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True | walker2011 | null | So glad to see this! I'm living this right now, as I'm 30 and just finished the free stanford course on itunes for cs106a. Spent my undergrad in music education, taught music a few years, and then moved into a new role doing technology integration at a middle school. Typically, I work with teachers on better using tech... | null | 0 | 1318868746 | False | 0 | c2s6n0f | t3_lf038 | null | t1_c2s6n0f | t3_lf038 | null | 1427743782 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | vagif | null | Dependency injection (just like many other design patterns) is useful and applicable only to OO programming. Especially with objects that cannot be instantiated to usable initial state via constructors and have to be manually set "properly", and of course nested object instantiations.
But outside of OO (clojure, haske... | null | 0 | 1318868751 | True | 0 | c2s6n1o | t3_lf1px | null | t1_c2s6n1o | t3_lf1px | null | 1428192231 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Boko_ | null | Something to note: New things will usually seem daunting, but don't let it discourage you.. you don't magically learn things the first time you look at them. Some aspects of programming will be easy and you'll learn them in minutes, other aspects might take a couple weeks to get used to.
(I remember starting C++ and c... | null | 0 | 1318868756 | False | 0 | c2s6n2f | t3_lf038 | null | t1_c2s6n2f | t1_c2s60vw | null | 1428192232 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | FlySwat | null | That works for a trivial example, however the real power comes in when each dependency also has many dependencies. The only object I explicitly request from the DI framework is a controller. Everything else (repositories, services, cache providers,session providers, loggers etc) are spun up by automatically walking the... | null | 0 | 1318868932 | False | 0 | c2s6o1b | t3_lf1px | null | t1_c2s6o1b | t1_c2s6gdm | null | 1427743794 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | fmihaly | null | You are right. Your second example is more readable to me. Unfortunately, people with less_than_perfect_vision (there_are_many, with problems_seeing even_with_glasses, I_mean) have serious_difficulty reading _large_amounts_of_code written in_this_style. | null | 0 | 1318869007 | False | 0 | c2s6ofm | t3_lf2w2 | null | t1_c2s6ofm | t1_c2s5ykl | null | 1427743800 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | sketerpot | null | Actually, designing circuit boards is something you can do without formal education in electrical engineering. If you know basic circuits, and you know what the parts do, then there's a lot you can realistically hack together. It's fun! | null | 0 | 1318869031 | False | 0 | c2s6oka | t3_lf038 | null | t1_c2s6oka | t1_c2s60cp | null | 1427743811 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | winterkoninkje | null | Python has them, la. Ruby too. But Perl doesn't. Bash doesn't. Bourne shell doesn't. LaTeX doesn't. Awk doesn't. I'm not sure if Sed allows user-defined functions, so that one's hard to check. I can't get Lua to give me a stack trace, though the internet says it can.
So that's, what?, 2.5 out of the 8--9 languages I c... | null | 0 | 1318869217 | True | 0 | c2s6plt | t3_lde7w | null | t1_c2s6plt | t1_c2s3gkz | null | 1427743821 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Benutzername | null | It has [this](http://www.shenlanguage.org/Documentation/Types/sequent.calculus.htm), but I don't see any way to define indexed or parametrised types. And even if that were possible, the language allows for unchecked recursion and is therefore logically inconsistent:
\* uninhabited type *\
(datatype bottom)
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True | StrangeWill | null | Sucker for punishment.
To be honest though: if you start with C and become good with it you'll be really far ahead with understanding the underlying workings of your programs. The only problem is you set the bar really high for a first language. | null | 0 | 1318869336 | False | 0 | c2s6q8o | t3_lf038 | null | t1_c2s6q8o | t1_c2s6dll | null | 1427743833 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | Yea, it totally does. Different languages have different advantages and disadvantages, and the level of complexity between them can vary greatly. If you are highly mathematically intuitive, a functional language might be more fun to start with.
My college teaches java to beginners, and it is a fucking mess. Just that... | null | 0 | 1318869418 | False | 0 | c2s6qpo | t3_lf038 | null | t1_c2s6qpo | t1_c2s6gxv | null | 1427743839 | 15 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | AjaxtheGoat | null | Sorry but the article is about programmers, did you read it?
| null | 0 | 1318869619 | False | 0 | c2s6rvh | t3_lf7ip | null | t1_c2s6rvh | t1_c2s6een | null | 1427743859 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | okmijnuhb1 | null | I'm 23 now and currently teaching myself how to program and this article gives me hope. Thanks OP. | null | 0 | 1318869656 | False | 0 | c2s6s39 | t3_lf038 | null | t1_c2s6s39 | t3_lf038 | null | 1427743859 | 12 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | > with it you can create things that millions of people see
this analogy is airtight | null | 0 | 1318870004 | False | 0 | c2s6u4c | t3_lf038 | null | t1_c2s6u4c | t1_c2s5ig1 | null | 1427743877 | 8 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | workrelatedaccount | null | I know Javascript fairly well, and I'm currently learning Java and PHP. I'd say I'm pretty mathematically intuitive, what functional language would you recommend I check out? I'm mostly interested in web development, but I'm into learning anything. | null | 0 | 1318870064 | False | 0 | c2s6ug2 | t3_lf038 | null | t1_c2s6ug2 | t1_c2s6qpo | null | 1427743882 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | kmmeerts | null | Is it bad that I spell colour as colour? | null | 0 | 1318870078 | False | 0 | c2s6uj3 | t3_lf2w2 | null | t1_c2s6uj3 | t3_lf2w2 | null | 1427743883 | 8 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | NoxiousNick | null | My college is teaching CS150 with C++. I know it's an important to know language, but I really wish they had started with Python. We're using C++ to learn basic programming concepts, things like logic and math functions, and I've taught myself with Python, C#, and a little C++ over the last couple years. I gotta say, C... | null | 0 | 1318870441 | False | 0 | c2s6wlv | t3_lf038 | null | t1_c2s6wlv | t1_c2s6qpo | null | 1427743909 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | ezyang | null | I'll note that the original Haskell code uses lists, so unless the original author took some time to make sure his code fused (which I don't think he did) the order of magnitude performance difference (excluding algorithmic changes) is not too surprising, IMO. | null | 0 | 1318870536 | False | 0 | c2s6x6l | t3_lew0f | null | t1_c2s6x6l | t3_lew0f | null | 1427743913 | 9 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | There are good books for a lot of them - "The Little Lisper", "The Little Schemer" (now Racket), [Learn you a Haskell](http://learnyouahaskell.com/), [Learn you some Erlang](http://learnyousomeerlang.com/). The first two walk you through the development and use of the language in a very cute way, asking you a question ... | null | 0 | 1318870646 | False | 0 | c2s6xul | t3_lf038 | null | t1_c2s6xul | t1_c2s6ug2 | null | 1427743920 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | sunshine_MD | null | Good news - what you're asking is simple to do for any beginner web developer. Actually that site was made by using some generic free template. | null | 0 | 1318870697 | False | 0 | c2s6y5z | t3_lf9wc | null | t1_c2s6y5z | t3_lf9wc | null | 1427743925 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Byrd3242 | null | This site was made with a site called [weebly](www.weebly.com) they allow simple free websites so check it out if you're interested in making sites like the one you linked. My guess is that have a web editor that makes it very simple to get simple site up and running good thinks like blogs and personal homepages etc. | null | 0 | 1318870750 | False | 0 | c2s6yh8 | t3_lf9wc | null | t1_c2s6yh8 | t3_lf9wc | null | 1427743928 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | cybercobra | null | Programming involves creating novel abstractions and giving them meaningful, succinct names. As such, we should have no qualms about verbifying, adjectivizing, and performing nounification in order to create a clear, specialized vocabulary. | null | 0 | 1318870848 | False | 0 | c2s6z1o | t3_lf2w2 | null | t1_c2s6z1o | t1_c2s621f | null | 1427743936 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | He was the great man. | null | 0 | 1318870868 | False | 0 | c2s6z5z | t3_lf7o7 | null | t1_c2s6z5z | t3_lf7o7 | null | 1427743937 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Teacup_Kitsune | null | > It's not too late to learn how to ANYTHING.
I like your style. | null | 0 | 1318870898 | False | 0 | c2s6zd5 | t3_lf038 | null | t1_c2s6zd5 | t1_c2s68gy | null | 1427743939 | 9 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | DeepDuh | null | is it true then? I'm not even natively english speaking ^^ . It's because of [this](http://www.youtube.com/user/adiblasi). | null | 0 | 1318870939 | False | 0 | c2s6zkp | t3_ldz7c | null | t1_c2s6zkp | t1_c2s61eg | null | 1427743943 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | mpeters | null | For most companies, the teams that do the actual tech product and the ones that design the website are totally different. | null | 0 | 1318871060 | False | 0 | c2s70ax | t3_ld753 | null | t1_c2s70ax | t1_c2s15fr | null | 1427743960 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Anathem | null | > One does not screw with legacy code lightly, at least not without getting badly burned.
No no no. Refactor mercilessly. Regression test relentlessly. Integrate continuously. | null | 0 | 1318871126 | False | 0 | c2s70n9 | t3_lehrj | null | t1_c2s70n9 | t3_lehrj | null | 1427743959 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | eh...i'm not so sure. c++ is nice because you only have to check your own programming logic. python can get trixsy because it's dynamically typed, which leads to less compilations errors (when you still have them) which is less information for you. There's pros and cons for everything, I don't think c++ is the worst la... | null | 0 | 1318871165 | False | 0 | c2s70vq | t3_lf038 | null | t1_c2s70vq | t1_c2s6wlv | null | 1427743961 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | I am from NJ, but my accent is very different. | null | 0 | 1318871296 | False | 0 | c2s71n8 | t3_ldz7c | null | t1_c2s71n8 | t1_c2s6zkp | null | 1427743971 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | fkaginstrom | null | Building extensions in this way has the advantage of minimal dependencies (just a C compiler compatible with your build of Python, and Python itself).
But for people who aren't yet familiar with the arcana of writing C extensions for Python, I'd recommend something that handles most of this boilerplate and bookkeeping... | null | 0 | 1318871415 | False | 0 | c2s72d5 | t3_lexot | null | t1_c2s72d5 | t3_lexot | null | 1427743986 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | medlish | null | if(document.isTagged(“Best Practices”))
No, I'm not going to implement an equal wrapper function for every string. Somewhere, readability has it's borders. Don't get me wrong though, I love having readable code at hand. | null | 0 | 1318871449 | False | 0 | c2s72kh | t3_lf038 | null | t1_c2s72kh | t3_lf038 | null | 1427743993 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | gregK | null | Cant_We_All_Get_Along? | null | 0 | 1318871472 | False | 0 | c2s72px | t3_lf2w2 | null | t1_c2s72px | t1_c2s5ykl | null | 1427743988 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | pnpbios | null | As far as I'm concerned, dependency injection just adds another point of failure to the code base, any time you modify a data structure, you have to modify your DI. If you fail to modify your DI, your project will break in all sorts of fun, inextricable ways because the goof is in parsing the XML.
I have yet to encoun... | null | 0 | 1318871488 | False | 0 | c2s72ti | t3_lf1px | null | t1_c2s72ti | t3_lf1px | null | 1427743999 | -1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | serpent | null | > You think it's a bad idea to add #include <stdio.h> and return ?
> Blah blah blah
No, of course not. And you know that's not the point, nor has it been my argument.
The point is that someone who thinks it's *required* to add those things in order for the program to compile, link, run, or be conformant t... | null | 0 | 1318871540 | False | 0 | c2s734t | t3_l6yn1 | null | t1_c2s734t | t1_c2s3ia2 | null | 1427743992 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | jakkarth | null | > If there is no code in your link, it probably doesn't belong here.
The article isn't about programming; it's two-sentence biographies of people that happen to be programmers. Aside from mentioning that each of them is a programmer, the "article" has no useful content, in my opinion. That's all I meant. | null | 0 | 1318871646 | False | 0 | c2s73pt | t3_lf7ip | null | t1_c2s73pt | t1_c2s6rvh | null | 1427744001 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | irascible | null | In my version of hell, everyone talks like this. | null | 0 | 1318871685 | False | 0 | c2s73yd | t3_lf1px | null | t1_c2s73yd | t3_lf1px | null | 1427744003 | 25 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | sindrome198 | null | Kind of the same path. My major was Informatics as an Undergrad but I switched to CS for my grad (currently still in school). The hardest part was coding without having any background in Data Structures or any of the CS related courses.
I basically taught myself the basics and it was hard to say the least. But now at... | null | 0 | 1318871728 | False | 0 | c2s746n | t3_lf038 | null | t1_c2s746n | t1_c2s5xyq | null | 1427744006 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | irascible | null | This. Is. CORBAAAAAA!!!!! | null | 0 | 1318871832 | False | 0 | c2s74qv | t3_lf1px | null | t1_c2s74qv | t1_c2s618x | null | 1427744023 | 9 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | Bad teaching is not a fault of the language though. I've been to java programming intro classes where most had never written a line of code in their life, and there things were explained well and people got what it was about. | null | 0 | 1318871858 | False | 0 | c2s74xn | t3_lf038 | null | t1_c2s74xn | t1_c2s6qpo | null | 1427744019 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | ApochPiQ | null | I think your last sentence probably captures it - as the article says, there are many kinds of ugly.
In this case, I'm thinking of code that _superficially appears_ to be gross, but in reality is just many years old and taking into account a phenomenal number of edge cases and exceptional circumstances. It's a differe... | null | 0 | 1318871899 | False | 0 | c2s753y | t3_lehrj | null | t1_c2s753y | t1_c2s6bce | null | 1427744021 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | LordFreaker | null | I'll be showing him the thread, should appreciate the feedback. | null | 0 | 1318871957 | False | 0 | c2s75i8 | t3_latsk | null | t1_c2s75i8 | t1_c2r7s09 | null | 1427744026 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | markusro | null | Indeed, this is what **reproducibility** really means. If the algorithm is completely and clearly described in the paper, fine. More often than not, it isn't. | null | 0 | 1318872002 | False | 0 | c2s75s0 | t3_lcjsa | null | t1_c2s75s0 | t1_c2rvgla | null | 1427744029 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | ApochPiQ | null | This is purely from curiosity - what's the largest codebase you've worked with, and how many customers did it serve, with what kind of availability/reliability metrics?
Everybody knows the dogma at this point. My question is really about whether or not it actually applies to all of real life. | null | 0 | 1318872012 | False | 0 | c2s75u6 | t3_lehrj | null | t1_c2s75u6 | t1_c2s70n9 | null | 1427744029 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | LordFreaker | null | I'll be sure to point that one out | null | 0 | 1318872061 | False | 0 | c2s764r | t3_latsk | null | t1_c2s764r | t1_c2raps8 | null | 1427744031 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Duc_de_Richelieu | null | Age discrimination? | null | 0 | 1318872082 | False | 0 | c2s769o | t3_lf038 | null | t1_c2s769o | t1_c2s6hqp | null | 1427744033 | 48 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | Is it a bad thing to mix graphics with code samples? The [Piet language](http://www.dangermouse.net/esoteric/piet.html) does it by design. | null | 0 | 1318872094 | False | 0 | c2s76bz | t3_le3tg | null | t1_c2s76bz | t1_c2rxoxs | null | 1427744033 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | LordFreaker | null | For those interested, he made this before progzoo, it's for SQL
[SQLzoo](http://sqlzoo.net/) | null | 0 | 1318872169 | False | 0 | c2s76q3 | t3_latsk | null | t1_c2s76q3 | t3_latsk | null | 1427744036 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1318872233 | True | 0 | c2s773a | t3_lf57z | null | t1_c2s773a | t1_c2s5yj7 | null | 1427744040 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | ErstwhileRockstar | null | > return SomeQueryOrORMCall(id);
This is the DI Antipattern: Your ORM call massively returns dependencies - a navigable graph of Entities.
> by changing a single line of code in the public facing site, will be injected in place of all IPostRepository interfaces.
The promise of DI was that you need not change c... | null | 0 | 1318872265 | False | 0 | c2s77a8 | t3_lf1px | null | t1_c2s77a8 | t1_c2s680p | null | 1427744043 | -4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | And I'd like to think I'm a good teacher, but what do I do when people have had a class with another teacher for their intro course, and I'm supposed to teach them an entire data structures and algorithms course in java right after that? I mean, then there are departmental requirements...
What I end up doing is spendi... | null | 0 | 1318872352 | False | 0 | c2s77sm | t3_lf038 | null | t1_c2s77sm | t1_c2s74xn | null | 1427744051 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | ErstwhileRockstar | null | If you use good design instead of DI you don't have any 'config issues', not even at compile time. | null | 0 | 1318872361 | False | 0 | c2s77ui | t3_lf1px | null | t1_c2s77ui | t1_c2s6aac | null | 1427744051 | -9 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | phqu88 | null | Forums are how I learned...someone out there always has the answer to your problem. | null | 0 | 1318872387 | False | 0 | c2s77zu | t3_lf038 | null | t1_c2s77zu | t1_c2s6koz | null | 1427744053 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Fitzsimmons | null | Depending on the specific operating system in use (notably in Linux) and the routing mechanisms installed, this populates the routing table of the local system with an entry so that packets destined to any address from the 127.0.0.0/8 block would be routed internally to the network loopback device.
http://en.wikipedia... | null | 0 | 1318872409 | False | 0 | c2s7847 | t3_ldz7c | null | t1_c2s7847 | t1_c2s1dc0 | null | 1427744054 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | cultic_raider | null | You will be dismayed to learn that JavaScript and Lisp and nearly every langauge has references or coercions that lead to complexities with equality. Haskell avoids it but has much other complexities.
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True | Elostirion | null | I would just like to say that the amount of discrimination you have faced is absurd. That is all. | null | 0 | 1318872490 | False | 0 | c2s78ld | t3_lf038 | null | t1_c2s78ld | t1_c2s6hqp | null | 1428192219 | 81 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | pnpbios | null | Haha, this guy is clearly not a contractor.
Never assume the person who you are replacing's code works as intended. That is a very dangerous assumption. Those assumptions have been haunting my project for most of the year I have been working on it, because the last developer was the project manager's golden child who ... | null | 0 | 1318872520 | False | 0 | c2s78rv | t3_ldgye | null | t1_c2s78rv | t3_ldgye | null | 1427744063 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | Totally agreed. Manual constructor injection is awesome. Obfuscating it with an obscure framework is balls. | null | 0 | 1318872528 | False | 0 | c2s78tl | t3_lf1px | null | t1_c2s78tl | t1_c2s5izr | null | 1427744064 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | uriel | null | Eckel also gave up on the insanity that is C++ long ago. This days he is into [Go](http://golang.org). | null | 0 | 1318872558 | False | 0 | c2s790t | t3_ld12r | null | t1_c2s790t | t1_c2rpwc1 | null | 1427744065 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | ErstwhileRockstar | null | > Dependency injection is one technique that can facilitate truly modular design. And modular design is the main benefit. Modular design is the property that enables you to write good tests, not dependency injection.
DI prohibits modular design. The essence of modular design is that you separate dependencies, not t... | null | 0 | 1318872567 | False | 0 | c2s7937 | t3_lf1px | null | t1_c2s7937 | t1_c2s5izr | null | 1427744067 | -4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | uriel | null | Might be because you shouldn't. At least if you want to keep your sanity. | null | 0 | 1318872596 | False | 0 | c2s7998 | t3_ld12r | null | t1_c2s7998 | t1_c2s615q | null | 1427744069 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | uriel | null | This is so ridiculous, C programmers have been putting function (pointers) in structs for eons. | null | 0 | 1318872639 | False | 0 | c2s79ir | t3_ld12r | null | t1_c2s79ir | t1_c2rrnfj | null | 1427744073 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | Yep, I agree. But depending on what you are teaching (and what's required of the department) some languages make it easier to start with what's intuitive first, and then go on to the complexities later when you have the foundation to understand them. | null | 0 | 1318872699 | False | 0 | c2s79u2 | t3_lf038 | null | t1_c2s79u2 | t1_c2s78e8 | null | 1427744076 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | ErstwhileRockstar | null | > You can further your path to becoming an architecture astronaut.
Yep, leverage your architecture with AOP and let all your code be generated using MDA. | null | 0 | 1318872777 | False | 0 | c2s7a9a | t3_lf1px | null | t1_c2s7a9a | t1_c2s618x | null | 1427744082 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1318872790 | True | 0 | c2s7abj | t3_lehrj | null | t1_c2s7abj | t1_c2s75u6 | null | 1427744083 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | You are an inspiration to me. I am 28 and sometimes day dream about coding as a way to get out of my dull job.
Time to dive in head first, I don't want to answer phones for the rest of my life.
I'm sorry that you're not able to get a job doing what you love yet. Maybe become active in open-source, make a name for you... | null | 0 | 1318872926 | False | 0 | c2s7b2c | t3_lf038 | null | t1_c2s7b2c | t1_c2s6hqp | null | 1427744093 | 12 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | queus | null | This_Is_The_Standard_Ada_Convention
PS. And I'll mention here that Ada is case-insensitive. | null | 0 | 1318873004 | False | 0 | c2s7bim | t3_lf2w2 | null | t1_c2s7bim | t1_c2s72px | null | 1427744099 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | khrak | null | So you're saying it is physically impossible to change the settings on a clock? Where in the text I quoted does it state that "Network administrators will now have trouble setting system times in bulk across their networks"?
Good job bringing up unrelated arguments though. Seeing as how nothing was quoted said anythin... | null | 0 | 1318873117 | True | 0 | c2s7c4j | t3_le7ky | null | t1_c2s7c4j | t1_c2s4g9a | null | 1427744107 | -9 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | Saving this, thanks in advance. | null | 0 | 1318873143 | False | 0 | c2s7ccg | t3_lf038 | null | t1_c2s7ccg | t1_c2s5vn6 | null | 1427744109 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | xiongchiamiov | null | > (There has been many times where I've been baffled, sign up to a programming forum to ask for help.. then while typing out my problem, everything just clicks)
There are many people who keep some sort of stuffed animal, cardboard cutout, or whatever on or near their desk so that they can explain problems to it. I... | null | 0 | 1318873152 | False | 0 | c2s7cec | t3_lf038 | null | t1_c2s7cec | t1_c2s6koz | null | 1427744110 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | llamaspit | null | Take a look at history. Yahoo! was already pretty well established as the go-to place for finding websites (I know they had competitors, but they were the most well known). Enter Google. Bam, everything changed. Now Yahoo! is trying to catch Google.
Look at Windows/Apple. Windows was already on millions of machin... | null | 0 | 1318873180 | False | 0 | c2s7cig | t3_lf038 | null | t1_c2s7cig | t1_c2s57ai | null | 1427744112 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | xiongchiamiov | null | Sure, but if you start with assembly, you'll understand C better. | null | 0 | 1318873204 | False | 0 | c2s7cof | t3_lf038 | null | t1_c2s7cof | t1_c2s6q8o | null | 1427744114 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | ThePlum | null | >and retain a 12 million dollar a year client by writing a program over a 2 month period
Am I reading that correctly? 12 million a yr?
But yea, age discrimination :( | null | 0 | 1318873252 | False | 0 | c2s7cxd | t3_lf038 | null | t1_c2s7cxd | t1_c2s6hqp | null | 1427744117 | 9 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | herringpj | null | I've never used Spring for DI, only Google's Guice (and Gin if you are building a GWT app). At first I just wanted to use a new tool (hold back your pitchforks), but I did come to see two benefits. First, the one stated in the blog, for testing. Second, I could do complex set up and keep that logic out of my classes. I... | null | 0 | 1318873283 | False | 0 | c2s7d3o | t3_lf1px | null | t1_c2s7d3o | t3_lf1px | null | 1427744119 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | lostbut302 | null | My guess would be that your server listens to 0.0.0.0. (Or your OS's equivalent of a listening wildcard address)
Ex, my local MySQL and Apache:
$ sudo netstat -npl | grep -e mysql -e apache
tcp 0 0 127.0.0.1:3306 0.0.0.0:* LISTEN 21923/mysqld
tcp 0 0 0.0.0.0:80 0.0.0.0:* LIS... | null | 0 | 1318873339 | False | 0 | c2s7df3 | t3_ldz7c | null | t1_c2s7df3 | t1_c2s048e | null | 1427744123 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1318873340 | False | 0 | c2s7df6 | t3_lf643 | null | t1_c2s7df6 | t3_lf643 | null | 1427744123 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | FifthSurprise | null | I keep running into these blog posts about it not being too late to learn how to code... but it still seems to me that while you can learn some basics, it's still really difficult to make that jump from knowing your way around the really basic to creating things of substance/doing it as a job.
I'd be more interes... | null | 0 | 1318873370 | False | 0 | c2s7dl4 | t3_lf038 | null | t1_c2s7dl4 | t3_lf038 | null | 1427744126 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | sotonohito | null | I'd say that the main benefit of learning how to program is the way it rearranges your mind.
We are used to communicating in a vague, half formed, blurry sort of way and we can get away with that because we're mostly communicating with other people and they're smart enough (usually) to figure out what we mean even if ... | null | 0 | 1318873475 | False | 0 | c2s7e7c | t3_lf038 | null | t1_c2s7e7c | t1_c2s57ai | null | 1427744134 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | xiongchiamiov | null | I didn't really start programming beyond trivial things until I was thrown into it by my 101 course in uni. The first year is the great even-ing - by the time you get to your third and fourth (and fifth) year, you'll see that experience coming in has no correlation with skill now. | null | 0 | 1318873608 | False | 0 | c2s7f0b | t3_lf038 | null | t1_c2s7f0b | t1_c2s60vw | null | 1427744144 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | xiongchiamiov | null | Hence why something like Python is so much easier than C (attempting to program C on Windows is actually what motivated me to switch to Linux). Or even better, the gateway drug of HTML.
<html>
<body bgcolor="blue">
<img src="awesome.gif">
</body>
</html>
Look, ma! | null | 0 | 1318873746 | False | 0 | c2s7frk | t3_lf038 | null | t1_c2s7frk | t1_c2s5s11 | null | 1427744154 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | BendingUnit10110 | null | oh shit. major moment of clarity. he wasn't talking about microsoft's developers. he was talking about us. genius. | null | 0 | 1318873746 | False | 0 | c2s7frn | t3_l9ehj | null | t1_c2s7frn | t1_c2qy0q1 | null | 1427744154 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | mwynholds | null | I never quite realized how crazy vim is. I have only basic competence with it. I need to get more in to it. | null | 0 | 1318873783 | False | 0 | c2s7g0h | t3_lfblq | null | t1_c2s7g0h | t3_lfblq | null | 1427744157 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Bobboes | null | >Those who major in CS with no pre-college programming experience get my greatest respect
This is me right now. I messed around with some basic HTML/CSS before college, and I liked it, but never took a class on it. Came into college as a CS major and in a year I've learned Java, C++, Assembly Language, PHP, Javascr... | null | 0 | 1318873827 | False | 0 | c2s7gam | t3_lf038 | null | t1_c2s7gam | t3_lf038 | null | 1427744161 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | viller | null | You would write a program that would write programs for you while you collect the dough. | null | 0 | 1318873885 | False | 0 | c2s7gmn | t3_lf038 | null | t1_c2s7gmn | t1_c2s5tlp | null | 1427744166 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | kretik | null | DI is like multiple inheritance in C++. Slammed by people who don't understand it and are afraid of it, useful when employed by knowledgeable developers and always best in small, judiciously-applied amounts. But both have specific, real-world benefits. | null | 0 | 1318873970 | False | 0 | c2s7h4j | t3_lf1px | null | t1_c2s7h4j | t3_lf1px | null | 1427744171 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | ruscan | null | The problem I often run into is that I initially come up with a quick/prototype/tracer-bullet style solution to a problem, with the intention of refactoring my code and coming up with a proper, clean solution later on. However, my coworkers assume that this is a final solution, and so much changes/code gets tacked onto... | null | 0 | 1318874001 | False | 0 | c2s7hb0 | t3_ld22x | null | t1_c2s7hb0 | t1_c2rp7np | null | 1427744174 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | viller | null | I learned Python first but I think C is actually fun because of the added dimension of low-levelness. Java is awful because it takes the boring regular things from C and removes the interesting part. | null | 0 | 1318874063 | False | 0 | c2s7hoc | t3_lf038 | null | t1_c2s7hoc | t1_c2s6j52 | null | 1427744179 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Manwalking | null | Shh, they'll...
take meh jerb! | null | 0 | 1318874102 | False | 0 | c2s7hww | t3_lf038 | null | t1_c2s7hww | t3_lf038 | null | 1427744182 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | nemtrif | null | Really? I am under impression that he is into CofeeScript: http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=335549
But again, Bruce changes his interests quite often, so I quite believe he checked out the insanity that Go is as well :) | null | 0 | 1318874120 | False | 0 | c2s7i0c | t3_ld12r | null | t1_c2s7i0c | t1_c2s790t | null | 1427744183 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | sotonohito | null | I disagree.
For some learning how to program is not especially difficult. You may have been one of those people, I sort of was [1]. But if you've ever taken a programming 101 class you will discover that for an amazing number of people the simplest of tasks is incredibly difficult.
The process of breaking a problem... | null | 0 | 1318874206 | False | 0 | c2s7iim | t3_lf038 | null | t1_c2s7iim | t1_c2s6ipn | null | 1427744189 | 9 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | LordFreaker | null | Done, thanks for the heads up. | null | 0 | 1318874223 | False | 0 | c2s7ilm | t3_latsk | null | t1_c2s7ilm | t1_c2r5uw9 | null | 1427744191 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | > giving them meaningful, succinct names
But when forced to choose, *always* choose meaningful. If your editor or IDE can't help you out with the typing you need to find one that doesn't suck. | null | 0 | 1318874228 | False | 0 | c2s7imn | t3_lf2w2 | null | t1_c2s7imn | t1_c2s6z1o | null | 1427744191 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | FrellThisDren | null | Yeah, the practice is called [Rubberducking](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber_duck_debugging). | null | 0 | 1318874406 | False | 0 | c2s7jmv | t3_lf038 | null | t1_c2s7jmv | t1_c2s7cec | null | 1427744204 | 9 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | aradil | null | Just a note: I tried to search for the style by it's name (Waher-style) and could only find it by searching for "notepad++ style site:reddit.com".
Maybe if the name is on this page somewhere it'll get indexed for other people to use. :D
[edit] The reason for my searching by name was that a coworker saw it and thought... | null | 0 | 1318874464 | False | 0 | c2s7jzw | t3_kvpld | null | t1_c2s7jzw | t1_c2nlr6c | null | 1427744209 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | 0xABADC0DA | null | > HTTP pipelining is disabled by default on all major browsers
It's enabled by default in Opera, and should be soon in Firefox.
> its flaws (mandatory FIFO means head-of-line or lost packets kill its performance)
Even Chrome developers know that pipelining has the same performance benefits as Spdy. See [the ... | null | 0 | 1318874473 | True | 0 | c2s7k3f | t3_ld753 | null | t1_c2s7k3f | t1_c2s6ji2 | null | 1427744210 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Ocaml_Kaizen | null | Are you me? | null | 0 | 1318874749 | False | 0 | c2s7lo1 | t3_lf038 | null | t1_c2s7lo1 | t1_c2s7b2c | null | 1427744230 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | i8beef | null | I'll be sticking to PowerGUI proper, but interesting project... I just don't need any more extensions to VS. | null | 0 | 1318874790 | False | 0 | c2s7lwi | t3_lfby4 | null | t1_c2s7lwi | t3_lfby4 | null | 1427744233 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Samus_ | null | that's not true, javascript vulnerabilities can be used to steal credentials and allow further escalation.
they might even be used to exploit browser vulnerabilities, which depending on the case might allow arbitrary code execution outside the js-sandbox.
edit: be aware that sites vulnerable to javascript injections ... | null | 0 | 1318874883 | False | 0 | c2s7mfb | t3_ldz7c | null | t1_c2s7mfb | t1_c2s6ful | null | 1427744241 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | theoldboy | null | Only if you spell initialise with a 'z'. | null | 0 | 1318874884 | False | 0 | c2s7mfo | t3_lf2w2 | null | t1_c2s7mfo | t1_c2s6uj3 | null | 1427744241 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | queus | null | It is wonderful. As long as there is not color in the same project.
There are no spelling-insensitive languages, as of yet. | null | 0 | 1318874888 | False | 0 | c2s7mgo | t3_lf2w2 | null | t1_c2s7mgo | t1_c2s6uj3 | null | 1427744241 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | rkenned | null | That's a pretty pointless statement to make. "Just do it the right way and you won't have any issues"...well if you just "write the config the right way you won't have any issues at compile time either". The problem is, humans don't always do things the right way, and when you're writing code for a project that is ex... | null | 0 | 1318874899 | False | 0 | c2s7mjc | t3_lf1px | null | t1_c2s7mjc | t1_c2s77ui | null | 1427744243 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | lukeatron | null | I have written a few code generators that do that to an extent. Why write a bunch of tedious repetitive code when can you write some complicated code to do it for you? | null | 0 | 1318874928 | False | 0 | c2s7mpw | t3_lf038 | null | t1_c2s7mpw | t1_c2s7gmn | null | 1427744245 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
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