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True | KumbajaMyLord | null | But, the side-loading restriction only applies to Metro Apps, which are primarily touch-screen/tablet apps. Not normal apps. | null | 0 | 1316516768 | False | 0 | c2l7iwl | t3_kl7h0 | null | t1_c2l7iwl | t1_c2l7g0z | null | 1427623263 | 20 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | People should sit down, talk to each other and solve this problem once and for all. | null | 0 | 1316516937 | False | 0 | c2l7j6j | t3_kl1qp | null | t1_c2l7j6j | t1_c2l7cgu | null | 1427623268 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | *sigh* Ok, I'll try to explain it very slowly again, just for you:
Yes, you can access WinRT with standard C++ but it is so unbelievable pull-your-hair-out ugly, that it doesn't matter in the real world.
So, no. You will use Microsoft's proprietary extension to the language to write any meaningful amount of code with... | null | 0 | 1316517163 | False | 0 | c2l7jk0 | t3_kl1qp | null | t1_c2l7jk0 | t1_c2l7eue | null | 1427623272 | -1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Gotebe | null | Whoops, two "my whatever is better than your whatever in two days"... Proggit is in decline, I reckon... | null | 0 | 1316517205 | False | 0 | c2l7jmh | t3_kkp4z | null | t1_c2l7jmh | t3_kkp4z | null | 1427623273 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | BW_Yodo | null | Agreed. Article is quite addling. | null | 0 | 1316517455 | False | 0 | c2l7k1l | t3_kl1qp | null | t1_c2l7k1l | t1_c2l5bwq | null | 1427623278 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | bart2019 | null | I read it as : most of the programs will be written in C#, but not on top of .NET.
Currently, to most programmers, C# and .NET are largely synonymous, so that is quite the divorce. | null | 0 | 1316517481 | False | 0 | c2l7k3g | t3_kl1qp | null | t1_c2l7k3g | t1_c2l5bwq | null | 1427623278 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | axilmar | null | Don't worry my friend. You are just dealing with people who fail to use any logic over this issue (if WinRT is programmed real C++ or not). If you check out my comments, I've been horribly downvoted as well, because people fail to understand that **using standard C++ to deal with WinRT/COM is so horrible that makes usi... | null | 0 | 1316517508 | False | 0 | c2l7k5f | t3_kl1qp | null | t1_c2l7k5f | t1_c2l790m | null | 1427623279 | -2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | Yeah y'know what, probably not thinking there. Likely it wouldn't | null | 0 | 1316517562 | False | 0 | c2l7k92 | t3_kl7h0 | null | t1_c2l7k92 | t1_c2l7i3f | null | 1427623281 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | barbequeninja | null | The source one is 50/50 depending on luck with libc calls. | null | 0 | 1316517825 | False | 0 | c2l7kqy | t3_kl7h0 | null | t1_c2l7kqy | t1_c2l7k92 | null | 1427623287 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | ezekiel | null | To stay within 40 hours and keep most people happy:
Maintain an ordered (prioritized) list of work items and every time a new task is requested of you, pull out the list and have the person help you know where it should be placed in your list. Calculate how long each task takes so you can maintain approx due dates for... | null | 0 | 1316517863 | False | 0 | c2l7ktm | t3_jml9p | null | t1_c2l7ktm | t1_c2l7im1 | null | 1427623288 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | A_for_Anonymous | null | I think the standard PC keyboard lacks a lot of special keys. I'm using my custom X keyboard profile, which has six character layouts:
- Normal
- Shift
- AltGr
- AltGr+Shift
- Level3 (I'm using a "ç" key I have for this; I generate ç with Level3+c)
- Level3+Shift
allowing me to generate a lot of characters including ... | null | 0 | 1316517866 | False | 0 | c2l7ktu | t3_kkwd9 | null | t1_c2l7ktu | t3_kkwd9 | null | 1427623288 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | Source?
I haven't seen Apple stating they will do this. | null | 0 | 1316517894 | False | 0 | c2l7kvv | t3_kl7h0 | null | t1_c2l7kvv | t1_c2l5pdn | null | 1427623289 | -2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Breepee | null | Care to explain what that means? Unless I missed the news on a new native C# compiler, I don't see how this is possible. | null | 0 | 1316517976 | False | 0 | c2l7l11 | t3_kl1qp | null | t1_c2l7l11 | t1_c2l7k3g | null | 1427623291 | 12 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Sc4Freak | null | Um. That's just plain COM. Obviously you've never seen COM before, so I'll save you the embarassment: that's how COM looks and has always looked. It looks that way because it's a low-level library and you're interfacing directly with the OS. That's *why* the WRL and C++/CX exist; so developers don't have to deal with i... | null | 0 | 1316517988 | False | 0 | c2l7l24 | t3_kk7c6 | null | t1_c2l7l24 | t1_c2l7i2k | null | 1427623291 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | Android is not Linux. | null | 0 | 1316517996 | False | 0 | c2l7l2x | t3_kl7h0 | null | t1_c2l7l2x | t1_c2l7ivb | null | 1427623291 | 13 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | thantik | null | I probably would have read this if the thing weren't 2 inches wide in order to make it 10 pages long.
Seriously, what the fuck is http://i.imgur.com/xrJNo.png
And 1/3rd of *that* is even taken up by a navigation bar! | null | 0 | 1316518104 | True | 0 | c2l7la1 | t3_kldfr | null | t1_c2l7la1 | t3_kldfr | null | 1427623295 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | madmoose | null | If hitting the (now former) start menu on a laptop running Win8 throws you into Metro, then they are not primarily touch-screen/tablet apps. | null | 0 | 1316518114 | False | 0 | c2l7lb0 | t3_kl7h0 | null | t1_c2l7lb0 | t1_c2l7iwl | null | 1427623295 | 16 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | prlme | null | **THIS IS THE YEAR OF LINUX, I'M TELLING YOU THIS TIME IT WILL BE. I SWEAR!!** | null | 0 | 1316518249 | False | 0 | c2l7ljt | t3_kl7h0 | null | t1_c2l7ljt | t1_c2l7ivb | null | 1427623298 | 20 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1316518475 | False | 0 | c2l7lyo | t3_kks00 | null | t1_c2l7lyo | t3_kks00 | null | 1427623304 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | madmoose | null | Reddit would be left with a mere fraction of its current traffic if we kept to that principle... | null | 0 | 1316518504 | False | 0 | c2l7m0j | t3_kl1qp | null | t1_c2l7m0j | t1_c2l6g9v | null | 1427623304 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | MrBringo | null | It's not a switch.
Microsoft means "AND" NOT "OR" for everything from chipset to software, though they are encouraging to adopt new stuff. Backward compatibility is why Microsoft has been dominating I don't think they are going to throw it away, but what I am worried about is ARM; how apps could be ported to work on th... | null | 0 | 1316518569 | False | 0 | c2l7m4t | t3_kl1qp | null | t1_c2l7m4t | t3_kl1qp | null | 1427623313 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | el_muchacho | null | A complex events processor is an engine that allows you to work on near real time or semi real-time (i.e within a sliding time window, or only on the N last detected events) data streams. They allow to filter and process data streams according to rules you define. You may perform several different parallel processings ... | null | 0 | 1316518575 | True | 0 | c2l7m57 | t3_kks00 | null | t1_c2l7m57 | t1_c2l5nad | null | 1427623313 | 10 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | Yeah I'm betting it'd be a pita though, even the build utils could be a problem. Now that I'm actually thinking about the idea of compiling/running an app that hasn't been touched since 1998.. I'm kinda glad that I can't to be honest. | null | 0 | 1316518602 | False | 0 | c2l7m6x | t3_kl7h0 | null | t1_c2l7m6x | t1_c2l7kqy | null | 1427623308 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | axilmar | null | > Um. That's just plain COM. Obviously you've never seen COM before
Thank God I didn't have to deal with COM professionally. I chose to use sane software.
> so I'll save you the embarassment: that's how COM looks and has always looked, because it's such a low-level library.
The embarrassment is on your own sid... | null | 0 | 1316518748 | False | 0 | c2l7mgx | t3_kk7c6 | null | t1_c2l7mgx | t1_c2l7l24 | null | 1427623310 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | grahampaige | null | I came across some code that used the variables shit and fuck | null | 0 | 1316518807 | False | 0 | c2l7mlk | t3_klhlv | null | t1_c2l7mlk | t3_klhlv | null | 1427623312 | 8 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | argv_minus_one | null | Have you ever actually tried to do *serious work* on such a device, or are you talking out of your ass like every other idiot I've seen saying crap like that? | null | 0 | 1316519150 | False | 0 | c2l7naa | t3_kl1qp | null | t1_c2l7naa | t1_c2l646o | null | 1427623321 | -2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | rhesusattack | null | Are you sure about this? It's kind of hard to tell from the article whether they were referring to Windows 8 as a whole, or just the Metro-style applications.
Edit: Never mind, later on they do refer specifically to the Metro-style apps. | null | 0 | 1316519190 | False | 0 | c2l7nct | t3_kl1qp | null | t1_c2l7nct | t1_c2l6uh7 | null | 1427623322 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | greenspans | null | supports 800x600 res. | null | 0 | 1316519212 | False | 0 | c2l7ne6 | t3_kldfr | null | t1_c2l7ne6 | t1_c2l7la1 | null | 1427623322 | -10 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Sc4Freak | null | I don't think you quite realize how patently absurd that argument is.
This is how COM has *always* looked. If you're complaining about the difficulty of using COM, then C++/CX is *irrelevant* to the discussion because **it doesn't have any effect on how you use COM in standard C++**.
So if C++/CX didn't exist, then a... | null | 0 | 1316519262 | False | 0 | c2l7ni2 | t3_kl1qp | null | t1_c2l7ni2 | t1_c2l7jk0 | null | 1427623324 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | internetinsomniac | null | I thought .NET was a framework on top of C#, not a compiler, powering it underneath? | null | 0 | 1316519343 | False | 0 | c2l7no0 | t3_kl1qp | null | t1_c2l7no0 | t1_c2l7l11 | null | 1427623327 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | llogiq | null | The author mixes up lexicography (= compiling of dictionaries) with the lexicographical order (= mathematical ordering; compare lists from beginning to end until the elements compared are inequal). Other than that, it's a good primer into unicode collation for perl.
Note that other languages may or may not have the sa... | null | 0 | 1316519384 | False | 0 | c2l7nqs | t3_k0jua | null | t1_c2l7nqs | t3_k0jua | null | 1427623328 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | MarshallBanana | null | > Source?
The internet hivemind, of course! It is *never wrong about anything!* | null | 0 | 1316519418 | False | 0 | c2l7ntj | t3_kl7h0 | null | t1_c2l7ntj | t1_c2l7kvv | null | 1427623328 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | orangeyness | null | Just like the Apple app store for iphones/ipods. | null | 0 | 1316519425 | False | 0 | c2l7nu3 | t3_kl7h0 | null | t1_c2l7nu3 | t1_c2l7kvv | null | 1427623328 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Philluminati | null | *squinting slightly like Fry*
Unreal Tournament?
*The significance of my choice, even though I am a year out, is that UT was written in VB6* | null | 0 | 1316519596 | False | 0 | c2l7o6l | t3_kl7h0 | null | t1_c2l7o6l | t1_c2l770q | null | 1427623332 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | kyz | null | >fn: string -> int | syntaxerror
Pardon me, but this sounds distinctly like [`int parseInt(String s) throws NumberFormatException`](http://download.oracle.com/javase/1.4.2/docs/api/java/lang/Integer.html#parseInt%28java.lang.String%29), where the compiler requires you to split error conditions out as a hierarchy... | null | 0 | 1316519652 | False | 0 | c2l7oap | t3_kjw0j | null | t1_c2l7oap | t1_c2l1euo | null | 1427623334 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | KumbajaMyLord | null | Metro is a touch-first environment. The pull up virtual keyboard that is integrated into Metro should be a dead giveaway.
Microsoft is just anticipating the touch hardware will take off big by the time that Windows 8 is ready for release.
>Building new touch hardware for Windows 8
Keeping the user experience a... | null | 0 | 1316519669 | True | 0 | c2l7oc1 | t3_kl7h0 | null | t1_c2l7oc1 | t1_c2l7lb0 | null | 1427623334 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | MarshallBanana | null | > Although, didn't Macs have more stable ABI than Linux?
Definitely, but there are the problems of platform changes: Classic to OS X, PPC to x86 (and even m68k to PPC before that). In all cases, backwards compatibility was offered, but for a shorter time than what Microsoft generally offers. | null | 0 | 1316519670 | False | 0 | c2l7oc6 | t3_kl7h0 | null | t1_c2l7oc6 | t1_c2l7i5g | null | 1427623334 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | MarshallBanana | null | And increasing strictness of C compilers. | null | 0 | 1316519710 | False | 0 | c2l7oex | t3_kl7h0 | null | t1_c2l7oex | t1_c2l7kqy | null | 1427623336 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | thantik | null | So does a dynamic width. For example, if you run your browser unmaximized, take the left/right hand side, and start pulling the window in. Notice how reddit reflows everything in the main portion? Yeah...that.
That supports 800x600, but also allows text to widen to fill the rest of the page as well... | null | 0 | 1316519710 | False | 0 | c2l7oez | t3_kldfr | null | t1_c2l7oez | t1_c2l7ne6 | null | 1427623336 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | berkut | null | It depends on the number of triangles, the size of the output image, and whether it's a single image or a sequence of frames.
If you use a KDTree with SAH for split position, even if it takes 8 secs to build a KDTree for a 5.5 million triangle mesh (down to 38 levels), the fact you can intersect the mesh so quickly is... | null | 0 | 1316519760 | False | 0 | c2l7oj2 | t3_kldfr | null | t1_c2l7oj2 | t1_c2l78xf | null | 1427623337 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | hackersword | null | and yet .... add-ons don't break each any every update .... Chrome was designed and PLANNED from the beginning to have continual update process, and the API and method for writing add-ons was set for that specifically in mind. Not tacked on as a "catch up" LATE in the game.
Hmm, so which has the better dev team?
Aga... | null | 0 | 1316519887 | True | 0 | c2l7osp | t3_kghid | null | t1_c2l7osp | t1_c2l7d5m | null | 1427623340 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | dodehoekspiegel | null | Odd. This is the type of ignorance I would expect from the typical Microsoft developer. .NET good, everything else bad! Not that they know about anything else. | null | 0 | 1316519981 | False | 0 | c2l7p07 | t3_klhzl | null | t1_c2l7p07 | t3_klhzl | null | 1427623343 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Hypx | null | The reason why raytracing is becoming more popular lately in offline rendering has really nothing to do with performance. Instead, it is complexity of the rendering pipeline and human man hours needed to achieve the desired results. If the code is slow, you can always buy more hardware to compensate since hardware is c... | null | 0 | 1316520018 | True | 0 | c2l7p3f | t3_kldfr | null | t1_c2l7p3f | t3_kldfr | null | 1427623344 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | elperroborrachotoo | null | Corporate use and distribution is an interesting aspect - though I'd assume most corporate apps that want to benefit from distribution will also use only little local storage.
In the end, it depends on what Metro actually is - or ends up to be:
- a UI?
- an app distribution mechanism?
- a Windows Sandbox?
If you... | null | 0 | 1316520022 | False | 0 | c2l7p3n | t3_kl1qp | null | t1_c2l7p3n | t1_c2l7htg | null | 1427623344 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | madmoose | null | Yes, that's what they say, and that's how it's designed.
But if hitting the former start menu gives you Metro then Microsoft is clearly expecting millions upon millions of office workers, for whom their current work computer is primarily an Outlook, Word, and LOB application work station, to use Metro. And they will n... | null | 0 | 1316520061 | True | 0 | c2l7p6o | t3_kl7h0 | null | t1_c2l7p6o | t1_c2l7oc1 | null | 1427623345 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | berkut | null | Exactly - normally, rasterisation uses depth-based info to draw the objects on top of each other back to front (culling hidden objects).
Raytracing acceleration structures are optimised for ray intersection tests from any direction, as camera rays, shadow occlusion rays and reflections and refractions will all be send... | null | 0 | 1316520257 | False | 0 | c2l7pma | t3_kldfr | null | t1_c2l7pma | t1_c2l7fq5 | null | 1427623351 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1316520330 | False | 0 | c2l7pqt | t3_klhlv | null | t1_c2l7pqt | t3_klhlv | null | 1427623353 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | greenspans | null | well zoom the text you fucktard, ctrl+plus. 500pixels static is a decent row length. | null | 0 | 1316520365 | False | 0 | c2l7ptl | t3_kldfr | null | t1_c2l7ptl | t1_c2l7oez | null | 1427623354 | -15 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | elperroborrachotoo | null | Most definitely
x | null | 0 | 1316520457 | False | 0 | c2l7q0f | t3_klhlv | null | t1_c2l7q0f | t3_klhlv | null | 1427623357 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | GFandango | null | Interesting but you probably wont need it unless you have something very popular. | null | 0 | 1316520739 | False | 0 | c2l7qof | t3_kks00 | null | t1_c2l7qof | t3_kks00 | null | 1427623366 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | rjberry | null | OK, not deprecated every couple of years, you're right. Though I seriously don't see why people are fighting this uphill battle learning new APIs that don't particularly hugely improve over the old ones only to make software for one buggy OS ...
... whereas if you build a web app it will run for ever, you have contro... | null | 0 | 1316520752 | False | 0 | c2l7qpk | t3_kl7h0 | null | t1_c2l7qpk | t1_c2l770q | null | 1427623366 | -2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | So you can buy a tablet that's good for more than Angry Birds? | null | 0 | 1316520768 | False | 0 | c2l7qr7 | t3_kl1qp | null | t1_c2l7qr7 | t1_c2l76qf | null | 1427623370 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | berkut | null | Exactly - getting shadow maps to work correctly for different scenes, lights, camera angles in PRMan's a pain-in-the-ass - they often need to be tweaked for each shot, whereas raytraced shadows are perfect every time (assuming a decent number of samples per light).
Raytracing can also do everything in one single pass,... | null | 0 | 1316520808 | False | 0 | c2l7quj | t3_kldfr | null | t1_c2l7quj | t1_c2l7p3f | null | 1427623368 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | kaze0 | null | Some idiot has been using $ and _ as variable names in our Android software lately. | null | 0 | 1316520976 | False | 0 | c2l7r8b | t3_klhlv | null | t1_c2l7r8b | t3_klhlv | null | 1427623373 | 32 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | BlackwaterPark_1980 | null | Deriding someone for making sweeping generalisations while making sweeping generalisations about them? Nice! | null | 0 | 1316521080 | False | 0 | c2l7rgj | t3_klhzl | null | t1_c2l7rgj | t1_c2l7p07 | null | 1427623383 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | cr3ative | null | Sorry. | null | 0 | 1316521115 | False | 0 | c2l7rj7 | t3_klhlv | null | t1_c2l7rj7 | t1_c2l7mlk | null | 1427623386 | 24 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | Yeah I don't see how they could *not* be synonymous | null | 0 | 1316521246 | False | 0 | c2l7rsi | t3_kl1qp | null | t1_c2l7rsi | t1_c2l7l11 | null | 1427623383 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Magnesus | null | A PC you made from parts yourself. | null | 0 | 1316521319 | False | 0 | c2l7ryb | t3_kl7h0 | null | t1_c2l7ryb | t1_c2l75f5 | null | 1427623393 | 11 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | UnoriginalGuy | null | One(), Two(), Three(), Four(), etc | null | 0 | 1316521358 | False | 0 | c2l7s1g | t3_klhlv | null | t1_c2l7s1g | t3_klhlv | null | 1427623385 | 14 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | mynameisflorian | null | I think someone hacked my computer because the internet is down. | null | 0 | 1316521494 | False | 0 | c2l7sd6 | t3_kl1qp | null | t1_c2l7sd6 | t1_c2l5v2t | null | 1427623390 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | frymaster | null | as it's a dev preview, not a beta, and MS are pushing their new platform, I'm working on the assumption that the metro interface is more obvious than it will ultimately be on desktops. | null | 0 | 1316521555 | False | 0 | c2l7sie | t3_kl1qp | null | t1_c2l7sie | t1_c2l7fbi | null | 1427623393 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | doomslice | null | The point I was making is that you don't know until you measure it (and even then people won't agree with your methodology and come up with reasons why your conclusions are wrong). | null | 0 | 1316521619 | False | 0 | c2l7snq | t3_kkp4z | null | t1_c2l7snq | t1_c2l2pfv | null | 1427623395 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | BobTurbo | null | Just a bunch of different words, same old crap... replace IBlah with IBlahSuperMetro. | null | 0 | 1316521621 | False | 0 | c2l7sny | t3_kl1qp | null | t1_c2l7sny | t1_c2l7d18 | null | 1427623394 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Oobert | null | Thank you, someone who understands... The sky is not falling, for most of us. :)
Also this validates my move from developing fat clients to developing web sites. Weeee! | null | 0 | 1316521922 | False | 0 | c2l7te9 | t3_kl1qp | null | t1_c2l7te9 | t1_c2l6ute | null | 1427623401 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Porges | null | Ok sometimes in lambdas: `source.Select(x => x.Name)`, although normally `source.Select(customer => customer.Name)` is more readable, but very verbose. I usually just use a short version in that case (e.g. `c`).
Sometimes tempted to use `source.Select(_ => _.Name)` as that expresses my intent most clearly. W... | null | 0 | 1316521950 | False | 0 | c2l7tgt | t3_klhlv | null | t1_c2l7tgt | t1_c2l7q0f | null | 1427623402 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | soAsian | null | nigga plz. | null | 0 | 1316522009 | False | 0 | c2l7tme | t3_kl1qp | null | t1_c2l7tme | t1_c2l79io | null | 1427623403 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | MarshallBanana | null | > Methinks he doesn't get it.
His analysis goes into far, far deeper detail than your two lines of rebuttal. No, he gets it a whole lot better, really. | null | 0 | 1316522016 | False | 0 | c2l7tmx | t3_kldfr | null | t1_c2l7tmx | t1_c2l776y | null | 1427623403 | 24 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [No](http://www.enterakt.com/technology/market-share-2010-apple-ios-froyo-android-rim-blackberry-graph/), [definitely](http://www.businessinsider.com/comscore-july-2011-mobile-subscriber-market-share-report-2011-8) [so](http://androidandme.com/2011/03/devices/android%E2%80%99s-market-share-depicted-with-a-whole-lot-of-... | null | 0 | 1316522049 | False | 0 | c2l7tq7 | t3_kkp4z | null | t1_c2l7tq7 | t1_c2l72ag | null | 1427623404 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | Sounds like you're a little upset over something so I'll just leave you to your childish boxed arguments. | null | 0 | 1316522123 | False | 0 | c2l7tx8 | t3_kkp4z | null | t1_c2l7tx8 | t1_c2l6l1p | null | 1427623407 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Oobert | null | All this sky is falling is in regards to Metro... If you are not using IE10 in metro mode everything still works as it does today (for the most part).
Metro is designed for tablets type devices, NOT THE DESKTOP! Notices that most of the restrictions for Metro apps are very similar to those on other devices (Android, i... | null | 0 | 1316522123 | False | 0 | c2l7tx9 | t3_kl1qp | null | t1_c2l7tx9 | t3_kl1qp | null | 1427623407 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | taejo | null | TIL you can have 8-bit immediates in 32-bit instructions on x86 | null | 0 | 1316522128 | False | 0 | c2l7txi | t3_kkih6 | null | t1_c2l7txi | t1_c2l2hja | null | 1427623407 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | MarshallBanana | null | But the cases where your assumptions hold true are exceedingly rare. | null | 0 | 1316522138 | False | 0 | c2l7tym | t3_kldfr | null | t1_c2l7tym | t1_c2l7oj2 | null | 1427623407 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | fanatic_j | null | My first class in college was an accelerated class and as a CS major I was asked to assist those taking the class as an elective. A guy was using ii and jj, etc. as variable names. One of the mandates of the assignment was to use descriptive variable names, so I mentioned this to him. When I later reviewed his changes ... | null | 0 | 1316522173 | False | 0 | c2l7u1w | t3_klhlv | null | t1_c2l7u1w | t3_klhlv | null | 1427623410 | 129 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Alexis_ | null | Most of WinRT itself is built with C++, but most of the apps that will USE WinRT will be C#. | null | 0 | 1316522196 | False | 0 | c2l7u41 | t3_kl1qp | null | t1_c2l7u41 | t1_c2l5tzv | null | 1427623410 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | MarshallBanana | null | > It's pretty straightforward to see why rasterizing is not getting the job done, even if it is faster.
Well, that is patently false, as rasterization *is* getting the job done. | null | 0 | 1316522208 | False | 0 | c2l7u58 | t3_kldfr | null | t1_c2l7u58 | t1_c2l7p3f | null | 1427623410 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | frymaster | null | >what I am worried about is ARM; how apps could be ported to work on them.
I imagine if they're .net / javascript based apps using this new runtime, no work will be needed. If they're C++, you'll need to tick the box to compile for that platform.
For old-style .net software, I don't think it's known yet. For pre... | null | 0 | 1316522212 | False | 0 | c2l7u5l | t3_kl1qp | null | t1_c2l7u5l | t1_c2l7m4t | null | 1427623410 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | jsedlak | null | The .NET Framework does sit atop the CLI/CLR. If memory serves me well, the stack is something along the lines of the following:
Win32/OS > CLI (CTS + CLR) > Frameworks (WinForms, WPF, WCF, etc) > App Code
As far as I can tell, WinRT will remove/replace those low & middle tier frameworks to some degr... | null | 0 | 1316522247 | True | 0 | c2l7u8s | t3_kl1qp | null | t1_c2l7u8s | t1_c2l7no0 | null | 1427623411 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | MarshallBanana | null | He did address that.
> For more complex effects, raytracer starts to win. Adding shadows, reflections. An univeristy student can have a lot of fun with a few lines of code, feeling happy. And from here on, if we never consider resource usage, raytracing always wins. You can solve the entire rendering equation (or s... | null | 0 | 1316522297 | False | 0 | c2l7udm | t3_kldfr | null | t1_c2l7udm | t1_c2l7gha | null | 1427623413 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | benihana | null | We have puns in our codebase where I work.
We used to use a method to construct URLs called url_for(). We needed to update that method's functionality, so we named the new one url_five(). We use lightboxes to display popups. When there are a collection of lightboxes to choose from, we call them lightboxen. There are o... | null | 0 | 1316522334 | False | 0 | c2l7ugv | t3_klhlv | null | t1_c2l7ugv | t3_klhlv | null | 1427623415 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | le_kommie | null | Because we have the [whole of Internets research papers right here](HTTP://Google.com). | null | 0 | 1316522358 | False | 0 | c2l7uj7 | t3_kks9l | null | t1_c2l7uj7 | t1_c2l2kg9 | null | 1427623415 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | BeowulfShaeffer | null | True enough, and four of those arguments are structures with twelve fields. still, I've seen a lot of pain caused by people that don't even conceptually understand VirtualAlloc.
Speaking of which, I wonder what changes the Garbage Collector will see? | null | 0 | 1316522389 | False | 0 | c2l7umd | t3_kl1qp | null | t1_c2l7umd | t1_c2l6jyz | null | 1427623416 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | daigoba66 | null | .NET is an ecosystem containing (but not limited to) the common language runtime (CLR), compilers (C# compiles to MSIL which runs on the CLR), and frameworks/libraries such as mscorlib. | null | 0 | 1316522416 | False | 0 | c2l7up4 | t3_kl1qp | null | t1_c2l7up4 | t1_c2l7no0 | null | 1427623417 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | kabuto | null | Can you name a few examples of programs that could be written ins that style? I can't imagine that a typical GUI program that has user input, file IO and makes lots of API calls to do different things could be written like this without making many compromises.
I find FP very interesting, but I fail to see its practica... | null | 0 | 1316522418 | False | 0 | c2l7upa | t3_kjkxj | null | t1_c2l7upa | t1_c2kv6c3 | null | 1427623417 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | berkut | null | What assumptions? | null | 0 | 1316522436 | False | 0 | c2l7uqv | t3_kldfr | null | t1_c2l7uqv | t1_c2l7tym | null | 1427623419 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | tripzilch | null | pine, mutt, lynx, vi, irssi -- pretty much any terminal based interactive application :)
but I get your point, I'm assuming this is a database oriented business logic app you're talking about. | null | 0 | 1316522527 | False | 0 | c2l7uzd | t3_kl7h0 | null | t1_c2l7uzd | t1_c2l770q | null | 1427623421 | -1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | thibaultj | null | One day, I found a php file named ".php". Yes, a file with no name, just the extension. Found it only by change, because it was considered a hidden file by the linux filesystem. | null | 0 | 1316522645 | False | 0 | c2l7vae | t3_klhlv | null | t1_c2l7vae | t3_klhlv | null | 1427623426 | 26 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | kataire | null | AKA installing Linux? | null | 0 | 1316522663 | False | 0 | c2l7vc6 | t3_kl7h0 | null | t1_c2l7vc6 | t1_c2l75f5 | null | 1427623426 | 18 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | thegreatunclean | null | Looks like I won't be using Metro apps at all then.
And nothing of value was lost. | null | 0 | 1316522676 | False | 0 | c2l7vdi | t3_kl7h0 | null | t1_c2l7vdi | t3_kl7h0 | null | 1427623427 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1316522691 | False | 0 | c2l7vf2 | t3_klhlv | null | t1_c2l7vf2 | t3_klhlv | null | 1427623427 | 121 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Gotebe | null | Well, I, for one, am pissed that my grandma won't be able to upload her shiny new FaceTwitter app on Windows Store! | null | 0 | 1316522698 | False | 0 | c2l7vfs | t3_kl7h0 | null | t1_c2l7vfs | t3_kl7h0 | null | 1427623427 | -5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Matt3k | null | They're not switching away from .NET, they've just taken a more realistic approach and realized they still need to support native code for performance.
This no more a switch "away from .NET" than the current native win32 interfaces are? Did you expect them to write the entire kernel in .NET?
All of what you write as... | null | 0 | 1316522708 | False | 0 | c2l7vgt | t3_kl1qp | null | t1_c2l7vgt | t1_c2l7d18 | null | 1427623428 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | MarshallBanana | null | For instance,
> If you've then got a 200 frame sequence with the mesh just moving or rotating with a simple transform
| null | 0 | 1316522830 | False | 0 | c2l7vsd | t3_kldfr | null | t1_c2l7vsd | t1_c2l7uqv | null | 1427623432 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | x86_64Ubuntu | null | >...Apple is going to have to make several mistakes before Microsoft can compete on the tablet.
You mean like have all of their factories blow up and all their Ipad engineers die on a circus ride. I don't know if anyone ever really competes with Apple enough to give them a run for their money, especially in the IP... | null | 0 | 1316522858 | False | 0 | c2l7vuv | t3_kl1qp | null | t1_c2l7vuv | t1_c2l6ej7 | null | 1427623433 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | cr3ative | null | If you make any page element "persist" with my scrolling, I will stab you in the face. It is immensely annoying when using a small browser window. | null | 0 | 1316522859 | False | 0 | c2l7vv4 | t3_kliaa | null | t1_c2l7vv4 | t3_kliaa | null | 1427623433 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | rebo | null | It doesn't matter, its anti-Apple so it gets upvoted. | null | 0 | 1316522901 | False | 0 | c2l7vz9 | t3_kl7h0 | null | t1_c2l7vz9 | t1_c2l7kvv | null | 1427623434 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Gotebe | null | It's not two OSes, it's just runtime for one type of apps (that takes the screen and user input over until closed).
Kinda like if you would, today, make a full-screen app and installed a keyboard driver that eats Win, Ctrl+Alt+Del, Ctrl+Esc etc. | null | 0 | 1316522906 | False | 0 | c2l7vzp | t3_kl7h0 | null | t1_c2l7vzp | t1_c2l76c2 | null | 1427623436 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | dakboy | null | One of my friends in college used obscenities for every variable & function name in one of our classes.
Aced the class. The professor barely spoke English. | null | 0 | 1316523036 | False | 0 | c2l7wdc | t3_klhlv | null | t1_c2l7wdc | t1_c2l7mlk | null | 1427623441 | 9 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | grelphy | null | and parseString is statically checked. The point of contention here is typecasts, not conversion functions. | null | 0 | 1316523089 | False | 0 | c2l7wj8 | t3_kjw0j | null | t1_c2l7wj8 | t1_c2l7oap | null | 1427623442 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | onionhammer | null | .NET framework calls the WinRT COM API for metro apps, the C# being encouraged is not native, it still runs through framework 4.5.
It is going to be somewhat of a shift to call the WinRT libraries instead of the .NET Framework ones though.. something of a learning experience. | null | 0 | 1316523091 | True | 0 | c2l7wjk | t3_kl1qp | null | t1_c2l7wjk | t1_c2l7l11 | null | 1427623442 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
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