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True | TinynDP | null | Was this 5 years ago? Was your app heavily dependent on outside libraries ? | null | 0 | 1319474741 | False | 0 | c2u1s5u | t3_lle7t | null | t1_c2u1s5u | t1_c2tnkc0 | null | 1427776174 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | richhickey | null | Well, I'll continue to agree with Russell, thanks. As soon as we're shouting 'wrong' this conversation is over. Best of luck trying to model the world in type systems, I personally have better things to do with my time. | null | 0 | 1319474897 | False | 0 | c2u1t1n | t3_lirke | null | t1_c2u1t1n | t1_c2u1lat | null | 1427776181 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | As someone who actually works on financial trading systems, there are absolutely valid use cases to store money using floating point representations. These include using such values for anything from simple interest calculations to more complex pricing models.
There's a reason why floating point representations exist... | null | 0 | 1319474933 | True | 0 | c2u1t8k | t3_ln1tg | null | t1_c2u1t8k | t1_c2u15je | null | 1427776182 | 9 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | julesjacobs | null | Automatic co/contra-variance hinges on giving classes like List two type parameters (whether you expose this to the programmer or not is a separate question). You might think that you could automatically infer where you can place `in` and `out` in type parameters, but that doesn't work because of inheritance. For examp... | null | 0 | 1319474995 | True | 0 | c2u1tli | t3_lkpil | null | t1_c2u1tli | t1_c2u1cti | null | 1427776188 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | StrangeWill | null | >You think the built-in libraries are always right?
But they are always someone else's fault. ;) | null | 0 | 1319474998 | False | 0 | c2u1tm4 | t3_ln1tg | null | t1_c2u1tm4 | t1_c2u1ook | null | 1427776188 | 26 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | > Suppose a your mother gives you a basket of tomatoes, and asks you to collect something into it. Now you take the basket and give it to a friend and say to him "here is a basket of vegetables, please collect something into it". This friend then proceeds to put lettuce into it. Later, when your mother inspects the ... | null | 0 | 1319475036 | False | 0 | c2u1tt1 | t3_lkpil | null | t1_c2u1tt1 | t1_c2tzh9h | null | 1427776190 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | nascent | null | > Reference counting has nothing to do with reference semantics.
Yes it does. The type behaves, even though it is passed by value, as though it was a reference.
> Indeed, but that's one detail out of many.
And it is the one detail that means they are not independent. | null | 0 | 1319475088 | False | 0 | c2u1u35 | t3_kljc0 | null | t1_c2u1u35 | t1_c2u1r7l | null | 1427776193 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | TinynDP | null | You can't distribute a binary that links against a GPL library without it triggering the GPL 'must release code' clause. Your binary is a 'derivative work' of the GPL library. Its called 'viral' for a reason. LGPL is a slightly different matter (allows dynamic linking without triggering)
Of course, if your app is pur... | null | 0 | 1319475115 | False | 0 | c2u1u8y | t3_llw0s | null | t1_c2u1u8y | t1_c2u13nd | null | 1427776197 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | nikbackm | null | Why not use it?
| null | 0 | 1319475126 | False | 0 | c2u1ubf | t3_ln1tg | null | t1_c2u1ubf | t1_c2u13q9 | null | 1427776197 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Dr9 | null | I knew that was coming.
But from seriously - from scratch each time? Nobody builds up a shared library of this stuff?
What do you think of Arduino and Micro .net CLR?
| null | 0 | 1319475202 | False | 0 | c2u1upr | t3_ln1tg | null | t1_c2u1upr | t1_c2u0rgr | null | 1427776203 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | mcguire | null | > [...] procmail [...] I looked at its code and it was so appalling [...]
Word. | null | 0 | 1319475442 | False | 0 | c2u1vyo | t3_llw0s | null | t1_c2u1vyo | t1_c2trjny | null | 1427776223 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | rooktakesqueen | null | Know what's gonna suck? Having to account for relativistic motion, and having to account for different year/day lengths on other planets. Think the DateTime class is hard to implement *now* with simple problems like time zones? Wait till we're colonizing space. | null | 0 | 1319475493 | False | 0 | c2u1w8e | t3_ln1tg | null | t1_c2u1w8e | t3_ln1tg | null | 1427776227 | 70 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | stevelosh | null | It's a pain in the ass, but not impossible. Mercurial [did it](http://mercurial.selenic.com/wiki/Relicensing) at the beginning of last year. There were around 345 contributors Matt had to track down (`hg log --rev 'ancestors(1.4.3)' --template '{author|person}\n' | sort | uniq | wc -l`). | null | 0 | 1319475682 | False | 0 | c2u1x8q | t3_llw0s | null | t1_c2u1x8q | t1_c2ts1xc | null | 1427776236 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | yogthos | null | >If you could get stuff certified as "Java" as long as it passes an open free test suite and if you could fork the hotspot codebase and implement C# 4.0 or a fast dynamic language and have a hope of negotiating with the community about merging your changes, people would be more interested.
You mean languages like S... | null | 0 | 1319475780 | False | 0 | c2u1xrh | t3_llz44 | null | t1_c2u1xrh | t1_c2trt3q | null | 1427776243 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | This, a thousand times.
Date, text and numbers are the three most important and unsolved problems in programming (whereas “unsolved” == 99% of programmers thinking “hey, that's trivial, isn't it?”). | null | 0 | 1319475815 | False | 0 | c2u1xyd | t3_ln1tg | null | t1_c2u1xyd | t1_c2u0fvz | null | 1427776245 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | kenfar | null | Oh no, I got it. The bureaucracy that comes with size can be soul-crushing at times. | null | 0 | 1319475843 | False | 0 | c2u1y3s | t3_llw0s | null | t1_c2u1y3s | t1_c2tzngt | null | 1427776247 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | jlogelin | null | Once your nuts drop, you might realize that, by design, GPL-style licensing will never work in the commercial world of software. ( PS - I can use his software now, because he switched over to a business-compatible licence ) | null | 0 | 1319475871 | False | 0 | c2u1y8w | t3_llw0s | null | t1_c2u1y8w | t1_c2tzeo3 | null | 1427776248 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | > Well, I'll continue to agree with Russell, thanks.
I would think you'd rather agree with Gödel, who did, in fact, demonstrate an interesting limitation of deductive reasoning that Russell fell prey to. Besides, if you agree with Russell on the point you quoted, how is it possible to do logical reasoning about you... | null | 0 | 1319475932 | False | 0 | c2u1ykg | t3_lirke | null | t1_c2u1ykg | t1_c2u1t1n | null | 1427776253 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | notfancy | null | > the number of milliseconds per day contains 1024 as a factor
[Good (kilo-)bit of trivia](http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=factors+86400*1000). | null | 0 | 1319476103 | False | 0 | c2u1zj4 | t3_ln1tg | null | t1_c2u1zj4 | t1_c2u0xar | null | 1427776265 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Taladar | null | Why didn't you just use UTC? No DST there at all. | null | 0 | 1319476308 | False | 0 | c2u20my | t3_ln1tg | null | t1_c2u20my | t1_c2u17f1 | null | 1427776278 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | 48klocs | null | [The JDK classes Date and Calendar are very badly designed, have had numerous bugs and have odd performance effects.](http://joda-time.sourceforge.net/index.html) | null | 0 | 1319476363 | False | 0 | c2u20yo | t3_ln1tg | null | t1_c2u20yo | t1_c2u1ubf | null | 1427776284 | 25 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | vytah | null | It's mutable. It means you can take a bean with only getters, acquire java.util.Date by calling getDate() and mess it up.
Ans the second reason is that its interface sucks. For example: using integers instead of enums (and ridiculuous ones, in January getMonth() returns 0), its toString() implementation is not ISO-com... | null | 0 | 1319476523 | False | 0 | c2u21wg | t3_ln1tg | null | t1_c2u21wg | t1_c2u1ubf | null | 1427776296 | 14 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | xiongchiamiov | null | True. JSON is quite a bit easier to work with, particularly in JavaScript (since, y'know, *JavaScript* Object Notation). | null | 0 | 1319476634 | False | 0 | c2u22h7 | t3_lle7t | null | t1_c2u22h7 | t1_c2tzdem | null | 1427776303 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | tryx | null | You customers won't care. | null | 0 | 1319476634 | False | 0 | c2u22h9 | t3_ln1tg | null | t1_c2u22h9 | t1_c2u1tm4 | null | 1427776303 | 22 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | xiongchiamiov | null | I wouldn't know - I use vim. :)
Golly, 28m? What's this world coming to? | null | 0 | 1319476684 | False | 0 | c2u22qn | t3_lle7t | null | t1_c2u22qn | t1_c2u17o9 | null | 1427776309 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Dr9 | null | Aaaaahh! Ohhhhhhhh!
| null | 0 | 1319476859 | False | 0 | c2u23q6 | t3_lle7t | null | t1_c2u23q6 | t1_c2trr96 | null | 1427776320 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | tootie | null | I thought UML died in 2003. Along with EJB. | null | 0 | 1319476933 | False | 0 | c2u2460 | t3_ln8jb | null | t1_c2u2460 | t3_ln8jb | null | 1427776334 | 21 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | evmar | null | Google's pprof profiler is sampling-based. It looks clunky but it is pretty awesome.
http://goog-perftools.sourceforge.net/doc/cpu_profiler.html | null | 0 | 1319476939 | False | 0 | c2u247a | t3_ln18p | null | t1_c2u247a | t3_ln18p | null | 1427776327 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | RichardWarburton | null | If you decide that you actually want the performance characteristics of a different implementation at a later point in time then it can be very beneficial. Even if in the local method situation. | null | 0 | 1319477017 | False | 0 | c2u24ny | t3_llz5l | null | t1_c2u24ny | t1_c2tydxq | null | 1427776334 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | UML diagrams can be useful documentation, but I'd argue that the emphasis on class diagrams in industry was misplaced, and there's greater value in some of the other types of diagrams, e.g. sequence diagrams.
But what really should have been the most powerful and useful piece—the OCL, or "Object Constraint Language"—t... | null | 0 | 1319477068 | False | 0 | c2u24xi | t3_ln8jb | null | t1_c2u24xi | t3_ln8jb | null | 1427776337 | 16 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | xiongchiamiov | null | We were talking about the more generic
> Is there anyone in this world driving around in a Maserati they paid for with money they made using shit that you built and gave away for free?
and its relevance to Apple and the BSD developers.
Sure, if you're working in tech and tell people that you're on, say, the FreeBS... | null | 0 | 1319477233 | False | 0 | c2u25uh | t3_llw0s | null | t1_c2u25uh | t1_c2tydno | null | 1427776352 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1319477313 | False | 0 | c2u26bd | t3_lle7t | null | t1_c2u26bd | t1_c2tuqr5 | null | 1427776358 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | mwynholds | null | A few of my own thoughts:
1. ALWAYS start on time. If people miss the daily or show up late, that should shame them in to getting there on time. (This is true of all meeting, not just standups, in my opinion).
2. With geographically disparate teams, the leader should establish up front an order for when locations spe... | null | 0 | 1319477353 | False | 0 | c2u26ky | t3_lnapz | null | t1_c2u26ky | t3_lnapz | null | 1427776360 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Peaker | null | It's not my app, it's a coworker's GUI app. It was about 8 months ago, with the newest Mono at the time.
It depends on windowing libraries, XML parsing stuff, and more. I think it was mostly the GUI stuff that misbehaved to the point of unusability (things did not respond to clicks in the same way, windows opened blan... | null | 0 | 1319477393 | False | 0 | c2u26t6 | t3_lle7t | null | t1_c2u26t6 | t1_c2u1s5u | null | 1427776363 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | njharman | null | Wow, anyone who date/time might even possibly be trivial needs a serious beating with the clue bat.
Think I'm adding that to my interview questions. "You're asked to implement date/time lib, what do you do?" good answers; cry, quit, push back hard. Bad answers; anything that sounds like they'll actually start codin... | null | 0 | 1319477396 | False | 0 | c2u26tv | t3_ln1tg | null | t1_c2u26tv | t3_ln1tg | null | 1427776373 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | elder_george | null | BSD/MIT are about freedom of developer.
GPL is about freedom of code. | null | 0 | 1319477437 | False | 0 | c2u2721 | t3_llw0s | null | t1_c2u2721 | t1_c2tshbm | null | 1427776380 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | rudyjahchan | null | I agree with all the point EXCEPT one; I like using random order when it comes time to do the daily. I feel that a regular order, while expected, causes certain voices to dominate the conversation, others to enter or leave when expected, and overtime can make the whole thing feel stale. | null | 0 | 1319477456 | False | 0 | c2u275q | t3_lnapz | null | t1_c2u275q | t3_lnapz | null | 1427776371 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | TheAlphaNerd | null | I have found myself using octave specifically to simplify some of the homework assignments, while this may not be a requirement it is suggested. If you are interested in a course with programming exercises you should check out the machine learning class | null | 0 | 1319477481 | False | 0 | c2u27au | t3_llsqm | null | t1_c2u27au | t1_c2tx9mu | null | 1428185891 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Samus_ | null | I was blamed once for implementing a static timezone dropdown and pretend that the user should adjust it when he/she knew his local time changed just like you do with your clock, of course it didn't mattered that 99% of the sites worked that way because **facebook didn't** :@ sure, your stupid startup is on par with on... | null | 0 | 1319477495 | False | 0 | c2u27dq | t3_ln1tg | null | t1_c2u27dq | t3_ln1tg | null | 1428185893 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | absinthe718 | null | > It's a tad verbose, but ctrl+space works fine
Fair point. Annotations and Spring help cut down the verbosity a lot as well.
And if I really needed threading I would likely use Java. Neither ruby nor python offer a compelling threading library. | null | 0 | 1319477506 | False | 0 | c2u27ga | t3_lle7t | null | t1_c2u27ga | t1_c2tpoyn | null | 1427776376 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | mfarah | null | Oh boy...
For my "holidays in Chile" project, I had to do a library that would know the history of the country's territorial organization. Part of it was the date a certain event occurred... and for many early events, all that's known is a year or a month+year pair. Also, the granularity is always the *day*, not even ... | null | 0 | 1319477536 | False | 0 | c2u27lw | t3_ln1tg | null | t1_c2u27lw | t3_ln1tg | null | 1427776381 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | mallardtheduck | null | Has nobody written some liberally-licensed ANSI-C date/time functions that you can "borrow"? There must be a BSD-licensed version of a modular C standard library around somewhere... | null | 0 | 1319477564 | False | 0 | c2u27ro | t3_ln1tg | null | t1_c2u27ro | t1_c2u0rgr | null | 1427776394 | 9 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | absinthe718 | null | I'm not sure that the choice of Java has anything to do with Java being the first choice as opposed to the code being started in Java and then being turned into an open source project.
But yeah, for a lot of stuff Java makes sense. | null | 0 | 1319477612 | False | 0 | c2u281c | t3_lle7t | null | t1_c2u281c | t1_c2tuand | null | 1427776386 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | otheraccount | null | A 32-bit int can hold 4 billion different values. If you use that to represent dates, you can cover all dates within a million year period. | null | 0 | 1319477635 | False | 0 | c2u286f | t3_ln1tg | null | t1_c2u286f | t1_c2u15ru | null | 1427776387 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | R.I.P Sylvia Robinson. | null | 0 | 1319477662 | False | 0 | c2u28cm | t3_lmz8b | null | t1_c2u28cm | t3_lmz8b | null | 1427776390 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | skidooer | null | > There are plenty of queueing frameworks, tools, and gems available, and they're used heavily.
Last time I looked there was no great solution. They all seemed to fit into either:
* A library which you can use as a core to build your own framework, but not a framework itself
* A framework designed for a very spec... | null | 0 | 1319477795 | False | 0 | c2u2933 | t3_llx97 | null | t1_c2u2933 | t1_c2u0pi3 | null | 1427776397 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | If we're still using the Gregorian calendar when we start colonizing space I'd be pretty surprised. Then again, I'm surprised the US still uses the imperial weights and measures system ...
The length of a day is *roughly* the time it takes the Earth to rotate (hours, minutes and seconds are fractions of that value). T... | null | 0 | 1319477997 | False | 0 | c2u2a6k | t3_ln1tg | null | t1_c2u2a6k | t1_c2u1w8e | null | 1427776407 | 36 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | That is not dead which can eternal lie... | null | 0 | 1319478041 | False | 0 | c2u2afd | t3_ln8jb | null | t1_c2u2afd | t1_c2u2460 | null | 1427776409 | 20 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | mcguire | null | > How is a developer actively bothered and unable to live a happy life when someone uses his/her code in a proprietary project? Living is unendurable when people don't constantly affirm that you're the fount of their success?
The developer gets an undeserved reputation when the bugs in the proprietary code are blam... | null | 0 | 1319478103 | False | 0 | c2u2ary | t3_llw0s | null | t1_c2u2ary | t1_c2tvyec | null | 1427776412 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | "...cow-orker..." | null | 0 | 1319478126 | False | 0 | c2u2awl | t3_ln1tg | null | t1_c2u2awl | t3_ln1tg | null | 1427776414 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | babazka | null | TIL UML has versions. OMG! | null | 0 | 1319478148 | False | 0 | c2u2b0t | t3_ln8jb | null | t1_c2u2b0t | t3_ln8jb | null | 1427776416 | 21 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | mfarah | null | You think *that*'s bad?
This year in my country, Chile, the government has changed the start and end of the DST time with decrees published with little time for sysadmins to prepare (in one case with no time for the TZ database to be refreshed, forcing the updates to be done manually everywhere).
The kicker? Our Ener... | null | 0 | 1319478236 | False | 0 | c2u2bjh | t3_ln1tg | null | t1_c2u2bjh | t1_c2u1mhc | null | 1427776435 | 24 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | pnpbios | null | Really liking this. I suppose the next step would be to write a translator to generate MSIL. Syntax hi-lighting would also be pretty simple too. | null | 0 | 1319478321 | False | 0 | c2u2c1p | t3_llq5f | null | t1_c2u2c1p | t3_llq5f | null | 1427776440 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | 48klocs | null | "Only of interest to UML aficionados maybe, but a milestone nonetheless."
Oh man that sentence wounds my soul. An accomplishment that so few give so little of a fuck about. | null | 0 | 1319478387 | False | 0 | c2u2ceo | t3_ln8jb | null | t1_c2u2ceo | t3_ln8jb | null | 1427776443 | 12 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | robmyers | null | UML. Because maintaining one representation of a system isn't enough. | null | 0 | 1319478388 | False | 0 | c2u2ceu | t3_ln8jb | null | t1_c2u2ceu | t3_ln8jb | null | 1427776443 | 61 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | robmyers | null | UML. Because management need pictures. | null | 0 | 1319478423 | False | 0 | c2u2cm8 | t3_ln8jb | null | t1_c2u2cm8 | t1_c2u2ceu | null | 1427776445 | 61 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | aristotle2600 | null | If Trivial is a mispronunciation of Evil, the "...left as an exercise to the reader" must be some kind of black incantation which sacrifices the lifeforce of some virgins to summon a spirit of demonic terror.
Also analogously in mathematics. | null | 0 | 1319478437 | False | 0 | c2u2cp6 | t3_ln1tg | null | t1_c2u2cp6 | t1_c2u0dfx | null | 1427776445 | 30 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | iLNaNo | null | CleverBot is actually doing that, and it's "response base" is growing rapidly allowing it to simulate better a conversation. | null | 0 | 1319478460 | False | 0 | c2u2ct6 | t3_ln4xf | null | t1_c2u2ct6 | t1_c2u0ye0 | null | 1427776448 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | mfarah | null | You do calculations on float if you like, THEN store the results on integral numbers (or BigDecimal).
A few years ago, a rounding error in a double operation led a tax payment from a local **large** copper mining company to be unprocessed by the bank, and thus the tax wasn't paid on that day.
The bank had to go rent ... | null | 0 | 1319478508 | False | 0 | c2u2d3f | t3_ln1tg | null | t1_c2u2d3f | t1_c2u1t8k | null | 1427776450 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Vile2539 | null | > you must answer questions like "What is January 31st plus one month?" correctly according to what your customer thinks
I had exactly that problem. Asked the senior lead who gave me the task, and received no response (the entire spec for the task was a bare skeleton class with about 3 method names). Approached ano... | null | 0 | 1319478540 | False | 0 | c2u2d9q | t3_ln1tg | null | t1_c2u2d9q | t1_c2u1ook | null | 1427776452 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Jengu | null | That looks sweet, I thought about making something like this once. | null | 0 | 1319478582 | False | 0 | c2u2dif | t3_lna77 | null | t1_c2u2dif | t3_lna77 | null | 1427776454 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | mreiland | null | We were talking about whether or not it's well known that OS X is built on top of BSD.
It is well known. And stretching the "domain" to be "humanity" is ridiculous. | null | 0 | 1319478608 | False | 0 | c2u2dof | t3_llw0s | null | t1_c2u2dof | t1_c2u25uh | null | 1427776454 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | shevegen | null | Ok ... UML died, the trend will slowly fade away, no big deal ...
But even if the graphics weren't that useful, I still liked them!
What is wrong with nice graphics?
You know that *nix manpages would be SO MUCH BETTER WITH GRAPHICS! | null | 0 | 1319478872 | False | 0 | c2u2f4i | t3_ln8jb | null | t1_c2u2f4i | t3_ln8jb | null | 1427776469 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | julesjacobs | null | Do you have an example of something where Alloy tells you something nonobvious? It looks like a very interesting language but I have a hard time picturing what its value would be in practice. | null | 0 | 1319478925 | True | 0 | c2u2feo | t3_ln8jb | null | t1_c2u2feo | t1_c2u24xi | null | 1427776473 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | xcallmejudasx | null | I remember spending most of an entire semester of school learning how to properly document my code using UML. NEVER touched it outside of that semester. I asked my boss if he needed a UML diagram with this project and he just laughed and said nobody uses that. | null | 0 | 1319478977 | False | 0 | c2u2fop | t3_ln8jb | null | t1_c2u2fop | t3_ln8jb | null | 1427776478 | 66 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | aristotle2600 | null | Well at least birthstones will actually align to months (originally they aligned to astrological sign, but now everyone seems to believe that each month has a birthstone. This would be true if astrological sign boundaries fell on month boundaries).
Also, can't decide if "lol Epic Troll" or "DIAF" is the appropriate r... | null | 0 | 1319479012 | False | 0 | c2u2fv9 | t3_ln1tg | null | t1_c2u2fv9 | t1_c2u1kqz | null | 1427776481 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | aristotle2600 | null | wait...what? | null | 0 | 1319479124 | False | 0 | c2u2gi1 | t3_ln1tg | null | t1_c2u2gi1 | t1_c2u1hgi | null | 1427776488 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | palparepa | null | It wasn't _that_ bad. Upon hearing the news on lunch time, I sped to the tz database, where there already was a thread speaking about it. I think the patch went out one or two days before the deadline. Ok, it wasn't that bad _for me_, since I only have one machine sensible to time, the rest just waited. | null | 0 | 1319479241 | False | 0 | c2u2h67 | t3_ln1tg | null | t1_c2u2h67 | t1_c2u2bjh | null | 1427776506 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | ShortStoryLong | null | I saw this and thought, "Bad timing when asking a girl out?" Then I realized it was /r/programming. | null | 0 | 1319479244 | False | 0 | c2u2h6r | t3_ln1tg | null | t1_c2u2h6r | t3_ln1tg | null | 1427776506 | -3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | OceanSpray | null | Can you give me an example of where this requirement comes up? | null | 0 | 1319479246 | False | 0 | c2u2h71 | t3_lks2a | null | t1_c2u2h71 | t1_c2u1cpl | null | 1427776506 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | antonivs | null | I think that oversimplifies it. Greed is a factor, but the way large businesses ("enterprises") tend to work in general is also a major part of it, because it affects how decisions get made.
If you talk to the teams working on this stuff in big companies (I'm a consultant and have talked to quite a few), they're most... | null | 0 | 1319479459 | False | 0 | c2u2idt | t3_llz5l | null | t1_c2u2idt | t1_c2tughf | null | 1427776519 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | I'm sure there is a fan spec for how Stardates work out there somewhere. probably with full localization support for Klingon as well. | null | 0 | 1319479462 | False | 0 | c2u2ie9 | t3_ln1tg | null | t1_c2u2ie9 | t1_c2u1w8e | null | 1427776520 | 11 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | Things that are obvious in small cases are non-obvious in complex cases. It catches human error. | null | 0 | 1319479525 | False | 0 | c2u2ir9 | t3_ln8jb | null | t1_c2u2ir9 | t1_c2u2feo | null | 1427776523 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1319479590 | True | 0 | c2u2j36 | t3_lnckx | null | t1_c2u2j36 | t3_lnckx | null | 1427776525 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | rjw57 | null | Of course he was a designer. He spent a massive "ten minutes or so" designing the original MacOS calculator.
Source: http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=Calculator_Construction_Set.txt | null | 0 | 1319479640 | False | 0 | c2u2jds | t3_lmz8b | null | t1_c2u2jds | t1_c2u1q4x | null | 1427776527 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Eoinoc | null | Just use [Boost.DateTime](http://http://www.boost.org/doc/libs/1_47_0/doc/html/date_time.html) and all your problems are solved. | null | 0 | 1319479769 | False | 0 | c2u2k3r | t3_ln1tg | null | t1_c2u2k3r | t3_ln1tg | null | 1427776535 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | antonivs | null | > So why the hell is Java still stuck in the "restart the world" deployment model?
I think that might be specific to "enterprise" Java. In the systems I've worked on, you can change a source file, refresh a page and see the results. The application server recompiles changed source files and reloads the resulting ... | null | 0 | 1319479839 | False | 0 | c2u2kfj | t3_llz5l | null | t1_c2u2kfj | t1_c2tspy3 | null | 1427776539 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | julesjacobs | null | Others and me could either just take your/psnively's word for it that Alloy helps, or analyze an example and learn something and really understand *why* and for what kind of problems Alloy helps. Then next time we encounter a problem, we might think "hey, that's something Alloy could help with!" :) | null | 0 | 1319479872 | True | 0 | c2u2kn7 | t3_ln8jb | null | t1_c2u2kn7 | t1_c2u2ir9 | null | 1427776548 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | fjonk | null | That's no reason, a 32 bit integer would be enough for almost all implementations, a 64 bit could count each minute since the birth of the universe. There's no need to use floats when it comes to time as I see it. | null | 0 | 1319479899 | False | 0 | c2u2krz | t3_ln1tg | null | t1_c2u2krz | t1_c2u15ru | null | 1427776550 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Randolpho | null | That man could turn a phrase over and make you want to cuddle it all night. | null | 0 | 1319479935 | False | 0 | c2u2kyo | t3_ln1tg | null | t1_c2u2kyo | t1_c2u0ipu | null | 1427776552 | 26 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | bigfig | null | Just install Oracle and use their "timestamp with local time zone". They paid people with PhDs in Gregorian calendars to get shit right. Leap seconds, Julian days, EDT, EST, GMT, UCT, it's all a *huge* kluge.
Seriously though, to think that nobody tried to handle this starting back in the 1960s is pure hubris. (and ... | null | 0 | 1319479958 | True | 0 | c2u2l2o | t3_ln1tg | null | t1_c2u2l2o | t3_ln1tg | null | 1427776553 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Grimoire | null | As someone who works on analytics for trading systems, I concur. It is more important to be fast than perfectly accurate. As long as you provide the risk statistics, being off by a fraction of a basis point isn't going to kill you.
Of course, it doesn't prevent the odd customer from complaining that our valuation is... | null | 0 | 1319479989 | False | 0 | c2u2l88 | t3_ln1tg | null | t1_c2u2l88 | t1_c2u1t8k | null | 1427776554 | 8 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | morrog | null | If anyone was curious what the "September, 1752" comment was about:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregorian_calendar#Adoption_in_Europe
In September, 1752 the Georgian calender, the one we all use today, was adopted. For exact reasons I did not personally research, we had to jump 11 days forward, skipping the 3rd of Se... | null | 0 | 1319480001 | False | 0 | c2u2lad | t3_ln1tg | null | t1_c2u2lad | t3_ln1tg | null | 1427776554 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | jsantos17 | null | Gauss algorithm is relatively easy to implement. I believe it's quite common in intro to programming classes. | null | 0 | 1319480064 | False | 0 | c2u2lmi | t3_ln1tg | null | t1_c2u2lmi | t1_c2u1jh2 | null | 1427776560 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | masklinn | null | But now you can't represent the time, you need at least an other 32bit int, and that's barely going to give you milliseconds.
For my money, you use either a 128bit int or a pair of 64bit ints, first 64bit give you a duration in seconds since an epoch, second pair gives parts of a second. Will only work down to the att... | null | 0 | 1319480106 | False | 0 | c2u2lux | t3_ln1tg | null | t1_c2u2lux | t1_c2u286f | null | 1427776561 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | BitBrain | null | Because the TV station was where there is DST? Even if I went with UTC internally, I would still have had to constantly convert it to local time, including DST, for users to interact with it. Except for the extra hour coming off of DST, it worked out remarkably well. The fix for 25-hour day was pretty easy too. | null | 0 | 1319480139 | False | 0 | c2u2m1a | t3_ln1tg | null | t1_c2u2m1a | t1_c2u20my | null | 1427776564 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | claytonm | null | http://www2.research.att.com/~pamela/cncea.pdf | null | 0 | 1319480150 | False | 0 | c2u2m38 | t3_ln8jb | null | t1_c2u2m38 | t1_c2u2kn7 | null | 1427776564 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | I would suggest perhaps [Analyzing Multicast Key Management Schemes](http://alloy.mit.edu/community/node/220), where Alloy revealed a violation of a property that was crucial to the key management scheme in question being secure.
**Update:** I chose this example because:
1. The property being checked is fundamental... | null | 0 | 1319480205 | True | 0 | c2u2mdo | t3_ln8jb | null | t1_c2u2mdo | t1_c2u2feo | null | 1427776569 | 19 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | martoo | null | I started reading and I thought "Boy, I hope he knows about Calendrical Calculations." Glad to see he recommended it. | null | 0 | 1319480248 | False | 0 | c2u2mln | t3_ln1tg | null | t1_c2u2mln | t3_ln1tg | null | 1427776576 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | tootie | null | Robert Dewar committed the code himself? That guy is awesome. | null | 0 | 1319480249 | False | 0 | c2u2mlr | t3_ln9rn | null | t1_c2u2mlr | t3_ln9rn | null | 1427776576 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | dranek | null | really, anything with a governmental decree should be defined as not understandable. | null | 0 | 1319480288 | False | 0 | c2u2mt4 | t3_ln1tg | null | t1_c2u2mt4 | t1_c2u0fvz | null | 1427776578 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Grimoire | null | Financial trading systems != accounting systems. They have different needs and purposes. Exact dollar calculations is not the goal. Speed is first, followed by accuracy with a known variance.
A lot of the calculations are done via Monte Carlo simulation. Doing a Monte Carlo with BigDecimal would be slow and comple... | null | 0 | 1319480289 | False | 0 | c2u2mtb | t3_ln1tg | null | t1_c2u2mtb | t1_c2u2d3f | null | 1427776578 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | UnoriginalGuy | null | You and me both.
I'm no UML expert but I think the problem with UML is that it is too difficult to create for the payoff. UML are so convoluted that honestly I find it often easier to read the code. I like diagrams for explaining things but UML seems like it spends too much time trying to define the little details... | null | 0 | 1319480303 | False | 0 | c2u2mwf | t3_ln8jb | null | t1_c2u2mwf | t1_c2u2fop | null | 1427776579 | 44 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | jsantos17 | null | My prof was exactly the opposite. He skimmed over proofs and gave us extensive implementation and performance details. | null | 0 | 1319480309 | False | 0 | c2u2mxt | t3_ln1tg | null | t1_c2u2mxt | t1_c2u0u5x | null | 1427776579 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | aaronla | null | That can be shortened to "[programming is math](http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?ProgrammingIsMath)".
Similar reductions have been explored before \[[xkcd](http://xkcd.com/435/)\]. | null | 0 | 1319480339 | False | 0 | c2u2n4h | t3_ln1tg | null | t1_c2u2n4h | t1_c2u1of4 | null | 1427776581 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | eaturbrainz | null | So let's see you have a function of type:
f :: a -> (forall b. b -> b) -> a
(This is a horrible example, but hey.)
How do you represent data of that type forall b? Because it's a higher-rank type, you can't just wait until the function application and specialize the code (because the function you receive a... | null | 0 | 1319480371 | False | 0 | c2u2nb3 | t3_lks2a | null | t1_c2u2nb3 | t1_c2u2h71 | null | 1427776583 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | fykusfire | null | Those names are classic. | null | 0 | 1319480384 | False | 0 | c2u2ndu | t3_lnbf8 | null | t1_c2u2ndu | t3_lnbf8 | null | 1427776583 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | ropers | null | > (And for Soul fans, there's also a tribute to Sylvia Robinson in the same programme).
Mother. Fucker.
I just found out that I've only got the short version of [Rapper's Delight](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rapper%27s_Delight).
I don't know whether to be outraged at having been cheated all these years or deligh... | null | 0 | 1319480391 | False | 0 | c2u2nfa | t3_lmz8b | null | t1_c2u2nfa | t3_lmz8b | null | 1427776583 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | scala and clojure could almost certainly be better if they had been able to modify the JVM. Tail recursion support, for example, could probably be improved. | null | 0 | 1319480445 | False | 0 | c2u2npe | t3_llz44 | null | t1_c2u2npe | t1_c2u1xrh | null | 1427776585 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Pxtl | null | ... This may be the first and last time I ever post this, but
**thank you Microsoft. **
I never knew how awesome System.DateTime was until now. | null | 0 | 1319480446 | False | 0 | c2u2npn | t3_ln1tg | null | t1_c2u2npn | t1_c2u20yo | null | 1427776585 | 17 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
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