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True | multivector | null | What happens when you want to go in the positive or negative y direction? | null | 0 | 1317995200 | False | 0 | c2plj16 | t3_l32qk | null | t1_c2plj16 | t1_c2pl8us | null | 1427699084 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | kikaerter | null | The Microsoft license and the Sun license each have stupid "gotchas". The Sun license provided a patent grant to 100% implementations of Java, identical in every way, that were not supersets of Sun's implementaiton. The Microsoft license allows supersets, but it doesn't cover recent versions of the platform, which may ... | null | 0 | 1317995297 | False | 0 | c2pljff | t3_l38op | null | t1_c2pljff | t1_c2plagw | null | 1427699090 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1317995347 | True | 0 | c2pljn7 | t3_l3tuj | null | t1_c2pljn7 | t3_l3tuj | null | 1427699092 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Gaelach | null | So who was in school in 1935? | null | 0 | 1317995368 | False | 0 | c2pljq3 | t3_l32qk | null | t1_c2pljq3 | t1_c2pk7zu | null | 1427699093 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | f2u | null | They are different. We have no concept of Fair Use, for example. Limits to exploitation rights only apply to private use, and that's of decreasing value because usage patterns have changed. (Putting stuff on the Internet is not consider private, even if you do it entirely for personal reasons.)
I'm not sure if the ove... | null | 0 | 1317995382 | False | 0 | c2pljs3 | t3_l3ct9 | null | t1_c2pljs3 | t1_c2plhu5 | null | 1427699094 | 9 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | kikaerter | null | Or Scala... | null | 0 | 1317995391 | False | 0 | c2pljt8 | t3_l38op | null | t1_c2pljt8 | t1_c2pf9qh | null | 1427699094 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1317995445 | False | 0 | c2plk0q | t3_l3dch | null | t1_c2plk0q | t1_c2pi68g | null | 1427699101 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | But android java is not ME. Neither is it normal java, because they fucked up the implementation. | null | 0 | 1317995487 | False | 0 | c2plk6z | t3_l38op | null | t1_c2plk6z | t1_c2plann | null | 1428192510 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | djnattyp | null | Wait... what? Google didn't "implement" Java at all... they created their own virtual machine (Dalvik) and tools to compile Java bytecode into Dalvik bytecode. | null | 0 | 1317995550 | False | 0 | c2plkgf | t3_l38op | null | t1_c2plkgf | t1_c2plagw | null | 1427699104 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | phunphun | null | > To be fair, if your software is really relient on performance then you shouldn't (ideally) be allocating memory at runtime at all -- GC or no GC.
This is a silly requirement. All game code out there allocates memory at runtime. | null | 0 | 1317995582 | False | 0 | c2plkl4 | t3_l3tk5 | null | t1_c2plkl4 | t1_c2pkyvn | null | 1427699106 | 15 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Kapow751 | null | This would only matter if they were publishing an identical book with the timezones all presented the same way. The facts behind the presentation cannot be copyrighted. | null | 0 | 1317995673 | False | 0 | c2plky3 | t3_l3ct9 | null | t1_c2plky3 | t1_c2pk8lz | null | 1427699121 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | ChaosMotor | null | I used to know a "psychologist" who used Astrolabe's Solar Fire product to create astrological charts for her "clients". What fucking rubbish. I couldn't believe she charged people's insurance to give them fucking astrological "readings". | null | 0 | 1317995706 | False | 0 | c2pll3j | t3_l3ct9 | null | t1_c2pll3j | t3_l3ct9 | null | 1427699113 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | mpredosin | null | Astrolabe Inc. contact info:
Phone:
Tech Support/Business Line: 1 (508) 896-5081 Hours 11am - 4pm Eastern
Sales/Information: 1 (800) 843-6682 Hours 9:30am - 5:30pm Eastern
Fax: 1 (508) 896-5289
Snail Mail:
Astrolabe Inc.
PO Box 1750
Brewster, MA 02631
USA
Email:
Information: Madalyn Hillis-Dineen, Director of... | null | 0 | 1317995803 | False | 0 | c2pllhn | t3_l3ap5 | null | t1_c2pllhn | t3_l3ap5 | null | 1427699118 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | pnpbios | null | That's exactly the point. Dalvik is skirting around ME, so Google doesn't have to pay royalties. | null | 0 | 1317996019 | False | 0 | c2plmbw | t3_l38op | null | t1_c2plmbw | t1_c2plk6z | null | 1427699126 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | bbibber | null | That's not syntax. That's just knowing your API. Any reasonable large framework and it indeed becomes nearly impossible to know all the methods by hearth.
Syntax is not remembering in which order the three parts of the for (...) loop are specified. | null | 0 | 1317996089 | False | 0 | c2plmln | t3_l2vfc | null | t1_c2plmln | t1_c2pdeut | null | 1427699131 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | usefulcat | null | ...and extend the non-obviousness requirement as follows: if one can readily understand how a thing works merely by observing it, then it's not patentable. That would rule out pretty much any UI-related patents and probably most business process patents as well. | null | 0 | 1317996094 | False | 0 | c2plmmi | t3_l3ct9 | null | t1_c2plmmi | t1_c2pl6uc | null | 1427699131 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | djnattyp | null | Why should Google license something they aren't using? Android != JavaME | null | 0 | 1317996103 | False | 0 | c2plmnv | t3_l38op | null | t1_c2plmnv | t1_c2pl0ya | null | 1427699131 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | No, it isn't. The Android NDK does **not** have any support for creating user interfaces or using any other Android functionality without writing a lot of Java glue.
(The NDK has recently gained the option of creating an activity in just native code, but this is only useful for game/OpenGL development.) | null | 0 | 1317996113 | False | 0 | c2plmp4 | t3_l38op | null | t1_c2plmp4 | t1_c2pfwn7 | null | 1427699132 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | dgb75 | null | Stupid move: shutting down the database. It implies the possibility that you think you've done something wrong giving credence to the case against you. You never shut something like this down without a court order. | null | 0 | 1317996186 | False | 0 | c2pln0q | t3_l3tx9 | null | t1_c2pln0q | t3_l3tx9 | null | 1427699136 | 25 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | curien | null | >All the myriad difficulties that people are attributing to C are in fact difficulties that derive directly from the basic Von Neumann architecture, which means those same problems will exist in any similarly low-level language.
That is completely wrong. There are things that are undefined in C which are perfectly ... | null | 0 | 1317996228 | False | 0 | c2pln74 | t3_l2vfc | null | t1_c2pln74 | t1_c2pf3wt | null | 1427699138 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1317996324 | False | 0 | c2plnl5 | t3_l3tk5 | null | t1_c2plnl5 | t1_c2pkmyi | null | 1427699143 | 12 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Taladar | null | For a company like Microsoft or Apple it might very well pay off to pay people in the 200 or so countries in the world (or, more likely, in the one or two big ones in every timezone that matters to their markets). | null | 0 | 1317996356 | False | 0 | c2plnqm | t3_l3ap5 | null | t1_c2plnqm | t1_c2plj0a | null | 1427699145 | -1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | senae | null | But but but...I like C# :( | null | 0 | 1317996387 | False | 0 | c2plnvv | t3_l38op | null | t1_c2plnvv | t1_c2ph3qx | null | 1427699147 | 10 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | David_Crockett | null | > sic | null | 0 | 1317996417 | False | 0 | c2plo0t | t3_l3ct9 | null | t1_c2plo0t | t1_c2phpys | null | 1427699150 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | robeph | null | But that wasn't how he worded it, he mentions historical dates and then a generalized contemporary problem that exists...why is it hard to understand the ten posts I've made trying to explain this rather then keep telling me something I understood well before my first post in the thread...i mean really? All I was doin... | null | 0 | 1317996468 | False | 0 | c2plo8v | t3_l3ct9 | null | t1_c2plo8v | t1_c2plbdo | null | 1427699153 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | > It is because they took Java (the language) and dismissed the JVM. Instead, they created their own VM, called Dalvik. And as such, they did not pay royalties for building their platform on Java.
What differentiates this from the OpenJDK project? Aren't they basically doing the same thing? Creating their own imple... | null | 0 | 1317996496 | False | 0 | c2plodk | t3_l38op | null | t1_c2plodk | t1_c2pkz2j | null | 1427699155 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | masklinn | null | > Panic and recover are used in completely different ways than exceptions (you never send panics across package boundaries, and whatever a function panics is only to indicate a programmer error, it is not part of its API as with exceptions).
So you admit panic/recover are exceptions by any other name, and object th... | null | 0 | 1317996502 | False | 0 | c2ploeh | t3_l2z8p | null | t1_c2ploeh | t1_c2pktnb | null | 1427699155 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | bbibber | null | From your list, none of them are what actually makes a large C project difficult. They are just practical things one must know (part of that steep learning curve). And they aren't even particularly difficult to understand.
From my personal experience (writing software on the intersection between industrial automatisat... | null | 0 | 1317996621 | False | 0 | c2plowz | t3_l2vfc | null | t1_c2plowz | t1_c2pdt30 | null | 1427699162 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | I'll pass...book not selling, give away for free. | null | 0 | 1317996669 | False | 0 | c2plp45 | t3_l1yl5 | null | t1_c2plp45 | t3_l1yl5 | null | 1427699164 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | robeph | null | All the facts are included in the suit...or should be, at least within the scope of expressing why this suit is valid...the actual law suit actually seems to cite things that are legal, directly, as infringing. And yeh law suits are a burch for the IP trolled. It is bullshit and I hope the judge scolds then with hea... | null | 0 | 1317996723 | False | 0 | c2plpc3 | t3_l3ct9 | null | t1_c2plpc3 | t1_c2playa | null | 1427699167 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | matwill | null | JavaScript is pretty great as long as you avoid the shitty things, and use the right tools.
Adding stuff to the language sounds awesome, but its a bit of a double edge sword, because its highly unlikely that all browser vendors will adopt the new features in a timely manner, then we'll end up with some browsers suppo... | null | 0 | 1317996777 | False | 0 | c2plpjx | t3_l3brp | null | t1_c2plpjx | t1_c2pko29 | null | 1427699170 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | merlinm | null | Congratulations Walter! I've been a believer in D for years ever since I first read your comparison to C++ in the alpha D1 days. It seems like lately D is starting to gain a little momentum...this is a big development IMNSHO. | null | 0 | 1317996823 | False | 0 | c2plpr3 | t3_l3tk5 | null | t1_c2plpr3 | t1_c2pjnn0 | null | 1427699173 | 13 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | irascible | null | All games allocate heap memory at *startup* time.
At runtime, you pretty much want to obsessively minimize heap allocation/realloction/deallocation, because they lead to fragmentation and the thrashing death.
Object pools are effective across most languages. Managing your memory manually usually has the added benefit o... | null | 0 | 1317996835 | False | 0 | c2plpst | t3_l3tk5 | null | t1_c2plpst | t1_c2plkl4 | null | 1427699173 | 15 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | cyantist | null | I do have to wonder why they took the database and even the mailing list offline without a court order to do so.. | null | 0 | 1317996904 | False | 0 | c2plq35 | t3_l3ct9 | null | t1_c2plq35 | t1_c2plpc3 | null | 1427699177 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | I was trying to point out a stack overflow with a 32KB stack size, but I'm sick and definitely not thinking straight. That won't do what I wanted it to do, so just imagine that foo and bar are their own processes running in parallel and bar's stack gets overwritten because foo uses more than 32KB for its stack. | null | 0 | 1317996987 | True | 0 | c2plqgp | t3_l2vfc | null | t1_c2plqgp | t1_c2phty4 | null | 1427699182 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | gospelwut | null | Wow, if this happened I might have been in an entirely different line of work considering how "hot" mobile dev is right now. But, alas, as others have stated I'm pretty sure Google would never willingly touch a MS product. I'm pretty sure they are a 100% Nix/Mac shop. | null | 0 | 1317997181 | False | 0 | c2plrc0 | t3_l38op | null | t1_c2plrc0 | t3_l38op | null | 1427699192 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | ruinercollector | null | Because he saw an applet on a web page back in 1997 and it was pretty slow. | null | 0 | 1317997223 | False | 0 | c2plril | t3_l1yfu | null | t1_c2plril | t1_c2pbinb | null | 1427699194 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | frezik | null | Microsoft uses their own timezone data.
Apple or IBM still wouldn't do it, because it's cheaper to either fund this guy's defense, or come up with their own solution, or fund a new shared dataset off clean sources. Those companies didn't become successful by throwing money away. | null | 0 | 1317997246 | False | 0 | c2plrmq | t3_l3ap5 | null | t1_c2plrmq | t1_c2plnqm | null | 1427699197 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | redfiche | null | I always forget that is C++, not C. | null | 0 | 1317997276 | False | 0 | c2plrrx | t3_l2vfc | null | t1_c2plrrx | t1_c2plinh | null | 1427699199 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1317997281 | False | 0 | c2plrsv | t3_l4027 | null | t1_c2plrsv | t3_l4027 | null | 1427699199 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | gospelwut | null | I have no idea who he was until today. I need to keep updated on my shills. | null | 0 | 1317997349 | False | 0 | c2pls4l | t3_l38op | null | t1_c2pls4l | t1_c2pfmmj | null | 1427699203 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | Not if a and b overlap. | null | 0 | 1317997388 | False | 0 | c2pls84 | t3_l2vfc | null | t1_c2pls84 | t1_c2pianj | null | 1427699205 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | Not if a and b overlap. | null | 0 | 1317997391 | False | 0 | c2plsai | t3_l2vfc | null | t1_c2plsai | t1_c2pianj | null | 1427699205 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | > I'm assuming you mean this is undefined because int and long are potentially of different sizes. I'll grant that the behavior here is undefined and depends on the relative sizes of int and long. If they're of equal size, then there's no harm in calling foo(a, &a[10]). If not, then the behavior depends on a cou... | null | 0 | 1317997424 | False | 0 | c2plsgk | t3_l2vfc | null | t1_c2plsgk | t1_c2pi26z | null | 1427699208 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | robodale | null | He forgot to mention Lisp. That will *really* increase your productivity. | null | 0 | 1317997424 | False | 0 | c2plsgl | t3_l38op | null | t1_c2plsgl | t1_c2plbg7 | null | 1427699208 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | joaomc | null | Pretty much every CMMI company I've worked for claimed to "going for CMMI Level 5". It never meant anything relevant. | null | 0 | 1317997523 | False | 0 | c2plsw6 | t3_l1a2e | null | t1_c2plsw6 | t1_c2pasvr | null | 1427699214 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | My space saving tricks involve making sure that the longest possible code blocks are repeated
Instead of not bothering with " in bare attributes becomes, I bother with " : e.g.
<input value="12 3" name=txt type=hidden>
<input type=hidden value="12 3" name="space txt">
which is the shortest possib... | null | 0 | 1317997528 | False | 0 | c2plsx2 | t3_l3tuj | null | t1_c2plsx2 | t1_c2plgx3 | null | 1427699214 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | _ak | null | > What am I missing?
He's still socially incompatible with most other Linux infrastructure developers. | null | 0 | 1317997593 | False | 0 | c2plt80 | t3_l3tk5 | null | t1_c2plt80 | t1_c2pl778 | null | 1427699219 | 11 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | stonefarfalle | null | C++ is a language with an open standard, Java is not. If you want to ship a java implementation you have to pay Sun/Oracle for the privilege. Google knew this before they shipped android. Others who have tried to reimplemented Java in the past have run a fowl of this exact same problem(Java's lack of openness ). Se... | null | 0 | 1317997611 | False | 0 | c2pltb1 | t3_l38op | null | t1_c2pltb1 | t1_c2pgryp | null | 1427699219 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | lusion | null | Personally I think Go is a very nice language. I have used it to write a bunch of small tools and done some prototyping in it. In practice I found it could easily replace python for me.
People are free to disagree with the design choices in Go, but what I find quite annoying is that so many people including you keep h... | null | 0 | 1317997632 | False | 0 | c2pltel | t3_l2z8p | null | t1_c2pltel | t1_c2pi7ad | null | 1427699220 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | tmcw | null | Wouldn't that just be a subject for a different post? And, in that respect, a much less clear subject, since there are plenty of ways to bake your own access systems and many who wouldn't be psyched about adopting Java-esque patterns? | null | 0 | 1317997643 | False | 0 | c2pltgm | t3_l3dsw | null | t1_c2pltgm | t1_c2plfyt | null | 1427699221 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | Sorry, should have clarified. I was attempting to give an example of something that could happen on a system with a 32KB stack size. I of course failed miserably. Make foo() and bar() have loops and then run them in parallel, foo might overwrite bar's stack. | null | 0 | 1317997736 | False | 0 | c2pltw8 | t3_l2vfc | null | t1_c2pltw8 | t1_c2pib5d | null | 1427699227 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | lusion | null | Except Haskell I can't think of any successful or well designed language done by a committee. | null | 0 | 1317997743 | False | 0 | c2pltxh | t3_l2z8p | null | t1_c2pltxh | t1_c2pdfjd | null | 1427699229 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | quad50 | null | its not 'i', its 'j'! | null | 0 | 1317997804 | False | 0 | c2plu7x | t3_l32qk | null | t1_c2plu7x | t3_l32qk | null | 1427699231 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Myozhen | null | Are natural keyboards worth it? | null | 0 | 1317997867 | False | 0 | c2pluig | t3_l1nx0 | null | t1_c2pluig | t1_c2p8ky0 | null | 1427699243 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | phunphun | null | > Another example is something like:
if (1) {
// do something legal
}
else {
// access illegal memory
}
> Now no one cares about the else right?
Any halfway-sane compiler will completely remove the else {} construct with anything except -O0.
If your point is that inaccuracies ... | null | 0 | 1317997927 | False | 0 | c2plusr | t3_l2vfc | null | t1_c2plusr | t1_c2pff3m | null | 1427699241 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | curien | null | Wouldn't matter -- they would still need the historical timezone data to handle dates from the past. | null | 0 | 1317998083 | False | 0 | c2plvj5 | t3_l3ap5 | null | t1_c2plvj5 | t1_c2pkxb1 | null | 1427699247 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | OK let me fix this crapola...
void bar() {
int i = 5;
while (1) {
printf("Hello i is %d\n", i);
sleep(1);
}
}
void foo() {
int i;
int tmp[8*1024];
for (i=0; i<8*1024; i++) {
tmp[i] = i;
}
}
int main() {
pthread_create(...bar...);
sleep(2);
pthread_... | null | 0 | 1317998096 | False | 0 | c2plvkq | t3_l2vfc | null | t1_c2plvkq | t1_c2phl1c | null | 1427699249 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | shimei | null | Also, the second definition has some issues:
> The relevant concept is purity: can the impact of a function on the rest of the program be described only in terms of its return type
This goes ahead and assumes that a *type system* is somehow essential for functional programming and basically sets up the definition ... | null | 0 | 1317998137 | False | 0 | c2plvs9 | t3_l3ex2 | null | t1_c2plvs9 | t1_c2phxg3 | null | 1427699251 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1317998216 | True | 0 | c2plw5m | t3_l3tk5 | null | t1_c2plw5m | t1_c2plpst | null | 1427699255 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | robodale | null | Agreed. The HTML5 local storage is still far from being compatible on all [browsers](http://www.quirksmode.org/dom/html5.html), plus there does not exist a good entity layer between the datastore and the browser. | null | 0 | 1317998229 | False | 0 | c2plw80 | t3_l3dch | null | t1_c2plw80 | t1_c2pjxpn | null | 1427699256 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | 0xABADC0DA | null | > putting a simple int comparison for a low level error code against a more highly abstracted data structure, for a much more general error
Is not os.Error the standard way to return errors in Google Go? Then the way errors are handled in Google Go, os.Error, should be compared to how errors are handled in other l... | null | 0 | 1317998319 | False | 0 | c2plwnm | t3_l2z8p | null | t1_c2plwnm | t1_c2phv42 | null | 1427699262 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | spelunker | null | FWIW, looks like Oracle just launched their [own](http://cloud.oracle.com/mycloud/f?p=service:database:0) SQL cloud offering. | null | 0 | 1317998320 | False | 0 | c2plwny | t3_l3dch | null | t1_c2plwny | t1_c2pkosi | null | 1427699262 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | thermite451 | null | That's the most soul-destroying thing I've read this week. "Assuming idiocy in good faith". You're right, of course, but that's still soul-destroying. There's so much useful and informed discourse in the comments. So many bright, educated, and experienced programmers, wood-workers, mechanics, etc on the site; I occa... | null | 0 | 1317998338 | False | 0 | c2plwr8 | t3_l32qk | null | t1_c2plwr8 | t1_c2pg9u2 | null | 1427699263 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | > Nor did I learn them in my university math classes. | null | 0 | 1317998396 | False | 0 | c2plx1n | t3_l32qk | null | t1_c2plx1n | t1_c2pej6u | null | 1427699268 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | seppyk | null | I agree with you for the most part. I only get frustrated with syntax if it interferes or slows me down when attempting to finish a task or accomplish an end-goal.
The industry acts that way because they (as in non-developers) understand there is a basic difference between Python and Ruby from a syntax perspective. ... | null | 0 | 1317998439 | False | 0 | c2plx8v | t3_l3tuj | null | t1_c2plx8v | t1_c2plb4u | null | 1427699271 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | 0xABADC0DA | null | > The Go version extracts a *os.PathError from a generic os.Error the does a comparison while the C version compares two numbers.
Yes that's right, to handle errors in Google Go you have to do a whole bunch of extra boiler plate junk to actually get at the details of the error because os.Error is nothing by itself.... | null | 0 | 1317998478 | False | 0 | c2plxfq | t3_l2z8p | null | t1_c2plxfq | t1_c2pjt9q | null | 1427699272 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | munificent | null | > defer is worth keeping, I think. Without it you have to do cleanup like you do in C, which is horrible.
Or you can use `finally`. A more foolproof solution is to use blocks, but that can make other imperative flow control (`break` and `return`) a little nastier. | null | 0 | 1317998497 | False | 0 | c2plxj7 | t3_l2z8p | null | t1_c2plxj7 | t1_c2pjn2i | null | 1427699274 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | spoken like a man that can't remember pre-Internet time | null | 0 | 1317998613 | False | 0 | c2ply3h | t3_l32qk | null | t1_c2ply3h | t1_c2pheh5 | null | 1427699283 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | hoyfkd | null | **From a comment:**
>this article cuts through the tech bs and boils down the implications to make it understandable to everybody
Incorrectly, though, I fear.
**From the article:**
>Shutting down the database project will require individual system administrators to update their local copies when rules change.... | null | 0 | 1317998707 | False | 0 | c2plyjf | t3_l3tx9 | null | t1_c2plyjf | t3_l3tx9 | null | 1427699287 | 8 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | shouldn't have got an asian wife then | null | 0 | 1317998715 | False | 0 | c2plyku | t3_l32qk | null | t1_c2plyku | t1_c2pgerf | null | 1427699289 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | PlNG | null | This [Mp3](http://alabe.com/Audio/Solstice2004.mp3) of theirs seems to be a really good listen, unfortunately it's "corrupt". I recommend downloading several times.
Their FTP server is a different server. You can get their Solarfire program from [here](ftp://ftp.alabe.com/SolarFire6.0.31-Install.exe). I also recomm... | null | 0 | 1317998734 | False | 0 | c2plyoe | t3_l3ct9 | null | t1_c2plyoe | t3_l3ct9 | null | 1427699290 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | gorilla_the_ape | null | I think the essential difference is "arrange and present" which is given in the former but not the latter. | null | 0 | 1317998744 | False | 0 | c2plyqb | t3_l3ct9 | null | t1_c2plyqb | t1_c2pkrl6 | null | 1427699291 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | skelooth | null | The whole situation kills me inside. I'm fortunate that I have a job, but I know that if I ever have to look for a new one it's going to be a shit storm of trying to find a job in my "niche" even if I'm willing to switch languages or focuses. It's sort of like "Bee movie" where jerry seinfeld voiced the bee. You choose... | null | 0 | 1317998745 | False | 0 | c2plyqg | t3_l3tuj | null | t1_c2plyqg | t1_c2plx8v | null | 1427699291 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | AlyoshaV | null | the attorney retained by alabe has previously been [fined $3,000 for sandwiches](http://www.mass.gov/?pageID=ethpressrelease&L=4&L0=Home&L1=Commission+Meetings+and+Publications&L2=Commission+Press+Releases&L3=2008+Ethics+Commission+Press+Releases&sid=Ieth&b=pressrelease&f=2008_molloy_052... | null | 0 | 1317998749 | False | 0 | c2plyqy | t3_l3ct9 | null | t1_c2plyqy | t3_l3ct9 | null | 1427699291 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | you mean we aint ? | null | 0 | 1317998760 | False | 0 | c2plyrz | t3_l32qk | null | t1_c2plyrz | t1_c2pekof | null | 1427699291 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | But it's not free software. Fuck that shit. | null | 0 | 1317998791 | False | 0 | c2plyyf | t3_l38l6 | null | t1_c2plyyf | t1_c2pg68q | null | 1427699294 | -6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | modern people | null | 0 | 1317998837 | False | 0 | c2plz6z | t3_l32qk | null | t1_c2plz6z | t1_c2perah | null | 1427699296 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | gorilla_the_ape | null | It might well be likely. But it's got nothing to do with the validity of the case. | null | 0 | 1317998850 | False | 0 | c2plz90 | t3_l3ct9 | null | t1_c2plz90 | t1_c2pk0gt | null | 1427699297 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | come to my streets, you can be dead too | null | 0 | 1317998929 | False | 0 | c2plzmw | t3_l32qk | null | t1_c2plzmw | t1_c2pgcao | null | 1427699302 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | noir_lord | null | The OpenJDK team don't have billion dollar cash reserves.... | null | 0 | 1317999072 | False | 0 | c2pm09v | t3_l38op | null | t1_c2pm09v | t1_c2plodk | null | 1427699310 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | TinynDP | null | Scala is just a skin over Java, because it still compiles to Java bytecode. Almost every patent issue that applies to Java would apply to Scala as well. | null | 0 | 1317999086 | False | 0 | c2pm0cr | t3_l38op | null | t1_c2pm0cr | t1_c2pljt8 | null | 1427699311 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | 'The word "imaginary" is the great algebraical calamity' E.T.Bell
| null | 0 | 1317999095 | False | 0 | c2pm0eg | t3_l32qk | null | t1_c2pm0eg | t1_c2ph9fb | null | 1427699311 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | > Any halfway-sane compiler will completely remove the else {} construct with anything except -O0.
Just change the if statement to some run-time decision.
> If your point is that inaccuracies in things that are "obviously dead code" can have unforeseen consequences due to branch prediction, then you're forgetti... | null | 0 | 1317999125 | False | 0 | c2pm0jz | t3_l2vfc | null | t1_c2pm0jz | t1_c2plusr | null | 1427699313 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | ascii | null | You're missing my point. He's an asshole. But he still seems to be doing rather well, unlike what shevegen was implying.
| null | 0 | 1317999328 | False | 0 | c2pm1j4 | t3_l3tk5 | null | t1_c2pm1j4 | t1_c2plt80 | null | 1427699326 | 8 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | alabipep | null | good work. useful reference. I hope it is populated with more languages. | null | 0 | 1317999360 | False | 0 | c2pm1od | t3_l3p00 | null | t1_c2pm1od | t3_l3p00 | null | 1427699328 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | lalop | null | "us" most likely includes a bunch of assholes :( | null | 0 | 1317999386 | False | 0 | c2pm1t5 | t3_l32qk | null | t1_c2pm1t5 | t1_c2pj9l9 | null | 1427699330 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | kikaerter | null | Completely true. I was thinking more about the ease of compiling to Dalvik. | null | 0 | 1317999483 | False | 0 | c2pm2ag | t3_l38op | null | t1_c2pm2ag | t1_c2pm0cr | null | 1427699337 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | frezik | null | That's exactly the problem--they took a part of Java (the language) and then did their own thing from there. Sun/Oracle wants it to be all or nothing. | null | 0 | 1317999501 | False | 0 | c2pm2de | t3_l38op | null | t1_c2pm2de | t1_c2plkgf | null | 1427699338 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | Real redditors know you need a pressure sensitive peripheral to use this site properly. | null | 0 | 1317999514 | False | 0 | c2pm2fu | t3_l3ct9 | null | t1_c2pm2fu | t1_c2pksuj | null | 1427699339 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | GMTA | null | No, I'm not talking about implementing new access modifiers for JavaScript, I'm talking about the fact that this article explains the correct usage of JS scope with the goal of getting smaller scripts through minifiers, and this saddens me. There should be a distinction:
1. Correct scope usage is important; not only... | null | 0 | 1317999528 | False | 0 | c2pm2hm | t3_l3dsw | null | t1_c2pm2hm | t1_c2pltgm | null | 1427699339 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Legolas-the-elf | null | New users post their comments as answers because that's the only way they can leave feedback. This policy reduces the signal to noise ratio for answers.
And really, no. The signal to noise ratio for comments isn't spectacular in my opinion. | null | 0 | 1317999615 | False | 0 | c2pm2vm | t3_l2vk7 | null | t1_c2pm2vm | t1_c2peqpu | null | 1427699346 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | DrAnhero | null | I write B2B integration software and credit card processing. I've never had to use calc or trig, although i was a few credits away from minoring in math. | null | 0 | 1317999628 | False | 0 | c2pm2y2 | t3_l32qk | null | t1_c2pm2y2 | t1_c2pjx9m | null | 1427699346 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | asegura | null | Just you. | null | 0 | 1317999771 | False | 0 | c2pm3lw | t3_l38op | null | t1_c2pm3lw | t1_c2pl4db | null | 1427699355 | -3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | nascent | null | > In C++, I can design a type and not have to choose if the type will be statically or dynamically allocated.
Considering D has very impressive compile time execution and will allow allocating of class objects, I think D wins on static allocation. What you have shown is stack vs heap allocation which as I have show... | null | 0 | 1317999821 | False | 0 | c2pm3uk | t3_kljc0 | null | t1_c2pm3uk | t1_c2pkkwf | null | 1427699357 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | knome | null | Oh no! You'll surely grind their evil empire to its knees by being annoying! */sigh* | null | 0 | 1317999853 | False | 0 | c2pm40g | t3_l3ct9 | null | t1_c2pm40g | t1_c2plyoe | null | 1427699359 | -1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | _ak | null | Well, then you obviously haven't seen the style of the "learn X the hard way" series. It's hands-on from the very beginning, something I miss in most other books. And I think that's the key differentiator that makes this series so much better. | null | 0 | 1317999925 | False | 0 | c2pm4cr | t3_l2vfc | null | t1_c2pm4cr | t1_c2pdf0k | null | 1427699364 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | munificent | null | You can do object pools in Java, and many Android developers do. Object pools can accomplish two things:
1. Avoid allocation/deallocation churn and memory fragmentation.
2. Keep a series of objects that you'll be iterating over contiguous in memory to play nice with the cache.
Java can still get the first benefit eve... | null | 0 | 1318000151 | False | 0 | c2pm5el | t3_l3tk5 | null | t1_c2pm5el | t1_c2plw5m | null | 1427699377 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Legolas-the-elf | null | I disagree. I've used SO for a similar amount of time as you, and I've noticed a strong correlation between "foreign" names and terrible participation. There are certainly plenty of people that buck the trend in both directions, but the correlation is definitely there.
> Nationality has little to do with being a ... | null | 0 | 1318000290 | False | 0 | c2pm62l | t3_l2vk7 | null | t1_c2pm62l | t1_c2pd5ro | null | 1427699386 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | jblpz | null | Sometimes stupid things like this result in the betterment of humanity. If this claim is at all taken seriously, then I can see the entire world switching to a UTC standard much faster than would have previously thought - and it would be about time. | null | 0 | 1318000303 | False | 0 | c2pm653 | t3_l3ct9 | null | t1_c2pm653 | t3_l3ct9 | null | 1427699387 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
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