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True | thisisjimmy | null | You should profile your code to determine how best to optimize it.
Once possibility is that the rays are the most time consuming process. Minecraft gets around that issue by using a simpler lighting model and processing it iteratively. You could try casting the rays iteratively (cast one or two per surface block per... | null | 0 | 1319490010 | False | 0 | c2u47ca | t3_lkyt0 | null | t1_c2u47ca | t1_c2tqkf3 | null | 1427777315 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1319490011 | False | 0 | c2u47cb | t3_lnhkh | null | t1_c2u47cb | t3_lnhkh | null | 1427777315 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | equinoxel | null | probably it can. but would you use it over .net? | null | 0 | 1319490070 | False | 0 | c2u47od | t3_ljtxb | null | t1_c2u47od | t1_c2tdu1n | null | 1427777319 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | He just reached the cdr of life. | null | 0 | 1319490098 | False | 0 | c2u47ue | t3_lnhno | null | t1_c2u47ue | t3_lnhno | null | 1427777321 | 27 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | F4il3d | null | I would be more willing to include Steve Jobs and Kadhafi in the same set (dictators) than Steve Jobs and Dennis Ritchie (computer visionaries). | null | 0 | 1319490100 | False | 0 | c2u47ut | t3_lnhkh | null | t1_c2u47ut | t1_c2u42ca | null | 1427777321 | -5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | h2odragon | null | There are more salesmen around than persons inventing things for them to sell. | null | 0 | 1319490111 | False | 0 | c2u47x3 | t3_lnhno | null | t1_c2u47x3 | t1_c2u45sv | null | 1427777322 | 22 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | wtfftw | null | I will, neither Gates or Jobs discovered fundamental mathematical truth. | null | 0 | 1319490120 | False | 0 | c2u47yz | t3_lnhno | null | t1_c2u47yz | t1_c2u45sv | null | 1427777322 | 71 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1319490138 | False | 0 | c2u482b | t3_lnhno | null | t1_c2u482b | t3_lnhno | null | 1427777324 | -5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | MadLarkin | null | First Steve Jobs dies, next Dennis Ritchie and now John McCarthy.. I'm getting a bit freaked out here | null | 0 | 1319490144 | False | 0 | c2u483q | t3_lnhno | null | t1_c2u483q | t3_lnhno | null | 1427777324 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1319490156 | False | 0 | c2u486h | t3_lnhno | null | t1_c2u486h | t1_c2u45sv | null | 1428185849 | -8 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | boyubout2pissmeoff | null | You mean the () of life.
| null | 0 | 1319490191 | False | 0 | c2u48ed | t3_lnhno | null | t1_c2u48ed | t1_c2u47ue | null | 1427777327 | 36 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | mark_lee_smith | null | Damn... it seems like all the greats checking out this month... | null | 0 | 1319490198 | False | 0 | c2u48fu | t3_lnhno | null | t1_c2u48fu | t3_lnhno | null | 1427777328 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Sp4m | null | Looks like he accidentally a word. | null | 0 | 1319490205 | False | 0 | c2u48hc | t3_lnhno | null | t1_c2u48hc | t1_c2u42uo | null | 1427777328 | 35 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Joke_Getter | null | He also forgot "Please RT." | null | 0 | 1319490218 | False | 0 | c2u48k8 | t3_lnhno | null | t1_c2u48k8 | t1_c2u42uo | null | 1427777329 | 12 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | squidmd | null | If this is true, Law of Threes (alongside Steve and Dennis of course). | null | 0 | 1319490221 | False | 0 | c2u48kp | t3_lnhno | null | t1_c2u48kp | t3_lnhno | null | 1427777329 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Gagege | null | This is, by far, the dumbest thing someone has ever done with a Kinect. | null | 0 | 1319490226 | False | 0 | c2u48lo | t3_lnf63 | null | t1_c2u48lo | t3_lnf63 | null | 1427777335 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | lsc | null | Most people don't write corporate desktop applications in linux because "corporate" places don't run linux on the desktop, or on internal application servers; and really, Microsoft has very good tools for writing small, in-house, simple applications. I was able to make useful GUI programs in FoxPro in my mid-teens. ... | null | 0 | 1319490226 | False | 0 | c2u48lu | t3_llw0s | null | t1_c2u48lu | t1_c2u0575 | null | 1427777335 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | ACE_C0ND0R | null | Let's get it on! | null | 0 | 1319490319 | False | 0 | c2u493l | t3_lnhno | null | t1_c2u493l | t3_lnhno | null | 1427777335 | -9 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | benfitzg | null | )))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))))
:-( | null | 0 | 1319490335 | False | 0 | c2u496v | t3_lnhno | null | t1_c2u496v | t3_lnhno | null | 1427777336 | 1249 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | Was Bill Hewlett just a salesman? | null | 0 | 1319490362 | False | 0 | c2u49cl | t3_lnhno | null | t1_c2u49cl | t1_c2u47x3 | null | 1427777347 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | Jobs doesn't get credit for bringing the first GUI platform to the mass market, or the first successful tablet? | null | 0 | 1319490423 | False | 0 | c2u49oj | t3_lnhno | null | t1_c2u49oj | t1_c2u486h | null | 1427777342 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1319490432 | False | 0 | c2u49qm | t3_lnhno | null | t1_c2u49qm | t1_c2u45sv | null | 1427777342 | -4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | ACE_C0ND0R | null | Let's get it on! | null | 0 | 1319490433 | False | 0 | c2u49qt | t3_lnhkh | null | t1_c2u49qt | t3_lnhkh | null | 1427777343 | -8 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | greenspans | null | Dennis Ritchie one of the creators of C, Bill Gates creator of Microsoft, John McCarthy creator of lisp. X creator of household name Y therefore X is someone to look up to. Well, John McCarthy at least kept active in the programming community. | null | 0 | 1319490494 | False | 0 | c2u4a3z | t3_lnhno | null | t1_c2u4a3z | t1_c2u45sv | null | 1427777346 | 13 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | thoomfish | null | I can sadly confirm that this is true.
Source: I'm a family member. | null | 0 | 1319490497 | False | 0 | c2u4a4g | t3_lnhno | null | t1_c2u4a4g | t3_lnhno | null | 1427777346 | 464 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | F4il3d | null | As I commented in a similar thread... ***I would be more willing to include Steve Jobs and Kadhafi in the same set (dictators) than Steve Jobs and Dennis Ritchie (computer visionaries)***
. | null | 0 | 1319490534 | False | 0 | c2u4abe | t3_lnhno | null | t1_c2u4abe | t1_c2u48kp | null | 1427777350 | -24 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | aphoenix | null | I understand what you are saying, and I very carefully chose my words to not claim that Jobs or Gates have done more for technology, but sometimes being famous, having money, promoting ideas, and being a draconian businessman moves things forward more than being an intellectual. Without these businessmen, what would th... | null | 0 | 1319490587 | False | 0 | c2u4alk | t3_lnhno | null | t1_c2u4alk | t1_c2u47yz | null | 1427777353 | 27 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | _Tyler_Durden_ | null | Red herring is red | null | 0 | 1319490638 | False | 0 | c2u4avd | t3_lnhno | null | t1_c2u4avd | t1_c2u49cl | null | 1427777356 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | jfedor | null | > I don't think you can legitimately claim that McCarthy or Ritchie did more for the tech world than Jobs or Gates.
Hell I can't. | null | 0 | 1319490639 | False | 0 | c2u4avk | t3_lnhno | null | t1_c2u4avk | t1_c2u45sv | null | 1427777356 | 20 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | jfedor | null | Fuck you, October. | null | 0 | 1319490655 | False | 0 | c2u4az7 | t3_lnhno | null | t1_c2u4az7 | t3_lnhno | null | 1427777357 | 326 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | aphoenix | null | There are... but were these men just salesmen? They also supported tech with money. That's really important as well. | null | 0 | 1319490730 | False | 0 | c2u4be7 | t3_lnhno | null | t1_c2u4be7 | t1_c2u47x3 | null | 1427777363 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1319490761 | False | 0 | c2u4bkb | t3_lnhno | null | t1_c2u4bkb | t1_c2u43u2 | null | 1427777365 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | As a Lisp programmer, I think the programming world would be much better today if Lucid, Symbolics, or LMI had been lead by a Steve Jobs. | null | 0 | 1319490764 | False | 0 | c2u4bkh | t3_lnhno | null | t1_c2u4bkh | t1_c2u43u2 | null | 1427777365 | 69 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | This is one of the cons to being the father of lisp. | null | 0 | 1319490815 | False | 0 | c2u4buo | t3_lnhno | null | t1_c2u4buo | t1_c2u48ed | null | 1427777370 | 90 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | leeharris100 | null | I'm not an Apple fanboy by any means, but Steve Jobs and his style forced other companies to step up their game. I had a Windows Mobile 6 smartphone right before the iPhone first came out. It was slow, had a terrible UI, horrible battery life, awful touch screen, etc. Now, just a couple years later, I have a phone with... | null | 0 | 1319490821 | False | 0 | c2u4bw0 | t3_lnhno | null | t1_c2u4bw0 | t1_c2u486h | null | 1427777370 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | aphoenix | null | Gates and Jobs were salesmen, sure, but they were also visionaries who knew where money needed to go and how to get money to go there. I very carefully did not say that Jobs or Gates were *more* important than Ritchie or McCarthy; you need people who know how to get money and brains together to have the kind of tech re... | null | 0 | 1319490825 | False | 0 | c2u4bww | t3_lnhno | null | t1_c2u4bww | t1_c2u49qm | null | 1427777371 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | I'm pretty satisfied with UML. When the IT people asked me for a detailed report explaining why I needed a new server I got a copy of "UML Weekend Crash Course" and sent them a bunch of UML diagrams. It worked just fine.
| null | 0 | 1319490875 | False | 0 | c2u4c74 | t3_ln8jb | null | t1_c2u4c74 | t1_c2u2fop | null | 1427777374 | 20 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | zeekar | null | Bear in mind that those "arbitrary" divisions have a long and storied history and each decision made sense individually when it was made.
Sure, doing everything by 10's is logical because of our decimal writing system, but doing everything by 12's (or, even better, 60's) is logical because you get easy division into... | null | 0 | 1319490924 | False | 0 | c2u4cge | t3_ln1tg | null | t1_c2u4cge | t1_c2u3xhs | null | 1427777378 | 14 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | h2odragon is creating a false dichotomy between inventors and salesmen.
People in the computing world know better than anyone else how important it is for a tech company to have a visionary leader. Lot's of great technology languishes because there is nobody to turn them into products people want to use. Bill Gates, B... | null | 0 | 1319490926 | False | 0 | c2u4ch3 | t3_lnhno | null | t1_c2u4ch3 | t1_c2u4avd | null | 1427777378 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | Elemental, my dear poulson! | null | 0 | 1319490940 | False | 0 | c2u4cjx | t3_lnckx | null | t1_c2u4cjx | t3_lnckx | null | 1427777378 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | aphoenix | null | I know who all the men were.
To be almost disgustingly simple, Gates and Jobs filtered money to people who were smart so that great things could happen. The people filtering the money are just as important as the people with the incredible brains. | null | 0 | 1319490943 | False | 0 | c2u4ckg | t3_lnhno | null | t1_c2u4ckg | t1_c2u4a3z | null | 1427777378 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | NTMLVF | null | I have a copy of the original lisp book.
Every time I look at the Lisp in Lisp interpreter... a small thing of a few pages, I'm convinced that programming language design has taken a 30 year detour down a rabbit hole of complexity.
It is only languages like Joy, and it's nominated successor Factor that give me hope t... | null | 0 | 1319490967 | False | 0 | c2u4com | t3_lnhno | null | t1_c2u4com | t3_lnhno | null | 1427777381 | 42 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1319490978 | False | 0 | c2u4cr3 | t3_lnhno | null | t1_c2u4cr3 | t1_c2u3t1s | null | 1427777381 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | > Gates and Jobs were salesmen.
Blatant mischaracterization of how involved Gates and Jobs were in the development of the products that built their respective companies. | null | 0 | 1319490985 | False | 0 | c2u4cs8 | t3_lnhno | null | t1_c2u4cs8 | t1_c2u49qm | null | 1427777382 | 18 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | cc81 | null | I think it is pretty dishonest to present those two as salesmen. Both were heavily involved in WHAT they sold and how it looked and worked. They clearly steered modern day usage of computers in ways that few others did. | null | 0 | 1319490988 | False | 0 | c2u4csr | t3_lnhno | null | t1_c2u4csr | t1_c2u49qm | null | 1427777382 | 8 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | code-affinity | null | I think this was an appropriate comment. Anyone who codes in Lisp knows what it means to type a long series of close parens -- the more parens, the bigger the work being brought to a close.
Unfortunately, in real life, we seldom get the opportunity to close all of those parens. Life just ends with a whole bunch of u... | null | 0 | 1319490997 | True | 0 | c2u4cuj | t3_lnhno | null | t1_c2u4cuj | t1_c2u496v | null | 1427777392 | 1024 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | weszlem | null | http://chime.in/user/toybuilder/chime/65979187159736320 | null | 0 | 1319491051 | False | 0 | c2u4d5l | t3_lnhkh | null | t1_c2u4d5l | t1_c2u3onl | null | 1427777389 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | cc81 | null | Hyperbole that adds little to the discussion. | null | 0 | 1319491068 | False | 0 | c2u4d8y | t3_lnhno | null | t1_c2u4d8y | t1_c2u4abe | null | 1427777392 | 14 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | MEMbrain | null | One of these is not like the other... | null | 0 | 1319491097 | False | 0 | c2u4deb | t3_lnhno | null | t1_c2u4deb | t1_c2u483q | null | 1427777404 | 38 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | mondieu | null | Yay Reddit! We lost a great man, and the second most upvoted comment in the thread an hour later is a post bashing Steve Jobs. | null | 0 | 1319491137 | False | 0 | c2u4dm7 | t3_lnhno | null | t1_c2u4dm7 | t1_c2u43u2 | null | 1427777397 | 27 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1319491202 | False | 0 | c2u4dxu | t3_lnhno | null | t1_c2u4dxu | t1_c2u4ckg | null | 1427777402 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | jimbokun | null | Notice that Perl is the only language from industry cited in the study. Would be interesting to see if, say, Java or C fare any better.
EDIT: Should have finished reading the article before commenting: "Considering that Java syntax, which many would arguably consider to be easier to understand than Perl, uses simila... | null | 0 | 1319491209 | True | 0 | c2u4dzd | t3_lnevu | null | t1_c2u4dzd | t3_lnevu | null | 1427777402 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | SgtFish | null | Personally, I don't think that a person should be glorified just because they came to be in control of a lot of money.
And you use the word "businessmen" without considering that they are a *part* of a business, which means that the efforts of the company come together from group efforts (i.e. the actual accomplishmen... | null | 0 | 1319491211 | True | 0 | c2u4dzu | t3_lnhno | null | t1_c2u4dzu | t1_c2u4alk | null | 1428185846 | 28 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | TexasWithADollarsign | null | Cows don't give a damn whether or not they're in CST or CDT. | null | 0 | 1319491211 | False | 0 | c2u4e01 | t3_ln1tg | null | t1_c2u4e01 | t1_c2u41xx | null | 1428185846 | 10 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | BossOfTheGame | null | Given that there are a lot of techies who are old / sick, it would not be unexpected for deaths to occur within this time range of each other. | null | 0 | 1319491215 | False | 0 | c2u4e0x | t3_lnhno | null | t1_c2u4e0x | t1_c2u483q | null | 1428185846 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | roboduck | null | Colonel Mustard in the library with the candlestick. | null | 0 | 1319491234 | False | 0 | c2u4e55 | t3_lnhno | null | t1_c2u4e55 | t1_c2u42uo | null | 1427777415 | 11 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | theparaiba | null | That's hardly praise when put into perspective. | null | 0 | 1319491270 | False | 0 | c2u4ebv | t3_ln8jb | null | t1_c2u4ebv | t1_c2u2tb8 | null | 1427777408 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | aphoenix | null | That's a pretty lame look at the things that Jobs was involved with. He did much more than make iPods. I mean, honestly, I'm the complete opposite of an apple fanboy, and I can understand and appreciate the breadth of technology that Jobs was part of. | null | 0 | 1319491305 | False | 0 | c2u4eis | t3_lnhno | null | t1_c2u4eis | t1_c2u486h | null | 1427777418 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | yellowstuff | null | Perhaps his last words were ["Ritchie survives"](http://www.homeofheroes.com/profiles/profiles_jeffadams.html). | null | 0 | 1319491319 | False | 0 | c2u4elc | t3_lnhkh | null | t1_c2u4elc | t3_lnhkh | null | 1427777420 | 9 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | 0xABADC0DA | null | Jobs, Ritchie, McCarthy... the garbage collector is freeing the permanent generation :/ | null | 0 | 1319491333 | False | 0 | c2u4enz | t3_lnhno | null | t1_c2u4enz | t3_lnhno | null | 1427777413 | 98 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1319491341 | False | 0 | c2u4epx | t3_lnhno | null | t1_c2u4epx | t1_c2u4alk | null | 1427777415 | 13 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | int_argc | null | I would like to continue this pun thread, but nobody will even come close to topping you. Bravo. | null | 0 | 1319491344 | False | 0 | c2u4eqa | t3_lnhno | null | t1_c2u4eqa | t1_c2u4buo | null | 1427777415 | 9 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | clintonthegeek | null | For about two seconds I thought we had lost another one of the Beatles. | null | 0 | 1319491346 | False | 0 | c2u4eqs | t3_lnhno | null | t1_c2u4eqs | t3_lnhno | null | 1427777415 | 12 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1319491352 | False | 0 | c2u4erx | t3_lnhno | null | t1_c2u4erx | t3_lnhno | null | 1427777418 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1319491399 | False | 0 | c2u4f34 | t3_lnhno | null | t1_c2u4f34 | t1_c2u4ckg | null | 1427777421 | -15 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | ironykarl | null | He developed Lisp as a practical demonstration of the lambda calculus (basically). His MIT colleagues started actually using it.
It caught on (and is still used). There is quite probably more that he did, but that alone is pretty significant. | null | 0 | 1319491454 | False | 0 | c2u4feh | t3_lnhkh | null | t1_c2u4feh | t1_c2u40wx | null | 1427777434 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | faustoc4 | null | That's why I down voted, not because of the Steve Jobs bashing, but for bashing Steve Jobs in John McCarthy's death thread. Do the Steve Jobs bashing somewhere else | null | 0 | 1319491609 | False | 0 | c2u4gc3 | t3_lnhno | null | t1_c2u4gc3 | t1_c2u4dm7 | null | 1427777440 | 18 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | joedev_net | null | You win the award for most depressing coding analogy! Congrats! | null | 0 | 1319491625 | False | 0 | c2u4gf6 | t3_lnhno | null | t1_c2u4gf6 | t1_c2u4cuj | null | 1427777441 | 324 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | HCF | null | Does that mean the commie hunt is over now? | null | 0 | 1319491637 | False | 0 | c2u4gh6 | t3_lnhkh | null | t1_c2u4gh6 | t3_lnhkh | null | 1427777443 | -9 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | danielsju6 | null | Localytics serves all our needs http://www.localytics.com/ | null | 0 | 1319491681 | False | 0 | c2u4gq0 | t3_lna77 | null | t1_c2u4gq0 | t3_lna77 | null | 1427777454 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | rawlyn | null | The good ones are already gone, so I don't think anyone keeps track of them any more. | null | 0 | 1319491722 | False | 0 | c2u4gx7 | t3_lnhno | null | t1_c2u4gx7 | t1_c2u4eqs | null | 1427777450 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | aphoenix | null | > other people were more important, and did more noteworthy things.
I'd like to see someone make a case for this in a way that relied on facts and didn't come down to "rich people are jerks and apple sucks". I mean, honestly, I think rich people are jerks and apple sucks, but Steve Jobs did a *hell* of a lot in the... | null | 0 | 1319491740 | False | 0 | c2u4h1a | t3_lnhno | null | t1_c2u4h1a | t1_c2u4dzu | null | 1427777452 | -6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | darth_choate | null | Sure, but these were mostly successes in design and marketing. Apple was never the first to do something, but they were usually the first to do it "right" (although they had to make a couple of passes on the iPod before they got it right). Jobs deserves credit, but it's credit of a different kind. | null | 0 | 1319491764 | False | 0 | c2u4h5w | t3_lnhno | null | t1_c2u4h5w | t1_c2u49oj | null | 1427777454 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1319491806 | False | 0 | c2u4hfm | t3_lnhno | null | t1_c2u4hfm | t1_c2u4gx7 | null | 1427777458 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | aphoenix | null | How would that be relevant? Try not to be a douchebag on response. | null | 0 | 1319491823 | False | 0 | c2u4hjg | t3_lnhno | null | t1_c2u4hjg | t1_c2u4f34 | null | 1428185843 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | kakaokoen | null | There will be no 140 char limits where we are going! | null | 0 | 1319491844 | False | 0 | c2u4hol | t3_lnhno | null | t1_c2u4hol | t1_c2u46n8 | null | 1427777466 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1319491918 | False | 0 | c2u4i2m | t3_lnhno | null | t1_c2u4i2m | t1_c2u4hjg | null | 1427777471 | -5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | thantik | null | Ok, I thought that when an if statement returned false...we skipped over the code block...
This basically went...if X then...well...it's NOT X, but lets discuss it anyways!
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True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1319491931 | False | 0 | c2u4i59 | t3_lnhno | null | t1_c2u4i59 | t1_c2u482b | null | 1427777471 | 10 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | aphoenix | null | > Without the businessmen, the intellectuals would have accomplished as much or more, but it would not have been commercialized. It is arguable whether that is better or worse.
That's not how it works here. Without some commercialization, you don't get computers (especially in a time when computers were ludicrously... | null | 0 | 1319492062 | False | 0 | c2u4ive | t3_lnhno | null | t1_c2u4ive | t1_c2u4epx | null | 1427777478 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | greenspans | null | It's funny because lisp is dead too. | null | 0 | 1319492093 | False | 0 | c2u4j1y | t3_lnhno | null | t1_c2u4j1y | t1_c2u471l | null | 1427777480 | -62 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | aphoenix | null | My nerves are just fine. I just dislike "rhetoric" that breaks away from the point. A more valid way to put what you were saying is "You don't seem to really know the history of the two Steves" instead of calling my age into question. I was just trying to head off crappy interaction.
I know my history. I know how much... | null | 0 | 1319492246 | False | 0 | c2u4jup | t3_lnhno | null | t1_c2u4jup | t1_c2u4i2m | null | 1427777486 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1319492310 | True | 0 | c2u4k7l | t3_lnhno | null | t1_c2u4k7l | t1_c2u4ive | null | 1427777488 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | F4il3d | null | What is there to discuss. Lionizing a person who actively opposed the growth of computer science just because they make pretty trinkets it is just wrong. Denis Ritchie, John McCarthy, Guido Var Russum, RMS now that is a pantheon of people to admire but a greedy corporate stooge, I don't think so.
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True | Pteraspidomorphi | null | Also, Bill Gates can jump over a chair from a standing position (cheating a little). | null | 0 | 1319492327 | False | 0 | c2u4kaz | t3_lnhno | null | t1_c2u4kaz | t1_c2u4alk | null | 1427777490 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1319492340 | False | 0 | c2u4kdi | t3_lnhno | null | t1_c2u4kdi | t1_c2u4ive | null | 1427777491 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | kenfar | null | A few years ago I worked on a joint-venture between a half-dozen of the biggest companies on the internet or involved in telecom. One of the objectives was to create a global standard that would allow the exchange of a certain type of data and would be fairly future-proof.
One of the hurdles was that the entire team ... | null | 0 | 1319492350 | False | 0 | c2u4kfa | t3_ln1tg | null | t1_c2u4kfa | t3_ln1tg | null | 1427777500 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | SgtFish | null | Jesus Christ man, when did I ever mention any of this shit?
> rich people are jerks and apple sucks
> hate him or despise him
What I'm proposing is that "they are geniuses" is debatable. | null | 0 | 1319492363 | False | 0 | c2u4khl | t3_lnhno | null | t1_c2u4khl | t1_c2u4h1a | null | 1427777491 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | axiak | null | More like fuck you, 2011. | null | 0 | 1319492417 | False | 0 | c2u4krk | t3_lnhno | null | t1_c2u4krk | t1_c2u4az7 | null | 1427777493 | 137 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | tangus | null | Nooooo :( | null | 0 | 1319492418 | False | 0 | c2u4krr | t3_lnhno | null | t1_c2u4krr | t3_lnhno | null | 1427777493 | 8 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1319492423 | False | 0 | c2u4ksu | t3_lnhno | null | t1_c2u4ksu | t1_c2u4jup | null | 1427777495 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Pteraspidomorphi | null | I didn't get it until I read your comment and paid more attention to the gp. Thanks! | null | 0 | 1319492445 | False | 0 | c2u4kxk | t3_lnhno | null | t1_c2u4kxk | t1_c2u4eqa | null | 1427777498 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | rangitatanz | null | Ok. Everyone pick a famous programmer and WATCH THEM CAREFULLY! | null | 0 | 1319492503 | False | 0 | c2u4l85 | t3_lnhno | null | t1_c2u4l85 | t3_lnhno | null | 1427777510 | 190 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | c0ldfusi0n | null | Winter is coming. | null | 0 | 1319492547 | False | 0 | c2u4lh7 | t3_lnhno | null | t1_c2u4lh7 | t1_c2u4az7 | null | 1427777506 | 92 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | MirrorWorld | null | Shaka, when the walls fell | null | 0 | 1319492556 | False | 0 | c2u4lj2 | t3_lnhno | null | t1_c2u4lj2 | t1_c2u42uo | null | 1427777506 | 88 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | I don't mean we as users of the language have to do extra work, I mean the compiler writers and the compiler/runtimes themselves. | null | 0 | 1319492582 | False | 0 | c2u4lox | t3_llz44 | null | t1_c2u4lox | t1_c2u3mrr | null | 1427777507 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | aphoenix | null | If you think I worship either Jobs or Gates, you are mistaken. I had a dire hatred for both for a long time. This does not stop me from understanding the impact that they've had on the world in general and technology in particular.
Commercialization sucks. I understand - I'm "in the 99%" to use today's popular vernacu... | null | 0 | 1319492585 | False | 0 | c2u4lpf | t3_lnhno | null | t1_c2u4lpf | t1_c2u4k7l | null | 1427777518 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | Doggone it. I was going to write that! | null | 0 | 1319492616 | False | 0 | c2u4lva | t3_lnhkh | null | t1_c2u4lva | t1_c2u4elc | null | 1428185838 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | That's not quite accurate. BSD/MIT code is just as free of cost as GPL code. BSD/MIT code will also remain free of cost, just like GPL code. That is the only type of freedom that "code" (an inanimate object) can have. Everything else is a personal freedom.
I would agree with this:
- BSD/MIT is about freedom of develo... | null | 0 | 1319492647 | True | 0 | c2u4m1h | t3_llw0s | null | t1_c2u4m1h | t1_c2u2721 | null | 1427777513 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | aphoenix | null | Arguably true - but one could also argue that by the time we'd invented programming, we'd invented computers, we just hadn't made one yet. | null | 0 | 1319492652 | False | 0 | c2u4m2l | t3_lnhno | null | t1_c2u4m2l | t1_c2u4kdi | null | 1427777513 | -1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
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