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True | AntaresA | null | bool b1;
bool b2;
//some code here
b1 = b2 == true ? true : false; | null | 0 | 1316529158 | False | 0 | c2l8ioy | t3_klhlv | null | t1_c2l8ioy | t3_klhlv | null | 1427623734 | 9 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | sausagefeet | null | I would argue the last decade has been a revolution in the interest in data processing. The overarching methods haven't changed that much in decades. But that's neither here nor there.
| null | 0 | 1316529166 | False | 0 | c2l8iqd | t3_kks00 | null | t1_c2l8iqd | t1_c2l3ncm | null | 1427623734 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | catearcher | null | Java.
String Ѿ = "I look like a butt"; | null | 0 | 1316529166 | False | 0 | c2l8iqe | t3_klhlv | null | t1_c2l8iqe | t1_c2l8hqr | null | 1427623734 | 51 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1316529171 | False | 0 | c2l8ir3 | t3_kldfr | null | t1_c2l8ir3 | t1_c2l7udm | null | 1427623735 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | blobkat | null | We had some conventions in our Firebird DB to use a prefix T_ on certain tables. And then we needed a table to store some information about certain "containers" used by the staff:
T_BAG | null | 0 | 1316529178 | False | 0 | c2l8iry | t3_klhlv | null | t1_c2l8iry | t3_klhlv | null | 1427623735 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | davbo | null | Yeah, this is also the case with Haskell, it's a convention that the compiler wont warn about unused variables if they are prefixed with an underscore. | null | 0 | 1316529297 | False | 0 | c2l8jas | t3_klhlv | null | t1_c2l8jas | t1_c2l817y | null | 1427623742 | 8 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | nemtrif | null | Ah, [the billion dollar mistake](http://qconlondon.com/london-2009/presentation/Null+References%3A+The+Billion+Dollar+Mistake). | null | 0 | 1316529314 | False | 0 | c2l8jd8 | t3_kl5hl | null | t1_c2l8jd8 | t3_kl5hl | null | 1427623744 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | mkdz | null | I was working with a piece of C software that I needed to add functionality of some C++ libraries we wrote. Sofirst thing I try to do is compile the application I in C++. It didn't work. I traced down the error and I found that the C app was using an X11 library with a variable in it named "class". | null | 0 | 1316529315 | True | 0 | c2l8jdf | t3_klhlv | null | t1_c2l8jdf | t3_klhlv | null | 1427623744 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | generalT | null | couldn't have said it better.
also, witty one-liners are *really* starting to piss me off. | null | 0 | 1316529344 | False | 0 | c2l8jfy | t3_kl1qp | null | t1_c2l8jfy | t1_c2l8hpy | null | 1427623746 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | stealthzeus | null | that is local storage. As part of my job I write network locations all the time. This change seems to take away a lot of the things current developers take for granted. | null | 0 | 1316529349 | False | 0 | c2l8ji3 | t3_kl1qp | null | t1_c2l8ji3 | t1_c2l7aq3 | null | 1427623746 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | mycatverbs | null | > Really it is a shame people couldn't reconcile their differences
Welcome to every problem ever. ;) | null | 0 | 1316529418 | False | 0 | c2l8js7 | t3_kketr | null | t1_c2l8js7 | t1_c2l1seg | null | 1427623750 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1316529495 | False | 0 | c2l8k4s | t3_klhlv | null | t1_c2l8k4s | t1_c2l8hqr | null | 1427623758 | 10 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | TomorrowPlusX | null | Boost to the rescue once again!
(boost's, well... tr1, type traits saved my bacon recently...) | null | 0 | 1316529538 | False | 0 | c2l8kbd | t3_klhlv | null | t1_c2l8kbd | t1_c2l8apz | null | 1427623755 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | ceolceol | null | I hope he's not taking too many poos. | null | 0 | 1316529563 | False | 0 | c2l8kfj | t3_klhlv | null | t1_c2l8kfj | t1_c2l8hov | null | 1427623754 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | gsg927 | null | Smalltalk is another possibility. Although it doesn't have a macro system like Lisp, all of the "built-in" control structures are just part of the class library. You can add your own structures without much difficulty as I remember, although it's been many years since I used Smalltalk. | null | 0 | 1316529568 | False | 0 | c2l8kge | t3_kkegr | null | t1_c2l8kge | t1_c2l10cv | null | 1427623756 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | acemarke | null | Probably because the typical popup notification on desktop platforms is referred to as a Toast, due to the way it slides up from the bottom of the screen.. See the [Wikipedia article](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toast_%28computing%29). | null | 0 | 1316529631 | False | 0 | c2l8kpj | t3_klhlv | null | t1_c2l8kpj | t1_c2l8g8w | null | 1427623758 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | TinynDP | null | It will be less frustrating than needing to use a legacy work app, but it being completely impossible. | null | 0 | 1316529633 | False | 0 | c2l8kpy | t3_kl1qp | null | t1_c2l8kpy | t1_c2l8gt9 | null | 1427623758 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | squigs | null | I concur. The developers of the software I'm working with right now use all sorts of "cute" misspellings (e.g thaym for time) or obscure/archaic words (e.g,. IsSequacious() ) for variable and function names.
These are guys who've come in straight from academia, and have never had to work with someone else's code. Those who've spent time in the trenches know to use terse, simple, descriptive names. | null | 0 | 1316529649 | False | 0 | c2l8ksq | t3_klhlv | null | t1_c2l8ksq | t1_c2l81ei | null | 1427623758 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | tamier | null | Whats the name of the software? | null | 0 | 1316529662 | False | 0 | c2l8kv1 | t3_klhlv | null | t1_c2l8kv1 | t1_c2l7zh6 | null | 1427623760 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | terrukallan | null | [R6RS Scheme](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scheme_%28programming_language%29#R6RS)? | null | 0 | 1316529698 | False | 0 | c2l8l0n | t3_klhlv | null | t1_c2l8l0n | t1_c2l8hqr | null | 1427623761 | 8 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | JL235 | null | and in Erlang! | null | 0 | 1316529700 | False | 0 | c2l8l13 | t3_klhlv | null | t1_c2l8l13 | t1_c2l8jas | null | 1427623761 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Quazatron | null | ... and Microsoft throws developers another curveball.
Sorry for trolling, but this the kind of move that is to be expected from market driven corporations. They change the toolkit to fit the market conditions. If you're a developer, you are expected to adjust the way you work every few years. | null | 0 | 1316529757 | False | 0 | c2l8lam | t3_kl1qp | null | t1_c2l8lam | t3_kl1qp | null | 1427623765 | -3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | JL235 | null | On one of my early Java assignments at university we had to make a system that categorized books, videos, etc. We hadn't got to inheritance yet, so we had to build a generic class to handle this, and I called mine 'Object'.
This lead to lots of random errors. : ( | null | 0 | 1316529792 | False | 0 | c2l8lg3 | t3_klhlv | null | t1_c2l8lg3 | t3_klhlv | null | 1427623767 | 37 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | slurpme | null | > It is ubiquitous, any computer which has a web browser has an JavaScript interpreter installed.
I always have a little chuckle when I read this sort of thing... | null | 0 | 1316529905 | False | 0 | c2l8lxo | t3_kkw07 | null | t1_c2l8lxo | t3_kkw07 | null | 1427623774 | -4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | frezik | null | Not when part of the job is to get good results with a short development time. Things like transparency, shadows, or refraction can be done very naturally in raytracing. If you care more about developer time than computer time, then raytracing is the obvious way to go. | null | 0 | 1316530031 | False | 0 | c2l8mjf | t3_kldfr | null | t1_c2l8mjf | t1_c2l7u58 | null | 1427623783 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | skulgnome | null | Hell no. D is one of those languages that's got a cult around it. We don't need another of those.
This cult appeared, among other times, back when they "didn't need" a string type as "character arrays would have copy-on-write". Yeah, that's right, genius, what about string literals in the text segment? These days they've got a string type. But that's a fairly fucking huge thing to not have in your standard library! | null | 0 | 1316530057 | False | 0 | c2l8mnh | t3_kljc0 | null | t1_c2l8mnh | t3_kljc0 | null | 1427623784 | -9 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | mmcshane | null | When you're a startup going through technical due diligence prior to a potential acquisition, you will regret calling your scheduler "ShitStorm" | null | 0 | 1316530058 | False | 0 | c2l8mnk | t3_klhlv | null | t1_c2l8mnk | t3_klhlv | null | 1427623784 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | ceolceol | null | I don't think that's too bad. At least there was a reference. | null | 0 | 1316530083 | False | 0 | c2l8mrs | t3_klhlv | null | t1_c2l8mrs | t1_c2l7xnc | null | 1427623785 | 17 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | edamameTuba | null | > people paid for promise fast adding content and optimizations. And that not happens.
I didn't. I paid for an alpha version of a game that I enjoyed playing. I was expecting updates, but I didn't pay because of the promise of updates. Especially "fast adding content and optimizations".
| null | 0 | 1316530086 | False | 0 | c2l8mse | t3_kfiuk | null | t1_c2l8mse | t1_c2k106l | null | 1427623785 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | chengiz | null | I worked on this geometry code where the guy who wrote it misspelled collapse as **colaps** throughout the code (and it's a misspelling - he spells it that way in comments). He also variously misspelled triangulation as **trianulation** and **trigulation**. | null | 0 | 1316530091 | False | 0 | c2l8mt2 | t3_klhlv | null | t1_c2l8mt2 | t1_c2l8c6h | null | 1427623785 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | djork | null | I like "trigulation", it almost sounds real. | null | 0 | 1316530148 | False | 0 | c2l8n2p | t3_klhlv | null | t1_c2l8n2p | t1_c2l8mt2 | null | 1427623789 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | I guess he's responding to the one he's replied to. | null | 0 | 1316530154 | False | 0 | c2l8n3n | t3_klhlv | null | t1_c2l8n3n | t1_c2l8bga | null | 1427623789 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Newky | null | Can u go into slightly more detail why? | null | 0 | 1316530159 | False | 0 | c2l8n4i | t3_kkw07 | null | t1_c2l8n4i | t1_c2l8lxo | null | 1427623789 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Quazatron | null | I'm a Linux user and I feel your pain. Kde4, Gnome3 and Unity all feel awkward to use.
Maybe the user backlash will give the Xfce people a boost.
I miss Gnome 2... | null | 0 | 1316530217 | False | 0 | c2l8ndu | t3_kl1qp | null | t1_c2l8ndu | t1_c2l78uv | null | 1427623793 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | I know I can beat all of these answers with $SchwettiBauhls = true; | null | 0 | 1316530237 | False | 0 | c2l8ngr | t3_klhlv | null | t1_c2l8ngr | t3_klhlv | null | 1427623794 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | joeycastillo | null | Huh. Today I Learned.
Maybe it's just my Cocoa biases talking here, but I still think it's not a terribly descriptive class name. Even if it's colloquially referred to as a Toast, something like ToastNotification (or even, for the Android implementation, PassiveNotification) would explain their purpose better. Especially since they no longer "pop up" like toast. | null | 0 | 1316530317 | False | 0 | c2l8nts | t3_klhlv | null | t1_c2l8nts | t1_c2l8kpj | null | 1427623799 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | It's not that the new ones are bad by definition, but it is very unfortunate that they basically start throwing out tested, mature and stable software as soon as it reaches a level where it could be given to non-technical users. | null | 0 | 1316530448 | False | 0 | c2l8of3 | t3_kl1qp | null | t1_c2l8of3 | t1_c2l8ndu | null | 1427623807 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | nothingmeaningful | null | I used to use the class name purplemonkeydishwasher for my utility classes (homage to the simpsons) and had at least one code review where I was explicitly told never to use it again. Yeah, I still used it. | null | 0 | 1316530466 | False | 0 | c2l8oih | t3_klhlv | null | t1_c2l8oih | t3_klhlv | null | 1427623808 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | tanepiper | null | TIL Jeremy Banks and Bill the Lizard are boring old farts over on SO | null | 0 | 1316530472 | False | 0 | c2l8ojh | t3_klhlv | null | t1_c2l8ojh | t3_klhlv | null | 1427623809 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | > potentially dangerous, confusing, stupid misfeature.
You are apparently the only person to think so, because just about every Unix application uses dotfiles for configuration. | null | 0 | 1316530567 | False | 0 | c2l8ozf | t3_klhlv | null | t1_c2l8ozf | t1_c2l8d3i | null | 1427623814 | 15 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | diamondjim | null | TIL that there are still people alive other than me who used Macromedia Director at one point in their lives. I miss those days. | null | 0 | 1316530569 | False | 0 | c2l8ozq | t3_klhlv | null | t1_c2l8ozq | t1_c2l84kj | null | 1427623815 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | randomvisitor | null | Funny as it is, I don't think Stack Overflow is the right place for this question. I prefer keeping Stack Overflow a knowledge base, not an entertainment site. | null | 0 | 1316530626 | False | 0 | c2l8p8t | t3_klhlv | null | t1_c2l8p8t | t3_klhlv | null | 1427623819 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | squirrel5978 | null | That happens in Windows too. | null | 0 | 1316530637 | False | 0 | c2l8pas | t3_kl7h0 | null | t1_c2l8pas | t1_c2l812g | null | 1427623819 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | deverdev | null | If I were offered 100M$ for a software project, I'll try to figure out which technology will allow me to complete it in a cheapest way possible, so I could take the remaining money and enjoy till the rest of my life, without ever touching computer. | null | 0 | 1316530694 | False | 0 | c2l8pkg | t3_kljc0 | null | t1_c2l8pkg | t3_kljc0 | null | 1427623821 | 25 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | randomvisitor | null | I'd assume he calculates some hashcode or similar things of the badCode. Thus it's the code of the badCode and badCodeCode is exactly the right name. | null | 0 | 1316530730 | False | 0 | c2l8ppx | t3_klhlv | null | t1_c2l8ppx | t1_c2l8h51 | null | 1427623824 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | As a TA I hate you all. | null | 0 | 1316530791 | False | 0 | c2l8pzl | t3_klhlv | null | t1_c2l8pzl | t1_c2l85jr | null | 1427623826 | 24 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | howfun | null | I don't get forth. Why would you program in a language that is unreadable?
Yes, I know, forth is lisp in disguise , an unreadable lisp. If lisp is readable at all.
| null | 0 | 1316530801 | False | 0 | c2l8q0v | t3_kkegr | null | t1_c2l8q0v | t3_kkegr | null | 1427623827 | -4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | lolomfgkthxbai | null | Interesting move. I guess even Microsoft sees the writing on the wall. | null | 0 | 1316530812 | False | 0 | c2l8q2u | t3_kl7h0 | null | t1_c2l8q2u | t3_kl7h0 | null | 1427623829 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | 1RedOne | null | I was thinking it was exceedingly difficult to build a simple image gallery application using local images.
This could also be because I have no idea what I'm doing. | null | 0 | 1316530831 | False | 0 | c2l8q63 | t3_kl1qp | null | t1_c2l8q63 | t1_c2l6jpl | null | 1427623830 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | kirbyk | null | The original coder for our site used $c for every SQL query, and $cur in a loop for each row returned. These could be reused many times in the same function. If you needed to look at a nested level, $d and $dur, and even $e and $eur showed up.
There were literally thousands of these in the codebase. Someday we'll kill them all. And if we ever find him again.... | null | 0 | 1316530948 | False | 0 | c2l8qqh | t3_klhlv | null | t1_c2l8qqh | t3_klhlv | null | 1427623837 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | vplatt | null | Worst comment seen been have. | null | 0 | 1316530967 | False | 0 | c2l8qt7 | t3_kl1qp | null | t1_c2l8qt7 | t1_c2l7i21 | null | 1427623838 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | dwemthy | null | Swedish chef code.
Movin' der winden. | null | 0 | 1316531048 | False | 0 | c2l8r6x | t3_klhlv | null | t1_c2l8r6x | t1_c2l8ft4 | null | 1427623843 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | slurpme | null | Because it's not true... | null | 0 | 1316531055 | False | 0 | c2l8r84 | t3_kkw07 | null | t1_c2l8r84 | t1_c2l8n4i | null | 1427623843 | -1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | `$_` is the default variable in Perl. Often function calls will return their results to `$_` if nothing is specified, it's automatically available inside loops, etc.
`say for 1..10` is a nice example of its use. | null | 0 | 1316531110 | False | 0 | c2l8rh6 | t3_klhlv | null | t1_c2l8rh6 | t1_c2l817y | null | 1427623848 | 8 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Newky | null | How is this not true, in that u can't run any code that's not on a website through the browser's interpreter? | null | 0 | 1316531192 | False | 0 | c2l8rvl | t3_kkw07 | null | t1_c2l8rvl | t1_c2l8r84 | null | 1427623864 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | kc7wbq | null | I work at multi-million dollar corporation. We have a piece of software that literally processs millions of PDFs a day. I was trying to track down a core dump error. There are 3000+ global variables. One of the global variables is a class "text" it's name is "text". Down in the function I was trying to debug was another variable of class "text" called "text" | null | 0 | 1316531241 | False | 0 | c2l8s3p | t3_klhlv | null | t1_c2l8s3p | t3_klhlv | null | 1427623857 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | xanax_anaxa | null | I'm dealing with a global variable named "$value" right now. It's an array of database results, of course! | null | 0 | 1316531297 | False | 0 | c2l8sd4 | t3_klhlv | null | t1_c2l8sd4 | t3_klhlv | null | 1427623871 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | electronics-engineer | null | Forth is only unreadable if you use it wrong, and it is about as far from being lisp in disguise as possible | null | 0 | 1316531317 | False | 0 | c2l8sgn | t3_kkegr | null | t1_c2l8sgn | t1_c2l8q0v | null | 1427623875 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | We had to program a very idiotic report and my colleague was visibly upset. So he chose variable names from the card game called ulti: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulti - if I remember right, for example, the variable wherein he added up the numbers for some percentage calculations was called 40-100-Ulti-Open-Durchmars-of-Hearts.
LOLz were had by all.
In another case there was an accounting software developed by mechanical engineers. Whenever customers wanted some custom development, they put the variables used for configuring into a separate file, config.prg, with the variables all called various numbers of "x", so it looked like this: x = 1, xx = 143, xxx = "Some string", xxxx = 23.09.1991 and so on. | null | 0 | 1316531319 | True | 0 | c2l8sgx | t3_klhlv | null | t1_c2l8sgx | t3_klhlv | null | 1427623867 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | FeepingCreature | null | And he's right, too. | null | 0 | 1316531366 | False | 0 | c2l8sos | t3_kldfr | null | t1_c2l8sos | t1_c2l8il8 | null | 1427623877 | 11 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | zendak | null | Can't remember, something with a J?. Off hotscripts.com IIRC, written in PHP3. Maybe I still have it on an old drive somewhere. | null | 0 | 1316531405 | False | 0 | c2l8sut | t3_klhlv | null | t1_c2l8sut | t1_c2l8kv1 | null | 1427623876 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | CowboyProgrammer | null | And this is how software failures begin. | null | 0 | 1316531429 | False | 0 | c2l8sz0 | t3_kljc0 | null | t1_c2l8sz0 | t1_c2l8pkg | null | 1427623878 | 9 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | FeepingCreature | null | That doesn't help us if the remaining <50% dominate the computation. | null | 0 | 1316531433 | False | 0 | c2l8szr | t3_kldfr | null | t1_c2l8szr | t1_c2l7wpx | null | 1427623878 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | nickdangler | null | Python 3 | null | 0 | 1316531441 | False | 0 | c2l8t13 | t3_klhlv | null | t1_c2l8t13 | t1_c2l8hqr | null | 1427623878 | 12 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | electronics-engineer | null | >What is Forth used for these days?
Electronic toys, advanced BIOSs for PCs, the controllers on some hard drives... | null | 0 | 1316531447 | False | 0 | c2l8t27 | t3_kkegr | null | t1_c2l8t27 | t1_c2l2nz2 | null | 1427623878 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | tripzilch | null | That's fairly standard. It also really depends whether you're doing scientific computing or business computing.
In the former there's all sorts of single-letter conventions that you can use straight from formulas, quite silly to write them out IMO.
I wonder about `l` for lists ... I always use a monospace font that has a clear distinction between `1`, `l`, `I` and `|` (Consolas, currently), yet I still sooner use `s` for "sequence". | null | 0 | 1316531483 | False | 0 | c2l8t83 | t3_klhlv | null | t1_c2l8t83 | t1_c2l8dpv | null | 1427623880 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | ebnf | null | What a wall of text. | null | 0 | 1316531484 | False | 0 | c2l8t8d | t3_klj1g | null | t1_c2l8t8d | t3_klj1g | null | 1427623880 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | onionhammer | null | It is more like 2.0 -> 3.5 than 3.5 -> 4.0, it is an in-place update.. your existing .net 4.0 applications will run on .net 4.5 after you update to .net 4.5 on your system. | null | 0 | 1316531529 | False | 0 | c2l8tgr | t3_kfuii | null | t1_c2l8tgr | t1_c2k2y9g | null | 1427623882 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | A_for_Anonymous | null | Unix is supposed to be simple, predictable and not bite. `cp * dst` in most shells with their default configuration bites because * is not expanded to really all files, and parts of an application or a user profile could go missing. This is the problem of hidden files and why they should never be hidden. (It's not a problem in UNIX operating systems because the whole "dotfile" thing is just a quirk of shells and some utils, not a core UNIX or filesystem behaviour.)
As for programs using files that start with ".", I don't have a problem with it — as long as nobody tries to hide it from me. | null | 0 | 1316531549 | False | 0 | c2l8tl0 | t3_klhlv | null | t1_c2l8tl0 | t1_c2l8ozf | null | 1427623883 | -1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | kikaerter | null | Well, he _is_ an extremist. Just an extremist who is chillingly accurate in his predictions of the direction of the IT industry. | null | 0 | 1316531579 | False | 0 | c2l8tqp | t3_kl7h0 | null | t1_c2l8tqp | t1_c2l83al | null | 1427623885 | 18 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | electronics-engineer | null | Yes, Forth is unsuitable for writing Linux in, but then again, C++ is unsuitable for programming a talking doll or a microwave oven. | null | 0 | 1316531653 | False | 0 | c2l8u3w | t3_kkegr | null | t1_c2l8u3w | t1_c2l59t3 | null | 1427623887 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | rndg | null | a method named "Calculate" that colored entry fields of a window object.. | null | 0 | 1316531713 | False | 0 | c2l8udy | t3_klhlv | null | t1_c2l8udy | t3_klhlv | null | 1427623890 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | user24 | null | Hungarian notation is so horribly abused. It's actually useful if instead of thinking of 'type' as in 'int'/'char' etc, you think of it more as 'kind'.
Joel Spolsky has a great article on this: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/Wrong.html | null | 0 | 1316531721 | False | 0 | c2l8ufn | t3_klhlv | null | t1_c2l8ufn | t1_c2l80n6 | null | 1427623890 | 22 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | LieutenantClone | null | Until you lose the reference... | null | 0 | 1316531730 | False | 0 | c2l8uh3 | t3_klhlv | null | t1_c2l8uh3 | t1_c2l8mrs | null | 1427623890 | 8 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | onionhammer | null | The only references I heard at BUILD regarding WPF was how similar it is to develop Metro apps as it is to develop WPF apps. I assume not much has changed wrt writing WPF apps. BUILD was really focused on Metro & Windows Server 8.. there were also a couple sessions about Xbox Live Arcade, Azure, ASP.NET (one cancelled Phil Haack talk I wanted to go to :( ).
They want to encourage developers to focus on Metro apps, but the old ways of developing apps are still available.
[WPF in .NET 4.5](http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms171868%28v=VS.110%29.aspx#client) | null | 0 | 1316531744 | True | 0 | c2l8ujd | t3_kfuii | null | t1_c2l8ujd | t1_c2jxxwr | null | 1427623890 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | panda_burgers | null | > That's good, right?
Documentation wise it's brilliant, typing it without autocomplete or working on a small screen, not so much. | null | 0 | 1316531859 | False | 0 | c2l8v3i | t3_klhlv | null | t1_c2l8v3i | t1_c2l8f2z | null | 1427623896 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1316531938 | False | 0 | c2l8vi5 | t3_klhlv | null | t1_c2l8vi5 | t1_c2l8uh3 | null | 1427623902 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | Guido's explanation for that was if I remember right, if you really need to use a statement in a lambda, and not just a simple calculation, why not give it a nice descriptive name to know what it does? | null | 0 | 1316531984 | False | 0 | c2l8vpq | t3_klhlv | null | t1_c2l8vpq | t1_c2l8fm2 | null | 1427623907 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | paranoidinfidel | null | I found this to be a nice read on [why people abused Hungarian notation](http://10rem.net/articles/net-naming-conventions-and-programming-standards---best-practices).
Scroll down to the "Why Hungarian Has Fallen Out of Favor with .NET" section. | null | 0 | 1316531994 | False | 0 | c2l8vru | t3_klhlv | null | t1_c2l8vru | t1_c2l80n6 | null | 1427623907 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | madmoose | null | I came here for an argument! | null | 0 | 1316531995 | False | 0 | c2l8vs5 | t3_kl7h0 | null | t1_c2l8vs5 | t1_c2l8ceu | null | 1427623907 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | donkey_lz | null | I don't think I'd care if I had the remaining 90M. | null | 0 | 1316531998 | False | 0 | c2l8vsy | t3_kljc0 | null | t1_c2l8vsy | t1_c2l8sz0 | null | 1427623907 | 16 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | perlgeek | null | Anybody remember Fortran 77, which limits identifiers to 6 characters, and doesn't have any namespaces?
Just look at the beautiful routine names at http://www.netlib.org/lapack/single/ (routine name + '.f' is the file name). sbdsqr, sgebrd, dppsvx ... really?
(The first one or two characters were traditionally used for the number type, 's' for single precidion, 'd' for double etc., so effectively 4 or 5 characters remained for the actual name).
I for one welcome overlords of all modern programming languages. | null | 0 | 1316532004 | False | 0 | c2l8vtv | t3_klhlv | null | t1_c2l8vtv | t3_klhlv | null | 1427623907 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | MarshallBanana | null | Actually, shadows can not be done very naturally at all. Perfectly sharp point-light shadows, like you never see in reality, those are easy. Proper shadows, fast, is not at all easy. Same thing with reflections: You can easily do perfect reflections, but reality does not have many perfect reflections. | null | 0 | 1316532008 | False | 0 | c2l8vui | t3_kldfr | null | t1_c2l8vui | t1_c2l8mjf | null | 1427623907 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | MarshallBanana | null | > And yet, you don't provide any rebuttal whatsoever.
Why would I? The article does it for me. | null | 0 | 1316532055 | False | 0 | c2l8w2k | t3_kldfr | null | t1_c2l8w2k | t1_c2l8il8 | null | 1427623918 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | electronics-engineer | null | Nothing in the newer C compilers invalidates this:
http://www.inventio.co.uk/forthvsc.htm | null | 0 | 1316532064 | False | 0 | c2l8w3x | t3_kkegr | null | t1_c2l8w3x | t1_c2l31q3 | null | 1427623917 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | I never said he wasn't. I just pointed out that the Greater Internet Community loves to shit on him.
(Not just reddit, the slashdot hivemind loved shitting on him back in the day). | null | 0 | 1316532072 | False | 0 | c2l8w56 | t3_kl7h0 | null | t1_c2l8w56 | t1_c2l8tqp | null | 1427623917 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | ascii | null | > Naming things well is arguably Job 1 for professional programmers.
No. Just... no. Fuck everything about this guy. Here is a short list of things that are more important:
* Solve the right problem. A lot of programmers waste a lot of time because they misunderstand what they're trying to solve.
* Pick the right tools. The right combination of language, libraries, etc.can often reduce the amount of code you have to write by an order of magnitude.
* Find the right abstraction level. To abstract, and your project never finishes because you've spent too much time on future proofing what will never need to change. Not abstract enough, and every little update requires a major rewrite.
* Design your code well. Create a series well defined units of code that can be understood separately and that perform a specific and well defined task. Then tie these units together to perform the task at hand.
* Test your code. If you deliver your code to QA with dozens of shallow bugs because you didn't perform basic testing yourself, you're creating multiple unneeded round trips between coding and testing and causing huge delays.
* Make backups. Hard drives crash. If you're not careful with your data, you'll lose a bunch of money.
* Version control your code. Version control makes it easy to assign blame, work together on the same project, share and publish your work and many other things. Commit messages are also a very useful type of developer documentation.
Naming your types is so far down the list of important jobs for a professional programmer, that only the most incompetent, drooling moron of an «Java enterprise architect» would even consider saying it's job 1.
| null | 0 | 1316532117 | False | 0 | c2l8wcv | t3_klhlv | null | t1_c2l8wcv | t3_klhlv | null | 1427623913 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | lunboks | null | More like an ultra-slow-motion swoop. It's a 3 year old question that was closed today.
A lot of old, popular "fun questions" were, because they are indeed not constructive. And it's not like closing does anything. | null | 0 | 1316532164 | False | 0 | c2l8wkt | t3_klhlv | null | t1_c2l8wkt | t1_c2l8dp9 | null | 1427623920 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | electronics-engineer | null | Try doing a Google search for "pic forth" "avr forth" "8051 forth" "arm forth" etc. | null | 0 | 1316532163 | False | 0 | c2l8wku | t3_kkegr | null | t1_c2l8wku | t1_c2l2obo | null | 1427623920 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | MarshallBanana | null | As soon as *one* part of your scene moves, you're in trouble. Rasterizing is the one that can easily separate out different parts of the scene and render them independently. Raytracing has a much harder time doing that. | null | 0 | 1316532165 | False | 0 | c2l8wl1 | t3_kldfr | null | t1_c2l8wl1 | t1_c2l7wpx | null | 1427623920 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | When people do this I wonder if they actually learned to program properly and realise they can change the names of things like that and it will still work. | null | 0 | 1316532301 | False | 0 | c2l8x5v | t3_klhlv | null | t1_c2l8x5v | t1_c2l8qqh | null | 1427623927 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | crocodile7 | null | The division into 3 groups is in line with 3 developer personas ([Mort, Elvis, Einstein](http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ericwhite/archive/2006/05/11/595693.aspx)) that Microsoft uses when targeting developer products.
Mort persona used to be targeted by VisualBasic, but now they seem to be shifting it towards JavaScript/HTML5. Elvis remains C# and Einstein C++. | null | 0 | 1316532379 | False | 0 | c2l8xjc | t3_kl1qp | null | t1_c2l8xjc | t1_c2l88nd | null | 1427623930 | 9 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | 1RedOne | null | Hope this is a good place for this. I've been fiddling with scroll bars for years now, trying to get just the video element in frame.
This seems like a neat and useful idea for a plugin. | null | 0 | 1316532386 | False | 0 | c2l8xk5 | t3_klnlz | null | t1_c2l8xk5 | t3_klnlz | null | 1427623932 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | mconeone | null | It already exists for xbox. The parent is assuming that to get your app in the store, you need to be part of the same program. It's the same for IOS/Android, so it's very likely going to happen with Metro. | null | 0 | 1316532392 | False | 0 | c2l8xl6 | t3_kl7h0 | null | t1_c2l8xl6 | t1_c2l72zx | null | 1427623932 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | MrSkruff | null | This is true, although path tracing produces it's own set of artefacts to deal with. Also, scene complexity has to be significantly reduced for ray tracing and iteration times are likely to be longer. | null | 0 | 1316532426 | False | 0 | c2l8xqy | t3_kldfr | null | t1_c2l8xqy | t1_c2l7quj | null | 1427623932 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1316532432 | False | 0 | c2l8xrs | t3_kljc0 | null | t1_c2l8xrs | t1_c2l8i7t | null | 1427623932 | 14 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | DustinEwan | null | Yeah, that's terrible. If you're on chrome, [go ahead and do yourself a favor](https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/ppelffpjgkifjfgnbaaldcehkpajlmbc). | null | 0 | 1316532440 | False | 0 | c2l8xt8 | t3_klj1g | null | t1_c2l8xt8 | t1_c2l8t8d | null | 1427623933 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | user24 | null | `thingywotsit`
My mother in law used to use that word all the time, annoyed the crap out of me. I used it as a variable inside some form validation helper function.
Months later, we had a junior dev come complaining to the manager that he couldn't get the form validating, he was really wound up about. I heard him saying "and... and I mean what's thingywotsit supposed to mean?!???".
trolololololol.
But I mean, the helper was literally 6 lines of basic JS, it was super easy to read, something like:
function checkField(field, thingywotsit) {
if(field.value == '') {
alert('You need to enter your '+thingywotsit);
field.focus();
}
}
So it was more a case of the junior not being able to code rather than the code being unclear.
This was years back though, I use niceDescriptiveVariableNames these days. And we have better form validation code too ;) | null | 0 | 1316532461 | False | 0 | c2l8xwz | t3_klhlv | null | t1_c2l8xwz | t3_klhlv | null | 1427623934 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1316532463 | False | 0 | c2l8xxg | t3_klhlv | null | t1_c2l8xxg | t3_klhlv | null | 1427623934 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | slipperymagoo | null | For future reference, is this actually true? Seems a bit odd to me, but then const has always been odd. | null | 0 | 1316532519 | False | 0 | c2l8y77 | t3_klnoy | null | t1_c2l8y77 | t3_klnoy | null | 1427623937 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
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