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True | smek2 | null | >Microsoft is trying to add assertions to C to help, and found about 100,000 possible buffer overflows in the Vista code.
And Vista is, i believe, the sixt generation of Windows. | null | 0 | 1319636386 | False | 0 | c2ul5f4 | t3_lol4l | null | t1_c2ul5f4 | t3_lol4l | null | 1427785422 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | bms20 | null | Just f*ing hire good people.
It will matter less what language you write your code in then. | null | 0 | 1319636414 | False | 0 | c2ul5jr | t3_lol4l | null | t1_c2ul5jr | t3_lol4l | null | 1427785425 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | neonskimmer | null | Nice, I loved TPOLM demos back in the day. Generally speaking I think the demo scene is in no small part responsible for my career as a programmer. | null | 0 | 1319636447 | False | 0 | c2ul5p1 | t3_lp3rw | null | t1_c2ul5p1 | t1_c2uk12w | null | 1428185581 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | smek2 | null | Can't tell if you're trolling or just stupid. Just recently ago one of these "obscure securities flaws" made it possible for a website to take over my PC and had me fighting for almost 3 days straight to regain basic control over it. And yes, i believe ["this guy"](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Dewar) knows what ... | null | 0 | 1319636606 | False | 0 | c2ul6cc | t3_lol4l | null | t1_c2ul6cc | t1_c2uhtby | null | 1427785440 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | orthogonality | null | Why's there the unnecessary word "tutorials" in the headline? | null | 0 | 1319636654 | False | 0 | c2ul6jo | t3_lpmaq | null | t1_c2ul6jo | t3_lpmaq | null | 1427785445 | -28 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | TheBogie | null | In 1981 the engineers at Apple were designing a circuit board. Jobs criticized it for being too ugly and forced them to redesign it, even though it would be in the case and no one would ever see it. Dumb decision, right?
Wrong. When Jobs saved Apple in 1998, it was because of the huge success of the iMac. What was one... | null | 0 | 1319636654 | False | 0 | c2ul6jp | t3_lpo3r | null | t1_c2ul6jp | t3_lpo3r | null | 1427785445 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | axonxorz | null | The day would not change in the middle of the "day". It might change in the middle of the "day" as-in: the sun is high in the sky, it's tomorrow now, but everyone could speak universally in UTC. | null | 0 | 1319636718 | False | 0 | c2ul6th | t3_ln1tg | null | t1_c2ul6th | t1_c2u8uiu | null | 1427785453 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | VikingCoder | null | Shader Toy needs a Pastebin-like interface... | null | 0 | 1319636909 | False | 0 | c2ul7jv | t3_losip | null | t1_c2ul7jv | t1_c2ufnt2 | null | 1427785455 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | robeph | null | That shirt... | null | 0 | 1319636929 | False | 0 | c2ul7mm | t3_lp3rw | null | t1_c2ul7mm | t3_lp3rw | null | 1427785455 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | VikingCoder | null | <blink> just became *OMFG-GTFO-FML-MY EYES ARE BURNING!* | null | 0 | 1319636968 | False | 0 | c2ul7sq | t3_losip | null | t1_c2ul7sq | t1_c2uev87 | null | 1427785456 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Gotebe | null | Yes, vector itself will allocate one block. But it needs to copy elements from old to new storage. Consider:
class elem
{
char* p;
public:
~elem() { delete [] p; }
elem() : p(NULL) {}
elem(const elem& rhs) : p(NULL) {copy(rhs);}
elem& operator=(const elem& rhs)
... | null | 0 | 1319637094 | False | 0 | c2ul8by | t3_lpicx | null | t1_c2ul8by | t1_c2ul3is | null | 1427785459 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | el_tavs | null | for one, the compiler usually does the so called "reductions", i.e. tries to infer as much as possible from the source code. Keep in mind that in Ada it's easier to infer on source code than in C/C++ thanks to a better syntactic/semantic support, which avoids unnecessary aliasing and such.
The checks at compile time ar... | null | 0 | 1319637168 | True | 0 | c2ul8mo | t3_lol4l | null | t1_c2ul8mo | t1_c2ujvt8 | null | 1427785463 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | VikingCoder | null | ...so, download the page to your own computer, and then use whatever art you want to?
Yeah, the js definitely doesn't make that easy to do. *sigh* | null | 0 | 1319637170 | True | 0 | c2ul8n0 | t3_losip | null | t1_c2ul8n0 | t1_c2uf2z8 | null | 1427785463 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | radarsat1 | null | new/delete (and malloc/free) are not time-deterministic. | null | 0 | 1319637181 | False | 0 | c2ul8oe | t3_lpicx | null | t1_c2ul8oe | t1_c2ul3is | null | 1427785463 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | I believe that garbage collection or reference counting is not an ideal solution to memory management. It is a compromise to protect against developers who do not understand proper memory allocation and deallocation conventions and are thus prone to code leaks into a system. It's a lazy and expensive way to prevent l... | null | 0 | 1319637256 | False | 0 | c2ul904 | t3_lpicx | null | t1_c2ul904 | t3_lpicx | null | 1427785468 | -12 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | I had similar experiences. In the mid to late nineties I was interested in creating a website with some dynamic pages. I had no experience of Perl then, and my early attempts to learn it were not successful. I abandoned Perl for the "ease of use" of CGI written in C. Now I think I must have been crazy, but honestly Per... | null | 0 | 1319637354 | False | 0 | c2ul9fl | t3_lpmaq | null | t1_c2ul9fl | t1_c2ul1ky | null | 1427785474 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | MarshallBanana | null | A single flat rectangle, exactly like the screen. You render on single rectangle that covers the screen, and then do all the actual rendering inside the fragment shader. It's just like rendering pixels one by one to the screen in software, except it runs in parallel on the GPU. | null | 0 | 1319637373 | False | 0 | c2ul9ia | t3_lofem | null | t1_c2ul9ia | t1_c2uicy7 | null | 1427785475 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | xebo | null | k I have no idea what this is, but I'm pretty sure I just created an alternate dimension
http://i.imgur.com/nOJzi.png | null | 0 | 1319637375 | True | 0 | c2ul9ik | t3_losip | null | t1_c2ul9ik | t3_losip | null | 1427785475 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | abadidea | null | Upvoted before I clicked through, didn't regret. I am a perl hater and this is probably a large part of WHY I hate it, I'm hating what was in fashion a decade ago.
RE: the SEO, the new +1 feature for search results may come in handy. Get the entire community to +1 the same link. | null | 0 | 1319637419 | False | 0 | c2ul9p7 | t3_lpmaq | null | t1_c2ul9p7 | t3_lpmaq | null | 1427785477 | 66 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | JackTrueborn | null | I'm much more inclined to acknowledge The Woz than Jobs. Hell, I'm much more inclined to acknowledge any one of the myriad engineers and programmers that worked for Jobs than Jobs himself. | null | 0 | 1319637442 | False | 0 | c2ul9sl | t3_lnhno | null | t1_c2ul9sl | t1_c2u5po2 | null | 1427785481 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | Wow, I never heard of gource until now. Neat little toy. | null | 0 | 1319637552 | False | 0 | c2ula9i | t3_lpjq8 | null | t1_c2ula9i | t3_lpjq8 | null | 1427785485 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Gotebe | null | >If everything else fails and you didn't disable the run time checks, an exception is thrown.
OK, I expected something of the sort. That seems equivalent to e.g. C# with integral overflow checks turned on. C and C++ are another story, and Java is somewhere in between. | null | 0 | 1319637605 | False | 0 | c2ulahm | t3_lol4l | null | t1_c2ulahm | t1_c2ul8mo | null | 1427785488 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | MrDOS | null | The Internet contains a lot of old content and search engines don't understand the importance of new content vs. old content. News at 11.
Really, this applies to pretty much all continually-evolving technologies. PHP is just as bad; try to find tutorials for talking to a MySQL database and pretty much all of the top r... | null | 0 | 1319637612 | False | 0 | c2ulait | t3_lpmaq | null | t1_c2ulait | t3_lpmaq | null | 1427785488 | 49 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | rlbond86 | null | It's basically required for exception-safe code. So my guess is, your code wasn't exception-safe. | null | 0 | 1319637614 | False | 0 | c2ulaja | t3_lpicx | null | t1_c2ulaja | t1_c2ul904 | null | 1427785488 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | mithaldu | null | Good suggestion. I edited it into the post. :) | null | 0 | 1319637645 | False | 0 | c2ulao3 | t3_lpmaq | null | t1_c2ulao3 | t1_c2ul9p7 | null | 1427785491 | 8 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | realnowhereman | null | well I guess you can install your own metro-styled web browser (once metro becomes the norm) much like you can install Opera or Firefox on Android; the point is that Metro IE10 would anyway *not* support plugins of any kind (regular desktop IE10 would, though) | null | 0 | 1319637688 | False | 0 | c2ulavb | t3_lp61p | null | t1_c2ulavb | t1_c2ukp07 | null | 1427785493 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | mithaldu | null | I'd be happy in that situation. A playground of writing tests and refactoring. :3 | null | 0 | 1319637695 | False | 0 | c2ulawi | t3_lpmaq | null | t1_c2ulawi | t1_c2ul9fl | null | 1427785493 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | sunshine-x | null | Pretend for a moment you're a novice programmer hoping to learn perl to accomplish some simple scripting. Now, you need a 2D array you think to solve some problem and decide to refer to the text.
Here's what you'll find, and here's about where I'd get mad and throw the fucking book at the wall.
>Suppose you wan... | null | 0 | 1319637708 | False | 0 | c2ulayi | t3_lpmaq | null | t1_c2ulayi | t1_c2ul521 | null | 1427785494 | 24 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | jugglist | null | Reminds me of HACKERS. | null | 0 | 1319637715 | False | 0 | c2ulazj | t3_lpjq8 | null | t1_c2ulazj | t3_lpjq8 | null | 1427785494 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Terminus1 | null | It wasn't my post. I'm not the OP. | null | 0 | 1319637730 | False | 0 | c2ulb28 | t3_lgn04 | null | t1_c2ulb28 | t1_c2ss0dz | null | 1427785495 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | el_tavs | null | > Humans are not able to be 100% consistent all the time.
actually that's not the problem.
PL implementation (i.e. compilers) employ advanced or complicated algorithms to implement bookkeeping and optimizations. Algorithms are deterministic, run by a computer, i.e. can tackle big problems in short time, and offer g... | null | 0 | 1319637750 | True | 0 | c2ulb4z | t3_lol4l | null | t1_c2ulb4z | t1_c2ukkcx | null | 1427785496 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | mithaldu | null | The second link for "php tutorial" is this: http://php.net/manual/en/tutorial.php "Last updated: Fri, 21 Oct 2011"
I'd say they're in a much better situation than Perl is. :)
The question is: What are we going to do about it? | null | 0 | 1319637769 | False | 0 | c2ulb7r | t3_lpmaq | null | t1_c2ulb7r | t1_c2ulait | null | 1427785497 | 31 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | sunshine-x | null | I hate that book more than any book I've ever read. Larry may be a great coder, but he should never be allowed to author another book.. he's a terribly confusing writer. | null | 0 | 1319637817 | False | 0 | c2ulbff | t3_lpmaq | null | t1_c2ulbff | t1_c2ul4q7 | null | 1427785500 | 11 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | mfukar | null | Women suck at a penis? Now that's not very nice. Or is it? | null | 0 | 1319637829 | False | 0 | c2ulbh9 | t3_lol4l | null | t1_c2ulbh9 | t1_c2ukmj0 | null | 1427785502 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | mithaldu | null | > eval "\$${vitals}[1] = 'red'";
**Jesus Christ wept.** | null | 0 | 1319637836 | False | 0 | c2ulbib | t3_lpmaq | null | t1_c2ulbib | t1_c2ulayi | null | 1427785502 | 39 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Otis_Inf | null | Episode 4 is more interesting, it covers the (IMHO) best demo group from finland: Complex: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xhIqlP-TsJ0 | null | 0 | 1319637841 | False | 0 | c2ulbiw | t3_lp3rw | null | t1_c2ulbiw | t1_c2uje2b | null | 1427785502 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | MrDOS | null | Sure, but [“php database tutorial”](http://www.google.ca/search?q=php+database+tutorial) is pretty much all bad. | null | 0 | 1319637953 | False | 0 | c2ulc12 | t3_lpmaq | null | t1_c2ulc12 | t1_c2ulb7r | null | 1427785508 | 15 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | mfukar | null | False, Irrelevant, Irrelevant, False and False. | null | 0 | 1319637969 | False | 0 | c2ulc3h | t3_lol4l | null | t1_c2ulc3h | t1_c2uj1r2 | null | 1427785510 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | Actually, now that you put it like that, I think I agree.
Come on Mark, put that pen down and retire. | null | 0 | 1319638015 | False | 0 | c2ulcal | t3_lpmaq | null | t1_c2ulcal | t1_c2ulawi | null | 1427785511 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | mithaldu | null | Even there that link is on position 7. They've got a fairly good shoe-in. Perl doesn't even have that. ;) | null | 0 | 1319638039 | False | 0 | c2ulcen | t3_lpmaq | null | t1_c2ulcen | t1_c2ulc12 | null | 1427785514 | 10 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | hoijarvi | null | From the page:
... While the F# compiler itself doesn’t currently provide any way to verify that tail calls have been used ...
Is the reason I try to avoid trusting tail call optimization. I have been burned with unexpected stack overflows: The code looked like a tail call, but for some reason wasn't, and I switched... | null | 0 | 1319638065 | False | 0 | c2ulcis | t3_lplfl | null | t1_c2ulcis | t1_c2ul3hh | null | 1427785514 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | el_tavs | null | Gun's goal was to hit something with a high-speed projectile. People qualify as *something*, even innocent ones.
Now tell me, what is the goal of a programming language, and how do silent buffer/numeric overflow fit in that goal? | null | 0 | 1319638132 | False | 0 | c2ulctd | t3_lol4l | null | t1_c2ulctd | t1_c2uhh37 | null | 1427785518 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | mfukar | null | Buffer overflow exploit. Very 90's. Have an upvote. | null | 0 | 1319638136 | False | 0 | c2ulcu1 | t3_lol4l | null | t1_c2ulcu1 | t1_c2ukkcx | null | 1427785518 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | ProudToBeAKraut | null | At least there are tutorials for Perl itself - have you tried Perl XS - e.g. mapping c++ to perl objects - there are only a handful and hardcore to understand at all - even with a step by step guide you just "do things" but you dont understand why you are supposed to do it because it really makes not much sense | null | 0 | 1319638137 | False | 0 | c2ulcud | t3_lpmaq | null | t1_c2ulcud | t3_lpmaq | null | 1427785518 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | ecoursify | null | eCourisfy is best known for its hands-on review of complex programming courses and books, aimed at helping readers find the best and weeding out the worst resources when they are looking to learn a particular coding language.
eCoursify's review of Pro Web Design highlights why this in-depth, 13 week premium course is ... | null | 0 | 1319638281 | False | 0 | c2uldie | t3_lpoyz | null | t1_c2uldie | t3_lpoyz | null | 1427785528 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Dr9 | null | And then you realize the algorithm was flawed.
Instead of waiting until the car was far left or right out of bounds it should have seen if it is left or right of the centre & the next centre (predict the turn). | null | 0 | 1319638439 | False | 0 | c2ule8q | t3_losip | null | t1_c2ule8q | t1_c2ug30q | null | 1427785537 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | That's a pretty impressive port for the C64. | null | 0 | 1319638454 | False | 0 | c2ulebr | t3_lp3rw | null | t1_c2ulebr | t1_c2uj8nb | null | 1427785538 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | keenerd | null | I've got just the thing for you: [Jshon](http://kmkeen.com/jshon/)
It was made to provide complete json editing tools for the shell pipeline. It does not contain a shoddy two bit parser. It is tiny and fast, often faster than "cat". It is very cross platform, so far builds for x86, amd64, and arm. | null | 0 | 1319638471 | False | 0 | c2uleez | t3_lobf3 | null | t1_c2uleez | t1_c2ubmjp | null | 1427785540 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | kring789 | null | Valid point about Java requiring a plugin. Of course, as small as Java's installed base on Windows may be, it's certainly larger than some new WebGL plugin like IEWebGL, and probably larger than the installed base of Chrome Frame as well.
I agree cwebgl and webgl-compat are non-starters because they're not properly h... | null | 0 | 1319638481 | False | 0 | c2ulego | t3_lp61p | null | t1_c2ulego | t1_c2uiwm1 | null | 1427785540 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | zim2411 | null | Hrmph. I can't get to the site at all, but it's apparently still up. Is there a mirror somewhere?
Edit: [Coral cached it.](http://www.iquilezles.org.nyud.net/apps/shadertoy/) | null | 0 | 1319638502 | False | 0 | c2uleju | t3_losip | null | t1_c2uleju | t3_losip | null | 1427785548 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | keenerd | null | In the spirit of friendly competition, what benefits does this have over [Jshon](http://kmkeen.com/jshon/) ? | null | 0 | 1319638564 | False | 0 | c2uleuw | t3_lobf3 | null | t1_c2uleuw | t1_c2uewuy | null | 1427785546 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | kryptkpr | null | For the love of god, that's horrendous.
Just in case anyone is Googling this thread, here's how you'd do this without resorting into madness:
#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
my $vitals = {
"john" => [47, "brown", 186],
"mary" => [23, "hazel", 128],
"bill" => [35, "blue"... | null | 0 | 1319638580 | True | 0 | c2ulexg | t3_lpmaq | null | t1_c2ulexg | t1_c2ulayi | null | 1427785547 | 52 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1319638610 | False | 0 | c2ulf2n | t3_lpicx | null | t1_c2ulf2n | t1_c2ul8by | null | 1427785559 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | remyroy | null | ♪ You're just another *layer* in the wall ♪ | null | 0 | 1319638710 | False | 0 | c2ulfkc | t3_lpoeb | null | t1_c2ulfkc | t3_lpoeb | null | 1427785556 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | pozorvlak | null | Really? It's one of my favourite technical books ever. OTOH, I had some grasp of Perl before I started reading it. | null | 0 | 1319638729 | False | 0 | c2ulfn6 | t3_lpmaq | null | t1_c2ulfn6 | t1_c2ulbff | null | 1427785558 | 14 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1319638753 | False | 0 | c2ulfqx | t3_lpicx | null | t1_c2ulfqx | t1_c2ul8by | null | 1427785559 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | mithaldu | null | If there was a proper community-driven tutorial site available, i'm sure those would start cropping up there as well. :) | null | 0 | 1319638797 | False | 0 | c2ulfyg | t3_lpmaq | null | t1_c2ulfyg | t1_c2ulcud | null | 1427785562 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | mariox19 | null | Fuck that! He drank himself to sleep. | null | 0 | 1319638821 | False | 0 | c2ulg29 | t3_lpmaq | null | t1_c2ulg29 | t1_c2ulbib | null | 1427785563 | 8 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Filmore | null | I did. It *thinks* that webgl is enabled, but the box where its supposed to be is blank. Ironically, it works fine on Firefox on my android smartphone. | null | 0 | 1319638834 | False | 0 | c2ulg48 | t3_losip | null | t1_c2ulg48 | t1_c2uk5ak | null | 1427785563 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | nascent | null | > You said 'reference counting', which has nothing to do with what we are talking about.
Yes, reference counting allows for reference semantics.
> That does not mean you have to have references everywhere.
That is not the point. To have access to the complete specification of what it means to be polymorphic, y... | null | 0 | 1319638853 | False | 0 | c2ulg79 | t3_kljc0 | null | t1_c2ulg79 | t1_c2ukh01 | null | 1427785564 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | fapmonad | null | > In a vector where element's operator= allocates, some_vector.push_back(item) will have as many allocations as there are elements, +1.
I agree with your point that allocations are hidden a bit everywhere, but that's wrong; if vector allocated memory and copied all data on every push_back, push_back would not have ... | null | 0 | 1319638868 | False | 0 | c2ulg9r | t3_lpicx | null | t1_c2ulg9r | t1_c2ul268 | null | 1427785565 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | netfeed | null | Thank you, gource was really fun to play around with | null | 0 | 1319638881 | False | 0 | c2ulgck | t3_lpjq8 | null | t1_c2ulgck | t3_lpjq8 | null | 1427785575 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | TinynDP | null | In theory, if the memory is associated with an object that has a destructor, the GC could call the destructor, and the destructor could free other resources. | null | 0 | 1319639030 | False | 0 | c2ulh2r | t3_lpicx | null | t1_c2ulh2r | t1_c2ukxsr | null | 1427785577 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1319639089 | False | 0 | c2ulhdz | t3_lpmaq | null | t1_c2ulhdz | t1_c2ulayi | null | 1427785579 | 10 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | darkon | null | Where did that text/example come from? I can't find it in *Programming Perl*, *Modern Perl*, or the Perl documentation. | null | 0 | 1319639159 | False | 0 | c2ulhqp | t3_lpmaq | null | t1_c2ulhqp | t1_c2ulayi | null | 1427785583 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | bobindashadows | null | > Sticking to text means you can implement it in languages that crap their pants at the sight of binary code and are primarily designed for mangling HTML.
Which is the dumbest reasoning on the planet. "Let's bloat the interchange format of SOAP by *orders of magnitude* which will affect every message sent using SOA... | null | 0 | 1319639172 | False | 0 | c2ulhsy | t3_lowx8 | null | t1_c2ulhsy | t1_c2ul568 | null | 1427785584 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | el_tavs | null | Well... type checking ranges is hard as much as type checking array accesses (see dependent types and such).
If you want to do it in the language (i.e. via metaprogramming) you may not have any guarantee about the efficiency and correctness of the results, especially if you use C++ templates, which are a tad harder t... | null | 0 | 1319639301 | True | 0 | c2ulih5 | t3_lol4l | null | t1_c2ulih5 | t1_c2ukoey | null | 1427785592 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | mithaldu | null | Apparently from the first edition of Programming Perl: http://docstore.mik.ua/orelly/perl/prog/ch04_01.htm | null | 0 | 1319639304 | False | 0 | c2ulii0 | t3_lpmaq | null | t1_c2ulii0 | t1_c2ulhqp | null | 1427785593 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | igouy | null | > but I haven't seen any practical usable examples yet
"More specifically, we propose to implement device drivers in ATS, and the type system of ATS is able to rule out a number of safety violations (e.g. memory leak, buffer overflow, race conditions, etc.) at compile time."
[Implementing Reliable Linux Device Dri... | null | 0 | 1319639325 | False | 0 | c2ulild | t3_lol4l | null | t1_c2ulild | t1_c2uju45 | null | 1427785595 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | smallfried | null | Then I don't know what could be wrong.
If you find the answer, will you post it here? | null | 0 | 1319639338 | False | 0 | c2ulinh | t3_losip | null | t1_c2ulinh | t1_c2ulg48 | null | 1427785595 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | cran | null | Solution: Rename it to something else starting with a 'p'. This is precisely how that piece of shit language Python won out over Ruby. The 'p' makes all the difference. Name it 'p++' or 'pava' and the search hits will explode as everyone will immediately realize its superiority and link to all the newest tutorials. | null | 0 | 1319639366 | False | 0 | c2ulis5 | t3_lpmaq | null | t1_c2ulis5 | t3_lpmaq | null | 1427785597 | -26 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | mipadi | null | Isn't an engineer really just a trinket maker? | null | 0 | 1319639396 | False | 0 | c2ulix0 | t3_lnhkh | null | t1_c2ulix0 | t1_c2ukr2y | null | 1427785599 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | tau-lepton | null | I have no words. | null | 0 | 1319639495 | False | 0 | c2uljcu | t3_lovjq | null | t1_c2uljcu | t1_c2uikc2 | null | 1427785605 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | axilmar | null | Well, ok, but what if the template library is checked and proven correct by unit and functional testing? then, the template library can be used to do the type of static checking required.
| null | 0 | 1319639525 | False | 0 | c2uljin | t3_lol4l | null | t1_c2uljin | t1_c2ulih5 | null | 1427785607 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | cfreak2399 | null | This is spot on. Especially about the database access. Not only that but the official documentation for PHP is inconsistent throughout. Tons of documentation is incomplete and you have to try to decipher really bad code in the comments to get what you want.
At least Perl has official man pages.
Besides can one real... | null | 0 | 1319639566 | False | 0 | c2uljpw | t3_lpmaq | null | t1_c2uljpw | t1_c2ulait | null | 1427785608 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Tobblo | null | I like how Google supplies [useful information](http://i.imgur.com/1oUDf.png) while I view it. | null | 0 | 1319639595 | False | 0 | c2uljvc | t3_lotys | null | t1_c2uljvc | t3_lotys | null | 1427785618 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | knome | null | Read "Java 2 Black Book". It's the reason I still don't care to know java.
> the novice has some impossible problem ( impossible like adding numbers, or putting things in a list )
> you, the astute guru smugly smile and chortle through your cheetos-laden beard "oh, ho! but it's not"
> the novice returns to... | null | 0 | 1319639598 | False | 0 | c2uljvu | t3_lpmaq | null | t1_c2uljvu | t1_c2ulbff | null | 1427785618 | 32 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | igouy | null | ["F* is a new dependently typed language for secure distributed programming."](https://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/fstar/) | null | 0 | 1319639600 | True | 0 | c2uljw6 | t3_lol4l | null | t1_c2uljw6 | t1_c2uj0zv | null | 1427785611 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | axilmar | null | > Yes, reference counting allows for reference semantics.
Are you pulling my leg? reference counting is a resource management technique, it has nothing to do with reference semantics.
> References can not be removed from the language and the language still claim to have polymorphic types.
True, but it doesn't ... | null | 0 | 1319639600 | False | 0 | c2uljwb | t3_kljc0 | null | t1_c2uljwb | t1_c2ulg79 | null | 1427785611 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | Solution: use Python. | null | 0 | 1319639620 | False | 0 | c2uljzo | t3_lpmaq | null | t1_c2uljzo | t3_lpmaq | null | 1427785613 | -20 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | redalastor | null | This is why they dropped the 1. version number prefix. Technically version 24 should be version 1.24 but since it's never going to change radically enough to create version 2.0, they just dropped the major version number. | null | 0 | 1319639630 | False | 0 | c2ulk18 | t3_lotys | null | t1_c2ulk18 | t1_c2ukl9v | null | 1427785613 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Gotebe | null | Yes, of course, hence the word "some" up there. | null | 0 | 1319639641 | False | 0 | c2ulk34 | t3_lpicx | null | t1_c2ulk34 | t1_c2ulg9r | null | 1427785614 | -2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1319639654 | False | 0 | c2ulk57 | t3_lpmaq | null | t1_c2ulk57 | t1_c2ulayi | null | 1427785624 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | frezik | null | It's meant more as a continuing reference, not a beginner tutorial. Schwartz's "Learning Perl" (the Lama) is the one for beginners.
Also, different sections are authored by different people. | null | 0 | 1319639655 | False | 0 | c2ulk5g | t3_lpmaq | null | t1_c2ulk5g | t1_c2ulbff | null | 1427785624 | 20 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | axilmar | null | Agreed. That's what I wanted to actually say. You said it in a much better way than me. | null | 0 | 1319639670 | False | 0 | c2ulk7t | t3_lol4l | null | t1_c2ulk7t | t1_c2ulb4z | null | 1427785616 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | ecoursify | null | I like what they did here, providing all of the best resources in one place. That's actually the point of ecoursify. We're working up to pulling all that content into one place. Then we'll have links to our more reviews from these lists to provide more depth. | null | 0 | 1319639757 | False | 0 | c2ulko2 | t3_loj8d | null | t1_c2ulko2 | t1_c2ueao2 | null | 1427785625 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | el_tavs | null | > So every contractor took out waivers to use C as Ada was too big a language to use in such tiny memory constraints
IIRC that was just because Ada was **innovative** and **aimed high** for that time. It wasn't easy to get a sufficiently smart and efficient toolchain for such a language. Things naturally worked ou... | null | 0 | 1319639779 | False | 0 | c2ulkrl | t3_lol4l | null | t1_c2ulkrl | t1_c2ugq4g | null | 1427785626 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | French_lesson | null | You can use a GC + deterministic destruction. You turn the relevant `delete` operators into noop, and replace the relevant `new` operators to fetch memory from the GC. Destructors will run and handle invariants as usual, but memory is now taken care of by the GC. In this case, the GC will not be used for correctness, b... | null | 0 | 1319639912 | True | 0 | c2ullfv | t3_lpicx | null | t1_c2ullfv | t1_c2uk8uw | null | 1427785635 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | tora22 | null | Show me this in python/perl. One line only please
curl http://somewebsite | grep magictoken || echo "still not there" | mail me@bashrules.com | null | 0 | 1319639942 | False | 0 | c2ullli | t3_lobf3 | null | t1_c2ullli | t1_c2uh2zb | null | 1427785638 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | TheSisko972 | null | Okay xiaongchiamiov, _if that is your real name_, let me explain that Perl people have a sense of humor that is apparently quite esoteric, so I will include this smiley as a visual indicator: :) | null | 0 | 1319639990 | False | 0 | c2ulltu | t3_loy44 | null | t1_c2ulltu | t1_c2uh7jb | null | 1427785640 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | That depends on what level of importance you put on exceptions, which depends on your opinion as a programmer. To me, exceptions are *exceptional*. They rarely if ever happen and should be used as an indication of a fatal bug. I really dislike using exceptions as a means of indicating that a method has failed in an ... | null | 0 | 1319640047 | False | 0 | c2ulm3y | t3_lpicx | null | t1_c2ulm3y | t1_c2ulaja | null | 1427785642 | -1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | TinynDP | null | If you replace java.lang.Object with 'void*', then everything is an object =p | null | 0 | 1319640051 | False | 0 | c2ulm4v | t3_loy44 | null | t1_c2ulm4v | t1_c2ukxdg | null | 1427785643 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | SideburnsOfDoom | null | Code using variables called a,b, x, z, i, d, e is likely to be a bad example in any version of any language.
*edit* And the examples come out of archaic languages where 1-char variable names are a "good" idea because the language doesn't support anything else. The bad idea was, in those cases, in the language spec. | null | 0 | 1319640060 | True | 0 | c2ulm6k | t3_lpmaq | null | t1_c2ulm6k | t3_lpmaq | null | 1427785643 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | For added clarification in case this is searched, and correct me if I'm wrong kryptkpr, but your line "# Prints "blue"" should say "brown". | null | 0 | 1319640066 | False | 0 | c2ulm7n | t3_lpmaq | null | t1_c2ulm7n | t1_c2ulexg | null | 1427785643 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | kryptkpr | null | Thanks! Fixed. | null | 0 | 1319640136 | False | 0 | c2ulmle | t3_lpmaq | null | t1_c2ulmle | t1_c2ulm7n | null | 1427785647 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | knome | null | They should allow adding a wiki.pod to each project on CPAN and have a web engine that lets you roam through them. They could default to showing the README for projects not containing a proper wiki.pod.
Sounds perlish enough to work. | null | 0 | 1319640164 | False | 0 | c2ulmq5 | t3_lpmaq | null | t1_c2ulmq5 | t1_c2ulfyg | null | 1427785655 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | igouy | null | Not irony. | null | 0 | 1319640167 | False | 0 | c2ulmqz | t3_lol4l | null | t1_c2ulmqz | t1_c2uk4kf | null | 1427785650 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1319640214 | False | 0 | c2ulmzh | t3_lpicx | null | t1_c2ulmzh | t1_c2uk8uw | null | 1427785655 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | greyfinch | null | For the majority of sysadmins, the response would be "Great, constantly fighting fires *and* maintaining XXX's horrible perl? Bollocks." | null | 0 | 1319640243 | False | 0 | c2uln4o | t3_lpmaq | null | t1_c2uln4o | t1_c2ulawi | null | 1427785658 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1319640316 | False | 0 | c2ulnig | t3_lpicx | null | t1_c2ulnig | t1_c2ul904 | null | 1427785660 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
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