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True | possiblywrong | null | I'm not sure T.S. Eliot ever said any such thing. I always thought Mark Twain was the source of the "sorry for the long letter, I didn't have time to write a short one" bit. It's been attributed to a few others as well... but Eliot?
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True | nandemo | null | What's wrong with that? C has gone through a number of upgrades (spec revisions and arguably C++) and it IS used for website development (apache, nginx, etc). | null | 0 | 1318597566 | False | 0 | c2rfp42 | t3_lbs2x | null | t1_c2rfp42 | t1_c2rf10e | null | 1427730787 | 8 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | darwin_wins | null | Shut up and dont make me cry at work. It is early Friday morning and as it is loss of Dennis Ritchie doesnt make me happy. | null | 0 | 1318597634 | False | 0 | c2rfpbj | t3_lbs2x | null | t1_c2rfpbj | t1_c2reuy6 | null | 1427730789 | 9 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | ogstuart | null | We decided to compare against the libraries from Apache Commons Maths and Colt as they are representative the two main schools of thinking 1) those who use direct access of native types and 2) those who use getters on objects wrapping native types. Further, we are building matrix kernels that are hardware aware, and th... | null | 0 | 1318597786 | False | 0 | c2rfpu6 | t3_lbx87 | null | t1_c2rfpu6 | t3_lbx87 | null | 1427730796 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | TylerEaves | null | Those are dual-licensed, not open source. Big difference. | null | 0 | 1318597804 | False | 0 | c2rfpw9 | t3_layaf | null | t1_c2rfpw9 | t1_c2rf68n | null | 1427730796 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | fredy | null | Thanks. That Guardian article is much better than the NYT one.
Sent from my PDP-7. | null | 0 | 1318597899 | False | 0 | c2rfq7s | t3_lbs2x | null | t1_c2rfq7s | t1_c2rfj0s | null | 1427730800 | 31 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | a_random_username | null | > The Unix **operating system** has similarly had a rich and enduring impact. Its free, open-source variant, **Linux**, powers many of the world’s data centers, like those at...
Do you hear that?
That's the sound of rms *furiously* writing you a letter. | null | 0 | 1318597936 | False | 0 | c2rfqc7 | t3_lbs2x | null | t1_c2rfqc7 | t3_lbs2x | null | 1427730801 | 37 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | diamondjim | null | You shouldn't be so apologetic about posting Wikipedia links. It is an extremely well-researched and reliable information source for most day-to-day things. It's only the controversial and cutting-edge topics that I wouldn't trust Wikipedia for. | null | 0 | 1318597985 | False | 0 | c2rfqhr | t3_lbs2x | null | t1_c2rfqhr | t1_c2rfju3 | null | 1427730803 | 16 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | palealepizza | null | I don't get it; is your name Phillip or am I? missing something? | null | 0 | 1318597997 | False | 0 | c2rfqja | t3_lbs2x | null | t1_c2rfqja | t1_c2rf9ro | null | 1427730804 | 24 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | a_random_username | null | There's a link on that obit page to an article titled "[The Gift of Glib](http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/13/opinion/the-gift-of-glib.html?src=me&ref=general)"
It was [not what I thought it was about](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glib) | null | 0 | 1318598147 | False | 0 | c2rfr24 | t3_lbs2x | null | t1_c2rfr24 | t3_lbs2x | null | 1427730810 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Tuna-Fish2 | null | Hmm, 24KB of lookup tables for pow. 3 lookups from said tables per computation.
Anyone have an inkling of how long a normal pow takes? Because on modern cpu's, if the pow can't expect to own the L1$, it gets hit with an additional ~100 cycles of penalty for the spills. And the tables spill from L2$, forget about it. | null | 0 | 1318598289 | False | 0 | c2rfrhy | t3_lbhee | null | t1_c2rfrhy | t3_lbhee | null | 1427730816 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | a_random_username | null | Maybe you should fire off emails to Thompson or Stroustrup. One of them might be single.
Just sayin'.
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True | [deleted] | null | I was ashamed to have read that from the BBC, of all organizations. | null | 0 | 1318598559 | False | 0 | c2rfsgq | t3_lbs2x | null | t1_c2rfsgq | t1_c2rf9o0 | null | 1427730831 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | roxm | null | Yes. Function pointers is C are the same as data pointers. In C++, member function pointers are different, but in C they're one and the same. | null | 0 | 1318598559 | False | 0 | c2rfsgu | t3_lb1w3 | null | t1_c2rfsgu | t1_c2rfidp | null | 1427730831 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | niviss | null | The article doesn't mention much about undefined behaviour, but the original article "C is not assembly" does. It's not the same as an assembly having undefined behaviour because an opcode behaves different on different machines.
http://james-iry.blogspot.com/2010/04/c-is-not-assembly.html | null | 0 | 1318598642 | False | 0 | c2rfssk | t3_lb1w3 | null | t1_c2rfssk | t1_c2rf9i1 | null | 1427730834 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1318598764 | False | 0 | c2rft8a | t3_latsk | null | t1_c2rft8a | t1_c2r7opd | null | 1427730842 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | phaker | null | Damn. You are right. | null | 0 | 1318598832 | False | 0 | c2rfti2 | t3_lanp9 | null | t1_c2rfti2 | t1_c2rfnc3 | null | 1427730846 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | it solves the typical test problem of "my thing that connects to the db normally - I don't want this to happen in a unit test"
Dependency injection is very simple - provide your object its dependencies via whatever mechanism you see fit, but don't let it new up its dependencies directly - and using it solves a lot of ... | null | 0 | 1318598888 | False | 0 | c2rftpp | t3_laeci | null | t1_c2rftpp | t1_c2r7uxo | null | 1427730851 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | ours | null | This seems to work with shelvesets so I guess not. | null | 0 | 1318598935 | False | 0 | c2rftw2 | t3_lbywd | null | t1_c2rftw2 | t1_c2rfj3o | null | 1427730849 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | ogstuart | null | Agreed. MLK is excellent, as are many BLAS, we have MKL and ATLAS in house, but they are native libraries. Our system is entirely Java and for now we just want more performance from what we have. The actual design of the library is such that hooking into native code at some point in the future is entirely possible and ... | null | 0 | 1318598949 | False | 0 | c2rfty5 | t3_lbx87 | null | t1_c2rfty5 | t1_c2rfod4 | null | 1427730849 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Iv8f | null | > To give a rough idea, the difference between a naive implementation and the best implementation on an x86_64 processor (plain C vs Intel MKL) is around 10x
That was probably using AVX and single precision, right? | null | 0 | 1318599026 | False | 0 | c2rfu94 | t3_lbx87 | null | t1_c2rfu94 | t1_c2rfod4 | null | 1427730853 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | troyanonymous1 | null | They're making room for you to take their place. | null | 0 | 1318599098 | False | 0 | c2rfui6 | t3_lbs2x | null | t1_c2rfui6 | t1_c2rfh5n | null | 1427730855 | 23 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1318599313 | False | 0 | c2rfv9y | t3_la9wn | null | t1_c2rfv9y | t1_c2rfdhb | null | 1427730866 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | mykdavies | null | Wikiquotes [has a sourced version](http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Blaise_Pascal) from the French mathematician and physicist [Blaise Pascal](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blaise_Pascal) dated 1656. | null | 0 | 1318599611 | False | 0 | c2rfwf0 | t3_lbv9c | null | t1_c2rfwf0 | t1_c2rfp34 | null | 1427730884 | 9 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1318599753 | False | 0 | c2rfwyg | t3_lbs2x | null | t1_c2rfwyg | t1_c2rfsb9 | null | 1427730889 | 14 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | dorfsmay | null | You could argue that what is "running" is the kernel. RMS always says "linux is **just** a kernel". | null | 0 | 1318599756 | False | 0 | c2rfwyr | t3_lbs2x | null | t1_c2rfwyr | t1_c2rfqc7 | null | 1427730889 | 10 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | resurge | null | His opera icon in the top left ~~is~~ was red, not grey. (there was a screenshot in his comment)
He wasn't using Opera next, and since Opera 12 is only in alpha... | null | 0 | 1318599768 | False | 0 | c2rfx07 | t3_layaf | null | t1_c2rfx07 | t1_c2reybw | null | 1427730890 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | voyvf | null | That's a bit odd, [readthedocs](http://rtfd.org) would have generated that for the author (and even created PDF's!)
Maybe someone should fork it and set that up? | null | 0 | 1318600029 | False | 0 | c2rfxzo | t3_lbalr | null | t1_c2rfxzo | t1_c2ref52 | null | 1427730901 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | apotheon | null | Thanks for putting that together. I'm even more interested in hearing the rest of that tale, now. | null | 0 | 1318600263 | False | 0 | c2rfyv2 | t3_lb7gq | null | t1_c2rfyv2 | t1_c2rduxu | null | 1427730913 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | stox | null | Best Epitaph I have seen so far:
He fought for the users! | null | 0 | 1318600312 | False | 0 | c2rfz2b | t3_lbs2x | null | t1_c2rfz2b | t3_lbs2x | null | 1427730915 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | apotheon | null | The comparison should be entirely understandable, considering the unbelievable glut of attention given to Steve Jobs, sainting him mere days after his death for what amounts to a largely spurious patent portfolio and iPod marketing. It's not a comparison of the the work these men did for purposes of similarity; it's a... | null | 0 | 1318600337 | False | 0 | c2rfz5u | t3_lb7gq | null | t1_c2rfz5u | t1_c2ralft | null | 1427730916 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | a_random_username | null | I don't know, it's hard to understand you with that Lisp of yours. | null | 0 | 1318600409 | False | 0 | c2rfzfu | t3_lbs2x | null | t1_c2rfzfu | t1_c2rfwyg | null | 1427730920 | 8 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | protip: log in/out constantly. The ideal situation is for you to be at the top of her search results and be offline. Logging in puts you higher in the results. So just open the window and immediately close it as often as you can. Girls will send you messages if you do this. None of the people that I messaged first... | null | 0 | 1318600490 | True | 0 | c2rfzqv | t3_lbs2x | null | t1_c2rfzqv | t1_c2rffbz | null | 1427730924 | 23 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | knome | null | Phillip is what is wrong with living alone. Beware him. | null | 0 | 1318600495 | False | 0 | c2rfzrn | t3_lbs2x | null | t1_c2rfzrn | t1_c2rfqja | null | 1427730924 | 38 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Benbenbenb | null | No.
Double precision, and the processor is a core 2. Same goes with a first generation core i7 (without AVX).
I believe that with AVX the difference would be even starker.
According to [this page](http://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/intel-mkl/), they even get 100GFlops on a quad-core @3.4GHz with AVX, which is ins... | null | 0 | 1318600498 | False | 0 | c2rfzsb | t3_lbx87 | null | t1_c2rfzsb | t1_c2rfu94 | null | 1427730925 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | skulgnome | null | I'm quite sure you're describing POSIX-like restrictions on pointer length & format there. Standard C leaves it to an implementation to permit casting from a code pointer to 'void *' and back, but code that does so will be tied to at least implementations that permit it.
And anyway pointers have little to do with ... | null | 0 | 1318600723 | False | 0 | c2rg0pg | t3_lb1w3 | null | t1_c2rg0pg | t1_c2rfsgu | null | 1427730936 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | simonask | null | > C doesn't have a stack abstraction.
I know. That's *completely* irrelevant. C requires that the compiler implement some means of storing local variables aside from registers (assuming a finite set of registers). *That's* the abstraction.
You can dream up an instruction set with infinite registers, but in reality... | null | 0 | 1318600848 | False | 0 | c2rg160 | t3_lb1w3 | null | t1_c2rg160 | t1_c2rfhuw | null | 1427730944 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | darkpaladin | null | There aren't enough women at Microsoft to make this work. | null | 0 | 1318601011 | False | 0 | c2rg1to | t3_l1a2e | null | t1_c2rg1to | t1_c2rew9b | null | 1427730951 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | PstScrpt | null | I know RMS is always pushing people to refer to it as "GNU / Linux", but how does he pronounce it? If it's "GNU Linux" like TCP/IP is usually pronounced, it sounds like he's claiming credit for Linux. "GNU slash Linux" sounds like the terms are interchangeable.
I could kinda get behind "GNU over Linux", though. | null | 0 | 1318601108 | False | 0 | c2rg27s | t3_lbs2x | null | t1_c2rg27s | t1_c2rfwyr | null | 1427730956 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | an_eggman | null | That makes a little more sense. However, talking about undefined behaviour is just clouding the issue. The real argument is that you can do things in assembly that you can't do (reasonably portably) in C. Now that I think about it, the entire article can pretty much be condensed to that sentence.
Yeah, that's a much b... | null | 0 | 1318601121 | False | 0 | c2rg29n | t3_lb1w3 | null | t1_c2rg29n | t1_c2rfssk | null | 1427730958 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | annoymind | null | One of those license is an open source license. | null | 0 | 1318601170 | False | 0 | c2rg2gb | t3_layaf | null | t1_c2rg2gb | t1_c2rfpw9 | null | 1427730968 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | PstScrpt | null | I don't really care for the sentiment, even if I did leave Java to work in .Net.
I love the "apologets" wordplay, though. | null | 0 | 1318601200 | False | 0 | c2rg2kh | t3_lbsfr | null | t1_c2rg2kh | t1_c2rf1b3 | null | 1427730962 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | voyvf | null | Ah nice, my work machine's video card is blacklisted by Chrome, but Opera appears to support it. | null | 0 | 1318601414 | False | 0 | c2rg3es | t3_layaf | null | t1_c2rg3es | t3_layaf | null | 1427730974 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | drmarcj | null | The NYT has a policy about not calling Ph.D.s "Dr." in their obits. Happens all the time. | null | 0 | 1318601545 | False | 0 | c2rg3xy | t3_lbs2x | null | t1_c2rg3xy | t1_c2rf3b6 | null | 1427730979 | 17 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | a_random_username | null | As others have pointed out, this article:
1.) Is for general consumption, and Grandma Jones from Peoria isn't going to understand:
Topic ∈A | A = {
GNU+Linux, GNU/Linux, GNU,
Whatever the fuck Stallman is calling Linux these days,
FOSS, Libre vs Gratis vs Proprietary Software,
... | null | 0 | 1318601604 | True | 0 | c2rg46x | t3_lbs2x | null | t1_c2rg46x | t1_c2rfwyr | null | 1427730983 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | munificent | null | > Now all the code inside f has to do dynamic checks on i every time it is used, instead of once at the definition of i.
Nope, there are no dynamic checks done at all. When you invoke a method on an object, yes it does the regular dynamic dispatch then that all dynamic languages do. But it doesn't add any additiona... | null | 0 | 1318601647 | False | 0 | c2rg4dd | t3_la9ma | null | t1_c2rg4dd | t1_c2rev9m | null | 1427730986 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | humanmanguy | null | Repost | null | 0 | 1318601711 | False | 0 | c2rg4n8 | t3_lbvoo | null | t1_c2rg4n8 | t3_lbvoo | null | 1427730989 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | joaomc | null | No. Wing dings! | null | 0 | 1318601728 | False | 0 | c2rg4q0 | t3_l9ehj | null | t1_c2rg4q0 | t1_c2quqha | null | 1427730990 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | criticismguy | null | What about macro assemblers? What about assemblers that optimize instruction scheduling? | null | 0 | 1318601856 | False | 0 | c2rg59i | t3_lb1w3 | null | t1_c2rg59i | t1_c2ra7st | null | 1427730997 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | a_random_username | null | I was coming in here to correct iamelephant by saying "Nuh uh! OSX is based on Mach!" (because I thought Mach was based off of System V Unix)
But, after researching, Mach is, indeed, based off of BSD.
So, yeah, you've handled it. This comment is superfluous. | null | 0 | 1318601945 | False | 0 | c2rg5n6 | t3_lbs2x | null | t1_c2rg5n6 | t1_c2rfhp0 | null | 1427731001 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | dakboy | null | No, RMS always says "GNU/Linux is **just** a kernel". | null | 0 | 1318601997 | False | 0 | c2rg5u6 | t3_lbs2x | null | t1_c2rg5u6 | t1_c2rfwyr | null | 1427731004 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1318601999 | False | 0 | c2rg5ue | t3_laf4o | null | t1_c2rg5ue | t3_laf4o | null | 1427731004 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | nascent | null | Did we really need to go through nine comments to end up [back here](http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/kljc0/would_you_bet_100000000_on_d/c2qctxa)?
I gave a nice summary of what D and C++ require. And instead of just saying, "I disagree with point two." you went and tried to explain it with two failed attem... | null | 0 | 1318602042 | True | 0 | c2rg60g | t3_kljc0 | null | t1_c2rg60g | t1_c2r6isq | null | 1427731006 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | joaomc | null | > Google could wire them together with the million internal APIs that they have.
Wire things together with a million internal APIs with bazillions of incompatibilities and interoperability quirks would hardly help. | null | 0 | 1318602044 | False | 0 | c2rg60u | t3_l9ehj | null | t1_c2rg60u | t1_c2r08f8 | null | 1427731006 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | munificent | null | > I didn't know how to get the online form into 'strict mode' (whatever that is).
I didn't work on Dartboard, but I don't think it supports that right now.
> If you have all code annotated then you get slow Javascript-class peformance (ie slower than Java).
Eventually, it should be faster than JS VMs will ever... | null | 0 | 1318602049 | False | 0 | c2rg61q | t3_la9ma | null | t1_c2rg61q | t1_c2rdbbi | null | 1427731007 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | dakboy | null | [Compute!'s Gazzette](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COMPUTE!%27s_Gazette) was where it was at for my family. Oh, the hours my mother would spend pecking [MLX](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MLX_%28software%29) code into our C=64 - and she wasn't even the geek in the family. | null | 0 | 1318602124 | False | 0 | c2rg6d4 | t3_lbrco | null | t1_c2rg6d4 | t3_lbrco | null | 1427731011 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | joaomc | null | Nah, most people don't care about Facebook apps. They want to share comments, photos, lolcats, etc. | null | 0 | 1318602145 | False | 0 | c2rg6ff | t3_l9ehj | null | t1_c2rg6ff | t1_c2qvgh2 | null | 1427731012 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | fluba | null | RIP Mr. Ritchie.
On another note: Was I the only one who finished reading and saw the [Elizabeth Olsen](http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/16/movies/elizabeth-olsen-in-martha-marcy-may-marlene.html?WT.mc_id=MO-D-I-NYT-MOD-MOD-M223-ROS-1011-HDR&WT.mc_ev=click) article? Hopefully she doesn't go the way of her sisters. | null | 0 | 1318602225 | False | 0 | c2rg6r2 | t3_lbs2x | null | t1_c2rg6r2 | t3_lbs2x | null | 1427731016 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | MatrixFrog | null | Absolutely not. Java not having first class functions is a huge problem IMO so JavaScript is superior in some ways, while inferior in others. | null | 0 | 1318602242 | False | 0 | c2rg6uh | t3_l88ny | null | t1_c2rg6uh | t1_c2revl1 | null | 1427731019 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | anttirt | null | That's intended for people who think the monitor is the computer and the big blue e is the interwebs which is just another name for Facebook and sometimes Google, which contains all other web sights like Amazon and flickr.
If you tried to explain to these people that C is used to program operating system kernels and e... | null | 0 | 1318602343 | False | 0 | c2rg79y | t3_lbs2x | null | t1_c2rg79y | t1_c2rf10e | null | 1427731023 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | jmmontjean | null | Any particular reason behind that? | null | 0 | 1318602368 | False | 0 | c2rg7dp | t3_lbs2x | null | t1_c2rg7dp | t1_c2rg3xy | null | 1427731024 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | pstanger | null | Where the hell did you learn vocabulary like that and where can I buy the same book? | null | 0 | 1318602409 | False | 0 | c2rg7k9 | t3_lbs2x | null | t1_c2rg7k9 | t1_c2rf4b3 | null | 1427731026 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | As much as I hated C in college, a sad day indeed. :( | null | 0 | 1318602630 | False | 0 | c2rg8iq | t3_lbs2x | null | t1_c2rg8iq | t3_lbs2x | null | 1427731039 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | thatmorrowguy | null | I like the one from [Wikipedia's Programming Language article.](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Programming_language)
>A programming language is an artificial language designed to communicate instructions to a machine, particularly a computer. Programming languages can be used to create programs that control the behav... | null | 0 | 1318602755 | False | 0 | c2rg922 | t3_lbs2x | null | t1_c2rg922 | t1_c2rfdf2 | null | 1427731046 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | jangovich | null | Reading, finding new things I did not know about. Feel like I MUST INDEX ALL THINGS now. Not really, but I had this feeling at some point (: | null | 0 | 1318602833 | False | 0 | c2rg9es | t3_layea | null | t1_c2rg9es | t3_layea | null | 1427731051 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | nqzero | null | http://code.google.com/p/netlib-java/
provides:
pure java translation of blas and lapack
jni bindings
i believe it uses a single dimension array | null | 0 | 1318602894 | False | 0 | c2rg9oy | t3_lbx87 | null | t1_c2rg9oy | t3_lbx87 | null | 1427731054 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | axilmar | null | I did not say what I said in my previous post in order to reach this conclusion. I said it in order to prove to you that D requires more upfront knowledge than C++ when a type is designed.
As you can see, when you design a type in D, you have to ask yourself: "do I need a type with value semantics or reference semanti... | null | 0 | 1318602950 | False | 0 | c2rg9zi | t3_kljc0 | null | t1_c2rg9zi | t1_c2rg60g | null | 1427731060 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | suship | null | Thesaurus. | null | 0 | 1318602997 | False | 0 | c2rga7e | t3_lbs2x | null | t1_c2rga7e | t1_c2rg7k9 | null | 1427731061 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | annoymind | null | Why do you think that Opera would starve if Opera was open source? They don't earn money from selling single-user licenses. So what difference would it make?
In my opinion it would have attracted more developers to the webrendering engine (like WebKit now) and that would have resulted in selling more commercial licens... | null | 0 | 1318603095 | False | 0 | c2rgaov | t3_layaf | null | t1_c2rgaov | t1_c2rf7az | null | 1427731067 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | pointy | null | Gee what about `struct` and `union`?
| null | 0 | 1318603156 | False | 0 | c2rgayu | t3_lb1w3 | null | t1_c2rgayu | t1_c2re7k6 | null | 1427731071 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1318603159 | False | 0 | c2rgaz7 | t3_lbx87 | null | t1_c2rgaz7 | t3_lbx87 | null | 1427731072 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Iv8f | null | Upvoted for thruth (And I don't even use Haskell) | null | 0 | 1318603364 | False | 0 | c2rgbze | t3_kos4z | null | t1_c2rgbze | t1_c2m0ybi | null | 1427731158 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | tizz66 | null | [This one?](http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-15287391)
What's wrong with it? | null | 0 | 1318603378 | False | 0 | c2rgc24 | t3_lbs2x | null | t1_c2rgc24 | t1_c2rf9o0 | null | 1427731158 | 11 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | jaybee | null | What was disgusting about it? (I haven't read it.) | null | 0 | 1318603461 | False | 0 | c2rgcg4 | t3_lbs2x | null | t1_c2rgcg4 | t1_c2rf9o0 | null | 1427731164 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | ~~website development~~ development of webservers. | null | 0 | 1318603485 | False | 0 | c2rgcjl | t3_lbs2x | null | t1_c2rgcjl | t1_c2rfp42 | null | 1427731166 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | ethraax | null | The C standard *could* define all behavior, but leaving behaviors undefined really helps the optimizer. This isn't nearly as important for assembly because nobody really expects assembly to be optimized [by the assembler]. But for a language in which optimization is one of its biggest advantages, having undefined beh... | null | 0 | 1318603506 | False | 0 | c2rgcmq | t3_lb1w3 | null | t1_c2rgcmq | t1_c2rf9i1 | null | 1427731166 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | eabrek | null | F2XM1 (x87, ST(0) = (2^ST(0)) - 1) costs less than 100 cycles. It only works on the fractional part of the exponent (ST(0) must be [-1,1]) | null | 0 | 1318603564 | False | 0 | c2rgcws | t3_lbhee | null | t1_c2rgcws | t1_c2rfrhy | null | 1427731170 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | mipadi | null | In what way was Jobs sanctified upon his death? The media reported he died, which makes sense, because, like it or not, he *was* a public figure, and he died somewhat young. After his death, I heard little about it -- from the media, or even Apple fanatics. The only people that have kept discussing his death are the an... | null | 0 | 1318603635 | False | 0 | c2rgd8w | t3_lb7gq | null | t1_c2rgd8w | t1_c2rfz5u | null | 1427731174 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | oddthink | null | Could you elaborate on this a bit more? I don't know how ATLAS works, other than that it's "automatically tuned". EJML seems to have a better data model, with just a flat array as its data store, because it can more easily be extended to APL- or numpy-style tensors or general n-dimensional arrays. Then you can build wh... | null | 0 | 1318603940 | False | 0 | c2rgeoc | t3_lbx87 | null | t1_c2rgeoc | t1_c2rfpu6 | null | 1427731194 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | FeepingCreature | null | Dare you to say "Not Programming". | null | 0 | 1318604009 | False | 0 | c2rgf0q | t3_lbs2x | null | t1_c2rgf0q | t3_lbs2x | null | 1427731198 | 14 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | pietervriesacker | null | Kraken seems very much based on some things that you won't see in most real life web apps (for now, maybe) like image manipulation performance etc, not really something I want to base my current browser choice on. | null | 0 | 1318604025 | False | 0 | c2rgf3e | t3_layaf | null | t1_c2rgf3e | t1_c2reigm | null | 1427731198 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | grelphy | null | That's… frankly ~~kind of~~ *very* insulting. It's the whole "PhDs/MDs aren't *real* doctors" thing (which goes both ways), only now it's picked up and ensconced by the *NYT* of all people. "Doctor" just means "person with a doctorate"; for fuck's sake, don't insult people who went through the work of getting one by pr... | null | 0 | 1318604253 | False | 0 | c2rgg7z | t3_lbs2x | null | t1_c2rgg7z | t1_c2rg3xy | null | 1427731221 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | grelphy | null | He actually has a recommendation. I think it's "GNU slash Linux", though it's been a while since I read that particular rant. | null | 0 | 1318604402 | False | 0 | c2rggxl | t3_lbs2x | null | t1_c2rggxl | t1_c2rg27s | null | 1427731223 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | foxops | null | > Thompson and Ritchie decided to use BCPL to write Unix. To do so they squeezed it into 8 kilobytes and renamed it B. Finally, a new and improved version was developed and named C, which, Ritchie mused, "left open the question whether the name represented a progression through the alphabet or through the letters BC... | null | 0 | 1318604437 | False | 0 | c2rgh40 | t3_lbs2x | null | t1_c2rgh40 | t1_c2rfj0s | null | 1428192363 | 13 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | WalterGR | null | Alpha (pre-alpha?) doesn't necessarily mean feature complete.
EDIT: Also, the line right underneath the heading on the page you linked to is
> [This documentation is for preview only, and is subject to change in later releases. Blank topics are included as placeholders.] | null | 0 | 1318604523 | True | 0 | c2rghil | t3_lbxq9 | null | t1_c2rghil | t1_c2rfly7 | null | 1427731230 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | nixcamic | null | I was joking.... Although if you only have 10 tabs, couldn't you just use option + + the arrow keys to switch between them? | null | 0 | 1318604608 | False | 0 | c2rghy0 | t3_layaf | null | t1_c2rghy0 | t1_c2rf9qe | null | 1427731236 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | thejawzz | null | The comprehensive way to start programming. Read our article about programming, we provide article from beginner to advanced level. | null | 0 | 1318604679 | False | 0 | c2rgib7 | t3_lc3vk | null | t1_c2rgib7 | t3_lc3vk | null | 1427731245 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | borlak | null | I am trying [this example](http://progzoo.net/wiki/C%2B%2B:Read_From_a_Database) and it wont even compile :(
| null | 0 | 1318604801 | False | 0 | c2rgiw7 | t3_latsk | null | t1_c2rgiw7 | t3_latsk | null | 1427731249 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | JL235 | null | Compared to most of the BBC news items that touch on programming and software, that one is actually pretty good. | null | 0 | 1318604814 | False | 0 | c2rgiy7 | t3_lbs2x | null | t1_c2rgiy7 | t1_c2rf9o0 | null | 1427731249 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | JL235 | null | Is it me, or does middle-click scrolling not work on that page, in Firefox? | null | 0 | 1318605002 | True | 0 | c2rgjti | t3_lbsv7 | null | t1_c2rgjti | t3_lbsv7 | null | 1427731260 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | webbitor | null | What's the problem? That's not a complete description of what a programming language is, but it gives people an idea that it's different from German. | null | 0 | 1318605111 | False | 0 | c2rgkcz | t3_lbs2x | null | t1_c2rgkcz | t1_c2recar | null | 1427731267 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | mitcher714 | null | This is an excellent article, very well written, seems almost exciting. | null | 0 | 1318605123 | False | 0 | c2rgkfc | t3_lbs2x | null | t1_c2rgkfc | t1_c2rfj0s | null | 1427731268 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | jimbokun | null | "Besides, it really is a shorthand of words, numbers and punctuation"
No, it's really not. In fact, I have no idea what that phrase even means.
Shorthand for what? | null | 0 | 1318605221 | False | 0 | c2rgkwn | t3_lbs2x | null | t1_c2rgkwn | t1_c2reuv5 | null | 1427731274 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | jimbokun | null | I think your sentence is about equally meaningful as the quote about C. | null | 0 | 1318605254 | False | 0 | c2rgl2k | t3_lbs2x | null | t1_c2rgl2k | t1_c2rf2r4 | null | 1427731276 | -2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | webbitor | null | thats great and also hilarious. | null | 0 | 1318605262 | False | 0 | c2rgl41 | t3_lbs2x | null | t1_c2rgl41 | t1_c2rfzqv | null | 1427731277 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | ogstuart | null | A starting point for explaining how ATLAS works would be this paper: http://www.netlib.org/lapack/lawnspdf/lawn147.pdf
As to n-d arrays, this is something currently under discussion and indeed there are certain use cases when they are very useful. There is no reason why they can't be supported, we just need to get it ... | null | 0 | 1318605309 | False | 0 | c2rgldc | t3_lbx87 | null | t1_c2rgldc | t1_c2rgeoc | null | 1427731279 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | webbitor | null | probably so people don't think they are a medical doctor. | null | 0 | 1318605315 | False | 0 | c2rgled | t3_lbs2x | null | t1_c2rgled | t1_c2rg7dp | null | 1427731281 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | huyvanbin | null | There's a Phillip somewhere in every studio apartment, in every single-bedroom townhouse, in a dusty corner, in an empty lightsocket, among the piles of chipped paint that gather between the windowframes. The Phillips stare out at the rain, at the glaring sun, they witness their human cohabitants follow their routine d... | null | 0 | 1318605467 | False | 0 | c2rgm7b | t3_lbs2x | null | t1_c2rgm7b | t1_c2rfzrn | null | 1427731291 | 19 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Tinidril | null | The Linux kernel does not derive from GNU. Most of the user space utilities come from GNU, but not the kernel. The only real contribution GNU makes to the kernel is that it is typically compiled by GCC. | null | 0 | 1318605470 | False | 0 | c2rgm7r | t3_lbs2x | null | t1_c2rgm7r | t1_c2rg5u6 | null | 1427731291 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | foldor | null | I assume being a Dr. Girlfriend this would offend you? | null | 0 | 1318605490 | False | 0 | c2rgmbl | t3_lbs2x | null | t1_c2rgmbl | t1_c2rfju3 | null | 1427731293 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
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