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True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1319019622 | False | 0 | c2soqzw | t3_lhcni | null | t1_c2soqzw | t3_lhcni | null | 1427752454 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [A mathematicians reality, perhaps.](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0138704/) | null | 0 | 1319019623 | False | 0 | c2sor03 | t3_lh1ly | null | t1_c2sor03 | t1_c2sntxh | null | 1427752454 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | deong | null | And that's why we can't have nice things. :)
Seriously, if people can manage to convince themselves to simultaneously (a) prefer a magic number over a meaningful constant that's actually defined as part of the language, (b) abuse the flexibility of the type system horribly to enable them to do so, and (c) force themse... | null | 0 | 1319019853 | False | 0 | c2sore4 | t3_lg59j | null | t1_c2sore4 | t1_c2so4ee | null | 1427752459 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | julesjacobs | null | Racket is a variant of Scheme, much like Java and C#, and Python and Ruby are variants of each other. That is, there are considerable differences between Racket and other Schemes. | null | 0 | 1319020147 | False | 0 | c2sory4 | t3_lgn04 | null | t1_c2sory4 | t1_c2snwm5 | null | 1427752466 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | schot | null | Last time I checked memcpy wasn't a varags function.
\_kst\_ is right, if `(void *)` and `(int *)` have a different size or representation you're in trouble. Although I suspect the DeathStation 9000 is the only machine where this is the case. | null | 0 | 1319020151 | False | 0 | c2soryf | t3_lgfp0 | null | t1_c2soryf | t1_c2sng8h | null | 1427752466 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | kaaskop42 | null | > Publishing stuff is evil
That... that... Look, I.A.N.A.L., but that is possibly the retardedest things I've ever heard. Pray, according to which moral code is publishing evil? | null | 0 | 1319020256 | False | 0 | c2sos60 | t3_lgwpf | null | t1_c2sos60 | t1_c2soo50 | null | 1427752468 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Koreija | null | Curl has globbing:
curl -O "http://twimgs.com/ddj/abrashblackbook/gpbb{,intr,pt1,pt2,aftr,indx}.pdf" -O "http://twimgs.com/ddj/abrashblackbook/gpbb[0-70].pdf" | null | 0 | 1319020273 | True | 0 | c2sos78 | t3_lgwpf | null | t1_c2sos78 | t1_c2sofdf | null | 1427752468 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | sidneyc | null | You are absolutely right.
For two implementations with unsigned-long bits equal to 'na' and 'nb' (na >= nb), the lower 'nb' bits of 'next' will be identical on both implementations. Since only bits 31..16 are ever returned, and nb >= 32, the behavior is as-if nb only has 31 bits, even though the state is larger ... | null | 0 | 1319020564 | False | 0 | c2sosrn | t3_lfsfk | null | t1_c2sosrn | t1_c2snuti | null | 1427752472 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | For what it's worth, here's what Alexander Stepanov has to say on the subject:
> While we could make a member function to return length, it is better to make it a global friend function. If we do that, we will be able eventually to define the same function to work on built-in arrays and achieve greater uniformity o... | null | 0 | 1319020607 | False | 0 | c2sosur | t3_lg940 | null | t1_c2sosur | t1_c2sl4sd | null | 1427752474 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | MarshallBanana | null | It is a practical question. No language lawyering whatsoever. For a practical question, you should know that in practice, sizeof(int) is 4 on a 64-bit system. | null | 0 | 1319020828 | False | 0 | c2sot9w | t3_lgfp0 | null | t1_c2sot9w | t1_c2sofqg | null | 1427752479 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | JohnDoe365 | null | An article about sketching without a single sketchup? | null | 0 | 1319020849 | False | 0 | c2sotbe | t3_lh3av | null | t1_c2sotbe | t3_lh3av | null | 1427752480 | 8 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | MarshallBanana | null | Why not? It's a practical question, and it practice, sizeof(int) is 4, and you should know that. | null | 0 | 1319020871 | False | 0 | c2sotcv | t3_lgfp0 | null | t1_c2sotcv | t1_c2soew3 | null | 1427752481 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Iggyhopper | null | You didn't see it? He wrote it in whitespace. | null | 0 | 1319020930 | False | 0 | c2soth4 | t3_lh3av | null | t1_c2soth4 | t1_c2sotbe | null | 1428191999 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | MarshallBanana | null | Again: None of that is relevant to the topic. The only relevance is that you are reaching for some way to prove me wrong, no matter if it has anything to do wit the discussion or not.
Yes, I know very well that sizeof(int) can be 2. *I work on embedded systems*. The statement was meant to be taken in the context of th... | null | 0 | 1319021029 | False | 0 | c2sotng | t3_lgfp0 | null | t1_c2sotng | t1_c2sn3cg | null | 1427752483 | -1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | JohnDoe365 | null | Knowing that aw is "a word", ap is "a paragraph", etc. actually makes vim not that crazy any more. | null | 0 | 1319021069 | False | 0 | c2sotpn | t3_lfblq | null | t1_c2sotpn | t1_c2s7g0h | null | 1427752486 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | malkarouri | null | You are broadly right, but I would have to temper your response with [collections.Iterable](http://docs.python.org/library/collections.html#collections.Iterable) | null | 0 | 1319021082 | False | 0 | c2sotqo | t3_lg940 | null | t1_c2sotqo | t1_c2skzp9 | null | 1427752486 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | MarshallBanana | null | > I am just challenging the wording you use that most programmers will only see an int size of 4.
No, you're ignoring the context of the discussion and just trying to show that you are clever.
| null | 0 | 1319021106 | False | 0 | c2sots2 | t3_lgfp0 | null | t1_c2sots2 | t1_c2sn0mm | null | 1427752486 | -2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Eloff | null | wget with lots of flags does the job:
wget -r -l1 -H -t1 -nd -N -np -A.pdf -erobots=off http://drdobbs.com/high-performance-computing/184404919
| null | 0 | 1319021120 | False | 0 | c2sott6 | t3_lgwpf | null | t1_c2sott6 | t3_lgwpf | null | 1427752486 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | MarshallBanana | null | On some 64-bit systems *which you will never encounter*. | null | 0 | 1319021151 | False | 0 | c2sotuw | t3_lgfp0 | null | t1_c2sotuw | t1_c2sm3es | null | 1427752487 | -1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | > Perhaps everyone should know that about C#/Java, but that's another story entirely :)
Anyone programming Java should damn well know that.
I don't always use operators without knowing what they mean, but when I do, it's because I'm a retard trying to program Java. | null | 0 | 1319021319 | False | 0 | c2sou5l | t3_lg1xx | null | t1_c2sou5l | t1_c2sogsr | null | 1427752491 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | nikbackm | null | Well, it looks prettier! Have to draw the C# programmers back somehow :)
Perhaps there's also some possible user mistakes that can be prevented this way? | null | 0 | 1319021758 | False | 0 | c2souz9 | t3_lh6ey | null | t1_c2souz9 | t1_c2so0r7 | null | 1427752503 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | starspangledpickle | null | I think you can do it better in bash:
wget http://twimgs.com/ddj/abrashblackbook/gpbb{0..70}.pdf
| null | 0 | 1319021971 | False | 0 | c2sovdk | t3_lgwpf | null | t1_c2sovdk | t1_c2sobk2 | null | 1427752507 | 22 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | killerstorm | null | Lazy evaluation is still deterministic, so Haskell program have well-defined performance characteristics. So you can be sure that it won't try to instantiate an infinite data structure, for example, through speculative execution.
Compiler is free to re-order evaluation, but only as long as it can prove that optimizati... | null | 0 | 1319021996 | False | 0 | c2sovfa | t3_lh1ly | null | t1_c2sovfa | t1_c2sopbr | null | 1427752507 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | TrivialSolutions | null | Suppose you were Microsoft. You made code with a GPL license. In it you taught linked lists. Kids looked at it. Now, they cannot use linked lists.
That is why I publish in the public domain.
Maybe this book has some ideas. If I look, I cannot use the ideas. Perhaps, the ideas are simple ones I could have thoug... | null | 0 | 1319022033 | False | 0 | c2sovhg | t3_lgwpf | null | t1_c2sovhg | t1_c2sos60 | null | 1427752508 | -8 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Alexis_ | null | now try using jagged multidimensional arrays and experience the joy of having to keep an array that contains the length of the arrays, as well as keeping the length of the array that contains the length of all the arrays in the multidimensional array. fuck that shit.
*... then experience "arr[0].Length"* | null | 0 | 1319022406 | False | 0 | c2sow6r | t3_lgfp0 | null | t1_c2sow6r | t1_c2sofz8 | null | 1427752517 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | Perhaps you could provide a list of academics who feel this way? | null | 0 | 1319022438 | False | 0 | c2sow93 | t3_lfm1k | null | t1_c2sow93 | t1_c2sn7yu | null | 1427752525 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | gladiatorhat | null | There was a good article on A List Apart on this subject a while back: http://www.alistapart.com/articles/sketching-the-visual-thinking-power-tool/ | null | 0 | 1319022773 | False | 0 | c2soww8 | t3_lh3av | null | t1_c2soww8 | t3_lh3av | null | 1427752527 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | theeth | null | My point was that is wasn't "just visual c++ being silly". The ABI decision was taken by the OS team. | null | 0 | 1319022775 | False | 0 | c2sowwc | t3_lgjhl | null | t1_c2sowwc | t1_c2sohbj | null | 1427752527 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Poddster | null | I experience it all the time. Not as easy as a dynamic language, but it's not exactly difficult. | null | 0 | 1319022830 | False | 0 | c2sowzw | t3_lgfp0 | null | t1_c2sowzw | t1_c2sow6r | null | 1427752529 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | TomorrowPlusX | null | I bought it way back in 99 or so, and I still love it. Mainly because it taught me how to think about optimization.
I don't write ASM, it's a matter of preference. But I still use what I learned when writing optimized C++ for graphics programming.
I still go through it every few years, too. | null | 0 | 1319022955 | False | 0 | c2sox8q | t3_lgwpf | null | t1_c2sox8q | t1_c2slp6e | null | 1427752531 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | kaaskop42 | null | It seems to me like you're a programmer, not a lawyer, and that you just should stop worrying about stuff like this. Reading a book and not being able to apply the ideas in it is absurd, no matter what some law says. Why would the whole concept of 'book' exist, if the point wasn't to spread ideas and knowledge? Just go... | null | 0 | 1319023023 | False | 0 | c2soxd7 | t3_lgwpf | null | t1_c2soxd7 | t1_c2sovhg | null | 1427752532 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | GarMan | null | Do I get a special prize if i just got it all right without trying hard? | null | 0 | 1319023066 | False | 0 | c2soxgi | t3_lgfp0 | null | t1_c2soxgi | t3_lgfp0 | null | 1427752534 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | TrivialSolutions | null | http://www.boston.com/Boston/businessupdates/2011/10/foreclosure/L4Gl3gBBokZEwJZqLgstuN/index.html
I would not give-up my 100% 120,000 LOC authorship of LoseThos lightly. Honestly, I would probably stick with my home-made graphics routines even if others were better and available public domain. I just hate Linux and... | null | 0 | 1319023120 | False | 0 | c2soxk3 | t3_lgwpf | null | t1_c2soxk3 | t1_c2sovhg | null | 1427752535 | -5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | schot | null | C99 6.3.2.3 clause 3:
> An integer constant expression with the value 0, or such an expression cast
> to type void *, is called a null pointer constant. (Footnote: The macro NULL is defined in <stddef.h> (and other headers) as a null pointer constant) [...] | null | 0 | 1319023170 | False | 0 | c2soxnf | t3_lgfp0 | null | t1_c2soxnf | t1_c2smgm6 | null | 1427752536 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | leoc | null | Yes, [Cavedog](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cavedog_Entertainment) was the now-defunct publisher of Chris Taylor's *Total Annihilation*. | null | 0 | 1319023193 | False | 0 | c2soxox | t3_lgn04 | null | t1_c2soxox | t1_c2sok99 | null | 1427752537 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1319023218 | False | 0 | c2soxqi | t3_lhdhb | null | t1_c2soxqi | t3_lhdhb | null | 1427752537 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | jlouis8 | null | Let us take them from an end:
* The structural subtyping system of Go resembles the OO system of Ocaml in many ways. Ocaml is 10 years ahead here, at least.
* Lightweight concurrency: See Occam, Haskell or Erlang.
* Garbage Collection: And old strategy. What is amazing is that this idea has not been picked up earlier.... | null | 0 | 1319023357 | False | 0 | c2soy0c | t3_lh1ly | null | t1_c2soy0c | t1_c2sooh1 | null | 1427752541 | 10 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | elperroborrachotoo | null | volatile, as defined by the C standard, does not guarantee atomicity or affect execution order, which would be essential for threading and memory access reordering. Re-reading from stale cache is no better than reusing a stale register.
Compiler implementers have loaded "more meaning" onto volatile, depending on the ... | null | 0 | 1319023379 | False | 0 | c2soy23 | t3_lgjhl | null | t1_c2soy23 | t1_c2sjzj5 | null | 1427752541 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | maximinus-thrax | null | As a lisper, I have to agree that Shen looks interesting.... but like Qi before, the author seems to have picked one of the worst possible licenses to use. I quote:
> the diversity and freedom to fork which was lauded as a strength of open source, has turned into the major weakness of Linux
Nobody uses Linux, righ... | null | 0 | 1319023387 | False | 0 | c2soy2r | t3_lh1ly | null | t1_c2soy2r | t1_c2smvri | null | 1427752542 | 8 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | Why are you thinking of Objects as values? | null | 0 | 1319023614 | False | 0 | c2soyjp | t3_lg1xx | null | t1_c2soyjp | t1_c2sogiu | null | 1427752548 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | maximinus-thrax | null | Nice link. I've always thought that a programmer who can't express his idea on a white-board in a couple of minutes probably doesn't understand what he's doing, or is some sort of architecture astronaut. | null | 0 | 1319023640 | False | 0 | c2soyld | t3_lh3av | null | t1_c2soyld | t1_c2soww8 | null | 1427752548 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | axilmar | null | > You wanted your type to be: polymorphic, non-polymorphic base, and a standalone type. This goal is at odds even in C++.
It's not odd at all. A type may be non-polymorphic, but optionally used as a base class of a polymorphic type. In C++, I can inherit from this non-polymorphic type and make my derived class poly... | null | 0 | 1319023764 | False | 0 | c2soyuo | t3_kljc0 | null | t1_c2soyuo | t1_c2sh2ow | null | 1427752552 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | cunningjames | null | > where all other languages in the list are functional
That’s just not true. Depending on how you slice the terminology, the list contains a greater number of imperative/OO languages than functional ones; but in my view, at least, none of Ioke, Go, CoffeeScript, Potion, Mirah, Scratch, or Fortress count as primaril... | null | 0 | 1319023899 | False | 0 | c2soz5z | t3_lh1ly | null | t1_c2soz5z | t1_c2sooh1 | null | 1427752559 | 9 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | elperroborrachotoo | null | The compiler could make a more stringent guarantees: if you guarantee certain writes will always be visible, volatile or not, *then* volatile has no meaning.
("certain writes", roughly, could be writes to globals or statics or to pointers that can't be proven to not reference such a location.)
This woulld kill some ... | null | 0 | 1319023986 | False | 0 | c2sozcs | t3_lgjhl | null | t1_c2sozcs | t1_c2sibxr | null | 1427752561 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | moonrocks | null | Well, it would seem that if we're allowed to rely on the common expression of NULL as `((void*)0)' then the printf() above should have no undefined behavior. | null | 0 | 1319024087 | False | 0 | c2sozkd | t3_lgfp0 | null | t1_c2sozkd | t1_c2soxnf | null | 1427752563 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | kaaskop42 | null | Unless you fork the Linux kernel and sell a product with the modified version in it, you have no reason to worry about the GPL. There are thousands of businesses that use Linux in their daily operations to bring some useful service to people. When you call that communism, we're in the land of ideology, where I can't he... | null | 0 | 1319024144 | False | 0 | c2sozp3 | t3_lgwpf | null | t1_c2sozp3 | t1_c2soxk3 | null | 1428191996 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | taejo | null | I wrote a snake game as an MBR a few weeks ago. Unfortunately I had to use the partition table space for level data (I wanted to have ten levels) so the disk isn't usable for anything else. | null | 0 | 1319024224 | False | 0 | c2sozur | t3_lfqqr | null | t1_c2sozur | t3_lfqqr | null | 1427752566 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | poisondwarf | null | I started doing this a year or two ago and not only does it make it easier to focus on the task at hand, but you don't waste nearly as much time correcting anything in the future. I actually stopped doing it for my current project at work, thanks for the reminder! | null | 0 | 1319024238 | False | 0 | c2sozw3 | t3_lh3av | null | t1_c2sozw3 | t3_lh3av | null | 1427752566 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | johnmudd | null | Cool, he bridged the gap between feeling (meditation) and thinking (processing). | null | 0 | 1319024278 | False | 0 | c2sozyv | t3_lh3av | null | t1_c2sozyv | t3_lh3av | null | 1427752567 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | and the intr pt1 etc:
wget http://twimgs.com/ddj/abrashblackbook/gpbb{,intr,pt1,pt2,aftr,indx,{0..70}}.pdf
*EDIT* opps, forgot the cover (""); *EDIT2* actually, you can leave out the quotes. | null | 0 | 1319024284 | True | 0 | c2sozze | t3_lgwpf | null | t1_c2sozze | t1_c2sovdk | null | 1427752567 | 13 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1319024335 | False | 0 | c2sp02x | t3_lh6ey | null | t1_c2sp02x | t3_lh6ey | null | 1427752568 | -5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | imbcmdth | null | Check out [Real-time Rendering, 3rd ed](http://www.amazon.com/Real-Time-Rendering-Third-Tomas-Akenine-Moller/dp/1568814240). | null | 0 | 1319024366 | False | 0 | c2sp05p | t3_lgwpf | null | t1_c2sp05p | t1_c2sm9qb | null | 1427752570 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | MarshallBanana | null | It's extremely cute, but I am not really convinced it is actually very usable for practical drawing rather than trivial examples.
| null | 0 | 1319024429 | False | 0 | c2sp0a5 | t3_lgn04 | null | t1_c2sp0a5 | t1_c2sm1h3 | null | 1427752571 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | fogus | null | I couldn't have said it better myself. | null | 0 | 1319024475 | False | 0 | c2sp0dj | t3_lh1ly | null | t1_c2sp0dj | t1_c2soz5z | null | 1427752572 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | TrivialSolutions | null | This book is probably licensed like the GPL.
I also want to win converts to public domain coding and my operating system.
I could sell LoseThos if Linux wasn't free. As it is, I just hope LoseThos gets popular and I can find some angle to make money. | null | 0 | 1319024529 | False | 0 | c2sp0hk | t3_lgwpf | null | t1_c2sp0hk | t1_c2sozp3 | null | 1427752574 | -1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | axilmar | null | > You "left" because if you hadn't, you'd have gotten yourself banned for not contributing to the discussions.
I cannot contribute anything to discussions that are about bashing pragmatic programming languages. LtU discussions are mostly about blaming all other languages except Haskell.
> Multiple people, multi... | null | 0 | 1319024721 | False | 0 | c2sp0xu | t3_lfm1k | null | t1_c2sp0xu | t1_c2sgjai | null | 1427752581 | -4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | elperroborrachotoo | null | > i[n] practice, sizeof(int) is 4
In reality, sizeof(int) is platform specific. That's the whole point of my post.
I've started on machines where sizeof(int) was 2, my collegues work on platforms where this is still true, and I've walked through a machine where I wouldn't make a bet on char having 8 bits.
I agr... | null | 0 | 1319024780 | False | 0 | c2sp128 | t3_lgfp0 | null | t1_c2sp128 | t1_c2sotcv | null | 1427752581 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | keepingitcivil | null | I never bothered to look into Jungian thought, but this is very relevant to me if it's true. | null | 0 | 1319024788 | False | 0 | c2sp132 | t3_lh3av | null | t1_c2sp132 | t1_c2sokfg | null | 1427752581 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | JustPlainRude | null | I remember working through stuff like this in high school. Devs have it too easy these days! | null | 0 | 1319024809 | False | 0 | c2sp150 | t3_lh7x0 | null | t1_c2sp150 | t3_lh7x0 | null | 1427752581 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | keepingitcivil | null | What does this mean? | null | 0 | 1319024827 | False | 0 | c2sp16i | t3_lh3av | null | t1_c2sp16i | t1_c2sozyv | null | 1427752582 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | wadcann | null | The same problem still exists — you don't know whether or not you're working with a struct or a small type. If I'm working with a `struct foo *`, it's clearly a pointer and can be passed cheaply. If I'm working with a `foo_t`, it may-or-may-not be a pointer; it might also be a `struct foo` or something else. | null | 0 | 1319024927 | False | 0 | c2sp1dv | t3_lc090 | null | t1_c2sp1dv | t1_c2sn3k2 | null | 1427752586 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | gavinb | null | The pencil is mightier than the keyboard! | null | 0 | 1319024928 | False | 0 | c2sp1dz | t3_lh3av | null | t1_c2sp1dz | t3_lh3av | null | 1427752586 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | eddeh | null | Nicely done :) I actually remember my frustration of not having the time to do anything fancy when I had to implement an RB tree in my Algorithms course so I had to resort to some ugly console ascii visualization just hours before delivery. To add to my frustration I had the CG course the following semester ... | null | 0 | 1319025008 | False | 0 | c2sp1kz | t3_le286 | null | t1_c2sp1kz | t3_le286 | null | 1427752591 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Berengal | null | The issue here is that there are so many different ways you could want parallellism and concurrency, and you need to be explicit about which of them you want; it's can't be done implicitly. I think it's wrong to look at programs as either multithreaded or singlethreaded, but instead realise that there are at least 4-5 ... | null | 0 | 1319025193 | False | 0 | c2sp1yy | t3_lh1ly | null | t1_c2sp1yy | t1_c2sobl0 | null | 1427752594 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | kamatsu | null | Yes, they have. If you do any sort of formal verification, minimizing state is absolutely essential. The more shared the state is, the harder it is to verify. Reasoning formally about code with shared state is a fucking nightmare. | null | 0 | 1319025264 | False | 0 | c2sp24y | t3_lfm1k | null | t1_c2sp24y | t1_c2sokn9 | null | 1427752595 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | voltagex | null | There is another book I'm looking for - similar tutorials but made heavy use of Turbo Pascal - any ideas? | null | 0 | 1319025372 | False | 0 | c2sp2du | t3_lgwpf | null | t1_c2sp2du | t3_lgwpf | null | 1427752598 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | fogus | null | Thank you for sharing your thoughts on Magpie -- I look forward to exploring further. I placed the word blog in quotes because what you've done is so much more that the typical blog fluff -- like mine. | null | 0 | 1319025376 | False | 0 | c2sp2e6 | t3_lh1ly | null | t1_c2sp2e6 | t1_c2snbtg | null | 1427752599 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | tiftik | null | Not when it's a function with variable arguments. | null | 0 | 1319025446 | False | 0 | c2sp2k4 | t3_lgfp0 | null | t1_c2sp2k4 | t1_c2sncqr | null | 1427752606 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | axilmar | null | A good example of C is broken.
| null | 0 | 1319025550 | False | 0 | c2sp2sa | t3_lgfp0 | null | t1_c2sp2sa | t3_lgfp0 | null | 1427752604 | -1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | tiftik | null | Irrelevant to this case. printf will be expecting a void\*, but will receive another pointer type. No, it will not be automagically casted because this is a function with variable arguments. | null | 0 | 1319025552 | False | 0 | c2sp2se | t3_lgfp0 | null | t1_c2sp2se | t1_c2sogta | null | 1427752604 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Foxpound | null | > i always wondered why osx doesn't ship with wget.
If my memory serves me right, it was about a licensing issue when OS X 10.1 came out.
Here's [the only piece](http://hints.macworld.com/article.php?story=20010927115909471) I was able to retrieve about it. | null | 0 | 1319025603 | False | 0 | c2sp2wl | t3_lgwpf | null | t1_c2sp2wl | t1_c2soh22 | null | 1427752606 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | keithb | null | I see that you conflate "reasoning about" with "formal verification".
Got any citations for this work on whole system behaviour? | null | 0 | 1319025746 | False | 0 | c2sp38k | t3_lfm1k | null | t1_c2sp38k | t1_c2sp24y | null | 1427752611 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | MarshallBanana | null | It was specifically mentioned in the quiz that the machine in question is 64 bit. There are no 64 bit architectures with sizeof(int) as 2, not with anything but 8-bit chars. There are a few where sizeof(int) is 8, but these are so exceedingly rare that you will never in practice encounter one. | null | 0 | 1319025793 | False | 0 | c2sp3cx | t3_lgfp0 | null | t1_c2sp3cx | t1_c2sp128 | null | 1427752612 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | I read your explanation in terms of dealing with just one level of abstraction at a time: sketching, high-level pseudo-code, maths. When something is complex enough, it's not possible to keep all the details in mind at once. So these tools really do amplify your intelligence, making things possible that would otherwise... | null | 0 | 1319025805 | False | 0 | c2sp3dy | t3_lh3av | null | t1_c2sp3dy | t3_lh3av | null | 1427752612 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Alexis_ | null | >up to the newest features of ANSI-C++
Was expecting C++11 information, but it's just the same information that's been available at cplusplus.com for years (which is a great site, btw... don't get me wrong)
Ansi C++ == C++98 for those who are as thick as I am :) | null | 0 | 1319025927 | False | 0 | c2sp3om | t3_lh8n8 | null | t1_c2sp3om | t3_lh8n8 | null | 1427752615 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | mallardtheduck | null | > Not as easy as a dynamic language
C# isn't (for the most part) a dynamic language. Even C++ has much easier to handle arrays, in the form of `std::array` (or `std::vector` if you want variable sized arrays). | null | 0 | 1319025966 | False | 0 | c2sp3s9 | t3_lgfp0 | null | t1_c2sp3s9 | t1_c2sowzw | null | 1427752617 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | johnmudd | null | IMO, meditation is just switching from thinking to feeling. Also IMO, You can't feel (I say "feel" but I mean sense, any of the senses) and think at the same time. So, the value of meditation is that it gives a person a break from thinking. This is useful in our western world were we spend almost all of our time thinki... | null | 0 | 1319026191 | True | 0 | c2sp4cf | t3_lh3av | null | t1_c2sp4cf | t1_c2sp16i | null | 1427752624 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | tiftik | null | Are you kidding me? This is elementary C stuff. You don't know C if you don't even know types, array decaying and pointer arithmetic. | null | 0 | 1319026218 | False | 0 | c2sp4eq | t3_lgfp0 | null | t1_c2sp4eq | t1_c2slwvr | null | 1427752625 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | It's not like you can't learn anything from it. Certainly, the source code itself is going to be all but useless, but all the theory still works.
Heck, in some places it's *more* useful. Any modern graphics book mentions how to tell the video card how to do texture mapping, for example, but how many tell you how t... | null | 0 | 1319026227 | False | 0 | c2sp4fk | t3_lh7x0 | null | t1_c2sp4fk | t1_c2soiln | null | 1427752625 | 13 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | lanbanger | null | I won't be going back, except for the most performance-critical stuff. C# is the One True Way for application development, in my opinion.
| null | 0 | 1319026302 | False | 0 | c2sp4lu | t3_lh6ey | null | t1_c2sp4lu | t1_c2souz9 | null | 1427752628 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | elperroborrachotoo | null | > There are no 64 bit architectures with sizeof(int) as 2
That's a rather arbitrary fact that has absolutely no place in a discussion about the language. How would I *proove* today that there will be no compiler with an ILP64 data model at some arbitrary date in the future?
A compiler for a 64 bit platform where a... | null | 0 | 1319026512 | False | 0 | c2sp54b | t3_lgfp0 | null | t1_c2sp54b | t1_c2sp3cx | null | 1427752635 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | mhd | null | That's basically yesterday in C years. | null | 0 | 1319026740 | False | 0 | c2sp5oy | t3_lgmfx | null | t1_c2sp5oy | t1_c2soan6 | null | 1427752641 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | mhd | null | I've worked in the auto industry. Believe me, embedded C is the least of your worries… | null | 0 | 1319026773 | False | 0 | c2sp5s7 | t3_lgmfx | null | t1_c2sp5s7 | t1_c2smdiw | null | 1427752644 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Kyrox | null | :D
Ohwow, that's some crazy stuff. Time to watch all of it o.o Thanks for the link! | null | 0 | 1319026870 | False | 0 | c2sp61e | t3_lefzo | null | t1_c2sp61e | t1_c2s1w7m | null | 1427752646 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | No. The only 64-bit integer type is `long`, and on windows(iirc) you need to go all the way to `long long`.
Solution: use `uint32_t`, `uint64_t`, and `size_t`. | null | 0 | 1319026914 | False | 0 | c2sp660 | t3_lgfp0 | null | t1_c2sp660 | t1_c2sh69m | null | 1427752648 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | On what modern system does `sizeof(int)` equal anything but 4? | null | 0 | 1319027021 | False | 0 | c2sp6gh | t3_lgfp0 | null | t1_c2sp6gh | t1_c2shcd2 | null | 1427752652 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | Objective-c *is* c, plus more. | null | 0 | 1319027192 | False | 0 | c2sp6ww | t3_lgfp0 | null | t1_c2sp6ww | t1_c2sm3q0 | null | 1427752657 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | MarshallBanana | null | > That's a rather arbitrary fact that has absolutely no place in a discussion about the language.
This is *not a discussion about the language*. This is a discussion about a practical quiz. | null | 0 | 1319027402 | False | 0 | c2sp7g2 | t3_lgfp0 | null | t1_c2sp7g2 | t1_c2sp54b | null | 1427752664 | -1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | zsakuL | null | Maybe they look pretty to a language nerd, but perhaps imperative guys are not drawn to functional languages because they don't seem useful for solving the problems they need to. | null | 0 | 1319027519 | False | 0 | c2sp7qr | t3_lh1ly | null | t1_c2sp7qr | t1_c2solcy | null | 1427752669 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | behrangsa | null | Any articles/citations please? Would like to know more about this thinking. | null | 0 | 1319027525 | False | 0 | c2sp7ri | t3_lh3av | null | t1_c2sp7ri | t1_c2sokfg | null | 1427752669 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | __j_random_hacker | null | > instantiate an infinite data structure
As I see it, that's exactly the reason why *implicit* parallelism is impossible in general -- the compiler of a language that supported it would have to be able to prove that the other function arguments all reduce down to normal forms. While it may be able to do this for s... | null | 0 | 1319027531 | False | 0 | c2sp7s4 | t3_lh1ly | null | t1_c2sp7s4 | t1_c2sovfa | null | 1427752669 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | tompa_coder | null | I did a simple test, I've kept all the intermediary files generated by clang at compilation of a simple Hello World application. The resulting assembly file can be compiled manually only with GNU as and not with llvm-as (a lot of errors) ... Maybe it wasn't the best possible test ... | null | 0 | 1319027564 | False | 0 | c2sp7vh | t3_le4h4 | null | t1_c2sp7vh | t1_c2sghwx | null | 1427752672 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | pnpbios | null | I think for C# programmers, it would be best to start off on a very strict subset of c++. | null | 0 | 1319027684 | False | 0 | c2sp879 | t3_lg1xx | null | t1_c2sp879 | t1_c2so7po | null | 1427752677 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | ethraax | null | Yeah, nobody ever programs 3D games for Windows. | null | 0 | 1319027907 | False | 0 | c2sp8u6 | t3_lh7x0 | null | t1_c2sp8u6 | t1_c2soooo | null | 1428191993 | 15 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1319027924 | False | 0 | c2sp8vx | t3_lh1ly | null | t1_c2sp8vx | t1_c2soz5z | null | 1427752684 | -4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | elperroborrachotoo | null | > This is a discussion about a practical quiz discussing details of the language definition.
FTFY. | null | 0 | 1319027948 | False | 0 | c2sp8y5 | t3_lgfp0 | null | t1_c2sp8y5 | t1_c2sp7g2 | null | 1427752685 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Metaluim | null | This. The code is outdated and you shouldn't even try to run it. But the theory behind it is nuclear. | null | 0 | 1319028042 | False | 0 | c2sp97k | t3_lh7x0 | null | t1_c2sp97k | t1_c2sp4fk | null | 1427752688 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | MarshallBanana | null | > Are you trolling, or just ignorant?
Are you incapable of having a civilized discussion? | null | 0 | 1319028096 | False | 0 | c2sp9cx | t3_lgjhl | null | t1_c2sp9cx | t1_c2sjzj5 | null | 1427752690 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | killerstorm | null | > The issue here is that there are so many different ways you could want parallellism and concurrency, and you need to be explicit about which of them you want; it's can't be done implicitly.
Um, why? I'm not talking about an universal solution which will be better or equal to other solutions, or will choose optima... | null | 0 | 1319028260 | False | 0 | c2sp9ui | t3_lh1ly | null | t1_c2sp9ui | t1_c2sp1yy | null | 1427752696 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | SingularityNow | null | I dunno...I guess to each their own. I'm pretty happy with Digsby, I've got friends who are die hard about Pidgin, and before I stopped stealing it Trillian was The Jam. | null | 0 | 1319028406 | False | 0 | c2spab3 | t3_lca6k | null | t1_c2spab3 | t1_c2snbuf | null | 1427752702 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
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