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True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1318535262 | False | 0 | c2r8tpd | t3_layaf | null | t1_c2r8tpd | t1_c2r8pni | null | 1427727546 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | sltkr | null | Are you kidding? The whole Linux kernel follows this style. | null | 0 | 1318535301 | False | 0 | c2r8tv5 | t3_laf4o | null | t1_c2r8tv5 | t1_c2r8h49 | null | 1427727552 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | \#define C | null | 0 | 1318535342 | False | 0 | c2r8u6n | t3_laocm | null | t1_c2r8u6n | t1_c2r5rjl | null | 1427727552 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | AttackingHobo | null | T-T-TRIPLE POST! | null | 0 | 1318535378 | False | 0 | c2r8ue0 | t3_lb1w3 | null | t1_c2r8ue0 | t1_c2r7s58 | null | 1427727555 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | MatmaRex | null | True that. They make money selling the browser. | null | 0 | 1318535600 | False | 0 | c2r8vks | t3_layaf | null | t1_c2r8vks | t1_c2r8t7e | null | 1427727571 | 12 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | MMD86 | null | Yeah, I get a "Connection Error" whenever I use Opera. Masking it gets rid of the message, but wont' load anything. | null | 0 | 1318535922 | False | 0 | c2r8xdh | t3_las6n | null | t1_c2r8xdh | t1_c2r8r4l | null | 1427727593 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | recursive | null | Inevitably, the problem these schemes encounter is that the "simple" rules the users are imagining are more complex than they think they are. The fundamental job of a programmer is to manage complexity. Complexity is not going away unless the inherent complexity in our life/business processes/everything goes away. I... | null | 0 | 1318536116 | False | 0 | c2r8ygb | t3_l9c2c | null | t1_c2r8ygb | t1_c2r0l1e | null | 1427727608 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | bluGill | null | It didn't. Read the second paragraph. It was hoped someone would invent some way to make it work. | null | 0 | 1318536133 | False | 0 | c2r8yjg | t3_l7gl3 | null | t1_c2r8yjg | t1_c2qo2nj | null | 1427727617 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Krapulator | null | Woo hoo! I can't wait to give my browser direct access to hardware! What could go wrong? | null | 0 | 1318536164 | False | 0 | c2r8yqa | t3_layaf | null | t1_c2r8yqa | t3_layaf | null | 1427727612 | -3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | rxi | null | Is it safe to let you use the os, subprocess, urllib and sockets in python? | null | 0 | 1318536164 | False | 0 | c2r8yqc | t3_latsk | null | t1_c2r8yqc | t3_latsk | null | 1427727612 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1318536290 | False | 0 | c2r8zh0 | t3_lb75t | null | t1_c2r8zh0 | t3_lb75t | null | 1427727623 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | jclawson | null | FYI... These example seem to be pretty dangerous to the server. I could easily modify one of these like: http://progzoo.net/wiki/Read_a_Text_File or this PHP version: http://progzoo.net/wiki/PHP:Read_a_Text_File to download and execute a piece of malware, install a rootkit, or use it as a base to begin attacking the ... | null | 0 | 1318536415 | False | 0 | c2r903l | t3_latsk | null | t1_c2r903l | t3_latsk | null | 1427727634 | 18 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | recursive | null | Have you tried BobX? | null | 0 | 1318536481 | False | 0 | c2r90gn | t3_l9crz | null | t1_c2r90gn | t1_c2qzx7z | null | 1427727637 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | recursive | null | > To design something more fast than yourself seems paradoxical. To do so would, in and of itself, imply some sort of supreme, immeasurable speed.
We invented bicycles anyway, didn't we? | null | 0 | 1318536640 | False | 0 | c2r91gf | t3_l9c2c | null | t1_c2r91gf | t1_c2qyg43 | null | 1427727648 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | redditornongrata | null | He gave us so much, and received so little in return. | null | 0 | 1318536701 | False | 0 | c2r91sv | t3_lb7gq | null | t1_c2r91sv | t3_lb7gq | null | 1427727653 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | gnuvince | null | I think the metaphor is appealing; you just take the real world, identify the objects relevent to your problem, implement them in code and everything will work fine! And the alternatives are either to have less modular code (procedural) or code that doesn't work like the real world and/or how people think (functional ... | null | 0 | 1318536709 | False | 0 | c2r91uj | t3_laqb0 | null | t1_c2r91uj | t1_c2r7p0j | null | 1427727653 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | smileyfrown | null | Cool and thanks, I kinda get the gist of it now. Was thinking of maybe giving c or something equivalent a shot when I stumbled onto this. If you know any starter programs for programming would love to know about them. | null | 0 | 1318536740 | False | 0 | c2r921y | t3_laf4o | null | t1_c2r921y | t1_c2r8bum | null | 1427727659 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | ais523 | null | More to the point, 0 is perfectly possible (and in practice EXIT_SUCCESS is always 0 even on weird platforms); the platform's responsible for doing the contortions necessary to translate 0 into success, not the program.
EXIT_FAILURE is another matter entirely (there's at least one, and probably more, platform(s) on wh... | null | 0 | 1318536746 | False | 0 | c2r9239 | t3_la9wn | null | t1_c2r9239 | t1_c2r8bbb | null | 1427727657 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | oboewan42 | null | system("PAUSE") | null | 0 | 1318536751 | False | 0 | c2r924q | t3_la9wn | null | t1_c2r924q | t1_c2r82g4 | null | 1427727657 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1318536935 | False | 0 | c2r936m | t3_l9crz | null | t1_c2r936m | t1_c2qzx7z | null | 1427727672 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | oboewan42 | null | I would've made an Objective-C equivalent to commemorate both Jobs and Ritchie, but that would've taken six different comments and a xib file.
EDIT: Scratch that, a storyboard file. (4.2's not in beta anymore) | null | 0 | 1318537107 | True | 0 | c2r94ew | t3_la9wn | null | t1_c2r94ew | t1_c2r3aod | null | 1427727686 | 8 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | thatusernameisal | null | From what I understand Opera lives off selling Opera Mini for dumbphones? How will they make money when the last dumbphone dies? | null | 0 | 1318537202 | False | 0 | c2r94w9 | t3_layaf | null | t1_c2r94w9 | t3_layaf | null | 1427727692 | -9 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | knipil | null | > is that "the" Charles Petzold?
I believe it is, yes. For those that don't know, this guy wrote the bible on win32 programming. The last edition came out in 98 (AFAIK) and is still useful, amazingly enough. He also wrote a brilliant book called "Code" which explains the inner workings of a computer in layman terms... | null | 0 | 1318537294 | False | 0 | c2r95gd | t3_laqb0 | null | t1_c2r95gd | t1_c2r7393 | null | 1427727699 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | It wasn't reported until yesterday. His wikipedia article had the 12th as the date until relatively recently. | null | 0 | 1318537300 | False | 0 | c2r95hy | t3_laf4o | null | t1_c2r95hy | t1_c2r8mfx | null | 1427727700 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | thephotoman | null | Because we still believe it.
There need to be a few serious studies of dogmas in software engineering. I might suggest the following as thesis topics:
* Objects make code reuse and maintenance easier.
* There is a derived benefit from the current system of unit testing.
* Short deliverable cycles are good.
* Pair pr... | null | 0 | 1318537518 | False | 0 | c2r96qs | t3_laqb0 | null | t1_c2r96qs | t1_c2r7p0j | null | 1427727716 | 9 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Zjarek | null | >In C, the proper method is to declare that
>malloc returns a pointer to void, then explicitly coerce the pointer into the desired type with
>a cast.
The C Programming Language 2nd ed. - Kernighan, Ritchie
| null | 0 | 1318537611 | False | 0 | c2r978p | t3_la9wn | null | t1_c2r978p | t1_c2r4uxn | null | 1427727723 | 10 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | thephotoman | null | We vote for idiots because we are idiots that wish to be represented by people that act and think like us. After all, most English-speaking countries run democratically representative governments.
If you think that your government representation is to blame, perhaps you should inspect yourself first. Perhaps your ... | null | 0 | 1318537625 | False | 0 | c2r97be | t3_laqb0 | null | t1_c2r97be | t1_c2r7zp4 | null | 1427727724 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | eaturbrainz | null | I contest that people use object-oriented languages because for large software projects, especially written by less-than-brilliant people, modularity is more important than expressiveness. | null | 0 | 1318537639 | False | 0 | c2r97e5 | t3_laqb0 | null | t1_c2r97e5 | t1_c2r91uj | null | 1427727725 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | deong | null | Here's my own completely subjective take on the matter:
Object-oriented programming was reasonably successful *viewed in the context of the problems that were being solved with the languages of the day*. That is, OOP provided a nice way of organizing your procedural code for a lot of problems people were trying to sol... | null | 0 | 1318537770 | False | 0 | c2r9865 | t3_laqb0 | null | t1_c2r9865 | t1_c2r7p0j | null | 1427727735 | 31 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | Surprising little depending on the definition of "direct access to hardware." | null | 0 | 1318537777 | False | 0 | c2r987o | t3_layaf | null | t1_c2r987o | t1_c2r8yqa | null | 1427727736 | 18 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | phaker | null | The funny thing is that while I think you wanted to show that it's nonsensical/impossible this would be the first step such a program would take. There are algorithms for finding the smallest regex equivalent to given one. It's a really well plowed field. So all that's needed to do is: generate regex "$a|$b|$c|..." and... | null | 0 | 1318537796 | False | 0 | c2r98bx | t3_lanp9 | null | t1_c2r98bx | t1_c2r79b0 | null | 1427727737 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | BobTheSCV | null | calloc zeroes the memory, which may or may not be desired. | null | 0 | 1318537799 | False | 0 | c2r98cn | t3_la9wn | null | t1_c2r98cn | t1_c2r3xql | null | 1427727738 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | irrelative | null | Does anyone know if Opera supports [CORS](http://www.w3.org/TR/cors/) yet? | null | 0 | 1318537834 | False | 0 | c2r98ky | t3_layaf | null | t1_c2r98ky | t3_layaf | null | 1427727741 | 10 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | irrelative | null | Does anyone know if Opera supports [CORS](http://www.w3.org/TR/cors/) yet? | null | 0 | 1318537980 | False | 0 | c2r99ic | t3_layaf | null | t1_c2r99ic | t3_layaf | null | 1427727753 | -2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Dulousaci | null | Only in the mobile space. It is free on the desktop and they make their money off default search engine deals and using Opera Turbo to gather accurate heuristics which they can then sell to ad companies. | null | 0 | 1318537985 | False | 0 | c2r99jh | t3_layaf | null | t1_c2r99jh | t1_c2r8vks | null | 1427727753 | 25 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Dulousaci | null | [http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/layaf/opera_12_released_today_with_new_html5_parser/c2r99jh](http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/layaf/opera_12_released_today_with_new_html5_parser/c2r99jh)
Link to another comment I made. | null | 0 | 1318538071 | False | 0 | c2r9a34 | t3_layaf | null | t1_c2r9a34 | t1_c2r94w9 | null | 1427727760 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | magicfap | null | People were talking about [this](http://c.learncodethehardway.org/book/) the other day. You could give it a try. | null | 0 | 1318538083 | False | 0 | c2r9a5n | t3_laf4o | null | t1_c2r9a5n | t1_c2r921y | null | 1427727761 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1318538264 | False | 0 | c2r9b9m | t3_layaf | null | t1_c2r9b9m | t1_c2r94w9 | null | 1427727775 | 9 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | Aha! Thank you | null | 0 | 1318538391 | False | 0 | c2r9c10 | t3_laf4o | null | t1_c2r9c10 | t1_c2r8dnx | null | 1427727785 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1318538463 | False | 0 | c2r9cgp | t3_la9wn | null | t1_c2r9cgp | t3_la9wn | null | 1427727791 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | thephotoman | null | There were parts of Java-the-environment that genuinely were edgy back in 1996. For one, the idea of writing not a runtime environment but a virtual machine to which the program's intermediate representation was passed and then compiled in a just-in-time manner was only then becoming feasible for most hardware. Its a... | null | 0 | 1318538488 | False | 0 | c2r9cmx | t3_laqb0 | null | t1_c2r9cmx | t1_c2r5a6y | null | 1427727794 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | cc81 | null | I actually like object oriented programming. I find that it is easier for me to model behaviour and things when using objects. My code also tend to be nicer. | null | 0 | 1318538587 | False | 0 | c2r9d8b | t3_laqb0 | null | t1_c2r9d8b | t1_c2r91uj | null | 1427727801 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | sizzurp | null | If I were Dave Cutler I would go get a complete physical... | null | 0 | 1318538697 | False | 0 | c2r9dyn | t3_la9wn | null | t1_c2r9dyn | t3_la9wn | null | 1427727812 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | serpent | null | > In short, he would produce the correct solution without having to memorize a standard.
This isn't always true. Don't confuse the specific examples in the slides (which may be easy to teach a novice to "avoid") and real-life examples where you can easily produce C code that looks correct but in fact is wrong, and ... | null | 0 | 1318538710 | False | 0 | c2r9e25 | t3_l6yn1 | null | t1_c2r9e25 | t1_c2qcbkf | null | 1427727813 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | cc81 | null | Those studies would probably result in
"That depends on..."
By your wording I assume your dogmatic thinking is that it is worthless while others have excellent experience with those. | null | 0 | 1318538778 | False | 0 | c2r9egg | t3_laqb0 | null | t1_c2r9egg | t1_c2r96qs | null | 1427727818 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | some pseudocode;
| null | 0 | 1318538900 | False | 0 | c2r9f8t | t3_laocm | null | t1_c2r9f8t | t3_laocm | null | 1427727828 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | serpent | null | Wow. Most of the top-voted comments in this thread are people saying something like "knowing the rules of the language I code in really isn't that important".
You guys missed the point big time. Knowing the rules is extremely important; I can't fathom how you could think otherwise. | null | 0 | 1318538903 | False | 0 | c2r9fae | t3_l6yn1 | null | t1_c2r9fae | t3_l6yn1 | null | 1427727829 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | eaturbrainz | null | I would very much agree. | null | 0 | 1318538997 | False | 0 | c2r9fsi | t3_laqb0 | null | t1_c2r9fsi | t1_c2r9865 | null | 1427727835 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | serpent | null | So you think it's ok to write incorrect code because you don't know the rules of the C language well?
Or do you think that someone who doesn't know the rules well still has the ability to create code which is guaranteed to not violate those rules? (How is that even possible once you write more than a few lines of toy ... | null | 0 | 1318539020 | False | 0 | c2r9fxl | t3_l6yn1 | null | t1_c2r9fxl | t1_c2qgcga | null | 1427727836 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | barsoap | null | > It is however roughly as close to assembly as you can get while providing cross platform compatibility.
That'd be llvm. There's just certain things you can't do in C that you can do in assembly. In fact, quite a lot of things. | null | 0 | 1318539052 | False | 0 | c2r9g5t | t3_lb1w3 | null | t1_c2r9g5t | t1_c2r8f2i | null | 1427727840 | 21 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | serpent | null | Even "good" (i.e. intuitive) code can be wrong if it violates the rules of C. Not knowing the rules means you have no idea if your code which looks "good" is really valid or not. | null | 0 | 1318539089 | False | 0 | c2r9gez | t3_l6yn1 | null | t1_c2r9gez | t1_c2qgkyg | null | 1427727843 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | PabstBR | null | He's hit his last segfault. | null | 0 | 1318539145 | False | 0 | c2r9gtf | t3_laocm | null | t1_c2r9gtf | t3_laocm | null | 1427727848 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1318539150 | False | 0 | c2r9gui | t3_laocm | null | t1_c2r9gui | t3_laocm | null | 1427727849 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | thephotoman | null | Having an "it depends on" would still be better than the status quo, where all four of those dogmas are taken as universally applicable statements. Indeed, imagine if a paper came out with the title "Objects potentially harmful", with case studies that showed that in some cases, other paradigms were better. Oracle wo... | null | 0 | 1318539344 | False | 0 | c2r9i2m | t3_laqb0 | null | t1_c2r9i2m | t1_c2r9egg | null | 1427727865 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | shepmaster | null | Great point, I didn't cover that at all! I've got some more testing-related thoughts brewing in the back of my head, maybe I'll try to say something about when to test.
I think the short version is "test as much as you think you should, then just a little more". It's really easy to say "this isn't testable" when you r... | null | 0 | 1318539512 | False | 0 | c2r9j4f | t3_l887z | null | t1_c2r9j4f | t1_c2qvh52 | null | 1427727878 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | eaturbrainz | null | For the first one, [let's do our reading.](http://citeseer.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.75.635) [This might also help.](http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~donna/thesis/thesis-malayeri.pdf) | null | 0 | 1318539518 | False | 0 | c2r9j5k | t3_laqb0 | null | t1_c2r9j5k | t1_c2r96qs | null | 1427727879 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | dakboy | null | Don't IE9 & 10 have DirectX acceleration? | null | 0 | 1318539550 | False | 0 | c2r9jdg | t3_layaf | null | t1_c2r9jdg | t1_c2r8yqa | null | 1427727882 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Iv8f | null | Hate to break it to you but Opera isn't "relevant for every web programmer". [stats](http://gs.statcounter.com/) | null | 0 | 1318539574 | False | 0 | c2r9jil | t3_layaf | null | t1_c2r9jil | t1_c2r8t8s | null | 1427727883 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | lurk-moar | null | Steroids are bad mmmmkay! | null | 0 | 1318539592 | False | 0 | c2r9jma | t3_las6n | null | t1_c2r9jma | t3_las6n | null | 1427727886 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | Wow! Once you change the context of the statement (and this entire conversation thread) from creating artificial intelligence to creating something totally arbitrary, you've totally defeated my statement. I marvel at your cleverness! You sure showed me! | null | 0 | 1318539640 | False | 0 | c2r9jw1 | t3_l9c2c | null | t1_c2r9jw1 | t1_c2r91gf | null | 1427727889 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | recursive | null | > I marvel at your cleverness!
*blush* | null | 0 | 1318539707 | False | 0 | c2r9k9u | t3_l9c2c | null | t1_c2r9k9u | t1_c2r9jw1 | null | 1427727893 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1318539793 | False | 0 | c2r9krm | t3_laqb0 | null | t1_c2r9krm | t1_c2r9865 | null | 1427727900 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | here1am | null | You mean strncpy()? But I suppose he did it on purpose to make sure only God creates perfect stuff. | null | 0 | 1318539807 | False | 0 | c2r9kuy | t3_la9wn | null | t1_c2r9kuy | t1_c2r3ana | null | 1427727901 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | I've always wondered what makes C so popular. Even more so than C++, which most would argue is more powerful. The reason I like the two languages is because the syntax looks so complex and convoluted(emphasis on looks) it makes me feel accomplished when I write a program in it. I know it's a stupid reason but that's ju... | null | 0 | 1318539978 | False | 0 | c2r9lud | t3_lav0p | null | t1_c2r9lud | t3_lav0p | null | 1427727915 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | thephotoman | null | I don't remember any of that, but I know I was on the Internet at the time. It was around that time that I discovered fanfiction after all. And my friends and I would play board games on Yahoo Games. The experience was...oh dear God, that was...that was...no don't touch me there. I said don't! Please stop! NO!
... | null | 0 | 1318540079 | False | 0 | c2r9me4 | t3_laqb0 | null | t1_c2r9me4 | t1_c2r5r6y | null | 1427727922 | 8 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | MeProtozoan | null | I just fixed a few bugs, does it work now? | null | 0 | 1318540083 | False | 0 | c2r9mev | t3_las6n | null | t1_c2r9mev | t1_c2r7q6x | null | 1427727922 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Shorel | null | You already have Mozilla and Chromium.
Please stop your software license totalitarian attitude. | null | 0 | 1318540141 | False | 0 | c2r9mrb | t3_layaf | null | t1_c2r9mrb | t1_c2r77wm | null | 1427727926 | -4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | MeProtozoan | null | I used jQuery, nothing special. Strange opera doesn't render it the way it should. It's on my list to debug. | null | 0 | 1318540151 | False | 0 | c2r9mt5 | t3_las6n | null | t1_c2r9mt5 | t1_c2r8r4l | null | 1427727926 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | mazirian | null | She may not be the prettiest, but she's up for anything! | null | 0 | 1318540238 | False | 0 | c2r9nbq | t3_lav0p | null | t1_c2r9nbq | t3_lav0p | null | 1427727934 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1318540294 | False | 0 | c2r9nm0 | t3_laqb0 | null | t1_c2r9nm0 | t1_c2r8hsz | null | 1427727937 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | yogthos | null | I'm not assuming that no reason exists. I'm saying that there is a mountain of evidence showing that OOP doesn't deliver in areas of code maintainability and reuse. There are plenty of reasons why its popular and people use it, most of them have nothing to do with improvement in these areas. | null | 0 | 1318540308 | False | 0 | c2r9npw | t3_laqb0 | null | t1_c2r9npw | t1_c2r8gl4 | null | 1427727939 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | Not in the same sense as WebGL, which depending on the browser implementation could be passing raw values through to your graphics driver (which *could* cause nasty things to happen). | null | 0 | 1318540323 | False | 0 | c2r9nvf | t3_layaf | null | t1_c2r9nvf | t1_c2r9jdg | null | 1427727941 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | mostcool | null | Thanks for the link, it helped me realize that I had to update my drivers to support WebGL on my browser.
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True | matthewnreid | null | Thanks for your opinion, I did take a lot of your feedback to heart and greatly reduced the listing of skills. Working on a team and in a production environment - yes we did that in college in the 90's, we programmed on teams in high school too.
However, I don't think getting opinions is getting it wrong, since I'v... | null | 0 | 1318540413 | False | 0 | c2r9of8 | t3_l9ja5 | null | t1_c2r9of8 | t1_c2r3iej | null | 1427727949 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | Except I don't think they ever charged for Opera Mini, and they still make an Opera Mini for smartphones too.. also the Nintendo Wii had an Opera based browser for sale, which was eventually made free too | null | 0 | 1318540597 | False | 0 | c2r9pjp | t3_layaf | null | t1_c2r9pjp | t1_c2r94w9 | null | 1427727963 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | sidneyc | null | Your musings about EXIT_SUCCESS are only supported by practice, not by any C standard.
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True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1318540695 | False | 0 | c2r9q3o | t3_las6n | null | t1_c2r9q3o | t3_las6n | null | 1427727970 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1318540776 | False | 0 | c2r9qju | t3_laqb0 | null | t1_c2r9qju | t1_c2r81wp | null | 1427727976 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | noir_lord | null | Yep, his was the definitive book on Win32 programmer back in the day, it's the only reason why the Redmond campus *didn't* get burnt down!. ;)
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True | sidneyc | null | If you like to gratuitously waste CPU cycles, you probably don't want C. | null | 0 | 1318540846 | False | 0 | c2r9qyk | t3_la9wn | null | t1_c2r9qyk | t1_c2r3xql | null | 1427727981 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Talonwhal | null | Just had a little play around with the PHP one and it seems you can do quite a scary amount with it... but it does also seem to be running on a server dedicated to this stuff, as far as I can tell. It's not on the same machine which runs the website at least, anyway. Hopefully this person knows what they're doing! | null | 0 | 1318541001 | False | 0 | c2r9rsn | t3_latsk | null | t1_c2r9rsn | t1_c2r903l | null | 1427727993 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Testiclese | null | I will *compile* your little rant for future *reference* and *include* it in my *library* of funny reddit *comments*............I can't do it. | null | 0 | 1318541003 | False | 0 | c2r9rsv | t3_la9wn | null | t1_c2r9rsv | t1_c2r769l | null | 1427727993 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | ordinary_van | null | Me.existentialCrisis.init() | null | 0 | 1318541064 | False | 0 | c2r9s64 | t3_la9wn | null | t1_c2r9s64 | t1_c2r3aod | null | 1427727997 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | baltihorse | null | Okay no joke, for a split second I read that as "Oprah released today with new HTML5 parser". I was like, when did Oprah go to jail and who is HTML5? -facepalm-
(I know it's not relevant and I'm sorry, it's just how I felt about it) :c | null | 0 | 1318541080 | False | 0 | c2r9s9c | t3_layaf | null | t1_c2r9s9c | t3_layaf | null | 1427728000 | -16 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | kristopolous | null | I was like "blah blah cobol (next) blah blah C++ (next) blah blah java ... CHARLES PETZOLD?!"
It would be like opening up the newspaper and seeing "Today's sudoku brought to you by Grigori Perelman" | null | 0 | 1318541087 | False | 0 | c2r9saw | t3_laqb0 | null | t1_c2r9saw | t1_c2r7393 | null | 1427728000 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | thephotoman | null | I don't think either of these addresses the first question I was asking.
I'm really getting at the question of whether it's *objects* that make code reuse easier, or if code reuse can be done with any paradigm. Honestly, what I think makes code reuse easier is well-organized code, not objects. Objects aren't inher... | null | 0 | 1318541172 | False | 0 | c2r9srj | t3_laqb0 | null | t1_c2r9srj | t1_c2r9j5k | null | 1427728005 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | ordinary_van | null | Lest we forget the languages based off of C. I spend a lot of time in Objective C, so I owe a lot of my career to this man too.
Cheers! | null | 0 | 1318541198 | False | 0 | c2r9swm | t3_la9wn | null | t1_c2r9swm | t1_c2r3t50 | null | 1427728007 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | jvictor118 | null | Occasionally I see a benchmark where someone says "in benchmark xyz Java is faster/as fast/almost as fast as C/C++/ASM/pigeons."
And obviously, it's BS. I have seen a legit benchmark where Java matched C++ -- but it didn't match it in every category, and it didn't get NEAR the speed of C.
Which is why people who say... | null | 0 | 1318541199 | False | 0 | c2r9swp | t3_lav0p | null | t1_c2r9swp | t1_c2r845d | null | 1427728007 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | wh44 | null | Were you reading the same presentation I was? The article was pointing out what the results would be if you violated well known rules, like initializing your variables. Any decent programmer knows to initialize their variables. Only experienced programmers know what happens when you don't - when you make a mistake. And... | null | 0 | 1318541213 | True | 0 | c2r9sz8 | t3_l6yn1 | null | t1_c2r9sz8 | t1_c2r9fxl | null | 1427728009 | -1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1318541222 | False | 0 | c2r9t0x | t3_la9wn | null | t1_c2r9t0x | t3_la9wn | null | 1427728009 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | noir_lord | null | That was kinda my reaction as well, it has been more than a decade since I read his book and yet the name still jumps of the page. | null | 0 | 1318541266 | False | 0 | c2r9ta0 | t3_laqb0 | null | t1_c2r9ta0 | t1_c2r9saw | null | 1427728013 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | an_eggman | null | > That'd be llvm.
When I phrase it like that, sure. But you know what I mean. I don't think we'll see any kernels written in raw llvm.
> There's just certain things you can't do in C that you can do in assembly. In fact, quite a lot of things.
But could a programming language theoretically do them without sacr... | null | 0 | 1318541299 | False | 0 | c2r9tgs | t3_lb1w3 | null | t1_c2r9tgs | t1_c2r9g5t | null | 1427728016 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1318541299 | False | 0 | c2r9tgt | t3_lb6m3 | null | t1_c2r9tgt | t3_lb6m3 | null | 1427728016 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | roerd | null | I don't think so. As long as the running environments for the programs are properly sandboxed, there should be no danger. (Basically, to shield against those things you mention, it should suffice to limit filesystem access to a specific directory and don't allow any access to network sockets at all.) | null | 0 | 1318541312 | False | 0 | c2r9tk4 | t3_latsk | null | t1_c2r9tk4 | t1_c2r903l | null | 1427728015 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | redfiche | null | Anders says C# is better. | null | 0 | 1318541335 | False | 0 | c2r9toc | t3_laqb0 | null | t1_c2r9toc | t1_c2r579z | null | 1427728017 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Ramfjord | null | why are we being directed to a blog that contains only half of the original blog post? [Here](http://www.cloudmetrx.com/ode_to_c.php) is the full article.
Edit: forgot the last p on the .php | null | 0 | 1318541394 | True | 0 | c2r9tz5 | t3_lav0p | null | t1_c2r9tz5 | t3_lav0p | null | 1427728021 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | anarchistsomalia | null | Angel: We've requested some help for your computer problems, sir.
God: Well? Who is he? Better yet, where is he?
[Poof!](http://i.imgur.com/UMmv3.jpg)
God: **[!?](http://i.imgur.com/TSh8q.jpg)**
Anchor: Dennis Ritchie has passed away. | null | 0 | 1318541442 | False | 0 | c2r9ub9 | t3_la9wn | null | t1_c2r9ub9 | t3_la9wn | null | 1427728026 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | drb226 | null | > Oh wait, it's from 1996
Yeah, I immediately checked the date it was published right after reading in the first sentence
> new languages like Java
:P | null | 0 | 1318541558 | False | 0 | c2r9v2c | t3_laqb0 | null | t1_c2r9v2c | t1_c2r7393 | null | 1427728035 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | hobbitlover | null | Thanks for that -- everything kind of made sense for me when I read that. Can you think of a reason why Thunderbird is free? | null | 0 | 1318541641 | False | 0 | c2r9vkw | t3_layaf | null | t1_c2r9vkw | t1_c2r9b9m | null | 1427728042 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | drb226 | null | tl;dr:
> My point is that technology is the language of the future and those who speak it will not only be afforded the greatest opportunities but will be venerated like scribes once were.
Meh. Mixed feelings about that. Overall this was a very, very short article. | null | 0 | 1318541685 | False | 0 | c2r9vub | t3_lb90z | null | t1_c2r9vub | t3_lb90z | null | 1427728046 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
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