null | 1427605454 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | DrMonkeyLove | null | >...that you can't make money in the market on average, except by luck.
Don't you mean, "can't make money, *above average market returns*, except by luck"? | null | 0 | 1316127637 | False | 0 | c2k6fkj | t3_kgfhb | null | t1_c2k6fkj | t1_c2k4sgt | null | 1427605454 | 9 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | You think factionalism is over at Microsoft? Have done any structural work in the corporation to reduce or get rid of factionalism? | null | 0 | 1316127717 | False | 0 | c2k6fy3 | t3_kgl4f | null | t1_c2k6fy3 | t1_c2k4n3b | null | 1427605457 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Saivo | null | Yep, I've taken a look at the both, and while the Java-likeness is somewhat off-putting, I definitely don't harbour as much frustration and outright wraith towards them. In fact, there are some pretty neat ideas in both compared to *many* other languages. However, this whole discussion thread was about Java, not about ... | null | 0 | 1316127726 | False | 0 | c2k6fzm | t3_kgq62 | null | t1_c2k6fzm | t1_c2k6ana | null | 1427605457 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | grauenwolf | null | Other than the file format for metadata there is no CLR stuff. This is all COM that has been tweaked to look like CLR. | null | 0 | 1316127737 | False | 0 | c2k6g1e | t3_kgl4f | null | t1_c2k6g1e | t1_c2k5hvy | null | 1427605459 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | thenamedone1 | null | That's interesting to me. The few programmers that I've met out in the real world all seem to hate working with java. Of course, I don't really have enough experience to give a shit one way or the other, but I thought the original comment sounded a little out of place when all of my experience with other programmers se... | null | 0 | 1316127801 | False | 0 | c2k6gbl | t3_kgq62 | null | t1_c2k6gbl | t1_c2k5s59 | null | 1427605461 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1316127827 | False | 0 | c2k6ggd | t3_kgsnl | null | t1_c2k6ggd | t1_c2k68ad | null | 1427605463 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | >Eh. Icaza can be a Microsoft fanboy sometimes, but he's a useful contrast to all the anti-Microsoft fanboys that are around FOSS.
How is he a useful contrast exactly?
It seems to me that he exists as a mere codpiece that Microsoft can point to and say "see we don't really hate open source, just ignore all of our... | null | 0 | 1316127838 | False | 0 | c2k6ghs | t3_kgl4f | null | t1_c2k6ghs | t1_c2k5hix | null | 1427605463 | -7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | some_dev | null | See, the thing is that I never hear *specific* complaints. About the closest I've heard is a lack of free functions and lambdas, which I definitely agree with. Well, that and a general "Java isn't dynamically typed," complaint.
Yes, there are a bunch of little things that add up, but I've never felt that I was spend... | null | 0 | 1316127853 | False | 0 | c2k6gk4 | t3_kgq62 | null | t1_c2k6gk4 | t1_c2k6eu8 | null | 1427605464 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | Dude, I'm a college droupout without a passion of maths. I am still learning Haskell and it took me a month of reading, snippeting to understand it's basic concepts. To finally get it.
It is a small price to pay (a month, a fluke) for the great satisfactionary moments you have afterwards.
And now I started to like ma... | null | 0 | 1316127887 | False | 0 | c2k6gpp | t3_kgt9u | null | t1_c2k6gpp | t1_c2k5r7f | null | 1427605465 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | timbowen | null | That may be true, but those people probably aren't in your market anyway. If they aren't even going to sync music are they really going to buy or download your app? | null | 0 | 1316127900 | False | 0 | c2k6grh | t3_kfirl | null | t1_c2k6grh | t1_c2k6c7k | null | 1427605466 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | TimTheTinker | null | Programming. *Programming.* **Programming.** | null | 0 | 1316127935 | False | 0 | c2k6gxf | t3_kgteo | null | t1_c2k6gxf | t3_kgteo | null | 1427605468 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | thenamedone1 | null | Oddly enough, the few programmers that I've met out in the real world all seem to hate working with java. Of course, I don't really have enough experience to give a shit one way or the other. | null | 0 | 1316127936 | False | 0 | c2k6gxr | t3_kgq62 | null | t1_c2k6gxr | t1_c2k620q | null | 1427605468 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | ejrh | null | > Why does anyone think that P might equal NP?
Part of the rationale is that non-deterministic *finite* automata can be transformed into deterministic ones (Kleene's Theorem) -- so definitely "P = NP", for FAs and NFAs, at least.
The big question is whether it also holds for Turing machines, which are kind of like... | null | 0 | 1316127951 | False | 0 | c2k6h0a | t3_kgfhb | null | t1_c2k6h0a | t1_c2k2ihl | null | 1427605468 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Freeky | null | People seem to be discussing both the language and the virtual machine(s), both of which are "Java". When it comes to performance discussions, the latter is really rather more relevant than the former. | null | 0 | 1316128071 | False | 0 | c2k6hiw | t3_kgq62 | null | t1_c2k6hiw | t1_c2k6fzm | null | 1427605474 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | some_dev | null | I've never met any that *hated* working in Java. I have met those who play up their dislike of it for dramatic effect and "street cred."
> "Java is pretty bad."
> "Yeah Java is terrible I don't like working with it."
> "Java is the worst. I'd rather be poked in the eye."
> "Oh Java? Java killed my do... | null | 0 | 1316128101 | True | 0 | c2k6hnw | t3_kgq62 | null | t1_c2k6hnw | t1_c2k6gbl | null | 1427605476 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | doomchild | null | Interesting. I'm also a college dropout with no real love lost for any math after trig. It just doesn't want to click for me, and that has made me less likely to try it again. I just don't see the benefit in being frustrated. | null | 0 | 1316128141 | False | 0 | c2k6huh | t3_kgt9u | null | t1_c2k6huh | t1_c2k6gpp | null | 1427605489 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | thenamedone1 | null | I have heard that third statement more than once. Word for word. | null | 0 | 1316128235 | False | 0 | c2k6i8k | t3_kgq62 | null | t1_c2k6i8k | t1_c2k6hnw | null | 1427605485 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | vade | null | This could be very large for compatibility with hardware encoders (such as the Atmos Ninja) for DSLR (as well as some larger cinema cameras like the ARRI). Having Pro Res support could bolster OSS editing apps. Its also decently fast (decode is asymmetric compared to encode, which is much more CPU expensive).
Nice wor... | null | 0 | 1316128309 | False | 0 | c2k6ik7 | t3_kgqdd | null | t1_c2k6ik7 | t3_kgqdd | null | 1427605500 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | danltn | null | It's a near-H2G2 quote. Alas. | null | 0 | 1316128400 | False | 0 | c2k6izv | t3_kewkd | null | t1_c2k6izv | t1_c2k68nw | null | 1427605497 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | vilhelm_s | null | Some combinatorial problems _do_ have solutions though. For example, [matching](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matching_%28graph_theory%29) in a bipartite graph has a similar "feel" to many NP-complete problems, yet it famously turns out to be polynomial.
In fact, it has recently become known that it's possible to lever... | null | 0 | 1316128552 | False | 0 | c2k6jof | t3_kgfhb | null | t1_c2k6jof | t1_c2k2ihl | null | 1427605504 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | kyz | null | TL;DR: OpenGL immediate mode | null | 0 | 1316128553 | False | 0 | c2k6jp2 | t3_kgq62 | null | t1_c2k6jp2 | t1_c2k50qu | null | 1427605505 | 11 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | hoyfkd | null | Silverlight death?
Does this mean I can watch netflix on linux?
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True | sevenalive | null | For the gritty details: I have a custom library composed of different stuff I use in most of my programs. TaskDialog, RestartRecoveryManager, different controls, extensions, and validation rules.
One day when I ever I displayed a TaskDialog the program would crash. It was working fine for over a year and I haven't tou... | null | 0 | 1316128583 | False | 0 | c2k6ju7 | t3_kh1a8 | null | t1_c2k6ju7 | t3_kh1a8 | null | 1427605505 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | pozorvlak | null | I think the two are inextricably intertwined: we won't get humane programming systems without making a serious attempt to teach programming to non-geeks. | null | 0 | 1316128791 | False | 0 | c2k6ktg | t3_kgbzq | null | t1_c2k6ktg | t1_c2k6c87 | null | 1427605519 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Saivo | null | No need to get snarky. I gave you a specific complaint. Let's expand my perhaps vaguely stated example a bit:
**Java**
import java.util.HashMap;
HashMap<SomeStupidlyLongClassName, SomeStupidlyLongClassName> hashmap = new HashMap<SomeStupidlyLongClassName, SomeStupidlyLongClassName>();
**C++:**
... | null | 0 | 1316128827 | False | 0 | c2k6kzq | t3_kgq62 | null | t1_c2k6kzq | t1_c2k6gk4 | null | 1427605521 | -1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | chrisrico | null | >markets have negative externalities
>states are subject to regulatory capture
I agree with you on these two points.
>markets moderate the State
>the state moderates the Market
I disagree with these, however. States necessarily exist outside markets. They exercise their power upon markets, and *some* m... | null | 0 | 1316128933 | False | 0 | c2k6lgi | t3_kgbzq | null | t1_c2k6lgi | t1_c2k61uu | null | 1427605525 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | grauenwolf | null | Nooo Microsoft DevDiv loves Mono but the rest of Microsoft acts like it doesn't exist.. | null | 0 | 1316128938 | False | 0 | c2k6lhf | t3_kgl4f | null | t1_c2k6lhf | t1_c2k6ghs | null | 1427605526 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Saivo | null | OK, I agree, that is true also. Maybe my original comment way above in the thread took a sidestep from the performance viewpoint. I've just wanted to get this Java stuff off my chest for so long, and through a little trolliness, the opportunity arose. :) | null | 0 | 1316129099 | False | 0 | c2k6m6u | t3_kgq62 | null | t1_c2k6m6u | t1_c2k6hiw | null | 1427605535 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | chrisrico | null | I would argue that the structure we see is an inevitable consequence of state education. The Prussian system of compulsory (public) education was created to make better subjects of the state, not to make better people. This is the basis for the system we have today.
This is not a personal dig at you, but I find it int... | null | 0 | 1316129294 | False | 0 | c2k6n37 | t3_kgbzq | null | t1_c2k6n37 | t1_c2k63l3 | null | 1427605547 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | I'm really hoping that Google will do this in fact. They have pushed for that in the past with a couple other networks, but the F site decided against it, which killed the project.
I'm hoping that once/if Google+ gains enough momentum to be relevant they'll be in a better position to bring Facebook to the table with a... | null | 0 | 1316129465 | False | 0 | c2k6nui | t3_kgsnl | null | t1_c2k6nui | t1_c2k68ad | null | 1427605557 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | kierank | null | This is a big deal for the creation of Broadcast content, VoD and Blu-Ray discs with an Open Source workflow. I work on making decent Open Source workflows for both of these tasks and there are always complaints about ProRes. | null | 0 | 1316129504 | False | 0 | c2k6o03 | t3_kgqdd | null | t1_c2k6o03 | t1_c2k6ik7 | null | 1427605561 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | marssaxman | null | it's way fun. | null | 0 | 1316129609 | False | 0 | c2k6ofg | t3_kfvm7 | null | t1_c2k6ofg | t1_c2k5czm | null | 1427605564 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | DasWood | null | World's largest stdlib. :) Knowing what parts of the stblib should be used it a job in itself. | null | 0 | 1316129636 | False | 0 | c2k6ojf | t3_kgq62 | null | t1_c2k6ojf | t1_c2k6hnw | null | 1427605566 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | muuh-gnu | null | You mean Google employees, who only still use it because they're forced to. Even the last fanboys have given up Google+ by now.
Google, damnit, why dont you suck it up already and give up this idiotic real-name-only policy and try to save whats left to save? Find out who made the idiotic decision to open fire on enthu... | null | 0 | 1316129643 | True | 0 | c2k6okh | t3_kgsnl | null | t1_c2k6okh | t1_c2k66yr | null | 1427605567 | -23 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | some_dev | null | I honestly wasn't being snarky. Your comment about data structures wasn't specific in my opinion, and I have trawled around google looking for concrete explanations. I usually only come up with very vague emotions and a dearth of specific examples.
And lets be blunt: I'm not a fan of Java. You touched upon one of t... | null | 0 | 1316129733 | False | 0 | c2k6oz8 | t3_kgq62 | null | t1_c2k6oz8 | t1_c2k6kzq | null | 1427605572 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
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