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True | KingEllis | null | Your sadness is incredibly arbitrary. | null | 0 | 1317921803 | False | 0 | c2pdqj7 | t3_l32qk | null | t1_c2pdqj7 | t1_c2pdjg8 | null | 1427695340 | 27 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Zarutian | null | TrendMicro? Really? Someone still uses that? | null | 0 | 1317921812 | False | 0 | c2pdqkz | t3_l32qk | null | t1_c2pdqkz | t1_c2pdfu8 | null | 1427695341 | 15 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | yogthos | null | He's a long time objective C expert who doesn't know how to run unit tests? like really?
There's a time where you question the competence of the person based on what they're saying regardless of how long they claim to have done something.
Accepting what people say without questioning it, is definitely something a mo... | null | 0 | 1317921849 | False | 0 | c2pdqs2 | t3_l0tyz | null | t1_c2pdqs2 | t1_c2pdpxs | null | 1427695344 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | pkrecker | null | This is called "Learn C the Hard Way," but I think a better name is "C Programming for Idiots." Just dive in with the real stuff.
http://www.amazon.com/Programming-Language-2nd-Brian-Kernighan/dp/0131103628/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1317921424&sr=8-1
http://www.amazon.com/Linux-Programming-Interface-System-Ha... | null | 0 | 1317921851 | False | 0 | c2pdqsg | t3_l2vfc | null | t1_c2pdqsg | t3_l2vfc | null | 1427695344 | -1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | BathroomEyes | null | Is there any way i can get this as a chm file? | null | 0 | 1317921866 | False | 0 | c2pdquq | t3_l2vfc | null | t1_c2pdquq | t3_l2vfc | null | 1427695344 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | toolateforTeddy | null | There is no such thing as perfect code. The sooner you accept this, the sooner we can start making sure that all code is tested. Having just started working at a 30 year old company that only started unit testing last year, this is a problem with our industry.
Write tests. Document code. This is the path to code that... | null | 0 | 1317921913 | False | 0 | c2pdr3m | t3_l33jt | null | t1_c2pdr3m | t1_c2pdh90 | null | 1427695347 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Saivo | null | aside from the fact that it deals with an exclusive topic that only programmers can relate with and that deals with a concept/result to which only programming activity can lead.
I dont like the too rigid, orthodox and prescriptive limits that are often applied to r/programming (i know, it's very rich, coming from a pro... | null | 0 | 1317921994 | False | 0 | c2pdriv | t3_l33jt | null | t1_c2pdriv | t1_c2pdlrt | null | 1427695353 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | ISV_Damocles | null | Raymond comes off as a prick in those comments. | null | 0 | 1317922012 | False | 0 | c2pdrmj | t3_l33d4 | null | t1_c2pdrmj | t3_l33d4 | null | 1427695354 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | yellowking | null | >Thank you for pointing out the obvious as if I was missing it somehow.
Okay, but don't be sarcastic like it's my fault-- you should have quoted that in front of your original message, so people will know what you're talking about.
| null | 0 | 1317922023 | False | 0 | c2pdroo | t3_l2vfc | null | t1_c2pdroo | t1_c2pdnhk | null | 1427695355 | 16 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | kapuzineralex | null | Regarding the side-effects I agree, and I think I also see the point in *slowly* introducing F# to programmers who are used to imperative programming languages. Yet, and that's just my 2 cents, I'd stick to functional paradigms if possible (as long as there's no performance impact involved which IMO is not the case for... | null | 0 | 1317922050 | False | 0 | c2pdrtq | t3_l294s | null | t1_c2pdrtq | t1_c2pbo32 | null | 1427695357 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | Your "normally" is not necessarily the same as everyone else's normal. Agile can be useful in that it can, if used properly, help mitigate the problem of stakeholders changing their mind constantly, claiming that all features are highest priority, and generally wanting to ignore the realities of development. | null | 0 | 1317922083 | False | 0 | c2pdrzr | t3_l2a1k | null | t1_c2pdrzr | t1_c2paa78 | null | 1427695360 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | jldugger | null | Ideally, I think StackOverflow would work more like AskMetafilter. Things it does:
* ration questions to one per week, so you spend a lot of time up front researching and defining your problem so you ask a **good** question.
* separates favorites/upvotes. It seems like converting everything into a single karma currenc... | null | 0 | 1317922094 | False | 0 | c2pds22 | t3_l2vk7 | null | t1_c2pds22 | t1_c2pbrk6 | null | 1427695360 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | yogthos | null | Your original comment is
>I PERSONALLY FEEL it's the worst language.
then you clarified that you issue was with message passing having same issues as dynamic typing and its verbosity. From what I've seen it's not actually all that verbose.
After I pointed out that unit testing is the solution to that, you claim... | null | 0 | 1317922136 | False | 0 | c2pds9b | t3_l0tyz | null | t1_c2pds9b | t1_c2pc1iu | null | 1427695362 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | yogthos | null | What I said is that I **don't** use it, not that I've **never** used it, a big difference there. | null | 0 | 1317922170 | False | 0 | c2pdsfv | t3_l0tyz | null | t1_c2pdsfv | t1_c2pc1ac | null | 1427695366 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1317922263 | False | 0 | c2pdsvw | t3_l2vk7 | null | t1_c2pdsvw | t1_c2pbsvx | null | 1427695372 | -2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | I_TYPE_IN_ALL_CAPS | null | > what's the point of a book full of code you can't actually use in your own programs?
ZED IS AN ASS AND THAT REBUTTAL IS SHIT. K&R CONTAINS ABSOLUTE MINIMALIST EXAMPLE CODE. IT IS NOT REAL WORLD CODE. IT IS NOT TO BE DEPLOYED TO YOUR SERVER. HE GOES ON TO CRITICIZE THEIR STYLE. OH NO, CONFUSING CURLY BRAC... | null | 0 | 1317922269 | False | 0 | c2pdsx6 | t3_l2vfc | null | t1_c2pdsx6 | t1_c2pdlru | null | 1427695372 | -2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | sw17ch | null | C isn't complex. It's not hard. Writing a large program with lots of interwoven requirements in C is hard. I'd say it's harder than doing it in something higher level like Ruby or Python.
Why is this?
You need to know more:
- Why does alignment matter?
- What is a safe way to determine how big an array is?
- Why doe... | null | 0 | 1317922297 | False | 0 | c2pdt30 | t3_l2vfc | null | t1_c2pdt30 | t1_c2pdg5p | null | 1427695373 | 51 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Personality2of5 | null | I tend to think of my working code as 'perfectly damaged.' There's always something wrong with it somewhere, but it's lurking in its seeming perfection until just the right moment to bite me on the ass. | null | 0 | 1317922327 | False | 0 | c2pdt8m | t3_l33jt | null | t1_c2pdt8m | t1_c2pdr3m | null | 1427695375 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1317922341 | True | 0 | c2pdtb1 | t3_l2vk7 | null | t1_c2pdtb1 | t1_c2pdn1s | null | 1427695379 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | HaMMeReD | null | Wrong language and too verbose. If a regex can do his job, then why not? It's less lines of code and platform agnostic.
If you think it's not sufficient for his purposes, maybe a comment on the answer to clarify, but from my perspective I use regex for parsing all the time, it's a very powerful tool. | null | 0 | 1317922359 | False | 0 | c2pdtf2 | t3_l2vk7 | null | t1_c2pdtf2 | t1_c2pdesf | null | 1427695378 | -5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | kyz | null | That just makes him an even bigger asshole.
Seriously? The best he can do is say "if you take one of K&R's examples from chapter 1, and change it so it's wrong, it will be wrong"?
Most of the book isn't even about learning C, it's about learning to be an end-user of some useful development and debugging tools tha... | null | 0 | 1317922393 | False | 0 | c2pdtlk | t3_l2vfc | null | t1_c2pdtlk | t1_c2pdlru | null | 1427695380 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | ToastyMallows | null | As someone who went into an internship without knowing any C# and using Visual Studio, I can confirm this. | null | 0 | 1317922409 | False | 0 | c2pdto2 | t3_l2vfc | null | t1_c2pdto2 | t1_c2pd5xb | null | 1427695381 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | djork | null | There are professional programmers who need basic _________ explained to them.
Choose from:
* algebra
* calculus
* trig
* spelling
* source control
* etc. | null | 0 | 1317922425 | False | 0 | c2pdtqx | t3_l32qk | null | t1_c2pdtqx | t1_c2pdewr | null | 1427695382 | 52 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | cruise02 | null | It's your question. You can accept the correct answer so it appears at the top of the page. Anyone who visits the page after that will see what the right answer was. | null | 0 | 1317922451 | False | 0 | c2pdtw9 | t3_l2vk7 | null | t1_c2pdtw9 | t1_c2pcnum | null | 1427695384 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Jesusaurus | null | I don't think you can call K&R's code 'flawed,' it is merely an older version of C. Going back and looking at the original K&R just shows us how the language evolved. And all good languages evolve. | null | 0 | 1317922467 | False | 0 | c2pdtyv | t3_l2vfc | null | t1_c2pdtyv | t1_c2pcpb4 | null | 1427695385 | 10 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | jessta | null | Go feels a lot more like python than C. In fact porting python code to Go is very straight forward, while porting C code to Go is generally just easier to completely re-write.
The impressive part of Go is that a block of code completely out of context will function pretty much as you'd expect it too. This isn't common... | null | 0 | 1317922575 | False | 0 | c2pdujx | t3_l2z8p | null | t1_c2pdujx | t1_c2pd9cj | null | 1427695397 | 19 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | knight666 | null | > Is that really something you want to be doing, as a teacher? Encouraging people to copy and paste, exactly, **from some google result** rather than analysing and working things out?
Emphasis mine. | null | 0 | 1317922576 | False | 0 | c2pduk5 | t3_l2vfc | null | t1_c2pduk5 | t1_c2pd8cf | null | 1427695397 | -1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | thanks for this. | null | 0 | 1317922584 | False | 0 | c2pdulf | t3_l2vfc | null | t1_c2pdulf | t3_l2vfc | null | 1427695394 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | MmmVomit | null | I agree. He could have started at "Complex numbers in Lisp". Most any programmer worth his salt should have encountered complex numbers at some point in their education, and understand them enough to know what "5+8i" means. | null | 0 | 1317922621 | False | 0 | c2pdus5 | t3_l32qk | null | t1_c2pdus5 | t1_c2pd85z | null | 1427695396 | -7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Saivo | null | can't understand your downvotes - unless they are coming from the pesky interpreted languages bloc who can't relate to the cathartic feeling of seeing "no warnings or errors" message after 20-30 minutes of intense suspense.
I once coded an entire DLL in a rather challenging c++ variant, with major new functionality an... | null | 0 | 1317922685 | False | 0 | c2pdv2j | t3_l33jt | null | t1_c2pdv2j | t1_c2pd7ve | null | 1427695399 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | kyz | null | Apparently "modern C practices" are using make and valgrind. While these are nice tools, what the fuck do they have to do with *learning the C programming language*.
If I buy a book on learning Japanese, I don't expect to get a book that mostly talks about how to identify different specifies of fish (as you may need t... | null | 0 | 1317922734 | False | 0 | c2pdvcl | t3_l2vfc | null | t1_c2pdvcl | t1_c2pczf6 | null | 1427695403 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | mavroprovato | null | > Can someone please tell me, what exactly is so "difficult" about C?
Let me see... String manipulation? Manual memory management? The cryptic compiler messages?
Note that these things are not difficult for YOU, they are difficult for the novice programmer. After doing something for 20 years, of course it will be ... | null | 0 | 1317922734 | False | 0 | c2pdvcm | t3_l2vfc | null | t1_c2pdvcm | t1_c2pdg5p | null | 1427695403 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | ephrion | null | Yeah :\ | null | 0 | 1317922762 | False | 0 | c2pdvip | t3_l32qk | null | t1_c2pdvip | t1_c2pdqkz | null | 1427695406 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | okiyama | null | Yes and I will also start posting videos that have to do with pictures in /r/pics. | null | 0 | 1317922807 | False | 0 | c2pdvo9 | t3_l33jt | null | t1_c2pdvo9 | t1_c2pdriv | null | 1427695407 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | vineetr | null | > If it's helpful for more people, that means the question was good. Upvote the question. The answer can only be judged by how much it helps the person who asked the question.
Not necessary. There are readers faced with the same problem. I'm a Mercurial user learning Git right now, and some things just vex me. Like... | null | 0 | 1317922811 | False | 0 | c2pdvqy | t3_l2vk7 | null | t1_c2pdvqy | t1_c2pdtb1 | null | 1427695409 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | massivebitchtits | null | If you don't like benefiting from assholes you probably should make sure to avoid ever implementing Dijkstra's algorithm. | null | 0 | 1317922813 | False | 0 | c2pdvrb | t3_l2vfc | null | t1_c2pdvrb | t1_c2pddjt | null | 1427695409 | 11 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | sisyphus | null | As it's laid out it looks like it will be substantially better than most C tutorials, because it won't be antiquated, integrates tools from the outset that are critical to any C programmer, goes over things that aren't part of the language proper and therefore aren't in a lot of language tutorials (the heap and stack).... | null | 0 | 1317922852 | False | 0 | c2pdw04 | t3_l2vfc | null | t1_c2pdw04 | t1_c2pcgt5 | null | 1427695411 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | I_TYPE_IN_ALL_CAPS | null | PROGRAMMING IS HARD AND VAST. NOT KNOWING THINGS IS THE DEFAULT STATE OF THE VETERAN. | null | 0 | 1317922853 | False | 0 | c2pdw06 | t3_l2vk7 | null | t1_c2pdw06 | t1_c2pde3w | null | 1427695411 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | IRBMe | null | A moderately large code base can take years to learn. I've been working on an application that's about 400,000 lines of C++ code for about a year and a half now, and there are still large parts of it that I've barely ever looked at (parts that are rarely changed, and very complex such as our C/C++ parser). In addition,... | null | 0 | 1317922906 | False | 0 | c2pdwb4 | t3_l2a1k | null | t1_c2pdwb4 | t1_c2pdl7s | null | 1428192554 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | MmmVomit | null | > the crap he **typed into the editor**. Not even the curly braces were curly braces.
I know. It's really hard to draw those curly braces in a text editor. \*troll face\* | null | 0 | 1317922980 | False | 0 | c2pdwpf | t3_l2vfc | null | t1_c2pdwpf | t1_c2pdmzl | null | 1427695422 | 9 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | chvor | null | > Notice how if we draw a line from z1 to z2 to z4, we get a right angle.
Isn't the right angle from z1 to (0,0) to z4 instead? | null | 0 | 1317922993 | False | 0 | c2pdwrn | t3_l32qk | null | t1_c2pdwrn | t3_l32qk | null | 1427695423 | 8 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | KPexEA | null | It never occurred to me that pointers were confusing at all. My first language was 6502 machine code so maybe that was why pointers seemed so logical and efficient. | null | 0 | 1317923007 | False | 0 | c2pdwuf | t3_l2vfc | null | t1_c2pdwuf | t1_c2pdn6p | null | 1427695424 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | vineetr | null | We're talking about two subject areas - C++ and game dev, and not all of programming. | null | 0 | 1317923088 | False | 0 | c2pdx94 | t3_l2vk7 | null | t1_c2pdx94 | t1_c2pdw06 | null | 1427695427 | -2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Saivo | null | Fine, it's a deal! Let us now witness the birth of The Great r/programming Pact of 2011. Drinks are on the house! | null | 0 | 1317923149 | False | 0 | c2pdxld | t3_l33jt | null | t1_c2pdxld | t1_c2pdvo9 | null | 1427695434 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | reddit_clone | null | Not all of it from the beginning.
I remember at some point they were in the same boat as say OCaml , all their lightweight threads running on the same OS thread (It didn't scale to multiple cores).
But when multiple cores became prevalent, they sat down and took the risk and made the changes to make it run on all cor... | null | 0 | 1317923177 | False | 0 | c2pdxsg | t3_l1ekk | null | t1_c2pdxsg | t1_c2pawdk | null | 1427695437 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Really_Likes_Nutella | null | I have been trying to learn a language for while now and have come to the conclusion that C is the one to learn. It's cross platform, fast, a 'real' programming language and a lot of other languages have similarities with it.
I think I will use this. Thanks. | null | 0 | 1317923203 | False | 0 | c2pdxxx | t3_l2vfc | null | t1_c2pdxxx | t3_l2vfc | null | 1427695449 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | crazedgremlin | null | In some ways, tablature is more powerful than classical notation for describing how to play a song on the guitar. If you're supposed to play an A in classical notation, you can either play the 5th fret on the E string or you can play the open A string. When you're reading the tablature, you know exactly which one to p... | null | 0 | 1317923205 | False | 0 | c2pdxy8 | t3_l2vfc | null | t1_c2pdxy8 | t1_c2pdiwy | null | 1427695449 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | dsfox | null | Writing something down this way is itself a learning experience. | null | 0 | 1317923206 | False | 0 | c2pdxye | t3_l32qk | null | t1_c2pdxye | t1_c2pd85z | null | 1427695449 | 33 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | kurin | null | > Annotation number 2: REDDIT WAS HERE
> REDDIT RAWKZ UR WERLD!!!010101
Why do you idiots do this? | null | 0 | 1317923208 | False | 0 | c2pdxyu | t3_l32qk | null | t1_c2pdxyu | t3_l32qk | null | 1427695449 | 546 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1317923256 | False | 0 | c2pdy8s | t3_l2vk7 | null | t1_c2pdy8s | t1_c2pdvqy | null | 1427695452 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | I hope you are not being serious | null | 0 | 1317923302 | False | 0 | c2pdygz | t3_l2z8p | null | t1_c2pdygz | t1_c2pdkb2 | null | 1427695456 | -1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Taladar | null | It depends a bit on the type system. In languages with a very strong type system it is much more common for this to happen legitimately. But then again you spend more time on getting it to compile in those. | null | 0 | 1317923314 | False | 0 | c2pdyj3 | t3_l33jt | null | t1_c2pdyj3 | t1_c2pd9ga | null | 1427695447 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | gnuvince | null | I agree. I wrote a small IRC bot with it and my impression of Go is: "meh". It does the job, has decent tools and libs, and concurrency is nice, but it's annoying, doesn't offer the kind of abstraction power of "modern" languages and has too much boiler plate. I'm also turned off by the attitude of the developpers wh... | null | 0 | 1317923449 | False | 0 | c2pdz8l | t3_l2z8p | null | t1_c2pdz8l | t1_c2pd9cj | null | 1427695460 | 13 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Fjordo | null | Because some of those are honeypots and get your IP instabanned. | null | 0 | 1317923498 | False | 0 | c2pdzi8 | t3_l2vn7 | null | t1_c2pdzi8 | t1_c2pbjw3 | null | 1427695463 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | flebron | null | Please explain what you mean by that. My expressing my sadness is indeed arbitrary, by definition - I chose to do so. I could have chosen to express my feelings about classic rock, but the topic was his experience with a computer science education.
My *being* sad, however, cannot be arbitrary, since I do not control m... | null | 0 | 1317923506 | False | 0 | c2pdzjt | t3_l32qk | null | t1_c2pdzjt | t1_c2pdqj7 | null | 1427695473 | -8 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | sw17ch | null | I was trying to point out that the author does attempt to combat the behavior cited by the OP. Do you think his wording can be construed to encourage copy/paste from Google? | null | 0 | 1317923540 | False | 0 | c2pdzqr | t3_l2vfc | null | t1_c2pdzqr | t1_c2pduk5 | null | 1427695465 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Quazifuji | null | [It's doable in a short amount of time, but it still takes some effort.](http://abstrusegoose.com/249) | null | 0 | 1317923588 | False | 0 | c2pdzzr | t3_l2vfc | null | t1_c2pdzzr | t1_c2pck2c | null | 1427695470 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1317923629 | False | 0 | c2pe08d | t3_l2vfc | null | t1_c2pe08d | t1_c2pdn6p | null | 1427695472 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | *Yay* Apple fanboy standard tactics. | null | 0 | 1317923696 | False | 0 | c2pe0m2 | t3_l0tyz | null | t1_c2pe0m2 | t1_c2pds9b | null | 1427695475 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | kmmeerts | null | If he's playing an asshole, he's doing a damn fine job. | null | 0 | 1317923893 | False | 0 | c2pe1m5 | t3_l2vfc | null | t1_c2pe1m5 | t1_c2pcn2v | null | 1427695485 | -6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | NoMoreNicksLeft | null | Yes. There's something about painfully learning to put that semicolon at the end of the instruction over a period of years...
And then you get a job writing Groovy. | null | 0 | 1317923909 | False | 0 | c2pe1ov | t3_l2vfc | null | t1_c2pe1ov | t1_c2pcbnw | null | 1427695486 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1317923987 | True | 0 | c2pe23k | t3_l2vfc | null | t1_c2pe23k | t1_c2pdvcm | null | 1427695492 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | deong | null | I think it can't be solved outside of just defining a policy. But you can probably choose a policy that works more often though. If it's been more than X months since the last rollover and rolling over would cause the bill to deviate from the average of the person's recent bills by 10000%, assume they were correcting d... | null | 0 | 1317923988 | False | 0 | c2pe24n | t3_l33iy | null | t1_c2pe24n | t1_c2pdj8z | null | 1427695492 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | DrGirlfriend | null | With absolutely no documentation for sys admins on how to block the scrapers... At least Google AppEngine and Yahoo Pipes give detailed information on how they present to a web server (UA).
This is an asshole launchpad waiting to happen. | null | 0 | 1317924118 | False | 0 | c2pe2uk | t3_l2p3r | null | t1_c2pe2uk | t3_l2p3r | null | 1428192550 | -4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | flebron | null | You don't seem to have automatic semicolon insertion. Remove the first semicolon in your example and it fails, when it should not. | null | 0 | 1317924262 | False | 0 | c2pe3l6 | t3_l1mqb | null | t1_c2pe3l6 | t3_l1mqb | null | 1427695519 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1317924278 | False | 0 | c2pe3oe | t3_l32qk | null | t1_c2pe3oe | t1_c2pdxyu | null | 1427695518 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | sw17ch | null | or use ReiserFS. | null | 0 | 1317924284 | False | 0 | c2pe3po | t3_l2vfc | null | t1_c2pe3po | t1_c2pdvrb | null | 1427695520 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | alephnil | null | Most of the text is explaining basic math knowledge, and he does not explain anything about his own code. It would be better to refer to a web page or document explaining complex numbers than this inline block, and document his own code instead. YMMV.
Edit: from the year the coworker learned math (1935), this is most ... | null | 0 | 1317924338 | True | 0 | c2pe40i | t3_l32qk | null | t1_c2pe40i | t3_l32qk | null | 1427695523 | 12 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | WarWizard | null | In a Windows setup file? No.... | null | 0 | 1317924360 | False | 0 | c2pe458 | t3_l33d4 | null | t1_c2pe458 | t1_c2pdkl9 | null | 1427695524 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | sisyphus | null | Aside from the obvious that it doesn't cover C99, K&R just talks about the language. It seems to me Zed is trying to talk about modern C development beyond just the language constructs with stuff about valgrind, debuggers, the heap and the stack, linking to third party libraries, structuring larger C programs...a ... | null | 0 | 1317924365 | False | 0 | c2pe461 | t3_l2vfc | null | t1_c2pe461 | t1_c2pcwox | null | 1427695524 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | uriel | null | It has all the unicode support 99% of applications need.
Compare this with some of the most popular and heavily used languages around: PHP, Java, Python, all of which have absolutely horrid-pain-in-the-ass to completely broken unicode support.
Go is one of the very few languages that gets proper UTF-8 support right. | null | 0 | 1317924408 | False | 0 | c2pe4e6 | t3_l2z8p | null | t1_c2pe4e6 | t1_c2pdqdx | null | 1427695528 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Phrodo_00 | null | Ok, so I've been programming for a while, and I know the answers to all of the questions you proposed in the first batch, except for
> What is the difference between char * and char []? Why can't I do the same things to these?
Can you enlighten me?, I was under the impresion that after declaring an array it behav... | null | 0 | 1317924422 | False | 0 | c2pe4gu | t3_l2vfc | null | t1_c2pe4gu | t1_c2pdt30 | null | 1427695527 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | binford2k | null | perhaps you didn't notice the winkie face | null | 0 | 1317924453 | False | 0 | c2pe4mj | t3_l32qk | null | t1_c2pe4mj | t1_c2pdq6y | null | 1427695530 | 26 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | zhouji | null | do not get too excited. the later part of the content is empty | null | 0 | 1317924474 | False | 0 | c2pe4qv | t3_l2vfc | null | t1_c2pe4qv | t3_l2vfc | null | 1427695530 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | masklinn | null | > Am I the only one who is completely unimpressed about Go?
No. Then again, there's little to nothing to be impressed with (let alone interested in) in Go. | null | 0 | 1317924495 | False | 0 | c2pe4v6 | t3_l2z8p | null | t1_c2pe4v6 | t1_c2pd9cj | null | 1427695532 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | slammaster | null | * hygene
EDIT: I'll leave my mistake for all to see, but it should be spelled hygiene
| null | 0 | 1317924496 | True | 0 | c2pe4vf | t3_l32qk | null | t1_c2pe4vf | t1_c2pdtqx | null | 1427695532 | 57 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | djnattyp | null | IntelliJ actually has good Android integration - The "Creating a New Project" section in their [Android FAQ](http://wiki.jetbrains.net/intellij/Developing_applications_for_Android_in_IntelliJ_IDEA#Creating_a_New_Project) describes creating a new Android project in Intellij - this gives you a runnable "Hello World" Andr... | null | 0 | 1317924587 | False | 0 | c2pe5dq | t3_l2xzn | null | t1_c2pe5dq | t1_c2pdb0s | null | 1427695535 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | uriel | null | > doesn't offer the kind of abstraction power of "modern" languages
The lack of such "power" is one of the main reasons I love Go.
> has too much boiler plate.
I have no idea what makes you think this, Go is one of the languages most free of boilerplate.
Go code is incredibly concise and clean, while avoiding... | null | 0 | 1317924611 | False | 0 | c2pe5iu | t3_l2z8p | null | t1_c2pe5iu | t1_c2pdz8l | null | 1427695535 | -1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | SnowdensOfYesteryear | null | > only on the stack intead of the heap.
Not even that. I believe you're allowed to malloc something and cast it to char[]. Similarly I beleive `char *foo = "test"` is allowed and behaves the same way as `char []`. | null | 0 | 1317924768 | False | 0 | c2pe6di | t3_l2vfc | null | t1_c2pe6di | t1_c2pe4gu | null | 1427695547 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Luminaire | null | Well I'm glad that my concerns are being taken very seriously, and hopefully they'll be taken into account in the future. | null | 0 | 1317924775 | False | 0 | c2pe6ed | t3_l0we4 | null | t1_c2pe6ed | t1_c2pc50g | null | 1427695548 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | amysarah | null | * spelling | null | 0 | 1317924799 | False | 0 | c2pe6jw | t3_l32qk | null | t1_c2pe6jw | t1_c2pe4vf | null | 1427695550 | 35 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | PericlesATX | null | People still use ReiserFS? | null | 0 | 1317924824 | False | 0 | c2pe6o3 | t3_l2vfc | null | t1_c2pe6o3 | t1_c2pe3po | null | 1427695550 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | omnilynx | null | I think that's what he's saying: tabulature tells you exactly what to do, whereas sheet music simply tells you what you need to produce. There's no musical difference between the 5th fret on the E string versus the open A string (aside from very minor timbre differences), so a tabulature that creates such a difference ... | null | 0 | 1317924830 | False | 0 | c2pe6pc | t3_l2vfc | null | t1_c2pe6pc | t1_c2pdxy8 | null | 1427695551 | 10 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | opcow | null | So we don't forget that idiots walk among us. | null | 0 | 1317924843 | False | 0 | c2pe6rq | t3_l32qk | null | t1_c2pe6rq | t1_c2pdxyu | null | 1427695553 | 158 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1317924848 | False | 0 | c2pe6sy | t3_l2a1k | null | t1_c2pe6sy | t1_c2pa8ti | null | 1427695553 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | LucianU | null | Your analogies aren't accurate, because teaching someone the tools used with a language is a very useful addition to teaching the language itself. | null | 0 | 1317924860 | False | 0 | c2pe6v0 | t3_l2vfc | null | t1_c2pe6v0 | t1_c2pdvcl | null | 1427695553 | 12 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | CynicalTyler | null | Couldn't agree more. The more specific a question, the less likely I am to read the question in the first place AND the less likely I am to be able to verify an answer is correct or provide an answer myself.
So then the points incentive system breaks down a little and you have to rely on dedicated subject-matter exper... | null | 0 | 1317924908 | False | 0 | c2pe75a | t3_l2vk7 | null | t1_c2pe75a | t1_c2pbxdi | null | 1427695557 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | damg | null | I think "a better C" is specifically what people who are using Go are looking for. | null | 0 | 1317924919 | False | 0 | c2pe77h | t3_l2z8p | null | t1_c2pe77h | t1_c2pdkb2 | null | 1427695558 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | sw17ch | null | Let me give you an example; you'll probably see it immediately:
void foo(void) {
char * a = "Hello World!\n";
char b[] = "Hello World!\n";
a[0] = 'X';
b[0] = 'X';
printf("%s", a);
printf("%s", b);
}
Everything is the same but the declaration.
`a` is a pointer to a sta... | null | 0 | 1317924920 | True | 0 | c2pe77q | t3_l2vfc | null | t1_c2pe77q | t1_c2pe4gu | null | 1427695558 | 14 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1317924934 | False | 0 | c2pe7a7 | t3_l2z8p | null | t1_c2pe7a7 | t1_c2pdj6p | null | 1427695559 | 13 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Gotebe | null | >Visual Basic has had FP aspects for two versions now and yet I don't see any of its users crying about the math being too hard.
That would be either because vast majority don't use these aspects, or if they do, they do it from cookbook usages, wouldn't you say?
As for Excel, I don't know. Writing Excel formulas i... | null | 0 | 1317924948 | False | 0 | c2pe7cq | t3_l1tjd | null | t1_c2pe7cq | t1_c2pdgxx | null | 1427695560 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | gwern | null | > from the year the coworker learned math (1935), this is most likely written in the 1980s or before,
Probably not before the '80s unless it was either in an earlier Lisp or not Lisp at all, inasmuch as Common Lisp was only published in 1984. | null | 0 | 1317925058 | False | 0 | c2pe7xk | t3_l32qk | null | t1_c2pe7xk | t1_c2pe40i | null | 1428192548 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Phrodo_00 | null | Ah! I see, of course, a is pointing to the actual program's memory, interesting. Thanks :) | null | 0 | 1317925063 | False | 0 | c2pe7yc | t3_l2vfc | null | t1_c2pe7yc | t1_c2pe77q | null | 1428192549 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1317925069 | False | 0 | c2pe7zr | t3_l0jax | null | t1_c2pe7zr | t1_c2otzon | null | 1428192549 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | bcorfman | null | Wow, that is a ton of comments for 2 lines of code. ;) | null | 0 | 1317925150 | False | 0 | c2pe8es | t3_l32qk | null | t1_c2pe8es | t3_l32qk | null | 1427695575 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | wot-teh-phuck | null | Yes, it is; the edit is not done because the author forgot to add something to the answer but because the "initial" hasty post had to be made to gain reputation points. | null | 0 | 1317925168 | False | 0 | c2pe8ie | t3_l2vk7 | null | t1_c2pe8ie | t1_c2pdob5 | null | 1427695577 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | b0jangl3s | null | My workplace still does as well | null | 0 | 1317925192 | False | 0 | c2pe8mm | t3_l32qk | null | t1_c2pe8mm | t1_c2pdqkz | null | 1427695583 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | jester1983 | null | Indeed. My favourite day was when the novell server quit on us. I shut it down, powered it up and it said no boot disk found, so I powered it off and dismantled it for fun. When people asked us for files on the server, which had 200MB of storage and no regular backup schedule, as it was decreed to be retired some 7 ... | null | 0 | 1317925230 | True | 0 | c2pe8tr | t3_l1a2e | null | t1_c2pe8tr | t1_c2p6fuf | null | 1427695579 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | PHP, Python agreed.
Java uses some UTF-16 derivative which is annoying, but apart from that Java has (surprisingly) good Unicode support, not as excellent as Perl 6 (or even 5), but often acceptable. It's imho not right to include Java there.
> Go is one of the very few languages that gets proper UTF-8 support rig... | null | 0 | 1317925238 | True | 0 | c2pe8v2 | t3_l2z8p | null | t1_c2pe8v2 | t1_c2pe4e6 | null | 1427695581 | 8 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | munificent | null | > implicit interfaces
ML.
> similar channel-based concurrency model
Occam.
> pointers and garbage collection
D.
> easy-to-use multiple return values
Python, Lua, Lisp, et. al.
> especially all in the same language
Agreed, it has a nice set of features that go together well. Personally, it's the ... | null | 0 | 1317925255 | False | 0 | c2pe8yk | t3_l2z8p | null | t1_c2pe8yk | t1_c2pdihp | null | 1427695582 | 21 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
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