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True | TinynDP | null | Exactly how do you think Google would be profiting from this? Its just a standard. Its not even remotely possible for this to end in some kind of vendor lockin.
They bypassed the standards because the standards are slower then dirt and release shitty design-by-committee specs. The point is to create something new, not cling to the mistakes of the past, which is what committees love. | null | 0 | 1316802642 | False | 0 | c2m2mi0 | t3_kp1b5 | null | t1_c2m2mi0 | t1_c2m2gy5 | null | 1427638202 | 10 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | marm0lade | null | >It fits within the actual well established direction of the subreddit.
Which is what? Where is it defined?
Or is it something you made up in your head? I.E. your opinion, which is different for every person, which is why there is written directions on the sidebar.
>Guess which matters more.
In theory or in practice? Communism is a great system in theory. | null | 0 | 1316802648 | False | 0 | c2m2mj4 | t3_kp0u2 | null | t1_c2m2mj4 | t1_c2m1m6o | null | 1427638202 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Seriousity | null | **HEY BUDDY!** The Almoney Market is not imaginary, he is *omnimagnifiscient* and his name is Dave!
### Don't be such a dick to Dave! | null | 0 | 1316802712 | False | 0 | c2m2mv8 | t3_kp0u2 | null | t1_c2m2mv8 | t1_c2m2759 | null | 1427638211 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | VoxNihilii | null | No, you can't. | null | 0 | 1316802717 | False | 0 | c2m2mw4 | t3_kp0u2 | null | t1_c2m2mw4 | t1_c2m1woz | null | 1427638211 | -3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | TinynDP | null | The users of the subreddit vote things up. Those things frequently end up being 'not programming'. The direction of the subreddit, as it appears to be defined by the majority of /r/programming users, is not as narrow as you, or the sidebar, wish it was. | null | 0 | 1316802785 | False | 0 | c2m2n96 | t3_kp0u2 | null | t1_c2m2n96 | t1_c2m2mj4 | null | 1428193378 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | ethraax | null | I just think about it in terms of Venn diagrams - a small circle in a bigger circle in a gigantic circle, the small circle is clearly in the gigantic circle. | null | 0 | 1316802835 | False | 0 | c2m2nj4 | t3_kogj4 | null | t1_c2m2nj4 | t1_c2lzqcn | null | 1427638216 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | fancy-free | null | My girlfriend is on there for hours every night. She sometimes tries to get me to log on so I can "like" things or comment on them for her. | null | 0 | 1316802938 | False | 0 | c2m2o37 | t3_kp0u2 | null | t1_c2m2o37 | t1_c2m1zl8 | null | 1427638223 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | BrianAtDTS | null | It was a rhetorical question. the answer was simple and straight forward in the case you cited, they are still getting a FOSS solution for FREE, they are just purchasing additional rights for later redistribution. | null | 0 | 1316803041 | False | 0 | c2m2ooh | t3_ko20r | null | t1_c2m2ooh | t1_c2m2lxb | null | 1427638230 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | adolfojp | null | Thanks for sharing. | null | 0 | 1316803085 | False | 0 | c2m2oxg | t3_kp7ls | null | t1_c2m2oxg | t3_kp7ls | null | 1427638234 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | nabrok | null | I have family spread across the globe with varying levels of computer literacy. We're all on facebook though. It's an amazing tool for keeping in touch. | null | 0 | 1316803128 | False | 0 | c2m2p5w | t3_kp0u2 | null | t1_c2m2p5w | t1_c2m1zl8 | null | 1427638237 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | abw | null | I was also going to say "yet another language". But neat features or not, I really like the "cambrian explosion" of new languages that we've seen over the past decade or so. Even if many of the unsuccessful ones eventually die out, they spread ideas and help inspire the next generation of languages.
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True | sreguera | null | What I_Make_This_Shit_Up said :P
To expand my previous comment, I don't remember having this dangling else problem for the last 10 years or so but then I use editors which auto-indent, always write the braces anyway and, when the project requires it, this can be checked with plenty of free and commercial static analysis tools (I'm talking of C, C++ and Java), so I don't think this problem is so serious after all. In any case, if you want to go the extra mile and solve the problem forever I think the correct solution is to use a syntax that does not have the problem to begin with, like Ada.
In a C-style syntax, I don't like this thing of needing braces only in some special places. Although I think it's good as a compiler warning, it makes the language model less intuitive. If I understand the article, the grammar is no longer as simple as:
if-stmt := if condition then sentence [ else sentence ]
sentence := simple_sentence | '{' sentence* '}'
| null | 0 | 1316803195 | False | 0 | c2m2piu | t3_kooiy | null | t1_c2m2piu | t1_c2m25b9 | null | 1427638241 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | jlpoole | null | I 2nd both of the above. Spent 5 minutes flopping around, downloaded the zip file only to learn it is to be integrated into rails.
They ought to make that clear at the outset. | null | 0 | 1316803285 | False | 0 | c2m2q1o | t3_kolze | null | t1_c2m2q1o | t1_c2m2cyw | null | 1427638251 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | 0xABADC0DA | null | Modifying pipelining to have chunked results and server-defined ordering would no longer be HTTP? I'd say the changes from HTTP/1.0 to HTTP/1.1 were way more drastic than that. | null | 0 | 1316803285 | False | 0 | c2m2q1w | t3_kp1b5 | null | t1_c2m2q1w | t1_c2m2k5v | null | 1427638251 | -3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | lazyFer | null | I haven't used the latest version of Oracle so my opinion is based on my previous work at half a dozen companies with Oracle instances ranging from 8 to 10g.
The last built-in Oracle reporting tool I used was Discoverer.
I'm not surprised by DBFS, most Oracle databases I've worked with have been designed as more or less a file system with tables (this is poor design and not the fault of Oracle itself, but if this is how the system is used I'm not surprised Oracle would do things to optimize that.....a good business decision).
you are right that Oracle has more features that I don't use.
Give me a couple of examples of things Oracle can do that other engines can't. From my experience, most performance issues are due to bad data design and not the engine so I ignore most of the "features" that allow or encourage bad design and instead prefer to correct the designs I'm allowed to.
I know the info is coming up on 2 years old now, but there was a 1.1 petabyte SQL Server 2008 database back then....you're saying that's not to be considered a "good" platform? That's not large enough to be enterprise class?
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True | ClamatoMilkshake | null | True, but there's also a ton of intelligence and work ethic behind these guys. There's a really great book called Outliers that delves more deeply into what many see as "super-genius" success stories (like Microsoft) to expose all of the crazy environmental and historical factors that play into their success. | null | 0 | 1316803358 | False | 0 | c2m2qfg | t3_kp0u2 | null | t1_c2m2qfg | t1_c2m1a15 | null | 1427638255 | 11 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | andytuba | null | That sounds like a great ideal and all, but do you have a suggestion on how to implement that? Anarchism works fine on a small scale, but Facebook is a bit more on the "massive" side of things. | null | 0 | 1316803405 | False | 0 | c2m2qp3 | t3_kp0u2 | null | t1_c2m2qp3 | t1_c2m261k | null | 1427638258 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1316803448 | False | 0 | c2m2qx7 | t3_kp0u2 | null | t1_c2m2qx7 | t3_kp0u2 | null | 1427638261 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | ContraContra | null | A great feature in my opinion | null | 0 | 1316803471 | False | 0 | c2m2r1p | t3_kolze | null | t1_c2m2r1p | t1_c2lzkw3 | null | 1427638263 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | I would have to be an ideal from the very conception of the project. I don't hink you could do it with facebook now. Though I sometimes wish the UN would step in and say; this is too important for civilization you no longer own it it's the peoples.
But I go all hippy sometimes | null | 0 | 1316803535 | False | 0 | c2m2red | t3_kp0u2 | null | t1_c2m2red | t1_c2m2qp3 | null | 1427638266 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | frezik | null | I SAID THE SAME THING ABOUT THE TELEPHONE STOP
WHATS WRONG WITH TELEGRAPHS STOP
MR BELL SHOULD GET STUFFED STOP | null | 0 | 1316803556 | False | 0 | c2m2ria | t3_kp0u2 | null | t1_c2m2ria | t1_c2m1zl8 | null | 1427638268 | 44 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | I will never touch facebook, its bad for more reasons than you think. I have no problem communicating without it. Fuck you and anyone else that defends it. | null | 0 | 1316803627 | False | 0 | c2m2rwb | t3_kp0u2 | null | t1_c2m2rwb | t1_c2m20fx | null | 1427638282 | -12 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | v_krishna | null | dammit, now you make me feel even more like a dick by being so damn nice about accepting criticism over the internet.
| null | 0 | 1316803670 | False | 0 | c2m2s3m | t3_kosg9 | null | t1_c2m2s3m | t1_c2m1oi5 | null | 1427638278 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Terr_ | null | This might be the blind leading the blind, but to [repost](http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/hdcn7/understanding_the_fourier_transform_a_clear/c1ukqmt?context=1) something that made a lot of sense to me back when I wrote it:
> Just as another layperson... Try this: [The varying signal is displayed on a] tall column of LED lights. Only one light is on at any given moment, but they switch on and off fast enough that it looks like a bright spot moving upwards and downwards. The pattern for this light is fixed but unknown.
> * Go into a dark room and hold the blinking rod vertically so that one end points towards the ceiling and the other towards the floor. Now wave the rod left-to-right across your field of vision. The afterimage the bright light leaves will be a wave pattern like you see in textbooks.
> * Now, stick the rod to a motor so that it spins around its mid-point, [a little bit like this](http://zunkworks.com/images/propellerpov/CIMG4332.JPG), and by varying the speed of the motor you'll see it "trace" different patterns like a [spirograph](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spirograph).
> Spinning the motor at certain rates-of-rotation will cause the "tangled spaghetti blob" of layered afterimages to shift "off-center" by an amount that relates to how strongly the LED has an up-down movement that "resonates" with the rate of rotation.
> By sampling lots of points and averaging their position, you can figure off how much a given rotation-tuning "pulled" the center around. | null | 0 | 1316803673 | False | 0 | c2m2s4j | t3_kogj4 | null | t1_c2m2s4j | t1_c2lw9ta | null | 1427638278 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | mz1988 | null | use mysql for life , use nosql (mongodb) for better life :D | null | 0 | 1316803674 | False | 0 | c2m2s4n | t3_ko3r2 | null | t1_c2m2s4n | t3_ko3r2 | null | 1427638278 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | frezik | null | This subreddit has already ignored that sidebar so much that I don't see the sense complaining about it. | null | 0 | 1316803674 | False | 0 | c2m2s4q | t3_kp0u2 | null | t1_c2m2s4q | t1_c2m1cwy | null | 1427638278 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | MrWoohoo | null | > Imagine if JK Rowling patented all possible stories that had schools for wizards in them.
Wouldn't DiscWorld invalidate that with it's wizards' university as prior art? | null | 0 | 1316803703 | False | 0 | c2m2sao | t3_kosg9 | null | t1_c2m2sao | t1_c2lz3ys | null | 1427638286 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | astroalex | null | In my experience as a teaching assistant for an intro programming class, things that programmers find simple are *incredibly* confusing for non-programmers. You think a linked list is simple? Try teaching a first year programming student what a Java method is! | null | 0 | 1316803724 | False | 0 | c2m2ser | t3_kogj4 | null | t1_c2m2ser | t3_kogj4 | null | 1427638281 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | gsg_ | null | It's true that it doesn't make much sense as a linguistic change. I would appreciate some kind of error checking along these lines, though, and the compiler is the obvious spot to put it. | null | 0 | 1316803867 | False | 0 | c2m2t5t | t3_kooiy | null | t1_c2m2t5t | t1_c2m22z3 | null | 1427638288 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1316803868 | True | 0 | c2m2t63 | t3_kp0u2 | null | t1_c2m2t63 | t1_c2m1zl8 | null | 1427638288 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | frezik | null | There's a lot of technical details right, but some of the plot and character notes weren't. Sean Parker had a relatively minor role at Napster, for starters, though it's not the first time he's been confused for Sean Fanning. | null | 0 | 1316803952 | False | 0 | c2m2tm4 | t3_kp0u2 | null | t1_c2m2tm4 | t1_c2m2f1c | null | 1427638295 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | When all the personal info you entrusted to that shady company is used in ways you would never expect you will understand. | null | 0 | 1316804003 | False | 0 | c2m2twg | t3_kp0u2 | null | t1_c2m2twg | t1_c2m2557 | null | 1427638299 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | Lol good one | null | 0 | 1316804085 | False | 0 | c2m2uc2 | t3_kp0u2 | null | t1_c2m2uc2 | t1_c2m261k | null | 1427638313 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | PstScrpt | null | > Why would the CustomerType table have a foreign key back to the Customers table
Other way around. Customer would have a CustomerTypeID.
> only if the only methods by which you will be searching are multi-column where clauses / joins
If your index contains not only the fields you're searching for, but also the fields you're trying to return, the database can actually skip finding the record in the original table, and answer the query entirely from the index. | null | 0 | 1316804086 | False | 0 | c2m2uc8 | t3_kmp73 | null | t1_c2m2uc8 | t1_c2m0nu6 | null | 1427638313 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | wadcann | null | No, I disagree. I think that you can file a patent that is sufficiently broad (and in both these two cases, is) to block all implementations that will work to allow making use of hinting data associated with the font and to block encoding texture data in the formats that the video hardware can understand. There are certain constraints placed on what must be done by compatible imlpementations. Perhaps the patent system currently improperly allows patents to *be* that broad, but patents are permitted today that *are* broad enough. | null | 0 | 1316804142 | False | 0 | c2m2un5 | t3_kosg9 | null | t1_c2m2un5 | t1_c2m2g8u | null | 1427638309 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | pryomancer | null | I've got hardly any personal info on the internet, let alone just facebook. Looks like you've got a case of "big corporation = bad". Down with the system, maaan. | null | 0 | 1316804213 | False | 0 | c2m2v0w | t3_kp0u2 | null | t1_c2m2v0w | t1_c2m2twg | null | 1427638314 | -1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | nemoTheKid | null | This was written in 2008? Jesus, this guy was spot on, if they had listened to him, Apple would be catching up with Google/Moto | null | 0 | 1316804216 | False | 0 | c2m2v1g | t3_kp0u2 | null | t1_c2m2v1g | t1_c2m18pe | null | 1427638314 | 13 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | nickdangler | null | [buddycloud.com](http://buddycloud.com) | null | 0 | 1316804331 | False | 0 | c2m2vnw | t3_kp0u2 | null | t1_c2m2vnw | t1_c2m261k | null | 1427638334 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | vagif | null | Easy.
"If" requires "else".
"When" does not require "else".
That's how clojure and haskell do it. | null | 0 | 1316804335 | False | 0 | c2m2von | t3_kooiy | null | t1_c2m2von | t3_kooiy | null | 1427638334 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | nickdangler | null | [buddycloud.com](http://buddycloud.com) | null | 0 | 1316804341 | False | 0 | c2m2vpp | t3_kp0u2 | null | t1_c2m2vpp | t1_c2m2qp3 | null | 1427638334 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | abw | null | > if (something) foo();
I'm fairly strict about always putting braces in my blocks, but if you're going to omit them in simple cases, then I think that's the best way to do it.
It's a bit ugly and sticks out like a sore thumb. But that's precisely what I want from something that might trip me up: high visibility and hard-to-ignorability.
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True | ell0bo | null | Odd, I live in Philly. Didn't realize this was India. | null | 0 | 1316804421 | False | 0 | c2m2w4s | t3_kosg9 | null | t1_c2m2w4s | t1_c2m0utz | null | 1427638331 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | nickdangler | null | The p is pronounced the same as in 'Joseph'. | null | 0 | 1316804446 | False | 0 | c2m2w97 | t3_kp0u2 | null | t1_c2m2w97 | t1_c2m2qx7 | null | 1427638331 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | wadcann | null | >Google has never, not once in its existence, filed an offensive patent action against any other entity.
That's not necessary for Google to cause patent problems. They provide no guarantee that they will not do so. As a developer or company who would need to choose to infringe upon their patents, or an investor who would need to invest in that developer or infringing company, I know that Google *could* do so at any moment. They can hire CEO X who is going to notice that their assets are not being fully utilized and start doing so. Or sell their IP to someone who could. The chilling effect still gets produced.
If Google provided me with an open license to Patent A, then, yes, Google would not produce software patent issues as regards that patent. | null | 0 | 1316804482 | False | 0 | c2m2wfu | t3_kosg9 | null | t1_c2m2wfu | t1_c2m18o1 | null | 1427638334 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | "share links"
God damn that was the most annoying part. Somebody always thinking they found the coolest shit in the universe, which is always just something they found on reddit. | null | 0 | 1316804506 | False | 0 | c2m2wk0 | t3_kp0u2 | null | t1_c2m2wk0 | t1_c2m2e45 | null | 1427638333 | -15 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | ChimpsRFullOfScience | null | Salty | null | 0 | 1316804585 | False | 0 | c2m2wxw | t3_kp0u2 | null | t1_c2m2wxw | t1_c2m2dsn | null | 1427638339 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | anarkyinducer | null | It does provide a valuable service, it just does it hugely inefficiently and has many negative side effects, like losing hours of time and having your personal life on display.
Over time, the ratio of valuable information / inanity -> 0. This is actually the problem with all social networking sites and community boards and why in the long run they will all fail.
Reddit is suffering from the same problem btw. Even though subreddits and moderators go a long way to trimming the inanity, it still creeps up in comments, miscategorized posts, reposts, etc...
Facebook is fucking itself by actually *favoring* the inane content - ever get an *email* like "your friend of a friend posted something for sale, blah blah blah..." <- are you fucking kidding me.
Over time, that ratio gets so low that people are no longer willing to wade through shit to get to something meaningful. So they stop visiting the site, or move to a different site, with less polluted content. Then the readership plummets, as does advertising revenue, and the site goes under. | null | 0 | 1316804627 | False | 0 | c2m2x4m | t3_kp0u2 | null | t1_c2m2x4m | t1_c2m1zl8 | null | 1427638341 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | ChimpsRFullOfScience | null | I feel like someone stepping in and getting the vultures out of the telecom infrastructure is more important than facebook at the present time. | null | 0 | 1316804640 | False | 0 | c2m2x6v | t3_kp0u2 | null | t1_c2m2x6v | t1_c2m2red | null | 1427638342 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | adolfojp | null | What's the point of this? How is this related to programming? | null | 0 | 1316804835 | False | 0 | c2m2y7a | t3_kpbhd | null | t1_c2m2y7a | t3_kpbhd | null | 1427638355 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Soulture | null | How about... fuck you and everyone else who posts unsupported, wildly extravagant attacks against a corporation then lambastes everyone who may want to hold a discussion.
>Dude, it's so bad like.. .you don't... you don't even KNOW
Sure, facebook may be TEH SUKC and all, but jesus christ, try to add at least some fucking support to your opinion. Internet forums: dive in rage first.
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True | smogeblot | null | Again the literary reference is completely out of bounds. Words, nouns, phrases, genres, subject matter, ideas, nothing of the sort can be patented.
I can legally rewrite my own child wizard series from scratch, and redistribute my knockoff wizard stories all I want. The same goes for any piece of copyrighted software. Copyrights DO NOT COVER TECHNOLOGY. They only cover the right to reproduce COPIES of work. That is why their term is so much longer than a patent's. Indeed, the inventor owns the COPYRIGHT to his patent DOCUMENTS and can enforce those copyrights on the actual subject matter of the patent with the only inherent license being to the USPTO for publication.
Further, technology can't be kept secret if that technology is to be bought and sold on the market. If a product with a secret formula like Coke is on the market and I reverse engineer its flavor properties to make an exact duplicate of Coke; then tough shit for Coke, I can redistribute their formula as I wish because they have not patented it. However, if I try to use their branding; their packaging; which may have trademarks or patents, I will actually actually have to pay the piper because that would actually be _unfair_ competition. | null | 0 | 1316804871 | False | 0 | c2m2yd4 | t3_kosg9 | null | t1_c2m2yd4 | t1_c2m2j58 | null | 1427638366 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | No C are A? Is it a trick question? | null | 0 | 1316804876 | False | 0 | c2m2yed | t3_kogj4 | null | t1_c2m2yed | t1_c2m29gx | null | 1427638366 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | very true... there are a lot of battles to fight | null | 0 | 1316804889 | False | 0 | c2m2yh9 | t3_kp0u2 | null | t1_c2m2yh9 | t1_c2m2x6v | null | 1427638358 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | johnlocke90 | null | Nobody cares about the side bar. /r/programming is defaulted to the front page so most voters aren't even aware of the sidebar or how to program. We like stories like this though. | null | 0 | 1316804950 | False | 0 | c2m2yse | t3_kp0u2 | null | t1_c2m2yse | t1_c2m12m6 | null | 1427638362 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | The individual I responded to was hardly helping the "discussion." | null | 0 | 1316805015 | False | 0 | c2m2z5l | t3_kp0u2 | null | t1_c2m2z5l | t1_c2m2yad | null | 1427638369 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | yacoob | null | There was a keyword there, *solely*. That is, if you have one copy of your critical data, be prepared for it to be held hostage. Similar story goes for hardware and other infrastructure. Now, if your business idea is in symbiosis with a third party like that... well, you'd better have plan B. Or an SLA with that third party :D | null | 0 | 1316805017 | False | 0 | c2m2z5z | t3_kp0u2 | null | t1_c2m2z5z | t1_c2m29nx | null | 1427638369 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | dragongrrl | null | i have a feeling that zuck would rather be programming than worry about the business end of things AT ALL.
instead people like sean parker are left alone to be sharks and engage in backstabbing and shady deals.
yeah, FB isn't anybody's friend. the people at the top either don't care or will do whatever it takes to "win" on the business side of the house. | null | 0 | 1316805029 | False | 0 | c2m2z8l | t3_kp0u2 | null | t1_c2m2z8l | t3_kp0u2 | null | 1427638369 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | babazka | null | Apparently, [Qi](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qi_programming_language) is a "hypermodern functional language" derived from Lisp. | null | 0 | 1316805041 | False | 0 | c2m2za9 | t3_kp1pf | null | t1_c2m2za9 | t1_c2m11zx | null | 1428193371 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Freakjob | null | He certainly was in the right place at the right time. However - there are many people with the talent to create something, but so few actually have the drive to finish what they started. | null | 0 | 1316805044 | False | 0 | c2m2zaw | t3_kp0u2 | null | t1_c2m2zaw | t1_c2m1a15 | null | 1428193371 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | No I just hate what facebook has become. It's too large ripe for abuse. | null | 0 | 1316805093 | False | 0 | c2m2zkg | t3_kp0u2 | null | t1_c2m2zkg | t1_c2m2v0w | null | 1427638372 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Soulture | null | I share links I found on reddit on facebook so I can have conversations about them with people I know instead of random people on the web. Such as morons who like to make sweeping generalizations about people who use facebook. And also believe that everyone sees every link on reddit. Or even on the front page. Or that everyone has the same home page. Yeah, no need to post links to facebook. Should I create a subreddit /r/linkssoulturefoundinteresting instead so it's clear?
Apparently I'm annoying and a bad person. cheers. | null | 0 | 1316805119 | False | 0 | c2m2zpg | t3_kp0u2 | null | t1_c2m2zpg | t1_c2m2wk0 | null | 1427638374 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | wadcann | null | >Maybe that's the first problem we should tackle, then.
There is no way in hell that I think that a union is a desirable move for software development. | null | 0 | 1316805121 | False | 0 | c2m2zpq | t3_kosg9 | null | t1_c2m2zpq | t1_c2m07ee | null | 1427638374 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | > Many people can't internalize a concept without a concrete example.
I find this interesting because as a beginner programmer, I found pointers and recursion both incredibly fun and incredibly simple, and I learned them without any concrete examples at all. I actually haven't been taught to use pointers yet, but the course on procedural abstraction I took last semester had a textbook that covered much more than the scope of the class, and I thought pointers were so awesome I just started using them. There were no analogies, no metaphors, just an explanation of what they are. I understood that intuitively. What I find interesting here is that although analogies wouldn't have helped me at all with pointers, the concrete example made the "all C are A" question *far* easier for me. | null | 0 | 1316805162 | False | 0 | c2m2zww | t3_kogj4 | null | t1_c2m2zww | t1_c2m02un | null | 1427638379 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | WalterBright | null | I understand that always requiring { } does resolve the issue, but many (including myself) would find it annoying and onerous, as well as breaking an enormous amount of existing code.
D's solution is to require the { }, but **only** if there actually **is** a dangling else ambiguity. It turns out to happen only rarely in practice, and so far there have been no complaints and it has been an unqualified success.
I am not aware of any other instance of this particular solution, nor of any static checkers that implement it. | null | 0 | 1316805269 | False | 0 | c2m30h1 | t3_kooiy | null | t1_c2m30h1 | t1_c2m2piu | null | 1427638384 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | No, you're just annoying and extremely defensive about your incessant need to link spam | null | 0 | 1316805297 | False | 0 | c2m30mu | t3_kp0u2 | null | t1_c2m30mu | t1_c2m2zpg | null | 1427638387 | -15 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | lolomfgkthxbai | null | >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.
Deprecating HTTP in favor of HTTPS would be impossible, SPDY replacing HTTP/HTTPS seems an easier task. | null | 0 | 1316805307 | False | 0 | c2m30p0 | t3_kp1b5 | null | t1_c2m30p0 | t1_c2m23t4 | null | 1427638388 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | masterofallisurvey | null | I have been meaning to do it for months anyway...but this finally motivated me to change my facebook name, delete my pictures, info, and finally my facebook account. | null | 0 | 1316805374 | False | 0 | c2m3112 | t3_kp0u2 | null | t1_c2m3112 | t3_kp0u2 | null | 1427638399 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | SmokeyDBear | null | This is what's wrong with naive capitalism, not what's right with Facebook. Between someone who succeeds because they get lucky and someone who succeeds because they analyze a situation and make the appropriate decision for the correct reasons the person who gets lucky will *always get it done first*. Unfortunately past luck is not a guarantee of future luck and all the people hoping to get lucky will collectively waste a lot more resources trying and these are the people we put in charge of yet more resources by virtue of the fact that they got lucky once. | null | 0 | 1316805394 | False | 0 | c2m314k | t3_kp0u2 | null | t1_c2m314k | t1_c2m1woz | null | 1427638393 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | WalterBright | null | The D solution described **is** unambiguous to both the compiler and the programmer. It is a real solution. | null | 0 | 1316805461 | False | 0 | c2m31gy | t3_kooiy | null | t1_c2m31gy | t1_c2m10pt | null | 1427638398 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | Looks cool. I had a similar idea a year or so ago. Good to see someone not lazy like me to implement it. | null | 0 | 1316805468 | False | 0 | c2m31ia | t3_kp0u2 | null | t1_c2m31ia | t1_c2m2vnw | null | 1427638400 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | bdubaya | null | Caddyshack? | null | 0 | 1316805504 | False | 0 | c2m31p2 | t3_kp0u2 | null | t1_c2m31p2 | t1_c2m1ga3 | null | 1427638401 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | wadcann | null | >Copyrights DO NOT COVER TECHNOLOGY. They only cover the right to reproduce COPIES of work.
Correct, but it is easy enough to mingle work done in research with that done in development, and use copyright, time-to-reverse-engineer, and the fact that software tends to make a return quickly to fund R&D work -- which is the point of patents. | null | 0 | 1316805559 | False | 0 | c2m31zh | t3_kosg9 | null | t1_c2m31zh | t1_c2m2yd4 | null | 1427638405 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | attrition0 | null | You appear to be have a need to attack someone because they post links and talk to their friends. That's kind of sad. | null | 0 | 1316805607 | False | 0 | c2m3298 | t3_kp0u2 | null | t1_c2m3298 | t1_c2m30mu | null | 1427638408 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | If they're mixing tabs and spaces it shouldn't be considered correct. | null | 0 | 1316805619 | False | 0 | c2m32ba | t3_kooiy | null | t1_c2m32ba | t1_c2m1f75 | null | 1427638409 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | nibot | null | Hosting is fungible. | null | 0 | 1316805625 | False | 0 | c2m32cb | t3_kp0u2 | null | t1_c2m32cb | t1_c2m29nx | null | 1427638409 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | scgtrp | null | > some are targeted at functional style and some imperative style
How is this a bad thing? Forcing everything into one paradigm is rarely a good idea. | null | 0 | 1316805674 | False | 0 | c2m32lc | t3_kos4z | null | t1_c2m32lc | t1_c2lzq65 | null | 1427638422 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | ash_gti | null | Haskell has 27 keywords, assuming your not including operators. Go only has 25 keywords.
I dont think that number really means anything... | null | 0 | 1316805690 | False | 0 | c2m32nz | t3_kos4z | null | t1_c2m32nz | t1_c2lzq65 | null | 1427638414 | 14 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1316805701 | False | 0 | c2m32py | t3_kp0u2 | null | t1_c2m32py | t1_c2m2z5l | null | 1427638414 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | Yeah seriously, like with the stack example he seems to just expect a student to know what exact data structure he's referring to when he says stack even if they've never heard it before, or are familiar with how things tend to be named in computer science.
If someone asked me what a stack was in programming, and I had never heard of one before here's some things that would seem reasonable answers:
* A stack (of course)
* An array
* A linked list
* A queue or deque
* A deck of cards
* A set (slightly less likely)
* A bunch of objects with spatial information, that happen to be stacked on top of one another.
Even learning what a stack is doesn't reveal why it's useful, how it compares to queues in various algorithms, how it relates to recursion, whether one should be implemented with an array or linked list (whatever the hell those are) in any particular situation, etc.
And he talks about linked lists too...
> If someone doesn’t understand these things, they’re probably trying too hard. To implement a linked list, just open your eyes and think about what the term means: it is a list, and at each place there must be a thing, and the address of the next thing if there is one.
A list like a grocery list right? So like an Array. But linked so it probably has to do with hyperlinks? something about the pointers the teacher just talked about? a bunch of arrays that link to eachother for some reason? hmm... or perhaps an array of pointers!"
And recursion...
> References are for referencing, and recursion is for self-referencing.
References are for referencing... come ON you're not even trying to explain this better, that's just circular e_e
And recursion... Oh! recursion must be like the this pointer from our object oriented C++ class! Or hmm, he might be talking about looping! Like a while or for loop!
Augh I could go on but I'm just ranting. Yes don't make concepts harder than they should be, but don't act like everything is just completely obvious and unambiguous. | null | 0 | 1316805772 | False | 0 | c2m333i | t3_kogj4 | null | t1_c2m333i | t1_c2m22g7 | null | 1427638420 | 15 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | BillyBBone | null | That clever little wordplay is what won me over. The juxtaposition of "Zuckerberg" and "Fucker" really brought the point home for me, and took me on a wild voyage of realization into my new-found awareness. I am now awake. | null | 0 | 1316805780 | False | 0 | c2m3350 | t3_kp0u2 | null | t1_c2m3350 | t1_c2m28if | null | 1427638420 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | chneukirchen | null | The problem is irrelevant if you use an editor that indents the correct way. | null | 0 | 1316805795 | False | 0 | c2m337q | t3_kooiy | null | t1_c2m337q | t3_kooiy | null | 1427638421 | -1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | abw | null | > I have one more reason not to try Perl :( (it doesn't work in Ruby).
Granted, it's not the clearest code, but you can write something *almost* identical in Ruby which has the exact same semantics as the Perl version.
do_something() && big_long_line() if num == 0;
What Ruby won't allow you to do is put the `if` on the next line. For my money, I prefer Perl's flexibility in allowing code to be laid out more clearly, but your mileage may vary.
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True | immerc | null | But not to an editor, unless the editor is so complicated it includes the hacked up parser, in which case you have to use one specific editor for all D files.
That doesn't sound like a good solution.
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True | [deleted] | null | whatever you need to tell yourself buddy, that's fine with me | null | 0 | 1316805954 | False | 0 | c2m342s | t3_kp0u2 | null | t1_c2m342s | t1_c2m3298 | null | 1427638432 | -13 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1316806112 | False | 0 | c2m34xj | t3_kp0u2 | null | t1_c2m34xj | t3_kp0u2 | null | 1427638443 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | sreguera | null | I was not talking about this particular solution, but about checkers that verify that you put braces *everywhere* (besides other flow control checks), e.g. if you are following the MISRA or JSF standards. | null | 0 | 1316806148 | False | 0 | c2m3540 | t3_kooiy | null | t1_c2m3540 | t1_c2m30h1 | null | 1427638445 | -2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | wadcann | null | >If most of the value of a company is in its software patent IP, you have invested in a patent troll, and I hate you.
That's not a sufficient condition to be a patent troll (nor are patent trolls the only companies who cause patent problems, FWIW -- they're just the most annoying to large companies). | null | 0 | 1316806156 | False | 0 | c2m355d | t3_kosg9 | null | t1_c2m355d | t1_c2lz9mp | null | 1427638446 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | wadcann | null | >You know, at this moment in history, I'm not all that sympathetic to banks. Perhaps you need another example?
I think that that's kind of irrational, but if you want, you can use the pension fund that bought bonds in the company. | null | 0 | 1316806163 | False | 0 | c2m356t | t3_kosg9 | null | t1_c2m356t | t1_c2lzgph | null | 1427638446 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | smogeblot | null | So in addition to coming up with a novel method for font hinting, Apple spent their R&D money developing hinting data for their fonts to work with that method, so they could distribute it with the fonts on Apple computers... and you want to just use that data however you like for free?
Well, you could do it for free, if you came up with a slight modification to their (particularly specific) algorithm for applying their proprietary hinting data. But it seems like you're just too lazy to come up with innovation and would rather use their data, AND their algorithm for free.
Sound fair? | null | 0 | 1316806215 | False | 0 | c2m35hc | t3_kosg9 | null | t1_c2m35hc | t1_c2m2un5 | null | 1427638450 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | bitchessuck | null | If anything, I am quite sure this is for the next iPad generation, which will have a quadcore ARM SoC.
Really, what's the point of this rumor-spreading, Ars Technica? I am disappoint. | null | 0 | 1316806312 | True | 0 | c2m35z6 | t3_kpbxm | null | t1_c2m35z6 | t3_kpbxm | null | 1427638456 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | scgtrp | null | > Any language that is whitespace significant should also detect leading tabs and flag them as errors.
And what about all the people who use tabs to indent their code? | null | 0 | 1316806335 | False | 0 | c2m363z | t3_kooiy | null | t1_c2m363z | t1_c2m2fbp | null | 1427638458 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | prodigalOne | null | What are they going to do, tell everyone in the world my first and last name, the school I went to and send the worst pic of me drunk with sharpie mustaches drawn on me to my mom? It's creepy but it's not the apocolypse. Non Facebook user here. | null | 0 | 1316806349 | False | 0 | c2m366q | t3_kp0u2 | null | t1_c2m366q | t1_c2m2twg | null | 1427638459 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Jill_Kennedy | null | It's one thing to innovate, it's another thing to suck and say F you to your users. Sure, everyone will adjust - what else do we have to do with our miserable lives - but, Jesus, this tracking of every move we make has to stop. And, I'm sure, after time the complaining users (including me) will not be able to live without the new changes. But, man, this is literally right out of the old Soviet Union or the current China (with better graphics). I seriously think Facebook must be stopped for the good of the world...
http://mankabros.com/blogs/onmedea/2011/09/01/facebook-must-be-stopped/
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True | grasspopper | null | neat! i didn't know dropbox could be used like that | null | 0 | 1316806390 | False | 0 | c2m36fc | t3_kos4z | null | t1_c2m36fc | t1_c2lyxfu | null | 1427638461 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1316806624 | False | 0 | c2m37rf | t3_ko3r2 | null | t1_c2m37rf | t1_c2ltnm2 | null | 1427638480 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | wadcann | null | >Apple spent their R&D money developing hinting data for their fonts to work with that method, so they could distribute it with the fonts on Apple computers... and you want to just use that data however you like for free?
I want access to the ecosystem of fonts, the overwhelming majority of which are *not* created by Apple, instead of granting Apple and licensees exclusive access to an entire market. The hinting patent certainly wasn't created to provide funding for font creation.
If your concern is providing funding for hinting research, Apple didn't "give us hinting". Without digging up the full history, Adobe was using it a decade earlier. What Apple did did do is file a patent broad enough that it is not possible to use the particular opcodes used to encode hinting data in TrueType fonts.
>Well, you could do it for free, if you came up with a slight modification to their (particularly specific) algorithm for applying their proprietary hinting data.
No. The patent filed is broad enough that it is not possible to work around it; the same is true of the S3 patents. People have already spent a great deal of time looking at it. I have not had to spend time on the hinting problem, but I have spent time on the S3 issue.
>But it seems like you're just too lazy to come up with innovation and would rather use their data, AND their algorithm for free.
It's not (well, in the overwhelming majority of cases) hinting data that Apple owns or produced; they've simply managed to lock down access to it. Nobody is interested in trying to get Apple to do the work of figuring out how to do an interpreter for a font that encodes hinting data -- that isn't a hard problem. If I could go out and slap together a new hinting interpreter myself with no relationship to TrueType and have ten bazillion fonts with attached hinting data suddenly exist for it, I'd very happily do so. What people are unhappy about is not being able to interact with fonts where people unrelated to Apple did a lot of work, happening to encode data in such a way that it cannot be used without a license from Apple. | null | 0 | 1316806674 | True | 0 | c2m381e | t3_kosg9 | null | t1_c2m381e | t1_c2m35hc | null | 1427638483 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1316806716 | False | 0 | c2m389z | t3_ko3r2 | null | t1_c2m389z | t1_c2ltpa2 | null | 1427638486 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | mipadi | null | I almost always do. I don't find it to be terribly difficult, and it's faster than firing up a tool. | null | 0 | 1316806792 | False | 0 | c2m38od | t3_kogtf | null | t1_c2m38od | t1_c2m2ltp | null | 1427638491 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | shaurz | null | Early 90s website design is so charming. | null | 0 | 1316806914 | False | 0 | c2m39ai | t3_kp0u2 | null | t1_c2m39ai | t3_kp0u2 | null | 1427638499 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Leonidas_from_XIV | null | I tried downloading the Debian archive with and without pipelining. And without pipelining it's insanely slow, given the small size of the files and the big connection overhead. | null | 0 | 1316806955 | False | 0 | c2m39iw | t3_kp1b5 | null | t1_c2m39iw | t1_c2m2f6h | null | 1427638503 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
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