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True | mikaelhg | null | My guess would be that they not only want to build something, but they also want to build something that has a maximal positive impact, and thus they have to take into account various human factors, chiefly pre-existing mental models. | null | 0 | 1318243491 | False | 0 | c2q9u3e | t3_l6uwv | null | t1_c2q9u3e | t1_c2q9tvk | null | 1427710787 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | DGolden | null | Robert Elz has [reportedly](http://blog.joda.org/2011/10/today-time-zone-database-was-closed.html) now volunteered to act as a temporary maintainer of an updating copy of the database. [Olson intended](http://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/03/03/2143249/timezone-maintainer-retiring) to retire soon anyway (a lawsuit, what ... | null | 0 | 1318243573 | False | 0 | c2q9u7e | t3_l6v4t | null | t1_c2q9u7e | t1_c2q9pk4 | null | 1427710789 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | dmitry_sychov | null | i've read every lang spec starting with COBOL | null | 0 | 1318243578 | False | 0 | c2q9u7s | t3_l6uwv | null | t1_c2q9u7s | t1_c2q9s5o | null | 1427710789 | -2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | schnitzi | null | Just not so. I work on a huge distributed database of worldwide user events (hundreds, soon to be thousands per second), and need to generate graphs based on the customer's timezone. We aggregate the events into half hour buckets so we can do this, to at least be able to account for customers in time zones that are a... | null | 0 | 1318243638 | False | 0 | c2q9ub5 | t3_l6v4t | null | t1_c2q9ub5 | t1_c2q9gin | null | 1427710790 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | > store [..] the tzinfo name
What if the timezone offset changes? It does happen, see above. How do you handle daylight saving correctly? | null | 0 | 1318243686 | False | 0 | c2q9udu | t3_l6v4t | null | t1_c2q9udu | t1_c2q9lvx | null | 1427710791 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | earthboundkid | null | Here's my understanding of Monads:
In Haskell, the language is "pure," so functions are mappings from one value to another. If `f(5)` returns `10` now, it will always return `10` in the future. Making this assumption allows you to do a lot of optimizing on the backend, since you can cache stuff and whatnot.
Ah, but w... | null | 0 | 1318243723 | True | 0 | c2q9ufx | t3_l5n8e | null | t1_c2q9ufx | t1_c2q0r4g | null | 1427710792 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | kamatsu | null | What a complete waste of time :) | null | 0 | 1318243804 | False | 0 | c2q9uk8 | t3_l6uwv | null | t1_c2q9uk8 | t1_c2q9u7s | null | 1427710793 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | malfy | null | This is good, but not related to programming. | null | 0 | 1318243816 | False | 0 | c2q9uku | t3_l6m5r | null | t1_c2q9uku | t3_l6m5r | null | 1427710793 | 11 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1318243913 | 1406738534 | 0 | c2q9urg | t3_l6uwv | null | t1_c2q9urg | t1_c2q9riz | null | 1427710795 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | wcoenen | null | This argument works both ways. How do you know the user didn't intend to specify some absolute point in time?
For example, if I schedule a conference call with people in a different timezone, I don't want the time of that meeting to jump around while it follows random changes of my timezone definition.
Storing only u... | null | 0 | 1318243996 | False | 0 | c2q9uw0 | t3_l6v4t | null | t1_c2q9uw0 | t1_c2q9q93 | null | 1427710797 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | feureau | null | Goddamn astrologers... | null | 0 | 1318244031 | False | 0 | c2q9uxt | t3_l6v4t | null | t1_c2q9uxt | t1_c2q9u7e | null | 1427710797 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Grizzant | null | Learn about solar time, that will fuck your day up.
Solar Time = local time + (Standard Meridian - Local Meridian)*4minutes +EOT
where
EOT (minutes)~= 9.87sin(2x) -7.53cos(x) -1.5sin(x)
where x = (360/365) * (d-81)
where d is the day of the year Jan1 = 1 | null | 0 | 1318244062 | False | 0 | c2q9uzs | t3_l6v4t | null | t1_c2q9uzs | t3_l6v4t | null | 1427710799 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | campbellm | null | I've used a language that had this syntax and it works nicely | null | 0 | 1318244183 | False | 0 | c2q9v6n | t3_l6uwv | null | t1_c2q9v6n | t1_c2q9rt9 | null | 1427710800 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | CharlesFoxtrot | null | I'm halfway through my second year at Google, and my experience couldn't be more different. I'm surrounded by creative, well-rounded, and brilliant people. The idea of them being slow to give kudos to others for their own gifts is really bizarre. As for me, I scraped through a literature degree and learned programming ... | null | 0 | 1318244222 | False | 0 | c2q9v8p | t3_l6m5r | null | t1_c2q9v8p | t1_c2q92p5 | null | 1427710802 | 15 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | hashmal | null | I would be delighted if more languages were trying something else than a *C like* syntax. | null | 0 | 1318244419 | False | 0 | c2q9vk0 | t3_l6uwv | null | t1_c2q9vk0 | t3_l6uwv | null | 1427710807 | 8 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | asokoloski | null | At least in python, it's a tricky mess, but it can be worked around:
http://www.enricozini.org/2009/debian/using-python-datetime/ | null | 0 | 1318244441 | False | 0 | c2q9vlg | t3_l6v4t | null | t1_c2q9vlg | t1_c2q9j26 | null | 1427710807 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | dmitry_sychov | null | the one with => returns the last expression result (default case for Ruby/CoffeeScript, but not JS) | null | 0 | 1318244443 | False | 0 | c2q9vlj | t3_l6uwv | null | t1_c2q9vlj | t1_c2q9txp | null | 1427710807 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Astrokiwi | null | It is mandatory for New Zealanders to upvote any time our country gets a mention. I am here just to do my duty. | null | 0 | 1318244520 | False | 0 | c2q9vpr | t3_l6v4t | null | t1_c2q9vpr | t3_l6v4t | null | 1427710808 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | dmitry_sychov | null | not if you are a lang designer ;) | null | 0 | 1318244545 | False | 0 | c2q9vr3 | t3_l6uwv | null | t1_c2q9vr3 | t1_c2q9uk8 | null | 1427710809 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | comment-dwim | null | I see there is a standalone vm and a compiled to javascript implementation. Are there plans to support Dart on other architectures, such as the JVM or the CLR? does the vm take advantage (performance-wise) of type declarations?
For me, this looks like a BSD Licensed, more concise, portable-to-browsers Java, which is n... | null | 0 | 1318244639 | True | 0 | c2q9vvz | t3_l6uwv | null | t1_c2q9vvz | t1_c2q9lpp | null | 1427710810 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Liquid_Fire | null | Why would you have a method with the same name as a class? | null | 0 | 1318244645 | False | 0 | c2q9vw8 | t3_l6uwv | null | t1_c2q9vw8 | t1_c2q9rmi | null | 1427710811 | -2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | EmoryM | null | Smells like management. | null | 0 | 1318244651 | False | 0 | c2q9vws | t3_l6v4t | null | t1_c2q9vws | t3_l6v4t | null | 1427710811 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | denshi | null | That's an impressively condescending rebuttal. | null | 0 | 1318244708 | False | 0 | c2q9w08 | t3_l6dcp | null | t1_c2q9w08 | t1_c2q7n8l | null | 1427710812 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | gladwell | null | When it comes to Bezier curves, I can't even draw a circle. ;) | null | 0 | 1318244851 | False | 0 | c2q9w81 | t3_l6dcp | null | t1_c2q9w81 | t1_c2q9ir2 | null | 1427710815 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1318244861 | False | 0 | c2q9w8q | t3_l6v4t | null | t1_c2q9w8q | t3_l6v4t | null | 1427710815 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | wot-teh-phuck | null | This doesn't seem to be a problem for Python which follows the same rule. | null | 0 | 1318244913 | False | 0 | c2q9wc1 | t3_l6uwv | null | t1_c2q9wc1 | t1_c2q9rmi | null | 1427710816 | 20 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | munificent | null | > Types should be non-nullable by default.
I agree 100%. If you can articulate it nicely on the mailing list (concrete examples help), that may make a difference. | null | 0 | 1318244947 | False | 0 | c2q9we2 | t3_l6uwv | null | t1_c2q9we2 | t1_c2q9szf | null | 1427710817 | 13 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | munificent | null | The former is an expression body with an implicit `return`. The latter is a statement body. | null | 0 | 1318244994 | False | 0 | c2q9wh0 | t3_l6uwv | null | t1_c2q9wh0 | t1_c2q9txp | null | 1427710818 | 10 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | Olson was doing this for free, out of his own time (or possibly the research time allotted to him by the university).
He don't want the aggravation and extra work involved in trying to sort out which parts of the database is copyrighted by who, and I understand him completely. | null | 0 | 1318245084 | False | 0 | c2q9wmq | t3_l6v4t | null | t1_c2q9wmq | t1_c2q9omm | null | 1427710821 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Timmmmbob | null | What's wrong with semicolons? Making them optional in javascript led to many wtfs. | null | 0 | 1318245087 | False | 0 | c2q9wmw | t3_l6uwv | null | t1_c2q9wmw | t1_c2q9tvk | null | 1427710821 | 48 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1318245088 | False | 0 | c2q9wmz | t3_l6uwv | null | t1_c2q9wmz | t1_c2q9sbc | null | 1427710821 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Poltras | null | And you should stop being ignorant about things you don't know either. Let's all start knowing-it-all. | null | 0 | 1318245120 | False | 0 | c2q9wp2 | t3_l6v4t | null | t1_c2q9wp2 | t1_c2q9tdq | null | 1427710824 | -8 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1318245155 | False | 0 | c2q9wr1 | t3_l6v4t | null | t1_c2q9wr1 | t1_c2q9tx6 | null | 1427710822 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | 6_28 | null | It's easy to write min and max yourself as well, but so what? It's nice if it's there. | null | 0 | 1318245201 | False | 0 | c2q9wu3 | t3_l6uwv | null | t1_c2q9wu3 | t1_c2q9wmz | null | 1427710824 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | UnoriginalGuy | null | So your solution to that problem is for everyone to re-invent the wheel each time they want to deal with Date/Time instead of just further developing DateTime libraries (e.g. Java, .Net, OS APIs, etc)? | null | 0 | 1318245214 | False | 0 | c2q9wur | t3_l6v4t | null | t1_c2q9wur | t1_c2q9rjd | null | 1427710824 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Timmmmbob | null | Yeah I've always missed that from the 'standard' set of maths functions. So much clearer than `min(max(a, -1), 1)`. | null | 0 | 1318245216 | False | 0 | c2q9wuy | t3_l6uwv | null | t1_c2q9wuy | t1_c2q9sbc | null | 1427710824 | 10 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | evertrooftop | null | Did he sneakily edit his comment? tz name is indeed the only correct way to go. | null | 0 | 1318245256 | False | 0 | c2q9wxg | t3_l6v4t | null | t1_c2q9wxg | t1_c2q9udu | null | 1427710825 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | kamatsu | null | I am a lang designer, and I think you're wasting your time. | null | 0 | 1318245301 | False | 0 | c2q9x03 | t3_l6uwv | null | t1_c2q9x03 | t1_c2q9vr3 | null | 1427710825 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Breepee | null | So because you are a programmer who cant be bothered to add an hour for half a year, millions of people shouldnt live more in sync with the actual day night cycle their locale gives them?
Crazy person. | null | 0 | 1318245308 | False | 0 | c2q9x0i | t3_l6v4t | null | t1_c2q9x0i | t1_c2q9se9 | null | 1427710825 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1318245392 | False | 0 | c2q9x4s | t3_l6uwv | null | t1_c2q9x4s | t1_c2q9t7h | null | 1427710827 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | evertrooftop | null | No! It is in fact the best way to go. You store the UNIX time + the timezone name. If you store Local time + tz name there are still ambiguities. | null | 0 | 1318245442 | False | 0 | c2q9x7f | t3_l6v4t | null | t1_c2q9x7f | t1_c2q9qmr | null | 1427710828 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1318245587 | False | 0 | c2q9xg7 | t3_l6v4t | null | t1_c2q9xg7 | t1_c2q9tx6 | null | 1427710831 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | > You don't spend a lot of time trying to figure out how to design things to please the type checker.
Translation - you let it crash and burn at runtime? (I hope you know what type inference is).
The way at least I look at static typing is, that the compiler contains a validator, that tells you that the code is br... | null | 0 | 1318245656 | False | 0 | c2q9xkg | t3_l6uwv | null | t1_c2q9xkg | t1_c2q9t7h | null | 1427710832 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | mminich | null | Thank you. but can you also provide rationale for this design decision. Why you decided for these two syntactically distinct cases instead just using one syntax; and when function contains exactly one expression, return it implicitly (as in for instance Scala). | null | 0 | 1318245724 | False | 0 | c2q9xoo | t3_l6uwv | null | t1_c2q9xoo | t1_c2q9wh0 | null | 1427710834 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | dtrebbien | null | Are those real numbers? Did you actually try it and the Closure Compiler reduced it to 200 bytes? | null | 0 | 1318245916 | False | 0 | c2q9y01 | t3_l6uwv | null | t1_c2q9y01 | t1_c2q9nwi | null | 1427710837 | 10 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | flukshun | null | And ima code hard, and ima code hard... | null | 0 | 1318245938 | False | 0 | c2q9y1h | t3_l55ki | null | t1_c2q9y1h | t3_l55ki | null | 1427710837 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | SmellsLikePanda | null | sry - i edited it like 3mins later.
didn't leave an *edit* as there haven't been any replies at the time of the edit. | null | 0 | 1318245979 | False | 0 | c2q9y3y | t3_l6v4t | null | t1_c2q9y3y | t1_c2q9wxg | null | 1427710839 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | munificent | null | > Thank you. but can you also provide rationale for this design decision.
I'm probably not the best person to ask that since it wasn't my decision, but I can guess. In general, Dart is a statement-oriented language like C, Java, JavaScript, and unlike Scala. Implicitly returning the value of the last statement in a... | null | 0 | 1318246151 | False | 0 | c2q9yei | t3_l6uwv | null | t1_c2q9yei | t1_c2q9xoo | null | 1427710843 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | Worked at Google for a year and then left to start my own business.
It's a big company (was a little over 15k employees when I was there) so it's hard to make a generalization based on one person's experience but for me at least, I've never worked with a smarter group of people than the ones at Google.
I worked in th... | null | 0 | 1318246187 | False | 0 | c2q9ygv | t3_l6m5r | null | t1_c2q9ygv | t1_c2q92p5 | null | 1427710844 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | paxswill | null | I'd argue most software patents *are* formulas. One class of problems I ran into recently was feature detection in images. Two big algorithms (SIFT and SURF) are both patented, and at least in the case of SURF, to the casual observer in that field it seems pretty obvious. Harumph. | null | 0 | 1318246228 | True | 0 | c2q9yjk | t3_l6v4t | null | t1_c2q9yjk | t1_c2q9qmy | null | 1427710845 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Year_2038_problem | null | 0 | 1318246255 | False | 0 | c2q9yla | t3_l6v4t | null | t1_c2q9yla | t1_c2q9kla | null | 1427710846 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | myWorkAccount840 | null | I think that Fnordicus2's comment might have been pointing out that, depending on the nature of the data being stored, storing time-based data in this way may become incorrect *retroactively*, e.g. when daylight savings kicks in and moves one time around relative to all the others.
Dunno. Just a suggestion. | null | 0 | 1318246260 | False | 0 | c2q9ylh | t3_l6v4t | null | t1_c2q9ylh | t1_c2q9wxg | null | 1427710846 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | No, but CC removes all unused code, so it would be reduced to a single print statement. | null | 0 | 1318246270 | False | 0 | c2q9ym0 | t3_l6uwv | null | t1_c2q9ym0 | t1_c2q9y01 | null | 1427710846 | -10 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | ethraax | null | Don't *most* operating systems come with timezone data stored locally, since it's really a rather small amount of data? I really don't see what the gigantic deal is - surely the distribution maintainers would simply be forced to maintain their own timezone data for a short while (and I don't think it will do anything ... | null | 0 | 1318246277 | False | 0 | c2q9ym9 | t3_l6v4t | null | t1_c2q9ym9 | t1_c2q9kxf | null | 1427710846 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | GameFreak4321 | null | Is it so that they become so focused on that one that they ignore the one that you really intend to kill them with? | null | 0 | 1318246296 | False | 0 | c2q9yna | t3_l6v4t | null | t1_c2q9yna | t1_c2q9qwy | null | 1427710846 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | DenisDollfus | null | Thanks kuhbert for your prompt tests.
I still have a x2 factor when testing on Chrome, with a slightly modified version of your tests (returning computed x, see http://pastebin.com/26RrX9Dt).
Any idea about why V8 is faster in node.js than in Chrome? Rendering, DOM management? | null | 0 | 1318246302 | False | 0 | c2q9ynj | t3_l62d0 | null | t1_c2q9ynj | t1_c2q4kza | null | 1427710846 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Eirenarch | null | I'm a supporter of static typing for every project that has more than 3 devs on it but things are not as simple as you describe it. While static typing will prevent some of the "crash and burn at runtime" that optional typing will allow type inference won't solve the problem with designing classes. It makes using types... | null | 0 | 1318246321 | False | 0 | c2q9yom | t3_l6uwv | null | t1_c2q9yom | t1_c2q9xkg | null | 1427710847 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | What time is it?
Universal Time. ALL THE TIME! | null | 0 | 1318246345 | False | 0 | c2q9yq1 | t3_l6v4t | null | t1_c2q9yq1 | t1_c2q9l9x | null | 1427710847 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | dtrebbien | null | It would be nice if there was a [codepad](http://codepad.org/) or [ideone](http://ideone.com/) for Dart. That way, developers could always try out the latest version without needing to maintain a Dart development environment, which will likely need frequent updating. Also, what better way for developers to show Dart to... | null | 0 | 1318246427 | False | 0 | c2q9yv9 | t3_l6uwv | null | t1_c2q9yv9 | t3_l6uwv | null | 1427710850 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | fr33b33r | null | It's all logic, the Chathams is part of my country, I fail to see what the difference between +12.45 hours GMT is to any other +/-xxxhours GMT. I know lets all use your timezone. I'll tell the Chatham Island guys that they are not part of the digital age as some code monkey can't work out how dates work.
I guess yo... | null | 0 | 1318246447 | False | 0 | c2q9ywo | t3_l6v4t | null | t1_c2q9ywo | t3_l6v4t | null | 1427710850 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | A_for_Anonymous | null | I think the technical overview in the web site (it should be the "overview", as it's a website about something inherently technical) should list language features and supported programming paradigms, and it could be a lot more like your post, rather than focusing on hello world and classes. I'll write my post based on ... | null | 0 | 1318246455 | True | 0 | c2q9yxa | t3_l6uwv | null | t1_c2q9yxa | t1_c2q9t7h | null | 1427710850 | 53 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | idiotthethird | null | Venus would be fine. There is no sane way of dividing up small amounts of time on Venus, because it's day is over 200 times Earth's one. So, the entire planet would probably use GMT or the time zone of whoever lands there first.
Mercury, on the other hand... sun changing direction in the sky overhead... pass. | null | 0 | 1318246491 | False | 0 | c2q9yz7 | t3_l6v4t | null | t1_c2q9yz7 | t1_c2q9obp | null | 1427710851 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | nandemo | null | Do you realize that unless you also force people to sleep during the day (in which case you're an evil dictator) that doesn't solve the problem at all? You might change the numbers displayed in the clock, but you still have the problem of the Chinese guy calling the California woman when she's sleeping.
| null | 0 | 1318246537 | False | 0 | c2q9z2o | t3_l6v4t | null | t1_c2q9z2o | t1_c2q9p19 | null | 1427710852 | 9 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1318246542 | False | 0 | c2q9z31 | t3_l6v4t | null | t1_c2q9z31 | t1_c2q9t9c | null | 1427710852 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | batiste | null | Which one? | null | 0 | 1318246577 | False | 0 | c2q9z5c | t3_l6uwv | null | t1_c2q9z5c | t1_c2q9wmw | null | 1427710853 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1318246579 | False | 0 | c2q9z5f | t3_l6v4t | null | t1_c2q9z5f | t1_c2q9t9c | null | 1427710853 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | razzmataz | null | >They also have to insulate their employees from the idiocy of the next layer of management.
Only in a perfect world. Bosses like that are few and far between. | null | 0 | 1318246614 | False | 0 | c2q9z7k | t3_l6m5r | null | t1_c2q9z7k | t1_c2q9447 | null | 1427710854 | 9 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | The role of management in principle is to create a layer of abstraction between the business and skills.
A good manager is one who allows a programmer to focus strictly on programming, a QA to focus on QA, a specialist in X to focus strictly on X. Any resource X requires comes from management in as seamless a fashion... | null | 0 | 1318246643 | False | 0 | c2q9z9p | t3_l6m5r | null | t1_c2q9z9p | t1_c2q8zie | null | 1427710854 | 12 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | idiotthethird | null | Time zones, while part of the "real" world, are not natural, and so shouldn't be allowed the same lax standards as the natural world. | null | 0 | 1318246702 | False | 0 | c2q9zdn | t3_l6v4t | null | t1_c2q9zdn | t1_c2q9qgn | null | 1427710856 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | dtrebbien | null | The page numbers in the Table of Contents should be links to the specified page. | null | 0 | 1318246774 | False | 0 | c2q9zih | t3_l6uwv | null | t1_c2q9zih | t3_l6uwv | null | 1427710857 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | munificent | null | If you could submit that as a feature request to the bug tracker, that will make sure we don't forget this. | null | 0 | 1318246809 | False | 0 | c2q9zkh | t3_l6uwv | null | t1_c2q9zkh | t1_c2q9sbc | null | 1427710858 | 17 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | BobTurbo | null | I love the design of the language (the best bits of java and javascript), and support the goals of the language, but think it has virtually no chance of taking off. | null | 0 | 1318246824 | False | 0 | c2q9zlk | t3_l6uwv | null | t1_c2q9zlk | t3_l6uwv | null | 1427710859 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | super_jambo | null | It won't last the economies of the west are going to collapse under the weight of non-economic activity (spurious lawsuits, marketing, finance). Honey badgers (who will rule after us) don't give a shit about IP.
| null | 0 | 1318246862 | False | 0 | c2q9zo1 | t3_l6v4t | null | t1_c2q9zo1 | t1_c2q9qmy | null | 1427710859 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | munificent | null | > Since fred is defined to be of type Greeter
Ah, but the types are optional, remember? The type annotations have no effect on the runtime behavior whatsoever. | null | 0 | 1318246891 | False | 0 | c2q9zpu | t3_l6uwv | null | t1_c2q9zpu | t1_c2q9rt9 | null | 1427710860 | 9 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | manu | null | That's right but having seen one session once, I noticed:
- you don't see much code one the wall-beamed monitor of the musician/programmer.
- the quality of the music is poor, if you went there for this. You get much more from an electro-concert: it is also electronically built live music but really audible !
So, to s... | null | 0 | 1318246987 | False | 0 | c2q9zwo | t3_l5s9p | null | t1_c2q9zwo | t1_c2q276v | null | 1427710863 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | leberwurst | null | Well someone has to write those libraries... | null | 0 | 1318247067 | False | 0 | c2qa01y | t3_l6v4t | null | t1_c2qa01y | t1_c2q9hh2 | null | 1427710865 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | BobTurbo | null | What is the point of a num type? I would rather know if something had a decimal point in it, hence it seems better to just use int or double.
Oh and another question - will the static typing have better performance than the dynamically typed code? | null | 0 | 1318247068 | False | 0 | c2qa022 | t3_l6uwv | null | t1_c2qa022 | t1_c2q9t7h | null | 1427710866 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | batiste | null | what about this:
Greeter greeter1; // leaving parenthesis out is equivalent to the following
Greeter greeter2();
Greeter greeter3("hello");
The shortest, unambiguous syntax I can think of. Is that too weird? | null | 0 | 1318247085 | False | 0 | c2qa039 | t3_l6uwv | null | t1_c2qa039 | t1_c2q9lh9 | null | 1427710866 | -4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | DrSweetscent | null | I really like the logo. That's all. | null | 0 | 1318247186 | False | 0 | c2qa0a3 | t3_l6uwv | null | t1_c2qa0a3 | t3_l6uwv | null | 1427710868 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Taladar | null | > there's nothing wrong with a practical solution that doesn't bring new ideas to the table
How will a "solution" that has no advantages over the current status quo ever be adopted? | null | 0 | 1318247232 | False | 0 | c2qa0cv | t3_l6uwv | null | t1_c2qa0cv | t1_c2q9i64 | null | 1427710869 | 8 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | polarbear128 | null | Weirdest. Fetish. Ever.
| null | 0 | 1318247247 | False | 0 | c2qa0dy | t3_l6v4t | null | t1_c2qa0dy | t1_c2q9ph8 | null | 1427710870 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | divv | null | Why do we even need timezones. I reckon the whole world should just use UTC. It doesn't matter that 6 am to someone is 11pm to you.
All it really means is that the phrase "roll in at 9, punch out at 5" will sounds dumb in some countries :P | null | 0 | 1318247267 | False | 0 | c2qa0fg | t3_l6v4t | null | t1_c2qa0fg | t3_l6v4t | null | 1427710870 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | bvoid | null | return {
result : "good"
};
is not the same as:
return
{
result : "good"
};
In the latter a semicolon is implicitly inserted after the return statement.
| null | 0 | 1318247606 | False | 0 | c2qa12k | t3_l6uwv | null | t1_c2qa12k | t1_c2q9z5c | null | 1427710878 | 39 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | batiste | null | They could still include the Java/C++/C syntax mental models with an optional semi-colon syntax. | null | 0 | 1318247648 | False | 0 | c2qa15h | t3_l6uwv | null | t1_c2qa15h | t1_c2q9u3e | null | 1427710879 | -5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | The language adds the class-based structure that enterprise developers are more familiar with, and that's their target audience.
I've read some of the specification and I'm more and more unconvinced by what they're offering, though. kamatsu's comments ring very true, and if we have an opportunity to reboot Javascript,... | null | 0 | 1318247681 | False | 0 | c2qa17v | t3_l6uwv | null | t1_c2qa17v | t1_c2qa0cv | null | 1427710880 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Felicia_Svilling | null | You can't have two functions with the same name in the same scope. | null | 0 | 1318247709 | False | 0 | c2qa19p | t3_l6uwv | null | t1_c2qa19p | t1_c2q9rmi | null | 1427710880 | 8 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | astrobe | null | ... and daylight saving. It's serious burden for 24/7 embedded systems. Couldn't *we* leave the clock alone and just adapt working hours according to seasons? | null | 0 | 1318247813 | False | 0 | c2qa1gr | t3_l6v4t | null | t1_c2qa1gr | t1_c2q9j26 | null | 1427710884 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Craven_Moorhead | null | You spelt Chatham wrong. | null | 0 | 1318247873 | False | 0 | c2qa1km | t3_l6v4t | null | t1_c2qa1km | t3_l6v4t | null | 1427710885 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | DGolden | null | > would simply be forced to maintain their own timezone data
...Until the company comes after them too (should they win, which seems rather unlikely). The problem isn't the technical interruption caused by the takedown, that's just been handled as below, the problem is the legal threat (however absurd) to use of th... | null | 0 | 1318247934 | False | 0 | c2qa1oj | t3_l6v4t | null | t1_c2qa1oj | t1_c2q9ym9 | null | 1427710887 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1318247941 | False | 0 | c2qa1p2 | t3_l6v4t | null | t1_c2qa1p2 | t1_c2q9hcd | null | 1427710887 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | rkenned | null | Indiana used to be Eastern timezone half the year, and central the other half. Now it is split up by a very non-straight line by county. You really don't need to go to a remote pacific island to find goofy messes involving timezones.
http://www.timeanddate.com/time/us/indiana-time.html | null | 0 | 1318247985 | False | 0 | c2qa1s3 | t3_l6v4t | null | t1_c2qa1s3 | t3_l6v4t | null | 1427710888 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | Also a nice aspect of using ClojureScript is that eventually it can be extended to target Dart and it would benefit from using static typing for performance (I imagine implementing ClojureScript persistent data-structures would be several times faster over plain JavaScript, and deftype/record/protocol can simply be tra... | null | 0 | 1318248115 | False | 0 | c2qa20n | t3_l6uwv | null | t1_c2qa20n | t1_c2q9yxa | null | 1427710891 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | Anything created by people isn't natural (which, by the way, includes any business-specific domain with all its little nasty and arbitrary rules), but we have to live with it. Timezones problem is on par with multiple languages or units of measurement problem, i.e. some order of things specific to a particular communit... | null | 0 | 1318248125 | False | 0 | c2qa21a | t3_l6v4t | null | t1_c2qa21a | t1_c2q9zdn | null | 1427710891 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | wadcann | null | How does that have anything to do with crazy Americans?
You can issue pretty much whatever legal threats you want in any country with a legal system.
Now, if they have objections that are held valid in a court in the US but would not be held valid in a court in, say, the UK, then you'd have a point... | null | 0 | 1318248242 | False | 0 | c2qa29q | t3_l6v4t | null | t1_c2qa29q | t1_c2q9kxf | null | 1427710894 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | mattrussell | null | Do you remember what the language was? | null | 0 | 1318248462 | False | 0 | c2qa2or | t3_l6uwv | null | t1_c2qa2or | t1_c2q9v6n | null | 1427710899 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | gizmo490 | null | Do I work with you? | null | 0 | 1318248603 | False | 0 | c2qa2zx | t3_l6v4t | null | t1_c2qa2zx | t1_c2q9ub5 | null | 1427710903 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | cheng81 | null | Are Isolates the same as Actors? If so, why choosing a new name? If not, in what they differ? Looking at the doc did not really helped me | null | 0 | 1318248622 | False | 0 | c2qa31o | t3_l6uwv | null | t1_c2qa31o | t3_l6uwv | null | 1427710903 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | For no apparent reason I need to add that Lord Howe Island off Aussie land is pretty much the most perfect place on motherfucking earth. | null | 0 | 1318248690 | False | 0 | c2qa36h | t3_l6v4t | null | t1_c2qa36h | t3_l6v4t | null | 1427710906 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | wadcann | null | Okay, let's see what we lose:
* UTC doesn't have daylight savings time, so you don't get that. Now all vendors need to come up with their own "summer hours", which may not be synchronized. Or they need to just need to have hours for part of the year that aren't ideal.
* We lose a single cultural reference point ("I... | null | 0 | 1318248692 | False | 0 | c2qa36o | t3_l6v4t | null | t1_c2qa36o | t1_c2q9p19 | null | 1427710906 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | > Implicit interfaces for classes mean you don't have to make a separate interface for every class just so you can mock it.
Nice. Differentiating between interfaces and structs is why I remain unconvinced by Go. | null | 0 | 1318248727 | False | 0 | c2qa39o | t3_l6uwv | null | t1_c2qa39o | t1_c2q9t7h | null | 1427710907 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
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