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True | mithaldu | null | That thanks to that most of our software has extremely higher maintainability than most other languages. Leaving the issue of readability aside (which is grossly overstated by people who barely have any idea about Perl), thanks to the infrastructure we know extremely quickly when something breaks anywhere and are able ... | null | 0 | 1319787383 | False | 0 | c2v4icf | t3_lpmaq | null | t1_c2v4icf | t1_c2v2v31 | null | 1427794749 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | rasherdk | null | I doubt it. Audio encoding is a pretty well understood business, and the ALAC codec is also simple. I suspect this is going to prove mostly useful in the sense that Apple is endorsing the open use of ALAC. | null | 0 | 1319787488 | False | 0 | c2v4im0 | t3_lrp9c | null | t1_c2v4im0 | t1_c2v3ece | null | 1427794751 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | TheMeerkat | null | Stick with FLAC, then. If you're locked to Apple devices, use Rockbox. | null | 0 | 1319787508 | False | 0 | c2v4io1 | t3_lrp9c | null | t1_c2v4io1 | t1_c2v4hnv | null | 1427794751 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | mithaldu | null | You're just saying that the intro was different. Not that an intro with Perl would be a failure. Again, this is pure conjecturing. (Though i agree the SICP is neat.) | null | 0 | 1319787510 | False | 0 | c2v4io5 | t3_lnevu | null | t1_c2v4io5 | t1_c2v2wgk | null | 1427794751 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | grauenwolf | null | > Current concepts of new provide no flexibility in this abstraction.
That is wrong on two accounts.
First and foremost, flexibilty is only an important feature when it is actually needed. Flexibilty solely for the sake of flexibilty merely adds needless complexity.
In this case the cost of the unnecessary flex... | null | 0 | 1319787605 | False | 0 | c2v4iwb | t3_lr1g7 | null | t1_c2v4iwb | t1_c2v0qtn | null | 1427794754 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1319787665 | False | 0 | c2v4j2l | t3_lrp9c | null | t1_c2v4j2l | t1_c2v4e3d | null | 1427794756 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | grauenwolf | null | The work done on .NET's design guidelines has also come to this conclusion. The vast majority of objects in .NET are expected to follow the "Call Constructor, Set Properties, Invoke Methods" life cycle. | null | 0 | 1319787722 | False | 0 | c2v4j7d | t3_lr1g7 | null | t1_c2v4j7d | t1_c2uzznn | null | 1427794758 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | TheMeerkat | null | Probably. Still, a lot of players don't touch codecs they can't get legitimate documentation on regarding decoding; I'd be very surprised if this move didn't mean that support for the format jumps a lot in a very short period of time. | null | 0 | 1319787725 | False | 0 | c2v4j7m | t3_lrp9c | null | t1_c2v4j7m | t1_c2v4im0 | null | 1427794758 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | therealprotonk | null | Well for starters I didn't say you were nuts. [MarshallBanana](http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/lrp9c/apple_lossless_audio_codec_alac_now_open_source/c2v3132) did. and who knows, they may have been joking.
Second, *you* introduced the idea of ethical/unethical. I'm simply saying that developers keep com... | null | 0 | 1319787738 | False | 0 | c2v4j92 | t3_lrp9c | null | t1_c2v4j92 | t1_c2v4grq | null | 1427794758 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | nixcamic | null | Aye, but under that criteria, almost all the codecs on there should have "Very Good" hardware support. Does android support FLAC on a stock phone now? | null | 0 | 1319787742 | False | 0 | c2v4j9c | t3_lrp9c | null | t1_c2v4j9c | t1_c2v3rku | null | 1427794758 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | ivosaurus | null | `git svn clone https://svn.macosforge.org/repository/alac/trunk`
Not obvious, I know. | null | 0 | 1319787838 | False | 0 | c2v4ji1 | t3_lrp9c | null | t1_c2v4ji1 | t1_c2v3ud4 | null | 1427794761 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | lolomfgkthxbai | null | 40K connections per second per core, I suppose. | null | 0 | 1319787870 | False | 0 | c2v4jkr | t3_lr2o2 | null | t1_c2v4jkr | t1_c2v17c2 | null | 1427794763 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | nixcamic | null | Whats wrong with ALAC? | null | 0 | 1319787886 | False | 0 | c2v4jm3 | t3_lrp9c | null | t1_c2v4jm3 | t1_c2v4h0x | null | 1427794763 | -6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | nixcamic | null | You mean mildly better? | null | 0 | 1319787910 | False | 0 | c2v4joc | t3_lrp9c | null | t1_c2v4joc | t1_c2v3lnh | null | 1427794763 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | nixcamic | null | > AAC, I believe; MP3 if they got their shit together and migrated over since the last time I checked
You... You want them to go down a generation? | null | 0 | 1319787976 | False | 0 | c2v4juk | t3_lrp9c | null | t1_c2v4juk | t1_c2v3u2b | null | 1427794767 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1319787997 | False | 0 | c2v4jwd | t3_lrg7f | null | t1_c2v4jwd | t3_lrg7f | null | 1427794767 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | mithaldu | null | > intuition
Intuition is a lie. Everything you believe to be intuitive is such because of information you learned previously. | null | 0 | 1319788001 | False | 0 | c2v4jwt | t3_lpmaq | null | t1_c2v4jwt | t1_c2uyb8j | null | 1427794767 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | ivosaurus | null | Clang? Webkit? WTF IS GOING ON HERE GUYS | null | 0 | 1319788013 | False | 0 | c2v4jxy | t3_lrp9c | null | t1_c2v4jxy | t1_c2v4e5g | null | 1427794767 | 8 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | grauenwolf | null | So instead of having one hard dependency you are proposing that we have two? That hardly seems like a benefit to me.
Avoiding too many dependencies in any given class is definitely a good thing. But you have to be intelligent about it. Swapping out a constructor call for a factory method never removes the dependency, ... | null | 0 | 1319788111 | False | 0 | c2v4k69 | t3_lr1g7 | null | t1_c2v4k69 | t1_c2v45pz | null | 1427794770 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | simonask | null | > First and foremost, flexibilty is only an important feature when it is actually needed. Flexibilty solely for the sake of flexibilty merely adds needless complexity.
In other words, "flexibility is only needed when it is needed" — tautological. Look at the suggestions he's making, they don't seem too complex at a... | null | 0 | 1319788175 | False | 0 | c2v4kap | t3_lr1g7 | null | t1_c2v4kap | t1_c2v4iwb | null | 1427794771 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | grauenwolf | null | The lingering obessessions of J2EE programmers.
Back in the late 90's many colleges thought "Software Engineering" was a three-unit course of the Design Patterns book. As a result we have lots of Java programmers, as well as .NET, who think design means using every pattern in the catalog as much as possible. | null | 0 | 1319788259 | False | 0 | c2v4ki0 | t3_lr1g7 | null | t1_c2v4ki0 | t1_c2v3fwf | null | 1427794775 | 10 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1319788301 | False | 0 | c2v4klt | t3_lrp9c | null | t1_c2v4klt | t1_c2v4juk | null | 1427794775 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | geon | null | Multiple, big screens are essential to professional development. I don't think they matter much for a total beginner. | null | 0 | 1319788352 | False | 0 | c2v4kpi | t3_lqwwq | null | t1_c2v4kpi | t1_c2v2amm | null | 1427794778 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | grauenwolf | null | So what? That doesn't mean new is harmful, it merely means that sometimes you need new plus an abstraction. | null | 0 | 1319788364 | False | 0 | c2v4kq4 | t3_lr1g7 | null | t1_c2v4kq4 | t1_c2v4hxs | null | 1427794778 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | manberry_sauce | null | The name was the initial sparking point. The guy who pointed out the name problem got jumped on. The org has violently jumped on other orgs who have an apple of any sort in their logo or apple in their name, regardless of the industry. This demonstrates their litigation threshhold, which is extremely low.
They have al... | null | 0 | 1319788372 | False | 0 | c2v4kqi | t3_lrp9c | null | t1_c2v4kqi | t1_c2v4j92 | null | 1427794778 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | smackmybishop | null | One problem with using the `new` keyword is that it ties you to a specific implementation, coupling the creating class to the created.
By avoiding `new` in your code in favor of something like IoC, you can swap out any class at runtime for mock testing, deployment options, site-specific behavior changes, etc... | null | 0 | 1319788390 | False | 0 | c2v4ks0 | t3_lr1g7 | null | t1_c2v4ks0 | t1_c2v4h8m | null | 1427794779 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | account512 | null | That all may be true for iOS/ipods but I wish they had allowed iTunes to play FLAC on PCs.
The could have even done conversion to ALAC in iTunes for the iOS/ipod devices. | null | 0 | 1319788449 | False | 0 | c2v4kwg | t3_lrp9c | null | t1_c2v4kwg | t1_c2v3cna | null | 1427794780 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | TheMeerkat | null | Nothing is "wrong" with it. It's such a similar algorithm, however, that it's basically slightly-worse FLAC with less features native to the format. Not to mention the fact that most of us that have our libraries in lossless more-or-less exclusively use FLAC, and it'd be a pain to convert everything. | null | 0 | 1319788622 | False | 0 | c2v4l9c | t3_lrp9c | null | t1_c2v4l9c | t1_c2v4jm3 | null | 1427794785 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | grauenwolf | null | > and as soon as you want to change just one of them, you're screwed.
There in we find the great lie.
Learning that MySQL can't handle your work load after the code is in production is being screwed. Finding out that your company can't afford Oracle and wants you to rewrite everything for a free database is being... | null | 0 | 1319788646 | False | 0 | c2v4lav | t3_lr1g7 | null | t1_c2v4lav | t1_c2v4kap | null | 1427794786 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | > Don't go through life doing something you don't love to do - you only get one chance at life, don't fuck it up.
It's shit advice like this that produces hoardes of unemployed liberal arts majors. | null | 0 | 1319788690 | False | 0 | c2v4ldj | t3_lqz9i | null | t1_c2v4ldj | t3_lqz9i | null | 1427794786 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | smackmybishop | null | Please explain how dependency injection creates two hard dependencies. | null | 0 | 1319788722 | False | 0 | c2v4lgs | t3_lr1g7 | null | t1_c2v4lgs | t1_c2v4k69 | null | 1427794788 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | grauenwolf | null | I'm willing to bet you have abandoned new on countless occassions. You just don't realize it because the cost of doing so on an as-needed basis is trivial. | null | 0 | 1319788726 | False | 0 | c2v4lh4 | t3_lr1g7 | null | t1_c2v4lh4 | t1_c2v4gxq | null | 1427794788 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | ivosaurus | null | Up until now, it was a closed codec, and only iTunes supports ALAC as a first class codec afaik.
FLAC was/is much more open and is supported by many more media players than iTunes and iDevices. If only there were mp3 players with >100gb of space that *weren't* iPods... | null | 0 | 1319788770 | False | 0 | c2v4lkl | t3_lrp9c | null | t1_c2v4lkl | t1_c2v4jm3 | null | 1427794790 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | TheMeerkat | null | It's not only referring to that. FLAC gets "very good" relative to the other lossless codecs simply because it's the only one with [*any* kind of hardware support](http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&DEPA=0&Order=BESTMATCH&N=-1&isNodeId=1&Description=FLAC&x=0&y=0). ALAC... | null | 0 | 1319788842 | False | 0 | c2v4lpj | t3_lrp9c | null | t1_c2v4lpj | t1_c2v4j9c | null | 1427794791 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | numb3rb0y | null | Why? | null | 0 | 1319788870 | False | 0 | c2v4lrr | t3_lrp9c | null | t1_c2v4lrr | t1_c2v48yt | null | 1427794792 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | blorg | null | I have used iPods for a long time because I like the interface and design- started with a 3rd gen classic, a Mini, a Nano, 1st and 2nd gen Shuffles and then a 1st gen iPod Touch. I had used players from a variety of third parties before I got my first iPod in 2003 and the interfaces were just awful in comparison.
I on... | null | 0 | 1319788979 | True | 0 | c2v4lz7 | t3_lrp9c | null | t1_c2v4lz7 | t1_c2v4io1 | null | 1427794795 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | kikaerter | null | That could be the case - I'll admit that I don't have a clear grasp of all the tradeoffs possible here. However, the system itself _does_ care, even on Unix, assuming of course that you count graphical apps as part of the system, which I think is fair. | null | 0 | 1319789008 | False | 0 | c2v4m1m | t3_lo9p9 | null | t1_c2v4m1m | t1_c2uxfw3 | null | 1427794796 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | simonask | null | Oh come the fuck on. You have my permission to mentally replace the word "screwed" with "mildly troubled". The end result is the same: The abstraction was insufficient. | null | 0 | 1319789064 | False | 0 | c2v4m5r | t3_lr1g7 | null | t1_c2v4m5r | t1_c2v4lav | null | 1427794797 | -1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | brantyr | null | It's standard from android 3.1 onwards. It's always been supported on a stock phone in the respect that you can install an app which plays flac and have it replace the default music app. | null | 0 | 1319789064 | False | 0 | c2v4m5s | t3_lrp9c | null | t1_c2v4m5s | t1_c2v4j9c | null | 1427794797 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | **tl;dr** charge as much as possible
who would've thought, eh | null | 0 | 1319789157 | False | 0 | c2v4mdc | t3_lqz9i | null | t1_c2v4mdc | t3_lqz9i | null | 1427794799 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Camarade_Tux | null | My Cowon S9 does. I've seen a bunch of other players support FLAC too. Way more than I've seen different models support ALAC.
Comparing on the number of units shipped is not really a meaningful comparison or you should call .wma the king of hardware support because of desktop computers. | null | 0 | 1319789171 | False | 0 | c2v4meh | t3_lrp9c | null | t1_c2v4meh | t1_c2v36kp | null | 1427794801 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | grauenwolf | null | By avoiding the dependency in the first place you don't need to swap out the class at runtime in order to write unit tests.
The "Inversion of Control" technique is useful when your dependencies are backwards to begin with. When they are properly designed you don't need to invert them a second time. | null | 0 | 1319789180 | False | 0 | c2v4mf4 | t3_lr1g7 | null | t1_c2v4mf4 | t1_c2v4ks0 | null | 1427794801 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | AndreSteenveld | null | > Participation in the Challenge is open to individuals and teams of all ages except as noted below. Entries may only be submitted by a registered participant, who must be a permanent resident or citizen of the United States and 18 years of age or older at the time of registration. Proof of residency and age will be... | null | 0 | 1319789193 | False | 0 | c2v4mgd | t3_lrr7h | null | t1_c2v4mgd | t3_lrr7h | null | 1427794801 | 9 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | geon | null | How do they perform on the iPad? Do they have quick-keys for symbols? | null | 0 | 1319789207 | False | 0 | c2v4mh5 | t3_lqwwq | null | t1_c2v4mh5 | t1_c2uyax4 | null | 1427794801 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | grauenwolf | null | It only creates one, the object or framework that is injecting the dependency.
The first dependency is of course still there, it is merely accessed in a different fashion. All the other problems of having a hard dependency between the two objects in question still exist at runtime.
As a general rule, dependencies th... | null | 0 | 1319789218 | False | 0 | c2v4mi4 | t3_lr1g7 | null | t1_c2v4mi4 | t1_c2v4lgs | null | 1427794801 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | aaaaaaaargh | null | Plus something like [this](http://www.head-fi.org/t/527376/venturecraft-go-dap-design-ingenuity-makes-an-awesome-iphone-rig) could very well justify having ALAC on an iPhone too. | null | 0 | 1319789313 | False | 0 | c2v4moa | t3_lrp9c | null | t1_c2v4moa | t1_c2v4ht0 | null | 1427794804 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | billsnow | null | Perhaps alac could be adapted to existing aac/mp3 asics more cheaply than flac? Cpu intructions are pretty irrelevant if the algorithm is implemented on dedicated hardware, such as on apple ipods. | null | 0 | 1319789318 | False | 0 | c2v4mom | t3_lrp9c | null | t1_c2v4mom | t1_c2v3rl3 | null | 1427794804 | 8 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | grauenwolf | null | I am "mildly troubled" when I have to lookup an object in a factory method.
I am "greatly troubled" when I have to lookup an object in a DI configuration.
By contrast I am "barely annoyed" when I need to wrap a constructor call in a factory later on.
EDIT: I know it sounds glib, but this kind of cost/benefit analysi... | null | 0 | 1319789327 | False | 0 | c2v4mpf | t3_lr1g7 | null | t1_c2v4mpf | t1_c2v4m5r | null | 1427794805 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | TheMeerkat | null | Fair enough. However, if I may clarify two things:
> I only use compressed audio on portable mp3 players anyway
Lossless codecs are compressed as well; on average, they're half as big as uncompressed audio (WAV and AIFF). You're referring to lossy audio.
> so it is lame mp3 --alt preset standard. Chosen as it ... | null | 0 | 1319789451 | False | 0 | c2v4myr | t3_lrp9c | null | t1_c2v4myr | t1_c2v4lz7 | null | 1427794812 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | There is so much wrong in your calculations that I don't know where to start. Salaried personnel and freelancers aren't really comparable. | null | 0 | 1319789476 | False | 0 | c2v4n07 | t3_lqz9i | null | t1_c2v4n07 | t1_c2v35la | null | 1427794808 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | simonask | null | It means the design is insufficient. The use of the word "harmful" is a historic reference, and should probably not be taken literally.
Consider the possibility of a language that separates allocation and construction. The perfect allocation strategy depends on the usage pattern of the object. Right now, using a diffe... | null | 0 | 1319789489 | False | 0 | c2v4n1h | t3_lr1g7 | null | t1_c2v4n1h | t1_c2v4kq4 | null | 1427794808 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | grauenwolf | null | On the other hand, "using goto in lieu of function calls" actaully is harmful. | null | 0 | 1319789499 | False | 0 | c2v4n2d | t3_lr1g7 | null | t1_c2v4n2d | t1_c2v4has | null | 1427794808 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | rasherdk | null | Yes, that was pretty much my point. The actual code isn't much of a gain - there was already free code to decode ALAC. The gain is that Apple has freed it. | null | 0 | 1319789509 | False | 0 | c2v4n31 | t3_lrp9c | null | t1_c2v4n31 | t1_c2v4j7m | null | 1427794810 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | frankster | null | Which is better: ALAC or FLAC? | null | 0 | 1319789528 | False | 0 | c2v4n48 | t3_lrp9c | null | t1_c2v4n48 | t3_lrp9c | null | 1427794810 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | ithika | null | Couldn't watch more than the first few minutes. So much biology nonsense... | null | 0 | 1319789587 | False | 0 | c2v4n8b | t3_lr0m5 | null | t1_c2v4n8b | t3_lr0m5 | null | 1427794812 | -8 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1319789596 | False | 0 | c2v4n93 | t3_lqz9i | null | t1_c2v4n93 | t1_c2uxuqh | null | 1427794812 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | TC-14 | null | If you use a Line Out Dock cable to a headphone amp and grab a FLAC player from the App Store there's an easily noticeable difference in comparison to using the built-in jack for lossless playback or, for an even greater contrast, lossy media. | null | 0 | 1319789610 | False | 0 | c2v4na6 | t3_lrp9c | null | t1_c2v4na6 | t1_c2v4gq0 | null | 1427794812 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | smackmybishop | null | Well you have no idea what you're talking about, 15 years of experience or not.
If `A` creates a `BImpl` itself, there is a hard dependency to concrete implementation `BImpl`. If `A` instead takes any `B` in a constructor, then `A` no longer depends on either `BImpl` OR the injection framework.
By refactoring `A` to... | null | 0 | 1319789617 | False | 0 | c2v4nal | t3_lr1g7 | null | t1_c2v4nal | t1_c2v4mi4 | null | 1427794812 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | talkingwires | null | Well, just that opinion piece in the paper (NY Times, USA Today?) but it makes a sort if sense. I have no interest in carting around a media device that can only hold a few gigs worth of music.
If the Classic is discontinued, I'll upgrade to the largest one and keep it wrapped up in a case, towel, and box at all time... | null | 0 | 1319789701 | False | 0 | c2v4ngl | t3_lrp9c | null | t1_c2v4ngl | t1_c2v427w | null | 1427794814 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | grauenwolf | null | You are talking about the C++ model, where the new keyword actually is considered harmful in modern pratice.
But the difference here is that there are specific technical reasons why new is harmful in C++. They aren't just airy concepts like shown in the original article, they can be demonstrated in concrete terms like... | null | 0 | 1319789793 | False | 0 | c2v4nmz | t3_lr1g7 | null | t1_c2v4nmz | t1_c2v4n1h | null | 1427794825 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | simonask | null | This kind of argumentation is pointless. You're essentially saying that there are greater problems. Yes. That's fine, and completely irrelevant. The author is trying to put some reflections out there about the nature of how we deal with objects — the fact that that's not a direct concern for you is not interesting. | null | 0 | 1319789867 | False | 0 | c2v4nsr | t3_lr1g7 | null | t1_c2v4nsr | t1_c2v4mpf | null | 1427794825 | -1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | mr_chromatic | null | I give the book away because there are plenty of people in plenty of parts of the world who need a good book more than I need a couple of dollars. | null | 0 | 1319789921 | False | 0 | c2v4nwu | t3_lpmaq | null | t1_c2v4nwu | t1_c2v2aoi | null | 1427794820 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | ketsugi | null | Because the proper name is iPod Touch. Also probably because it's one of the few iProduct names with a verb. | null | 0 | 1319790171 | False | 0 | c2v4og6 | t3_lrp9c | null | t1_c2v4og6 | t1_c2v4lrr | null | 1427794828 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Vectorious | null | I'd love to try this out, if it didn't require Ultimate. | null | 0 | 1319790197 | False | 0 | c2v4oi7 | t3_lrlec | null | t1_c2v4oi7 | t3_lrlec | null | 1427794828 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | hab136 | null | "[Touch](http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/touch)" can is also a noun:
* the act or state of touching; state or fact of being touched.
* that sense by which anything material is perceived by means of physical contact.
* the quality of something touched that imparts a sensation: an object with a slimy touch.
* a c... | null | 0 | 1319790504 | False | 0 | c2v4p4a | t3_lrp9c | null | t1_c2v4p4a | t1_c2v4og6 | null | 1428185440 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | grauenwolf | null | A has a dependency on B if any of the following is true:
* Class A cannot be constructed without class B
* Class A creates an instance of class B
* Class A contains an instance of class B
* A change to or bug in class B may result in the manifestation of bugs in A
If you have two independent implementations of B, cal... | null | 0 | 1319790505 | False | 0 | c2v4p4c | t3_lr1g7 | null | t1_c2v4p4c | t1_c2v4nal | null | 1428185440 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | ketsugi | null | Yes, I'm well aware. I meant that between iPod, iMac, iPhone, and iTouch, iTouch is the only one that becomes an actual phrase "I touch". Of course I was wrong there too, since "phone" can also be used as a verb.
Parent is correct, though... for some reason "iTouch" just sounds really wrong to me. | null | 0 | 1319790626 | False | 0 | c2v4pct | t3_lrp9c | null | t1_c2v4pct | t1_c2v4p4a | null | 1427794842 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | grauenwolf | null | We are talking about the trade off between using new and using an abstraction. I am making the claim that the abstractions have a higher cost than new and thus they should not be used when new will suffice.
The only meaningful counter-argument is the opposite, that the abstractions are cheaper than new when both are v... | null | 0 | 1319790709 | False | 0 | c2v4pig | t3_lr1g7 | null | t1_c2v4pig | t1_c2v4nsr | null | 1427794844 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | louieanderson | null | They want people using formats their products support. | null | 0 | 1319790841 | False | 0 | c2v4prq | t3_lrp9c | null | t1_c2v4prq | t1_c2v48gl | null | 1427794847 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | smackmybishop | null | If A behaves as expected given the behavior of B, then A does not depend on BImpl1 or BImpl2.
Are you claiming that a class that works with an interface has a "hard dependency" to every possible implementation of it that might ever be written? Or would you rather just admit that your initial argument about `new` vs. ... | null | 0 | 1319790942 | False | 0 | c2v4pys | t3_lr1g7 | null | t1_c2v4pys | t1_c2v4p4c | null | 1427794849 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | alexs | null | Feature suggestion. Let people supply the expression in the URL so you can link it to people. | null | 0 | 1319790980 | False | 0 | c2v4q0y | t3_lrg7f | null | t1_c2v4q0y | t1_c2v1opm | null | 1427794849 | 10 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | alphabytes | null | thats becoz c# is being more productive! | null | 0 | 1319791106 | False | 0 | c2v4qa3 | t3_lle7t | null | t1_c2v4qa3 | t1_c2tnbg8 | null | 1427794852 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | grauenwolf | null | > Are you claiming that a class that works with an interface has a "hard dependency" to every possible implementation of it that might ever be written?
No. It only has a dependency on the implementations that are actually given to it at runtime.
(The classes that it could theoretically take a dependency on in the... | null | 0 | 1319791496 | False | 0 | c2v4r0k | t3_lr1g7 | null | t1_c2v4r0k | t1_c2v4pys | null | 1427794863 | -1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | panda_burgers | null | It's fantastic if you like to shuffle your music at high volumes. Without it you have horrible moments of panic where your eardrums almost explode because some sound engineer was told to use a compressor so it's loud than the other artists. | null | 0 | 1319792007 | False | 0 | c2v4s0h | t3_lrp9c | null | t1_c2v4s0h | t1_c2v4h7t | null | 1427794880 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Qiran | null | FairPlay has been gone from the iTunes music store since 2009. | null | 0 | 1319792057 | False | 0 | c2v4s44 | t3_lrp9c | null | t1_c2v4s44 | t1_c2v4klt | null | 1427794875 | 10 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1319792165 | False | 0 | c2v4sbg | t3_lr1eo | null | t1_c2v4sbg | t3_lr1eo | null | 1427794877 | 12 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | bishopolis | null | Stopped reading after the "zero downtime migrations are painful" part. At my day job we have many, many VMs. Zero Downtime Migration actually happens in the background; when we want to force one, we could drag it and drop it. I can't immediately think of a reason why we'd need to, though.
We're interested in settin... | null | 0 | 1319792171 | False | 0 | c2v4sbv | t3_lrnvt | null | t1_c2v4sbv | t3_lrnvt | null | 1427794878 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | fjonk | null | Webapps isn't available for everyone. The information a webapp provides won't show up in a google search and you cannot link to it. I think webapps is a major step backwards, it's the modern version of flash. | null | 0 | 1319792173 | True | 0 | c2v4sc7 | t3_lr2o2 | null | t1_c2v4sc7 | t1_c2v39jt | null | 1427794878 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | "Pad" is also a verb | null | 0 | 1319792211 | False | 0 | c2v4set | t3_lrp9c | null | t1_c2v4set | t1_c2v4pct | null | 1427794879 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1319792218 | False | 0 | c2v4sf9 | t3_lrp9c | null | t1_c2v4sf9 | t1_c2v4s44 | null | 1427794879 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | blorg | null | Yes I meant lossy. ~192kbps mp3 is still a hell of a lot smaller than a lossless file at ~700kbps and sounds the same to me. I don't see myself ever buying something that doesn't play mp3 so theoretically should never have to transcode. I originally coded everything in mp3, rather than AAC or another codec for this rea... | null | 0 | 1319792246 | False | 0 | c2v4sh8 | t3_lrp9c | null | t1_c2v4sh8 | t1_c2v4myr | null | 1427794880 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | And you think Apple, let alone any company, is going to put the 'effort' into implementing a new codec for a dying platform? (Meego doesn't count!) | null | 0 | 1319792379 | False | 0 | c2v4sq8 | t3_lrp9c | null | t1_c2v4sq8 | t1_c2v3snp | null | 1427794883 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | ketsugi | null | \**hangs head in shame*\* | null | 0 | 1319792385 | False | 0 | c2v4sqm | t3_lrp9c | null | t1_c2v4sqm | t1_c2v4set | null | 1427794883 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | TheMeerkat | null | [FLAC.](http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/lrp9c/apple_lossless_audio_codec_alac_now_open_source/c2v3r1z) | null | 0 | 1319792457 | False | 0 | c2v4suy | t3_lrp9c | null | t1_c2v4suy | t1_c2v4n48 | null | 1427794884 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | lessthan_i | null | This is also a pretty pleasant way to interact with an often changing RESTful Service or something such similar.
DynamicObject is a pretty good way to abstract cowboy-coding away behind something that makes it easy to work with and reusable. | null | 0 | 1319792510 | False | 0 | c2v4syi | t3_lryla | null | t1_c2v4syi | t3_lryla | null | 1427794886 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | pestaa | null | Heofz wanted citation and he received it. Why downvote the messenger? | null | 0 | 1319792626 | False | 0 | c2v4t5u | t3_lr8nb | null | t1_c2v4t5u | t1_c2v2cjb | null | 1427794888 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | hab136 | null | "I phone" is also a phrase with a verb. But I know what you mean; "iTouch" does sound slightly disurbing. | null | 0 | 1319792699 | False | 0 | c2v4tak | t3_lrp9c | null | t1_c2v4tak | t1_c2v4pct | null | 1427794891 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Qiran | null | Heh, so the sentence gets left in that "misleading but still quite correct" category. | null | 0 | 1319792793 | False | 0 | c2v4tgb | t3_lrp9c | null | t1_c2v4tgb | t1_c2v4sf9 | null | 1427794892 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1319792828 | False | 0 | c2v4tis | t3_ls129 | null | t1_c2v4tis | t3_ls129 | null | 1427794900 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Gundersen | null | I played around with your sourcecode a bit, and came up with this version, which works a bit differently. The goal was to be able to make the psychedelic crystal animations which were posted a few days ago: http://projects.mariusgundersen.net/experiments/AniTwit.html
try this for example:
Math.floor(
(
... | null | 0 | 1319792970 | True | 0 | c2v4tr7 | t3_lrg7f | null | t1_c2v4tr7 | t1_c2v06kt | null | 1427794897 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | grauenwolf | null | It's probably an NP-Complete problem, so solving it without brute force could fundementally change computing. (Then again I may be wrong about it being NP-Complete, in which case you get a paper hat and a bouncy ball in the color of your choice.) | null | 0 | 1319793091 | False | 0 | c2v4tyf | t3_lr1eo | null | t1_c2v4tyf | t1_c2v3e1f | null | 1427794899 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | reverendnathan | null | Wait, wait, wait... funny comic, fine. But this is fucked up, right here. I've known FLAC to be the Free Lossless Audio Codec all of my post-Napster life... nothing is going to change it's openess, compression ability, and universal format exposure (Cowon, Rio, and Android owners know what I'm talking about). So Apple ... | null | 0 | 1319793175 | False | 0 | c2v4u3u | t3_lrp9c | null | t1_c2v4u3u | t1_c2v4bs7 | null | 1427794902 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | rubygeek | null | Case in point, years and years ago, when CPU's were still expensive enough to make this worthwhile, and CGI was still a common way of doing things, I did a web service in C++. We had a strict policy of never deleting anything unless it was huge, since the CGI process would die in a fraction of a second anyway.
| null | 0 | 1319793354 | False | 0 | c2v4uf7 | t3_lpicx | null | t1_c2v4uf7 | t1_c2uqrzm | null | 1427794905 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | deep_aquatic | null | It works in IE7 and later versions ( standard mode only ) | null | 0 | 1319793419 | False | 0 | c2v4uj2 | t3_lr13l | null | t1_c2v4uj2 | t1_c2uxizy | null | 1427794907 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Legolas-the-elf | null | > Because the proper name is iPod Touch.
Actually, it's "iPod touch" (lowercase 't').
| null | 0 | 1319793479 | False | 0 | c2v4un7 | t3_lrp9c | null | t1_c2v4un7 | t1_c2v4og6 | null | 1428185438 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | 010101010101 | null | RSA tokens from the RSA company are the subject of this article. The RSA algorithm and factorisation are not. | null | 0 | 1319793528 | False | 0 | c2v4uqj | t3_lr8nb | null | t1_c2v4uqj | t1_c2v4t5u | null | 1427794909 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | pride | null | what did you expect? | null | 0 | 1319793534 | False | 0 | c2v4uqx | t3_lrr7h | null | t1_c2v4uqx | t1_c2v4mgd | null | 1427794909 | 12 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | amyisgonnakillme | null | OP suggested a new amalgamation and I made a note that it's just another standard that won't get used. Why the hell are you replying to me? | null | 0 | 1319793613 | False | 0 | c2v4uvz | t3_lrp9c | null | t1_c2v4uvz | t1_c2v4u3u | null | 1427794919 | 8 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | codenut | null | It would have been better had Apple Lossless never existed and if they had just used FLAC instead | null | 0 | 1319793700 | False | 0 | c2v4v1x | t3_lrp9c | null | t1_c2v4v1x | t3_lrp9c | null | 1427794913 | 23 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | el_tavs | null | then I agree we agree ;) | null | 0 | 1319794126 | False | 0 | c2v4vsx | t3_lpicx | null | t1_c2v4vsx | t1_c2v48kk | null | 1427794924 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
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