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True | Excedrin | null | Everything you just said about C++ applies equally to statically typed languages higher up the abstraction chain (anything ML based, Haskell, ATS).
C++ is very close to the worst language to start with. Reasons: instead of learning concepts, you have to spend a LOT of time learning fugly syntax and extremely complicat... | null | 0 | 1318886429 | True | 0 | c2s9h0y | t3_lf038 | null | t1_c2s9h0y | t1_c2s70vq | null | 1427745113 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | mikaelhg | null | http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Multi-Platform-Messaging-with-RabbitMQ | null | 0 | 1318886432 | False | 0 | c2s9h1k | t3_lff3n | null | t1_c2s9h1k | t3_lff3n | null | 1427745113 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | mikaelhg | null | Does it still crash your computer? | null | 0 | 1318886470 | False | 0 | c2s9h7z | t3_lff0t | null | t1_c2s9h7z | t3_lff0t | null | 1427745116 | -4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Deinumite | null | > It's tough but I think it's the correct way to introduce programming. No IDEs, just you, a text editor and an assembler.
There's a big difference between an IDE and a decent text editor. Hell I'd say anyone trying to use an editor without syntax highlighting is just wasting their own time.
I'm sure you know thi... | null | 0 | 1318886533 | False | 0 | c2s9hjz | t3_lf038 | null | t1_c2s9hjz | t1_c2s7n3s | null | 1427745120 | 9 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1318886709 | False | 0 | c2s9ien | t3_lf038 | null | t1_c2s9ien | t1_c2s6hqp | null | 1427745131 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | __j_random_hacker | null | I find your interpretation fascinating. I certainly grant you that it's unportable to depend on `FILE` internals, but you
> know the exact layout of the struct
in exactly the same way as you do for a C++ class -- just by looking at the header where it's defined!
When you say that you "can always access [a C++ c... | null | 0 | 1318886718 | False | 0 | c2s9igh | t3_ld12r | null | t1_c2s9igh | t1_c2s9990 | null | 1427745132 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | GMTao | null | Full disclosure: I have no experience with Spring, Guice or any other DI framework.
Having said that, I do have to wonder if DI frameworks were introduced to get around problems that people have introduced with various other patterns and frameworks that people started using, essentially painting themselves into a corn... | null | 0 | 1318886727 | False | 0 | c2s9iid | t3_lf1px | null | t1_c2s9iid | t3_lf1px | null | 1427745134 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1318886864 | False | 0 | c2s9j6g | t3_lff3n | null | t1_c2s9j6g | t3_lff3n | null | 1427745141 | 16 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | pipplo | null | It helps to pick something in the middle. Programming books don't make it any fun. Open source is difficult because you're usually jumping into a large amount of code that you don't understand and trying to figure it out. That's even hard for pros.
Set your initial goals lower. I started out writing a text based ad... | null | 0 | 1318887041 | False | 0 | c2s9k4m | t3_lf038 | null | t1_c2s9k4m | t1_c2s7dl4 | null | 1427745153 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | optomas | null | Hello, world!
| null | 0 | 1318887099 | False | 0 | c2s9kgr | t3_lf7o7 | null | t1_c2s9kgr | t3_lf7o7 | null | 1427745158 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Really_Likes_Nutella | null | I have been trying to learn Python. It's not too difficult but finding the motivation to do it is what's difficult. I have no real need to write programs. Any short tasks that need doing I can do in bash much more easily.
To learn to code I think you just really need a challenge that you need to overcome. Some program... | null | 0 | 1318887132 | False | 0 | c2s9kls | t3_lf038 | null | t1_c2s9kls | t3_lf038 | null | 1427745171 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | eric_t | null | Yes, getting rid of the linked lists would probably make a big difference, would be interesting to see how much. | null | 0 | 1318887192 | False | 0 | c2s9kvw | t3_lew0f | null | t1_c2s9kvw | t1_c2s8l38 | null | 1427745164 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Really_Likes_Nutella | null | I love HTML. It's almost too easy. It's not really very impressive or useful unless you also know Javascript though. | null | 0 | 1318887247 | False | 0 | c2s9l50 | t3_lf038 | null | t1_c2s9l50 | t1_c2s7frk | null | 1427745167 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | mrkite77 | null | There's definitely age discrimination in the programming field. Older people are less likely to work ridiculous hours for no extra pay. How often do you hear about programmers that put in 60 hour weeks.. yet they're salaried so they don't get overtime. | null | 0 | 1318887270 | False | 0 | c2s9l9a | t3_lf038 | null | t1_c2s9l9a | t1_c2s8d3t | null | 1427745168 | 8 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1318887282 | False | 0 | c2s9lbf | t3_lf038 | null | t1_c2s9lbf | t1_c2s9h0y | null | 1427745170 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | dd72ddd | null | Yeah, out of the 4 years of my cs degree, the parts where I learned to code probably only amount to 2-5 months, wherein I was only coding like, 25% of the time I was doing uni work. It really isn't a big commitment, hadn't done any programming before starting cs either. | null | 0 | 1318887291 | False | 0 | c2s9lde | t3_lf038 | null | t1_c2s9lde | t3_lf038 | null | 1427745171 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | polycant | null | One way to go about it:
mh (to set mark 'h' where you are in your code)
[[ or ]] (to move to previous/next function)
yw (to "yank" a word. use yW to grab 'words' that include punctuation)
'h (return to the mark you set)
p (to paste the yanked text) | null | 0 | 1318887387 | True | 0 | c2s9lt8 | t3_lfblq | null | t1_c2s9lt8 | t1_c2s9egu | null | 1427745176 | 10 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | rkenned | null | DI frameworks don't really add any new functionality. They just make instantiation of things a little easier to understand, and they cut down on some boilerplate. For the most part, they replace the factory pattern and make things a bit easier to test. | null | 0 | 1318887400 | False | 0 | c2s9lv9 | t3_lf1px | null | t1_c2s9lv9 | t1_c2s7zeh | null | 1428192213 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | shoseki | null | Dependancy Injection - where you code so opaquely, that the company has no choice to but to continue hiring you to support the project. | null | 0 | 1318887430 | False | 0 | c2s9m0j | t3_lf1px | null | t1_c2s9m0j | t3_lf1px | null | 1427745179 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | aaaxxxlll | null | Beware of using message queues that you can't easily inspect/debug/recover. Maybe by now there are some tools for managing [MSMQ](http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms703216%28v=VS.85%29.aspx), but 3-4 years ago I had the pleasure of dealing with crashing queues, missing items, failed messages, etc. It wasn't the ... | null | 0 | 1318887432 | False | 0 | c2s9m0u | t3_lff3n | null | t1_c2s9m0u | t3_lff3n | null | 1427745179 | 10 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | A bunch of big sites use it including Facebook. | null | 0 | 1318887516 | False | 0 | c2s9mf8 | t3_lfhyw | null | t1_c2s9mf8 | t1_c2s9ewf | null | 1427745184 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | xiongchiamiov | null | Mm, being able to put up a page, online, with different colors and text sizes and pictures of your dog is pretty bad-ass for most people. They made **an internet**. Look, look, I can email it to you, and you can view it on *your* computer.
I held off on learning actual programming until forced to by my 101 universit... | null | 0 | 1318887732 | False | 0 | c2s9nja | t3_lf038 | null | t1_c2s9nja | t1_c2s9l50 | null | 1427745200 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | greenspans | null | hurr, that's like saying unix pipes are slow
cat word_list.txt | sort | uniq | grep 'anus' > sorted_anusees.txt
"hey man, you could have written a huge function from scratch that did that all in one pass."
lists aren't about speed but easily composability. Strings in haskell should have been more like Data.Te... | null | 0 | 1318887820 | True | 0 | c2s9nz1 | t3_lew0f | null | t1_c2s9nz1 | t1_c2s82j5 | null | 1427745203 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | But swearing in commits is hilarious! And it's what real hackers do! | null | 0 | 1318887820 | False | 0 | c2s9nz3 | t3_lf898 | null | t1_c2s9nz3 | t1_c2s8twk | null | 1427745203 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | xiongchiamiov | null | At my school, we used [LC-3](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LC-3), which is an educational assembly language. Not useful directly in the field, but it's nice for getting the concepts. | null | 0 | 1318887861 | False | 0 | c2s9o6o | t3_lf038 | null | t1_c2s9o6o | t1_c2s85sk | null | 1427745207 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | banuday | null | Not exactly. Dependency Injection is an instance of a broader pattern called [Inversion of Control](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inversion_of_control), which includes Service Locator.
The goal is to get rid of `new` and `getInstance()` from service classes so that dependency management is separated from business logi... | null | 0 | 1318887890 | False | 0 | c2s9oci | t3_lf1px | null | t1_c2s9oci | t1_c2s7rsc | null | 1427745209 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | x86_64Ubuntu | null | I see what you are saying, but in the Flex world it helps TREMENDOUSLY when you can keep your presenters, model and views seperate from each other. The only other way to manage dependencies without a DI framework is to use a singleton. I have seen this done, and it is a great way to burn through millions of dollars a... | null | 0 | 1318887922 | False | 0 | c2s9oi8 | t3_lf1px | null | t1_c2s9oi8 | t1_c2s7opa | null | 1427745213 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | mrkite77 | null | Not necessarily. It is widely believed that speech has a critical period. If you don't learn a language by the time you reach puberty, you will *never* learn. | null | 0 | 1318887925 | False | 0 | c2s9oix | t3_lf038 | null | t1_c2s9oix | t1_c2s68gy | null | 1427745213 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | j_lyf | null | Some sort of Yahtzee game. With 50 million scanf's in a gigantic nested loop. aww yeah. That was before the Data Structures course where we learnt to code in a pseudo OOP style, with types based on structs, mallocs and pointers. (Anyone from University of New South Wales do COMP1911/COMP1921)? | null | 0 | 1318888659 | False | 0 | c2s9se5 | t3_lf7o7 | null | t1_c2s9se5 | t3_lf7o7 | null | 1427745265 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Excedrin | null | Hrm, I guess that's a valid point (re: recursion) and definitely falls into the category of "this used to confuse me, but now I take it for granted." I think that for someone who hasn't been exposed to iteration it should be equally easy to understand either, but maybe it doesn't turn out like that in practice.
Unders... | null | 0 | 1318888685 | False | 0 | c2s9sj7 | t3_lf038 | null | t1_c2s9sj7 | t1_c2s9lbf | null | 1427745266 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Liquid_Fire | null | I like to use a lot of `^U` and `^D` when scrolling around - it's faster than `j`/`k`, but still doesn't jump around an insane amount. Another nice set of movement operations is `}`/`]]`/`[]`/`]}`/etc depending on the language, for jumping between functions or other sections of code. Or if you know what you are looking... | null | 0 | 1318888700 | False | 0 | c2s9slq | t3_lfblq | null | t1_c2s9slq | t1_c2s9egu | null | 1427745266 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | calc0000 | null | My biggest gripe about OAuth is that it was obviously not written for anyone other than web developers (or at least Twitter's flow isn't). For example, authentication on Twitter requires an application to either embed a web browser control inside itself, or to give a URL to the user and have the user return a code ret... | null | 0 | 1318888721 | False | 0 | c2s9spl | t3_lfhyw | null | t1_c2s9spl | t1_c2s9ewf | null | 1427745267 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | grauenwolf | null | Because it is hidden behind layers of interfaces and an DI framework that assembles everything out of band. Development tools can't pierce the veil, you have to track everything down one piece by painful piece. | null | 0 | 1318888863 | False | 0 | c2s9tf1 | t3_lf1px | null | t1_c2s9tf1 | t1_c2s995n | null | 1427745276 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | drysart | null | > Why do we need a confusing name to describe "not choosing the class you're going to use at compile time, but dynamically at run time".
Because when you refer to a concept, it's a lot easier to use 2 words than it is to use 16 words. And as common-sense as it is to you and me, a lot of developers need their hand... | null | 0 | 1318888900 | False | 0 | c2s9tla | t3_lf1px | null | t1_c2s9tla | t1_c2s7zeh | null | 1427745278 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Excedrin | null | > Okay, but for a dynamically typed language, if I mess up something with the language, then I don't know what happened. In C++, yes, fugly syntax and complicated semantics - but at least the compiler yells at me and tells me exactly what happened when I made a mistake.
Have you coded in Haskell? If you like this k... | null | 0 | 1318888930 | False | 0 | c2s9tqc | t3_lf038 | null | t1_c2s9tqc | t1_c2s9lbf | null | 1427745288 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | drgalaxy | null | When I was about 16 I remember expressing sadness to a mentor of mine that I had spent the last couple of years learning about Linux and the Internet instead of hardcore C++ and low level graphics stuff. He told me not to worry, that plenty of good programmers didn't start until they were much older and that he himsel... | null | 0 | 1318889026 | False | 0 | c2s9u6w | t3_lf038 | null | t1_c2s9u6w | t3_lf038 | null | 1427745296 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | grauenwolf | null | That makes absolutely no sense. DI has nothing at all to do with separating presenters, model and views. If anything it is a technique to combine them back together again.
> The only other way to manage dependencies without a DI framework is to use a singleton
That is utterly stupid claim. DI Frameworks cannot do ... | null | 0 | 1318889050 | False | 0 | c2s9uas | t3_lf1px | null | t1_c2s9uas | t1_c2s9oi8 | null | 1427745288 | -1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | grauenwolf | null | Inversion of Control isn't a pattern, it is a technique. When you see a dependency chain that looks backwards you invert it. If it still looks wrong, you invert it again to get back the original code and then try something else.
Once you start calling it a pattern you get shit like IoC Containers. | null | 0 | 1318889055 | False | 0 | c2s9ube | t3_lf1px | null | t1_c2s9ube | t1_c2s9oci | null | 1427745289 | -1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | audioHack | null | This happens to me every time I have to write something in C. | null | 0 | 1318889131 | False | 0 | c2s9uoi | t3_lflbu | null | t1_c2s9uoi | t3_lflbu | null | 1427745293 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1318889254 | False | 0 | c2s9v98 | t3_lfllo | null | t1_c2s9v98 | t3_lfllo | null | 1427745301 | -1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | jakkarth | null | warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /opt/lampp/htdocs/programr/modules/taxonomy/taxonomy.module on line 1243. | null | 0 | 1318889338 | False | 0 | c2s9vnd | t3_lfllo | null | t1_c2s9vnd | t3_lfllo | null | 1427745305 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | x86_64Ubuntu | null | Show me, I invite you or anyone else to show me how to write a mid-large sized Flex application without singletons littering your code like shell casings on a Compton street corner. | null | 0 | 1318889389 | False | 0 | c2s9vv4 | t3_lf1px | null | t1_c2s9vv4 | t1_c2s9uas | null | 1428192206 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Anathem | null | Yeah. | null | 0 | 1318889433 | False | 0 | c2s9w2z | t3_lehrj | null | t1_c2s9w2z | t1_c2s81ge | null | 1427745310 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Really_Likes_Nutella | null | I guess that is fairly impressive. Just not in IT circles.
My problem is that getting to actually doing a programming course without going to university seems to be almost impossible. I learnt almost nothing at college. (upper high school in America?) | null | 0 | 1318889452 | False | 0 | c2s9w6a | t3_lf038 | null | t1_c2s9w6a | t1_c2s9nja | null | 1427745312 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | artsrc | null | Module usages should be able to take construction parameters just the same a class instances get them. This is clearer and simpler than DI frameworks.
You can do this easily in JavaScript (or CoffeeScript, or ...), but for statically typed languages you need a language feature.
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True | Benutzername | null | > in exactly the same way as you do for a C++ class -- just by looking at the header where it's defined!
That header doesn't have to exist on your machine unless you're working on the standard library yourself (E.g. on my machine there is just a `struct FILE;` forward declaration in `stdio.h`). This works because y... | null | 0 | 1318889518 | False | 0 | c2s9wix | t3_ld12r | null | t1_c2s9wix | t1_c2s9igh | null | 1427745316 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Anathem | null | This is exactly what we do, and I thought everybody else was doing it too. Refactoring is only scary if your tests suck. | null | 0 | 1318889565 | False | 0 | c2s9wrp | t3_lehrj | null | t1_c2s9wrp | t1_c2s7xrn | null | 1427745319 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | I agree, and personally find the code modualarity arguments stronger than the test arguments. However, it is not necessarily just indirection and coupling on the minimal interface that makes the approach useful.
To create a contrived example, where I am deep in some code, and need to pull data from the db. If I decid... | null | 0 | 1318889657 | False | 0 | c2s9x7i | t3_lf1px | null | t1_c2s9x7i | t1_c2s81jf | null | 1427745325 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1318889739 | False | 0 | c2s9xky | t3_lf038 | null | t1_c2s9xky | t1_c2s6hqp | null | 1427745330 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | theoldboy | null | Pfft, you kids today, you're lucky!
Back in my day we had a choice between some horrible version of BASIC or assembly language.
And don't even get me started about having to write my own assembler in said BASIC...
Signed,
A Yorkshireman
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True | rdhatt | null | > you can hit "Go to definition"
Ah, so you don't use ReSharper :). Without R#'s "Go to implementation" then using tools like Autofac are less... comfortable. | null | 0 | 1318889904 | False | 0 | c2s9ybu | t3_lf1px | null | t1_c2s9ybu | t1_c2s8psj | null | 1427745340 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | Heh, I do like me some haskell. I like erlang a bit better though. | null | 0 | 1318890032 | False | 0 | c2s9yz6 | t3_lf038 | null | t1_c2s9yz6 | t1_c2s9tqc | null | 1427745351 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | __j_random_hacker | null | I don't think van Laarhoven's Haskell code actually uses random access at all. Although he uses the `!!` operator to explain how to find the maximal rectangle around a given (u, v) point, the code he actually uses to find the largest maximal rectangle across the entire image is all done with zips and maps AFAICT. (In... | null | 0 | 1318890112 | False | 0 | c2s9zct | t3_lew0f | null | t1_c2s9zct | t1_c2s8l38 | null | 1427745367 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | LucianU | null | That's why I strongly recommend anyone who starts learning how to program to ask for help when stuck. IRC, forums, stackoverflow are there to help you. IRC was one of the best resources when I started programming, and I wouldn't have done it without it. | null | 0 | 1318890119 | False | 0 | c2s9ze7 | t3_lf038 | null | t1_c2s9ze7 | t1_c2s5s11 | null | 1427745367 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | ErstwhileRockstar | null | You don't need the dependencies 'over there': separation of concerns instead of dependency injection. | null | 0 | 1318890134 | False | 0 | c2s9zh4 | t3_lf1px | null | t1_c2s9zh4 | t1_c2s94tg | null | 1427745358 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | prof_hobart | null | When I was a teenager, back in the 1980s, my dad had a friend who was in his mid to late 70s and still running his own shop. He managed to teach himself to code (on an Amstrad that he'd bought to help run his business).
So, no. 25 certainly isn't too old to learn to code. | null | 0 | 1318890360 | False | 0 | c2sa0m2 | t3_lf038 | null | t1_c2sa0m2 | t3_lf038 | null | 1427745373 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | backbob | null | That is really cool. | null | 0 | 1318890456 | False | 0 | c2sa12d | t3_lfcpb | null | t1_c2sa12d | t3_lfcpb | null | 1427745376 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | backbob | null | Its working right now. | null | 0 | 1318890467 | False | 0 | c2sa149 | t3_lfcpb | null | t1_c2sa149 | t1_c2s95n4 | null | 1427745377 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | BorisTheBrave | null | > Once the port of NumPy to PyPy has finished, are you going to port SciPy?
I gather that motivation for porting NumPy doesn't carry over to scipy, so no. Ported NumPy means PyPy's JIT can completely inline the code and enable proper loop optimizations, a huge win. The C API overhead is much less of a concern for S... | null | 0 | 1318890603 | False | 0 | c2sa1tb | t3_lez71 | null | t1_c2sa1tb | t3_lez71 | null | 1427745385 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | roboduck | null | You are right, this is something I didn't consider. I should've said:
It's not too learn to learn how to ANYTHING... provided you were not a feral child. | null | 0 | 1318890626 | False | 0 | c2sa1xf | t3_lf038 | null | t1_c2sa1xf | t1_c2s9oix | null | 1427745388 | 8 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | LiveOnSteak | null | Socrates (I think) said a man is wise when he realizes how much he does not know. | null | 0 | 1318890648 | False | 0 | c2sa21b | t3_lf038 | null | t1_c2sa21b | t1_c2s7p04 | null | 1427745389 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Poddster | null | But unless you already know what these words mean, you have no idea what they mean. They're only useful if you know what they're describing. A major problem with the pattern worship that goes on is that you'll talk to someone and mention a pattern name, and they'll say "yeah I know what you mean", and they'll think the... | null | 0 | 1318890772 | False | 0 | c2sa2ml | t3_lf1px | null | t1_c2sa2ml | t1_c2s9tla | null | 1427745396 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | gthemagician | null | don't see why your comment brought the downvotestorm. Learning C is what Ritchie would want. | null | 0 | 1318890785 | False | 0 | c2sa2os | t3_lf038 | null | t1_c2sa2os | t1_c2s5sb3 | null | 1427745397 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Dustin_00 | null | Marketing. They want constant change yesterday. | null | 0 | 1318890918 | False | 0 | c2sa3bp | t3_lf1px | null | t1_c2sa3bp | t1_c2s8fmv | null | 1427745412 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | grauenwolf | null | I find that challange amusing because DI frameworks can, and often are, used to return a singleton instance of whatever dependency is being asked for.
Moreover, there are many types of dependencies that really should be singletons. Unless the object contains internal state, which is usually bad idea for code that invo... | null | 0 | 1318890924 | False | 0 | c2sa3d1 | t3_lf1px | null | t1_c2sa3d1 | t1_c2s9vv4 | null | 1427745406 | -1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | LucianU | null | You learn a programming language. Then you learn the common tools and libraries used for that language and for software engineering in general (a good editor, a version control system, a code analyzer). You learn best practices like unit testing. You learn to avoid clever tricks.
If you're curious, you spend a lot of... | null | 0 | 1318890978 | False | 0 | c2sa3m8 | t3_lf038 | null | t1_c2sa3m8 | t1_c2s7dl4 | null | 1427745409 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1318890998 | False | 0 | c2sa3q5 | t3_lfllo | null | t1_c2sa3q5 | t1_c2s9vnd | null | 1427745410 | -1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | snavesinned | null | I never had a CS course in high school. Closest thing I did was use Word programs and I took a typing class (which helped me considerably). After graduating I spent two years just plain ol working. Then I went into the Marines for five years doing radio repair. The troubleshooting skills I learned while in the Mari... | null | 0 | 1318891073 | False | 0 | c2sa435 | t3_lf038 | null | t1_c2sa435 | t3_lf038 | null | 1428192204 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | xiongchiamiov | null | > My problem is that getting to actually doing a programming course without going to university seems to be almost impossible.
Sure. High schools (at least here in the US) don't have very high standards for learning. Computer courses in particular seem to be expected to be time wasters for people who just don't w... | null | 0 | 1318891176 | False | 0 | c2sa4mr | t3_lf038 | null | t1_c2sa4mr | t1_c2s9w6a | null | 1427745434 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | grauenwolf | null | That is the kind of thinking I abhor. You aren't choosing between technical solutions for specific problems, you are choosing between theologies.
Saying something "breaks object orientation" is meaningless. What is the real problem that you are having and how does DI fix it? | null | 0 | 1318891198 | False | 0 | c2sa4qd | t3_lf1px | null | t1_c2sa4qd | t1_c2s8sxc | null | 1427745428 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | grauenwolf | null | I agree with everything you said except...
* make instantiation of things a little easier to understand
* cut down on some boilerplate
* make things a bit easier to test. | null | 0 | 1318891354 | False | 0 | c2sa5hy | t3_lf1px | null | t1_c2sa5hy | t1_c2s9lv9 | null | 1427745435 | 8 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | michaelochurch | null | Age discrimination is about the trend observed in mediocre people, not people like Vanthu.
Mediocre people (by mediocre, I don't mean "average IQ"; I mean "lacking in creativity, curiosity, and initiative") start to lose intelligence around age 25, with the drop being noticeable by 40 and severe by 65, and the world i... | null | 0 | 1318891482 | False | 0 | c2sa62u | t3_lf038 | null | t1_c2sa62u | t1_c2s8exz | null | 1427745441 | -7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | nluqo | null | Same here. I did Electrical Engineering and Computer Engineering in undergrad. I don't know why! I knew I wanted to be a programmer since highschool, but I was somehow convinced programming was a volatile field (perhaps it had something to do with the 2001 tech bubble).
Getting my first "real" development job was pret... | null | 0 | 1318891583 | False | 0 | c2sa6jp | t3_lf038 | null | t1_c2sa6jp | t1_c2s5dsc | null | 1427745447 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | __j_random_hacker | null | > just a `struct FILE;` forward declaration
I see what you mean. And I accept that although you could forward-declare a C++ class in the same way, you of course wouldn't be able to call any methods on pointers to it, making it pretty useless. Programming in C++ would certainly be nicer if you could actually (rath... | null | 0 | 1318891646 | False | 0 | c2sa6uu | t3_ld12r | null | t1_c2sa6uu | t1_c2s9wix | null | 1427745451 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | x86_64Ubuntu | null | >...used to return a singleton instance of whatever dependency is being asked for.
Singleton as in one on the stack yes. But as something of which there can only be one no.
>...Moreover, there are many types of dependencies that really should be singletons...there is no reason to ever have more than one.
Yes,... | null | 0 | 1318891770 | False | 0 | c2sa7gt | t3_lf1px | null | t1_c2sa7gt | t1_c2sa3d1 | null | 1427745460 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | banuday | null | What's the difference between a pattern and a technique?
It is true, that the term "Pattern" has gotten a bad rap from GoF, but even GoF wasn't that bad if looked at as a collection of useful strategies for solving problems in a specific class of OOP languages.
Even IoC containers have their place. Sure they an be ... | null | 0 | 1318891978 | False | 0 | c2sa8gl | t3_lf1px | null | t1_c2sa8gl | t1_c2s9ube | null | 1427745473 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Nebu | null | > Do you see where I'm going here?
Perhaps: at first I thought you were complaining about the type system; but then it seemed like you were actually complaining about the syntax. Now it sounds like you're claiming language X is bad because people unfamiliar with language X may find it confusing, and that it's possi... | null | 0 | 1318892058 | False | 0 | c2sa8up | t3_l9v2n | null | t1_c2sa8up | t1_c2s6fpa | null | 1427745478 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | javajunkie314 | null | I'm a computer science TA. At least at my university, it's crazy easy to get a BA in computer science (BS is not much harder). We keep having to make the courses easier to keep up our graduation rates, because enrollment rates are dropping. It's going to get to the point where a degree is meaningless.
I have a lot of ... | null | 0 | 1318892161 | False | 0 | c2sa9d5 | t3_lf038 | null | t1_c2sa9d5 | t3_lf038 | null | 1427745485 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | sheafification | null | Cool, but for some reason Phoenix AZ is in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean. O_o | null | 0 | 1318892405 | False | 0 | c2saak0 | t3_lfcpb | null | t1_c2saak0 | t3_lfcpb | null | 1427745499 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Leechifer | null | I think he means the client has revenues of $12M per year. (As in, not a mom & pop client). | null | 0 | 1318892459 | False | 0 | c2saat2 | t3_lf038 | null | t1_c2saat2 | t1_c2s7cxd | null | 1427745502 | 10 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | jrthib | null | story of my life | null | 0 | 1318892487 | False | 0 | c2saaxn | t3_lflbu | null | t1_c2saaxn | t3_lflbu | null | 1427745505 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | grauenwolf | null | In this case I mean *technique* as "something you do". Or in other words, the act of inverting a dependency chain.
A pattern is something static. You can't look at my code and tell whether or not I used the inversion of control technique. Maybe I did, maybe I didn't, that is lost to time. But you can tell whether or n... | null | 0 | 1318892786 | False | 0 | c2sacd0 | t3_lf1px | null | t1_c2sacd0 | t1_c2sa8gl | null | 1427745522 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | dons | null | I found myself wanting more specifics, frustratingly.
Why, and where was Go found to be easier, for example? In parsing? | null | 0 | 1318892836 | False | 0 | c2sacmj | t3_lfm1k | null | t1_c2sacmj | t3_lfm1k | null | 1427745527 | 47 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Leechifer | null | Skynet...that's why you wouldn't. ;) | null | 0 | 1318892912 | False | 0 | c2sad07 | t3_lf038 | null | t1_c2sad07 | t1_c2s7mpw | null | 1427745532 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | ApochPiQ | null | Tests can't capture everything. | null | 0 | 1318892922 | False | 0 | c2sad2c | t3_lehrj | null | t1_c2sad2c | t1_c2s9wrp | null | 1427745532 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | grauenwolf | null | ORM? In Flex? Everyone I know hides the database access code behind a web service call. | null | 0 | 1318892957 | False | 0 | c2sad8g | t3_lf1px | null | t1_c2sad8g | t1_c2sa7gt | null | 1427745535 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Leechifer | null | PUSH POP MOV SHIFT XOR AND NOT...
The java coders almost never know what the fuck we might be talking about. Granted, they don't need to. It just makes me feel old. | null | 0 | 1318893241 | False | 0 | c2saenw | t3_lf038 | null | t1_c2saenw | t1_c2s9o6o | null | 1427745554 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | _georgesim_ | null | You cannot embed assembly into Java, and the Java language doesn't lend itself to a very close representation of a machine's assembly. In this way, C and C++ give you a much direct control of the machine. And yes it is easy to call C++ code from C, with the use of **extern "C" {}**.
> I'll grant you that most lang... | null | 0 | 1318893369 | False | 0 | c2saf88 | t3_l7gl3 | null | t1_c2saf88 | t1_c2s7tag | null | 1427745562 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | grauenwolf | null | For "must work" scenarios I still stick everything in the database. The message queue is just to send a "do work now" message to the backend service so that it doesn't need to poll the database.
Sometimes I even have the database stored proc send the message so that I don't need to go back and rewrite 15 year old appl... | null | 0 | 1318893439 | False | 0 | c2safl8 | t3_lff3n | null | t1_c2safl8 | t1_c2s9m0u | null | 1427745574 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | RE: essential complexity vs. incidental complexity
I think you hit the nail on the head when you say "at least some part", because there can be lots of little additions, that were not well-thought out, but which solved a problem. Sort of epicycles within epicycles, that get the right answer, but which are hard to reas... | null | 0 | 1318893453 | False | 0 | c2safna | t3_lehrj | null | t1_c2safna | t1_c2s96ip | null | 1427745575 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | awj | null | Where does Facebook use it? Is this for third parties trying to access FB or do they themselves use it for something?
I guess it seems like OAuth has always been a second-class citizen with the big players. They offer it for everyone *else* to use, but don't actually bother to deal with it themselves. | null | 0 | 1318893463 | False | 0 | c2safp4 | t3_lfhyw | null | t1_c2safp4 | t1_c2s9mf8 | null | 1427745568 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Teekoo | null | Can I ask how long did you program until you were confident that you could do it for a living? | null | 0 | 1318893478 | False | 0 | c2safrv | t3_lf038 | null | t1_c2safrv | t1_c2s7n3s | null | 1427745568 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | banuday | null | A pattern is also something you do. But we gave it a name and show some examples of how it is done. A pattern could be seen as a way of making the code more expressive, so if you are using Inversion of Control, it is obvious. In a way, a pattern is a codification of a "technique" that expresses its intent in a way othe... | null | 0 | 1318893631 | False | 0 | c2sagho | t3_lf1px | null | t1_c2sagho | t1_c2sacd0 | null | 1427745579 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | holyteach | null | I think launching a startup is a wonderful idea. | null | 0 | 1318893652 | False | 0 | c2saglo | t3_lf038 | null | t1_c2saglo | t1_c2sa62u | null | 1427745585 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Leechifer | null | This.
The shit I can do with this Android phone makes me feel like Captain F'ing Kirk!
A few years ago we didn't have the CPU/flash memory/HD space, etc etc that I even dreamed of. Now it's commonplace. | null | 0 | 1318893755 | False | 0 | c2sah2o | t3_lf038 | null | t1_c2sah2o | t1_c2s7cig | null | 1428192203 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Leechifer | null | Do it. Just do it, if it's fun and/or interesting.
I've had about a 10 year break from coding, and it's never been my main role. I've managed programmers, led teams of programmers, architected for programmers, and done a bit of coding...
Started with BASIC, Pascal, assembler, and then years later C. Then Perl. S... | null | 0 | 1318894049 | False | 0 | c2saie6 | t3_lf038 | null | t1_c2saie6 | t3_lf038 | null | 1427745611 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | automaticit | null | Did you take a data structures class, or learn the material otherwise?
You don't need to know how to code up a doubly-linked list, hash list or red-black tree off the top of your head. There are libraries for when you need those, and it's sub-optimal to have all the nuances committed to memory instead of the API you a... | null | 0 | 1318894160 | False | 0 | c2saj19 | t3_lf038 | null | t1_c2saj19 | t1_c2s6hqp | null | 1428192195 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | grauenwolf | null | So I need to document my code with comments like these?
//I refactored this
//I used a flow chart to decide what to write here
//This code was bench tested at some point in the past
| null | 0 | 1318894466 | False | 0 | c2sakkj | t3_lf1px | null | t1_c2sakkj | t1_c2sagho | null | 1427745644 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | andyrocks | null | How did that happen? I've worked with MSMQ quite a bit and I've never found those sorts of problems. | null | 0 | 1318894833 | False | 0 | c2sambr | t3_lff3n | null | t1_c2sambr | t1_c2s9m0u | null | 1427745668 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | badcookies | null | Usually I mean built in libraries (I do C# dev the most), so much stuff is out there, but you'd never know unless you read every page of the documentation or search on places like stackoverflow lol :) | null | 0 | 1318894928 | False | 0 | c2samsu | t3_lehrj | null | t1_c2samsu | t1_c2s49y0 | null | 1427745673 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
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