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True | cultic_raider | null | Yeah, GitHub should do Creative Commons esque license and copyright management features in pull requests.
| null | 0 | 1319409344 | False | 0 | c2tuvm7 | t3_llw0s | null | t1_c2tuvm7 | t1_c2tu1bs | null | 1427772761 | 11 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | MatrixFrog | null | Okay, that makes sense. But I suppose it will start using Dart at some point... | null | 0 | 1319409439 | False | 0 | c2tuw26 | t3_lkpil | null | t1_c2tuw26 | t1_c2tuuz5 | null | 1427772767 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | > Why does the license determines contribution?
Because to contribute you need to use the code. People who try to contribute because they want to contribute to an open source project are quickly (and rightfully!) told to get the fuck out, such is life.
If you are using the code, then your incentive to contribute i... | null | 0 | 1319409762 | False | 0 | c2tuxmi | t3_llw0s | null | t1_c2tuxmi | t1_c2tusw2 | null | 1427772788 | -2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | grauenwolf | null | In .NET you can load multiple versions of the same assembly (think library), but it is frowned upon.
The only time I've done it was to do side-by-side testing of two versions to ensure there were no regressions.
> I don't know why Java is the way it is, but it I'm guessing people wanted to run lots of heterogene... | null | 0 | 1319410156 | False | 0 | c2tuzgq | t3_llz5l | null | t1_c2tuzgq | t1_c2tuon4 | null | 1427772812 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Jack9 | null | That graph shows that languages are losing popularity among developers. So something is missing. | null | 0 | 1319410179 | False | 0 | c2tuzkt | t3_lle7t | null | t1_c2tuzkt | t3_lle7t | null | 1427772813 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | simonask | null | These are all good reasons you should distrust any Computer Science degree that doesn't include at least 3 or 4 different programming language courses (something object-oriented, something dynamic, something functional, something unsafe). | null | 0 | 1319410361 | False | 0 | c2tv0hd | t3_lle7t | null | t1_c2tv0hd | t1_c2tpzdv | null | 1427772824 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | ugart | null | You know, for constructive criticism, tutorials, and general sharing of knowledge! | null | 0 | 1319410401 | False | 0 | c2tv0nf | t3_lmgl5 | null | t1_c2tv0nf | t3_lmgl5 | null | 1427772827 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | crankybadger | null | Google has been trying to promote Go as an alternative, but that's a long way off.
Prior to C you didn't really have anything equivalent. Everything was vendor specific with a few exceptions like COBOL and FORTRAN, and nobody has any business writing low-level code in those.
The comparison between C and Latin is fair... | null | 0 | 1319410543 | False | 0 | c2tv1bs | t3_lle7t | null | t1_c2tv1bs | t1_c2tsmjs | null | 1427772835 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | yeswecould | null | Maybe, but I came onto this Reddit topic with iPad and was initially afraid to open the website as I was afraid I would get my device hacked - we all how what utter and total crap iOS's security really is.
So I looked what OnSwipe really is and the fact is that it's server-side malware which causes no permanent damag... | null | 0 | 1319410553 | False | 0 | c2tv1dt | t3_llkkn | null | t1_c2tv1dt | t1_c2tueq2 | null | 1427772836 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | check your sarcasm meter | null | 0 | 1319410557 | False | 0 | c2tv1ee | t3_lle7t | null | t1_c2tv1ee | t1_c2tulud | null | 1427772836 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | Why do you think that this was voted down? It probably has 0 real downvotes. | null | 0 | 1319410666 | False | 0 | c2tv1xo | t3_llq5f | null | t1_c2tv1xo | t1_c2tqpkd | null | 1427772845 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | munificent | null | > And all of this so that people in group (1) don't get warnings when they try to define their own generic classes and don't give them variance annotations but use them in a covariant way.
Another way to look at it is "all this so that people can use generics in covariant (and contravariant) ways without the type s... | null | 0 | 1319410697 | False | 0 | c2tv233 | t3_lkpil | null | t1_c2tv233 | t1_c2tuegz | null | 1427772846 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Aramgutang | null | How easy would such a policy be to implement on a project hosted on GitHub? For example, every time you receive a pull request, can you just add a comment requesting copyright assignment? What if the pull request includes commits from more than one person? Or can I just put a disclaimer in the README saying that anyone... | null | 0 | 1319410700 | False | 0 | c2tv23w | t3_llw0s | null | t1_c2tv23w | t1_c2ts8ay | null | 1427772846 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | cerebrum | null | No, 99% of the code was my own creation, but I used some small parts of others code here and there. | null | 0 | 1319410702 | False | 0 | c2tv24g | t3_llw0s | null | t1_c2tv24g | t1_c2turjp | null | 1427772847 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | harlows_monkeys | null | Yeah, I'll add more detail next time. | null | 0 | 1319410824 | False | 0 | c2tv2ou | t3_llkkn | null | t1_c2tv2ou | t1_c2tv1dt | null | 1427772854 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | grauenwolf | null | Lets see...
1. You are defining a local variable as a Map when you know the instance is always going to be a HashMap.
2. The Java compiler knows damn well what type the variable needs to be, they just fucked up the type inference for local variables in the language spec.
3. The HashMap stores references to integers ... | null | 0 | 1319410834 | False | 0 | c2tv2qh | t3_llz5l | null | t1_c2tv2qh | t1_c2tukan | null | 1427772855 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | grauenwolf | null | > The JVM picks up the class definition as long as no structural changes have been made to the class (which means in practice you can change code INSIDE a method, but cannot add or delete methods, change the class name etc.
Uh, yea.... I'm not sure that is something that I actually want. Depending on the code chang... | null | 0 | 1319410961 | False | 0 | c2tv3e0 | t3_llz5l | null | t1_c2tv3e0 | t1_c2tuiro | null | 1427772864 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [All C ever said was "bite me", being a rude language and hard to live with, but still respected because it was such a good worker.](http://realtech.burningbird.net/web/fun-stuff/parable-languages) | null | 0 | 1319411098 | False | 0 | c2tv422 | t3_lle7t | null | t1_c2tv422 | t1_c2toihi | null | 1427772873 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | Java looks and acts like a really cute and interesting girl on her okcupid profile, until you meet her. She's significantly heavier than her picture shows, she brings her three children with her to dinner who scream at you the entire time, and she won't shut up about the most inane crap. | null | 0 | 1319411447 | False | 0 | c2tv5tb | t3_lle7t | null | t1_c2tv5tb | t1_c2tpt10 | null | 1427772897 | 10 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | daftman | null | So projects like Linux, WINE, KDE, and so on blow this argument:
> People who try to contribute because they want to contribute to an open source project are quickly (and rightfully!) told to get the fuck out, such is life.
and this argument
> Therefore, a licence[sic] that allows your code to be used by the h... | null | 0 | 1319411540 | False | 0 | c2tv68r | t3_llw0s | null | t1_c2tv68r | t1_c2tuxmi | null | 1427772900 | -1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | heatdeath | null | The reason I never write open source code is simple, because there's no money in it. I mean, there is in certain situations; DHH made lots of money off Rails through books, conferences, the like. But I can't see that happening with Mongrel because Mongrel is of smaller scope.
Anyway, I think this idea of "free for ope... | null | 0 | 1319411817 | False | 0 | c2tv7k2 | t3_llw0s | null | t1_c2tv7k2 | t3_llw0s | null | 1427772918 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | skew | null | > I meant monads predate their implementation in Haskell.
Fine, but don't expect me to believe that Moggi and Wadler don't fall into your category of
> type theory wankers that haven't had any real influence on mainstream programming language design in a decade.
(never mind that Wadler was one of the main desi... | null | 0 | 1319411876 | True | 0 | c2tv7tq | t3_lkpil | null | t1_c2tv7tq | t1_c2tlohq | null | 1427772922 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | ReverseEngineered | null | Care to explain why? | null | 0 | 1319411996 | False | 0 | c2tv8di | t3_llw0s | null | t1_c2tv8di | t1_c2tti0p | null | 1427772929 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | I wish more people could justify their license choice like this. I don't really care what license other people choose to use for their project (they can do what they want with their hard work) but it really annoys me when people choose a license like the GPL or BSD without doing any proper research into whether it fits... | null | 0 | 1319412023 | False | 0 | c2tv8i5 | t3_llw0s | null | t1_c2tv8i5 | t3_llw0s | null | 1427772930 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | jussij | null | No. C# *by design* eliminated the #define construct. | null | 0 | 1319412291 | False | 0 | c2tv9u9 | t3_ll5d1 | null | t1_c2tv9u9 | t1_c2ttwvg | null | 1427772954 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | WinterKing | null | > Starting a business requires you to obtain or create the things you need to operate the business.
This x1000. I have a client right now that has $$ $$ in his eyes over the possibilities of his idea, but those $ turn into ¢ when you actually count the resources required to make it viable. Basically the thought pro... | null | 0 | 1319412426 | False | 0 | c2tvah1 | t3_llw0s | null | t1_c2tvah1 | t1_c2tsy8b | null | 1427772961 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | I'm not sure if you can direct this problem at the GPL, it's more of a general problem for copyright on "projects" with multiple contributors.
BSD/MIT/CC essentially circumvent this by taking away all contributor rights. Which is a valid solution, but one that plenty of people are understandably uncomfortable with. | null | 0 | 1319412528 | False | 0 | c2tvayg | t3_llw0s | null | t1_c2tvayg | t1_c2ts0or | null | 1427772973 | -1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Scalawag | null | I worked on it from time to time over the course of a week or two. I wrote it in Java. You can have the source code if you'd like. | null | 0 | 1319412545 | False | 0 | c2tvb28 | t3_kvtrp | null | t1_c2tvb28 | t1_c2td1r9 | null | 1428191340 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | yash3ahuja | null | That would actually be great, thanks. Do you want me to PM you my email or something? | null | 0 | 1319412624 | False | 0 | c2tvbgq | t3_kvtrp | null | t1_c2tvbgq | t1_c2tvb28 | null | 1428191339 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | skew | null | Is there more on Knight's work? The key sentence seems to be
> The program is compiled into a series of independent instruction blocks each of which includes predominantly functional instructions and terminates in a side-effecting instruction and the processors execute the blocks in parallel.
which sounds a lot mo... | null | 0 | 1319412657 | False | 0 | c2tvbmj | t3_lkpil | null | t1_c2tvbmj | t1_c2tlatv | null | 1428191339 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | jussij | null | > Yeah, I never heard about GCC or LLVM either.
LLVM support for the Windows platform is poor.
It should come as no surprise that Apple treats the Windows platform as a poorer cousin to OSX and that ain't going to change any time soon.
| null | 0 | 1319412734 | False | 0 | c2tvbzs | t3_ll5d1 | null | t1_c2tvbzs | t1_c2tkg23 | null | 1428191337 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | You don't need to use AR with rails either, you can use DM for your persistence. Rails3 is reasonably modular.
The author is right though, if your app does anything other than CRUD you should separate that out or it *will* turn into a shitpile. | null | 0 | 1319413008 | False | 0 | c2tvdf4 | t3_llx97 | null | t1_c2tvdf4 | t1_c2ttn1y | null | 1427773007 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | jij | null | You just gave me flashbacks... so glad I quit that hellhole. | null | 0 | 1319413051 | False | 0 | c2tvdn1 | t3_llw0s | null | t1_c2tvdn1 | t1_c2trl5p | null | 1427773009 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | http://web.mit.edu/mmt/Public/Knight86.pdf | null | 0 | 1319413064 | False | 0 | c2tvdpm | t3_lkpil | null | t1_c2tvdpm | t1_c2tvbmj | null | 1427773015 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | ascii | null | For reference implementations of what could be considered an open standard, use BSD, because you actually _want_ people to fork your stuff. Even proprietary forks help more than they hinder because they help cement your version as the reference.
For exciting new software ideas, where the actual idea, not the standard ... | null | 0 | 1319413140 | False | 0 | c2tve2s | t3_llw0s | null | t1_c2tve2s | t3_llw0s | null | 1427773013 | 9 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Scalawag | null | That works. | null | 0 | 1319413157 | False | 0 | c2tve5k | t3_kvtrp | null | t1_c2tve5k | t1_c2tvbgq | null | 1427773025 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | jij | null | lmao, that's a load of shit man.
The GPL and BSD license schemes are simply different, one is not more "free" than the other, stop acting like a damn child. | null | 0 | 1319413203 | False | 0 | c2tved1 | t3_llw0s | null | t1_c2tved1 | t1_c2trrgd | null | 1427773015 | -2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | jtxx000 | null | From a different perspective, the GPL protects freedom while BSD permits restriction. | null | 0 | 1319413210 | False | 0 | c2tvees | t3_llw0s | null | t1_c2tvees | t1_c2tsjd9 | null | 1427773017 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | otherwiseguy | null | For your tree, you just don't pull in any changes from anyone else unless they have signed your waiver. This essentially puts your tree competing against forks that don't necessarily have your licensing limitations. For this to be viable, you would have to provide benefits that made it worth it to developers to contrib... | null | 0 | 1319413241 | False | 0 | c2tvel8 | t3_llw0s | null | t1_c2tvel8 | t1_c2tv23w | null | 1427773017 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | edwardkmett | null | Sadly, Zed's tone back then was probably a good part of why people didn't bring him in as a consultant.
I would like to say personally, I have benefitted a great deal financially from licensing large amounts of code under the BSD license.
Most tellingly, [he has since recanted this position.](http://www.reddit.com/u... | null | 0 | 1319413257 | False | 0 | c2tveo9 | t3_llw0s | null | t1_c2tveo9 | t3_llw0s | null | 1427773019 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | ethraax | null | I rarely (if ever) use plain arrays in C# anymore. I usually use List<T>, which is type-safe. | null | 0 | 1319413425 | False | 0 | c2tvfjz | t3_ll9io | null | t1_c2tvfjz | t1_c2tsyoy | null | 1427773032 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | I've gone the way of scala. I love the JVM. | null | 0 | 1319413481 | False | 0 | c2tvfui | t3_lle7t | null | t1_c2tvfui | t1_c2tpdaq | null | 1427773038 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | Well, reasons are reasons. | null | 0 | 1319413657 | False | 0 | c2tvgr4 | t3_lle7t | null | t1_c2tvgr4 | t1_c2tr263 | null | 1427773051 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | OceanSpray | null | I've been wrestling with the same problem in my own [project](https://github.com/Nenmin/Hammer). I took the coward's way out by making all values in the language immutable. Lambdas then just become glorified structs that can be passed by value. | null | 0 | 1319413825 | False | 0 | c2tvhmf | t3_lks2a | null | t1_c2tvhmf | t3_lks2a | null | 1427773058 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | And you can't get her to change *anything*. She just goes out and buys new stuff all the time. | null | 0 | 1319413865 | False | 0 | c2tvhul | t3_lle7t | null | t1_c2tvhul | t1_c2tr14l | null | 1428191329 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | FionaSarah | null | Ugh what the fuck. I was just wondering today "Hm I wonder when that online AI class starts." | null | 0 | 1319413865 | False | 0 | c2tvhum | t3_llsqm | null | t1_c2tvhum | t1_c2tq708 | null | 1428191329 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | sabret00the | null | I love how the blog post states it's the foundation of any computer science course and yet continues talking. You build on foundations, not adjacent to them. | null | 0 | 1319413934 | False | 0 | c2tvi7f | t3_lm9ys | null | t1_c2tvi7f | t3_lm9ys | null | 1427773065 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | flukus | null | So much pointless complexity...
If your unit tests are touching an IOC container then your doing it wrong! | null | 0 | 1319413969 | False | 0 | c2tvidt | t3_lkrz5 | null | t1_c2tvidt | t3_lkrz5 | null | 1427773067 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | I don't know why you're getting downvoted. Bunch of butthurt old fogies probably. I can't understand why anyone would use C other than for embedded or OS programming. There are other languages just as fast if you have the memory, and wasting time writing in C and compiling it for every platform is just idiotic for a... | null | 0 | 1319414031 | False | 0 | c2tvior | t3_lle7t | null | t1_c2tvior | t1_c2tqwa0 | null | 1427773081 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | undershirt | null | I had trouble setting this up on my computer because it's kind of old. I did not know I could use it from the browser! Thanks a lot. | null | 0 | 1319414219 | False | 0 | c2tvjou | t3_lkszr | null | t1_c2tvjou | t1_c2tlr55 | null | 1428191327 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | It's really hard to fire people. As a manager of developers, many of whom I inherited from an incompetent manager, this frustrates me every day. | null | 0 | 1319414343 | False | 0 | c2tvkag | t3_lle7t | null | t1_c2tvkag | t1_c2tok2a | null | 1428191326 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | theoldboy | null | 0. You just DO WHAT THE FUCK YOU WANT TO.
1. And so does this code. | null | 0 | 1319414447 | False | 0 | c2tvkuv | t3_llw0s | null | t1_c2tvkuv | t1_c2tuqxq | null | 1427773108 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | As an interviewer, I find it almost impossible to weed out bad people from interviewing. My experience is that, the best people show themselves in the interview in completely non-technical ways. If you go with the best credentials, which my peers generally seem to want to do, you often won't get the best *person*, an... | null | 0 | 1319414558 | False | 0 | c2tvlf9 | t3_lle7t | null | t1_c2tvlf9 | t1_c2tqkae | null | 1427773120 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | dorfsmay | null | That's your definition.
The author of the GPL argues that one should **never** use the term "intellectual property" because it does not make sense and confuses the debate. He agrees with you that "intellectual property" is not a valid concept.
So saying that the GPL shouldn't be used because intellectual property is ... | null | 0 | 1319414605 | False | 0 | c2tvlo5 | t3_llw0s | null | t1_c2tvlo5 | t1_c2tupxw | null | 1427773118 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | NavarrB | null | Live Updating Results are available here: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0AgbUoWpkXDCGdGhheGFTVTlPQ3hKenVOazVjZEJac0E&hl=en_US | null | 0 | 1319414692 | False | 0 | c2tvm28 | t3_lmiym | null | t1_c2tvm28 | t3_lmiym | null | 1427773123 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | last_useful_man | null | The economy is slowing down, perhaps? I haven't checked how TIOBE measures it. | null | 0 | 1319414744 | False | 0 | c2tvmb4 | t3_lle7t | null | t1_c2tvmb4 | t1_c2tuzkt | null | 1427773127 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1319414954 | False | 0 | c2tvnf4 | t3_lmiym | null | t1_c2tvnf4 | t3_lmiym | null | 1427773143 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | cat_in_the_wall | null | void die(C++& ref)
{
*hand = ref;
//depending on your afterlife beliefs, change the following:
for(;;){}
} | null | 0 | 1319415685 | False | 0 | c2tvr12 | t3_lle7t | null | t1_c2tvr12 | t1_c2tp2zb | null | 1428186056 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | cat_in_the_wall | null | c++ is selfish and only likes itself. | null | 0 | 1319415743 | False | 0 | c2tvrcl | t3_lle7t | null | t1_c2tvrcl | t1_c2trhs5 | null | 1427773198 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1319415931 | False | 0 | c2tvsc3 | t3_lkiol | null | t1_c2tvsc3 | t1_c2top7n | null | 1427773213 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | I guess people only do things to get hired? Come on, we shouldn't be slaves to employment | null | 0 | 1319416159 | False | 0 | c2tvtjx | t3_llw0s | null | t1_c2tvtjx | t1_c2ttoxw | null | 1427773225 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | cbrandolino | null | It probably makes sense (as I mentioned, I'm no rails developer) but then, *why rails*?
The whole point of MVC is: Controllers handle I/O and load Views; models contain the application logic.
If your application logic is all in some libraries and the Models are a glorified database interface, either you or the framew... | null | 0 | 1319416265 | False | 0 | c2tvu3c | t3_llx97 | null | t1_c2tvu3c | t1_c2tvdf4 | null | 1427773228 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | Yeah, and it might work great for you on your computer, but it's not going to be something 1000 other people can use as well. | null | 0 | 1319416357 | False | 0 | c2tvuhy | t3_livmm | null | t1_c2tvuhy | t1_c2t9ucz | null | 1427773231 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | campbellm | null | Yes, exactly. It used to be said just of science, but I think it is true in virtually all fields; it's not that new ideas, however compelling, are embraced by the establishment, it's that the older establishment with preconceived notions simply dies off giving room FOR the new ideas. | null | 0 | 1319416378 | False | 0 | c2tvukx | t3_lle7t | null | t1_c2tvukx | t1_c2tsuy4 | null | 1427773233 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | lordlicorice | null | If you go around handing out free samples of a gasoline additive saying that it gives you more MPG, and then it totally frags someone's engine, you're liable. The same applies here- with the WTF license you aren't protected from liability. | null | 0 | 1319416432 | False | 0 | c2tvuuk | t3_llw0s | null | t1_c2tvuuk | t1_c2tuqxq | null | 1427773243 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | As much as I don't like R, I wish people would ditch Matlab for R. | null | 0 | 1319416529 | False | 0 | c2tvvdl | t3_livmm | null | t1_c2tvvdl | t1_c2t2yeh | null | 1427773251 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | skalnik | null | I was simply replying to geodebug's comment. Specifically "that [Mongrel's] success has had no positive return for him, financially or **career-wise**" :)
I was giving a possible reason that lack of positive return career-wise since it may not be related to Mongrel licensing, but rather his online demeanor. | null | 0 | 1319416615 | False | 0 | c2tvvup | t3_llw0s | null | t1_c2tvvup | t1_c2tvtjx | null | 1427773250 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | lordlicorice | null | > to remove the temptation to make it non-free software.
IMO, if you're not free to close your modifications then it's not free software. | null | 0 | 1319416631 | False | 0 | c2tvvxb | t3_llw0s | null | t1_c2tvvxb | t1_c2tsp5u | null | 1427773252 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Deinumite | null | It's interesting because, if you caught Carmack's talk about static analysis tools and C++ he basically said that he wished he could have a small subset of C++ that was "standard", and that he wanted to be able to dip into "super low level C++" for specific bottlenecks or sections.
Java is somewhat flexible, its libra... | null | 0 | 1319416665 | False | 0 | c2tvw3x | t3_lle7t | null | t1_c2tvw3x | t1_c2tnwes | null | 1427773254 | 10 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | julesjacobs | null | **PART 2:**
> Dart does not (and does not claim to) catch more errors than a completely statically typed language. It's goal is to catch more errors than a completely dynamically typed language. Further its goal is to do that without compromising the underlying dynamic flexibility of the language.
> That last po... | null | 0 | 1319416678 | False | 0 | c2tvw68 | t3_lkpil | null | t1_c2tvw68 | t1_c2toazf | null | 1427773255 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Aramgutang | null | Yes, I'm pretty clear on that. What I'm really asking is what qualifies as having a contributor sign a waiver. Is a comment left by them on a pull request enough? Can it be implicit? Or does it absolutely have to be a signed piece of paper? | null | 0 | 1319416768 | False | 0 | c2tvwmv | t3_llw0s | null | t1_c2tvwmv | t1_c2tvel8 | null | 1427773259 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | lordlicorice | null | > This is exactly the freedom that the LGPL grants. I don't write libraries, so I don't use it.
The LGPL lets you link against LGPL'd object code, but it doesn't let you use the source code itself. In other words, it's not very permissive. | null | 0 | 1319416777 | False | 0 | c2tvwop | t3_llw0s | null | t1_c2tvwop | t1_c2trxrr | null | 1427773260 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | R? | null | 0 | 1319416938 | False | 0 | c2tvxj2 | t3_livmm | null | t1_c2tvxj2 | t1_c2t3xeo | null | 1427773280 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | pnettle | null | If you're doing the hiring and not the coding with him, sure. If you're working with guys like that who talk down to everyone....not so fun. Stories or not. Maybe in 'real life' when working he's not such a ego, but from what I read (and some impressions of people I know who talked to him after a presentation) I wouldn... | null | 0 | 1319416984 | False | 0 | c2tvxr1 | t3_llw0s | null | t1_c2tvxr1 | t1_c2ttei9 | null | 1427773276 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Deinumite | null | As much as I am a huge Python fan boy, Java and Python aren't really competing in the same league.
Reddit has such a hatred for Java but I'm willing to bet most people don't even understand the language fully. | null | 0 | 1319416987 | False | 0 | c2tvxrh | t3_lle7t | null | t1_c2tvxrh | t1_c2tqq1d | null | 1427773276 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | No, one can learn R and have everything they want, probably. | null | 0 | 1319416994 | False | 0 | c2tvxsf | t3_livmm | null | t1_c2tvxsf | t1_c2t7bte | null | 1427773276 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | mreiland | null | Except that everyone knows who Zed Shaw is. I clicked this link specifically because his name was in it.
I don't really understand why he feels he was ignored.
edit: maybe he should work on something that isn't considered infrastructure? | null | 0 | 1319417050 | False | 0 | c2tvy41 | t3_llw0s | null | t1_c2tvy41 | t1_c2ttniy | null | 1427773281 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | lordlicorice | null | > The GPL was exactly meant to solve the dilemma that the people who profit most out of the code are those who take it and run and never give anything back: it allows developers and users to live a happy life without being bothered by the looters.
How is a developer actively bothered and unable to live a happy life... | null | 0 | 1319417102 | False | 0 | c2tvyec | t3_llw0s | null | t1_c2tvyec | t1_c2tqx2p | null | 1427773283 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | > If your application logic is all in some libraries and the Models are a glorified database interface, either you or the framework are doing it wrong.
Why? Does this not work? We use rails to give us the quick crud side of the application as well as a reasonably convenient database interface. We decouple the actua... | null | 0 | 1319417156 | False | 0 | c2tvypa | t3_llx97 | null | t1_c2tvypa | t1_c2tvu3c | null | 1427773287 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | skulgnome | null | I could believe that more people were moving on from Java than were getting into it, per year. In that sense the number of active Java developers would be shrinking. | null | 0 | 1319417287 | False | 0 | c2tvzg0 | t3_lle7t | null | t1_c2tvzg0 | t3_lle7t | null | 1427773302 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | skulgnome | null | Talk about a wasted youth! | null | 0 | 1319417362 | False | 0 | c2tvzv9 | t3_lle7t | null | t1_c2tvzv9 | t1_c2tpce5 | null | 1427773298 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | mreiland | null | Which is a fair point, considering it's Zed Shaw. | null | 0 | 1319417414 | False | 0 | c2tw05o | t3_llw0s | null | t1_c2tw05o | t1_c2tu3ed | null | 1427773311 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | daftman | null | > If a single complex query is send to such a DB there's one core on 100% and the IO system maybe uses something like 2000 IOPS. Of course there are also other queries being send to the DB by other users, but on average the utilization of the server is sub-optimal.
What? So you're saying your DB is not smart enough... | null | 0 | 1319417609 | True | 0 | c2tw18h | t3_lle7t | null | t1_c2tw18h | t1_c2ttlxn | null | 1427773320 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1319417690 | False | 0 | c2tw1pe | t3_llw0s | null | t1_c2tw1pe | t1_c2tvvxb | null | 1427773326 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | mreiland | null | How can you say that when you know it, I know it, and everyone else in this thread knows that OS X is based off of BSD? | null | 0 | 1319417706 | False | 0 | c2tw1su | t3_llw0s | null | t1_c2tw1su | t1_c2ttwob | null | 1427773335 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | That's a semantic argument. I am using "Free Software" here to mean Copyleft, which is pretty standard. BSD/MIT/Apache is generally called "Open Source" to distinguish it from GPL and avoid the religious wars of who is freer than whom. | null | 0 | 1319417710 | False | 0 | c2tw1th | t3_llw0s | null | t1_c2tw1th | t1_c2tvvxb | null | 1427773335 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1319417761 | False | 0 | c2tw23a | t3_lle7t | null | t1_c2tw23a | t1_c2tvw3x | null | 1427773330 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | gimpwiz | null | >super low level C++" for specific bottlenecks or sections.
ASM? (Not smart-ass sarcasm.)
I think that java's a pretty good language and it can be used for most anything. It's just that it has the potential to be misused. In my humble opinion, see azureus / vuze. | null | 0 | 1319417774 | False | 0 | c2tw25r | t3_lle7t | null | t1_c2tw25r | t1_c2tvw3x | null | 1427773339 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | ndrake | null | Java Rebel is great. | null | 0 | 1319418290 | False | 0 | c2tw4ya | t3_llz5l | null | t1_c2tw4ya | t1_c2tuiro | null | 1427773358 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | skew | null | Thanks, that's a nice paper. Page 3 ("107") confirms my guess that each block only gets a single side effect, but the dependency tracking on reads is a bit nicer than I was expecting. It doesn't hint at using transactions for communication between concurrent threads, so it's not STM yet. | null | 0 | 1319418413 | False | 0 | c2tw5mv | t3_lkpil | null | t1_c2tw5mv | t1_c2tvdpm | null | 1427773365 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | julesjacobs | null | To see that this is not the case, think of how you'd build a sound type checker on Dart. There are a couple of reasons why this is not going to be doable:
- to type check almost any OO code that uses generics, you need variance
- existing type annotations in a Dart program cannot be relied upon, because that will lead... | null | 0 | 1319418427 | False | 0 | c2tw5pu | t3_lkpil | null | t1_c2tw5pu | t1_c2tod3d | null | 1427773366 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | cunningjames | null | Be that as it may, it’s rather beside the point. Java’s generics aren’t a matter of “sprinkl[ing] casts and asserts everywhere”, nor does "everyone agree that there are no advantages to this”. | null | 0 | 1319418460 | False | 0 | c2tw5w0 | t3_lkpil | null | t1_c2tw5w0 | t1_c2tui9c | null | 1427773368 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | thedaniel | null | you can commit to your repository, and you can push, fetch, and merge with your collaborators directly through the many other ways modern computers provide to exchange packets - ssh and http being the most popular. When github comes back up, you can push all of your work there as well, if you so desire. | null | 0 | 1319418951 | False | 0 | c2tw8e3 | t3_lks6n | null | t1_c2tw8e3 | t1_c2triah | null | 1427773401 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | filiped | null | Not even close. It works decently, but it isn't exactly feature-packed, and the code is a bit archaic. | null | 0 | 1319419328 | False | 0 | c2twabe | t3_ll65v | null | t1_c2twabe | t1_c2tphmh | null | 1427773425 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | davidk01 | null | I just don't understand where it fits in terms of the standard web stack and from what you have already said it seems like you want it to fit somewhere in that stack.
For server-side stuff there are plenty of frameworks like django and rails that provide value to an existing community of programmers that use the two ... | null | 0 | 1319419613 | False | 0 | c2twbt0 | t3_lkpil | null | t1_c2twbt0 | t1_c2todjs | null | 1427773449 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Kalium | null | Funny, that's exactly what people were claiming would *stop* happening if he went GPL with his code. | null | 0 | 1319419840 | False | 0 | c2twd28 | t3_llw0s | null | t1_c2twd28 | t1_c2tu4jz | null | 1427773461 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | Do you think that people who are contributing to Linux, WINE, KDE and so on do not use Linux, WINE, KDE and so on? Otherwise I fail to see anything being blown out of the water... Are you sure you understood that part of my argument?
Note that all the projects you mentioned are _end-user applications_, even Linux, in ... | null | 0 | 1319419877 | True | 0 | c2twd9m | t3_llw0s | null | t1_c2twd9m | t1_c2tv68r | null | 1427773464 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | isinned | null | > released under BSD or GPL*
Your post makes it sound as if he abandoned GPL. | null | 0 | 1319420054 | False | 0 | c2twe9t | t3_llw0s | null | t1_c2twe9t | t1_c2tr0g6 | null | 1427773477 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | dreadneck | null | >In closing, I’d also like to give a small reason why I use the GPL: perceived value. When people can get something for free without having to think about it, they perceive it as worth less than even something they pay a single penny for. It’s just how people are, and there’s not much you can do about it.
I have on... | null | 0 | 1319420240 | False | 0 | c2twfag | t3_llw0s | null | t1_c2twfag | t3_llw0s | null | 1427773491 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | cbrandolino | null | > Why? Does this not work?
COBOL works.
Design patterns and frameworks exist for a reason. If you want a CRUD wrapper, use a CRUD wrapper.
OR use an MVC framework as your DB interface - but you're using a set of kitchen knives to turn a screw.
Re: decoupling. So, your application-disguised-as-library can be used... | null | 0 | 1319420606 | False | 0 | c2twh4b | t3_llx97 | null | t1_c2twh4b | t1_c2tvypa | null | 1427773515 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
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