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True | murderofcrows | null | Yes! And every country does it different! [Ugh](http://www.webexhibits.org/daylightsaving/g.html). Combine DST with Time Zones and it makes for a frustrating time! | null | 0 | 1318248740 | False | 0 | c2qa3ar | t3_l6v4t | null | t1_c2qa3ar | t1_c2q9juz | null | 1427710907 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | gospelwut | null | I don't even think this begins to explore how complicated timezones are, no? Aren't there things like geographical stability, historical time shifts, and other grey areas to evaluate when making the timezone databases themselves?
But, at the end of the day, aren't most apps just reliant on the OS to figure out what ti... | null | 0 | 1318248778 | False | 0 | c2qa3dg | t3_l6v4t | null | t1_c2qa3dg | t3_l6v4t | null | 1427710907 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | gospelwut | null | It's not the timezones that are copyrighted. The dispute is the compensation of facts not the facts themselves (e.g. you can't go make a book called kniteli's book of world records which is a copy of the gusiness book). I'm not saying it's a stupid lawsuit; it is. | null | 0 | 1318248965 | False | 0 | c2qa3r1 | t3_l6v4t | null | t1_c2qa3r1 | t1_c2q9mov | null | 1427710913 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | ysangkok | null | [these (JavaScript Garden)](http://bonsaiden.github.com/JavaScript-Garden/#core.semicolon) | null | 0 | 1318249086 | False | 0 | c2qa40z | t3_l6uwv | null | t1_c2qa40z | t1_c2q9z5c | null | 1427710916 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | philomathie | null | Trying to not be ignorant sounds like a pretty noble thing to me... You somehow made it sound like an insult! | null | 0 | 1318249187 | False | 0 | c2qa48r | t3_l6v4t | null | t1_c2qa48r | t1_c2q9wp2 | null | 1427710919 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | schnitzi | null | Doesn't appear so... I'm in Australia. Guess it is a worldwide issue. | null | 0 | 1318249325 | False | 0 | c2qa4j2 | t3_l6v4t | null | t1_c2qa4j2 | t1_c2qa2zx | null | 1427710922 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | zhivago | null | Management's job is to make my life easier by arranging for all of the stupid crap that I don't want to do to get done. | null | 0 | 1318249368 | False | 0 | c2qa4mf | t3_l6m5r | null | t1_c2qa4mf | t1_c2q8zie | null | 1427710925 | 8 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | runagate | null | Code defined by requirements thought up by legislators is terrible.
I once worked on financial code that involved rules using something called "age at nearest birthday".
How did someone arrive at the idea to invent a new kind of age six months different from a normal age? It added nothing of value except to remove ... | null | 0 | 1318249375 | False | 0 | c2qa4n6 | t3_l6v4t | null | t1_c2qa4n6 | t3_l6v4t | null | 1427710925 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | TookItTooFar | null | How would you store an event that occurs at 9 AM every day for the next five years? Calculate the UTC times for DST and Standard Time manually? How would you store this information in a time zone that is liable to move DST from one year to the next (e.g. Egypt)? | null | 0 | 1318249402 | False | 0 | c2qa4ot | t3_l6v4t | null | t1_c2qa4ot | t1_c2q9s1d | null | 1427710926 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | TookItTooFar | null | How would you store an event that occurs at 9 AM every day for the next five years? Calculate the UTC times for DST and Standard Time manually? How would you store this information in a time zone that is liable to move DST from one year to the next (e.g. Egypt)?
| null | 0 | 1318249417 | False | 0 | c2qa4qb | t3_l6v4t | null | t1_c2qa4qb | t1_c2q9l69 | null | 1427710926 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | day_cq | null | Do you like working for Google as a programmer? | null | 0 | 1318249447 | False | 0 | c2qa4sr | t3_l6m5r | null | t1_c2qa4sr | t1_c2q9v8p | null | 1427710927 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1318249448 | 1406738536 | 0 | c2qa4st | t3_l6uwv | null | t1_c2qa4st | t3_l6uwv | null | 1427710927 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | But you don't force them to sleep at a particular time, people go to sleep because they're tired and it's become dark (usually). | null | 0 | 1318249497 | False | 0 | c2qa4ww | t3_l6v4t | null | t1_c2qa4ww | t1_c2q9z2o | null | 1427710928 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1318249529 | False | 0 | c2qa4zh | t3_l6v4t | null | t1_c2qa4zh | t3_l6v4t | null | 1427710930 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | TookItTooFar | null | Because a user's natural inclination would be to hold the meeting at the same "absolute time" even if the timezone moves DST (even if both timezones move DST by the same amount)? Do normal people keep a UTC watch? | null | 0 | 1318249555 | False | 0 | c2qa51k | t3_l6v4t | null | t1_c2qa51k | t1_c2q9uw0 | null | 1427710930 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Frankeh | null | 12.75
You're welcome. | null | 0 | 1318249588 | False | 0 | c2qa544 | t3_l6v4t | null | t1_c2qa544 | t3_l6v4t | null | 1427710931 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | adny | null | just FYI, timeanddate.com are launching a API very soon, they are very accurate with DST and time zone changes, could well ease your burden. Its not avail yet, click on feedback on the page and ask about it. | null | 0 | 1318249638 | False | 0 | c2qa58a | t3_l6v4t | null | t1_c2qa58a | t3_l6v4t | null | 1427710933 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | bodza | null | kre ftw | null | 0 | 1318249687 | False | 0 | c2qa5cd | t3_l6v4t | null | t1_c2qa5cd | t1_c2q9u7e | null | 1427710934 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | campbellm | null | Yup, TOOL; the language from the (now dead) 4GL [Forte](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Forte_4GL), which was purchased by Sun and put out to pasture to die.
The CTOR syntax was:
varname : Type = new()
Or optionally:
varname : Type = new(namedParam = value, namedParam2 = value, ...)
It had a couple interestin... | null | 0 | 1318249948 | True | 0 | c2qa5y1 | t3_l6uwv | null | t1_c2qa5y1 | t1_c2qa2or | null | 1427710942 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Terminus1 | null | We have enough programming languages, Dart adds nothing. | null | 0 | 1318249963 | False | 0 | c2qa5zg | t3_l6uwv | null | t1_c2qa5zg | t3_l6uwv | null | 1427710942 | 8 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | idiotthethird | null | I can't expect it, and I don't. But that doesn't mean that I think it's good.
But languages and measurement systems aren't a great analogy for time zones, because official, precise, internationally recognised time zones are such a recent development. There's no good reason for any country to not have an integer numbe... | null | 0 | 1318249990 | False | 0 | c2qa61n | t3_l6v4t | null | t1_c2qa61n | t1_c2qa21a | null | 1427710943 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Philluminati | null | So you can't use a false name on Google+ but if you are a specification for a programming language that's okay? | null | 0 | 1318250001 | False | 0 | c2qa62k | t3_l6uwv | null | t1_c2qa62k | t1_c2q9jdg | null | 1427710944 | -7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | ysangkok | null | What are the other languages? | null | 0 | 1318250022 | False | 0 | c2qa64h | t3_l6uwv | null | t1_c2qa64h | t1_c2q9mbk | null | 1427710944 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | shevsky790 | null | I move that we get rid of timezones.
But actually, I think the world would get along perfectly fine without them these days. And it would make a ton of things way easier. Why don't we just start a global Reddit movement to abolish them?
DST too. The world needs to be a simpler place. | null | 0 | 1318250123 | False | 0 | c2qa6cl | t3_l6v4t | null | t1_c2qa6cl | t3_l6v4t | null | 1427710948 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | nemtrif | null | > It's syntax, while uninspiring, is familiar and easy to pick up for millions of programmers.
Upvoted for honesty. That's exactly what I thought when I saw the examples at your web site. | null | 0 | 1318250132 | False | 0 | c2qa6dd | t3_l6uwv | null | t1_c2qa6dd | t1_c2q9t7h | null | 1427710948 | 38 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Philluminati | null | Perhaps borrowing from the idea from .NET, one of Microsoft's more successful achievements. | null | 0 | 1318250225 | False | 0 | c2qa6lh | t3_l6uwv | null | t1_c2qa6lh | t1_c2q9gz8 | null | 1427710951 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | TheSmoke | null | you've tried too hard there, buddy. go try python, ruby, groovy or scala. | null | 0 | 1318250250 | False | 0 | c2qa6n7 | t3_l6uwv | null | t1_c2qa6n7 | t1_c2q9u3e | null | 1427710952 | -11 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | There is just too much momentum behind Javascript for Dart to catch on. It's only a matter of time before Javascript is just as fast as Java or Dart. It's much harder to optimize Javascript but there are a lot more people working on it. e.g. Intel launched a multi processing library for Javascript that can speed up pro... | null | 0 | 1318250287 | False | 0 | c2qa6ql | t3_l6uwv | null | t1_c2qa6ql | t3_l6uwv | null | 1427710953 | 8 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | It depends on the language/type system design. Static typing doesn't require explicit modeling of class hierarchy, as you can use structural typing, which basically allows to infer implicit interfaces that the used object-values have to implement. The end result is quite like duck-typing, verified at compile time. | null | 0 | 1318250322 | False | 0 | c2qa6tl | t3_l6uwv | null | t1_c2qa6tl | t1_c2q9yom | null | 1427710953 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | nickdangler | null | Or give extra credit to students who submit some! | null | 0 | 1318250344 | False | 0 | c2qa6vm | t3_l6ao7 | null | t1_c2qa6vm | t1_c2q8usl | null | 1427710955 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | nemtrif | null | > And I'd still much rather code in this than javascript.
Would you rather code in this than CofeeScript? | null | 0 | 1318250346 | False | 0 | c2qa6vv | t3_l6uwv | null | t1_c2qa6vv | t1_c2q9kmi | null | 1427710955 | 10 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | http://www.odi.ch/prog/design/datetime.php | null | 0 | 1318250444 | False | 0 | c2qa746 | t3_l6v4t | null | t1_c2qa746 | t3_l6v4t | null | 1427710958 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | nickdangler | null | Somewhat off topic... what do geneology databases do to handle pre-1970 times? | null | 0 | 1318250647 | False | 0 | c2qa7lm | t3_l6v4t | null | t1_c2qa7lm | t1_c2q9omm | null | 1427710964 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | Dart should have its own subreddit | null | 0 | 1318250675 | False | 0 | c2qa7oe | t3_l6uwv | null | t1_c2qa7oe | t3_l6uwv | null | 1427710965 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | SohumB | null | I think the point is that you can't consider a future point in time something you can unambiguously store.
Under these assumptions:
* 9 AM means _9 AM_, rather than 9 AM today and every 24 hours from now on
* It's 9 AM in a specific specified timezone, say "Egypt"
My first pass at a solution would be that every time... | null | 0 | 1318250699 | False | 0 | c2qa7pz | t3_l6v4t | null | t1_c2qa7pz | t1_c2qa4ot | null | 1427710965 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | moreyes | null | I believe the advantage will come when you become able to develop a web app GUI using Dart and adapt it to build an Android app. Also, one of its purposes is to enable better tooling (code analyzing/refactoring etc), so maybe when it matures that will be an advantage too. | null | 0 | 1318250759 | False | 0 | c2qa7ve | t3_l6uwv | null | t1_c2qa7ve | t1_c2qa0cv | null | 1427710968 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | fionbio | null | Seems like Dart will lose a lot of dynamism indeed. With JavaScript, I can redefine stuff without reloading the page, prototypal inheritance helping a lot in this respect when doing OO. I even wrote JavaScript [Swank backend](https://github.com/ivan4th/swank-js) that helps me a lot, making Emacs-based JS development ex... | null | 0 | 1318250808 | False | 0 | c2qa7zm | t3_l6uwv | null | t1_c2qa7zm | t1_c2q9yxa | null | 1427710969 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | marriage_iguana | null | If I revealed what made it a special gun, it would no longer be special. | null | 0 | 1318250858 | False | 0 | c2qa848 | t3_l6v4t | null | t1_c2qa848 | t1_c2q9yna | null | 1427710971 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | redteddy23 | null | It's very much programming if you work with amazon web services. Use GMT you bastards! | null | 0 | 1318250873 | False | 0 | c2qa85i | t3_l6v4t | null | t1_c2qa85i | t1_c2q9cjc | null | 1427710971 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | oaddit | null | So what is this exactly? Is it a CoffeeScript-type thingy that compiles to JavaScript too? | null | 0 | 1318250989 | False | 0 | c2qa8g9 | t3_l6uwv | null | t1_c2qa8g9 | t3_l6uwv | null | 1427710975 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | authorblues | null | Agreed. If hours isn't enough granularity, represent timezone offsets in minutes. Done, done. 3/4 hour happens to be an integer in minutes, go figure. | null | 0 | 1318251029 | False | 0 | c2qa8jt | t3_l6v4t | null | t1_c2qa8jt | t1_c2q9gin | null | 1427710976 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | 6_28 | null | Right, but it could be done at compile-time, couldn't it? So if the compiler sees a new statement like that, it will expand it to the the appropriate constructor. Anyway, I don't think it's that important. | null | 0 | 1318251164 | False | 0 | c2qa8vz | t3_l6uwv | null | t1_c2qa8vz | t1_c2q9zpu | null | 1427710981 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | chloratine | null | its | null | 0 | 1318251180 | False | 0 | c2qa8xl | t3_l6v4t | null | t1_c2qa8xl | t1_c2q9yz7 | null | 1427710982 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | oaddit | null | This will probably tank, won´t it? Programming people seem to be reluctant to adopt technologies developed by the big players, and rightly so. | null | 0 | 1318251187 | False | 0 | c2qa8y8 | t3_l6uwv | null | t1_c2qa8y8 | t3_l6uwv | null | 1427710982 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | OopsLostPassword | null | I was more referring to the fact that dealing with timezones unfortunately means dealing with more problems than simple offsets. To begin with, those offsets are moving and local "time" isn't linear (or even monotonous). That's like Unicode : you cannot (or shouldn't) try to code it yourself, you must use some kind of ... | null | 0 | 1318251277 | True | 0 | c2qa96i | t3_l6v4t | null | t1_c2qa96i | t1_c2qa8jt | null | 1427710984 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | cockmongler | null | Yeah, this is the problem. Timezones are a solved problem (mostly), but for some reason so many major frameworks/protocols/libraries fail to support them.
Just the other day I had to hack up my own code to parse rfc822 dates in Python, batteries included my arse. | null | 0 | 1318251436 | False | 0 | c2qa9lw | t3_l6v4t | null | t1_c2qa9lw | t1_c2q9hh2 | null | 1427710989 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | troyanonymous1 | null | Yep, JPEG is better for photos, PNG is better for solid colors like cartoons where you want a sharp outline and can put up with lossless compression.
In a photo nobody will notice the tiny losses from JPEG. Even 90 quality JPEG is probably way smaller. | null | 0 | 1318251491 | False | 0 | c2qa9qa | t3_l6ao7 | null | t1_c2qa9qa | t1_c2q8gkt | null | 1427710991 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | sltkr | null | That's an independent problem. As long as you are using a suitable time_t, doing all the calculations in UTC ("POSIX") time is really the way to go.
If by 2038 you are still using a 32-bit time_t, you have far bigger problems than handling timezones correctly. That shouldn't impede you from using UNIX timestamps to do... | null | 0 | 1318251702 | False | 0 | c2qaaa8 | t3_l6v4t | null | t1_c2qaaa8 | t1_c2q9yla | null | 1427710998 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | 18231311392 | null | I'm sick of faggoty juniors and their fucked up ideas about mandatory whitespace. "Fuck flexibility!" they say. "Fuck you!" they say.
Semi colons, putting braces wherever you want, these are **important** features in a language.
To those who think otherwise, get fucked. | null | 0 | 1318251810 | False | 0 | c2qaaks | t3_l6uwv | null | t1_c2qaaks | t1_c2q9tvk | null | 1427711002 | -17 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | cebedec | null | I disagree, [cuttlefish will rule](http://xkcd.com/520/). | null | 0 | 1318251902 | False | 0 | c2qaatv | t3_l6v4t | null | t1_c2qaatv | t1_c2q9zo1 | null | 1427711006 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | I agree. The other nice thing about POSIX time is that:
1. The second is an SI unit.
2. It does not bother with the leap second silliness. Trying to relate time to something as inherently inaccurate as the Earth's rotation in the time of nanosecond precision is ridiculous. | null | 0 | 1318251903 | False | 0 | c2qaatx | t3_l6v4t | null | t1_c2qaatx | t1_c2qaaa8 | null | 1427711006 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Seriousity | null | New Zealander Linux user here, my taskbar killed itself a while ago so I can't see the time and Googled 'time in nz' about ten minutes ago, it showed me NZ time and Chatham Islands time which was some arbitrarily different number, I was WTFing about it just then and now I see this, upvotes to you sir! | null | 0 | 1318251952 | False | 0 | c2qaaza | t3_l6v4t | null | t1_c2qaaza | t3_l6v4t | null | 1427711007 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Nimbal | null | Someone used -Wpedantic. | null | 0 | 1318252011 | False | 0 | c2qab4v | t3_l6v4t | null | t1_c2qab4v | t1_c2qa8xl | null | 1427711010 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | zugaldia | null | Anyone concerned about patents? [PATENTS](http://code.google.com/p/dart/source/browse/branches/bleeding_edge/PATENTS) | null | 0 | 1318252025 | False | 0 | c2qab6g | t3_l6uwv | null | t1_c2qab6g | t1_c2q9d7k | null | 1427711011 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | cebedec | null | Harumph indeed. | null | 0 | 1318252043 | False | 0 | c2qab82 | t3_l6v4t | null | t1_c2qab82 | t1_c2q9yjk | null | 1427711011 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | TylerEaves | null | So, you like to write bad code then?
EDIT: Anyone downvoting this has never had to maintain legacy code where the original author thought "flexibility" was a virtue. Style guides exist for a reason. | null | 0 | 1318252044 | True | 0 | c2qab86 | t3_l6uwv | null | t1_c2qab86 | t1_c2qaaks | null | 1427711011 | -8 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | Not being good at programming. | null | 0 | 1318252131 | False | 0 | c2qabh1 | t3_l6v4t | null | t1_c2qabh1 | t1_c2q9gid | null | 1427711014 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | dmitry_sychov | null | Time does not exist. | null | 0 | 1318252252 | False | 0 | c2qabsn | t3_l6uwv | null | t1_c2qabsn | t1_c2q9x03 | null | 1427711019 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1318252293 | False | 0 | c2qabwe | t3_l6v4t | null | t1_c2qabwe | t3_l6v4t | null | 1427711021 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | authorblues | null | Understood. Thanks for the knowledge. | null | 0 | 1318252315 | False | 0 | c2qabyj | t3_l6v4t | null | t1_c2qabyj | t1_c2qa96i | null | 1427711022 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | axilmar | null | > I never asked about that, I ask why you consider D to require more upfront knowledge when designing a type than C++.
The initial post of mine that led to your comment was about consistence and orthogonality. One of the things that make make C++ more consistent and orthogonal is the lack of separation between stru... | null | 0 | 1318252332 | False | 0 | c2qabzw | t3_kljc0 | null | t1_c2qabzw | t1_c2q7sf3 | null | 1427711022 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | KeX3 | null | Or do it in reverse.
1. Trigger the "event-trigger" at your whim, to cover all the weird cases, every 15 minutes.
2. Is "NOW > 9AM in Egypt, and has this event not triggered today?" -> trigger it
Instead of working by inserting ahead of time, cut your losses and do the less exact way of looking back and trigger... | null | 0 | 1318252357 | False | 0 | c2qac2l | t3_l6v4t | null | t1_c2qac2l | t1_c2qa7pz | null | 1427711027 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | From the beginning of the 1st chapter:
> If you have a computer handy, now would be an excellent moment to fire up the Coq interpreter under your favorite IDE — either CoqIde or Proof General — and try this for yourself. Load this file (Basics.v) from the book's accompanying Coq sources, find the above example, subm... | null | 0 | 1318252446 | False | 0 | c2qacap | t3_l6dcp | null | t1_c2qacap | t1_c2q9hz8 | null | 1427711029 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | a_redditor | null | Please do not post stupid memes to /r/programming. | null | 0 | 1318252476 | False | 0 | c2qacdf | t3_l6v4t | null | t1_c2qacdf | t3_l6v4t | null | 1427711027 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | toaster99 | null | Ohio University | null | 0 | 1318252531 | False | 0 | c2qacjc | t3_l6dcp | null | t1_c2qacjc | t1_c2q7rib | null | 1427711029 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | moreyes | null | Uh, that is not a profile, it is a link to a search for "Dart Language". | null | 0 | 1318252544 | False | 0 | c2qackp | t3_l6uwv | null | t1_c2qackp | t1_c2qa62k | null | 1427711030 | 8 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1318252553 | False | 0 | c2qacls | t3_l6v4t | null | t1_c2qacls | t1_c2qa1oj | null | 1427711030 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | SohumB | null | It also has the additional drawback of firing a huge number of events in total — every 15 minutes over even a _day_ is like ~100 wakeups, much less a year — while inserting it is O(events) wakeups.
Other than that, yea, that would work. | null | 0 | 1318252582 | False | 0 | c2qaco1 | t3_l6v4t | null | t1_c2qaco1 | t1_c2qac2l | null | 1427711031 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | dkesh | null | Even if there are date/time classes and functions built in, the decisions themselves can be hard, even forgetting the programming. My (b2b) clients manage events that are in multiple timezones, while travelling in different timezones, for end consumers in multiple timezones, and the kicker is...they want everything to... | null | 0 | 1318252601 | False | 0 | c2qacq6 | t3_l6v4t | null | t1_c2qacq6 | t1_c2q9hh2 | null | 1427711032 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | rezhitter | null | as a citizen of the world i'd wish they would get rid of timezones and switch to atomic clocks because then it would be more reflective of Sol's position in the sky, its like every 5 miles is a different minute. Also i think after a while people would be more understanding of the concept of "late" (late doesn't exist t... | null | 0 | 1318252618 | False | 0 | c2qacry | t3_l6v4t | null | t1_c2qacry | t3_l6v4t | null | 1427711032 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | mccoyn | null | There is actually a summit to address these issues being held at the Solomon Islands on Dec 31 this year. | null | 0 | 1318252694 | False | 0 | c2qaczn | t3_l6v4t | null | t1_c2qaczn | t3_l6v4t | null | 1427711034 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1318252700 | 1406738538 | 0 | c2qad08 | t3_l6uwv | null | t1_c2qad08 | t1_c2q9wmw | null | 1427711034 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | batiste | null | Quite a big gotcha indeed. But Dart seems to raise an exception for declaring an useless object literal anyway. ie:
main() {{"t":1};print("pass");}
That mean that even if Dart worked like JS regarding to semicolon, you will still get a compilation error.
You could also enforce the former brace syntax (you can't ... | null | 0 | 1318252763 | True | 0 | c2qad66 | t3_l6uwv | null | t1_c2qad66 | t1_c2qa12k | null | 1427711038 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | nekmok | null | I like [this one](http://vimeo.com/2433947).
Edit: I saw a crappy electo concert once. ;) | null | 0 | 1318252867 | True | 0 | c2qadfx | t3_l5s9p | null | t1_c2qadfx | t1_c2q9zwo | null | 1427711041 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | axilmar | null | The next programming language should be named YAWN.
| null | 0 | 1318252873 | False | 0 | c2qadgr | t3_l6uwv | null | t1_c2qadgr | t3_l6uwv | null | 1427711041 | 16 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | fas2 | null | > what bothers me the most is that it still has statements vs. expressions
Can you expand on this? They are not the same. | null | 0 | 1318253039 | False | 0 | c2qadwl | t3_l6uwv | null | t1_c2qadwl | t1_c2q9yxa | null | 1427711047 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Timmmmbob | null | So the code can say one thing and do something else...? Seems completely crazy to me; is there a decent reason why the types aren't actually enforced? | null | 0 | 1318253180 | False | 0 | c2qaear | t3_l6uwv | null | t1_c2qaear | t1_c2q9mh7 | null | 1427711052 | 29 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | danhakimi | null | My heart sank when I saw a document.getElementById(). Seriously, Dart? | null | 0 | 1318253183 | False | 0 | c2qaeb6 | t3_l6uwv | null | t1_c2qaeb6 | t3_l6uwv | null | 1427711052 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | chneukirchen | null | Is Newspeak's typesystem broken by design, too? | null | 0 | 1318253234 | False | 0 | c2qaegx | t3_l6uwv | null | t1_c2qaegx | t1_c2q9nyu | null | 1427711054 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1318253245 | False | 0 | c2qaei3 | t3_l3tuj | null | t1_c2qaei3 | t1_c2pq1d8 | null | 1427711054 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | zellyman | null | Oh wow. I am cackling at work now. I'm going to be using "Appify" as many times as possible. | null | 0 | 1318253262 | False | 0 | c2qaejp | t3_l4b56 | null | t1_c2qaejp | t1_c2pqbit | null | 1427711054 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | usagebasedbill | null | Seems like a case of pareidolia almost; the mind is making this annoying cacophony sound musical. | null | 0 | 1318253276 | False | 0 | c2qaelp | t3_l6xia | null | t1_c2qaelp | t3_l6xia | null | 1427711055 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | Calendaring/scheduling applications are an odd one out in a sense that you may need to *store* local time, but you still can get away with using the same primitives (conversion UTC<->TZ-specific). Mind you, now you are venturing outside "the majority of applications" land. :)
You can store a recurring time point... | null | 0 | 1318253281 | False | 0 | c2qaema | t3_l6v4t | null | t1_c2qaema | t1_c2qa4ot | null | 1427711055 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | plouj | null | These are pretty old posts and I just can't help but wonder if his blog suddenly became more popular because he works for Apple or posted a funny story about Steve. | null | 0 | 1318253309 | False | 0 | c2qaepk | t3_l6xnp | null | t1_c2qaepk | t3_l6xnp | null | 1427711056 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1318253318 | False | 0 | c2qaeq3 | t3_l6xnp | null | t1_c2qaeq3 | t3_l6xnp | null | 1427711057 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | Kinda reminds me of [Project Euler](http://projecteuler.net/) | null | 0 | 1318253464 | False | 0 | c2qaf6b | t3_l6ao7 | null | t1_c2qaf6b | t3_l6ao7 | null | 1427711062 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | > So, you like to write bad code then?
YES. Of course I write bad code. You do too. The great thing about languages with ; and {} is that the compiler can find more of my bad code for me. | null | 0 | 1318253592 | False | 0 | c2qafjt | t3_l6uwv | null | t1_c2qafjt | t1_c2qab86 | null | 1427711067 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | imphasing | null | > But aren't the most mathematically inspired programming languages also the ones that are most divorced from how a computer operates at the lowest levels?
Exactly, programming declaratively is nothing like how computers actually operate. That's why this stuff is so interesting these days, it's making the computers... | null | 0 | 1318253603 | False | 0 | c2qafkz | t3_l6dcp | null | t1_c2qafkz | t1_c2q9e1v | null | 1427711068 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | That's the point... they should be the same. | null | 0 | 1318253610 | False | 0 | c2qafli | t3_l6uwv | null | t1_c2qafli | t1_c2qadwl | null | 1427711068 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | danhakimi | null | Will there be a JSON-like notation available? | null | 0 | 1318253649 | False | 0 | c2qafpl | t3_l6uwv | null | t1_c2qafpl | t3_l6uwv | null | 1427711069 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | huf | null | freedom is bad. got it. go fuck yourself and write python, at least that's python. why you gotta whine whenever something isnt python is beyond me. | null | 0 | 1318253684 | False | 0 | c2qaft3 | t3_l6uwv | null | t1_c2qaft3 | t1_c2qab86 | null | 1427711071 | -4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | TylerEaves | null | Nonsense. It's easy for you to write all kinds of bad code that compile just fine but don't do what you mean. (For instance, leave the braces off a multi-line if.
Whereas in a language with significant white-space the association is obvious, and the language can in fact catch much more in terms of improperly nested ... | null | 0 | 1318253745 | False | 0 | c2qag00 | t3_l6uwv | null | t1_c2qag00 | t1_c2qafjt | null | 1427711073 | -3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | SeriousWorm | null | Scala has optional semicolons, as well. | null | 0 | 1318253762 | False | 0 | c2qag25 | t3_l6uwv | null | t1_c2qag25 | t1_c2qad08 | null | 1427711074 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | okpmem | null | fuck everything about this. They speak in such a direct way now that its really revealing. "They must be controlled, and we are doing research into figuring out how to control them."
It is striking how fascists get away with this to the point that some programmers are like "yeah, i am one of those creative types. We a... | null | 0 | 1318253774 | False | 0 | c2qag3f | t3_l6m5r | null | t1_c2qag3f | t3_l6m5r | null | 1427711074 | 8 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | iluvatar | null | Still around and still the most productive desktop environment I've yet found. | null | 0 | 1318253860 | False | 0 | c2qagdd | t3_l5wo1 | null | t1_c2qagdd | t1_c2q8cgl | null | 1427711078 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | In most languages expressions can be statements. For example you could put f() on a line by itself and follow it with a semicolon:
f();
Or you can use it in another statement:
x = f();
So really most statements are just expressions that have a semicolon on the end. The complaint is that there are statemen... | null | 0 | 1318253903 | False | 0 | c2qaghp | t3_l6uwv | null | t1_c2qaghp | t1_c2qadwl | null | 1427711080 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | merlinm | null | How long before a native runtime shows up in chrome? ;-) | null | 0 | 1318253968 | False | 0 | c2qagot | t3_l6uwv | null | t1_c2qagot | t1_c2q9mk4 | null | 1427711082 | 11 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1318254135 | False | 0 | c2qah87 | t3_l71fm | null | t1_c2qah87 | t3_l71fm | null | 1427711089 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | fas2 | null | But expressions have a return value (and ideally no side effects), statements have side effects but no return value.
Otherwise you end up with hackery like this:
if((x=f(x)) == y) { ... } | null | 0 | 1318254260 | False | 0 | c2qahnl | t3_l6uwv | null | t1_c2qahnl | t1_c2qaghp | null | 1427711095 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | I thought the N-queens puzzle also imposed the limit that queens could not exist on the same diagonal (queens being able to move diagonally in chess). Is this a custom variant of the N-queens puzzle? | null | 0 | 1318254273 | False | 0 | c2qahpf | t3_l6zqc | null | t1_c2qahpf | t3_l6zqc | null | 1427711095 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
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