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True | [deleted] | null | > Ah, no - to be good with recovery on Oracle it's essential that you spend a week doing drills every year for a while until you really learn the ropes.
Yea.. The job is called being a DBA. Also, Oracle's feature set is 10x greater.
> It's also less likely for you to need to do a recovery in my experience.
Tha... | null | 0 | 1316774078 | False | 0 | c2lziuz | t3_ko3r2 | null | t1_c2lziuz | t1_c2lzior | null | 1427636675 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | AlanCrowe | null | Something I find frustrating is that there are two different concepts here.
Think about interpreting
if (a) then b; else c;
as an expression. What is its type? One answer is that b and c must have the same type and, having checked that they do agree, the compiler now knows the type of the conditional expression.... | null | 0 | 1316774210 | False | 0 | c2lzj1g | t3_kooiy | null | t1_c2lzj1g | t3_kooiy | null | 1427636677 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | kataire | null | Also, Mercurial, the DVCS. | null | 0 | 1316774212 | False | 0 | c2lzj1k | t3_kolze | null | t1_c2lzj1k | t1_c2lz3fm | null | 1427636677 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1316774228 | False | 0 | c2lzj2a | t3_kosg9 | null | t1_c2lzj2a | t1_c2lz46e | null | 1427636677 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | kataire | null | From what I can tell, it uses a backend based on Rails, so you need Ruby on the server, too.
At which point I lost all interest in the project. | null | 0 | 1316774367 | False | 0 | c2lzj9f | t3_kolze | null | t1_c2lzj9f | t1_c2lz9g4 | null | 1427636678 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | FeepingCreature | null | The moment I really, viscerally understood how the rotary pointer _enables_ the Fourier Transform was one of the greatest Lightbulb Moments of my life.
I was walking down the street and going "It spins around .. and it records the function magnitude and then the integral and OOOOOOOOOOOHHHH. :happy face:" | null | 0 | 1316774386 | True | 0 | c2lzjag | t3_kogj4 | null | t1_c2lzjag | t1_c2lxwlq | null | 1427636679 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | cheesekun | null | Disable your extensions and addon's. Then run in safe mode and watch the thing fly! It will be pretty stock standard but it's still got everything you need - except Resharper :( | null | 0 | 1316774419 | False | 0 | c2lzjby | t3_ko3r2 | null | t1_c2lzjby | t1_c2lyt5d | null | 1427636679 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | cheesekun | null | Ensure when the login they are qualifying the domain. ie:
detnsw\cheesekun | null | 0 | 1316774471 | False | 0 | c2lzjf5 | t3_ko3r2 | null | t1_c2lzjf5 | t1_c2lxr8z | null | 1427636679 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | sreguera | null | I would say that other people thought about the problem and chose to use a different syntax, like in Ada or Python. I understand that this is not an option if you want to keep the C-style syntax like in D. *edit:grammar | null | 0 | 1316774503 | True | 0 | c2lzjgu | t3_kooiy | null | t1_c2lzjgu | t1_c2lz1xt | null | 1427636679 | 8 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | FeepingCreature | null | His article is not an attempt to teach beginners, idiot. | null | 0 | 1316774595 | False | 0 | c2lzjlw | t3_kogj4 | null | t1_c2lzjlw | t1_c2lxsjz | null | 1427636681 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | cheesekun | null | "likely tons of the use of dynamic running" Dude WTF. I highly doubt that the IDE would be using anything Dynamic/Expando-ish at all. Sure the UI might be WPF but the meat is still probably in C/C++. | null | 0 | 1316774714 | False | 0 | c2lzjs4 | t3_ko3r2 | null | t1_c2lzjs4 | t1_c2lxfvp | null | 1427636681 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | adam75 | null | > 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.
I cannot really see how you infer that from my post. Do you think you could elaborate?
I was refering to higher-orde... | null | 0 | 1316774726 | True | 0 | c2lzjsp | t3_kogj4 | null | t1_c2lzjsp | t1_c2lyxdk | null | 1427636681 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | cheesekun | null | Agreed. | null | 0 | 1316774733 | False | 0 | c2lzjt3 | t3_ko3r2 | null | t1_c2lzjt3 | t1_c2lxr96 | null | 1427636681 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | EdgarVerona | null | What I think he means by that is "fuck him and his 50 million": that he deserves to lose it for having put so much money into the cause of stifling innovation for personal gain. | null | 0 | 1316774884 | False | 0 | c2lzk0w | t3_kosg9 | null | t1_c2lzk0w | t1_c2lzd6c | null | 1427636682 | 31 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | grelphy | null | I'm just psychologically incapable of figuring out why people find pointers difficult. They seem like the most straightforward thing in the world to me: it's the address of some piece of data. It points to it, as it were. Where does the confusion come from? | null | 0 | 1316774999 | False | 0 | c2lzk6m | t3_kogj4 | null | t1_c2lzk6m | t1_c2lytp2 | null | 1427636685 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | bucknuggets | null | > Yea.. The job is called being a DBA.
The difference is that you can teach any sharp person to be a db2, sql server, postgresql dba in a few months on most databases, but it takes years to get good on oracle. Meanwhile, the oracle admins are screwing things up because there's so much room for human error.
> ... | null | 0 | 1316775128 | True | 0 | c2lzkde | t3_ko3r2 | null | t1_c2lzkde | t1_c2lziuz | null | 1427636688 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | librik | null | It looks to me like it's "simple" because you've got your own sophisticated hand-written specialized parser. Many languages these days start with the assumption that LALR(1) via Yacc syntax rules should be all you need to parse, plus maybe a few well-known lexer hacks. In that constrained world, else-matches-nearest-... | null | 0 | 1316775364 | False | 0 | c2lzkqv | t3_kooiy | null | t1_c2lzkqv | t1_c2lz1xt | null | 1427636693 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | tragomaskhalos | null | That's exactly right - Bjarne himself wasn't blind to this, and he explains very clearly (in [D&E](http://www.amazon.co.uk/Design-Evolution-C-Bjarne-Stroustrup/dp/0201543303) IIRC) that C++ would have been stillborn without its near-complete C backwards compatibility.
It really was a different world back then - C... | null | 0 | 1316775417 | False | 0 | c2lzkts | t3_kooiy | null | t1_c2lzkts | t1_c2lz42f | null | 1427636694 | 8 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | kabuto | null | It's written in [Coffeescript](http://jashkenas.github.com/coffee-script/) which compiles to Javascript. Coffeescript creates those generic variables in the function scope for things like variables used in loops and similar things. | null | 0 | 1316775461 | False | 0 | c2lzkw3 | t3_kolze | null | t1_c2lzkw3 | t1_c2lzemf | null | 1427636696 | 12 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1316775519 | False | 0 | c2lzkyy | t3_kosg9 | null | t1_c2lzkyy | t3_kosg9 | null | 1427636696 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | FeepingCreature | null | Wait, he actually _did_ it? I thought it was a thought experiment.
Ken Thompson is badass. | null | 0 | 1316775531 | False | 0 | c2lzkze | t3_knhd2 | null | t1_c2lzkze | t1_c2lxj45 | null | 1427636696 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1316775645 | False | 0 | c2lzl5z | t3_kosg9 | null | t1_c2lzl5z | t1_c2lz4dx | null | 1427636698 | -2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | sime | null | It's good to see that people are trying other approaches to concurrency than the old hazardous "shared memory and locks" style which we've traditionally had in our blue-collar languages.
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True | wadcann | null | I'd be fine with ending the granting of *future* software patents. Note that, however, I'm speaking here on my individual experience and some grave concerns that I've run into.
* I've seen companies patent trivially-invented processes (e.g. using HTTP to control the interface of certain embedded devices). It may be ... | null | 0 | 1316775865 | True | 0 | c2lzlhf | t3_kosg9 | null | t1_c2lzlhf | t1_c2lzfwo | null | 1427636703 | 18 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | SurrealEstate | null | > Under the patent office's current activity, **patents have been come a way** to stifle innovation and prevent competition rather than supporting innovation and competitive markets.
Is "been come" a legal term? | null | 0 | 1316775985 | False | 0 | c2lzlo0 | t3_kosg9 | null | t1_c2lzlo0 | t1_c2lz4ia | null | 1427636706 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | wonglik | null | Yes but on the other hands on some petitions it was mention that non US citizens should not sign it as it would not help and might be even harmful. | null | 0 | 1316776365 | False | 0 | c2lzm8t | t3_kosg9 | null | t1_c2lzm8t | t1_c2lzl5z | null | 1427636713 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | gh0st32 | null | I couldn't use it, SQL developer craps the bed way too much for me. | null | 0 | 1316776382 | False | 0 | c2lzm9q | t3_ko3r2 | null | t1_c2lzm9q | t3_ko3r2 | null | 1427636713 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | nickdangler | null | TIL that the legislature has VERY big fans and even more hot air than I would have guessed. | null | 0 | 1316777070 | False | 0 | c2lznde | t3_kosg9 | null | t1_c2lznde | t1_c2lzcjg | null | 1427636728 | 15 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | ezekiel | null | Pointers and recursion are indeed tricky.
A good explanation and a lots of studying only open the door to their use. Then you need to understand when they fit the problem, how to weave them in with the rest of your code, how to avoid the common bugs, and how to analyze/debug/fix code containing them.
Joel is correct.... | null | 0 | 1316777144 | False | 0 | c2lznht | t3_kogj4 | null | t1_c2lznht | t3_kogj4 | null | 1427636729 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | rasori | null | I almost *whooshed* on this one. Well played. | null | 0 | 1316777225 | False | 0 | c2lznmk | t3_kosg9 | null | t1_c2lznmk | t1_c2lznde | null | 1427636730 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | troyanonymous1 | null | Ha ha ha
That's terrifying. | null | 0 | 1316777233 | False | 0 | c2lznn3 | t3_kos4z | null | t1_c2lznn3 | t1_c2lzc6x | null | 1427636730 | 18 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Gotebe | null | >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?
Yes. Furthermore, if company is a using said IP portfolio to sue (patent trolls do that), not to create value(*which is what patents are supposed to do, hel-looo, lawmakers and others!*), I am gla... | null | 0 | 1316777265 | False | 0 | c2lznp9 | t3_kosg9 | null | t1_c2lznp9 | t1_c2lyumj | null | 1427636731 | 10 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | rasori | null | Essentially by definition, if a "patent troll" has products it's no longer a patent troll. Patent trolls are companies which get huge numbers of patents covering broad subjects and never actually make anything, they just sit around until someone else does so they can sue them. [As explained here.](http://arstechnica.co... | null | 0 | 1316777424 | False | 0 | c2lzny7 | t3_kosg9 | null | t1_c2lzny7 | t1_c2lzev7 | null | 1427636734 | 25 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1316777431 | False | 0 | c2lznyn | t3_ko21c | null | t1_c2lznyn | t3_ko21c | null | 1427636734 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | StoneCypher | null | The second you try to take away what other people have already invested in, you guarantee this will not be passed. | null | 0 | 1316777642 | False | 0 | c2lzobt | t3_kosg9 | null | t1_c2lzobt | t3_kosg9 | null | 1427636739 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | ethraax | null | Note: You need to escape your underscores:
"\_len, \_len2, \_len3, \_len4, \_ref, \_ref2, \_ref3, \_ref4, \_ref5" | null | 0 | 1316777664 | False | 0 | c2lzode | t3_kolze | null | t1_c2lzode | t1_c2lzemf | null | 1427636740 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | ours | null | >Expression Blend was a product I didn't even know existed
Because Microsoft thinks we are all +50 developer companies they sold the designer tool separate to the dev tools. It seems they had a bit more sense with the Phone 7 tools and distribute a Expression Phone 7 free with the rest of the SDK. | null | 0 | 1316777949 | False | 0 | c2lzovi | t3_ko2wv | null | t1_c2lzovi | t1_c2ltqas | null | 1427636746 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | rasori | null | >When the Pagerank patent expires in 2017, will that meet your definition of an algorithm of value working its way to public domain?
No. Because it's *17 years old.* I guarantee you Pagerank itself will have modified algorithms at that point, and suddenly the only public domain information I've received is horribly... | null | 0 | 1316778066 | False | 0 | c2lzp25 | t3_kosg9 | null | t1_c2lzp25 | t1_c2lzihx | null | 1427636749 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | JL235 | null | I think your being a little pedantic.
The comment I was replying to, had described the example company that received imaginary investment, as a 'patent troll'.
By using the same term at the start of my disagreement, it shows to the reader that I am replying to that specific point. The term helps to show the connectio... | null | 0 | 1316778117 | False | 0 | c2lzp5j | t3_kosg9 | null | t1_c2lzp5j | t1_c2lzny7 | null | 1427636750 | -6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1316778182 | False | 0 | c2lzp9n | t3_kogj4 | null | t1_c2lzp9n | t3_kogj4 | null | 1427636751 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | sgoody | null | SquirrelSQL | null | 0 | 1316778220 | False | 0 | c2lzpca | t3_ko3r2 | null | t1_c2lzpca | t3_ko3r2 | null | 1427636752 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | rasori | null | Right but you're not replying to that specific point because you're implying that the company in your hypothetical is doing something that the company in OP's hypothetical is not doing. If OP's company had invested money (from banks or personal money, doesn't matter) to create a *product,* then voiding the patent won't... | null | 0 | 1316778502 | False | 0 | c2lzpt2 | t3_kosg9 | null | t1_c2lzpt2 | t1_c2lzp5j | null | 1427636758 | 11 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | expertunderachiever | null | Yet another language... no thanks.
Or put it another way, I know of no employers that will hire you for your indepth knowledge of
* haskell
* lisp
* scheme
* go
* go
* pypy
* rust
* lolcode
* brainfuck
etc...
If you're looking for a job in software development learn one of [or multipl... | null | 0 | 1316778556 | False | 0 | c2lzpws | t3_kos4z | null | t1_c2lzpws | t3_kos4z | null | 1427636760 | -36 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | dezmd | null | No. | null | 0 | 1316778558 | False | 0 | c2lzpww | t3_kosg9 | null | t1_c2lzpww | t1_c2lz4dx | null | 1427636760 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | axilmar | null | > To alleviate the size increase for Color, you'd have to switch to referencing as switching to Class will do nothing in C++.
No. In C++, I'd use a reference anyway.
> But std::vector has value semantics and is unrelated to the elements inside.
But the values std::vector manipulates can be references. So, in e... | null | 0 | 1316778605 | False | 0 | c2lzpzh | t3_kljc0 | null | t1_c2lzpzh | t1_c2lvhd3 | null | 1427636761 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | jessta | null | Rust has some interesting ideas but it seems a bit scatted at the moment.
65 keywords, some are targeted at functional style and some imperative style.
It seems like the kind of language where different projects and developers will be using different subsets of the language and there will be dark corners that most devs... | null | 0 | 1316778697 | False | 0 | c2lzq65 | t3_kos4z | null | t1_c2lzq65 | t3_kos4z | null | 1427636763 | 14 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Tommstein | null | Microsoft has been burning idiots since the beginning of time. I don't think this is going to be the event that makes them pull their heads out of their asses. | null | 0 | 1316778724 | False | 0 | c2lzq7t | t3_ko2wv | null | t1_c2lzq7t | t1_c2lumlq | null | 1427636764 | -1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1316778788 | False | 0 | c2lzqbp | t3_kosg9 | null | t1_c2lzqbp | t1_c2lyz4z | null | 1427636765 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | ithika | null | Interesting this is a classic psychology lesson. The result is generally pretty opaque to people until you use real-world examples.
All humans are mammals, all mammals are alive, therefore... all living things are human? Some living things are mammals? The "right" answer seems obvious. Trickier logic issues become muc... | null | 0 | 1316778801 | False | 0 | c2lzqcn | t3_kogj4 | null | t1_c2lzqcn | t1_c2lxoha | null | 1427636765 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | axilmar | null | So, classes are structs with inheritance, and structs are classes without inheritance?
If so, then the two are truly the same concept, since inheritance is optional.
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True | Jameshfisher | null | Sigh. Was this proofread even once? | null | 0 | 1316778919 | False | 0 | c2lzql5 | t3_kosg9 | null | t1_c2lzql5 | t3_kosg9 | null | 1427636768 | 93 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | niczar | null | Haven't read this doc, but what I loved about Rust is the memory handling based on typing: if the compiler knows you can't have cycles, use ref counting, otherwise use GC. | null | 0 | 1316778923 | False | 0 | c2lzqlg | t3_kos4z | null | t1_c2lzqlg | t3_kos4z | null | 1427636768 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | cherouvim | null | Don't forget about the soul... it fucks up your soul as well. | null | 0 | 1316779171 | False | 0 | c2lzr38 | t3_ko3r2 | null | t1_c2lzr38 | t1_c2lt4eq | null | 1427636775 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | axilmar | null | It doesn't need to do it to the same level of a human for 100% of cases. Covering 99% of cases is good enough.
It's like garbage collection: for the 99% of cases, it's very useful and very liberating. For the other %1, you can do manual memory management and get the extra performance you want.
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True | yellowstuff | null | I don't know about your experience, but RMS is one of the most accomplished programmers who ever lived. | null | 0 | 1316779249 | False | 0 | c2lzr8i | t3_kl7h0 | null | t1_c2lzr8i | t1_c2lxb1u | null | 1427636777 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | yummybear | null | Except 2008 intellisense. My god it's horrible. | null | 0 | 1316779332 | False | 0 | c2lzren | t3_ko3r2 | null | t1_c2lzren | t1_c2lu6cz | null | 1427636779 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | DrSmoke | null | This is a retarded idea, and post, and op. | null | 0 | 1316779483 | False | 0 | c2lzrq7 | t3_kosg9 | null | t1_c2lzrq7 | t3_kosg9 | null | 1427636783 | -4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | ithika | null | The confusion comes in their use. Knowing that `T *` is a pointer to a `T` doesn't explain why `foo(T** x)` is useful. | null | 0 | 1316779611 | False | 0 | c2lzrzi | t3_kogj4 | null | t1_c2lzrzi | t1_c2lzk6m | null | 1427636786 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | I think this is a great idea! Give it thought..let it distill, think about it! | null | 0 | 1316779618 | False | 0 | c2lzs03 | t3_kosg9 | null | t1_c2lzs03 | t3_kosg9 | null | 1427636787 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | bgovern | null | I'm not sure that the second part can be done without significant taxpayer expense. The takings clause in the constitution that prevents people from being deprived of their property without due process and compensation. I haven't done the research to see what the courts have had to say about the takings clause applying... | null | 0 | 1316779834 | False | 0 | c2lzsf1 | t3_kosg9 | null | t1_c2lzsf1 | t3_kosg9 | null | 1427636792 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Troebr | null | It seems to be bundled for rails, but usable with whatever backend you have, provided you put the js, images and css in the right place. | null | 0 | 1316779885 | False | 0 | c2lzsit | t3_kolze | null | t1_c2lzsit | t1_c2lzj9f | null | 1427636793 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Forbizzle | null | 500 score on reddit, half as many signatures on the petition... | null | 0 | 1316780090 | False | 0 | c2lzsz8 | t3_kosg9 | null | t1_c2lzsz8 | t3_kosg9 | null | 1427636800 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Juris_LV | null | Sorry, I need to post this here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KMU0tzLwhbE | null | 0 | 1316780156 | False | 0 | c2lzt4i | t3_kmevq | null | t1_c2lzt4i | t1_c2lpkfp | null | 1427636802 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1316780340 | False | 0 | c2lztjz | t3_kosg9 | null | t1_c2lztjz | t3_kosg9 | null | 1427636807 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Talonwhal | null | Okay, so if I patent the wheel and get valued at $100 billion due to my IP portfolio then yes, that is money down the drain - sucks for me for being a fucking moron in the first place.
That is a concise analogy of software patent portfolios for you. | null | 0 | 1316780376 | False | 0 | c2lztmu | t3_kosg9 | null | t1_c2lztmu | t1_c2lyumj | null | 1427636808 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | wadcann | null | The reason they don't complain about companies that simply process IP portfolios is because there's no inherent theoretical reason why you can't have Research Company A which does research and sells their work to Software Production Company C. That certainly funds research. By the same token, Research Company A which... | null | 0 | 1316780480 | False | 0 | c2lztvz | t3_kosg9 | null | t1_c2lztvz | t1_c2lznp9 | null | 1427636811 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | bananaskates | null | Yeah, it's pretty painful. Especially since it's a valid notion. But it needs a lot more work. | null | 0 | 1316780570 | False | 0 | c2lzu2d | t3_kosg9 | null | t1_c2lzu2d | t1_c2lzql5 | null | 1427636814 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | AcinonyxJubatus | null | Nothing that a transitional period wouldn't fix | null | 0 | 1316780602 | False | 0 | c2lzu4t | t3_kosg9 | null | t1_c2lzu4t | t1_c2lzgph | null | 1427636816 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | anonpatriot7 | null | > this is a particularly harmful use that permits extending an existing monopoly over one area of software. For example
For example? | null | 0 | 1316780741 | False | 0 | c2lzufy | t3_kosg9 | null | t1_c2lzufy | t1_c2lzlhf | null | 1427636819 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | icebraining | null | >I'm proud that there is "a relative dearth of patent applications for the video game industry, especially considering how technology-dependent the video game industry is, and given its size in terms of annual sales."
>Before issuing a condemnation, I try hard to think about it from their point of view -- the la... | null | 0 | 1316780806 | False | 0 | c2lzule | t3_kosg9 | null | t1_c2lzule | t3_kosg9 | null | 1427636822 | 20 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | vfr | null | Mostly due to network/db lag... if the server is on the same box it's usually fine, but connect to an underpowered server VM over a vpn and it's really frustrating. | null | 0 | 1316780845 | True | 0 | c2lzuon | t3_ko3r2 | null | t1_c2lzuon | t1_c2lxt3p | null | 1427636823 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | wreckerone | null | I would say this article is mostly bullshit. You see passion in tenured researchers, because they don't have to put up with other people's completely stupid ideas and pedestrian concerns. If you start trying to argue basic algebra with a professor of math ("does 2 + 2 REALLY equal 4"), should that person waste time pl... | null | 0 | 1316780924 | True | 0 | c2lzuwk | t3_korcu | null | t1_c2lzuwk | t3_korcu | null | 1427636826 | 21 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | kitsy | null | No, *technically*, this post is asking the the Obama Administration to solve the problem. | null | 0 | 1316780950 | False | 0 | c2lzuz9 | t3_kosg9 | null | t1_c2lzuz9 | t1_c2lzbz2 | null | 1427636836 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | DownvoteALot | null | Yes, we must discourage funding this kind of practices by scaring investors until these companies become reasonable, instead of maximizing profits through phalanxes of lawyers and tearing apart every company that relies on any kind of abusively patented software. | null | 0 | 1316781004 | False | 0 | c2lzv4k | t3_kosg9 | null | t1_c2lzv4k | t1_c2lzk0w | null | 1427636829 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | robmbrooks | null | I have a patent on "use of an online petition to void previously issued software patents", you are all in trouble now ;-) | null | 0 | 1316781022 | False | 0 | c2lzv63 | t3_kosg9 | null | t1_c2lzv63 | t3_kosg9 | null | 1427636831 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | KayEss | null | A stack is like a pile of plates in your cupboard. When you've cleaned a plate and you put it away, you put it on the top. When you want to use a plate you take the one off the top. The top plate gets used the most, and the bottom plate gets used the least. | null | 0 | 1316781028 | False | 0 | c2lzv6w | t3_kogj4 | null | t1_c2lzv6w | t1_c2lyc5t | null | 1427636831 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | wadcann | null | Honestly, I imagine that a real, legitimate patent on any one of the six simple machines would probably be worth much more than $100B.
Now, it also certainly wouldn't be enforceable under existing patent law, because there is obvious prior art. If you mis-valued an existing patent as being a $100B patent based on the... | null | 0 | 1316781110 | False | 0 | c2lzved | t3_kosg9 | null | t1_c2lzved | t1_c2lztmu | null | 1427636837 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | diewhitegirls | null | If anyone signs this, they clearly do not understand the implications of what would occur should this go into effect. Sure, it seems nice to let everything go open source, but every economic equation that I've ever written shows that IP has a net benefit to society.
[A very entry level chart explaining why the optima... | null | 0 | 1316781165 | False | 0 | c2lzvjh | t3_kosg9 | null | t1_c2lzvjh | t3_kosg9 | null | 1427636841 | -2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | selflessGene | null | And the president has the power to set agendas.
In 2004 presidential election, the big hoopla was about gay marriage constitutionality. Bush couldn't have made gay marriage unconstitutional by himself even if he wanted to, but he had the power to make it the focal issue. | null | 0 | 1316781187 | False | 0 | c2lzvli | t3_kosg9 | null | t1_c2lzvli | t1_c2lzcjg | null | 1427636841 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1316781204 | False | 0 | c2lzvn7 | t3_kosg9 | null | t1_c2lzvn7 | t1_c2lz9mp | null | 1427636838 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1316781213 | False | 0 | c2lzvnv | t3_ko2wv | null | t1_c2lzvnv | t1_c2lzisd | null | 1427636838 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | wadcann | null | I moved it [over to this post](http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/kosg9/white_housegov_petition_direct_the_patent_office/c2lztvz), which had more relevant discussion; I was describing the TrueType hinting data use patent, and the 3d card texture compression-using-driver patent.
Both patents block the creatio... | null | 0 | 1316781246 | False | 0 | c2lzvqt | t3_kosg9 | null | t1_c2lzvqt | t1_c2lzufy | null | 1427636839 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | To be fair... not really. It's a screenshot of a program behaving badly. Just because it's a development tool behaving badly doesn't mean this is programming related.
I personally feel that the "this subreddit is for exactly what I think programming is about and not one thing more" crowd can be overly picky and dism... | null | 0 | 1316781310 | False | 0 | c2lzvwi | t3_ko3r2 | null | t1_c2lzvwi | t1_c2lvzo2 | null | 1427636839 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | paranoidray | null | By hand: https://raysforge.net/viewProject.xhtml?fn=MathParser | null | 0 | 1316781311 | False | 0 | c2lzvwm | t3_kh9sr | null | t1_c2lzvwm | t1_c2lef59 | null | 1427636839 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | Well then, we might as well direct this petition to Homeland Security. Which tree is an important question. | null | 0 | 1316781406 | False | 0 | c2lzw5b | t3_kosg9 | null | t1_c2lzw5b | t1_c2lzbz2 | null | 1427636844 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | atlben76 | null | Select into is PL/SQL and not part of the standard oracle SQL dialect. You have to use either
insert into new_table select * from old_table
or
create table new_table as select * from old_table
| null | 0 | 1316781449 | False | 0 | c2lzw95 | t3_ko3r2 | null | t1_c2lzw95 | t1_c2lynjy | null | 1427636844 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | drzaeus | null | Nice try, Mr. Lahey. | null | 0 | 1316781451 | False | 0 | c2lzw96 | t3_kosg9 | null | t1_c2lzw96 | t1_c2lzcjg | null | 1427636844 | 10 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1316781491 | False | 0 | c2lzwdd | t3_kosg9 | null | t1_c2lzwdd | t3_kosg9 | null | 1427636845 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | wadcann | null | >The rediquette requires me to explain my downvote
I'm not going to sign the petition (and I explained why), but I'm not going to *downvote the post*, because I think that this discussion is important and needs to happen. | null | 0 | 1316781682 | False | 0 | c2lzwu4 | t3_kosg9 | null | t1_c2lzwu4 | t1_c2lymu8 | null | 1427636850 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | wadcann | null | I've described a [number of properties that typically differ between software and non-software patents](http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/kosg9/white_housegov_petition_direct_the_patent_office/c2lzlhf) that would make the existence of software patents less desirable than software patents. | null | 0 | 1316781747 | False | 0 | c2lzwzs | t3_kosg9 | null | t1_c2lzwzs | t1_c2lyw69 | null | 1427636854 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | gsg_ | null | What about the good old
if (condition)
consequent();
more_consequent();
Would you consider issuing warnings based on suspicious indentation? | null | 0 | 1316781867 | False | 0 | c2lzxae | t3_kooiy | null | t1_c2lzxae | t1_c2lz1xt | null | 1427636857 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | tiphphin | null | He's Australian? He's just writing with [Australian Questioning Intonation?](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_questioning_intonation) He can't help it? Although, in fairness, I have only ever encountered Australian questioning intonation through speech? I have never seen it written down? | null | 0 | 1316781872 | False | 0 | c2lzxau | t3_ko2wv | null | t1_c2lzxau | t1_c2lz6hg | null | 1427636857 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | vfr | null | Barking up the wrong tree?? Only if we want to blame someone, but we're looking for a solution here. The courts aren't going to change their interpretation of the current law, we need new law to redefine things for the courts.
That said, it probably won't happen without lobbying from major companies which MS and s... | null | 0 | 1316781903 | True | 0 | c2lzxdl | t3_kosg9 | null | t1_c2lzxdl | t1_c2lyz4z | null | 1427636859 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | TheWix | null | >C# Sadly
Yea, I don't get this... | null | 0 | 1316781905 | False | 0 | c2lzxdu | t3_kos4z | null | t1_c2lzxdu | t1_c2lzpws | null | 1427636859 | 9 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | tgehr | null | > Some have tried to say that undefined behavior means the compiler could format your hard-drive. Problem is, since the compiler doesn't know when this situation happens it can't actually do such things.
I think nobody would seriously claim that a compiler could legally format your hard drive during compilation if ... | null | 0 | 1316781945 | False | 0 | c2lzxh6 | t3_knn5p | null | t1_c2lzxh6 | t1_c2lssmr | null | 1427636860 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | mithrasinvictus | null | The industry (the part that is actually productive and innovative anyway) might be onboard. Why waste resources on defensive patents when you can eliminate the necessity for that defense. | null | 0 | 1316782013 | False | 0 | c2lzxo9 | t3_kosg9 | null | t1_c2lzxo9 | t1_c2lz3gw | null | 1427636862 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | sltkr | null | > That totally solves this problem, right?
Yes, that's one way to solve it, the other is to *always* use an else-clause, but that's ugly too.
Personally I use curly braces only for non-trivial blocks of code. So I might write:
if (something) foo();
But if the if-body involves another if-statement, I would w... | null | 0 | 1316782025 | False | 0 | c2lzxp2 | t3_kooiy | null | t1_c2lzxp2 | t1_c2lys1l | null | 1427636862 | 10 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | wildbob | null | Then why even make the observation that you have never seen a useful algorithm work its way through the patent system? By your own definition of its not possible.
As for the length of time an algorithm and language can be useful: Is quicksort any less useful because it is 50 years old? Is C++ a novelty despite it be... | null | 0 | 1316782110 | False | 0 | c2lzxwj | t3_kosg9 | null | t1_c2lzxwj | t1_c2lzp25 | null | 1427636865 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | mconeone | null | Upvote for trailer park boys reference. | null | 0 | 1316782205 | False | 0 | c2lzy61 | t3_kosg9 | null | t1_c2lzy61 | t1_c2lzcjg | null | 1427636869 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | Donvoted because I am NOT registering with whitehouse.gov . I wouldn't trust it with a pickle, they'd find some way to weaponize it. | null | 0 | 1316782342 | False | 0 | c2lzyio | t3_kosg9 | null | t1_c2lzyio | t3_kosg9 | null | 1427636875 | -4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
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