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True | jyper | null | WAP - winows aint posix or any sort unix like os(yes I know about the certification). | null | 0 | 1317200748 | False | 0 | c2n6qe7 | t3_kssyt | null | t1_c2n6qe7 | t1_c2n6lda | null | 1427657438 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | jyper | null | [HTTrack Website Copier - Offline Browser](http://www.httrack.com/) | null | 0 | 1317200844 | False | 0 | c2n6qk4 | t3_kssyt | null | t1_c2n6qk4 | t1_c2mz2jj | null | 1427657440 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | jyper | null | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portable_Document_Format | null | 0 | 1317200899 | False | 0 | c2n6qnh | t3_kssyt | null | t1_c2n6qnh | t1_c2n326g | null | 1427657441 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | francohab | null | I can also do all the things that VIM does in IntelliJ (or Eclipse I guess) without moving my hands from the keyboard. Ok, if I need to go forward 3 words, I would do Ctrl -> -> ->, but the time lost there is gained with autocomplete, compilation on the file, live templates, etc...
Still, I use vi a lot, but... | null | 0 | 1317200913 | False | 0 | c2n6qok | t3_ktenx | null | t1_c2n6qok | t1_c2n60wf | null | 1427657442 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | paganel | null | Sorry for sounding like an old fart, or a douche, or however you want to call me, the thing is that things are not that simple.
> The problem here is management, they are the ones who usually try to hard implementing the trend of the month.
Do you think civil engineers don't have managers/bosses to whom they have... | null | 0 | 1317201229 | False | 0 | c2n6r9f | t3_kq001 | null | t1_c2n6r9f | t1_c2n4ig2 | null | 1427657449 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | The problem with the merging debate is people keep pretending that phrases like "it handles cases" mean anything or that there is some kind of general guarantee of improvement from one scheme to another. If you disagree, define "better" mathematically and then show me your proof. Otherwise it is simply opinion, much in... | null | 0 | 1317201419 | False | 0 | c2n6rkk | t3_kt058 | null | t1_c2n6rkk | t1_c2n6oqc | null | 1427657453 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | jyper | null | It works in Okular(at least basic documents). | null | 0 | 1317201537 | False | 0 | c2n6rr0 | t3_kssyt | null | t1_c2n6rr0 | t1_c2mxox6 | null | 1427657456 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | henk53 | null | >I can't fathom why one would prefer JSF to Wicket.
Really? It's often the other way around. For starters read http://it-republik.de/jaxenter/artikel/Wicket-und-JSF-im-Vergleich-4069.html
It's an unbiased comparison between the two.
There was a recent poll to ask users what their *favorite/preferred* web framewor... | null | 0 | 1317201547 | False | 0 | c2n6rrq | t3_kt682 | null | t1_c2n6rrq | t1_c2n2xq4 | null | 1427657456 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | cwstjnobbs | null | Works fine at [1280x1024](http://i.imgur.com/iau5F.png)
People using resolutions lower than that are irrelevant. | null | 0 | 1317201547 | False | 0 | c2n6rrw | t3_ktenx | null | t1_c2n6rrw | t1_c2n326c | null | 1427657456 | -2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | kyz | null | You're using a nebulous word - "technology" - which conceivably spans lots of things.
You can't get either a copyright *or* a patent on a "technology" or an "idea". Imprecise words.
* Copyright protects **works** - which includes books, films, music, plays, computer software, databases (in the EU) and the general pat... | null | 0 | 1317201939 | False | 0 | c2n6sek | t3_kosg9 | null | t1_c2n6sek | t1_c2m2yd4 | null | 1427657464 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | blergh- | null | As far as I know, cw doesn't require the i. | null | 0 | 1317201962 | False | 0 | c2n6sfy | t3_ktenx | null | t1_c2n6sfy | t1_c2n5v3p | null | 1427657465 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | EnderMB | null | It's probably because I don't work with a bunch of neckbeards, but I've yet to meet any developer that uses vim that can use it as fast as equal developers with an IDE. In fact, I'd say that in the time it takes to learn how to use vim you could simply become a better programmer, thus making you far more productive tha... | null | 0 | 1317202002 | False | 0 | c2n6sim | t3_ktenx | null | t1_c2n6sim | t1_c2n6qok | null | 1427657465 | -1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | henk53 | null | Utterly b/s...
The VU in Amsterdam, Netherlands uses Java and basically teaches you all the lower level stuff you mention (and you'll get parts of it from the well known Professor Tanenbaum (http://www.cs.vu.nl/~ast/).
A close by university, the UL in Leiden uses C++ and they basically teach you the very same kind of... | null | 0 | 1317202201 | False | 0 | c2n6suj | t3_kteac | null | t1_c2n6suj | t1_c2n6fj3 | null | 1427657470 | 11 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | vicvicvicz | null | [virtualenvwrapper](http://pypi.python.org/pypi/virtualenvwrapper) is nice. Keeps all your virtualenvs in one spot. | null | 0 | 1317202230 | False | 0 | c2n6swj | t3_ktto0 | null | t1_c2n6swj | t3_ktto0 | null | 1427657470 | -1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | henk53 | null | Hahaha.... good one :D | null | 0 | 1317202246 | False | 0 | c2n6sxj | t3_kteac | null | t1_c2n6sxj | t1_c2n5qqh | null | 1427657471 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | henk53 | null | >I'll stay in the corner sharpening my C++ skills, it looks like its due to be in fashon again
Would be cool, any indication yet that this is happening?
Btw, although the blogosphere practically abandoned C++ and C++ lost a lot of its popularity compared to 10 years ago, it actually stayed at approximately the thi... | null | 0 | 1317202414 | False | 0 | c2n6t72 | t3_kteac | null | t1_c2n6t72 | t1_c2n31nl | null | 1427657474 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | mushishi | null | Good catch! | null | 0 | 1317202624 | False | 0 | c2n6tj7 | t3_ktenx | null | t1_c2n6tj7 | t1_c2n6sfy | null | 1427657479 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | mushishi | null | It has actual benefit: your hand rests on the default position (in a qwerty setting). It's less movement overall. | null | 0 | 1317202864 | False | 0 | c2n6twz | t3_ktenx | null | t1_c2n6twz | t1_c2n6fnj | null | 1427657484 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | skilldrick | null | This is all 100% true but I still loves my JS :) | null | 0 | 1317202936 | False | 0 | c2n6u0z | t3_kroia | null | t1_c2n6u0z | t1_c2mx1f8 | null | 1427657485 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | julesjacobs | null | This is a best case for evolutionary algorithms because the effects of each mutation on the fitness are independent. Yet a simple randomized hill climber (algorithm 1) was more than 20x faster. This is also my experience. Are there any known real world problems where evolutionary algorithms actually work? That is, wher... | null | 0 | 1317203098 | False | 0 | c2n6ub4 | t3_ktg7o | null | t1_c2n6ub4 | t3_ktg7o | null | 1427657489 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | francohab | null | In Java, he would definitely be last, especially when you're using frameworks like Spring... I would go crazy if I needed to type letter by letter things like ApplicationContextFactoryProxyImpl (I'm inventing) everytime... | null | 0 | 1317203278 | False | 0 | c2n6ukd | t3_ktenx | null | t1_c2n6ukd | t1_c2n5v70 | null | 1427657492 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | archiminos | null | This is why I chose to be a game programmer rather than take the higher salaries. | null | 0 | 1317203360 | False | 0 | c2n6uop | t3_ktd67 | null | t1_c2n6uop | t1_c2n4nl2 | null | 1427657494 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | jyper | null | which companies? I thought it was only adobe that had a free pdf reader and a paid pdf editor. | null | 0 | 1317203715 | False | 0 | c2n6v8d | t3_kssyt | null | t1_c2n6v8d | t1_c2n68c8 | null | 1427657501 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Software_Engineer | null | former PhD student here. my adviser would tell me to try it out and come back with easy to read graphs and charts. go do it and report back to us! | null | 0 | 1317204019 | False | 0 | c2n6vp6 | t3_ktg7o | null | t1_c2n6vp6 | t1_c2n6nqx | null | 1427657508 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Software_Engineer | null | Touche. | null | 0 | 1317204063 | False | 0 | c2n6vrl | t3_ktg7o | null | t1_c2n6vrl | t1_c2n69v6 | null | 1427657509 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | warpcowboy | null | I meant the "press this button" indicator. | null | 0 | 1317204079 | False | 0 | c2n6vsn | t3_ktenx | null | t1_c2n6vsn | t1_c2n6hfw | null | 1427657509 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | John_Idol | null | Seriously LOL'ed at this :) | null | 0 | 1317204105 | False | 0 | c2n6vua | t3_ktg7o | null | t1_c2n6vua | t1_c2n69v6 | null | 1427657511 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Software_Engineer | null | see the top comment of this thread and OP's response | null | 0 | 1317204156 | False | 0 | c2n6vx1 | t3_ktg7o | null | t1_c2n6vx1 | t1_c2n5nys | null | 1427657512 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | sztomi | null | > any indication yet that this is happening?
Yes, Microsoft is strengthening up Visual Studio for native development and they introduced WinRT which more or less native again (it's COM(ish), so it's debatable if it's native or not, be there is no bytecode involved). The catch is that they created C++/CX, yet anothe... | null | 0 | 1317204293 | False | 0 | c2n6w4o | t3_kteac | null | t1_c2n6w4o | t1_c2n6t72 | null | 1427657513 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | sztomi | null | I don't know, maybe. I think that these arbitrary commands are pointless because they are hard to remember. The snipmate/textmate approach is much better. | null | 0 | 1317204456 | False | 0 | c2n6wdq | t3_kr2x5 | null | t1_c2n6wdq | t1_c2n49pc | null | 1427657517 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | codingcanary | null | Well nice one, glad you understand them so well. Perhaps you might remember that not everyone has understood them, and might be interested in an article. By the way, nice one for coming on here *purely* to post this comment. How about STFU? | null | 0 | 1317204659 | False | 0 | c2n6wol | t3_ktei7 | null | t1_c2n6wol | t1_c2n2o5k | null | 1427657521 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | Wow. This is an awesome post. Thank you, sir! | null | 0 | 1317204669 | False | 0 | c2n6wpb | t3_ktd67 | null | t1_c2n6wpb | t3_ktd67 | null | 1427657521 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | millstone | null | Presumably GAs are better at avoiding local maxima than is hill climbing. In this case there are no local maxima, so there's no way to get trapped, so it's an ideal candidate for hill climbing.
Change the fitness function and you'll probably see GAs do better. For example, only permit insertions and deletions as muta... | null | 0 | 1317204768 | False | 0 | c2n6wv4 | t3_ktg7o | null | t1_c2n6wv4 | t1_c2n6ub4 | null | 1427657523 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | akoprowski | null | In principle it can, but it's not what it was designed for (and not where it shines). In particular to write desktop apps one would need to extend the standard library, which is very heavily focused on web apps.
Long story short: there are better language choices for desktop apps, whereas when it comes to web apps... :... | null | 0 | 1317205108 | False | 0 | c2n6xes | t3_kteac | null | t1_c2n6xes | t1_c2n39vw | null | 1427657530 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | the-fritz | null | > you can't really print slides out if you have the generated PDF, since each transition is a distinct page; no transitions; most basic animation is an exercise in masochism
Annoying transitions and animations in presentations are a sin anyway.
> PDF is good because it's relatively open, vector-based, and opens... | null | 0 | 1317205200 | False | 0 | c2n6xk1 | t3_kssyt | null | t1_c2n6xk1 | t1_c2n358y | null | 1427657533 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | irondust | null | Many of the big HPC software projects coming from national labs and universities, are in fact free software: Tao, Petsc, Trilinos, parmetis, hdf5, to name a few. Or are developed as free software in collaboration with industry, like openmpi. Things may be different for standalone tools, software directly targeted at en... | null | 0 | 1317205320 | False | 0 | c2n6xr5 | t3_ksm2f | null | t1_c2n6xr5 | t1_c2n67fq | null | 1427657535 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Counterman | null | I remember back when all the "hard core" users insisted that using tiny bitmapped fonts was the way to go. In fact, they even used vim! Oh wait... | null | 0 | 1317205542 | False | 0 | c2n6y2m | t3_ktenx | null | t1_c2n6y2m | t1_c2n2sws | null | 1427657538 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | akoprowski | null | Funny how ppl seem to focus on the name :). It's just a name. Pick a short name and chances are it means something in a handful of languages -- by now we indeed know what does Opa mean in some: http://opalang.org/faq.xmlt . But it's more than just a name. And I'd rather hear criticism about the language than its name ;... | null | 0 | 1317205619 | True | 0 | c2n6y6q | t3_kteac | null | t1_c2n6y6q | t1_c2n3pi2 | null | 1427657540 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Counterman | null | No they don't! Even I know that, and I hate vim! | null | 0 | 1317205629 | False | 0 | c2n6y76 | t3_ktenx | null | t1_c2n6y76 | t1_c2n3oif | null | 1427657540 | -5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | deong | null | You'll never publish that -- it's already been done. | null | 0 | 1317205631 | False | 0 | c2n6y79 | t3_ktg7o | null | t1_c2n6y79 | t1_c2n5jsd | null | 1427657540 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | akoprowski | null | The "does not validate" part we need to look into (the Opa generated markup did validate, but maybe we "lost it" with some recent changes).
What do you mean with old style output, though? | null | 0 | 1317205698 | False | 0 | c2n6yb5 | t3_kteac | null | t1_c2n6yb5 | t1_c2n5kwu | null | 1427657542 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | judofyr | null | See also: [How to rank products based on user input](http://masanjin.net/blog/how-to-rank-products-based-on-user-input) which also actually implements it (in Ruby). | null | 0 | 1317205832 | False | 0 | c2n6yik | t3_ktx2g | null | t1_c2n6yik | t3_ktx2g | null | 1427657544 | 12 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | smeezy | null | The AppInstaller would contain the algorithm for app installation. It should be a very interesting piece of code (all the error handling logic would be there, for instance), but it should hardly contain any data.
>>In the ColorSpaceTransformer visitor case, the entire class may be nothing but algorithms, with al... | null | 0 | 1317205890 | False | 0 | c2n6ylk | t3_krzdp | null | t1_c2n6ylk | t1_c2n0aiz | null | 1427657545 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1317205932 | False | 0 | c2n6yo4 | t3_krzdn | null | t1_c2n6yo4 | t1_c2mv3av | null | 1427657546 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | MarkRand | null | plus - I would personally use ^ and $, which is more consistent with things like regular expressions | null | 0 | 1317205998 | False | 0 | c2n6ys0 | t3_ktenx | null | t1_c2n6ys0 | t1_c2n2trn | null | 1427657549 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | jyper | null | [Firefox in Firefox](http://seejay.wordpress.com/2007/04/11/firefox-inside-firefox/)
Warning: does not work in IE | null | 0 | 1317206031 | False | 0 | c2n6yu1 | t3_krzdn | null | t1_c2n6yu1 | t1_c2mr7y0 | null | 1427657549 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Counterman | null | The problem with nano is that, while at least non-modal (thus, like emacs and unlike vi, up to date with behavioral research as it was ca. 1983), is that it still doesn't employ CUA keys. Which every other text editing context you ever meet will.
But it's OK for editing the occasional config file, which is all your c... | null | 0 | 1317206196 | False | 0 | c2n6z3i | t3_ktenx | null | t1_c2n6z3i | t1_c2n4fw1 | null | 1427657552 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | SmartassComment | null | Maybe it's confused by the upper case file extension? | null | 0 | 1317206539 | False | 0 | c2n6zmq | t3_ktyqp | null | t1_c2n6zmq | t3_ktyqp | null | 1427657559 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Counterman | null | Why do you need syntax highlighting in your console editor? I do as litte work as I possibly can in console editors. The convenience of syntax highlighting in those rare cases are dwarfed by the inconvenience of modal editing. | null | 0 | 1317206707 | False | 0 | c2n6zw2 | t3_ktenx | null | t1_c2n6zw2 | t1_c2n4gq5 | null | 1427657563 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | deong | null | Prediction is nothing more than minimizing the error on known data in the hopes that the past is a good predictor of the future. You can use a GA (or any other optimization algorithm) to search for the minimum of the error surface.
The question then becomes, how do you encode something that does function regression? Y... | null | 0 | 1317206853 | False | 0 | c2n704r | t3_ktg7o | null | t1_c2n704r | t1_c2n568a | null | 1427657566 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | bhavyajyothinath | null | noo..first i tried with lowercase.
and in forum i read that it should be given in uppercase.but again it failed to work. | null | 0 | 1317206940 | False | 0 | c2n709z | t3_ktyqp | null | t1_c2n709z | t3_ktyqp | null | 1427657568 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Counterman | null | > Everything is in the muscle memory, so you can concentrate only on the code.
You then face the prospect of either:
* Maintaining two muscle memories (does not work), or
* getting vi key plugins for every other piece of software you use, with the inevitable configuration and update nightmare.
> And yes, it ... | null | 0 | 1317207248 | False | 0 | c2n70sa | t3_ktenx | null | t1_c2n70sa | t1_c2n60wf | null | 1427657575 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | sepp2k | null | Your interpreter does not correctly handle nested brackets. For example the following program should do nothing at all (once the first opening bracket is encountered, it should jump to the end), but using your interpreter it will actually execute the ,. bit because it jumps to the first closing bracket it finds instead... | null | 0 | 1317207302 | False | 0 | c2n70va | t3_ktmdr | null | t1_c2n70va | t1_c2n6agy | null | 1427657576 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | bonzinip | null | > The AppInstaller would contain the algorithm for app installation. It should be a very interesting piece of code (all the error handling logic would be there, for instance), but it should hardly contain any data.
Nope, app installation should be "enumerate the steps of a transaction (that's data), and create a Tr... | null | 0 | 1317207462 | False | 0 | c2n7146 | t3_krzdp | null | t1_c2n7146 | t1_c2n6ylk | null | 1427657579 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | deong | null | Depends on how you interpret "step up from brute-force". :)
All general optimization methods are at least as bad as brute force when considered over all possible functions (this is called the No Free Lunch theorem). So the way that any optimization method works at all is only by introducing bias; in short, they make i... | null | 0 | 1317207475 | False | 0 | c2n714x | t3_ktg7o | null | t1_c2n714x | t1_c2n5zrw | null | 1427657579 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | I note that the same error will be issued when the input file type is gif when the module required for GIF support isn't available (GD). Maybe you're missing whatever is required for PNG support?
Can you successfully insert other (valid) png files? Can anything else load the same file? | null | 0 | 1317207500 | False | 0 | c2n7169 | t3_ktyqp | null | t1_c2n7169 | t3_ktyqp | null | 1427657580 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Counterman | null | Did you realize that any decent IDE has really smart code completion and shows type errors and syntax errors without running and compiling?
(there's actually [a plugin](http://eclim.org/) to get it in vim, but that "cheats" by calling Eclipse behind the scenes) | null | 0 | 1317207559 | False | 0 | c2n719u | t3_ktenx | null | t1_c2n719u | t1_c2n6d6e | null | 1427657582 | -2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | throatyrefrain | null | Super [relevant](http://www.dealfindersmd.com) | null | 0 | 1317207692 | False | 0 | c2n71hq | t3_kjtsp | null | t1_c2n71hq | t3_kjtsp | null | 1427657584 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | OopsLostPassword | null | I don't have enough experience in this field to tell if the content of this article is exact but I can certify it's interesting. Thanks. | null | 0 | 1317207727 | False | 0 | c2n71kc | t3_ksugf | null | t1_c2n71kc | t3_ksugf | null | 1427657585 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | deong | null | The only real differences are (a) complexity, and (b) the fitness function for biological evolution isn't known in closed-form mathematics, so we tend to think of it as being somehow different.
However, all of biological evolution basically comes down to the (stochastic) optimization of the function f(X)=P_r, where X... | null | 0 | 1317207813 | False | 0 | c2n71oz | t3_ktg7o | null | t1_c2n71oz | t1_c2n4kr4 | null | 1427657586 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Counterman | null | You don't _need_ an excuse, other than the fact that modal editors were soundly rejected by designers in the early eighties, as the measured evidence for their lower productivity started to pile up.
I suggest you learn to use your IDE more efficiently instead. The main problem with modern code editing interfaces is th... | null | 0 | 1317207850 | False | 0 | c2n71r4 | t3_ktenx | null | t1_c2n71r4 | t1_c2n3r17 | null | 1427657589 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Gotebe | null | I appreciate that article series is (going to be) sarcastic.
Is it just me, or do others think **R**eligion when they see **P**roduct **O**wner, **C**apacity, **V**elocity etc? Nice touch, that!
BTW... Article effectively touches power-based relations that are a driving force behind office politics (management, too).... | null | 0 | 1317207927 | True | 0 | c2n71v2 | t3_ktxk5 | null | t1_c2n71v2 | t3_ktxk5 | null | 1427657589 | 10 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Counterman | null | There's no reason to be proud of having learned an archaic text editor interface either. We moved beyond modal text editing for a reason - almost 30 years ago.
The only reason anyone would reject the behavioral studies of the eighties, and subject themselves to something like vim, is the extremely high status of old-... | null | 0 | 1317208145 | False | 0 | c2n7280 | t3_ktenx | null | t1_c2n7280 | t1_c2n5m8n | null | 1427657592 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | Well, Scrum like any ideology has buzzwords, product owner and velocity are a couple.
But he's making the point that these power relationships really fuck Scrum up, I've not worked under other development ideologies, so I can't make an experienced comparison, but I imagine, given how much reliance is put on certain r... | null | 0 | 1317208261 | True | 0 | c2n72f7 | t3_ktxk5 | null | t1_c2n72f7 | t1_c2n71v2 | null | 1427657596 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | fatbunyip | null | Nitro PDF for one, Nuance also has free and paid versions, Foxit, probably others also. Not sure if Bluebeam have a free version.
In the PDF space, you're generally looking at PDF consumers and producers (of the files). The consumer side is usually free (all the free readers, possibly some PDF creators like printer dr... | null | 0 | 1317208305 | False | 0 | c2n72hx | t3_kssyt | null | t1_c2n72hx | t1_c2n6v8d | null | 1427657596 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | bhavyajyothinath | null | it supports jpg file.
and the code was working.
but my need is to insert a png file.
i've included the file for supporting both jpg and png.but the error still exsist.. | null | 0 | 1317208312 | False | 0 | c2n72ig | t3_ktyqp | null | t1_c2n72ig | t3_ktyqp | null | 1427657596 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | seydar | null | I like syntax highlighting. I really enjoy vim's modal editing and don't want to switch, now that I use it, but back when I started, I didn't care much. | null | 0 | 1317208338 | False | 0 | c2n72k2 | t3_ktenx | null | t1_c2n72k2 | t1_c2n6zw2 | null | 1427657597 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Counterman | null | The muscle memory of the vi keys that you have painfully built up will be athropied a little everytime you edit text in a regular CUA-like context.
Instead of switching their editors to CUA-likes, vi fans need to switch the rest of the world to vi. That's why they write plugins for everything.
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True | evolved | null | I had high hopes for some debugger tooltips or vs macros, but I came to the slow realization that the article is basically an advertisement for the commercial software that the blog is for. | null | 0 | 1317208675 | False | 0 | c2n734b | t3_ksqct | null | t1_c2n734b | t3_ksqct | null | 1427657605 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | About 3 months ago, I looked at ZMQ as a solution for a project I was implementing and wrote a set of sample code snippets to test it out. There are a lot of asserts in the code that will cause failures on basic things, such as if you send it an object that is not exactly as expected. The scariest was when I connecte... | null | 0 | 1317208825 | False | 0 | c2n73du | t3_ksrsz | null | t1_c2n73du | t1_c2n2570 | null | 1427657608 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | plzsendmetehcodez | null | > The window manager sends the WM_DESTROY message to a window as part of the window destruction process
So, in fact, WM_DESTROY should be more aptly be named "WM_DESTROYING"... that would prevent this kind of confusion. | null | 0 | 1317208851 | False | 0 | c2n73fj | t3_ktv1z | null | t1_c2n73fj | t3_ktv1z | null | 1427657609 | 46 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | This is a good illustration of how Scrum can go very bad. Warning, buzzwords ahoy!
He mentions new stories being brought into an ongoing sprint, this is a very bad idea, and completely defeats a main point of Scrum - you estimate how much of a known amount of work you can complete in a time period, and you do your da... | null | 0 | 1317208893 | False | 0 | c2n73i5 | t3_ktxk5 | null | t1_c2n73i5 | t3_ktxk5 | null | 1427657610 | 9 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | brown_nurl | null | That book is amazing. I should really buy it just to send him a kickback... Well written, and the excercises are just plain fun to do. The fact that it is open to the community is really nice, because you can get a bit of hints and tips as well as guidance from the comments after each chapter.
I wish there were mor... | null | 0 | 1317209001 | False | 0 | c2n73p4 | t3_ktxzn | null | t1_c2n73p4 | t3_ktxzn | null | 1427657612 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | sgoody | null | As per some other readers here, I think the HTML is great. Clearly it's the browser's fault for sticking with Times New Roman as the default font. I've changed mine and it makes the page twice as nice to read instantly.
There's a lot of text here and it's nice that it reflows around your browser size, I'd hate to see ... | null | 0 | 1317209092 | False | 0 | c2n73uk | t3_ktd67 | null | t1_c2n73uk | t1_c2n5p8a | null | 1427657614 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | dumael | null | Only in languages which are indentation sensitive, unfortunately C, C++ aren't. There's probably a few others as well. | null | 0 | 1317209223 | False | 0 | c2n742v | t3_kooiy | null | t1_c2n742v | t1_c2m337q | null | 1427657617 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | ochronus | null | No hw threads: that's what fork is for.
Thread-safety: this gem does not deal with that, on purpose. It's best suited for simple map-reduce like stuff. | null | 0 | 1317209242 | False | 0 | c2n7448 | t3_kt292 | null | t1_c2n7448 | t1_c2n6npr | null | 1427657618 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Timmmmbob | null | Aw I thought this was going to be about evolving a program that prints "Hello world". I always thought "evolving a string" is a terrible example of genetic algorithms. You're evolving the "DNA" itself towards a fixed target, which is pointless because if that is ever the goal you can just *set* it to that target.
In a... | null | 0 | 1317209527 | False | 0 | c2n74oo | t3_ktg7o | null | t1_c2n74oo | t3_ktg7o | null | 1427657626 | 27 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | elperroborrachotoo | null | Squaring has the two effects: avoiding negatives, and over-linear emphasis of large distances. | null | 0 | 1317209812 | False | 0 | c2n759g | t3_ktg7o | null | t1_c2n759g | t1_c2n2zm4 | null | 1427657633 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | elperroborrachotoo | null | No no no, clever young man! Actually it's turtles all the way down! | null | 0 | 1317209870 | False | 0 | c2n75di | t3_ktg7o | null | t1_c2n75di | t1_c2n4ibe | null | 1427657635 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | axilmar | null | > It is not ignoring other needs it is providing different avenues to achieve them. For example a class can be allocated on the stack scoped.
The different avenues D offers is a step backwards from how C++ does it. C++ offers a clearer and simpler way to do the same thing.
> Any place that take the Button value... | null | 0 | 1317209917 | False | 0 | c2n75h2 | t3_kljc0 | null | t1_c2n75h2 | t1_c2n0r32 | null | 1427657636 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | panda_burgers | null | Evolutionary techniques like these fall under the umbrella term of search-based optimisation, which sounds far less crazy. These techniques are generally used when the search space of solutions is too vast to explore exhaustively; they serve to approximate an exhaustive search.
Generally speaking, these techniques are... | null | 0 | 1317209967 | False | 0 | c2n75kb | t3_ktg7o | null | t1_c2n75kb | t1_c2n5mni | null | 1427657638 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | julesjacobs | null | Here's a solution in Python:
source = set(['cat'])
target = 'dog'
words = [w.strip() for w in open('US.dic').readlines() if len(w.strip())==len(target)]
graph = dict((w,set(v for v in words if sum(a!=b for a,b in zip(v,w))==1)) for w in words)
for i in range(len(target)+1):
if target in sou... | null | 0 | 1317210066 | False | 0 | c2n75rf | t3_ksqba | null | t1_c2n75rf | t3_ksqba | null | 1427657640 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | I get the feeling it needs to mature a bit before it can be truly useful.
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True | axilmar | null | Win32 is retarded. It's one of the stupidest, if not the stupidest, APIs ever written. It has so many gotchas, that it is practically impossible for a single person to know it all. | null | 0 | 1317210252 | False | 0 | c2n764s | t3_ktv1z | null | t1_c2n764s | t3_ktv1z | null | 1427657645 | -12 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | crackanape | null | It can't do video any more than my car can perform brain surgery. It can contain, through a generic mechanism, something that can do video, much like my car can contain a surgeon. | null | 0 | 1317210257 | False | 0 | c2n7657 | t3_kssyt | null | t1_c2n7657 | t1_c2n4c7l | null | 1427657645 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | julesjacobs | null | In my experience (admittedly long ago), restarting or doing a big mutation in a hill climber when it gets stuck works better than a GA. But if you have a known counterexample that'd be very welcome. | null | 0 | 1317210421 | False | 0 | c2n76in | t3_ktg7o | null | t1_c2n76in | t1_c2n6wv4 | null | 1427657650 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | day_cq | null | TL;TR **L E A V E** | null | 0 | 1317210527 | False | 0 | c2n76qv | t3_ktxk5 | null | t1_c2n76qv | t3_ktxk5 | null | 1427657652 | 12 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | lol stfu java sucks | null | 0 | 1317210630 | False | 0 | c2n76yw | t3_kteac | null | t1_c2n76yw | t1_c2n6suj | null | 1427657655 | -8 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | ithika | null | Everyone wants to tell me how to write maintainable code but no-one offers advice on untangling nightmarish code. :-(
Edit: Thanks for the good replies folks. | null | 0 | 1317210807 | True | 0 | c2n77ca | t3_ktg8c | null | t1_c2n77ca | t3_ktg8c | null | 1427657660 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | skulgnome | null | And get played by a merchant who optimizes for this sort of formulaic decisionmaking? Isn't that clever, mr. merchant. | null | 0 | 1317210948 | False | 0 | c2n77mk | t3_ktx2g | null | t1_c2n77mk | t3_ktx2g | null | 1427657663 | -5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | nickdangler | null | [ForecastWatch](http://forecastwatch.com/) uses genetic algorithms to improve weather forecasting. The primary author, Eric Floehr, has written about it and even had a brief interview on television.
(I'm not associated with forecastwatch.com, but I did meet Eric Floehr at [PyOhio](http://www.pyohio.org).) | null | 0 | 1317210975 | False | 0 | c2n77oq | t3_ktg7o | null | t1_c2n77oq | t1_c2n4hx8 | null | 1427657664 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | jerf | null | Yes, this is an educational project, not a "useful" one. It is helpful to remove the question of whether there is a good solution _at all_ from the system when trying to learn about GA _qua_ GA. You could do the same thing with any AI technique, and should if you want to learn it. | null | 0 | 1317211100 | False | 0 | c2n77xr | t3_ktg7o | null | t1_c2n77xr | t1_c2n5d0h | null | 1427657667 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | ethraax | null | I suppose so. I still think they're fundamentally different, but I just got up and I probably can't come up with a good explanation at the moment.
I mean, interactive forms are a means to an end - they're there to be translated into a static form (by filling out the fields). Video streams aren't. | null | 0 | 1317211159 | False | 0 | c2n7826 | t3_kssyt | null | t1_c2n7826 | t1_c2n66fi | null | 1427657669 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | henk53 | null | Wow, good answer dude! Really shows off your technical knowledge! | null | 0 | 1317211184 | False | 0 | c2n7846 | t3_kteac | null | t1_c2n7846 | t1_c2n76yw | null | 1427657670 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | smeezy | null | >>The AppInstaller would contain the algorithm for app installation. It should be a very interesting piece of code (all the error handling logic would be there, for instance), but it should hardly contain any data.
>Nope, app installation should be "enumerate the steps of a transaction (that's data), and crea... | null | 0 | 1317211281 | False | 0 | c2n78be | t3_krzdp | null | t1_c2n78be | t1_c2n7146 | null | 1427657672 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | bl00dshooter | null | The thing you're missing here people, is that vim CAN do anything your IDE can. Autocomplete? built-in. Templates? there's a plugin for that. Etc.
There is a plugin for just about any task your IDE can do, and if there is some really weird task that no one ever thought about making a plugin for, you can do it yoursel... | null | 0 | 1317211325 | False | 0 | c2n78ee | t3_ktenx | null | t1_c2n78ee | t1_c2n60wf | null | 1427657675 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | bl00dshooter | null | Omnicomplete... | null | 0 | 1317211376 | False | 0 | c2n78ih | t3_ktenx | null | t1_c2n78ih | t1_c2n6ukd | null | 1427657675 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | bl00dshooter | null | Wrong. Try programming with someone who really groks vim and see who's faster. Trust me, I did that when I was learning vim. | null | 0 | 1317211511 | False | 0 | c2n78rz | t3_ktenx | null | t1_c2n78rz | t1_c2n7280 | null | 1427657679 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1317211613 | False | 0 | c2n78z4 | t3_kt682 | null | t1_c2n78z4 | t3_kt682 | null | 1427657682 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | nickdangler | null | You misunderstand the problem. He isn't trying to solve the "Hello, World!" problem. If he were, you would be right, in that this is a very dumb approach.
The problem is that he does not know genetic algorithms as well as you, and is working on a very simple problem to improve his understanding of how the algorithm wo... | null | 0 | 1317211630 | False | 0 | c2n790n | t3_ktg7o | null | t1_c2n790n | t1_c2n5mni | null | 1427657682 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
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