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True | ClamatoMilkshake | null | You're right, but the samenpoint remains. They shouldn't be storing passwords using reversible encryption. There's no practical reason for it. Presumably, anyone who compromises the system would have access to not only the stored password but the code that encrypts it. | null | 0 | 1316227112 | False | 0 | c2kgxv8 | t3_khtwb | null | t1_c2kgxv8 | t1_c2kfkrl | null | 1427610469 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | otakucode | null | It's always seemed to me to make far more sense than the Shannon-Fano coding that came before it. I guess it's hard to imagine what the problem looked like when starting from a position not informed by all the things that came afterward. | null | 0 | 1316227184 | False | 0 | c2kgy4r | t3_hdeg3 | null | t1_c2kgy4r | t1_c1ulhgo | null | 1427610472 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | otakucode | null | Bitches love dynamite. | null | 0 | 1316227268 | False | 0 | c2kgyfe | t3_hdeg3 | null | t1_c2kgyfe | t1_c1ulohz | null | 1427610476 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | pseudolobster | null | Yep, I've used [this plugin](https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/lazarus-form-recovery/) for that in the past. | null | 0 | 1316227313 | False | 0 | c2kgylb | t3_khtwb | null | t1_c2kgylb | t1_c2kdzix | null | 1427610482 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | rosetta_stoned | null | > DevDiv would give an arm and leg to have their dev tools and languages be used by everyone everyone, you know.
Yeah, right. And your basis for that claim is?
Seriously, if they really wanted to be writing tools for everyone, they wouldn't be working for Microsoft. Anyone who chooses to work there knows what Microsoft is about.
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True | gaussin | null | Yes, that is true. It would be interesting to find out which prodigies of the past and present were talented due to natural talent, mental illness (e.g. [Asperger syndrome](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asperger_syndrome)), or those that were just hard working. [Prodigy and Savant Syndrome: Are They Related?](http://www.wisconsinmedicalsociety.org/savant_syndrome/savant_articles/prodigy_savant) | null | 0 | 1316227503 | False | 0 | c2kgz9i | t3_khf6j | null | t1_c2kgz9i | t1_c2kgvmw | null | 1427610488 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | ethraax | null | Although usually the compilation step for assembly language is called "assembling" instead of "compiling". There are things an assembler doesn't do that a compiler should, such as optimization. | null | 0 | 1316227546 | False | 0 | c2kgzfv | t3_khxzd | null | t1_c2kgzfv | t1_c2kgtbd | null | 1427610490 | 12 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | rosetta_stoned | null | > Then along comes this group of guys that are not only trying to not only fulfill your vision
What are you basing that on? Where is the evidence that anyone at Microsoft, never mind the insipidly named "DevDiv", ever intended that .NET or C# would be cross-platform?
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True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1316227624 | False | 0 | c2kgzpw | t3_khvyw | null | t1_c2kgzpw | t1_c2kg2z7 | null | 1427610493 | 23 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Cheeseball701 | null | relevant username | null | 0 | 1316227654 | False | 0 | c2kgzug | t3_khf6j | null | t1_c2kgzug | t1_c2kcpo9 | null | 1427610494 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | otakucode | null | This story has a problem. It says the professor wrote it up for publication. And then the guy got a co-author slot a few years later when someone else came up with the same solution. Am I to understand that the professor was such a stupendous dickbag that he published the proof under his OWN name and did not give Dantzig any credit on the first paper? | null | 0 | 1316227663 | False | 0 | c2kgzvb | t3_hdeg3 | null | t1_c2kgzvb | t1_c1ukhti | null | 1427610495 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | gracenotes | null | The more I learn about the nature of computation and software, the more I understand (or think I understand) Perlis's epigrams. Really profound. | null | 0 | 1316227947 | False | 0 | c2kh0x1 | t3_ki52y | null | t1_c2kh0x1 | t3_ki52y | null | 1427610510 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | booch | null | Startups just don't pay as much as Wall Street. If you want to hire some of the people who weigh compensation high in their decision process, you just can't compete with Wall Street. | null | 0 | 1316227972 | False | 0 | c2kh0zp | t3_khx0u | null | t1_c2kh0zp | t1_c2kgw6h | null | 1427610508 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | otakucode | null | >He had prepared one of Dantzig's solutions for publication in a mathematical journal.
Why do none of these articles say whether Dantzig was listed as the author of this paper? I've heard a lot about professors publishing their grad students work as their own and only giving them co-author credits out of some sick 'paying your dues' bullshit lunacy, so I'm not comfortable just assuming this professor did the right thing and left his own name off of it. Does anyone know? | null | 0 | 1316228149 | False | 0 | c2kh1mo | t3_hdeg3 | null | t1_c2kh1mo | t1_c1ukj3j | null | 1427610517 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | fripletister | null | I masturbated into your sock drawer. | null | 0 | 1316228207 | False | 0 | c2kh1v2 | t3_khtwb | null | t1_c2kh1v2 | t1_c2kgkob | null | 1427610520 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | ScreamingGerman | null | But my boxer drawer has been left untouched? | null | 0 | 1316228266 | False | 0 | c2kh23d | t3_khtwb | null | t1_c2kh23d | t1_c2kh1v2 | null | 1427610523 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | TotallyFullOfShit | null | Have you tried _pytracer_? It's a standalone module based profiler, but without all of the tracefile overhead. For example, if I run _python -e -n8 --pytracer *10 foobar_ it will return the thread carrier overlay status _as well as_ the FMS root stack. It's really easy to use too! I actually read that google was considering it as a permanent fixture in the api tool suite. | null | 0 | 1316228309 | True | 0 | c2kh29e | t3_khv0w | null | t1_c2kh29e | t1_c2kew8y | null | 1427610525 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | fripletister | null | Well, yeah..I mean, I'm not *gay*, pops! | null | 0 | 1316228332 | False | 0 | c2kh2co | t3_khtwb | null | t1_c2kh2co | t1_c2kh23d | null | 1427610526 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Cheeseball701 | null | You're being downvoted because you're so wrong. | null | 0 | 1316228654 | False | 0 | c2kh3j3 | t3_khf6j | null | t1_c2kh3j3 | t1_c2ka5d8 | null | 1427610542 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | Maybe he has a photographic memory so he only needs to read something once to recall it later on. Meanwhile, I have to read something at least 3+ times before it sticks. Then 2 years later I've completely forgotten I read it and have to restart the process again. | null | 0 | 1316228669 | False | 0 | c2kh3ks | t3_khf6j | null | t1_c2kh3ks | t1_c2k9xjn | null | 1427610550 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1316228680 | False | 0 | c2kh3m5 | t3_khf6j | null | t1_c2kh3m5 | t1_c2kani2 | null | 1427610550 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1316228735 | False | 0 | c2kh3tf | t3_khf6j | null | t1_c2kh3tf | t1_c2kd288 | null | 1427610546 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | PlusSixtoReason | null | I wasn't stating that as if it were a fact. I'll just make a cat joke or something and get that karma back. | null | 0 | 1316228747 | False | 0 | c2kh3uu | t3_khf6j | null | t1_c2kh3uu | t1_c2kh3j3 | null | 1427610546 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Cheeseball701 | null | "I want 10 Million more digits or no supper, mister." | null | 0 | 1316228878 | False | 0 | c2kh4bu | t3_khf6j | null | t1_c2kh4bu | t1_c2kbae4 | null | 1427610555 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1316228989 | False | 0 | c2kh4q0 | t3_hdeg3 | null | t1_c2kh4q0 | t1_c2kgzvb | null | 1427610559 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1316229015 | False | 0 | c2kh4tf | t3_khf6j | null | t1_c2kh4tf | t1_c2kadye | null | 1427610560 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | hlipschitz | null | Do you just want it done, or done right? | null | 0 | 1316229205 | False | 0 | c2kh5j1 | t3_kgsnl | null | t1_c2kh5j1 | t1_c2kaoea | null | 1427610568 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Variance_on_Reddit | null | The writing quality isn't totally unprecedented. I had a "blog" like that in 7th grade that basically commented on various news pieces and acted as a repository for my work. (It'd probably be almost indistinguishable from a overt blogspam site, now that I think about it.) I and a few others were part of a special writing group towards the end of elementary school, and our writing was generally indistinguishable from a reasonably well-educated adult's. Of course, we didn't have the technical talent that this kid does, but we had the writing ability. | null | 0 | 1316229398 | False | 0 | c2kh68v | t3_khf6j | null | t1_c2kh68v | t1_c2ka00n | null | 1427610577 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | flippant | null | Doesn't first-to-file eliminate prior art as a means of invalidating a patent unless that prior art was patented?
What does this mean for things like open-sources software? Can't the patent trolls just skim through every existing project, start-up and device and file patents for work other people did? | null | 0 | 1316229446 | False | 0 | c2kh6ff | t3_khvyw | null | t1_c2kh6ff | t1_c2kg65k | null | 1427610580 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | otakucode | null | Oh sir... I am happy for you that you have never worked in a position to be exposed to the vagaries of the user caste. It may seem to be common sense that a little prompt asking the user to click 'ok' would be a minor trifle. I assure you though, common sense is in this case, as it so often is, completely wrong. An average member of the user caste will not see the prompt. They will have dialed half of the number to support and be preparing to pour as much emotion into their exclamation that the system is broken as possible before the page finished loading. When told to look for the prompt, they will spend many minutes regaling the support person with tales of how it was never like this before, about how they never had to look for any prompt before, how they never had to click anything before, how the person sitting next to them is fine, but they probably need a new machine. Once they've found the prompt and clicked OK, they will still be left an emotional wreck, and for the following 3 weeks, any minor hiccup or oddity in the application will be blamed on how 'everything broke ever since that new version of the software came out'. They will even manage to see regularly encountered aspects of the user interface as novel and sinister, and will insist that it was 'never like that before'.
Users are not an active-minded people. They have their routine, they were trained for it, and they are barely conscious when they go about their daily tasks. The computer is not a tool to them, but a ritual. And if the stars are not in the right house, the tea leaves not distributed just-so, their world falls apart in a heartbeat. | null | 0 | 1316229540 | False | 0 | c2kh6r4 | t3_gzn1o | null | t1_c2kh6r4 | t1_c1rjgj0 | null | 1427610583 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Variance_on_Reddit | null | >Perhaps the average 13 year old on the internet likes to make noise and youtube comments, that certainly isn't the case for everyone
I have a 12 year old brother, and I can assure you, the average tween most definitely likes to make noise and youtube comments. Maybe not *everyone* at that age is like that, but damn near all of them. | null | 0 | 1316229558 | False | 0 | c2kh6tw | t3_khf6j | null | t1_c2kh6tw | t1_c2ka67y | null | 1427610585 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Cheeseball701 | null | No, it's certainly not reddiquette, but it's the reason you're being downvoted.
Why do you think that Reddit would produce gifted children?
| null | 0 | 1316229661 | False | 0 | c2kh76v | t3_khf6j | null | t1_c2kh76v | t1_c2kh3uu | null | 1427610590 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | otakucode | null | But then how do you draw a square? Surely you don't intend people to actually... read and comprehend the page contents? The flood of 'tl;dr's would drown us all! | null | 0 | 1316229756 | False | 0 | c2kh7j5 | t3_gzn1o | null | t1_c2kh7j5 | t1_c1rlbhn | null | 1427610594 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Variance_on_Reddit | null | hey kid let me show you these things that I think are cool
*takes off shirt* | null | 0 | 1316229765 | False | 0 | c2kh7k1 | t3_khf6j | null | t1_c2kh7k1 | t1_c2kcn76 | null | 1427610594 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | RevolutionMaster | null | >“On October 17th, I calculated approximately 458,000,000 terms of pi in about 3 hours on a 64-bit machine running Windows on a Core 2 Duo @ 3.00 GHz. This was later verified using Mathematica…. The program was coded in C#, has a command-line interface (with menus!), and uses Emil Stefanov’s wrapper of GNU MP for the BigInteger multiplications. The maximum term is still 878783625, originally found by Bill Gosper….”
This. If he was able to set the record in three hours on a Core 2 Duo like the blog says, it means he got the record because no one else cared enough to bother. I could break the record in two hours on a Core 2 Quad at a similar speed.
Any brute-force record is inherently retarded. | null | 0 | 1316229978 | False | 0 | c2kh8bu | t3_khf6j | null | t1_c2kh8bu | t1_c2kfslj | null | 1427610605 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | ishmal | null | Thanks for considering this. It's always seemed to me to be a problem that is artificially difficult. That maybe we are doing it wrong and there is a much better way.
IMHO (and I have no proof of this opinion) the conversion between time space and frequency space should be linear and trivial.
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True | thehalfwit | null | I sense a theme developing, and I'm in agreement. As if the patent system wasn't already hampering garage innovation with its allowance of sweeping yet undeveloped and unestablished claims.
I don't see how making it more corporation-friendly fixes anything. | null | 0 | 1316230199 | False | 0 | c2kh92e | t3_khvyw | null | t1_c2kh92e | t1_c2kgzpw | null | 1427610615 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | grauenwolf | null | I am bassing it on many, many conversations with Microsoft employees and MVPs.
Anyone with more than a passing knowledge of the .NET framework knows of the many hooks included to handle cross-platform compatibility.
As for "DevDiv", that's Microsoft's nickname name for the Developer Division. | null | 0 | 1316230229 | False | 0 | c2kh95q | t3_kgl4f | null | t1_c2kh95q | t1_c2kgzh7 | null | 1427610616 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | rizla7 | null | what a complete load of crap. MS doesn't abandon technologies. actually windows is probably the only OS that is backward compatible all the way back to windows 95... | null | 0 | 1316230240 | False | 0 | c2kh96w | t3_khodg | null | t1_c2kh96w | t3_khodg | null | 1427610617 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | senj | null | IANAL, but I don't think that's how it works. In a first-to-file system the patent office doesn't have to be concerned about documentation and evidence of who invented first when processing a patent application; the first applicant gets the patent.
But prior art still applies, and can invalidate a patent. You can use evidence of an earlier invention to invalidate a patent in a first-to-file system, you just can't use evidence of an earlier invention to argue that *you* should be awarded a valid patent and that the other guy should have his invalidated. | null | 0 | 1316230309 | False | 0 | c2kh9fj | t3_khvyw | null | t1_c2kh9fj | t1_c2kh6ff | null | 1427610620 | 13 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | Dunno, load of optimistic assumptions in this article. Me thinks most startups fail to some degree, even when they get bought out, the tech/idea never pans out for the aquiring company.
I think if your in it 'solely' for the money, big companies pan out better. Working on more interesting projects for a small dip in salary and a small dip in benefits for a startup usually equals out if your stock options become worth something. At a large company, less risk, higher salary/benefits I think the average developer ends up at the same end game.
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True | PlusSixtoReason | null | Exposing them to all sorts of things. Science, physics, math. I'm over 20 years old and reddit has exposed me to many things I had never heard of or thought about while growing up in the bible belt. | null | 0 | 1316230347 | False | 0 | c2kh9jq | t3_khf6j | null | t1_c2kh9jq | t1_c2kh76v | null | 1427610622 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | ScreamingGerman | null | Ok great. As long as no one tells sockpuppets, we should be fine. | null | 0 | 1316230391 | False | 0 | c2kh9p0 | t3_khtwb | null | t1_c2kh9p0 | t1_c2kh2co | null | 1427610634 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | anekdotos | null | Wow. My parents did the same thing for me and I completely overlooked it until reading this. Thanks. | null | 0 | 1316230415 | False | 0 | c2kh9s7 | t3_khf6j | null | t1_c2kh9s7 | t1_c2kaan4 | null | 1427610635 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | frenzyboard | null | I was a very smart high schooler who lost all interest and dropped out. Intelligence and motivation are very separate things. I know people nowhere as intelligent as I am, who went on to college and became very successful, who come to *me* for help with problems.
I've been in the 95th percentile my entire life, but I have zero interest in competitive fields of study or career.
I'd rather just do what I enjoy doing.
And to tell you the truth, most of the people who are friendly toward me are the people I hide my intelligence from. They've got a problem? "Fuck man. That sounds really tough." and I just let 'em deal with it.
As cynical and sad as it is, society as a whole doesn't reward intelligence. Or even creative thinking. It doesn't really even reward hard work or immense effort. It rewards shrewd thinking, and concentrated effort.
There's a huge difference. | null | 0 | 1316230417 | False | 0 | c2kh9sm | t3_khf6j | null | t1_c2kh9sm | t1_c2kd0si | null | 1427610635 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | railmaniac | null | I shall attempt to discuss all my problems with imaginary House in the future. | null | 0 | 1316230649 | False | 0 | c2khaji | t3_khip6 | null | t1_c2khaji | t3_khip6 | null | 1427610640 | 34 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Muskwatch | null | I think that it’s possible to keep up this ability however - I’ve been learning languages at the rate of about one a year since I was 18, and it’s been getting easier. In some ways I find brute memorization harder, but other kinds of memorization have gotten much easier through practice. That said - at a younger age it’s easier to focus on something to the exclusion of everything else - I can still do this, but I have to make a conscious decision rather than it just happening naturally. | null | 0 | 1316230666 | False | 0 | c2khali | t3_khf6j | null | t1_c2khali | t1_c2kb30z | null | 1427610642 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | thehalfwit | null | > Can't the patent trolls just skim through every existing project, start-up and device and file patents for work other people did?
I get the sense they can. From now on, if you're tinkering with anything, you need to keep it locked up tight in your garage until you can file for a patent before sharing it with anyone.
That should help innovation plenty. | null | 0 | 1316230768 | False | 0 | c2khayb | t3_khvyw | null | t1_c2khayb | t1_c2kh6ff | null | 1427610644 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
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True | thehalfwit | null | I have a patent on a method that does just that, but through a series of grunts and whistles. | null | 0 | 1316230926 | False | 0 | c2khbhd | t3_khvyw | null | t1_c2khbhd | t1_c2ke8z2 | null | 1427610649 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | jutct | null | There isn't a "rainbow table" file format. It's a concept. The table cam be filled with any data available, not just brute force. Assuming that websites don't use salt algorithms, they are the most efficient way to crack passwords in the real world. Most users don't use strong passwords. Add to that, the network of computers available to modify the passwords known into new hashes, and they are very viable in most known cases. | null | 0 | 1316231000 | False | 0 | c2khbqu | t3_khtwb | null | t1_c2khbqu | t1_c2kgxpu | null | 1427610652 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | LaurieCheers | null | For what it's worth, I found it easy to read, interesting, and yes, intermittently funny. | null | 0 | 1316231070 | False | 0 | c2khbzf | t3_khip6 | null | t1_c2khbzf | t1_c2kfu8d | null | 1427610654 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | MIDIprincess | null | as long as there's resolution, it's fine and i can fully appreciate it. but if the chord never resolves, then i'm really tense for the rest of the day, because I *do* expect it and it never comes. i've been singing in classical choirs since i was very young and unresolved dissonance has always really bothered me, idk | null | 0 | 1316231078 | False | 0 | c2khc0c | t3_khtwb | null | t1_c2khc0c | t1_c2ke3fi | null | 1427610654 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | UncleOxidant | null | It's got Java. It's got crashes. Where else would you put it? Outside of r/programming how many people will even know who Gosling is? | null | 0 | 1316231197 | False | 0 | c2khcey | t3_kidbz | null | t1_c2khcey | t1_c2khbgh | null | 1427610658 | 30 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | flippant | null | Thanks for the clarification.
Since the patent office has shown that it is totally unqualified to evaluate prior art, this just takes it out of their hands and puts it in the courts. Still bad for the little guy vs. corps, but not as bad as dismissing prior art altogether.
Maybe disregarding prior art will give the patent examiners time to look up the definition of "novel". | null | 0 | 1316231213 | False | 0 | c2khcgq | t3_khvyw | null | t1_c2khcgq | t1_c2kh9fj | null | 1427610659 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | AnythingApplied | null | Wow, a comment from 4 months ago. While no one else will see this, I can respond.
I can't find the exact paper reference, but I suspect that Dantzig was a co-author of both, "Six weeks later, Dantzig's statistic professor notified him that he had prepared one of his two "homework" proofs for publication, and Dantzig was given co-author credit on another paper several years later when another mathematician independently worked out the same solution to the second problem. "
It doesn't imply that Dantzig was given credit or not in the first paper.
Also, most students have their first paper published under their professors name anyway. This is a pretty common for math, I don't know about other fields. They still get credit but it the main name is the prof. | null | 0 | 1316231279 | False | 0 | c2khcp6 | t3_hdeg3 | null | t1_c2khcp6 | t1_c2kgzvb | null | 1427610662 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | p47n1p | null | > If you aren't able to educate yourself from it, why is that a "because fuck you" attitude?
Because there is no other source for the information. Obviously the developer knows, but like hell if he's going to tell anyone.
> If you were implementing a video codec, you should be learning about the core topics of encoding and decoding video in a more formal way, with theory.
Maybe it's just me, but I don't really have $1000 lying around to buy the mpeg1 spec, or to purchase slightly less expensive books/white-papers, or the time and money to take some training (if you could even find any on these esoteric topics). Even then, I highly doubt any of them would give me any clue about what the hell the AAN table is.
I'd like to think "open source" means open information, not highly optimized obfuscation (or even more amusing, jerry-rigging polymorphism into plain C).
> Ultimately, if you understood the fundamentals of a video codec, you'd understand what this code was doing.
In general terms, yes. But for otherwise undocumented codecs, source code is a pretty crappy replacement for actual documentation of its specifics. Again, it might just be me, but I can't totally understand the contents of the huffman lookup tables in the ffmpeg headers at a glance.
> Code should otherwise be self-explanatory.
Yes it should, and I wouldn't say "self-explanatory" describes the ffmpeg source code.
All these reasons ([and more](http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/kgqdd/apple_prores_codec_reverse_engineered/c2kgjw7)) are why I see the ffmpeg source as a big "fuck you--good luck figuring out what the hell we did". They obviously don't care about making their code accessable, and they obviously don't want anyone's help, and they obviously don't care that their hard earned knowledge ever gets passed on. If even a portion of the effort they put into optimizing the hell out of the code was put into writing documentation, I think everyone would be better off. But all they seem to care about is the mental gymnastics of eeking out a few more clock cycles.
But what I say here isn't going to change what they do. And it's their project, they did the work, they can do whatever they want. All that lost knowledge just seems like such a sad waste. Eventually someone else (i.e. me) is going to have to do that work all over again.
> Would you really have every codec that ffmpeg offers have complete descriptions of how encoding and decoding works, step by step, inline with the source code?
A man can dream. | null | 0 | 1316231401 | False | 0 | c2khd3p | t3_kgqdd | null | t1_c2khd3p | t1_c2kebx2 | null | 1427610667 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | dnew | null | I used to have to pipe output from the server code into another program that looked for the string "SIGSEGV caught!" and kill-9 the server, just to get it to crash, because the folks writing the server thought that surely there was no way in the world their behemouth C++ program could possibly have a bug and it must be something wrong in the Xen support that we weren't even running. | null | 0 | 1316231596 | False | 0 | c2khdq1 | t3_khip6 | null | t1_c2khdq1 | t1_c2kcrye | null | 1427610675 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | cafedude | null | Well, there's r/java | null | 0 | 1316231615 | False | 0 | c2khdrh | t3_kidbz | null | t1_c2khdrh | t1_c2khcey | null | 1427610676 | 9 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | spaceywilly | null | So shouldn't the OS detect that the thread which is holding the lock has exited and release the lock? Maybe that was the bug he mentions. | null | 0 | 1316231627 | False | 0 | c2khdux | t3_khip6 | null | t1_c2khdux | t3_khip6 | null | 1427610677 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | RandomSoftwareDev001 | null | Are there any software developers here that have taken any Microsoft certifications? I've been a little too content working at the same company for ten years, so I really have not taken the opportunities to increase my skillset like I should. The ones that look the most intriguing are Microsoft Certified Professional Developer (MCPD) and Microsoft Certified Architect (MCA). My primary interests are creating large systems and frameworks, so the MCA sounds especially promising.
So basically, my questions are:
1. Has anyone taken either of these courses?
2. Did they help you in your day to day tasks as a software developer?
3. Are there any non-Microsoft certifications that you would reccomend instead? My company is a MSFT shop, but really my end goal is to stay motiviated while making myself more marketable.
Any advice would be greatly appreciated. I feel like I am at a crossroad in my career and anything that I can do to stay interested in my job would be welcomed.
TL;DR: Sorry for the wall of text. | null | 0 | 1316231742 | False | 0 | c2khe9a | t3_kidp8 | null | t1_c2khe9a | t3_kidp8 | null | 1427610682 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Imorine | null | The first one had a search size of 5,748,511,570,879,116,626,495. I never said it was weak i said weaker than the first one given the condition that you know its 4 random words. | null | 0 | 1316232164 | False | 0 | c2khfnd | t3_khtwb | null | t1_c2khfnd | t1_c2keva5 | null | 1427610700 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | skankingmike | null | eh my experience is I'll get 8 up-votes and mostly ignored. I find piggy backing a good one liner and adding substance to it is more effective redditing. | null | 0 | 1316232208 | False | 0 | c2khftf | t3_khtwb | null | t1_c2khftf | t1_c2kfo75 | null | 1427610702 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | skankingmike | null | Do you have a better name for this login model? | null | 0 | 1316232267 | False | 0 | c2khg0o | t3_khtwb | null | t1_c2khg0o | t1_c2kgfqd | null | 1427610705 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | laadron | null | I've just started digging in, but it is already clear that there is a lot of useful, well-expressed information here. | null | 0 | 1316232524 | False | 0 | c2khgul | t3_khryi | null | t1_c2khgul | t3_khryi | null | 1427610716 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | gaymathman | null | I worded that really poorly, I didn't mean that we could explicitly compute the decimal digits, but that the computation can be easily broken up into multiple partitions that can be reduced to a decimal by addition. I don't remember in what base the formula actually is; it's either in base 16 or 2. | null | 0 | 1316232552 | False | 0 | c2khgxf | t3_khf6j | null | t1_c2khgxf | t1_c2kgsee | null | 1427610718 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | sturmeh | null | Where did you find 10x 1425g rocks!? | null | 0 | 1316232553 | False | 0 | c2khgxm | t3_kgfhb | null | t1_c2khgxm | t1_c2kg0a9 | null | 1427610718 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | grandsonofgranddad | null | I remember this kid from when he won the spelling bee in 2007. Odd dude, to be sure. | null | 0 | 1316232585 | False | 0 | c2khh13 | t3_khf6j | null | t1_c2khh13 | t1_c2kao3a | null | 1427610719 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | johnlocke90 | null | While this may be true for some kids, most kids I know that don't read just don't want to read. | null | 0 | 1316232601 | False | 0 | c2khh3d | t3_khf6j | null | t1_c2khh3d | t1_c2kcqp8 | null | 1427610720 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | MTGandP | null | His blatant self-promotion is made considerably less annoying by the fact that all his stuff is so awesome. | null | 0 | 1316232783 | False | 0 | c2khhoj | t3_khf6j | null | t1_c2khhoj | t1_c2kgw5l | null | 1427610728 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | nobodyspecial | null | >Looks like it's not substantially different in terms of software patents.
Except the business of first to file that is.
If I write a clever piece of code and some douche sees it, and then patents it because I don't care for software patents, I could easily end up being extorted by said douche because he holds a patent on my idea.
Software patents are intrinsically bad. They're designed to make work for attorneys and screw the programmer. | null | 0 | 1316232878 | False | 0 | c2khhzc | t3_khvyw | null | t1_c2khhzc | t1_c2kdfdd | null | 1427610731 | 35 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | mamjjasond | null | Nothing you couldn't shoot down. "nickname" comes to mind though. | null | 0 | 1316233013 | False | 0 | c2khig8 | t3_khtwb | null | t1_c2khig8 | t1_c2khg0o | null | 1427610738 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | NoWeCant | null | This does nothing to change the current system, other than insure that patents are filed faster. Considering that we're deep in the 'patent wars', unfortunately I believe this to be more detrimental than helpful... | null | 0 | 1316233073 | False | 0 | c2khini | t3_khvyw | null | t1_c2khini | t1_c2kdfdd | null | 1427610739 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | skew | null | The problem with null is that you can pass it anywhere, and there's no way to write a function that can only be passed a real value. Maybe completely solves that problem.
Do you think the problem with nulls is something else, or do you just drop lines like "the fanboys don't understand their own language" without taking 10 minutes with an interpreter to check whether you understand it either? | null | 0 | 1316233150 | False | 0 | c2khiw5 | t3_kfvm7 | null | t1_c2khiw5 | t1_c2k39i7 | null | 1427610743 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | AntiMe | null | Yes, but secrecy would be a much bigger issue than it is now. | null | 0 | 1316233298 | False | 0 | c2khjdp | t3_khvyw | null | t1_c2khjdp | t1_c2keuzy | null | 1427610750 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | skew | null | > Wadler explicitly says the language was modeled after Smalltalk
Wait, have you read the paper?
I suppose you also think the untyped group finished the project faster? | null | 0 | 1316233396 | True | 0 | c2khjpl | t3_k7o9e | null | t1_c2khjpl | t1_c2kdq1t | null | 1427610754 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | AmIKawaiiUguuu | null | Well that explains it, I'm not jealous anymore. | null | 0 | 1316233471 | False | 0 | c2khk08 | t3_khf6j | null | t1_c2khk08 | t1_c2kb6d5 | null | 1427610758 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1316233569 | False | 0 | c2khkbv | t3_kidbz | null | t1_c2khkbv | t1_c2khcey | null | 1427610763 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | mindbleach | null | Patents are provided for in the constitution. They're not going away, but they can certainly be made less onerous. | null | 0 | 1316233586 | False | 0 | c2khkeh | t3_khvyw | null | t1_c2khkeh | t1_c2kdqy5 | null | 1427610765 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | AntiMe | null | If there's some sort of garbage collection for locks in that level of the OS, sure. Not always the case though. | null | 0 | 1316233649 | False | 0 | c2khkmz | t3_khip6 | null | t1_c2khkmz | t1_c2khdux | null | 1427610774 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | skankingmike | null | I think they went with the classic out of simplicity.
People, despite what they tell you in school, hate change mostly and hate having too many choices. We really are creatures of habit and as such we demand simplicity and normality. It must have something to do with homeostasis, but wtf do I know? | null | 0 | 1316233762 | False | 0 | c2khl1m | t3_khtwb | null | t1_c2khl1m | t1_c2khig8 | null | 1427610774 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1316233781 | False | 0 | c2khl3f | t3_khvyw | null | t1_c2khl3f | t1_c2kdqy5 | null | 1427610777 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Manitcor | null | It has also stifled a large amount of innovation in the industry over the last 15 or so years.
Part of the magic of silicon valley was the free flow of ideas between people and companies. By locking up ideas behind a wall of patents you slow the market and limit new opportunities for advancement. | null | 0 | 1316233830 | False | 0 | c2khl9o | t3_khvyw | null | t1_c2khl9o | t1_c2khhzc | null | 1427610778 | 21 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | uhhhclem | null | Jamie Zawinski originally said it about sed, years before he said it about regular expressions. | null | 0 | 1316234131 | False | 0 | c2khm9p | t3_ki52y | null | t1_c2khm9p | t1_c2kftcb | null | 1427610796 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | ldpreload | null | Missed that, thanks! | null | 0 | 1316234192 | False | 0 | c2khmgw | t3_khtwb | null | t1_c2khmgw | t1_c2kfayf | null | 1427610798 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | rosetta_stoned | null | > I am bassing it on many, many conversations with Microsoft employees and MVPs.
That is hardly what one would term evidence. It amounts to no more than vague statements that may or may not have been made by people whose trustworthiness can't be determined.
> Anyone with more than a passing knowledge of the .NET framework knows of the many hooks included to handle cross-platform compatibility.
Such as?
| null | 0 | 1316234252 | False | 0 | c2khmnp | t3_kgl4f | null | t1_c2khmnp | t1_c2kh95q | null | 1427610800 | -4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | > My recommendation was mostly around its strength from being ubiquitous.
Hmm, that's a little like suggesting we all start with Java simply based on its ubiquity, when something like Python might be more applicable to learning how to code.
> While hg is a little more "fool-proof", it lacks something as big as GitHub
Foolproof is very important for learners, I think. Git can and does befuddle some rather experienced developers at times. Also, [bitbucket.org](https://bitbucket.org/) has the same functionality that GitHub does. Sure, less publicity, but so what? Works exactly the same.
> git seems to have a bigger following, so there's a ton more documentation available (not just official docs, but also books and tutorials
There are many tutorials and books for Mercurial.
> git seems to have better tools available.
How so? I have IDE integration for both Git and Mercurial. Also, there may be a reason that git has more tooling... it can be unforgiving at the CLI.
> I found it quite painful
Hmm...
hg branch <name>
hg update <name>
Seem to be roughly equivalent to
git checkout -b <name>
git checkout <name>
Not sure if you have to manually tell your created branch what upstream branch it's tracking in Hg though.
But yeah, seeing as how I use Git at work all day, I might switch to Mercurial at home to see if it's better / worse / same. | null | 0 | 1316234359 | False | 0 | c2khmzl | t3_khkyd | null | t1_c2khmzl | t1_c2kb257 | null | 1427610803 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | greatersteven | null | Am I the only one who read about it being a unanimous, bipartisan agreement and instantly concluded that it's almost certainly bad, or meaningless at best?
It's sad that it's come to that. | null | 0 | 1316234504 | False | 0 | c2khng9 | t3_khvyw | null | t1_c2khng9 | t3_khvyw | null | 1427610807 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | ljmorris | null | Can't we have some leniency in regards to what the creators of well-known languages are up to? It would make a serious impact on programming if one of the creators of python (or Go: pickup your favorite) got hit by a bus tomorrow. | null | 0 | 1316234551 | False | 0 | c2khnl7 | t3_kidbz | null | t1_c2khnl7 | t1_c2khbgh | null | 1427610812 | 15 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | dyydvujbxs | null | jwz was quoting an older quote. | null | 0 | 1316234553 | False | 0 | c2khnle | t3_ki52y | null | t1_c2khnle | t1_c2khm9p | null | 1427610812 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | uhhhclem | null | You mean, when he said it about sed? I don't know that there's evidence of an earlier quote than that. | null | 0 | 1316234630 | False | 0 | c2khnuk | t3_ki52y | null | t1_c2khnuk | t1_c2khnle | null | 1427610819 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | dyydvujbxs | null | Even better is to not increase in complexity! | null | 0 | 1316234673 | False | 0 | c2khnzf | t3_ki52y | null | t1_c2khnzf | t1_c2kgfcz | null | 1427610813 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | pseudolobster | null | I don't think you seem to understand what a rainbow table is. It's a series of cryptographic hashes, it's a bunch of pre-encoded passwords you can use to compare the hashes of an unknown password.
Let's say my password is ABCD, and when you perform a crypt function on it, it turns into WXYZ. A rainbow table stores a list of all passwords that start with A###, and all passwords that have #B## as the second letter, and so on, so when it sees WXYZ it says, okay well according to this table, W is A, so let's go on to see if it corresponds to the table that says X is B, and so on.
This only works if W=A, X=B, Y=C, and Z=D. It only works for that one cypher. If you had a code where your password is ABCD, but it encrypts to LMNO, your rainbow table will be useless. You'll have to create a new rainbow table for that particular cypher. Creating a new rainbow table for a new encryption method is not fast or easy. It IS brute force. You do the brute force once, save the rainbow table, and it becomes easy every time afterward. Creating a rainbow table is still a huge fucking computationally intensive job.
Newer cyphers change the salt every time they're used, making it impossible to create a rainbow table for each and every single possible salt that it generates. | null | 0 | 1316234747 | False | 0 | c2kho7q | t3_khtwb | null | t1_c2kho7q | t1_c2khbqu | null | 1427610815 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | soviyet | null | Honestly, I'm trying to wrap my head around why an app called *Surf's Up: Epic Waves* would have, in his words, "over a dozen threads each doing their separate thing". | null | 0 | 1316234995 | False | 0 | c2khoym | t3_khip6 | null | t1_c2khoym | t3_khip6 | null | 1427610829 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1316235004 | False | 0 | c2khozj | t3_kicbo | null | t1_c2khozj | t3_kicbo | null | 1427610829 | 21 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | triffid | null | I saw that too. I think the UUOC argument ignores the simple fact that people build these pipelines up a command at a time in the shell, using their shell history. The commands described in the article makes a lot more sense in that light. | null | 0 | 1316235046 | False | 0 | c2khp3w | t3_kgqnz | null | t1_c2khp3w | t1_c2k49se | null | 1427610834 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | sisyphus | null | Never once has his blog ever stayed up when any story from it has hit reddit. | null | 0 | 1316235173 | False | 0 | c2khpi8 | t3_kidbz | null | t1_c2khpi8 | t3_kidbz | null | 1427610832 | 9 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | EvilGeniusAtSmall | null | My first thought: "Oh shit!"
My second: "Wait, the creator of Java?"
My third: "Wrong subreddit." | null | 0 | 1316235223 | False | 0 | c2khpnb | t3_kidbz | null | t1_c2khpnb | t3_kidbz | null | 1427610833 | 9 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | tarballs_are_good | null | He's done extraordinary mathematics in the field of computer algebra, theta functions, q-analogs, among other things. | null | 0 | 1316235238 | False | 0 | c2khpox | t3_khf6j | null | t1_c2khpox | t1_c2kd5qj | null | 1427610833 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | Though if you're talking about a proxy that you "use from work" as the parent mentioned, they're probably MITMing your SSL traffic. They can do this transparently by adding a new root cert to your certificate store. In other words, if the proxy operator is also the administrator of your machine, don't rely on SSL. | null | 0 | 1316235253 | False | 0 | c2khpqo | t3_khtwb | null | t1_c2khpqo | t1_c2ke2wm | null | 1427610834 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
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