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True | icebraining | null | Why would you want to do that? Keep in mind it only updates once a day, maximum. So it can't exactly overload the server. | null | 0 | 1317928599 | False | 0 | c2peqs7 | t3_l2p3r | null | t1_c2peqs7 | t1_c2pe2uk | null | 1427695815 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | 0xABADC0DA | null | Google Go handling ENOENT:
switch e := err.(type) {
case *os.PathError:
if e.Error == os.ENOENT {
}
}
C handling ENOENT:
if (errno == ENOENT) {
}
| null | 0 | 1317928605 | False | 0 | c2peqtf | t3_l2z8p | null | t1_c2peqtf | t1_c2pe5iu | null | 1427695815 | -4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | masklinn | null | > I still don't understand why they just didn't go for something that didn't come with mountains of baggage. Python, Ruby, Javascript, Brainfuck... anything but C# and Java.
For the existing install/knowledge base.
> Apple went their own way with obj-c and because the products they delivered were worth supporti... | null | 0 | 1317928606 | False | 0 | c2peqts | t3_l38op | null | t1_c2peqts | t1_c2pepa1 | null | 1427695815 | 15 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1317928629 | False | 0 | c2peqyb | t3_l38w9 | null | t1_c2peqyb | t3_l38w9 | null | 1427695817 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | jrh3k5 | null | You seem to imply that something is wrong (moreso than if any other bug appears in production) if a table is missing. Installation tools - or, and it's not uncommon, manual database setup steps - have room for missing steps, usually due to human error. Environment replications might miss a table due to a documentation ... | null | 0 | 1317928643 | False | 0 | c2per1c | t3_kz7vp | null | t1_c2per1c | t1_c2pco6b | null | 1427695821 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | thilehoffer | null | Why would that bother you? I have been programming professionally for 10 years and never ever used complex numbers in an application. But hey, whatever makes you feel superior.... | null | 0 | 1317928654 | False | 0 | c2per3l | t3_l32qk | null | t1_c2per3l | t1_c2pdewr | null | 1427695820 | 12 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | I accuse digg for this. | null | 0 | 1317928668 | False | 0 | c2per6h | t3_l32qk | null | t1_c2per6h | t1_c2pe9rf | null | 1427695822 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Isvara | null | It's not like Apple invented Objective-C; they just chose it. Or, more accurately, NeXT did. | null | 0 | 1317928684 | False | 0 | c2per9u | t3_l38op | null | t1_c2per9u | t1_c2pepa1 | null | 1427695823 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | desrosiers | null | Who codes with non-monospaced fonts? | null | 0 | 1317928687 | False | 0 | c2perah | t3_l32qk | null | t1_c2perah | t1_c2peedz | null | 1427695823 | 44 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | gospelwut | null | It's TrendMicro being horrible a per usual. | null | 0 | 1317928746 | False | 0 | c2permi | t3_l32qk | null | t1_c2permi | t1_c2penyz | null | 1427695828 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | But maybe this code dates back, before the internet era. Remember those times? | null | 0 | 1317928761 | False | 0 | c2perpz | t3_l32qk | null | t1_c2perpz | t1_c2peln4 | null | 1427695838 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | pauric | null | [Relevant - Teach Yourself Programming in Ten Years (Peter Norvig article).](http://norvig.com/21-days.html) | null | 0 | 1317928783 | False | 0 | c2pertt | t3_l2vfc | null | t1_c2pertt | t1_c2pck2c | null | 1427695835 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | alekseykorzun | null | User will not hit a make believe limit? Good one. It's not 'abstract concept' it's bullshit.
Sorry you struggle with common sense. Must be hard to fit that stuff in your small under developed brain; but looks like your 5 year old son might be able to do what you failed to do for decades.
Just do me a favor, stop talk... | null | 0 | 1317928784 | False | 0 | c2pertx | t3_kzivg | null | t1_c2pertx | t1_c2pemek | null | 1427695835 | -1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | Linq, events, lambdas, maybe even XAML... would have been great. Developing for Windows Phone 7 is far easier than Android. | null | 0 | 1317928809 | True | 0 | c2pes0f | t3_l38op | null | t1_c2pes0f | t1_c2pebc2 | null | 1427695835 | 58 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | rcinsf | null | Do you have a beard?
HIRED! | null | 0 | 1317928824 | False | 0 | c2pes2m | t3_l2vfc | null | t1_c2pes2m | t1_c2pchnw | null | 1428192545 | 19 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1317928840 | False | 0 | c2pes5n | t3_l38w9 | null | t1_c2pes5n | t3_l38w9 | null | 1427695837 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | burito | null | I think we need an animated gif of Captain Kirk from wrath of Khan screaming...
"Trreeeeeeend!" | null | 0 | 1317928847 | False | 0 | c2pes7v | t3_l32qk | null | t1_c2pes7v | t1_c2pemar | null | 1427695837 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1317928848 | False | 0 | c2pes8d | t3_l32qk | null | t1_c2pes8d | t1_c2pdewr | null | 1427695837 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | jrh3k5 | null | I think he said it to mock people use "M$". | null | 0 | 1317928859 | False | 0 | c2pesb6 | t3_l38op | null | t1_c2pesb6 | t1_c2pep0p | null | 1427695840 | 11 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | gospelwut | null | Your syntax scares and confuses me, much like Haskell. | null | 0 | 1317928865 | False | 0 | c2pesc8 | t3_l32qk | null | t1_c2pesc8 | t1_c2peikc | null | 1427695840 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1317928893 | False | 0 | c2pesgn | t3_l2vfc | null | t1_c2pesgn | t1_c2pdt30 | null | 1427695841 | 9 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | polarbeer | null | That's what I asked. Apparently it had to do with being easier to read when it was printed out. | null | 0 | 1317928893 | False | 0 | c2pesh2 | t3_l32qk | null | t1_c2pesh2 | t1_c2perah | null | 1427695841 | 18 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | b behaves as a pointer, it is not a pointer.
a != &a
b == &b | null | 0 | 1317928894 | True | 0 | c2peshb | t3_l2vfc | null | t1_c2peshb | t1_c2pe77q | null | 1427695841 | 18 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | SquareRoot | null | No, pockets of reddit is just as retarded as digg was. It's all the same shit, unevenly smeared. | null | 0 | 1317928923 | False | 0 | c2peso0 | t3_l32qk | null | t1_c2peso0 | t1_c2per6h | null | 1427695842 | 15 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | kolm | null | When I read my own code, this is not correct. </pedant^2 > | null | 0 | 1317929004 | False | 0 | c2pet5e | t3_l32qk | null | t1_c2pet5e | t1_c2pem3i | null | 1427695849 | 13 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | ScreaminLordByron | null | Octogenarians love winkie faces. | null | 0 | 1317929067 | False | 0 | c2pethe | t3_l32qk | null | t1_c2pethe | t1_c2pe4mj | null | 1427695851 | 18 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | cunningjames | null | > In language design, like many other things, what you leave out is as important as what you put in.
That’s true for anything resembling user interface design, and I fully agree with you concerning its importance. But that statement defends only the general reasonableness of leaving out and removing features. It do... | null | 0 | 1317929097 | False | 0 | c2petnr | t3_l2z8p | null | t1_c2petnr | t1_c2pee1f | null | 1427695853 | 8 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | DrBartosz | null | 1. I couldn't find any explicit wording in the Standard but I had a discussion with Hans Boehm, who's the ultimate expert on concurrency in C++11, and his argument was that thread reuse for tasks would be observable in the program and could lead to unexpected behavior. I'm in the process of writing a blog about it at t... | null | 0 | 1317929121 | False | 0 | c2petsr | t3_kzj7g | null | t1_c2petsr | t1_c2pamdc | null | 1427695854 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | sgoguen | null | > I would assume that no one would mess with my data unless they have a good reason.
This optimism is the part of me that has me shaking my head and biting my tongue.
> I think it's fair to compare idiomatic C# to idiomatic F# trying to solve the same high-level problem, even if they don't compile to the sam... | null | 0 | 1317929122 | True | 0 | c2pett2 | t3_l294s | null | t1_c2pett2 | t1_c2pcdtf | null | 1427695854 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | TinynDP | null | Because none of those already compile to a static typed JIT system. They are all dynamically typed. | null | 0 | 1317929149 | False | 0 | c2pety7 | t3_l38op | null | t1_c2pety7 | t1_c2pepa1 | null | 1427695855 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | PrettyBigDuck | null | Why not? I was taught that stuff back in university, but when would I use it on a day to day basis? My job these days is software development, no math required. | null | 0 | 1317929176 | False | 0 | c2peu3c | t3_l32qk | null | t1_c2peu3c | t1_c2pdewr | null | 1427695857 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | It behaves as a pointer, but it is not a pointer. char [] is a reference to a memory location used directly to access the data. char * is a reference to a memory location that contains an integer representing the memory location used to access the data. | null | 0 | 1317929207 | True | 0 | c2peu9k | t3_l2vfc | null | t1_c2peu9k | t1_c2pe4gu | null | 1427695859 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | MegaThrustEarthquake | null | Just found this gem: "Anything not pertaining to elephants is irrelephant." | null | 0 | 1317929220 | False | 0 | c2peuco | t3_l1yl5 | null | t1_c2peuco | t3_l1yl5 | null | 1427695860 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | sw17ch | null | i'm sure it would be, but you run into problems with things getting too verbose. things that are easy to express in higher level languages are .. really much uglier in C.
for example: consider hash maps or associative arrays in Python or Ruby. These are one line statements that are easy to understand and deal with.
I... | null | 0 | 1317929239 | False | 0 | c2peug8 | t3_l2vfc | null | t1_c2peug8 | t1_c2pelzh | null | 1427695862 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | tcoxon | null | Nope. | null | 0 | 1317929259 | False | 0 | c2peujy | t3_l32qk | null | t1_c2peujy | t1_c2perpz | null | 1427695864 | -1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | gorilla_the_ape | null | Unfortunately it's not really bringing it to Linux, it's bringing it to Oracle's distribution with their kernel+.
The licensing conflict will continue to exist so it's going to be impossible to put it into the base kernel. | null | 0 | 1317929280 | False | 0 | c2peuo8 | t3_l399g | null | t1_c2peuo8 | t3_l399g | null | 1427695865 | 19 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Timmmmbob | null | Fair enough, I've never used ML or even heard of Occam. Which features do you think Go is missing? | null | 0 | 1317929296 | False | 0 | c2peuqy | t3_l2z8p | null | t1_c2peuqy | t1_c2pe8yk | null | 1427695867 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | nemec | null | I've taken a number of 400 level math classes, but none of them have gone into the complex plane whatsoever. I've obviously seen complex numbers before, but nothing serious. | null | 0 | 1317929307 | False | 0 | c2peuta | t3_l32qk | null | t1_c2peuta | t1_c2pekb4 | null | 1427695867 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | Zed is awesome and if you can only code in an IDE you might as well a dress to wrap around your big girly vagina. | null | 0 | 1317929359 | False | 0 | c2pev43 | t3_l2vfc | null | t1_c2pev43 | t3_l2vfc | null | 1427695872 | -2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | hiffy | null | >It's not hard.
I want a single resource that will explain to me how common c compilers work (i.e. stack vs heap, how linkers work, how to make good header files), how to make good macros, good makefile practices, how to think clearly about memory alignment, how the different stdlib libraries work, and pick out a s... | null | 0 | 1317929388 | False | 0 | c2peva5 | t3_l2vfc | null | t1_c2peva5 | t1_c2pdg5p | null | 1427695873 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | >Do not use an IDE? WTF? This is perhaps the most retarded thing i have ever heard.
An IDE is a crutch that prevents the beginner from ever learning important concepts. Would you really recommend one to someone who needs to write and compile hello world? | null | 0 | 1317929409 | False | 0 | c2peveh | t3_l2vfc | null | t1_c2peveh | t1_c2pehpy | null | 1427695875 | -4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | meme_disliker | null | I get the existing knowledge base, I really do, but I don't see that as a valid excuse.
Coding languages are simple to learn unless you cross borders from imperative to functional. And sure, the nuances can take more time to get to grips with, but people use a language because it is the right tool for the job, not be... | null | 0 | 1317929416 | False | 0 | c2pevfk | t3_l38op | null | t1_c2pevfk | t1_c2peqts | null | 1427695875 | -2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | kyz | null | K&R had debuggers, linkers and build tools in their day. They also knew how CPUs and OSes worked and they knew good engineering practise.
They chose not to include this in their book because *it's irrelevant to learning just the language.*
Call it "how to program the way Zed Shaw would (in C) " but don't call it ... | null | 0 | 1317929467 | False | 0 | c2pevpk | t3_l2vfc | null | t1_c2pevpk | t1_c2pe461 | null | 1427695879 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | pryomancer | null | He was 'let go' by management after they decided he was not spending his time properly by actually coding. | null | 0 | 1317929469 | False | 0 | c2pevpw | t3_l32qk | null | t1_c2pevpw | t3_l32qk | null | 1427695879 | -2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | appointment_at_1_am | null | I like this way of working, then just get the current version out of the version control when there is a new branch. | null | 0 | 1317929612 | False | 0 | c2pewib | t3_l1a2e | null | t1_c2pewib | t1_c2p6v6q | null | 1427695890 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | uriel | null | The onus is on those wanting a feature to explain why is it necessary and how it could be added to Go without damaging any of its existing qualities. | null | 0 | 1317929634 | False | 0 | c2pewmj | t3_l2z8p | null | t1_c2pewmj | t1_c2petnr | null | 1427695891 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Amablue | null | Having not used Go, I'm curious, what does it lack that you'd like to see? | null | 0 | 1317929650 | False | 0 | c2pewpu | t3_l2z8p | null | t1_c2pewpu | t1_c2petnr | null | 1427695892 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | DrGirlfriend | null | They provide a mechanism to request multiple runs per day. Additionally, it just seems that if they wanted to be a legitimate tool, they would provide information on how to "opt-out" of being targeted.
As it is, we deal with scrapers on a daily basis harvesting (or attempting to harvest) data from our sites and then ... | null | 0 | 1317929743 | False | 0 | c2pex86 | t3_l2p3r | null | t1_c2pex86 | t1_c2peqs7 | null | 1427695899 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | NruJaC | null | I agree, its just not usually a safe assumption that someone seeking to learn how to program has already learned those things. In fact, increasingly its fairly safe to assume the opposite. | null | 0 | 1317929750 | False | 0 | c2pex9a | t3_l2vfc | null | t1_c2pex9a | t1_c2pefkx | null | 1427695910 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | dicey | null | True. The best way to learn a subject is to try to teach it. | null | 0 | 1317929772 | False | 0 | c2pexdx | t3_l32qk | null | t1_c2pexdx | t1_c2pdxye | null | 1427695900 | 10 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Terr_ | null | And walk among them softly while readying a big stick. | null | 0 | 1317929841 | False | 0 | c2pexrx | t3_l32qk | null | t1_c2pexrx | t1_c2pec8t | null | 1427695915 | 14 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | tibbe | null | Typically not, but it would it be nice if they did as long as the access was read only. I'm not saying you couldn't write a server program with concurrency problems, I'm saying that the server programs we write typically don't have cross request communication, except through a data store (with transactional semantics). | null | 0 | 1317929902 | False | 0 | c2pey35 | t3_l1hnb | null | t1_c2pey35 | t1_c2p9u4g | null | 1427695911 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | Exactly, C may not be a very complex language but it is very powerful. It's not the language itself, but what you use the language for. C is a low-level language meant for tasks that inherently require in depth knowledge of the underlying system. The language itself leaves a lot of decision making to the compiler so... | null | 0 | 1317929923 | False | 0 | c2pey7z | t3_l2vfc | null | t1_c2pey7z | t1_c2pdt30 | null | 1427695912 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Oobert | null | Didn't Sun sue Google anyways? weird how that works out... | null | 0 | 1317929943 | False | 0 | c2peybn | t3_l38op | null | t1_c2peybn | t3_l38op | null | 1427695919 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | zsxawerdu | null | Go runs on arm, and from what my coworker said, its freaking fast, fast, fast, plus stable as no sin. Google Dev's have more than hinted that Go is going to be fully supported on android.
| null | 0 | 1317929943 | False | 0 | c2peybq | t3_l38op | null | t1_c2peybq | t1_c2pen0z | null | 1427695919 | 13 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | rcinsf | null | Yeah, so straight away no IDEs.
You're not helping make your case. | null | 0 | 1317929953 | False | 0 | c2peydr | t3_l2vfc | null | t1_c2peydr | t1_c2pe6v0 | null | 1427695919 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | rkenned | null | Key phrase there is "suppose to", and Oracle has already shown that they have no problems letting features slip if need be, so I would be somewhat surprised if they deliver what they say when they say they will.
Also, regardless of when it launches, with Java, there's going to be a 1-2 year period before it is act... | null | 0 | 1317929986 | False | 0 | c2peyhq | t3_l0we4 | null | t1_c2peyhq | t1_c2pekzo | null | 1427695916 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | rkenned | null | Key phrase there is "suppose to", and Oracle has already shown that they have no problems letting features slip if need be, so I would be somewhat surprised if they deliver what they say when they say they will.
Also, regardless of when it launches, with Java, there's going to be a 1-2 year period before it is act... | null | 0 | 1317929990 | False | 0 | c2peykq | t3_l0we4 | null | t1_c2peykq | t1_c2pekzo | null | 1427695916 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | meme_disliker | null | That was not the point I was trying to make.
I was asking why would Google choose languages they know for a fact could land them in trouble without the right permission.
Going their own way with a more obscure language would still have been successful if their product was worth supporting. | null | 0 | 1317930023 | False | 0 | c2peys8 | t3_l38op | null | t1_c2peys8 | t1_c2per9u | null | 1427695919 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | Yeah, me neither; thats why I asked.
I've heard of things called librararies, but I've also heard that rarelly did people find what they wanted, and if they did they usually had to wait another month before someone brought it back. | null | 0 | 1317930046 | False | 0 | c2peywk | t3_l32qk | null | t1_c2peywk | t1_c2peujy | null | 1427695920 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | bigdirtyphil | null | The Good Guy Greg of Programming. | null | 0 | 1317930047 | False | 0 | c2peywq | t3_l32qk | null | t1_c2peywq | t3_l32qk | null | 1427695920 | 9 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1317930067 | False | 0 | c2pez0u | t3_l2vfc | null | t1_c2pez0u | t3_l2vfc | null | 1427695922 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | logimech | null | Another difference, which is the one I thought you were referencing:
> a is a pointer to a static string
It's actually a *const* pointer to a static string. If you type:
b = a;
in the above code will/should cause a compile-time error
Easy enough, but this is only true if used in this type of declaration. Fo... | null | 0 | 1317930110 | False | 0 | c2pez9k | t3_l2vfc | null | t1_c2pez9k | t1_c2pe77q | null | 1427695925 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | merehap | null | I've worked at M$ for 4 years and even I occasionally use "M$". Why is this so offensive to redditors? | null | 0 | 1317930119 | False | 0 | c2pezbi | t3_l38op | null | t1_c2pezbi | t1_c2pep0p | null | 1427695927 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | aardvark179 | null | To answer your first point, it depends. If the project is going to be big and have a lot of stories then write them down, do some relative sizing, and then some more detailed sizing on a couple and extrapolate from there. It will probably be just as accurate as your waterfall estimates and take considerably less time t... | null | 0 | 1317930128 | False | 0 | c2pezda | t3_l2a1k | null | t1_c2pezda | t1_c2pcvhk | null | 1427695927 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | I suspect you may fit your own mold. | null | 0 | 1317930143 | False | 0 | c2pezgi | t3_l38op | null | t1_c2pezgi | t1_c2penvp | null | 1427695927 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | > That goes WAY beyond just saying that C is harder for beginners than Python or Java, and that's the "myth" that I'm referring to.
C has undefined behavior for one... | null | 0 | 1317930171 | False | 0 | c2pezm7 | t3_l2vfc | null | t1_c2pezm7 | t1_c2pe23k | null | 1427695929 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
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True | bramblerose | null | So.. why doesn't that website crash my IE6? | null | 0 | 1317930349 | False | 0 | c2pf0o1 | t3_l38pk | null | t1_c2pf0o1 | t3_l38pk | null | 1427695944 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | rcinsf | null | I agree somewhat but for a true noob, a good starter reference/book is a good thing. K&R is short too. Look at [this](http://www.amazon.com/2010-NET-Platform-Andrew-Troelsen/dp/1430225491) for comparison.
If you don't have a base for programming it's hard sometimes to know what options are even available to you.
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True | MmmVomit | null | Which is what the link to Wikipedia would be for ;-)
Although, as someone else said, maybe this comment was written before Wikipedia was around. Then it might make sense. | null | 0 | 1317930403 | False | 0 | c2pf0zl | t3_l32qk | null | t1_c2pf0zl | t1_c2pebio | null | 1427695948 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | sw17ch | null | I don't disagree on any of those points. I was fortunate to have enjoyed my lower level courses in my undergraduate work. Unfortunately, a lot of graduates end up doing Java, C#, a little C++/C, and then Ruby/Python.
Computer science is a vastly growing field and the amount one can learn is basically unbounded. I agre... | null | 0 | 1317930414 | True | 0 | c2pf126 | t3_l2vfc | null | t1_c2pf126 | t1_c2pesgn | null | 1427695948 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1317930434 | False | 0 | c2pf16j | t3_l1a2e | null | t1_c2pf16j | t3_l1a2e | null | 1427695951 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | TheRealPorkus | null | Obviously this is the opening comments of the source code file that makes the cards dance when you win Solitaire on Windows. | null | 0 | 1317930440 | False | 0 | c2pf17x | t3_l32qk | null | t1_c2pf17x | t1_c2pehut | null | 1427695951 | 14 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | sw17ch | null | that's an excellent demonstration of the difference. | null | 0 | 1317930508 | False | 0 | c2pf1m6 | t3_l2vfc | null | t1_c2pf1m6 | t1_c2peshb | null | 1427695956 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | jlrobins_ssc | null | Now, does that mean that you have to tell them face to face “Hey, I can’t even give you an estimate until I have had my team analyze this fully and make sure you haven’t missed anything”?
Yes. Yes it does.
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Couldn't say that better myself. | null | 0 | 1317930601 | False | 0 | c2pf257 | t3_l2a1k | null | t1_c2pf257 | t3_l2a1k | null | 1427695963 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | tias | null | No, it makes reddit seem exactly as dumb as it already is.
Really people, get off your high horses and accept that Reddit's userbase corresponds to the Internet userbase at large. You're going to find a lot of idiots around here, and that's not going to change.
And yes, I realize the irony in me becoming yet another ... | null | 0 | 1317930626 | False | 0 | c2pf29z | t3_l32qk | null | t1_c2pf29z | t1_c2pe9rf | null | 1427695965 | 73 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | fmota | null | Nitpicky nitpicky. | null | 0 | 1317930635 | False | 0 | c2pf2c1 | t3_l2vfc | null | t1_c2pf2c1 | t1_c2pdgoo | null | 1427695976 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | sw17ch | null | if by real, you mean intended for a different domain, then yes. | null | 0 | 1317930670 | False | 0 | c2pf2j5 | t3_l2vfc | null | t1_c2pf2j5 | t1_c2pef5g | null | 1427695968 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | The downfall of digg was felt on reddit as well; In both traffic and content. | null | 0 | 1317930761 | False | 0 | c2pf32a | t3_l32qk | null | t1_c2pf32a | t1_c2peso0 | null | 1427695975 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | ME4T | null | I <3 google. I also <3 Microsoft.
I even own stock in both.
No cognitive dissonance needed. | null | 0 | 1317930793 | False | 0 | c2pf38l | t3_l38op | null | t1_c2pf38l | t1_c2penvp | null | 1427695977 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | Oddly enough, I just found an article (dated yesterday) stating Java 8 has been pushed to Summer 2013. | null | 0 | 1317930816 | False | 0 | c2pf3dp | t3_l0we4 | null | t1_c2pf3dp | t1_c2peykq | null | 1427695979 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | a_random_username | null | Nope, it's their distributed blacklist. | null | 0 | 1317930867 | False | 0 | c2pf3n5 | t3_l32qk | null | t1_c2pf3n5 | t1_c2penyz | null | 1427695983 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | BlatantFootFetishist | null | I disagree. Programming in low-level languages is far more complicated, because you have to be conscious of the underlying memory, and so on. You can't simply think in abstract terms like "this is a sequence of text" — you have to worry about how that sequence of text is represented in memory. This significantly inc... | null | 0 | 1317930896 | False | 0 | c2pf3tc | t3_l2vfc | null | t1_c2pf3tc | t1_c2penlz | null | 1427695985 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1317930912 | False | 0 | c2pf3wt | t3_l2vfc | null | t1_c2pf3wt | t1_c2pezm7 | null | 1427695986 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | meme_disliker | null | Besides just personal preference for one language or another I am not sure I understand the difference? One tightly controlled language over another? | null | 0 | 1317930939 | False | 0 | c2pf41p | t3_l38op | null | t1_c2pf41p | t1_c2pebc2 | null | 1427695988 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | >While these are nice tools, what the fuck do they have to do with learning the C programming language.
Absolutely. He needs to stick to just C. And he better not show the reader how to use a compiler either. Hey Shaw, is gcc part of ANSI C99? Yeah, I didn't fucking think so. | null | 0 | 1317930959 | True | 0 | c2pf45p | t3_l2vfc | null | t1_c2pf45p | t1_c2pdvcl | null | 1427695989 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | hiffy | null | >So why should I have to do that for C in order to prove to you that C is not hard?
You misunderstand me. It's hard *because* it's difficult to find this information. In my humble experience it's exceedingly difficult to find good, safe information on it. Unlike (also in my experience) Ruby or Python.
>Why is ... | null | 0 | 1317930976 | False | 0 | c2pf493 | t3_l2vfc | null | t1_c2pf493 | t1_c2pf0lg | null | 1427695990 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | rosetta_stoned | null | I don't see how you get "Android was going to use C#" from that, even allowing for Florian Mueller's anti-Google agenda. There is a quote from an email from Andy Rubin which runs thus:
> "If Sun doesn't want to work with us, we have two options: 1) Abandon our work and adopt MSFT CLR VM and C# language - or - 2) Do... | null | 0 | 1317931064 | False | 0 | c2pf4qn | t3_l38op | null | t1_c2pf4qn | t3_l38op | null | 1427695998 | 159 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | pnpbios | null | Sounds suspiciously like GWT.
Also, lets make it for the platform we are trying to sue out of competition! | null | 0 | 1317931113 | False | 0 | c2pf511 | t3_l1yfu | null | t1_c2pf511 | t3_l1yfu | null | 1427696001 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1317931115 | False | 0 | c2pf51h | t3_l3brp | null | t1_c2pf51h | t3_l3brp | null | 1427696001 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | pnpbios | null | http://jsil.org/ doesn't have the resources Microsoft does, but it's making some great headway. | null | 0 | 1317931181 | False | 0 | c2pf5fc | t3_l1yfu | null | t1_c2pf5fc | t1_c2p9753 | null | 1427696006 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | funkah | null | Many people consider C# to be "Java done right". And many other people consider those people to be stupid idiot jerks. You know how it is with programmers. | null | 0 | 1317931212 | False | 0 | c2pf5lj | t3_l38op | null | t1_c2pf5lj | t1_c2pf41p | null | 1427696018 | 85 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | kolm | null | Good one. But seriously, all languages use GoTo on assembler level,and that's okay. | null | 0 | 1317931247 | False | 0 | c2pf5sq | t3_l2z8p | null | t1_c2pf5sq | t1_c2pdj6p | null | 1427696010 | -1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | If you can compile from latex, the source is at https://gitorious.org/learn-c-the-hard-way/learn-c-the-hard-way its still a work in progress though. | null | 0 | 1317931261 | False | 0 | c2pf5vu | t3_l2vfc | null | t1_c2pf5vu | t1_c2pdquq | null | 1427696013 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | tbranyen | null | Nothing that is open source yet. I have a pretty good feeling we're going to have a follow up post showing how someone could use this to make a simple Backbone app. | null | 0 | 1317931358 | False | 0 | c2pf6eo | t3_l3brp | null | t1_c2pf6eo | t1_c2pf51h | null | 1427696019 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | centurijon | null | >...get off your high horses...
I purchased this horse through a lifetime of not doing crap like that, and I'm not done beating it to death yet.
>accept that Reddit's userbase corresponds to the Internet userbase at large
I understand it, but accepting it would mean I lost.
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True | HateTheMachine | null | It is possible you are actually a simulation and not really alive. </pedant^3 > | null | 0 | 1317931381 | False | 0 | c2pf6j8 | t3_l32qk | null | t1_c2pf6j8 | t1_c2pet5e | null | 1427696021 | 9 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | adolfojp | null | Using that term is the strategic equivalent to the schoolyard practice of *calling names*. It's not particularly offensive but it can be seen as immature and non constructive. Calling Microsoft [M$](http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=m%24) is in the same category as calling the FSF guys [freetards](http://w... | null | 0 | 1317931400 | False | 0 | c2pf6mn | t3_l38op | null | t1_c2pf6mn | t1_c2pezbi | null | 1427696021 | 12 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | tinou | null | I know it is an example, but you should use `printf("%s", a)` or `puts(a)` unless you want to demonstrate how to insert string format vulnerabilities in your programs. | null | 0 | 1317931401 | False | 0 | c2pf6mu | t3_l2vfc | null | t1_c2pf6mu | t1_c2pe77q | null | 1427696021 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
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