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True | monk_e_boy | null | I wondered why I had PDF errors popping up when I visted MySQL.com today :( gunna run some checks now | null | 0 | 1317076994 | False | 0 | c2msein | t3_ksaoq | null | t1_c2msein | t3_ksaoq | null | 1427650551 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | flukus | null | Test should be as simple as possible and test one thing, the single assert principle. Larger tests are a maintenance nightmare. | null | 0 | 1317077027 | False | 0 | c2mseor | t3_kq001 | null | t1_c2mseor | t1_c2mp2ps | null | 1427650552 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | chengiz | null | (Unless The Wolf uses it first).
| null | 0 | 1317077154 | False | 0 | c2msfb7 | t3_krklz | null | t1_c2msfb7 | t1_c2mrq4l | null | 1427650561 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | I think the real problem is not about how they're named, but it's in this line:
> We want to create objects that describe what they are, and then
bind behavior to them, rather than focus on what they do, and then figure out what data they'll need to do that.
It has more to do with Single Responsibility Principle.... | null | 0 | 1317077189 | False | 0 | c2msffp | t3_krzdp | null | t1_c2msffp | t1_c2mr7jg | null | 1427650563 | 15 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | cogman10 | null | Hmm.... Looks like a pretty big security issue to me. Yes, It would be nice to be able to access my local console/programs from anywhere.... however, I didn't see any sort of login screen come into play with these videos. I don't know that I like the idea of having an open door like this. | null | 0 | 1317077286 | False | 0 | c2msfud | t3_krzdn | null | t1_c2msfud | t3_krzdn | null | 1427650568 | -4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | I absolutely refuse to "rock" anything. | null | 0 | 1317077372 | False | 0 | c2msg76 | t3_ks1qu | null | t1_c2msg76 | t3_ks1qu | null | 1427650572 | 29 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | HapDrastic | null | I suppose if you have a decent HR team, but I've never been that fortunate. | null | 0 | 1317077480 | False | 0 | c2msgqc | t3_ks1qu | null | t1_c2msgqc | t1_c2msd1v | null | 1427650579 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | _georgesim_ | null | I get your point, but will HR be qualified to know whether reading Knuth means that the person in question is passionate about algorithms? | null | 0 | 1317077505 | False | 0 | c2msgup | t3_ks1qu | null | t1_c2msgup | t1_c2mrnij | null | 1427650580 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | comment-dwim | null | My post was actually a bit of a rant about that as I'm building a language where objects (and modules) are represented by first-class environments. | null | 0 | 1317077659 | False | 0 | c2mshjk | t3_kroia | null | t1_c2mshjk | t1_c2mrn2m | null | 1427650590 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Atario | null | I haven't. I've just gotten used to it. It's really no better (or worse), it's just (pointlessly) different. | null | 0 | 1317077682 | False | 0 | c2mshn1 | t3_krv1k | null | t1_c2mshn1 | t1_c2mpr3j | null | 1427650592 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Atario | null | —sent from my iThingie | null | 0 | 1317077738 | False | 0 | c2mshvi | t3_krv1k | null | t1_c2mshvi | t1_c2mr21g | null | 1427650595 | -8 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | ehudros | null | Here's my advice:
If it makes sense, do it | null | 0 | 1317077743 | False | 0 | c2mshw6 | t3_krzdp | null | t1_c2mshw6 | t3_krzdp | null | 1427650595 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | yogthos | null | These are two separate problems, you have the problem of a misplaced bracket, and a problem of a missing bracket. Forgetting to close the bracket will be caught, while the misplaced bracket will have the same problem as the python example. In python you can't detect **either** of these cases.
> finding a } can be l... | null | 0 | 1317077836 | False | 0 | c2msib7 | t3_krpem | null | t1_c2msib7 | t1_c2mrfy7 | null | 1427650601 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | yogthos | null | the point was that if you **forgot** to put the closing bracket, you'd get a syntax error, while forgetting to indent in python compiles fine. Putting a closing bracket in a wrong spot is a different scenario, which is indeed equivalent in both cases. | null | 0 | 1317077898 | False | 0 | c2msilg | t3_krpem | null | t1_c2msilg | t1_c2mro2g | null | 1427650604 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | OceanSpray | null | That's cool. A few years back I wrote a toy interpreter for such a language, too, just trying to see what programming in it would be like. It had first class environments combined with pass-by-expression semantics. The possibilities for reflection were staggering, but good luck trying to efficiently compile such a lang... | null | 0 | 1317077974 | False | 0 | c2msixt | t3_kroia | null | t1_c2msixt | t1_c2mshjk | null | 1427650614 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1317078048 | False | 0 | c2msjau | t3_krzdp | null | t1_c2msjau | t1_c2mreo1 | null | 1427650614 | 16 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1317078209 | False | 0 | c2msk3c | t3_ksba0 | null | t1_c2msk3c | t3_ksba0 | null | 1427650624 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | eruonna | null | My advice would be "Don't grammaticize advice." Languages have plenty of ways of expressing the same thing, many of which differ grammatically. | null | 0 | 1317078259 | False | 0 | c2mskb8 | t3_krzdp | null | t1_c2mskb8 | t1_c2mrpxl | null | 1427650627 | 13 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | seydar | null | Oh god, if my parents find out of my failure, they'll make me sleep outside when I come home :'( | null | 0 | 1317078575 | False | 0 | c2msls3 | t3_ks1qu | null | t1_c2msls3 | t1_c2msajj | null | 1427650645 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | vimfan | null | I don't get why companies use incorrectly spelt words for their names. That's just going to make them harder to find. | null | 0 | 1317078583 | False | 0 | c2mslth | t3_ks2t2 | null | t1_c2mslth | t3_ks2t2 | null | 1427650647 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | comment-dwim | null | > but good luck trying to efficiently compile such a language
It's very hard to compile it efficiently. In my language much more so, since it has things like Fexprs and no special forms (i.e: define, if, lambda etc... are all first-class too, so you can even do stupid things like: (for-each define '(symbols) '(valu... | null | 0 | 1317078794 | False | 0 | c2msmv3 | t3_kroia | null | t1_c2msmv3 | t1_c2msixt | null | 1427650660 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | rasori | null | I upvoted this because it made me chuckle. But then I realized it wasn't much of a contribution to the conversation.
So I upvoted helm's post, too, because if this deserved it for being funny, helm's deserved it for leading to this.
Does this make me a bad person?
EDIT: Indeed it does. I accept the consequences of m... | null | 0 | 1317078855 | True | 0 | c2msn59 | t3_krv1k | null | t1_c2msn59 | t1_c2ms73b | null | 1427650664 | -7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | How about calculating the logarithm of Ackermann function with Grahams number as arguments? | null | 0 | 1317078908 | False | 0 | c2msnex | t3_koio1 | null | t1_c2msnex | t1_c2mcxma | null | 1427650667 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | helpingfriendlybook | null | Wahhh why don't normal folks want to immerse themselves in minutiae like me? | null | 0 | 1317079002 | False | 0 | c2msnvn | t3_krv1k | null | t1_c2msnvn | t3_krv1k | null | 1427650674 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | grampajoe | null | > A designer's job is about visual appeal.
That's definitely not the whole job. | null | 0 | 1317079028 | False | 0 | c2mso0b | t3_krv1k | null | t1_c2mso0b | t1_c2mpk0d | null | 1427650675 | 9 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | frymaster | null | no point with gimp (since it runs on windows) but if this takes off it would be an interesting way to run apps on my linux VM | null | 0 | 1317079028 | False | 0 | c2mso0e | t3_krzdn | null | t1_c2mso0e | t1_c2msdym | null | 1427650675 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | stillalone | null | yes. | null | 0 | 1317079062 | False | 0 | c2mso6c | t3_krv1k | null | t1_c2mso6c | t1_c2msn59 | null | 1428192717 | -7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | AReallyGoodName | null | > 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
Absolutely true. Consider the fact that a lot of these algorithms have taken 30-40years of computer science research to develop.
Now ask someon... | null | 0 | 1317079085 | False | 0 | c2msoa5 | t3_ks1qu | null | t1_c2msoa5 | t1_c2mr2kq | null | 1427650679 | 12 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | MarshallBanana | null | Well, you could add a Native Client backend to GTK, and run GTK apps natively, locally, but inside a webpage hosted remotely, if that's something you were into. | null | 0 | 1317079161 | False | 0 | c2msomu | t3_krzdn | null | t1_c2msomu | t1_c2mq95e | null | 1427650683 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | MarshallBanana | null | Voting somebody down because reddit choked and caused multiple posts is kind of a dick move, people. | null | 0 | 1317079294 | False | 0 | c2msp7k | t3_krzdn | null | t1_c2msp7k | t1_c2mqmbt | null | 1427650693 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | riotgibbon | null | This is a great library - I use it every day. All the usual reasons for TDD, and it in effect works as compiler for that naughty JavaScript - it lets you get away with anything otherwise ...
For me, it beats other Js TDD libraries as it lets you simultaneously test on multiple browsers and platforms, and export the r... | null | 0 | 1317079304 | False | 0 | c2msp9k | t3_ks1zg | null | t1_c2msp9k | t3_ks1zg | null | 1427650693 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | whitespace allows the developer to format code in a way that is logical for them
i prefer braces because i use an IDE. Or i use vim with syntax highlighting | null | 0 | 1317079449 | False | 0 | c2mspzd | t3_krpem | null | t1_c2mspzd | t1_c2mo1k4 | null | 1427650701 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | zapper877 | null | The size of code is correlated with bugs because as the size of a problem increases your ability to understand the whole and consequences of how your code behaves throughout the code base decreases.
It's simply a matter of not being able to cognitively hold the entire program in your head. This is why small programs ... | null | 0 | 1317079453 | False | 0 | c2mspzq | t3_krklz | null | t1_c2mspzq | t3_krklz | null | 1427650701 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | tootie | null | Yup. The moral of this dialectic is to not have morons do your UX. I work with a lot of UX professionals and have never met one who proposed something this silly. They are extremely useful if they know what they're doing. | null | 0 | 1317079686 | True | 0 | c2msr4u | t3_krv1k | null | t1_c2msr4u | t1_c2mpk0d | null | 1427650716 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | noiserr | null | > That's a complete straw man, pretty much every editor will highlight matching parens, something you don't even get in Python because there are no parens to begin with.
It absolutely isn't. I've been there many times. The editor will highlight the bracket but only after you move a cursor over it. How is that easie... | null | 0 | 1317079691 | True | 0 | c2msr5x | t3_krpem | null | t1_c2msr5x | t1_c2msib7 | null | 1427650716 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | grauenwolf | null | I find the so-called "single assert principle" laughable and your claim that "larger tests are a maintenance nightmare" to be downright ludicrous. What could be more of a nightmare than having to change dozens of nearly identical tests because a class was restructured? | null | 0 | 1317079785 | False | 0 | c2msrnn | t3_kq001 | null | t1_c2msrnn | t1_c2mseor | null | 1427650723 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | troyanonymous1 | null | That's ridiculous, the OS should be the browser instead.
Just make web applications with Qt and GTK+ and have a display server / window manager that doesn't suck balls. | null | 0 | 1317079871 | False | 0 | c2mss2d | t3_krzdn | null | t1_c2mss2d | t1_c2msaoh | null | 1427650729 | 21 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | noiserr | null | So you don't indent your code? | null | 0 | 1317079916 | False | 0 | c2mss97 | t3_krpem | null | t1_c2mss97 | t1_c2mspzd | null | 1427650730 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | yaztheblack | null | Wrong that users want to be able to search their eBooks, and have the option of changing the look and feel of their apps?
As a user, who knows many other users, I can attest that the engineer was correct. Besides more choice is never a bad idea, if you really think it'll scare the plebs, hide the choice in an 'Advance... | null | 0 | 1317079988 | False | 0 | c2msso6 | t3_krv1k | null | t1_c2msso6 | t1_c2ms8i8 | null | 1427650737 | 9 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | PlNG | null | "They are not all accounted for, the lost seeing stones. We do not know who else may be watching." | null | 0 | 1317080039 | False | 0 | c2msswl | t3_ks1qu | null | t1_c2msswl | t3_ks1qu | null | 1427650740 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | grauenwolf | null | Here is an example of code that violates the single assert principle
public void testAddition() {
ProprietaryList list = new ProprietaryList();
list.add(new Object());
assertEquals(1, list.size());
list.add(new Object());
assertEquals(2, list.size());
list.ad... | null | 0 | 1317080070 | False | 0 | c2mst20 | t3_kq001 | null | t1_c2mst20 | t1_c2mseor | null | 1427650751 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | jldugger | null | Honestly, half the battle in software development is having seen things before, so you can map an existing technique onto it. Otherwise, companies could just as easily give out IQ tests to hire programmers. | null | 0 | 1317080077 | False | 0 | c2mst2z | t3_ks1qu | null | t1_c2mst2z | t1_c2mr2kq | null | 1427650751 | 25 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | AReallyGoodName | null | Personally I'd ask what type of algorithm is required as opposed to demanding an implementation. Knowing the general types of algorithms is important. Knowing each individual implementation of the various algorithms is pointless.
If I stated a problem such as "I have a set of numbers and I always need quick access to ... | null | 0 | 1317080132 | False | 0 | c2mstd9 | t3_ks1qu | null | t1_c2mstd9 | t1_c2mrb4j | null | 1427650746 | 17 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Instantiation | null | A lot of people seem to misinterpret his point. I assume this is for the purpose of writing humorous counterexamples (e.g. renaming Loader to LoaderClass, etc), which is all well and good as I love humor as much as the next person, but in case people really do fundamentally misunderstand what he's saying, the point of... | null | 0 | 1317080256 | False | 0 | c2mstzf | t3_krzdp | null | t1_c2mstzf | t3_krzdp | null | 1427650754 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | webbles | null | I'd be interested to see the HTML it generates and see how much client/server communication is happening. This looks great on 127.0.0.1 but what about over a typical cable modem up and down? | null | 0 | 1317080256 | False | 0 | c2mstzh | t3_krzdn | null | t1_c2mstzh | t3_krzdn | null | 1427650754 | 8 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | njharman | null | What is the point of this drivel? To demonstrate how utterly clueless author is? | null | 0 | 1317080293 | False | 0 | c2msu5m | t3_krv1k | null | t1_c2msu5m | t3_krv1k | null | 1427650756 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | I think it depends if the class is virtual or not.
Loader is a generic virtual class that will load nothing but will be used to form derived classes. FooLoader will load Foo objects, etc.
But then it does not need to be OOP at all. FooLoader could just as well be a function that allocates memory for a Foo structure, ... | null | 0 | 1317080363 | False | 0 | c2msuh3 | t3_krzdp | null | t1_c2msuh3 | t1_c2mr7jg | null | 1427650759 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | I was feeling kind of jaded and sarcastic by the end of the whole thing so I ended up naming the instances of the assembler "ass" | null | 0 | 1317080433 | False | 0 | c2msusl | t3_krzdp | null | t1_c2msusl | t1_c2ms8we | null | 1427650763 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | VousEtMoi | null | Both are wrong. Keeping it simple and intuitive is as important as adopting and using the potential of technology. Good software engineers AND designers should know that and feed each other. | null | 0 | 1317080494 | False | 0 | c2msv2h | t3_krv1k | null | t1_c2msv2h | t3_krv1k | null | 1427650767 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | ker2x | null | Yes ! thank you ! :) | null | 0 | 1317080528 | False | 0 | c2msv7s | t3_krzdp | null | t1_c2msv7s | t1_c2ms482 | null | 1427650769 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | sakabako | null | but _I hate change!!_ | null | 0 | 1317080714 | False | 0 | c2msw5d | t3_krv1k | null | t1_c2msw5d | t1_c2mq64v | null | 1427650782 | -2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | 010101010101 | null | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cookiecutter_shark | null | 0 | 1317080716 | False | 0 | c2msw5o | t3_ks1qu | null | t1_c2msw5o | t1_c2mrt5w | null | 1427650782 | -1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | ghthor | null | Yea, I want to measure bandwidth usage also. | null | 0 | 1317080763 | False | 0 | c2mswe3 | t3_krzdn | null | t1_c2mswe3 | t1_c2mstzh | null | 1427650786 | 8 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | rmeredit | null | I don't know why you're being downvoted - this is objectively and fundamentally true. Every option setting is a design choice that the developer is not making. That may be a good thing or a bad thing, but it is certainly true. | null | 0 | 1317080798 | False | 0 | c2mswjy | t3_krv1k | null | t1_c2mswjy | t1_c2mr95l | null | 1427650787 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | omnilynx | null | OK, what is your definition of procedural programming, and how does it differ from object oriented programming? | null | 0 | 1317080868 | False | 0 | c2mswwg | t3_krzdp | null | t1_c2mswwg | t1_c2mscro | null | 1427650792 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Kalium | null | ...wtf? | null | 0 | 1317080879 | False | 0 | c2mswyi | t3_ks1qu | null | t1_c2mswyi | t1_c2msw5o | null | 1427650793 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Bognar | null | I hate the new Facebook.
Then again, I hated the old ones as well. | null | 0 | 1317080920 | False | 0 | c2msx5l | t3_krv1k | null | t1_c2msx5l | t1_c2mqwi6 | null | 1427650796 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | yaztheblack | null | I added a Quick Print button to the Home bar on Word and that and some quick border-drawing buttons to Excel.
Honestly, MS Software is pretty sweet these days, and Apple have been disappointing... and this is coming from a guy on a Mac that used to be an Apple devotee.
That MS have been improving design without steal... | null | 0 | 1317080957 | False | 0 | c2msxbo | t3_krv1k | null | t1_c2msxbo | t1_c2msdyl | null | 1427650797 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | rmeredit | null | What makes you think good design is "catering to the lowest common denominator"?
My personal experience is that the very definition of good design is catering for something other than the lowest common denominator. Crap design is the opposite. Option-itis is the abrogation of design responsibility altogether. | null | 0 | 1317081011 | False | 0 | c2msxl4 | t3_krv1k | null | t1_c2msxl4 | t1_c2ms492 | null | 1427650800 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | yaztheblack | null | Just because they hated the last change, doesn't mean they can't hate the new one more...
Seriously, though, I bloody hate the new sidebar, I just don't use FB enough to complain. | null | 0 | 1317081072 | False | 0 | c2msxvs | t3_krv1k | null | t1_c2msxvs | t1_c2mrxnl | null | 1427650804 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | moondance | null | Those things have even less to do with actual work than implementing some slightly tricky algorithm.
- Books are completely irrelevant for a lot of programming. Methodologies are only useful for a subset of programming jobs (product release schedules, etc)
- Wouldn't it make more sense to ask what projects they worked... | null | 0 | 1317081138 | False | 0 | c2msy7p | t3_ks1qu | null | t1_c2msy7p | t1_c2mrjo3 | null | 1427650808 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Azkar | null | I don't get it... | null | 0 | 1317081217 | False | 0 | c2msykg | t3_ks1qu | null | t1_c2msykg | t1_c2msw5o | null | 1427650813 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | headzoo | null | Voting you down, not because you think the engineer is wrong, but because you said he was wrong, but didn't point out why. Anyone can make blanket statements like "he was wrong", without providing any evidence. | null | 0 | 1317081277 | False | 0 | c2msytq | t3_krv1k | null | t1_c2msytq | t1_c2ms8i8 | null | 1427650816 | 27 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1317081321 | False | 0 | c2msz0r | t3_ks1qu | null | t1_c2msz0r | t1_c2mswyi | null | 1427650819 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | bonafidebob | null | The best programming interviews I've done (both ways) involve being shown busted, crappy, inefficient code. More bugs than statements is the goal here. The candidate is expected to (1) understand what the code actually does, (2) make a good guess at what the code was intended to do, and (3) provide new code that does... | null | 0 | 1317081350 | False | 0 | c2msz9b | t3_ks1qu | null | t1_c2msz9b | t1_c2mrb4j | null | 1427650822 | 54 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | 010101010101 | null | The name "cookiecutter shark" refers to its feeding habit of gouging round plugs, like a cookie cutter, out of larger animals. Marks made by cookiecutter sharks have been found on a wide variety of marine mammals and fishes, as well as on submarines, undersea cables, and even human bodies. | null | 0 | 1317081357 | False | 0 | c2mszah | t3_ks1qu | null | t1_c2mszah | t1_c2msykg | null | 1427650822 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | superbungalow | null | Am I only the only one who found themselves disliking both Dick and the engineer? Initially I agreed with him, about the eBook search and the concept of making a computer easier to use, but then he was just wrong. Skeuomorphism is not always simpler, especially when users have become accustomed to the way computers are... | null | 0 | 1317081515 | False | 0 | c2mt024 | t3_krv1k | null | t1_c2mt024 | t3_krv1k | null | 1427650833 | 8 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | NanoStuff | null | I wrote one in CUDA that uses 16 samples per pixel, also renders julia fractals at a selected location, and is absurdly fast on top of it :)
http://www.nowykurier.com/mandelcuda.zip | null | 0 | 1317081540 | True | 0 | c2mt05x | t3_krpem | null | t1_c2mt05x | t1_c2mqbut | null | 1427650834 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | rmeredit | null | Dick is a strawman and a crap designer.
A design is not about visual appeal. Graphic designers may have that as their main objective, but a designer is someone who thinks about and crafts the way an artefact behaves. This encompasses user interface design, but goes deeper than that to the fundamental idea of what th... | null | 0 | 1317081564 | False | 0 | c2mt0a5 | t3_krv1k | null | t1_c2mt0a5 | t1_c2mpk0d | null | 1427650835 | 25 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | egypturnash | null | calvetica > default iPad calendar
But oddly enough the "realistic" look of iCal doesn't bug me too much. Why? Because it still works like I expect it to. The big thing that made me ditch the iPad calendar is that it had the world's worst UI for navigating days/weeks/months - instead of being able to swipe the page ... | null | 0 | 1317081608 | False | 0 | c2mt0i3 | t3_krv1k | null | t1_c2mt0i3 | t3_krv1k | null | 1427650844 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | are595 | null | Ah, now can you explain it to me like I'm 12? | null | 0 | 1317081691 | False | 0 | c2mt0wf | t3_krpem | null | t1_c2mt0wf | t1_c2mqruq | null | 1427650845 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | Thin clients can have the CPU done on a remote system with more resources. This is a display console not where the CPU work is being done. There is still a "point" with gimp, as there is the is the IOS and android architecture that could benefit from doing the work on a larger, more powerful back end.
| null | 0 | 1317081760 | False | 0 | c2mt18a | t3_krzdn | null | t1_c2mt18a | t1_c2mso0e | null | 1427650857 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | rush22 | null | Why I believe I'll name my builder class Factory!
edit: whoops didn't read that he suggests that for manager... ehmmm... | null | 0 | 1317081787 | True | 0 | c2mt1c1 | t3_krzdp | null | t1_c2mt1c1 | t3_krzdp | null | 1427650850 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Synackaon | null | Except that missing an indentation in python is rather easy to see with a casual glance.
Missing a semicolon?
Good luck. | null | 0 | 1317081798 | False | 0 | c2mt1e2 | t3_krpem | null | t1_c2mt1e2 | t1_c2msilg | null | 1427650851 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | jakkarth | null | I don't always downvote stupid memes, but when I do, it's because they don't belong in this subreddit.
> Some seem to think this reddit is for "links that programmers might find interesting or funny". No. It's for programming links. Programming. *Programming.* **Programming.**
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True | Azkar | null | ah. Thanks! | null | 0 | 1317081810 | False | 0 | c2mt1gd | t3_ks1qu | null | t1_c2mt1gd | t1_c2mszah | null | 1427650851 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | are595 | null | Also, could you potentially change the background color and/or optimize the code? | null | 0 | 1317081830 | False | 0 | c2mt1k1 | t3_krpem | null | t1_c2mt1k1 | t1_c2mqruq | null | 1427650853 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | gltovar | null | Yo Dawg, I heard you like web browsers, so I put a web browser in you web browser. [from the video in this article]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AO-qca9ddqg&feature=player_embedded#t=141s | null | 0 | 1317081913 | False | 0 | c2mt1y1 | t3_krzdn | null | t1_c2mt1y1 | t3_krzdn | null | 1427650858 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Synackaon | null | With a BFDL to serve as the final stop for language decisions... | null | 0 | 1317081936 | False | 0 | c2mt21g | t3_krpem | null | t1_c2mt21g | t1_c2mqphx | null | 1427650859 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | imnotsoclever | null | All I learned from this is that Engineers are full of themselves.
(Note: is an engineer) | null | 0 | 1317081959 | False | 0 | c2mt25o | t3_krv1k | null | t1_c2mt25o | t3_krv1k | null | 1427650862 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | rmeredit | null | There's a great TED talk given by Paul Bennet from IDEO where he talks about empathic design.
Well worth [watching](http://www.ted.com/talks/paul_bennett_finds_design_in_the_details.html) by everyone involved in developing new things and processes.
The danger with this approach, though, is to be blinkered by what you... | null | 0 | 1317081975 | False | 0 | c2mt27y | t3_krv1k | null | t1_c2mt27y | t1_c2mpvrt | null | 1427650862 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1317082063 | True | 0 | c2mt2kk | t3_krzdp | null | t1_c2mt2kk | t1_c2mswwg | null | 1427650868 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | flyingfox | null | Here's my shot as unobfuscation: [http://pastebin.com/6EsGCVw9](http://pastebin.com/6EsGCVw9)
The original lambda function lives on as 'mandel\_lambda' but it now explicitly calls itself rather than Y (which is later defined as the lambda function when unpacked from _. A rather bastardly move). The 'mandel\_recursiv... | null | 0 | 1317082073 | True | 0 | c2mt2m1 | t3_krpem | null | t1_c2mt2m1 | t1_c2mnwjh | null | 1427650868 | 10 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1317082270 | False | 0 | c2mt3go | t3_krv1k | null | t1_c2mt3go | t3_krv1k | null | 1427650878 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | case-o-nuts | null | Handwavy is ok. You don't need to remember all the theorems and crunch all the math - if you understand the algorithm, you should be able to clearly explain why it only does k\*N operations, or k\*log(N) operations, or whatever.
Watertight proofs aren't usually the main goal of the interview. Showing you can reason ab... | null | 0 | 1317082277 | True | 0 | c2mt3hq | t3_ks1qu | null | t1_c2mt3hq | t1_c2mr2kq | null | 1427650877 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | massive_hair | null | You can look at that another way - almost one in twenty people who used the product needed an aspect of it changing so much that they were willing to take time out of their job to figure out how to change it (not always an easy task, especially if you're not computer savvy). That is to say, assuming an installed base o... | null | 0 | 1317082296 | False | 0 | c2mt3l6 | t3_krv1k | null | t1_c2mt3l6 | t1_c2mp1p6 | null | 1427650879 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | case-o-nuts | null | Don't worry about it. Retry if you feel like it. | null | 0 | 1317082345 | False | 0 | c2mt3ty | t3_ks1qu | null | t1_c2mt3ty | t1_c2ms2pj | null | 1427650881 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | mattgrande | null | I think a lot of people really underestimate how important typography is. It can take an good design, and make it look really polished. | null | 0 | 1317082348 | False | 0 | c2mt3um | t3_krv1k | null | t1_c2mt3um | t1_c2mrk7n | null | 1427650881 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | seydar | null | How do I retry a google interview? One doesn't just retry into mordor | null | 0 | 1317082487 | False | 0 | c2mt4ih | t3_ks1qu | null | t1_c2mt4ih | t1_c2mt3ty | null | 1427650891 | 13 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | godofpumpkins | null | > 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
That's true of many programming problems too, though. If you have the repertoire of solutions and are able to perform the necessary adaptation (it's a skill), the likelihoo... | null | 0 | 1317082492 | False | 0 | c2mt4j7 | t3_ks1qu | null | t1_c2mt4j7 | t1_c2mr2kq | null | 1427650891 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | mattgrande | null | I just hated the character of Dick. It reads like the author has some extreme pent-up anger towards designers.
> Isn't he the chef at that new biodynamic tofu restaurant in North Beach?
*extreme eyeroll* | null | 0 | 1317082550 | False | 0 | c2mt4tn | t3_krv1k | null | t1_c2mt4tn | t1_c2mt024 | null | 1427650894 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | mattgrande | null | That's how it read to me as well. | null | 0 | 1317082659 | False | 0 | c2mt5bk | t3_krv1k | null | t1_c2mt5bk | t1_c2mrhwc | null | 1427650902 | -2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | perfectfire | null | Not funny. My favorite dev lead was one of the devs that worked on clippy (he was totally new at the time). Just kidding about it not being funny. | null | 0 | 1317082704 | False | 0 | c2mt5jw | t3_krv1k | null | t1_c2mt5jw | t3_krv1k | null | 1427650905 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | hacksoncode | null | Yeah, well, that and "program like the next person to work on your code will be a serial killer who knows where you live". | null | 0 | 1317082833 | False | 0 | c2mt66u | t3_krzdp | null | t1_c2mt66u | t3_krzdp | null | 1427650913 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | hackinthebochs | null | Good link, thanks. I second the request for more resources. | null | 0 | 1317082902 | False | 0 | c2mt6j8 | t3_krzys | null | t1_c2mt6j8 | t1_c2mpukq | null | 1427650917 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | inmatarian | null | No, you're absolutely right. Bad implementations of anything do exist.
I thought it was bad karma to spread some misinformation about good implementations, which is why I added myself to this conversation in the first place. | null | 0 | 1317083151 | False | 0 | c2mt7pc | t3_kroia | null | t1_c2mt7pc | t1_c2mru05 | null | 1427650933 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | tilio | null | the conversation is framed incorrectly because either the engineer is an inexperienced idiot, or he's an inexperienced idiot who doesn't realize he works at a company run by idiots. anyone at a real company would have mentioned conversion rates from the split tests and there would be no argument. whether you're using... | null | 0 | 1317083213 | False | 0 | c2mt7zq | t3_krv1k | null | t1_c2mt7zq | t1_c2ms8i8 | null | 1427650936 | -4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | flyingfox | null | Looking at [__s's code](http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/krpem/highresolution_mandelbrot_in_obfuscated_python/c2mqsw6), it looks to me like he's summing the squares of all of the surrounding pixels and taking the average:
sum(man(0, complex_coord, 255)**2 for A in (0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8)) / 9
I think this... | null | 0 | 1317083228 | False | 0 | c2mt82d | t3_krpem | null | t1_c2mt82d | t1_c2mqlgj | null | 1427650938 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | omnilynx | null | Right, but OOP also gives the computer sequential lists of instructions that are grouped into procedure calls. What makes the two different?
It's my understanding that OOP is primarily concerned with modeling the system in code, and the actual processing that then takes place is almost an afterthought (with the idea t... | null | 0 | 1317083232 | False | 0 | c2mt835 | t3_krzdp | null | t1_c2mt835 | t1_c2mt2kk | null | 1427650938 | -1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | cdtoad | null | Fuck You Dick! | null | 0 | 1317083401 | False | 0 | c2mt8wr | t3_krv1k | null | t1_c2mt8wr | t3_krv1k | null | 1427650949 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
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