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True | NoMoreNicksLeft | null | I read this, and all I can hear is this undertone that he's talking about some cool new species of livestock. Change a few words and he could just as easily be talking about chickens. "But you see, this breed of chicken needs X grams of nutritional supplement per day to reach its maximum butchering weight." | null | 0 | 1318219879 | False | 0 | c2q7ysg | t3_l6m5r | null | t1_c2q7ysg | t3_l6m5r | null | 1427709906 | 24 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | ElectricRebel | null | Unison is brilliant. | null | 0 | 1318219883 | False | 0 | c2q7yt4 | t3_l6dcp | null | t1_c2q7yt4 | t1_c2q5v0r | null | 1427709906 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | ElectricRebel | null | A university degree is in theoretical computer science (e.g. data structures, algorithms, type theory, automatons, paradigms). They are not trying to teach a vocation (there are other places suited for that). This is similar to a civil engineering school teaching statics and heat transfer.
However, once you understand... | null | 0 | 1318220069 | False | 0 | c2q7zp1 | t3_l6dcp | null | t1_c2q7zp1 | t1_c2q6joh | null | 1427709918 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | rafekett | null | CS != programming. Studying CS is to programming as studying mathematics is to doing arithmetic. Programming is largely just a means of putting knowledge in practice. Reasoning about programs and what comprises them -- data structures, algorithms, languages, and so on -- is what CS is _really_ about. | null | 0 | 1318220092 | False | 0 | c2q7ztr | t3_l6dcp | null | t1_c2q7ztr | t1_c2q6joh | null | 1427709919 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | tnecniv | null | As much as I like lisp, I would not call it intuitive. (+ 1 1) makes no sense to someone who sees the code without knowing what lisp is. For my untrained eyes, I also find the use of different types of brackets in Clojure also do not help. | null | 0 | 1318220375 | False | 0 | c2q8170 | t3_l5s9p | null | t1_c2q8170 | t1_c2q1fgi | null | 1427709937 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | cfaftw | null | Not related to the actual content of the website, but why is the header image half of a megabyte? | null | 0 | 1318220665 | False | 0 | c2q82jx | t3_l6ao7 | null | t1_c2q82jx | t3_l6ao7 | null | 1427709956 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | dnew | null | It's also exactly where a commercial OS vendor needs to polish to get the applications users want written. It's also exactly the kind of toolchain where people who don't want to pay money for dev tools might be willing to put up with a bit of bogosity because they can understand why it's there. (E.g., someone might be ... | null | 0 | 1318220722 | False | 0 | c2q82tg | t3_l5wo1 | null | t1_c2q82tg | t1_c2q34j4 | null | 1427709959 | -1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | MrMic | null | It's not any part of Renderman. But Maya, Houdini, XSI, Zbrush, Nuke, and others use OpenGL for hardware accelerated graphics in Linux. Dreamworks doesn't even use Renderman; they have their own renderer. As do Sony, and other huge studios. All the offline stuff is done in software, but anything preview-related will us... | null | 0 | 1318221059 | True | 0 | c2q84dx | t3_l579f | null | t1_c2q84dx | t1_c2q1rem | null | 1427709979 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | pmerkaba | null | The version that he actually used in class last year is available [here](http://www.seas.upenn.edu/~cis500/current/index.html).
Even for someone who is not into computer science, the basics of Coq will probably be interesting to anyone curious about rigorous proofs and the nature of induction. | null | 0 | 1318221163 | False | 0 | c2q84uc | t3_l6dcp | null | t1_c2q84uc | t3_l6dcp | null | 1427709985 | 10 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | kikaerter | null | > Actually, delegates are indeed a bit more more powerful than closures in most languages, because they represent lists of closures.
Isn't this the same as just implementing + on functions as creating a new function that calls first the one and then the other though? I can't see what the difference is! For example,... | null | 0 | 1318221424 | False | 0 | c2q862o | t3_l38op | null | t1_c2q862o | t1_c2q6q12 | null | 1427710000 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Chii | null | Need some demo+code snippets. The site is too bare - i cant find any info on why i would use the library (over existing ones that i alreayd use) | null | 0 | 1318221523 | False | 0 | c2q86i4 | t3_l63wl | null | t1_c2q86i4 | t3_l63wl | null | 1427710006 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | tactics | null | Most of it is carried over from early work in logic.
It really fits together well once you get used to it. | null | 0 | 1318221593 | False | 0 | c2q86tu | t3_l6dcp | null | t1_c2q86tu | t1_c2q7g3k | null | 1427710010 | 10 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | bjarneh | null | [javazone-2011 trailer](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5U1_KW6ww7Y) | null | 0 | 1318221760 | False | 0 | c2q87lf | t3_l55ki | null | t1_c2q87lf | t1_c2pzhg2 | null | 1427710021 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | > I am willing to bet 95% of programming has nothing to do with calculus, and more to do with creative ways of helping users interact of some sort of database or other data source.
Right, in which case knowing relational algebra will be extremely helpful, or if you want to design something like LINQ, knowing somet... | null | 0 | 1318221917 | False | 0 | c2q88br | t3_l6dcp | null | t1_c2q88br | t1_c2q6wpz | null | 1427710031 | 9 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | broohaha | null | > If you’re geometry knowledge isn’t refined enough to solve this problem, don’t fret!
Should be "your geometry". | null | 0 | 1318221932 | False | 0 | c2q88e9 | t3_l6ao7 | null | t1_c2q88e9 | t3_l6ao7 | null | 1427710031 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | antonivs | null | You may not like what Hilbert said, but it's a bit late to try and change it. | null | 0 | 1318222120 | False | 0 | c2q898x | t3_l6dcp | null | t1_c2q898x | t1_c2q7n8l | null | 1427710043 | 13 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | anacrolix | null | That's right. I didn't think so. | null | 0 | 1318222133 | False | 0 | c2q89b4 | t3_l5n8e | null | t1_c2q89b4 | t1_c2q1hg8 | null | 1427710043 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | naasking | null | > It's a no brainer that one might want to pursue that ideal. What is it about REST that makes it so worth striving for?
The [Wikipedia article](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Representational_state_transfer#Constraints) is decent. The reason it's difficult to explain, is because it's not a program property being dis... | null | 0 | 1318222341 | False | 0 | c2q8a6u | t3_l4l3n | null | t1_c2q8a6u | t1_c2q6cmz | null | 1427710056 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | rjan_ | null | inb4 jimothy halpert | null | 0 | 1318222361 | False | 0 | c2q8aat | t3_l6m5r | null | t1_c2q8aat | t3_l6m5r | null | 1427710057 | -5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | naasking | null | [Sections 5.1.2 through 5.1.7](http://www.ics.uci.edu/~fielding/pubs/dissertation/rest_arch_style.htm):
1. Client-Server
2. Stateless
3. Cache
4. Uniform Interface
5. Layered System
6. Code-On-Demand
Figure 5-9 in Section 5.1.8, "Style Derivation Summary", summarizes all the constraints in a nice pretty picture... | null | 0 | 1318222582 | False | 0 | c2q8bav | t3_l4l3n | null | t1_c2q8bav | t1_c2q6bjn | null | 1427710069 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | darkpaladin | null | I'm a fan of http://www.pexforfun.com/ when I'm bored and I've got time to kill. | null | 0 | 1318222678 | False | 0 | c2q8bq7 | t3_l6ao7 | null | t1_c2q8bq7 | t3_l6ao7 | null | 1427710075 | 8 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | SoPoOneO | null | I hear all that. Actually makes a lot of sense. But I've seen contention over whether you have to use standard HTTP verbs (including the big four: get, put, post, and delete) or whether you are allowed to make up and use new ones.
And also, the appeal of representing resources as uniform URLs rather than a base domain... | null | 0 | 1318222727 | False | 0 | c2q8bxq | t3_l4l3n | null | t1_c2q8bxq | t1_c2q8a6u | null | 1427710077 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | antonivs | null | That's pretty much how large organizations approach the problem of "human resources", yes. | null | 0 | 1318222765 | False | 0 | c2q8c2z | t3_l6m5r | null | t1_c2q8c2z | t1_c2q7ysg | null | 1427710080 | 36 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | regeya | null | Wait wait wait, FVWM is still around? | null | 0 | 1318222854 | False | 0 | c2q8cgl | t3_l5wo1 | null | t1_c2q8cgl | t3_l5wo1 | null | 1427710084 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | generic_0 | null | Next challenge:
Make your program automatically solve them (or at least give a good try at it).
I don't know how experienced you are. If you are fairly green this might not be entirely feasible, but it's easier than you think once you've gotten some programming experience. If you're interested, I can always point y... | null | 0 | 1318223034 | False | 0 | c2q8d6c | t3_l6ao7 | null | t1_c2q8d6c | t1_c2q64c9 | null | 1427710093 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | regeya | null | > probably don't even want to be employees
And that would be why I'm trying to go into business for myself. It sucks to be grossly underpaid in a business, then have one's job go to India, and the people who made the decision eat the savings in the form of Christmas bonuses. I know it's ungrammatical but I'm stil... | null | 0 | 1318223045 | True | 0 | c2q8d8h | t3_l6m5r | null | t1_c2q8d8h | t3_l6m5r | null | 1427710094 | 20 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | elder_george | null | Not exactly, because (a) this operation is destructing (in-place); (b) you can not only add but also remove listeners (c) implementation of add/remove behavior is local to the event declaration, not global.
In other words, it's more heavyweight than just closure. But of course, its functionality can be emulated in oth... | null | 0 | 1318223312 | False | 0 | c2q8ec8 | t3_l38op | null | t1_c2q8ec8 | t1_c2q862o | null | 1427710110 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Fabien4 | null | > <input type="text" data-datepicker="true" />
Completely off-topic, but... What's the point of the self-closing tag? I thought XHTML was pretty much a failed experiment? | null | 0 | 1318223384 | False | 0 | c2q8emw | t3_l63wl | null | t1_c2q8emw | t1_c2q2r0y | null | 1427710113 | -1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Peaker | null | Oh, I misread what he said, thanks.
It's interesting to note that always flooring/rounding downwards is the behavior of // division in Python.
Probably makes more sense to have truncating division always floor in the same direction. In that sense >> perhaps has better semantics than / in C. | null | 0 | 1318223637 | False | 0 | c2q8fp1 | t3_l4p6z | null | t1_c2q8fp1 | t1_c2q69hp | null | 1427710128 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | prezjordan | null | 1200 x 288 png - wouldn't that be typical?
EDIT: Changed it to JPG, thanks guys :) | null | 0 | 1318223848 | True | 0 | c2q8gkt | t3_l6ao7 | null | t1_c2q8gkt | t1_c2q82jx | null | 1427710139 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | prezjordan | null | This is cool stuff, soon I'm gonna have a decent links section promoting similar challenge sites. I'll be sure to include this, thanks! | null | 0 | 1318223907 | False | 0 | c2q8gt8 | t3_l6ao7 | null | t1_c2q8gt8 | t1_c2q8bq7 | null | 1427710144 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | UnpopularStatment | null | I don't think you guys bitching about this have much experience with both trackers and DAWs. Tracking is hardly more efficient than clicking the piano roll.
You're also missing the point of creating music programmatically rather than purely manually. | null | 0 | 1318224484 | False | 0 | c2q8j4n | t3_l5s9p | null | t1_c2q8j4n | t1_c2q7pul | null | 1427710172 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | olov | null | Ok - I'll try to get the code for the prototype out again as soon as possible so you can play with it. Thanks for sharing your own research, I'll check it out too.
I can see why you decided to create a declarative language for your system, and I see parallells to constraint programming in Mozart/Oz to name one. | null | 0 | 1318224731 | False | 0 | c2q8k4o | t3_l6247 | null | t1_c2q8k4o | t1_c2q60nn | null | 1427710185 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | __j_random_hacker | null | Sounds interesting, do you know any introductory links? | null | 0 | 1318224762 | False | 0 | c2q8k8l | t3_l3ex2 | null | t1_c2q8k8l | t1_c2pmcmi | null | 1427710186 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | olov | null | I believe that a Live programming environment should be of use for many styles of programming, just like the debugger is. Design industry is a good example though. I'll check out your video later - thanks! | null | 0 | 1318224924 | False | 0 | c2q8kvf | t3_l6247 | null | t1_c2q8kvf | t1_c2q79si | null | 1427710195 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | netsettler | null | I've got nothing against the attempt to do interesting math and proofs about programming languages, but as someone who has spent his career in the design of computer languages, I insist that saying that such things are only one aspect of languages. My eyes glaze over when I see discussion of "correctness" since there ... | null | 0 | 1318224937 | False | 0 | c2q8kx9 | t3_l6dcp | null | t1_c2q8kx9 | t1_c2q68rp | null | 1427710197 | 8 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | naasking | null | > But I've seen contention over whether you have to use standard HTTP verbs (including the big four: get, put, post, and delete) or whether you are allowed to make up and use new ones.
REST isn't specific to the web, but for interoperability you'd want to stick to those. It's the same question of whether you want t... | null | 0 | 1318225092 | False | 0 | c2q8ljs | t3_l4l3n | null | t1_c2q8ljs | t1_c2q8bxq | null | 1427710204 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | scrogu | null | Here's another relevant phrase: your "crappy analogy" makes it hard to understand what your trying to communicate. Analogies should make understanding easier, not harder in some attempt to sound clever. | null | 0 | 1318225199 | False | 0 | c2q8lzl | t3_l6iyb | null | t1_c2q8lzl | t3_l6iyb | null | 1427710210 | -1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | I_TYPE_IN_ALL_CAPS | null | BASELESS, LOW-QUALITY BULLSHIT THAT DISRESPECTS INTELLIGENT WORKERS, AS WELL AS THEIR SUPPOSEDLY LESS INTELLIGENT LEADERS.
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True | __j_random_hacker | null | You make a valid point about ad hoc DB schema updates causing problems, but at the same time having something like `CREATE OR REPLACE VIEW` is useful even when you do have a proper schema update system in place: it lets you move the system between two consistent states easily, without having to bother with setting up a... | null | 0 | 1318225913 | False | 0 | c2q8oqa | t3_l1k3g | null | t1_c2q8oqa | t1_c2pe90n | null | 1427710245 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | annoymind | null | The kqueue filesystem watch API sucks. If you watch a directory it doesn't tell you which file actually got changed. Linux' inotify API is much better. I wish the BSD's would copy it. | null | 0 | 1318226050 | False | 0 | c2q8p8t | t3_l6j3g | null | t1_c2q8p8t | t3_l6j3g | null | 1427710252 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | deafbybeheading | null | Incidentally, does anyone have any good way of verifying a conversion? I'm involved in a PostgreSQL JDBC driver move [1], and there are some concerns over the quality of an automatic `cvs2git` or `git-cvsimport` conversion. I'd like to diff the two versions at key point to show that the migration is valid. That passes ... | null | 0 | 1318226342 | False | 0 | c2q8qaj | t3_l5wo1 | null | t1_c2q8qaj | t3_l5wo1 | null | 1427710266 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | raevnos | null | I wish Linux would copy kqueue instead of having a bunch of different syscalls each doing part of what kqueue does, and not having some of its functionality at all. A single point of entry is much more convenient and powerful than a half dozen things to keep track of and cycle through.
Example: If I want to fork off a... | null | 0 | 1318226346 | False | 0 | c2q8qb6 | t3_l6j3g | null | t1_c2q8qb6 | t1_c2q8p8t | null | 1427710267 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | You can save an image like this one as JPG and probably no one would notice any text distortion. Straight PNG to JPG would probably save ~200KB. | null | 0 | 1318226359 | False | 0 | c2q8qdb | t3_l6ao7 | null | t1_c2q8qdb | t1_c2q8gkt | null | 1427710267 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | annoymind | null | I like the Linux way. It is far more unix like because there isn't one large API to cover several uses. If you want to check a process you can watch the corresponding entry in /proc.
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True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1318227183 | False | 0 | c2q8t9w | t3_l6ao7 | null | t1_c2q8t9w | t1_c2q67yt | null | 1427710304 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | the_infidel | null | As he is kind enough to release his site and challenges to the public, may I politely suggest that instead of just taking lessons, that you come up with a couple of your own as well and submit them to him as additional challenges? That way everybody can benefit. | null | 0 | 1318227634 | False | 0 | c2q8usl | t3_l6ao7 | null | t1_c2q8usl | t1_c2q67yt | null | 1427710325 | 11 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | sam_weller | null | In this case – photos on a website – you should definitely use JPEG. Using PNG is just a waste of everyone's bandwidth. | null | 0 | 1318227663 | False | 0 | c2q8uwg | t3_l6ao7 | null | t1_c2q8uwg | t1_c2q8gkt | null | 1427710326 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | cgrubb | null | The goal is for the tables to just fit on a 1440x900 screen.
A bit hackish, but you can remove a column with this [bookmarklet](http://hyperpolyglot.org/hide-language). | null | 0 | 1318227745 | False | 0 | c2q8v5j | t3_l3mls | null | t1_c2q8v5j | t1_c2pjd0q | null | 1427710329 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | NeoPuma | null | Very cool, have an upvote
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True | munificent | null | > To do typeface design, for example, you had better know your Bezier curves.
There are different ways to "know" something. Most typographers know Beziers deeply in that they have an intuition formed about what the curve will be as they move the control points. Most sure as hell do *not* know the parametric equatio... | null | 0 | 1318228249 | False | 0 | c2q8wxw | t3_l6dcp | null | t1_c2q8wxw | t1_c2q6sxz | null | 1427710354 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | AnEnemyAnemone | null | I thought it was developers, *developers*, **developers**! | null | 0 | 1318228315 | False | 0 | c2q8x5x | t3_l5hlq | null | t1_c2q8x5x | t1_c2q27sg | null | 1427710356 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1318228852 | True | 0 | c2q8yxo | t3_l6m5r | null | t1_c2q8yxo | t1_c2q7ysg | null | 1427710378 | 13 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | wreckerone | null | Well, what's their job and skill set? Soaking up salary, gossiping about employees, and being general dumbfucks? So bosses are just like regular employees except they're on break forever. | null | 0 | 1318229028 | False | 0 | c2q8zie | t3_l6m5r | null | t1_c2q8zie | t1_c2q7ozq | null | 1427710387 | -10 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | stoph | null | >Also, that name is going to get pilfered in a few months by Google's Dash VM?/Language? they seem intent to release.
Sooner than that - the details of Dart programming language will be released today at a conference. It's not called Dash anymore. | null | 0 | 1318229032 | False | 0 | c2q8ziy | t3_l63wl | null | t1_c2q8ziy | t1_c2q7pmk | null | 1427710387 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | wowoc | null | these are words of wisdom | null | 0 | 1318229426 | False | 0 | c2q90s2 | t3_l5410 | null | t1_c2q90s2 | t1_c2pvhz3 | null | 1427710403 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | Or just jpg the image and use text for the...text. | null | 0 | 1318229686 | False | 0 | c2q91kj | t3_l6ao7 | null | t1_c2q91kj | t1_c2q8qdb | null | 1427710415 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | mikaelhg | null | Perhaps Henry took his leave in Tokyo, Frank went on a sobriety streak, and this is all an elaborate ruse to conceal the still. | null | 0 | 1318230010 | False | 0 | c2q92ii | t3_l6dcp | null | t1_c2q92ii | t1_c2q6d53 | null | 1427710427 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | blackJanitor | null | I love the glorification of google. Worked there for 2 yrs, smart people but not clever or innovative. They work in their little world of higher education bs. The company is filled with people who played by the rules their whole lives and did what Harvard or MIT wanted to see on a transcript. They fear anyone else bein... | null | 0 | 1318230074 | False | 0 | c2q92p5 | t3_l6m5r | null | t1_c2q92p5 | t3_l6m5r | null | 1427710429 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | rawlyn | null | Wow. | null | 0 | 1318230110 | False | 0 | c2q92t4 | t3_l6u17 | null | t1_c2q92t4 | t3_l6u17 | null | 1427710431 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | elder_george | null | There's no such thing as 'C++ renaissance'. Let me reiterate this: *C++ didn't lost any positions it deserved to hold since 90s*.
How many existing serious projects were lost by C++ to .NET, Java or any other managed runtime? Little to nothing (well, I worked on some of these projects, but they're still neglectable c... | null | 0 | 1318230138 | True | 0 | c2q92w8 | t3_l4xfg | null | t1_c2q92w8 | t3_l4xfg | null | 1427710431 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | bizziboi | null | Thanks, I'll check it out :o)
That working for a living thing...yeah, I know that feeling. So many projects (or interests, or areas to explore), so little time. | null | 0 | 1318230194 | False | 0 | c2q9317 | t3_l6247 | null | t1_c2q9317 | t1_c2q5i3f | null | 1427710438 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | mushishi | null | Follow live updates from: https://twitter.com/#!/dart_lang | null | 0 | 1318230325 | False | 0 | c2q93eg | t3_l6u5q | null | t1_c2q93eg | t3_l6u5q | null | 1427710438 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | And once they are layed off, they will never fit in anywhere else...
Clever employees can adapt, do not have any special qualities except that.
Professional employees can only do one thing in one way in one company only. | null | 0 | 1318230508 | False | 0 | c2q93xg | t3_l6m5r | null | t1_c2q93xg | t3_l6m5r | null | 1427710444 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | pear22 | null | Just glanced over the code, looks nice and clean! This will become handy! :) | null | 0 | 1318230558 | False | 0 | c2q942c | t3_l6inh | null | t1_c2q942c | t1_c2q69u2 | null | 1427710446 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | 7952 | null | They also have to insulate their employees from the idiocy of the next layer of management. Don't undervalue this. | null | 0 | 1318230576 | False | 0 | c2q9447 | t3_l6m5r | null | t1_c2q9447 | t1_c2q8zie | null | 1427710447 | 13 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | OopsLostPassword | null | Bottom line as another gamer : it DOES matter. I'd really like to trash my Windows partition that I keep only for games. And the fact that game developers use D3X is the reason why I may have to buy Windows for my next PC. | null | 0 | 1318230582 | False | 0 | c2q9450 | t3_l579f | null | t1_c2q9450 | t1_c2pyfgr | null | 1427710447 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Zambini | null | That Caesar cipher one is one of the programming assignments from my intro to computer science class :P
I like this idea Have you thought about making it community driven? | null | 0 | 1318230845 | False | 0 | c2q94x1 | t3_l6ao7 | null | t1_c2q94x1 | t3_l6ao7 | null | 1427710457 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | fmota | null | > Or possibly he just wants a better interface for his finger trees, and is willing to ignore the actual definitions.
This is the case. | null | 0 | 1318230966 | False | 0 | c2q95ad | t3_l5n8e | null | t1_c2q95ad | t1_c2q5c3u | null | 1427710463 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | king_of_the_universe | null | Maybe you should crosspost this to
http://www.reddit.com/r/programmingchallenges | null | 0 | 1318230992 | False | 0 | c2q95cr | t3_l6ao7 | null | t1_c2q95cr | t3_l6ao7 | null | 1427710463 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | stoph | null | >I'm asking because my boss has now discovered "the cloud", and thinks it is the solution for all evils.
That depends on what you mean by "the cloud". Google App Engine is a hosted platform, those tend to be a costlier than managing your own stack of software. Amazon EC2 can be a great deal depending on your needs,... | null | 0 | 1318231094 | True | 0 | c2q95ng | t3_l3dch | null | t1_c2q95ng | t1_c2plk0q | null | 1427710466 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | xTRUMANx | null | Documentation in word docs? Not sure what made you think *that* was a good idea. | null | 0 | 1318231247 | False | 0 | c2q962w | t3_l63wl | null | t1_c2q962w | t3_l63wl | null | 1427710473 | -2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | guptaso2 | null | I took this class last semester, very tough. Good luck! | null | 0 | 1318231376 | False | 0 | c2q96ey | t3_l6dcp | null | t1_c2q96ey | t3_l6dcp | null | 1427710477 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | A_for_Anonymous | null | Three things I loathe about PowerShell: XML, no UNIX tool set, unproductive. Just by having the first — enterprising your way with XML crap everywhere — I'm completely uninterested in it.
The concept would be good if done in UNIX and using Lisp. | null | 0 | 1318231779 | False | 0 | c2q97ja | t3_l5v0e | null | t1_c2q97ja | t1_c2q1bru | null | 1427710493 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | zapper877 | null | Indeed, a program is only good as the person's understanding of the system. As systems get larger the ability to model the whole program becomes difficult if not impossible.
I would use the analogy of spell checkers, you can spell all the words correctly and have those words out of order and it can still be 'mathem... | null | 0 | 1318232263 | False | 0 | c2q98rd | t3_l6dcp | null | t1_c2q98rd | t1_c2q8kx9 | null | 1427710508 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | lex99 | null | You may not like what I say, but you can't change that either.
Edit: I changed what I said. | null | 0 | 1318232350 | False | 0 | c2q9904 | t3_l6dcp | null | t1_c2q9904 | t1_c2q898x | null | 1427710510 | 8 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | MothersRapeHorn | null | Your website text, for me, uses the special quote ’ over ' which would probably be a gotcha for some programmers, since you don't say to remove it. | null | 0 | 1318232361 | False | 0 | c2q991c | t3_l6ao7 | null | t1_c2q991c | t3_l6ao7 | null | 1427710510 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | alparsla | null | "Instead of piping text between programs, you pass around entire .Net objects."
I've stopped reading after this point.
Plain text always won, period. | null | 0 | 1318232379 | False | 0 | c2q9934 | t3_l5v0e | null | t1_c2q9934 | t1_c2q17c1 | null | 1427710512 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | Which is exactly why CS Phds have such a poor reputation outside the academic world. You need both knowledge and practice. Either alone is quite useless. | null | 0 | 1318232402 | False | 0 | c2q995h | t3_l6dcp | null | t1_c2q995h | t1_c2q7ztr | null | 1427710512 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | kitd | null | I liked this bit:
> ... you can’t transfer the knowledge without the people ...
| null | 0 | 1318232664 | False | 0 | c2q99ss | t3_l6m5r | null | t1_c2q99ss | t3_l6m5r | null | 1427710521 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | ggcc | null | Major encouragement.
I have reason; Meebo keeps my chat logs locked away while expressing big goals - see http://blog.meebo.com -- like new interfaces and feature contests, it feels profane, basic liberty ignored in profits name?
Data liberation is sane and healthy. Needs intelligent support.
So many more good reaso... | null | 0 | 1318232999 | False | 0 | c2q9an3 | t3_l0ao7 | null | t1_c2q9an3 | t3_l0ao7 | null | 1427710532 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | ynv | null | Is this googles new programming language? Edit: It seems, they changed the name from Dash to Dart, I did not realize that. | null | 0 | 1318233149 | True | 0 | c2q9azu | t3_l6uwv | null | t1_c2q9azu | t3_l6uwv | null | 1427710537 | 17 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | kristovaher | null | How about.. no. | null | 0 | 1318233678 | True | 0 | c2q9c67 | t3_l63wl | null | t1_c2q9c67 | t3_l63wl | null | 1427710552 | -2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Teekoo | null | Can I say it this time?
Not programming. | null | 0 | 1318233837 | False | 0 | c2q9cjc | t3_l6v4t | null | t1_c2q9cjc | t3_l6v4t | null | 1427710558 | 29 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1318234076 | False | 0 | c2q9d2f | t3_l6uwv | null | t1_c2q9d2f | t3_l6uwv | null | 1427710565 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | bysin | null | Yes it is. The lead architect is Gilad Bracha, who was also a major contributor of Java when he worked for Sun. | null | 0 | 1318234081 | False | 0 | c2q9d2u | t3_l6uwv | null | t1_c2q9d2u | t1_c2q9azu | null | 1427710565 | 10 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | luckystarr | null | > [...] who was also a major contributor of Java when he worked for Sun.
It shows. :) | null | 0 | 1318234101 | False | 0 | c2q9d46 | t3_l6uwv | null | t1_c2q9d46 | t1_c2q9d2u | null | 1427710565 | 30 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | lastkarrde | null | Useful links:
* [Language Spec .pdf](http://www.dartlang.org/docs/spec/dartLangSpec.pdf)
* [General Discussion mailing list](https://groups.google.com/a/dartlang.org/group/misc/topics)
* [Explanation of Optional Type System](http://www.dartlang.org/articles/optional-types/)
* [Overview of classes, constructors, functi... | null | 0 | 1318234157 | True | 0 | c2q9d7k | t3_l6uwv | null | t1_c2q9d7k | t3_l6uwv | null | 1427710566 | 53 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | mminich | null | Underwhelming so far. I was expecting more than obvious support for typing and some syntactic sugar. One thing worries me a lot. From chapter 13 of lang spec:
> The type system is unsound, due to the covariance of generic types.
There seems to be some hard coded variance built in into language for generic types. l... | null | 0 | 1318234362 | False | 0 | c2q9dnl | t3_l6uwv | null | t1_c2q9dnl | t3_l6uwv | null | 1427710572 | 30 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | You're arguing against a strawman. Nobody envisions that every computer program will have a correctness proof, no matter how trivial. It's just not feasible. Yet, there's certain classes of programs that it is feasible for, perhaps even a good idea to have correctness proofs, where there are strong specifications th... | null | 0 | 1318234538 | True | 0 | c2q9e1v | t3_l6dcp | null | t1_c2q9e1v | t1_c2q8kx9 | null | 1427710577 | 15 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | mralexweber | null | So... anyone take the plunge and try it at all? I ran through the tutorial, but it's all pretty simple stuff. | null | 0 | 1318234578 | False | 0 | c2q9e4q | t3_l6uwv | null | t1_c2q9e4q | t3_l6uwv | null | 1427710577 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | They don't have a poor reputation outside the academic world. Last I checked, Google and the like were still hiring PhDs *en masse*.
And, no offence, but if you think there's no "real programming" (whatever that means) going on inside academia, you're pretty sorely mistaken. | null | 0 | 1318234661 | False | 0 | c2q9ebg | t3_l6dcp | null | t1_c2q9ebg | t1_c2q995h | null | 1427710580 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | kpthunder | null | [A timezone is more than just an offset](http://awurl.com/b85GuIiPl#first_awesome_highlight). | null | 0 | 1318234775 | False | 0 | c2q9ekn | t3_l6v4t | null | t1_c2q9ekn | t3_l6v4t | null | 1427710584 | 22 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | ThomasAdam | null | This is a stupid thread; the lock was due to my updating screenshot links which is in the fvwm-web CVS repository. That was fixed ages ago.
We are moving to Git; I use it, and maintain the CVS mirror thereof, there is no difference between the Git repo and CVS, other than I have a load of topic branches which end up... | null | 0 | 1318234813 | False | 0 | c2q9enn | t3_l5wo1 | null | t1_c2q9enn | t3_l5wo1 | null | 1427710584 | 14 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | kikaerter | null | Having a minus operation makes it make some more sense. I suppose I'm just used to having real functions in my languages to the point where this seems like something that would make sense as a library rather than a core language feature! :-)
I understand what you wrote, and I don't think it needs revision. Thank you f... | null | 0 | 1318234921 | False | 0 | c2q9evy | t3_l38op | null | t1_c2q9evy | t1_c2q8ec8 | null | 1427710588 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | Well, my experience with CS Phd's has so far been universally negative and their reputation at my company(a fairly large one) is such that we usually prefer any work experience and shipped products over equivalent PhD time, I'm sure there are some really good ones out there, maybe Google snatches them all up, the remai... | null | 0 | 1318234943 | True | 0 | c2q9exm | t3_l6dcp | null | t1_c2q9exm | t1_c2q9ebg | null | 1427710589 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1318234944 | False | 0 | c2q9exo | t3_l6uwv | null | t1_c2q9exo | t3_l6uwv | null | 1427710589 | -9 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | mminich | null | Why is the specification for web programming language in PDF, which does not even uses links, not even for content. It is one large blob of text...Should I print it to read and navigate in it ??? | null | 0 | 1318235036 | False | 0 | c2q9f4w | t3_l6uwv | null | t1_c2q9f4w | t3_l6uwv | null | 1427710590 | 48 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | stoph | null | I was pretty excited for this, but I think I like JavaScript better.
if (document.readyState == "interactive" ||
document.readyState == "complete" ||
document.readyState == "loaded") {
this.onLoad();
} else {
window.on.contentLoaded.add(
EventBatch.wrap((Event event) => o... | null | 0 | 1318235059 | True | 0 | c2q9f6v | t3_l6uwv | null | t1_c2q9f6v | t3_l6uwv | null | 1427710592 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1318235139 | False | 0 | c2q9fcy | t3_l55ki | null | t1_c2q9fcy | t1_c2pvpz8 | null | 1427710594 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
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