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True | dlsspy | null | > will all be in a SQLLite db file, which kinda concerns me
The [sqlite testing doc](http://www.sqlite.org/testing.html) is a must read. You should be concerned if they're using anything else. | null | 0 | 1318384351 | False | 0 | c2qr5dx | t3_l8jdh | null | t1_c2qr5dx | t1_c2qp4q3 | null | 1427719020 | 9 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Megatron_McLargeHuge | null | [ ] Your language is a slightly incompatible variation on ________ that ignores the principal reason people use ________. | null | 0 | 1318384427 | False | 0 | c2qr5sz | t3_l8l00 | null | t1_c2qr5sz | t3_l8l00 | null | 1427719026 | 14 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | Well, it is invoked in [this thread](http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/l8l00/you_appear_to_be_advocating_a_new_programming/c2qnz03) I found through google groups, dated 1996. | null | 0 | 1318384472 | False | 0 | c2qr61d | t3_l8l00 | null | t1_c2qr61d | t1_c2qqz1w | null | 1427719029 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | DrMonkeyLove | null | Screw it. Might as well program in Ada 95. | null | 0 | 1318384561 | False | 0 | c2qr6ik | t3_l8l00 | null | t1_c2qr6ik | t1_c2qp1dq | null | 1427719035 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | n1c0_ds | null | [Homo unius libri](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homo_unius_libri) | null | 0 | 1318384641 | False | 0 | c2qr6wi | t3_l8l00 | null | t1_c2qr6wi | t1_c2qqoyk | null | 1427719040 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | n1c0_ds | null | [Homo unius libri](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homo_unius_libri) | null | 0 | 1318384651 | False | 0 | c2qr700 | t3_l8l00 | null | t1_c2qr700 | t1_c2qqoyk | null | 1427719041 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | n1c0_ds | null | The second shittiest are the ones that don't know what's wrong with PHP. | null | 0 | 1318384661 | False | 0 | c2qr72u | t3_l8l00 | null | t1_c2qr72u | t1_c2qqo2g | null | 1427719042 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | gnovos | null | I think, if you have a man inside a drunk woman, you can make a baby. You'll notice this line is missing:
require 'condom' | null | 0 | 1318384745 | False | 0 | c2qr7hd | t3_l8l00 | null | t1_c2qr7hd | t1_c2qqe05 | null | 1427719048 | 8 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | gnovos | null | Not unless you've got a lot more cash than I'm carrying... | null | 0 | 1318384793 | False | 0 | c2qr7qp | t3_l8l00 | null | t1_c2qr7qp | t1_c2qqt9u | null | 1427719051 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | cttng vwls s th bst wy t sv bndwdth | null | 0 | 1318384956 | False | 0 | c2qr8o9 | t3_l8l00 | null | t1_c2qr8o9 | t1_c2qpbzu | null | 1427719064 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Simpull_mann | null | Nobody knows what this even means, stop upvoting people lol | null | 0 | 1318384962 | False | 0 | c2qr8pj | t3_l8l00 | null | t1_c2qr8pj | t3_l8l00 | null | 1427719064 | -7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | emailbitesmyass | null | My internal pedant made me do it! I'm sorry you didn't think it was relevant. I thought the rest of your post(s) were quite thoughtful. Thanks for sharing. | null | 0 | 1318385051 | False | 0 | c2qr965 | t3_l6yn1 | null | t1_c2qr965 | t1_c2qgnpr | null | 1427719070 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | cakesinabox | null | Canada is in America | null | 0 | 1318385166 | False | 0 | c2qr9so | t3_l8l00 | null | t1_c2qr9so | t1_c2qpstw | null | 1427719078 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | AllegraGeller | null | but what class do we use to make the factory | null | 0 | 1318385254 | False | 0 | c2qra9y | t3_l8l00 | null | t1_c2qra9y | t1_c2qp3tq | null | 1427719084 | 9 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | aaronla | null | Not at all; I thought it rather clever :-) | null | 0 | 1318385314 | False | 0 | c2qralv | t3_l6yn1 | null | t1_c2qralv | t1_c2qr965 | null | 1427719089 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | crusoe | null | Git SVN isn't terrible either, at least you can use Git for your local branching/dev work. | null | 0 | 1318385503 | False | 0 | c2qrbme | t3_l8jdh | null | t1_c2qrbme | t1_c2qpxs3 | null | 1427719102 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | crusoe | null | You can lock down your central git repo so that it won't accept pushes involving a new branch.
Git is aptly called a "DCVS toolkit", and there are scripts out there to do all sorts of things. | null | 0 | 1318385559 | True | 0 | c2qrbwu | t3_l8jdh | null | t1_c2qrbwu | t1_c2qqb3l | null | 1427719106 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | TexasWithADollarsign | null | I for one don't like the fact that we can't overload functions unless we make every parameter optional (or use `func_get_args()` and put them as an array) and overload everything inside the single function call. Or the naming inconsistency between `htmlentities()` and `html_entity_decode()` and others. Using short na... | null | 0 | 1318385867 | False | 0 | c2qrdhj | t3_l8l00 | null | t1_c2qrdhj | t1_c2qqrst | null | 1427719126 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Wriiight | null | I wonder if even Soustrup's book covers export. It is the feature that never worked. I couldn't even explain to you what it is supposed to do. It is the part of the specification that everyone just points at and laughs. | null | 0 | 1318385919 | False | 0 | c2qrdr6 | t3_l7gl3 | null | t1_c2qrdr6 | t1_c2qncoi | null | 1427719130 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | manueljs | null | >++++++++++[<++++++++++>-]<->>>>>+++[>+++>+++<<-]<<<<+<[>[>+
>+<<-]>>[-<<+>>]++++>+<[-<->]<[[-]>>-<<]>>[[-]<<+>>]<<[[-]>>
>>>>[[-]<++++++++++<->... | null | 0 | 1318385932 | False | 0 | c2qrdu9 | t3_l8l00 | null | t1_c2qrdu9 | t1_c2qo8cn | null | 1427719131 | 21 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Reorax | null | > Asshats
Wow, that's a term I haven't heard for a while. | null | 0 | 1318385934 | False | 0 | c2qrdur | t3_l8l00 | null | t1_c2qrdur | t1_c2qnz03 | null | 1427719131 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | sgoguen | null | Don't get me wrong, I understand why they were very conservative and I don't blame them for making those decisions.
All I was saying was syntax is more than just being pleasing to the eye: Consider [Boyd's Law of Iteration](http://www.codinghorror.com/blog/2007/02/boyds-law-of-iteration.html) and how an efficient... | null | 0 | 1318386033 | False | 0 | c2qredp | t3_l88ny | null | t1_c2qredp | t1_c2qmk24 | null | 1427719138 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | TexasWithADollarsign | null | Not that it helps the case, but \ is also the path separator in Windows, which is probably why it was chosen. | null | 0 | 1318386043 | False | 0 | c2qrefr | t3_l8l00 | null | t1_c2qrefr | t1_c2qqlcm | null | 1427719138 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | mycatverbs | null | In conjunction with another factory whose name I'm not witty enough to cons up right now, they make more like themselves. | null | 0 | 1318386058 | False | 0 | c2qreio | t3_l8l00 | null | t1_c2qreio | t1_c2qra9y | null | 1427719139 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | this sounds like a invoking the static "new()" method in the Greeter class. | null | 0 | 1318386152 | False | 0 | c2qrf19 | t3_l6uwv | null | t1_c2qrf19 | t1_c2qayxp | null | 1427719147 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | kurin | null | `BabyInjectionFactoryFactoryFactoryTurtle` | null | 0 | 1318386305 | False | 0 | c2qrfug | t3_l8l00 | null | t1_c2qrfug | t1_c2qra9y | null | 1427719158 | 35 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | umm yes, its repeat, but do you have some idea how to make it better, but still not ambiguous, and fairly understandable to people who coded in C/Java/JS/Actionscript?
Java and C/C++ use the same syntax, Actionscript uses var greeter:Greeter = new Greeter() .
If you stick by the JS syntax: var greeter = new Greete... | null | 0 | 1318386355 | False | 0 | c2qrg41 | t3_l6uwv | null | t1_c2qrg41 | t1_c2q9lh9 | null | 1427719161 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | argentcorvid | null | I was trying to figure out if that was actually something some crazy person has done or not | null | 0 | 1318386388 | False | 0 | c2qrgar | t3_l8l00 | null | t1_c2qrgar | t1_c2qplg3 | null | 1427719164 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | aazav | null | Um, I'm not out of it. | null | 0 | 1318386464 | False | 0 | c2qrgrr | t3_l32qk | null | t1_c2qrgrr | t1_c2qqzjv | null | 1427719169 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | kurin | null | http://howfuckedismydatabase.com/ | null | 0 | 1318386487 | False | 0 | c2qrgwg | t3_l8jdh | null | t1_c2qrgwg | t1_c2qphxo | null | 1427719171 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | brokenAmmonite | null | ...fuck. Someone compile this? | null | 0 | 1318386652 | False | 0 | c2qrhsh | t3_l8l00 | null | t1_c2qrhsh | t1_c2qrdu9 | null | 1427719183 | 15 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | cultic_raider | null | 1. Thank you for the word I was forgetting.
2. Today I finally understood the imagery of the term "trampoline": a fixed piece of code from which the program repeatedly jumps into the next function/thunk and then returns to. | null | 0 | 1318386690 | False | 0 | c2qri0w | t3_l88ny | null | t1_c2qri0w | t1_c2qpv9s | null | 1427719186 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | StrangeWill | null | Opposite of what I want, I want to enforce that people sync their machines that aren't backed up with the repos on a regular basis, and do this by preventing any branching on their local PCs (or at least make it not worth it). | null | 0 | 1318386722 | False | 0 | c2qri6l | t3_l8jdh | null | t1_c2qri6l | t1_c2qrbwu | null | 1427719188 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | ethraax | null | Reminds me of {Open Source Program}, except you haven't told me to write a patch myself yet. | null | 0 | 1318386817 | False | 0 | c2qriou | t3_l8l00 | null | t1_c2qriou | t1_c2qosm7 | null | 1427719195 | 29 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Wriiight | null | I agree that C is a much cleaner first language. Everything is a value, even the pointers. Variables are variables and functions are functions. You don't gloss over the fact that memory gets allocated and deallocated, and you learn the difference between stack and heap. There is very little secretly going on under ... | null | 0 | 1318386851 | False | 0 | c2qriwa | t3_l7gl3 | null | t1_c2qriwa | t1_c2qizyp | null | 1427719197 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | i_ate_god | null | good thing I goto punk bars
girls dig a big python | null | 0 | 1318386913 | False | 0 | c2qrj6w | t3_l8l00 | null | t1_c2qrj6w | t1_c2qok19 | null | 1427719201 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | bbm182 | null | Doesn't seem to finish in [here](http://www.iamcal.com/misc/bf_debug/). | null | 0 | 1318387116 | False | 0 | c2qrkbc | t3_l8l00 | null | t1_c2qrkbc | t1_c2qrhsh | null | 1427719216 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | mycatverbs | null | Yes, but they didn't tell anyone about it and they used a funny domain name. "CUFP?" the pundits said, "why, it must be a discussion about cups, badly spelled. I do not have any drinking-vessel related issues, therefore I need not go." And that is how the commercial users for functional programming hid in plain sight. | null | 0 | 1318387140 | False | 0 | c2qrkfs | t3_l8l00 | null | t1_c2qrkfs | t1_c2qqrlo | null | 1427719217 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | StrangeWill | null | I can definitely see why it would be nice under the right conditions, but there are limitations for us (our desktops aren't backed up, I'd hate to lose two-three weeks worth of work because I made the decision to go with git and people took advantage of it's features, I'd lose all headway in implementing open source in... | null | 0 | 1318387204 | True | 0 | c2qrkrq | t3_l8jdh | null | t1_c2qrkrq | t1_c2qqume | null | 1427719221 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | mycatverbs | null | Emphasis.
> [X] Compilers do not *work* that way.
Sometimes it may *behave* that way, but that does not mean that the compiler is actually *work*ing. | null | 0 | 1318387349 | False | 0 | c2qrlik | t3_l8l00 | null | t1_c2qrlik | t1_c2qou4i | null | 1427719231 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | mycatverbs | null | It's a ha-ha-only-serious joke, and the smarmy tone is part of the delivery. | null | 0 | 1318387471 | False | 0 | c2qrm79 | t3_l8l00 | null | t1_c2qrm79 | t1_c2qqcyg | null | 1427719240 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | drhugs | null | money_format (float $money) { ... }
| null | 0 | 1318387503 | False | 0 | c2qrmcx | t3_l8l00 | null | t1_c2qrmcx | t1_c2qqpzc | null | 1427719242 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | adrianmonk | null | I guess you could sort of do the same thing with a counting semaphore (have the server/dispatcher decrement 3 times, then have each worker thread increment 1 time when it is done), but you're still accessing this semaphore from multiple threads. Since a counting semaphore is kind of a generalized version of a lock, it... | null | 0 | 1318387766 | False | 0 | c2qrnqd | t3_khip6 | null | t1_c2qrnqd | t1_c2qqnvb | null | 1427719260 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | ctags never gave the slightest sniff of working properly with c++ code like the standard library or boost when I tried it - although this was some time ago now. I settled on using regular vim for c++, due to its very fast edit capabilities. Cf VS which has better navigation/browsing but worse key bindings. | null | 0 | 1318387823 | False | 0 | c2qro14 | t3_l864l | null | t1_c2qro14 | t1_c2qmoim | null | 1427719265 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | brokenAmmonite | null | REAL MEN ONLY CODE IN ONE-DIMENSIONAL STRINGS OF CHARACTERS | null | 0 | 1318387826 | False | 0 | c2qro1p | t3_l8l00 | null | t1_c2qro1p | t1_c2qp1wz | null | 1427719265 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | copascetic | null | Indeed. As I understand it GLR parsing essentially does this. Resolve conflicts arbitrarily until you get a valid parse, backtrack to the conflict when something doesn't work, and fail if no possible set of conflict resolutions leads to a valid parse. Though this certainly doesn't use rand(), it is nondeterministic. | null | 0 | 1318387835 | False | 0 | c2qro3r | t3_l8l00 | null | t1_c2qro3r | t1_c2qplg3 | null | 1427719266 | 10 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | yoden | null | This is a good primer on the differences: http://www.reddit.com/tb/kjja4 | null | 0 | 1318387966 | False | 0 | c2qrosa | t3_l7gl3 | null | t1_c2qrosa | t1_c2qfik9 | null | 1427719275 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | alienangel2 | null | Getting a new language off the ground is like getting a new MMO off the ground. There are always a few people who are enthusiastically for it, but... the rest of the world is still playing WoW. | null | 0 | 1318388110 | False | 0 | c2qrpji | t3_l8l00 | null | t1_c2qrpji | t1_c2qokiu | null | 1427719284 | 10 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | FeepingCreature | null | > Since a counting semaphore is kind of a generalized version of a lock, it seems like if you want to allow accessing semaphores from multiple threads, then why forbid accessing locks from multiple threads?
Because semantically locks indicate ownership of a singular shared resource, whereas semaphores indicate dist... | null | 0 | 1318388112 | False | 0 | c2qrpjv | t3_khip6 | null | t1_c2qrpjv | t1_c2qrnqd | null | 1427719284 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | zzing | null | Is this thing really any different than the other 'systems' introduced over the last thirty years? | null | 0 | 1318388132 | False | 0 | c2qrpn3 | t3_l6vvc | null | t1_c2qrpn3 | t3_l6vvc | null | 1427719286 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1318388258 | False | 0 | c2qrqdp | t3_l8l00 | null | t1_c2qrqdp | t1_c2qrhsh | null | 1427719295 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | SyntaxTheFourth | null | I conclude that, until further evidence is put forward, it does *fuck all*. | null | 0 | 1318388276 | False | 0 | c2qrqhp | t3_l8l00 | null | t1_c2qrqhp | t1_c2qrkbc | null | 1427719297 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | GMABT | null | Try trying to google for information on COM. \*gun to head* | null | 0 | 1318388332 | False | 0 | c2qrqtd | t3_l8l00 | null | t1_c2qrqtd | t1_c2qqahs | null | 1427719301 | 8 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | alienangel2 | null | Yup, we're working on creating AI's already. As soon as we get them thinking and able to understand English, we'll be able to just tell them what we want the computer to do. | null | 0 | 1318388357 | False | 0 | c2qrqx6 | t3_l8l00 | null | t1_c2qrqx6 | t1_c2qp8nl | null | 1427719302 | 8 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | BlitzTech | null | Conversely, America is Canada's trousers.
And I live in Canada's... uh...
Well, you can probably guess.
(Hint: I do live in the USA. Southeast region.) | null | 0 | 1318388421 | False | 0 | c2qrrav | t3_l8l00 | null | t1_c2qrrav | t1_c2qpstw | null | 1427719307 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | SyntaxTheFourth | null | Possibly the worst insult on the checklist. | null | 0 | 1318388507 | False | 0 | c2qrrsa | t3_l8l00 | null | t1_c2qrrsa | t1_c2qp3yp | null | 1427719313 | 16 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | AnonymousRainbow | null | Only the major (**note:** Rogers, Bell, Shaw) ISPs do this anymore. Personally, don't know why people buy in to their shit. They're over-priced, and don't even give you that big of an improvement.
Rogers was charging me $70 a month for a 32Mbit connection. Speed only ever really went up to ~20. They never did anything... | null | 0 | 1318388538 | True | 0 | c2qrryu | t3_l8l00 | null | t1_c2qrryu | t1_c2qnzsz | null | 1427719316 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | drysart | null | And that site says that SQLite is fine for single-user applications -- which is what a local SVN checkout would be. | null | 0 | 1318388606 | False | 0 | c2qrsbs | t3_l8jdh | null | t1_c2qrsbs | t1_c2qrgwg | null | 1427719320 | 10 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | slix00 | null | It's always bothered me about testing that something like an is_prime() function can be tested relatively easily, but it seems that when you get into more complicated things, like testing a function that tells you whether there is an update to be downloaded, you have to make mocks or stubs that don't necessarily fit in... | null | 0 | 1318388751 | False | 0 | c2qrt4y | t3_l887z | null | t1_c2qrt4y | t3_l887z | null | 1427719331 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | bobbane | null | I was surprised to see these two in your list:
[X] Interpreted languages will never be as fast as C
Surely you know that interpretation is an implementation detail (except for those benighted "implementation IS the spec" languages.
[X] Compiled languages will never be "extensible"
1. Compilation is also an implemen... | null | 0 | 1318388846 | False | 0 | c2qrtlo | t3_l8l00 | null | t1_c2qrtlo | t1_c2qpgyv | null | 1427719337 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | adrianmonk | null | To me, locks just mean exclusive access. There isn't any particular reason I can see why exactly one thread should hold the lock. As long as the thread(s) that aren't supposed to be accessing something are kept out by the lock while the thread(s) that are, it is serving its purpose. It's up to those threads to coord... | null | 0 | 1318388964 | False | 0 | c2qru7x | t3_khip6 | null | t1_c2qru7x | t1_c2qrpjv | null | 1427719345 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | magnakai | null | Why exactly is PHP so reviled? I use it frequently when doing Wordpress and CodeIgniter development, and it seems to work very well for me. I've never programmed a web app from scratch in it, so I'm sure there are weaknesses I don't know about. | null | 0 | 1318389043 | False | 0 | c2qrun1 | t3_l8l00 | null | t1_c2qrun1 | t1_c2qnhop | null | 1427719350 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | SpineBuster | null | Anyone ever have to write scripts for 3DS Max using maxscript? "Syntax you say, whats a syntax?" says the MaxScript. lol | null | 0 | 1318389087 | False | 0 | c2qruvg | t3_l8l00 | null | t1_c2qruvg | t3_l8l00 | null | 1427719354 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Solon1 | null | It completely summarizes the typical new language debate. See the Dart debate, and all of that stuff was mentioned by the various web pundits. And before Dart, the same was said about Go. And Coffeescript. | null | 0 | 1318389152 | False | 0 | c2qrv6w | t3_l8l00 | null | t1_c2qrv6w | t1_c2qqcyg | null | 1427719358 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | _boardwalk | null | What's the point of this? What do you need outside auto-login user name, SSH private keys, and the -load command line option? | null | 0 | 1318389410 | False | 0 | c2qrwlk | t3_l92mc | null | t1_c2qrwlk | t3_l92mc | null | 1427719377 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | hyperforce | null | Why would you do that? Having an exported copy would be better... | null | 0 | 1318389420 | False | 0 | c2qrwnf | t3_l8jdh | null | t1_c2qrwnf | t1_c2qq399 | null | 1427719377 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | Can you give me a respected source in English (not a dictionary or encyclopedia) that refers to either North America or South America as just "America". The most I've seen is both continents called "the Americas". Also, is it common in any natively English speaking country in the world to say America when not referring... | null | 0 | 1318389473 | False | 0 | c2qrwxx | t3_l8l00 | null | t1_c2qrwxx | t1_c2qr9so | null | 1427719381 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Chuu | null | Even languages where it's possible to write code that cannot be compiled in finite time should try to save you from yourself. An example is maximum template recursion depth in C++ compilers. If your program won't compile with the default then you can explicitly change it, but in most cases if your recursion depth is ... | null | 0 | 1318389490 | False | 0 | c2qrx0t | t3_l8l00 | null | t1_c2qrx0t | t1_c2qoxls | null | 1427719382 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | kurin | null | I don't think I editorialized, I just gave the link. | null | 0 | 1318389596 | False | 0 | c2qrxlw | t3_l8jdh | null | t1_c2qrxlw | t1_c2qrsbs | null | 1427719390 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | drb226 | null | PHP is both popular and poorly designed. Compare the language design of PHP to any other remotely popular language; PHP generally pales in comparison. | null | 0 | 1318389727 | False | 0 | c2qryb3 | t3_l8l00 | null | t1_c2qryb3 | t1_c2qrun1 | null | 1427719399 | 16 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | therapy | null | > The VM should be easy to integrate, but the DOM library might be quite a bit harder.
No, even just the VM is very hard to integrate properly, unless you don't let it access anything else in the browser. Otherwise, you need to convert types between the new VM and the other code, and you need to handle things like ... | null | 0 | 1318389872 | False | 0 | c2qrz5p | t3_l7wry | null | t1_c2qrz5p | t1_c2qk5ri | null | 1427719410 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | orlock | null | Quantum cryptography.
| null | 0 | 1318389894 | False | 0 | c2qrza0 | t3_l8l00 | null | t1_c2qrza0 | t1_c2qq1hw | null | 1427719412 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Aye-curumba | null | Nice work! | null | 0 | 1318389998 | False | 0 | c2qrzv5 | t3_l8x6l | null | t1_c2qrzv5 | t3_l8x6l | null | 1427719419 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | drb226 | null | This is eerily sage-like advice. | null | 0 | 1318390105 | False | 0 | c2qs0eq | t3_l8l00 | null | t1_c2qs0eq | t1_c2qrpji | null | 1427719426 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | kamatsu | null | They would be wrong. | null | 0 | 1318390119 | False | 0 | c2qs0ha | t3_l8l00 | null | t1_c2qs0ha | t1_c2qqhhv | null | 1427719427 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | grauenwolf | null | That is beautiful and horrendous at the same time. | null | 0 | 1318390120 | False | 0 | c2qs0hi | t3_l8avy | null | t1_c2qs0hi | t1_c2qp1y4 | null | 1427719427 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | The totally inconsistent naming conventions in the library is what irks me the most. | null | 0 | 1318390127 | False | 0 | c2qs0j2 | t3_l8l00 | null | t1_c2qs0j2 | t1_c2qrun1 | null | 1427719428 | 15 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | grauenwolf | null | jQuery is basically a set of helper functions, it isn't a framework. | null | 0 | 1318390190 | False | 0 | c2qs0w2 | t3_l7wry | null | t1_c2qs0w2 | t1_c2qqfph | null | 1427719432 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | mikbe | null | I think the OP missed one really important question:
**When** should you test? | null | 0 | 1318390272 | False | 0 | c2qs1b1 | t3_l887z | null | t1_c2qs1b1 | t3_l887z | null | 1427719438 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | drb226 | null | Yeah, don't even try to use [Haskell in the Real World](http://book.realworldhaskell.org/). It would be really hard for [you to learn Haskell](http://learnyouahaskell.com), so don't bother. | null | 0 | 1318390518 | False | 0 | c2qs2op | t3_l8l00 | null | t1_c2qs2op | t1_c2qptgn | null | 1427719457 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | znk | null | As much as you can! I just say that because when I go back to refactor some code that's not tested I freak out a little bit. | null | 0 | 1318390520 | False | 0 | c2qs2p3 | t3_l887z | null | t1_c2qs2p3 | t1_c2qs1b1 | null | 1427719457 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | artsrc | null | There is nothing to stop distributing the Sun portable version of Java and having people run it along with the non-portable MS one. The risk is that people develop with the MS version of Java and then are not portable. And they did. It was just that the MS version got called C#.
Looking the list of products, "embra... | null | 0 | 1318390540 | False | 0 | c2qs2si | t3_l81mh | null | t1_c2qs2si | t1_c2qo61m | null | 1427719457 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | keevie | null | I downloaded a brainfuck ide just for you. It does, in fact, run.
http://i.imgur.com/AEuPh.png
....etc. It starts at 99. | null | 0 | 1318390543 | False | 0 | c2qs2t1 | t3_l8l00 | null | t1_c2qs2t1 | t1_c2qrhsh | null | 1427719457 | 28 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Poltras | null | Yes. In France, for example, we often say "En Amérique", which literally translate "In America". It can be related to Mexico and/or Canada.
TBH though, it's commonly accepted that USA is the country we're talking about. It's pedant to remark the contrary. And it's obnoxious to think everyone should do the same. Either... | null | 0 | 1318390705 | False | 0 | c2qs3oy | t3_l8l00 | null | t1_c2qs3oy | t1_c2qrwxx | null | 1427719470 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | drb226 | null | You'd think Google of all people would clue in on this. [Dallas Area Rapid Transit](http://google.com/search?q=dart) is my first hit =/ | null | 0 | 1318390757 | False | 0 | c2qs3zg | t3_l8l00 | null | t1_c2qs3zg | t1_c2qqahs | null | 1427719473 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | zanotam | null | Strings are one-dimensional entities embedded in two dimensional space, I believe. Lines, however, are one-dimensional. | null | 0 | 1318390811 | False | 0 | c2qs49s | t3_l8l00 | null | t1_c2qs49s | t1_c2qro1p | null | 1427719477 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | reddit_clone | null | My money is on Actors running on lightweight threads with little or nothing shared between threads.
Erlang got this right ages ago. Its time other languages/environments picked it up.
Scala's Akka library is a move in the right direction. | null | 0 | 1318390928 | False | 0 | c2qs4wa | t3_l8oqc | null | t1_c2qs4wa | t3_l8oqc | null | 1427719485 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | I take your 2D turing complete cellular automaton and raise you a [1 dimensional one.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_110) I'm not even sure if it's possible to have computation, let alone turning completeness at a level lower than this. | null | 0 | 1318390963 | False | 0 | c2qs534 | t3_l8l00 | null | t1_c2qs534 | t1_c2qpluk | null | 1427719488 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Poltras | null | Programmers, disparate? The fuck are you talking about? | null | 0 | 1318390999 | False | 0 | c2qs5ac | t3_l8l00 | null | t1_c2qs5ac | t1_c2qqcui | null | 1427719490 | 9 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Poltras | null | It's the 99 bottles of beer on the wall, but there's a bug I think. | null | 0 | 1318391097 | False | 0 | c2qs5tt | t3_l8l00 | null | t1_c2qs5tt | t1_c2qrqhp | null | 1427719497 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | >99 Bottles of beer on the wall
>99 Bottles of beer
>Take one down and pass it around
>98 Bottles of beer on the wall
>
>98 Bottles of beer on the wall
>98 Bottles of beer
>Take one down and pass it around
<SNIP>
>2 Bottles of beer on the wall
>2 Bottles of beer on the wall
&... | null | 0 | 1318391154 | False | 0 | c2qs63v | t3_l8l00 | null | t1_c2qs63v | t1_c2qrdu9 | null | 1427719501 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | reddit_clone | null | If you are using username/password (instead if SSH keys) you can't pass the 'password' on the command line. No SSH client does that.
I guess this is a way to automate that.
This could have been done easily with a few lines of AutoIt script, couldn't it? | null | 0 | 1318391251 | False | 0 | c2qs6nd | t3_l92mc | null | t1_c2qs6nd | t1_c2qrwlk | null | 1427719508 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | woodyallin | null | i'm 21 and i love Perl | null | 0 | 1318391277 | False | 0 | c2qs6rw | t3_l8l00 | null | t1_c2qs6rw | t1_c2qo6ah | null | 1427719510 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | magnakai | null | Is the popularity a bad thing? I know that sounds snarky, but it's a genuine question.
I found this [list of PHP dislikes](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/309300/what-makes-php-a-good-language) at StackOverflow. The ones that I understand certainly make sense to me. I've come across the inconsistent naming before, ... | null | 0 | 1318391464 | True | 0 | c2qs7rv | t3_l8l00 | null | t1_c2qs7rv | t1_c2qryb3 | null | 1427719523 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | tilio | null | > [ ] Programmers love writing lots of boilerplate
having seen a lot of web coding where people write a db table layer that literally translates the tables from sql into objects in the scripting language without any additional functionality, this hits too close to home. seriously, this shit can be written by a bot... | null | 0 | 1318391631 | False | 0 | c2qs8oo | t3_l8l00 | null | t1_c2qs8oo | t3_l8l00 | null | 1427719534 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | PatternPrecognition | null | It'd be handy for some small websites that I babysit, that the owners like to diddle with on occasion.
| null | 0 | 1318391632 | False | 0 | c2qs8ot | t3_l8jdh | null | t1_c2qs8ot | t1_c2qrwnf | null | 1427719534 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | bobindashadows | null | Here's the problem: you want to artificially make it "not worth it," when those developers can adequately decide whether it's "worth it" or not.
If the portion of the repo I'm working on changes frequently, it's in my interest to sync frequently. Otherwise, when I go to push my branch, it'll have dozens of conflicts, ... | null | 0 | 1318391633 | False | 0 | c2qs8ox | t3_l8jdh | null | t1_c2qs8ox | t1_c2qri6l | null | 1427719535 | 10 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | Wow, -14... apparently 14 people think subversion is 'good' at merging and branching.
Must think it's well integrated into Eclipse too. | null | 0 | 1318391925 | False | 0 | c2qsaci | t3_l8jdh | null | t1_c2qsaci | t1_c2qouwj | null | 1427719556 | -11 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | internetinsomniac | null | A good programmer is a lazy programmer (never do something more than once if you can come up with a shortcut for doing it again) | null | 0 | 1318392126 | False | 0 | c2qsbg9 | t3_l8l00 | null | t1_c2qsbg9 | t1_c2qo9tb | null | 1427719570 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | They're the same language! Doesn't anyone notice this?! I feel like I'm taking crazy pills. I invented the piano key necktie. | null | 0 | 1318392489 | False | 0 | c2qsdd3 | t3_l88ny | null | t1_c2qsdd3 | t3_l88ny | null | 1427719596 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
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