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True | binford2k | null | Interesting how different http://php.net/manual/en/history.php.php and http://php.net/manual/pl/history.php.php are. | null | 0 | 1318265401 | False | 0 | c2qbtlm | t3_l1hnb | null | t1_c2qbtlm | t1_c2q9hmi | null | 1427711723 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | munificent | null | That example is a bit stale. With our newer DOM lib, it's:
document.query('#blah'); | null | 0 | 1318265460 | False | 0 | c2qbtwz | t3_l6uwv | null | t1_c2qbtwz | t1_c2qaeb6 | null | 1427711727 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1318265490 | 1368989318 | 0 | c2qbu23 | t3_l6uwv | null | t1_c2qbu23 | t1_c2qbqee | null | 1427711729 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | itISiBOWMAN | null | Maybe they are tired of listening to your braggadocios posts about friends in high places, so they relegated you to the acquaintance circle.
Note: that's why I don't like Google+ either. | null | 0 | 1318265569 | False | 0 | c2qbuh1 | t3_l6uwv | null | t1_c2qbuh1 | t1_c2qaulp | null | 1427711735 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | philh | null | Something I learned fairly recently is that grep's speed is hilariously locale-dependant. A 26MB file with no matches for 'abcde' took me 0.07s in LANG=C, and 5.7s in LANG=en_GB.UTF-8.
(ack took about 2.3s in both cases - faster than grep's worst case, but still crazy slow compared to grep's best case.)
edit - case-o... | null | 0 | 1318265589 | True | 0 | c2qbukx | t3_l6xnp | null | t1_c2qbukx | t3_l6xnp | null | 1427711736 | 14 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | Two things - the syntax and the philosophy. In my experience, if Expect is your best option, then something has gone terribly wrong. Putting a scripting wrapper over interactive tasks is just... like using a hacksaw to square up those round holes for rectangular pegs.
When it really can't be avoided (like for configu... | null | 0 | 1318265607 | False | 0 | c2qbuo4 | t3_l1rw4 | null | t1_c2qbuo4 | t1_c2q6up4 | null | 1427711738 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | munificent | null | I didn't say all of it. ;)
I create classes in JS too, as do many JS developers. The problem is that the language itself has no understanding of that pattern, so tools don't understand it and compilers can't take full advantage of it. | null | 0 | 1318265615 | False | 0 | c2qbuq1 | t3_l6uwv | null | t1_c2qbuq1 | t1_c2qbmvc | null | 1427711738 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | munificent | null | We haven't had the resources to look at that, but it would be interesting to try. | null | 0 | 1318265662 | False | 0 | c2qbuyx | t3_l6uwv | null | t1_c2qbuyx | t1_c2qboeo | null | 1427711741 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1318265677 | False | 0 | c2qbv22 | t3_l6uwv | null | t1_c2qbv22 | t3_l6uwv | null | 1427711742 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | weavejester | null | Why is `parse` a "weasel word"? | null | 0 | 1318265685 | False | 0 | c2qbv3p | t3_l74f0 | null | t1_c2qbv3p | t3_l74f0 | null | 1427711742 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | munificent | null | I got like three hours. It's hard to sleep when the karma well is flowing! | null | 0 | 1318265686 | False | 0 | c2qbv3w | t3_l6uwv | null | t1_c2qbv3w | t1_c2qbqt8 | null | 1427711742 | 38 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1318265698 | False | 0 | c2qbv5u | t3_l73uk | null | t1_c2qbv5u | t1_c2qbl3l | null | 1427711743 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | munificent | null | I don't believe so. | null | 0 | 1318265705 | False | 0 | c2qbv71 | t3_l6uwv | null | t1_c2qbv71 | t1_c2qbrj9 | null | 1427711745 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Poltras | null | I just accept the truth; you can't know everything. Doesn't change the quest.
What you assume is common knowledge is not for them; likewise there are stuff a bread maker knows since childhood which you don't and might never. Doesn't make you ignorant. Just a little perspective. | null | 0 | 1318265707 | False | 0 | c2qbv79 | t3_l6v4t | null | t1_c2qbv79 | t1_c2qa48r | null | 1427711745 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | danhakimi | null | I think Microsoft's forcing it is pretty much the only reason anybody ever uses C#. It's not that vastly successful.
I thought Dart would be a complete failure until I saw this. This tells me google is pretty serious about it. It's close to JS, but better -- particularly with OO, as far as I can tell. If they make jQu... | null | 0 | 1318265715 | False | 0 | c2qbv8s | t3_l6uwv | null | t1_c2qbv8s | t1_c2qbq1g | null | 1427711745 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | indenturedsmile | null | As a locale noob, can you give me any guesses why this is the case? | null | 0 | 1318265781 | False | 0 | c2qbvlj | t3_l6xnp | null | t1_c2qbvlj | t1_c2qbukx | null | 1427711750 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | TheMoonMaster | null | Why should someone pick this over existing technologies that are free/open source such as [Titanium](http://www.appcelerator.com/) or [Phonegap](http://www.phonegap.com/) that seem to already have a large user base? | null | 0 | 1318265793 | False | 0 | c2qbvnv | t3_l7769 | null | t1_c2qbvnv | t3_l7769 | null | 1427711750 | 8 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | cdsmith | null | My anecdotal experience is exactly the opposite. I use Google+ regularly communicate with people from several different groups: mainly the Haskell programming language community, which has heavily adopted Google+, and also teachers and parents in a local school where I'm teaching who have decided to use it for communi... | null | 0 | 1318265810 | True | 0 | c2qbvqu | t3_l6uwv | null | t1_c2qbvqu | t1_c2qaulp | null | 1427711752 | 16 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | Sure, and because Google are in a unique position to potentially pull off such a feat we have to defer to their judgement. Having the designer of Newspeak at the helm can't hurt, and by the sounds of it the community discussion will help influence the language.
I understand the need for familiarity in trying to push a... | null | 0 | 1318265822 | False | 0 | c2qbvst | t3_l6uwv | null | t1_c2qbvst | t1_c2qbo2v | null | 1427711752 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | DullBoyJack | null | A bit late, but if you're still answering questions- what's up with strings? In the Greeter example, it makes use of a single-quoted, interpolated string. Are the quotes interchangable or is there some other sort of difference? | null | 0 | 1318265840 | False | 0 | c2qbvw2 | t3_l6uwv | null | t1_c2qbvw2 | t1_c2q9lpp | null | 1427711753 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | munificent | null | > Are you certain you've thought this through?
I know we've put *some* thought into it, but not a ton. This stuff is all brand new.
> If you create a new NodeCollection interface that has both array and node interfaces, I'm certain you can get performance for returning a single item identical to the current nod... | null | 0 | 1318265864 | False | 0 | c2qbw0p | t3_l6uwv | null | t1_c2qbw0p | t1_c2qbso1 | null | 1427711755 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | munificent | null | > My biggest question is why make a new programming language instead of just trying to push for making a more efficient, uniform browser byte code and VM?
This comes up a lot (I've asked it myself). I believe Brendan Eich has spent time explaining why bytecode in the browser doesn't work. Hunt around and I think yo... | null | 0 | 1318265986 | False | 0 | c2qbwm4 | t3_l6uwv | null | t1_c2qbwm4 | t1_c2qbmth | null | 1427711762 | 13 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | chmod700 | null | in the C locale, all characters take the same amount of memory (1byte), so grep's C buffer tricks can work their charms. In UTF8 characters can be represented by a single byte or more, rending grep's buffer tricks less useful. | null | 0 | 1318266032 | False | 0 | c2qbwty | t3_l6xnp | null | t1_c2qbwty | t1_c2qbvlj | null | 1427711765 | 12 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | This language seems quite different from the beautiful & elegant Go that came from the same company. Can you reveal at all what kind of corporate culture there is... did your teams communicate at all? | null | 0 | 1318266095 | True | 0 | c2qbx4y | t3_l6uwv | null | t1_c2qbx4y | t1_c2q9lpp | null | 1427711769 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Jameshfisher | null | Sigh. I was optimistic about Dart. But by far the most significant problem with JS is the type system, and Dart *utterly* fails to address this. The Dart type system doesn't offer much more than [Closure Compiler annotations](http://code.google.com/closure/compiler/docs/js-for-compiler.html). The developers apparen... | null | 0 | 1318266119 | True | 0 | c2qbx9m | t3_l6uwv | null | t1_c2qbx9m | t3_l6uwv | null | 1427711770 | 51 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1318266235 | True | 0 | c2qbxul | t3_l6uwv | null | t1_c2qbxul | t1_c2qbm4y | null | 1427711778 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | jng | null | It's a completely different approach, solution, technology, way to do things and a radically different result. None of the other technologies you mention allows building a native mobile app for 4 platforms writing 30 lines of CSS, which results in a fully native UX (native controls, etc...).
Hopefully the unique trait... | null | 0 | 1318266394 | False | 0 | c2qbyog | t3_l7769 | null | t1_c2qbyog | t1_c2qbvnv | null | 1427711789 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | nandemo | null | In which case
> you still have the problem of the Chinese guy calling the California woman when she's sleeping. | null | 0 | 1318266492 | False | 0 | c2qbz6q | t3_l6v4t | null | t1_c2qbz6q | t1_c2qa4ww | null | 1427711795 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Jameshfisher | null | You should design a better algorithm and submit a patch | null | 0 | 1318266493 | False | 0 | c2qbz7e | t3_l6uwv | null | t1_c2qbz7e | t1_c2qbs6d | null | 1427711797 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | > The problem with type systems is that they are pessimistic. There are a number of programs that will not exhibit bad behavior at runtime, but aren't type safe. So sometimes you spend extra effort pleasing the type system without gaining any actual improvement in code quality.
This is true, but I think that a comp... | null | 0 | 1318266517 | True | 0 | c2qbzc9 | t3_l6uwv | null | t1_c2qbzc9 | t1_c2qbm4y | null | 1427711798 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | kavedaa | null | The plugin's purpose was to create applets, not interact with the DOM.
However, in the same vein, JavaFX seems very promising, and in my opinion a much better application platform than HTML5 + Javascript/Dart. | null | 0 | 1318266661 | False | 0 | c2qc02r | t3_l6uwv | null | t1_c2qc02r | t1_c2qbnvg | null | 1427711808 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Taladar | null | > Worst case, everything is open now so in theory it won't need Google to keep it going.
Well, without Google behind it nobody will adopt a language this meh. It has nothing to really get excited about and put the work in to get browser support into all the major browsers. | null | 0 | 1318266696 | False | 0 | c2qc08z | t3_l6uwv | null | t1_c2qc08z | t1_c2qbfr7 | null | 1427711809 | 9 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | ethraax | null | I think C++ is harder than C due to the plethora of features which all have their own little corner cases and odd syntax. | null | 0 | 1318266780 | False | 0 | c2qc0nb | t3_l6yn1 | null | t1_c2qc0nb | t1_c2qbked | null | 1427711815 | 42 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | frezik | null | Also, nudging the ECMAScript standardization committee to do something useful for a change. Goggle may not care if Dart takes significant market share in browser-side scripting, but like Chrome, it may push its competitors into improving. | null | 0 | 1318266839 | False | 0 | c2qc0xf | t3_l6uwv | null | t1_c2qc0xf | t1_c2q9gz8 | null | 1427711819 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | NoMoreNicksLeft | null | Technically speaking, most are paid a pre-determined quantity of resources for their non-specific contribution. For instance, if you're hired in as a "Class C-14 Office Worker", then they will determine your starting salary according to some schedule of salaries calculated by "Class E-12 Middle Managers". | null | 0 | 1318266841 | False | 0 | c2qc0xr | t3_l6m5r | null | t1_c2qc0xr | t1_c2qamt7 | null | 1427711819 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | What does he mean when he refers to (0(1)) for adding? Noob programmer here | null | 0 | 1318266872 | False | 0 | c2qc13u | t3_l6xa0 | null | t1_c2qc13u | t3_l6xa0 | null | 1427711820 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | kev009 | null | As on one of the last slides, "Expert C Programming" by Peter van der Linden. | null | 0 | 1318266886 | False | 0 | c2qc16l | t3_l6yn1 | null | t1_c2qc16l | t1_c2qbokc | null | 1427711822 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | CrunchyChewie | null | There are plenty of opportunities for self-employed programmers and IT consultants to do well for themselves.
You need to differentiate yourself from every other asshole selling the same thing. Specific knowledge/expertise that has not been "commoditized".
> It's unlikely any respectable corporation or governmen... | null | 0 | 1318266891 | False | 0 | c2qc17q | t3_l6m5r | null | t1_c2qc17q | t1_c2qaq0y | null | 1427711823 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | equark | null | The speed boosts will likely come from more restricted semantics. For instance you can't current modify classes as runtime. | null | 0 | 1318266946 | False | 0 | c2qc1it | t3_l6uwv | null | t1_c2qc1it | t1_c2qbcbd | null | 1427711827 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | TheMoonMaster | null | Are you using CSS to specify the data that is being displayed? If so, is CSS used to control everything? | null | 0 | 1318266970 | False | 0 | c2qc1ng | t3_l7769 | null | t1_c2qc1ng | t1_c2qbyog | null | 1427711827 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | Folks interested in this might want to look at [C-zar](http://coq.inria.fr/doc/Reference-Manual014.html), Coq's "Mathematical Proof Language," which is deliberately designed to be closer to idiomatic, informal proofs typically found in mathematical publications, and less "hunt and peck until a tactic works." | null | 0 | 1318267169 | False | 0 | c2qc2n8 | t3_l6dcp | null | t1_c2qc2n8 | t1_c2qbcox | null | 1427711840 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | jarly | null | Just wanted to mention that it's not a function in 2.x, it's using the `print` statement on a tuple. | null | 0 | 1318267205 | False | 0 | c2qc2uj | t3_l6uwv | null | t1_c2qc2uj | t1_c2qbcbn | null | 1427711844 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | jac50 | null | Ah. Thanks. Just reading through it now, so havent gotten to the end. Thanks alot. | null | 0 | 1318267205 | False | 0 | c2qc2un | t3_l6yn1 | null | t1_c2qc2un | t1_c2qc16l | null | 1427711844 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | jng | null | Yes, but it's Mouin-specific CSS, for example:
-mouin-style: header on(gradient blue);
If applied on an img element, this will convert it into a device-specific, appropriately-sized header with a nice blue background. It works from a high-end iPhone to a lowly Java phone, and including Android and Blackberry on the... | null | 0 | 1318267213 | False | 0 | c2qc2w6 | t3_l7769 | null | t1_c2qc2w6 | t1_c2qc1ng | null | 1427711844 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | matthiasB | null | We have JavaScript and we can compile other languages to JavaScript. So if we need anything than it's a better target for compilation than JavaScript currently is, but Dart doesn't seems to be it.
| null | 0 | 1318267226 | False | 0 | c2qc2yk | t3_l6uwv | null | t1_c2qc2yk | t3_l6uwv | null | 1427711845 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | hiffy | null | Coming from the Ruby world, I think that the less operators and the less reserved words you have, the better. | null | 0 | 1318267233 | False | 0 | c2qc2zw | t3_l6uwv | null | t1_c2qc2zw | t1_c2qbntj | null | 1427711846 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | frezik | null | There are cases where I might want to declare the variable but not initialize it. Perhaps to keep it in a higher lexical scope:
Greeter greeter1;
if( foo == 1 ) {
greeter1 = new GreeterSubClass();
}
else {
greeter2 = new Greeter();
}
Seeing this exact case probably indicates a desi... | null | 0 | 1318267299 | False | 0 | c2qc3bu | t3_l6uwv | null | t1_c2qc3bu | t1_c2qa039 | null | 1427711851 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | ironchefpython | null | > I think the problem is that you always have to return that collection, even in the most common case where a single node is all that matched.
If a single node is matched, all you have to do is return a node object augmented with array methods. (most of which are a bit silly with regards to a collection of one, but... | null | 0 | 1318267367 | False | 0 | c2qc3om | t3_l6uwv | null | t1_c2qc3om | t1_c2qbw0p | null | 1427711855 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | frezik | null | It's object system of single inheritance combined with interfaces is pretty Java-ish. | null | 0 | 1318267455 | False | 0 | c2qc452 | t3_l6uwv | null | t1_c2qc452 | t1_c2q9ga2 | null | 1427711861 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | DragonHunter | null | First question I always ask: How do I connect to my back-end data? SQL, Oracle, etc.? | null | 0 | 1318267466 | False | 0 | c2qc486 | t3_l6uwv | null | t1_c2qc486 | t1_c2q9lpp | null | 1427711862 | -1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | durandal42 | null | Why does it matter which text editor was used to write various versions of grep? | null | 0 | 1318267479 | False | 0 | c2qc4ao | t3_l6xnp | null | t1_c2qc4ao | t1_c2qbokl | null | 1427711863 | 9 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | grelphy | null | I bet they make a lot more sense with the slightest bit of context. =/ | null | 0 | 1318267573 | False | 0 | c2qc4sz | t3_l6xnp | null | t1_c2qc4sz | t1_c2qayf2 | null | 1427711870 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | frezik | null | Roles/traits/mixins are all more or less the same idea. It's one of those things that got invented independently at around the same time, so there's multiple terms for things that are almost but not quite exactly the same idea. | null | 0 | 1318267639 | False | 0 | c2qc55t | t3_l6uwv | null | t1_c2qc55t | t1_c2qbigl | null | 1427711875 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | danhakimi | null | Alright. I suppose the $("#blah") was spoiling us a bit anyway. | null | 0 | 1318267643 | False | 0 | c2qc569 | t3_l6uwv | null | t1_c2qc569 | t1_c2qbtwz | null | 1427711875 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | ethraax | null | As someone just graduating with a BS in Comp. Sci., do interviewers expect me to know all of the answers the girl gave? Because I know most of them, but I definitely would have missed a couple. For example, I would have guessed that a C compiler would optimize a structure containing two `char` fields to have the `cha... | null | 0 | 1318267655 | False | 0 | c2qc58d | t3_l6yn1 | null | t1_c2qc58d | t3_l6yn1 | null | 1427711877 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | eaturbrainz | null | >I'm not an expert, but my understand is that ML-style global type inference with unification doesn't play nice with subtyping.
That's *basically* it. To extend type-inference to subtyping you have to both extend the unification process to subtyping ("<:") constraints, and then you have to handle those via join... | null | 0 | 1318267734 | True | 0 | c2qc5on | t3_l6uwv | null | t1_c2qc5on | t1_c2qbaqa | null | 1427711882 | 13 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | eaturbrainz | null | In C, assignment is an expression that has a return value. It returns the value that was assigned. | null | 0 | 1318267807 | False | 0 | c2qc625 | t3_l6uwv | null | t1_c2qc625 | t1_c2qbtb5 | null | 1427711886 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | pnpbios | null | because my coworker can read boring. | null | 0 | 1318267890 | False | 0 | c2qc6gd | t3_l6uwv | null | t1_c2qc6gd | t1_c2qbt45 | null | 1427711892 | -1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | shamen_uk | null | It's harder *for you* because.... you don't know shit about it. | null | 0 | 1318267960 | False | 0 | c2qc6wx | t3_l6yn1 | null | t1_c2qc6wx | t1_c2qbked | null | 1427711897 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | The operation completes in constant time because it doesn't depend on the size of the collection. | null | 0 | 1318267981 | False | 0 | c2qc71c | t3_l6xa0 | null | t1_c2qc71c | t1_c2qc13u | null | 1427711899 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1318267998 | False | 0 | c2qc74s | t3_kxcfn | null | t1_c2qc74s | t1_c2q3mrw | null | 1427711900 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | Can Dart code be debugged on the client-side once it has been converted to Javascript? | null | 0 | 1318268012 | False | 0 | c2qc774 | t3_l6uwv | null | t1_c2qc774 | t1_c2q9lpp | null | 1427711901 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | WalterGR | null | > Microsoft's forcing it
Where does Microsoft force C#? Nowhere that I've encountered.
And I use C#. Along with Javascript, Lisp, PHP, and Python at the moment. | null | 0 | 1318268049 | True | 0 | c2qc7f3 | t3_l6uwv | null | t1_c2qc7f3 | t1_c2qbv8s | null | 1427711904 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | case-o-nuts | null | So, how does the type system help? What errors can it produce at compile time? | null | 0 | 1318268097 | False | 0 | c2qc7of | t3_l6uwv | null | t1_c2qc7of | t1_c2q9zpu | null | 1427711907 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1318268104 | False | 0 | c2qc7qf | t3_l5wo1 | null | t1_c2qc7qf | t1_c2q9enn | null | 1427711907 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | wildeye | null | Most people agree that Java and JavaScript are very, very different.
When you say "so similar", you must be referring to their shared heritage of syntax derived from C (curly braces).
But that's a fairly superficial issue, even though people feel strongly about syntax.
And there are only just so many schools of thou... | null | 0 | 1318268152 | False | 0 | c2qc806 | t3_l6uwv | null | t1_c2qc806 | t1_c2qanzk | null | 1427711912 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | poels6 | null | Will we gain this speed with the to-js compiler ? Or does it need a Dart VM ? | null | 0 | 1318268201 | True | 0 | c2qc897 | t3_l6uwv | null | t1_c2qc897 | t1_c2qc1it | null | 1427711914 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | It's _*straight to the point*_. | null | 0 | 1318268253 | False | 0 | c2qc8iv | t3_l6uwv | null | t1_c2qc8iv | t3_l6uwv | null | 1427711918 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | eaturbrainz | null | >(I hope you know what type inference is).
Hi... I'm a padawan type theorist.
You really shouldn't make snide comments like this. People don't use dynamic typing because they're ignorant of type inference, they use it because:
* As munificent noted below, type systems are "pessimistic": some valid programs with ... | null | 0 | 1318268354 | False | 0 | c2qc939 | t3_l6uwv | null | t1_c2qc939 | t1_c2q9xkg | null | 1427711925 | 14 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | No, I've used lots of trackers, and I'm a programmer. I think they are great, you can program melodies and beats really fast with a tracker. | null | 0 | 1318268405 | False | 0 | c2qc9dn | t3_l5s9p | null | t1_c2qc9dn | t1_c2q8j4n | null | 1427711928 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | KyteM | null | So, you decided to counterargue supposed "Java experts who want to keep their jobs by spreading FUD" with "nyah nyah Scala came first and everyone else SUCKS!"? | null | 0 | 1318268469 | False | 0 | c2qc9r0 | t3_jfqcz | null | t1_c2qc9r0 | t3_jfqcz | null | 1427711934 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | zzatz | null | Written for, not written with. The string searches mentioned were written for use in editors, then later extracted as separate utilities. | null | 0 | 1318268493 | False | 0 | c2qc9vw | t3_l6xnp | null | t1_c2qc9vw | t1_c2qc4ao | null | 1427711936 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | cultic_raider | null | Looks like Mouin is for UI layout across OS and screen sizes (like the "responsive web design" concept), not an app behavior framework.
It is not clear why Mouin needs new nonstandard CSS to get its job done, instead of implementing CSS3 and existing extensions like SASS.
Mouin might do well to integrate with Phoneg... | null | 0 | 1318268498 | False | 0 | c2qc9wu | t3_l7769 | null | t1_c2qc9wu | t1_c2qbvnv | null | 1427711936 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | jkiefner | null | tl;dr | null | 0 | 1318268531 | False | 0 | c2qca3z | t3_l79i1 | null | t1_c2qca3z | t3_l79i1 | null | 1427711939 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | gwillen | null | But wait, there's Moore! | null | 0 | 1318268533 | False | 0 | c2qca4g | t3_l6xnp | null | t1_c2qca4g | t1_c2qbn5s | null | 1427711939 | 48 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | pRtkL_xLr8r | null | Thanks for the explanation. With things around to help with JavaScript like jQuery tho, what's the upshot here? | null | 0 | 1318268578 | False | 0 | c2qcadz | t3_l6uwv | null | t1_c2qcadz | t1_c2qbt5r | null | 1427711943 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | kev009 | null | Downloaded (login only) and reposted as PDF for convenience: http://good.net/dl/au/061c/deepcslidesoct2012-111010033910-phpapp01.pdf | null | 0 | 1318268610 | False | 0 | c2qcaks | t3_l6yn1 | null | t1_c2qcaks | t3_l6yn1 | null | 1427711945 | 33 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | tagattack | null | > I imagine the author of grep, Ultimate Unix Geek, squinting at vi; the glow of a dozen xterms is the only light to fall on his ample frame covered by overalls, cheese doodles, and a tangle of beard.
I think he underestimates the old age of grep — grep predates vi and xterms, although not overalls, by quite some w... | null | 0 | 1318268692 | False | 0 | c2qcb1t | t3_l6xnp | null | t1_c2qcb1t | t3_l6xnp | null | 1427711952 | 19 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | MachinShin2006 | null | yah, the ugly fish book is quite awesome :) | null | 0 | 1318268695 | False | 0 | c2qcb2j | t3_l6yn1 | null | t1_c2qcb2j | t1_c2qc16l | null | 1427711952 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | case-o-nuts | null | For the longest time, `grep` would malloc for each input codepoint in a non-ASCII locale. This was slow. I believe that they fixed that recently. | null | 0 | 1318268751 | False | 0 | c2qcbev | t3_l6xnp | null | t1_c2qcbev | t1_c2qbukx | null | 1427711956 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | kkjkok | null | Nice! That's definitely a cut above what I've got. I'll be reading through and trying to pick up some knowledge. Thanks. | null | 0 | 1318268752 | False | 0 | c2qcbf2 | t3_l6zqc | null | t1_c2qcbf2 | t1_c2qba68 | null | 1427711956 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | abuttt | null | >Do: Create a galaxy
Dont: Recruit a star
Thanks for the tip, chief. That's the kind of practical advice I can really get behind. | null | 0 | 1318268767 | False | 0 | c2qcbi8 | t3_l6m5r | null | t1_c2qcbi8 | t3_l6m5r | null | 1427711958 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | While the standard might define behaviors for cases like those presented, anybody that codes in that way (i.e. omits return values, depends on static variables being initialized to 0) is a horrible coder. Programming isn't about having a standard memorized, it's about writing easily grokable, safe, efficient code.
Th... | null | 0 | 1318268778 | False | 0 | c2qcbkf | t3_l6yn1 | null | t1_c2qcbkf | t3_l6yn1 | null | 1427711962 | 44 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | bcain | null | Can you talk about limitations of Mouin? What native features are not abstracted (yet) and which might never be? | null | 0 | 1318268793 | False | 0 | c2qcbnd | t3_l7769 | null | t1_c2qcbnd | t1_c2qbpvh | null | 1427711963 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | pnpbios | null | http://mouin.com/content/learnmore.php
404, very professional. | null | 0 | 1318268812 | False | 0 | c2qcbr6 | t3_l7769 | null | t1_c2qcbr6 | t3_l7769 | null | 1427711961 | -4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | mpeters | null | That's just a library issue. Libraries will come as people develop the language. | null | 0 | 1318268837 | False | 0 | c2qcbvs | t3_l6uwv | null | t1_c2qcbvs | t1_c2qc486 | null | 1427711963 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | badiozam | null | > A pretentious pedantic bitch
FTFY | null | 0 | 1318268842 | False | 0 | c2qcbws | t3_l6yn1 | null | t1_c2qcbws | t1_c2qbkur | null | 1427711963 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | stewartr | null | Agreed. The presentation did not touch any of the major issues of powerful, efficient, social, unbreakable, and maintainable programs. Just speaking for myself, it just does not correspond to any successful developer I know. They would change the topic immediately. | null | 0 | 1318268994 | False | 0 | c2qccqp | t3_l6yn1 | null | t1_c2qccqp | t1_c2qbr11 | null | 1427711974 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | azakai | null | >> Meh
> I agree. But I think that's a result of their desire for familiarity. And I'd still much rather code in this than javascript.
How about CoffeeScript?
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True | stox | null | Back in the day, there was grep, fgrep, egrep, and others. Each with different tradeoffs. Current greps optimize their strategy at run time. | null | 0 | 1318269027 | False | 0 | c2qccwp | t3_l6xnp | null | t1_c2qccwp | t1_c2qcb1t | null | 1427711975 | 9 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | fps6 | null | looks like a high-level library for javascript (not sure if JS has libraries, not important); compiles to JS, lolwut, people can write pure JS right away. | null | 0 | 1318269065 | False | 0 | c2qcd3t | t3_l6uwv | null | t1_c2qcd3t | t1_c2q9lpp | null | 1427711978 | -1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | jng | null | Just fixed, sorry. | null | 0 | 1318269071 | False | 0 | c2qcd4u | t3_l7769 | null | t1_c2qcd4u | t1_c2qcbr6 | null | 1427711978 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | jng | null | Gotta run right now but I'll post details later. Mouin is quite basic right now and so there are many limitations, it's a 1.0. But hopefully the approach will show its advantages.
I'll post an outline of what our roadmap and plans are for the coming months. | null | 0 | 1318269162 | False | 0 | c2qcdkl | t3_l7769 | null | t1_c2qcdkl | t1_c2qcbnd | null | 1427711984 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | kev009 | null | I glossed over the C++ stuff, but the C things are pretty pedantic. If you're hitting any of these problems in practice, you're already behind the 8 ball IMHO. | null | 0 | 1318269227 | False | 0 | c2qcdx7 | t3_l6yn1 | null | t1_c2qcdx7 | t1_c2qax62 | null | 1427711988 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | 21echoes | null | why would anyone ever use this? it's a bad language, not on standards track (meaning it will be proprietary to chrome as far as not-compiled-to-javascript use is concerned), compiles poorly to javascript (which as i just said will be the main use case essentially indefinitely)... | null | 0 | 1318269254 | False | 0 | c2qce5j | t3_l6uwv | null | t1_c2qce5j | t3_l6uwv | null | 1427711991 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | pnpbios | null | Sorry man, I don't think a lot of greedy but dumb venture capitalists cruise /r/programming.
And with those prices I could get monodroid and monotouch.
Or, I could just use a webkit frame and do the same thing you are doing, for free, and not have to learn some esoteric dialect of CSS. | null | 0 | 1318269283 | False | 0 | c2qcebe | t3_l7769 | null | t1_c2qcebe | t3_l7769 | null | 1427711994 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | criticismguy | null | > I know it's cool to hate on classes these days, but it's worth remembering how much of the world's successful code is written in a class-based language.
I know it's cool to hate on burning fossil fuels, but it's worth remembering how much of the world's successful people got to work today in a vehicle powered by ... | null | 0 | 1318269321 | False | 0 | c2qcej4 | t3_l6uwv | null | t1_c2qcej4 | t1_c2q9t7h | null | 1427711996 | 10 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | malfy | null | Ah ok. Sarcasm is really hard on the Internet. What is Java hip hop anyway? | null | 0 | 1318269463 | False | 0 | c2qcfat | t3_l6m5r | null | t1_c2qcfat | t1_c2qbgwx | null | 1427712007 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | wildeye | null | The broad ideas in .NET were themselves borrowed by Microsoft. It worked out well because they did a good job of choosing ideas and in executing their ideas.
Also note that the Google memo posted above was written by Mark Miller, who has an interesting history in general, but relevant here is that he also has a long h... | null | 0 | 1318269471 | False | 0 | c2qcfcg | t3_l6uwv | null | t1_c2qcfcg | t1_c2qa6lh | null | 1427712008 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | pnpbios | null | All his gripes sound like excellent bug reports to me. If I were working on tools, that's stuff I would definitely want to hear. | null | 0 | 1318269489 | False | 0 | c2qcffy | t3_l6v4l | null | t1_c2qcffy | t3_l6v4l | null | 1427712010 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
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