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True | [deleted] | null | Nintendo uses it too. | null | 0 | 1318541735 | False | 0 | c2r9w5k | t3_layaf | null | t1_c2r9w5k | t1_c2r99jh | null | 1427728049 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | paulanerspezi | null | They also license the browser and engine to OEMs to use on devices (such as Nintendo DS or Wii). | null | 0 | 1318541777 | False | 0 | c2r9weg | t3_layaf | null | t1_c2r9weg | t1_c2r99jh | null | 1427728052 | 25 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | SickBoy7 | null | Wouldn't a VM fix the language problem? A modern VM for the web would allow everyone to write in the language of their choosing while allowing them to see and modify other's code in their language of choice. You like Javascript? You would never have to read a line of code written in C#, Python or Ruby.
I don't care i... | null | 0 | 1318541950 | False | 0 | c2r9xcl | t3_la9ma | null | t1_c2r9xcl | t3_la9ma | null | 1427728066 | 10 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | taigaIV | null | Nice but ff use more than 300M of ram for this page ;) | null | 0 | 1318542019 | False | 0 | c2r9xqf | t3_las6n | null | t1_c2r9xqf | t3_las6n | null | 1427728071 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | I think Adobe uses Opera's layout engine in some of their products too. | null | 0 | 1318542041 | False | 0 | c2r9xtq | t3_layaf | null | t1_c2r9xtq | t1_c2r99jh | null | 1427728072 | 8 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | noir_lord | null | Java *is* a new language to me, I'm one of those dinosaurs who cut his teeth in the 80's :p.
Feel old at 31... | null | 0 | 1318542077 | False | 0 | c2r9xzf | t3_laqb0 | null | t1_c2r9xzf | t1_c2r9v2c | null | 1427728074 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | KuloDiamond | null | Nothing can possibly go wrong!! | null | 0 | 1318542086 | False | 0 | c2r9y13 | t3_layaf | null | t1_c2r9y13 | t1_c2r8yqa | null | 1427728074 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Athas | null | No, I think your example exactly illustrates the point of the article. The "machine" represented by C when viewed as an assembly language is incredibly simplistic, having such things as flat memory and simplistic, sequential evaluation. The actual facets of modern hardware are completely gone, and it's the non-trivia... | null | 0 | 1318542235 | False | 0 | c2r9yuf | t3_lb1w3 | null | t1_c2r9yuf | t1_c2r8f2i | null | 1427728085 | 15 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | terremoto | null | I know :( Got my hopes. At the same time, I knew the likelihood of them releasing 12 so soon was slim. | null | 0 | 1318542264 | False | 0 | c2r9z0s | t3_layaf | null | t1_c2r9z0s | t1_c2r706i | null | 1427728087 | 16 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | eddsteel | null | This is nicely done, a good idea well implemented. Libya's flag needs updating, though. | null | 0 | 1318542374 | False | 0 | c2r9zo4 | t3_latsk | null | t1_c2r9zo4 | t3_latsk | null | 1427728096 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | serpent | null | > The article was pointing out what the results would be if you violated well known rules, like initializing your variables.
That was just an example. The point of the slides was to discuss the deep rules of the languages and why knowing them is important. Programming correctly in C and C++ is hard and it's not jus... | null | 0 | 1318542395 | False | 0 | c2r9zs4 | t3_l6yn1 | null | t1_c2r9zs4 | t1_c2r9sz8 | null | 1427728097 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | igor2209 | null | Opera ASA Revenues:
Revenue in 2Q11 was MNOK 214.8, up 27% from 2Q10,
Revenue from Internet Devices grew to MNOK 144.7 an increase of 32%.
2Q11 saw strong revenue growth from Operators, Device OEMs and Mobile
Revenue mix towards license, search, content and advertising revenue.
Revenue from Desktop rose 19% in 2Q11 ... | null | 0 | 1318542431 | False | 0 | c2r9zyy | t3_layaf | null | t1_c2r9zyy | t1_c2r94w9 | null | 1427728100 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | aerojun | null | The standar in c++ is: int main () //Void is by default.
In C is: int main (void)
because int main () //accepts unlimited arguments. | null | 0 | 1318542465 | True | 0 | c2ra05h | t3_laf4o | null | t1_c2ra05h | t1_c2r5xn4 | null | 1427728101 | -1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | barsoap | null | > I don't think we'll see any kernels written in raw llvm.
Not more than are written in raw assembly, at least. And those [do exist](http://www.returninfinity.com/baremetal.html), even modern ones.
> But could a programming language theoretically do them without sacrificing cross platform compatibility (for san... | null | 0 | 1318542494 | False | 0 | c2ra0av | t3_lb1w3 | null | t1_c2ra0av | t1_c2r9tgs | null | 1427728104 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | filecabinet | null | I like AS3 which is mostly what I wish JS was. Why do JavaScript conversations ignore AS3? And, would having AS3 as a client side script solve the existing JavaScript problems? | null | 0 | 1318542545 | False | 0 | c2ra0lt | t3_la9ma | null | t1_c2ra0lt | t3_la9ma | null | 1427728108 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Carnagh | null | > It is however *roughly as close* to assembly as you can get
That's not an argument, that's an opinion... My opinion would be, not it's really not.
By the same token a dog really is not a duck despite them both having cardiovascular systems. | null | 0 | 1318542623 | False | 0 | c2ra102 | t3_lb1w3 | null | t1_c2ra102 | t1_c2r8f2i | null | 1427728114 | 8 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | reddit_clone | null | Well, what _do_ they use for text munging?
MS Excel? | null | 0 | 1318542854 | False | 0 | c2ra2b6 | t3_l9ja4 | null | t1_c2ra2b6 | t1_c2r5c5m | null | 1427728135 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | redweasel | null | I'm irritated by the material [here](http://www.slideshare.net/olvemaudal/deep-c). I consider myself to have a deep knowledge of how things work, and yet it appears they've changed a bunch of stuff since C was originally defined (and I first learned it). No fair! | null | 0 | 1318542864 | False | 0 | c2ra2di | t3_lafdc | null | t1_c2ra2di | t3_lafdc | null | 1427728132 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | acecool | null | and of course we should add [D](http://www.d-programming-language.org/index.html) to that list | null | 0 | 1318542896 | False | 0 | c2ra2jm | t3_laqb0 | null | t1_c2ra2jm | t1_c2r8np7 | null | 1427728133 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | jerf | null | Pity, then, because OO rarely produces good modularity. It can be done, but you have to put a _lot_ of effort into it, and OO itself hardly helps. The pervasiveness of mutable state and a variety of other problems means that a random class yanked out of a reasonably large OO program at random is very unlikely to be any... | null | 0 | 1318542945 | False | 0 | c2ra2tc | t3_laqb0 | null | t1_c2ra2tc | t1_c2r97e5 | null | 1427728137 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | ngony | null | Anything pre dot net is universally hated isn't it? | null | 0 | 1318543011 | False | 0 | c2ra36r | t3_l9ehj | null | t1_c2ra36r | t1_c2r8fss | null | 1427728141 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | eaturbrainz | null | So... you're saying that objects are less modular than other forms of modularity? Questions from my inner PL-professor-to-be:
* What do we mean by "objects"? OOP in Java is vastly different from OOP in Lisp/Scheme or OOP in Scala
* Provided we test this thesis, what do we test it against? Functional programming (ho... | null | 0 | 1318543055 | False | 0 | c2ra3fu | t3_laqb0 | null | t1_c2ra3fu | t1_c2r9srj | null | 1427728146 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | artsrc | null | I don't share your guess, but I believe it is testable.
You come up with some test that best represent your goals for development work. Then you take some developers and apply them to that test, with various training and tools and see what happens.
Or you decompose what developers do to accomplish tasks, and look ... | null | 0 | 1318543172 | False | 0 | c2ra43s | t3_la9ma | null | t1_c2ra43s | t1_c2r5dkn | null | 1427728154 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Synackaon | null | Some people just want to look at it and tinker. Unfortunately, open source is the only thing that seems to allow Joe Random to tinker with AwesomeSauceApp. | null | 0 | 1318543198 | False | 0 | c2ra48v | t3_layaf | null | t1_c2ra48v | t1_c2r9mrb | null | 1427728156 | -1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Pheet | null | Yup, it doesn't. I run both. | null | 0 | 1318543268 | False | 0 | c2ra4mn | t3_layaf | null | t1_c2ra4mn | t1_c2r8g5r | null | 1427728161 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | lucasvb | null | If done properly, nothing. | null | 0 | 1318543296 | False | 0 | c2ra4qg | t3_layaf | null | t1_c2ra4qg | t1_c2r8yqa | null | 1427728162 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | StrangeWill | null | Been playing with it today, branching and merging and pushing and pulling, it's awesome. :) Thanks. Have it tied into TeamCity already, looking to tie it into Redmine when we migrate it off of a server stack (bleh). | null | 0 | 1318543332 | False | 0 | c2ra4y5 | t3_l8jdh | null | t1_c2ra4y5 | t1_c2r6vye | null | 1427728165 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1318543447 | False | 0 | c2ra5ej | t3_laqb0 | null | t1_c2ra5ej | t3_laqb0 | null | 1427728171 | -12 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | an_eggman | null | > I hope Disciple to develop into that direction
That does look interesting. Something like that will probably be the future, when computers drift too far from what they were in 1970 for C to be relevant, and get too complicated for low level languages. But I don't think we're quite there yet.
| null | 0 | 1318543501 | False | 0 | c2ra5qv | t3_lb1w3 | null | t1_c2ra5qv | t1_c2ra0av | null | 1427728175 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | acecool | null | >Anders says C# is better.
the fact he is the chief architect of C# does not make him biased all, neither does the fact he works at MS | null | 0 | 1318543545 | False | 0 | c2ra61o | t3_laqb0 | null | t1_c2ra61o | t1_c2r9toc | null | 1427728178 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | LieutenantClone | null | With all due respect, I am not sure you understand how graphical rendering on computers works. Its all pixel based, and therefor if the pixels are extra small, the graphics will be too. If we were to scale our graphics up, they would become distorted and illegible. Fonts can be scaled, but unless the framework you a... | null | 0 | 1318543642 | False | 0 | c2ra6kw | t3_l9ehj | null | t1_c2ra6kw | t1_c2r6m6k | null | 1427728186 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | shepmaster | null | I agree that it's better if the user writes the acceptance tests, but I've had poor luck with that. My current compromise is to write the tests and then share them with the user or user representative.
RE testing the state/value of @foo: I think a real test would assert that whatever uses the value of @foo is correct.... | null | 0 | 1318543655 | False | 0 | c2ra6nh | t3_l887z | null | t1_c2ra6nh | t1_c2qxi5u | null | 1427728187 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | x-skeww | null | >From what I understand Opera lives off selling Opera Mini for dumbphones?
Opera Mini is also interesting if you have a low bandwidth cap or if your connection is really awful.
In other parts of the world people use it as default - even on smart phones. | null | 0 | 1318543757 | False | 0 | c2ra75x | t3_layaf | null | t1_c2ra75x | t1_c2r94w9 | null | 1427728194 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | Amazon has a ton of features; but there's all really hard to find/us.
Basically, the only thing I do on amazon is search for stuff to buy and buy it. Every now and then I actually waste a few hours in the darker corners of amazon and discover entirely new features and mini-sites that I had no idea existed.
Its ei... | null | 0 | 1318543766 | False | 0 | c2ra77j | t3_l9ehj | null | t1_c2ra77j | t1_c2qzuxg | null | 1427728194 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | gaussin | null | What are the SunSpider results? | null | 0 | 1318543806 | False | 0 | c2ra7fo | t3_layaf | null | t1_c2ra7fo | t3_layaf | null | 1427728197 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | eaturbrainz | null | DERP. I'm massively stupid, let me add it. | null | 0 | 1318543842 | False | 0 | c2ra7m1 | t3_laqb0 | null | t1_c2ra7m1 | t1_c2ra2jm | null | 1427728201 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | _kst_ | null | The reason C is not assembly language is fairly simple.
Assembly code specifies machine instructions. C code specifies behavior. | null | 0 | 1318543880 | False | 0 | c2ra7st | t3_lb1w3 | null | t1_c2ra7st | t3_lb1w3 | null | 1427728204 | 38 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | bobindashadows | null | tl;dr: You can't beat the CAP theorem, but that headline is way better, so I'm going to go with it. In fact, I'll say you can *annihilate* the CAP theorem. Then I'll show a well-known approach to make it not so annoying, but not even come close to "beating" it. | null | 0 | 1318543954 | False | 0 | c2ra87f | t3_lb663 | null | t1_c2ra87f | t3_lb663 | null | 1427728207 | 11 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | eaturbrainz | null | Quite possible, in which case we have to actually define "modular" and start studying how the hell you make things modular.
Mind, of course, that I can and will use this whole discussion to begin building research questions, so *let's fucking do this thang*. | null | 0 | 1318544028 | False | 0 | c2ra8ln | t3_laqb0 | null | t1_c2ra8ln | t1_c2ra2tc | null | 1427728212 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | SEMW | null | Because there's no reason for it not to be. Mozilla's a non-profit foundation - it isn't concerned about having everything it makes pay for itself. Mozilla makes [a lot of different stuff](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Mozilla_Foundation_products), all free, funded from central mozilla funds, which are ~90% Go... | null | 0 | 1318544095 | False | 0 | c2ra8wz | t3_layaf | null | t1_c2ra8wz | t1_c2r9vkw | null | 1427728218 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | roerd | null | I think the two most glaring omissions caused by his "totally unscientific" approach are probably Fortran and Perl. How could such an article include Cobol, but not Fortran? I guess that bookstore didn't cater to scientists much. And Perl was THE language of the web back then, the importance of which is mentioned in th... | null | 0 | 1318544138 | False | 0 | c2ra957 | t3_laqb0 | null | t1_c2ra957 | t3_laqb0 | null | 1427728219 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | bp3959 | null | So because the all powerful programming gods of the linux kernel picked a style that means it's the right one? No. | null | 0 | 1318544153 | False | 0 | c2ra97v | t3_laf4o | null | t1_c2ra97v | t1_c2r8tv5 | null | 1427728223 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | xwhy | null | Wow. I was just talking about him to my nephew a few night ago. He was doing his homework between dinner courses (Italian family birthday party) and I noticed that he was using the same C Programming Language book that I was using back in college. I didn't know much about Ritchie at the time -- but I learned about him ... | null | 0 | 1318544180 | False | 0 | c2ra9dn | t3_la9wn | null | t1_c2ra9dn | t3_la9wn | null | 1427728224 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | taw | null | Yes, but can it finally switch tabs with Cmd-number (or Ctrl-number)? | null | 0 | 1318544276 | False | 0 | c2ra9vk | t3_layaf | null | t1_c2ra9vk | t3_layaf | null | 1427728230 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | x-skeww | null | >I guess it's still innovative in that sense, because applets never really caught on.
Who cares if one particular deployment mechanism didn't turn out to be very popular in the long run? Nowadays, there are probably more than 10. JAR/WAR, installers with or without a JVM, native compilation via GCJ or Excelsior Jet... | null | 0 | 1318544795 | False | 0 | c2racms | t3_laqb0 | null | t1_c2racms | t1_c2r5h35 | null | 1427728266 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Kanin | null | isUpvote(string input){
if(input == "french flag") return true; // no questions asked
else return randomBool(); // Ancient Greek Trolling Device, not sure how it works but it works
}
| null | 0 | 1318544888 | False | 0 | c2rad5n | t3_latsk | null | t1_c2rad5n | t3_latsk | null | 1427728272 | -2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | wh44 | null | "Just" one example? The examples are pretty long, and all along those lines:
1) not declaring your function, and why it sometimes works, return code side-effect (i.e. bad coding that everyone knows is bad coding) ca. 50 pages.
2) not initializing your variables (local, static, global, etc.) - 90 pages!
3) "a = a++" ... | null | 0 | 1318544912 | False | 0 | c2radal | t3_l6yn1 | null | t1_c2radal | t1_c2r9zs4 | null | 1427728274 | -1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | UndefinedBehaviour | null | > C code specifies behavior.
lol | null | 0 | 1318544952 | False | 0 | c2radio | t3_lb1w3 | null | t1_c2radio | t1_c2ra7st | null | 1427728277 | -26 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1318544987 | False | 0 | c2radp2 | t3_laf4o | null | t1_c2radp2 | t1_c2ra05h | null | 1427728279 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | lars_ | null | [That's really funny.](http://www.reddit.com/r/bestof/comments/eakz7/selfproclaimed_zerotalent_artist_creates_drawings/c16n7ar?context=3) | null | 0 | 1318545005 | False | 0 | c2radsc | t3_layaf | null | t1_c2radsc | t1_c2r9s9c | null | 1427728280 | 12 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | Do you think Bjarne Stroustrup laughed? | null | 0 | 1318545065 | False | 0 | c2rae4h | t3_laocm | null | t1_c2rae4h | t3_laocm | null | 1427728284 | -2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | eleete | null | Wouldn't that be why it is so 'stable'? | null | 0 | 1318545132 | False | 0 | c2raehi | t3_la9wn | null | t1_c2raehi | t1_c2r5zjq | null | 1427728290 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | thevdude | null | Is it really **hard** to change installation directory? Sounds like a good reason not to use it. | null | 0 | 1318545199 | False | 0 | c2raeun | t3_layaf | null | t1_c2raeun | t1_c2r8hb9 | null | 1427728294 | -14 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | eleete | null | How about everything, simply because Operating Systems existing before the Apple II ? We stand on the shoulders of giants ? | null | 0 | 1318545285 | False | 0 | c2rafay | t3_la9wn | null | t1_c2rafay | t1_c2r43cy | null | 1427728300 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | If you're into WebGL demos, this one is incredible: http://alteredqualia.com/three/examples/webgl_materials_skin.html | null | 0 | 1318545324 | False | 0 | c2rafio | t3_layaf | null | t1_c2rafio | t1_c2r8r78 | null | 1427728303 | 10 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | thephotoman | null | Actually, I get that you're attacking a question, not me--and you're attacking it in an academic manner.
Well, that's part of where I'm getting. But it's not the whole story.
I'm saying that objects have long been held to enforce some modularity, as though they were inherently modular. Obviously, with the existence... | null | 0 | 1318545406 | False | 0 | c2rafy2 | t3_laqb0 | null | t1_c2rafy2 | t1_c2ra3fu | null | 1427728309 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | sclv | null | No Dart, no cred. | null | 0 | 1318545526 | False | 0 | c2ragkd | t3_layaf | null | t1_c2ragkd | t3_layaf | null | 1427728317 | -18 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | NruJaC | null | Anyone else find it amusing that he's trying to learn and wrap his head around mutable objects (i.e. lists changing after creation) while the rest of us are trying to learn how to operate when you can't do that? Sounds to me like he has a solid mental model. | null | 0 | 1318545622 | True | 0 | c2rah3a | t3_lb1lj | null | t1_c2rah3a | t3_lb1lj | null | 1427728323 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | alchemeron | null | >Some people just want to look at it and tinker.
***Some*** people. A vast minority... and the majority of people complaining about it not being open-source wouldn't tinker if it was. And, I would wager, don't actually know how. | null | 0 | 1318545790 | False | 0 | c2rahzy | t3_layaf | null | t1_c2rahzy | t1_c2ra48v | null | 1427728335 | 15 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | x-skeww | null | >[Sun] made a client VM that took minutes to start up
Your memory betrays you. It took less than 10 seconds on mid-range hardware from the end of 1999 (~500mhz). With small command line programs (which didn't touch AWT or Swing) it took about 2 seconds. I kid you not.
However, it completely froze the browser. As i... | null | 0 | 1318545805 | False | 0 | c2rai3g | t3_laqb0 | null | t1_c2rai3g | t1_c2r5r6y | null | 1427728336 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | WarzoneOfDefecation | null | [This dude has a seem in the back of his head yo!](http://i.imgur.com/1WiUo.png) | null | 0 | 1318545910 | False | 0 | c2rainz | t3_layaf | null | t1_c2rainz | t1_c2rafio | null | 1427728350 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Anpheus | null | There should be some clarification. Hand-tuned, optimized C/C++/asm will undoubtedly beat Java/C#/YourPetLanguage/PigeonsOnSteroids. But that is incorporating the time and mental energy that went into optimizing the code and then, making sure it still works in the future. This is by no means impossible, but if one prog... | null | 0 | 1318545929 | False | 0 | c2rairn | t3_lav0p | null | t1_c2rairn | t1_c2r9swp | null | 1427728346 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Serei | null | >> I just wish
> software license totalitarian attitude
what | null | 0 | 1318546010 | False | 0 | c2raj89 | t3_layaf | null | t1_c2raj89 | t1_c2r9mrb | null | 1427728352 | 27 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | serpent | null | I'm not sure what your point is...
You think the slides were just about those rules covered? And the other rules don't matter?
You think if someone just knows those rules well enough to not write the code in those slides, that they won't violate other rules of C?
You think the rules covered in those slides only appl... | null | 0 | 1318546311 | False | 0 | c2rakut | t3_l6yn1 | null | t1_c2rakut | t1_c2radal | null | 1427728373 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | vyck | null | Ugh, the comparison with Steve Jobs is getting really annoying, these are two completely different people who contributed to technology and society in completely different ways. I am sure no one in their right mind would have compared these two men if their death was not so close to each other, as it clearly doesn't ma... | null | 0 | 1318546421 | False | 0 | c2ralft | t3_lb7gq | null | t1_c2ralft | t3_lb7gq | null | 1427728383 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | byteflow | null | I think phaker's point was that EXIT_SUCCESS was a nod to portability, but the raw terminal sequences break it anyway, so what's the point of being somewhat portable? | null | 0 | 1318546452 | False | 0 | c2ralmb | t3_la9wn | null | t1_c2ralmb | t1_c2r9239 | null | 1428192409 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | sadris | null | Yes, but does it support HTTPS through a digest-auth based Squid proxy? | null | 0 | 1318546540 | False | 0 | c2ram3n | t3_layaf | null | t1_c2ram3n | t3_layaf | null | 1427728394 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Rotten194 | null | Didn't he say that if he could go back and change one thing, that he'd add the 'e' to creat()?
EDIT: It was actually Ken.
>Ken Thompson was once asked what he would do differently if he were redesigning the UNIX system. His reply: "I'd spell creat with an e." | null | 0 | 1318546594 | True | 0 | c2ramdc | t3_la9wn | null | t1_c2ramdc | t1_c2r3ana | null | 1427728397 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | xcbsmith | null | This basically looked to me like it was talking about something like MVCC. | null | 0 | 1318546601 | False | 0 | c2rames | t3_lb663 | null | t1_c2rames | t3_lb663 | null | 1427728397 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | x-skeww | null | If anyone is curious, here is a spellcheck toggle bookmarklet for Firefox:
`javascript:var%20e='contentEditable';c=document.getElementsByTagName('body')[0];c[e]=c[e]==="true"?false:true;void(0)` | null | 0 | 1318546763 | False | 0 | c2ranar | t3_laqb0 | null | t1_c2ranar | t1_c2r64q9 | null | 1427728405 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | alecco | null | Beside his knowledge on the subject and ability to explain concepts, it's admirable the amount of work this guy is pouring on that site. Kudos. | null | 0 | 1318546896 | False | 0 | c2ranze | t3_layea | null | t1_c2ranze | t3_layea | null | 1427728417 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | oboewan42 | null | Plus, you sometimes need to get away from the object-oriented bullshit and program with global functions and char\* and printf, like *men* once did.
As an Obj-C programmer, I sometimes miss the days when functions were called using goddamn parentheses. | null | 0 | 1318546897 | False | 0 | c2ranzu | t3_lav0p | null | t1_c2ranzu | t1_c2r9lud | null | 1427728417 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Cybs | null | I'd have to modify the solution slightly (remember the path rather than just what I've visited already)... but shouldn't take more than 5 minutes. Why? want it? | null | 0 | 1318546992 | False | 0 | c2raojj | t3_lai1b | null | t1_c2raojj | t1_c2r8mg3 | null | 1427728430 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | SuperGrade | null | The article is from 1996 | null | 0 | 1318547033 | False | 0 | c2raor1 | t3_laqb0 | null | t1_c2raor1 | t1_c2ra5ej | null | 1427728435 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | electronics-engineer | null | >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.
In my world (4-bit microcontrollers with 64 Nybbles of RAM programmed in Assembly) we don't have a lot of use for OO, but a good programmer will do plenty of code reuse, while a... | null | 0 | 1318547132 | False | 0 | c2rap9p | t3_laqb0 | null | t1_c2rap9p | t1_c2r9srj | null | 1428192407 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | wildeye | null | I presume that's supposed to be a C versus C++ joke, but no, as it happens I actually received a forwarded email from Stroustrup, where he was notifying people in his circle of the death, and he was as respectful about it as you'd expect any decent human to be.
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True | Mikevin | null | I like this page
http://progzoo.net/wiki/C%2B%2B:Read_From_a_Database | null | 0 | 1318547230 | False | 0 | c2raps8 | t3_latsk | null | t1_c2raps8 | t3_latsk | null | 1427728440 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1318547240 | False | 0 | c2rapty | t3_l6xa0 | null | t1_c2rapty | t1_c2qsjjl | null | 1427728441 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | There were two mails, you got the decoy. | null | 0 | 1318547436 | False | 0 | c2raqsc | t3_laocm | null | t1_c2raqsc | t1_c2rapd3 | null | 1427728451 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | swinejihad | null | I think a more apt name would be "Loaddit". If you catch my drift. | null | 0 | 1318547663 | False | 0 | c2rary7 | t3_las6n | null | t1_c2rary7 | t3_las6n | null | 1427728473 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | eaturbrainz | null | If I was looking to study code reuse, I would *not* be looking at bugs introduced or used. I would be looking at lines-of-code *written* to "reuse" the code versus lines of code *unchanged* in the "reuse" process. But that's just me.
I would also have to separate object-oriented reuse/modularity into *class*-couplin... | null | 0 | 1318547726 | False | 0 | c2ras95 | t3_laqb0 | null | t1_c2ras95 | t1_c2rafy2 | null | 1427728476 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | wildeye | null | To be fair, it *was* just a forwarding, so maybe...
Well, no. | null | 0 | 1318548191 | False | 0 | c2rauhu | t3_laocm | null | t1_c2rauhu | t1_c2raqsc | null | 1427728508 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Pheet | null | I wouldn't do that myself as every future update for Next will always be some other alpha/beta... | null | 0 | 1318548288 | False | 0 | c2rauzm | t3_layaf | null | t1_c2rauzm | t1_c2r8dyz | null | 1427728515 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1318548336 | False | 0 | c2rav7k | t3_lb1w3 | null | t1_c2rav7k | t3_lb1w3 | null | 1427728517 | 9 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | _georgesim_ | null | > C is the machine language for the virtual machine defined by Unix and Unix-like systems?
Except it's much more. Any major OS is written mostly in C, specifically because it is as close to portable assembly as it gets. Of course for the really low-level stuff (hypervisor mode commands, port I/O, interrupts, etc.) ... | null | 0 | 1318548394 | False | 0 | c2ravi5 | t3_lb1w3 | null | t1_c2ravi5 | t1_c2r9yuf | null | 1427728521 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Rnway | null | In before the inevitable crash. | null | 0 | 1318548505 | False | 0 | c2raw1r | t3_las6n | null | t1_c2raw1r | t3_las6n | null | 1427728524 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Scars641 | null | I do not think "vast" means what you think it does... | null | 0 | 1318548505 | False | 0 | c2raw1s | t3_layaf | null | t1_c2raw1s | t1_c2rahzy | null | 1427728524 | -2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | PatternrettaP | null | why would you want to? The entire point of something like Opera Next is to be able to use the Stable and experimental versions side by side without having to mess with anything. | null | 0 | 1318548614 | False | 0 | c2rawlw | t3_layaf | null | t1_c2rawlw | t1_c2raeun | null | 1427728529 | 9 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | bobindashadows | null | Exactly. Up until now, people weren't as concerned about graphics driver security because the only way to exploit an insecure graphics driver was to get code running on someone's machine. And once you have code running on someone's machine, there's a lot more you can do that doesn't require targeting a specific driver.... | null | 0 | 1318548636 | False | 0 | c2rawq0 | t3_layaf | null | t1_c2rawq0 | t1_c2r9nvf | null | 1427728531 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | If it's fucked up, how is disliking it elitism? | null | 0 | 1318548942 | False | 0 | c2rayag | t3_l8l00 | null | t1_c2rayag | t1_c2qsmoj | null | 1427728548 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Alexis_ | null | come up with something that is as well supported as java, but better than java. Then you'll have your new standard. | null | 0 | 1318549012 | False | 0 | c2rayoq | t3_laqb0 | null | t1_c2rayoq | t1_c2r7p93 | null | 1427728554 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | neon_overload | null | Cool - let me know how it goes | null | 0 | 1318549141 | False | 0 | c2razbl | t3_l7wry | null | t1_c2razbl | t1_c2r75m2 | null | 1427728563 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | m1ss1ontomars2k4 | null | Firefox as well. | null | 0 | 1318549160 | False | 0 | c2razex | t3_layaf | null | t1_c2razex | t1_c2r9jdg | null | 1427728563 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | m1ss1ontomars2k4 | null | I doubt it's direct at all.
EDIT: Heh. DirectX. Heh. | null | 0 | 1318549166 | False | 0 | c2razg7 | t3_layaf | null | t1_c2razg7 | t1_c2r987o | null | 1427728563 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | _georgesim_ | null | Was it really necessary to limit the text to 80 columns? | null | 0 | 1318549211 | False | 0 | c2razoi | t3_la9wn | null | t1_c2razoi | t1_c2r3xjc | null | 1427728566 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Taladar | null | I believe that there are some language features that are more a matter of preference and some that have actual, objectively measurable, impact on productivity and maintainability.
Among the features that do help with productivity objectively (yes, I know, I can't cite sources since there are very few objective studies... | null | 0 | 1318549408 | False | 0 | c2rb0o7 | t3_la9ma | null | t1_c2rb0o7 | t1_c2ra43s | null | 1427728579 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | jerenept | null | Not to mention that IE is *very* relevant, and closed-sourced. | null | 0 | 1318549442 | False | 0 | c2rb0u1 | t3_layaf | null | t1_c2rb0u1 | t1_c2r9jil | null | 1427728581 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | nemetroid | null | Slightly faster than Chrome 15 and slightly slower than Opera 11.51 for me. | null | 0 | 1318549594 | False | 0 | c2rb1mc | t3_layaf | null | t1_c2rb1mc | t1_c2ra7fo | null | 1427728593 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | julesjacobs | null | That types don't change the semantics doesn't mean that they can't be used for optimization, so code declared as "int" could execute faster than code without type annotations. Or is there some reason that I'm missing that makes this impossible? | null | 0 | 1318549601 | False | 0 | c2rb1nq | t3_la9ma | null | t1_c2rb1nq | t1_c2r5whs | null | 1427728593 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | k3n | null | [No!](http://memegenerator.net/instance/10605688) | null | 0 | 1318549729 | False | 0 | c2rb2ac | t3_layaf | null | t1_c2rb2ac | t1_c2r9mrb | null | 1427728600 | -7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
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