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True | grauenwolf | null | Back when I was still in the bond market we had to reverse engineer Bloomberg's bond calculator, including its bugs. | null | 0 | 1319484738 | False | 0 | c2u3c9o | t3_ln1tg | null | t1_c2u3c9o | t1_c2u2l88 | null | 1427776924 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Gotebe | null | >64 bit could count each minute since the birth of the universe.
DATE goes under a millisecond, but for a more interesting practical range than billions of years ago. Minute is rather poor resolution, really. | null | 0 | 1319484801 | False | 0 | c2u3cnq | t3_ln1tg | null | t1_c2u3cnq | t1_c2u2krz | null | 1427776926 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Whanhee | null | A little better than random without significance effectively means it's the same. Statistics 101 or w/e. | null | 0 | 1319484850 | False | 0 | c2u3cx2 | t3_lnevu | null | t1_c2u3cx2 | t1_c2u3aob | null | 1427776935 | -1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Pxtl | null | Sadly too many servers I work with still run SQL2005, which means no support for that type in the database, which means conversion pains. | null | 0 | 1319484940 | False | 0 | c2u3dhj | t3_ln1tg | null | t1_c2u3dhj | t1_c2u3bhr | null | 1427776937 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Sannish | null | In space physics and planetary science the time variable used depends on what you are looking at. It can be in either local time (referenced from sunrise/sunset), magnetic local time or UTC (usually for non-orbiting time like a satellite flyby). Often the time of events is given in both local time and UTC. Then for dat... | null | 0 | 1319484955 | False | 0 | c2u3dkl | t3_ln1tg | null | t1_c2u3dkl | t1_c2u1w8e | null | 1427776939 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | truthHIPS | null | Amusing. I've been in big enterprise software for 15 years. What I'm saying is: you want it? You pay for it. Fuck you freeloaders. | null | 0 | 1319485188 | False | 0 | c2u3exw | t3_llw0s | null | t1_c2u3exw | t1_c2u1y8w | null | 1427776949 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | trimeta | null | The sad thing is, all of this could have been avoided if the author simply followed [RFC 2550](http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2550), the IETF specification for dealing with arbitrary dates and times. | null | 0 | 1319485190 | False | 0 | c2u3eyf | t3_ln1tg | null | t1_c2u3eyf | t3_ln1tg | null | 1427776949 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Gotebe | null | As a die-hard old-school COM... dabbler, I enjoyed this. See, pure COM allows you to interface with code in C, C++, Delphi, C#, Java (needs a bridge, luckily, one is written for you), VB (well, partly) and many other languages. COM contains, among other hings, a rather nice, binary-level compatibility layer, all based ... | null | 0 | 1319485241 | False | 0 | c2u3f9h | t3_ln8f5 | null | t1_c2u3f9h | t3_ln8f5 | null | 1427776952 | 20 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | truthHIPS | null | [citation needed]
Hibernate is used by some pretty big places for an insane amount of queries for second. I think your "knowledge" on the subject is from the early 00's. It's very sophisticated now. | null | 0 | 1319485263 | False | 0 | c2u3fe3 | t3_lle7t | null | t1_c2u3fe3 | t1_c2tzyjv | null | 1427776954 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | truthHIPS | null | Yea. Some time ago. | null | 0 | 1319485289 | False | 0 | c2u3fjf | t3_lle7t | null | t1_c2u3fjf | t1_c2tzhkq | null | 1427776955 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | i8beef | null | I'm using this as proof that we are actually living inside a giant computer simulation. | null | 0 | 1319485355 | False | 0 | c2u3fxf | t3_ln1tg | null | t1_c2u3fxf | t1_c2u1zj4 | null | 1427776959 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | losmaxos | null | doesn't this store the code in the cloud? i was wondering how it is protected there so the evil cloud admin cannot steal it. | null | 0 | 1319485402 | False | 0 | c2u3g5w | t3_ll65v | null | t1_c2u3g5w | t1_c2u03be | null | 1427776960 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Gotebe | null | UML. Because coders need more crap to bitch about. | null | 0 | 1319485404 | False | 0 | c2u3g65 | t3_ln8jb | null | t1_c2u3g65 | t1_c2u2p2c | null | 1427776960 | 20 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | ais523 | null | IIRC that experiment was flawed, because the subjects had access to light switches, and were accidentally manufacturing their own light cues.
With a constant lighting level that the subjects can't turn off, it comes to more like 24 hours exactly.
I don't have a reference for this handy, unfortunately, but would be in... | null | 0 | 1319485453 | False | 0 | c2u3ggg | t3_ln1tg | null | t1_c2u3ggg | t1_c2u3b0w | null | 1427776962 | 9 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Brian | null | Yeah - this is the biggest part of the problem. I wish the people who keep changing these things could understand some portion of the problems they're causing. It's not like it's even something specific to computers. If you've a piece of paper where someone has jotted down the time, it's an exercise in forensic hist... | null | 0 | 1319485525 | False | 0 | c2u3gvq | t3_ln1tg | null | t1_c2u3gvq | t1_c2u330f | null | 1427776977 | 16 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Krenair | null | It's likely not protected from that, and you shouldn't expect it to be unless you were paying for the service. | null | 0 | 1319485532 | False | 0 | c2u3gx5 | t3_ll65v | null | t1_c2u3gx5 | t1_c2u3g5w | null | 1427776968 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | ManticoreX | null | Only 2 years late to the party....
http://googlegeodevelopers.blogspot.com/2009/05/announcing-google-maps-api-v3.html | null | 0 | 1319485625 | False | 0 | c2u3hgs | t3_lneg0 | null | t1_c2u3hgs | t3_lneg0 | null | 1427776980 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | arnedh | null | Leap day is actually Feb 24.
http://www.webexhibits.org/calendars/calendar-roman.html#anchor-end
Undecimber
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Undecimber | null | 0 | 1319485631 | False | 0 | c2u3hi8 | t3_ln1tg | null | t1_c2u3hi8 | t1_c2u31dg | null | 1427776989 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | ais523 | null | This algorithm was, incidentally, used as the example program at the end of one of the standard textbooks for ALGOL 68. It's just about the right length and complexity to show off most of its language features. (It turns out not to be so bad when actually implemented, incidentally.) | null | 0 | 1319485707 | False | 0 | c2u3hzd | t3_ln1tg | null | t1_c2u3hzd | t1_c2u0lk4 | null | 1427776996 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | nepidae | null | Companies should revolt and simply not add code to handle every little time change decree. What would/could the government do? | null | 0 | 1319485732 | False | 0 | c2u3i48 | t3_ln1tg | null | t1_c2u3i48 | t1_c2u2bjh | null | 1427776990 | 10 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | AnalyticContinuation | null | From section 3.5, it looks as if the main difficulty for a novice understanding these very simple programs is understanding keywords like *for* and the meaning of { }.
These features are shared by many languages including C++ and Javascript. Their preferred language, Quorum, in terms of the use of keywords to bracket ... | null | 0 | 1319485741 | False | 0 | c2u3i6l | t3_lnevu | null | t1_c2u3i6l | t3_lnevu | null | 1427776992 | 9 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | arstin | null | In other news, novices have trouble writing a C program that compiles the first attempt. | null | 0 | 1319485850 | False | 0 | c2u3ite | t3_lnevu | null | t1_c2u3ite | t3_lnevu | null | 1427777005 | 43 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | arnedh | null | Look into February 30, 1712, Sweden, and how the Swedes handled their calendar change. | null | 0 | 1319485982 | False | 0 | c2u3jku | t3_ln1tg | null | t1_c2u3jku | t1_c2u2lad | null | 1427777006 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | gecko | null | Indeed. For all the crap COM gets, I think it's actually extremely elegant for what it's trying to do: in a way that was (relatively) efficient by 1994 standards, it gave you a (comparatively) simple way to export and consume objects from a huge variety of languages, in a way that compiler designers could support extr... | null | 0 | 1319486009 | False | 0 | c2u3jqf | t3_ln8f5 | null | t1_c2u3jqf | t1_c2u3f9h | null | 1427777008 | 16 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | losmaxos | null | now i get it... you have to download and install this *on your own server*. "find out how great it is to code *in the cloud*" confused me... | null | 0 | 1319486053 | False | 0 | c2u3jzd | t3_ll65v | null | t1_c2u3jzd | t1_c2u3gx5 | null | 1427777011 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | ew73 | null | Playing devil's advocate -- why change it? We still call it "feet" despite the length in question no longer having anything to do with the size of a human foot.
The question you should better be asking is, "Why would we change it?" | null | 0 | 1319486122 | False | 0 | c2u3kf7 | t3_ln1tg | null | t1_c2u3kf7 | t1_c2u3ab2 | null | 1427777016 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Grimoire | null | I always felt bad for the fixed income quants, swearing over a Bloomberg terminal as they tried to figure out what the hell they've done for some obscure jurisdictional bond. | null | 0 | 1319486151 | False | 0 | c2u3kkx | t3_ln1tg | null | t1_c2u3kkx | t1_c2u3c9o | null | 1427777018 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | My impression was that currently scala and clojure have to do some extra work to make tail recursion work in the JVM. I know there are (were?) cases where scala could not make a call tail recursive. | null | 0 | 1319486221 | False | 0 | c2u3kyx | t3_llz44 | null | t1_c2u3kyx | t1_c2u32yr | null | 1427777022 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | julesjacobs | null | Very interesting, thanks :) So Alloy is useful for analyzing asynchronous algorithms. I can see how you could use it to analyze lock free algorithms and distributed transactions. | null | 0 | 1319486280 | False | 0 | c2u3lcw | t3_ln8jb | null | t1_c2u3lcw | t1_c2u2mdo | null | 1427777027 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Shadow703793 | null | Yup. We did this in AP CS. Well at least in my school. Too bad the AP CS test/classes now aren't the same.... | null | 0 | 1319486305 | False | 0 | c2u3lhx | t3_ln1tg | null | t1_c2u3lhx | t1_c2u2lmi | null | 1427777027 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | yogthos | null | I haven't used Scala enough to know if that's the case, but in Clojure it's definitely not a problem, all you do is something like this:
(loop [x 0]
(if (< x 10) (recur (inc x)) x))
| null | 0 | 1319486523 | False | 0 | c2u3mrr | t3_llz44 | null | t1_c2u3mrr | t1_c2u3kyx | null | 1427777045 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | _ak | null | Linux 3.11 for Workgroups will follow soon. | null | 0 | 1319486630 | False | 0 | c2u3ndq | t3_lnc1o | null | t1_c2u3ndq | t3_lnc1o | null | 1427777055 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | goldfire | null | The people who have downvoted you apparently failed to consider that most of the reasons he gives are perfectly normal, well-understood limitations of C++. | null | 0 | 1319486633 | False | 0 | c2u3neg | t3_ln8f5 | null | t1_c2u3neg | t1_c2u2w7p | null | 1427777055 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1319486641 | False | 0 | c2u3nfp | t3_ln1tg | null | t1_c2u3nfp | t1_c2u32pa | null | 1427777055 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Zarokima | null | We need to just get rid of DST all together. | null | 0 | 1319486654 | False | 0 | c2u3nic | t3_ln1tg | null | t1_c2u3nic | t1_c2u330f | null | 1427777056 | 10 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | julesjacobs | null | [Ajax](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ajax) has a ton of meanings. The page on the [original Ajax](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ajax_(mythology\)) is more interesting than OP. | null | 0 | 1319486707 | False | 0 | c2u3ns3 | t3_lnfbl | null | t1_c2u3ns3 | t3_lnfbl | null | 1427777058 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | haakon | null | There is no source to confirm this yet. The WIkipedia editor claims to have had a personal message from his sister. And there is [this](https://twitter.com/#!/wendyg/status/128554733714669568).
If it's true, man, it's been a terrible month for the computing community. | null | 0 | 1319486862 | False | 0 | c2u3onl | t3_lnhkh | null | t1_c2u3onl | t3_lnhkh | null | 1427777065 | 15 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | rawlyn | null | The reposts of this link are beginning to get boring. | null | 0 | 1319486870 | False | 0 | c2u3op9 | t3_lnhkh | null | t1_c2u3op9 | t3_lnhkh | null | 1427777066 | -9 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | tweet_poster | null | ***wendyg***:
>&#91;2011/10/24&#93;&#91;19:33:31&#93;
>[&#91;Translate&#93;](http://translate.google.com/#auto|auto|R.I.P. John McCarthy, father of AI, inventor of Lisp, suddenly at home last night. Pls RT. 'google translate this tweet'): R.I.P. John McCarthy, father of AI, inventor of L... | null | 0 | 1319486882 | False | 0 | c2u3orl | t3_lnhno | null | t1_c2u3orl | t3_lnhno | null | 1427777068 | 103 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | gavintlgold | null | Well it can't compare strings the way *you* would consider to be proper, at least. | null | 0 | 1319486906 | False | 0 | c2u3ow2 | t3_ln1tg | null | t1_c2u3ow2 | t1_c2u34ce | null | 1427777068 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | rawlyn | null | if (shell_written_in_cpp)
{
// never executes
export_base_classes();
} | null | 0 | 1319487067 | False | 0 | c2u3pts | t3_ln8f5 | null | t1_c2u3pts | t3_ln8f5 | null | 1427777081 | -15 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | "Do you need the ability to compare times?" Please specify the position and velocity of your inertial frame relative to where Greenwich was on April 1st, 1975. | null | 0 | 1319487148 | False | 0 | c2u3qch | t3_ln1tg | null | t1_c2u3qch | t3_ln1tg | null | 1427777087 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | grauenwolf | null | We actually had a former math professor turned DB programmer working on it for us.
The funny thing was his wife was a former programmer than become a math professor. | null | 0 | 1319487233 | False | 0 | c2u3qvx | t3_ln1tg | null | t1_c2u3qvx | t1_c2u3kkx | null | 1427777095 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Terr_ | null | Date-time stuff is (like internationalization) one of those areas where "Enterprise" is a **good** word.
That kind of stuff needs to be built from experience drawn from a huge base of situations and edge-cases, or else you just end up with something that bites you in the ass. Don't go chasing an "elegant" solution, b... | null | 0 | 1319487266 | True | 0 | c2u3r2w | t3_ln1tg | null | t1_c2u3r2w | t1_c2u36xn | null | 1427777097 | 23 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Dr9 | null | well when you get out there in the real world, and have to write out proofs for you job - you'll thank him! | null | 0 | 1319487309 | False | 0 | c2u3rcj | t3_ln1tg | null | t1_c2u3rcj | t1_c2u0u5x | null | 1427777101 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1319487447 | False | 0 | c2u3s4j | t3_ln8jb | null | t1_c2u3s4j | t1_c2u3g65 | null | 1427777115 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | novacoder | null | > There was code to handle leap years, but it failed every 100 years.
Rookies... | null | 0 | 1319487457 | False | 0 | c2u3s79 | t3_ln1tg | null | t1_c2u3s79 | t3_ln1tg | null | 1427777117 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1319487498 | False | 0 | c2u3sg1 | t3_llw0s | null | t1_c2u3sg1 | t3_llw0s | null | 1427777120 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Nine99 | null | John McCarthy, the inventor of LISP and the one who coined the term "Artificial Intelligence", just died. | null | 0 | 1319487507 | False | 0 | c2u3shp | t3_lmz8b | null | t1_c2u3shp | t3_lmz8b | null | 1427777119 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | kamishizuka | null | I thought Hackers was about Penn Jillette operating a high power computer with an arcade keyboard with the password GOD. | null | 0 | 1319487518 | False | 0 | c2u3ska | t3_ln1tg | null | t1_c2u3ska | t1_c2u2vkh | null | 1427777121 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | gonz808 | null | Maybe we can get some c# intellisense for Emacs now.
My own experiments having using horrible regexps (eg. functions that generate regexes) | null | 0 | 1319487521 | False | 0 | c2u3skt | t3_ll5d1 | null | t1_c2u3skt | t1_c2tonvj | null | 1427777121 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Poita_ | null | Still looking for a better source. That Tweet is all there is at the moment.
EDIT: Looks like there's some discussion on Wikipedia, but still nothing more than the tweet - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:John_McCarthy_\(computer_scientist\)
EDIT: [@stanfordeng](http://twitter.com/#!/stanfordeng) appears to have twe... | null | 0 | 1319487594 | True | 0 | c2u3t1s | t3_lnhno | null | t1_c2u3t1s | t3_lnhno | null | 1427777124 | 42 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | zwangaman | null | UML. Because managers need to give interns something to do. | null | 0 | 1319487609 | False | 0 | c2u3t5c | t3_ln8jb | null | t1_c2u3t5c | t1_c2u3g65 | null | 1427777124 | 22 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | ChaosMotor | null | Do you really think I gained or remember *anything* from that hot mess? Also, I'd throw myself off a high bridge before I took a job writing proofs. | null | 0 | 1319487635 | False | 0 | c2u3tb6 | t3_ln1tg | null | t1_c2u3tb6 | t1_c2u3rcj | null | 1427777127 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | haa yes, 32-bit mode at last! | null | 0 | 1319487654 | False | 0 | c2u3tg8 | t3_lnc1o | null | t1_c2u3tg8 | t1_c2u3ndq | null | 1427777128 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | fisch003 | null | I kind of expected it. Probably could have saved myself by being more verbose:
TL;DR: C++'s semantics make cross library or cross application communication at best difficult, and more commonly completely infeasible. | null | 0 | 1319487804 | False | 0 | c2u3ua1 | t3_ln8f5 | null | t1_c2u3ua1 | t1_c2u3neg | null | 1427777138 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | gigitrix | null | irrelevant. | null | 0 | 1319487812 | False | 0 | c2u3ubo | t3_ln1tg | null | t1_c2u3ubo | t1_c2u34ce | null | 1427777140 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | lance99 | null | If it is true, it is a sad passing away of a great man. I got my first few publications because of his work. It was great standing on the shoulders of this giant. | null | 0 | 1319487820 | False | 0 | c2u3ud1 | t3_lnhkh | null | t1_c2u3ud1 | t3_lnhkh | null | 1427777140 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | No. | null | 0 | 1319487899 | False | 0 | c2u3utm | t3_ln1tg | null | t1_c2u3utm | t1_c2u3eyf | null | 1427777147 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | kristopolous | null | [The tweeter looks to be fairly legit](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wendy_M._Grossman) ... [HN has discussion too, seemed to have broken earlier there](http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3151233) | null | 0 | 1319487933 | False | 0 | c2u3v0k | t3_lnhno | null | t1_c2u3v0k | t1_c2u3t1s | null | 1427777148 | 9 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | grauenwolf | null | I don't believe it. How can anyone understand your Visio diagram without proper training? It isn't like I can go to college and take a 3-unit, semester long course on "UnoriginalGuy's Modeling Language". | null | 0 | 1319487986 | False | 0 | c2u3vb9 | t3_ln8jb | null | t1_c2u3vb9 | t1_c2u2mwf | null | 1427777151 | 29 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | greenspans | null | Still no Bob Barker? | null | 0 | 1319488045 | False | 0 | c2u3vmr | t3_lnhno | null | t1_c2u3vmr | t3_lnhno | null | 1427777156 | -10 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1319488075 | False | 0 | c2u3vsy | t3_lnhno | null | t1_c2u3vsy | t3_lnhno | null | 1427777158 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | londubh2010 | null | Still no confirmation. Absolutely nothing in Google news, slashdot or here besides the link to a tweet. His name is currently trending on Twitter worldwide. His Wikipedia page did list his death briefly but was removed pending confirmation.
He's listed as a professor emeritus on Stanford's website but they don't have ... | null | 0 | 1319488088 | False | 0 | c2u3vvl | t3_lnhno | null | t1_c2u3vvl | t3_lnhno | null | 1427777160 | 15 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | benfitzg | null | How did I not know about this! I'm outraged!! | null | 0 | 1319488093 | False | 0 | c2u3vwx | t3_lmz8b | null | t1_c2u3vwx | t1_c2u0piy | null | 1427777160 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | wally_fish | 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?
If you put out code - under whatever license - people will expect you to answer questions a... | null | 0 | 1319488294 | False | 0 | c2u3x65 | t3_llw0s | null | t1_c2u3x65 | t1_c2tvyec | null | 1427777176 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | wally_fish | 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?
If you put out code - under whatever license - people will expect you to answer questions a... | null | 0 | 1319488309 | False | 0 | c2u3x9j | t3_llw0s | null | t1_c2u3x9j | t1_c2tvyec | null | 1427777179 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | kristopolous | null | [let's try to keep this to one thread](http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/lnhno/rip_john_mccarthy_father_of_ai_inventor_of_lisp/) ... it's not mine btw, but being that it's still not confirmed, it would be a good step probably. | null | 0 | 1319488316 | False | 0 | c2u3xbl | t3_lnhkh | null | t1_c2u3xbl | t3_lnhkh | null | 1427777179 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | ninja_fapper | null | It's not the base unit that is fucked up, it is the entire system of measure (12 inches in a foot? 5,280 feet in a mile? wtf?). You can pull your base unit entirely out of your ass. The meter was originally defined as 1 millionth the distance between the earth equator and the north pole. Why not use the length of the k... | null | 0 | 1319488338 | False | 0 | c2u3xhs | t3_ln1tg | null | t1_c2u3xhs | t1_c2u3kf7 | null | 1427777182 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | BritainRitten | null | I like this author. | null | 0 | 1319488441 | False | 0 | c2u3y4l | t3_ln1tg | null | t1_c2u3y4l | t1_c2u2awl | null | 1427777189 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | gmfawcett | null | You're welcome. :) Best of luck at Twitter. | null | 0 | 1319488445 | False | 0 | c2u3y5o | t3_ln3hr | null | t1_c2u3y5o | t1_c2u0msk | null | 1427777189 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1319488552 | False | 0 | c2u3ysj | t3_lnhno | null | t1_c2u3ysj | t3_lnhno | null | 1427777198 | -4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | dardan_aeneas | null | >I hope this isn't a hoax.
That's cruel. I hope he's alive. | null | 0 | 1319488661 | False | 0 | c2u3zex | t3_lnhno | null | t1_c2u3zex | t1_c2u3vvl | null | 1427777212 | 34 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | I've been using Async Observer for years (http://async-observer.rubyforge.org/). It uses Beanstalkd for queuing. Works great.
The most popular async plugin is Delayed Job, which IMO is a great for smaller projects. Uses a DB table for queuing which I'm not a big fan of for more trafficed projects. | null | 0 | 1319488664 | False | 0 | c2u3zfs | t3_llx97 | null | t1_c2u3zfs | t1_c2u2933 | null | 1427777212 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | joopsmit | null | His wikipedia page is a bit of a mess. People who knew him and people who know about him, please update his page so it represents his contribution to computer science. | null | 0 | 1319488725 | False | 0 | c2u3zt6 | t3_lnhkh | null | t1_c2u3zt6 | t3_lnhkh | null | 1427777212 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1319488746 | False | 0 | c2u3zxt | t3_ln8jb | null | t1_c2u3zxt | t1_c2u2q9v | null | 1427777213 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | ethraax | null | > You think the built-in libraries are always right?
If I had to place my trust in the built-in library functions for dates/times or my own library for dates/times, I'd choose the built-in all the time. Unless I spent months working on the date/time library of mine, but I don't think I can work on that for a whole... | null | 0 | 1319488765 | False | 0 | c2u401n | t3_ln1tg | null | t1_c2u401n | t1_c2u1ook | null | 1427777215 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | plebs | null | Oh cool, I hadn't seen DeskMetrics before. I'll have to take a look at how they compare. | null | 0 | 1319488766 | False | 0 | c2u401u | t3_lna77 | null | t1_c2u401u | t1_c2u308a | null | 1427777215 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | therealprotonk | null | I protected the WP page until there is a reliable source on his death. With the exception of the tweet, all other sources basically flow back to the wikipedia article itself.
I hope it isn't true, but he lived a full life and accomplished a tremendous amount in multiple fields. | null | 0 | 1319488822 | False | 0 | c2u40f0 | t3_lnhno | null | t1_c2u40f0 | t3_lnhno | null | 1427777230 | 31 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | More_Bacon_Strips | null | Can someone please, link me to an article explaining his life's work?
As the Wikipedia page seems to be quite empty on the subject. | null | 0 | 1319488903 | True | 0 | c2u40wx | t3_lnhkh | null | t1_c2u40wx | t3_lnhkh | null | 1428185852 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Dr9 | null | So you wish you lived in a world without proofs huh?
What about chair you're sitting on? A man in a factory had a proof for that. And that shirt you're wearing? A woman in Mexico did a proof for that shirt ~ole indeed.
You see ChaosMotor, everything, every product you enjoy requires a formal written proof. | null | 0 | 1319489085 | False | 0 | c2u41w5 | t3_ln1tg | null | t1_c2u41w5 | t1_c2u3tb6 | null | 1427777243 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | But think of the poor farmers! | null | 0 | 1319489094 | False | 0 | c2u41xx | t3_ln1tg | null | t1_c2u41xx | t1_c2u3nic | null | 1427777243 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | Computers are magical and you're smart. There are no limits! | null | 0 | 1319489104 | False | 0 | c2u41zv | t3_ln1tg | null | t1_c2u41zv | t1_c2u3gvq | null | 1427777245 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | awesome7777 | null | I had a project to do, and then requirements started changing. By the time it was "ready", the code was patched with quick fixes, and besides being difficult to maintain was full of bugs.
At this stage I opened up Visio drew up a very clear diagram of the requirements (which were now way more clear). Took the code an... | null | 0 | 1319489164 | False | 0 | c2u42c3 | t3_lndn4 | null | t1_c2u42c3 | t3_lndn4 | null | 1427777248 | 18 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | shantm79 | null | I hope not... I was just thinking the other day about how people "die in threes..." Steve Jobs, Dennis Ritchie and ... | null | 0 | 1319489164 | False | 0 | c2u42ca | t3_lnhkh | null | t1_c2u42ca | t3_lnhkh | null | 1427777250 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | wahaa | null | The funniest thing is that the spec is hosted at [OMG](http://www.omg.org/spec/UML/2.4.1/)! | null | 0 | 1319489187 | False | 0 | c2u42gv | t3_ln8jb | null | t1_c2u42gv | t1_c2u2b0t | null | 1427777250 | 23 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | warmandfuzzy | null | John McCarthy suddenly at home last night. | null | 0 | 1319489255 | False | 0 | c2u42uo | t3_lnhno | null | t1_c2u42uo | t3_lnhno | null | 1427777255 | 178 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1319489412 | False | 0 | c2u43u2 | t3_lnhno | null | t1_c2u43u2 | t3_lnhno | null | 1427777265 | 15 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | awesome7777 | null | Correct me if I'm wrong but the main language for the Android platform is Java? I think this just gave Java back some sex appeal. | null | 0 | 1319489544 | False | 0 | c2u44nf | t3_lle7t | null | t1_c2u44nf | t3_lle7t | null | 1427777275 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | aphoenix | null | I think you took that in the worst possible way. | null | 0 | 1319489549 | False | 0 | c2u44oe | t3_lnhno | null | t1_c2u44oe | t1_c2u3zex | null | 1427777275 | 48 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | fjonk | null | Minute is a excellent, almost ridiculous resolution if we're talking about all time that has ever been, it was just an example. With milliseconds you still get more than a 586 million year span years using 64 bit int. That should be enough. | null | 0 | 1319489739 | False | 0 | c2u45sk | t3_ln1tg | null | t1_c2u45sk | t1_c2u3cnq | null | 1427777297 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | aphoenix | null | What is the perspective exactly? We need people like Steve Jobs and Bill Gates just as much as we need John McCarthy and Dennis Ritchies. I don't think you can legitimately claim that McCarthy or Ritchie did more for the tech world than Jobs or Gates. | null | 0 | 1319489741 | False | 0 | c2u45sv | t3_lnhno | null | t1_c2u45sv | t1_c2u43u2 | null | 1427777297 | 15 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | zeekar | null | > We need to just get rid of ~~DST~~ time zones all together.
FTFY.
Who cares if my "9-to-5" job (ha!) actually runs from 1400 to 2200, or if the sun is directly overhead around 1700 instead of around 1200? Everybody should just use UTC and have done with it.
Of course, you still have to deal with leap seconds... | null | 0 | 1319489782 | False | 0 | c2u461n | t3_ln1tg | null | t1_c2u461n | t1_c2u3nic | null | 1427777302 | 15 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | aphoenix | null | Nope, the entire message is there. No words were accidentally. | null | 0 | 1319489806 | False | 0 | c2u466k | t3_lnhno | null | t1_c2u466k | t1_c2u3ysj | null | 1427777303 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1319489878 | True | 0 | c2u46ln | t3_lnhno | null | t1_c2u46ln | t3_lnhno | null | 1427777308 | -24 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | greenspans | null | This is a proggit public service announcement: please tell your family members news of your death should never ever come through tweets. | null | 0 | 1319489885 | False | 0 | c2u46n8 | t3_lnhno | null | t1_c2u46n8 | t3_lnhno | null | 1427777308 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | MidnightTurdBurglar | null | Big John McCarthy, father of Jenny McCarthy, inventor of McCarthyism. | null | 0 | 1319489950 | False | 0 | c2u46zc | t3_lnhno | null | t1_c2u46zc | t3_lnhno | null | 1427777312 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | wtfftw | null | (quit) | null | 0 | 1319489960 | False | 0 | c2u471l | t3_lnhno | null | t1_c2u471l | t3_lnhno | null | 1427777313 | 47 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1319489991 | False | 0 | c2u477i | t3_lnhno | null | t1_c2u477i | t3_lnhno | null | 1427777314 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1319490006 | False | 0 | c2u47aw | t3_lnhno | null | t1_c2u47aw | t3_lnhno | null | 1427777315 | -10 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
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