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True | fluxbox | null | No, it was wave, i think... | null | 0 | 1316163681 | False | 0 | c2k9ye8 | t3_kgsnl | null | t1_c2k9ye8 | t1_c2k57l2 | null | 1427607109 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1316163729 | False | 0 | c2k9ygy | t3_kgqnz | null | t1_c2k9ygy | t1_c2k6ze0 | null | 1427607110 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | Sure, but there's a limit to how small something can be while remaining actually practical to use. VI/Vim do one thing — edit text. You could break editing text down into several more basic functions, but it'd just be impractical to use. You could implement most, if not all\*, of the common Unix text-processing tools in sed/awk, but it's more practical to use slightly higher-level tools. That doesn't mean that `cut` goes against the Unix philosophy, it's just pragmatic.
\* Actually, all, since they're both Turing-complete. | null | 0 | 1316163768 | False | 0 | c2k9yix | t3_kgln6 | null | t1_c2k9yix | t1_c2k8c24 | null | 1427607110 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | cwstjnobbs | null | I have one friend on it, the only person I know who uses it and he never posts.
My stream is pretty much entirely filled with posts by Markus Persson bitching about how quiet G+ is. | null | 0 | 1316163971 | False | 0 | c2k9yuq | t3_kgsnl | null | t1_c2k9yuq | t1_c2k7zi1 | null | 1427607117 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | super__mario | null | Who's a real idiot here? You think UNIX philosophy is all about pipes and redirection? You seem completely ignorant yet you feel qualified to comment on things you know little about. Stupid kids today. And if you are not a kid, well you sure sound like one, and that says even more about you. | null | 0 | 1316164221 | True | 0 | c2k9z8a | t3_kgln6 | null | t1_c2k9z8a | t1_c2k8c24 | null | 1427607124 | -2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | AlyoshaV | null | He's not actually 13, he's a vampire. | null | 0 | 1316164535 | False | 0 | c2k9zqb | t3_khf6j | null | t1_c2k9zqb | t1_c2k9xjn | null | 1427607128 | 93 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Philipp | null | > but mastery of computer science and mathematics
Add "high level of English"... He writes in perfect essay style. I'm not a native speaker so I don't really know how normal this is for 13-year old native speakers. | null | 0 | 1316164744 | False | 0 | c2ka00n | t3_khf6j | null | t1_c2ka00n | t1_c2k9xjn | null | 1427607133 | 31 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | neug | null | Euler or Mozart must've been source of similar amazement at that age. | null | 0 | 1316164787 | False | 0 | c2ka02n | t3_khf6j | null | t1_c2ka02n | t3_khf6j | null | 1427607133 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | iamacontrarian | null | LOL R U KIDDING? | null | 0 | 1316165163 | False | 0 | c2ka0n0 | t3_khf6j | null | t1_c2ka0n0 | t1_c2ka00n | null | 1427607145 | 125 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | greenspans | null | dads writing blogs in kids names. (please go on this random interview and pretend you're famous, I will buy you a 3ds) | null | 0 | 1316165495 | False | 0 | c2ka15a | t3_khf6j | null | t1_c2ka15a | t1_c2k9xjn | null | 1427607150 | -1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Taladar | null | Typical management argument "Let us fix things that aren't broken for the sake of being trendy" actually. Nothing open source specific about this kind of thing. | null | 0 | 1316165594 | False | 0 | c2ka1a1 | t3_kghid | null | t1_c2ka1a1 | t3_kghid | null | 1427607157 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | thesystemx | null | >the latter is really rather more relevant than the former.
Perhaps, but Java the language plays an important part too, as it provides the JIT with enough information to do all kinds of optimizations.
Jython, despite running on the same JVM as Java isn't nearly as fast... | null | 0 | 1316165806 | False | 0 | c2ka1ll | t3_kgq62 | null | t1_c2ka1ll | t1_c2k6hiw | null | 1427607155 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | AlyoshaV | null | >He writes in perfect essay style.
The opening line of his current blog post is really badly written. | null | 0 | 1316165876 | False | 0 | c2ka1p7 | t3_khf6j | null | t1_c2ka1p7 | t1_c2ka00n | null | 1427607158 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | matthiasB | null | If it's not an even 50/50 split how can it be halves? | null | 0 | 1316165907 | False | 0 | c2ka1qy | t3_kgb4h | null | t1_c2ka1qy | t1_c2k54xm | null | 1427607158 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | WalterGR | null | Wasn't some level of separation between the OS teams and application teams due to the consent decree from the antitrust lawsuit?
Is that still in effect? (Or am I remembering incorrectly?) | null | 0 | 1316165986 | False | 0 | c2ka1uq | t3_kgl4f | null | t1_c2ka1uq | t1_c2k6fy3 | null | 1427607159 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | masklinn | null | Default iOS software is for people who want to use their phone. | null | 0 | 1316165993 | False | 0 | c2ka1va | t3_kgqnz | null | t1_c2ka1va | t1_c2k845j | null | 1427607159 | 11 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | ptemple | null | People don't like Facebook. Google killed Google+ with their "real names" policy. Diaspora has gone silent for what seems forever. LinkedIn is staying relevant by sticking to business. There is definitely still a market for a new entrant.
In the mean time it would be nice to have an API and a library for social networks that then has plugins for sites like FB, G+, etc, much like libpurple for MSN, ICQ, Jabber, etc used by Instantbird, Pidgin and others.
One nice thing is that then you can tick which social networks you want to publish a post/photo to, so you do not have to repeat yourself. The important thing is that you do not lose anything when G+ randomly deletes your account, simply create a new one and resync. It can reinvite all your friends, push your albums back up.
Phillip. | null | 0 | 1316166006 | False | 0 | c2ka1w3 | t3_kgsnl | null | t1_c2ka1w3 | t3_kgsnl | null | 1427607159 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | chellomere | null | This kid will get ALL the bitches. | null | 0 | 1316166202 | False | 0 | c2ka26b | t3_khf6j | null | t1_c2ka26b | t3_khf6j | null | 1427607162 | -3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | sakri | null | I guess I´ll be ordering some books by Ivan Moscovich this afternoon. | null | 0 | 1316166409 | False | 0 | c2ka2hj | t3_khf6j | null | t1_c2ka2hj | t3_khf6j | null | 1427607164 | 10 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | jkreijkamp | null | I don't mind there's legacy support, I think it's necessary for Windows to succeed. I mind that it took Microsoft this long to get away from Win32. IMHO Win32 is one of the most horrible set of API's ever constructed. | null | 0 | 1316166595 | False | 0 | c2ka2qw | t3_kgb4h | null | t1_c2ka2qw | t1_c2k1g0a | null | 1427607166 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1316166657 | False | 0 | c2ka2tt | t3_kgsnl | null | t1_c2ka2tt | t1_c2k6f5p | null | 1427607167 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1316166672 | False | 0 | c2ka2uo | t3_khf6j | null | t1_c2ka2uo | t1_c2k9xjp | null | 1427607167 | -7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | sdhillon | null | This kid is a boss. | null | 0 | 1316166692 | False | 0 | c2ka2vr | t3_khf6j | null | t1_c2ka2vr | t3_khf6j | null | 1427607168 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | >the best thing I’ve ever used Mathematica for.
This is great. It's not "the coolest thing in the world". Nor "the best thing I've ever done". Just the most useful way he's managed to apply this particular piece of software. | null | 0 | 1316166798 | False | 0 | c2ka315 | t3_khf6j | null | t1_c2ka315 | t3_khf6j | null | 1427607171 | 40 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | retumbler | null | Since you've posted this in programming I presume you have some source code to share. Is there a github (or similar) repository? | null | 0 | 1316166947 | False | 0 | c2ka38b | t3_kgjcg | null | t1_c2ka38b | t3_kgjcg | null | 1427607172 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | dan00 | null | The perfectionist tries to optimize every aspect. He fears, that someone
could say: that's a slow and stupid implementation. So he tries to do
everything in the best possible way, rewrites without estimating anything,
just hoping it could be even faster.
At the end he has nothing, because he has focused too much on details,
without getting anywhere. His fear has stopped him.
| null | 0 | 1316166960 | True | 0 | c2ka38z | t3_kgq62 | null | t1_c2ka38z | t3_kgq62 | null | 1427607173 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Jigsus | null | Kids can learn very very fast until their teens. We really don't give them enough credit and our educational system isn't geared to take advantage of their natural abilities at certain ages. | null | 0 | 1316167304 | False | 0 | c2ka3qp | t3_khf6j | null | t1_c2ka3qp | t1_c2k9xjn | null | 1427607179 | 113 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | madewulf | null | Here it is : https://github.com/madewulf/MigrationsMap.net
I also added the link in the footer two hours ago.
I think that the code quality is not too bad, especially for the JS, but I have not structured it nicely into folders yet.
In fact, since the site IS the github repository (it's a github page), this lead to a not so nice structure (although this could have been avoided).
| null | 0 | 1316167487 | False | 0 | c2ka3zp | t3_kgjcg | null | t1_c2ka3zp | t1_c2ka38b | null | 1427607182 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | kierank | null | I mainly work a bit later in the chain, which is realtime broadcast encoding using Open Source Software designed to be comparable with expensive ($40k) broadcast encoders - https://github.com/kierank/broadcastencoder/wiki . I spoke about this at IBC this year and lots of people thought I was crazy, though many others were really interested. All of this was built in collaboration with broadcasters on production broadcast chains.
However, I've also done work on parts before that. As part of the Open Broadcast Encoder project above, I wrote an application to create compliant VoD files, though we are MPEG-4 only at the moment. A project to write MPEG-2 encoding is also under way. A common workflow for a Posthouse is to get ProRes in and have to create an MPEG-TS with the correct PIDs, captions etc. working - our tool OBE-VoD does this.
For Blu-Ray a number of well known names have released discs using x264 - there are more which aren't on that list that I can't speak about - http://www.x264bluray.com/ - x264 has a very high quality.
For the editing workflows ffmbc is a really useful tool: http://code.google.com/p/ffmbc/ It's a fork of ffmpeg with more professional broadcast features. (I'm not so familiar with editing and the likes but I'm told it's very useful for a lot of tasks)
The biggest problem in getting Open Source accepted by management is just the stigma associated with it. The only way to really get it accepted is to publicise all the deployments. I know GDMX (Warner) has used x264, the only announced users of OBE-VoD is a Slovenian IPTV provider and BBC News use ffmbc for a lot of things. | null | 0 | 1316167508 | True | 0 | c2ka40l | t3_kgqdd | null | t1_c2ka40l | t1_c2k785x | null | 1427607190 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | raydeen | null | The Force is strong with this one. | null | 0 | 1316167710 | False | 0 | c2ka4b0 | t3_khf6j | null | t1_c2ka4b0 | t3_khf6j | null | 1427607187 | 15 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | >Mono can only benefit Microsoft, never harm it.
How?
>Mono gives .NET credibility as developers today value languages that can be run on multiple platforms and Mono provides that.
But mono is not a full implementation of .NET so if you wrote an application in .NET it would not run on a mac or linux.
>In mobile phone area they provide even bigger service as with Monodroid and Monotouch they provide something that Java failed - unifying language for three major platforms which will result in increased usage of C# language which will in turn increase the number of WP7 apps.
But you won't be able to run your monodroid app on your WP7 device or vice versa.
And you still have failed to answer the question.
"why would any member of the MS DevDiv would use mono under any circumstances let alone love it."
| null | 0 | 1316167722 | False | 0 | c2ka4bj | t3_kgl4f | null | t1_c2ka4bj | t1_c2k8k2o | null | 1427607189 | -5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | Nobody gave me a reason why any body at microsoft would use mono.
You want to try? | null | 0 | 1316167751 | False | 0 | c2ka4d1 | t3_kgl4f | null | t1_c2ka4d1 | t1_c2k825p | null | 1427607189 | -2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | chronoBG | null | Alright, what the fuck? Is this something ironic, trying to prove a point? Or do people really really think this is a good idea? | null | 0 | 1316167765 | False | 0 | c2ka4dt | t3_kh13i | null | t1_c2ka4dt | t3_kh13i | null | 1427607189 | -1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | That depends on the language; there's nothing about the Haskell language that hints at concurrency, and yet it has several rich and well designed concurrency libraries (STM, CHP, ...) as well as some non-concurrent but parallel libraries. | null | 0 | 1316167843 | False | 0 | c2ka4hy | t3_kfvm7 | null | t1_c2ka4hy | t1_c2k59hb | null | 1427607192 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | PlusSixtoReason | null | I guess it's what happens if you grow up on reddit. | null | 0 | 1316168455 | False | 0 | c2ka5d8 | t3_khf6j | null | t1_c2ka5d8 | t1_c2k9xjn | null | 1427607200 | -5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | I don't think this is something which should be easy anyway. | null | 0 | 1316168462 | False | 0 | c2ka5dp | t3_kgqxt | null | t1_c2ka5dp | t1_c2k42gn | null | 1427607200 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Gotebe | null | I wonder who are his parents... Not your regular white trash, I presume ;-). | null | 0 | 1316168473 | False | 0 | c2ka5e1 | t3_khf6j | null | t1_c2ka5e1 | t3_khf6j | null | 1427607200 | -13 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Sarke1 | null | I bumped into this while upgrading a website.
FYI, the table had 369 rows. | null | 0 | 1316168670 | False | 0 | c2ka5oe | t3_khiab | null | t1_c2ka5oe | t3_khiab | null | 1427607204 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | ravenex | null | Because Mozilla management have distanced themselves from the programmers long long ago. You aren't talking to the developers here, and the implementers get no voice about those decisions. Sounds familiar? That's OpenSource 2.0 for you. | null | 0 | 1316168688 | False | 0 | c2ka5pk | t3_kghid | null | t1_c2ka5pk | t1_c2k7iyl | null | 1427607205 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | thesystemx | null | True ;) Thanks for the addition. | null | 0 | 1316168698 | False | 0 | c2ka5pz | t3_kg7nl | null | t1_c2ka5pz | t1_c2k1v87 | null | 1427607205 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | MashedPeas | null | Can we have Gears of War game that requires you to solve math problems? | null | 0 | 1316168981 | False | 0 | c2ka65t | t3_khf6j | null | t1_c2ka65t | t3_khf6j | null | 1427607218 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | leoedin | null | I could believe it's written by a 13 year old. I was active on forums from about 12, and while certainly my writing wasn't as sophisticated as it is now, it also wasn't atrocious. I used acceptable grammar and engaged in relatively intelligent discussion. Perhaps the average 13 year old on the internet likes to make noise and youtube comments, that certainly isn't the case for everyone. The kid has clearly grasped some pretty advanced concepts and learnt how to use some quite complicated software - why shouldn't his written communication also be above the average for his age?
Saying that, I'd be surprised if there isn't quite significant parental input involved in this blog and content. Very few 13 year olds, even those bright enough to grasp the concepts discussed, are going to go out and take the initiative to do something like this in such detail. | null | 0 | 1316169023 | False | 0 | c2ka67y | t3_khf6j | null | t1_c2ka67y | t1_c2k9xjn | null | 1427607211 | 17 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | wadcann | null | [Diamonds](https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Diamond) are very hard, but also brittle.
Don't try and test to see whether something is a diamond or glass by hitting it with a hammer. You can break the diamonds.
>Somewhat related to hardness is another mechanical property toughness, which is a material's ability to resist breakage from forceful impact. The toughness of natural diamond has been measured as 7.5–10 MPa·m1/2.[18][19] This value is good compared to other gemstones, but poor compared to most engineering materials. As with any material, the macroscopic geometry of a diamond contributes to its resistance to breakage. Diamond has a cleavage plane and is therefore more fragile in some orientations than others. | null | 0 | 1316169096 | False | 0 | c2ka6c2 | t3_kgfhb | null | t1_c2ka6c2 | t1_c2k8lpx | null | 1427607213 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | julesjacobs | null | Does the Unix API have support for touch user interfaces? Believe it or not, computing has changed in the last 40 years, and they need new APIs to support that.
Microsoft has a very good story going with a unified powerful API providing UI, graphics, sound and video, keyboard/mouse/touch/camera/accelerometer input, asynchronous access to network/disk that is directly accessible from high level modern languages. **They took all the old stuff and basically said "this is legacy" and started with a clean slate**. Compare that to the state in unix/linux land where you have a huge mess of overlapping, legacy, low level APIs, not following standard conventions, most only indirectly accessible from high level languages creating layers of indirection that you even often have to build yourself and problems interacting with garbage collection.
It would be fantastic if the same thing that MS is doing happened with unix/linux. Declare that all the old stuff is legacy and build a new set of coherent APIs for doing all those things with machine readable API descriptions so that modern languages like Python can create *one* interop layer and access all these APIs. | null | 0 | 1316169125 | False | 0 | c2ka6dy | t3_kgl4f | null | t1_c2ka6dy | t1_c2k9ab9 | null | 1427607213 | 12 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | wadcann | null | >I want the 10 rocks that in total weigh 14.25kg
I hate to interject, but is this problem named?
It's not the ordinary [knapsack problem](https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Knapsack_problem)... | null | 0 | 1316169351 | False | 0 | c2ka6po | t3_kgfhb | null | t1_c2ka6po | t1_c2k44hq | null | 1427607219 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | kierank | null | This is a very good book:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/H-264-Advanced-Video-Compression-Standard/dp/0470516925/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1316169644&sr=8-2 | null | 0 | 1316169659 | False | 0 | c2ka76l | t3_kgqdd | null | t1_c2ka76l | t1_c2k9oep | null | 1427607224 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | pezezin | null | So, if I understand it correctly, Minecraft is not even using VBOs. I understand the desire for it to run on any machine, but seriously, what graphic card doesn't support it?
As much as I like the game (I bought a license, and have convinced several friends to play it), it needs a massive overhaul of the rendering code. | null | 0 | 1316169737 | False | 0 | c2ka7b9 | t3_kgq62 | null | t1_c2ka7b9 | t3_kgq62 | null | 1427607225 | 12 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | julesjacobs | null | I imagine that it works something like this. They have a function `runcode(code)` that gets run when a program starts where the code is in IL or something. That function only gives `code` access to the classes that are exposed. Now if an app wants to generate code at runtime, the only way it can execute it is also via the same mechanism, so they also give the dynamically generated code only access to the classes that are exposed. This is called [capability based security](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capability-based_security).
It's basically the same reason why if you run Javascript in your browser it cannot delete your files even though it can dynamically evaluate code with `eval()`, because the code that eval is running cannot delete your files either. | null | 0 | 1316169754 | False | 0 | c2ka7cj | t3_kgl4f | null | t1_c2ka7cj | t1_c2k4tvo | null | 1427607227 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | lukasmach | null | Well, otherwise it would be clearly in P. | null | 0 | 1316169759 | False | 0 | c2ka7ct | t3_kgfhb | null | t1_c2ka7ct | t1_c2k9qby | null | 1427607227 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Tommstein | null | It's Python and not Java, for one. | null | 0 | 1316169780 | False | 0 | c2ka7dn | t3_kdv51 | null | t1_c2ka7dn | t1_c2k9tnc | null | 1427607227 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | I don't understand this. He writes
> The maximum term is still 878783625, originally found by Bill Gosper
Is it that the 878783625th term is known, but not those preceding? Why would someone calculate that? And surely the calculation of pi beyond a certain number of places is essentially pointless?
I don't want to denigrate this kid's achievement - I mean, he's clearly very smart. But is it just that nobody else could be bothered to devote the time to calculating pi that far? | null | 0 | 1316169984 | False | 0 | c2ka7oq | t3_khf6j | null | t1_c2ka7oq | t3_khf6j | null | 1427607230 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | nomemory | null | It's a good exercise for him . He will certainly become a better programmer after this experience . | null | 0 | 1316169984 | False | 0 | c2ka7ot | t3_kh9sr | null | t1_c2ka7ot | t3_kh9sr | null | 1427607230 | 14 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Unomagan | null | Oh look, another Ubuntu/ debian/ fedora/centos/rhel...., whith different packages, paths and all the shit (god)... | null | 0 | 1316170204 | False | 0 | c2ka81b | t3_kg1ui | null | t1_c2ka81b | t3_kg1ui | null | 1427607236 | -2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Jrix | null | I was going to be pessimistic and complain that you're all praising while all this makes me want to do is commit suicide.
But I think I'll save suicide talk for after I fail to achieve something like this with a kid of my own some day. | null | 0 | 1316170233 | False | 0 | c2ka82q | t3_khf6j | null | t1_c2ka82q | t3_khf6j | null | 1427607236 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1316170303 | False | 0 | c2ka86j | t3_khf6j | null | t1_c2ka86j | t1_c2ka7oq | null | 1427607237 | -2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Quazatron | null | I consider Miguel a talented developer. He created a lot of important free/open source software.
Yet, somewhere along the way, we got fascinated by all the shiny things coming out of Redmond.
He takes a lot of flack from people on the other side of the fence mainly because of the things that he could have done if had not lost his way.
I used to follow his blog until it became too unbearable to read all the regurgitated MS press releases. | null | 0 | 1316170450 | False | 0 | c2ka8e1 | t3_kgl4f | null | t1_c2ka8e1 | t1_c2k5hix | null | 1427607239 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Chroko | null | I've always thought positions like that were ironic, especially considering the widespread belief in the "many eyes" advantage of open-sores software.
The "you can look at our code, but fuck you" attitude just gets grating after a while. It makes me wonder how much more success certain projects would find if their maintainers had better people skills. | null | 0 | 1316170484 | False | 0 | c2ka8g5 | t3_kgqdd | null | t1_c2ka8g5 | t1_c2k9oos | null | 1427607241 | -2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | jtra | null | I wonder why those Libyan TLDs are so popular for things like this. Given the state of revolution in Libya, they may be confiscated in future depending on future political regime.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.ly | null | 0 | 1316170891 | False | 0 | c2ka924 | t3_kgorv | null | t1_c2ka924 | t3_kgorv | null | 1427607249 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | julesjacobs | null | Which things are the most important? | null | 0 | 1316170987 | False | 0 | c2ka96y | t3_kgb4h | null | t1_c2ka96y | t1_c2k833e | null | 1427607250 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | I also heard that most prodigy kids will completely loose their edge once they hit their teens. | null | 0 | 1316171024 | False | 0 | c2ka98y | t3_khf6j | null | t1_c2ka98y | t1_c2ka3qp | null | 1427607250 | 47 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | > That is also their biggest limitation. There are some people more than willing to abandon that in order to get native-like features.
... Four days later WinRT is announced and Miguel DeIcaza describes it like this:
> It is a sandboxed API, designed for creating self-contained, AppStore-ready applications. You wont get everything you want to create for example Backup Software or Hard Disk Partitioning software.
Feels good to be prescient, man =)
(yes, sure, _some_ programs require administrative privileges by definition, because they are supposed to do administrative work. The vast majority of applications do not, however. That includes 100% of "web 2.0") | null | 0 | 1316171427 | False | 0 | c2ka9wu | t3_kc9ai | null | t1_c2ka9wu | t1_c2j5s3j | null | 1427607260 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | mvr_ | null | I think this means that, of all the quotients 3, 7, 15, 1, 292 ..., 878783625 is the largest one found so far. | null | 0 | 1316171432 | False | 0 | c2ka9x7 | t3_khf6j | null | t1_c2ka9x7 | t1_c2ka7oq | null | 1427607260 | 19 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | pixelglow | null | > What I realized the other day, is that iOS is the extreme example of that lack of flexibility, taken almost to the point of caricature - the only interaction that is possible is through single applications that for the most part can have no connection to other applications.
Come on!
iOS supports various forms of inter-application communication, not just cut and paste. For example, apps can provide services to other apps via URL schemes -- an app can pass data to another app, and devise a protocol for returning data back to the originating app. For example, my app [Instaviz](http://instaviz.com) allows you to pass in a diagram in dot format and it will layout and render it out. The next version will allow you to put a URL in the node or edge and have the user tap or activate it somehow to get back to the original app.
http://www.cocoadev.com/index.pl?ChooseYourOwniPhoneURLScheme
Ideally iOS apps should embody a single concept well, rather than desktop apps in the Windows/MacOSX era which embody multiple concepts. The low cost of apps, the limited attention span enforced by mobile, even the iOS HIG, all tend toward simple, one-concept apps. Much like the UNIX philosophy. Obviously not all apps do this and the ecosystem isn't fully fleshed out yet, but the skeleton of the system is there already. | null | 0 | 1316171477 | False | 0 | c2kaa07 | t3_kgqnz | null | t1_c2kaa07 | t3_kgqnz | null | 1427607261 | 10 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | wonglik | null | Please let the code violate some patents ... | null | 0 | 1316171531 | False | 0 | c2kaa38 | t3_kgqdd | null | t1_c2kaa38 | t3_kgqdd | null | 1427607263 | -2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | antrn11 | null | ed, the standard editor, follows UNIX philosophy even better than vi. | null | 0 | 1316171650 | False | 0 | c2kaaan | t3_kgln6 | null | t1_c2kaaan | t1_c2k6u66 | null | 1427607265 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | donkey_lz | null | > Can someone explain to me how it's possible for a human to learn that much about such broad topics in a period of 5-6 years, tops, while most children aren't even learning basic algebra? Is he really doing this all himself, or are his parents helping him? (I don't want to sound like an ass, I just haven't seen anything like this before so I'm naturally sceptical)
If you start out in the right environment, it can actually be done :-). I was in a sort-of similar situation (not as good as this guy, but close enough so that I can relate). I learned to read when I was 3; with the help of my mother (she's a teacher); by the time she began actively teaching me how to read, I already knew the letters of the alphabet and could associate them with spoken words (e.g. if I saw the letter "P" near a picture of a pigeon, I would understand that they're close to each other because "P" is the first letter of "pigeon").
My parents were actively encouraging me -- buying me books and gadgets. My father is a mechanical engineer who worked in aeronautics and is a hugely cultivated fellow. I became interested in chemistry when I was about 6 because I stumbled upon a book in our library. I actively read whatever I could for a couple of years after that, which wasn't too difficult considering that I had all the free time in the world. By the time I was 11 or 12, I could mostly get what people were talking about in university-level courses.
It worked because I built very weird and interesting models in my head. I was understandably unable to work through the thick math involved (fuck, I have a hard time doing it even now...), but I would come up with very weird analogies. This wasn't enough to do formal work, but it was enough for me to figure out a lot of things. For instance, I clearly didn't understand the principle of uncertainty, but I had this idea about how if you look at an electron too carefully with your eyes on a clock so as to measure its speed, you simply couldn't be attentive enough to see where it was anymore. I didn't really understand derivatives but I had a good analogy that it was kind of like how much water would flow down the slope of a hill if it had the same inclination.
So, what am I doing on proggit. Most folks in my situation usually continue pushing forward in the field that fascinates them ever since they were kids. I didn't. I came in closer contact with computers and started to dabble in programming here and there -- needless to say, I caught things quickly (I was fluent in C after a couple of weeks of doing it frantically -- so ok, I was using conio.h and all that crap but...). I also figured out there are other parts of our library, with books that contained other things besides chemistry and literature. I ended up reading a lot on physics, electronics, aeronautics, history, mythology, astronomy, political sciences and whatever else I could find. Then came I discovered alcohol, then came high school and discovered women.
Ironically, I sort of gave up any kind of chemistry -- I easily passed the short "Chemistry for Electrical Engineers" course in my first year without even showing up, but that was all I actually ever did.
Was it worth it in the end -- fuck yeah. I'm not a prodigy of chemistry (even though everyone around me was, at one point, hoping for that), I'm an average electronic engineer doing embedded systems (mostly software, increasing amounts of hardware). On the other hand, I can hold a decent conversation with anyone.
Through all this I *did* get a lot of help from my parents. Some things they could just explain me right away. For others, they knew people who could explain them right away. Most folks ask their fathers how come you can light a lightbulb -- they just say yea well we press this switch and poof, there's electricity going through the wires and that's it. My father explained some of it when I asked, then took me with him to work and asked the technicians to show me around, give me wires and a light bulb and make sure I wouldn't fry myself to death. He also had a great gift for explaining. When kids ask why the sun is hot, fathers say well it's kindda like a fire and it burns. My father took a fucking afternoon to explain me what nuclear fusion is and how it burns. | null | 0 | 1316171872 | False | 0 | c2kaan4 | t3_khf6j | null | t1_c2kaan4 | t1_c2k9xjn | null | 1427607269 | 64 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | I basically learnt my reading and writing over years of reading - there's no way you can just 'be good' at a language without enough exposure. There's no formula or complex calculation you can easily grasp - you need to see how others use the language and copy them, and that takes years. | null | 0 | 1316171902 | False | 0 | c2kaaou | t3_khf6j | null | t1_c2kaaou | t1_c2ka67y | null | 1427607271 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | checksinthemail | null | Too many; I remember being forced to use CASE tools back in 1993, if that says anything.
What I want to say to all of them: Stop asking me to join you in loving the taste of the new kool-aid and get the fuck out of my way - I'm programming over here.
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True | js79 | null | Thank you.
You Sir are scholar and gentleman :) | null | 0 | 1316172103 | False | 0 | c2kaaz7 | t3_kfirl | null | t1_c2kaaz7 | t1_c2k184w | null | 1427607274 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Alexis_ | null | I think they will be able to get enough people to convert due to the app store. | null | 0 | 1316172137 | False | 0 | c2kab1b | t3_kejwo | null | t1_c2kab1b | t1_c2jvyu8 | null | 1427607276 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | ravenex | null | The source code is not a textbook. You dig specs/books for algorithms and the source for the implementation details. The open source developers have no obligation to educate others through their source code, they'd rather spend their time improving it. The developers already bear the burden of documenting their public APIs, writing/updating manpages, etc. Time spent on these things benefits all of the users, while commenting how yet another variation of the [Rice coder](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golomb_coding) works, no so much. People don't just go hacking the code without at least vague understanding about how it _should_ work.
I don't know how did you make the conclusion about people skills solely from the absence of comments somewhere in the internals of a huge library though. I'm 95% confident that if you ask on the mailing list and/or the IRC channel about any part of this code someone would be able to help you. | null | 0 | 1316172221 | False | 0 | c2kab77 | t3_kgqdd | null | t1_c2kab77 | t1_c2ka8g5 | null | 1427607276 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | >Can someone explain to me how it's possible for a human to learn that much about such broad topics in a period of 5-6 years, tops, while most children aren't even learning basic algebra?
Most children have been learning sports statistics instead. They know which team won the championship, who played in each game, who scored, etc.
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True | Alexis_ | null | I do this with my laptop... | null | 0 | 1316172351 | False | 0 | c2kabez | t3_kejwo | null | t1_c2kabez | t1_c2juvrb | null | 1427607279 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | TL;DR. Pi is exactly 3 | null | 0 | 1316172459 | False | 0 | c2kabm3 | t3_khf6j | null | t1_c2kabm3 | t3_khf6j | null | 1427607282 | -13 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Alexis_ | null | wtf? I have a shitload of stuff in my start meny. I don't want to pin 50 applications on my task bar, eating up space all the time. | null | 0 | 1316172576 | False | 0 | c2kabug | t3_kejwo | null | t1_c2kabug | t1_c2jtt0y | null | 1427607285 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | crotchpoozie | null | This does not change anything about the possibility of them doing static analysis on their app marketplace end. | null | 0 | 1316172581 | False | 0 | c2kabur | t3_kgl4f | null | t1_c2kabur | t1_c2k7c17 | null | 1427607285 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | JamesF | null | I worked my way through the MPEG-2 Video spec (ISO13818-2) and after a few weeks of effort managed to put together a basic, I-frame-only decoder. Admittedly it wasn't very efficient or robust but it really helped me to get a grasp of the basics (MPEG-2 elementary stream composition, slices, macroblocks, blocks, variable-length coding, etc etc). The ffmpeg decoders are still over my head, but I think this is the best (if slightly painful) way to go about it.
Of course I was doing this during work hours (gotta love being in the R&D department!) - if you're doing this in your spare time it might take a lot longer... | null | 0 | 1316172692 | False | 0 | c2kac1t | t3_kgqdd | null | t1_c2kac1t | t1_c2k9oep | null | 1427607288 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Alexis_ | null | It works in VMWare 8.0 (not 7) | null | 0 | 1316172698 | False | 0 | c2kac2a | t3_kejwo | null | t1_c2kac2a | t1_c2jqmbk | null | 1427607288 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | masklinn | null | > For example, apps can provide services to other apps via URL schemes -- an app can pass data to another app
When I tried playing with it, it worked very weirdly if more than 1 application registered the scheme: the first application would get the requests *always* (no Share UI or anything), and if it was removed the scheme just went in limbo or something, it would not get routed anywhere.
Makes "public url schemes" essentially useless, especially registering schemes already handled by builtin applications (e.g. http), not a chance you'll ever get them.
Might have been fixed since, but it was truly disappointing. | null | 0 | 1316172702 | False | 0 | c2kac2o | t3_kgqnz | null | t1_c2kac2o | t1_c2kaa07 | null | 1427607288 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | tragomaskhalos | null | Required reading for all command line curmudgeons is Neal Stephenson's "In the beginning was the command line", e.g. [here](http://www.cryptonomicon.com/beginning.html) | null | 0 | 1316172724 | False | 0 | c2kac45 | t3_kgqnz | null | t1_c2kac45 | t3_kgqnz | null | 1427607289 | 9 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1316172882 | False | 0 | c2kacdu | t3_khf6j | null | t1_c2kacdu | t1_c2kaan4 | null | 1427607302 | 16 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | kierank | null | You are lucky that you started from the MPEG-2 spec, that's at least somewhat readable. For MPEG-4/AVC you'd be much better off with a book like the one below to start with. There are parts of the MPEG-4/AVC spec that the people who wrote it don't even understand. | null | 0 | 1316172898 | False | 0 | c2kaceq | t3_kgqdd | null | t1_c2kaceq | t1_c2kac1t | null | 1427607302 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | axilmar | null | But the language makes it explicit that all algebraic unions' types must be matched.
That there are functions and libraries that automate this is irrelevant.
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True | [deleted] | null | hey man, to be fair, I got my brother to buy me web hosting, then created a website following tutorials in HTML and CSS, also ran and maintained a forum for about 2 years. I was 12 at the time.
I'm not surprised this kid is this capable at all, considering I was once in similar situations to him, except I never got much into the programming side of things. I was all Photoshop and Cinema 4D....
the FIRST web page I ever made was when I was about 7, using Microsoft word's built in page creator, it was hosted on Geocities for a while. It was about a car show I went too and took photos at
the first experience I had with forums was back when daimao.be (or it might have been .de) was hosting forums for Lemming Ball Z, so long ago now... I must have been about 8 or 9 at the time | null | 0 | 1316172950 | False | 0 | c2kachz | t3_khf6j | null | t1_c2kachz | t1_c2ka67y | null | 1428193927 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | axilmar | null | That the Optional type saves you from runtime exceptions by transferring the error to the compile time is another fallacy propagated by pure functional programming supporters.
The only thing the Optional type does is shift the run-time error to another position. Think about it a little and you'll see I am right.
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True | superiority | null | > Can someone explain to me how it's possible for a human to learn that much about such broad topics in a period of 5-6 years, tops
The Wolfram Blog suggests it's more like 3-4 years. | null | 0 | 1316173104 | False | 0 | c2kacrw | t3_khf6j | null | t1_c2kacrw | t1_c2k9xjn | null | 1427607300 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | axilmar | null | Link?
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True | dgermain | null | At that age, during school, I was reading two 150 pages book per day (Not in english). So it far from impossible to have been exposed to a lot of good writing by that age.
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True | axilmar | null | This.
Option types is way to statically propagate a type A (B or nothing) to a type B, based on a guarantee checked at run time. It's a good solution, but that doesn't mean it makes the concept of nothing disappear. | null | 0 | 1316173134 | False | 0 | c2kactw | t3_kfvm7 | null | t1_c2kactw | t1_c2k39i7 | null | 1427607311 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | niczar | null | Firefox > all other browsers on this issue. | null | 0 | 1316173192 | False | 0 | c2kacy1 | t3_kgqxt | null | t1_c2kacy1 | t3_kgqxt | null | 1428193925 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | Whoa | null | 0 | 1316173201 | False | 0 | c2kacyj | t3_khf6j | null | t1_c2kacyj | t1_c2ka2uo | null | 1428193926 | 9 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | I had this ability as a kid, I kinda wish I had parents that taught me this kind of stuff, or at least let me use the internet to learn. | null | 0 | 1316173291 | False | 0 | c2kad4f | t3_khf6j | null | t1_c2kad4f | t1_c2k9xjp | null | 1427607319 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | shanedoth | null | Around the same time they start trying to get laid, which then replaces their intellectual pursuits. | null | 0 | 1316173304 | False | 0 | c2kad56 | t3_khf6j | null | t1_c2kad56 | t1_c2ka98y | null | 1427607319 | 83 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Taladar | null | That is why you increasingly see criticism of Java the language and calls for replacing it, not the JVM. | null | 0 | 1316173397 | False | 0 | c2kadbh | t3_kgq62 | null | t1_c2kadbh | t1_c2k5jk2 | null | 1427607314 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | codebolt | null | I think he means the largest number that occurs in the continued fraction series. | null | 0 | 1316173430 | False | 0 | c2kaddn | t3_khf6j | null | t1_c2kaddn | t1_c2ka7oq | null | 1427607315 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | astrobe | null | Sorry I wrote "guard value" instead of "sentinel value". However I think you still disagree with me.
In practice, sentinel values are different from union-types values because one has, in well-form languages, to extract the actual value with some kind of pattern matching construct, while sentinel values have to be interpreted by the receiver. In one case, th type checker can verify what the programmer does, whereas in the other case, this is just a matter of convention.
It is true that under the hood, for optimization purposes union types may be implemented using sentinel values techniques, but still on the user interface level the type checker guaranties all operations, preventing the occurrence of NPE.
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True | codebolt | null | To be fair, he's not really performing mental sorcery here, even though it's a pretty impressive accomplishment for a 13 year old. He applied an existing algorithm, and even used existing libraries for the large number arithmetic.
I wonder how well he fares with the Project Euler problem set. | null | 0 | 1316173671 | True | 0 | c2kadtg | t3_khf6j | null | t1_c2kadtg | t1_c2ka315 | null | 1427607323 | 27 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | glintsCollide | null | Don't think that's it. I believe mvr_ is correct. | null | 0 | 1316173693 | False | 0 | c2kadva | t3_khf6j | null | t1_c2kadva | t1_c2ka86j | null | 1427607323 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | faintdeception | null | No pressure Jrix Jr. just know that if you fuck this up, daddy is going to blow his brains out in your bedroom. | null | 0 | 1316173745 | False | 0 | c2kadye | t3_khf6j | null | t1_c2kadye | t1_c2ka82q | null | 1427607323 | 18 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | jtra | null | Cloud computing and storage according to me:
You move the stuff you run and store on your physical servers to someone's other servers. You do that to save some money because the cloud service provider may have better economy of scale, but pricing changes and vendor lock-in may cost you more (see GAE exodus). Even if you save money, you will constantly worry that the risk profile of the cloud service provider is not same as yours (you would put the most important stuff on most reliable servers, but cloud service provider may not). | null | 0 | 1316173750 | False | 0 | c2kadyu | t3_kd1nr | null | t1_c2kadyu | t3_kd1nr | null | 1427607325 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
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