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True | UsingYourWifi | null | It was my first programming book. My father gave it to me around 9th grade.
I now have a computer science degree and work for a large software company. | null | 0 | 1318522444 | False | 0 | c2r6p94 | t3_la9wn | null | t1_c2r6p94 | t1_c2r35aw | null | 1427726480 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | sedaak | null | The only tangible point this guy makes is that semicolons are a force of habit and a relic from older languages. However, some things, like referring to scripting languages as "hipster" .... is just naive. | null | 0 | 1318522466 | False | 0 | c2r6pdw | t3_lajug | null | t1_c2r6pdw | t3_lajug | null | 1427726481 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | mipadi | null | Came here for the obligatory Steve Jobs reference, was not disappointed. | null | 0 | 1318522480 | False | 0 | c2r6phb | t3_la9wn | null | t1_c2r6phb | t1_c2r3ear | null | 1427726483 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | anatoly | null | You're right, but: 1. It doesn't matter much in this case, because the function is immediately defined and not just declared.
2. The way it's written is in K&R C, and isn't that fitting in this case?
| null | 0 | 1318522487 | False | 0 | c2r6pit | t3_laf4o | null | t1_c2r6pit | t1_c2r5xn4 | null | 1427726483 | 13 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | icbts | null | I've met this type of rockstar before and agree that sucks. A good attitude goes a long way.
From my point of view as an open source developer a certain amount of 'rockstar' support can be helpful to your projects' adoption (too much obviously can hurt too). In the scale I'm concerned with though it's more about getti... | null | 0 | 1318522546 | False | 0 | c2r6pwu | t3_lau1y | null | t1_c2r6pwu | t1_c2r61o9 | null | 1427726488 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | sisyphus | null | It's not really arguable. He did more for the tech world full stop. But most people are not in the tech world so of course Steve Jobs will get more attention. | null | 0 | 1318522605 | False | 0 | c2r6q9r | t3_la9wn | null | t1_c2r6q9r | t1_c2r4z2t | null | 1427726493 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | raydeen | null | AtariBASIC for me. And Compute!, Antic and A.N.A.L.O.G. magazines and typing in programs and then trying to figure out why they wouldn't run. | null | 0 | 1318522648 | False | 0 | c2r6qjb | t3_laqb0 | null | t1_c2r6qjb | t1_c2r5vdi | null | 1427726497 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | sisyphus | null | He owned an American football team for 50 years or so and he told the rest of the pig fucking owners to go fuck themselves constantly. | null | 0 | 1318522672 | False | 0 | c2r6qoi | t3_la9wn | null | t1_c2r6qoi | t1_c2r5wm7 | null | 1427726499 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Shaper_pmp | null | Ouch - that seems pretty nasty.
Declaring types I can live with. Weakly/un-typed I can deal with. Declaring a variable as one type and then finding it trivially ends up as something else? That's *hideous*.
It seems like all the downsides of static typing *and* all the downsides of dynamic typing, with none of the ... | null | 0 | 1318522676 | False | 0 | c2r6qpk | t3_l6uwv | null | t1_c2r6qpk | t1_c2q9k25 | null | 1427726499 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | mdempsky | null | You're ignoring how much code libc pulls in. | null | 0 | 1318522713 | False | 0 | c2r6qwk | t3_l7wry | null | t1_c2r6qwk | t1_c2qukot | null | 1427726501 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Solon1 | null | Actually new keywords were recently added to Perl 5, which is odd given the Perl 6 work that has been going on in parallel. Perl 5 maybe eventually have all Perl 6 features before Perl 6 does.
The most interesting part of Perl 5, is that it uses a reference counted garbage collection system. That just isn't done any... | null | 0 | 1318522830 | False | 0 | c2r6rnr | t3_l9ja4 | null | t1_c2r6rnr | t1_c2qxn9i | null | 1427726511 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1318522866 | False | 0 | c2r6rvw | t3_laocm | null | t1_c2r6rvw | t1_c2r6h4i | null | 1427726515 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | depleater | null | Just a note - for setting up an Ubuntu/Debian Mercurial server, [I quite like this short and straightforward guide](http://phpfour.com/blog/2011/05/setting-up-central-mercurial-server-in-ubuntu/). It avoids a lot of the waffle I've seen in the official docs. :)
> As for managing Mercurial, is there a web interface ... | null | 0 | 1318522889 | False | 0 | c2r6s1n | t3_l8jdh | null | t1_c2r6s1n | t1_c2r5cru | null | 1427726517 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | JW_00000 | null | If you actually want this feature, and not just some karma from a reddit post, I suggest you use [https://github.com/contact](https://github.com/contact). | null | 0 | 1318522959 | False | 0 | c2r6si2 | t3_la4e5 | null | t1_c2r6si2 | t3_la4e5 | null | 1427726523 | 8 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | prelic | null | There are a lot of great languages out there, but I agree, when you're 'on' in C, you can really make it go. | null | 0 | 1318523005 | False | 0 | c2r6ssv | t3_lav0p | null | t1_c2r6ssv | t3_lav0p | null | 1427726526 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | nick_carraway | null | I am very, very excited about threaded opengl. I have a project in wx that uses threaded opengl for drawing images, but I can't draw widgets in a non-gui thread. It looks like I can in Qt (see: http://labs.qt.nokia.com/2011/06/03/threaded-opengl-in-4-8/). If it works like I think it does I'm going to switch (I don't wa... | null | 0 | 1318523008 | False | 0 | c2r6stp | t3_latpu | null | t1_c2r6stp | t3_latpu | null | 1427726526 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | m42a | null | Yes, except for 3 exceptions:
1. You're dealing with a C API that takes ownership of pointers you pass to it, and assumes these pointers have been allocated with malloc.
2. You're writing operator new.
3. You're a custom allocator (this doesn't always use malloc instead of new, but sometimes it does).
These are rar... | null | 0 | 1318523121 | False | 0 | c2r6tiu | t3_la9wn | null | t1_c2r6tiu | t1_c2r5zhn | null | 1427726536 | 10 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | jvictor118 | null | Totally know what you mean. I wasn't exaggerating at all when I said writing in C makes me feel the same way as driving a really fast car -- there's something of an adrenaline rush to it! God that must be the nerdiest thing I've ever said. | null | 0 | 1318523134 | False | 0 | c2r6tly | t3_lav0p | null | t1_c2r6tly | t1_c2r6ssv | null | 1427726536 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Rhomboid | null | A lot of those things are already fixed by [strict mode](https://developer.mozilla.org/en/JavaScript/Strict_mode). This exists today, in plenty of released browser versions: Fx >= 4, Safari >= 5.1, Chrome >= 13, Opera >= 12. There's no IE support though. | null | 0 | 1318523262 | False | 0 | c2r6uex | t3_la9ma | null | t1_c2r6uex | t1_c2r5z8b | null | 1427726548 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | That's for the edit, I was just looking for that information yesterday. I agree they should expose the pull request url on page somewhere, or at least make it an option. | null | 0 | 1318523280 | False | 0 | c2r6uif | t3_l9ru0 | null | t1_c2r6uif | t1_c2r0a30 | null | 1427726549 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | cbrandolino | null | Point 2 makes a lot of sense. Now I feel like a pretentious idiot. Have an upvote, and just go - *sigh*
| null | 0 | 1318523370 | False | 0 | c2r6v49 | t3_laf4o | null | t1_c2r6v49 | t1_c2r6pit | null | 1427726557 | 10 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1318523410 | False | 0 | c2r6v9u | t3_laqb0 | null | t1_c2r6v9u | t1_c2r6qjb | null | 1427726559 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | diamondjim | null | I was under the impression that open source apps are not allowed in the App Store. How do consumers get this app on their devices? | null | 0 | 1318523414 | False | 0 | c2r6vc1 | t3_lamm0 | null | t1_c2r6vc1 | t3_lamm0 | null | 1427726560 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | flif | null | Many of these problems can be fixed in new versions of Javascript, e.g. the ["use strict;"](https://developer.mozilla.org/en/JavaScript/Strict_mode) mode in the ES5 version.
Ditto with new data structures. Mozilla have created [more efficient array types](https://developer.mozilla.org/en/JavaScript_typed_arrays).
Glo... | null | 0 | 1318523436 | False | 0 | c2r6vk3 | t3_la9ma | null | t1_c2r6vk3 | t1_c2r5z8b | null | 1427726563 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | electronics-engineer | null | Ah, Good times... I had a Commodore and an Atari (and later an Apple II) and on all three I graduated from keying in BASIC programs to writing my own, to machine language. Oddly enough, I recently went through much the same sequence with the Arduino. At least this time I have cut and paste instead of typing in program... | null | 0 | 1318523446 | False | 0 | c2r6vmm | t3_laqb0 | null | t1_c2r6vmm | t1_c2r6qjb | null | 1427726564 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | diamondjim | null | I was under the impression that open source apps are not allowed in the App Store. How do consumers get this app on their devices? | null | 0 | 1318523466 | False | 0 | c2r6vr8 | t3_lamm0 | null | t1_c2r6vr8 | t3_lamm0 | null | 1427726565 | -4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | AlexMax | null | > As for managing Mercurial, is there a web interface I can slap on the Linux box for managing repos and who has access? Our CIO will want to have access to that and Linux is a bit of a task to train him on at the moment.
Comparable to what? We use Subversion at work, and we've always managed our repos using plain... | null | 0 | 1318523498 | False | 0 | c2r6vye | t3_l8jdh | null | t1_c2r6vye | t1_c2r5cru | null | 1427726568 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | webbitor | null | OK. Hardly seems in the same category. | null | 0 | 1318523538 | False | 0 | c2r6w8f | t3_la9wn | null | t1_c2r6w8f | t1_c2r6qoi | null | 1427726580 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | robertcrowther | null | You can never see everything at once, the scrolling is endless. | null | 0 | 1318523551 | False | 0 | c2r6wbe | t3_las6n | null | t1_c2r6wbe | t1_c2r5u6m | null | 1427726573 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | robertcrowther | null | How can you end the endless scroll? | null | 0 | 1318523578 | False | 0 | c2r6who | t3_las6n | null | t1_c2r6who | t3_las6n | null | 1427726579 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | greyfade | null | No, it pretty much just rode the WWW-wave. | null | 0 | 1318523695 | False | 0 | c2r6x7x | t3_laqb0 | null | t1_c2r6x7x | t1_c2r6mbk | null | 1427726590 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | WaterSoul | null | I like it, especially for pictures. | null | 0 | 1318523740 | False | 0 | c2r6xiv | t3_las6n | null | t1_c2r6xiv | t3_las6n | null | 1427726592 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | sidneyc | null | I had a long discussion about this on comp.lang.c in the Usenet days, I think it is proper form to cast (taking an expression to its intended type ASAP) and I haven't seen good reasons why not to. | null | 0 | 1318523861 | False | 0 | c2r6yah | t3_la9wn | null | t1_c2r6yah | t1_c2r4uxn | null | 1427726602 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | darkpaladin | null | If you're planning on posting this on facebook you should probably make mention of what it's for so your family members don't freak out. I just got like 3 panicked phone calls. | null | 0 | 1318523875 | False | 0 | c2r6yd8 | t3_laf4o | null | t1_c2r6yd8 | t3_laf4o | null | 1427726601 | 14 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | raydeen | null | I don't remember checksums. Would have been nice for the machine language programs where they had a BASIC loader followed by an ocean of hex code. I never got one of those to work. Too much room for error. | null | 0 | 1318523922 | False | 0 | c2r6ynh | t3_laqb0 | null | t1_c2r6ynh | t1_c2r6vmm | null | 1427726612 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | thenuge26 | null | OH BABY, DON'T STOP! | null | 0 | 1318524037 | False | 0 | c2r6zew | t3_la9wn | null | t1_c2r6zew | t1_c2r6lq1 | null | 1427726614 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | ThankYouDriveThrough | null | Ritchie--; | null | 0 | 1318524082 | False | 0 | c2r6zq2 | t3_la9wn | null | t1_c2r6zq2 | t3_la9wn | null | 1427726618 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Koreija | null | 12 alpha... | null | 0 | 1318524149 | False | 0 | c2r706i | t3_layaf | null | t1_c2r706i | t3_layaf | null | 1427726623 | 111 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Smallpaul | null | Spellcheck was ubiquitous in 1996!
Get off my lawn! | null | 0 | 1318524155 | False | 0 | c2r707n | t3_laqb0 | null | t1_c2r707n | t1_c2r64q9 | null | 1427726623 | 10 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | winzo | null | It definitely looks ugly, but it's not too hard to use. The tooltips are helpful too.
But if you know regexps you probably don't need it. | null | 0 | 1318524158 | False | 0 | c2r708k | t3_lanp9 | null | t1_c2r708k | t1_c2r4iuv | null | 1427726623 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | FlySwat | null | Dear SubStack: You must be confused, this is Reddit. Github is [this](http://www.github.com/contact) way.
| null | 0 | 1318524207 | False | 0 | c2r70k6 | t3_la4e5 | null | t1_c2r70k6 | t3_la4e5 | null | 1427726629 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | RichardWarburton | null | This is effectively a form of DI, but its much closer in style to the way that Guice's DI works. In terms of terminology Guice modules loosely translate to your environments. Guice has similar advantages - for example everything in code, rather than XML configuration and aiming to be more lightweight than spring. | null | 0 | 1318524233 | False | 0 | c2r70qi | t3_laeci | null | t1_c2r70qi | t3_laeci | null | 1427726631 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | bucknuggets | null | In 1995 I was building a giant data warehouse that required feeds from at least a dozen source systems. This required us to build an ETL process that could extract data from these systems, send the data through a series of steps: transformations, validations, deltas and finally load into the warehouse.
We evaluated... | null | 0 | 1318524287 | False | 0 | c2r7148 | t3_laqb0 | null | t1_c2r7148 | t3_laqb0 | null | 1427726636 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | rxi | null |
[^\\]\[(.*?[^\\])\]
*Group 1* will be whatever is in non-escaped square brackets. | null | 0 | 1318524350 | True | 0 | c2r71ic | t3_lanp9 | null | t1_c2r71ic | t1_c2r63kx | null | 1427726642 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | MarineOnDope | null | >free(dmr);
>//:(
Sorry, but the frowny face won't compile. | null | 0 | 1318524355 | False | 0 | c2r71j6 | t3_la9wn | null | t1_c2r71j6 | t1_c2r32no | null | 1427726642 | 9 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | colinhect | null | > free(dmr);
> /\*:( \*/
You probably should use c-style comments. | null | 0 | 1318524477 | False | 0 | c2r72au | t3_la9wn | null | t1_c2r72au | t1_c2r71j6 | null | 1428192419 | 15 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | MarineOnDope | null | >free(dmr);
>/* :( */
I think you need the * in that case.
EDIT: oh wait you did, reddit just removed them | null | 0 | 1318524555 | False | 0 | c2r72sw | t3_la9wn | null | t1_c2r72sw | t1_c2r72au | null | 1427726658 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | noir_lord | null | I'm fucking impressed that a mainstream newspaper runs a story about programming languages.
What next polysyllabic words in The Sun? :O
Oh wait, it's from 1996 I'm an idiot and is that "the" Charles Petzold? | null | 0 | 1318524623 | False | 0 | c2r7393 | t3_laqb0 | null | t1_c2r7393 | t3_laqb0 | null | 1427726663 | 10 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | undershirt | null | *unlimited detail* | null | 0 | 1318524677 | False | 0 | c2r73li | t3_las6n | null | t1_c2r73li | t1_c2r6wbe | null | 1427726670 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | dhaffner | null | I've been working on something that uses jQuery but very minimally and I've been looking for an alternative with a smaller file size. This looks awesome. Thanks! | null | 0 | 1318524994 | False | 0 | c2r75m2 | t3_l7wry | null | t1_c2r75m2 | t1_c2qjode | null | 1427726706 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Jizzbug | null | Dennis M. Ritchie: He didn't just change the world, he make world. By all conventions we cannot call him routine. He was the goto guy in bracing for changes of scope. Now, as he implicitly returns to the void, it is time_t for him to say, "Goodbye, world." He certainly was a strong type of char*acter, and he gave ... | null | 0 | 1318525094 | False | 0 | c2r769l | t3_la9wn | null | t1_c2r769l | t3_la9wn | null | 1427726722 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | My version of Dart would be a JavaScript backend for Scala; something which is already in progress I think. It's well thought out, very concise, and you can be almost immediately productive as a Java/C# programmer (OK, the types of the collection libraries will take some time getting used to).
My problem with Dart is ... | null | 0 | 1318525131 | False | 0 | c2r76iv | t3_l9mau | null | t1_c2r76iv | t1_c2r5l3x | null | 1427726716 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | benpatient | null | What the crap is wrong with pink chick's left eye? | null | 0 | 1318525248 | False | 0 | c2r777p | t3_l9ehj | null | t1_c2r777p | t1_c2r0g0v | null | 1427726724 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | johnm | null | Smalltalk was expensive and was pretty much wedded to the "image" and those both put it into it's own ghetto. | null | 0 | 1318525307 | False | 0 | c2r77l6 | t3_laqb0 | null | t1_c2r77l6 | t1_c2r6mbk | null | 1427726729 | 14 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1318525330 | False | 0 | c2r77ps | t3_lanp9 | null | t1_c2r77ps | t1_c2r5645 | null | 1427726730 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | AerialAmphibian | null | That is so cool. I bought that book for a programming class in college. A couple of semesters later a scumbag "friend" borrowed it, then he moved away and I never saw my book again. :( | null | 0 | 1318525355 | False | 0 | c2r77vr | t3_la9wn | null | t1_c2r77vr | t1_c2r35aw | null | 1427726731 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1318525360 | 1380816313 | 0 | c2r77wm | t3_layaf | null | t1_c2r77wm | t3_layaf | null | 1427726732 | 8 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | Inferring grammars from a language would be interesting. | null | 0 | 1318525365 | False | 0 | c2r77xy | t3_lanp9 | null | t1_c2r77xy | t3_lanp9 | null | 1427726732 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | Well, then how can you realistically debate on this subject? It's like someone giving a me lecture on objective C and not ever having used the language. It's funny, I hear that often. People always say criticize facebook for this or that, but what you actually learn is that they don't really know much about it. | null | 0 | 1318525453 | True | 0 | c2r78i7 | t3_l9ehj | null | t1_c2r78i7 | t1_c2r21wl | null | 1427726744 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | AKADriver | null | Around that time, my uncle (who worked as a consultant among other things) advised me to learn COBOL because there were so few people willing to do it, and because so many old-school institutions still needed people to maintain systems like this. This was also of course during Y2k hysteria, and so many of the affected ... | null | 0 | 1318525486 | False | 0 | c2r78py | t3_laqb0 | null | t1_c2r78py | t1_c2r7148 | null | 1427726739 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Kireas | null | Because clearly he might die again in a few months and you'll have to endure the reposts of a non-programming link when that happens.
ಠ\_ಠ Seriously, this is pretty relevant to the subreddit.
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True | ZMeson | null | String #1: "Hello world."
String #2: "We'll miss you Mr. Ritchie!"
Resulting exclusive regex: "Hello world\\.|We'll miss you Mr\\. Ritchie\\!"
| null | 0 | 1318525578 | False | 0 | c2r79b0 | t3_lanp9 | null | t1_c2r79b0 | t1_c2r67mq | null | 1427726747 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Uber_Nick | null | [Scumbag Dennis Ritchie](http://imgur.com/kMmzr)
I'm going straight to /dev/null when I die | null | 0 | 1318525653 | False | 0 | c2r79tf | t3_la9wn | null | t1_c2r79tf | t3_la9wn | null | 1427726760 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | depleater | null | Wow, SCM Manager looks pretty nice. Thanks for mentioning it. | null | 0 | 1318525723 | False | 0 | c2r7a9u | t3_l8jdh | null | t1_c2r7a9u | t1_c2r6vye | null | 1427726768 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Uber_Nick | null | [Scumbag Dennis Ritchie](http://imgur.com/kMmzr)
If you laugh, you're going to /dev/null with me | null | 0 | 1318525740 | False | 0 | c2r7ae6 | t3_la9wn | null | t1_c2r7ae6 | t3_la9wn | null | 1427726770 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | FlyingBishop | null | From [LWN:](https://lwn.net/Articles/462959/)
#include <stdio.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
int main()
{
printf("\033[2J\033[;H"); /* Clear the screen */
printf("\nHello World -- by DM Richie\n");
printf("Your legacy remain radiant, an emanating lights for those\n");
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True | ZMeson | null | It's a nice idea. It could use a friendlier user interface though. | null | 0 | 1318525791 | False | 0 | c2r7aqd | t3_lanp9 | null | t1_c2r7aqd | t1_c2r4wlg | null | 1427726772 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | >We said that there is nothing logically preventing it from coming to fruition.
If there was nothing logically preventing us from accomplishing such a feat, that would indicate that it's *purely* a logistical issue, which it certainly isn't.
The paradox exists because in order for a human to create a machine mor... | null | 0 | 1318525951 | False | 0 | c2r7br6 | t3_l9c2c | null | t1_c2r7br6 | t1_c2r67gp | null | 1427726784 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | acecool | null | We do need a language like Pascal. We have options that are completely polarized. On one side we have only C and C++ as options for compiled languages that have extremely weak typing, no runtime checking, unchecked pointers and memory allocation. Why?? Were not in the 80s anymore with only 64k of memory, we can afford ... | null | 0 | 1318526092 | True | 0 | c2r7cra | t3_laqb0 | null | t1_c2r7cra | t1_c2r579z | null | 1427726796 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | rush22 | null | Well he does say "I’ve always had the belief that your user-inputted data is sacred and should always be stored in its original form. You never know what you’ll be doing with it later." | null | 0 | 1318526177 | False | 0 | c2r7d9e | t3_l4dpk | null | t1_c2r7d9e | t1_c2polgi | null | 1427726800 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Smallpaul | null | > The paradox exists because in order for a human to create a machine more ingenious then himself, the machine would need to be capable of creating something more ingenious than itself,
No. This is only one metric for "ingenious". A machine could be an equal engineer to the person, but a better musician. That mach... | null | 0 | 1318526284 | False | 0 | c2r7dxu | t3_l9c2c | null | t1_c2r7dxu | t1_c2r7br6 | null | 1427726805 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | CuseinFL | null | OK, fine, I'll rephrase. I like seeing multiple items in a much higher horizontal density that is possible with the standard Reddit format. I also wouldn't say endless unless when you get to the end it starts over. Reddit *is* finite. | null | 0 | 1318526332 | False | 0 | c2r7e8r | t3_las6n | null | t1_c2r7e8r | t1_c2r6wbe | null | 1427726809 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | psmyth | null | "3 feet of shelf space in the McGraw-Hill Bookstore in Manhattan." Boy do I miss that place! | null | 0 | 1318526444 | False | 0 | c2r7eyb | t3_laqb0 | null | t1_c2r7eyb | t3_laqb0 | null | 1427726817 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | draxus99 | null | Really?
You still write left to right top to bottom, the vast majority of the time.
I don't know why you would insult my intelligence over your syntax hardon. OO languages are not intuitive english and take a good deal of either talent for comprehension or practice through frustration of trial and error. Just becau... | null | 0 | 1318526477 | False | 0 | c2r7f6h | t3_l8l00 | null | t1_c2r7f6h | t1_c2r40br | null | 1427726828 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | bucknuggets | null | Yeah, it's like garbage collection: it pays well because of the smell.
Then again, I've been programming for 30 years and still love it. I've been writing code in python for ten years and couldn't imagine being stuck with COBOL again. | null | 0 | 1318526657 | False | 0 | c2r7gcr | t3_laqb0 | null | t1_c2r7gcr | t1_c2r78py | null | 1427726842 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | cc81 | null | That is true for everyone. We think he is important because we are interested in these things but we do not notice when giants within other lines of work pass away. I imagine there have been people that have done immensely important contributions to agriculture, plumbing, road building, materials research etc. that pas... | null | 0 | 1318526667 | False | 0 | c2r7gfo | t3_la9wn | null | t1_c2r7gfo | t1_c2r3qpc | null | 1427726836 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1318526708 | False | 0 | c2r7goc | t3_l8l00 | null | t1_c2r7goc | t1_c2r3e97 | null | 1427726839 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | sparklingrainbows | null | Well, damn.
Rest peacefully in /dev/null. | null | 0 | 1318526718 | False | 0 | c2r7gqn | t3_la9wn | null | t1_c2r7gqn | t3_la9wn | null | 1427726840 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Rguy | null | Thats a really neat site. | null | 0 | 1318526908 | False | 0 | c2r7hyo | t3_latsk | null | t1_c2r7hyo | t3_latsk | null | 1427726858 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | joseph177 | null | Thanks!! I ended up with this (using a lookbehind..ugh):
(?<!\\)\[.*?[^\\]\]
I like yours better... | null | 0 | 1318527029 | False | 0 | c2r7ip7 | t3_lanp9 | null | t1_c2r7ip7 | t1_c2r71ic | null | 1427726866 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | >This is only one metric for "ingenious".
It's the only one that can be reasonably used. Otherwise, the creation's ability is a direct result of the creator's ingenuity, and therefor an extension of it. Only when the creation can outperform the creator in the act of creation do you have an apples to apples metri... | null | 0 | 1318527089 | False | 0 | c2r7j49 | t3_l9c2c | null | t1_c2r7j49 | t1_c2r7dxu | null | 1428192411 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | jakobhans | null | The open source part is about opening the source code to the public. To learn from it or use parts of the code for their own project. Mostly to learn from it.
They are able to install it if they're developers or if the device is jailbroken. | null | 0 | 1318527129 | False | 0 | c2r7jcj | t3_lamm0 | null | t1_c2r7jcj | t1_c2r6vc1 | null | 1427726878 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | frud | null | .\* matches everything. The literal string matches itself. How do you find the proper level of detail? | null | 0 | 1318527321 | False | 0 | c2r7kjm | t3_lanp9 | null | t1_c2r7kjm | t1_c2r77xy | null | 1427726896 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1318527446 | False | 0 | c2r7lbc | t3_lb1dk | null | t1_c2r7lbc | t3_lb1dk | null | 1427726903 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Campers | null | I really like the newspaper like look.
I would adding support for URLs like
http://www.scrolldit.com/r/programming
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True | nemtrif | null | For your reading pleasure: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/x93ctkx8(v=VS.100).aspx | null | 0 | 1318527553 | False | 0 | c2r7lze | t3_l9og4 | null | t1_c2r7lze | t1_c2r4isi | null | 1427726909 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | piderman | null | Reddit works in mysterious ways. | null | 0 | 1318527882 | False | 0 | c2r7o3k | t3_laocm | null | t1_c2r7o3k | t1_c2r5827 | null | 1427726937 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | f1lter | null | Is it just me, or is the output for http://progzoo.net/wiki/Recursion wrong? | null | 0 | 1318527974 | False | 0 | c2r7opd | t3_latsk | null | t1_c2r7opd | t3_latsk | null | 1427726944 | 9 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | jeanlucpikachu | null | It's an alpha build, **please** don't install it over your regular Opera.
[html5test](http://www.html5test.com/) isn't impressed w/ the WebGL support, but the rest of the browser looks *nice*... | null | 0 | 1318528014 | False | 0 | c2r7oy7 | t3_layaf | null | t1_c2r7oy7 | t3_layaf | null | 1427726948 | 74 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | eaturbrainz | null | Then why, exactly, does everyone keep doing it? | null | 0 | 1318528023 | False | 0 | c2r7p0j | t3_laqb0 | null | t1_c2r7p0j | t1_c2r5q5t | null | 1427726948 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | eaturbrainz | null | It's sadder that Java is *still* considered the standard. | null | 0 | 1318528062 | False | 0 | c2r7p93 | t3_laqb0 | null | t1_c2r7p93 | t1_c2r4yd5 | null | 1427726952 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | eaturbrainz | null | Scala is actually pretty innovative. Most of the research work documenting how they've built Scala dates only to the 2000s. | null | 0 | 1318528101 | False | 0 | c2r7phb | t3_laqb0 | null | t1_c2r7phb | t1_c2r5a6y | null | 1427726955 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | pgngugmgg | null | I cannot help thinking this question: How do you define the death of a programming language?
When we say a programming language is dead, we mean what? Do we mean it is not used by programmers to generate any more new code? Do we mean programs that were ever written in the language are not running any more? Or do we me... | null | 0 | 1318528122 | False | 0 | c2r7pm4 | t3_laqb0 | null | t1_c2r7pm4 | t3_laqb0 | null | 1427726956 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Rudy69 | null | The picture of Steve is from the "featured posts" at the top. Unfortunately the reddit bot picked that picture instead.... kinda sucks | null | 0 | 1318528168 | False | 0 | c2r7pw5 | t3_laocm | null | t1_c2r7pw5 | t1_c2r5827 | null | 1427726960 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Rudy69 | null | Clearly has **nothing** to do with programming &#3232;\_&#3232;
| null | 0 | 1318528203 | False | 0 | c2r7q38 | t3_laocm | null | t1_c2r7q38 | t1_c2r64hr | null | 1427726961 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | nodemo | null | Only thing that's endless for me is the loading-spinner. I don't get any posts at all. | null | 0 | 1318528220 | False | 0 | c2r7q6x | t3_las6n | null | t1_c2r7q6x | t3_las6n | null | 1427726964 | 11 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | Fuck C. Pascal and Ada FTW. | null | 0 | 1318528281 | False | 0 | c2r7qli | t3_la9wn | null | t1_c2r7qli | t3_la9wn | null | 1427726969 | -1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | MeProtozoan | null | The hosting is done with Amazon Cloudfront, I can't fix this feature with a dynamic solution. Only way to fix this is to create a large set of index.html files who redirect those urls back to the /?r= format. Mmmmmmm | null | 0 | 1318528311 | False | 0 | c2r7qsh | t3_las6n | null | t1_c2r7qsh | t1_c2r7lfq | null | 1427726971 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1318528403 | False | 0 | c2r7rcs | t3_laqb0 | null | t1_c2r7rcs | t1_c2r5n2l | null | 1427726980 | 9 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1318528462 | False | 0 | c2r7rq7 | t3_lb1w3 | null | t1_c2r7rq7 | t3_lb1w3 | null | 1427726984 | -12 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
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