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True | mikaelhg | null | That's how professionals do it. | null | 0 | 1317914099 | False | 0 | c2pco4c | t3_l2z8p | null | t1_c2pco4c | t3_l2z8p | null | 1427694836 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | you're not making any sense, unless your SQL is generated by dynamic code that mispells tables or something happens in the db that loses the table, e.g. a droppd synonym or lost database link or view (or table dropped). The star under the table shows you which one - and as the optimizer runs right to left, you know tha... | null | 0 | 1317914112 | False | 0 | c2pco6b | t3_kz7vp | null | t1_c2pco6b | t1_c2p1vl7 | null | 1427694837 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | mfukar | null | I'm not in disagreement with you, but it appears that yes - most of reddit (or the internet, for that matter) seems to be easily giving away its attention. I don't know whether it's better to ignore the immature jackasses that are posting those articles in the first place or scold them, but I choose the former. | null | 0 | 1317914191 | False | 0 | c2pcoj2 | t3_l2a1k | null | t1_c2pcoj2 | t1_c2pbbay | null | 1427694843 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | >For Windows users I'll show you how to get a basic Ubuntu Linux system up and running in a virtual machine so that you can still do all of my exercises, but avoid all the painful Linux installation problems.
What's wrong with MinGW / Cygwin? | null | 0 | 1317914195 | False | 0 | c2pcojo | t3_l2vfc | null | t1_c2pcojo | t3_l2vfc | null | 1427694843 | 9 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | IRBMe | null | > It kind of assumed you already knew the code base, not that you inherited someone else's mess.
It's not so much about inheriting some mess. Most of the time, a software developer won't be working on completely brand new green-field software (if they do, they're one of the lucky few) but will be joining an *existi... | null | 0 | 1317914325 | False | 0 | c2pcp5c | t3_l2a1k | null | t1_c2pcp5c | t1_c2pcny0 | null | 1427694852 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | French_lesson | null | Either that buddy feature has been removed or I'm too stupid to find it. I hope it's the former because it sounds like a stupid feature. | null | 0 | 1317914338 | False | 0 | c2pcp7k | t3_l2vk7 | null | t1_c2pcp7k | t1_c2pcij0 | null | 1427694852 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | igotthepancakes | null | This is excellent. Please continue work on it. I look forward to understanding the flaws of our beloved K&R. | null | 0 | 1317914359 | False | 0 | c2pcpb4 | t3_l2vfc | null | t1_c2pcpb4 | t3_l2vfc | null | 1427694853 | 13 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | magnets | null | 0 | 1317914527 | False | 0 | c2pcq3d | t3_l0mx0 | null | t1_c2pcq3d | t1_c2p0zdr | null | 1427694865 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Huggernaut | null | This guy's company is talked about a bit in the sequel to Freakonomics - Super Freakonomics. | null | 0 | 1317914605 | False | 0 | c2pcqhb | t3_l1yl5 | null | t1_c2pcqhb | t1_c2p9phv | null | 1427694868 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | intrepion | null | Ten percent of nothin' is, let me do the math here... nothin' and a nothin', carry the nothin'... | null | 0 | 1317914695 | False | 0 | c2pcqvn | t3_l1yl5 | null | t1_c2pcqvn | t1_c2pafkb | null | 1427694873 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | voyvf | null | Indeed. I did something similar to make local power outage information available via Twitter since, believe it or not, many people still don't have smart phones but could subscribe to it via text.
Considering two thirds of the city didn't have power at the time (but the box I was running the script from did), I figure... | null | 0 | 1317914736 | False | 0 | c2pcr35 | t3_l2p3r | null | t1_c2pcr35 | t1_c2pbfeb | null | 1427694876 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | nickem | null | It's also valuable for those who do not have the talent to compete with their peers. | null | 0 | 1317914777 | False | 0 | c2pcra9 | t3_l1a2e | null | t1_c2pcra9 | t1_c2p5xbe | null | 1427694878 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | I despise Zed Shaw, and I've got K&R/man pages. Don't need nothin' else. | null | 0 | 1317914867 | False | 0 | c2pcrp8 | t3_l2vfc | null | t1_c2pcrp8 | t3_l2vfc | null | 1427694884 | -3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Africanishia | null | Perhaps you could allow the user to check a box if they want enter to complete notes (with shift+enter for a new line) or to make a new line? (I believe Facebook does this with the messages)
I'd expect closing the note to save the edits. When I finish typing a note, I go to drag a new note and the old note is still ... | null | 0 | 1317914896 | False | 0 | c2pcru3 | t3_l2e2k | null | t1_c2pcru3 | t1_c2p9by9 | null | 1427694885 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | mrmessiah | null | Just for fun I start to read this, imagining I'm a newbie. It's a strange book, in that it's hard to imagine who it's aimed at. The idea of the layout - start with code, break it in some way, use that to illustrate a concept is a good one, but it's obviously written from the point of view of someone who *already knows ... | null | 0 | 1317914918 | False | 0 | c2pcryc | t3_l2vfc | null | t1_c2pcryc | t3_l2vfc | null | 1427694887 | 29 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | stonedoubt | null | The majority of questions, I find, are foreign coders who want you to write their code for them rather than reading the documentation to see how it's done... secondly, when you give them an answer they never mark it as the answer... in addition, they ask the same questions over and over when they could find the answer ... | null | 0 | 1317915115 | True | 0 | c2pcsxv | t3_l2vk7 | null | t1_c2pcsxv | t3_l2vk7 | null | 1427694900 | 8 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | Maybe a better analogy would be `do` notation in haskell. It does the same thing as the bind function, and makes it a bit simpler to write monadic code, but if you start by using it when you don't understand monads 100%, you will hinder your learning of how monads work. Personally, using `do` notation probably cost me ... | null | 0 | 1317915456 | False | 0 | c2pcul8 | t3_l2vfc | null | t1_c2pcul8 | t1_c2pc8qh | null | 1427694924 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | grauenwolf | null | In this case the one from wikipedia suffices:
> In computer science, a thread of execution is the smallest unit of processing that can be scheduled by an operating system. The implementation of threads and processes differs from one operating system to another, but in most cases, a thread is contained inside a proc... | null | 0 | 1317915524 | False | 0 | c2pcuxx | t3_l1hnb | null | t1_c2pcuxx | t1_c2paynx | null | 1427694928 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | F2a | null | I've had code not work correctly using MinGW that worked fine in Linux. Did I do something wrong? Beats me, I had codeblocks install MinGW and after I discovered the error I manually installed it as well. No one I talked to could figure it out. Stopped using it. | null | 0 | 1317915603 | False | 0 | c2pcvbk | t3_l2vfc | null | t1_c2pcvbk | t1_c2pcojo | null | 1427694935 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1317915631 | False | 0 | c2pcvg6 | t3_l2vfc | null | t1_c2pcvg6 | t1_c2pc5x1 | null | 1427694937 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | tragomaskhalos | null | Two observations on Agile:
1. At an XPDay conference a number of years ago, when I was fresh to this stuff, I asked in a group session how one was supposed to go about estimating the cost of a project without the usual fixed set of requirements, since a price up front was how our company was required to pitch for most... | null | 0 | 1317915639 | False | 0 | c2pcvhk | t3_l2a1k | null | t1_c2pcvhk | t3_l2a1k | null | 1427694938 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | grauenwolf | null | Again I only speak of what they are trying to do, I am making no claims as to how sucessful they actually are. | null | 0 | 1317915651 | False | 0 | c2pcvjr | t3_l1a2e | null | t1_c2pcvjr | t1_c2pbyo0 | null | 1427694939 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | jediknight | null | Do you have experience using MinGW/Cygwin? I wanted to compile various C projects over the years. Failed in most attempts even when following step-by-steps tutorials and starting with a fresh windows install.
Small, self contained projects are perfectly OK. Big ones... not so much.
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True | 33a | null | Writing a book like this seems to me like a vain effort. Practically speaking, there is no way that this is going to come out as a better reference than K&R at the end of the day (and it certainly isn't off to that great a start). So what does the author really think he is adding to the discourse? Is he just wri... | null | 0 | 1317915895 | False | 0 | c2pcwox | t3_l2vfc | null | t1_c2pcwox | t3_l2vfc | null | 1427694954 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | embretr | null | As a currency, it's impossible to trade, but it has some emotional/social value for the user.
This may be sort of arbitrary, but it's the secret sauce that keeps the signal-to-noise ratio bearable, in that it's used to evaluate & rank posts/comments. | null | 0 | 1317915913 | False | 0 | c2pcws8 | t3_l2vk7 | null | t1_c2pcws8 | t1_c2pbqf8 | null | 1427694955 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | Keep in mind MinGW isn't POSIX compliant, if you're using anything outside of winapi and ANSI it may not work as expected. | null | 0 | 1317916147 | False | 0 | c2pcxxf | t3_l2vfc | null | t1_c2pcxxf | t1_c2pcvbk | null | 1427694965 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | I'm hardly what you would call "experienced" but I've been using MinGW successfully for over a year, then again it's not as if I write anything huge, however I think it should work fine for something like this. | null | 0 | 1317916176 | False | 0 | c2pcy1j | t3_l2vfc | null | t1_c2pcy1j | t1_c2pcvv4 | null | 1427694967 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | misterlight | null | ;-) | null | 0 | 1317916245 | False | 0 | c2pcye4 | t3_l294s | null | t1_c2pcye4 | t1_c2pcgbq | null | 1427694971 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Aurora_B | null | Oh man! This is awesome! Thanks for sharing! | null | 0 | 1317916246 | False | 0 | c2pcyeb | t3_l31ma | null | t1_c2pcyeb | t3_l31ma | null | 1427694971 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | m_myers | null | There has never been a "buddy" feature; what he meant was that the last editor (except if it is the original poster or the post is community wiki) has their name, avatar, and reputation score on the post also, and he objected to this particular user appearing there. | null | 0 | 1317916278 | False | 0 | c2pcyjt | t3_l2vk7 | null | t1_c2pcyjt | t1_c2pcp7k | null | 1427694974 | 22 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | topredder | null | Yeah I wrote an application that scraped down public warranty deeds from a county web site on the day they were posted, creating leads for foreclosure sales. | null | 0 | 1317916280 | False | 0 | c2pcyk0 | t3_l2p3r | null | t1_c2pcyk0 | t1_c2pbfeb | null | 1427694974 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | washort | null | For one thing, modules are global mutable objects. (Other languages have global mutable structures as well - the exceptions are rare and valuable: Clojure and Newspeak come to mind.) For another, web apps aren't the only things that need concurrency :) I do think the model of keeping state for scopes larger than a sing... | null | 0 | 1317916303 | False | 0 | c2pcyoa | t3_l1hnb | null | t1_c2pcyoa | t1_c2pbiee | null | 1427694976 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | m_myers | null | Did you ever raise the issue to moderators or on meta? People have been suspended before for exactly this reason.
And what do you mean by "to gain additional reputation"? Was it someone under 2000 reputation who was suggesting edits and getting them approved somehow? If not, you're the only one who could have gained r... | null | 0 | 1317916331 | False | 0 | c2pcyts | t3_l2vk7 | null | t1_c2pcyts | t1_c2pcij0 | null | 1427694977 | 22 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1317916389 | 1369080375 | 0 | c2pcz36 | t3_l2vfc | null | t1_c2pcz36 | t1_c2pcrp8 | null | 1427694987 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | skerit | null | True, but the answer the OP marks as the correct one goes right on top, does it not?
The annoying thing about their system is that sometimes there *isn't* a good answer, but if you don't choose one as correct you lose some credibility.
I had to do this too: accept a few answers as correct because my ratio was too low... | null | 0 | 1317916407 | False | 0 | c2pcz73 | t3_l2vk7 | null | t1_c2pcz73 | t1_c2pbmy4 | null | 1427694983 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1317916457 | 1369080358 | 0 | c2pczf6 | t3_l2vfc | null | t1_c2pczf6 | t1_c2pcwox | null | 1427694986 | 18 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1317916577 | False | 0 | c2pd01p | t3_l2vfc | null | t1_c2pd01p | t1_c2pcwox | null | 1427694999 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | StormTAG | null | Is it just me or has there been a lot of inflammatory titles in /r/programming lately?
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True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1317916657 | False | 0 | c2pd0ff | t3_l2vk7 | null | t1_c2pd0ff | t1_c2pcij0 | null | 1427695002 | 9 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | tjdziuba | null | lol, okay professor. | null | 0 | 1317916661 | False | 0 | c2pd0ge | t3_l1hnb | null | t1_c2pd0ge | t1_c2pancl | null | 1427695002 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | aaronla | null | Intuition suggests those "gaming" this system would have just pirated the work otherwise. It's brilliant. | null | 0 | 1317916708 | False | 0 | c2pd0of | t3_l1yl5 | null | t1_c2pd0of | t1_c2p79tb | null | 1427695003 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | diadem | null | SO karma can be traded. If you have something you need answered and haven't gotten a reply to your liking you can put a bounty on your post. This bounty will attract attention.
On a similar note, a lot of the permissions based security on SO is heavily based on karma (reputation). | null | 0 | 1317916775 | False | 0 | c2pd10u | t3_l2vk7 | null | t1_c2pd10u | t1_c2pbqf8 | null | 1427695005 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | frud | null | Many of the later exercises rely on valgrind to spot errors in machine code, and valgrind does not work on Cygwin as far as I know. | null | 0 | 1317916832 | False | 0 | c2pd1ai | t3_l2vfc | null | t1_c2pd1ai | t1_c2pcojo | null | 1427695009 | 18 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | bucknuggets | null | Most people can stand all day - but it takes a while to get used to it.
I purchased a used trek desk ($100), a used treadmill ($300) and now either stand or walk & work 90% of my day. That last 10% is sitting just to change things around.
My back issues have mostly disappeared and I've got far more energy at ... | null | 0 | 1317916866 | False | 0 | c2pd1ha | t3_l1nx0 | null | t1_c2pd1ha | t1_c2p5uge | null | 1427695011 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1317916904 | False | 0 | c2pd1my | t3_l1hnb | null | t1_c2pd1my | t1_c2p4hjd | null | 1427695013 | -1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | SoleTrip | null | Always wanted to learn Python but never really did. I work in c# and have been planning to get into Game development. You sold me a book by being true which I am vulnerable to. | null | 0 | 1317916916 | False | 0 | c2pd1ow | t3_l1yl5 | null | t1_c2pd1ow | t3_l1yl5 | null | 1427695014 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | abledanger | null | Do you want to work someone who judges your value based on the worthless points of one website on the internet? | null | 0 | 1317916928 | False | 0 | c2pd1rh | t3_l2vk7 | null | t1_c2pd1rh | t1_c2pbxzp | null | 1427695015 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | urmyheartBeatStopR | null | What the fuck, aren't they suing Google to destroy Android code?
Read the article, they're referring it as Linux not Android ಠ\_ಠ
.
Yeaaaah, like I want Java stuff on Linux. I only use Java on Linux if there aren't any good alternative. | null | 0 | 1317916962 | False | 0 | c2pd1xi | t3_l1yfu | null | t1_c2pd1xi | t3_l1yfu | null | 1427695017 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | tef | null | dunno about that entirely - perhaps to get an understanding of recursive descent, but there is more to parsing than just that :-) | null | 0 | 1317917001 | False | 0 | c2pd243 | t3_l1mqb | null | t1_c2pd243 | t1_c2pay3p | null | 1427695020 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | 33a | null | Well, I completely disagree with him on this point. | null | 0 | 1317917020 | False | 0 | c2pd27x | t3_l2vfc | null | t1_c2pd27x | t1_c2pczf6 | null | 1427695022 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | doubtingthomas | null | Seems reasonable. | null | 0 | 1317917064 | False | 0 | c2pd2ev | t3_l2z8p | null | t1_c2pd2ev | t3_l2z8p | null | 1427695025 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | frud | null | > Practically speaking, there is no way that this is going to come out as a better reference than K&R at the end of the day
It's all about context. When K&R wrote their book their audience was basically made up of FORTRAN and assembly programmers. Zed's book is aimed at modern kids who started with python... | null | 0 | 1317917148 | False | 0 | c2pd2rz | t3_l2vfc | null | t1_c2pd2rz | t1_c2pcwox | null | 1427695028 | 14 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | day_cq | null | I read it as Go Go Power Rangers. Dee Dee Dee Dee Dee Dee | null | 0 | 1317917396 | False | 0 | c2pd3zx | t3_l2z8p | null | t1_c2pd3zx | t3_l2z8p | null | 1427695047 | -14 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | vineetr | null | > True, but the answer the OP marks as the correct one goes right on top, does it not?
Yes, it is unfortunate in the case of answers that don't help people, while the better answers are below the accepted one. From the point of the reader, he/she can always upvote the more helpful answer.
I can see your complaint ... | null | 0 | 1317917449 | False | 0 | c2pd48t | t3_l2vk7 | null | t1_c2pd48t | t1_c2pcz73 | null | 1427695055 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1317917545 | 1369080341 | 0 | c2pd4ql | t3_l2vfc | null | t1_c2pd4ql | t1_c2pd27x | null | 1427695059 | -1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | tef | null | Your semicolon insertion is lacking.
Try
1
(1 + 2)
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True | vineetr | null | Easy there. I've been an SO member for three years (having visited the site for more or less 600 days). I've seen folks from all countries guilty of the behavior you describe. Nationality has little to do with being a poor programmer/reader, or being a person looking for handouts. | null | 0 | 1317917763 | False | 0 | c2pd5ro | t3_l2vk7 | null | t1_c2pd5ro | t1_c2pcsxv | null | 1427695068 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | insertAlias | null | >However, with IDEs that autocorrect, autocomplete code, and give you contextual information about the language you're working with, you can learn things you never intended to learn by just using the IDE.
That's the best argument I have for using IDEs once you're familiar with the very basics. I've learned at least... | null | 0 | 1317917795 | False | 0 | c2pd5xb | t3_l2vfc | null | t1_c2pd5xb | t1_c2pcbnw | null | 1427695071 | 28 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | French_lesson | null | So I *am* too stupid. | null | 0 | 1317917849 | False | 0 | c2pd66s | t3_l2vk7 | null | t1_c2pd66s | t1_c2pcyjt | null | 1427695074 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | knight666 | null | I'm a game programmer. I do complicated things with C++ all day. But when I try to answer C++ questions on StackOverflow, they're always about stuff I know nothing about. :(
The GameDev stack exchange is a bit better, but still I'm like "Wtf I don't know anything about *that*" most of the time. | null | 0 | 1317917901 | False | 0 | c2pd6gd | t3_l2vk7 | null | t1_c2pd6gd | t1_c2pbsvx | null | 1427695077 | 13 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | tef | null | Also, it looks like you're doing tree re-writing using the shunting yard after parsing. Have you considered precedence climbing?
http://www.engr.mun.ca/~theo/Misc/exp_parsing.htm#climbing
It's a nice way to do precedence, similar to pratt parsing. This is turns it from a top down parser to a left corner parser. I lik... | null | 0 | 1317917961 | False | 0 | c2pd6q8 | t3_l1mqb | null | t1_c2pd6q8 | t3_l1mqb | null | 1427695080 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | redfiche | null | I started learning C/C++ years ago on Visual Studio, and things broke and I didn't know why. The compiler generated code and I didn't know why, or what it did. So I started using gcc and vi and I learned. Now I use Visual Studio, but when things break or the IDE generates code for me, I know why. I cannot comment on wh... | null | 0 | 1317917967 | False | 0 | c2pd6ra | t3_l2vfc | null | t1_c2pd6ra | t1_c2pc8qh | null | 1427695080 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | sw17ch | null | He's forward about the state of the book in the preface:
> This is a rough in-progress dump of the book. The grammar will probably be bad, there will be sections missing, but you get to watch me write the book and see how I do things.
He also points out who it's aimed at:
> Finally, don't forget that I have Le... | null | 0 | 1317918003 | False | 0 | c2pd6xa | t3_l2vfc | null | t1_c2pd6xa | t1_c2pcryc | null | 1427695083 | 38 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | woodrail | null | good man | null | 0 | 1317918145 | False | 0 | c2pd7ms | t3_l32qk | null | t1_c2pd7ms | t3_l32qk | null | 1427695092 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | LaurieCheers | null | I think you mean:
http://images.memegenerator.net/instances/400x/10450561.jpg | null | 0 | 1317918150 | False | 0 | c2pd7nh | t3_l33jt | null | t1_c2pd7nh | t3_l33jt | null | 1427695092 | 47 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | sw17ch | null | In spite of what you think of him, Learn Python the Hard Way is a fantastic resource IMHO. This attitude (like his in many cases) isn't called for.
I expect that this will shape up in much the same way. Zed may be a rough character, but he is not incompetent. | null | 0 | 1317918156 | False | 0 | c2pd7os | t3_l2vfc | null | t1_c2pd7os | t1_c2pcrp8 | null | 1427695092 | 8 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | > I did put an asterisks [sic] here because if you are down with using Eclipse this might not be a total failure as it was for me. | null | 0 | 1317918160 | False | 0 | c2pd7pg | t3_l2xzn | null | t1_c2pd7pg | t1_c2pc5uc | null | 1427695092 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | brash | null | That is indeed an awesome feeling. I remember in college the first time I wrote a large amount of code (essentially the bulk of the entire application) and it all compiled on the first try (I'm usually a save-and-compile-after-every-significant-change guy) and it was just a great feeling, like "Oh, NO WAY!" | null | 0 | 1317918195 | False | 0 | c2pd7ve | t3_l33jt | null | t1_c2pd7ve | t3_l33jt | null | 1427695095 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | rafekett | null | He probably could've saved a lot of space by linking to a wiki article rather than including the pedantic wall of text that the kind of people that would benefit from it wouldn't read anyway. | null | 0 | 1317918255 | False | 0 | c2pd85z | t3_l32qk | null | t1_c2pd85z | t3_l32qk | null | 1427695098 | 27 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | sw17ch | null | > Because of this structure, there are a few rules you must follow in this book:
>
> 1. Type in all of the code. **Do not copy-paste!**
> 1. Type the code in exactly, even the comments.
> 1. Get it to run and make sure it prints the same output.
> 1. If there are bugs fix them.
> 1. Do the extra c... | null | 0 | 1317918288 | False | 0 | c2pd8cf | t3_l2vfc | null | t1_c2pd8cf | t1_c2pcryc | null | 1427695101 | 21 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | webbitor | null | Not sure what all the fuss is about as far as unix/windows differences. They don't matter for basic C coding. I did fine back in school with DJGPP, which is just a port of gcc. http://www.delorie.com/djgpp/ | null | 0 | 1317918379 | False | 0 | c2pd8u5 | t3_l2vfc | null | t1_c2pd8u5 | t1_c2pcojo | null | 1427695108 | 10 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1317918406 | False | 0 | c2pd8ys | t3_l32qk | null | t1_c2pd8ys | t3_l32qk | null | 1427695110 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | kyz | null | Learn C the easy way!
* Step 1: Throw this website in the bin.
* Step 2: Read [The C Programming Language](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_C_Programming_Language) by Kernighan and Ritchie | null | 0 | 1317918411 | False | 0 | c2pd8zs | t3_l2vfc | null | t1_c2pd8zs | t3_l2vfc | null | 1427695110 | -6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | liotier | null | > foreign coders
You mean coders who are not Zimbabwean nationals ? | null | 0 | 1317918417 | False | 0 | c2pd90l | t3_l2vk7 | null | t1_c2pd90l | t1_c2pcsxv | null | 1427695110 | 9 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | Myhrvold's writing staff wins if you measure by weight, but Harold McGee and Shirley O. Corriher have excellent books about the science of cooking. | null | 0 | 1317918434 | False | 0 | c2pd93u | t3_l1yl5 | null | t1_c2pd93u | t1_c2p6izq | null | 1427695112 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | kaze0 | null | Horrible article. Most of the points are essentially "I have/don't have experience with this, so this was easy/hard and I did the right/wrong thing. | null | 0 | 1317918461 | False | 0 | c2pd98a | t3_l2xzn | null | t1_c2pd98a | t3_l2xzn | null | 1427695113 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | punkmonk | null | yawn... | null | 0 | 1317918485 | False | 0 | c2pd9cg | t3_l2vfc | null | t1_c2pd9cg | t3_l2vfc | null | 1427695114 | -10 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | Am I the only one who is completely unimpressed about Go?
The language feels like it was engineered by people who never had any substantial contact with a language != C. | null | 0 | 1317918485 | False | 0 | c2pd9cj | t3_l2z8p | null | t1_c2pd9cj | t3_l2z8p | null | 1427695114 | 23 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Benbenbenb | null | To me it is quite the contrary, **it worries me** when my code happen to work after the first compile.
Because it can't possibly work right the first time, so to me it juste means that the bug is not obvious, which is **bad**. | null | 0 | 1317918508 | False | 0 | c2pd9ga | t3_l33jt | null | t1_c2pd9ga | t3_l33jt | null | 1427695117 | 26 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | vineetr | null | That is a problem, and so is the case with people asking a question, and unwilling to learn more about the problem, or provide details about what they're facing.
Case in point, I see quite a few questions asking this problem with "garbage/gibberish/question marks/japanese characters/squares" appearing in the web pages... | null | 0 | 1317918544 | False | 0 | c2pd9n6 | t3_l2vk7 | null | t1_c2pd9n6 | t1_c2pcnum | null | 1427695118 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1317918615 | False | 0 | c2pda0p | t3_l32qk | null | t1_c2pda0p | t3_l32qk | null | 1427695123 | -2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | polarbeer | null | > Visual Studio can be one of the programmer's best friends, but over the years it has become increasingly pushy, domineering, and suffering from unsettling control issues. Should we just surrender to Visual Studio's insistence on writing our code for us? Or is Visual Studio sapping our programming intelligence rath... | null | 0 | 1317918645 | False | 0 | c2pda56 | t3_l2vfc | null | t1_c2pda56 | t1_c2pcbnw | null | 1427695125 | 52 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | haeikou | null | Learning a language is fundamentally different from learning the set of APIs that come with it. If you're about to 'learn C', it's mostly functions, loops, pointer arithmetics and stdio. On that level, vim+gcc is quite sufficient because it doesn't distract from the language. Personally I'd even advise against using ma... | null | 0 | 1317918703 | False | 0 | c2pdagq | t3_l2vfc | null | t1_c2pdagq | t1_c2pc8qh | null | 1427695130 | 10 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | link or it doesn't exist. | null | 0 | 1317918704 | False | 0 | c2pdagx | t3_l2vk7 | null | t1_c2pdagx | t1_c2pcnum | null | 1427695130 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | deong | null | Maybe I misinterpreted something in the article, but it sounds like the "fix" is to tell the company not to do that anymore. The code sounds fine -- it's the functional requirements that are nutso. | null | 0 | 1317918722 | False | 0 | c2pdajx | t3_l33iy | null | t1_c2pdajx | t3_l33iy | null | 1427695131 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | ethraax | null | Well, I mean plain text files *are* more useful in some cases. I think you'd have to misunderstand this application to think that a .pdf is less useful than a plain text file for this though, considering that (1) there are *critical* elements of the documentation that *cannot* be accurately represented with a plain te... | null | 0 | 1317918727 | False | 0 | c2pdakx | t3_l16i4 | null | t1_c2pdakx | t1_c2pcfy5 | null | 1427695131 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | cnk | null | except when x → ∞ | null | 0 | 1317918760 | False | 0 | c2pdaph | t3_l2vfc | null | t1_c2pdaph | t1_c2pck2c | null | 1427695132 | 61 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | Probably only if you were writing a module for a vacuum cleaner though. The vacuum wouldn't suck at least. LOL! I'm on a roll here. Really great comeback btw.
Seriously though if the language itself had any appeal, don't you think people would use it outside of the Apple ecosystem?
I mean even the lowly C# gets play ... | null | 0 | 1317918806 | False | 0 | c2pdazb | t3_l0tyz | null | t1_c2pdazb | t1_c2par8s | null | 1427695136 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | I stopped reading after finding that he wrote the android hello world in IntelliJ. | null | 0 | 1317918815 | False | 0 | c2pdb0s | t3_l2xzn | null | t1_c2pdb0s | t3_l2xzn | null | 1427695136 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | dex206 | null | God among men. | null | 0 | 1317918820 | False | 0 | c2pdb21 | t3_l1hnb | null | t1_c2pdb21 | t3_l1hnb | null | 1427695137 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Alexis_ | null | An actual, factual discussion of an issue.
Always upvoted, even if I don't agree with the article's point of view :) | null | 0 | 1317918852 | False | 0 | c2pdb7r | t3_l2vfc | null | t1_c2pdb7r | t1_c2pda56 | null | 1427695140 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Buckwheat469 | null | [Link](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/7666122/how-do-you-compiling-cs-file-modification-on-a-deployed-website-is-it-possible) | null | 0 | 1317918922 | False | 0 | c2pdbkg | t3_l2vk7 | null | t1_c2pdbkg | t1_c2pdagx | null | 1427695144 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | vineetr | null | I think this started off when you no longer had to answer the captcha after two edits. Someone started it, and it is now a well-known "tactic". Unfortunate, but this is human behavior to find ways around a problem. By not solving the problem of offering more reputation points for a well written and thorough answer, SO ... | null | 0 | 1317918939 | False | 0 | c2pdbnq | t3_l2vk7 | null | t1_c2pdbnq | t1_c2pbxno | null | 1427695148 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1317918956 | False | 0 | c2pdbqv | t3_l33jt | null | t1_c2pdbqv | t3_l33jt | null | 1427695146 | 36 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | AcinonyxJubatus | null | Do you also change your assert to assert_not when your tests pass the first time? I sure do | null | 0 | 1317918968 | False | 0 | c2pdbsx | t3_l33jt | null | t1_c2pdbsx | t1_c2pd9ga | null | 1427695147 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | polarbeer | null | From the preface (http://c.learncodethehardway.org/book/learn-c-the-hard-wayli2.html):
> LCTHW will not be for beginners, but for people who have at least read LPTHW or know one other programming language. | null | 0 | 1317919004 | False | 0 | c2pdbzk | t3_l2vfc | null | t1_c2pdbzk | t1_c2pcryc | null | 1427695150 | 14 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | It's funny because he's supposed to be a hardcore programmer and he's using a Mac! | null | 0 | 1317919035 | False | 0 | c2pdc5f | t3_l33jt | null | t1_c2pdc5f | t3_l33jt | null | 1427695152 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Alexis_ | null | > but I think the point that rings true for me is that people can learn how to read tab and translate that to playing on a guitar, and yet still know nothing about music theory.
Very good point, I must admit.
The way I understood it was that tablature is somehow less expressive or less powerful than classical not... | null | 0 | 1317919047 | False | 0 | c2pdc7m | t3_l2vfc | null | t1_c2pdc7m | t1_c2pclmd | null | 1427695152 | 9 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | woo545 | null | Yeah, I think this is something that comes with experience. Unless I'm doing a "Hello World" program, it scares the crap out of me if my code works with the first go around. That being said...I've never had the compile compile on the first try AND not have a major logic bug. | null | 0 | 1317919083 | False | 0 | c2pdce3 | t3_l33jt | null | t1_c2pdce3 | t1_c2pd9ga | null | 1427695155 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | ethraax | null | I understand the purpose, but the fact that it's essentially requiring you to post new, complete answers to be able to simply *comment* on existing answers is ridiculous. | null | 0 | 1317919090 | False | 0 | c2pdcfe | t3_l2vk7 | null | t1_c2pdcfe | t1_c2pcjna | null | 1427695155 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
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