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True | SocratesJohnson | null | Your brain, you used it. | null | 0 | 1317931445 | False | 0 | c2pf6w1 | t3_l38op | null | t1_c2pf6w1 | t1_c2pf4qn | null | 1427696026 | 86 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | AlSweigart | null | Thanks for the idea Bobert. | null | 0 | 1317931498 | False | 0 | c2pf76z | t3_l1yl5 | null | t1_c2pf76z | t1_c2p6zal | null | 1427696029 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | KyteM | null | C# is, in very general terms, Java with more (and better) features. | null | 0 | 1317931512 | False | 0 | c2pf79z | t3_l38op | null | t1_c2pf79z | t1_c2pf41p | null | 1427696030 | 26 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | kolm | null | I think the whole point is to create a modern, better C. It is not intended for people who like to embed universal.problem.solver, it is intended for hackers who think Python is too fancy and want more direct control. | null | 0 | 1317931536 | False | 0 | c2pf7ev | t3_l2z8p | null | t1_c2pf7ev | t1_c2pd9cj | null | 1427696031 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | ಠ_ಠ
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True | AlSweigart | null | Yes, it's also available on Amazon. http://www.amazon.com/Invent-Your-Computer-Games-Python/dp/0982106017/
Or you can just download the book as a PDF for free. | null | 0 | 1317931545 | False | 0 | c2pf7gq | t3_l1yl5 | null | t1_c2pf7gq | t1_c2pccup | null | 1427696032 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | meme_disliker | null | I was just listing random language names and not implying anything specific about their suitability. | null | 0 | 1317931571 | False | 0 | c2pf7kd | t3_l38op | null | t1_c2pf7kd | t1_c2pety7 | null | 1427696033 | -4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | KyteM | null | It's childish and looks stupid. Their acronym is MS. No point in taking the extra effort for M-shift-4. | null | 0 | 1317931576 | False | 0 | c2pf7lo | t3_l38op | null | t1_c2pf7lo | t1_c2pezbi | null | 1427696034 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | more_exercise | null | Yeah, it's the abstraction of if/for/while/do{}while/foreach/etc. that are the real gain | null | 0 | 1317931582 | False | 0 | c2pf7ni | t3_l2z8p | null | t1_c2pf7ni | t1_c2pf5sq | null | 1427696035 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | AlSweigart | null | You can also buy it without the discount code. Or if you buy it on Amazon, you'll get free shipping. http://www.amazon.com/Invent-Your-Computer-Games-Python/dp/0982106017/ | null | 0 | 1317931584 | False | 0 | c2pf7o6 | t3_l1yl5 | null | t1_c2pf7o6 | t1_c2pbqqt | null | 1427696035 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | rockum | null | C# version 1 was Java and then Microsoft greatly enhanced the language. There are some warts in C# but it is a much richer language than Java. | null | 0 | 1317931612 | False | 0 | c2pf7uo | t3_l38op | null | t1_c2pf7uo | t1_c2pf41p | null | 1427696037 | 30 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1317931612 | False | 0 | c2pf7v2 | t3_l2vfc | null | t1_c2pf7v2 | t1_c2pf493 | null | 1427696037 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | imphasing | null | Cool story bro | null | 0 | 1317931630 | False | 0 | c2pf7w5 | t3_l32qk | null | t1_c2pf7w5 | t1_c2pdzjt | null | 1427696038 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | shaggorama | null | cogito ergo sum, so no. </pedant^4 > | null | 0 | 1317931680 | False | 0 | c2pf88a | t3_l32qk | null | t1_c2pf88a | t1_c2pf6j8 | null | 1427696115 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | KyteM | null | What kind of baggage? If you mean a huge runtime library, well, Python, Ruby & Javascript have'em too, plus an extra inherent cost for being dynamic, interpreted languages. | null | 0 | 1317931700 | False | 0 | c2pf8c2 | t3_l38op | null | t1_c2pf8c2 | t1_c2pepa1 | null | 1427696116 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | AlSweigart | null | Very much yes. The great thing about Python is it's simplicity, which makes it perfect as a Perl-replacement and also really easy to learn. (You can get up to speed in a matter of a couple weeks, as opposed to a couple months.) | null | 0 | 1317931735 | False | 0 | c2pf8ir | t3_l1yl5 | null | t1_c2pf8ir | t1_c2pbv5h | null | 1427696119 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | AlSweigart | null | I think Amazon should have better delivery time, if you don't mind paying the full price. http://www.amazon.com/Invent-Your-Computer-Games-Python/dp/0982106017/
You can also download it as a PDF for free from the site. | null | 0 | 1317931781 | False | 0 | c2pf8s6 | t3_l1yl5 | null | t1_c2pf8s6 | t1_c2paxfk | null | 1427696123 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | djnattyp | null | But they didn't "know for a fact" using Java would "land them in trouble". In fact, Sun didn't seem to have much of a problem with them until Larry "the Litigator" Ellison bought them.
And since they're being sued for patent infringement (on patents that could pretty broadly apply to most VMs) they could have used an... | null | 0 | 1317931790 | False | 0 | c2pf8tw | t3_l38op | null | t1_c2pf8tw | t1_c2peys8 | null | 1427696124 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | AlSweigart | null | I think Amazon should have better delivery time, if you don't mind paying the full price. http://www.amazon.com/Invent-Your-Computer-Games-Python/dp/0982106017/
You can also download it as a PDF for free from the site. | null | 0 | 1317931801 | False | 0 | c2pf8vy | t3_l1yl5 | null | t1_c2pf8vy | t1_c2pb4n5 | null | 1427696125 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | marm0lade | null | >Why do you idiots do this?
Why do you idiots do this? You are literally feeding the trolls by acknowledging the comment and upvoting the discussion. This is why some fucking douche bag left that comment. Because they knew another douche bag would give them some attention. You are part of the problem. | null | 0 | 1317931811 | False | 0 | c2pf8y8 | t3_l32qk | null | t1_c2pf8y8 | t1_c2pdxyu | null | 1427696125 | 9 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1317931825 | False | 0 | c2pf917 | t3_l32qk | null | t1_c2pf917 | t1_c2pdfu8 | null | 1427696129 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | AlSweigart | null | It's published through CreateSpace, a print-on-demand company owned by Amazon. The book is $25, but they subtract about $7 for production costs and then some more for their share. I get $8.90 for each Amazon sale and $13.90 for each eStore sale through CreateSpace, so the max discount I can make is $13.90. (Otherwise, ... | null | 0 | 1317931887 | False | 0 | c2pf9ek | t3_l1yl5 | null | t1_c2pf9ek | t1_c2pc4o9 | null | 1427696131 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | AlSweigart | null | Thanks skpup! | null | 0 | 1317931897 | False | 0 | c2pf9gm | t3_l1yl5 | null | t1_c2pf9gm | t1_c2pchgx | null | 1427696132 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | TinynDP | null | Well, given Google's requirements (which was something that would translate well to their .dex JIT) , it means their choices were limited to C#, Java, or an entirely new language. | null | 0 | 1317931949 | False | 0 | c2pf9qh | t3_l38op | null | t1_c2pf9qh | t1_c2pf7kd | null | 1427696135 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Anpheus | null | I don't see why it would be though, it doesn't run on a VM and therefore would have to be recompiled for optimal performance on each device. So is the Android Market going to be delivering device-specific binaries or will phones have to compile the software before use? Or will Go gain a VM for cross-device compatibilit... | null | 0 | 1317931968 | False | 0 | c2pf9v1 | t3_l38op | null | t1_c2pf9v1 | t1_c2peybq | null | 1427696137 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | AlSweigart | null | Thanks! The book is written for complete beginners, but skimming through the source code for the games should bring you up to speed if you already know programming. I also have the rough draft for my next book that covers Pygame (a 2d game library for Python) here: http://inventwithpython.com/blog/2011/09/07/rough-draf... | null | 0 | 1317931983 | False | 0 | c2pf9xu | t3_l1yl5 | null | t1_c2pf9xu | t1_c2pd1ow | null | 1427696138 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | Yeah but supported as in c/c++ basic API's only or supported as in MonoAndroid bridge to Dalvik/full API ? | null | 0 | 1317931987 | False | 0 | c2pf9ym | t3_l38op | null | t1_c2pf9ym | t1_c2peybq | null | 1427696138 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | AlSweigart | null | Thanks skawtiep! | null | 0 | 1317931996 | False | 0 | c2pfa0c | t3_l1yl5 | null | t1_c2pfa0c | t1_c2pekb5 | null | 1427696141 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | bdunderscore | null | Only if they make an interpreted/JIT'd version. Android is supposed to be portable to non-ARM CPUs. | null | 0 | 1317931998 | False | 0 | c2pfa0u | t3_l38op | null | t1_c2pfa0u | t1_c2pen0z | null | 1427696141 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | chironshands | null | If every textbook explained things so clearly, I'd be willing to put up with the tone. "Alright motherfuckers, I'm going to explain this to you like you're five years old!" This would be a more interesting line of books than the "for Dummies" series. Clear. Concise. Complete. Curmudgeonly. | null | 0 | 1317932043 | False | 0 | c2pfaar | t3_l32qk | null | t1_c2pfaar | t1_c2pdmgv | null | 1427696151 | 26 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1317932097 | False | 0 | c2pfalw | t3_l38op | null | t1_c2pfalw | t1_c2pf6mn | null | 1427696150 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | AlSweigart | null | Yes. It works out for me because Reddit is the perfect place to find people who want to code and appreciate the Creative Commons license the book has, but if I wrote a novel I'd have to do all the publicity myself. And I think most bookstores are wary of carrying self-published titles. | null | 0 | 1317932107 | False | 0 | c2pfanq | t3_l1yl5 | null | t1_c2pfanq | t1_c2pao5s | null | 1427696159 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | afrofuturist | null | You're only feeding the trolls, dude. | null | 0 | 1317932205 | False | 0 | c2pfb7v | t3_l32qk | null | t1_c2pfb7v | t1_c2pdxyu | null | 1427696161 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1317932216 | False | 0 | c2pfbag | t3_l2vfc | null | t1_c2pfbag | t1_c2pf3tc | null | 1427696162 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | coc0puff | null | Good to see progress has been going on this bad boy. | null | 0 | 1317932289 | False | 0 | c2pfbq5 | t3_l2vfc | null | t1_c2pfbq5 | t3_l2vfc | null | 1427696166 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | vagif | null | I confirm. Some people do not recognize sarcasm without explicit tags.
| null | 0 | 1317932339 | False | 0 | c2pfc0k | t3_l38op | null | t1_c2pfc0k | t1_c2pesb6 | null | 1427696169 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | GhostedAccount | null | It is not valid to claim people cannot scrape info. Scraping is the exact same as using a json API. Instead you are trying to read non standardized html. Both are equally public and free to parse data from. | null | 0 | 1317932426 | False | 0 | c2pfcis | t3_l2p3r | null | t1_c2pfcis | t1_c2pa528 | null | 1427696173 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | gnuvince | null | munificient wrote a post on this subject last year: http://journal.stuffwithstuff.com/2010/10/21/the-language-i-wish-go-was/ | null | 0 | 1317932449 | True | 0 | c2pfcn4 | t3_l2z8p | null | t1_c2pfcn4 | t1_c2peuqy | null | 1427696173 | 12 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | adolfojp | null | I like to think of C# as Java with the power of hindsight and without the overhead of a committee. | null | 0 | 1317932463 | False | 0 | c2pfcq1 | t3_l38op | null | t1_c2pfcq1 | t1_c2pf5lj | null | 1427696174 | 74 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | f2u | null | Groklaw has a copy of the full email (it was posted some time ago, that's probably the reason why there isn't a link to original material in that blog post):
[http://www.groklaw.net/pdf3/OraGoogle-398(Ex6).pdf](http://www.groklaw.net/pdf3/OraGoogle-398(Ex6\).pdf)
Based on the context, I wouldn't say that C# was actu... | null | 0 | 1317932496 | True | 0 | c2pfcwn | t3_l38op | null | t1_c2pfcwn | t1_c2pf4qn | null | 1427696177 | 10 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1317932534 | False | 0 | c2pfd4b | t3_l38op | null | t1_c2pfd4b | t1_c2pf9v1 | null | 1427696179 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1317932546 | False | 0 | c2pfd6p | t3_l38op | null | t1_c2pfd6p | t3_l38op | null | 1427696180 | -5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | bdunderscore | null | > A properly antialiased sawtooth wave with gibbs reduction can be created by summing component sinusoids for each harmonic while applying a lowpass filter.
Now, how do you do that on one line? | null | 0 | 1317932572 | False | 0 | c2pfdbl | t3_kyj77 | null | t1_c2pfdbl | t1_c2ofpuj | null | 1427696183 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | frezik | null | Aside from this probably being pretty old, I find that Wiki mathematical pages tend to contain a lot of formalism that's hard to follow if you're not already familiar with the material. It's not a very good way to start learning the concept, or even refreshing a high school level concept. | null | 0 | 1317932604 | False | 0 | c2pfdi7 | t3_l32qk | null | t1_c2pfdi7 | t1_c2pd85z | null | 1427696184 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | hiffy | null | >But that's easy to say now
We ARE in 2011 ;).
>are absolutely dwarfed by the complexity of any number of more advanced C.S. concepts that most students are required to learn.
TO TAKE THE DEVIL'S ADVOCATE, if they are dwarfed in complexity, then who cares? They'll pick it up cos they're used to navigating B tr... | null | 0 | 1317932619 | False | 0 | c2pfdl7 | t3_l2vfc | null | t1_c2pfdl7 | t1_c2pf7v2 | null | 1427696185 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Isvara | null | For a start, Google didn't choose it, because it was already used in Android when they bought it. And back then (2003 according to Wikipedia) I doubt it would have been seen as a dangerous choice. Java was still Sun then, not Oracle. | null | 0 | 1317932700 | False | 0 | c2pfe27 | t3_l38op | null | t1_c2pfe27 | t1_c2peys8 | null | 1427696193 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | sw17ch | null | good point. i've updated the example. | null | 0 | 1317932736 | False | 0 | c2pfe96 | t3_l2vfc | null | t1_c2pfe96 | t1_c2pf6mu | null | 1427696195 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | GhostedAccount | null | You cannot legally block scrapers. People are allowed to do what they want with the html formatted info you send them. There is no difference between an html formatted document and a json formatted document.
You have no control over how the end user parses and displays the document you send them.
| null | 0 | 1317932832 | True | 0 | c2pfet8 | t3_l2p3r | null | t1_c2pfet8 | t1_c2pe2uk | null | 1427696201 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | gamachan | null | I am overdosing on Adderall right now buddy!
Give me a cipher to decrypt! | null | 0 | 1317932833 | False | 0 | c2pfetj | t3_l32qk | null | t1_c2pfetj | t1_c2pdocs | null | 1427696201 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | > But that doesn't mean C itself has undefined behavior, only that one particular implementation of a C compiler has a flaw in it.
C specifically has undefined behavior, designed into the language to allow the compiler to optimize the assembly/machine code by making assumptions based on an implicit agreement with t... | null | 0 | 1317932881 | False | 0 | c2pff3m | t3_l2vfc | null | t1_c2pff3m | t1_c2pf3wt | null | 1427696206 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | newsedition | null | You're expecting us to take that "cogito" part on faith, though... | null | 0 | 1317932941 | False | 0 | c2pfffj | t3_l32qk | null | t1_c2pfffj | t1_c2pf88a | null | 1427696212 | 12 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | adolfojp | null | [What about something like this?](http://developer.android.com/sdk/ndk/index.html) | null | 0 | 1317932948 | False | 0 | c2pffgw | t3_l38op | null | t1_c2pffgw | t1_c2pfa0u | null | 1427696221 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | I don't know what you argue about... we actually have pretty much the same opinion:
>> Java uses some UTF-16 derivative which is annoying
> It is not 'annoying', it is totally braindead, inefficient and broken.
Yeah, call it what you want. If I would design a new language today, I would consider no other un... | null | 0 | 1317933069 | False | 0 | c2pfg6t | t3_l2z8p | null | t1_c2pfg6t | t1_c2pec6w | null | 1427696222 | 8 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | bdunderscore | null | Yes, that works, but now you need to recompile it once for every android CPU in use - and if android gets ported to a new platform, you'll need to rebuild before the app can be installed on that platform. It's something you only want to use when performance is super-critical. | null | 0 | 1317933082 | False | 0 | c2pfg9t | t3_l38op | null | t1_c2pfg9t | t1_c2pffgw | null | 1427696222 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | xhaereticusx | null | This summer someone found a comment in an old piece of code that said "if this is broken call so and so". Turns out the guy has been dead for 4 years. | null | 0 | 1317933093 | False | 0 | c2pfgbv | t3_l32qk | null | t1_c2pfgbv | t1_c2pdq6y | null | 1427696222 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | sidcool1234 | null | Brilliant! | null | 0 | 1317933099 | False | 0 | c2pfgd0 | t3_l3dch | null | t1_c2pfgd0 | t3_l3dch | null | 1427696222 | -1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | frezik | null | English prose is generally easier to read with proportional fonts. Programming languages don't follow the same rules, though. There's no good reason we should give up vertical alignment.
Methinks he hadn't thought this one through. | null | 0 | 1317933145 | False | 0 | c2pfglx | t3_l32qk | null | t1_c2pfglx | t1_c2pesh2 | null | 1427696226 | 17 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | ukonat | null | Is that CLIPS?
Because it looks COOL! | null | 0 | 1317933156 | False | 0 | c2pfgo4 | t3_l32qk | null | t1_c2pfgo4 | t3_l32qk | null | 1427696226 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | isarl | null | False. "Cogito ergo sum" merely guarantees that you exist, not that you are not a simulation. </pedant^4 > | null | 0 | 1317933177 | False | 0 | c2pfgsc | t3_l32qk | null | t1_c2pfgsc | t1_c2pf88a | null | 1427696228 | 10 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Anpheus | null | Go compiles quickly compared to C++, but less favorably compared to most other languages. I'll grant you that it can be compiled quickly but I think there are substantial obstacles preventing widespread adoption of a native language like Go in an ecosystem as diverse as Android's. | null | 0 | 1317933247 | False | 0 | c2pfh6d | t3_l38op | null | t1_c2pfh6d | t1_c2pfd4b | null | 1427696233 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | isarl | null | They should get a better monospaced font IMO. | null | 0 | 1317933288 | False | 0 | c2pfhfg | t3_l32qk | null | t1_c2pfhfg | t1_c2pesh2 | null | 1427696235 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1317933302 | False | 0 | c2pfhig | t3_l32qk | null | t1_c2pfhig | t1_c2pfffj | null | 1427696236 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | alien_bob | null | Well put.
It isn't about creating the structures, it's about defining the rules around those structures. | null | 0 | 1317933401 | False | 0 | c2pfi2m | t3_l294s | null | t1_c2pfi2m | t1_c2pett2 | null | 1427696244 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | mpeters | null | Would be interesting to see the details of how they're managing to auto-scale that. Is it just lots of little MySQL installs in VMs that they can move around as needed or do they have ways to run a single MySQL instance across multiple machines? | null | 0 | 1317933431 | False | 0 | c2pfi8o | t3_l3dch | null | t1_c2pfi8o | t3_l3dch | null | 1427696247 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | djnattyp | null | Why C#? Because it's basically Microsoft's copy of Java.
(Only partially kidding here... it *is* way more similar to Java than C++ or Python.) | null | 0 | 1317933440 | False | 0 | c2pfiac | t3_l38op | null | t1_c2pfiac | t1_c2pfcwn | null | 1427696247 | 16 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1317933508 | 1369080323 | 0 | c2pfio6 | t3_l2vfc | null | t1_c2pfio6 | t1_c2pdvcl | null | 1427696252 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | mandlar | null | I got the same thing | null | 0 | 1317933535 | False | 0 | c2pfity | t3_l32qk | null | t1_c2pfity | t1_c2peas7 | null | 1427696254 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | cryonine | null | The effort is appreciated, but I'm glad I don't have co-workers like this... there is such a thing as over-commenting. | null | 0 | 1317933646 | False | 0 | c2pfjib | t3_l32qk | null | t1_c2pfjib | t3_l32qk | null | 1427696263 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | masklinn | null | > Once the iPhone hit though, people started to go out of their way to learn it.
Which is the whole issue: iPhone was released, got pretty popular (and started getting *very* popular with iPhone 3G), and developers were clamoring for an access to a native SDK. Furthermore, Apple had all the reasons in the world to... | null | 0 | 1317933697 | False | 0 | c2pfjr6 | t3_l38op | null | t1_c2pfjr6 | t1_c2pevfk | null | 1427696266 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | absinthe718 | null | The amber glow of a tty is the most effective hair growth technology known to man. | null | 0 | 1317933706 | False | 0 | c2pfjt9 | t3_l2vfc | null | t1_c2pfjt9 | t1_c2pes2m | null | 1427696270 | 20 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | BlatantFootFetishist | null | Even the best programmers in the world keep introducing buffer overflows in their programs. It's because it's hard to get it right. It's intellectually demanding.
It seems to me that you are proposing an arbitrary definition of "hard" so that you can say "C is not hard". You could say the same about anything: "Roc... | null | 0 | 1317933713 | False | 0 | c2pfjus | t3_l2vfc | null | t1_c2pfjus | t1_c2pfbag | null | 1427696268 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | uriel | null | > The encoding is only a very minor aspect
The encoding is all that matters to 99% of the people (both users and developers), and without proper encoding support, the rest is completely pointless anyway.
That and other than the horrible monster that is ICU, there are pretty much no implementations of the rest of u... | null | 0 | 1317933770 | False | 0 | c2pfk5c | t3_l2z8p | null | t1_c2pfk5c | t1_c2pfg6t | null | 1427696272 | -5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | PreservedKillick | null | Shaw is an interesting case study for music. He's been publicly documenting various music projects and learning. He applies the same principles (I gather) of learning to program. While there are a lot of similarities between the two, the fact that he's an atrocious musician proves that just brain-learning can't make... | null | 0 | 1317933773 | False | 0 | c2pfk5u | t3_l2vfc | null | t1_c2pfk5u | t1_c2pc8qh | null | 1427696273 | -4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1317933784 | 1369080306 | 0 | c2pfk7v | t3_l2vfc | null | t1_c2pfk7v | t1_c2pf45p | null | 1427696273 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | OOOHHH C'MOOON
Florian Müller.
I can't stand this Microsoft FUD troll anymore. | null | 0 | 1317933805 | False | 0 | c2pfkcb | t3_l38op | null | t1_c2pfkcb | t3_l38op | null | 1427696284 | 18 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | DrGirlfriend | null | I can block anyone I want to. There is no law mandating that I provide access to my content to anyone. | null | 0 | 1317933929 | False | 0 | c2pfl1d | t3_l2p3r | null | t1_c2pfl1d | t1_c2pfet8 | null | 1427696286 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | Weird ... I thought the last one was based on actual facts. | null | 0 | 1317933934 | False | 0 | c2pfl2j | t3_l38op | null | t1_c2pfl2j | t1_c2pf6mn | null | 1427696286 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | tarballs_are_good | null | I was the original person to write this comment.
This comment is in production Lisp code. That is, it was for my job. Some say I should not have written a wall of text and provided a webpage. My coworkers are not very mathematically experienced, and a webpage would not highlight the points I want. Moreover, the connec... | null | 0 | 1317933969 | True | 0 | c2pfl9v | t3_l32qk | null | t1_c2pfl9v | t3_l32qk | null | 1427696288 | 350 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | jrh3k5 | null | I think you meant:
"I confirm. $ome people do not recognize $arca$m without explicit tag$."
(if you're British, then it's "recogni$e") | null | 0 | 1317933993 | False | 0 | c2pfley | t3_l38op | null | t1_c2pfley | t1_c2pfc0k | null | 1427696289 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | tarballs_are_good | null | This was written in 2011. | null | 0 | 1317934001 | False | 0 | c2pflgz | t3_l32qk | null | t1_c2pflgz | t1_c2pe40i | null | 1427696291 | 18 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | tarballs_are_good | null | I was hardly frustrated. What's frustrating is reading their spaghetti code with no comments whatsoever. | null | 0 | 1317934129 | False | 0 | c2pfm72 | t3_l32qk | null | t1_c2pfm72 | t1_c2pdmgv | null | 1427696297 | 10 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | vim + ctags, where's the hassle? | null | 0 | 1317934129 | False | 0 | c2pfm75 | t3_l2vfc | null | t1_c2pfm75 | t1_c2pdagq | null | 1427696297 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | UrbenLegend | null | Valgrind is a great tool, but it does slow down the program. One of the objectives of the article was to maintain performance, which is especially important for games. Sometimes running games within Valgrind to discover leaks is impossible to do. | null | 0 | 1317934160 | False | 0 | c2pfmdu | t3_l38w9 | null | t1_c2pfmdu | t1_c2peo32 | null | 1427696299 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | sisyphus | null | K&R did include a section on interfacing with unix, but whatever, this is like the kind of response you get if you go to comp.lang.c and ask about the stack--you will get the stodgy old fuckers there telling you that there is nothing about a stack in the C standard and therefore it's off-topic, etc. even though an ... | null | 0 | 1317934177 | False | 0 | c2pfmhr | t3_l2vfc | null | t1_c2pfmhr | t1_c2pevpk | null | 1427696302 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | Who the hell takes Florial Mueller seriously. The guy is a Microsoft shill. | null | 0 | 1317934200 | False | 0 | c2pfmmj | t3_l38op | null | t1_c2pfmmj | t1_c2pf4qn | null | 1427696304 | 27 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | tarballs_are_good | null | There is about a thousand lines of code after that. ;) | null | 0 | 1317934206 | False | 0 | c2pfmns | t3_l32qk | null | t1_c2pfmns | t1_c2pe8es | null | 1427696304 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | tarballs_are_good | null | Actually I was commended by management for explaining my god damn code which can be read by others. | null | 0 | 1317934266 | False | 0 | c2pfn02 | t3_l32qk | null | t1_c2pfn02 | t1_c2pevpw | null | 1427696307 | 14 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | GhostedAccount | null | That is fine, nothing you can do about it.
Would you rather the site just gives users a client side tool, so every user is constantly scraping, instead of the site pooling the scraping so it only has to be done once for many users? | null | 0 | 1317934345 | False | 0 | c2pfnih | t3_l2p3r | null | t1_c2pfnih | t1_c2pex86 | null | 1427696316 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | Microsoft has filed patent lawsuits against more phone manufacturers including HTC, Samsung, Acer and Asus and currently it is suspected that they make more money off of android via patent royalties than they do from WP7.
Can you imagine what MS would have done if they chose C#. MS probably would have sued Google dire... | null | 0 | 1317934374 | False | 0 | c2pfnpf | t3_l38op | null | t1_c2pfnpf | t1_c2pebc2 | null | 1427696318 | -4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | Yea that seems like a logical outcome.
| null | 0 | 1317934422 | False | 0 | c2pfnz0 | t3_l38op | null | t1_c2pfnz0 | t1_c2pen0z | null | 1427696323 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | GhostedAccount | null | Correct. But if you want any user to be able to view your webpage, you obviously can't stop that same user from parsing and displaying your webpage any way they want.
All you can do is try to obfuscate your display in such a way that a browser can still display it but a screen scraper cannot tell what is what.
Remem... | null | 0 | 1317934458 | False | 0 | c2pfo6t | t3_l2p3r | null | t1_c2pfo6t | t1_c2pfl1d | null | 1427696326 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | grauenwolf | null | The vast majority of developers using any language are doing little more than cookbook programming.
As for Excel, I'm talking about formulas in cells. | null | 0 | 1317934487 | False | 0 | c2pfoc2 | t3_l1tjd | null | t1_c2pfoc2 | t1_c2pe7cq | null | 1427696328 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | I can't believe anyone on reddit gives this guy any respect. | null | 0 | 1317934491 | False | 0 | c2pfod6 | t3_l38op | null | t1_c2pfod6 | t1_c2pfkcb | null | 1427696328 | 14 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | masklinn | null | http://journal.stuffwithstuff.com/2010/10/21/the-language-i-wish-go-was/ is still a good start. | null | 0 | 1317934495 | False | 0 | c2pfody | t3_l2z8p | null | t1_c2pfody | t1_c2pewpu | null | 1427696328 | 15 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | Awesome! I loved this guys "LPTHW" book. Just a good way to learn to code. x | null | 0 | 1317934501 | False | 0 | c2pfof5 | t3_l2vfc | null | t1_c2pfof5 | t3_l2vfc | null | 1427696332 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | aleenaelyn | null | More information from
* Reddit: http://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/l379r/civil_suit_regarding_tz_file_ftp_shutdown_mailing/
* Hacker News: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3080437
* Slashdot: http://yro.slashdot.org/story/11/10/06/1743226/civil-suit-filed-involving-the-time-zone-database | null | 0 | 1317934519 | True | 0 | c2pfoim | t3_l3ap5 | null | t1_c2pfoim | t3_l3ap5 | null | 1427696329 | 13 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Anderkent | null | How rude! Even if I am a simulation I am as alive as one can be. | null | 0 | 1317934572 | False | 0 | c2pfotb | t3_l32qk | null | t1_c2pfotb | t1_c2pf6j8 | null | 1427696333 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | Google was (is?) pretty active in drizzledb for a while. It's probably based on that. | null | 0 | 1317934624 | False | 0 | c2pfp4c | t3_l3dch | null | t1_c2pfp4c | t1_c2pfi8o | null | 1427696337 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | firemarshalbill | null | The reply apologizing like the father of reddit is almost as bad. | null | 0 | 1317934628 | False | 0 | c2pfp52 | t3_l32qk | null | t1_c2pfp52 | t1_c2pdxyu | null | 1427696337 | 10 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | Please, leave your small “Unicode” == “UTF-8” world, it is really worth it.
The encoding doesn't help you a single bit
- if you want to know the length of a text,
- if you want to compare texts
- if you want to sort texts
- if you want to change the text casing
These tasks are what matters to 95% of the users a... | null | 0 | 1317934652 | True | 0 | c2pfpa1 | t3_l2z8p | null | t1_c2pfpa1 | t1_c2pfk5c | null | 1427696339 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
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