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True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1316795547 | False | 0 | c2m1jfn | t3_kogj4 | null | t1_c2m1jfn | t3_kogj4 | null | 1427637690 | 8 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | darkstar3333 | null | No props to me, I simply know the guy who put it together (http://twitter.com/#!/brianlala)
| null | 0 | 1316795578 | False | 0 | c2m1jm6 | t3_ko3r2 | null | t1_c2m1jm6 | t1_c2m1iww | null | 1427637692 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | adolfojp | null | .Net has been in the market for 9 years. When Windows 8 comes out .net will be used to develop apps for it. No .Net developers were burned in the process. And 13 year old non .net VB binaries still run unmodified on Windows 7. There have been non destructive changes and some new APIs have been introduced, but this is a good thing, because the alternative would be to stagnate technologically.
XP was given a life of 14 years. Windows Server 2003 was given a life of 12. Ubuntu LTS for the desktop gets a life of 3 years. For the server it gets a life of 5. Red Hat enterprise gets a life of 10 years. No other company supports its operating systems like Microsoft.
I really don't understand how Microsoft can be seen as a software company that burns its developers when no other company works as hard to preserve backwards compatibility or to provide support for its old products. | null | 0 | 1316795606 | True | 0 | c2m1jrz | t3_ko2wv | null | t1_c2m1jrz | t1_c2lzq7t | null | 1427637695 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1316795651 | False | 0 | c2m1k0t | t3_kolze | null | t1_c2m1k0t | t1_c2m1he2 | null | 1427637698 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | smeezy | null | >You defeat your own argument on that point. If the PTO only started widely issuing software patents in 1995, of course there would not be any useful algorithms from expired patents, because none of them would have expired yet.
Yet the litigation nightmare directly attributable to software patents has become a first-order scourge on the industry. Further, there is no reason to believe that this burden of litigation will end any time soon. As long as patents keep being granted, the litigation cost will likely rise each year.
>When the Pagerank patent expires in 2017, will that meet your definition of an algorithm of value working its way to public domain?
Nope, it would be so old by then nobody would care. I guarantee you Google would have come up with something much, *much* better at that time... which of course would be patented for another 20 years.
>And for clarity, the $500 billion cost estimate is not as damning as it sounds. The number comes from a reduction in the stock price of sued companies, so that figure is unrealized.
As a stock owner, that is an opportunity cost to me. Money spent on lawsuits are terrible "investments" in general. And what of the opportunity cost of startups that never make it big, because of litigation costs?
>its not like suits caused $500 billion to be spent in suits that would have gone elsewhere
Like I said, it's opportunity cost. I don't really care if that money went to dividends, engineering, janitorial improvements, better cubicles, or landscaping. What I care about is that today, that money went into perpetuating a system of litigation that's killing innovation. | null | 0 | 1316795778 | False | 0 | c2m1kpn | t3_kosg9 | null | t1_c2m1kpn | t1_c2lzihx | null | 1427637709 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | LuxNocte | null | If by "eliminate software patents completely" you mean "change software patents to software copyright's like they previously did" then yes.
http://www.lawmart.com/searches/difference.htm
| null | 0 | 1316795790 | False | 0 | c2m1krz | t3_kosg9 | null | t1_c2m1krz | t1_c2m0w3k | null | 1427637712 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | FrankBattaglia | null | >Frank: Then I've got no idea what you're talking about.
I'm sorry, but discussing the economic necessity of "software patents" without having at least a passing familiarity with *State Street* belies a complete lack of exposure to the subject. It's a shibboleth, if you will.
In brief: there were no software patents prior to the mid 90's. Sure, people may have filed some and gotten them issued, but standing law and official USPTO interpretation of that law precluded "software patents." To wit, if you applied for a software patent, it would be rejected. If you managed to slip it by the Examiner, it would still be worthless, as the first court to look at it would invalidate it.
That began to slowly change *in the courts* in the early 90's, and the USPTO was forced against its will to start issuing "software patents" by the mid-decade. The watershed case which set the standard for the next decade was *[State Street v. Signature Financial](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_Street_Bank_v._Signature_Financial_Group)*. This case is viewed as the turning point in software patents which opened the floodgates, leading to what we have now. (For a more full, yet still succinct account: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_patents_under_United_States_patent_law#History)
The point being, all innovation and progress in the software industry prior to 1998 (or at least 1994 if you're really stretching) occurred without any meaningful patent protection for software. To argue that such protection is necessary for progress flies in the face of historical fact. | null | 0 | 1316795835 | True | 0 | c2m1l0k | t3_kosg9 | null | t1_c2m1l0k | t1_c2m1fv9 | null | 1427637715 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | weather vs climate prediction. "Scientists can't even tell me if it's going to rain tonight, how can they predict the weather 50 years from now? | null | 0 | 1316795873 | False | 0 | c2m1l8p | t3_kosg9 | null | t1_c2m1l8p | t1_c2m0ua9 | null | 1428193392 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | FeepingCreature | null | :( | null | 0 | 1316795977 | False | 0 | c2m1lsd | t3_kogj4 | null | t1_c2m1lsd | t1_c2m1asv | null | 1427637722 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | TinynDP | null | It fits within the actual well established direction of the subreddit. It doesn't fit within the written direction of the subreddit. Guess which matters more. And the constant "Not programming" is annoying as fuck. | null | 0 | 1316796047 | False | 0 | c2m1m6o | t3_kp0u2 | null | t1_c2m1m6o | t1_c2m1cwy | null | 1427637727 | 16 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1316796056 | False | 0 | c2m1m8i | t3_kosg9 | null | t1_c2m1m8i | t1_c2m0acu | null | 1427637729 | -1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | costly ? | null | 0 | 1316796058 | False | 0 | c2m1m8u | t3_kp6d6 | null | t1_c2m1m8u | t3_kp6d6 | null | 1427637729 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | v_krishna | null | "and pretty hard to have anyone but yourself proof read it before you throw it out there"
wait, what? sorry, i definitely think you've got great intentions and have responded extremely well to criticism on here, so i really don't want to come across as a dick, but what is so difficult about first typing something up in whatever text-editor, then maybe emailing it to a few people and/or posting it online somewhere so you can get feedback before posting it as an actual petition? | null | 0 | 1316796093 | False | 0 | c2m1mf3 | t3_kosg9 | null | t1_c2m1mf3 | t1_c2m0z9t | null | 1427637730 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | mazerrackham | null | Oracle doesn't do dirty reads, it does consistent reads. If a change (committed or uncommitted) is made after you began your query you will not see it.
You can enable the same behavior in SQLServer by using Snapshot Isolation, although it stores consistent data copies in the tempdb and is pretty much a kludge. | null | 0 | 1316796197 | False | 0 | c2m1n0o | t3_ko3r2 | null | t1_c2m1n0o | t1_c2ly0q2 | null | 1427637737 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | if thee idea is comunicatttted it dont matter what kinda grammer or spelling was used. Language is about communication not restricting how ppl can talk. An to judge an idea based on its grammer is shallow and foolish.Its no different from judging a man by his clothes.
yr a snob. | null | 0 | 1316796225 | False | 0 | c2m1n5c | t3_kosg9 | null | t1_c2m1n5c | t1_c2m00zs | null | 1427637739 | -1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | FeepingCreature | null | If the mods think it doesn't belong here, then the mods can remove it if they want a mass exodus on their hands.
The sidebar is advisory, nothing more. | null | 0 | 1316796258 | False | 0 | c2m1nby | t3_kp0u2 | null | t1_c2m1nby | t1_c2m1cwy | null | 1427637741 | 13 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | xTRUMANx | null | [/r/notprogramming](http://reddit.com/r/notprogramming) | null | 0 | 1316796258 | False | 0 | c2m1nc7 | t3_kmevq | null | t1_c2m1nc7 | t1_c2lrv6h | null | 1427637741 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | nickik | null | Well 65 are not that much. I mean I like lisp and there you only need around 10 but for a big language like Rust 65 is ok. F# has more then 200 right? | null | 0 | 1316796265 | False | 0 | c2m1ndi | t3_kos4z | null | t1_c2m1ndi | t1_c2lzq65 | null | 1427637742 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | lzantal | null | for sure. | null | 0 | 1316796376 | False | 0 | c2m1nyx | t3_kp6d6 | null | t1_c2m1nyx | t1_c2m1m8u | null | 1427637749 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | gospelwut | null | Indeed. People conflate the judicial tomfoolery with the IP system writ large. | null | 0 | 1316796416 | False | 0 | c2m1o6n | t3_kosg9 | null | t1_c2m1o6n | t1_c2lyz4z | null | 1427637751 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | dbingham | null | You're right and now that I'm awake that's basically what I'm doing. I do think a system like this would do better with a way to write petitions collaboratively once they're in the system. But failing that, you're right. Emailing it around, sharing it here on Reddit, HN, etc, totally the way to go.
Which is what I'm doing with new language, right now. I just wish someone else would step up to the plate too. I don't think I'm the best person to be doing this by a long shot. Last night I didn't really even mean to publish it, it was a click too far.
Also, actually, I may just be an idiot. In the pre-publishing page there may have been a way to show it around to people for edits before publishing. I just clicked through it so fast that I wouldn't have spotted it.
Anyway, TL;DR Yeah, you're right :[ | null | 0 | 1316796473 | False | 0 | c2m1oi5 | t3_kosg9 | null | t1_c2m1oi5 | t1_c2m1mf3 | null | 1427637756 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | diewhitegirls | null | I'm certainly aware of State St., but I have no real understanding of it. I'll take a look through that and comment on it later. Thank you for sharing.
I do want to reiterate my point, w.r.t. last paragraph: humanity was able to evolve in small communities, with minimal laws, until urbanization kicked in. As we started growing as multiple societies and, today, as a singular global society, the need for more enforcement came about. This analogy has a similar application with the software and the tech industries; as their size and influence grows, you must put laws into place to regulate the new set of circumstances that will come about. | null | 0 | 1316796496 | False | 0 | c2m1omp | t3_kosg9 | null | t1_c2m1omp | t1_c2m1l0k | null | 1427637758 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | IRQBreaker | null | It's simple. If you do something like this you are retarded. And I mean it. If I see this in a code review or later in a trouble report fix, I am going to call the person who implemented this a retard. | null | 0 | 1316796545 | False | 0 | c2m1owa | t3_kooiy | null | t1_c2m1owa | t1_c2lzxae | null | 1427637762 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | smeezy | null | >Is quicksort any less useful because it is 50 years old? Is C++ a novelty despite it being developed in the 80s? Yes, we're in a fast moving industry, but software can last longer than you give it credit for: Cobol and Fortran are still used in limited applications; several of the underpinning algorithms (quicksort, merge sort) and data structures (linked lists, hash tables) that are essential parts of any programmer's toolkit are 50 years old.
Funny that none of these are patented. I doubt any of them would have reached the widespread use they enjoy today if they were patented.
For today's examples of genuinely useful algorithms that have been become difficult to use because of patents: see JPEG-2000, which is a superior alternative to JPEG, but is not widely used because of patent licensing. Or GIF 89, whose widespread use was threatened because it was encumbered by the LZW patents. Or PNG, which had to use the deflate algorithm to avoid patent troubles. Or many aspects of OpenType rendering.
One thing that one can observe from the examples above is that many developers simply *work around* patents rather than license them or wait for them to expire. What you end up with is an inefficient system of *re-implementation*, rather than an optimized system of using the best algorithms available today, and working on *something else* that hasn't been invented yet.
I would imagine if C++, Cobol, Fortran were *patented* that they would have died out ages ago, or have turned into single-vendor "boutique" products. If the linked list were patented, developers would just grit their teeth and work around it with a much less efficient algorithm, like they did with PNG.
Who wins in these cases? Certainly not the end user. | null | 0 | 1316796549 | False | 0 | c2m1ox6 | t3_kosg9 | null | t1_c2m1ox6 | t1_c2lzxwj | null | 1427637762 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | pio | null | You work in the patent office and you think that "the most we see is Apple suing Nokia"?
http://adamjaudon.files.wordpress.com/2011/08/20110819-074041.jpg
Keep in mind this is outdated. | null | 0 | 1316796566 | False | 0 | c2m1p0i | t3_kosg9 | null | t1_c2m1p0i | t1_c2m1in1 | null | 1427637763 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | cogman10 | null | Server firmware. Which is WAY more tested than space shuttle firmware :P. Businesses don't like it when their million dollar servers have bugs or glitches in them. | null | 0 | 1316796663 | False | 0 | c2m1pje | t3_klypn | null | t1_c2m1pje | t1_c2lu311 | null | 1427637770 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | IRQBreaker | null | Or, (this is a thing that can start wars), put the braces on a separate line.
But really, putting the brace on a separate line really helps the readability of the code. | null | 0 | 1316796704 | False | 0 | c2m1prn | t3_kooiy | null | t1_c2m1prn | t1_c2m0gbr | null | 1427637774 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | Are you referring to the object explorer? If so then it could be a huge network latency issue; SSMS queries the server to see what options you have available for display on each object.
Like I've said, I've never experienced what you're talking about before. It's always been very quick for me (including object explorer which I almost never used anyway; it's faster to write a SQL query to do what I want). | null | 0 | 1316796708 | False | 0 | c2m1pse | t3_ko3r2 | null | t1_c2m1pse | t1_c2lziku | null | 1427637774 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | Well, I tried to sign the petition but that website is horribly broken. Maybe they cant write a decent web app because it's already patented? | null | 0 | 1316796739 | False | 0 | c2m1pyi | t3_kosg9 | null | t1_c2m1pyi | t3_kosg9 | null | 1427637775 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | OolonColluphid | null | Yeah, except that you can only use it to create the new Metro-style apps. It would be absolutely awesome if it could also be used for 'classic' desktop apps. | null | 0 | 1316796822 | False | 0 | c2m1qfc | t3_ko2wv | null | t1_c2m1qfc | t1_c2m06be | null | 1427637782 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1316796833 | False | 0 | c2m1qha | t3_kogj4 | null | t1_c2m1qha | t1_c2lw6u3 | null | 1427637783 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | smakusdod | null | YEAH THIS SHOULD REALLY WORK, GUYS. | null | 0 | 1316796838 | False | 0 | c2m1qi4 | t3_kosg9 | null | t1_c2m1qi4 | t3_kosg9 | null | 1427637783 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1316796876 | False | 0 | c2m1qo2 | t3_ko3r2 | null | t1_c2m1qo2 | t1_c2lwnkv | null | 1427637786 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | IRQBreaker | null | My eyes! I want to stab them with a dull fork!
But each to his/her own I guess. Anyway, I've been doing software development for about 20 years now, and the one thing that helps me to get up to speed with unfamiliar code is well written code. And by that I mean code that separates <expression> and <statement> with a new line (and of course braces) I.e.
if ( x == y )
{
hey_x_is_equal_to_y()
} | null | 0 | 1316797080 | False | 0 | c2m1rv9 | t3_kooiy | null | t1_c2m1rv9 | t1_c2lzxp2 | null | 1427637801 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | FrankBattaglia | null | And I would re-iterate my own: such a view implies that the software industry up until 1998 was some sort of primitive, nascent enclave, that wasn't ready for prime time before 1998.
Such a view is preposterous: to cite just one glaring counterexample, Bill Gates was already the richest man in the country by 1993, and richest in the world by 1995, based entirely on his software company. | null | 0 | 1316797081 | False | 0 | c2m1rvi | t3_kosg9 | null | t1_c2m1rvi | t1_c2m1omp | null | 1427637801 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | OolonColluphid | null | Depressingly, he was the [Rich Platforms Program Manager](http://www.peterelst.com/blog/2009/04/08/interview-with-scott-barnes-about-silverlight-3/) back in the day. | null | 0 | 1316797104 | False | 0 | c2m1rzt | t3_ko2wv | null | t1_c2m1rzt | t1_c2m0mml | null | 1427637803 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Koreija | null | > Or I work in a bank
I know lots of huge projects (airlines, banks, insurance companies, catalog companies, ...) and none of them ever reached that size. 1GB are far more than 100 Mio. lines of code (twice the size of SAP R/3, 0.25x of _all_ LOC used by Citicorp projects). Maybe your version of du is broken or you just use a totally different definition of "software project". | null | 0 | 1316797216 | False | 0 | c2m1slq | t3_khkyd | null | t1_c2m1slq | t1_c2m023r | null | 1427637811 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | gospelwut | null | It's a shame it seems finding these amazing tools is mostly done by word of mouth. Though, I guess most aggregate sites don't have much love for anything related to MS/etc. | null | 0 | 1316797230 | False | 0 | c2m1sob | t3_ko3r2 | null | t1_c2m1sob | t1_c2m1jm6 | null | 1427637812 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | I'm sure they'll allow this, probably just haven't announced it yet. It would be a waste of resources to keep maintaining WPF alongside WinRT. | null | 0 | 1316797238 | False | 0 | c2m1sq8 | t3_ko2wv | null | t1_c2m1sq8 | t1_c2m1qfc | null | 1427637812 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | freakish777 | null | Actually, it's not just that people "surround themselves with others of like mind" but that when thrown into a small-ish group of people (say, to work on a software project together) one will begin to pick up the sayings, and occasionally even beliefs of the other people in that group.
For instance, at the last job I had, we did SCRUM, and our PM would ask for updates on tasks at our morning meetings. I would usually refer to tasks as "guys" ("This guy is half way done, I could use some help from Gary fine tuning the SQL to make sure it's optimized.") and sure enough within a couple of weeks half the team was referring to tasks and other conceptual objects as "guys." | null | 0 | 1316797247 | False | 0 | c2m1sry | t3_kogj4 | null | t1_c2m1sry | t1_c2lxl1t | null | 1427637813 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | kshep92 | null | I think the post is supposed to be a sarcastic one. The programmer, Richard E. Walker is claiming ot be a "JavaScript super genius" and in fact makes use of worst practices (if there is such a thing) and code that can land you in trouble later on.
My JS is a bit rusty, but if I recall correctly, concatenating a character to an integer - num = '0' + num - will give a string, thus making it impossible to carry out math functions on it such as finding the square root.
I'm guessing the other two examples in the post denote practices or coding logic that are just as ludicrous. | null | 0 | 1316797256 | False | 0 | c2m1stg | t3_koozi | null | t1_c2m1stg | t1_c2lz46n | null | 1427637813 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | PimpDedede | null | Are you serious?
Grammar and spelling help communicate an idea so that the reader doesn't have to figure out what the person is trying to say, and can concentrate on the idea at hand.
When constructing a petition or any official document you are not only trying to communicate an idea but also a presence, a sense of professionalism. Very much like you wouldn't go into a job interview in clothes you've been wearing a week straight. A situation where you would very much be judged by your clothes. | null | 0 | 1316797278 | False | 0 | c2m1sxn | t3_kosg9 | null | t1_c2m1sxn | t1_c2m1n5c | null | 1427637815 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | freakish777 | null | Unless they've played Magic: The Gathering (incidentally, I'm about 95% sure that who ever put The Stack into M:tG with the 6th Ed rules change was familiar with Computer Programming). | null | 0 | 1316797335 | False | 0 | c2m1t8n | t3_kogj4 | null | t1_c2m1t8n | t1_c2lyc5t | null | 1427637828 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Koreija | null | More a lack of originality... | null | 0 | 1316797387 | False | 0 | c2m1tjb | t3_kolze | null | t1_c2m1tjb | t1_c2m1k0t | null | 1427637826 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | rox0r | null | So maybe he shouldn't enforce? | null | 0 | 1316797418 | False | 0 | c2m1tow | t3_kosg9 | null | t1_c2m1tow | t1_c2m0q9n | null | 1428193390 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | gordynor | null | For those of you using *NIX OSs, ever try the new Toad for Eclipse? It runs on just about any OS and its free. FTW! | null | 0 | 1316797494 | False | 0 | c2m1u3r | t3_ko3r2 | null | t1_c2m1u3r | t3_ko3r2 | null | 1427637834 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | In the petition the idea being communicated was perfectly clear. If the grammar was so bad it obscured the idea I would see it as a problem. But it wasn't.
And that people do judge a man by his clothes and an idea by its grammar doesn't make it right. | null | 0 | 1316797498 | False | 0 | c2m1u4j | t3_kosg9 | null | t1_c2m1u4j | t1_c2m1sxn | null | 1427637834 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | mistralol | null |
That's the problem it does work. It just people don't understand that it has to roll back the query. Or there are certain parts the internals cannot cancel in without breaking the acid principle | null | 0 | 1316797561 | False | 0 | c2m1uhb | t3_ko3r2 | null | t1_c2m1uhb | t1_c2lyscw | null | 1427637840 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | rox0r | null | How is that any different than having copyright retroactively extending and suddenly making a lot of money by stealing from the public domain?
* Either it is wrong to do things retroactively and so old copyrights should only follow the term as defined when they were created
* It is right to do things retroactively and we should be able to reduce patent lengths across the board. | null | 0 | 1316797568 | False | 0 | c2m1uiq | t3_kosg9 | null | t1_c2m1uiq | t1_c2lyumj | null | 1427637840 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Poita_ | null | Unique pointers are the only relatively new thing there. Stack stored objects and GC heap objects have been around forever. C++ 2011 has unique pointers (std::unique_ptr), and I'm pretty sure D does too.
EDIT: Yep, D does. http://www.d-programming-language.org/phobos/std_typecons.html#Unique | null | 0 | 1316797569 | True | 0 | c2m1uiv | t3_kos4z | null | t1_c2m1uiv | t1_c2m09a7 | null | 1427637840 | 9 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | raimondious | null | Maybe not for that reason alone, but a good candidate has a passion for their field and an interest in it outside of just having a job. If 2 people know C and one knows no other languages but the other is constantly learning new techniques, which is the stronger candidate?
If you're saying there are people out there seriously looking for a software dev job and don't know *any* programming, so they decide to pick up Go, I'm doubtful those people exist. | null | 0 | 1316797629 | False | 0 | c2m1uv8 | t3_kos4z | null | t1_c2m1uv8 | t1_c2lzpws | null | 1428193388 | 8 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | It doesn't do it for everything, but for example if you highlight and copy
>Don sells cigarettes at his pharmacy, because he believes that people have the right to do unhealthy things
in Firefox 6.0.2, it will paste:
> Don sells cigarettes at his pharmacy, because he believes that people have the right to do unhealthy things
> Read more http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2011/09/26/110926fa_fact_hessler#ixzz1YnRAE8iY
I can see it's a script coming in from tcr.tynt.com (at least, I think it is), but it's too obfuscated for me to know exactly how it works.
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True | jerf | null | It's your nickel. | null | 0 | 1316797793 | False | 0 | c2m1vsa | t3_ibqp1 | null | t1_c2m1vsa | t1_c2m0cvu | null | 1427637862 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | knipil | null | All Greek philosophers were arrogant. All arrogant people are douches. All douches are Greek philosophers!?! | null | 0 | 1316797801 | False | 0 | c2m1vu8 | t3_kogj4 | null | t1_c2m1vu8 | t1_c2lzqcn | null | 1427637858 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | GTChessplayer | null | >And who would be enforcing the idea that you can't damage property that's not yours? Are you going to sit outside your property with a shotgun, waiting for people to come damage it?
We already discussed this, but you have the attention span of a 2 year old at a 3rd tier university.
Protection would be privatized. If someone's spray painting your house, you call your security, they come and remove the threat. It's the same way as with the police now, except the security has no justification for taking your rights away. If they do that, they lose business.
>See: China. They do absolutely no regulation of the environment. Guess what happened to most of their environment, especially around the factories.
Um, this is not true. China is completely government controlled; 100%. The government can allow pollution or not allow it. They are the regulation. In fact, if people actually owned land there, they'd have incentive to keep it clean. They don't actually own their property, so they have no incentive.
>This is horseshit.
Nope. See BP oil spill. No accountability. Why? Because they were acting within guidelines. Any land owner there basically gets a small payment for "damages". There's no crime or wrong-doing since BP was completely within EPA guidelines.
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True | MatmaRex | null | This is a problem since this is an article about a compiler that has to handle such stuff. | null | 0 | 1316797891 | False | 0 | c2m1wc0 | t3_kooiy | null | t1_c2m1wc0 | t1_c2m1j0o | null | 1427637863 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | ex_ample | null | My guess is that '0' + num = num due to JS's fuzzy handling of numbers, so the function might just not work. Or it could be that you might have a number like 3.2023 , which would result in 03.2023 Otherwise I'm not really sure what the problem with that function is. Maybe it's just redundant? | null | 0 | 1316797912 | False | 0 | c2m1wg9 | t3_koozi | null | t1_c2m1wg9 | t1_c2m1stg | null | 1427637863 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | itISiBOWMAN | null | You could say the same thing about the first business venture of every successful businessman. | null | 0 | 1316797955 | False | 0 | c2m1woz | t3_kp0u2 | null | t1_c2m1woz | t1_c2m1a15 | null | 1427637866 | 86 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | andralex | null | ew | null | 0 | 1316797981 | False | 0 | c2m1wtv | t3_kooiy | null | t1_c2m1wtv | t1_c2m1bzh | null | 1427637866 | 10 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1316797990 | False | 0 | c2m1wvp | t3_kp0u2 | null | t1_c2m1wvp | t3_kp0u2 | null | 1427637867 | -2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | sriram_sun | null | Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha! | null | 0 | 1316798023 | False | 0 | c2m1x28 | t3_kosg9 | null | t1_c2m1x28 | t3_kosg9 | null | 1427637868 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | helly1223 | null | For reason reddit thinks these petitions are actually going to make a difference. | null | 0 | 1316798035 | False | 0 | c2m1x4o | t3_kosg9 | null | t1_c2m1x4o | t3_kosg9 | null | 1427637870 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | MatmaRex | null | I like this syntax (Ruby supports it, as well), but your last example looks anything but readable to me. If this actually works and is encouraged, I have one more reason not to try Perl :( (it doesn't work in Ruby). | null | 0 | 1316798041 | False | 0 | c2m1x5u | t3_kooiy | null | t1_c2m1x5u | t1_c2m01zm | null | 1427637870 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | expertunderachiever | null | I'd rather they learn new algorithms/protocols/etc than languages.
Not that learning new ideas from new languages is a bad idea. what I loath about lang-of-the-week is somehow advocating that everything should be written in it... | null | 0 | 1316798058 | False | 0 | c2m1x9b | t3_kos4z | null | t1_c2m1x9b | t1_c2m1uv8 | null | 1427637872 | -8 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | andralex | null | Forcing use of braces would break a lot of code and would make some people unhappy. D's solution to restrict the grammar is pretty clever because it eliminates the dangerous cases without requiring changes to all code. | null | 0 | 1316798066 | False | 0 | c2m1xaz | t3_kooiy | null | t1_c2m1xaz | t1_c2m1j0o | null | 1427637872 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | OolonColluphid | null | And yet, that's [exactly what they seem to be doing](http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb613588\(v=VS.110\).aspx). WinRT belongs to WinDiv, WPF belongs to DevDiv, and ne'er the twain shall meet. | null | 0 | 1316798098 | False | 0 | c2m1xi2 | t3_ko2wv | null | t1_c2m1xi2 | t1_c2m1sq8 | null | 1427637875 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | /r/pics is [that way](http://www.reddit.com/r/pics) | null | 0 | 1316798154 | False | 0 | c2m1xu3 | t3_kp7ls | null | t1_c2m1xu3 | t3_kp7ls | null | 1427637879 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | vagif | null | Innovation in math, physics is real innovation. There are algorithms, formulas, and laws of physics that do truly astounding stuff, that a person with reasonable creativity could not come up with on his own. Allowing math patents helps us because we get to see the formulas right away, and after a period, it becomes public domain.
What is the alternative to patents? If you prefer to abolish math 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.
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True | grauenwolf | null | > Seriously, why would I choose a non-FOSS solution when I can have the same FOSS solution elsewhere?
You should ask the people who used to run MySQL AB. They made millions on selling non-FOSS versions of a product that they were giving away for free under a FOSS license. Not only was it the exact same code, it was from the exact same company. | null | 0 | 1316798194 | False | 0 | c2m1y2d | t3_ko20r | null | t1_c2m1y2d | t1_c2m1hla | null | 1427637882 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | fubarfubarfubar | null | Site apparently still down for maintenance. :| | null | 0 | 1316798233 | False | 0 | c2m1yap | t3_kosg9 | null | t1_c2m1yap | t3_kosg9 | null | 1427637884 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | Because when it's obvious that the author couldn't be bothered to spend five minutes proofreading his text, or, better, try it on some friends first, it is logical to suspect that the author _also_ didn't spend any effort researching the facts and thinking over the proposals that constitute the essence of his petition, and just put some made on the spot bullshit there.
The same applies to everyone who signs the petition: I would suspect that most of them didn't even read all of it and signed it purely because "fuck da man".
Think about it this way: it is possible that someone who you want to hire to do some job is impeccably responsible and perfectly punctual in everything job-related, but totally neglects his appearance, i.e. wears old dirty clothes and shoes, has a neckbeard with crumbs in it, etc. But it's quite unlikely, so you'd better play it safe and ask for a next candidate. It's a perfectly rational thing to do, since for every absent-minded genius there are hundreds of useless potheads who learned just enough terminology to bullshit their way through the interview.
Even more damning is the fact that this argument has not occurred, or appealed, to this person, in which case even if he is technically competent, he must severely deficient in general intelligence.
So, coming back to this petition, the author's attitude says *"I'm seventeen year old, my stupidity and ignorance are only rivalled by my opinion of my intellectual prowess, I don't know shit about how society works and lack the basic ability to predict people's reactions."* And when you sign it, you say, yeah, I don't see anything wrong with you, buddy, myself!
And when someone who does know what he's talking about tries to raise the issue is the future, everyone thinks about him and his supporters that yes, thanks to that petition we know that we have a lot of seventeen year old idiots with active social position here, ha ha. | null | 0 | 1316798245 | False | 0 | c2m1ycv | t3_kosg9 | null | t1_c2m1ycv | t1_c2m0ow1 | null | 1427637885 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | byron | null | you're the guy who needs to brag about himself on the internet. | null | 0 | 1316798432 | False | 0 | c2m1zep | t3_kos4z | null | t1_c2m1zep | t1_c2m10bf | null | 1427637902 | 9 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | mazerrackham | null | I can't say I agree with you. Oracle's feature-set is unmatchable, but they price it accordingly and that (along with their infringement-suit-happy legal team) upsets people. Oracle as an RDBMS can literally do things that are impossible in other engines.
What reporting capabilities are you comparing between the different engines?
Are you familiar with Oracle's DBFS for loading files? It doesn't get any easier than that...put a file in a filesystem and query it from the DB.
IMO developers prefer other DBs because they are easier to use...It is simple to spin up a copy of SQLServer or MySQL on your laptop to develop off of. That does not mean it is the best platform or even a *good* platform for production enterprise use.
For me, I've worked with MSSQL 7-2008, Oracle 8i-11g, Informix, MySQL, Sybase, Epic...I've probably missed some. I'm currently an DBA for ~100 Oracle instances and ~2000 MSSQL instances. It is a constant struggle to balance between our enterprise availability needs and what developers/vendors consider the easiest DB to work on. | null | 0 | 1316798454 | False | 0 | c2m1ziy | t3_ko3r2 | null | t1_c2m1ziy | t1_c2lw5j6 | null | 1427637902 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | shevegen | null | The thing I do not understand is why people use Facebook.
I never have and never will and thankfully Facebook and its whole infrastructure is entirely irrelevant to me and what I do with my time. (Just for the record, google+ and everything else is just as irrelevant to me as well.) | null | 0 | 1316798465 | False | 0 | c2m1zl8 | t3_kp0u2 | null | t1_c2m1zl8 | t3_kp0u2 | null | 1427637903 | 12 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | frezik | null | Not really encouraged, per se. Most curly-brace languages that allow single-line if's have debates over if it's ever a good idea to even do that (you can see a few in this very thread). I just think Perl has an interesting solution for a problem that perhaps should be avoided in the first place.
I think the final case isn't too bad if you get used to the idiom. How far that goes will largely depend on the sorts of programmers you hire. | null | 0 | 1316798470 | False | 0 | c2m1zmd | t3_kooiy | null | t1_c2m1zmd | t1_c2m1x5u | null | 1427637903 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | gabelerner | null | there's a copy/oncopy event in browsers, they probably listen to that and append the url to the clipboardData in the handler | null | 0 | 1316798574 | False | 0 | c2m2083 | t3_kp82i | null | t1_c2m2083 | t3_kp82i | null | 1427637910 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1316798601 | False | 0 | c2m20dh | t3_ko3r2 | null | t1_c2m20dh | t3_ko3r2 | null | 1427637912 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | mweathr | null | No social life, no need for social networking. | null | 0 | 1316798612 | False | 0 | c2m20fx | t3_kp0u2 | null | t1_c2m20fx | t1_c2m1zl8 | null | 1427637913 | 72 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | smogeblot | null | People that argue against software patents either:
* have no idea what they're talking about and are just spouting neckbeard talking points. These people would likely never have a reason to want software patents simply because they do not innovate.
or
* are sore losers who neglected to do due diligence when they came up with software that violated someone else's patent. Again, they are not innovating, but trying to profit off someone else's innovation.
Innovation in software is just like innovation in any other field. Patents are there to protect the innovators and they do that job. In software, however, there are lots more sore losers who think their code is inherently innovative. The truly innovative ones would indeed be out trying to make code that is patentable for themselves instead of whining when they get sued for infringement. | null | 0 | 1316798761 | False | 0 | c2m218d | t3_kosg9 | null | t1_c2m218d | t3_kosg9 | null | 1427637928 | -3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | fullouterjoin | null | If you can patent software, you can patent plot lines.
* http://www.plotpatents.com/
* http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20090901/0107116063.shtml
Not to mention patenting printing methods, inks, bindings, business methods around book deals, distribution, etc. There is no commons in this modern world, everything can and will have revenue extracted from it. | null | 0 | 1316798791 | False | 0 | c2m21e0 | t3_kosg9 | null | t1_c2m21e0 | t1_c2m0xbq | null | 1427637934 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | ninjeff | null | Upvote for the subtle Visual Basic plug. | null | 0 | 1316798798 | False | 0 | c2m21fi | t3_kooiy | null | t1_c2m21fi | t1_c2m10pt | null | 1427637926 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | expertunderachiever | null | More like warn the kiddos out there not to try and impress people with their esoteric bullshit knowledge of languages that have no bearing on reality whatsoever.
I'd rather people nerded out on algorithms and optimization then on things like. | null | 0 | 1316798881 | False | 0 | c2m21wt | t3_kos4z | null | t1_c2m21wt | t1_c2m1zep | null | 1427637933 | -6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | fistoroboto | null | I'm sorry, but no, information is the result of someone's labors, whether the price is fair is a separate discussion, but the labor-hours it takes to develop a new algorithm or piece of software is just as worthy of compensation as the guy who builds bridges. | null | 0 | 1316798918 | False | 0 | c2m223y | t3_kosg9 | null | t1_c2m223y | t1_c2m0o89 | null | 1427637937 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | fullouterjoin | null | She could have patented that plot line as well as creating a trade mark minefield. With enough money should could sue each copy cat out of existence. Twilight was a copy-cat riff on Harry Potter, should JK Rowling get a cut? | null | 0 | 1316798948 | False | 0 | c2m229h | t3_kosg9 | null | t1_c2m229h | t1_c2lz3ys | null | 1427637938 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | jessta | null | It's bigger than C(32), C++(48), Java(50) and a bit smaller than C#(77).
But the number is secondary to the way the keywords are scatted across various programming styles. | null | 0 | 1316798971 | False | 0 | c2m22e4 | t3_kos4z | null | t1_c2m22e4 | t1_c2m1ndi | null | 1427637949 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | FlySwat | null | I used to think like this guy did. Until I tried to teach someone.
Turns out, something as simple as:
- A stack is a stack of things
Still relies on the pupil knowing Last In First Out / First In First Out behavior. This guy has obviously never tried to teach a beginner.
Everything seems simple when you already know it.
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True | raimondious | null | That's a false dichotomy, you don't just learn keywords to learn a new language, you try new things, learn new algorithms/protocols/etc. Nobody reasonable thinks everything should be written in one language, that's why it's good to be familiar with many. | null | 0 | 1316799006 | False | 0 | c2m22l9 | t3_kos4z | null | t1_c2m22l9 | t1_c2m1x9b | null | 1427637942 | 8 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | BrianAtDTS | null | I don't need to ask them, thats the price to remove the GPL for downstream distribution. Its a way for a proprietary OEM distributor to stay proprietary on selling pretty much embeddable devices. Its not the major use case, its a relatively minor one to the overall business such as enterprise support services. | null | 0 | 1316799022 | False | 0 | c2m22oj | t3_ko20r | null | t1_c2m22oj | t1_c2m1y2d | null | 1428193385 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | WalterBright | null | D ignores whitespace, changing this would be a massive philosophical change. | null | 0 | 1316799075 | False | 0 | c2m22z3 | t3_kooiy | null | t1_c2m22z3 | t1_c2lzxae | null | 1427637949 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | perspicuus | null | Also it sucks if you are a developer using FB, they change so many API's without notice. | null | 0 | 1316799107 | False | 0 | c2m2363 | t3_kp0u2 | null | t1_c2m2363 | t3_kp0u2 | null | 1427637952 | 24 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | benihana | null | >This is really important, and people need to stop doing it. This is one of the few things that can actually make me want to punch another developer in the face. This behavior is unacceptable, but it runs rampant, especially with a lot of older open source developers.
Says the guy on reddit, the 2nd biggest confirmation bias circlejerk on the internet after huffington post. See, the thing about confirmation bias, is that most people aren't aware that it's happening. So when you see someone else doing it, you say, "confirmation bias." But you don't see yourself doing it, because you're too busy agreeing with the parent comment's main point. | null | 0 | 1316799167 | False | 0 | c2m23hl | t3_kogj4 | null | t1_c2m23hl | t1_c2lxl1t | null | 1427637956 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | CuseTown | null | this should be read by a broader audience on Reddit, more people need to see that facebook has no soul | null | 0 | 1316799176 | False | 0 | c2m23jg | t3_kp0u2 | null | t1_c2m23jg | t3_kp0u2 | null | 1427637956 | 9 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | expertunderachiever | null | From my experience in writing embedded software [and Linux drivers/etc] 99% of your work is C, with a smidge of assembler. On the testing side things like Perl help out tremendously with it's associative memory, string functions, etc...
When I said algorithms I meant like sorting/searching/math not "this is how a linked list works in Haskell" ... nobody cares.
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True | 0xABADC0DA | null | #1:
> Unlike the related HTTP mechanisms of pipelining concurrent requests on one TCP stream, the SPDY resources can be returned in any order and even mixed together in small chunks so that head of line blocking is never an issue and you never need more than one connection to each real server
Simple tweaks to HTTP pipelining would achieve the same thing without needed a new protocol. So this can't be seen as a rational reason for Spdy.
#2:
> SPDY is over SSL every time.
So is HTTPS. Spdy being encrypted all the time is only ever a benefit for privacy, but in many other ways (like diagnosing problems) it makes things more difficult and inefficient.
#3:
> SPDY compresses all the HTTP-equivalent headers using a specialized dictionary and a compression context that is reserved only for the headers so it does not get diluted with non-header references.
If you use SSL like in point #2 then you already have compression of everything including HTTP headers so the only benefit you could have is a specialized dictionary, a marginal one benefit. Especially since when making several requests only the first one would benefit. Meanwhile you've added a huge wart to an otherwise general purpose TCP multiplexing protocol.
This is really just about Mozilla blindly following Google, as if everything they do is golden, and not about improving the web. | null | 0 | 1316799226 | False | 0 | c2m23t4 | t3_kp1b5 | null | t1_c2m23t4 | t3_kp1b5 | null | 1427637960 | -3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Fagadaba | null | I was about to say the same thing. Shit like this needs to be spread. | null | 0 | 1316799272 | False | 0 | c2m243x | t3_kp0u2 | null | t1_c2m243x | t1_c2m1b4w | null | 1427637963 | -1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | To me, C# is what Java should have been. | null | 0 | 1316799300 | False | 0 | c2m24ai | t3_kos4z | null | t1_c2m24ai | t1_c2m08ah | null | 1427637964 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | HowInappropriate | null | His argument is flawed because it provides insufficient evidence to support the conclusion. | null | 0 | 1316799328 | False | 0 | c2m24gc | t3_kp0u2 | null | t1_c2m24gc | t3_kp0u2 | null | 1427637966 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | fullouterjoin | null | Because we don't have the fortitude to remake our world view, we will all go down with the ship. This is like one of those accidents where we see it coming miles away, could make a shit storm saving move and no one does because we keep hoping of all hope that it will just turn out ok.
It won't. And if we don't change, we will be fucked. But we won't change. So we are fucked. | null | 0 | 1316799358 | False | 0 | c2m24m9 | t3_kosg9 | null | t1_c2m24m9 | t1_c2lyumj | null | 1427637968 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | shevegen | null | No, it does not. He got upvoted for a reason and you got downvoted for a reason.
Learn to live with it. | null | 0 | 1316799392 | False | 0 | c2m24sw | t3_kp0u2 | null | t1_c2m24sw | t1_c2m1cwy | null | 1427637972 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | WalterBright | null | In modern languages, we expect more from a language than what is simple to write a parser for. (Though I'd argue that the D parser is hardly "sophisticated" - it's one of the easiest parts of the compiler by far.) But it does move beyond single token lookahead (the 1 in LALR(1)) to requiring arbitrary lookahead. I'd characterize LALR(1) parsers as "trivial".
As for writing parsers by hand, I find that easier than using some parser generator. | null | 0 | 1316799401 | False | 0 | c2m24ud | t3_kooiy | null | t1_c2m24ud | t1_c2lzkqv | null | 1427637972 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
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