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True | jsantos17 | null | Are we actually reading Floria Mueller blog? Seriously? This man is paid by either Microsoft or Apple to spread FUD about Android. | null | 0 | 1317958813 | False | 0 | c2piuue | t3_l38op | null | t1_c2piuue | t3_l38op | null | 1427697825 | 9 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | gaze | null | R^2 is isomorphic to C... but complex numbers are baked into lisp so he decided to go with them. | null | 0 | 1317958869 | False | 0 | c2piv3u | t3_l32qk | null | t1_c2piv3u | t1_c2piscz | null | 1427697828 | 9 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1317958927 | False | 0 | c2pivc8 | t3_l32qk | null | t1_c2pivc8 | t1_c2ph9qy | null | 1427697832 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | irascible | null | Yep. I forgot about quaternions. Getting rid of gimbal lock is indeed, a pretty killer feature.
| null | 0 | 1317959126 | False | 0 | c2piw73 | t3_l32qk | null | t1_c2piw73 | t1_c2piuqe | null | 1427697845 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | Ad hominem™: for when you absolutely, positively cannot win the argument. Thanks for watching. | null | 0 | 1317959141 | False | 0 | c2piw9u | t3_l2vfc | null | t1_c2piw9u | t1_c2pitct | null | 1427697844 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | tarballs_are_good | null | I am that author. ;) | null | 0 | 1317959199 | False | 0 | c2piwk6 | t3_l32qk | null | t1_c2piwk6 | t1_c2piv3u | null | 1427697848 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | jdelphiki | null | lol u craaaazy lol <It's Sher@mie:)> | null | 0 | 1317959397 | False | 0 | c2pixex | t3_l32qk | null | t1_c2pixex | t1_c2pf29z | null | 1427697863 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1317959402 | True | 0 | c2pixfv | t3_l2vfc | null | t1_c2pixfv | t1_c2piw9u | null | 1427697863 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | bobindashadows | null | While I agree with you in the general point, there may be a nontrivial amount of work involved in the interpretation of time zone laws with respect to geography. If the relevant laws are unambiguous, then we can feel safe because indeed these are facts defined by legislation which can't be copyrighted.
If those laws a... | null | 0 | 1317959424 | False | 0 | c2pixjh | t3_l3ap5 | null | t1_c2pixjh | t1_c2pfucy | null | 1427697864 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | Hmm... Looking at the feature list, D seems pretty promising. I just have concerns about its longevity. How redundant is the support for D? Is it well-documented? If this Digital Mars group disappears, will my time spent learning D have been for nothing? Does it compile to native code, or is it VM-based? | null | 0 | 1317959444 | False | 0 | c2pixn6 | t3_l38op | null | t1_c2pixn6 | t1_c2pim9r | null | 1427697864 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | AgentME | null | They print their source code to read it? | null | 0 | 1317959641 | False | 0 | c2piyky | t3_l32qk | null | t1_c2piyky | t1_c2pesh2 | null | 1427697873 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | ethraax | null | That's my point. Both of them hurt the process of learning the semantics, which I think is ultimately much more important than the syntax. Syntax is trivial. | null | 0 | 1317959708 | False | 0 | c2piyvp | t3_l2vfc | null | t1_c2piyvp | t1_c2pih9u | null | 1427697877 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | regeya | null | That...wasn't what I was expecting. :-D | null | 0 | 1317959796 | False | 0 | c2pizah | t3_l2a1k | null | t1_c2pizah | t3_l2a1k | null | 1427697882 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | >You most certainly do have a choice. You could choose not to use computers at all if you were truly committed to that philosophy. What I'm arguing is works should be judged on their own merits
No, don't condescendingly act like that faulty reductio ad absurdum represents a realistic choice. Also, don't confuse pub... | null | 0 | 1317959804 | True | 0 | c2pizbi | t3_l2vfc | null | t1_c2pizbi | t1_c2pedmn | null | 1427697883 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | gaze | null | Well okay, R^2 is in bijection with C, since they both have 2 real numbers. Complex numbers are equipped with division and a multiplication operation, whereas vectors are really just equipped with multiplication by a scalar. So, complex numbers have some extra nifty features. There's actually a better correspondence be... | null | 0 | 1317959823 | False | 0 | c2pizel | t3_l32qk | null | t1_c2pizel | t1_c2piwk6 | null | 1427697885 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | >For **learning purposes** there is virtually no difference to using MinGW instead of native GCC.
as for
>fork, spawn and exec
None of these are mentioned in the book, at least not as far as I can tell. Have fun with your anger management issues. | null | 0 | 1317959835 | False | 0 | c2pizgw | t3_l2vfc | null | t1_c2pizgw | t1_c2pixfv | null | 1427697885 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | wolever | null | The [announcement on the mailing list](http://permalink.gmane.org/gmane.comp.time.tz/4133):
> A civil suit was filed on September 30 in federal court in Boston; I'm a defendant; the case involves the time
zone database.
>
> The ftp server at elsie.nci.nih.gov has been shut down.
>
>The mailing list will... | null | 0 | 1317960013 | False | 0 | c2pj0ai | t3_l3ct9 | null | t1_c2pj0ai | t3_l3ct9 | null | 1427697896 | 46 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | regeya | null | You didn't dig very deep, did you? | null | 0 | 1317960024 | False | 0 | c2pj0cj | t3_l2a1k | null | t1_c2pj0cj | t1_c2pb4nv | null | 1427697897 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | aaronla | null | For those not familiar, "isomorphic" is a math-y way of saying "a rose by any other name...", which in turn is a literary way of saying "they are different descriptions of the same thing", or to answer tarball, "no". | null | 0 | 1317960075 | False | 0 | c2pj0l2 | t3_l32qk | null | t1_c2pj0l2 | t1_c2piv3u | null | 1427697900 | 8 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | aaronla | null | Upvote. You're totally wrong of course; reddit's userbase is _not_ a good model of the internet at large, but I would _like_ to believe it is. | null | 0 | 1317960234 | False | 0 | c2pj1af | t3_l32qk | null | t1_c2pj1af | t1_c2pf29z | null | 1427697910 | -2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | napalm_beach | null | Suits like this aren't about right and wrong, they're a game of chicken. Bringing this case to trial would cost both sides a couple hundred grand, easy. Defending yourself wold cost $50k, minimum, if the plaintiff is a dick. So in a situation like this the defendant usually settles to make the thing go away.
So yea... | null | 0 | 1317960367 | False | 0 | c2pj1w1 | t3_l3ct9 | null | t1_c2pj1w1 | t1_c2picer | null | 1427697917 | 14 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | spoolio | null | What exactly do you suggest someone could do with C without understanding development and debugging tools? It sure as hell isn't *developing software*.
Have fun writing K&R-style 20-line pointer mindbenders, but don't criticize someone who's in the process of teaching people how to actually accomplish things using... | null | 0 | 1317960915 | False | 0 | c2pj48u | t3_l2vfc | null | t1_c2pj48u | t1_c2pdtlk | null | 1427697948 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | aazav | null | Go ahead. | null | 0 | 1317960948 | False | 0 | c2pj4dq | t3_kyf47 | null | t1_c2pj4dq | t1_c2ofck2 | null | 1427697949 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | marqmike2 | null | He's essentially using the matrix-like aspects of complex numbers to perform operations on vectors. Sure, you can represent these things as a series of sine and cosine equations and get the same result, but being able to simply multiply a vector with a specially formed matrix can be much easier to do once you learn it... | null | 0 | 1317961067 | False | 0 | c2pj4wa | t3_l32qk | null | t1_c2pj4wa | t1_c2pikku | null | 1427697956 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | AlbertEinstim | null | That's only slightly less confusing than who exactly google is delivering the low-blow too ... or how it's going to hurt them. | null | 0 | 1317961073 | False | 0 | c2pj4xh | t3_l3dch | null | t1_c2pj4xh | t1_c2ph79c | null | 1427697956 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Deinumite | null | I'd agree mostly, but you have to include the java and C# libraries if you want to compare them... because they are both amazing.
There is a reason why they are probably 2/3 of my top languages. The appeal of both is the batteries that are included.
You are right though, Java was stagnating, C# is giving it a run for... | null | 0 | 1317961091 | False | 0 | c2pj50e | t3_l38op | null | t1_c2pj50e | t1_c2phaa9 | null | 1427697958 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | discordant | null | I'm sorry, but that man needs to be taken out into the street and beaten. | null | 0 | 1317961120 | False | 0 | c2pj546 | t3_l3bj4 | null | t1_c2pj546 | t3_l3bj4 | null | 1427697959 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | spoolio | null | Syntax is trivial when you already have a feel for the language, in which case you should not be reading a "Learn X The Hard Way" book except out of idle curiosity. | null | 0 | 1317961123 | False | 0 | c2pj54n | t3_l2vfc | null | t1_c2pj54n | t1_c2piyvp | null | 1427697959 | -1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | s_quark | null | http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/l32qk/if_only_we_all_had_coworkers_like_this_guy/c2pfl9v | null | 0 | 1317961214 | False | 0 | c2pj5i6 | t3_l32qk | null | t1_c2pj5i6 | t1_c2ph10i | null | 1427697964 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | Will you pay their lawyers? | null | 0 | 1317961220 | False | 0 | c2pj5iz | t3_l3ct9 | null | t1_c2pj5iz | t1_c2pi52p | null | 1427697964 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Deinumite | null | Linux basically. I know Mono exists but its kind of an issue for the GNU crowd....
Actually the main issue is the .NET runtime itself. Everyone has a JVM install but when it comes time to actually shipping a .NET executable I've heard its a pretty big pain.
This is just me thinking via text though, I've heard Mono is... | null | 0 | 1317961293 | False | 0 | c2pj5u2 | t3_l38op | null | t1_c2pj5u2 | t1_c2pi6y6 | null | 1427697968 | -4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | ethraax | null | I think syntax is trivial. It's the semantics of what your code is actually doing that can be difficult.
C syntax is even more trivial for anyone who has used any other languages with "C-like" syntax, like C++, C#, Java, etc. | null | 0 | 1317961359 | False | 0 | c2pj643 | t3_l2vfc | null | t1_c2pj643 | t1_c2pj54n | null | 1427697973 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | GhostedAccount | null | A lawyer would tell you to just pull the pre-1991 data for now until it is sorted out. Since the pre-1991 data is already out there, it prevents nothing, but kills their legal claim. | null | 0 | 1317961457 | False | 0 | c2pj6iv | t3_l3ct9 | null | t1_c2pj6iv | t1_c2pigpz | null | 1427697978 | -5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | Also, blisters. | null | 0 | 1317961553 | False | 0 | c2pj6xt | t3_l2vfc | null | t1_c2pj6xt | t1_c2pggw1 | null | 1427697987 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | __j_random_hacker | null | Pretty good description of the fundamentals I think. It's nice to see that you mentioned that purity does come with tradeoffs.
One little nitpick: I think C++0x (the latest version of C++, released this year) can be described as "nearly functional" at the very least, now that it has a flexible syntax for defining clo... | null | 0 | 1317961715 | False | 0 | c2pj7mx | t3_l3ex2 | null | t1_c2pj7mx | t3_l3ex2 | null | 1427697993 | 8 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | rush22 | null | This is what other people's code usually looks like:
int t2; //comment: This is the t function
int t(int t1) {
//t1 = t2 - t1; //this doesn't work so do it in a while loop
t2++;
for (t1 = t(4);t1 < t2; t2++)
if (t1) { break; } //t2 is this one
return true;
... | null | 0 | 1317961736 | True | 0 | c2pj7q5 | t3_l32qk | null | t1_c2pj7q5 | t1_c2pheh5 | null | 1428192528 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | kamatsu | null | This is exactly my thoughts also. | null | 0 | 1317961751 | False | 0 | c2pj7sm | t3_l2z8p | null | t1_c2pj7sm | t1_c2pi7ad | null | 1427697995 | 8 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | kamatsu | null | All of those features are in, for example, Haskell. | null | 0 | 1317961894 | False | 0 | c2pj8e7 | t3_l2z8p | null | t1_c2pj8e7 | t1_c2pdihp | null | 1427698003 | -1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | GhostedAccount | null | I am not contributing shit to any fund they have if they are going to pull the post 1991 part of the database. | null | 0 | 1317961973 | False | 0 | c2pj8r3 | t3_l3ct9 | null | t1_c2pj8r3 | t1_c2pj5iz | null | 1427698008 | -6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | bobindashadows | null | By pre-1991 data do you mean data that was only relevant before 1991? Because I was under the impression that some of the data in question is still relevant. | null | 0 | 1317962027 | False | 0 | c2pj8zj | t3_l3ct9 | null | t1_c2pj8zj | t1_c2pj6iv | null | 1427698010 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | aazav | null | STOP SAYING **REDDIT WAS HERE** IN THE UPDATES!
It makes us look like a bunch of assholes. | null | 0 | 1317962169 | False | 0 | c2pj9l9 | t3_l32qk | null | t1_c2pj9l9 | t3_l32qk | null | 1427698017 | 9 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | I'm a newb. What he got on his site are complicated for me, technically but it's also hard to comprehend the whole blog site too, LOL. As long people are sharing, I think there is no need to discourage them. What programmers usually lack is communication skills and even a horribly-maintained blog would help them/us. Th... | null | 0 | 1317962185 | False | 0 | c2pj9n6 | t3_krkg3 | null | t1_c2pj9n6 | t1_c2mndsw | null | 1427698019 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | aazav | null | The comments are stripped in the build anyway. | null | 0 | 1317962194 | False | 0 | c2pj9oz | t3_l32qk | null | t1_c2pj9oz | t1_c2pheh5 | null | 1427698019 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | aazav | null | No shit. Pisses me off. | null | 0 | 1317962239 | False | 0 | c2pj9v6 | t3_l32qk | null | t1_c2pj9v6 | t1_c2ph5ky | null | 1427698021 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | aazav | null | You did what was needed and what was right. | null | 0 | 1317962279 | False | 0 | c2pja0x | t3_l32qk | null | t1_c2pja0x | t1_c2pfl9v | null | 1427698023 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | GMNightmare | null | I hate when people do that nonsense too.
This isn't a dichotomy.
And what is more, we didn't even see the actual code, so we don't even know the quality once we reach that point. I've seen BS like this, long drawn out history lessons and then get to the code and it's a mess without any real comments. I've seen it. On... | null | 0 | 1317962302 | False | 0 | c2pja4c | t3_l32qk | null | t1_c2pja4c | t1_c2pj7q5 | null | 1427698025 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | GhostedAccount | null | All of the data is relevant. But the comment says only pre 1991 data was sourced from the source that is suing.
But the pre-1991 data is not going to change. So it can be removed and people can just get it from alternate sources. While the post 1991 data can still be hosted and updated for the future. The people us... | null | 0 | 1317962345 | False | 0 | c2pjaav | t3_l3ct9 | null | t1_c2pjaav | t1_c2pj8zj | null | 1427698027 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | optimizing != JIT
There is no such thing as a C++ JIT compiler*, but good C++ compilers are optimized quite well. Old and/or fast languages tend to be compiled also, so I am almost certain that Fortran doesn't have JIT either. JIT stands for "just in time" which means that the code compiles right before it executes.... | null | 0 | 1317962345 | False | 0 | c2pjaax | t3_l38op | null | t1_c2pjaax | t1_c2pgp85 | null | 1427698027 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | elder_george | null | .NET 2.0 had anonymous delegates and proper generics. It was already big deal. | null | 0 | 1317962460 | False | 0 | c2pjasf | t3_l38op | null | t1_c2pjasf | t1_c2pi8ej | null | 1427698033 | 15 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | I don't know anything about phones. Why not compile at install time but on the server side? The phone could pass information about itself to the server. | null | 0 | 1317962536 | False | 0 | c2pjb3u | t3_l38op | null | t1_c2pjb3u | t1_c2phwfl | null | 1427698039 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | cdsmith | null | Err, that's a yes on both. I own an HTC Incredible running CM 7.1, and a Motorola Xoom with Honeycomb 3.2, and use the market with both.
You could read the rest of the discussion. If you want to engage in lazy thinking and blame whatever you see in front of you for compatibility problems without bothering to apply s... | null | 0 | 1317962540 | False | 0 | c2pjb46 | t3_l38op | null | t1_c2pjb46 | t1_c2pini3 | null | 1427698039 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | bambin0 | null | I'm not sure you should care as long as you get your SQL calls completed in a reasonable fashion. Why is it about postgres that is so important to you? | null | 0 | 1317962682 | False | 0 | c2pjbpg | t3_l3dch | null | t1_c2pjbpg | t1_c2phul2 | null | 1427698046 | 9 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | baudehlo | null | The only source this is stored in is the Olsen database, or other data derived from it. That's the problem.
It's easy to say we don't need the data prior to 1991 because it's now 2011, but that's just because you don't understand date/time calculations. They are screwed without this data. | null | 0 | 1317962837 | False | 0 | c2pjcc2 | t3_l3ct9 | null | t1_c2pjcc2 | t1_c2pjaav | null | 1427698054 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | GMNightmare | null | Completely irrelevant. Why does that matter in the slightest? | null | 0 | 1317962902 | False | 0 | c2pjcm8 | t3_l32qk | null | t1_c2pjcm8 | t1_c2pj9oz | null | 1427698059 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | typesett | null | "JavaScript is weird. There’s the obvious weirdness of prototypal inheritance, == vs. ===; but those are just surface issues. One feature that boggles non-JavaScript programmers is space optimizations. JavaScript is unique in this fact. Much of our insane syntax flows from the fact that the code goes over the wire. Spa... | null | 0 | 1317962938 | False | 0 | c2pjcrz | t3_l3tuj | null | t1_c2pjcrz | t3_l3tuj | null | 1427698060 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | steppenwoof | null | C gives you the red pill. C pulls the curtain back to show you the wizard. *C is truth*.
There was a similar post on 4chan - which talked about C as *The Cool Guy* with Jackets who would always get in trouble. Would get gifts for you, mentioning that it "fell our of a truck".
Maybe I should learn C. | null | 0 | 1317962949 | False | 0 | c2pjctp | t3_l2vfc | null | t1_c2pjctp | t3_l2vfc | null | 1427698061 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | rush22 | null | Really?? I think I learned about complex numbers in grade 11 (ON, Canada). I remember the back of the math textbook even had a program for generating fractals in it--I think it was in BASIC. That was smart-kid math though, not regular. In grade 13 (which existed at the time) we had separate calculus, algebra, and finit... | null | 0 | 1317962960 | True | 0 | c2pjcv3 | t3_l32qk | null | t1_c2pjcv3 | t1_c2pdj5i | null | 1427698061 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | __j_random_hacker | null | You used vi? What a wuss.
*Real* programmers `cat > finished_code.c`. | null | 0 | 1317962970 | False | 0 | c2pjcwq | t3_l2vfc | null | t1_c2pjcwq | t1_c2pchnw | null | 1427698062 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | drb226 | null | Maximized my window..still has horizontal scrollbar. ಠ_ಠ | null | 0 | 1317962999 | False | 0 | c2pjd0q | t3_l3mls | null | t1_c2pjd0q | t3_l3mls | null | 1427698063 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | ejrh | null | This is a pretty good example that the power of a language is not just about what it lets you do (e.g. make and pass functions around), but what it *prevents* you from doing. The consequence of not being allowed to do some things is that you (and the static checker, and the optimiser) can assume certain useful things ... | null | 0 | 1317963098 | True | 0 | c2pjdey | t3_l3ex2 | null | t1_c2pjdey | t3_l3ex2 | null | 1427698068 | 11 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | otherwiseguy | null | > I'm also pretty sure you can't declare a pointer to a char[]
char *foo[2];
EDIT: Actually, you can do this. anttirt pointed out that I was declaring an array of pointers instead of a pointer to an array. The array of pointers can be initialized:
#include <stdio.h>
#define ARRAY_LEN(a) (si... | null | 0 | 1317963199 | True | 0 | c2pjdt7 | t3_l2vfc | null | t1_c2pjdt7 | t1_c2piqel | null | 1427698074 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | aazav | null | And Murat Konar from the SoundEdit team wrote to me to correct me for incorrectly giving him credit for the SWA implementation when it was Mats' effort. But he didn't correct anything else.
I just checked in with Chris Thorman who was on the dev team at the time and he said "Oh ya, I forgot about that".
Dave Walker... | null | 0 | 1317963238 | True | 0 | c2pjdz1 | t3_kyf47 | null | t1_c2pjdz1 | t1_c2ojcay | null | 1427698076 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | rush22 | null | I think it's awesome you wrote it all out and also admire your cleverness and enthusiasm, but I would have still taken a more Cartesian approach just for clarity. It obviously works though. | null | 0 | 1317963273 | False | 0 | c2pje4j | t3_l32qk | null | t1_c2pje4j | t1_c2pfl9v | null | 1427698078 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | jtxx000 | null | I like Vala's convention: class names are in UpperCamelCase and function names are lowercase_with_underscores. | null | 0 | 1317963375 | False | 0 | c2pjejv | t3_l38op | null | t1_c2pjejv | t1_c2pgrbd | null | 1427698082 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1317963449 | False | 0 | c2pjeud | t3_l2vfc | null | t1_c2pjeud | t3_l2vfc | null | 1427698087 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | slurpme | null | > Why is it about postgres that is so important to you?
If you even have to ask that question then there is little point in explaining my reasoning... | null | 0 | 1317963450 | False | 0 | c2pjeug | t3_l3dch | null | t1_c2pjeug | t1_c2pjbpg | null | 1427698087 | -25 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | aazav | null | Please check my FINAL reply to this above. (here)
http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/kyf47/a_little_story_that_happened_in_1995_the_reply_is/c2pjdz1 | null | 0 | 1317963458 | False | 0 | c2pjevh | t3_kyf47 | null | t1_c2pjevh | t1_c2oqi5h | null | 1427698087 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | Well, the best example would be Java just adopting C#'s syntax for lambda functions after spending a very long time trying to come up with one. I also wonder if there would have been motivation to even have them added to the language in the first place if not for C# demonstrating how handy they can be for things like L... | null | 0 | 1317963478 | False | 0 | c2pjey0 | t3_l38op | null | t1_c2pjey0 | t1_c2ph5cq | null | 1427698087 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | canyouhearme | null | Correct.
Good lawyer is "that is a complex and difficult case requiring lots of lawyerly work. My day rate is ....".
In other words a lawyer will never tell you to take the cheap way out, they will always drag it out to their own benefit.
It is correct to say that in most places collections of data (such as telephon... | null | 0 | 1317963520 | False | 0 | c2pjf4b | t3_l3ct9 | null | t1_c2pjf4b | t1_c2pis2t | null | 1427698091 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | otherwiseguy | null | >What is a safe way to determine how big an array is?
#define ARRAY_LEN(s) (size_t) (sizeof(s) / sizeof(s[0]))
What I just found out a few months ago is that you can refer to an array member via index[array], i.e. 0[s] == s[0]. Blew my mind. | null | 0 | 1317963546 | False | 0 | c2pjf89 | t3_l2vfc | null | t1_c2pjf89 | t1_c2pdt30 | null | 1427698091 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | > a more Cartesian approach
Explain? | null | 0 | 1317963702 | False | 0 | c2pjfuh | t3_l32qk | null | t1_c2pjfuh | t1_c2pje4j | null | 1427698100 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | jediknight | null | cairo.
All I wanted was to be able to compile one of their samples. | null | 0 | 1317963750 | False | 0 | c2pjg1a | t3_l2vfc | null | t1_c2pjg1a | t1_c2pepii | null | 1427698102 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | robertbieber | null | Really? I learned Haskell first, but I like LISP better for most tasks. It's nice to be able to use state and OO when it works well, and stick to functional programming when it doesn't. | null | 0 | 1317963786 | False | 0 | c2pjg66 | t3_l32qk | null | t1_c2pjg66 | t1_c2pi7c8 | null | 1427698104 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | SoPoOneO | null | From looking at his pictures and Google searching, I just realized they gave me a Herman-Miller chair at work. It is really comfortable. | null | 0 | 1317963805 | False | 0 | c2pjg8w | t3_l1nx0 | null | t1_c2pjg8w | t3_l1nx0 | null | 1427698108 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | I would like to hear a better approach that doesn't require the end users to know what they want/need before they see a prototype. | null | 0 | 1317963817 | False | 0 | c2pjga1 | t3_l2a1k | null | t1_c2pjga1 | t1_c2pgxw6 | null | 1427698107 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1317963896 | False | 0 | c2pjgkn | t3_l3ap5 | null | t1_c2pjgkn | t1_c2pfucy | null | 1427698110 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | YSNP | null | That's really awesome, though. I'd like to have that kind of learning experience. | null | 0 | 1317963918 | False | 0 | c2pjgnr | t3_l2vfc | null | t1_c2pjgnr | t1_c2pdeft | null | 1427698115 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | DownhillReddit | null | Get your pathetic 4chan/script kiddy bullshit out of here. | null | 0 | 1317963952 | False | 0 | c2pjgsi | t3_l3ct9 | null | t1_c2pjgsi | t1_c2phqyk | null | 1427698113 | 11 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | railmaniac | null | you mean `cat > finished_code.o` | null | 0 | 1317964131 | False | 0 | c2pjhi1 | t3_l2vfc | null | t1_c2pjhi1 | t1_c2pjcwq | null | 1427698122 | 16 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | wonglik | null | I do not know about your experience but mine is relatively small. I just work for 5 years in this business in 2 different countries. But what I've seen so far is that fix price contracts rarely (newer?) goes with agile style requirements (doing iterations , retros , sprints planning etc is still ok). Whenever requireme... | null | 0 | 1317964170 | False | 0 | c2pjhn5 | t3_l2a1k | null | t1_c2pjhn5 | t1_c2pgmb9 | null | 1427698124 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | bdunderscore | null | Hm, I suppose this would work. It would, of course, reveal your source code to google, but I suppose this isn't too bad, with the proper market ToS. | null | 0 | 1317964335 | False | 0 | c2pji8z | t3_l38op | null | t1_c2pji8z | t1_c2pjb3u | null | 1427698132 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | adrianmonk | null | Complex numbers have the whole sqrt(-1) thing? If that isn't actually used/relevant, it brings in more complexity than necessary.
EDIT: The reason I ask is that the big long comment explained a bunch of details that I could've figured out by applying 8th-grade algebra but didn't seem to address this part at all, whi... | null | 0 | 1317964367 | True | 0 | c2pjid2 | t3_l32qk | null | t1_c2pjid2 | t1_c2piscz | null | 1427698135 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | daniel2488 | null | You're acting like a pathetic 12 year old, which leads me to question how you considered the guy a "fucking amateur." Calm the fuck down and have a rational discussion instead of calling him a cocksucker.
He's right and you know it. Your examples of fork and exec aren't even part of ANSI C. They're part of POSIX. You... | null | 0 | 1317964394 | False | 0 | c2pjig0 | t3_l2vfc | null | t1_c2pjig0 | t1_c2pixfv | null | 1427698135 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | theony | null | >For obvious reasons, I'll refrain on commenting on the rights and wrongs of the case, although I will note that facts like the phonebook cannot be copyrighted.
It's correct that copyright can't subsist in facts. However, there is such a thing as a *compilation*, where copyright subsists in the arrangement and pres... | null | 0 | 1317964465 | True | 0 | c2pjiq5 | t3_l3ct9 | null | t1_c2pjiq5 | t3_l3ct9 | null | 1427698137 | 41 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | joshuag | null | I worked with a guy like this. He used to create "custom" objects for things like xml parsers and database access, custom objects that were loose wrappers for extant system libraries. These wrappers were incompatible with their base objects in subtle and nefarious ways, oftentimes meant to match with his... unique way ... | null | 0 | 1317964697 | False | 0 | c2pjjke | t3_l3bj4 | null | t1_c2pjjke | t3_l3bj4 | null | 1427698148 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | texai | null | this is an old link =( | null | 0 | 1317964723 | False | 0 | c2pjjnn | t3_l3mls | null | t1_c2pjjnn | t3_l3mls | null | 1427698149 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | __j_random_hacker | null | Since I haven't seen it covered here yet, one of the more confusing aspects of types in C (and C++) is that function parameters declared as array types are actually converted into pointer types:
void foo(double x[42]) {
double y[69];
x++; // Works fine, because x really has type double *
... | null | 0 | 1317964871 | False | 0 | c2pjk60 | t3_l2vfc | null | t1_c2pjk60 | t1_c2pe4gu | null | 1427698157 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | acecool | null | a related question, the Digital Mars C/C++ compiler is open source, has anyone compiled that for use on Linux? | null | 0 | 1317965124 | False | 0 | c2pjl2a | t3_l3tk5 | null | t1_c2pjl2a | t3_l3tk5 | null | 1427698169 | 8 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1317965223 | False | 0 | c2pjlej | t3_l2vk7 | null | t1_c2pjlej | t1_c2pgwcl | null | 1427698181 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | scgtrp | null | > Linux basically. I know Mono exists but its kind of an issue for the GNU crowd....
That doesn't mean it won't run, just that there are a lot of idiots who will refuse to run it. | null | 0 | 1317965425 | False | 0 | c2pjm4e | t3_l38op | null | t1_c2pjm4e | t1_c2pj5u2 | null | 1427698182 | 21 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | __j_random_hacker | null | > someone you can't do
Sharing an office with someone who's out of your league? :) | null | 0 | 1317965447 | False | 0 | c2pjm7o | t3_l3ex2 | null | t1_c2pjm7o | t1_c2pjdey | null | 1427698183 | 12 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | timredditwis | null | Would someone mind giving a quick explanation on the utility of this? I'm a PHP/MySQL programmer who's a fan of the cloud, but I'm not sure what advantage this gives.
Does this mean that I'll be able to use Google as the hosting for my database, basically? And be able to filtre the data with SQL-like syntax? Sort of l... | null | 0 | 1317965599 | False | 0 | c2pjmqf | t3_l3dch | null | t1_c2pjmqf | t3_l3dch | null | 1427698197 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | logimech | null | In business school they call this [Parkinson's Law](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkinson%27s_Law). | null | 0 | 1317965653 | False | 0 | c2pjmxq | t3_l2a1k | null | t1_c2pjmxq | t1_c2p7857 | null | 1427698197 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | repsilat | null | > if they *added* exceptions, they could *remove* panic/defer...
If by "remove" you mean "remove from code in some places" then stop reading, I've misunderstood. If you mean "remove from the language"...
`defer` is worth keeping, I think. Without it you have to do cleanup like you do in C, which is horrible. It's ... | null | 0 | 1317965686 | False | 0 | c2pjn2i | t3_l2z8p | null | t1_c2pjn2i | t1_c2pgboo | null | 1427698199 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | WalterBright | null | It would need to be modified to handle the gcc extensions in order to deal with the linux header files. | null | 0 | 1317965702 | False | 0 | c2pjn47 | t3_l3tk5 | null | t1_c2pjn47 | t1_c2pjl2a | null | 1427698199 | 14 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | logimech | null | Interesting, ironic enough, the original comment was referencing what we call in business school [Parkinson's Law](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parkinson%27s_Law).
Never heard of Parkinson's Law of Triviality before. | null | 0 | 1317965755 | False | 0 | c2pjnay | t3_l2a1k | null | t1_c2pjnay | t1_c2pgvij | null | 1427698202 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1317965773 | True | 0 | c2pjnd6 | t3_l2vfc | null | t1_c2pjnd6 | t1_c2pjig0 | null | 1427698202 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | WalterBright | null | To enable this, copyright to the D front end has been transferred to the Free Software Foundation.
Iain Buclaw is in charge of this effort, anyone who wants to help make this happen please contact him. | null | 0 | 1317965851 | False | 0 | c2pjnn0 | t3_l3tk5 | null | t1_c2pjnn0 | t3_l3tk5 | null | 1427698204 | 72 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | wynyx | null | Haha, I love how condescending the article starts out! :) | null | 0 | 1317965888 | False | 0 | c2pjnqt | t3_l1hnb | null | t1_c2pjnqt | t3_l1hnb | null | 1427698204 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | CaptainTrips | null | That's what sucks about it. If Astrolabe can show that they did any actual work in organizing all of their data, then every file that indicates it got data from their Atlas is tainted. There'd need to be an effort to re-source all of that data and explicitly state where it came from. The sooner the better IMO, as at... | null | 0 | 1317965922 | False | 0 | c2pjnv8 | t3_l3ct9 | null | t1_c2pjnv8 | t1_c2pjiq5 | null | 1427698207 | 11 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
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