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True | lance_klusener | null | Very good point w.r.t keeping deadwood around.
I dont understand what you meant w.r.t stack-ranking practice, can you elloborate a bit? | null | 0 | 1319891205 | False | 0 | c2ve8ed | t3_lsyok | null | t1_c2ve8ed | t1_c2ve7g1 | null | 1427799394 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | Better than Java ! | null | 0 | 1319891305 | False | 0 | c2ve8kb | t3_lt22c | null | t1_c2ve8kb | t1_c2vduqg | null | 1427799397 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1319891342 | False | 0 | c2ve8mf | t3_lsyok | null | t1_c2ve8mf | t3_lsyok | null | 1427799398 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | PolishDude | null | The glass is half FIRED. | null | 0 | 1319891442 | False | 0 | c2ve8sq | t3_lsyok | null | t1_c2ve8sq | t1_c2vd8fp | null | 1427799400 | 17 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | WY_in_France | null | For all you fledgling programmers stumbling onto this, I'd say read it with a *very* skeptical eye. If your idea of a career is playing corporate hopscotch for the next 45 years, then it may be more pertinent. Just be aware there's a whole world of other options out there.
Quite honestly, after 5 years of being employ... | null | 0 | 1319891509 | False | 0 | c2ve8wr | t3_lsyok | null | t1_c2ve8wr | t3_lsyok | null | 1427799402 | 13 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Kavec | null | Nah. You wouldn't agree with the 99% of the things I would say.
Also: *zing*.
**Edit:** I wonder if downvotes are because those people wouldn't agree indeed, or because they think it is pretentious for me to presume that you don't agree with the 99% (which it is), or because it was a shitty misplaced joke (which it i... | null | 0 | 1319891664 | True | 0 | c2ve963 | t3_lsyok | null | t1_c2ve963 | t1_c2ve88z | null | 1427799406 | -9 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | unpopular_opinion | null | I'd say deca exponential. | null | 0 | 1319892125 | False | 0 | c2ve9yr | t3_lt3uk | null | t1_c2ve9yr | t1_c2ve51p | null | 1427799417 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | Like shit to flies. | null | 0 | 1319892161 | False | 0 | c2vea12 | t3_lt4pc | null | t1_c2vea12 | t3_lt4pc | null | 1427799418 | -3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | astrolabe | null | To me, it's not clear whether it makes the world a better place or not. | null | 0 | 1319892245 | False | 0 | c2vea67 | t3_lsyok | null | t1_c2vea67 | t1_c2vdmnv | null | 1427799419 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | danielkza | null | Now that I'm thinking about it, it's not only reasonable but an actually existing setup. Intel's 8080 is an 8-bit processor, with 8-bit addressing, which would make *sizeof(char) == sizeof(int) == 1 // 8 bits* | null | 0 | 1319892308 | False | 0 | c2veaa6 | t3_lt22c | null | t1_c2veaa6 | t1_c2ve7iv | null | 1427799426 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | tinou | null | > Always use nullptr for a null pointer value, never the literal 0 or the macro NULL which is ambiguous because it could be either an integer or a pointer.
In C, `NULL` is usually defined as `(void*) 0`, so the type is not that ambiguous. What kind of problems can arise in C++ when using `NULL` instead of `nullptr`... | null | 0 | 1319892321 | False | 0 | c2veab1 | t3_lt22c | null | t1_c2veab1 | t3_lt22c | null | 1427799421 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | astrolabe | null | It's true that it's not a zero sum game, but whether the additional wealth from better efficiency leads to more jobs is a complicated question. | null | 0 | 1319892339 | False | 0 | c2veac6 | t3_lsyok | null | t1_c2veac6 | t1_c2vdufy | null | 1427799421 | 15 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | johnwaterwood | null | Nobody ever said GC is free!
Pauzes can often be mitigated by doing small incremental collections in parallel. G1 should do quite well here.
About the value type, Java uses something called escape analysis, which automatically transforms heap allocations into stack allocations if it's detected the objects can not esc... | null | 0 | 1319892351 | False | 0 | c2veacs | t3_lsyrc | null | t1_c2veacs | t1_c2ve4ne | null | 1427799421 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | sztomi | null | Or try it in firefox, no artifacts. Performance is comparable to chrome. | null | 0 | 1319892447 | False | 0 | c2veaiw | t3_ls4uq | null | t1_c2veaiw | t1_c2vcnug | null | 1427799423 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | usermeme | null | Hogrammer. | null | 0 | 1319892500 | False | 0 | c2vealv | t3_lsyok | null | t1_c2vealv | t1_c2ve2c5 | null | 1427799425 | 37 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | The C standard (C++ would be pushing it a bit!) says that the minimum size of an integer is 16 bits (or big enough to hold at least the value I mentioned) - it doesn't matter what the platform is. I've actually written a C compiler for the 8080, which had 16-bit integers - and the 8080 does have some 16-bit data mani... | null | 0 | 1319892667 | False | 0 | c2veaum | t3_lt22c | null | t1_c2veaum | t1_c2veaa6 | null | 1427799428 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | thelastbaron | null | tl;dr Don't call yourself a programmer, call yourself a __________ instead.
??? | null | 0 | 1319892705 | False | 0 | c2veaww | t3_lsyok | null | t1_c2veaww | t3_lsyok | null | 1427799428 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Purpledrank | null | What about gov contractors? | null | 0 | 1319892722 | False | 0 | c2veay4 | t3_lsyok | null | t1_c2veay4 | t1_c2vdiva | null | 1427799428 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | >Nobody ever said GC is free!
Nobody ever ? That's a bold statement. I remember the line "auto GC is usually faster than manual GC" invoked, and similar things like you shouldn't care about it (similar to your statement, have you seen the video ?).
>About the value type, Java uses something called escape analy... | null | 0 | 1319892797 | True | 0 | c2veb2g | t3_lsyrc | null | t1_c2veb2g | t1_c2veacs | null | 1427799430 | -2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | michael_faraday | null | Reading that, you were both being douches. Only you managed to portray yourself as a bigger cunt than him. | null | 0 | 1319892830 | False | 0 | c2veb4l | t3_lsyok | null | t1_c2veb4l | t1_c2ve7ar | null | 1427799437 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | xcbsmith | null | I think you meant one of those ALAC's were FLAC.
It's conceivable you are right, but highly questionable. Normally Apple is more than happy to have software upgrades that encourage hardware upgrades. | null | 0 | 1319892850 | False | 0 | c2veb63 | t3_lrp9c | null | t1_c2veb63 | t1_c2vdmr3 | null | 1427799432 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1319892855 | False | 0 | c2veb6l | t3_lsyok | null | t1_c2veb6l | t3_lsyok | null | 1427799432 | 11 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | danielkza | null | My mistake then, I thought the requirement was only present on newer standards, which I assumed were still not followed in 8080's time. | null | 0 | 1319893038 | False | 0 | c2vebhb | t3_lt22c | null | t1_c2vebhb | t1_c2veaum | null | 1427799436 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | flaviusb | null | The differences are
1) You pick which refactoring to apply to which piece of code, and supply any other data needed, such as the name of the new method in 'extract method'. Linters can say 'this method is too big, and has too much cyclomatic complexity', but not 'it should be split here, here, and here, these methods ... | null | 0 | 1319893224 | False | 0 | c2vebt0 | t3_ls8fs | null | t1_c2vebt0 | t1_c2v71f8 | null | 1427799440 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | ferrarisnowday | null | I don't think the bank likes you anymore than the furniture company likes you. And it's not because of the difference in profit that you (don't) create, it's because the furniture company management likely has no idea what you are doing. If you've ever worked tech support you've met a few people, some of them even hi... | null | 0 | 1319893305 | False | 0 | c2vebyg | t3_lsyok | null | t1_c2vebyg | t1_c2ve6zf | null | 1427799441 | 18 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | SciK | null | > This is the best option as it gives the user the power to start the video playback when they decide.
Well, so does `controls` without `autoplay` in the `<video>` tag.
By the way, it is useless to use the self-closing tag form for `<source>` (`<source … />`) but use short attributes. Either writ... | null | 0 | 1319893307 | True | 0 | c2vebyi | t3_lt5z9 | null | t1_c2vebyi | t3_lt5z9 | null | 1427799441 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | This code might not do what you expect for 0 and NULL:
#include <iostream>
using namespace std;
void f( int n ) {
cout << "int\n";
}
void f( char * p ) {
cout << "char *\n";
}
int main() {
f( 0 ); // prints "int"
f( NULL ); ... | null | 0 | 1319893388 | False | 0 | c2vec32 | t3_lt22c | null | t1_c2vec32 | t1_c2veab1 | null | 1427799443 | 15 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | The 8080 (mostly in the shape of the Z80) is still around! | null | 0 | 1319893451 | False | 0 | c2vec79 | t3_lt22c | null | t1_c2vec79 | t1_c2vebhb | null | 1427799444 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | ferrarisnowday | null | You're right, you don't want to have IT as your sole skill. But you probably want to still frame it from the department's point of view. Instead of "creating profit for company X" you show that you can get projects done on time, or have successfully asked for justified extensions on deadlines in the past.
>And on... | null | 0 | 1319893534 | False | 0 | c2vecbl | t3_lsyok | null | t1_c2vecbl | t1_c2vdllt | null | 1427799446 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1319893572 | False | 0 | c2vecea | t3_lrp9c | null | t1_c2vecea | t1_c2vbn3t | null | 1427799447 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | centurijon | null | If you are writing software which makes *any* current thing faster/more efficient/less hassle then you are, in fact, **not** creating jobs.
Why? Simply because you are taking an existing need and making the task easier to accomplish with less people.
My example: Working on software that presents all of the informatio... | null | 0 | 1319893578 | False | 0 | c2veces | t3_lsyok | null | t1_c2veces | t1_c2vdinx | null | 1427799447 | 16 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | julesjacobs | null | Oh, I have nothing against expressing things in the language of mathematics. Insisting that the proofs should be checked mechanically is what's far too expensive. Note that even mathematicians don't do their proofs in mechanically verifiable formats, because that would make the proofs bigger and more difficult by an or... | null | 0 | 1319893707 | False | 0 | c2vecna | t3_lirke | null | t1_c2vecna | t1_c2ve61m | null | 1427799450 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | myasianwife | null | Long article; I could not get through it all. Can someone covert it into an info-graphic for me? | null | 0 | 1319893762 | False | 0 | c2vecr7 | t3_lsyok | null | t1_c2vecr7 | t3_lsyok | null | 1427799451 | -1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | ferrarisnowday | null | >(and will likely result in a net gain of productivity..)
Ugh...I can handle deadwood, but not people like this. | null | 0 | 1319893807 | False | 0 | c2vecu8 | t3_lsyok | null | t1_c2vecu8 | t1_c2ve7g1 | null | 1427799452 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Peritract | null | I think you'll find that you led the rebranding initiative which was crucial to success of the ongoing project. By doing so, you demonstrated a commitment to both diversity and high professional standards in the workplace, and further developed your ability to manage professionals in various fields in order to increase... | null | 0 | 1319893859 | False | 0 | c2vecxf | t3_lsyok | null | t1_c2vecxf | t1_c2ve31q | null | 1427799454 | 50 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | keenerd | null | Jshon can be easily statically compiled with Jansson. Jshon uses much less memory than standard unix text tools, fairly important on tiny MIPS and ARM targets (where it has worked fine). Json.sh needs bash which is almost never available on small (busbox) targets. The "it uses bash so it is more portable" argument i... | null | 0 | 1319893888 | False | 0 | c2veczm | t3_lobf3 | null | t1_c2veczm | t1_c2v5h1a | null | 1427799454 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | ferrarisnowday | null | The short way of saying all that is that you like to solve puzzles/problems. Some interviews get kind of fast paced. | null | 0 | 1319893916 | False | 0 | c2ved1g | t3_lsyok | null | t1_c2ved1g | t1_c2vdr5m | null | 1427799455 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | who will keep you on? i thought everyone else was unemployed? at that point you are merely working for the vba script. | null | 0 | 1319894254 | False | 0 | c2vedmb | t3_lsyok | null | t1_c2vedmb | t1_c2vdb65 | null | 1427799465 | 8 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | RX_AssocResp | null | Bullshit. It’s perfectly gapless with the right player. | null | 0 | 1319894321 | False | 0 | c2vedr5 | t3_lrp9c | null | t1_c2vedr5 | t1_c2vecea | null | 1427799465 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | >You’re in the business of unemploying people.
That's a pretty naive point of view. Yeah, programming, like any advancement of technology, sometimes makes jobs redundant. It also creates jobs. | null | 0 | 1319894358 | False | 0 | c2vedtw | t3_lsyok | null | t1_c2vedtw | t3_lsyok | null | 1427799466 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Khaled_Alshaya | null | If you use std::make_shared you get rid of this performance hit. Although I don't consider it as a real problem unless you are instantiating lots and lots of objects dynamically using std::shared_ptr. | null | 0 | 1319894375 | False | 0 | c2vedvg | t3_lt22c | null | t1_c2vedvg | t1_c2ve5wp | null | 1427799467 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | TheMeerkat | null | "The right player"? One that ignores the original specifications for another set that "fixes" limitations with the codec itself? That doesn't remove the fact that MP3 still cannot achieve gapless playback. It's a third-party fix that goes against specs. | null | 0 | 1319894499 | False | 0 | c2vee4b | t3_lrp9c | null | t1_c2vee4b | t1_c2vedr5 | null | 1427799470 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Gotebe | null | >You really want to be attached to Profit Centers
Real programmers© belong to cost centers that they turn into profit centers. *That's* what one should be attached to. | null | 0 | 1319894644 | False | 0 | c2veeev | t3_lsyok | null | t1_c2veeev | t3_lsyok | null | 1427799475 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | RX_AssocResp | null | Why is civility not possible?
Anyway, I was under the assumption that this SoundExpert guy does algorithmic evaluations. It’s new to me that he also invites online participants.
Interestingly, [this other test found the opposite result](http://listening-tests.hydrogenaudio.org/igorc/aac-96-a/results.html) (at 96kbps)... | null | 0 | 1319894652 | False | 0 | c2veefd | t3_lrp9c | null | t1_c2veefd | t1_c2vdik0 | null | 1427799475 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | kamatsu | null | Er, this is just one research paper. Let's wait a while, shall we, before hyping this up to 11? | null | 0 | 1319894725 | False | 0 | c2veekf | t3_lt3uk | null | t1_c2veekf | t3_lt3uk | null | 1427799476 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | RX_AssocResp | null | That’s what I said. But it’s almost at the level of a de-facto standard. | null | 0 | 1319894774 | False | 0 | c2veenk | t3_lrp9c | null | t1_c2veenk | t1_c2vee4b | null | 1427799487 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Tellon | null | Research is one thing, actually implementing it is a whole another world. Won't be holding my breath. | null | 0 | 1319894908 | False | 0 | c2veey4 | t3_lt3uk | null | t1_c2veey4 | t3_lt3uk | null | 1427799481 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | nemtrif | null | A good article in general, except for two things.
1) Too much emphasis on shared_ptr. unique_ptr should be the default choice, unless there is a real need for shared ownership.
2) Use auto whenever you can. I'd be careful with "whenever you can" part. Use auto only when the type is obvious to humans who read the code... | null | 0 | 1319894927 | False | 0 | c2veezr | t3_lt22c | null | t1_c2veezr | t3_lt22c | null | 1427799481 | 12 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | diamondjim | null | I think not knowing details of every stack in the world is fine after you've spent a few years in the industry and mastered at least a couple. You have your go-to languages for most of your work, but given a particular situation, you'll be able to wing it in some exotic framework until a more experienced hand is availa... | null | 0 | 1319894935 | False | 0 | c2vef0g | t3_lsyok | null | t1_c2vef0g | t1_c2vdsad | null | 1427799482 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | philomathie | null | So you were a physicist who went into industry research?
If so can I PM you to ask you for advice? Or hash it out here if you prefer. | null | 0 | 1319895052 | False | 0 | c2vef8s | t3_lsyok | null | t1_c2vef8s | t1_c2vdnig | null | 1427799485 | -1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | malloc/free ain't free either, dumbass. | null | 0 | 1319895086 | False | 0 | c2vefbo | t3_lsyrc | null | t1_c2vefbo | t1_c2ve4ne | null | 1427799499 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | You don't need a size() function to work with iterators. And you can't assume that you can calculate the size of a container by doing iterator arithmetic. | null | 0 | 1319895179 | False | 0 | c2vefih | t3_lt22c | null | t1_c2vefih | t1_c2ve5g4 | null | 1427799495 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | dnm | null | Concur. FTA, " If a Python shop was looking for somebody technical to make them a pile of money, the fact that I’ve never written a line of Python would not get held against me."
Unless the next person they interview has the same skill set, experience, _and_ the language they are looking for. Guess how I know? | null | 0 | 1319895295 | False | 0 | c2vefr9 | t3_lsyok | null | t1_c2vefr9 | t1_c2vd6v9 | null | 1427799498 | 30 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | rnelsonee | null | Sensationalism with some outright falsehoods IMO. I'm an engineer and a programmer, and I am certainly a "Profit Center". I know what my costs are (salary, healthcare, taxes), and I know what my hourly rate is that gets billed to customers. Since the latter is higher than the former, I make money for my company. | null | 0 | 1319895386 | False | 0 | c2vefyk | t3_lsyok | null | t1_c2vefyk | t3_lsyok | null | 1427799498 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Skyrmir | null | If you can't give them bottom line, at least give them magic. | null | 0 | 1319895500 | False | 0 | c2veg7l | t3_lsyok | null | t1_c2veg7l | t1_c2ve5qh | null | 1427799500 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | frankster | null | that is because there is no difference as the results are identical - lossless compression ;) | null | 0 | 1319895659 | False | 0 | c2vegja | t3_lrp9c | null | t1_c2vegja | t1_c2vau85 | null | 1427799504 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Skyrmir | null | Which ones? Some make truck parts, others make data mining algorithms. There's a bit of range in there. | null | 0 | 1319895708 | False | 0 | c2vegml | t3_lsyok | null | t1_c2vegml | t1_c2veay4 | null | 1427799505 | 11 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | It's not interesting, it's stupid. The new operator is perfectly fine for creating lists, hash tables, opening files and tcp connections.
In some cases you want caches and factories for some objects and that's also fine.
But replacing all usage of new with factories is just stupid. | null | 0 | 1319895738 | False | 0 | c2vegoz | t3_lr1g7 | null | t1_c2vegoz | t1_c2uxi5r | null | 1427799505 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | Is your name Don H.? | null | 0 | 1319896019 | False | 0 | c2vehbm | t3_lovjq | null | t1_c2vehbm | t1_c2uw99b | null | 1427799514 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | rfurlan | null | MongoDB is a disk-backed database, it is just not guaranteed to be durable | null | 0 | 1319896080 | False | 0 | c2vehgj | t3_lrljb | null | t1_c2vehgj | t1_c2ve1zk | null | 1427799522 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | rfurlan | null | Good question, I would like to know that too | null | 0 | 1319896105 | False | 0 | c2vehiv | t3_lrljb | null | t1_c2vehiv | t1_c2vanju | null | 1427799517 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | shevegen | null | Java has heroes?
Like what ... banksters? Software writers for banksters?
I heard that Java is purposely verbose so that any change in software will take enough time to warrant a high salary.
It is a good tactic, but if I get to solve a given problem I will cater to simplicity. And Java is too verbose to ever be sim... | null | 0 | 1319896150 | False | 0 | c2vehmc | t3_lt45j | null | t1_c2vehmc | t3_lt45j | null | 1427799519 | -2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | xinehp | null | I actually logged in to downvote this. | null | 0 | 1319896400 | False | 0 | c2vei75 | t3_lt3uk | null | t1_c2vei75 | t3_lt3uk | null | 1427799527 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | tnecniv | null | What does one mean by "shared ownership?" | null | 0 | 1319896431 | False | 0 | c2vei9k | t3_lt22c | null | t1_c2vei9k | t1_c2veezr | null | 1427799529 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | They have woman in the wild.
| null | 0 | 1319896457 | False | 0 | c2veibx | t3_lsyok | null | t1_c2veibx | t1_c2ve1ar | null | 1428185366 | 18 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | AusIV | null | > Then how do you explain bajillions games, web sites and so on?
A lot of those games and websites are created as hobbies by people who have mundane programming jobs. Some of those hobbies make money, but very few make enough to live on. Even for commercial websites, there is a lot that goes on behind the scenes fo... | null | 0 | 1319896543 | False | 0 | c2veik3 | t3_lsyok | null | t1_c2veik3 | t1_c2vdxhx | null | 1428185365 | 13 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | FTZ | null | It's BROADgramming, and they don't belong to programming!
EDIT: I'm too old, nobody got the reference.. | null | 0 | 1319896938 | True | 0 | c2vejfx | t3_lsyok | null | t1_c2vejfx | t1_c2ve31q | null | 1427799544 | -4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | mahlzeit | null | At a company I worked a couple years ago we had a customer where a group of employees actually protested against upgrading to the newest version of our software (as far as I know they didn't go as far as bringing torches and pitchforks to work, but I think they handed out flyers) because it made a couple of them unempl... | null | 0 | 1319896964 | False | 0 | c2vejib | t3_lsyok | null | t1_c2vejib | t1_c2vd8fp | null | 1427799545 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Stormflux | null | [Then it's upper management for you.](http://i.imgur.com/8321l.jpg)
Go leverage that success! | null | 0 | 1319897047 | False | 0 | c2vejp3 | t3_lsyok | null | t1_c2vejp3 | t1_c2ve2c5 | null | 1427799548 | 11 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | rmxz | null | I've worked on DSP chips where the C compiler had char, int, and long all at 24 bits.
Don't think anyone wrote a C++ compiler for it, though. | null | 0 | 1319897071 | False | 0 | c2vejqs | t3_lt22c | null | t1_c2vejqs | t1_c2ve7cc | null | 1427799549 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | novagenesis | null | "no, I'm a stripper who can write programs" | null | 0 | 1319897080 | False | 0 | c2vejrf | t3_lsyok | null | t1_c2vejrf | t1_c2ve2c5 | null | 1427799549 | -9 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | shevegen | null | Classical XML shit:
<set-property name="user.agent" value="gecko1_8" />
Who the fuck still uses crap like this?
It is funny to see that XML apologets keep on saying that it is solid while JSON together with Javascript is currently dethroning all the old crap away.
"GWT is a sledgehammer compared to something ... | null | 0 | 1319897167 | False | 0 | c2vejz5 | t3_lt51z | null | t1_c2vejz5 | t3_lt51z | null | 1427799553 | -2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | scipioaffricanus | null | So, you could, like, build a taller penis than he could? | null | 0 | 1319897225 | False | 0 | c2vek4d | t3_lsyok | null | t1_c2vek4d | t1_c2ve7ar | null | 1427799553 | 21 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | xampl9 | null | Stack-ranking is basically grading on a curve. But for annual reviews and raises.
How Microsoft used to do it:
http://minimsft.blogspot.com/2005/06/microsofts-30-or-how-i-learned-to-stop.html
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True | [deleted] | null | haha, yeah right | null | 0 | 1319897374 | False | 0 | c2vekgi | t3_lsyok | null | t1_c2vekgi | t1_c2veibx | null | 1427799556 | 12 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | hookeslaw | null | I had a rude awakening recently applying for a work visa. Apparently a computer science degree under math does not mean I'm a software engineer, which I have been using interchangeably with software programmer, computer programmer over the past few years.
Apparently I am a 'System Analyst'. Even though I believe a BM... | null | 0 | 1319897417 | False | 0 | c2vekjt | t3_lsyok | null | t1_c2vekjt | t3_lsyok | null | 1427799557 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | greenrd | null | That's incredibly dysfunctional. People sitting around doing nothing who could be doing _something_ useful - at some level someone who should know about that situation, doesn't. If they're programmers, at the very least they could be set to work doing training or producing training materials, most likely. | null | 0 | 1319897421 | False | 0 | c2vekk2 | t3_lsyok | null | t1_c2vekk2 | t1_c2ve5c4 | null | 1427799557 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | mantra | null | There are exceptions (always) but in 30 years of experience in industry and a few in academia, I'd say article represents reality in a perfectly reasonable stereotype.
Academics understand the system of academia well - that's the credit I'd certainly give them. Rarely do they understand much of what the article is ta... | null | 0 | 1319897471 | False | 0 | c2vekov | t3_lsyok | null | t1_c2vekov | t1_c2vdnig | null | 1427799557 | 13 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | mantra | null | Reality hurts. | null | 0 | 1319897536 | False | 0 | c2vektj | t3_lsyok | null | t1_c2vektj | t1_c2vdd4d | null | 1427799559 | 14 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | _delirium | null | > A lot of those games and websites are created as hobbies by people who have mundane programming jobs.
Some, sure, but the games industry employs a pretty large number of people. Zynga's hired something like 2,000 in the last year alone, which is comparable to Google's hiring pace. | null | 0 | 1319897540 | False | 0 | c2vektz | t3_lsyok | null | t1_c2vektz | t1_c2veik3 | null | 1427799559 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | greenrd | null | > Of course in the long term better profits would allow the business you're a part of to expand and create more jobs.
Not necessarily. Maybe your competitors all copy your easy change (because, I don't know, you blogged about it publicly?), and then you all decrease prices, so the customers make off with the saving... | null | 0 | 1319897623 | False | 0 | c2vel1d | t3_lsyok | null | t1_c2vel1d | t1_c2vdygq | null | 1427799561 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | novagenesis | null | Yes. The easiest way a company can pull profit from extra programmers is to have them automate the jobs of other employees. If they're ethical, they have the programmers automate enough to prevent a need for hiring, as opposed to automate out current employees.
When I was tasked to that, I could automate a man-month... | null | 0 | 1319897631 | False | 0 | c2vel28 | t3_lsyok | null | t1_c2vel28 | t1_c2vd8fp | null | 1427799561 | -1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | 00kyle00 | null | Errr ... thats like, my point - to provide 'size' function that can operate uniformly on all containers and arrays. It wouldn't do iterator arithmetic but, like non-member 'begin' and 'end', depend on member functions where possible.
But yeah, rationale for 'begin'/'end' was probably only to make range for possible, n... | null | 0 | 1319897631 | False | 0 | c2vel29 | t3_lt22c | null | t1_c2vel29 | t1_c2vefih | null | 1427799561 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | _delirium | null | That's true in academia too, really. Maybe in some mythical past it was 100% about your pure, standalone intelligence, but modern academia is an industry like any other, only with different goals and hierarchies. An effective academic is one who does some mixture of: good (or good enough) research, selling his research... | null | 0 | 1319897718 | False | 0 | c2vel9i | t3_lsyok | null | t1_c2vel9i | t1_c2ve01x | null | 1427799564 | 10 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | lawpoop | null | > For example, at a job interview, even if you are talking to an affable 28 year old who feels like a slightly older version of you he is in a transaction.
Pearls of wisdom from a learned elder. He's seen a lot in his 25 +/- years! | null | 0 | 1319897815 | False | 0 | c2velid | t3_lsyok | null | t1_c2velid | t3_lsyok | null | 1427799567 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | _delirium | null | It used to be more common; a typical route where it was possible (though still the minority) was to get hired as a lecturer without a PhD, then if you impressed people with your work in that position, you could get promoted to Professor without going back for a degree. That's how Simon Peyton-Jones (Haskell creator) en... | null | 0 | 1319897819 | False | 0 | c2velip | t3_lsyok | null | t1_c2velip | t1_c2ve1xg | null | 1427799567 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | naoptovke | null | I was being hyperbolic, obviously. But his notion of "It doesn't matter what you want, all that matters is what business wants" is a very depressing point of view. | null | 0 | 1319897931 | False | 0 | c2velsk | t3_lsyok | null | t1_c2velsk | t1_c2vdwts | null | 1427799570 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | occamsrzr | null | Too soon | null | 0 | 1319897989 | False | 0 | c2velxj | t3_lsyok | null | t1_c2velxj | t1_c2vejfx | null | 1427799572 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | randomyst | null | You can spin yourself as being a Profit Prophet all you want but the HR person or recruiter looking at your resume will just match the bullet points - if you fail you won't even get an interview. | null | 0 | 1319898190 | False | 0 | c2vemgi | t3_lsyok | null | t1_c2vemgi | t3_lsyok | null | 1427799580 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | abnormal_human | null | Design patterns encode theorems that you intend to prove into the target type system. If you use a design pattern correctly, and the code compiles without error, then the compiler has proven some properties of your program for you.
For example, if you use the visitor pattern to walk an data structure, you've encoded ... | null | 0 | 1319898290 | False | 0 | c2vempq | t3_lirke | null | t1_c2vempq | t1_c2vecna | null | 1427799582 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | mantra | null | Exactly.
I'm passionate about technology (been doing it since I was a teen thanks to my engineer father - that's many decades now) and agree exactly with everything said in the article. This is the wisdom that young-un are not born with and have to learn the hard way (or through a mentor, maybe like this guy).
The w... | null | 0 | 1319898614 | False | 0 | c2venlp | t3_lsyok | null | t1_c2venlp | t1_c2vdqvd | null | 1427799595 | 11 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | kampangptlk | null | Gnu's not unix not unices image manipulation program toolkit network object model environment | null | 0 | 1319898642 | False | 0 | c2venob | t3_lrp9c | null | t1_c2venob | t1_c2v6n1e | null | 1427799595 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1319898675 | False | 0 | c2vensa | t3_ls1zz | null | t1_c2vensa | t1_c2v60qh | null | 1427799597 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1319898725 | False | 0 | c2venxy | t3_lsyok | null | t1_c2venxy | t1_c2ve1xg | null | 1427799599 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | julesjacobs | null | Kinda, but not really. Design patterns aren't about expressing things so that the compiler can prove things. They are about expressing what you want to express, regardless of what the compiler can prove. For example the visitor pattern is about making traversal extensible, *not* just about making the compiler prove tha... | null | 0 | 1319898755 | True | 0 | c2veo0o | t3_lirke | null | t1_c2veo0o | t1_c2vempq | null | 1427799601 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | aregulardude | null | A BoomBox can change the world.... | null | 0 | 1319898763 | False | 0 | c2veo1i | t3_lsyok | null | t1_c2veo1i | t1_c2vdikx | null | 1427799601 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | >screen /dev/ttyUSB0 9600
I think I love you. I have to open a serial connection manually infrequently enough that not only does it mean I've once again forgotten how the hell to use minicom, but the situation I'm in is probably time-sensitive too. | null | 0 | 1319898868 | True | 0 | c2veoc1 | t3_lrn80 | null | t1_c2veoc1 | t1_c2v6s7h | null | 1427799604 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | junglespinner | null | I have 12 and he's right. | null | 0 | 1319898874 | False | 0 | c2veocj | t3_lsyok | null | t1_c2veocj | t1_c2vdnrn | null | 1427799605 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | _ex_ | null | is this D? | null | 0 | 1319898958 | False | 0 | c2veoku | t3_lt22c | null | t1_c2veoku | t3_lt22c | null | 1427799608 | -10 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | eliben | null | I presume it means that two smart pointers may point to the same object. They "share its ownership" in the sense that no single pointer's going out of scope will delete the underlying memory. | null | 0 | 1319898977 | False | 0 | c2veomt | t3_lt22c | null | t1_c2veomt | t1_c2vei9k | null | 1427799608 | 8 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
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