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True | miishuu | null | When I was first learning to code I wrote a program to recursively search for a file and delete it. It looked something like this:
if (condition)
print(file);
file.delete();
Clearly that didnt go very well when I started at C:/, curly braces have been mandatory ever since. | null | 0 | 1316366254 | False | 0 | c2ks3ad | t3_kjjzd | null | t1_c2ks3ad | t3_kjjzd | null | 1427615857 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | tanishaj | null | True, but you do not need an ORM to write DRY code which is what it sounds like you are talking about.
In C#/.NET, which you mention, you can for example write a layer with methods that take a SQL string and some parameters and return a scalar, an IDataRecord (database row), or IEnumerable<IDataRecord> as approp... | null | 0 | 1316366397 | False | 0 | c2ks3wo | t3_ki83r | null | t1_c2ks3wo | t1_c2kn236 | null | 1427615865 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | jzwinck | null | Wrong link? | null | 0 | 1316366647 | False | 0 | c2ks4w4 | t3_kjm5r | null | t1_c2ks4w4 | t3_kjm5r | null | 1427615880 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | emptythecache | null | I like Picasso's "Computers are useless. They can only give you answers." | null | 0 | 1316366796 | False | 0 | c2ks5ix | t3_kjhvo | null | t1_c2ks5ix | t3_kjhvo | null | 1427615887 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | goacon93 | null | FWIW, banana technology has "stopped working" in the past, and it may do so again in the future:
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yes,_We_Have_No_Bananas
- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cavendish_banana#History_of_cultivation | null | 0 | 1316366832 | False | 0 | c2ks5ol | t3_kjhvo | null | t1_c2ks5ol | t1_c2kross | null | 1427615889 | 11 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | korran | null | I don't really see the problem with a platform vendor using proprietary extensions to a language to create a proprietary API. You only need to use this stuff on the edges of your application, which are already going to be tied closely to windows.
This is pretty much the same as what Apple did with Objective C++. I hav... | null | 0 | 1316366990 | True | 0 | c2ks6dd | t3_kjja4 | null | t1_c2ks6dd | t1_c2krxvw | null | 1427615897 | 20 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | datn | null | Not to mention Richard's program "Anthem". | null | 0 | 1316366996 | False | 0 | c2ks6ea | t3_kjhvo | null | t1_c2ks6ea | t1_c2krkqn | null | 1427615898 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | * Some seem to think this reddit is for "links that programmers might find interesting or funny". No. It's for programming links. Programming. Programming. Programming.
Yep, you got it. | null | 0 | 1316367068 | False | 0 | c2ks6pj | t3_kjhvo | null | t1_c2ks6pj | t1_c2krygl | null | 1427615901 | -2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | yacoob | null | I think you got the link wrong. You surely meant [this one](http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/show/325051), right? :) | null | 0 | 1316367083 | False | 0 | c2ks6rp | t3_kjhvo | null | t1_c2ks6rp | t3_kjhvo | null | 1427615901 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | mr_curmudgeon | null | The categorization of languages seems a little suspect to me.
* No lisps at all? Not even an acknowledgment that lisp exists?
* The only ML derivative, F#, is in the moderate-but-poor category?
* (I agree that C# is more functional than Java) but so much so that it is in a different category?
* Haskell and Clean are ... | null | 0 | 1316367229 | False | 0 | c2ks7dt | t3_kjkxj | null | t1_c2ks7dt | t3_kjkxj | null | 1427615910 | 38 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | amaranth1 | null | Why link to wayback machine? The current link still works. | null | 0 | 1316367239 | False | 0 | c2ks7fe | t3_ki52y | null | t1_c2ks7fe | t3_ki52y | null | 1427615911 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | dnew | null | > Go does not support inheritance
I hadn't realized that, but then thinking back on how one declares structures/functions, I can see how it should have been obvious. :-) | null | 0 | 1316367269 | False | 0 | c2ks7ji | t3_kikut | null | t1_c2ks7ji | t1_c2ks1ti | null | 1427615912 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | dotwaffle | null | Heh, Citadell, Granny's Garden, Thrust... All good stuff ;)
There's even a BBC Micro demoscene, such as the recent Sunrise party entry, [BeebNyan](http://www.pouet.net/prod.php?which=57734) ;) | null | 0 | 1316367564 | False | 0 | c2ks8r0 | t3_kjhvo | null | t1_c2ks8r0 | t1_c2ks24b | null | 1427615928 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | agottem | null | They were given an opportunity to design a new API from the ground up. I'm just curious: would you prefer that API be designed with proprietary extensions, or would you rather they create an API that conforms to the standard for the language they are targeting? | null | 0 | 1316367976 | False | 0 | c2ksagv | t3_kjja4 | null | t1_c2ksagv | t1_c2ks6dd | null | 1427615954 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | palam_rect | null | Its just a beginners tutorial that will teach how to add attribute "autocomplete" to input element. | null | 0 | 1316367993 | False | 0 | c2ksaj8 | t3_kjfx6 | null | t1_c2ksaj8 | t3_kjfx6 | null | 1427615955 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1316368129 | False | 0 | c2ksb3l | t3_kjhvo | null | t1_c2ksb3l | t3_kjhvo | null | 1427615958 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | wolf550e | null | LZNT1 used by NTFS is a type of LZ77. After huffman coding, it can't find 3 byte long matches within the 64k window.
Just do the experiment of comparing:
sum([round_up_to_4k(compressed_length) for each chunk_of_64k_uncompressed_data])
(you can do this without writing to files by analyzing the file you have or logg... | null | 0 | 1316368160 | True | 0 | c2ksb8g | t3_kjete | null | t1_c2ksb8g | t1_c2krz2u | null | 1427615960 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | adolfojp | null | Putting that on dropbox is not a great idea. | null | 0 | 1316368174 | False | 0 | c2ksba0 | t3_kjkxj | null | t1_c2ksba0 | t3_kjkxj | null | 1427615961 | 13 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | TheSisko972 | null | Linux is not a flavor of "the UNIX kernel." Also, what "different paradigm" is git using that the Linux kernel is not? | null | 0 | 1316368190 | False | 0 | c2ksbcs | t3_kjhvo | null | t1_c2ksbcs | t1_c2krtmk | null | 1427615962 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | ceiimq | null | What the author means by "practical" is that using a functional style in Haskell or Clean is more practical that in the other languages listed.
The reason he considers ML languages to be poor at FP would be because they're strict by default (*Why Functional Programming Matters*, which the author refers to, identifies ... | null | 0 | 1316368280 | True | 0 | c2ksbqx | t3_kjkxj | null | t1_c2ksbqx | t1_c2ks7dt | null | 1427615967 | 21 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | ridgerat | null | This should be the first sentence of any style guide. | null | 0 | 1316368479 | False | 0 | c2ksck4 | t3_kjjzd | null | t1_c2ksck4 | t1_c2krk07 | null | 1427615977 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1316368567 | False | 0 | c2kscwn | t3_kjhvo | null | t1_c2kscwn | t1_c2ks8r0 | null | 1427615982 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | agottem | null | So, what you're saying is that you can't think of any improvements you'd make to the Win32 API? | null | 0 | 1316368571 | False | 0 | c2kscxe | t3_kgs75 | null | t1_c2kscxe | t1_c2kq1f9 | null | 1427615982 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | nCrazed | null | msdn still claiming that chromium doesn't support HTML5 -_- | null | 0 | 1316368838 | False | 0 | c2kse00 | t3_kjja4 | null | t1_c2kse00 | t3_kjja4 | null | 1427615997 | 19 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1316368955 | 1377639834 | 0 | c2kseh3 | t3_kjhvo | null | t1_c2kseh3 | t1_c2kross | null | 1427616012 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | edahs | null | I reference this quote frequently. | null | 0 | 1316369043 | False | 0 | c2kseu2 | t3_kjhvo | null | t1_c2kseu2 | t3_kjhvo | null | 1427616009 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | I have found I have to be *very* explicit whenever I'm engaging programmers with asbergers--*cough*--I mean redditors. | null | 0 | 1316369257 | False | 0 | c2ksfps | t3_kjhvo | null | t1_c2ksfps | t1_c2krmqf | null | 1427616019 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | rob132 | null | That link is NSFL. | null | 0 | 1316369265 | False | 0 | c2ksfqy | t3_kjhvo | null | t1_c2ksfqy | t1_c2kseh3 | null | 1427616020 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | jtdc | null | The stars predict tomorrow you'll wake up, do a bunch of stuff, and then go back to sleep. | null | 0 | 1316369328 | False | 0 | c2ksg0l | t3_kjhvo | null | t1_c2ksg0l | t1_c2kroip | null | 1427616026 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | andralex | null | I agree. Turing completeness, however, imparts it considerable additional power. | null | 0 | 1316369387 | False | 0 | c2ksg91 | t3_kikut | null | t1_c2ksg91 | t1_c2ks1wr | null | 1427616028 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | donkey_lz | null | > Really? I wonder where you got your knowledge about discrete mathematics or logics. There are only few autodidacts in that area.
Munched on a few good books and sat through a discrete mathematics course back in university. I actually enjoyed it and love the sense of structure it gave me, although I rarely have to... | null | 0 | 1316369398 | False | 0 | c2ksgav | t3_khkyd | null | t1_c2ksgav | t1_c2kroli | null | 1427616030 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | kirakun | null | Do you even know what Torvalds wrote and what language git was written in? | null | 0 | 1316369419 | False | 0 | c2ksgdp | t3_kjhvo | null | t1_c2ksgdp | t1_c2ksbcs | null | 1427616030 | -1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | grauenwolf | null | Back in 1998 my big issues were:
* Lack of properties
* Lack of events
* A broken date/time class
* A clumsy UI toolkit that made it hard to layout controls in a pleasing fashion
Sadly these are still problems... | null | 0 | 1316369462 | False | 0 | c2ksgkk | t3_kjf91 | null | t1_c2ksgkk | t3_kjf91 | null | 1428193748 | 9 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | kdeforche | null | If you ignore the fact that unlike .NET and Java, NaCl didn't require the reinvention of a new programming language, and require that all software is being rewritten for the new platform.
"Porting" C/C++ code is a big word: you can simply build most libraries, although you will need to take care for APIs (and syscalls... | null | 0 | 1316369486 | False | 0 | c2ksgog | t3_kitgf | null | t1_c2ksgog | t1_c2koloh | null | 1427616035 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | kamatsu | null | I disagree, effective totality checking along with coinduction give near-equal power without any of the inconsistency problems. | null | 0 | 1316369527 | False | 0 | c2ksguk | t3_kikut | null | t1_c2ksguk | t1_c2ksg91 | null | 1427616039 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | grauenwolf | null | Try object orienated programming instead, it is more compatible with tea. | null | 0 | 1316369592 | False | 0 | c2ksh4g | t3_kjhvo | null | t1_c2ksh4g | t1_c2krhut | null | 1427616043 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | skealoha86 | null | [Hmm...](http://www.iplawalert.com/2011/09/articles/patent-1/america-invents-act-introduces-firsttofile-to-the-united-states/)
> Moreover, 35 U.S.C. §102, as revised, provides a unique protection for inventors that publish or publicly disclose their invention less than one year before filing their patent applicatio... | null | 0 | 1316369829 | False | 0 | c2ksi5p | t3_khvyw | null | t1_c2ksi5p | t1_c2kk9jp | null | 1427616053 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | ambiturnal | null | Who could possibly need a boat with a hull speed greater than four knots?
In the future, every household will have a yacht in their living room.
There are two types of programmers- those who program for sport and those who program for fish. | null | 0 | 1316370032 | False | 0 | c2ksj1f | t3_kjhvo | null | t1_c2ksj1f | t1_c2krsrn | null | 1427616062 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | grauenwolf | null | Real astrology is like climatology, it uses impossibly complex calculations to predict events that are decades into the future. And by the time the predictions are proven, true or otherwise, the scientists have already moved to other academic pursuits and new ones have taken their place.
Fake astrology is like TV weat... | null | 0 | 1316370182 | False | 0 | c2ksjn1 | t3_kjhvo | null | t1_c2ksjn1 | t1_c2kroip | null | 1427616070 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | JimH10 | null | You must live a *very* quiet life. | null | 0 | 1316370328 | False | 0 | c2ksk9u | t3_kjhvo | null | t1_c2ksk9u | t1_c2ksfqy | null | 1427616078 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | tgehr | null | >Strong static typing means that getting a value to the type you need it in can require a bit of screwing around and sometimes isn't really do-able.
Getting the right type is just adding an explicit function call instead of relying on implicit behavior. And that is do-able pretty well. Overall you save more typing ... | null | 0 | 1316370339 | False | 0 | c2kskb9 | t3_kikut | null | t1_c2kskb9 | t1_c2kq9kt | null | 1427616079 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | RedAero | null | Is programming engineering anyway? | null | 0 | 1316370484 | False | 0 | c2ksky2 | t3_kjhvo | null | t1_c2ksky2 | t1_c2krsrn | null | 1427616087 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | abattle | null | > it can't find 3 byte long matches within the 64k window
That seals it for me. You convinced me it almost certainly couldn't save a single byte.
> they're equal. I guess they are
Yes. That's what I think as well. I expect them to be equal, which explains what's happening.
Btw, isn't LZ77 the predecessor of ... | null | 0 | 1316370673 | False | 0 | c2kslq9 | t3_kjete | null | t1_c2kslq9 | t1_c2ksb8g | null | 1427616098 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | shobble | null | The paragraph preceding this quote is also highly appropriate:
"*all mechanical or electrical or quantum-mechanical or hydraulic or even wind, steam or piston-driven devices, are now required to have a certain legend emblazoned on them somewhere. It doesn't matter how small the object is, the designers of the object ... | null | 0 | 1316370752 | False | 0 | c2ksm21 | t3_kjhvo | null | t1_c2ksm21 | t3_kjhvo | null | 1427616102 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | ekimt27 | null | Once again you are stuck in the here and now. You arent seeing this as progressive. I'll see you in the future. | null | 0 | 1316370768 | False | 0 | c2ksm4q | t3_kejwo | null | t1_c2ksm4q | t1_c2ko3mk | null | 1427616103 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1316370924 | False | 0 | c2ksmt3 | t3_kjhvo | null | t1_c2ksmt3 | t3_kjhvo | null | 1427616113 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | MarcuBot | null | The C++ WinRT stuff is just plain old c++.cli rebranded. | null | 0 | 1316370981 | False | 0 | c2ksn24 | t3_kjja4 | null | t1_c2ksn24 | t1_c2ksagv | null | 1427616116 | -5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | MyrddinE | null | Because different people contributed to different parts, and a Wikifreak hasn't gone through and made the separate parts consistent yet. | null | 0 | 1316371049 | False | 0 | c2ksnd0 | t3_kgfhb | null | t1_c2ksnd0 | t1_c2kangj | null | 1427616120 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | grauenwolf | null | Auto-formatters will fix the indentation. I suggest always using them. | null | 0 | 1316371051 | False | 0 | c2ksnde | t3_kjjzd | null | t1_c2ksnde | t1_c2krnvh | null | 1428193746 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | grauenwolf | null | Vertical space matters. Taking four lines to express something that should be expressed in one or two is a bad thing when you are trying to scan the code.
For VB I would use one line because the Then keyword stands out so well.
Since the C family of languages are not so blessed, two lines are fine by me. | null | 0 | 1316371227 | False | 0 | c2kso3n | t3_kjjzd | null | t1_c2kso3n | t3_kjjzd | null | 1427616135 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | xon_xoff | null | The hardware doesn't support it in 64-bit mode. It is still fully supported for 64-bit operating systems running 32-bit user code, which is the situation we're talking about here.
| null | 0 | 1316371509 | False | 0 | c2ksp9o | t3_kitgf | null | t1_c2ksp9o | t1_c2kqfhw | null | 1427616144 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | virt_vera | null | What "claims" are you talking about? Slowness?
The guy is using a version of NetBSD *at least 10 years old*.
Which is what we were talking about.
Are you claiming NetBSD had fine-grained kernel threading back THEN?
| null | 0 | 1316371574 | False | 0 | c2kspjb | t3_kejfs | null | t1_c2kspjb | t1_c2kiif4 | null | 1427616148 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | ErstwhileRockstar | null | Runtime code generation is not polymorphism (at least not in the usual sense) and it doesn't disprove that ORMs map records to records. | null | 0 | 1316371574 | False | 0 | c2kspjd | t3_ki83r | null | t1_c2kspjd | t1_c2kqo3m | null | 1427616148 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | From wikipedia :
> Engineering is the discipline, art, skill and profession of acquiring and applying scientific, mathematical, economic, social, and practical knowledge, in order to design and build structures, machines, devices, systems, materials and processes **that safely realize improvements to the lives of p... | null | 0 | 1316371765 | False | 0 | c2ksqbw | t3_kjhvo | null | t1_c2ksqbw | t1_c2ksky2 | null | 1427616158 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | phunphun | null | Do you know how extensively the Linux Kernel uses the [OOP](https://lwn.net/Articles/444910/) [paradigm](https://lwn.net/Articles/446317/)? | null | 0 | 1316371838 | False | 0 | c2ksqmi | t3_kjhvo | null | t1_c2ksqmi | t1_c2ksgdp | null | 1427616163 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | bigboehmboy | null | If I understand correctly, the script that took 48 days to run was generating all possible puzzles and solving them in the minimum number of steps, not solving a single puzzle. | null | 0 | 1316371906 | False | 0 | c2ksqx2 | t3_khf6j | null | t1_c2ksqx2 | t1_c2kd2qk | null | 1428193745 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | awj | null | I've never heard of one. It seems like a difficult and error-prone task.
Possibly this is an area where profiling would be a better approach: give queries a unique tag at their call site then track usage from there so you can figure out the columns used. That way you don't have to worry about exposing templating syste... | null | 0 | 1316371928 | False | 0 | c2ksr03 | t3_ki83r | null | t1_c2ksr03 | t1_c2kqie4 | null | 1427616174 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Durahk | null | If SIGSEGV was uncatchable, things like gdb would never work. | null | 0 | 1316371964 | False | 0 | c2ksr51 | t3_khip6 | null | t1_c2ksr51 | t1_c2kil8r | null | 1427616169 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | ahtnos | null | That's why you don't use tea; you use Java… | null | 0 | 1316372041 | False | 0 | c2ksrhk | t3_kjhvo | null | t1_c2ksrhk | t1_c2krhut | null | 1427616174 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | andralex | null | You had me at coind... coinduction. We'd love to have someone with your background improve D's type system. You're gladly invited to chime in at [digitalmars.D](news://news.digitalmars.com/digitalmars.D). | null | 0 | 1316372042 | False | 0 | c2ksrhz | t3_kikut | null | t1_c2ksrhz | t1_c2ksguk | null | 1427616174 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | banuday | null | Hibernate is using CGLIB/Javassist to generate at runtime a *new class* which is a *subclass* of the entity class (which is why auto-reloading containers and Hibernate don't play well together, as Hibernate will chew up permgen space). At call sites, the entity class is specified at compile time, but the object instanc... | null | 0 | 1316372267 | True | 0 | c2kssi9 | t3_ki83r | null | t1_c2kssi9 | t1_c2kspjd | null | 1427616187 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | MaikB | null | One thing he said is something I concluded for myself a few years ago. If the objective is to write a fast piece of code in a very short amount of time, C++ is my goto language.
I wasted a lot of time trying to make matlab/python code run faster instead of writing a C/C++/Fortran module to do the job, without butcher... | null | 0 | 1316372629 | False | 0 | c2ksu3g | t3_kjja4 | null | t1_c2ksu3g | t3_kjja4 | null | 1427616208 | 44 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1316372753 | False | 0 | c2ksum1 | t3_k7vpw | null | t1_c2ksum1 | t1_c2i6jd8 | null | 1427616216 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | abattle | null | Either way I'd like to have some form of error-detection, to avoid crashing in case of corruption. Whether checksum is done by the compressor or not is secondary.
> everyone says arithmetic coders are always slower
This used to be the case back in the day (at least a decade ago.) It'd be interesting to see what mo... | null | 0 | 1316373102 | False | 0 | c2ksw2b | t3_kjete | null | t1_c2ksw2b | t1_c2kqz8s | null | 1427616237 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | banuday | null | > I have never had to get a banana to work.
Okay, but how to keep those fuckers from going brown before you can eat them? | null | 0 | 1316373124 | False | 0 | c2ksw5k | t3_kjhvo | null | t1_c2ksw5k | t1_c2kross | null | 1427616239 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | skulgnome | null | The difference between instance specification in Go and Haskell is that Haskell has a syntax for making it explicit. Go is still finicky as all hell about what set of functions make a thing fit an interface, so you end up grouping the functions together. | null | 0 | 1316373275 | False | 0 | c2kswrw | t3_kikut | null | t1_c2kswrw | t1_c2kqgfx | null | 1427616247 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | korran | null | Ideally, I prefer an API that conforms to the language standard. However, with C++ things are not so simple.
Microsoft could have standardized their C++ ABI, and used that for WinRT. This would be a huge undertaking. The memory layout of the STL classes would have to be rigidly defined for the next 20 years, preventi... | null | 0 | 1316373304 | True | 0 | c2kswww | t3_kjja4 | null | t1_c2kswww | t1_c2ksagv | null | 1427616258 | 20 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | s73v3r | null | As long as you document it properly, it should come out that you created it first. Now, whether or not most people do the proper amount of documentation (which for patents, can be quite a lot), is another story. | null | 0 | 1316373654 | False | 0 | c2ksyfm | t3_khvyw | null | t1_c2ksyfm | t1_c2khhzc | null | 1427616269 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | s73v3r | null | Most other countries don't recognize software patents, however. | null | 0 | 1316373720 | False | 0 | c2ksyq3 | t3_khvyw | null | t1_c2ksyq3 | t1_c2kiuci | null | 1427616272 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | Okay, nice quote once I saw it. But the layout of the site made me think the white box was a text advertisement to be skipped and so I sent my eyes down the page to the first thing that looked like a quote and I got this:
>You must be a registered user to use this feature. Log in using the form to the left, or regi... | null | 0 | 1316373728 | False | 0 | c2ksyrl | t3_kjhvo | null | t1_c2ksyrl | t3_kjhvo | null | 1427616272 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | ehird | null | Hmm? You might be mistaking my comment for a serious one. | null | 0 | 1316373803 | False | 0 | c2ksz30 | t3_kfvm7 | null | t1_c2ksz30 | t1_c2koeze | null | 1427616274 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | ggggbabybabybaby | null | Maybe that's because you buy iced coffees. | null | 0 | 1316373839 | False | 0 | c2ksz7x | t3_kjhvo | null | t1_c2ksz7x | t1_c2krclx | null | 1427616275 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | krl | null | Hey, DNA is programming too. | null | 0 | 1316373856 | False | 0 | c2kszab | t3_kjhvo | null | t1_c2kszab | t1_c2kr2wc | null | 1427616276 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | Ah, a very common moment for EE students. "That RF circuit was transmitting just a few seconds ago. I'm serious professor! You have to believe!" | null | 0 | 1316373863 | False | 0 | c2kszbi | t3_kjhvo | null | t1_c2kszbi | t3_kjhvo | null | 1427616276 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | s73v3r | null | It doesn't remove prior art at all. If the invention is documented elsewhere before they actually file, then that still counts as prior art. | null | 0 | 1316373866 | False | 0 | c2kszby | t3_khvyw | null | t1_c2kszby | t1_c2kevsw | null | 1427616276 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | harlows_monkeys | null | Yeah, you are misreading.
Normally under the new law anything published before you file your patent application can be used as prior art against you.
What that part of 35 USC 102 is saying is that there is an exception--if you yourself publish up to a year before you file your patent application, anyone else's public... | null | 0 | 1316373875 | False | 0 | c2kszdi | t3_khvyw | null | t1_c2kszdi | t1_c2ksi5p | null | 1427616276 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | malfy | null | Hahahahaha. Perfect timing :P | null | 0 | 1316373888 | False | 0 | c2kszfn | t3_khf6j | null | t1_c2kszfn | t1_c2kgtb6 | null | 1427616278 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | s73v3r | null | No, that still couldn't happen, as the prior art still exists, and the source code would have been posted BEFORE the company claims they started work on it. | null | 0 | 1316373909 | False | 0 | c2kszj0 | t3_khvyw | null | t1_c2kszj0 | t1_c2kik4q | null | 1427616279 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | joedev_net | null | This checks out, because this is exactly what I'm planning on doing. | null | 0 | 1316373922 | False | 0 | c2kszlc | t3_kjhvo | null | t1_c2kszlc | t1_c2ksg0l | null | 1427616280 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | No, its native c++; generates native code.
There are three interfaces to WinRT:
* The new extended COM interface (native code)
* The cli/.net inteface
* The javascipt interface
But c++.cli (via the cli/.net interface) might be possible, too. | null | 0 | 1316374001 | False | 0 | c2kszww | t3_kjja4 | null | t1_c2kszww | t1_c2ksn24 | null | 1427616284 | 9 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | s73v3r | null | They have far more resources to spend on lawyers and not necessarily miss them than smaller businesses. | null | 0 | 1316374031 | False | 0 | c2kt00y | t3_khvyw | null | t1_c2kt00y | t1_c2khusy | null | 1427616286 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | thebigslide | null | Thank you thank you thank you.
The last thing I want to be worrying about when I'm attempting to add "product_sku_group.id > %d" to where_clause_array, is whether table_product_sku_group is being left joined in from_clause_head or if it's one of the members of from_clause_array. | null | 0 | 1316374115 | False | 0 | c2kt0f8 | t3_ki83r | null | t1_c2kt0f8 | t1_c2kljfj | null | 1428193742 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1316374143 | True | 0 | c2kt0jy | t3_kjhvo | null | t1_c2kt0jy | t1_c2ksgdp | null | 1427616292 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | s73v3r | null | The thing with trade secrets is that they never have to be released into the public. With patents, although the company can hamper competitors for a while, eventually that knowledge gets passed into the public domain. Perhaps if patents had a shorter duration, then they would be more of an acceptable tradeoff. | null | 0 | 1316374293 | False | 0 | c2kt18n | t3_khvyw | null | t1_c2kt18n | t1_c2khzkm | null | 1427616302 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | emptythecache | null | That dude is a prick. I hate that I have to pretend the Ender's Game series wasn't written by him in order to keep loving it. | null | 0 | 1316374298 | False | 0 | c2kt19e | t3_kjhvo | null | t1_c2kt19e | t1_c2ksmt3 | null | 1427616302 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | TheSisko972 | null | Kirakun, luv, they are both written in C. So what's the "different paradigm" that you're talking about, muffin? | null | 0 | 1316374399 | False | 0 | c2kt1oo | t3_kjhvo | null | t1_c2kt1oo | t1_c2ksgdp | null | 1427616309 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | s73v3r | null | Patents have one very good aspect to them, and that's the fact that the knowledge that is patented does make it's way to the public domain. Doing away with the patent system altogether means that knowledge is going to be locked away inside the large companies that can afford to do that research. | null | 0 | 1316374410 | False | 0 | c2kt1qq | t3_khvyw | null | t1_c2kt1qq | t1_c2kl014 | null | 1427616310 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | harlows_monkeys | null | Generally no. There is a thing called "prior user" rights. This was covered before the new law under [35 USC 273](http://www.uspto.gov/web/offices/pac/mpep/documents/appxl_35_U_S_C_273.htm). Here's an excerpt from that:
It shall be a defense to an action for infringement under
section 271 of this title with re... | null | 0 | 1316374579 | False | 0 | c2kt2gi | t3_khvyw | null | t1_c2kt2gi | t1_c2kqgiu | null | 1427616318 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | neitz | null | I honestly do not believe it is due to the static typing but rather the verbosity of the languages that is not conducive to quick prototyping. | null | 0 | 1316374620 | False | 0 | c2kt2m8 | t3_kjja4 | null | t1_c2kt2m8 | t1_c2ksu3g | null | 1427616319 | 27 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | the_opinion | null | I have. I got it there in a lunchbox | null | 0 | 1316374635 | False | 0 | c2kt2of | t3_kjhvo | null | t1_c2kt2of | t1_c2kross | null | 1427616320 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | the_opinion | null | And 'Reason' | null | 0 | 1316374721 | False | 0 | c2kt31u | t3_kjhvo | null | t1_c2kt31u | t1_c2ks6ea | null | 1427616324 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | s73v3r | null | >Doesn't first-to-file eliminate prior art as a means of invalidating a patent unless that prior art was patented?
Of course not. Just because something is out there and not patented doesn't mean that anyone can scoop it up. The prior art still exists that would cause the patent to be invalidated. | null | 0 | 1316374725 | False | 0 | c2kt32f | t3_khvyw | null | t1_c2kt32f | t1_c2kh6ff | null | 1427616324 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | s73v3r | null | Part of that is that they were woefully unfunded. They quite simply could not afford to pay people who actually have industry knowledge to evaluate patents. I remember hearing one of the provisions in the bill, not sure if it made it's way in to the final version, that said the Patent office would get to keep the fees ... | null | 0 | 1316374838 | False | 0 | c2kt3j5 | t3_khvyw | null | t1_c2kt3j5 | t1_c2khcgq | null | 1427616331 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | That was a crappy quote.
For a writer, that was really poorly worded. | null | 0 | 1316374908 | False | 0 | c2kt3tx | t3_kjhvo | null | t1_c2kt3tx | t3_kjhvo | null | 1427616335 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | jephthai | null | One thing that amazed me when I graduated with my computer science degree is how few in the software development world have a real educational background in CS. By my experience, these seminar ethics classes might cover 50% or less of "people who write software for a living." | null | 0 | 1316374947 | False | 0 | c2kt406 | t3_khtwb | null | t1_c2kt406 | t1_c2ke192 | null | 1427616337 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | s73v3r | null | >Considering there is a 1 year period before filing where prior art is not considered,
WRONG. Prior art is *always* considered. The difference applies to the case of when they have two entities that claim to have invented the same thing. Before, they each had to prove when they invented it. Now the first to file g... | null | 0 | 1316374974 | False | 0 | c2kt44i | t3_khvyw | null | t1_c2kt44i | t1_c2kikfd | null | 1427616339 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | banuday | null | Use [Scala](http://drsimplestuff.blogspot.com/2011/02/parallel-collections-in-scala.html)! (Braces for downvotes) | null | 0 | 1316375016 | False | 0 | c2kt4a8 | t3_kjdt6 | null | t1_c2kt4a8 | t1_c2kqg1c | null | 1427616341 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | sltkr | null | Oh, now I re-read it, I think you're right! That is very impressive! (The "so far" is a bit confusing; it seems to suggest he is trying arbitrary puzzles instead of searching through the entire space of possible puzzles.)
So the claim is that this puzzle is the most difficult one (in 4x4, at least)? | null | 0 | 1316375074 | True | 0 | c2kt4jm | t3_khf6j | null | t1_c2kt4jm | t1_c2ksqx2 | null | 1427616344 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | ErstwhileRockstar | null | "Should you use Windows or Java?"
This question was heatedly debated in ~1998. Seriously. Although the one was an operating system and the other a programming language (not a platform at that time) people liked to discuss that topic (which was probably brought up by Sun marketing). | null | 0 | 1316375121 | False | 0 | c2kt4q6 | t3_kjf91 | null | t1_c2kt4q6 | t3_kjf91 | null | 1427616346 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
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