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True | ElroyFlynn | null | talk about ttttl;dr. Maybe there's something interesting in there. Anybody have a summary?
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True | [deleted] | null | It was supposed to kill flash but it didn't work. Apple was more successful in trying to kill flash but even they haven't succeeded yet. | null | 0 | 1316756699 | False | 0 | c2lyigw | t3_ko2wv | null | t1_c2lyigw | t1_c2lxywh | null | 1427636192 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | >How much longer will they allow themselves to be strung along?
Forever really. Windows programmers use what MS tells them to use. It's always been that way. | null | 0 | 1316756744 | False | 0 | c2lyimb | t3_ko2wv | null | t1_c2lyimb | t1_c2lumlq | null | 1427636194 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | 400 million metro users?
| null | 0 | 1316756763 | False | 0 | c2lyioq | t3_ko2wv | null | t1_c2lyioq | t1_c2lxi83 | null | 1427636194 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | rechlin | null | Try PL/SQL Developer. It's much better than any of the other tools I've used (the Oracle ones or SQL Navigator). | null | 0 | 1316756909 | False | 0 | c2lyj5f | t3_ko3r2 | null | t1_c2lyj5f | t3_ko3r2 | null | 1427636201 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | SnakeDiver | null | When I was in college, our instructors tried to pretend that applications like SQL Developer and Toad didn't exist.
In my job now, I often use SQL Developer to jump onto a database and run some queries and then do a quick export to excel and hand it off to our business users. Some of the data they need isn't available through the interface (or there are issues with the data that we're trying to debug).
Trying to do that in SQL*Plus is possible, but would take a hell of a lot longer. | null | 0 | 1316756933 | False | 0 | c2lyj89 | t3_ko3r2 | null | t1_c2lyj89 | t1_c2lwg5u | null | 1427636201 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Hypx | null | I wish the full walk-through was up and running. | null | 0 | 1316757202 | False | 0 | c2lyk52 | t3_kolze | null | t1_c2lyk52 | t3_kolze | null | 1428193413 | 8 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | kamatsu | null | My first language was Scheme, so for me, the loops were the strange part. Really, to me they weren't strange, but struck me as inelegant - you can do it all with recursion, why do a subset of these with loops? It struck me as so silly. These days I care less. | null | 0 | 1316757309 | False | 0 | c2lyki3 | t3_kogj4 | null | t1_c2lyki3 | t1_c2lygj0 | null | 1427636220 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | antrn11 | null | Oracle makes great database with only one problem: It is impossible to use.
T: Juho | null | 0 | 1316757507 | False | 0 | c2lyl5h | t3_ko3r2 | null | t1_c2lyl5h | t1_c2ltfwo | null | 1427636232 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | SnakeDiver | null | From what I've seen, the majority of it is kept alive because of the numbers of old applications out there that use Oracle as its backend. So when new applications are created, Oracle is the chosen DB because we already have it.
Cycle continues. | null | 0 | 1316757561 | False | 0 | c2lylc2 | t3_ko3r2 | null | t1_c2lylc2 | t1_c2lx82q | null | 1427636235 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | SnakeDiver | null | Enterprise is used quite a bit. It provides a number of features especially for large environments that want to make use of a RAC setup.
However, Standard is not that much cheaper. Though there is a per core multiplier depending on the hardware you use. | null | 0 | 1316757706 | False | 0 | c2lylu2 | t3_ko3r2 | null | t1_c2lylu2 | t1_c2lwh2m | null | 1427636239 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | washort | null | It's amazing what lengths people are willing to go to to pursue a wrongheaded approach to security. That, combined with Microsoft's traditional view of the PC as their exclusive domain, produces amazingly ridiculous stuff like this.
Of course, if you want a Linux desktop/server these days, ARM-based systems are starting to look pretty dang nice... | null | 0 | 1316757724 | False | 0 | c2lylwa | t3_kok09 | null | t1_c2lylwa | t3_kok09 | null | 1427636238 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | If you know how to make money on Android, I'm sure plenty of people want to hear about it.
So far, the hardware makers are barely breaking even, the apps developers are keeping their day jobs, and google's just about the only one making money because they're charging for ads. | null | 0 | 1316757798 | False | 0 | c2lym5h | t3_ko2wv | null | t1_c2lym5h | t1_c2ly2hw | null | 1427636241 | -1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | Actually, Apple's not trying to kill flash, any more than they're trying to kill anything else they have no interest in. | null | 0 | 1316757835 | False | 0 | c2lym9o | t3_ko2wv | null | t1_c2lym9o | t1_c2lyigw | null | 1427636242 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | TangledEarphones | null | The rediquette requires me to explain my downvote, so here goes: Nilay Patel does a much better job that I ever could
http://thisismynext.com/2011/08/11/broken-patent-system/
TL;DR There are legitimate patents. You want to value innovation, and the patent system is an excellent way to do that. What you really want to do is to reduce frivolous patents, not void all patents. | null | 0 | 1316758033 | False | 0 | c2lymu8 | t3_kosg9 | null | t1_c2lymu8 | t3_kosg9 | null | 1427636249 | 23 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | adam75 | null | In my experience, we have a hard time learning "tricky" concepts not so much because there's something inherently hard about them, but rather because of our history. I wrote a lot of C++ code before I learned Scheme. Now, Scheme is certainly an order of magnitude simpler as a language. Yet, I struggled initially. The irony is that most of that struggle was related to all special cases I had to unlearn. For example, why should I treat an integer different than a function? Why shouldn't I be able to instantiate, pass around, or return either one of them from a function as needed during run-time? So the problem is perhaps that most of us invest a lot of effort in learning arbitrary limitations that model our way of thinking and hinder our future understanding of "tricky" concepts? | null | 0 | 1316758121 | False | 0 | c2lyn4g | t3_kogj4 | null | t1_c2lyn4g | t3_kogj4 | null | 1427636253 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | mistralol | null |
So there is no SELECT INTO ??? | null | 0 | 1316758259 | False | 0 | c2lynjy | t3_ko3r2 | null | t1_c2lynjy | t1_c2luvqw | null | 1427636258 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1316758301 | False | 0 | c2lynp1 | t3_ko3r2 | null | t1_c2lynp1 | t3_ko3r2 | null | 1427636261 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Uberhipster | null | Thuffering thuckatash! | null | 0 | 1316758408 | False | 0 | c2lyo0q | t3_knafe | null | t1_c2lyo0q | t3_knafe | null | 1427636265 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | mistralol | null |
Jump to other connection and list processes and kill it. It should raise an error on the original connection.
The delay is because of the ACID rules. eg the time it takes to roll back the current canceled transaction. There is no way to avoid this! | null | 0 | 1316758502 | False | 0 | c2lyoaz | t3_ko3r2 | null | t1_c2lyoaz | t1_c2ltg0i | null | 1427636273 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | jsolson | null | > SQLExplorer
OH MY GOD THANK YOU. You have just made my life so much less painful. | null | 0 | 1316758514 | False | 0 | c2lyoc8 | t3_ko3r2 | null | t1_c2lyoc8 | t1_c2lvbzi | null | 1427636271 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | blk7 | null | Not to be too simplistic, but you recover it. It's a safety net.
In an ideal world, everything is set up properly and we don't make dumb mistakes. Having a feature that will let you back out of a really dumb mistake is very cool though.
| null | 0 | 1316758826 | False | 0 | c2lypcm | t3_ko3r2 | null | t1_c2lypcm | t1_c2ly1ci | null | 1427636282 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | OopsLostPassword | null | Do you have an idea on why we're being downvoted ? Votes on this subject follow a very strange pattern with only stupid trolls being upvoted... | null | 0 | 1316758827 | False | 0 | c2lypcr | t3_kmpyi | null | t1_c2lypcr | t1_c2lsm1z | null | 1427636282 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | propool | null | example: mysql.exe ctrl c exits client process. Why can't my gui do the same? | null | 0 | 1316758988 | False | 0 | c2lypsh | t3_ko3r2 | null | t1_c2lypsh | t1_c2lyoaz | null | 1427636288 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | node159 | null | Can't up-vote this enough, I'm in the position to make the calls on which DBMS we use, but moving from Oracle will involve massive amounts of work, retraining of the entire development team, and firing of a bunch of useless DBA's :(. | null | 0 | 1316759083 | False | 0 | c2lyq2c | t3_ko3r2 | null | t1_c2lyq2c | t1_c2lw5j6 | null | 1427636298 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | troyanonymous1 | null | I wonder if one day we can just have open hardware and pay for a totally reasonable PC that loads whatever software we ask.
I don't want ARM to become a monopoly somehow. | null | 0 | 1316759198 | False | 0 | c2lyqe8 | t3_kok09 | null | t1_c2lyqe8 | t1_c2lylwa | null | 1427636295 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Gotebe | null | >The biggest and easiest mistake that anyone can make in trying to teach a subject is to forget what it was like not to already know what you're explaining.
;-)
Shame on you! You've just blown away TFA completely! | null | 0 | 1316759236 | False | 0 | c2lyqim | t3_kogj4 | null | t1_c2lyqim | t1_c2lyc5t | null | 1427636298 | 13 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | Have you checked [here](http://howfuckedismydatabase.com/)? But seriously, even the little lightweight thing like SQL+ that came with Orcale 11 I think... or maybe it was 10. I can never remember, but what I do remember is leaving that bugger running for days on some pretty simple little queries. Oracle lag is like a magical firefly that just lands and ruins your day. | null | 0 | 1316759372 | False | 0 | c2lyqx0 | t3_ko3r2 | null | t1_c2lyqx0 | t3_ko3r2 | null | 1427636303 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | mistralol | null |
Right click new query window .... Let the old one die in its own time?
The thing about pressing Ctrl+c is the query is still running on the server its nice to know when it stops so it isn't locking any rows any more :)
| null | 0 | 1316759386 | False | 0 | c2lyqyl | t3_ko3r2 | null | t1_c2lyqyl | t1_c2lypsh | null | 1427636304 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | node159 | null | And how is that meant to be helpful with an Oracle DB? | null | 0 | 1316759403 | False | 0 | c2lyr0b | t3_ko3r2 | null | t1_c2lyr0b | t1_c2lutqq | null | 1427636304 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | OopsLostPassword | null | I think you can present your work especially when it's perfectly on topic, and it's not spammy if you don't repeat it too often.
Hell, it may even interest me! As I know I won't convince my boss now, I'll PM you for the free copy :) | null | 0 | 1316759555 | False | 0 | c2lyrgv | t3_ko3r2 | null | t1_c2lyrgv | t1_c2lwxce | null | 1427636310 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | DGolden | null | > "The patent office's original interpretation of software as language and *therefor patentable*"
Uh. What? did you mean "therefor*e* *un*patentable" ?
| null | 0 | 1316759623 | False | 0 | c2lyrnx | t3_kosg9 | null | t1_c2lyrnx | t3_kosg9 | null | 1427636313 | 10 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | MatrixFrog | null | I don't know D, but I find that it's a good idea to *always* use curly braces for if, else, and for, statements. Always. No matter what. That totally solves this problem, right? | null | 0 | 1316759756 | False | 0 | c2lys1l | t3_kooiy | null | t1_c2lys1l | t3_kooiy | null | 1427636318 | 44 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | munificent | null | > we don't say "here's a pointer to a pointer to a sentence, please make the pointed-to pointer point to a sentence about that dog over there and hand it back to me".
Your Mom's friend's uncle's hairdresser said... | null | 0 | 1316759784 | False | 0 | c2lys4z | t3_kogj4 | null | t1_c2lys4z | t1_c2lwk1s | null | 1427636318 | 11 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | propool | null | good point. They should just remove the cancel button if it is not working. | null | 0 | 1316759863 | False | 0 | c2lyscw | t3_ko3r2 | null | t1_c2lyscw | t1_c2lyqyl | null | 1427636325 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | innervision | null | MySQL Workbench is the most bloated piece of crap software ever written. MySQL managed to go from a 'feature light' but working tool, to a bunch of feature light and crashy tools, to the monstrosity that Workbench is in about 6 years.
In other words: you know you are screwed when a PHP application running on top of Apache is faster than your crappy 'portable' app. | null | 0 | 1316759944 | False | 0 | c2lysku | t3_ko3r2 | null | t1_c2lysku | t1_c2ltzxq | null | 1427636324 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1316759992 | False | 0 | c2lysph | t3_koqe8 | null | t1_c2lysph | t3_koqe8 | null | 1427636326 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | ValekCOS | null | This article was a lovely read. Thanks for posting it!
I have to admit I started sidetracking myself with articles embedded inside the article, as well. Overall, I think those qualities do actually hold true for passionate developers. It's one reason I frequently argue against the whole "if you haven't been to college, you'll never succeed" school of thought. There are people who go to college who are great, and there are people who go to college who can't do a thing they "learned" during their stay. The same holds true for folks who haven't gone to college. A good tell is whenever a programming discussion is sparked, if that person can demonstrate a genuine interest in what is being discussed and a curiosity for what they may not already know, or for your side of the discussion, that might be another way to identify someone who will be truly passionate about it. | null | 0 | 1316760037 | False | 0 | c2lystl | t3_korcu | null | t1_c2lystl | t3_korcu | null | 1427636328 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | innervision | null | Well, what I've noticed (in the past, when I was a C# dev) is that the 'express' version of Management Studio, the one distributed with Visual Studio, is an order of magnitude slower than the one distributed with SQL Server proper. Go figure. | null | 0 | 1316760157 | False | 0 | c2lyt5d | t3_ko3r2 | null | t1_c2lyt5d | t1_c2lxt3p | null | 1427636332 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | zingbot3000 | null | I think they meant to void all previously issued software patents, not all patents, judging by the fact that they only asked to stop issuing software patents. | null | 0 | 1316760248 | False | 0 | c2lytem | t3_kosg9 | null | t1_c2lytem | t1_c2lymu8 | null | 1427636335 | 19 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | caimen | null | There is no software or piece of code that should be patentable. It is completely and utterly ridiculous to be able to patent software. Intellectual property is a scam under the guise of creating a better economy. It's great for a corporation, but for any small business wanting to go write a piece of software, they better lawyer up, because writing any piece of software could land you a lawsuit. If lawsuits didn't cost money just to enter the courtroom I would be fine with it. Software Patents kill small business and are a direct threat to open software simply because it is open and everyone can read it.
Intellectual Property is a dumb idea, because if you even think about the word intellectual property, it sounds ridiculously stupid. Only in the mind of a lawyer or economist does it sound like a good idea. It's like someone being able to patent my DNA, it's just dumb and should be illegal. It's my DNA, it's mine. God forbid anyone ask the community of computer scientists what they think about the subject, because it doesn't matter what they think. It's what the government, corporatists and legislators think and are told makes the economy better, and that's what matters. The reality of the situation is the world would be a better place without software patents. We would have more and better software, period. There is absolutely no argument against that. | null | 0 | 1316760315 | False | 0 | c2lytko | t3_kosg9 | null | t1_c2lytko | t1_c2lymu8 | null | 1427636337 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | UsingYourWifi | null | When I was first teaching myself to program I struggled a lot with the concept of pointers. For some reason the explanations in the one C programming book I had just did not click. I didn't really "get" it until I ventured into the realm of assembly, which forced a more fundamental level of understand of how a computer works. Suddenly, a pointer was dead simple. I couldn't believe I didn't get it before.
Years later I had to take an intro to C++ class to satisfy a prereq. My brother's girlfriend was also in it, and she- like most of the people in the class- could not grasp pointers. 5 minutes with a whiteboard explaining- in REALLY basic terms- how memory works on a computer, and she had it figured out no problem. | null | 0 | 1316760360 | False | 0 | c2lytp2 | t3_kogj4 | null | t1_c2lytp2 | t1_c2lwk1s | null | 1427636339 | 9 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | aquasov | null | Working with databases for 15 years, I haven't seen a database capable of at least 1/3 of what Oracle RDBMS can provide. A couple of years ago tried MSSQL for the first time - it's a nightmare. It's just like going into space on a bicycle. The only thing which comes close to Oracle from the point of functionality and stability is Postgres. | null | 0 | 1316760362 | False | 0 | c2lytp6 | t3_ko3r2 | null | t1_c2lytp6 | t1_c2lubiv | null | 1427636339 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | innervision | null | Well, Amarok (KDE's music app) actually users MySQL as storage backend. Yes, you need to install the server in your desktop if you want to listen to music. Well, that or install Clementine, Banshee or any of the good alternatives. | null | 0 | 1316760373 | False | 0 | c2lytqb | t3_ko3r2 | null | t1_c2lytqb | t1_c2lvzlo | null | 1427636340 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | DGolden | null | All the same, voiding all existing patents and completely abolishing the patent system would be the ideal option.
* http://www.piratpartiet.se/international/english
* http://levine.sscnet.ucla.edu/general/intellectual/againstfinal.htm | null | 0 | 1316760430 | False | 0 | c2lytvd | t3_kosg9 | null | t1_c2lytvd | t1_c2lytem | null | 1427636347 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | JabbrWockey | null | The only advice I can give is do not volunteer to work on a sharepoint project... *ever*. | null | 0 | 1316760487 | False | 0 | c2lyu0m | t3_ko3r2 | null | t1_c2lyu0m | t1_c2lvipe | null | 1427636343 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | As I recall, back in high school, when our computer science teacher wanted us to pay particular attention, he would say "now, this is really cool." | null | 0 | 1316760563 | False | 0 | c2lyu7s | t3_kogj4 | null | t1_c2lyu7s | t3_kogj4 | null | 1427636348 | 10 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | JabbrWockey | null | Yeah, but then I remind myself it's free. God I'm a masochist. | null | 0 | 1316760610 | False | 0 | c2lyubx | t3_ko3r2 | null | t1_c2lyubx | t1_c2ltzxq | null | 1427636350 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | JosiahJohnson | null | I don't believe Express can cover any business needs. I'm pretty darn sure it's disallowed in the EULA. | null | 0 | 1316760694 | False | 0 | c2lyukq | t3_ko3r2 | null | t1_c2lyukq | t1_c2lwh2m | null | 1427636353 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | wadcann | null | That will not happen, and it would be catastrophic from the standpoint of screwing up all sorts of assessments of value and things like that. Let's say I'm a bank and I lent $50M to a company based on the value of its IP portfolio. Am I just out the money now?
I could understand some sort of massive review, or some large reduction of the barrier to challenge patents, or to fix future patents, but basically, while I'd be happy with stopping the issuing of software patents today, you will have to live with software patents for at least 17 years as they expire. | null | 0 | 1316760712 | False | 0 | c2lyumj | t3_kosg9 | null | t1_c2lyumj | t3_kosg9 | null | 1427636354 | 37 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1316760885 | False | 0 | c2lyv2b | t3_koj7a | null | t1_c2lyv2b | t3_koj7a | null | 1427636359 | -2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | orthogonality | null | JDeveloper, the Oracle Eclipse knock-off, doesn't anti-alias it editor fonts. It looks like a dot matrix printer running out of ink. | null | 0 | 1316760891 | False | 0 | c2lyv2y | t3_ko3r2 | null | t1_c2lyv2y | t1_c2lt4eq | null | 1427636359 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | JabbrWockey | null | I worked at a software company that had this model. The majority of the revenue came from consulting fees for implementation.
Seriously, they will never, ever have an easily configurable out of the box solution. | null | 0 | 1316761001 | False | 0 | c2lyvd5 | t3_ko3r2 | null | t1_c2lyvd5 | t1_c2ltua0 | null | 1427636363 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | JabbrWockey | null | I couldn't tell if you were saying MySQL or were talking about your SQL developer... | null | 0 | 1316761130 | False | 0 | c2lyvpj | t3_ko3r2 | null | t1_c2lyvpj | t1_c2ltnm2 | null | 1427636365 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | DivineRobot | null | do
runas /netonly /user:domain\user ssms.exe | null | 0 | 1316761232 | False | 0 | c2lyvxo | t3_ko3r2 | null | t1_c2lyvxo | t1_c2lxr8z | null | 1427636368 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | JabbrWockey | null | I read this initially as $48 a cpu core, and thought, "Hmmm, not bad... not bad at all."
I assume the $48000 is for annual licensing? | null | 0 | 1316761240 | False | 0 | c2lyvye | t3_ko3r2 | null | t1_c2lyvye | t1_c2lvbbv | null | 1427636368 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | b0dhi | null | >When asked, "How could you possibly have done the first interactive graphics program, the first non-procedural programming language, the first object oriented software system, all in one year?" Ivan replied: "Well, I didn't know it was hard."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_Sutherland
I can't even count the number of times something has been introduced to me as being difficult, taught in a way that made it difficult, then when I eventually put all that bullshit aside and set out to understand it on my own terms from the ground up, it turned out to be *deceptively simple to understand*, to the point where I felt like I had been deceived. Do not buy that shit under any circumstances. Even for things which are genuinely difficult, it cannot help. | null | 0 | 1316761307 | True | 0 | c2lyw4t | t3_kogj4 | null | t1_c2lyw4t | t3_kogj4 | null | 1427636371 | 8 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | TangledEarphones | null | If you make the distinction between software patents and 'regular' patents, then you are essentially claiming that innovation in software is not real innovation.
I disagree with you. There are real, genuine surprising algorithms that people come up with. For example, the algorithm for a Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) is so bizarre and unintuitive, yet so ridiculously fast, that its value to me is much higher than, say, a door hinge (which according to you, should be patent-protectable.)
My point is, you should value innovation irrespective of the field it occurs in. | null | 0 | 1316761321 | False | 0 | c2lyw69 | t3_kosg9 | null | t1_c2lyw69 | t1_c2lytem | null | 1427636371 | -4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | TangledEarphones | null | Innovation in software is real innovation. There are algorithms and software that do truly astounding stuff, that a person with reasonable creativity could not come up with on his own. Allowing software patents _helps_ us because we get to see the code right away, and after a period, it becomes public domain.
What is the alternative to patents? If you prefer to abolish software patents, then companies will keep their surprising algorithms to themselves, as trade secrets. We will then never get to know how a particular task was accomplished. | null | 0 | 1316761519 | False | 0 | c2lywmg | t3_kosg9 | null | t1_c2lywmg | t1_c2lytko | null | 1427636377 | -2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | dankelleher | null | Sorry. My copy of SQL Developer... | null | 0 | 1316761574 | False | 0 | c2lywr3 | t3_ko3r2 | null | t1_c2lywr3 | t1_c2lyvpj | null | 1427636379 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | c-reus | null | No, you do not need to install full-blown MySQL server on your desktop to use Amarok. Embedded MySQL works like a charm. | null | 0 | 1316761606 | False | 0 | c2lywtq | t3_ko3r2 | null | t1_c2lywtq | t1_c2lytqb | null | 1427636380 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Smallpaul | null | It was doomed because it never had a strategy beyond "copy Adobe". That's what I inferred. | null | 0 | 1316761658 | False | 0 | c2lywxv | t3_ko2wv | null | t1_c2lywxv | t1_c2lw9ut | null | 1427636381 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | stesch | null | What's with Mozilla and the PDFs lately? Don't they like HTML5 anymore?
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True | scragar | null | I think you're wrong to think of them as arbitrary, you can't call an integer as a function because it's a dud move, the effects would be impossible to predict.
Scoping exists to modularise things, if everything was automatically global imagine the carnage it would cause, recursion would be all but impossible, all your variables would be cross referencing.
The universal limitations programming offers are not arbitrary, they exist for very good reasons. | null | 0 | 1316761840 | False | 0 | c2lyxdk | t3_kogj4 | null | t1_c2lyxdk | t1_c2lyn4g | null | 1427636387 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | davebrk | null | Here you [go](http://dl.dropbox.com/u/4186469/rust-all-hands-w2011/assets/fallback/index.html). | null | 0 | 1316761874 | False | 0 | c2lyxfu | t3_kos4z | null | t1_c2lyxfu | t1_c2lyx20 | null | 1427636388 | 14 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | innervision | null | You saying' Ubuntu *lied* to me? To be fair, that was a few releases ago, so maybe they were still trying to figure it out. I didn't mind because I happen to use MySQL for development anyway, but I could see it could confuse the shit out of 'normal' people. | null | 0 | 1316761888 | False | 0 | c2lyxh6 | t3_ko3r2 | null | t1_c2lyxh6 | t1_c2lywtq | null | 1427636388 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | ejrh | null | I first thought it strange they taught pointers to us (well, object references in Java) as arrows pointing to randomly floating boxes. I guess pointers (references) can be understood on two levels: memory addresses (or address into something), and arrows pointing to randomly floating boxes. Like you and the others I prefer the lower-level explanation; even for learning I think some people are going to want to know at least a little of what's happening inside the machine. The higher abstractions are useful when you want to focus on some higher level aspect of the program but I think it can be frustrating when the underlying implementation is expressly hidden from you.
Disclaimer: I learned to program in BASIC so I guess you should take it all with a grain of salt. ;)
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True | [deleted] | null | If they aren't tricky, then why are pointer and recursion bugs some of the most frequently occurring bugs in C programs?
The reason is they are tricky to get right. | null | 0 | 1316762046 | False | 0 | c2lyxvl | t3_kogj4 | null | t1_c2lyxvl | t3_kogj4 | null | 1427636393 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | UsingYourWifi | null | Part of me wishes all intro to programming courses were taught in assembly. Use something friendlier than x86 if you want, but there are so many things that don't click until you get to your first architectures course. Then all of a sudden there's this "OOoohhhhh shit! So THAT'S why it works that way! Why the FUCK didn't anyone say so before?!" | null | 0 | 1316762225 | False | 0 | c2lyyc4 | t3_kogj4 | null | t1_c2lyyc4 | t1_c2lyxi5 | null | 1427636399 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | bgh80 | null | I am pretty sure you got that by trying to do something in the connection explorer rather than trying to run another query as running another query when you already have one running under that connection just makes it sit there looking like it is running even though it is just waiting. Still, I thought it would be good to point out a tip not that many people seem to know. If you have a long running query and want to run something else with the same connection you can press CTRL + SHIFT + N and it will open another session with the same connection. | null | 0 | 1316762251 | False | 0 | c2lyyee | t3_ko3r2 | null | t1_c2lyyee | t3_ko3r2 | null | 1427636401 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | grauenwolf | null | > Why would you think otherwise?
Well, the fact that you ranting about me being "clueless as to the tuning of Oracle" dispite the fact that I plainly stated that "I don't know how to tune it properly".
> this whole post is one giant circlejerk by half baked programmers who think themselves Oracle DBAs.
But now that you bring it up, I have to wonder if you are the clueless one. Bragging about "inserts that measure in milliseconds" doesn't make a whole hell of a lot of sense to me. Even with a base installation of SQL Server on an old developer box I can get over 1000 inserts per second. Not that it means anything, as it is highly dependent on factors such as row and batch size. | null | 0 | 1316762397 | False | 0 | c2lyyrn | t3_ko3r2 | null | t1_c2lyyrn | t1_c2lxgpr | null | 1427636405 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | stesch | null | After reading about half of it: Very interesting. They came a long way since the first announcement.
http://www.rust-lang.org/ | null | 0 | 1316762421 | True | 0 | c2lyyti | t3_kos4z | null | t1_c2lyyti | t3_kos4z | null | 1427636405 | 22 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | Amazon runs on Oracle databases. You were just doing it wrong.
You can build a fast OLTP database with Oracle if you have someone who knows what they're doing. | null | 0 | 1316762442 | False | 0 | c2lyyva | t3_ko3r2 | null | t1_c2lyyva | t1_c2ltxha | null | 1427636406 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | zingbot3000 | null | > If you make the distinction between software patents and 'regular' patents, then you are essentially claiming that innovation in software is not real innovation.
I'm claiming nothing of the sort.
> that its value to me is much higher than, say, a door hinge (which according to you, should be patent-protectable.)
Don't put words in my mouth. I never said I thought that anything should have patent protection. And in fact, I think nothing should. Because of the hideous legal system of the US, patents have no value to the small inventor they're ostensibly protecting unless that inventor is rich to begin with, and in the hands of larger corporations all they do is destroy competition and raise the barrier to entry. They aren't needed to protect innovation in software: that's happening anyway, so what positive purpose do they serve that could possibly outweigh the massive harm they do? (By the way, that's a rhetorical question: I don't give a shit what you think.) | null | 0 | 1316762519 | False | 0 | c2lyz1k | t3_kosg9 | null | t1_c2lyz1k | t1_c2lyw69 | null | 1427636408 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | PopeOnABomb | null | The patent office never wanted to issue software patents. Instead they treated it as living documents that needed copyright.
A series of court decisions are what forced the change. It is the judicial system, not the patent office, that made the change.
You're barking up the wrong tree. | null | 0 | 1316762566 | False | 0 | c2lyz4z | t3_kosg9 | null | t1_c2lyz4z | t3_kosg9 | null | 1427636411 | 175 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | When your host crashes and you need to recover from logs, good luck with those other databases. That's when you wished you had Oracle. | null | 0 | 1316762628 | False | 0 | c2lyz9y | t3_ko3r2 | null | t1_c2lyz9y | t1_c2lvwzc | null | 1427636412 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | grauenwolf | null | **Why the I-Hate-Oracle Club?**
http://forums.thedailywtf.com/forums/t/1142.aspx
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True | [deleted] | null | One problem with software patents is that when it boils down to it, software is math. Math is not patentable, therefor software shouldn't be.
The other problem is, of course, that software moves so fast that by the time the patent office can issue a patent, the thing that was patented is already considered "obvious" and shouldn't be patentable.
In short, while protecting software is a great thing, copyright can accomplish this just as well. Patents, on the other hand, are restrictive on the actions of others and move too slowly relative to the industry for that restriction to be acceptable. | null | 0 | 1316762886 | False | 0 | c2lyzvc | t3_kosg9 | null | t1_c2lyzvc | t1_c2lyw69 | null | 1427636422 | 8 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | grauenwolf | null | SQL Server's tool chain is by far the most user-friendly of any database product (aside from consumer databases stuff like Access and Form Maker).
The Oracle tools are so horrible that I don't know anyone who uses them. I mean literally no one, even die-hard Oracle fans buy or steal a copy of the third-party product Toad before starting any project.
Sure there are reasons to choose Oracle over SQL Server, but those reasons don't apply to the vast majority of developers. | null | 0 | 1316763004 | False | 0 | c2lz04h | t3_ko3r2 | null | t1_c2lz04h | t1_c2lvn7c | null | 1427636431 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | FYI the subreddit [http://www.reddit.com/r/WhiteHousePetitions/](http://www.reddit.com/r/WhiteHousePetitions/) needs more activity. Since you all showed interest in supporting this petition, head over and support all the unsearchable petitions under 150 votes. Help your fellow Redditors out! :) | null | 0 | 1316763044 | False | 0 | c2lz07k | t3_kosg9 | null | t1_c2lz07k | t3_kosg9 | null | 1427636424 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | Why do people still use languages that are clearly subpar?
You might think that this is just a flippant comment and that the problems are deeper than that, but no. It's not that difficult, people! Just use better languages.
Golang, python, shell scripts (preferably rc but bash can do simple things), Haskell. What else do you need and why? | null | 0 | 1316763107 | False | 0 | c2lz0d5 | t3_kooiy | null | t1_c2lz0d5 | t3_kooiy | null | 1427636436 | -26 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | jmdavis | null | We wouldn't have D without C++. It's learned too much from it. And D has been influenced and improved by ideas in various other languages which didn't exist when C++ was started. So, even if Stroustrup could have made a better language by not being compatible with C (which is questionable), the knowledge to make something as good as even the current C++ (let alone D) just wasn't there. Not to mention, given the more restrictive computing environment of the time, it's questionable that you could have made many of the more modern programming languages work simply due to the computing requirements for the compiler (stuff like keeping the symbol table in memory with imports rather than doing text inclusions with the preprocessor).
Yes, in hindsight, there are a number of things that C and C++ could have done better, and it would have been great had they done them better, but the knowedge just wasn't there at the time, and the enviroment at the time was just too different for what we would consider modern programming languages to really be feasible. | null | 0 | 1316763403 | False | 0 | c2lz105 | t3_kooiy | null | t1_c2lz105 | t1_c2ly3y1 | null | 1427636436 | 18 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | Can't tell if serious, or just trolling. | null | 0 | 1316763412 | False | 0 | c2lz10v | t3_kooiy | null | t1_c2lz10v | t1_c2lz0d5 | null | 1427636436 | 20 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | alphabeat | null | Hmm. It is now that you remind me. Can be used for testing only right? | null | 0 | 1316763425 | False | 0 | c2lz11x | t3_ko3r2 | null | t1_c2lz11x | t1_c2lyukq | null | 1427636436 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | mcandre | null | There are several hurdles in implementing a dynamic unit test framework in C, but I'll focus on one for now:
It's hard to write a function that returns an array populated with random elements according to a generator function. Here's the type signature:
typedef void (*fp)();
void* gen_array(fp gen, size_t size);
Example:
char gen_char() {
return (char) (rand() % 128);
}
char* gen_string() {
return (char*) gen_array((fp) gen_char, sizeof(char));
}
void main() {
char *random_string = gen_string();
} | null | 0 | 1316763479 | False | 0 | c2lz15w | t3_kounn | null | t1_c2lz15w | t3_kounn | null | 1427636438 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | TangledEarphones | null | I could make a similar argument and say, the mechanism that powers your watch is essentially physics, and hence, should not be patentable :) | null | 0 | 1316763534 | False | 0 | c2lz1ag | t3_kosg9 | null | t1_c2lz1ag | t1_c2lyzvc | null | 1428193408 | 8 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | TangledEarphones | null | I completely agree with you over the small innovator issue. It is really a sad state of affairs. | null | 0 | 1316763621 | False | 0 | c2lz1hb | t3_kosg9 | null | t1_c2lz1hb | t1_c2lyz1k | null | 1427636450 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | ejrh | null | There's always The Art of Computer Programming... :D
I don't know the best way to teach someone to program from square one, but I think a bit of every facet of it should be introduced reasonably early. What machine code looks like, basic algorithmic analysis, language design (and exposure to other language paradigms), etc. It doesn't mean it has to be hard.
On the other hand I know not every kid in school will be able to learn to program, so there's still the question of how much should be in the general education and at what points you start to make it optional.
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True | muyuu | null | They didn't do it. | null | 0 | 1316763661 | False | 0 | c2lz1k4 | t3_ko3r2 | null | t1_c2lz1k4 | t1_c2lycsv | null | 1427636444 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | alwaysean | null | I'd be interested. why do you think svd works so well in this context? when does knn outperform more sophisticated techniques? | null | 0 | 1316763740 | False | 0 | c2lz1q7 | t3_knoub | null | t1_c2lz1q7 | t1_c2ltzca | null | 1427636446 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | WalterBright | null | What's fun about this is that the dangling else problem is a very old one, a **lot** of people have thought about it, and yet this solution is simple and appears to have not been thought of before. | null | 0 | 1316763842 | False | 0 | c2lz1xt | t3_kooiy | null | t1_c2lz1xt | t3_kooiy | null | 1427636449 | 14 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | kuitu | null | When I still spent time on the Euler problems, I worked around this problem with a very stupid solution I dubbed the string logarithm. I only needed to know how many digits there were in some very large numbers, so I converted them to strings and took their length. I was happy to read about a much better solution so I won't be tempted to ever do that again.
It was my preference to this sort of quick and dirty solutions that actually convinced me to stop with working on the Euler problems. I just couldn't bring myself to write them with good style, because hacking was quicker. Now, I'm sure that solving them does some good to some people, but I'd rather do a proper job of my programs and also have them do something useful instead of giving me new icons with different polyhedra on them :) | null | 0 | 1316763877 | False | 0 | c2lz20w | t3_koio1 | null | t1_c2lz20w | t3_koio1 | null | 1427636450 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | My main argument is really the second point: Software moves too damned fast for the patent system to be anything but a drain on the industry. You can copyright a product and get plenty of protection out of that. You don't have this problem with physical devices because they take time to manufacture. This is simply a case of a system designed for situation A being applied to situation B without regard for the consequences.
Though since we're on the topic: You're talking about a device that uses rules other people discovered to function, two pieces that are obviously separate in both concept and execution. Software is not just the device using those rules, it IS the rules. There is no distinction in software between a "law of physics" and a "watch." They are both the same exact thing: code, data and processes. This means that if you want people to be able to patent a novel approach to a "watch" (say, a word processor), you also have to let them patent a new "law of physics" (say, a new variation of linked list, of which there are thousands). This lack of distinction is part of the problem. | null | 0 | 1316763943 | False | 0 | c2lz254 | t3_kosg9 | null | t1_c2lz254 | t1_c2lz1ag | null | 1427636452 | 10 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | jan | null | not sure if serious | null | 0 | 1316764008 | False | 0 | c2lz29f | t3_ko3r2 | null | t1_c2lz29f | t1_c2ly614 | null | 1427636452 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | ours | null | Yep but that doesn't mean it's good. I've heard better things from SQL Navigator. | null | 0 | 1316764394 | False | 0 | c2lz30m | t3_ko3r2 | null | t1_c2lz30m | t1_c2ltsf4 | null | 1427636470 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | ours | null | Once someotheridiot dominates the market, yeah he can do like Microsoft, Google and Apple. | null | 0 | 1316764554 | False | 0 | c2lz3br | t3_ko3r2 | null | t1_c2lz3br | t1_c2lxs34 | null | 1427636465 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1316764616 | False | 0 | c2lz3fm | t3_kolze | null | t1_c2lz3fm | t3_kolze | null | 1427636468 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | adrianmonk | null | I totally agree they should stop issuing new software patents, but I think voiding existing patents is a lost cause. Too many powerful organizations will oppose it because they went to a lot of time and expense to develop and buy patents, and they don't want to lose the power those patents give them. Because I think patent reform is so critical, I think it should be done in a way that stands a chance of getting industry support. I'd much rather partial progress (in the form of no *new* patents) than zero progress. | null | 0 | 1316764638 | False | 0 | c2lz3gw | t3_kosg9 | null | t1_c2lz3gw | t3_kosg9 | null | 1427636476 | 20 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | mfukar | null | and if there aren't, we now have AST in code objects! | null | 0 | 1316764704 | False | 0 | c2lz3l5 | t3_kmshh | null | t1_c2lz3l5 | t1_c2lkzek | null | 1427636471 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | ours | null | Or some of us don't just do SQL all day so it's nice to have a tool to help us do some tasks.
It's the usual command-line versus GUI thing. Command-lines are extremely productive for expert users and GUIs are great for occasional users. | null | 0 | 1316764712 | False | 0 | c2lz3lr | t3_ko3r2 | null | t1_c2lz3lr | t1_c2lyj89 | null | 1427636471 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
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