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True | Ono-Sendai | null | For anyone interested, on page 26 of the paper linked above, McCarthy basically describes Mark-and-Sweep garbage collection. The paper dates from 1960. What a legend! | null | 0 | 1319536523 | False | 0 | c2u9o9r | t3_lnhno | null | t1_c2u9o9r | t1_c2u4uss | null | 1427779948 | 11 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Spiro_Agnew | null | COMMUNISTS WIN | null | 0 | 1319537057 | False | 0 | c2u9p7e | t3_lnhno | null | t1_c2u9p7e | t3_lnhno | null | 1427779960 | -2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | zokier | null | The problem I have with it is that for POD types it becomes as expensive as std::copy, where as usually I'd except std::move to be free. | null | 0 | 1319537127 | False | 0 | c2u9pbm | t3_lnb00 | null | t1_c2u9pbm | t1_c2u9mxl | null | 1427779960 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1319537225 | False | 0 | c2u9pi4 | t3_lnhno | null | t1_c2u9pi4 | t1_c2u4buo | null | 1427779962 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | I wonder if this isn't a bit of a tautology.
a) the old guard is *always* fading away (that's what makes them old)
b) non-old-guard people haven't had as much time to become old guard people
Woe is us, computing will never change again now that Turing is dead. | null | 0 | 1319537252 | False | 0 | c2u9pjq | t3_lnhno | null | t1_c2u9pjq | t1_c2u55rb | null | 1427779962 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | ok_you_win | null | running to check on Ada Lovelace!
edit: oh god, I'm too late! | null | 0 | 1319537322 | False | 0 | c2u9pnw | t3_lnhno | null | t1_c2u9pnw | t3_lnhno | null | 1427779965 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Jack9 | null | Why would you rt this nonsense. | null | 0 | 1319537342 | False | 0 | c2u9pp2 | t3_lnhno | null | t1_c2u9pp2 | t3_lnhno | null | 1427779965 | -1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | I'm at the rewriting/sanitizing phase with my current project. Your comment gives me hope. | null | 0 | 1319537353 | False | 0 | c2u9pq4 | t3_lndn4 | null | t1_c2u9pq4 | t1_c2u42c3 | null | 1427779965 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | jseigh | null | If you are trying to order events using timestamps generated from different clocks, you're doing it wrong. You can't synchronize clocks even with NTP. NTP just enables you to get them pretty close statistically speaking. The more accuracy you want, the less certainty you will get.
I've seen systems accidentally s... | null | 0 | 1319537357 | False | 0 | c2u9pqa | t3_ln1tg | null | t1_c2u9pqa | t1_c2u3gvq | null | 1427779965 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | youngbull | null | First Jobs, then Ritchie and now McCarthy. We should call up Knuth and check that he is ok... | null | 0 | 1319537820 | False | 0 | c2u9qjh | t3_lnhkh | null | t1_c2u9qjh | t3_lnhkh | null | 1427779985 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | gringlegrangle | null | Yeah, I use it for a Java Desktop application. A little for for app usage, but their ability to figure out the reproduction steps for crashes and errors is really cool. It makes finding and hunting down errors much quicker than normal. Having everything prioritized by occurrence is very handy as well. | null | 0 | 1319537868 | False | 0 | c2u9qm2 | t3_lna77 | null | t1_c2u9qm2 | t3_lna77 | null | 1427779978 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | shevegen | null | The {} is a block in Ruby though and can be passed to a method or be a substitute for do/end.
See also proc {}
Which is different to C, where it only denotes a function block. | null | 0 | 1319537870 | False | 0 | c2u9qm8 | t3_lnevu | null | t1_c2u9qm8 | t1_c2u6da6 | null | 1427779978 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | Just because you don't like brainfuck doesn't mean that it is ugly or poorly written.
I don't like Java, but it is more platform independent than C# and has similar nice clean syntax, maybe not very nice standard lib, but still ok. C# has very nice std lib - .NET. and better performance than java because of better JIT... | null | 0 | 1319538175 | False | 0 | c2u9r6f | t3_lnhno | null | t1_c2u9r6f | t1_c2u6wz7 | null | 1427779997 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | wynyx | null | Kind of useless if they don't explain the answers. | null | 0 | 1319538528 | False | 0 | c2u9rqu | t3_lo71z | null | t1_c2u9rqu | t3_lo71z | null | 1427779995 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | agent-99 | null | please help me, wtf does this mean?
> because of this, we was very unhappy with a lot AI today | null | 0 | 1319538750 | False | 0 | c2u9s5c | t3_lnhno | null | t1_c2u9s5c | t1_c2u9ccm | null | 1427779999 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | I think you accidentally a word | null | 0 | 1319538763 | False | 0 | c2u9s6b | t3_lnhno | null | t1_c2u9s6b | t3_lnhno | null | 1427779999 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | > fp = fopen("NOTES.TXT", "r ");
> [Expected] (d) read and write
Are you shitting me? | null | 0 | 1319539091 | False | 0 | c2u9ss1 | t3_lo71z | null | t1_c2u9ss1 | t3_lo71z | null | 1427780005 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | maushu | null | Gordon Freeman? | null | 0 | 1319539212 | False | 0 | c2u9szl | t3_lnqys | null | t1_c2u9szl | t3_lnqys | null | 1427780008 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | orbat | null | An elegant language for a more civilized age. | null | 0 | 1319539396 | False | 0 | c2u9tap | t3_lnhno | null | t1_c2u9tap | t1_c2u6fd9 | null | 1427780018 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | 8-bit_d-boy | null | [GOHDAN FREEMAN!](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=slRsexrhbG8) | null | 0 | 1319539713 | False | 0 | c2u9tv6 | t3_lnqys | null | t1_c2u9tv6 | t1_c2u9szl | null | 1427780019 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | harlows_monkeys | null | The first two rules of handling dates and times:
1\. Decide on the range you need to represent and the resolution you need, and then pick **ONE** format suitable for that, and use that format for all date/time parameters, date/time fields, date/time storage, and date/time calculation, except for the exceptions in rule... | null | 0 | 1319539716 | False | 0 | c2u9tva | t3_ln1tg | null | t1_c2u9tva | t3_ln1tg | null | 1427780019 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Timmmmbob | null | So they've reinvented Labview?
*Shudder* | null | 0 | 1319539785 | False | 0 | c2u9tz9 | t3_ln8jb | null | t1_c2u9tz9 | t1_c2u4xi2 | null | 1427780021 | 8 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | ithika | null | The final two diagrams are isomorphic, are they not? If a version points to its predecessor then 2.0.alpha will consider 1.9 its immediate parent and so will 1.9.bugfix, but there's no way to disprove either notion - it's a tree! | null | 0 | 1319540100 | False | 0 | c2u9uj7 | t3_lnyyw | null | t1_c2u9uj7 | t3_lnyyw | null | 1427780030 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | harlows_monkeys | null | If you had said that 6 months ago, you could have made a case. Now, *after* you have had a chance to read all the things written about Jobs by people like Schmidt, Gosling, TBL, Page, and numerous other major contributors to technology you are simply demonstrating that you are irrational. | null | 0 | 1319540145 | False | 0 | c2u9umd | t3_lnhno | null | t1_c2u9umd | t1_c2u55k5 | null | 1427780033 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | tamrix | null | Wow is it really this bad in America? | null | 0 | 1319540239 | False | 0 | c2u9utc | t3_lnr3k | null | t1_c2u9utc | t3_lnr3k | null | 1427780034 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | harlows_monkeys | null | Gates, W. and Papadimitriou, C. "Bounds for Sorting by Prefix Reversal." Discrete Mathematics, 27, 47-57, 1979 | null | 0 | 1319540284 | False | 0 | c2u9uwb | t3_lnhno | null | t1_c2u9uwb | t1_c2u47yz | null | 1427780036 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Timmmmbob | null | Hmm I just enrolled but that *also* apparently started a couple of weeks ago (I guess term started then). What happens to your grade for the missed assignments?
Edit: Nm you get 80% credit for late submissions... | null | 0 | 1319540380 | False | 0 | c2u9v3b | t3_llsqm | null | t1_c2u9v3b | t1_c2u9dnc | null | 1427780039 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | webon | null | error 500 on http://r.doqdoq.com/r/pics/ | null | 0 | 1319540494 | False | 0 | c2u9vaq | t3_lnzqq | null | t1_c2u9vaq | t3_lnzqq | null | 1427780041 | 10 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | kko_ | null | he was my favorite beatle. | null | 0 | 1319540677 | False | 0 | c2u9vn3 | t3_lnhno | null | t1_c2u9vn3 | t3_lnhno | null | 1428185734 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | xiaomai | null | Have you ever worked a fast food job? I really enjoyed the year I worked fast food, but the lunch/dinner rushes are definitely not stress free. (I would say the stress was more consistently present working fast food, although when there is stress at a programming job, it is more severe). | null | 0 | 1319540710 | False | 0 | c2u9vps | t3_lnr3k | null | t1_c2u9vps | t1_c2u81pn | null | 1427780052 | 8 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | xiaomai | null | It appears that this guy was in Canada, but the article clearly states that he was on a student visa. If Canadian student visas are anything like America's, he wouldn't be able to work outside of the school. | null | 0 | 1319540817 | False | 0 | c2u9vwp | t3_lnr3k | null | t1_c2u9vwp | t1_c2u9utc | null | 1427780051 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | duschendestroyer | null | can someone please write an universal letter for CS departments with a detailed explanation why they teaching UML hurts kittens all around the world? what have we become. we're learning how to make every project a failure. thinking about UML makes me lose hope in mankind. :( | null | 0 | 1319541002 | False | 0 | c2u9w9n | t3_ln8jb | null | t1_c2u9w9n | t1_c2u2fop | null | 1427780055 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Rhomboid | null | There are a lot of very badly worded questions here. | null | 0 | 1319541727 | False | 0 | c2u9xnn | t3_lo71z | null | t1_c2u9xnn | t3_lo71z | null | 1427780068 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | perfectblack | null | "Just because it has a computer in it doesn't make it programming." | null | 0 | 1319541794 | False | 0 | c2u9xsg | t3_lnygm | null | t1_c2u9xsg | t3_lnygm | null | 1427780070 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | F4il3d | null | Off hand I would say no, with the possible exception of yourself, of course. | null | 0 | 1319541810 | False | 0 | c2u9xtu | t3_lnhno | null | t1_c2u9xtu | t1_c2u97gc | null | 1427780070 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Inaimathi | null | [Nope](http://www.sbcl.org/manual/Saving-a-Core-Image.html). | null | 0 | 1319541861 | False | 0 | c2u9xx6 | t3_lnhno | null | t1_c2u9xx6 | t1_c2u8ryt | null | 1427780073 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | dafragsta | null | Is this where the circle jerk about how Steve Jobs is overshadowing someone else's accomplishments begins? | null | 0 | 1319541989 | False | 0 | c2u9y6p | t3_lnhno | null | t1_c2u9y6p | t1_c2u4az7 | null | 1427780076 | -2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | caks | null | I apologize, I'll correct it. | null | 0 | 1319542113 | False | 0 | c2u9ygv | t3_lnhno | null | t1_c2u9ygv | t1_c2u7roq | null | 1427780080 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | nik_san | null | That's... Funny and Depressing. | null | 0 | 1319542147 | False | 0 | c2u9yjs | t3_lnhno | null | t1_c2u9yjs | t1_c2u5p8p | null | 1427780081 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | zeekar | null | > And that's exactly what happened. Except for, what, 3% of the world population?
A bit over 4%, but you must admit it is a disproportionately influential fraction of the populace...
> Even children know about this recent development called the decimal point
So who gets the extra square mm when you're dividing... | null | 0 | 1319542393 | False | 0 | c2u9z11 | t3_ln1tg | null | t1_c2u9z11 | t1_c2u9de5 | null | 1427780086 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | tnecniv | null | We must protect him. | null | 0 | 1319542546 | False | 0 | c2u9zcb | t3_lnhno | null | t1_c2u9zcb | t1_c2u7bnq | null | 1428185734 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | awap | null | In this context "tightly coupled" refers to how often the tasks have to communicate with each other.
MapReduce works under the assumption that your tasks are independent. They *never* communicate with each other, except for the simple pattern of mappers sending output to reducers. If your program fits this pattern, ... | null | 0 | 1319542654 | False | 0 | c2u9zk9 | t3_lnckx | null | t1_c2u9zk9 | t1_c2u8spz | null | 1427780094 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | kamatsu | null | >as Dikstra [sic] said, Computers are to Computer Science what telescopes are to Astronomy.
He never actually said that.
> BTW, somebody should check on Dikstra [sic] too.
Dijkstra's been dead for years. | null | 0 | 1319542657 | False | 0 | c2u9zkg | t3_lnhno | null | t1_c2u9zkg | t1_c2u7xre | null | 1427780094 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | scook0 | null | Technically true, but does anyone actually do this? | null | 0 | 1319542719 | False | 0 | c2u9zov | t3_ljtxb | null | t1_c2u9zov | t1_c2u08bq | null | 1427780096 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | PurpleMadness | null | Looks neat. Not that practical though, I prefer the actual site xd. It's useful if you want to look busy at work, I guess. | null | 0 | 1319542753 | False | 0 | c2u9zrf | t3_lnzqq | null | t1_c2u9zrf | t3_lnzqq | null | 1427780098 | -1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | sausagefeet | null | Life isn't about where you COMEFROM it's about where you GOTO. | null | 0 | 1319542762 | False | 0 | c2u9zsb | t3_lnhno | null | t1_c2u9zsb | t1_c2u70ac | null | 1427780098 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | mikaelhg | null | I absolutely would not hire someone who told me this story. Not only did he screw his profession, apply no professional ethics to client relations, he also displayed terrible judgement of the financial big picture. | null | 0 | 1319542792 | False | 0 | c2u9zuo | t3_lnr3k | null | t1_c2u9zuo | t3_lnr3k | null | 1427780099 | 8 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | axilmar | null | > Yes it does. The type behaves, even though it is passed by value, as though it was a reference.
No, no and no. Reference counting has nothing to do with passing types to functions as references.
> and it is the one detail that means they are not independent.
No, it is one detail that means they are independe... | null | 0 | 1319542877 | False | 0 | c2ua01o | t3_kljc0 | null | t1_c2ua01o | t1_c2u1u35 | null | 1427780101 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | chorny | null | It seems that they used Perl 4 to teach students. It is very old. | null | 0 | 1319542930 | False | 0 | c2ua069 | t3_lnevu | null | t1_c2ua069 | t3_lnevu | null | 1427780102 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | axilmar | null | WTF? first Jobs, then Richie, then McCarthy.
| null | 0 | 1319542939 | False | 0 | c2ua072 | t3_lnhno | null | t1_c2ua072 | t3_lnhno | null | 1427780102 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | VanFailin | null | >Which of the following is the correct order if calling functions in the below code?
a = f1(23, 14) * f2(12/4) + f3();
The answer says something like "f3, f2, f1", but there are no sequence points in the right-hand side. That was even more of a waste of time than reddit usually is. | null | 0 | 1319543462 | False | 0 | c2ua1el | t3_lo71z | null | t1_c2ua1el | t3_lo71z | null | 1427780119 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | baconautics | null | Sadly, despite his great contribution to computing, his passing will not receive the same press as Steve Jobs or even Dennis Ritchie's.
One could say that, in the history of computing, his death will be ...
*sunglasses*
... parenthetical. | null | 0 | 1319543508 | False | 0 | c2ua1io | t3_lnhno | null | t1_c2ua1io | t3_lnhno | null | 1427780119 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | saksida | null | 40k per year ≅ $20/h.
It seems that a top coder in a website like oDesk charges significantly more per hour. There are people charging $60/h in oDesk who can still get work. How come this guy is making less money than most outsourced programmers with a similar skillset? | null | 0 | 1319543686 | True | 0 | c2ua1y7 | t3_lnr3k | null | t1_c2ua1y7 | t3_lnr3k | null | 1427780124 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1319543799 | False | 0 | c2ua285 | t3_lnckx | null | t1_c2ua285 | t1_c2u2j36 | null | 1427780128 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | abadidea | null | You're the second person to tell me "it's Swing," so I guess I will have to believe you :) | null | 0 | 1319543819 | False | 0 | c2ua2a1 | t3_llz44 | null | t1_c2ua2a1 | t1_c2u8bgm | null | 1427780129 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | tiftik | null | Irrelevant. Computer science is an applied branch of mathematics. Most of the foundation of computer science was discovered in 50s and 60s and even earlier than that.
Also, Steve Jobs did not commercialize the idea of a personal computer. Many companies were already doing that. Apple I was not the first commercial per... | null | 0 | 1319543854 | False | 0 | c2ua2di | t3_lnhno | null | t1_c2ua2di | t1_c2u51sn | null | 1427780129 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | mithaldu | null | Considering what the first google result for "perl tutorial" is, that is not very surprising. | null | 0 | 1319543890 | False | 0 | c2ua2gl | t3_lnevu | null | t1_c2ua2gl | t1_c2ua069 | null | 1427780131 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | imocklosers | null | OK, so another fat virgin computer programmer dies. Big fucking deal. There are kids in China who can do anything he can do even better.
**Let's get this shit off the front page please.** | null | 0 | 1319543901 | False | 0 | c2ua2hk | t3_lnhno | null | t1_c2ua2hk | t1_c2u994d | null | 1427780132 | -7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | zeekar | null | At least the family of Spaghetti Code will finally have some closure... | null | 0 | 1319544026 | False | 0 | c2ua2su | t3_lnhno | null | t1_c2ua2su | t3_lnhno | null | 1427780136 | -4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | CountNefarious | null | This is terrible! He was a personal hero of mine, a true giant among men. | null | 0 | 1319544172 | False | 0 | c2ua33x | t3_lnhno | null | t1_c2ua33x | t3_lnhno | null | 1427780140 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Ahri | null | I think the Java version is broken; I can actually read it.
Edit: spoke too soon, switched to Python to avoid camel case.
Also; 'this wouldn't parse' ;) | null | 0 | 1319544193 | True | 0 | c2ua35s | t3_lnzqq | null | t1_c2ua35s | t3_lnzqq | null | 1427780141 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | tompa_coder | null | By all means, please create an oDesk account for you and ask for 60$ per hour. When you start to work on a platform like oDesk or vWorker you are a nobody. You need to build a work history in order for a client to pay you 60$ in an hour. Most clients will search for a cheap bargain.
| null | 0 | 1319544331 | False | 0 | c2ua3gz | t3_lnr3k | null | t1_c2ua3gz | t1_c2ua1y7 | null | 1427780145 | -2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | killerstorm | null | > but they're all roughly the same generation as Ritchie and McCarthy
WTF are you talking about?
* John McCarthy -- September 4, 1927
* Guy L. Steele -- October 2, 1954
* Linus Torvalds -- December 28, 1969
Same generation, huh? Like they were born in same century?
John McCarthy was 42 when Linus was born.
... | null | 0 | 1319544411 | False | 0 | c2ua3oi | t3_lnhno | null | t1_c2ua3oi | t1_c2u55rb | null | 1427780148 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | DaNmarner | null | True, it's more about perception than the (meta)data structure in VCSs. | null | 0 | 1319544517 | False | 0 | c2ua3yc | t3_lnyyw | null | t1_c2ua3yc | t1_c2u9uj7 | null | 1427780165 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | killerstorm | null | http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/ | null | 0 | 1319544527 | False | 0 | c2ua3z7 | t3_lnhno | null | t1_c2ua3z7 | t3_lnhno | null | 1427780165 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | beeff | null | Haskell Curry would like a word with you. | null | 0 | 1319544538 | False | 0 | c2ua40c | t3_lnqys | null | t1_c2ua40c | t3_lnqys | null | 1427780155 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | j-random | null | DELETE FROM meme_loop WHERE name= 'chuck testa'
FTFY | null | 0 | 1319544544 | False | 0 | c2ua40o | t3_lnhno | null | t1_c2ua40o | t1_c2u92vt | null | 1427780155 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | verisimilarity | null | Computer science is the study of information, algorithms, systems, and theory of computation. Apple made no strides in this field, published no papers, developed no new algorithms, and in general, contributed nothing to computer science, which has a very unfortunate name. | null | 0 | 1319544553 | False | 0 | c2ua41f | t3_lnhno | null | t1_c2ua41f | t1_c2u8au6 | null | 1427780155 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | j-random | null | And eigen state that with certainty! | null | 0 | 1319544667 | False | 0 | c2ua4bl | t3_lnhno | null | t1_c2ua4bl | t1_c2u9dks | null | 1427780160 | 12 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | flukshun | null | I mean of the guys other than linus i mentioned, linus being roughly 15 years younger than the rest.
And i had ritchie in the same group as mccarthy, who was born in 1941, so the others didnt seem too far out. | null | 0 | 1319544877 | False | 0 | c2ua4ud | t3_lnhno | null | t1_c2ua4ud | t1_c2ua3oi | null | 1427780167 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | j-random | null | Three? Who'd I miss? | null | 0 | 1319544932 | False | 0 | c2ua4zg | t3_lnhno | null | t1_c2ua4zg | t1_c2u4qvb | null | 1427780177 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | LamboSamba | null | Retht in peath, John McCarthy | null | 0 | 1319544976 | False | 0 | c2ua53u | t3_lnhno | null | t1_c2ua53u | t3_lnhno | null | 1427780172 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | HeikkiKovalainen | null | Any advice for how us beginners should learn JS? | null | 0 | 1319544983 | False | 0 | c2ua54j | t3_jnap1 | null | t1_c2ua54j | t1_c2djy01 | null | 1427780172 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | j-random | null | If God needed a programmer and he picked Steve Jobs, we're in more trouble than I thought... | null | 0 | 1319545008 | False | 0 | c2ua56w | t3_lnhno | null | t1_c2ua56w | t1_c2u7rrl | null | 1427780173 | 9 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | xardox | null | Gee whilickers, file manipulation, and regular expressions? Is that the best you can come up with? Yes, Lisp is also able to read and write files, and it also has a regular expression library. So do most other languages. So that certainly does not make Perl unique or more powerful than any other language. Perl can also... | null | 0 | 1319545325 | True | 0 | c2ua62p | t3_lnevu | null | t1_c2ua62p | t1_c2u9cxx | null | 1427780181 | -5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | kamatsu | null | As would Alonzo Church. | null | 0 | 1319545656 | False | 0 | c2ua6zp | t3_lnqys | null | t1_c2ua6zp | t1_c2ua40c | null | 1427780192 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | I have a Master's in CS, I know what it is.
By making computers available to more people, Apple have enabled more people to study information, algorithms, systems, and the theory of computation.
They have also given us sweet unices in our laps for browsing reddit in class, and no other brand of computers have as high... | null | 0 | 1319545875 | False | 0 | c2ua7n9 | t3_lnhno | null | t1_c2ua7n9 | t1_c2ua41f | null | 1427780203 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1319545953 | False | 0 | c2ua7vi | t3_lnhno | null | t1_c2ua7vi | t1_c2u4ox0 | null | 1427780206 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | saksida | null | > It seems that a *top coder* in a website like oDesk
Yes, of course you need a work history if you want to charge that much. My comment doesn't imply otherwise. What is your point, exactly? Is somebody with 3 years of experience as a freelancer a nobody? You (assuming you are the author) are among the top 500 code... | null | 0 | 1319545986 | False | 0 | c2ua7yo | t3_lnr3k | null | t1_c2ua7yo | t1_c2ua3gz | null | 1427780208 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | rooktakesqueen | null | Are you a beginner to programming, or have you been programming for a while in other languages and are just getting started with JS?
If you're a beginner to programming altogether, this is a good resource, but I'd also recommend some dead-tree books. I've heard good things about [Javascript: The Good Parts](http://ww... | null | 0 | 1319546168 | True | 0 | c2ua8hp | t3_jnap1 | null | t1_c2ua8hp | t1_c2ua54j | null | 1427780212 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | marc-kd | null | I am working on a large project, the design documentation of which requires a plethora of UML diagrams. Mine are out in review right now in fact.
What a godawful waste of time. And don't get me started on Rational Software Architect--surely one of the most efficient productivity destruction tools ever devised.
(And I... | null | 0 | 1319546174 | False | 0 | c2ua8ij | t3_ln8jb | null | t1_c2ua8ij | t1_c2u909a | null | 1427780212 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1319546366 | False | 0 | c2ua91y | t3_lnr3k | null | t1_c2ua91y | t1_c2u7j4f | null | 1427780219 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | tompa_coder | null | If you are a top worker coder on vWorker and start working on oDesk you will be a nobody for your first project. | null | 0 | 1319546427 | False | 0 | c2ua97n | t3_lnr3k | null | t1_c2ua97n | t1_c2ua7yo | null | 1427780221 | -4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1319546431 | False | 0 | c2ua984 | t3_lnr3k | null | t1_c2ua984 | t1_c2u8x90 | null | 1427780221 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | robertcrowther | null | The sun already really isn't overhead at 1200, thanks to DST. | null | 0 | 1319546458 | False | 0 | c2ua9bi | t3_ln1tg | null | t1_c2ua9bi | t1_c2u9htr | null | 1427780231 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | epsy | null | Reddit. | null | 0 | 1319546480 | False | 0 | c2ua9dy | t3_lnhno | null | t1_c2ua9dy | t1_c2u8vyo | null | 1427780224 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | tora22 | null | > Then you should remember how having a GUI made computers accessible to people who weren't of the nerdly persuasion - and before you whine about namecalling, I classify myself as a nerd as well.
Yes and that credit gets shared with Amiga, Windows, and Apple. I'm not saying that Apple hasn't made worthy contributi... | null | 0 | 1319546543 | False | 0 | c2ua9kp | t3_lnhno | null | t1_c2ua9kp | t1_c2u5be4 | null | 1427780227 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | lawpoop | null | Just a little eddy in the great stream... | null | 0 | 1319546745 | False | 0 | c2uaa7p | t3_lnhno | null | t1_c2uaa7p | t1_c2u994d | null | 1427780236 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | rubygeek | null | > I think the Java version is broken; I can actually read it.
Too few AbstractFactoryFactories...
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True | super__mario | null | If your place really is that restrictive, then they will monitor you at the router level and record every request you have made to the outside world together with basic stats of the response, like size of downloaded stuff etc.
If your goal is to pretend that you are working and fool your co-workers who might glance a... | null | 0 | 1319546910 | False | 0 | c2uaaov | t3_lnzqq | null | t1_c2uaaov | t3_lnzqq | null | 1427780240 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | Surely it'd be (see (what-you-did-there)) | null | 0 | 1319546920 | False | 0 | c2uaaq5 | t3_lnhno | null | t1_c2uaaq5 | t1_c2u58le | null | 1427780243 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1319547040 | False | 0 | c2uab27 | t3_lnevu | null | t1_c2uab27 | t1_c2u8hov | null | 1427780247 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Fix-my-grammar-plz | null | Who watches the watchers? | null | 0 | 1319547074 | False | 0 | c2uab5m | t3_lnhno | null | t1_c2uab5m | t1_c2u4l85 | null | 1427780247 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | KrzaQ2 | null | This is even better:
> Question 4. what will be the output of the following program?
> int a=10,b;
> b=a++ + ++a;
> printf("%d,%d,%d,%d",b,a++,a,++a);
possible answers:
* a) 12,10,11,13
* b) 22,10,11,13
* c) 12,11,11,11
* d) 22,13,13,13
Just in case: it's a fine example of undefined behav... | null | 0 | 1319547167 | True | 0 | c2uabgb | t3_lo71z | null | t1_c2uabgb | t1_c2u9ss1 | null | 1427780249 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | yellowstuff | null | ADD 1 TO COBOL
| null | 0 | 1319547255 | False | 0 | c2uabr9 | t3_lnevu | null | t1_c2uabr9 | t3_lnevu | null | 1427780253 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | JL235 | null | Years of building simple games as one giant function, or with no functions, or with huge amounts of switches/if's for handling different areas of state.
Then I was taught OO at a high standard. I already knew how to program, so I was able to look past all of the common programming semantics (for, if, while, variable a... | null | 0 | 1319547546 | False | 0 | c2uacoz | t3_lnevu | null | t1_c2uacoz | t1_c2u8hov | null | 1427780275 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | HeikkiKovalainen | null | I knew there was a [+1] next to your name for a reason :P
But yeah I've learned Python for a couple of semesters at University. I'm just trying to teach myself how to make a proper website now. I've got HTML and CSS down, so I figured Javascript and PHP would be the next couple of steps.
...and boy is the syntax in J... | null | 0 | 1319547831 | False | 0 | c2uadmy | t3_jnap1 | null | t1_c2uadmy | t1_c2ua8hp | null | 1427780280 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | jlogelin | null | I think you are missing the point. I am using Ubuntu at work. What I am saying is that I cannot use GPL-licensed libraries as part of any of the products I am building for the company I work for. | null | 0 | 1319547938 | False | 0 | c2uadzv | t3_llw0s | null | t1_c2uadzv | t1_c2u7nlo | null | 1427780288 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | kminator | null | [Here's a painting I recently created](http://i.imgur.com/BE1aq.jpg) of John McCarthy from an old pic I found on Reddit a while back. Sad to hear him go, he was a powerful influence on a great many people and processes. | null | 0 | 1319547943 | False | 0 | c2uae0j | t3_lnhno | null | t1_c2uae0j | t3_lnhno | null | 1427780288 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | > sequence diagrams.
I agree, only UML I've ever found useful was a sequence diagram to explain a rather convoluted work-flow to some colleagues. | null | 0 | 1319548019 | False | 0 | c2uae8z | t3_ln8jb | null | t1_c2uae8z | t1_c2u24xi | null | 1427780298 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
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