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True | [deleted] | null | > This is also a simple interface with one method, If it had 10+ methods you wouldn't want to re implement every method for every test.
Bingo. | null | 0 | 1316579762 | False | 0 | c2lfgpe | t3_klypn | null | t1_c2lfgpe | t1_c2lf1aj | null | 1427627074 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | sidcool1234 | null | Wow...Thanks a ton, mate! | null | 0 | 1316580051 | False | 0 | c2lfhpm | t3_kks9l | null | t1_c2lfhpm | t1_c2l7uj7 | null | 1427627087 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | crinos666 | null | This is only slightly less stupid and pointless than programming Perl in Klingon: [Lingua::tlhInganHol::yIghun](http://search.cpan.org/~mschwern/Lingua-tlhInganHol-yIghun-20090601/lib/Lingua/tlhInganHol/yIghun.pm) | null | 0 | 1316580409 | False | 0 | c2lfj17 | t3_klhlv | null | t1_c2lfj17 | t1_c2l9h1u | null | 1428193583 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | kshep92 | null | Quite possibly the geekiest thing I have EVER read... I'm going to keep this and review it once my nerd muscles get bigger | null | 0 | 1316580422 | False | 0 | c2lfj2r | t3_klrrx | null | t1_c2lfj2r | t3_klrrx | null | 1427627114 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1316580474 | False | 0 | c2lfja6 | t3_klrrx | null | t1_c2lfja6 | t1_c2lboqu | null | 1427627109 | 10 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | max99x | null | We do plan to get sockets working sometime in the future, but it's near the bottom of the priorities list right now. Technically for Emscripten-powered languages we'd have to do that through the low-level web sockets API, which requires the server to provide a cross-origin header specific to web sockets. It's pretty ra... | null | 0 | 1316580502 | False | 0 | c2lfje6 | t3_klv3o | null | t1_c2lfje6 | t1_c2lfe0e | null | 1427627114 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | adolfojp | null | I posted this on his website. I want to share it with you guys. And I am usually one of the guys who defends Silverlight for some very specific purposes.
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Alberto asked: "Whats the problem the site beeing in silverlight?"
I answered:
1. The website doesn't work in Opera. I had to open it in Chrome.
2. The links ... | null | 0 | 1316580644 | False | 0 | c2lfjvr | t3_kmdqz | null | t1_c2lfjvr | t1_c2lfeua | null | 1427627125 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | MarshallBanana | null | > Saying better out of context is meaningless, the question is better from whom?
For a developer who re-uses open-source code. That is the person affected by the GPL. (The original author, of course, is free to do whatever he wants, no matter what license he uses, so he is uninteresting for the purposes of this dis... | null | 0 | 1316580659 | False | 0 | c2lfjxl | t3_kl7h0 | null | t1_c2lfjxl | t1_c2leb3r | null | 1427627125 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | prank?
oversight?
did the guy think false=1? | null | 0 | 1316580794 | False | 0 | c2lfkg1 | t3_klhlv | null | t1_c2lfkg1 | t1_c2l9iqd | null | 1427627128 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | MarshallBanana | null | > Common benefit outweighs personal benefit, do you understand this position or not?
Of course I do. But that is orthogonal to the point I am making.
> Releasing software under the GPL ensures that everybody benefits. So to recap, individual users of the GPL software might end up with less benefit, but overall ... | null | 0 | 1316580834 | False | 0 | c2lfkl5 | t3_kl7h0 | null | t1_c2lfkl5 | t1_c2le6pc | null | 1427627130 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | yogthos | null | >Which is why I turned to desktops, because that's the other half of the coin. After all, servers are somewhat pointless without clients to serve.
Right, but I've already stated, and you haven't disagreed, that the reason for Linux not being prevalent on the desktop have very little to do with the GPL or "open sour... | null | 0 | 1316580846 | False | 0 | c2lfkmr | t3_kl7h0 | null | t1_c2lfkmr | t1_c2lfge9 | null | 1427627130 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1316580873 | False | 0 | c2lfkqi | t3_k8jnv | null | t1_c2lfkqi | t3_k8jnv | null | 1427627131 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | SnowdensOfYesteryear | null | > q2 hacking
Just a pet peeve of mine, but why do always insist that they're "hacking" rather than programming? It's really irritating to hear to most the inane bit coding referred to as hacking.
Just my 2 cents before I go back to hacking my RoR Hello World program | null | 0 | 1316580881 | True | 0 | c2lfkrv | t3_klrrx | null | t1_c2lfkrv | t1_c2ladmk | null | 1427627133 | -7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | SteveMcQwark | null | Is there anything causal here, do you think? | null | 0 | 1316581114 | False | 0 | c2lflln | t3_klhlv | null | t1_c2lflln | t1_c2l96kw | null | 1427627141 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | I doubt anybody is going to invest 10 million dollars in a windows desktop application. | null | 0 | 1316581124 | False | 0 | c2lfln4 | t3_kljc0 | null | t1_c2lfln4 | t1_c2le019 | null | 1427627144 | -4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | chason | null | Because hacking has long been used as a term for hobbyist programming? | null | 0 | 1316581155 | False | 0 | c2lflrf | t3_klrrx | null | t1_c2lflrf | t1_c2lfkrv | null | 1427627143 | 17 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | They don't want to understand. They are driven by ideology much more than RMS is.
| null | 0 | 1316581158 | False | 0 | c2lflrv | t3_kl7h0 | null | t1_c2lflrv | t1_c2ldy6g | null | 1427627143 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | thepowerofone | null | Is there something similar for Quake 3? | null | 0 | 1316581290 | False | 0 | c2lfm8z | t3_klrrx | null | t1_c2lfm8z | t3_klrrx | null | 1427627151 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | yogthos | null | >So basically you think people need to be forced to open their code, because they would not do so on their own.
No, and you know perfectly well that's not what I said, and I have clarified this exact point repeatedly for you. But, none the less, here it goes again.
**Some** people do not wish to participate in ope... | null | 0 | 1316581351 | False | 0 | c2lfmgd | t3_kl7h0 | null | t1_c2lfmgd | t1_c2lfkl5 | null | 1427627153 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | >For this post, I'd prefer to discuss open-source extremism, which was what I claimed to be unrealistic (actually a better word would be untenable.)
You sound more extremist than any open source advocate here.
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True | soviyet | null | > Legal extortion
I don't even know how to answer this. | null | 0 | 1316581468 | False | 0 | c2lfmu3 | t3_klqte | null | t1_c2lfmu3 | t1_c2ldyys | null | 1427627165 | -10 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | Yea sure you have. That's why you hate the GPL.
Uh huh. | null | 0 | 1316581526 | False | 0 | c2lfn1l | t3_kl7h0 | null | t1_c2lfn1l | t1_c2ld5qg | null | 1427627171 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | >By arguing that this is not the case, you really are arguing that the open source model is inferior for that programmer. You are then using the GPL to force him to take actions which are against his best interests.
you are confusing open source with free software.
You are also confusing good for the user with goo... | null | 0 | 1316581635 | False | 0 | c2lfnev | t3_kl7h0 | null | t1_c2lfnev | t1_c2lfjxl | null | 1427627173 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | soviyet | null | (duplicate post, whoops) | null | 0 | 1316581729 | False | 0 | c2lfnoy | t3_klqte | null | t1_c2lfnoy | t1_c2lekse | null | 1427627175 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | soviyet | null | > Isn't a patent troll someone who holds a patent but makes no honest effort to develop upon it?
Yes, but there are two problems with that definition that make all "patent troll" arguments ridiculous. First, what defines "honest effort" to produce something from a patent? And second, why does anyone think this is... | null | 0 | 1316581746 | True | 0 | c2lfnqn | t3_klqte | null | t1_c2lfnqn | t1_c2lekse | null | 1427627175 | 13 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | >Yep. By being the only ones not constrained by the GPL, and having customers that likewise had no interest in that license, they were able to make a fortune.
Right so the GPL is good for business.
>Had they offered a truly free open source license like Apache or BSD, that wouldn't have happened.
That's right.... | null | 0 | 1316581787 | False | 0 | c2lfnyk | t3_kl7h0 | null | t1_c2lfnyk | t1_c2ld301 | null | 1427627179 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | MarshallBanana | null | > You are also confusing good for the user with good for the developer.
Oh do I now?
Let's see what I said that got everybody yelling at me:
http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/kl7h0/ms_only_allowing_enterprises_and_developers_to/c2la13o
> No, he is pro-user at the expense of developers. All the rest... | null | 0 | 1316581832 | False | 0 | c2lfo47 | t3_kl7h0 | null | t1_c2lfo47 | t1_c2lfnev | null | 1427627180 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | MarshallBanana | null | http://code.google.com/u/paracelsus/
That is not everything, but it includes one FSF high-priority project.
You were saying?
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True | [deleted] | null | In that case you keep changing your arguments.
You should stick to one of them.
Also stop saying "open source" when you mean "free software". They are different things.
Finally the best thing for the developer is proprietary software. It's also the worst thing for the user. Go figure. | null | 0 | 1316581952 | False | 0 | c2lfok9 | t3_kl7h0 | null | t1_c2lfok9 | t1_c2lfo47 | null | 1427627184 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | yogthos | null | >For a developer who re-uses open-source code. That is the person affected by the GPL.
This is only one of many people affected by the GPL, and in my opinion not the most important. The people who use the code which this person builds are affected. For example, if this person takes open source code and makes a clos... | null | 0 | 1316582068 | False | 0 | c2lfowy | t3_kl7h0 | null | t1_c2lfowy | t1_c2lfjxl | null | 1427627187 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | MarshallBanana | null | See, what I am presenting you with a choice (and please read through this whole post and answer the conclusion, rather than any individual points, because they are not really interesting):
Either, you think that the open source model is clearly superior. In this case, the GPL wouldn't be necessary, as people would cho... | null | 0 | 1316582412 | False | 0 | c2lfpl6 | t3_kl7h0 | null | t1_c2lfpl6 | t1_c2lfmgd | null | 1427627193 | -1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | Read the article, and the comment to which you replied - the word was "kind" and *not* "type".
FTA:
> I’m using the word kind on purpose, there, because Simonyi mistakenly used the word type in his paper, and generations of programmers misunderstood what he meant.
> If you read Simonyi’s paper closely, what he... | null | 0 | 1316582414 | False | 0 | c2lfplq | t3_klhlv | null | t1_c2lfplq | t1_c2laqyq | null | 1427627193 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | honcas | null | Arguing about arguing time.
>Seems like you're shifting your argument here. You claimed that Linux is not doing well, I showed that indeed it does.
I didn't say that Linux wasn't doing well. I said that Open Source Extremism (OSE) was unrealistic. You said that Linux was doing well. I asked how you defined "well" ... | null | 0 | 1316582427 | False | 0 | c2lfpoj | t3_kl7h0 | null | t1_c2lfpoj | t1_c2lf58z | null | 1427627195 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | honcas | null | In what way? | null | 0 | 1316582434 | False | 0 | c2lfppq | t3_kl7h0 | null | t1_c2lfppq | t1_c2lfmkx | null | 1427627195 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | PhysicsIsMyBitch | null | Point well made - what would compel anyone to write an entire blog site in Silverlight is beyond me. | null | 0 | 1316582443 | False | 0 | c2lfpqw | t3_kmdqz | null | t1_c2lfpqw | t1_c2lfjvr | null | 1427627195 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | simonask | null | Right, that's true. `auto` is the better choice, if you want to be prepared for refactoring. | null | 0 | 1316582444 | False | 0 | c2lfpr3 | t3_klphp | null | t1_c2lfpr3 | t1_c2lbe2e | null | 1427627195 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | simonask | null | I know about `std::move`, but it specifically does *not* apply to the situation I'm describing: Returning a collection from a member function. The function `node.get_children()` does not want to give up its internal collection upon return. The move constructor is only relevant for functions that *generate* collections,... | null | 0 | 1316582448 | True | 0 | c2lfpro | t3_klphp | null | t1_c2lfpro | t1_c2lcc46 | null | 1427627195 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | throwaway-o | null | What, you don't believe there can be legal extortion?
Cos if it's "THE LAW", nothing mandated by it can be wrong, *right?* Magical words turn wrongs into rights, and things into not-things, and concepts into their opposite...
If "the law" (just orders written by generally demonstrably corrupt individuals on magical ... | null | 0 | 1316582498 | True | 0 | c2lfpyb | t3_klqte | null | t1_c2lfpyb | t1_c2lfmu3 | null | 1427627197 | 15 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | munificent | null | > Vows is perhaps a good example of prototypical OO: http://raynos.github.com/vows-fluent/docs/vows-fluent.html
I don't see anything in there that relies on prototypal inheritance. All of the `__Able` objects could be mixins or traits in other languages, and the following objects just look like regular classes. Wha... | null | 0 | 1316582541 | False | 0 | c2lfq3j | t3_kketr | null | t1_c2lfq3j | t1_c2l9653 | null | 1427627204 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | MarshallBanana | null | > In that case you keep changing your arguments.
Only if do not pay attention what I am actually arguing.
> Also stop saying "open source" when you mean "free software". They are different things.
I must say that I could not possibly care less.
> Finally the best thing for the developer is proprietary soft... | null | 0 | 1316582589 | False | 0 | c2lfq9i | t3_kl7h0 | null | t1_c2lfq9i | t1_c2lfok9 | null | 1427627200 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1316582703 | False | 0 | c2lfqnf | t3_kl7h0 | null | t1_c2lfqnf | t1_c2lfkmr | null | 1427627205 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | YHVH | null | via [visual chinatown of davidope](http://dvdp.tumblr.com/) | null | 0 | 1316582877 | False | 0 | c2lfr18 | t3_kmg03 | null | t1_c2lfr18 | t3_kmg03 | null | 1427627209 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | yogthos | null | Your argument assumes that everybody has everybody else's best interests in mind. This is a fallacy, and that's what makes your argument invalid.
When you say "the GPL wouldn't be necessary, as people would choose to release their source of their own free will", the underlying assumption is that everybody is not an e... | null | 0 | 1316582921 | False | 0 | c2lfr5r | t3_kl7h0 | null | t1_c2lfr5r | t1_c2lfpl6 | null | 1427627218 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | honcas | null | > The question was whether "extreme" open source can be successful, and the answer to that question is clearly yes.
The question was whether or not open source extremism can be realistic. I'm not sure what 'extreme open source' even means, really. Open source extremism, in my mind, has to do with what you run (or w... | null | 0 | 1316582934 | False | 0 | c2lfr8s | t3_kl7h0 | null | t1_c2lfr8s | t1_c2lfkmr | null | 1427627213 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1316583212 | False | 0 | c2lfrxt | t3_kls47 | null | t1_c2lfrxt | t3_kls47 | null | 1427627223 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | 33a | null | Bleh. Best-practices-business-advice style posts like this are the absolute worst type of content on r/programming; and this one in particular gets my goat as just being one of the most down right distasteful displays of self aggrandizing lazy writing.
All he did was rehash [Spolsky's old jeremiad](http://www.joelonso... | null | 0 | 1316583224 | True | 0 | c2lfs04 | t3_kls47 | null | t1_c2lfs04 | t3_kls47 | null | 1427627223 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | MarshallBanana | null | > Your argument assumes that everybody has everybody else's best interests in mind.
Not at all. I am assuming everyone has their own best interests in mind and nothing else. I have made no arguments about any greater good. Only you have brought that up. Every argument I made was based on self-interest.
But my arg... | null | 0 | 1316583271 | False | 0 | c2lfs85 | t3_kl7h0 | null | t1_c2lfs85 | t1_c2lfr5r | null | 1427627226 | -1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | bitchessuck | null | Probably, yes. But who can blame the compiler developers? C++ is a hideously complex language. | null | 0 | 1316583412 | False | 0 | c2lfsoy | t3_klphp | null | t1_c2lfsoy | t3_klphp | null | 1427627233 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1316583443 | False | 0 | c2lfssx | t3_klphp | null | t1_c2lfssx | t3_klphp | null | 1427627233 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | joesb | null | Nope, his position that developer should always give. But since he can't force that, he tried to make GPL code spread so that developer will take, therefor must give.
In RMSs ideal world he will want GPL code so wide spread and part of everything so that it's practically impossible to do anywork without touching GPL ... | null | 0 | 1316583557 | False | 0 | c2lft72 | t3_kl7h0 | null | t1_c2lft72 | t1_c2lcyhk | null | 1427627237 | -4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | adolfojp | null | The guy deleted this thread and also deleted my comment on his website. My comment wasn't even an attack. It was an answer to a question that somebody else made. That kind of reaction to criticism fits the entire Silverlight website deal. This is my theory:
In his article he says that Windows 8 is insecure because you... | null | 0 | 1316583564 | False | 0 | c2lft80 | t3_kmdqz | null | t1_c2lft80 | t1_c2lfpqw | null | 1427627237 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | badsectoracula | null | Well, it has :-P. Even Turbo Pascal from 80s didn't had some of the issues mentioned in the article (like the part about strings). FreePascal has none (except some of the cosmetics, but those are not real issues). In brief:
1. Array length (#2.1) is still part of the type, but you have dynamic arrays which can be used... | null | 0 | 1316583591 | False | 0 | c2lftav | t3_klgme | null | t1_c2lftav | t1_c2lentu | null | 1427627238 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | munificent | null | Seconded. Great article! | null | 0 | 1316583932 | False | 0 | c2lfudy | t3_klrrx | null | t1_c2lfudy | t1_c2lef5k | null | 1427627252 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | flycrg | null | My favorite one that I came across (mostly due to my 12 year old humor) was cum_log_lik_ratio for cumulate logarithmic likelihood ratio. This was in a published interface specification. | null | 0 | 1316583986 | False | 0 | c2lfuje | t3_klhlv | null | t1_c2lfuje | t3_klhlv | null | 1427627255 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | xTRUMANx | null | TRWTF isn't the variable names in that snippet of code.
I mean, surely he could have just wrote `b1 = b2 ? true : false;` and saved himself the equality check. | null | 0 | 1316584044 | False | 0 | c2lfup6 | t3_klhlv | null | t1_c2lfup6 | t1_c2l8ioy | null | 1427627257 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | yogthos | null | >It's late here, so I hope I'm making sense. Put another way, if RMS' extremist view contributed to the success of Linux, I would be forced to agree that OSE was a successful strategy.
The point is that RMS "extremist" views are what guarantees that the code is used in the interest of the customer as opposed to the... | null | 0 | 1316584072 | False | 0 | c2lfusj | t3_kl7h0 | null | t1_c2lfusj | t1_c2lfpoj | null | 1427627259 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | berkut | null | To other production raytracers (VRay and MentalRay) (and rasterisers) out there.
> I'm well aware of the current directions of rendering in post production.
What made you say "Also, scene complexity has to be significantly reduced for ray tracing" then?
They limit some of the raytracer parameters (max bounces for... | null | 0 | 1316584136 | False | 0 | c2lfv02 | t3_kldfr | null | t1_c2lfv02 | t1_c2lcil5 | null | 1427627260 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | joesb | null | Nope, he wanted to give to others without forcing them to give it as well. | null | 0 | 1316584229 | False | 0 | c2lfvax | t3_kl7h0 | null | t1_c2lfvax | t1_c2ld0p7 | null | 1427627265 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | yogthos | null | >Not at all. I am assuming everyone has their own best interests in mind and nothing else. I have made no arguments about any greater good. Only you have brought that up. Every argument I made was based on self-interest.
If your line of reasoning was correct, then there would be no need for GPL to begin with. Since... | null | 0 | 1316584344 | False | 0 | c2lfvod | t3_kl7h0 | null | t1_c2lfvod | t1_c2lfs85 | null | 1427627270 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | filipf | null | Any plans for C# or F#? | null | 0 | 1316584656 | False | 0 | c2lfwm5 | t3_klv3o | null | t1_c2lfwm5 | t3_klv3o | null | 1427627292 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | substitutionarynanna | null | I know what you mean, and after this you need some knowledge methods to CASH http://tinyurl.com/663o5sj
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True | yogthos | null | > Today, that is untenable. Lots of computers wouldn't work. Lots of people would be unable to do their jobs. Lots of things would break. Implemented today in a flash-cut, the world would be a worse place.
I agree with you completely, I'm merely saying is that this is an ideal to work towards, regardless whether it... | null | 0 | 1316584703 | False | 0 | c2lfwsc | t3_kl7h0 | null | t1_c2lfwsc | t1_c2lfr8s | null | 1427627283 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | wonglik | null | I wonder if companies like IBM , MS or Apple are included in this half a trillion. | null | 0 | 1316584995 | False | 0 | c2lfxn3 | t3_klqte | null | t1_c2lfxn3 | t3_klqte | null | 1427627296 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | ravenex | null | The problem is that SDRAM is not really a _random_ access memory, it never was. As bus transfer speeds has gone up the internal memory latencies became even harder to hide. [What every programmer should know about memory](http://lwn.net/Articles/250967/). And good luck keeping million polygon scenes in an instantaneous... | null | 0 | 1316585049 | False | 0 | c2lfxss | t3_kldfr | null | t1_c2lfxss | t1_c2lc8mn | null | 1427627298 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | wonglik | null | >Isn't a patent troll someone who holds a patent but makes no honest effort to develop upon it?
I consider a patent troll any company that sue other company for usage of trivial or obvious patent. For money or for market share. | null | 0 | 1316585187 | False | 0 | c2lfy75 | t3_klqte | null | t1_c2lfy75 | t1_c2lekse | null | 1427627302 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | MtnViewMark | null | I recommend the book "Against Intellectual Monopoly" by Boldrin and Levine. And yes, you can read it on-line for free: http://www.dklevine.com/general/intellectual/againstfinal.htm | null | 0 | 1316585222 | False | 0 | c2lfyav | t3_klqte | null | t1_c2lfyav | t3_klqte | null | 1427627303 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | king_of_the_universe | null | That's what I meant (expose engine). But if what the editor creates is not just the scene but also working rendering code, then that would achieve what I intended (and why I was :/ because I thought that's not what it is): By using the output of the editor, you get a 3D scene running, not just 3D scene data. | null | 0 | 1316585512 | False | 0 | c2lfz4h | t3_kg44k | null | t1_c2lfz4h | t1_c2ld4rf | null | 1427627314 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1316586176 | False | 0 | c2lg0ym | t3_kmh5r | null | t1_c2lg0ym | t3_kmh5r | null | 1427627343 | -5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | mreiland | null | he's avoiding naming specifics, he's probably only incidentally experienced with C++ and is just spouting talking points.
C++ certainly has it's problems, but it's ability to go from high level abstracts to low level bits and bytes is unmatched by any language that I know of. | null | 0 | 1316586215 | False | 0 | c2lg11z | t3_klphp | null | t1_c2lg11z | t1_c2lbvra | null | 1427627350 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Samus_ | null | I would love a more technical explanation of this, other than downvotes.
I've zero knowledge of the topics being discussed but from what I got from the article Win8 certified machines require signed firmware for their "secure" mode now if this is just a mode, why can't you boot in "normal" mode and install something e... | null | 0 | 1316586395 | True | 0 | c2lg1jl | t3_kmh5r | null | t1_c2lg1jl | t3_kmh5r | null | 1427627349 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | fatbunyip | null | Yeah, I tend to use tbl in place of table a lot. It only saves me 2 characters, but I guess there's not much it can be confused for (eg user_tbl or data_tbl) | null | 0 | 1316586438 | False | 0 | c2lg1no | t3_klhlv | null | t1_c2lg1no | t1_c2lekxv | null | 1427627351 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | ex_ample | null | Time to switch to Linux. Interestingly the HTML5 "revolution" makes it even easier. Without flash, there's nothing really preventing you from using Linux as a full time web surfing OS | null | 0 | 1316586795 | False | 0 | c2lg2k2 | t3_kl7h0 | null | t1_c2lg2k2 | t1_c2l5pdn | null | 1427627359 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | ex_ample | null | Yeah I remember comments on Slashdot years and years ago about his "right to read" story and someone said it was *completely insane*. The only reason it hasn't come to pass is that the government was just lazy about enforcing copyright -- particularly since republicans don't care too much about it since the entertainm... | null | 0 | 1316586911 | False | 0 | c2lg2uz | t3_kl7h0 | null | t1_c2lg2uz | t1_c2l83al | null | 1427627363 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | ex_ample | null | Mozilla makes hundreds of millions of dollars a year of search advertising. | null | 0 | 1316587023 | False | 0 | c2lg358 | t3_kl7h0 | null | t1_c2lg358 | t1_c2le0sy | null | 1427627367 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | mmhrar | null | Good point, I'd do that too. Still a judgement call as I see it, I would understand user_tbl and data_tbl just fine, especially w/ the context of how their being used right there as well. | null | 0 | 1316587262 | False | 0 | c2lg3s5 | t3_klhlv | null | t1_c2lg3s5 | t1_c2lg1no | null | 1427627375 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | adelle | null | Is it just me or are all the WinRT samples passing around managed references using the Microsoft-specific ^ ? | null | 0 | 1316587310 | False | 0 | c2lg3w6 | t3_klgme | null | t1_c2lg3w6 | t3_klgme | null | 1427627377 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | AlyoshaV | null | >PM me your real name
Sounds legit | null | 0 | 1316587578 | False | 0 | c2lg4l3 | t3_klhlv | null | t1_c2lg4l3 | t1_c2lahko | null | 1428193573 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | adelle | null | Nevermind. I see from [this thread](http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/kk7c6/using_winrt_from_c_stack_overflow/) that it doesn't mean what I thought it meant. | null | 0 | 1316587647 | False | 0 | c2lg4qv | t3_klgme | null | t1_c2lg4qv | t1_c2lg3w6 | null | 1427627389 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | AlyoshaV | null | or just use any sort of editor/IDE that color codes by scope instead of polluting your variable names | null | 0 | 1316587796 | False | 0 | c2lg53d | t3_klhlv | null | t1_c2lg53d | t1_c2lbf8u | null | 1427627393 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | AlyoshaV | null | >That's actually exactly why URLs use ASCII instead of Unicode.
Google إختبار, hit first link. Reddit and everywhere else chokes on it, but it's not ASCII. | null | 0 | 1316587933 | False | 0 | c2lg5fk | t3_klhlv | null | t1_c2lg5fk | t1_c2lalni | null | 1427627397 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | swuboo | null | "Firefox can't find the server at www.%d9%85%d8%ab%d8%a7%d9%84.%d8%a5%d8%ae%d8%aa%d8%a8%d8%a7%d8%b1." | null | 0 | 1316587993 | False | 0 | c2lg5ld | t3_klhlv | null | t1_c2lg5ld | t1_c2lg5fk | null | 1427627400 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | AlyoshaV | null | Yeah, I can't paste it into Reddit, or use TinyURL, or use Bitly. The magic of IDN!
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True | Gotebe | null | And yet, despite that, they support standard C++ pretty well since, I dunno, 2003. And their compiler's performance is up there with the best.
IOW, your rant is not based in recent reality. | null | 0 | 1316588140 | False | 0 | c2lg5y4 | t3_klphp | null | t1_c2lg5y4 | t1_c2ld9jy | null | 1427627405 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | revonrat | null | Of all the responses (both here and there) nobody wants to know the scope of the project. If you want me to bet re-implement Windows on 100M, stuff you -- it doesn't matter what language. | null | 0 | 1316588158 | False | 0 | c2lg5zv | t3_kljc0 | null | t1_c2lg5zv | t3_kljc0 | null | 1427627407 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | Hip kids?
Windows developers and BSDtards are the ones frothing at the mouth from RMS hatred. Neither are what I would describe as hip but I suppose it depends on your frame of reference. | null | 0 | 1316588260 | False | 0 | c2lg68y | t3_kl7h0 | null | t1_c2lg68y | t1_c2ldr6t | null | 1427627416 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | swuboo | null | You do realize it's already been pointed out to me twice that what I said was outdated, right?
What I said was true the last time I'd looked into it a few years ago, but it's not any more. Unfortunately, looking into it, the problem of spoofing remains unsolved—the IDN standard restricts character sets for language-s... | null | 0 | 1316588308 | False | 0 | c2lg6dc | t3_klhlv | null | t1_c2lg6dc | t1_c2lg5ts | null | 1427627414 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | kouteiheika | null | > Linux could have "won" but the GPL cancer got in the way. Dump the GPL and then everyone can use and contribute to the code.
I don't say this often, but, you are an idiot.
Everyone can use GPL'ed code, however not everyone can ~~steal~~ borrow and exploit it, like, e.g. Apple does with some BSD licensed code.
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True | jkff | null | Your university had a main method? | null | 0 | 1316588400 | False | 0 | c2lg6ld | t3_klhlv | null | t1_c2lg6ld | t1_c2ldww7 | null | 1427627418 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Gotebe | null | Dude, C has no ABI either. And I mean, *at all*. Check your C standard.
Here's hwo ABI works: when you speak about ABI, you speak about *platform ABI*. Not e.g. C ABI. It so happens that platform offers it's services through a C interface (and I remember platforms doing it on a lower level, and these days, and probabl... | null | 0 | 1316588562 | True | 0 | c2lg6zs | t3_klphp | null | t1_c2lg6zs | t1_c2lcf4t | null | 1427627420 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | luckystarr | null | The OTRS guys used to do that too. | null | 0 | 1316588570 | False | 0 | c2lg709 | t3_kmevq | null | t1_c2lg709 | t3_kmevq | null | 1427627420 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | acmecorps | null | sqlite? | null | 0 | 1316588639 | False | 0 | c2lg75i | t3_klypn | null | t1_c2lg75i | t1_c2lf56x | null | 1427627421 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | NitWit005 | null | > They have one guy doing all the STL work with Dinkumware.
Wouldn't that be 1 guy, plus however many Dinkumware has working on it? | null | 0 | 1316588673 | False | 0 | c2lg78n | t3_klphp | null | t1_c2lg78n | t1_c2l9n26 | null | 1427627421 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | wadcann | null | >VS2008 was a decent enough compiler in terms of standard compliance
Depends on the language. Visual Studio gave up on any attempt to track C years ago.
I'd kind of assumed that this was because they wanted to focus on C++, but apparently not... | null | 0 | 1316588775 | False | 0 | c2lg7gy | t3_klphp | null | t1_c2lg7gy | t1_c2ldaki | null | 1427627423 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1316588827 | False | 0 | c2lg7l8 | t3_klphp | null | t1_c2lg7l8 | t1_c2lg78n | null | 1427627425 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | jyper | null | There's a ton of political stuff for avoiding GPLv3, I seriously doubt e planning on shipping llvm on the iphone anytime soon. | null | 0 | 1316588897 | True | 0 | c2lg7qw | t3_klphp | null | t1_c2lg7qw | t1_c2lf3pb | null | 1427627427 | 8 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1316588927 | True | 0 | c2lg7ta | t3_klphp | null | t1_c2lg7ta | t1_c2lcnlx | null | 1427627428 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | oSand | null | You're so first generation. And you scarcely use any hyphens. | null | 0 | 1316589383 | False | 0 | c2lg8uq | t3_klypn | null | t1_c2lg8uq | t1_c2ldkv3 | null | 1427627442 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Code_Monkey | null | No matter how you bend it, I can never accept the concept that locking up an _idea_ is a good thing. Protecting products is just fine, but not ideas. (in my opinion)
Software patents are even worse: even if you would want to protect these ideas, it's practically impossible for a programmer to check each piece of f... | null | 0 | 1316589451 | False | 0 | c2lg90p | t3_klqte | null | t1_c2lg90p | t1_c2lbz15 | null | 1427627444 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | thepowerofone | null | The article seems to imply that WinRT is exclusive only to metro style apps. Is this the case? | null | 0 | 1316589682 | False | 0 | c2lg9hu | t3_kl1qp | null | t1_c2lg9hu | t3_kl1qp | null | 1427627450 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | You don't need to act arrogant, if you know so much about patent law why not have a go at dispelling some misconceptions you see in this thread? | null | 0 | 1316589742 | True | 0 | c2lg9mn | t3_klqte | null | t1_c2lg9mn | t1_c2lex1f | null | 1427627452 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
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