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True | amedico | null | Not programming. | null | 0 | 1317067232 | False | 0 | c2mqysg | t3_ks2t2 | null | t1_c2mqysg | t3_ks2t2 | null | 1427649873 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | thurn | null | Man, I really want full C++11 support in Clang. It's just not the same with gcc. | null | 0 | 1317067257 | False | 0 | c2mqyzz | t3_krzd8 | null | t1_c2mqyzz | t3_krzd8 | null | 1427649876 | 12 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | thurn | null | Man, I really want full C++11 support in Clang. It's just not the same with gcc. | null | 0 | 1317067288 | False | 0 | c2mqz5o | t3_krzd8 | null | t1_c2mqz5o | t3_krzd8 | null | 1427649879 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | jrochkind | null | I actually agree entirely that in general giving the user a bazillion configuration options is a poor substitute for figuring out defaults that will Just Work for most people most of the time.
That the paper tiger 'user representative' in this case was also in general an idiot does not change my mind about configurat... | null | 0 | 1317067373 | False | 0 | c2mqzgy | t3_krv1k | null | t1_c2mqzgy | t3_krv1k | null | 1427649883 | -3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | helm | null | I can get any font I want in my stickies (10.6). | null | 0 | 1317067384 | False | 0 | c2mqzic | t3_krv1k | null | t1_c2mqzic | t1_c2mqjs2 | null | 1427649883 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | jrochkind | null | I actually agree entirely that in general giving the user a bazillion configuration options is a poor substitute for figuring out defaults that will Just Work for most people most of the time.
That the paper tiger 'user representative' in this case was also in general an idiot does not change my mind about configurat... | null | 0 | 1317067397 | False | 0 | c2mqzkx | t3_krv1k | null | t1_c2mqzkx | t3_krv1k | null | 1427649884 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | one-half | null | Do you mean `Hastu`%^A@@aa&133
NO CARRIER | null | 0 | 1317067443 | False | 0 | c2mqzsg | t3_krzdp | null | t1_c2mqzsg | t1_c2mqm0o | null | 1427649887 | 17 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | jrochkind | null | I actually agree entirely that in general giving the user a bazillion configuration options is a poor substitute for figuring out defaults that will Just Work for most people most of the time.
That the paper tiger 'user representative' in this case was also in general an idiot does not change my mind about configurat... | null | 0 | 1317067461 | False | 0 | c2mqzxc | t3_krv1k | null | t1_c2mqzxc | t1_c2mp1p6 | null | 1427649889 | -5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1317067480 | False | 0 | c2mr00r | t3_krpem | null | t1_c2mr00r | t3_krpem | null | 1427649891 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | one-half | null | Do you mean `Hastu`%^A@@aa&133
NO CARRIER | null | 0 | 1317067517 | False | 0 | c2mr06v | t3_krzdp | null | t1_c2mr06v | t1_c2mqm0o | null | 1427649892 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | jrochkind | null | I actually agree entirely that in general giving the user a bazillion configuration options is a poor substitute for figuring out defaults that will Just Work for most people most of the time.
That the paper tiger 'user representative' in this case was also in general an idiot does not change my mind about configurat... | null | 0 | 1317067538 | False | 0 | c2mr09y | t3_krv1k | null | t1_c2mr09y | t1_c2mp1p6 | null | 1427649893 | -5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1317067587 | False | 0 | c2mr0i1 | t3_ks0s7 | null | t1_c2mr0i1 | t1_c2mqx14 | null | 1427649897 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | jrochkind | null | I actually agree entirely that in general giving the user a bazillion configuration options is a poor substitute for figuring out defaults that will Just Work for most people most of the time.
That the paper tiger 'user representative' in this case was also in general an idiot does not change my mind about configurat... | null | 0 | 1317067595 | False | 0 | c2mr0kg | t3_krv1k | null | t1_c2mr0kg | t1_c2mp1p6 | null | 1427649897 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | I have even grown to love the ribbon in Word. It's great. However, as it exists in Outlook I think it sucks, and its merely ok in Excel. | null | 0 | 1317067601 | False | 0 | c2mr0ly | t3_krv1k | null | t1_c2mr0ly | t1_c2mpr3j | null | 1427649897 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | I have even grown to love the ribbon in Word. It's great. However, as it exists in Outlook I think it sucks, and its merely ok in Excel. | null | 0 | 1317067619 | False | 0 | c2mr0oc | t3_krv1k | null | t1_c2mr0oc | t1_c2mpr3j | null | 1427649898 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1317067736 | False | 0 | c2mr14r | t3_ks0s7 | null | t1_c2mr14r | t1_c2mqx14 | null | 1427649905 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1317067748 | False | 0 | c2mr17o | t3_ks0s7 | null | t1_c2mr17o | t1_c2mqx14 | null | 1427649905 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1317067792 | True | 0 | c2mr1hk | t3_ks0s7 | null | t1_c2mr1hk | t1_c2mqx14 | null | 1427649909 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | shnuffy | null | Can the OP explain the obfuscation process? Or maybe comment the code or provide a code analysis? That would be awesome. | null | 0 | 1317067837 | False | 0 | c2mr1pr | t3_krpem | null | t1_c2mr1pr | t3_krpem | null | 1427649912 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | moriya | null | Because visual design, UX (human-machine interaction) and the like are very specialized fields that a lot of programmers tend to write off as "lesser" fields because they don't understand what goes into them. I agree developers should be more familiar with UI/UX principles, because that's how the user is ultimately goi... | null | 0 | 1317067849 | False | 0 | c2mr1rg | t3_krv1k | null | t1_c2mr1rg | t1_c2mq7aa | null | 1427649912 | 16 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | inmatarian | null | Yeah, it seems like we're differing on vocabulary words.
In terms of raw definition, yes, function objects are different. And the ultimate point of this comment thread is that yes, closure based objects are memory hogs in comparison to the built in object types. | null | 0 | 1317067857 | False | 0 | c2mr1sy | t3_kroia | null | t1_c2mr1sy | t1_c2mpexp | null | 1427649913 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Hughlander | null | Reading that, rather than reacting the way I was 'supposed to' I instead had this thought, "I bet 'Engineer' comes from the Open Source world, maybe worked on Gimp." | null | 0 | 1317067904 | False | 0 | c2mr21g | t3_krv1k | null | t1_c2mr21g | t3_krv1k | null | 1427649916 | 32 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | prelic | null | As a recent college grad, I did a ton of interviews before choosing the right place, and in my short time as a full-time interviewee, my experience has been that nailing an algorithms interview is mostly a result of having seen the problem before, or having seen a problem that maps to the given problem. Reducing time ... | null | 0 | 1317068009 | True | 0 | c2mr2kq | t3_ks1qu | null | t1_c2mr2kq | t3_ks1qu | null | 1427649923 | 87 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1317068037 | False | 0 | c2mr2ou | t3_krzdp | null | t1_c2mr2ou | t1_c2mqi3e | null | 1427649924 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | jrochkind | null | Wait, this is blowing my mind.
If the tests themselves are automatically generated... AND the code was automatically generated... what value can those tests possibly have? If you're assuming the tests were generated correctly... why not just assume the thing generating the _code_ did it correctly, and fix it if it ... | null | 0 | 1317068092 | False | 0 | c2mr2xa | t3_kq001 | null | t1_c2mr2xa | t1_c2make1 | null | 1427649927 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | inmatarian | null | Slide in/slide out window, tree view, opens selections in a new or existing window, and remembers your last selection. I bind it to F2 for easy access. | null | 0 | 1317068110 | False | 0 | c2mr30l | t3_kr2x5 | null | t1_c2mr30l | t1_c2mqsx6 | null | 1427649929 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | AnythingApplied | null | There was a story about a guy that built a block pushing puzzle game. His most frequent request by far was to add an undo button because people kept falling into the pits. Since this would undermine the challenge of the puzzle, he simply slowed down the movement when holding a direction. The requests for undo compl... | null | 0 | 1317068170 | False | 0 | c2mr3bd | t3_krv1k | null | t1_c2mr3bd | t1_c2mpdjv | null | 1427649932 | 25 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1317068185 | False | 0 | c2mr3e8 | t3_krv1k | null | t1_c2mr3e8 | t1_c2mqdhh | null | 1427649933 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | pyrates | null | Even worse is those who want facebook to be just like myspace | null | 0 | 1317068200 | False | 0 | c2mr3ho | t3_krv1k | null | t1_c2mr3ho | t1_c2mqwi6 | null | 1427649936 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | thecapitalc | null | How high can you get v and x before you explode your computer (compiler)? | null | 0 | 1317068279 | False | 0 | c2mr3vy | t3_krpem | null | t1_c2mr3vy | t1_c2mqruq | null | 1427649940 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | thecapitalc | null | How high can you get v and x before you explode your computer (compiler)? | null | 0 | 1317068295 | False | 0 | c2mr3yr | t3_krpem | null | t1_c2mr3yr | t1_c2mq7ii | null | 1427649942 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | uncommented | null | One does not simply execute into Loador | null | 0 | 1317068431 | False | 0 | c2mr4qu | t3_krzdp | null | t1_c2mr4qu | t1_c2mqjpi | null | 1427649952 | 106 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | ntorotn | null | Facts aren't worth arguing, the problem here is semantics. Fractals themselves are infinite, while *pictures* of fractals have a finite resolution and are thus comparable. | null | 0 | 1317068455 | False | 0 | c2mr4vi | t3_krpem | null | t1_c2mr4vi | t1_c2mo27t | null | 1427649954 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | vincentrevelations | null | The major complaint with the ribbon was that there was so little to customize. "What if something doesn't work how I want it to work?!"
Turns out everything works like you want it to work. That's a bit new and scary in the UI world. I don't think I know any serious users who still dislike the ribbon. | null | 0 | 1317068482 | False | 0 | c2mr50d | t3_krv1k | null | t1_c2mr50d | t1_c2mpo7j | null | 1427649955 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | metarugia | null | Dam, just reading this through made me think of all the code I got redo. Definitely true. | null | 0 | 1317068516 | False | 0 | c2mr577 | t3_krzdp | null | t1_c2mr577 | t3_krzdp | null | 1427649958 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | DrBartosz | null | echo 'int main() {}' > program.cpp
Fixes bug #1
Bug #2: Program doesn't implement the 100 page spec. | null | 0 | 1317068521 | False | 0 | c2mr58c | t3_krklz | null | t1_c2mr58c | t1_c2mpxxi | null | 1427649958 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | frezik | null | If a programmer has not yet developed good indentation discipline in a curly-brace language, why would they also have developed the discipline to avoid the tab/space problem in whitespace-blocked languages? In a curly-brace language, the result will be ugly, but may work. In Python/Ruby, things will break.
I'll go ahe... | null | 0 | 1317068530 | False | 0 | c2mr59z | t3_krpem | null | t1_c2mr59z | t1_c2mqy1j | null | 1427649959 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | uncommented | null | About half of the classes I write end in "er" or "info," Should I stop writing code for the good of humanity? | null | 0 | 1317068732 | False | 0 | c2mr6cj | t3_krzdp | null | t1_c2mr6cj | t3_krzdp | null | 1427649973 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | nielsrobin | null | am i the only one finding it funny that their presentation video at http://spontaneus.com/business is a picture of youtube but opens in vimeo? is that even legal? | null | 0 | 1317068867 | False | 0 | c2mr71k | t3_ks2t2 | null | t1_c2mr71k | t1_c2mqysg | null | 1427649981 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Madd0g | null | The ribbon is an OK idea, users who are constantly lost in everything they do, will appreciate huge icons and lots of tab switching that will eventually get them where they need to go.
But having it replace the menu is just an insult to keyboard users - you press alt and then still need to look across the entire inter... | null | 0 | 1317068886 | False | 0 | c2mr75k | t3_krv1k | null | t1_c2mr75k | t1_c2mpo7j | null | 1427649982 | 8 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | In the early days of computing and microsoft office should have been the major indicator to you that this survey has nothing to do with reality in 2011. | null | 0 | 1317068895 | False | 0 | c2mr76r | t3_krv1k | null | t1_c2mr76r | t1_c2mp1p6 | null | 1427649983 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | ErstwhileRockstar | null | But it's not RAII. | null | 0 | 1317068920 | False | 0 | c2mr7as | t3_krrz1 | null | t1_c2mr7as | t3_krrz1 | null | 1427649984 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1317068932 | False | 0 | c2mr7cq | t3_krzdn | null | t1_c2mr7cq | t3_krzdn | null | 1427649985 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | voetsjoeba | null | This advice seems very artificial and sounds like zealotry for the sake of zealotry.
> Take some sort of "Loader" for example. The focus here is on the unit of work it does. It'll have lots of instance variables, lots of arguments, and pass lots of data around probably. Now instead replace that with a LoadRecord an... | null | 0 | 1317068973 | False | 0 | c2mr7jg | t3_krzdp | null | t1_c2mr7jg | t3_krzdp | null | 1427649987 | 142 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Gadsden | null | I expected this to be about Gnome. | null | 0 | 1317068976 | False | 0 | c2mr7jz | t3_krv1k | null | t1_c2mr7jz | t3_krv1k | null | 1427649987 | 45 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Tommstein | null | Quadruple. Prior to deleting the two that didn't have replies. | null | 0 | 1317068990 | False | 0 | c2mr7ml | t3_krzdn | null | t1_c2mr7ml | t1_c2mqtjd | null | 1427649988 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Tommstein | null | Thanks to you all's snarky comments, I have to leave two copies of this on here now, because deleting something that has been commented on would just be a bitchass move. | null | 0 | 1317069001 | False | 0 | c2mr7nt | t3_krzdn | null | t1_c2mr7nt | t1_c2mqtam | null | 1427649989 | 9 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | eric_t | null | Currently, I don't get past compiling freeglut. | null | 0 | 1317069054 | False | 0 | c2mr7x5 | t3_kqqd5 | null | t1_c2mr7x5 | t1_c2mo7sw | null | 1427649992 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | You can have Internet Explorer inside of Firefox inside of Firefox, using FF's IE extension and browser.xul. | null | 0 | 1317069058 | False | 0 | c2mr7y0 | t3_krzdn | null | t1_c2mr7y0 | t1_c2mqtiz | null | 1427649992 | 8 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | noumuon | null | f(x)=e^(-x+1) on the interval [1, +inf) maps to (0, 1]
f is a bijection, hence they share the same cardinality. what's the issue?
| null | 0 | 1317069160 | False | 0 | c2mr8fr | t3_krpem | null | t1_c2mr8fr | t1_c2mqi1d | null | 1427649999 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1317069178 | False | 0 | c2mr8in | t3_ks62g | null | t1_c2mr8in | t3_ks62g | null | 1427650001 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | poo_22 | null | That's nuts! But the application is running on the server right? So the browser is kind of like x server tunneling through ssh?
It would be cool if they made a python-gtk thing for pyjamas (the python to javascript translator/compiler)! Not that the default widgets are bad - gtk+ is just... better. | null | 0 | 1317069245 | False | 0 | c2mr8vt | t3_krzdn | null | t1_c2mr8vt | t3_krzdn | null | 1427650006 | 10 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | the_opinion | null | More often than not, 'settings' are just you deferring some of your usability design to users | null | 0 | 1317069299 | False | 0 | c2mr95l | t3_krv1k | null | t1_c2mr95l | t1_c2mp1p6 | null | 1427650011 | 22 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | adrianmonk | null | > She just said "Hey look, it looks like a notebook now. That's nice."
So basically: "People can get a cheeseburger anywhere, ok? They come to Chotchkie's for the atmosphere and the attitude. That's what the flair's about. It's about fun." | null | 0 | 1317069353 | False | 0 | c2mr9g5 | t3_krv1k | null | t1_c2mr9g5 | t1_c2mq34t | null | 1427650023 | 9 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1317069357 | False | 0 | c2mr9h8 | t3_krpem | null | t1_c2mr9h8 | t1_c2mqki6 | null | 1427650023 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | ker2x | null | that's all about noun vs verbs.
there is a good (and funny) paper about that, but i don't remember where :( | null | 0 | 1317069430 | False | 0 | c2mr9w1 | t3_krzdp | null | t1_c2mr9w1 | t3_krzdp | null | 1427650020 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | noumuon | null | >There exists no value that is closer to infinity than any other value .
well that depends, doesn't it?
on the extended complex plane, f(z)=1/z becomes bijective, and you can look at |w0| and |w1| under the transformation f. if |w1| < |w0| under order of the reals, then |w1| is closer to the point of infinity. ... | null | 0 | 1317069601 | True | 0 | c2mravk | t3_krpem | null | t1_c2mravk | t1_c2mqeab | null | 1427650031 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | sidcool1234 | null | What, in your view, should a programming interview include, so as not to be dumb? | null | 0 | 1317069646 | False | 0 | c2mrb4j | t3_ks1qu | null | t1_c2mrb4j | t1_c2mr2kq | null | 1427650035 | 15 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1317069682 | False | 0 | c2mrbaw | t3_kq001 | null | t1_c2mrbaw | t1_c2mr2xa | null | 1427650036 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1317069723 | False | 0 | c2mrbkd | t3_ks0s7 | null | t1_c2mrbkd | t1_c2mqfwr | null | 1427650040 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | ViP3Rx64 | null | It's missing one of the best, if not the best game programming book. Game Engine Architecture by Jason Gregory ( http://www.amazon.co.uk/Game-Engine-Architecture-Jason-Gregory/dp/1568814135/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1317069650&sr=8-1 ) | null | 0 | 1317069737 | False | 0 | c2mrbpc | t3_kr344 | null | t1_c2mrbpc | t3_kr344 | null | 1427650042 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | bloodredsun | null | TDD for JavaScript is great in theory but I've just not seen it done successfully. Given how much of JS is only applicable on the browser, like DOM manipulation and listening to events, it seems far better to use something like PhantomJS for that interaction and Jasmine for BDD testing. | null | 0 | 1317069787 | False | 0 | c2mrc0w | t3_ks1zg | null | t1_c2mrc0w | t3_ks1zg | null | 1427650046 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | kankeroo | null | Gimp in the browser? this is mind-boggling. | null | 0 | 1317069792 | False | 0 | c2mrc29 | t3_krzdn | null | t1_c2mrc29 | t3_krzdn | null | 1427650047 | 20 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1317069871 | False | 0 | c2mrci8 | t3_ks6fi | null | t1_c2mrci8 | t3_ks6fi | null | 1427650053 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | Why not `1/x`? | null | 0 | 1317069999 | False | 0 | c2mrd9a | t3_krpem | null | t1_c2mrd9a | t1_c2mr8fr | null | 1427650063 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | ep1032 | null | Fuck that. You grow to accept the ribbon because after 4 years of having to deal with the fucking ribbon on every single Microsoft application, you start learning how to guess where they decided to hide things, and because Microsoft got better at making it more obvious where they were hiding menus and advanced setting... | null | 0 | 1317070003 | False | 0 | c2mrda4 | t3_krv1k | null | t1_c2mrda4 | t1_c2mpssz | null | 1427650063 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | seydar | null | Solid advice; this is what I practiced doing for my Google interview. Still didn't help me because my interview didn't pertain to algorithms in the slightest and I also just plain suck at life. | null | 0 | 1317070066 | False | 0 | c2mrdnu | t3_ks1qu | null | t1_c2mrdnu | t3_ks1qu | null | 1427650069 | 12 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | yogthos | null | here's a trivial example for you to get the point across, say you wanted to get a sum, and wanted to print out the intermediate value:
sum = 0
for num in range (0, 10):
sum += num
print(sum)
but you accidentally ended up with wrong indentation on print(sum)
sum = 0
for num in range (0... | null | 0 | 1317070086 | False | 0 | c2mrds5 | t3_krpem | null | t1_c2mrds5 | t1_c2mp5fv | null | 1427650070 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | YesButIThink | null | Unfortunately, I've seen the flip side where people take this advice too literally. For example, in a big system that captures, validates and records financial trades and has lots of other trade-related logic, you have a huge Trade object with basically all the application's business logic in it, or even worse a big in... | null | 0 | 1317070087 | False | 0 | c2mrdsa | t3_krzdp | null | t1_c2mrdsa | t1_c2mqx49 | null | 1427650070 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | jimbokun | null | "Just because C is not OOP doesn't mean that C programmers only think of data as an afterthought."
It sounds like you are writing Object Oriented C, which is actually not that uncommon. I would say that if, whether by convention or through some kind of data hiding mechanism, you only ever manipulate your data with fu... | null | 0 | 1317070248 | False | 0 | c2mreo1 | t3_krzdp | null | t1_c2mreo1 | t1_c2mqahc | null | 1427650082 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | aveman101 | null | >If I had asked people what they wanted, they would have said faster horses.
-Henry Ford | null | 0 | 1317070364 | False | 0 | c2mrfbj | t3_krv1k | null | t1_c2mrfbj | t1_c2mpdjv | null | 1427650091 | 39 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | noiserr | null | In Python bad indentation is equal to a misplaced bracket. Let me explain. Your same example this time with brackets.
sum = 0;
for num in range (0, 10):
{
sum += num;
print(sum);
}
But let's say you accidentally put a bracket in a wrong place:
sum = 0;
for num in range (0, 10... | null | 0 | 1317070472 | True | 0 | c2mrfy7 | t3_krpem | null | t1_c2mrfy7 | t1_c2mrds5 | null | 1427650098 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | frodokun | null | class L33TL40DZORZ | null | 0 | 1317070550 | False | 0 | c2mrggi | t3_krzdp | null | t1_c2mrggi | t1_c2mqjpi | null | 1427650104 | 8 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | MrSpontaneous | null | One thing I don't like is the decision to allow multiple declarations within a single try block:
try (BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new FileReader("test.dat"));
BufferedWriter writer = new BufferedWriter(new FileWriter("out.dat"))) {
//insert code here
}
is harder for me to parse... | null | 0 | 1317070568 | False | 0 | c2mrgk9 | t3_krrz1 | null | t1_c2mrgk9 | t3_krrz1 | null | 1427650105 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | kkiran | null | wow, such an awesome company! I am working at a small company for the past 2.5 years, Python+MySQL. I have a Masters degree. The problem is that I joined this company straight out of school with few small internships. They ignore the standards and just focus on getting the job done (no matter how dirty the solution is)... | null | 0 | 1317070614 | False | 0 | c2mrgtz | t3_ks1qu | null | t1_c2mrgtz | t3_ks1qu | null | 1427650109 | -3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | jimbokun | null | Why do you think line count is a good metric for code size? | null | 0 | 1317070704 | False | 0 | c2mrhcv | t3_krklz | null | t1_c2mrhcv | t1_c2mngvy | null | 1427650116 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | elperroborrachotoo | null | What an asshole. *"Today, I will belittle a whole profession. Once someone of them disagreed with me, so they must all be dumb."* | null | 0 | 1317070797 | False | 0 | c2mrhwc | t3_krv1k | null | t1_c2mrhwc | t3_krv1k | null | 1427650123 | -3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Vulpyne | null | > Given a programmer of similar skill, Python doesn't look cleaner.
The above quoted is what I was replying to.
"*Cleaner*" is fairly subjective. Just being able to elide extraneous semantic markers such as curly braces could very well (and does to me) look cleaner than being forced to include them even though th... | null | 0 | 1317070838 | False | 0 | c2mri5f | t3_krpem | null | t1_c2mri5f | t1_c2mr59z | null | 1427650126 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | DeepDuh | null | I'm an engineer and I've liked the ribbons from the start. It's so much better than the old convoluted icon bars. However the implementation (even in 2010) has some flaws: learning / using hotkeys has become difficult as well as finding some features. If MS were to
- include better hotkeys and show them in all relevan... | null | 0 | 1317070878 | False | 0 | c2mrid6 | t3_krv1k | null | t1_c2mrid6 | t1_c2mpo7j | null | 1427650129 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | Engineer here: I **love** the 2007 UI. It's easier to use, and faster to get things looking gorgeous. | null | 0 | 1317070883 | False | 0 | c2mrien | t3_krv1k | null | t1_c2mrien | t1_c2mpo7j | null | 1427650130 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1317070911 | False | 0 | c2mrijr | t3_krzdn | null | t1_c2mrijr | t1_c2mr7nt | null | 1427650132 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | lolitrollyu | null | Wow a whole banana? | null | 0 | 1317070920 | False | 0 | c2mrilt | t3_krzdn | null | t1_c2mrilt | t1_c2mrijr | null | 1427650133 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | jrh3k5 | null | Don't forget its predecessor, org.apache.commons.io.IOUtils.closeQuietly(...). | null | 0 | 1317070947 | False | 0 | c2mriq3 | t3_krrz1 | null | t1_c2mriq3 | t1_c2mpuh9 | null | 1427650134 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | "I HAVE ONE EXAMPLE THAT IS COMPLETELY IRRELEVANT TO WHAT YOU SUGGESTED SO YOU'RE WRONG" | null | 0 | 1317070951 | False | 0 | c2mriqy | t3_krv1k | null | t1_c2mriqy | t1_c2mq1mt | null | 1427650134 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | phantamines | null | You have got to be kidding. People not using email groups? So let us say that only 10% use email groups and the rest just send mail one at a time. "Well only 10% of users actually use groups, lets just ax that *functionality*." Now let us consider what email groups were meant to do; sending emails to many recipients wi... | null | 0 | 1317070961 | False | 0 | c2mrit4 | t3_krv1k | null | t1_c2mrit4 | t1_c2mr3e8 | null | 1427650135 | 12 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | We had to write an simulator (interpreter), linking loader, and an assembler for a school assignment. I cannot think of logical replacement for those. | null | 0 | 1317071003 | False | 0 | c2mrj17 | t3_krzdp | null | t1_c2mrj17 | t3_krzdp | null | 1427650138 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | jrh3k5 | null | It's a trade-off. With the latter, you run the risk of a pattern of nested try's, which, for anyone who's dealt with a substantial amount of nested if blocks, is a good way to give oneself a headache.
Does Java 7 do anything that prevents someone from doing this? I would imagine that "reader" is still visible the inne... | null | 0 | 1317071057 | False | 0 | c2mrjcq | t3_krrz1 | null | t1_c2mrjcq | t1_c2mrgk9 | null | 1427650142 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | fabiensanglard | null | Try to figure out what means the person is using in order to maintain and improve his/her skills:
- What programming book/methodology he has read about recently or is planning on reading.
- What source code he has read. What is he planning on reading. Why he/she wants to read it, what would be the skills that would be... | null | 0 | 1317071117 | False | 0 | c2mrjo3 | t3_ks1qu | null | t1_c2mrjo3 | t1_c2mrb4j | null | 1427650147 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | day_cq | null | search is not web scale. | null | 0 | 1317071150 | False | 0 | c2mrjv7 | t3_krv1k | null | t1_c2mrjv7 | t3_krv1k | null | 1427650150 | -2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | I have never changed the settings in word and it's the only thing I have never changed it in. | null | 0 | 1317071157 | False | 0 | c2mrjvl | t3_krv1k | null | t1_c2mrjvl | t1_c2mp5bz | null | 1427650150 | 9 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | Even as a power user here, Apple just do something right to make me happy...maybe it's cuz the typography looks very nice | null | 0 | 1317071206 | False | 0 | c2mrk7n | t3_krv1k | null | t1_c2mrk7n | t1_c2mpuie | null | 1427650153 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | jrh3k5 | null | I got to see a presentation on Kotlin over at Strange Loop 2011, and I was really impressed with it. It brings a lot of features from C# into the JVM world (such as LINQ-like syntax and extension methods) while still managing to reduce the verbosity of Java.
My impression of Scala is that it's very *powerful*, but not... | null | 0 | 1317071271 | False | 0 | c2mrkjf | t3_ks4rg | null | t1_c2mrkjf | t3_ks4rg | null | 1427650158 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | fabiensanglard | null | Can you elaborate on how the interview went (and how many you did). Sorry to feel you so disapointed :/ ! | null | 0 | 1317071310 | False | 0 | c2mrks0 | t3_ks1qu | null | t1_c2mrks0 | t1_c2mrdnu | null | 1427650161 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | cowpowered | null | Seconded! Game Engine Architecture is by far the best all-round book about game programming I've read. Great read even for veterans.
I also recommend Physically Based Rendering for graphics programmers. It contains a lot of fundamental algorithms used to implement the rendering equation. Which can be approximated for ... | null | 0 | 1317071489 | False | 0 | c2mrlnm | t3_kr344 | null | t1_c2mrlnm | t1_c2mrbpc | null | 1427650172 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | dontforgetpassword | null | its certainly faster. i like it. it employs an MVC idea. Been using it about 6 months for our apps. I think we will be rewriting our main software in EXT JS, once we finalize our api. | null | 0 | 1317071586 | False | 0 | c2mrm4x | t3_kpgmn | null | t1_c2mrm4x | t1_c2mpvzy | null | 1427650178 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | chmod666 | null | Good luck trying to explain pointers to someone who only knows Java. | null | 0 | 1317071745 | False | 0 | c2mrmym | t3_kogj4 | null | t1_c2mrmym | t1_c2m09nf | null | 1427650190 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | OceanSpray | null | In almost all languages, environments aren't first class, and therefore can't be considered as data structures per se. The only languages I know of in which environments are directly manipulable are [Kernel](http://web.cs.wpi.edu/~jshutt/kernel.html) and [Io](http://iolanguage.com/). | null | 0 | 1317071765 | False | 0 | c2mrn2m | t3_kroia | null | t1_c2mrn2m | t1_c2mpwmk | null | 1427650191 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | elder_george | null | > Remove the focus from the objects being manipulated, and tend assume to much responsibility themselves.
Honestly, I'm not sure I correctly understood this particular part, but it seems OP promotes extending objects responsibilities with whatever 'verbs' were previously extended with '-er' (storing/loading etc.).
... | null | 0 | 1317071774 | False | 0 | c2mrn47 | t3_krzdp | null | t1_c2mrn47 | t3_krzdp | null | 1427650192 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | sidcool1234 | null | Shouldn't these be a part of the HR interview? I believe that's were the attitude and passion is evaluated. In a tech interview it's more of objective problem solving skills and theoretical knowledge. Just my opinion. | null | 0 | 1317071853 | False | 0 | c2mrnij | t3_ks1qu | null | t1_c2mrnij | t1_c2mrjo3 | null | 1427650198 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | FaustTheBird | null | Have you never heard of specialization of labor? Do you know how much time it takes to do programming and interface design well? Do you think programmers ever finish jobs so early that they would somehow have enough time to design a pretty UI if only they had the skill? | null | 0 | 1317071867 | False | 0 | c2mrnlj | t3_krv1k | null | t1_c2mrnlj | t1_c2mq7aa | null | 1427650198 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
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