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True | Tristanus | null | 445 slides of how to write code that will blow up at the slightest change. | null | 0 | 1318269517 | False | 0 | c2qcfkc | t3_l6yn1 | null | t1_c2qcfkc | t3_l6yn1 | null | 1427712011 | 21 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | lunyboy | null | Snarky comment, very helpful. | null | 0 | 1318269544 | False | 0 | c2qcfqf | t3_l7769 | null | t1_c2qcfqf | t1_c2qcbr6 | null | 1427712013 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | TheMoonMaster | null | Agreed. I don't like how they use CSS to compose everything instead of using HTML for structure, Javascript for manipulation and CSS for style. | null | 0 | 1318269552 | False | 0 | c2qcfsc | t3_l7769 | null | t1_c2qcfsc | t1_c2qc9wu | null | 1427712013 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | ethraax | null | It was published (or copyrighted, at least) in 1997 - in your opinion, is it still largely applicable to modern C++ programming in 2011? | null | 0 | 1318269620 | False | 0 | c2qcg5m | t3_l6yn1 | null | t1_c2qcg5m | t1_c2qboyw | null | 1427712018 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | TheMoonMaster | null | That's a shitty excuse. | null | 0 | 1318269661 | False | 0 | c2qcgd7 | t3_l6uwv | null | t1_c2qcgd7 | t1_c2qc6gd | null | 1427712021 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | pnpbios | null | now that the page is up, I'm even less impressed. All he's doing is wrapping webkit. His layout's aren't 'mobile optimized', nothing should be in 2+ columns.
edit, I was wrong! | null | 0 | 1318269664 | True | 0 | c2qcgdp | t3_l7769 | null | t1_c2qcgdp | t1_c2qcfqf | null | 1427712021 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | acecool | null | I wonder how Dart will compare to [Pike](http://pike.ida.liu.se/), which is also a scripting language with optional static typing, and is supposed to be very fast. There is also [Squirrel](http://squirrel-lang.org/) a very fast scripting language that has C++ syntax and full C++-like object orientation. | null | 0 | 1318269675 | False | 0 | c2qcgff | t3_l6uwv | null | t1_c2qcgff | t3_l6uwv | null | 1427712022 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | That does not in any way whatsoever explain the use of a PDF. | null | 0 | 1318269695 | False | 0 | c2qcgkt | t3_l6uwv | null | t1_c2qcgkt | t1_c2qata3 | null | 1427712024 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | pnpbios | null | it's a webkit wrapper with a few custom CSS tags. | null | 0 | 1318269703 | False | 0 | c2qcgm9 | t3_l7769 | null | t1_c2qcgm9 | t1_c2qcbnd | null | 1427712024 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | Thanks! | null | 0 | 1318269723 | False | 0 | c2qcgq1 | t3_l6yn1 | null | t1_c2qcgq1 | t1_c2qcaks | null | 1427712035 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | s73v3r | null | Yeah, I'm gonna need a source on that. | null | 0 | 1318269803 | False | 0 | c2qch5q | t3_l579f | null | t1_c2qch5q | t1_c2q0snp | null | 1427712031 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | kamatsu | null | Sure have, and, unlike Go, this language at least has generic types, some idea of discriminated unions can be achieved with subtyping, and decent error handling mechanisms. In Go's credit, Go's type system is at least mostly sound (although incredibly weak), and Go's concurrency abstractions are nicer. I still prefer D... | null | 0 | 1318269813 | True | 0 | c2qch7u | t3_l6uwv | null | t1_c2qch7u | t1_c2qbdg2 | null | 1427712033 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Purple_Haze | null | History is interesting. **grep** is important in the development of the Unix philosophy of small programs piped together in an ad hoc manner.
It is relevant that it was written in **ed** because it's name comes from **ed**: to list all occurrences of the regexp "re" one types "g/re/p" where "g" stands for "global" and... | null | 0 | 1318269828 | False | 0 | c2qchb3 | t3_l6xnp | null | t1_c2qchb3 | t1_c2qc4ao | null | 1427712034 | 14 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | s73v3r | null | Knowing how they work is far different than choosing one or the other. And at the theory level, OpenGL and D3d are fairly similar in how they work. | null | 0 | 1318269869 | False | 0 | c2qchi0 | t3_l579f | null | t1_c2qchi0 | t1_c2q14a9 | null | 1427712036 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | mdipierro | null | Very disappointed. Long live CoffeeScript. | null | 0 | 1318269954 | False | 0 | c2qchxf | t3_l6u5q | null | t1_c2qchxf | t3_l6u5q | null | 1427712042 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | djdillon | null | Good point... | null | 0 | 1318269962 | False | 0 | c2qchyw | t3_l399g | null | t1_c2qchyw | t1_c2phl7s | null | 1427712043 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | smcameron | null | See also output of "man queue"
There's a userland variant you can get just by including <sys/queue.h>
| null | 0 | 1318269965 | False | 0 | c2qchze | t3_l6xa0 | null | t1_c2qchze | t3_l6xa0 | null | 1427712043 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | ewiethoff | null | Neither Joe Coder nor Susie Know-it-all remarks that curly quotes don't give you a string literal.
| null | 0 | 1318270000 | False | 0 | c2qci5o | t3_l6yn1 | null | t1_c2qci5o | t3_l6yn1 | null | 1427712045 | 17 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | pnpbios | null | OK, high plains drifter. If you're more comfortable using experimental languages with poor library support and idiot self absorbed user bases, that's your prerogative.
If you want to make more than 60K a year, I suggest learning a 'boring' language and learn how to talk to other developers.
But if you want to keep w... | null | 0 | 1318270007 | False | 0 | c2qci70 | t3_l6uwv | null | t1_c2qci70 | t1_c2qcgd7 | null | 1427712045 | -3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | vytah | null | 1-element tuples are written (x,) not (x)
| null | 0 | 1318270028 | False | 0 | c2qcial | t3_l6uwv | null | t1_c2qcial | t1_c2qc2uj | null | 1427712046 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | ctess | null | This is an awesome site! Keep up the good work, you got my up vote :D | null | 0 | 1318270102 | False | 0 | c2qcipd | t3_l6ao7 | null | t1_c2qcipd | t3_l6ao7 | null | 1427712051 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | painki11er | null | I think nobody got the sarcasm. | null | 0 | 1318270114 | False | 0 | c2qcirn | t3_l6uwv | null | t1_c2qcirn | t1_c2qcgkt | null | 1427712052 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | kakali | null | I don't entirely disagree. In C++, it seems doubly important to decide on a style and then stick to that framework. Once you've made that decision (which STL and Boost can help decide), I think C++ is pretty easy to develop in. | null | 0 | 1318270134 | False | 0 | c2qciwo | t3_l6yn1 | null | t1_c2qciwo | t1_c2qc0nb | null | 1427712054 | 9 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | reddit_clone | null | With _that_ attitude ... | null | 0 | 1318270158 | False | 0 | c2qcj0m | t3_l6uwv | null | t1_c2qcj0m | t1_c2qcadz | null | 1427712055 | -1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | julesjacobs | null | Could you explain a bit more why it is problematic? Perhaps with an example program that is difficult to type infer. I'm ignorant on the issues but it seems that it should be doable to do a type checker that tells you one of three things:
- program can be made type safe with the proper annotations
- program cannot be ... | null | 0 | 1318270192 | True | 0 | c2qcj7c | t3_l6uwv | null | t1_c2qcj7c | t1_c2qc5on | null | 1427712058 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | jinglebells | null | Didn't mean to come across as a hissy fit, it's just very frustrating. This is a Virtual Machine so it can't be a network card issue.
I can't log in at all. Not useably, since once I log in I get an activation screen then it boots me back to the logon screen.
I've given up on it, it was mainly served as an example ... | null | 0 | 1318270193 | False | 0 | c2qcj7m | t3_kz7vp | null | t1_c2qcj7m | t1_c2q5741 | null | 1427712058 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | apage43 | null | That depends where you're applying, but almost certainly not. Don't sweat it. | null | 0 | 1318270196 | False | 0 | c2qcj87 | t3_l6yn1 | null | t1_c2qcj87 | t1_c2qc58d | null | 1427712058 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | damg | null | I believe it will since the V8 and IonMonkey JS engines get good performance from type specialization which benefits from this. | null | 0 | 1318270281 | False | 0 | c2qcjlz | t3_l6uwv | null | t1_c2qcjlz | t1_c2qc897 | null | 1427712063 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | While the absurdity and naivety of your responses have been diverse and not at all subtle, I think the sheer ignorance you display is best illustrated by this gem:
>I believe it was the great Linus Torvalds who taught us that a Unix kernel was about one man-year of work.
Linux was nowhere near on par with Unix aft... | null | 0 | 1318270287 | False | 0 | c2qcjo0 | t3_l466j | null | t1_c2qcjo0 | t1_c2q34em | null | 1427712064 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | bcain | null | Ok, so I'll never be able access things like camera / location? Or does the native browser actually have access to those things? | null | 0 | 1318270312 | False | 0 | c2qcjtw | t3_l7769 | null | t1_c2qcjtw | t1_c2qcgm9 | null | 1427712067 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | kev009 | null | Language Lawyers. Useful knowledge if you're writing a compiler or code tools perhaps, not so much otherwise. | null | 0 | 1318270316 | False | 0 | c2qcjuq | t3_l6yn1 | null | t1_c2qcjuq | t1_c2qbr11 | null | 1427712067 | 11 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | gobliin | null | I don't see why that should be the case. Why does grep have to interpret an utf-8 string unicode character by unicode character? Why not byte by byte? | null | 0 | 1318270356 | False | 0 | c2qck2e | t3_l6xnp | null | t1_c2qck2e | t1_c2qbwty | null | 1427712069 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | TheMoonMaster | null | For one, I'm not a fan of Google Dart. For two, I know a few "boring" languages. And even though I appreciate your advice as an attempt to help me better myself, you just don't know what you're talking about. Also, no shit Ruby can't be embedded or used to write robotics software efficiently. | null | 0 | 1318270378 | False | 0 | c2qck6m | t3_l6uwv | null | t1_c2qck6m | t1_c2qci70 | null | 1427712070 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | sgoguen | null | > What if you have a method called Greeter()?
Consider treating constructors like regular functions. Want to make your constructor a singleton?
function MakeSingleton(constructor) {
var instance = null;
return function() {
if(instance == null) instance = constructor();
return ins... | null | 0 | 1318270380 | False | 0 | c2qck6u | t3_l6uwv | null | t1_c2qck6u | t1_c2q9rmi | null | 1427712071 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | bcain | null | Jeez, why downvote the submitter? If you're not interested in the article, downvote that and move on. Interesting threads are getting buried. | null | 0 | 1318270391 | False | 0 | c2qck8y | t3_l7769 | null | t1_c2qck8y | t3_l7769 | null | 1427712071 | -1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | vanhellion | null | I wouldn't have known half of the cases presented in these slides immediately after graduating. Especially vague in my mind were the nuances between C and C++ behaviors. There are still plenty of things I'm not always sure about (I work primary with C++), but knowledge of your own ignorance is more important than hav... | null | 0 | 1318270393 | False | 0 | c2qck9f | t3_l6yn1 | null | t1_c2qck9f | t1_c2qc58d | null | 1427712071 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | scubaguy | null | Good point. Though in static mode, this form should be caught as a compile time error right?
I suppose that's the problem with being halfway between static and dynamic. The static camp expect more static behavior, while the dynamic camp will find it distasteful.
| null | 0 | 1318270399 | False | 0 | c2qckad | t3_l6uwv | null | t1_c2qckad | t1_c2qbezw | null | 1427712072 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Taladar | null | Well, lets just say products explicitly made with the mindset "we understand the complex features but those average people won't" usually don't end up great. Sometimes they are successful, yes, Java probably being the best example of that, but they are rarely the ones chosen by a technical audience (as opposed to manag... | null | 0 | 1318270435 | False | 0 | c2qckh8 | t3_l6uwv | null | t1_c2qckh8 | t1_c2qbo2v | null | 1427712074 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | Can we stop pretending that prototypal inheritance is anything other than a steaming pile of shit? | null | 0 | 1318270457 | False | 0 | c2qcklk | t3_l765i | null | t1_c2qcklk | t3_l765i | null | 1427712076 | -11 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | galtzagorri | null | I downloaded it and it doesn't seem to be a webkit. Only one column and native UIs
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True | grauenwolf | null | Most VB programmers? Do you really hang out with that many of them? | null | 0 | 1318270571 | False | 0 | c2qcl6p | t3_l1tjd | null | t1_c2qcl6p | t1_c2pt49p | null | 1427712083 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | grauenwolf | null | DataContractSerializer
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1076730/datacontractserializer-doesnt-call-my-constructor | null | 0 | 1318270626 | False | 0 | c2qclj5 | t3_l38op | null | t1_c2qclj5 | t1_c2pskrn | null | 1427712088 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | pnpbios | null | First thing I look for whenever I have to go and play archaeologist on a server is table triggers. Table triggers should not contain logic. Logging at the very most.
Stored procedures should not contain any logic beyond what is necessary to do complex CRUD in an orderly fashion.
Views should not contain any logic oth... | null | 0 | 1318270665 | False | 0 | c2qclqu | t3_l6wmx | null | t1_c2qclqu | t3_l6wmx | null | 1427712092 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1318270681 | True | 0 | c2qclu5 | t3_l6uwv | null | t1_c2qclu5 | t1_c2qc939 | null | 1427712092 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | grauenwolf | null | I have to wonder which one. Certainly it isn't Merril Lynch which had whole departments running on Excel up to the point where Bank of America bought them out. | null | 0 | 1318270809 | False | 0 | c2qcmhr | t3_l1tjd | null | t1_c2qcmhr | t1_c2psb0s | null | 1427712100 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | SnowdensOfYesteryear | null | Out of curiosity how is this different from the standard [select](http://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/009695399/functions/select.html) system call? Does BSD not have select? | null | 0 | 1318270811 | False | 0 | c2qcmhz | t3_l6j3g | null | t1_c2qcmhz | t3_l6j3g | null | 1427712100 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | jacekplacek | null | Somehow I doubt it... there were times the new language popped up every second day. Hey, I did one in college too, not very likely you'd ever run into it's spec :) | null | 0 | 1318270829 | False | 0 | c2qcmkj | t3_l6uwv | null | t1_c2qcmkj | t1_c2q9u7s | null | 1427712102 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | name_was_taken | null | The most succinct tl;dr I've ever seen, and possibly the most accurate as well. I'm duly impressed.
(And no, this isn't sarcasm.) | null | 0 | 1318270835 | False | 0 | c2qcmlk | t3_l79i1 | null | t1_c2qcmlk | t1_c2qca3z | null | 1427712103 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | kamatsu | null | Very well said. | null | 0 | 1318270857 | False | 0 | c2qcmqe | t3_l6uwv | null | t1_c2qcmqe | t1_c2qbx9m | null | 1427712105 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | pnpbios | null | I'm still pretty sure it's just webkit with a few new css extensions. webkit is the rendering engine that ships on all of these phones. | null | 0 | 1318270881 | False | 0 | c2qcmux | t3_l7769 | null | t1_c2qcmux | t1_c2qckra | null | 1427712106 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | gobliin | null | Hmm. At first sight it might not matter, but I think that Purple_Haze's historical context is actually pretty informative. I wouldn't even call ed a text-editor, it's more of a text-debugger and patcher-tool. Kind of like dos' debug is for com files. The original grep did not contain any fancy algos as it was writt... | null | 0 | 1318270961 | False | 0 | c2qcna5 | t3_l6xnp | null | t1_c2qcna5 | t1_c2qc4ao | null | 1427712112 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | aaronla | null | No, they don't. Er, rather, most won't, because most don't know these answers themselves.
I'm a self professed language lawyer. I don't know everything, but I know more than most about the languages I use than most of my colleagues would care to.
I've been interviewed by lesser, more ego-driven language lawyers. One ... | null | 0 | 1318270994 | False | 0 | c2qcngj | t3_l6yn1 | null | t1_c2qcngj | t1_c2qc58d | null | 1427712114 | 15 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | DrGirlfriend | null | It is [Big-O notation](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_O_notation). It is hard to grasp at first but extremely important if you want to be a programmer of non-suck quality. | null | 0 | 1318270997 | False | 0 | c2qcnhc | t3_l6xa0 | null | t1_c2qcnhc | t1_c2qc13u | null | 1427712114 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | flussence | null | Can you *please* give us a default HTML API that's not as excruciatingly painful to use as the W3C DOM, and not just a clone of jQuery's gigantic-workaround syntax? | null | 0 | 1318271004 | False | 0 | c2qcnip | t3_l6uwv | null | t1_c2qcnip | t1_c2q9lpp | null | 1427712115 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | danhakimi | null | On windows phone devices. And in a few other places... They force .NET harder, but where they can push C#, they will. I tried learning C# (the idea of a purely compiled Java got me excited), but as soon as I was told ".NET or GTFO" I decided that Microsoft clearly didn't care about not being a dick to developers. | null | 0 | 1318271028 | False | 0 | c2qcnn5 | t3_l6uwv | null | t1_c2qcnn5 | t1_c2qc7f3 | null | 1427712116 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | ethraax | null | That makes sense, since grep skips over swaths of characters. In the C locale, skipping n characters is a O(1) operation. In a variable-width locale, like UTF-8, skipping n characters is an O(n) operation. | null | 0 | 1318271057 | False | 0 | c2qcnt0 | t3_l6xnp | null | t1_c2qcnt0 | t1_c2qbukx | null | 1427712119 | 13 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | WalterGR | null | * [Code Hard! (with Java)](http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/l55ki/code_hard_with_java/) - 80 points
* [Python Cupcakes :)](http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/l63z2/python_cupcakes/) - 48 points | null | 0 | 1318271075 | False | 0 | c2qcnw9 | t3_l6m5r | null | t1_c2qcnw9 | t1_c2qcfat | null | 1427712120 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | dauphic | null | Why, exactly, does this language exist? | null | 0 | 1318271076 | False | 0 | c2qcnwh | t3_l6u5q | null | t1_c2qcnwh | t3_l6u5q | null | 1427712120 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Mr_Pickles_Esq | null | One thing to note is that you probably want to use the O_EVTONLY flag to open() otherwise you'll prevent the volume that the file is on from being unmounted.
Also, because it requires open descriptors, kqueue/GCD is not suitable if you need to monitor a lot of files and you should be using FSEvents instead in that cas... | null | 0 | 1318271099 | False | 0 | c2qco1w | t3_l6j3g | null | t1_c2qco1w | t3_l6j3g | null | 1427712122 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | Point noted! | null | 0 | 1318271117 | False | 0 | c2qco5d | t3_l73uk | null | t1_c2qco5d | t1_c2qbv5u | null | 1427712124 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | pnpbios | null | Well, enlighten me then. Is Ruby not a ghetto then?
http://techcrunch.com/2008/01/01/zed-shaw-puts-the-smack-down-on-the-rails-community/
Why exactly is a not boring language better than a boring one, other than the fact that it's got esoteric syntax? The way I see it, you do boring things with not boring languages,... | null | 0 | 1318271149 | False | 0 | c2qcobt | t3_l6uwv | null | t1_c2qcobt | t1_c2qck6m | null | 1427712126 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Taladar | null | This would be a non-issue if 'if' was an expression and not a statement, you could just do something like:
Greeter greeter1 =
if ( food == 1 ) {
new GreeterSubClass()
} else {
new Greeter()
} | null | 0 | 1318271162 | False | 0 | c2qcoei | t3_l6uwv | null | t1_c2qcoei | t1_c2qc3bu | null | 1427712126 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | kamatsu | null | Not sure, but the language would've been much better designed. | null | 0 | 1318271179 | False | 0 | c2qcoh8 | t3_l6uwv | null | t1_c2qcoh8 | t1_c2qbtjy | null | 1427712127 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | > As munificent noted below, type systems are "pessimistic": some valid programs with completely defined dynamic semantics (runtime behavior) don't type-check and never will type-check. Consider, for example, an if expression that returns something of the "wrong" type on a branch it will never actually take.
Yes I ... | null | 0 | 1318271180 | False | 0 | c2qcoha | t3_l6uwv | null | t1_c2qcoha | t1_c2qc939 | null | 1427712127 | 8 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | mikesamuel | null | http://code.google.com/p/owasp-java-html-sanitizer/wiki/AttackReviewGroundRules explains how to look at the actual code behind the system, what constitutes an attack, and what is off limits. | null | 0 | 1318271182 | False | 0 | c2qcohr | t3_l7bjb | null | t1_c2qcohr | t3_l7bjb | null | 1427712127 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | kikaerter | null | That looks cool! Thanks for the reference. | null | 0 | 1318271191 | False | 0 | c2qcok6 | t3_l6dcp | null | t1_c2qcok6 | t1_c2qc2n8 | null | 1427712128 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | __j_random_hacker | null | Thanks. | null | 0 | 1318271204 | False | 0 | c2qcon7 | t3_l3ex2 | null | t1_c2qcon7 | t1_c2qbt7o | null | 1427712130 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | Indeed, he may not have penetrated their intimate circles yet. | null | 0 | 1318271250 | False | 0 | c2qcovf | t3_l6uwv | null | t1_c2qcovf | t1_c2qbnuw | null | 1427712133 | 11 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | galtzagorri | null | Also in Java phones and Blackberry? | null | 0 | 1318271257 | False | 0 | c2qcowi | t3_l7769 | null | t1_c2qcowi | t1_c2qcmux | null | 1427712133 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | tejoka | null | I believe because there are multiple byte representations for the same character. | null | 0 | 1318271270 | False | 0 | c2qcoz0 | t3_l6xnp | null | t1_c2qcoz0 | t1_c2qck2e | null | 1427712134 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | refaptoring | null | They're still fucking peasants as far as John Lennon can see. | null | 0 | 1318271329 | False | 0 | c2qcpae | t3_l6uwv | null | t1_c2qcpae | t1_c2qbj08 | null | 1427712137 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | pnpbios | null | I don't have an IOS device, so I'm not sure what the native web-kit widget lets you get away with. it doesn't look like html5 supports webcam yet, but maybe location. | null | 0 | 1318271358 | False | 0 | c2qcpef | t3_l7769 | null | t1_c2qcpef | t1_c2qcjtw | null | 1427712138 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | WalterGR | null | Okay, Windows Phone.
> And in a few other places.
Where else?
> I decided that Microsoft clearly didn't care about not being a dick to developers.
Is that why you have to use C# on Windows Phones? Because Microsoft are dicks to developers? (I haven't done any Windows Phone development, so I don't know all t... | null | 0 | 1318271398 | True | 0 | c2qcpll | t3_l6uwv | null | t1_c2qcpll | t1_c2qcnn5 | null | 1427712142 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | shimei | null | If you're referring to *Types and Programming Languages*, it's far from a pure logic book. It's more like engineering with logic. | null | 0 | 1318271416 | False | 0 | c2qcppj | t3_l6dcp | null | t1_c2qcppj | t1_c2q7tsi | null | 1427712143 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Tetha | null | Is it just my german self, or does the girl answer tons and tons of stuff that just isn't asked? When compiled, it gives about 2 warnings and prints 42 and returns something undefined. Anything else is a different question.
(And if you ask me to improve this program, I'd replace it with "echo 42")
Edit: and in fact... | null | 0 | 1318271428 | True | 0 | c2qcps0 | t3_l6yn1 | null | t1_c2qcps0 | t3_l6yn1 | null | 1427712144 | 15 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Barncow | null | Boyer reaching with that one.. | null | 0 | 1318271523 | False | 0 | c2qcqai | t3_l6xnp | null | t1_c2qcqai | t1_c2qca4g | null | 1427712151 | 29 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Taladar | null | Well, it is not the theory you have to know when your abstraction built on top is leaking like a sieve because of some behavior that differs depending on the backend (possibly because the abstraction implementers weren't aware of the difference or even because different implementations or versions of the underlying API... | null | 0 | 1318271530 | False | 0 | c2qcqbn | t3_l579f | null | t1_c2qcqbn | t1_c2qchi0 | null | 1427712151 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | ReturningTarzan | null | I soooo wanted to punch her. | null | 0 | 1318271589 | False | 0 | c2qcqnw | t3_l6yn1 | null | t1_c2qcqnw | t1_c2qbkur | null | 1427712155 | 15 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | TheMoonMaster | null | That is your opinion on Ruby and I honestly don't care enough about your opinion to try and change it. And as for the rest of your comment, it is full of blatant ignorance. I don't see why you are focusing on Ruby alone either. | null | 0 | 1318271614 | False | 0 | c2qcqsf | t3_l6uwv | null | t1_c2qcqsf | t1_c2qcobt | null | 1427712157 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | shimei | null | > To do statically-typed programming language design, yes. Not every language has a static type system.
Knowing lambda calculus is beneficial regardless of type discipline. Also, there is a *huge* breadth of knowledge in programming languages that is *not* type system engineering or type theory. Examples: semantics... | null | 0 | 1318271679 | False | 0 | c2qcr5u | t3_l6dcp | null | t1_c2qcr5u | t1_c2q8wxw | null | 1427712162 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | grauenwolf | null | Memory allocation is important. I like to be able to count the number of new statements in a function. | null | 0 | 1318271682 | False | 0 | c2qcr6g | t3_l6uwv | null | t1_c2qcr6g | t1_c2q9qnl | null | 1427712162 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | pnpbios | null | http://devblog.blackberry.com/2010/08/blackberry-browser-webkit/
also, jwebpane is available in java7 now. so yeah, it's really not tricky to host a browser window in your app and write some custom CSS tags. | null | 0 | 1318271705 | False | 0 | c2qcrb3 | t3_l7769 | null | t1_c2qcrb3 | t1_c2qcowi | null | 1427712164 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | grauenwolf | null | You forgot about IDE support. The new keyword is a trigger to display the list of classes. You don't need it but it makes the editor far less clumsy if you have it. | null | 0 | 1318271786 | False | 0 | c2qcrq0 | t3_l6uwv | null | t1_c2qcrq0 | t1_c2qayxp | null | 1427712169 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | captain_plaintext | null | Why wouldn't a freshly declared variable allow a change of type? | null | 0 | 1318271810 | False | 0 | c2qcruu | t3_l6uwv | null | t1_c2qcruu | t1_c2qbl8x | null | 1427712171 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1318271882 | False | 0 | c2qcs7v | t3_l6uwv | null | t1_c2qcs7v | t1_c2q9lpp | null | 1427712176 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | malfy | null | Oh, so so bad. | null | 0 | 1318271892 | False | 0 | c2qcsb1 | t3_l6m5r | null | t1_c2qcsb1 | t1_c2qcnw9 | null | 1427712177 | -1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1318271906 | False | 0 | c2qcses | t3_l6uwv | null | t1_c2qcses | t1_c2q9lpp | null | 1427712178 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | pnpbios | null | you're the one who came over and took a steaming shit on my post. you say i'm wrong, but don't have anything to back it? | null | 0 | 1318271929 | False | 0 | c2qcskm | t3_l6uwv | null | t1_c2qcskm | t1_c2qcqsf | null | 1427712181 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1318271960 | False | 0 | c2qcsp1 | t3_l6uwv | null | t1_c2qcsp1 | t1_c2qbfr7 | null | 1427712182 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | julesjacobs | null | His argument: http://www.aminutewithbrendan.com/pages/20101122
Most of his arguments apply equally well to Dart (e.g. standardization is hard, Javascript is good enough). Or are just plain wrong (bytecodes are harder to optimize than a source language like Javascript -- a sane bytecode with distictions between ints an... | null | 0 | 1318271982 | False | 0 | c2qcswa | t3_l6uwv | null | t1_c2qcswa | t1_c2qbwm4 | null | 1427712184 | 19 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | shimei | null | > Gilad doesn't fuck around, and he came to Google to work on Dart. I don't think he'd be happy if it fizzled out.
I was surprised given this that Dart seems to have a very standard class-based OO system ala Java, considering that Gilad's PhD thesis was about better ways to compose classes. | null | 0 | 1318271987 | False | 0 | c2qcsxd | t3_l6uwv | null | t1_c2qcsxd | t1_c2qbfr7 | null | 1427712185 | 28 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | drb226 | null | Pseudocode for a very, very dumb type inferencer like what you describe.
if (!all(isAnnotated, expressions)) { return IsTooDifficult; }
else { return IsTypeSafe; }
Not very useful, but it fits the spec, right? :) | null | 0 | 1318272086 | False | 0 | c2qctfw | t3_l6uwv | null | t1_c2qctfw | t1_c2qcj7c | null | 1427712191 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | frezik | null | First, that's what the ternary operator is for:
Greeter greeter1 = (foo == 1)
? new GreeterSubClass()
: new Greeter();
But for some reason, people don't like this syntax. It's really not bad once you get used to it and things are indented/enclosed in parens properly.
Second, the point isn't reall... | null | 0 | 1318272132 | False | 0 | c2qctp9 | t3_l6uwv | null | t1_c2qctp9 | t1_c2qcoei | null | 1427712195 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | nascent | null | > and one of the things that lead to that is that D requires more upfront knowledge on how a type is going to be used.
I believe in C++ and D you must know these things about the type before you build it:
* Is the type going to be polymorphic
* Should the type have reference semantics
The first forces the second,... | null | 0 | 1318272171 | True | 0 | c2qctxa | t3_kljc0 | null | t1_c2qctxa | t1_c2qabzw | null | 1427712199 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | mcguire | null | > ...the solution is in defining your system at a higher level in terms of a model, or composition. ... (ie. how to represent this structure / composition of structures as concept).
That sounds more like [category theory](http://homepage.mac.com/fiadeiroj/jose/CATBook/).
Note to those not randomly clicking on lin... | null | 0 | 1318272240 | False | 0 | c2qcubj | t3_l6dcp | null | t1_c2qcubj | t1_c2qbjy4 | null | 1427712203 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | drb226 | null | So...basically a Scala-style type inference then? Scala's type annotations still feel very cumbersome, and its inference underwhelming; still Scala is rather nice and I certainly respect the Scala people for undertaking such a difficult problem and how well they have handled it thus far. | null | 0 | 1318272324 | False | 0 | c2qcura | t3_l6uwv | null | t1_c2qcura | t1_c2qc5on | null | 1427712210 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | Nice read, but it feels a bit incomplete without a discussion of how a game picks a different seed each time it is run (such as using the system time or an entropy source.) | null | 0 | 1318272332 | False | 0 | c2qcut8 | t3_l77q2 | null | t1_c2qcut8 | t3_l77q2 | null | 1427712210 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Tetha | null | Honestly, if you are a good object oriented programmer, you are already able to design decent modules. They might be a bit inefficient, but its possible to work on that. Beyond that, understood pointers (as in adresses in memory) and some libraries and you are set for 90% of practical C you will find. | null | 0 | 1318272350 | False | 0 | c2qcuwv | t3_l6yn1 | null | t1_c2qcuwv | t1_c2qax62 | null | 1427712211 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | > It's not like you can develop cancer medication in your garage and even if you could there is so much legal/regulatory overhead that's insurmountable by small guys.
They are getting close to that. There is a lot you can do with simulations, there are also very large government funded incubators where I live that... | null | 0 | 1318272393 | False | 0 | c2qcv62 | t3_l6m5r | null | t1_c2qcv62 | t1_c2q9jup | null | 1427712215 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | hiffy | null | Huh. Is that really the rationale behind it in, say, Java? | null | 0 | 1318272408 | False | 0 | c2qcv93 | t3_l6uwv | null | t1_c2qcv93 | t1_c2qcrq0 | null | 1427712216 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
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