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True | s73v3r | null | >We already discussed this, but you have the attention span of a 2 year old at a 3rd tier university.
No, we didn't. You just said they don't have the right to do it. You never mentioned anything about who would enforce it.
>Protection would be privatized.
Oh wow, such an awful fucking idea. Suppose I'm a poor person, who can't afford your private security. Do I have no right not to have my shit fucked with? To people like you, those without money are without rights. And that's incredibly fucked up.
>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.
WRONG WRONG WRONG WRONG. WRONG WRONG WRONG WRONG.
Believe it or not, there is actually quite a bit of free enterprise in China.
And your "having incentive to keep land clean" remark is retarded, as even if you don't own the land, you still have to live around there, and breathe the air and drink the water. Except those that own the factories are rich enough to not have to do any of that shit, so they get to exert their will on those who have to stay. Another example of how your system encourages the rich to shit on the poor.
>See BP oil spill. No accountability.
Except the whole billions of dollars in restitution they've had to pay, the cleanup efforts they've had to lead, the decimation of their share price, etc.
And remember, under your system, there wouldn't be any laws for them to break either. Everything would depend on any person being harmed having the resources to bring a lawsuit against BP, who is massive, and has entire legions of lawyers to throw at the case. And furthermore, there wouldn't be any real courts to actually issue judgement, and nothing to actually enforce the judgement. So even if you could get a ruling in your favor, good luck collecting. | null | 0 | 1316799410 | False | 0 | c2m24wq | t3_klqte | null | t1_c2m24wq | t1_c2m1vvh | null | 1427637974 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Claussm | null | He is an extremely intelligent and gifted man. | null | 0 | 1316799418 | False | 0 | c2m24yi | t3_kp0u2 | null | t1_c2m24yi | t1_c2m18pe | null | 1427637975 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | pryomancer | null | Well that's a bit sensationalist. | null | 0 | 1316799451 | False | 0 | c2m2557 | t3_kp0u2 | null | t1_c2m2557 | t1_c2m1wvp | null | 1427637976 | 29 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | WalterBright | null | Yes, I do happen to like & prefer the C-style syntax. Call me a dinosaur. | null | 0 | 1316799478 | False | 0 | c2m25b9 | t3_kooiy | null | t1_c2m25b9 | t1_c2lzjgu | null | 1427637978 | 8 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | smogeblot | null | Technological innovation and literature are two different things. There's a very good reason why wizard stories are not patentable. It's because they don't _do_ or _make_ anything.
If I come up with a novel way to _do_ or _make_ something, and I wrote up and copyrighted a manual on how to _do_ that thing, then surely I could prevent anyone from _reprinting_ that work without licensing it from me first. But which is more valuable; the _reprinting rights_ or the ability to actually _do_ what the book says? Indeed, any publisher could easily rewrite the text, and redraw the illustrations, and make their own copy of the book without licensing my work. A patent allows me to actually license the technology, the know-how, the _do_ or _make_, and not just the particular printed matter or software code. | null | 0 | 1316799502 | False | 0 | c2m25g2 | t3_kosg9 | null | t1_c2m25g2 | t1_c2lz3ys | null | 1427637980 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | novacoder | null | If a teacher starts out with "this is a bit tricky..." it's probably because the concept is tricky to teach. | null | 0 | 1316799515 | False | 0 | c2m25iw | t3_kogj4 | null | t1_c2m25iw | t3_kogj4 | null | 1427637980 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | fistoroboto | null | Yes and no, once you eliminate that you're left with software copyright, which, thanks to the DMCA, is also a huge problem. With patents at least, the methods of operation are somewhat transparent, you may not know exactly how they are performed but you can get a decent idea, so after the patent is up in 20 years you can create something like it.
With software copyright, the process is not transparent, and any attempts to reverse engineer it are usually illegal, and on top of that, the duration of copyright is much longer (author's death + 70 or 95 to 120 years for corporations). | null | 0 | 1316799525 | False | 0 | c2m25kw | t3_kosg9 | null | t1_c2m25kw | t1_c2m0w3k | null | 1427637981 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Smallpaul | null | If you read the link you sent, you'll see that he says that the title is kind of meaningless. | null | 0 | 1316799530 | False | 0 | c2m25lv | t3_ko2wv | null | t1_c2m25lv | t1_c2m1rzt | null | 1427637981 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | DasCheeze | null | Compared to the bottom line of many companies, thousands of dollars is nothing (a developer can cost between 80 and 120 thousand dollars every year).
It is best-in-class for what it does. That superiority comes with a price. | null | 0 | 1316799533 | False | 0 | c2m25mo | t3_ko21c | null | t1_c2m25mo | t1_c2ly5br | null | 1427637981 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | itsnotlupus | null | I agree. He needs to get screwed over at least two more times before jumping to such hasty conclusions.
| null | 0 | 1316799551 | False | 0 | c2m25qf | t3_kp0u2 | null | t1_c2m25qf | t1_c2m24gc | null | 1427637982 | 19 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Bavaron | null | To me that compromise still seems insufficient. Much useful software was built by those beyond ordinary skill and we use their techniques to cobble our programs together trivially (quick sort, hashing techniques, various forms of encryption, Bloom filters, discrete Fourier transform, ...). It would seriously stifle innovation to have to worry about truly licensing those techniques or fear being sued.
I think instead if we drop our current patent system entirely, allocate a block of tax per year that goes towards paying our useful idea innovators for their contribution to the pool of ideas that anybody can freely use, then things would move along fantastically. | null | 0 | 1316799564 | False | 0 | c2m25t2 | t3_kosg9 | null | t1_c2m25t2 | t1_c2m0e1u | null | 1427637984 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | Stuff like this is why I am adamant that these social platforms not be corporately owned. They should be the property of the community. | null | 0 | 1316799601 | False | 0 | c2m261k | t3_kp0u2 | null | t1_c2m261k | t3_kp0u2 | null | 1427637988 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | HaMMeReD | null | I deal with a couple small companies that's philosophy is "get rich off faceboook and twitter", however they aren't rich, and just as fucking greasy as facebook, if not worse. | null | 0 | 1316799694 | False | 0 | c2m26ip | t3_kp0u2 | null | t1_c2m26ip | t1_c2m10ff | null | 1427637995 | 46 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | asoap | null | As someone who is developing an application to resell on facebook this makes me nervous. Thankfully I haven't invested a lot of time into it. So we'll see what happens. | null | 0 | 1316799727 | False | 0 | c2m26pe | t3_kp0u2 | null | t1_c2m26pe | t3_kp0u2 | null | 1427637994 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Rockmonk | null | Thanks, this helps alot. | null | 0 | 1316799742 | False | 0 | c2m26sh | t3_koqe8 | null | t1_c2m26sh | t3_koqe8 | null | 1427637995 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | fullouterjoin | null | The cross licensing of patents within an industry effectively removes all outside competition. It becomes a oligopoly that controls the entire market. This is not right. Patents should not be used to reinforce oligopolies, and in fact I would be in favor of decreasing patent protection for oligopoly or duopoly industries. A more lightweight version of antitrust where if the pool of competition is too small, your patents don't last as long. This would definitely apply to apple and the cell phone market right now.
Fuck all the fucking fuckers. | null | 0 | 1316799768 | False | 0 | c2m26x9 | t3_kosg9 | null | t1_c2m26x9 | t1_c2lzlhf | null | 1427638006 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | fewdea | null | it is not 'evil companies' or 'shitty CEOs' that are to blame for things like this. it is systemic. our environment encourages shady backroom deals and crapping on customers for profit and power, regardless of the costs. because, well, that's what happens when something imaginary runs the whole damn world. | null | 0 | 1316799808 | False | 0 | c2m2759 | t3_kp0u2 | null | t1_c2m2759 | t1_c2m1b4w | null | 1427638002 | 53 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | WalterBright | null | Yeah, if you like writing THEN and END, which would put you in a small minority. | null | 0 | 1316799829 | False | 0 | c2m279d | t3_kooiy | null | t1_c2m279d | t1_c2m0esj | null | 1427638005 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Traegan | null | Nice find. When someone is complaining about 2 different companies, you should probably take their complaints with a grain of salt. | null | 0 | 1316799837 | False | 0 | c2m27b2 | t3_kp0u2 | null | t1_c2m27b2 | t1_c2m18pe | null | 1427638005 | -9 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1316799856 | False | 0 | c2m27ed | t3_kp0u2 | null | t1_c2m27ed | t1_c2m243x | null | 1427638008 | -8 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | vfr | null | Indeed. | null | 0 | 1316799874 | False | 0 | c2m27i6 | t3_kosg9 | null | t1_c2m27i6 | t1_c2m12tx | null | 1427638009 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | ejtttje | null | This is why entrepreneurs are always a little crazy ;) | null | 0 | 1316799911 | False | 0 | c2m27qf | t3_kp0u2 | null | t1_c2m27qf | t1_c2m1woz | null | 1427638011 | 8 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | jsprogrammer | null | So you have a plate queue? | null | 0 | 1316799958 | False | 0 | c2m280s | t3_kogj4 | null | t1_c2m280s | t1_c2lzzyr | null | 1427638012 | 8 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1316799986 | False | 0 | c2m2863 | t3_kp0u2 | null | t1_c2m2863 | t1_c2m23jg | null | 1427638014 | -8 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | tactics | null | And every time you forget to close a tag, God kills a kitten...
And then doesn't even throw a syntax error....... | null | 0 | 1316799986 | False | 0 | c2m2867 | t3_kos4z | null | t1_c2m2867 | t1_c2m0ams | null | 1427638014 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Timmmmbob | null | Yeah, sorry I meant "new in a modern language". I love C++'s memory model, but it does have quite a lot of warts, and I've love to move to something more modern. I just really want RAII and stuff. | null | 0 | 1316799987 | False | 0 | c2m286p | t3_kos4z | null | t1_c2m286p | t1_c2m1uiv | null | 1427638015 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | hubilation | null | He should have watched The Social Network. Sean Parker is cutthroat. | null | 0 | 1316799995 | False | 0 | c2m288c | t3_kp0u2 | null | t1_c2m288c | t3_kp0u2 | null | 1427638015 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | tip_ty | null | I use facebook to chat with my friends, share links and look at photos. I like it. | null | 0 | 1316800021 | False | 0 | c2m28di | t3_kp0u2 | null | t1_c2m28di | t1_c2m1zl8 | null | 1427638017 | 31 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | AlterdCarbon | null | Oh, I never use those assisted things. I just write the create index statement out in SQL and execute it. | null | 0 | 1316800028 | False | 0 | c2m28ex | t3_ko3r2 | null | t1_c2m28ex | t1_c2lx95z | null | 1427638017 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | 0xABADC0DA | null | > SPDY is a hack, too, but a sensible one given HTTP's current dominance.
How is Spdy better than working with standard bodies to improve HTTP? HTTP 1.2?
The only rationale given by go-it-alone Google is that the web is full of bad implementations of HTTP that can't be upgraded. But if you are using a new port (123) anyway then you can also just have HTTP 1.2 use a different port and break backward compatibility.
Keep in mind that the designers of Spdy *didn't measure against HTTP pipelining* or at least didn't report their findings. They also used a outdated HTTP stack. They basically didn't do any research and just assumed they were right. | null | 0 | 1316800029 | False | 0 | c2m28f3 | t3_kp1b5 | null | t1_c2m28f3 | t1_c2m0yr7 | null | 1427638018 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | ChaChaBolek | null | My company would not exist without Google | null | 0 | 1316800038 | False | 0 | c2m28gs | t3_kp0u2 | null | t1_c2m28gs | t1_c2m10ff | null | 1427638018 | 28 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | tip_ty | null | See the clever pun he made on "Zuckerberg"? | null | 0 | 1316800046 | False | 0 | c2m28if | t3_kp0u2 | null | t1_c2m28if | t1_c2m2557 | null | 1427638020 | 23 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | shevegen | null | Same old syntax shit.
And another language noone needs.
The problem is that new ideas are tried, which is good, but it is going so half assed about it.
THOSE LANGUAGES NEVER TAKE OFF AS THEY DO NOT HAVE AN AMBITIOUS GOAL. | null | 0 | 1316800080 | False | 0 | c2m28pb | t3_kos4z | null | t1_c2m28pb | t3_kos4z | null | 1427638021 | -13 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | raimondious | null | Just want to clarify that I meant the same thing by "new"... not just learning the syntax to do something you already knew, actually learning something new. (I didn't downvote you fyi) | null | 0 | 1316800198 | False | 0 | c2m29co | t3_kos4z | null | t1_c2m29co | t1_c2m23sj | null | 1427638030 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | immerc | null | hmm? | null | 0 | 1316800205 | False | 0 | c2m29dt | t3_kooiy | null | t1_c2m29dt | t1_c2m21fi | null | 1427638030 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | I bet you could trip a lot of people up by asking which one was definitely false. | null | 0 | 1316800223 | False | 0 | c2m29gx | t3_kogj4 | null | t1_c2m29gx | t1_c2lxoha | null | 1427638031 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | pryomancer | null | And here I was, sitting here, thinking Zuckerberg had stepped down and been replaced with someone of a similar yet unfortunate name. | null | 0 | 1316800239 | False | 0 | c2m29ke | t3_kp0u2 | null | t1_c2m29ke | t1_c2m28if | null | 1427638039 | 35 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1316800257 | False | 0 | c2m29nx | t3_kp0u2 | null | t1_c2m29nx | t1_c2m28gs | null | 1427638034 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1316800446 | False | 0 | c2m2ap6 | t3_kp0u2 | null | t1_c2m2ap6 | t1_c2m1zl8 | null | 1427638047 | -7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | g0rdy | null | And the apps store, craigslist is littered with apple hardware from the hopes and dreams of the next applilion-aires. | null | 0 | 1316800539 | False | 0 | c2m2b6t | t3_kp0u2 | null | t1_c2m2b6t | t1_c2m26ip | null | 1427638053 | 18 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | dalittle | null | the business version of a leaky abstraction. | null | 0 | 1316800567 | False | 0 | c2m2bc1 | t3_kp0u2 | null | t1_c2m2bc1 | t3_kp0u2 | null | 1427638055 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | BufferUnderpants | null | Well, people nowadays care about learning different techniques for expressing algorithms besides the algorithms themselves, and sometimes that will mean learning something which isn't present in C.
Your argument sounds a bit like those Java guys who decry closures as a Ruby fad, to be frank. | null | 0 | 1316800568 | True | 0 | c2m2bc9 | t3_kos4z | null | t1_c2m2bc9 | t1_c2m23sj | null | 1427638055 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | matthieum | null | The preferences would be a good thing, yes. With a neutral preference for anything not annotated of course.
However I don't think the automatic guess is that interesting. You may have infrequent queries that are time critical, so frequency or cost are not good indicators. It's all about business/technical requirements really. | null | 0 | 1316800591 | False | 0 | c2m2bgy | t3_kmp73 | null | t1_c2m2bgy | t1_c2lqe72 | null | 1427638058 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | sidfarkus | null | Interesting. I've used SlimDX before and found it to be quite nice and more than capable for most things. It seems like a more productive path for the SharpDX folks would have been to contribute to SlimDX to add the WinRT support rather than develop a new API. | null | 0 | 1316800711 | False | 0 | c2m2c3x | t3_kp959 | null | t1_c2m2c3x | t3_kp959 | null | 1427638073 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | lense | null | That movie isn't supposed to be an accurate representation of anything. | null | 0 | 1316800787 | False | 0 | c2m2cik | t3_kp0u2 | null | t1_c2m2cik | t1_c2m288c | null | 1427638078 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | matthieum | null | I may have missed something in your link, but I am not sure of what you want to express here :x ? | null | 0 | 1316800820 | False | 0 | c2m2cor | t3_kn9gt | null | t1_c2m2cor | t1_c2lvqyg | null | 1427638085 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | God_youre_a_pussy | null | Have a backup plan. | null | 0 | 1316800858 | False | 0 | c2m2cwd | t3_kp0u2 | null | t1_c2m2cwd | t1_c2m29nx | null | 1427638079 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | frezik | null | > How is Spdy better than working with standard bodies to improve HTTP? HTTP 1.2?
Because design-by-committee sucks. An "HTTP/1.2" would go the same route as HTML5. | null | 0 | 1316800869 | False | 0 | c2m2cyl | t3_kp1b5 | null | t1_c2m2cyl | t1_c2m28f3 | null | 1427638079 | 15 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | ErstwhileRockstar | null | I wish the demo was up and running. | null | 0 | 1316800869 | False | 0 | c2m2cyw | t3_kolze | null | t1_c2m2cyw | t1_c2lyk52 | null | 1427638084 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | cwj14 | null | There's a very big difference here. You entire business model is not locked in to that one hosting company. Hosting is essentially a commodity and you can move from one provider to another with little impact - just like phone service, etc.
What's being cautioned against is putting your entire business in the control of the whims of one company (facebook). | null | 0 | 1316800914 | False | 0 | c2m2d7e | t3_kp0u2 | null | t1_c2m2d7e | t1_c2m29nx | null | 1428193381 | 80 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | hiffy | null | Which should make us even more indignant that they're virtually always described in breathless tones of admiration, whereas more often than not their chief skill seems to have been being at the right place at the right time. | null | 0 | 1316800918 | False | 0 | c2m2d85 | t3_kp0u2 | null | t1_c2m2d85 | t1_c2m1woz | null | 1428193381 | 47 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | washort | null | well, there's a reason nobody uses HTTP pipelining on the public internet... | null | 0 | 1316800953 | False | 0 | c2m2dg0 | t3_kp1b5 | null | t1_c2m2dg0 | t1_c2m28f3 | null | 1427638086 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | dsfox | null | This is an oversimplification. | null | 0 | 1316800974 | False | 0 | c2m2dkj | t3_kp0u2 | null | t1_c2m2dkj | t1_c2m27ed | null | 1427638087 | 11 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | diewhitegirls | null | (I still haven't read that piece yet. I promise I will!)
There's a difference between nascence and growth in the business life cycle. In 1998, barely 40% of US households had computers and less than 20% had access to the Internet, which WAS primitive at the time. I am *lucky* enough to have worked for cyberrebate.com and I can recall with absolute clarity just how primitive everything on the Internet was. We now live in a country were computers are ubiquitous, Internet access is almost de rigueur and therefore, there is much more incentive to create software AND protect software.
We're now getting into discussions of platforms as a means of driving industry and truly that is the only way in which the software industry existed. Without the hardware, there's no software (although I'm sure you fancy developers are going to change that soon enough :p) and as the rise of hardware increased (heavily armed with IPR, mind you), so did the need for software. While hardware and software cannot exist without one another and thus must be seen in some senses as inextricably connected and which also will lead us into a chicken before the egg discussion, the existence of hardware allows an endless supply of software to complement it. Actually, I specifically remember hardware being hawked before software, but my memory may be biased. | null | 0 | 1316800989 | False | 0 | c2m2dni | t3_kosg9 | null | t1_c2m2dni | t1_c2m1rvi | null | 1427638089 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | g0rdy | null | Salient. | null | 0 | 1316801013 | False | 0 | c2m2dsn | t3_kp0u2 | null | t1_c2m2dsn | t1_c2m0tys | null | 1427638089 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | hiffy | null | Honestly, I don't even understand what's wrong about making the subreddit about "things of interest to programmers". | null | 0 | 1316801020 | False | 0 | c2m2du3 | t3_kp0u2 | null | t1_c2m2du3 | t1_c2m1m6o | null | 1427638091 | 11 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | matthieum | null | I wonder how you implement useful error recovery with generated parsers, are they good at it ? | null | 0 | 1316801077 | False | 0 | c2m2e33 | t3_kooiy | null | t1_c2m2e33 | t1_c2lzkqv | null | 1427638094 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | dsfox | null | Same here. Apparently we are attention whores. | null | 0 | 1316801084 | False | 0 | c2m2e45 | t3_kp0u2 | null | t1_c2m2e45 | t1_c2m28di | null | 1427638094 | 26 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | andytuba | null | Yeah, I do that too for indexes, tables, everyday sorts of things.
This issue typically hits me when I'm [creating a new user](http://i.imgur.com/BXO8k.png). This happens once every 1-2 months, 2-3 users at once; so I never learn the syntax or the database role names. Thus, the wizard with the shitty keyboard navigation. | null | 0 | 1316801086 | False | 0 | c2m2e4y | t3_ko3r2 | null | t1_c2m2e4y | t1_c2m28ex | null | 1427638094 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | pavel_lishin | null | There are other hosting companies out there; there isn't another company that you could run an app built for Facebook on. | null | 0 | 1316801095 | False | 0 | c2m2e69 | t3_kp0u2 | null | t1_c2m2e69 | t1_c2m29nx | null | 1427638094 | 19 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1316801101 | False | 0 | c2m2e8s | t3_kp0u2 | null | t1_c2m2e8s | t1_c2m28di | null | 1427638094 | -6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | chocolate_stars | null | well he sounds a little butthurt.
most users arent programmers so they wont care.
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True | matthieum | null | The ending token, like in the VB language. | null | 0 | 1316801189 | False | 0 | c2m2etd | t3_kooiy | null | t1_c2m2etd | t1_c2m29dt | null | 1427638102 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Fagadaba | null | The dude worked on one of the first music app for Facebook called Audio. Meanwhile, "the guy who fucked Winamp" had cut a deal with Facebook and was helping another music app called "iLike". People started telling him his app was threatened and shit. Eventually, just as he was about to strike a deal with Universal, his app was shut down. | null | 0 | 1316801215 | False | 0 | c2m2eyk | t3_kp0u2 | null | t1_c2m2eyk | t1_c2m0iso | null | 1427638103 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | dsfox | null | Not sure what the word "supposed" means here, but there's plenty of truth in that film. | null | 0 | 1316801229 | False | 0 | c2m2f1c | t3_kp0u2 | null | t1_c2m2f1c | t1_c2m2cik | null | 1427638104 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | 0xABADC0DA | null | I've used it a lot, networking.http.pipelining=true. It works fine and is faster than unpipelined HTTP most of the time. Sometimes it's much slower, but like I said in another post a few simple tweaks would correct this. | null | 0 | 1316801258 | False | 0 | c2m2f6h | t3_kp1b5 | null | t1_c2m2f6h | t1_c2m2dg0 | null | 1427638106 | 8 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | DrBartosz | null | There is a form of "if" that is and expression, the tertiary
a?b:c.
And since it's an expression you can't elide the "else" part (after the colon).
The if *statement*, on the other hand, works purely for side effects. In:
if (a) b;
we want to see the side effects of b only if a is true. If b happens to be an expression, we discard its value. That's why in:
if (a) b; else c;
b and c may evaluate to different types (if they happen to be expressions) and it still works. | null | 0 | 1316801280 | False | 0 | c2m2fbc | t3_kooiy | null | t1_c2m2fbc | t1_c2lzj1g | null | 1427638116 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | matthieum | null | Any language that is whitespace significant should also detect leading tabs and flag them as errors. A simple search and replace works to remove them.
As for copy/paste... I don't copy and paste when I program (really), at worst I'll type what I'm reading, makes it stick better in my brain somehow. | null | 0 | 1316801282 | False | 0 | c2m2fbp | t3_kooiy | null | t1_c2m2fbp | t1_c2m10pt | null | 1427638116 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | spw1 | null | I dunno about this. Every tech company I've ever worked for has been worth complaining about in one way or another. This guy just goes public with his complaints. | null | 0 | 1316801387 | False | 0 | c2m2fwf | t3_kp0u2 | null | t1_c2m2fwf | t1_c2m27b2 | null | 1427638115 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | DeathBySamson | null | If you're promoting a business/event, Facebook is a great marketing tool. I like to think of it as a community bulletin board with lots of viewers. People eat that shit up. | null | 0 | 1316801389 | False | 0 | c2m2fwx | t3_kp0u2 | null | t1_c2m2fwx | t1_c2m1zl8 | null | 1427638115 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | matthieum | null | I also support the one-line *with* curly braces, however the two-liners is just weird. If you have 2 lines, you might as well have three as far as I am concerned. | null | 0 | 1316801398 | False | 0 | c2m2fyz | t3_kooiy | null | t1_c2m2fyz | t1_c2lzz53 | null | 1427638115 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | DrBartosz | null | In Haskell, using a tab for indentation is an error. | null | 0 | 1316801447 | False | 0 | c2m2g86 | t3_kooiy | null | t1_c2m2g86 | t1_c2m0yi3 | null | 1427638120 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | smogeblot | null | For every "problem" you state with software patents - the TrueType font hinting or texture compression - this is less a "problem" and more a "challenge" for other software developers to develop a different, possibly improved method for achieving these interoperability tasks. The person that comes up with that software should have plenty coming to them as there is obviously a market for it. | null | 0 | 1316801451 | False | 0 | c2m2g8u | t3_kosg9 | null | t1_c2m2g8u | t1_c2lztvz | null | 1427638120 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | I_Make_This_Shit_Up | null | stegasaurus!!! | null | 0 | 1316801453 | False | 0 | c2m2g9k | t3_kooiy | null | t1_c2m2g9k | t1_c2m25b9 | null | 1427638120 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | p13t3rm | null | I deleted my account about 2 months ago and I have no plans of going back. It's a great feeling. | null | 0 | 1316801519 | False | 0 | c2m2gm3 | t3_kp0u2 | null | t1_c2m2gm3 | t3_kp0u2 | null | 1427638125 | -1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1316801526 | False | 0 | c2m2gna | t3_kp0u2 | null | t1_c2m2gna | t1_c2m2dkj | null | 1427638125 | -7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | Or maybe he's the kind of person to put his reputation on the line in order to expose flaws of various systems. Every company has problems. Not everyone is willing to expose those flaws at the cost of blacklisting themselves in their field. | null | 0 | 1316801572 | False | 0 | c2m2gw9 | t3_kp0u2 | null | t1_c2m2gw9 | t1_c2m27b2 | null | 1427638128 | 18 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | 0xABADC0DA | null | I knew there were lots of Google fans here, but didn't expect them to be this emotional. | null | 0 | 1316801581 | True | 0 | c2m2gy5 | t3_kp1b5 | null | t1_c2m2gy5 | t1_c2m2cyl | null | 1428193379 | -13 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1316801638 | False | 0 | c2m2h9t | t3_kpaf3 | null | t1_c2m2h9t | t3_kpaf3 | null | 1427638141 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | MarshallBanana | null | The guy who's been implementing the protocol says it's good.
The guy who hasn't says the first guy is just "blindly following".
Hmm. | null | 0 | 1316801702 | False | 0 | c2m2hly | t3_kp1b5 | null | t1_c2m2hly | t1_c2m23t4 | null | 1427638144 | 28 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | immerc | null | So, you work around the limitations of your language. That's fine, but you shouldn't have to.
| null | 0 | 1316801712 | False | 0 | c2m2ho6 | t3_kooiy | null | t1_c2m2ho6 | t1_c2m2fbp | null | 1427638144 | 10 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | iswm | null | And then they more or less tell you to "get bent" if their random and unannounced changes completely and irreparably break your app. It's a freaking nightmare. | null | 0 | 1316801778 | False | 0 | c2m2i0k | t3_kp0u2 | null | t1_c2m2i0k | t1_c2m2363 | null | 1427638147 | 12 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | immerc | null | And dozens of other ones, like Pascal, Ruby, Erlang, OCaml, Fortran...
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True | rockum | null | Having worked for a few big corporations myself, I'm not surprised that Microsoft is a mess.
I was pretty confident that Silverlight was going to die when Microsofties advocated using it for business apps. It's just too complex for such apps. WinForms, on the otherhand, is great. Too bad Microsoft had to kill WinForms to push Silverlight. Now both are dead. | null | 0 | 1316801845 | False | 0 | c2m2icq | t3_ko2wv | null | t1_c2m2icq | t3_ko2wv | null | 1427638149 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | nwoolls | null | Sounds like an excellent script for The Social Network 2. Add a love interest and you're good. | null | 0 | 1316801899 | False | 0 | c2m2in2 | t3_kp0u2 | null | t1_c2m2in2 | t3_kp0u2 | null | 1427638153 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | 00kyle00 | null | No coding humor allowed? :( | null | 0 | 1316801987 | False | 0 | c2m2j53 | t3_kooiy | null | t1_c2m2j53 | t1_c2m1wtv | null | 1427638158 | 10 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | kyz | null | Copyright is more than just the right to make exact copies, it's also the right to make derivative works. A software program that has "your" technology in it, if its creators actually looked at your software first, *is a derivative work*.
Harry Potter is innovative too. JK Rowling made up several Latin-sounding magic words. These neologisms add rich flavour to her fantasy setting, and a similar literary trick would do just as well in other fantasy books. Should she be allowed a patent on use of faux-Latin nouns as a literary device?
Much of the machinations in patents are because inventions don't have copyrights. Why? Because the "inventions" *could* be kept secret, so patents strike a bargain to gain their eventual release. Software, like books, music, plays or films, *can't* be kept secret. So no such bargain is needed. It's not fair to say "you shall have a 20 year monopoly over this thing you were going to reveal anyway". It is fair to say "you shall be allowed to prevent anyone copying this thing you had to reveal anyway (for 70 to 180 years!!!!) but should someone be able to come up with the same thing with no reference to you, they can keep their hard work too" | null | 0 | 1316801988 | False | 0 | c2m2j58 | t3_kosg9 | null | t1_c2m2j58 | t1_c2m25g2 | null | 1427638158 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | bolda | null | Too bad they are trying to sell year-old equipment for the same cost as new equipment :( | null | 0 | 1316802044 | False | 0 | c2m2jg0 | t3_kp0u2 | null | t1_c2m2jg0 | t1_c2m2b6t | null | 1427638162 | 19 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | MrDuck | null | When my friends plan a birthday party or an outing Facebook is where they post the RSVP, if I don't check Facebook I miss the events. I wish people used Google+ or Google Calender, but Facebook is where the people are. | null | 0 | 1316802100 | True | 0 | c2m2jq4 | t3_kp0u2 | null | t1_c2m2jq4 | t1_c2m1zl8 | null | 1427638165 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | TinynDP | null | Re: 1: Then it wouldnt be HTTP any more. A drastic enough change to create HTTP 2.0 is no longer HTTP. | null | 0 | 1316802182 | False | 0 | c2m2k5v | t3_kp1b5 | null | t1_c2m2k5v | t1_c2m23t4 | null | 1427638171 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | frezik | null | I'll also cite 802.11n, USB, and various SCSI revisions, none of which had anything to do with Google. Any standards process that relies on multiple vendors getting along with each other will be long, tedious, and with an overly complex end result. Even if they were all acting in good faith, each group will have their own vision they want to inflict on the standard.
Standards based on a singular vision from a small, core group tend to be smaller, easier to implement, and more consistent. | null | 0 | 1316802218 | False | 0 | c2m2kc7 | t3_kp1b5 | null | t1_c2m2kc7 | t1_c2m2gy5 | null | 1427638174 | 13 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | matthieum | null | I must admit that I really perked up on the "we don't need immutability, we need ownership". However I would point out that perhaps a blend of the two would be more suitable: allow sending both immutable *and* owned objects. At least you'd avoid copying for frozen objects :x | null | 0 | 1316802285 | False | 0 | c2m2ko0 | t3_kos4z | null | t1_c2m2ko0 | t1_c2m09a7 | null | 1427638177 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | I was going to produce an app based on App Engine, but I abandoned it (picked another platform, TBH) when they raised their prices.
I learned then that I don't want to depend on one company for so much. | null | 0 | 1316802348 | False | 0 | c2m2kyy | t3_kp0u2 | null | t1_c2m2kyy | t1_c2m28gs | null | 1427638182 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | GetOffTheBus | null | A leader should be passionate, a supporter should be competent and willing to listen. Not everyone can be a leader, nor should they, the result would be silly.
To say I want to find a person who is passionate about supporting me is petty and narcissistic. I'd want to find someone who stands firmly on their own two feet and can lend me a hand. That's it.
A leader who demands passion from their supporters does so because they are soft at leading. They think just because they have a carrot and a stick that someone will support them. In reality, people will just tolerate this kind of leader long enough to get whatever it is they need from them. | null | 0 | 1316802369 | True | 0 | c2m2l2u | t3_korcu | null | t1_c2m2l2u | t1_c2m0j28 | null | 1427638184 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | marm0lade | null | And that doesn't necessarily make it any less true for every successful businessman. | null | 0 | 1316802408 | False | 0 | c2m2l9a | t3_kp0u2 | null | t1_c2m2l9a | t1_c2m1woz | null | 1427638186 | 8 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | 0xABADC0DA | null | Edit: I'll try restating this post.
The guy implementing it says it's good for three reasons.
I refute those three reasons.
Nobody finds fault with my reasoning, downvotes anyway. | null | 0 | 1316802474 | True | 0 | c2m2lld | t3_kp1b5 | null | t1_c2m2lld | t1_c2m2hly | null | 1427638190 | -10 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | dave1010 | null | Does anyone edit files with merge conflicts manually? I thought that's what "git mergetool" was for. I use Meld on Linux and it makes merges much simpler. | null | 0 | 1316802517 | False | 0 | c2m2ltp | t3_kogtf | null | t1_c2m2ltp | t3_kogtf | null | 1427638193 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | cowardlydragon | null | "Recognize the superiority of American software"
Gets my vote!
/American programmer | null | 0 | 1316802530 | False | 0 | c2m2lwt | t3_kp0u2 | null | t1_c2m2lwt | t1_c2m27b2 | null | 1427638194 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | grauenwolf | null | If you knew the answer, why did you ask the question? | null | 0 | 1316802535 | False | 0 | c2m2lxb | t3_ko20r | null | t1_c2m2lxb | t1_c2m22oj | null | 1427638194 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Traegan | null | I'm not saying disregard them. But am I 100% convinced it went down exactly like that at facebook? No.
And don't call me surely. | null | 0 | 1316802585 | False | 0 | c2m2m72 | t3_kp0u2 | null | t1_c2m2m72 | t1_c2m2gw9 | null | 1427638198 | -2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
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