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True | xenu99 | null | I can't use google for anything as a base, since everything is always in beta and they kill it off. Same thing happened with their search API. Like the [rant](http://steverant.pen.io/) that was released this week, google does not understand platforms. | null | 0 | 1318625327 | True | 0 | c2rjlvm | t3_lca6k | null | t1_c2rjlvm | t1_c2rijdh | null | 1427732707 | 12 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | xenu99 | null | >why
ROI | null | 0 | 1318625414 | False | 0 | c2rjmdt | t3_lca6k | null | t1_c2rjmdt | t1_c2rj98g | null | 1427732712 | 10 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | yogthos | null | I think the biggest problem with Lisp is marketing, Ruby and Python communities are really good at marketing their languages and making it really easy for people to get into them. On top of that these languages have syntax that's similar to what the person might already be used to.
Since most people don't need the pow... | null | 0 | 1318625674 | False | 0 | c2rjnsy | t3_lc3ae | null | t1_c2rjnsy | t1_c2ripuq | null | 1427732740 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | yuhong | null | Wonder if it says something about MS's corporate culture, particularly putting process over people. | null | 0 | 1318625679 | False | 0 | c2rjnu5 | t3_lchhd | null | t1_c2rjnu5 | t3_lchhd | null | 1427732740 | -7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | HardwareLust | null | "Do no evil" has now morphed into "Make more money". The Google we knew and loved is just about dead and gone now. | null | 0 | 1318625739 | False | 0 | c2rjo4z | t3_lca6k | null | t1_c2rjo4z | t3_lca6k | null | 1428192305 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | schwiz | null | fuck! Kills the most useful and productive chrome plugin for android development. | null | 0 | 1318625744 | False | 0 | c2rjo62 | t3_lca6k | null | t1_c2rjo62 | t3_lca6k | null | 1428192305 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | TaxExempt | null | I miss Google sets. | null | 0 | 1318626067 | False | 0 | c2rjpua | t3_lca6k | null | t1_c2rjpua | t1_c2rii4r | null | 1427732769 | 8 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | ejp1082 | null | I never understood why they killed Google Notebook rather than fold it into Google Docs. On the bright side there's enough other products out there that do the same thing (ie, Evernote) so I don't exactly miss it. I just think it's really strange how they handled that one. | null | 0 | 1318626072 | False | 0 | c2rjpux | t3_lca6k | null | t1_c2rjpux | t1_c2rinfb | null | 1427732769 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | SuperGrade | null | Marketing of such things can be better studied looking at (otherwise unrelated) C#.
The progression of features added to C# is generally predictable. But they knew their target audience in letting them out.
I know of workplaces where C#3's "var" is banned. Why? Unfamiliarity, eyes that have been looking at a certa... | null | 0 | 1318626128 | False | 0 | c2rjq5o | t3_lc3ae | null | t1_c2rjq5o | t1_c2rjnsy | null | 1427732773 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | RobotBuddha | null | And when they do integrate things, it seems to take an eternity. | null | 0 | 1318626132 | False | 0 | c2rjq6c | t3_lca6k | null | t1_c2rjq6c | t1_c2rirdn | null | 1427732773 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Taladar | null | Also, proprietary applications. | null | 0 | 1318626207 | False | 0 | c2rjqjm | t3_lca6k | null | t1_c2rjqjm | t1_c2rjdi2 | null | 1427732776 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | SuperGrade | null | Clojure's appealing to a different audience and pulling them in. A lot of arbitrary choices built in there, I use the trie/const hashtable in CL it's not necessarily something to be built in, and in CL you can "use up" the syntax for those object literals, it's just not something dictated by the core language.
Other ... | null | 0 | 1318626291 | False | 0 | c2rjqyn | t3_lc3ae | null | t1_c2rjqyn | t1_c2rjnsy | null | 1427732781 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | check3streets | null | This is where Google gets to cash-in on those economies of scale. Codesearch is a rounding error, but developer goodwill is money. The success of Android as a platform largely depends on consumer and developer goodwill.
For example...
http://www.businessinsider.com/smartphone-survey-results-2011-4?op=1
... I believ... | null | 0 | 1318626306 | False | 0 | c2rjr1d | t3_lca6k | null | t1_c2rjr1d | t1_c2riqvl | null | 1427732781 | 33 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | RobotBuddha | null | I think a big lesson with google at this point is that one shouldn't make use of any of their services that store data until they provide a way of exporting it. There's just too much chance of it getting shut down. | null | 0 | 1318626317 | False | 0 | c2rjr3g | t3_lca6k | null | t1_c2rjr3g | t1_c2rii4r | null | 1427732782 | 11 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | webbitor | null | Considering what they did with Buzz, thank fucking god they aren't integrating Google plus into gmail. Some of us don't want every damn service they have on one screen .
| null | 0 | 1318626402 | True | 0 | c2rjrhx | t3_lca6k | null | t1_c2rjrhx | t1_c2rirdn | null | 1427732784 | 14 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | TFS? *Ctrl-W* | null | 0 | 1318626414 | False | 0 | c2rjrk1 | t3_lbywd | null | t1_c2rjrk1 | t3_lbywd | null | 1427732786 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | jaggederest | null | A majority of their effort is going to shaving pennies on advertising response rates and things like that. Pretty disappointing. | null | 0 | 1318626481 | False | 0 | c2rjrx5 | t3_lca6k | null | t1_c2rjrx5 | t1_c2riyqm | null | 1427732789 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1318626497 | False | 0 | c2rjrzx | t3_lca6k | null | t1_c2rjrzx | t3_lca6k | null | 1427732791 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | wlievens | null | That's not "disgusting", just "not as accurate as it should be". Journalists suck at tech reporting, we should actually be happy they get anything right at all :) | null | 0 | 1318626535 | False | 0 | c2rjs6x | t3_lbs2x | null | t1_c2rjs6x | t1_c2rj1ur | null | 1427732791 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | merreborn | null | > Well, you have to think about the money side of this. Google is shoveling millions upon millions of dollars into products with no business-plan and no revenue. At some point these products have to be monetized or dumped. It's just a basic fact of life.
Only if you're a nearsighted bean counter. Money can't buy "... | null | 0 | 1318626564 | True | 0 | c2rjsc0 | t3_lca6k | null | t1_c2rjsc0 | t1_c2riqvl | null | 1427732794 | 22 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1318626580 | False | 0 | c2rjses | t3_lca6k | null | t1_c2rjses | t3_lca6k | null | 1427732794 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1318626606 | False | 0 | c2rjsj1 | t3_lc2q0 | null | t1_c2rjsj1 | t3_lc2q0 | null | 1427732797 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | yogthos | null | I definitely agree that there needs to be a friendly Lisp IDE for beginner to intermediate developers. It's difficult enough learning a whole new language, that's not simply a bunch of syntax sugar for what you already know. Learning a whole new archaic IDE to use it is just too much for most people.
People curious ab... | null | 0 | 1318626618 | False | 0 | c2rjslf | t3_lc3ae | null | t1_c2rjslf | t1_c2rj1mh | null | 1427732797 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | you_do_realize | null | That would make sense. Steve Yegge was talking about a massive thing to index all code internally at google. | null | 0 | 1318626619 | False | 0 | c2rjsll | t3_lca6k | null | t1_c2rjsll | t1_c2riwep | null | 1427732797 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | Pretty di$appointing indeed | null | 0 | 1318626674 | False | 0 | c2rjsvw | t3_lca6k | null | t1_c2rjsvw | t1_c2rjrx5 | null | 1427732800 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | wlievens | null | How about "The C programming language, a language used to build computer programs, is still widely used today." | null | 0 | 1318626683 | False | 0 | c2rjsxj | t3_lbs2x | null | t1_c2rjsxj | t1_c2rgup1 | null | 1427732800 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | comment-dwim | null | There is [a service](http://www.google.com/takeout) to export the data of a given account. No idea of which Google services are covered by it though. | null | 0 | 1318626708 | False | 0 | c2rjt1v | t3_lca6k | null | t1_c2rjt1v | t1_c2rjr3g | null | 1427732799 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | wlievens | null | [obligatory perl ftfy remark] | null | 0 | 1318626734 | False | 0 | c2rjt65 | t3_lbs2x | null | t1_c2rjt65 | t1_c2rh4yc | null | 1427732802 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | skelterjohn | null | Just because something is built in doesn't mean it's free... | null | 0 | 1318626773 | False | 0 | c2rjtdu | t3_kz98v | null | t1_c2rjtdu | t1_c2rjj33 | null | 1427732802 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Tossrock | null | Um... what? Those variables are all undeclared and meaningless. | null | 0 | 1318626868 | False | 0 | c2rjtu1 | t3_lbs2x | null | t1_c2rjtu1 | t1_c2rhm35 | null | 1427732808 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | chmod666 | null | Worth any money. Microsoft Natural 4000 is pretty cheap and it has done wonders to my sore wrists and thumbs. | null | 0 | 1318626869 | False | 0 | c2rjtu7 | t3_l1nx0 | null | t1_c2rjtu7 | t1_c2pluig | null | 1427732808 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | It's why I think more companies should fail more often. It always seems to happen in the same way, company A comes out with awesome services or products, gets a lot of investors, things go on like this for a while, then the investors start demanding more money, more dividends, more growth and prices increase, services ... | null | 0 | 1318626909 | False | 0 | c2rju1r | t3_lca6k | null | t1_c2rju1r | t1_c2rjgrh | null | 1427732809 | 26 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | WRXRated | null | I don't have enough rep on stack over flow so I'll post it here.
Avoid goto's or if-else blocks during init!
bool Init()
{
bool bReturn = false;
do
{
if (InitSubSystem() == false)
{
break;
}
if (condition == false)
{
break;
}
//
// all init conditions passed
... | null | 0 | 1318626914 | False | 0 | c2rju2v | t3_lc090 | null | t1_c2rju2v | t3_lc090 | null | 1427732820 | -8 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | jaggederest | null | As a shareholder, I find it disappointing because the return on investment is relatively small. I'd rather they be finding a market that isn't search advertising and only search advertising. Grinding out fractions of a cent in advertising is something I picture Microsoft doing, and they haven't grown in years. | null | 0 | 1318626932 | False | 0 | c2rju5v | t3_lca6k | null | t1_c2rju5v | t1_c2rjsvw | null | 1427732811 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | yogthos | null | I think the advantage is in familiarity and a low learning curve. To somebody who's only used Eclipse or Visual Studio, Emacs is completely alien. Learning to be productive in Emacs is no small task for most people.
So, faced with learning a new language and having to learn a completely new IDE to use it, most people... | null | 0 | 1318626944 | False | 0 | c2rju7u | t3_lc3ae | null | t1_c2rju7u | t1_c2rincl | null | 1427732812 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | bixsciurus | null | They're definitely not winning over users with their authoritarian views on pseudonyms. | null | 0 | 1318627136 | False | 0 | c2rjv61 | t3_lca6k | null | t1_c2rjv61 | t1_c2rirr6 | null | 1427732825 | 13 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | and3kk | null | I wonder when they kill Google search | null | 0 | 1318627192 | False | 0 | c2rjvgv | t3_lca6k | null | t1_c2rjvgv | t3_lca6k | null | 1427732828 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | yogthos | null | That's really not what I was saying, and this bickering in the Lisp community about which Lisp is the one true Lisp is part of the problem in my opinion.
In no way do I think Clojure is a replacement for CL, but what it does provide is a way for people to get their shit done, and it's **enjoyable** to use.
Once som... | null | 0 | 1318627248 | False | 0 | c2rjvr3 | t3_lc3ae | null | t1_c2rjvr3 | t1_c2rjqyn | null | 1427732834 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | roger_ | null | I wish I hadn't started using Google Talk, they haven't updated their Windows client in over two years :(
Glad I never bothered with Desktop, Buzz or G+. | null | 0 | 1318627336 | False | 0 | c2rjw7m | t3_lca6k | null | t1_c2rjw7m | t1_c2rijdh | null | 1427732836 | 12 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | jmelesky | null | Hm. I'd say macros are far more important from a linguistic standpoint. That's assuming we're talking about the family, rather than any specific lisp.
If we want to talk about specifics, i'd also say that Common Lisp's condition system is far superior to any exception system i've seen since. | null | 0 | 1318627345 | False | 0 | c2rjw96 | t3_lc3ae | null | t1_c2rjw96 | t1_c2ri8pt | null | 1427732836 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | what-the-what-what | null | For Java I use grepcode.com | null | 0 | 1318627497 | False | 0 | c2rjx1r | t3_lca6k | null | t1_c2rjx1r | t3_lca6k | null | 1427732847 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | vsuontam | null | Please do report back if you test it. | null | 0 | 1318627562 | False | 0 | c2rjxfj | t3_lbalr | null | t1_c2rjxfj | t1_c2ref52 | null | 1427732851 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | yogthos | null | There's two main obstacles in my opinion, first the developers have to be fairly open minded to consider using Lisp, second the management has to trust the developers enough to let them make that choice.
In my case I lobbied for 2 year, before using Clojure for small and low risk projects became a consideration. I spe... | null | 0 | 1318627627 | False | 0 | c2rjxrn | t3_lc3ae | null | t1_c2rjxrn | t1_c2rjq5o | null | 1427732856 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | NoahFect | null | Yes, if something doesn't yield ROI within the next fiscal quarter or two, we'd better shut it down. I can see your logic. | null | 0 | 1318627629 | False | 0 | c2rjxs5 | t3_lca6k | null | t1_c2rjxs5 | t1_c2rjmdt | null | 1427732856 | -2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | rabootcha | null | Perhaps that's the focus they're talking about. | null | 0 | 1318627638 | False | 0 | c2rjxu1 | t3_lca6k | null | t1_c2rjxu1 | t1_c2rilte | null | 1427732857 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | FlyingBishop | null | You can write a regexp with exactly the same meaning an infinite number of ways. It's impossible to cache that kind of complexity. | null | 0 | 1318627681 | False | 0 | c2rjy3c | t3_lca6k | null | t1_c2rjy3c | t1_c2rjfuu | null | 1427732860 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | kamatsu | null | I was actually thinking of using your join/meet subtyping scheme (can't remember what it was called) to type a dynamically typed language. If I ever get around to doing so, I might publish a paper on it and cite you :P | null | 0 | 1318627714 | False | 0 | c2rjy8i | t3_laqb0 | null | t1_c2rjy8i | t1_c2rikha | null | 1427732862 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | titirico | null | "Colleagues who worked with Mr. Ritchie were struck by his code — meticulous, clean and concise"
Would love to see some of Mr. Ritchie's code, anyone know where? | null | 0 | 1318627886 | False | 0 | c2rjz2a | t3_lbs2x | null | t1_c2rjz2a | t3_lbs2x | null | 1427732872 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | kosmotron | null | Fuck. I use the University Research Program for Google Search in part of my dissertation research. Nice way to kick off the weekend. | null | 0 | 1318627916 | False | 0 | c2rjz83 | t3_lca6k | null | t1_c2rjz83 | t3_lca6k | null | 1427732875 | 10 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | wadcann | null | >It's becoming harder and harder to trust Google with anything.
I don't use Code Search, and I'm not familiar with how it works, so maybe I'm just confused, but what is your cost here? I mean, AFAIK it's not a platform that you write to. Maybe you created some sort of workflow that depended upon its presence, but... | null | 0 | 1318628065 | False | 0 | c2rjzys | t3_lca6k | null | t1_c2rjzys | t1_c2rijdh | null | 1427732884 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | 0xABADC0DA | null | I never said it would be free, but it would certainly have less cost by all those things I mentioned. | null | 0 | 1318628149 | False | 0 | c2rk0cg | t3_kz98v | null | t1_c2rk0cg | t1_c2rjtdu | null | 1427732889 | -1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Unmitigated_Smut | null | Upvoted for apparently being the only person who actually read the post.
With skills like this, you might be well-suited to a career in maintenance programming :) | null | 0 | 1318628258 | False | 0 | c2rk0w5 | t3_lc36g | null | t1_c2rk0w5 | t1_c2riiic | null | 1427732896 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | skolor | null | Sure, but a lot of them are going to be written the same way. For example, you could easily cache:
ipv(6|4)
which I'm pretty sure gets search fairly frequently. I wasn't trying to suggest that it would make sense to cache every single search, but there's a few that probably get entered orders of magnitude more of... | null | 0 | 1318628306 | False | 0 | c2rk14x | t3_lca6k | null | t1_c2rk14x | t1_c2rjy3c | null | 1427732899 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | powercow | null | Someone else will fill the void if their is demand, which their appears to be.
Something doesnt quite make sense though. Everything else on that list is being canceled because google offers what they consider, a better alternative. It is hard for me to see them driving away customers over trying to move them onto some... | null | 0 | 1318628313 | False | 0 | c2rk16b | t3_lca6k | null | t1_c2rk16b | t3_lca6k | null | 1427732900 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | bradfitz | null | FWIW, I and others argued for the "good PR for programmers" angle. But by the time I heard it was probably too late and the decision had been made. :-/ | null | 0 | 1318628386 | False | 0 | c2rk1iu | t3_lca6k | null | t1_c2rk1iu | t1_c2rigqs | null | 1427732904 | 53 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | sugardeath | null | They really really need push out integration of Google Calendar and Google Plus. At this moment, g+ has no alternative for facebook's events system, and I think that is a serious problem. It's really easy on facebook to set up an event and invite people. We should be able to do that on g+ as well, and have everythin... | null | 0 | 1318628487 | False | 0 | c2rk20l | t3_lca6k | null | t1_c2rk20l | t1_c2rirdn | null | 1427732912 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | flavor8 | null | Maps makes money. | null | 0 | 1318628520 | False | 0 | c2rk263 | t3_lca6k | null | t1_c2rk263 | t1_c2rjhhs | null | 1427732913 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1318628623 | False | 0 | c2rk2py | t3_lc3ae | null | t1_c2rk2py | t1_c2rgvqa | null | 1427732921 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | annoymind | null | > Open Source projects typically require bigger teams, more resources, to remain up to date and relevant.
How's that? And how much bigger?
How is the position of Opera different to the position of Mozilla due to Mozilla being open source? Except for the fact that Firefox is 25-30% and Opera is less than 3% market ... | null | 0 | 1318628760 | False | 0 | c2rk3ed | t3_layaf | null | t1_c2rk3ed | t1_c2rje03 | null | 1427732930 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | acecool | null | >I definitely agree that there needs to be a friendly Lisp IDE for beginner to intermediate developers.
There have been attempts at making emacs easier, like: [emacs-starter-ket](https://github.com/ramen/emacs-starter-kit). There is also [Aquamacs](http://aquamacs.org/) for the Mac | null | 0 | 1318628767 | True | 0 | c2rk3ft | t3_lc3ae | null | t1_c2rk3ft | t1_c2rjslf | null | 1427732930 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | That's good to know. Thanks for educating me :) | null | 0 | 1318628936 | False | 0 | c2rk47x | t3_l81mh | null | t1_c2rk47x | t1_c2rjef1 | null | 1427732940 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | haXeNinja | null | a fellow haXer just put up this site http://www.haxejs.org/ a few days ago starting with a very little bit of content. we're all excited to grow it. | null | 0 | 1318628971 | False | 0 | c2rk4d1 | t3_l7wry | null | t1_c2rk4d1 | t1_c2r4b5a | null | 1427732942 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | 0xABADC0DA | null | > shaving pennies
G¢¢gle is the new M$. | null | 0 | 1318628981 | False | 0 | c2rk4gf | t3_lca6k | null | t1_c2rk4gf | t1_c2rjrx5 | null | 1427732943 | 16 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | I interviewed RMS once, back in May of 2007. At the time, he was saying GNU/Linux. I haven't really kept up on the Free Software Movement since then. Frankly, I think he shot himself in the foot one too many times, and the movement will die along with him.
Whether that's a good or bad thing is a topic of debate, but I... | null | 0 | 1318628993 | False | 0 | c2rk4ii | t3_lbs2x | null | t1_c2rk4ii | t1_c2rg27s | null | 1427732944 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | tmhrtly | null | Unlikely, code searching isn't normally something I want to do socially :P
And if it was, why not wait till the app was launched to shut it down? | null | 0 | 1318629000 | False | 0 | c2rk4jq | t3_lca6k | null | t1_c2rk4jq | t1_c2rj13p | null | 1427732945 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | skelterjohn | null | So when you said "none of that applies", you really meant "all of this still applies"? Except the two lines (instead of one line, I guess).
> created three heap objects
Well, you have to keep track of the timeout *somewhere*...a good escape analysis (certainly way better than go's current state) could do better, t... | null | 0 | 1318629112 | False | 0 | c2rk53v | t3_kz98v | null | t1_c2rk53v | t1_c2rk0cg | null | 1427732952 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | **Idea for Google**: Open source it. You don't want it anymore, so we'll have it :) | null | 0 | 1318629200 | False | 0 | c2rk5j7 | t3_lca6k | null | t1_c2rk5j7 | t1_c2rieva | null | 1427732957 | 32 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | gigantor8 | null | man that really bites | null | 0 | 1318629226 | False | 0 | c2rk5na | t3_lca6k | null | t1_c2rk5na | t3_lca6k | null | 1427732959 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | webauteur | null | Getting something to compile is my favorite C programming trick. | null | 0 | 1318629263 | False | 0 | c2rk5tm | t3_lc090 | null | t1_c2rk5tm | t3_lc090 | null | 1427732961 | 9 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | Is there any reason google docs will go away? I like the calendar, and have some spreadsheets on there that are pretty cool. Am I dumb for using these in a professional setting? | null | 0 | 1318629422 | False | 0 | c2rk6l2 | t3_lca6k | null | t1_c2rk6l2 | t3_lca6k | null | 1427732972 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Nebu | null | By that logic, any programming language which allows for programmers to add comments are worse than programming languages which disallow comments, because if the comments are wrong in some place, this will actually mislead the developer, producing something worse than just undocumented code. | null | 0 | 1318629593 | False | 0 | c2rk7fn | t3_l9v2n | null | t1_c2rk7fn | t1_c2ridmg | null | 1427732982 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | file-exists-p | null | What is a good solution for a cheap vps ?
| null | 0 | 1318629619 | False | 0 | c2rk7jn | t3_lca6k | null | t1_c2rk7jn | t1_c2rjiu9 | null | 1427732983 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | kds71 | null | Why care about client? Google Talk is just a jabber, so you can use any client you want. Even Google has [a list of alternative clients](http://www.google.com/talk/otherclients.html). | null | 0 | 1318629676 | False | 0 | c2rk7tw | t3_lca6k | null | t1_c2rk7tw | t1_c2rjw7m | null | 1427732987 | 23 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | 0xABADC0DA | null | > doesNotUnderstand is implemented in the VM but I don't think it's in the compiler yet. It's coming, along with a reflection system.
Good news. It wasn't mentioned anywhere I could find.
> Eventually, it should be faster than JS VMs will ever be (especially in startup perf), but yes, it will be in the dynamic... | null | 0 | 1318629767 | False | 0 | c2rk88t | t3_la9ma | null | t1_c2rk88t | t1_c2rg61q | null | 1427732992 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | quotability | null | Yea, the windows client doesn't even do video. The android client doesn't let you copy text (say if you want to translate). For the web client, you have to install google video support, but apparently it just uses flash for video anyways. | null | 0 | 1318629805 | False | 0 | c2rk8fe | t3_lca6k | null | t1_c2rk8fe | t1_c2rjw7m | null | 1427732995 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | roger_ | null | I like the client program itself, but it has bugs and needs maintenance. | null | 0 | 1318629815 | False | 0 | c2rk8h1 | t3_lca6k | null | t1_c2rk8h1 | t1_c2rk7tw | null | 1427732995 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | aaaxxxlll | null | > no one can explain why it is better
(1) Well sometimes it's not, because noone's ever going to notice, ever. For example if the most popular page of a site/application (homepage/splash page) is poorly written and crashes frequently everyone's going to notice. If it's an obscure page/feature that only some users ... | null | 0 | 1318629839 | False | 0 | c2rk8lj | t3_lbv9c | null | t1_c2rk8lj | t1_c2rh8z8 | null | 1427732997 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | acecool | null | >To be more specific, Lisp isn't any worse at text processing than other languages.
Id say that Lisp is quite a lot better than using regular expressions in that there is no way to check that regular expressions will correctly handle strings like you can using char and string functions in a programming language | null | 0 | 1318629862 | False | 0 | c2rk8ox | t3_lc3ae | null | t1_c2rk8ox | t1_c2ri0qo | null | 1427732998 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | avecbells | null | Not indexed but written specially for Google's code search.
http://swtch.com/~rsc/regexp/regexp3.html | null | 0 | 1318630012 | False | 0 | c2rk9cs | t3_lca6k | null | t1_c2rk9cs | t1_c2rjcm9 | null | 1427733008 | 11 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | exizt | null | How would a left-outer-join work here? I'm sorry if it's a stupid question; I'm quite new at this. | null | 0 | 1318630014 | False | 0 | c2rk9d8 | t3_lb6m3 | null | t1_c2rk9d8 | t1_c2rdvog | null | 1427733008 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | atlacatl | null | WHAT? Buzz is shutting down. This is an outrage. | null | 0 | 1318630371 | False | 0 | c2rkb2s | t3_lca6k | null | t1_c2rkb2s | t3_lca6k | null | 1427733030 | 8 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | acecool | null | >Why should I learn to unicycle when my bicycle gets me where I need to go?
there is more too emacs than its functionality in text and file handling. In Steve Yegge's [dynamic language talk](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tz-Bb-D6teE) he refers to emacs as being the "perfect lisp machine" refering to the old purpo... | null | 0 | 1318630463 | False | 0 | c2rkbie | t3_lc3ae | null | t1_c2rkbie | t1_c2rj1mh | null | 1427733036 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Iv8f | null | Some are listed on the [lowendbox](http://www.lowendbox.com/). If you don't need much ram, storage and bandwidth you can get them for less than 5$ / month. | null | 0 | 1318630506 | False | 0 | c2rkbpi | t3_lca6k | null | t1_c2rkbpi | t1_c2rk7jn | null | 1427733038 | 8 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | wadcann | null | I'm not sure what you'd call a "trick" and what just an ordinary practice. If it's something that wasn't immediately obvious to me when learning the language, I think coding in terms of modules, with [opaque pointers](https://secure.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/wiki/Opaque_pointer):
=== foo.h
struct foo *foo_c... | null | 0 | 1318630569 | True | 0 | c2rkc15 | t3_lc090 | null | t1_c2rkc15 | t3_lc090 | null | 1427733043 | 16 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | rizzen93 | null | Yeah, I still find myself struggling with this one all the time... Don't think I've ever written something in C that compiled first try. | null | 0 | 1318630596 | False | 0 | c2rkc5j | t3_lc090 | null | t1_c2rkc5j | t1_c2rk5tm | null | 1427733044 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | kamatsu | null | My first language was scheme - so Lisp to me has always seemed very ho-hum. I can see how it expands the minds of others, but I never really felt amazed by the power of Lisp.
Haskell, and then later Agda, were the only two mind-fuck languages for me, and I know a lot of languages. | null | 0 | 1318630607 | False | 0 | c2rkc77 | t3_lc3ae | null | t1_c2rkc77 | t3_lc3ae | null | 1427733045 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | otterdam | null | It must be worth something if it's being advertised all over London. | null | 0 | 1318630623 | False | 0 | c2rkca3 | t3_lca6k | null | t1_c2rkca3 | t1_c2rk263 | null | 1427733046 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | nofear220 | null | Something is better than nothing I guess | null | 0 | 1318630742 | False | 0 | c2rkcup | t3_lca6k | null | t1_c2rkcup | t1_c2rihf1 | null | 1427733053 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | file-exists-p | null | Thanks. This is exactly what I was looking for.
| null | 0 | 1318630750 | False | 0 | c2rkcw6 | t3_lca6k | null | t1_c2rkcw6 | t1_c2rkbpi | null | 1427733054 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | Personally I prefer http://www.linode.com/
I like their documentation (though really you can browse it without an account and use it along side any host) and I've used them for about a year I believe and I haven't had a problem yet and that's with the cheapest package.
My site is no where near optimised as it should ... | null | 0 | 1318630895 | False | 0 | c2rkdl3 | t3_lca6k | null | t1_c2rkdl3 | t1_c2rk7jn | null | 1427733063 | 16 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Taladar | null | Regular expressions are also a lot less composable and resusable than functions in Lisp. | null | 0 | 1318631112 | False | 0 | c2rkekx | t3_lc3ae | null | t1_c2rkekx | t1_c2rk8ox | null | 1427733076 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | RX_AssocResp | null | Yeah, and the only comprehensive search engine that had regex, which was super-nifty many times. | null | 0 | 1318631137 | False | 0 | c2rkep6 | t3_lca6k | null | t1_c2rkep6 | t1_c2rieva | null | 1427733077 | 30 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | quotability | null | http://www.beaconequity.com/smw/13372/Google-Delivers-Strong-Q3-Results-Shares-Jump-in-After-Hours-Trading-GOOG-
Gee, just a day after their Q3 results comes out, they announce this. Could it be that they want these to show as writeoffs in their Q4 and thus it will make their numbers look better for their FY 2012 resu... | null | 0 | 1318631189 | False | 0 | c2rkexc | t3_lca6k | null | t1_c2rkexc | t1_c2rjxs5 | null | 1427733080 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | SingularityNow | null | The nice thing about Google Talk is that it uses the Jabber protocol, so you can just pick your favorite all-in-one chat client to handle it for you.
Honestly that is probably what they expect you to do. | null | 0 | 1318631364 | False | 0 | c2rkfr3 | t3_lca6k | null | t1_c2rkfr3 | t1_c2rjw7m | null | 1427733091 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | Nobody used any of those. | null | 0 | 1318631494 | False | 0 | c2rkgc6 | t3_lca6k | null | t1_c2rkgc6 | t1_c2rii4r | null | 1427733098 | -6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | richiejp | null | I've learned scheme and I am now learning Common Lisp. I know a number of other languages that are non-lisp like and use them in my day job as well as in my hobby projects. Lisp is superior* to all of them in allowing you to easily build arbitrary abstractions into the semantics and syntax of the language.
It is easy... | null | 0 | 1318631556 | False | 0 | c2rkgme | t3_lc3ae | null | t1_c2rkgme | t3_lc3ae | null | 1427733102 | 9 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | awj | null | ...wow, that was one lame joke. | null | 0 | 1318631715 | False | 0 | c2rkhc7 | t3_lbv9c | null | t1_c2rkhc7 | t1_c2ri80c | null | 1427733111 | -1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Wibblesworth | null | I suspect it relies heavily on other parts of Google infrastructure that they wouldn't want to open source. | null | 0 | 1318631775 | False | 0 | c2rkhmi | t3_lca6k | null | t1_c2rkhmi | t1_c2rk5j7 | null | 1427733116 | 83 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | ..and useful for those who have mastered the "art." | null | 0 | 1318631795 | False | 0 | c2rkhq2 | t3_lca6k | null | t1_c2rkhq2 | t1_c2rkep6 | null | 1427733117 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | TheSuperficial | null | Also guaranteed to make your fellow programmers rage.
Remember the quote: "Code as if the next guy to maintain your code is a homicidal maniac who knows where you live." | null | 0 | 1318631895 | False | 0 | c2rki64 | t3_lc090 | null | t1_c2rki64 | t1_c2rhclz | null | 1427733123 | 8 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
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