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True | MpVpRb | null | >>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
I have been building things since I was a child.
I do programming, as well as electronic and mechanical design.
To me, they are all the same.
The... | null | 0 | 1319904995 | False | 0 | c2vf88f | t3_lsyok | null | t1_c2vf88f | t1_c2vdt0r | null | 1427799866 | 13 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | hereitcomeswaitforit | null | this will be a lot funner, if you make it with two objects on the page, and make them sort of like a balloon shape. | null | 0 | 1319905066 | False | 0 | c2vf8hq | t3_ls4uq | null | t1_c2vf8hq | t3_ls4uq | null | 1427799868 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | joerick | null | He might be doing the best thing for himself, but if the industry was full of people like him I probably wouldn't be interested in joining it. | null | 0 | 1319905090 | False | 0 | c2vf8kr | t3_lsyok | null | t1_c2vf8kr | t3_lsyok | null | 1427799869 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | bloodredsun | null | You say they are obvious (and they are) but loads of developers don't know them. So many people cannot negotiate for example as mentioned in the article.
| null | 0 | 1319905189 | False | 0 | c2vf8xo | t3_lsyok | null | t1_c2vf8xo | t1_c2vdh3o | null | 1427799873 | 9 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | Well, like a few other posters here the new coding paradigms being added to C++ make me shudder. Don't get me wrong I love the new features, it's just the way I can see people abusing them. That said, it is ridiculous to argue the new features shouldn't be added because people will misuse them. I still fear the futu... | null | 0 | 1319905260 | False | 0 | c2vf97o | t3_lt22c | null | t1_c2vf97o | t1_c2vf592 | null | 1427799878 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | MpVpRb | null | By his definition, an embedded systems programmer is firmly in the "profit center".
Funny that he didn't talk about embedded systems at all. | null | 0 | 1319905266 | False | 0 | c2vf98i | t3_lsyok | null | t1_c2vf98i | t3_lsyok | null | 1427799878 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | PunchMyDickOff | null | god damnit you troll i thought i told you not to post here anymore
punch my dick off | null | 0 | 1319905466 | False | 0 | c2vf9zn | t3_lsyok | null | t1_c2vf9zn | t1_c2vevr2 | null | 1427799887 | -3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | mycall | null | There you go with common sense again, sheesh. | null | 0 | 1319905548 | False | 0 | c2vfaaj | t3_lsyok | null | t1_c2vfaaj | t1_c2vefr9 | null | 1427799892 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | jms87 | null | > Is it really the case that when I have n yachts then I want to have one more yacht? Or is it the change of social circle?
Probably it's boredom. "Not working" sounds fun, but I suspect it's just until you actually do it.
> What can I do other than simply saying my previous salary? You mean I should say "that'... | null | 0 | 1319905552 | False | 0 | c2vfab5 | t3_lsyok | null | t1_c2vfab5 | t1_c2ve25v | null | 1427799892 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | EdgarVerona | null | "Status in well-run businesses generally is awarded to people who successfully take credit for doing one of these things. (That can, but does not necessarily, entail actually doing them.)"
That's one of the most demoralizing things about Enterprise Software development: seeing people who had no part in the creation o... | null | 0 | 1319905748 | False | 0 | c2vfb0a | t3_lsyok | null | t1_c2vfb0a | t3_lsyok | null | 1427799909 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | bloodredsun | null | That's why when I was recently promoted I insisted I got the title of 'code whisperer' rather than technical architect. That's the only way the business will understand what I do ;-) | null | 0 | 1319905779 | False | 0 | c2vfb4i | t3_lsyok | null | t1_c2vfb4i | t1_c2vdzqj | null | 1427799902 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | ninepointsix | null | What's wrong with node.js? | null | 0 | 1319905829 | False | 0 | c2vfbbf | t3_lta8c | null | t1_c2vfbbf | t3_lta8c | null | 1427799904 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | peanutman | null | Have you ever seen the movie "drag me to hell" ? | null | 0 | 1319905859 | False | 0 | c2vfbfo | t3_ls4uq | null | t1_c2vfbfo | t3_ls4uq | null | 1427799907 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | ElSherberto | null | A good programmer understands that their job is to come up with creative solutions to solve a problem. The programming languages they know are just the tools used to solve that problem.
What you call "programming interesting things", a business would call a "revenue maker" if you find the right job, which it sounds li... | null | 0 | 1319906053 | False | 0 | c2vfc5v | t3_lsyok | null | t1_c2vfc5v | t1_c2vdzc0 | null | 1427799915 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | GMNightmare | null | There's your problem. You didn't give a FizzBuzz question, which you must design the solution for the problem. It's a simple problem, with a simple solution, but even that much does seems to give people trouble.
You gave him a textbook algorithm to implement. He looked back at his education, and just spit it out, no b... | null | 0 | 1319906243 | False | 0 | c2vfcvm | t3_lsyok | null | t1_c2vfcvm | t1_c2vf44t | null | 1427799926 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | kpthunder | null | Those features are available in Scala which compiles down to Java byte code for the JVM (although you still have to deal with type erasure). | null | 0 | 1319906386 | False | 0 | c2vfdft | t3_lhon5 | null | t1_c2vfdft | t1_c2vdrin | null | 1427799933 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | u mad | null | 0 | 1319906437 | False | 0 | c2vfdnc | t3_lt22c | null | t1_c2vfdnc | t1_c2vewig | null | 1427799935 | -15 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | calebegg | null | Fuck everything about this. | null | 0 | 1319906503 | False | 0 | c2vfdvi | t3_lsyok | null | t1_c2vfdvi | t3_lsyok | null | 1427799938 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | simonask | null | Bad programmers will always write bad code. No wonderful programming language design can ever fix that. :) | null | 0 | 1319906690 | False | 0 | c2vfemf | t3_lt22c | null | t1_c2vfemf | t1_c2vf97o | null | 1427799948 | 11 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | killerstorm | null | > and after 12 months most people wouldn't notice you have only been using the language for a year.
It really depends what that language is and what person already knew.
Say, it's pretty easy to switch from C# to Java.
But if you only know Visual Basic switching to C++ would be quite a proble.
I learned/used C++... | null | 0 | 1319906726 | False | 0 | c2vfes5 | t3_lsyok | null | t1_c2vfes5 | t1_c2vd3yp | null | 1427799950 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | DoubleBatman | null | As a designer, just let me say that this is weird. | null | 0 | 1319906806 | False | 0 | c2vff3m | t3_lsyok | null | t1_c2vff3m | t3_lsyok | null | 1427799954 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | NateTheGreat26 | null | Man, as a programmer this article is pretty depressing :( | null | 0 | 1319906839 | False | 0 | c2vff8m | t3_lsyok | null | t1_c2vff8m | t3_lsyok | null | 1427799956 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | SDX2000 | null | I am not a node.js expert but from whatever little I know I think node.js is geared more towards running (asynchronous) JS workloads on a server and as such has a learning curve associated with it. OTH the V8 engine is a bare minimum JavaScript engine without the learning curve. (Note: Node.js also seems to be based on... | null | 0 | 1319907083 | False | 0 | c2vfg89 | t3_lta8c | null | t1_c2vfg89 | t1_c2vfbbf | null | 1427799975 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | MondoHawkins | null | Asking a question specific to the stack is often vital because of the points this article is making. Businesses have timelines which can make or break their bottom line. They might need to beat a competitor to market, or have a demoable app by a certain date for a trade show.
To meet these timelines, they need to hir... | null | 0 | 1319907259 | False | 0 | c2vfgya | t3_lsyok | null | t1_c2vfgya | t1_c2vdj8n | null | 1427799979 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | CommanderDerp | null | Life considered harmful. | null | 0 | 1319907420 | False | 0 | c2vfhkl | t3_lnhno | null | t1_c2vfhkl | t1_c2u9zsb | null | 1427799985 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Kompottkin | null | > It [the Curry-Howard Isomorphism) says all programs are proofs (that's why it's an "isomorphism").
Hmm. As an honest question, which proposition does the following Python program prove?
import sys
def foo(x):
throw Exception()
foo(sys.argv[1]) | null | 0 | 1319907524 | False | 0 | c2vfhzp | t3_lirke | null | t1_c2vfhzp | t1_c2u0nzn | null | 1427799992 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | mikaelhg | null | Very useful for anyone who wishes to be a professional software developer. | null | 0 | 1319907533 | False | 0 | c2vfi12 | t3_lsyrc | null | t1_c2vfi12 | t3_lsyrc | null | 1427799992 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | CarolusMagnus | null | "Engineer" - the article was quite clear. | null | 0 | 1319907534 | False | 0 | c2vfi19 | t3_lsyok | null | t1_c2vfi19 | t1_c2veaww | null | 1427799992 | -1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | ninepointsix | null | It does have a CLI which can be used to do most (if not all) of the things you describe. And I wouldn't say the learning curve is too steep, Give it a try :) | null | 0 | 1319907885 | False | 0 | c2vfjgv | t3_lta8c | null | t1_c2vfjgv | t1_c2vfg89 | null | 1427800011 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | GoAwayStupidAI | null | Exokernel? | null | 0 | 1319907911 | False | 0 | c2vfjkn | t3_lsce5 | null | t1_c2vfjkn | t3_lsce5 | null | 1427800012 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | wnoise | null | Can someone enlighten me about these "move semantics"? | null | 0 | 1319908068 | True | 0 | c2vfk5s | t3_lt22c | null | t1_c2vfk5s | t3_lt22c | null | 1427800021 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | the_opinion | null | Meh. In all honesty, someone who knows the JLS inside-out is of little use, if they're not adaptable. My bet is, you spend more work time *not* writing Java, than you do writing it, and that most of your Java is pretty straightforward. My current gig is a Groovy one, but I can go for days without writing a single line ... | null | 0 | 1319908090 | False | 0 | c2vfk8l | t3_lsyok | null | t1_c2vfk8l | t1_c2vdzqj | null | 1427800022 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | He made a lot of very valid points in there. I see a lot of people in here insulted by what he said, but as a software engineer and now founder of a growing company, this guy is speaking a lot of truth. Particularly:
- You really want to be attached to Profit Centers
- Don’t call yourself a programmer
- You radicall... | null | 0 | 1319908118 | False | 0 | c2vfkcn | t3_lsyok | null | t1_c2vfkcn | t3_lsyok | null | 1427800023 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | SarahC | null | >You are not defined by your chosen software stack: I recently asked via Twitter what young engineers wanted to know about careers. Many asked how to know what programming language or stack to study. It doesn’t matter. There you go.
Sadly that's not true in the present economy... I've been grilled over past proj... | null | 0 | 1319908278 | False | 0 | c2vfl0s | t3_lsyok | null | t1_c2vfl0s | t3_lsyok | null | 1427800032 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | wnoise | null | Job advice, even about jobs that involve programming, is not programming related.
> If there is no code in your link, it probably doesn't belong here.
Take it to [/r/cscareerquestions/](http://www.reddit.com/r/cscareerquestions/)
EDIT:
Downvoters: please have the courtesy to explain why you are downvoting.
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True | [deleted] | null | No way. In C# I use var as much as possible. In fact in C++ I once made a function into a template function just to get implicit typing. I wasn't using templates for genericicity, but for readability. | null | 0 | 1319908317 | False | 0 | c2vfl6w | t3_lt22c | null | t1_c2vfl6w | t1_c2vf2lv | null | 1427800034 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | LockAndCode | null | I dunno. I was asked to maintain/expand one of those where I work. It was so byzantine that I had to throw it out and rewrite it from scratch. My Excel VBA script was probably no better than the original pile of crap before it, but I was at least *there* when the latest crap was dumped, so I know where the turds fell. ... | null | 0 | 1319908341 | False | 0 | c2vfla3 | t3_lsyok | null | t1_c2vfla3 | t1_c2vewcy | null | 1427800035 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | boa13 | null | As per his introduction, his article is "Realities Of Your Industry 101". Not "Priorities of Your Life 101", or whatever you think it is. | null | 0 | 1319908360 | False | 0 | c2vfld2 | t3_lsyok | null | t1_c2vfld2 | t1_c2ve14m | null | 1427800036 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | abadidea | null | I'd hazard a guess that programmers who never program professionally nor intend to do so in the future are a pretty small minority here. | null | 0 | 1319908362 | False | 0 | c2vfldc | t3_lsyok | null | t1_c2vfldc | t1_c2vep9b | null | 1427800036 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | SDX2000 | null | Hmm, there is one thing though which I suspect node.js cannot do...debug JavaScript. | null | 0 | 1319908593 | False | 0 | c2vfmbr | t3_lta8c | null | t1_c2vfmbr | t1_c2vfjgv | null | 1427800048 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | > In C, NULL is usually defined as (void*) 0, so the type is not that ambiguous.
In C. We aren't talking about C, in C++ NULL is defined as 0. If it were defined as (void*) 0 it wouldn't work due to stricter type checking. So the NULL macro has different definitions depending on what language you are using. | null | 0 | 1319908613 | False | 0 | c2vfmen | t3_lt22c | null | t1_c2vfmen | t1_c2veab1 | null | 1427800050 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | abadidea | null | because it relies on features not standardized in HTML4. | null | 0 | 1319908663 | False | 0 | c2vfmlw | t3_ls4uq | null | t1_c2vfmlw | t1_c2vabif | null | 1427800053 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Kavec | null | > his article is "Realities Of Your Industry 101". Not "Priorities of Your Life 101", or whatever you think it is.
I am sorry if I didn't make it clear in my comment. I think it is "Realities Of Your Industry 101", inevitably mixed with a bit of "Priorities of Your Life 101" (since he is talking about his own exper... | null | 0 | 1319908739 | False | 0 | c2vfmxf | t3_lsyok | null | t1_c2vfmxf | t1_c2vfld2 | null | 1427800057 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | deathwebo | null | you mean the font ? cuz that hurts me too ohh the pain! | null | 0 | 1319908762 | False | 0 | c2vfn11 | t3_lsyok | null | t1_c2vfn11 | t1_c2vdd4d | null | 1427800058 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | notmelol | null | I lol'd | null | 0 | 1319908777 | False | 0 | c2vfn2u | t3_lsyok | null | t1_c2vfn2u | t1_c2vejfx | null | 1427800059 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | Actually, I quit physics for a more employable degree in EE. Not that physics isn't employable, but chances are if you want to do cutting edge industry research you probably need a PhD in a topic that could lead to revenue-generating R&D. I'm not exactly sure what industry looks for in their PhD physicists, it prob... | null | 0 | 1319908840 | False | 0 | c2vfnbi | t3_lsyok | null | t1_c2vfnbi | t1_c2vef8s | null | 1427800062 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | Yes, but if you're a scientist in academia, you damn well better be effective. In addition to teaching, professors are expected to constantly be publishing new work and contributing to the field and bringing grant money into their department, among other things. If you can't do that, they won't have too much difficulty... | null | 0 | 1319909033 | False | 0 | c2vfo33 | t3_lsyok | null | t1_c2vfo33 | t1_c2ve01x | null | 1427800073 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | ColdMountain | null | The point you want the article to make is not the point of the article, but the author is not insensitive to issues of happiness.
I see the article as instructions on how to exert control over career moves. The article doesn't tell you to take a crummy job that pays 120k over your dream job that pays 70k. It tells you... | null | 0 | 1319909058 | False | 0 | c2vfo6j | t3_lsyok | null | t1_c2vfo6j | t1_c2vdwaq | null | 1427800080 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | 00kyle00 | null | What are you talking about?
Every /container/ is required to provide constant complexity 'size()' member function. Theres no need to iterate over anything to make free function 'size()' work. | null | 0 | 1319909135 | False | 0 | c2vfohp | t3_lt22c | null | t1_c2vfohp | t1_c2vez95 | null | 1427800083 | -1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | abadidea | null | works perfectly on iPad 1... like native code... I'm living in the future | null | 0 | 1319909221 | False | 0 | c2vfov3 | t3_ls4uq | null | t1_c2vfov3 | t3_ls4uq | null | 1427800094 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | frtox | null | confirms once again I do not want to get in to c++ | null | 0 | 1319909228 | False | 0 | c2vfow3 | t3_lt22c | null | t1_c2vfow3 | t3_lt22c | null | 1427800094 | -5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | hookeslaw | null | I almost got turned away at the border because I (or more specifically my lawyer) wasn't clear on the terminology in my industry. Would have probably cost me quite a bit in missed flights and bookings. | null | 0 | 1319909391 | True | 0 | c2vfpks | t3_lsyok | null | t1_c2vfpks | t1_c2vexcw | null | 1427800096 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1319909525 | False | 0 | c2vfq5c | t3_lsyok | null | t1_c2vfq5c | t1_c2vdt0r | null | 1427800099 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | naoptovke | null | Well, not _everything_... :) | null | 0 | 1319909545 | False | 0 | c2vfq86 | t3_lsyok | null | t1_c2vfq86 | t1_c2vf06d | null | 1427800100 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | That's ERB. Does ASP use it too? | null | 0 | 1319909606 | False | 0 | c2vfqhw | t3_lsyok | null | t1_c2vfqhw | t1_c2vf0pw | null | 1427800103 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | naoptovke | null | Fair enough. But it's not much of a free society when in practice some people have to be "approved of" by others. And that's sad. | null | 0 | 1319909646 | False | 0 | c2vfqo7 | t3_lsyok | null | t1_c2vfqo7 | t1_c2vex7e | null | 1427800105 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | adad95 | null | Javaone2011, here: http://www.parleys.com/#st=4&id=102979&s_e=JavaOne11
(Required Flash.) | null | 0 | 1319909657 | False | 0 | c2vfqpk | t3_ltc8w | null | t1_c2vfqpk | t3_ltc8w | null | 1427800106 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | LockAndCode | null | > Simply because you are taking an existing need and making the task easier to accomplish with less people.
Your analysis is overly simplistic. There are some tasks which various entities would like to do, but they are currently **not possible** without the necessary tools, no matter how many people you hire. There... | null | 0 | 1319909844 | False | 0 | c2vfrhr | t3_lsyok | null | t1_c2vfrhr | t1_c2veces | null | 1427800117 | 19 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | fuckYouKarmaWhores | null | It's *so* grey! | null | 0 | 1319909957 | False | 0 | c2vfry9 | t3_lsyok | null | t1_c2vfry9 | t1_c2vfn11 | null | 1427800125 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | ysangkok | null | His name is written right here, on this page! What do you need at citation for? If Shakespeare came up to you and said "I've written this play called Romeo & Juliet", why would you tell him you didn't believe him before checking at the library?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Contributions/Cb43569 | null | 0 | 1319910057 | False | 0 | c2vfsd7 | t3_lrp9c | null | t1_c2vfsd7 | t1_c2v6sen | null | 1427800133 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | LockAndCode | null | Yes, and the fact that it's complicated is what makes the assertion that all improvements in efficiency will result in a net *loss* of jobs a **stupid** assertion. | null | 0 | 1319910060 | False | 0 | c2vfsdl | t3_lsyok | null | t1_c2vfsdl | t1_c2veac6 | null | 1427800133 | 8 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | datoo | null | Hog Rammer? :( | null | 0 | 1319910273 | False | 0 | c2vfta0 | t3_lsyok | null | t1_c2vfta0 | t1_c2vealv | null | 1427800142 | 16 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | Not many people use the same username on reddit and Wikipedia. | null | 0 | 1319910304 | False | 0 | c2vftel | t3_lrp9c | null | t1_c2vftel | t1_c2vfsd7 | null | 1427800143 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | bonerina | null | Any company that doesn't care about the bottom line is not a company I would like to make a career out of. As a programmer I actually enjoy some eCommerce or "typical companies." You get to meet a more diverse set of people, interact a lot, and typically have a lot of control over the direction or projects. | null | 0 | 1319910506 | False | 0 | c2vfu9h | t3_lsyok | null | t1_c2vfu9h | t1_c2vdiva | null | 1427800153 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1319910680 | 1409527239 | 0 | c2vfuzf | t3_lsyok | null | t1_c2vfuzf | t1_c2vdmj9 | null | 1427800162 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | TomSwirly | null | I agree that unique_ptr should definitely be the default - it's really the same as "just remembering to delete" whereas shared_ptr has to be thread-safe (in case the pointer is shared between two different threads) and has to have some sort of synchronization.
I also would be curious to see what sorts of issues there ... | null | 0 | 1319910752 | False | 0 | c2vfv9t | t3_lt22c | null | t1_c2vfv9t | t1_c2veezr | null | 1427800166 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | astraycat | null | I personally think that you should use auto whenever you can, but if you can't figure out what that type should be by glancing at it, you should restructure/rename stuff so that you can. | null | 0 | 1319910823 | False | 0 | c2vfvk4 | t3_lt22c | null | t1_c2vfvk4 | t1_c2veezr | null | 1427800169 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | cultic_raider | null | Ugh, that's a problem with border control. Immigration and Customs have a lot of creepers. The terminology is for them, not for the industry :-/ | null | 0 | 1319910834 | False | 0 | c2vfvly | t3_lsyok | null | t1_c2vfvly | t1_c2vfpks | null | 1427800169 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | moonicipal | null | I enjoyed the article, but one of the comments got me thinking... he was lambasting the guy because he was mis-representing himself as a CEO of a multinational company, when in fact, he once made a program that generates bingo cards... and in fact, [this is actually true](http://www.kalzumeus.com/start-here-if-youre-ne... | null | 0 | 1319911016 | False | 0 | c2vfwcw | t3_lsyok | null | t1_c2vfwcw | t3_lsyok | null | 1427800180 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | TomSwirly | null | There's a general purpose solution to this, and it's the massively-useful macro arraysize that you can find [here](http://code.google.com/p/google-url/source/browse/trunk/base/basictypes.h?r=119). arraysize guarantees to give you the size in elements of any compile-time array, including empty arrays, and give you a co... | null | 0 | 1319911197 | True | 0 | c2vfx5l | t3_lt22c | null | t1_c2vfx5l | t1_c2vdy1a | null | 1427800196 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | TomSwirly | null | Yes!
Use the open-source [arraysize](http://code.google.com/p/google-url/source/browse/trunk/base/basictypes.h?r=119) macro and then you can just type:
sort(a, a + arraysize(a));
and have an expression that will correctly sort any array, even empty arrays, and fail at compile-time if a is not an array (e.g. a po... | null | 0 | 1319911331 | False | 0 | c2vfxq4 | t3_lt22c | null | t1_c2vfxq4 | t1_c2ve0nu | null | 1427800199 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | jacobb11 | null | A commenter on the blog says:
> Even if your salary is low, if you are rewriting Google’s search algorithm from scratch you can be pretty much guaranteed
either a large pay rise in the future or your next job will have an amazing salary.
I just want to comment that he's dead wrong. You need to do something valuab... | null | 0 | 1319911360 | False | 0 | c2vfxug | t3_lsyok | null | t1_c2vfxug | t3_lsyok | null | 1427800199 | 10 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | That's a nice point, I derived some pleasure from reading and understanding your comment!
Still, there are various delays, which make all the difference. In the short term yours is the only business that managed to cut costs this way. Most probably it doesn't even involve laying anyone off, just moving them to other p... | null | 0 | 1319911420 | False | 0 | c2vfy3h | t3_lsyok | null | t1_c2vfy3h | t1_c2vel1d | null | 1427800202 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | jacobb11 | null | > I don't think it's particularly healthy to spend all of your career inside software companies.
Why not? What's the downside?
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True | VyseofArcadia | null | I would have thought just the opposite. After all, /r/math isn't full of mathematicians. /r/technology isn't full of engineers. Why should /r/programming not be full of enthusiasts? | null | 0 | 1319911473 | True | 0 | c2vfybm | t3_lsyok | null | t1_c2vfybm | t1_c2vfldc | null | 1427800206 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1319911490 | 1409527235 | 0 | c2vfyek | t3_lsyok | null | t1_c2vfyek | t1_c2vdi35 | null | 1427800208 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | Sure, academia highly political, and at times it can be heavily inefficient. But the actual R&D itself is orders of magnitude more impressive than its industry counterparts.
But when I look at what we do in the R&D division at the company I work for--a multi-billion dollar science-based company which rightly ... | null | 0 | 1319911512 | False | 0 | c2vfyhi | t3_lsyok | null | t1_c2vfyhi | t1_c2vekov | null | 1427800218 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | DrMonkeyLove | null | Of course I don't call myself a programmer. Programming can be outsourced. I call myself a software architect and make my job sound *really* hard. Plus, who do you think will get paid more, a lowly programmer or a software architect? If that doesn't work, I'll call myself a solution engineer, or maybe a value energist.... | null | 0 | 1319911537 | False | 0 | c2vfyl3 | t3_lsyok | null | t1_c2vfyl3 | t3_lsyok | null | 1427800211 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Arkaein | null | > If you think that is unfair, go back to school and study something that doesn't matter.
Saying that this statement is mocking theoretical CS research is stretch. I took this line as pertaining to fields completely unrelated to engineering. The premise is that engineering is supposed to increase productivity and m... | null | 0 | 1319911704 | False | 0 | c2vfz99 | t3_lsyok | null | t1_c2vfz99 | t1_c2vdi35 | null | 1427800221 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | nixle | null | Doesn't do anything :( | null | 0 | 1319911742 | False | 0 | c2vfzfj | t3_lrg7f | null | t1_c2vfzfj | t1_c2v94cr | null | 1427800223 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | MarshallBanana | null | Just in case the author happens to be reading this, stumbled over a typo at the start of 3.3:
> An asymmetric coder has a single n-bit integer state variable y,
That should be "x". Had me confused for a little bit.
*Edit:* Oh, also, here is an error:
> WinZIP added a JPEG compression algorithm to version 12.0... | null | 0 | 1319911782 | True | 0 | c2vfzlc | t3_ltawx | null | t1_c2vfzlc | t3_ltawx | null | 1427800224 | 10 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | AdShea | null | I usually use OGG at -q6 for my phone (comes out to around ~192kbps and sounds about as good as 320kbps AAC from iTunes). Otherwise, FLAC all the way. Now if only more software and hardware supported ReplayGain correctly. | null | 0 | 1319911875 | False | 0 | c2vfzz7 | t3_lrp9c | null | t1_c2vfzz7 | t1_c2v8qdg | null | 1427800228 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | TomSwirly | null | You are confusing two issues here! I did this initially when I read the code.
You're referring to the validity of this code fragment:
int array[100];
sort(array, array + 100); // correct!
Now, array + 100, also known as &array[100], does point to the imaginary location right past the end of "array" - b... | null | 0 | 1319911977 | False | 0 | c2vg0er | t3_lt22c | null | t1_c2vg0er | t1_c2ve0ri | null | 1427800232 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | ysangkok | null | I can explain a very advanced compression mechanism called RLE to you. The idea is that you have (i.e.) 10^100 green pixels. Now instead of encoding it as 0x00, 0xFF, 0x00 (1st pixel), 0x00, 0xFF, 0x00 (2nd pixel) and so on (concatenating everything), you just define some format that let's you say "okay, write this pix... | null | 0 | 1319912097 | False | 0 | c2vg0y4 | t3_lrp9c | null | t1_c2vg0y4 | t1_c2v62a4 | null | 1427800240 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | TomSwirly | null | No, the computation of the end pointer is grossly in error, due to a mistaken use of sizeof instead of arraysize, see above. | null | 0 | 1319912130 | False | 0 | c2vg136 | t3_lt22c | null | t1_c2vg136 | t1_c2ve392 | null | 1427800243 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | merreborn | null | > You have a standard LAMP stack, you get a call that a page is loading very slowly from a customer. What steps do you take?
Stack questions like that are important. Language-specific questions ("What's the difference between include and require in PHP?") on the other hand, suck. | null | 0 | 1319912151 | False | 0 | c2vg15u | t3_lsyok | null | t1_c2vg15u | t1_c2vdsad | null | 1427800245 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | fforw | null | My current job title was initially connected to a certain service offer with my expertise. As much as I like "Code Whisperer", I doubt it would have had the necessary advertising effect. | null | 0 | 1319912385 | False | 0 | c2vg26b | t3_lsyok | null | t1_c2vg26b | t1_c2vfb4i | null | 1427800261 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | ysangkok | null | To improve public relations. | null | 0 | 1319912414 | False | 0 | c2vg2bb | t3_lrp9c | null | t1_c2vg2bb | t1_c2v63zo | null | 1427800263 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | philomathie | null | Would you be able to recommend any companies that might be interested in employing physicists? I'm looking for Summer work. | null | 0 | 1319912445 | False | 0 | c2vg2gc | t3_lsyok | null | t1_c2vg2gc | t1_c2vfnbi | null | 1427800264 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | Odds are you'll get one of the boring enterprise software jobs he talked about. Your success or failure has more to do with the reliability and maintainability of your code than the clever, interesting algorithms you developed. | null | 0 | 1319912558 | False | 0 | c2vg2xe | t3_lsyok | null | t1_c2vg2xe | t1_c2vdi35 | null | 1427800268 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | wnoise | null | [/r/cscareerquestions/](http://www.reddit.com/r/cscareerquestions/) | null | 0 | 1319912642 | False | 0 | c2vg3aa | t3_lsyok | null | t1_c2vg3aa | t1_c2vep9b | null | 1427800271 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Boojum | null | Given that this is by the creator of the insanely strong [PAQ algorithm](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PAQ), I look forward to reading it in detail. | null | 0 | 1319912772 | False | 0 | c2vg3tn | t3_ltawx | null | t1_c2vg3tn | t3_ltawx | null | 1427800279 | 18 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | ysangkok | null | May I hear your thoughts on Display PostScript? | null | 0 | 1319912789 | False | 0 | c2vg3wi | t3_lr2o2 | null | t1_c2vg3wi | t1_c2vbckc | null | 1427800280 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | DrKinetic | null | > I've been ramping up in spare moments on F# for a year, and I'm not even close to my proficiency in C# or Python or Javascript with it.
As someone who teaches a university-level course on programming languages, I can explain this: it is because F# is a completely different paradigm of programming than anything e... | null | 0 | 1319913156 | False | 0 | c2vg5ic | t3_lsyok | null | t1_c2vg5ic | t1_c2vdt0r | null | 1427800300 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | bloodredsun | null | Actually my title is 'Technical Lead' which is deliberately vague but when I spoke to a pa about business cards I did suggest 'code whisperer' and she wrote it down without blinking. I had to stop her from going ahead with it. | null | 0 | 1319913213 | False | 0 | c2vg5rc | t3_lsyok | null | t1_c2vg5rc | t1_c2vg26b | null | 1427800304 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | geekville | null | Cool. So for a lossless encoder/decoder is the codec simply a means of compression to save size? How does it stack up with simply rar'ing raw pcm data?
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True | [deleted] | null | Maybe there's big money to be made in the dice industry when you make a d6 that has values 0 to 5. Programmers (woops!) will love it! | null | 0 | 1319913492 | False | 0 | c2vg6xs | t3_lsyok | null | t1_c2vg6xs | t1_c2vezpz | null | 1427800319 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1319913507 | False | 0 | c2vg707 | t3_ls4uq | null | t1_c2vg707 | t1_c2vd8m9 | null | 1427800320 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1319913528 | False | 0 | c2vg73t | t3_lsyok | null | t1_c2vg73t | t1_c2vfta0 | null | 1427800321 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | geekville | null | Sigh.. why don't people just let him be? If you stick a microphone in his face (metaphorically) hes going to say whats on his mind. You can't then disparage him for having views that he has. I skimmed through his long email and its obvious to me he has some kind of OCD to make him go into needless detail about triviali... | null | 0 | 1319913655 | False | 0 | c2vg7mt | t3_lqn76 | null | t1_c2vg7mt | t3_lqn76 | null | 1427800329 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
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