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True | [deleted] | null | Out of boredom, filled out for [Yeti](http://mth.github.com/yeti/) (probably biased).
You appear to be advocating a new:
[x] functional [ ] imperative [ ] object-oriented [ ] procedural [ ] stack-based
[x] "multi-paradigm" [ ] lazy [x] eager [x] statically-typed [ ] dynamically-typed
[ ] pure [x] ... | null | 0 | 1318412650 | False | 0 | c2qu7lq | t3_l8l00 | null | t1_c2qu7lq | t3_l8l00 | null | 1427720528 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | pozorvlak | null | Why would you use bash to talk to the DB when you've got Perl right there? With a well-established DB layer? | null | 0 | 1318412659 | False | 0 | c2qu7mb | t3_l8l00 | null | t1_c2qu7mb | t1_c2qqlaq | null | 1427720528 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | trezor2 | null | Just out of curiosity (and since F# comes directly from OCaml), with Sum types, do you mean the same concept as what is called "Discriminated unions" in F#?
Ref if interested: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/dd233226.aspx
| null | 0 | 1318412796 | True | 0 | c2qu7vc | t3_l8avy | null | t1_c2qu7vc | t1_c2qtmh5 | null | 1427720531 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Poddster | null | >Anyhow, the linker does not check the type of symbol foo; thus, running the main executable results in a function call into an non-executable memory area.
First reaction: Really?! As if the compiler doesn't check that.
I just tried it, randomy changed an extern uint to and extern float, and MSVC happily accepted... | null | 0 | 1318413013 | False | 0 | c2qu89r | t3_l9axk | null | t1_c2qu89r | t3_l9axk | null | 1427720536 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Poddster | null | >If I were using C, I'd stop using it for that. I mean, seriously...
"If I were using C, I'd stop writing bugs". Bugs aren't intentional.
Putting char* when the extern is actually char[] is a massive bug that many people won't even know is a bug until it happens.
>Who wants not to be caught out by the compile... | null | 0 | 1318413093 | False | 0 | c2qu8er | t3_l9axk | null | t1_c2qu8er | t1_c2qtqj3 | null | 1427720538 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | ChoHag | null | But even in the Windows world, everywhere you use it except CMD you need two to undo the escaping power of the mighty backslash. | null | 0 | 1318413160 | False | 0 | c2qu8jb | t3_l8l00 | null | t1_c2qu8jb | t1_c2qrefr | null | 1427720540 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Ziggamorph | null | It is very confusing to new programmers though. I'm pretty competent and I still sometimes slip up and try and perform equality with `=`. There's arguments for both, but dismissing an entire language because it uses `:=` for assignment is just silly. | null | 0 | 1318413218 | False | 0 | c2qu8n5 | t3_l8l00 | null | t1_c2qu8n5 | t1_c2qu27r | null | 1427720541 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | TeX and PostScript are both fairly flexible programming languages. TeX even has some really interesting ideas. | null | 0 | 1318413406 | False | 0 | c2qu90d | t3_l8l00 | null | t1_c2qu90d | t1_c2qoibv | null | 1427720546 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | pozorvlak | null | Hell, try Googling for J.
At least Ben Olmstead had the sense to mis-spell "Malbolge". | null | 0 | 1318413727 | False | 0 | c2qu9ld | t3_l8l00 | null | t1_c2qu9ld | t1_c2qqahs | null | 1427720553 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | pozorvlak | null | Perl and Malbolge do pretty well. | null | 0 | 1318413849 | False | 0 | c2qu9t9 | t3_l8l00 | null | t1_c2qu9t9 | t1_c2qu2sh | null | 1427720556 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | ChoHag | null | http://search.cpan.org/modlist/Perl6 | null | 0 | 1318414154 | False | 0 | c2quacx | t3_l8l00 | null | t1_c2quacx | t1_c2qshbn | null | 1427720564 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | metorical | null | Looks good. Can sections be optional if no points apply? | null | 0 | 1318414207 | False | 0 | c2quagg | t3_l9crz | null | t1_c2quagg | t3_l9crz | null | 1427720565 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1318414230 | False | 0 | c2quahy | t3_l8jdh | null | t1_c2quahy | t1_c2qrkrq | null | 1427720565 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | That would be fine and all except for the serious negative PR impact when it was discovered to be a complete hoax as the new version of Photoshop shipped. | null | 0 | 1318414242 | False | 0 | c2quaif | t3_l8948 | null | t1_c2quaif | t1_c2qtenu | null | 1427720565 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | jseigh | null | Anyone know why they don't specify a memory model for these sort of things or at least keep it well hidden? Or is it that they think saying "eventual consistency" or "caching" is somehow equivalent to specifying a memory model? | null | 0 | 1318414343 | False | 0 | c2quaob | t3_l5gnq | null | t1_c2quaob | t3_l5gnq | null | 1427720567 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | lambdaq | null | Please make Point #3 a check list. Click - select - click again is not exactly best user experience. | null | 0 | 1318414558 | False | 0 | c2qub2c | t3_l9crz | null | t1_c2qub2c | t3_l9crz | null | 1427720572 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | AxiomShell | null | Looks good!
Suggestion: decision engine (akinator-style) to answer "which language am I thinking of?" ;-P | null | 0 | 1318414644 | False | 0 | c2qub7v | t3_l9crz | null | t1_c2qub7v | t3_l9crz | null | 1427720574 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | insin | null | Version with form inputs, for creating links which fill in your choices using JavaScript:
http://jonathan.buchanan153.users.btopenworld.com/language_checklist.html | null | 0 | 1318414845 | True | 0 | c2qubks | t3_l8l00 | null | t1_c2qubks | t3_l8l00 | null | 1427720580 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | moreyes | null | It looks like JavaScript too. A cleaner JavaScript, even.
CoffeeScript doesn't add anything to the table besides sugar. Sorry but no, thanks. | null | 0 | 1318414921 | False | 0 | c2qubpt | t3_l88ny | null | t1_c2qubpt | t1_c2qt8e5 | null | 1427720582 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | WalterGR | null | BTW, if you want to automate Windows apps, please use MSAA ("[Microsoft Active Accessibility](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Active_Accessibility)") rather than techniques like this. | null | 0 | 1318415257 | False | 0 | c2quc9m | t3_l92mc | null | t1_c2quc9m | t3_l92mc | null | 1427720589 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | It's not that bad in practice, because you have all extern definitions in a header and the implementation also includes the header, which does result in "redefinition with different type" errors. | null | 0 | 1318415260 | False | 0 | c2quc9w | t3_l9axk | null | t1_c2quc9w | t1_c2qtqj3 | null | 1427720589 | 10 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Unmitigated_Smut | null | Magnificent! Upvotes to you. | null | 0 | 1318415403 | False | 0 | c2qucjk | t3_l8l00 | null | t1_c2qucjk | t1_c2qttvi | null | 1427720593 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | taejo | null | IEEE requires that `NaN != NaN`, even for NaNs which have the same binary representation. | null | 0 | 1318415547 | False | 0 | c2quct2 | t3_l88ny | null | t1_c2quct2 | t1_c2qtxpn | null | 1427720596 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | librik | null | The compiler can't check the types' compatibility, as it works on each C file totally separately, compiling them into machine-language object files.
The linker can't check the types' compatibility, because all it does is combine object files -- which, since they're written in raw machine language, don't have types. | null | 0 | 1318415811 | False | 0 | c2qudbt | t3_l9axk | null | t1_c2qudbt | t1_c2qu89r | null | 1427720603 | 16 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1318415871 | True | 0 | c2qudfy | t3_l8jdh | null | t1_c2qudfy | t1_c2qtajo | null | 1427720604 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1318416108 | False | 0 | c2qudwi | t3_l8jdh | null | t1_c2qudwi | t1_c2qtajo | null | 1427720610 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | jevon | null | I just tried it on [my language](http://openiaml.org). An interesting exercise lol
You appear to be advocating a new:
[x] object-oriented [x] procedural
[x] "multi-paradigm" [x] statically-typed
[x] visual
programming language. Your language will not work. Here is why it will not work.
You... | null | 0 | 1318416214 | False | 0 | c2que37 | t3_l8l00 | null | t1_c2que37 | t1_c2qngdj | null | 1427720613 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | jevon | null | When developing a programming language it's easy to support claims of increased productivity and ease-of-use. Not generally, but for specific problems of course. | null | 0 | 1318416427 | False | 0 | c2queh7 | t3_l8l00 | null | t1_c2queh7 | t1_c2qnuoy | null | 1427720618 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1318416508 | False | 0 | c2quemc | t3_l8948 | null | t1_c2quemc | t1_c2qknbp | null | 1427720619 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | skulgnome | null | And so the moralfags come out. | null | 0 | 1318416576 | False | 0 | c2queqe | t3_l742f | null | t1_c2queqe | t1_c2qevl6 | null | 1427720621 | -1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | WalterGR | null | Is the code available? | null | 0 | 1318416850 | False | 0 | c2quf9c | t3_l9crz | null | t1_c2quf9c | t3_l9crz | null | 1427720628 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | crazyhoff | null | This was funny
[ ] You have reinvented Lisp but worse
[ ] You have reinvented Javascript but worse
[ ] You have reinvented Java but worse
[ ] You have reinvented C++ but worse
[ ] You have reinvented PHP but worse
[ ] You have reinvented PHP better, but that's still no justification
[ ] You... | null | 0 | 1318416940 | False | 0 | c2quffi | t3_l8l00 | null | t1_c2quffi | t3_l8l00 | null | 1427720630 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | Exactly. And functions don't have types or signatures either when the linker is working with them. | null | 0 | 1318417085 | False | 0 | c2qufpd | t3_l9axk | null | t1_c2qufpd | t1_c2qudbt | null | 1427720634 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Terr_ | null | For integers, I'd rather be reading `(x!=0)` than `(x)`, because the mental overhead of understanding the code is actually less, particularly if you do a lot of switching between working with different languages. It is unambiguous about what happens for negative values.
IMO the biggest problem with the PHP example is... | null | 0 | 1318417382 | False | 0 | c2qug8k | t3_l88ny | null | t1_c2qug8k | t1_c2qu6pv | null | 1427720640 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | You appear to advocate automate rant generator that does nothing more than concatenate things you check on the list... | null | 0 | 1318417417 | False | 0 | c2qugav | t3_l9crz | null | t1_c2qugav | t3_l9crz | null | 1427720641 | 39 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | name_was_taken | null | "You wouldn't really think that an online bookstore needs to be an extensible, programmable platform. Would you?"
Actually, I would! My lord, the big publishers would eat that up. It would save them so many man hours that it'd make your mind spin.
I actually agree with Bezos' idea: Make anything interoperate by AP... | null | 0 | 1318417491 | False | 0 | c2qugfh | t3_l9ehj | null | t1_c2qugfh | t3_l9ehj | null | 1427720644 | 46 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | afiefh | null | But exceptions in c++ are much more difficult than java for example. Teaching a beginner how to manage a constructor that may throw an exception is no easy task.
My point was to start with a minimal c++ feature set and gradually expand. Exceptions arent necessary for beginners. | null | 0 | 1318417501 | False | 0 | c2qugg7 | t3_l7gl3 | null | t1_c2qugg7 | t1_c2qts8g | null | 1427720644 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Fabien4 | null | Or OpenSSH's ssh client. Yes, on Windows, that means installing Cygwin, but if you're a programmer, you probably need it anyway. | null | 0 | 1318417726 | False | 0 | c2quguz | t3_l92mc | null | t1_c2quguz | t1_c2qsjo0 | null | 1427720649 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | phil_g | null | GC depends on the runtime you're compiling for. If you use Delphi to target .NET, you get garbage collection. If you use Delphi to target Win32, you get manual memory management, same as always. | null | 0 | 1318417866 | False | 0 | c2quh4s | t3_l8l00 | null | t1_c2quh4s | t1_c2qq8lw | null | 1427720653 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Timmmmbob | null | > Google+ is a knee-jerk reaction, a study in short-term thinking, predicated on the incorrect notion that Facebook is successful because they built a great product. But that's not why they are successful. Facebook is successful because they built an entire constellation of products by allowing other people to do th... | null | 0 | 1318417963 | False | 0 | c2quhbd | t3_l9ehj | null | t1_c2quhbd | t3_l9ehj | null | 1427720654 | 34 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | Can you add a randomizer? | null | 0 | 1318418044 | False | 0 | c2quhh1 | t3_l9crz | null | t1_c2quhh1 | t3_l9crz | null | 1427720656 | 10 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | maep | null | It's the linker, not the compiler. And in rare cases you need the linker to be able to do this. In general I don't like the linker telling me what I shouldn't do. Others call it dumb, I call it freedom. | null | 0 | 1318418139 | False | 0 | c2quhnz | t3_l9axk | null | t1_c2quhnz | t1_c2qu8er | null | 1427720659 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | mcmillen | null | Hi, I'm one of the co-authors of the original piece. Great work!
I have just one nit: some things in the original checklist which have sub-checkboxes also need a top-level checkbox. For example, it ought to be possible to check "The implementation is the spec" without checking any of "it's closed-source" / "covered by... | null | 0 | 1318418333 | False | 0 | c2qui1d | t3_l9crz | null | t1_c2qui1d | t3_l9crz | null | 1427720665 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | __j_random_hacker | null | Somehow, the sheer hubris of wedging "no bandwidth cap" into the "Sorry, I can't hear you over my X" format has had me LOLing for like 5 minutes... :) | null | 0 | 1318418475 | False | 0 | c2quibj | t3_l8l00 | null | t1_c2quibj | t1_c2qos9f | null | 1427720667 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | _asterisk | null | Could this be in a more unreadable format? | null | 0 | 1318418632 | False | 0 | c2quinq | t3_l9ehj | null | t1_c2quinq | t3_l9ehj | null | 1427720673 | 97 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | kikaerter | null | Yes, that's the same thing. Sum types are "discriminated unions" and product types are tuples.
You can see this by analogy to [sums](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Categorical_sum) and [products](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Categorical_product) in category theory If you're using the right programming language, these w... | null | 0 | 1318418677 | False | 0 | c2quir2 | t3_l8avy | null | t1_c2quir2 | t1_c2qu7vc | null | 1427720674 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | snorkelman | null | @EugeneKay:
>Because the coder is an idiot
I don't really understand where that comment comes from. Automating a terminal emulator is a pretty common task, and it really doesn't matter whether it is using telnet, ssh, or a direct serial connection for the transport.
@Fitzsimmons:
>Why wouldn't you just use p... | null | 0 | 1318418916 | False | 0 | c2quj9x | t3_l92mc | null | t1_c2quj9x | t3_l92mc | null | 1427720681 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | howfun | null | He could have put it in <pre> tags. Chrome browser will line break it fine.
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True | howfun | null | This about Google is kind of worrying. We trust Google to build an open platform, while they are currently interested in building products only. We have to start working on alternatives.
| null | 0 | 1318419053 | False | 0 | c2qujkb | t3_l9ehj | null | t1_c2qujkb | t3_l9ehj | null | 1427720685 | 19 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | kikaerter | null | If you actually had read the post and the relevant part of the language spec, you'd see that _all_ polymorphic types in Dart are covariant. I'd advise you to think a bit before making stupid assertions. | null | 0 | 1318419061 | False | 0 | c2qujky | t3_l8avy | null | t1_c2qujky | t1_c2qp72t | null | 1427720685 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | ananthakumaran | null | http://steverant.pen.io/ | null | 0 | 1318419233 | False | 0 | c2qujz2 | t3_l9ehj | null | t1_c2qujz2 | t1_c2quinq | null | 1427720690 | 131 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | copascetic | null | Not necessarily, no. The original joke is that the newfangled language is ambiguous so it uses rand() in its parser; however, there are many unambiguous languages that still have shift-reduce conflicts in a LALR(1) parser, for example, which need to be resolved either nondeterministically or with other shenanigans like... | null | 0 | 1318419261 | True | 0 | c2quk1i | t3_l8l00 | null | t1_c2quk1i | t1_c2qtk8t | null | 1427720691 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | donroby | null | What, no monads? | null | 0 | 1318419275 | False | 0 | c2quk2s | t3_l8nvh | null | t1_c2quk2s | t3_l8nvh | null | 1427720691 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | LorienQuestion | null | They wouldn't want to hand control over, but the end game for Google would be the performance enhancements, the reduced start up time for web-pages because of the serialization of data running in a VM machine and the added security by running in a VM machine. The end game for Google is an environment that is conducive... | null | 0 | 1318419288 | False | 0 | c2quk3p | t3_l7wry | null | t1_c2quk3p | t1_c2qqlnw | null | 1427720692 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Amadiro | null | $ size output
text data bss dec hex filename
891 256 8 1155 483 output
with O3. It's really not a lot, seeing as those are just assembly instructions. The important point is, anyway, t... | null | 0 | 1318419554 | True | 0 | c2qukot | t3_l7wry | null | t1_c2qukot | t1_c2qo79r | null | 1427720699 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | brutusmcforce | null | I started losing interest after "fundamental rule" and stopped reading completely at "sooner or later javascripts files grow larger and soon will end up in an un-manageable mess". | null | 0 | 1318419828 | False | 0 | c2qulbq | t3_l9f3y | null | t1_c2qulbq | t3_l9f3y | null | 1427720707 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | jyper | null | The compiler could add metadata about the types to be removed by the linker. | null | 0 | 1318419902 | False | 0 | c2qulha | t3_l9axk | null | t1_c2qulha | t1_c2qudbt | null | 1427720709 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Gotebe | null | This is because of C compilation model (which is, I believe, assembly compilation model): in a given source file, compiler sees symbol X, type and all, and compiles it in. It looks at nothing else. It has no idea whatsoever that said symbol is actually defined as some other type or whatever. Linker links it and that's... | null | 0 | 1318420052 | False | 0 | c2qultl | t3_l9axk | null | t1_c2qultl | t1_c2qu8er | null | 1427720714 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | brutusmcforce | null | Bananas are herbs. | null | 0 | 1318420105 | False | 0 | c2qulxs | t3_l8avy | null | t1_c2qulxs | t3_l8avy | null | 1427720716 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Daniel15 | null | PHP and JavaScript too. | null | 0 | 1318420372 | False | 0 | c2qumiz | t3_l8l00 | null | t1_c2qumiz | t1_c2qu9t9 | null | 1427720723 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | umop_apisdn | null | No, because if there are two possible valid ways to parse the input the glr parser will complain. | null | 0 | 1318420493 | False | 0 | c2qumti | t3_l8l00 | null | t1_c2qumti | t1_c2qro3r | null | 1427720727 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Xarnon | null | Refresh the page, go to slide 400 and read on.
I think the slide software actually keeps all the loaded slides in memory for "easy access". | null | 0 | 1318420574 | False | 0 | c2qun0z | t3_l6yn1 | null | t1_c2qun0z | t1_c2qm7yu | null | 1427720729 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | axilmar | null | Perhaps the wording of my question was wrong. Let me rephrase it:
Which of the two languages defines how Widget instances will be allocated when the type Widget is being defined?
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True | ShardPhoenix | null | IIRC "Clojure" was chosen partly because it had 0 hits on Google. | null | 0 | 1318421083 | False | 0 | c2quo8y | t3_l8l00 | null | t1_c2quo8y | t1_c2qu2sh | null | 1427720745 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | This *week*??? Java hate is a year-long party around here. | null | 0 | 1318421140 | False | 0 | c2quodx | t3_l8l00 | null | t1_c2quodx | t1_c2qoj8i | null | 1427720747 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Odd_Bloke | null | [citations needed] | null | 0 | 1318421155 | False | 0 | c2quofk | t3_l9ehj | null | t1_c2quofk | t1_c2quhbd | null | 1427720748 | 26 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Gotebe | null | Taking the notion that gradual expansion of knowledge is a good thing on board... I still disagree that one should start C++ without exceptions. It's virtually impossible, as in C++, *everything* throws, starting with std::string or STL containers (and of course, standard operator new). It just can't be escaped.
That... | null | 0 | 1318421363 | False | 0 | c2quoyl | t3_l7gl3 | null | t1_c2quoyl | t1_c2qugg7 | null | 1427720754 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | moreyes | null | Just a matter of taste. There are far more JavaScript/Java/C#/C/[insert a C-flavored language here] programmers out there than CoffeeScript programmers, and they are pretty comfortable with the pragmatic syntax Dart is using. They can't make everybody happy, unfortunately, so they aimed the larger audience.
That said... | null | 0 | 1318421555 | True | 0 | c2qupga | t3_l88ny | null | t1_c2qupga | t1_c2qredp | null | 1427720762 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | __j_random_hacker | null | You don't understand the difference between an ssh *connection* and an ssh *tunnel*.
Nice of you to call the OP an idiot, though. | null | 0 | 1318421784 | False | 0 | c2qupzy | t3_l92mc | null | t1_c2qupzy | t1_c2qtlcq | null | 1427720769 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | rafekett | null | [backbone.js](http://documentcloud.github.com/backbone/) | null | 0 | 1318421801 | False | 0 | c2quq1m | t3_l9f3y | null | t1_c2quq1m | t3_l9f3y | null | 1427720770 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | trezor2 | null | Ctrl A, Ctrl C, Google Docs/MS Word, Ctrl V.
Does magic. | null | 0 | 1318421917 | False | 0 | c2quqcv | t3_l9ehj | null | t1_c2quqcv | t1_c2quinq | null | 1427720773 | 10 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | kampangptlk | null | try changing your browser monospace font to comic sans. | null | 0 | 1318421959 | False | 0 | c2quqha | t3_l9ehj | null | t1_c2quqha | t1_c2quinq | null | 1427720775 | 103 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | CedarWolf | null | > But I'll argue that Accessibility is actually more important than Security because dialing Accessibility to zero means you have no product at all, whereas *dialing Security to zero* can still get you a reasonably successful product such as the *Playstation Network.*
| null | 0 | 1318422024 | False | 0 | c2quqo0 | t3_l9ehj | null | t1_c2quqo0 | t3_l9ehj | null | 1427720777 | 170 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | barsoap | null | There's also Template Haskell. | null | 0 | 1318422119 | False | 0 | c2quqyd | t3_l8l00 | null | t1_c2quqyd | t1_c2qoxls | null | 1427720781 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | paniq | null | Of course it's silly. But first impressions have to be factored in.
I programmed a lot in Delphi when I was younger btw. Other languages had more benefits in the end, and needing less characters to do something played a small part.
Syntactically, I find the ":" to be slightly irritating, because it's already symbolic... | null | 0 | 1318422250 | False | 0 | c2qurc2 | t3_l8l00 | null | t1_c2qurc2 | t1_c2qu8n5 | null | 1427720786 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | nemtrif | null | A great idea. Have you tried it with a large code base? I am curious to see if the performance will degrade in that case. | null | 0 | 1318422473 | False | 0 | c2qurzp | t3_l864l | null | t1_c2qurzp | t3_l864l | null | 1427720795 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | lloydbennett1 | null | The only [Steve!](http://www.google.co.uk/imgres?q=steve+austin+six+million&hl=en&tbm=isch&tbnid=kGGNNdl6KNjt9M:&imgrefurl=http://www.thewordslinger.com/posts.php%3Fid%3D39&docid=ItMRaYfnu7wO4M&w=513&h=389&ei=q4eVTvfqDsXi0QG8ovWsBw&zoom=1&iact=hc&vpx=894&vpy=152&dur=4... | null | 0 | 1318422494 | False | 0 | c2qus23 | t3_l8l00 | null | t1_c2qus23 | t3_l8l00 | null | 1427720796 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | bobappleyard | null | Great idea. We could call it Java. | null | 0 | 1318422522 | False | 0 | c2qus4y | t3_l7wry | null | t1_c2qus4y | t1_c2qk8tl | null | 1427720797 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | deverdev | null | Sad but true | null | 0 | 1318422623 | False | 0 | c2qusfj | t3_l9ehj | null | t1_c2qusfj | t1_c2quqo0 | null | 1427720800 | 43 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Tagedieb | null | Well, the compiler checks it, if you do it the way it's normally done: You do the "extern ..." declaration in an include file and include that to all files that uses it and also the file where the variable is defined. At that point the compiler can see that in the same translation unit the types don't match. | null | 0 | 1318422626 | False | 0 | c2qusfw | t3_l9axk | null | t1_c2qusfw | t1_c2qu89r | null | 1427720801 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | > Most people still hate them.
Not really. Most people have at least one or two they use. Techies hate them. | null | 0 | 1318422659 | False | 0 | c2qusjm | t3_l9ehj | null | t1_c2qusjm | t1_c2quhbd | null | 1427720802 | 119 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | Try it with bigger project. Few warnings here, few there, suddenly there is screenful of those on each build, and nobody will notice new ones anymore. They provide benefits, but quite often I've ended up with -Werror or something similar to make it really work. | null | 0 | 1318422732 | False | 0 | c2qusrl | t3_l88ny | null | t1_c2qusrl | t1_c2qmaxc | null | 1427720805 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | sturmeh | null | Not one that executes within a plugin/applet. | null | 0 | 1318422795 | False | 0 | c2qusy7 | t3_l7wry | null | t1_c2qusy7 | t1_c2qus4y | null | 1427720807 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | evertrooftop | null | Yes, well.. I meant that you can always convert from UTC, but not always unambiguously to UTC. The latter is a lossy conversion. Furthermore, on any system you can find out the current date and time in UTC, so this is your starting point.
But my point stands: the best way to store dates and times accurately is UTC tim... | null | 0 | 1318422837 | False | 0 | c2qut37 | t3_l6v4t | null | t1_c2qut37 | t1_c2qqjwz | null | 1427720809 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | IneffablePigeon | null | I prefer Chiller. | null | 0 | 1318422878 | False | 0 | c2qut7o | t3_l9ehj | null | t1_c2qut7o | t1_c2quqha | null | 1427720811 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | DaGoodBoy | null | Brilliant. Insightful. Troubling. | null | 0 | 1318422937 | False | 0 | c2qutdj | t3_l9ehj | null | t1_c2qutdj | t3_l9ehj | null | 1427720813 | 110 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | evertrooftop | null | Just to clarify.. I store unix timestamps + timezone identifiers in my DB. Right after I fetch these I convert them to DateTime objects. This works perfectly. | null | 0 | 1318422982 | False | 0 | c2quti2 | t3_l6v4t | null | t1_c2quti2 | t1_c2qut37 | null | 1427720814 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1318423007 | False | 0 | c2qutkm | t3_l9ehj | null | t1_c2qutkm | t1_c2quinq | null | 1427720815 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | numbakrunch | null | Most people use them accidentally and unknowingly and would opt out of them if they knew. | null | 0 | 1318423475 | False | 0 | c2quv07 | t3_l9ehj | null | t1_c2quv07 | t1_c2qusjm | null | 1427720834 | -5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | He talks about this chicken-and-egg type of thing close to the end.
That's not the point or very interesting though; the point is that for FB or Google or whatever to grow _very_ big (and not just big), a platform is/was needed. | null | 0 | 1318423513 | True | 0 | c2quv4r | t3_l9ehj | null | t1_c2quv4r | t1_c2quhbd | null | 1427720835 | 11 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | MarshallBanana | null | It could, but that would likely break working programs that rely on some kind or other of type-punning between on shared symbols and functions. | null | 0 | 1318423551 | False | 0 | c2quv91 | t3_l9axk | null | t1_c2quv91 | t1_c2qulha | null | 1427720837 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | tootie | null | AWS is a marvel of programmability. | null | 0 | 1318423593 | False | 0 | c2quvds | t3_l9ehj | null | t1_c2quvds | t1_c2qugfh | null | 1427720839 | 34 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | C is not a subset of C++. You cannot compile C code with a C++ compiler, unless you're not using many features of C, and actively avoiding cases where a C compiler and C++ compiler do different things with the same code; some (rare) codebases are built like this - such as Lua -but in general, it's not possible.
If you... | null | 0 | 1318423778 | False | 0 | c2quvxr | t3_l9axk | null | t1_c2quvxr | t1_c2qultl | null | 1427720846 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | MarshallBanana | null | > But C is not more effective than e.g. C++ for such stuff.
C++ works exactly the same for this kind of thing, so it's hard to see why you would bring it up.
> Mere compilation of C-style code with a C++ compiler would get rid of shit like this.
Why would it? C and C++ are the same in this respect. | null | 0 | 1318423791 | False | 0 | c2quvz7 | t3_l9axk | null | t1_c2quvz7 | t1_c2qu29v | null | 1427720846 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | propool | null | >You're over the rate limit. Serve this file from your own servers. Contact support@github.com if you have questions.
Yes actually! :D | null | 0 | 1318423841 | False | 0 | c2quw4j | t3_l9ehj | null | t1_c2quw4j | t1_c2quinq | null | 1427720848 | 13 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | NoMoreNicksLeft | null | Mixed experience, myself. Programming certainly makes this easier than some poor schlob job. But there are still some bosses like that, as the article proves. | null | 0 | 1318423871 | False | 0 | c2quw7t | t3_l6m5r | null | t1_c2quw7t | t1_c2qu6ug | null | 1427720850 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | regeya | null | OK, so now the story is that I can't make money outside of working directly for someone else without being a programmer or a sleazy salesman.
I think we have different definitions of "make money", seriously. | null | 0 | 1318423903 | False | 0 | c2quwbk | t3_l6m5r | null | t1_c2quwbk | t1_c2qu6y2 | null | 1427720851 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | sgoguen | null | [Barbie knows how you feel](http://www.google.com/?q=Math%20is%20hard,%20let's%20go%20shopping) :) | null | 0 | 1318423926 | True | 0 | c2quwe9 | t3_l8avy | null | t1_c2quwe9 | t1_c2qmtey | null | 1427720852 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1318424019 | False | 0 | c2quwpa | t3_l88ny | null | t1_c2quwpa | t1_c2qlmtu | null | 1427720856 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | chub79 | null | > **We** trust Google
Why do **you**? I'm asking seriously. | null | 0 | 1318424049 | False | 0 | c2quwsr | t3_l9ehj | null | t1_c2quwsr | t1_c2qujkb | null | 1427720857 | 28 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
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