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redwall_hp
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There is also Objective-C++, to further add confusion. Because Obj-C is basically a ton of frameworks piled on top of C, you can still use all the straight C you want alongside it. Obj-C++ is the same deal, except with C++.
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bbq
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The point wasn't to achieve the right algorithm (you would want to use a control system here) but rather to show how you can explore a problem.
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pnpbios
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Except it's hard to tell until at least a month in. So you try to put in at least 6 months so the next place you apply to doesn't get the wrong impression.
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faustoc4
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[~~Programming Perl 2nd edition~~](http://docstore.mik.ua/orelly/perl/prog/ch01_01.htm) [Programming Perl 3rd edition]( ftp://195.214.211.1/books/DVD-024/Wall_L.,_Christiansen_T.,_Orwant_J._Programming_Perl_%282000%29%283rd%29%28en%29%281092s%29.pdf) [Modern Perl](http://onyxneon.com/books/modern_perl/modern_perl_let...
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mr_chromatic
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I agree.
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a_redditor
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Try /r/learnprogramming. Make sure you read [the guidelines for posting homework questions](http://www.reddit.com/r/learnprogramming/comments/czcnf/guidelines_for_posting_homework_problems/) first though.
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00kyle00
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Well, you use XP, what did you expect?
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nemtrif
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Smalltalkers must be laughing now. Or crying...
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I agree... and its IRC support tends to be less brutal then Python. At least most of the time...
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djimbob
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Also, it should be mentioned that software will continue to fall under the jurisdiction of copyright law to protect the rights of software authors. Otherwise, to the uninitiated we may sound like extremists who want to everything to be free, rather than our opposition for ridiculous patents for obvious and unoriginal ...
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jerf
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Sign anyways if it makes you feel better. This is all just a way to make people feel like they're doing something, while not actually doing anything. I could write the "official response" for any given petition right now. "We are happy that people are engaged with Democracy and agree that $PROBLEM is a grave problem fa...
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kragensitaker
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Perl's coercion rules are somewhat hairy, and often they produce the wrong result. But sometimes they allow more convenient expression of things, rather like APL. E.g. my %names_by_phone_number = reverse %phone_numbers_by_name; my %x = map { $_ => 1 } @x; # or alternatively: my %x; @x{@x} = (); # then ...
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Oldskool magnifying glass. #ifdef GL_ES precision highp float; #endif uniform vec2 resolution; uniform vec4 mouse; uniform sampler2D tex0; void main(void) { float R = 100.0; float h = 30.0; vec2 xy = gl_FragCoord.xy - mouse.xy; float r = sqrt(xy.x * xy...
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booch
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Or a tailcall functionality that isn't slower than a normal call, so that there can be a hard rule that tailcalls are always used when they can be. Perhaps with documentation of what "when they can be" means.
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As someone in software; No. This is a terrible idea. If I create a new and novel idea, I should be able to make money off of it.
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kolm
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Ookay.. This totally depends on the music. And no, it has objective physical roots in the overtone series, which develops in perfect pythagorean intervals. Essentially, humans wildly prefer pythagorean perfect (that's actually not the pythagorean scale) harmonies, but this contradicts our "melody scales" (i.e., the ...
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Gravis was the real thing :)
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baconbourbonbeer
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True, hashing does provide some level of improvement; however, depending on how you do your [comparison](http://codahale.com/a-lesson-in-timing-attacks/), you might still leave yourself vulnerable to this attack.
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huyvanbin
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It's almost like if someone made a website where people could post comments and vote on them, and the comments that were posted first would tend to rise to the top and crowd out the others . . .
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three18ti
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Even still, you really should buy a copy. The guy who wrote it does amazing work for the Perl community, and we should support him (and others like him) in any way we can.
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tedreed
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Sure, but why start people off with the bad habits?
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spotter
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>Well, only with dependencies beyond bash -- like on Python or Mono or JVM or whatever -- or via compilation -- like C. I have GCC, Python and JVM in my system, I don't have bash (sh, dash and zsh). > Okay, but what do I care if someone else spends time not-working, especially if it makes my life easier? Matur...
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washort
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statistical analysis can remove noise like that. See DJB's famous timing attack against AES: http://cr.yp.to/antiforgery/cachetiming-20050414.pdf
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AStrangeStranger
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> you will just end up having your job outsourced to someone else willing to write boilerplate code for $8/hour. or if they can't find anyone - they'll spend a fortune to allow them to do so in one of the more common languages
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radarsat1
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Right. Sorry, in the context of dealing with string temporaries I thought you mean that even if you do have string temporaries at least they will have deterministic behaviour, but you meant that even if you have to deal with strings you can choose to handle it more carefully. I agree.
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a_redditor
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It really doesn't. One could definitely make the argument that it's relevant to computer programmers, but computer programming it is not. /r/cyberlaws would be a much better fit, or possibly /r/technology if the OP is looking for more exposure.
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campbellm
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Are any still alive?
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burdalane
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All ten of those are excuses I use to not do things. I'm not a manager, and I've never been particularly curious, enthusiastic, or gung-ho about getting things done, although I'm more curious now than I used to be. Since I do 50% system administration, keeping the systems running often takes priority over software deve...
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arjie
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I don't know of any empirical research, but there is a rather amusing TED Talk which demonstrates that people seem to have an affinity for _something_, though the source of such an affinity is not discussed. Here's [Bobby McFerrin demonstrating](http://www.ted.com/talks/bobby_mcferrin_hacks_your_brain_with_music.html)....
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kragensitaker
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I think Python is pretty far from being Pascal, though. It is kind of annoying to have to explicitly convert strings to integers, or arrays to their lengths, so I get what you're saying by calling it a B&D language. But I don't think it's really in the neighborhood of Pascal, and I don't think Python generally need...
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zelf0gale
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As someone in software, Yes. Software patents are a terrible idea. You can make money of your ideas without a patent. Every author, musician, and artist does so already.
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ben0x539
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How about we deeply reflect on perl's life and design choices instead? :)
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ithika
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Don't apologise. I just saw your post looking lonely and while I have written code to solve this problem I know that it's easier for people who know what the pitfalls are to explain the proper way. I'm just a beginner when it comes to PHP/DB work.
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mark_lee_smith
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I'm currently getting paid very well to write Smalltalk and loving every minute, as are countless people around the globe.
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tardibear
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> Which is exactly what the article is about. But not the title.
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mithaldu
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Modern Perl -> yay. Programming Perl -> hell no (at least your link) It's no different from the link that's currently first result on google for "perl tutorial".
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mithaldu
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There's also an issue of longevity. In order for a Perl tutorial to be good, it must be malleable, since the language and fashions are constantly changing.
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kragensitaker
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Python actually has `(some code for var in list)` and `[some code for var in list]` now as well.
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The question is, why are you trying to learn a dead language?
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i8wg
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Read the topic, thought of 2nd reality, wtf :) I'm old :(
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kragensitaker
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Python does have a syntax check (although it's not trivial to invoke without running the script) but it doesn't catch typos in variable names; those don't fail until runtime.
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fiatlux
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Sometimes I visualize code when I masturbate.
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millstone
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> Cycles involving one or more finalizable objects are never finalized. That's...terrible!
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maltmalt
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If Lisp is hosted on a public github repo, check out www.gitmetrics.com pretty awesome stuff
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sharkeyzoic
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Pathologically Eclectic Rubbish Lister.
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imbcmdth
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Isn't this just a visualization of a (2d) kd-tree done the hard way?
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kragensitaker
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Would you like it better if `=` meant "declare and initialize" and `<--` or something meant "assign"?
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Why is computer code any different than a piece of hardware? Or a physical object? It's an idea, which is implemented from start to finish, to produce something of use.
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julesjacobs
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That is Ruby, btw. Lets see. > my %names_by_phone_number = reverse %phone_numbers_by_name; names_by_phone_numbers = phone_numbers_by_name.invert > my %x = map { $_ => 1 } @x; x.map!{1} > if ($i > @x) if i > x.length > print join("\t", @populations{@states}), "\n";...
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sastrone
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If this guy wrote a book, I would buy it. I can't believe that I had fun reading about debugging IE9.
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usermeister
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I agree with this, especialy when a programmer comes from a language with different paradigm. After I get a better feeling/context about what is going on I continue with docs/books... IMHO there is a posibility of forcing some unnatural patterns or developing bad habbits by diving straight into problem solving while d...
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kragensitaker
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You want to <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_WUcKgOav0c>? Or do you mean, like Maui?
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dieselmachine
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TLDR; Developer doesn't configure his server correctly, ends up sending a response header that ends with "charset=" (specifying a null charset), and IE9 eats it. No one likes IE9, but when your server is sending junk headers to people, and **you** cause their browser to fuck up, that's _your fault_. Define a charset ...
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I challenge you to provide an example of this. Python is generally MORE expressive because it is multi-paradigm, whereas perl is strictly procedural with a really ugly object patina bolted on to it.
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thoomfish
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I'm going to go run some PERL scripts on my MAC.
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beatniak
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His actual name was "Piet Mondriaan" (so with 2 AA's). http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piet_Mondrian Weird how languages change once name to make it more pronouncable. For example: Michelangelo is called "Michel-Ange" in French. http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel-Ange
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kragensitaker
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You left out the part where it actually constructs a 2D array! Instead it's just explaining why you don't want to do it the ways the Perl 4 tutorials left over from 1994 suggest you should do it.
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EyeAmAhEr
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"patents have been come"? Nice. Next web site, please.
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kragensitaker
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People wrote code like that in Perl 4, before Perl had references! Although I think you could also say `${$vitals}[1] = 'red';`, which is substantially less insane. For one thing, it doesn't depend on `red` not containing apostrophes. Also, there really are times you want to use `eval`. It's just really rare.
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derioderio
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At least not *directly* related enough for it to belong on this subreddit. /r/politics/ is a much better choice.
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korry
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It's a frustrating error. But did he really need Batman? 1. Check if the request is received by the server 2. Check if the response is received by the browser 3. Add error handling. 4. Search the web for the error text. 5. Done. Why do you need a guru for that?
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reddit_clone
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Swig eases that pain a lot.
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frezik
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Understanding the rules of dereferencing gets a bunch of other stuff which is built on references while adding no additional rules to the language itself. Such as: * Object oriented * Higher order functions * Deeply nested data structures * Efficiently passing and returning hashes to subroutines (though this is partia...
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millstone
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> The other kind of automated resource realease is the non-scoped one, i.e. upon object destruction. However the latter is controversial since if you need timely release you need a scope or some kind of scheduler Most people do this with reference counting, i.e. with smart pointers. LISP may or may not be an except...
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pnpbios
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I did, I found better, but as a young strapping lad, fresh out of college, it's easier for me than the guy sitting next to me with 4 kids and has never even cracked a book on silver-light or the newest and greatest design patterns. I'm actually getting a little worried since I've been working with National Instruments...
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faustoc4
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you posted http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/lpmaq/perl_tutorials_suck_and_cause_serious_damage/c2ulii0
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mark_lee_smith
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Since the article is a commentary on the widespread belief that refactoring is not possible in dynamic languages, dispite its being practiced for decades, and given the quote claiming that Darts optional-typing now makes this possible, I find the title quite accurate. Anyway, whether or not the title was well chosen ...
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kragensitaker
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As different as ALGOL-60 and ALGOL-68, or a *Hallucigenia* and a kitten, or a motorboat and a semi.
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sagenki
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Uh, I was under the impression from the link in his update that this isn't actually an issue of configuring the server correctly, the issue is actually IE9 not behaving according to spec. http://www.w3.org/TR/XMLHttpRequest/#response-entity-body0 "If charset is null let charset be UTF-8."
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mr_chromatic
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Maybe! I like a distinction between set/assign and bind operations, but having separate operators for initialize and set/assign seems less than ideal. My intuition suggests that the operators should be declare, set/assign, and bind. (In a similar way, I think an ideal language should distinguish between finish and des...
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kragensitaker
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I think both C++ and Perl are wonderful languages, and it's true that they both suffer from having been much worse in the past. But I almost never use them, preferring C and Python respectively. But I acknowledge that there are things (especially in the case of C++!) that they are really better for.
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s73v3r
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Well, as it turns out, Silverlight and WPF might be on their way out, but that's another matter. The thing is, if these places were no longer able to attract and retain new talent, they'd have to change. Maybe not right away, but eventually they'd see that they need new talent, and they can't keep it with how they curr...
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kragensitaker
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ITYM `[Biopython](http://www.biopython.org/)`.
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ikstar
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The whole point of the hash function is that it is balanced, specifically altering 1 bit will cause an avalanche effect on hashed text without giving creating a statistical correlation between the individual bits and the hash text. (Great reference, [http://www.cs.washington.edu/homes/yoshi/papers/Hash/balance.pdf](htt...
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mcguire
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> it is like a mountain spring compared to tap water Ok, you've got me. Are there easily accessible, clear examples?
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julesjacobs
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Interesting. What about continuous instruments, like the violin? Does music there still adhere to a particular scale, or do they change it according to the piece and even change it mid piece? Also, is there anything special about 440Hz?
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mcguire
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> Some times, good enough really is good enough. Mainframes are good enough. New and shiny != better. Which is why we're all using them.
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drzowie
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Hmmm, that's cool! Are the list constructs relatively new? I don't remember them from the last time I really dove into Python (which was several years ago).
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millstone
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You're right, but merely using smart pointers pervasively doesn't make your code exception-safe either. I've lost track of how many Java apps I've seen that threw up a dialog "NullPointerException" and then are left in some completely broken state. Being robust against exceptions or treating them as fatal errors are ...
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mcguire
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> It's just better to keep your head down, do what you're told, ask polite and simple to answer questions when you really need to know something. Or...not. Really. Just don't. Time to pack up the camels and move on.
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a_redditor
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>As someone in software... I would expect that most of the people in this subreddit are "in" software... >If I create a new and novel idea, I should be able to make money off of it. The issue is much more complicated than that. [You should read up on it](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_patent_debate) if...
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It's not directly applicable. It's just an example to show the principle of how timing can give an attacker information about a system.
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rexxar
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Even more surprising : the pronunciation of "Michel" in "Michel-Ange" is different from the pronunciation of "Michel" (a common name).
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mithaldu
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Yes, in the context of that discussion thread it was the source for a particularly bad example of code.
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troyanonymous1
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Yeah, I wasn't sure if they were the same but they made the same impression on me: "This would be really neat if I ever encountered a platform where I didn't have a C library"
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regeya
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Wow, there's something out there that's even more of a paperweight than the pickaxe book?
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thantik
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I'm not exactly sure what he wants me to do on that little game of his...so the point isn't really driven across for me.
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kragensitaker
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I think the examples come out of [the formula paradigm](http://vanemden.wordpress.com/2010/11/29/from-formulas-to-algorithms/), where you are not really expected to understand where the formula comes from. Quote: > Zeller’s formula represents the formulaic paradigm: it solves the problem with a minimum of computati...
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I understand the arguments. I just wholly disagree with them.
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kragensitaker
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I think your translation of the `map` is incorrect; it mutates `x` rather than creating another variable with a similar name. It's not surprising that Ruby is a better Perl than Perl; after all, that's what it was invented for, right? And of course you can take any common idiom (like reversing the list of keys and va...
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name_was_taken
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It is absolutely inappropriate to ask people to do illegal things here.
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a_redditor
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That's weird. Disagree in what way? You don't believe the arguments are valid? Or you just don't think they are reason enough to end software patents?
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rechlin
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I felt the same way. I wish the author had had a native English speaker read it over to make it more professional. It was rife with mistakes and painful to read.
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mikm
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Screw off. This isn't 4chan.
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