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True | EtaoinGuitardlu | null | ) | null | 0 | 1319499089 | False | 0 | c2u5jbu | t3_lnhno | null | t1_c2u5jbu | t1_c2u5084 | null | 1427777943 | 8 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | He didn't put them there. Ritchie and McCarthy (and Church, and Hoare and Turing, and a bunch of others) envisioned the concept of a computer and designed and built the prototypes. People, seeing the absolute miracle that these things were, demanded them. Since there was demand they were built by companies like IBM a... | null | 0 | 1319499119 | False | 0 | c2u5jgs | t3_lnhno | null | t1_c2u5jgs | t1_c2u54w3 | null | 1427777945 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | mr_chromatic | null | > ... like well designed languages do.
Despite my disagreement with your conjecture, it's a pleasure to meet you, Admiral Hopper. | null | 0 | 1319499152 | False | 0 | c2u5jnc | t3_lnevu | null | t1_c2u5jnc | t1_c2u5in4 | null | 1427777945 | 13 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | drhdev | null | It could have been better. Rounded rects. | null | 0 | 1319499158 | False | 0 | c2u5joo | t3_lnhno | null | t1_c2u5joo | t1_c2u51sn | null | 1427777955 | 9 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | zeekar | null | Well, that'd be why I said "around". Actually, where I live, mean local solar noon is between 11:10 and 11:15; we're so far west we should be one time zone over. | null | 0 | 1319499181 | False | 0 | c2u5js8 | t3_ln1tg | null | t1_c2u5js8 | t1_c2u4sja | null | 1427777946 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Tiwazz | null | Faster hardware is nice, but it sucks that computers are glorified television sets to most consumers. I'd trade my desktop for better general public understanding of computing any day.
Guess I'll just have to settle for all these extra cycles instead though. Darn. | null | 0 | 1319499220 | False | 0 | c2u5jz2 | t3_lnhno | null | t1_c2u5jz2 | t1_c2u51sn | null | 1427777949 | 12 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1319499255 | False | 0 | c2u5k4q | t3_lnhno | null | t1_c2u5k4q | t1_c2u5jaw | null | 1427777950 | -1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | shimei | null | Lisp is still going in 2011. [Racket](http://www.racket-lang.org/), [Guile](http://www.gnu.org/s/guile/), [Clojure](http://clojure.org/), and others are undergoing constant development. There is still [research](http://scheme2011.ucombinator.org/) going on with Scheme too, for example. | null | 0 | 1319499299 | False | 0 | c2u5kcm | t3_lnhno | null | t1_c2u5kcm | t1_c2u4com | null | 1427777953 | 22 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | MainlandX | null | I like it in how it reads like poetry. | null | 0 | 1319499309 | False | 0 | c2u5kei | t3_lnhno | null | t1_c2u5kei | t1_c2u42uo | null | 1427777953 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1319499362 | False | 0 | c2u5ko7 | t3_lnckx | null | t1_c2u5ko7 | t1_c2u5d07 | null | 1427777956 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | hyp_kitsune | null | They do go in 3's. :( first we lost Steve Jobs, founder and CEO of apple, then we lost Dennis Ritchie, creator of UNIX and C and now John McCarthy, father of AI and inventor of LISP :( Sad october, the circle is complete. | null | 0 | 1319499413 | False | 0 | c2u5kxa | t3_lnhno | null | t1_c2u5kxa | t3_lnhno | null | 1427777959 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | drhdev | null | >Without these businessmen, what would the intellectuals have done?
See: GNU, FSF, Linux, Wikipedia... | null | 0 | 1319499474 | False | 0 | c2u5l8k | t3_lnhno | null | t1_c2u5l8k | t1_c2u4alk | null | 1427777962 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | AdoptedOne | null | Too soon? | null | 0 | 1319499523 | False | 0 | c2u5lhr | t3_lnhno | null | t1_c2u5lhr | t1_c2u5a1i | null | 1427777966 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | xardox | null | Your "convergent evolution" metaphore is flawed, and your skepticism is unjustified. People who design programming languages aren't memetically isolated from each other like animals living on different continents that don't exchange sperm. Of course [Brendan Eich](http://www.2ality.com/2011/03/javascript-how-it-all-beg... | null | 0 | 1319499533 | True | 0 | c2u5ljc | t3_lnhkh | null | t1_c2u5ljc | t1_c2u5f2b | null | 1427777967 | 8 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | I vote for Benjamin Pierce on the scientific side. Stallman did quite a bit from a technical and philosophical standpoint, like him or not. | null | 0 | 1319499548 | False | 0 | c2u5lm2 | t3_lnhno | null | t1_c2u5lm2 | t1_c2u55rb | null | 1427777968 | 9 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | But... Bill Gates is nerd and programmer. At least he was at the beginning.
[From wiki](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Gates)
>At 13 he enrolled in the Lakeside School, an exclusive preparatory school.[17] When he was in the eighth grade, the Mothers Club at the school used proceeds from Lakeside School's rummag... | null | 0 | 1319499604 | False | 0 | c2u5lw9 | t3_lnhno | null | t1_c2u5lw9 | t1_c2u4ckg | null | 1427777973 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | felixhandte | null | Oh, come now. Steve Jobs was the visionary leader and founder of one of the biggest and most influential tech companies on Earth. I really don't understand how people justify dismissing that legacy. | null | 0 | 1319499625 | False | 0 | c2u5lzq | t3_lnhno | null | t1_c2u5lzq | t1_c2u55k5 | null | 1427777974 | 21 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | theeth | null | People said that about Robert Jordan too.
No one is eternal. | null | 0 | 1319499670 | False | 0 | c2u5m87 | t3_lnhno | null | t1_c2u5m87 | t1_c2u4tgl | null | 1427777977 | 15 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Ais3 | null | [R.I.P](http://www.catonmat.net/blog/wp-content/uploads/2008/12/john-mccarthy-programming-completely-wrong.jpg) | null | 0 | 1319499698 | False | 0 | c2u5mdn | t3_lnhno | null | t1_c2u5mdn | t3_lnhno | null | 1427777978 | 17 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | shimei | null | People still use Lisp-like languages. See [Racket](http://www.racket-lang.org) and [Clojure](http://www.clojure.org) for modern examples. As for what they are good for, the answer is the same as for many other programming languages: any programming task. The advantage you get is that with macros, you can build up your ... | null | 0 | 1319499719 | False | 0 | c2u5mhu | t3_lnhkh | null | t1_c2u5mhu | t1_c2u4viz | null | 1427777988 | 9 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | SirElkarOwhey | null | In 1977, if you wanted a computer from IBM or DEC or XEROX, you needed enough money to buy a car. Or you could get one from Apple, which was much much cheaper.
I personally learned to program on an Apple2, and there are millions of other people who can say the same. Maybe *you* don't think that was important, but wi... | null | 0 | 1319499732 | False | 0 | c2u5mke | t3_lnhno | null | t1_c2u5mke | t1_c2u5jgs | null | 1427777989 | 8 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | theeth | null | McCarthy was at Stanford since 1962. I'm pretty sure he would have gotten funding with or without Apple's success at selling music players and telephones. | null | 0 | 1319499864 | False | 0 | c2u5n8l | t3_lnhno | null | t1_c2u5n8l | t1_c2u50xs | null | 1427777997 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | shimei | null | > Lisp's defining quality is homoiconicity—use of the same (relative lack of) syntax to define data and code. Everything in Lisp is a list (or an S-expression, I suppose).
This is not entirely true of, for example, Scheme, which uses syntax objects to represent syntax (the R6RS standard requires this and many major... | null | 0 | 1319499896 | False | 0 | c2u5ne7 | t3_lnhkh | null | t1_c2u5ne7 | t1_c2u51wa | null | 1427778000 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1319499907 | False | 0 | c2u5ng0 | t3_lnhkh | null | t1_c2u5ng0 | t1_c2u5ljc | null | 1427778005 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1319499911 | False | 0 | c2u5ngu | t3_llz5l | null | t1_c2u5ngu | t1_c2tuzgq | null | 1427778005 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | LeSlowpoke | null | Are you sure it wasn't just a ':(' smiley? | null | 0 | 1319499931 | False | 0 | c2u5nkr | t3_lnhno | null | t1_c2u5nkr | t1_c2u56gn | null | 1427778009 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Thunderhead | null | [I remember that gig](http://i.imgur.com/D8YhP.png). | null | 0 | 1319499996 | False | 0 | c2u5nwx | t3_lnhno | null | t1_c2u5nwx | t1_c2u5677 | null | 1427778010 | 20 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | eligundry | null | I tried to start a CS legend deathpool at school. My money was on Stephen Wolfram for a while, but I'm convinced he's figured out the secret to immortality. Dude has logged every keystroke he's made for the last twenty-five years. | null | 0 | 1319500004 | False | 0 | c2u5ny8 | t3_lnhno | null | t1_c2u5ny8 | t1_c2u4l85 | null | 1427778010 | 14 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1319500021 | False | 0 | c2u5o1c | t3_lnhkh | null | t1_c2u5o1c | t1_c2u5ne7 | null | 1427778010 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | eek04 | null | sh, not bash.
Go wash your mouth out. | null | 0 | 1319500027 | False | 0 | c2u5o2f | t3_lnevu | null | t1_c2u5o2f | t1_c2u3bgs | null | 1427778010 | 20 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | arnar | null | Computer Science as a whole would get only a fraction of its current funding for the last 30 years if computers weren't such a commodity they are today. | null | 0 | 1319500053 | False | 0 | c2u5o7b | t3_lnhno | null | t1_c2u5o7b | t1_c2u5n8l | null | 1427778012 | 9 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | icheishvili | null | (print "goodbye, dad") | null | 0 | 1319500185 | False | 0 | c2u5oup | t3_lnhno | null | t1_c2u5oup | t3_lnhno | null | 1427778020 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Phant0mX | null | Poor bot, doesn't even realize he is reporting his own grandfather's death. | null | 0 | 1319500261 | False | 0 | c2u5p8p | t3_lnhno | null | t1_c2u5p8p | t1_c2u3orl | null | 1427778026 | 231 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | paroneayea | null | ) ; I'm an asshole | null | 0 | 1319500294 | False | 0 | c2u5pel | t3_lnhno | null | t1_c2u5pel | t1_c2u5k4q | null | 1427778029 | -2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | mangojuice | null | ((( | null | 0 | 1319500324 | False | 0 | c2u5pjk | t3_lnhno | null | t1_c2u5pjk | t1_c2u5k4q | null | 1427778031 | -2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | roger_ | null | lol, hipster Redditors will *never* acknowledge any of Apple's/Jobs' contribution to computing... just because their products are so popular. | null | 0 | 1319500352 | True | 0 | c2u5po2 | t3_lnhno | null | t1_c2u5po2 | t1_c2u4wfi | null | 1427778032 | 22 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | coned88 | null | I once sat in a lecture John was giving. Everything was so over my head as a freshman CS student. Later I found out that he was over the head of most of my professors at the time too. | null | 0 | 1319500380 | False | 0 | c2u5pti | t3_lnhno | null | t1_c2u5pti | t3_lnhno | null | 1427778034 | 10 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | WinterInJapan | null | October to the Technology World:
FUCK YOU ALL.
RIP John, Steve, Dennis. | null | 0 | 1319500440 | False | 0 | c2u5q4w | t3_lnhno | null | t1_c2u5q4w | t3_lnhno | null | 1427778037 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | roger_ | null | Came here expecting some Steve Jobs bashing. Wasn't surprised. | null | 0 | 1319500464 | False | 0 | c2u5q8q | t3_lnhno | null | t1_c2u5q8q | t1_c2u43u2 | null | 1427778040 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | theclassierfastener | null | for an animal science major, AI means Artificial Insemination. | null | 0 | 1319500489 | False | 0 | c2u5qdp | t3_lnhno | null | t1_c2u5qdp | t3_lnhno | null | 1427778054 | -3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | senj | null | Every science is doomed to be understood poorly by the general public, it seems.
But there are a lot of benefits to the spectacular success of even the "glorified television" model of computing, really. The speed increases and cost decreases are the most obvious, but it also appears in the funding of Comp Sci departme... | null | 0 | 1319500517 | False | 0 | c2u5qj4 | t3_lnhno | null | t1_c2u5qj4 | t1_c2u5jz2 | null | 1427778046 | 19 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | That would have happened with or without Apple or Jobs. At that time we had Commodore and Texas Instruments and Atari and BBC Micro and Acorn all filling that role. Apple was just one of the players. In the end, Microsoft and Apple won, but had Gates and Jobs never existed, it's not like there wouldn't have been pers... | null | 0 | 1319500689 | False | 0 | c2u5re0 | t3_lnhno | null | t1_c2u5re0 | t1_c2u5mke | null | 1427778055 | -3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1319500694 | False | 0 | c2u5rf5 | t3_lnevu | null | t1_c2u5rf5 | t1_c2u5o2f | null | 1427778055 | 9 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Gackt | null | ))) | null | 0 | 1319500745 | False | 0 | c2u5rp8 | t3_lnhno | null | t1_c2u5rp8 | t1_c2u5pjk | null | 1427778063 | -1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Chemical_Scum | null | Okay, but it's like comparing his death to the death of a great surgeon. Jobs excelled at a different field, which has nothing to do with raising a generation of computer **programmers**, not computer **users**. | null | 0 | 1319500840 | False | 0 | c2u5s6z | t3_lnhno | null | t1_c2u5s6z | t1_c2u5lzq | null | 1427778065 | 48 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | You problem is that you comparing one device with another device produced 2 year latter. capacitive touch screens was not invented by apple. So if you using some device with resistive screen, and you don't like it. And then latter when capacitive touch screen hits the market, and also more cheap processors, and better ... | null | 0 | 1319500966 | True | 0 | c2u5stj | t3_lnhno | null | t1_c2u5stj | t1_c2u4bw0 | null | 1427778070 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1319500996 | False | 0 | c2u5syx | t3_lnhno | null | t1_c2u5syx | t1_c2u4buo | null | 1427778072 | -1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | aldld | null | (I-see (what (you-did there)))
FTFY (I actually have very little experience with Lisp so I wouldn't really know :/) Maybe this would be better?
(see me (did you)) | null | 0 | 1319501037 | False | 0 | c2u5t62 | t3_lnhno | null | t1_c2u5t62 | t1_c2u58le | null | 1427778075 | -1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | >type a long series of close parens
C-Enter, my friend. C-Enter. | null | 0 | 1319501106 | False | 0 | c2u5tjb | t3_lnhno | null | t1_c2u5tjb | t1_c2u4cuj | null | 1427778078 | 8 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Gackt | null | Thanks virgin. | null | 0 | 1319501110 | False | 0 | c2u5tjx | t3_lnhno | null | t1_c2u5tjx | t1_c2u5c0o | null | 1427778078 | -14 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | icebraining | null | * Dennis Ritchie
* Guido van Rossum
Also, you should look up the definition of the word 'stooge'. It definitively doesn't apply to Jobs. | null | 0 | 1319501193 | False | 0 | c2u5tyt | t3_lnhno | null | t1_c2u5tyt | t1_c2u4kay | null | 1427778080 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | Racket and Guile are Scheme implementations. Which is a Lisp...
You may also want to check out [Chicken](http://call-cc.org), which is undergoing fairly heavy development. | null | 0 | 1319501211 | False | 0 | c2u5u1u | t3_lnhno | null | t1_c2u5u1u | t1_c2u5kcm | null | 1427778081 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | aaronla | null | That's often a step in proving a real implementation. Show the implementation to be equivalent pseudo code, where that pseudo code is easier to analyze formally.
I think they were trying to teach proof techniques, but did so poorly. I can certainly understand the frustration with that. | null | 0 | 1319501258 | False | 0 | c2u5uah | t3_ln1tg | null | t1_c2u5uah | t1_c2u373q | null | 1427778083 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | lance_klusener | null | for a moment i thought you were talking about Big john. | null | 0 | 1319501354 | False | 0 | c2u5us8 | t3_lnhno | null | t1_c2u5us8 | t3_lnhno | null | 1427778089 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | shematic | null | Also won the Putnam one year, IIRC. When I found that out, was the first time I didn't feel like murdering the guy for decades of dealing with the utter fucking junk his company puts out. | null | 0 | 1319501390 | False | 0 | c2u5uz0 | t3_lnhno | null | t1_c2u5uz0 | t1_c2u4se8 | null | 1427778090 | -1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | rooktakesqueen | null | Well sure, and there's already a well-defined way to deal with time zones and daylight saving time, doesn't mean it's easy to take account of in a single data structure. | null | 0 | 1319501488 | False | 0 | c2u5vfv | t3_ln1tg | null | t1_c2u5vfv | t1_c2u4uo6 | null | 1427778096 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | Just after I read that, I started China Mieville's "Embassytown", and there he uses kilohours instead of kilo- and megaseconds. This hell will follow us everywhere!
By the way, fun fact: 1 kilohour = 40 days, as in the temptation of Christ, the length of the Lent, the time before the soul of a deceased completely depa... | null | 0 | 1319501705 | False | 0 | c2u5wk5 | t3_ln1tg | null | t1_c2u5wk5 | t1_c2u3ab2 | null | 1428185812 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Deep-Thought | null | ( (to counter paroneayea's parentheses) | null | 0 | 1319501836 | False | 0 | c2u5x8h | t3_lnhno | null | t1_c2u5x8h | t1_c2u5k4q | null | 1428185809 | 9 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | shimei | null | No problem. And despite how some Lisps depart from s-expressions, they still use quoting to build up syntax, so you're still right. I just wanted to make sure people don't think Lisp is just lists and doesn't have data structures and libraries. | null | 0 | 1319501923 | False | 0 | c2u5xop | t3_lnhkh | null | t1_c2u5xop | t1_c2u5o1c | null | 1427778136 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | bananasjunk | null | SEGMENTATION FAULT :/ | null | 0 | 1319501967 | False | 0 | c2u5xwf | t3_lnhno | null | t1_c2u5xwf | t3_lnhno | null | 1427778139 | -1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | I remember reading about the experiments by a French speleologist, and he discovered that he naturally shifted to a 48-hour cycle after a month underground. Though he got somewhat sick in the end. | null | 0 | 1319501977 | False | 0 | c2u5xye | t3_ln1tg | null | t1_c2u5xye | t1_c2u3ggg | null | 1427778139 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | SirElkarOwhey | null | If you read Fischer's book *Historian's Fallacies*, you'll recognize yourself under "The Fallacy of the Fictional Question" - in short, all evidence that we can collect about what would have happened if Lincoln had survived Booth's bullet must come from a universe in which he did not.
Whatever *may* have happened had ... | null | 0 | 1319502005 | False | 0 | c2u5y3e | t3_lnhno | null | t1_c2u5y3e | t1_c2u5re0 | null | 1427778143 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | outofunity | null | I was so pissed when that happened. At least they found someone to pick it up. Despite the whole Mormon thing (I'm an exmo, I'm allowed to say it), Sanderson is doing a better than tolerable job at finishing the series. | null | 0 | 1319502033 | False | 0 | c2u5y8z | t3_lnhno | null | t1_c2u5y8z | t1_c2u5m87 | null | 1427778144 | 9 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | mamjjasond | null | > Steve Jobs was not a computer scientist.
No he wasn't. But he had an innate talent for UX. | null | 0 | 1319502057 | False | 0 | c2u5ydu | t3_lnhno | null | t1_c2u5ydu | t1_c2u54c1 | null | 1427778144 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | xardox | null | You're being downvoted for calling a perfectly legitimate, widely known and easy to verify claim "dubious". The fact that Lisp has influenced many languages is not "controversial" like global warming, and most legitimate language designers aren't as ignorant and uninterested in learning from history as [Rasmus](http://... | null | 0 | 1319502119 | True | 0 | c2u5yq8 | t3_lnhkh | null | t1_c2u5yq8 | t1_c2u5ng0 | null | 1427778148 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | elvis1403 | null | I heard Schwarzenegger an a kid where seen leaving his place on a motorcycle | null | 0 | 1319502197 | False | 0 | c2u5z42 | t3_lnhno | null | t1_c2u5z42 | t3_lnhno | null | 1427778151 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | Yeah, we want our books! | null | 0 | 1319502198 | False | 0 | c2u5z45 | t3_lnhno | null | t1_c2u5z45 | t1_c2u55uw | null | 1427778151 | 40 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1319502266 | False | 0 | c2u5zhg | t3_lnhno | null | t1_c2u5zhg | t1_c2u55rb | null | 1427778162 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | ethidium-bromide | null | STEVE JOBS, the hello world guy, and now THIS guy? computers are old | null | 0 | 1319502304 | False | 0 | c2u5zo3 | t3_lnhno | null | t1_c2u5zo3 | t3_lnhno | null | 1427778156 | -7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1319502518 | False | 0 | c2u60qc | t3_lnhno | null | t1_c2u60qc | t1_c2u55k5 | null | 1427778174 | -6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | _kossak_ | null | Another brilliant mind that disappears. It's sad. | null | 0 | 1319502529 | False | 0 | c2u60s6 | t3_lnhno | null | t1_c2u60s6 | t3_lnhno | null | 1427778174 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | flamingspinach_ | null | Wolfram's barely hit 50. McCarthy was 84 this year. | null | 0 | 1319502562 | False | 0 | c2u60yj | t3_lnhno | null | t1_c2u60yj | t1_c2u5ny8 | null | 1427778178 | 13 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1319502694 | False | 0 | c2u61mt | t3_lnhkh | null | t1_c2u61mt | t1_c2u5yq8 | null | 1427778187 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | Old hackers never die, they just get cast to void* | null | 0 | 1319502713 | False | 0 | c2u61rd | t3_lnhno | null | t1_c2u61rd | t1_c2u4a3z | null | 1427778186 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | icebraining | null | It's good to mention that the "real" CleverBot isn't the one accessible on the website; that has a much more limited dataset, | null | 0 | 1319502812 | False | 0 | c2u628t | t3_ln4xf | null | t1_c2u628t | t1_c2u2ct6 | null | 1427778192 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | solyanik | null | Actually, IBM did not go into Apple's market, and Apple never dominated the market for business computing. What IBM was building was a computer for your desk, not your home. Later Compaq and the clones made PC so cheap it could be afforded by regular computers, and in fact it became more affordable than Apple machines.... | null | 0 | 1319502857 | False | 0 | c2u62hj | t3_lnhno | null | t1_c2u62hj | t1_c2u55uf | null | 1427778197 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | shimei | null | Depends on what you mean by that. Do you mean tech visionaries like Torvalds or scientists like McCarthy? If you want to see what's going on in science, look through the proceedings at conferences like [POPL](http://www.sigplan.org/popl.htm), [PLDI](http://sigplan.org/pldi.htm), [ICFP](http://sigplan.org/icfp.htm), and... | null | 0 | 1319502892 | True | 0 | c2u62o4 | t3_lnhno | null | t1_c2u62o4 | t1_c2u55rb | null | 1427778198 | 12 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Kinseyincanada | null | actually there are plenty of people on reddit that would say Jobs wasnt important | null | 0 | 1319503010 | False | 0 | c2u63a4 | t3_lnhno | null | t1_c2u63a4 | t1_c2u4dzu | null | 1427778206 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | We didn't lose them. They were uploaded. | null | 0 | 1319503015 | False | 0 | c2u63b9 | t3_lnhno | null | t1_c2u63b9 | t1_c2u4qvb | null | 1427778206 | 20 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | myliverhatesme | null | Don't worry about James Gosling. He already escaped his [close call](http://nighthacks.com/roller/jag/entry/i_m_alive). | null | 0 | 1319503057 | False | 0 | c2u63j7 | t3_lnhno | null | t1_c2u63j7 | t1_c2u4l85 | null | 1427778210 | 17 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | F4il3d | null | Mea Culpa. I am a programmer therefore I cannot spell. You are also correct on the definition thing. A synonym for stooge is "Fan Boy" how ironic. | null | 0 | 1319503104 | False | 0 | c2u63sa | t3_lnhno | null | t1_c2u63sa | t1_c2u5tyt | null | 1428185802 | -2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | ChaosMotor | null | >So you wish you lived in a world without proofs huh?
No, I respect proofs, but I don't enjoy them, and have no use for spending 85% of the class on proofs when proofs don't write code.
>You see ChaosMotor, everything, every product you enjoy requires a formal written proof.
That's fantastic. Somebody built m... | null | 0 | 1319503133 | False | 0 | c2u63yr | t3_ln1tg | null | t1_c2u63yr | t1_c2u41w5 | null | 1427778217 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Ragas | null | WTF is going on right now?! They can't just all die at the same time! | null | 0 | 1319503148 | False | 0 | c2u641i | t3_lnhno | null | t1_c2u641i | t3_lnhno | null | 1427778216 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | shiny_brine | null | He was 84. Hat's off and a loud cheer for that and your contributions to a world I enjoy. | null | 0 | 1319503307 | False | 0 | c2u64v6 | t3_lnhno | null | t1_c2u64v6 | t3_lnhno | null | 1427778225 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | or a super parenthesis | null | 0 | 1319503354 | False | 0 | c2u6538 | t3_lnhno | null | t1_c2u6538 | t1_c2u5tjb | null | 1427778227 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | mipadi | null | Longer than it'll take Proggit to compare McCarthy's death to Steve Jobs'. | null | 0 | 1319503365 | False | 0 | c2u6553 | t3_lnhno | null | t1_c2u6553 | t1_c2u56hv | null | 1427778228 | 18 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | fnord123 | null | >Wouldn't it be handy if the clock we use in space had the "Time for Bed" time at the same point every day?
Yes. Until you fold to Neptune and back. Now your clock is out of sync with everyone else's. | null | 0 | 1319503385 | False | 0 | c2u658x | t3_ln1tg | null | t1_c2u658x | t1_c2u2vj1 | null | 1427778230 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | fuzzynyanko | null | Actually, yes. I would have loved to know how they did it | null | 0 | 1319503420 | False | 0 | c2u65ge | t3_llsyw | null | t1_c2u65ge | t1_c2ty4z7 | null | 1428185799 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | huyvanbin | null | Yeah, they're only helping develop LLVM because they hate computer science so much. | null | 0 | 1319503445 | False | 0 | c2u65kt | t3_lnhno | null | t1_c2u65kt | t1_c2u5iko | null | 1427778232 | 8 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | cotti | null | Actually this might be his doing. | null | 0 | 1319503501 | False | 0 | c2u65ve | t3_lnhno | null | t1_c2u65ve | t1_c2u63j7 | null | 1427778237 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | shimei | null | Apple isn't a programming languages or software tools company so much as it is a consumer electronics company. Microsoft, for example, does much more work in this area and produces some great research too. | null | 0 | 1319503560 | False | 0 | c2u667w | t3_lnhno | null | t1_c2u667w | t1_c2u5621 | null | 1427778251 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Azuvector | null | Fuck only knows. I haven't seen the movie in years, and I vaguely remember some involvement with that for at least 2 of the movies.
Regardless, that's the point sequentious was making. | null | 0 | 1319503582 | False | 0 | c2u66ct | t3_ln1tg | null | t1_c2u66ct | t1_c2u3ska | null | 1427778242 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1319503672 | False | 0 | c2u66tf | t3_lnhkh | null | t1_c2u66tf | t1_c2u4viz | null | 1427778255 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | dchestnykh | null | http://www.paulgraham.com/diff.html
1. Conditionals.
2. A function type.
3. Recursion.
4. A new concept of variables.
5. Garbage-collection.
6. Programs composed of expressions.
7. A symbol type.
8. A notation for code using trees of symbols.
9. The whole language always available. | null | 0 | 1319503716 | False | 0 | c2u670n | t3_lnhkh | null | t1_c2u670n | t1_c2u5blo | null | 1427778261 | 8 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | huyvanbin | null | Neither Ritchie nor McCarthy are famous for their work in mathematics (such as it may have been). | null | 0 | 1319503732 | False | 0 | c2u673w | t3_lnhno | null | t1_c2u673w | t1_c2u47yz | null | 1427778256 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | cephalopod11 | null | Sweet Jesus. I read that as Cormac McCarthy and almost ended myself. Still sad, though. | null | 0 | 1319503753 | False | 0 | c2u678c | t3_lnhno | null | t1_c2u678c | t3_lnhno | null | 1427778269 | -6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | jhuni | null | How could this happen all of a sudden? ;( | null | 0 | 1319503764 | False | 0 | c2u67a9 | t3_lnhno | null | t1_c2u67a9 | t3_lnhno | null | 1427778259 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | myfrontpagebrowser | null | Is this like... intro level? 100 level coursework? My algorithms class was 400 level and had us creating new algorithms from scratch and proving NP-completeness of certain algorithmic problems... Also reductions, tons and tons of reductions. | null | 0 | 1319503802 | False | 0 | c2u67hm | t3_ln1tg | null | t1_c2u67hm | t1_c2u0u5x | null | 1427778262 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1319503826 | False | 0 | c2u67lo | t3_lnr3k | null | t1_c2u67lo | t3_lnr3k | null | 1427778264 | 31 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | myfrontpagebrowser | null | I've discovered a marvelous little proof that P does not, in fact, equal NP. Unfortunately the proof won't fit in this comment. | null | 0 | 1319503883 | False | 0 | c2u67xa | t3_ln1tg | null | t1_c2u67xa | t1_c2u4y6s | null | 1427778271 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
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