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True | akshayxyz | null | Will it show boobs in 3D? | null | 0 | 1320045060 | False | 0 | c2vt1an | t3_lucrs | null | t1_c2vt1an | t3_lucrs | null | 1427806986 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | elder_george | null | default configuration limited program to single code segment. So, only 64K of code.
Later version introduced so-called overlays (dynamically loaded pieces of code) that allowed to overcome this limitation.
Also, maximum size of contiguous data block (e.g. array) was also 64K (65520 bytes, to be exact; and I remember ... | null | 0 | 1320045114 | False | 0 | c2vt1gl | t3_lunsh | null | t1_c2vt1gl | t1_c2vs2id | null | 1427806991 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | elder_george | null | TP generated 16 bit code for x86 real mode. So, on modern systems you'll have to emulate real mode which would be grossly inefficient compared to native execution.
| null | 0 | 1320045225 | False | 0 | c2vt1r8 | t3_lunsh | null | t1_c2vt1r8 | t1_c2vqt1j | null | 1427806994 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | skew | null | If you're going to complain about library functions like "||" or ".", how about explaining loop? S-expressions make it trivial to see what AST the text corresponds to, but it doesn't mean you have no compile time syntax. | null | 0 | 1320045266 | True | 0 | c2vt1v2 | t3_lul3i | null | t1_c2vt1v2 | t1_c2vsu14 | null | 1427806996 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | johnpowell | null | [Sure](http://i.imgur.com/RO9uJ.jpg) | null | 0 | 1320045358 | False | 0 | c2vt24a | t3_lucrs | null | t1_c2vt24a | t1_c2vr00w | null | 1427806998 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | mreiland | null | ok, find a software development related statistic that shows a lower paying wage than the one you decided to use.
You also get to argue why "web developer" is more appropriate than "software developer" or "software programmer" when the title to the article is "Don't call yourself a programmer".
And these glaring issu... | null | 0 | 1320045405 | True | 0 | c2vt298 | t3_lsyok | null | t1_c2vt298 | t1_c2vsor4 | null | 1427806999 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | internetinsomniac | null | Yeah, I heard them say that one. It falls a bit flat, when it had already been running on the iPhone 4 | null | 0 | 1320046858 | False | 0 | c2vt5x9 | t3_lui39 | null | t1_c2vt5x9 | t1_c2vs7qd | null | 1427807046 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | aquasucks | null | On Windows: If your graphics card is 6 series or newer (6xxx), download the latest drivers from NVIDIA.
If it's older than series (or extremely low end 6 series), it doesn't support WebGL.
Edit: fixed to 6 series with driver version 257.21 or higher. doesn't work well on 6100 6150 6200 (too slow). | null | 0 | 1320047240 | True | 0 | c2vt6rv | t3_lucrs | null | t1_c2vt6rv | t1_c2vrnep | null | 1427807065 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | ziom666 | null | I think Turbo Pascal is quite nice language for teaching purposes, even in 2011 | null | 0 | 1320047866 | False | 0 | c2vt82r | t3_lunsh | null | t1_c2vt82r | t1_c2vs6qz | null | 1427807074 | 13 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | I think you missed my point. | null | 0 | 1320047991 | False | 0 | c2vt8cz | t3_lu6t7 | null | t1_c2vt8cz | t1_c2vpncq | null | 1427807078 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | TKN | null | I thought the original article was about using Common Lisp as a beginner language? I didn't notice anything about functional languages... | null | 0 | 1320048004 | False | 0 | c2vt8ef | t3_lul3i | null | t1_c2vt8ef | t1_c2vqzqu | null | 1427807078 | 11 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | gilgoomesh | null | The author is quoting the size of the Mac OS X touch command, which is a fat binary containing both i386 and x86_64 binaries of the command.
Since the *minimum* size of a typical gcc compiled, standard C binary on Mac OS X is 19440 bytes (unless you start doing [weird things to the executable](http://osxbook.com/blog/... | null | 0 | 1320048260 | True | 0 | c2vt8xc | t3_lunsh | null | t1_c2vt8xc | t1_c2vsllr | null | 1427807085 | 50 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1320048311 | False | 0 | c2vt90k | t3_lunsh | null | t1_c2vt90k | t1_c2vsllr | null | 1427807087 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Fix-my-grammar-plz | null | This is awesome.
div {
background-color: #DDD;
box-shadow: inset 1px 1px 0 #EEE, 1px 1px 0 #CCC;
}
For Google Chrome users, open Chrome Dev Tools, hit Resources tab, append the above to the stylesheet.
| null | 0 | 1320048313 | False | 0 | c2vt90p | t3_lucrs | null | t1_c2vt90p | t1_c2vqz5b | null | 1427807087 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Fix-my-grammar-plz | null | That CEO sounds like someone who's going to be impressed when I use Win+Tab with my presentation.
| null | 0 | 1320048692 | False | 0 | c2vt9s9 | t3_lucrs | null | t1_c2vt9s9 | t1_c2vs3ts | null | 1427807096 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Fix-my-grammar-plz | null | Is there anything that Opera did not do first? | null | 0 | 1320048830 | False | 0 | c2vta24 | t3_lucrs | null | t1_c2vta24 | t1_c2vsh9a | null | 1427807110 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | flynnski | null | my hero. | null | 0 | 1320048990 | False | 0 | c2vtac9 | t3_lucrs | null | t1_c2vtac9 | t1_c2vqz5b | null | 1427807105 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Fix-my-grammar-plz | null | TIL Google Chrome has user stylesheets.
I guess Custom.css applies to every page? Can this be targeted to specific sites? Is there a way to turn this style on and off on the fly? | null | 0 | 1320049257 | False | 0 | c2vtav1 | t3_lucrs | null | t1_c2vtav1 | t1_c2vq6f6 | null | 1427807113 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | sparr | null | Not much. It was the first browser in which I used tabs, userstyles, a javascript debugger. It was the first email client I used that switched from folders to labels. | null | 0 | 1320049343 | False | 0 | c2vtb1c | t3_lucrs | null | t1_c2vtb1c | t1_c2vta24 | null | 1427807116 | 8 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | i-hate-digg | null | I actually hated Haskell's syntax at first, but I gradually came to love it.
There's a fine line between simplicity and ambiguity, and Haskell's designers knew how to walk it. | null | 0 | 1320049870 | False | 0 | c2vtbzv | t3_lul3i | null | t1_c2vtbzv | t1_c2vr5nh | null | 1427807135 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | insanemal | null | Agree with ALL OF THE THINGS?
You want to be a bit more specific? Is this a general dig at all the 'new' languages? Or are you wanting to specifically have a go at CS/JS?
CS just seems like an answer to a non-problem. If web-devs are more designers than coders they need to not write code, not try and invent easier cod... | null | 0 | 1320049889 | False | 0 | c2vtc12 | t3_luyot | null | t1_c2vtc12 | t3_luyot | null | 1427807135 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1320049895 | False | 0 | c2vtc1b | t3_lu6t7 | null | t1_c2vtc1b | t1_c2vom9t | null | 1427807133 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1320049949 | False | 0 | c2vtc50 | t3_lu6t7 | null | t1_c2vtc50 | t1_c2vpasd | null | 1427807134 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | abyx | null | Is that really a unix book? There's no ugly animal on the cover... | null | 0 | 1320049990 | False | 0 | c2vtc7w | t3_lu6t7 | null | t1_c2vtc7w | t1_c2vos5g | null | 1427807135 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | tomlu709 | null | Won't Intellisense tell you the type of the var if you're using C#? | null | 0 | 1320050008 | False | 0 | c2vtc98 | t3_lt22c | null | t1_c2vtc98 | t1_c2vl0eg | null | 1427807135 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | pistacchio | null | i'm not complaining, i love haskell, but if someone is making a point about teaching lisp because it's linear and with a terse syntax, suggesting "haskell instead" is not appropriate as it is not linear nor its syntax is terse. | null | 0 | 1320050009 | False | 0 | c2vtc9c | t3_lul3i | null | t1_c2vtc9c | t1_c2vt1v2 | null | 1427807135 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1320050144 | False | 0 | c2vtchg | t3_lu6t7 | null | t1_c2vtchg | t1_c2vo9la | null | 1427807138 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1320050246 | False | 0 | c2vtco0 | t3_lu6t7 | null | t1_c2vtco0 | t1_c2vpp24 | null | 1428185258 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1320050320 | False | 0 | c2vtcsu | t3_luyot | null | t1_c2vtcsu | t3_luyot | null | 1427807147 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1320050347 | False | 0 | c2vtcud | t3_lu6t7 | null | t1_c2vtcud | t1_c2vo8rc | null | 1427807142 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | simon99ctg | null | Do you agree with the comment in the link about shooting people who put the opening curly bracket after the function name rather than on the line below? if you do, then you're probably one of the reasons why people argue instead of doing stuff... | null | 0 | 1320050462 | False | 0 | c2vtd1m | t3_luyot | null | t1_c2vtd1m | t3_luyot | null | 1428185258 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | naryl | null | No, they are not.
It's like telling to use Windows to somebody asking for help setting up graphical environment in Linux. | null | 0 | 1320050791 | False | 0 | c2vtdmu | t3_lul3i | null | t1_c2vtdmu | t1_c2vri08 | null | 1427807155 | 9 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Tordek | null | "10" < "011" gives me 1 in php, unlike your stated 0.
If, however, in some context, it does evaluate as such, realize this: 011 = 9, because a 0 prefix indicates an octal. In that case, 10 < 011 == 0 makes sense. | null | 0 | 1320051049 | False | 0 | c2vte40 | t3_ltzu6 | null | t1_c2vte40 | t3_ltzu6 | null | 1427807159 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Cryocore | null | IE: Utility for downloading Firefox/Chrome | null | 0 | 1320051115 | False | 0 | c2vte7p | t3_lp61p | null | t1_c2vte7p | t3_lp61p | null | 1427807162 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Cryocore | null | heh most of the stuff hes comparing to is ASCII | null | 0 | 1320051487 | False | 0 | c2vtevj | t3_lunsh | null | t1_c2vtevj | t3_lunsh | null | 1427807171 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | __j_random_hacker | null | I realise it's mostly not `touch`'s "fault", because the default C toolchain adds a hefty fixed-size block of C runtime library startup code to every executable, and the executable format itself requires overhead. To the extent that I'm criticising anything, it's the default toolchain, not `touch`. But it's not even ... | null | 0 | 1320051632 | False | 0 | c2vtf5a | t3_lunsh | null | t1_c2vtf5a | t1_c2vt8xc | null | 1427807175 | 22 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | KingEllis | null | > Why the lol?
Monads. There are not a lot of projects you can do without basic I/O, and I would not subject a beginner to monads. | null | 0 | 1320051843 | False | 0 | c2vtfig | t3_lul3i | null | t1_c2vtfig | t1_c2vs2hs | null | 1427807182 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | Yes. | null | 0 | 1320051959 | False | 0 | c2vtfqe | t3_luztc | null | t1_c2vtfqe | t3_luztc | null | 1428185256 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | bhrgunatha | null | > Skip the number 1. It is the first prime number.
&#3232;\_&#3232;
| null | 0 | 1320052011 | False | 0 | c2vtftm | t3_luztc | null | t1_c2vtftm | t3_luztc | null | 1427807185 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1320052044 | False | 0 | c2vtfvt | t3_lul3i | null | t1_c2vtfvt | t1_c2vqzqu | null | 1427807185 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | matthiasl | null | For fun: the entire turbo pascal IDE and compiler is 39,731 octets according to the article. The Erlang (R14B02) parser is 286,324 octets.
If you strip the Erlang parser, the resulting file is 33,572 octets, i.e. no longer larger than TP:
1> {ok, Bin} = file:read_file("erl_parse.beam").
{ok,<<70,79,8... | null | 0 | 1320052280 | False | 0 | c2vtgbr | t3_lunsh | null | t1_c2vtgbr | t3_lunsh | null | 1427807191 | 11 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | raevnos | null | Writing a language compiler that targets another isn't a bad idea, as it makes porting your language to new platforms trivial (as long as your target language supports it). And if you want to run code in a browser, javascript is the ideal target. | null | 0 | 1320052419 | False | 0 | c2vtgm9 | t3_luyot | null | t1_c2vtgm9 | t3_luyot | null | 1427807203 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | thoomfish | null | Let me explain:
Greenwich Mean Time is wrong and evil,
for there are 4 simultaneous Days, not 1.
Greenwich has a midnight to midnight 1
corner day rotation. It has an imaginary
midday to midday with broken lines on
chart to avoid bible 1 day error conflict.
It completely ignores sunup & sundown.
Actually, Genes... | null | 0 | 1320052461 | False | 0 | c2vtgp6 | t3_lsce5 | null | t1_c2vtgp6 | t1_c2ve2nu | null | 1427807204 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | dmpk2k | null | If you like Vim, there's SLIMV. | null | 0 | 1320052653 | False | 0 | c2vth25 | t3_lul3i | null | t1_c2vth25 | t1_c2vqfyp | null | 1427807204 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | whlabratz | null | Because we get innovation through variation. If we settled for one language, we would all still be programming everything in C. Not that I have anything against C in particular, but it isn't the right tool for every task | null | 0 | 1320052800 | False | 0 | c2vthci | t3_luyot | null | t1_c2vthci | t3_luyot | null | 1427807206 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | plusminus1 | null | mode 13h.
so much fun writing stuff in pascal when I was young. | null | 0 | 1320053175 | False | 0 | c2vti0h | t3_lunsh | null | t1_c2vti0h | t3_lunsh | null | 1427807221 | 13 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1320053220 | False | 0 | c2vti3o | t3_ltqhu | null | t1_c2vti3o | t1_c2vm7yh | null | 1427807212 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | mrkite77 | null | heh.. I'd recognize Defender anywhere. | null | 0 | 1320053286 | False | 0 | c2vti7u | t3_lunsh | null | t1_c2vti7u | t1_c2vs35n | null | 1427807220 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | vyzivus | null | 1. XML is arguably more readable than JSON.
2. More elegantly like writing it in Javascript? With no objects? Laughable. As with Rails - it is built on object-oriented Ruby, yet you have to use countless number of helper methods, effectively degrading it to a procedural language. The ultimate mantra of Ruby/Javascript ... | null | 0 | 1320053375 | False | 0 | c2vtide | t3_lt51z | null | t1_c2vtide | t1_c2vejz5 | null | 1427807221 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Gundersen | null | According to the HTML & CSS compatibility table, IE9 and IE10 support WebGL, but they do not. Use [WhenCanIUse.com](http://caniuse.com) to get a better indication of browser support. | null | 0 | 1320053609 | False | 0 | c2vtitb | t3_lt4pc | null | t1_c2vtitb | t3_lt4pc | null | 1428185255 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | vyzivus | null | Compare that to Ruby. Monkey-patching is so widespread that it disallows multiple libraries to work together as they monkey-patch the same objects, resulting in random behavior. Developing in Ruby is quick because you do not have to write so many characters, the problem is finding those characters, because you have no ... | null | 0 | 1320054065 | False | 0 | c2vtjkm | t3_lt45j | null | t1_c2vtjkm | t1_c2vehmc | null | 1427807237 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | Smaller than Hello World statically compiled :
$ cat hello.c
#include <stdio.h>
int main() { printf("Hello, world!\n"); }
$ gcc --static hello.c
$ ls -l a.out
-rwxr-xr-x 1 sleep garden 96617 Oct 31 09:50 a.out
| null | 0 | 1320054448 | True | 0 | c2vtk8a | t3_lunsh | null | t1_c2vtk8a | t3_lunsh | null | 1427807243 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | kabuto | null | You casually browse binaries? | null | 0 | 1320054949 | False | 0 | c2vtl20 | t3_lunsh | null | t1_c2vtl20 | t1_c2vt8xc | null | 1427807251 | 30 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | kabuto | null | Yeah, I remember TurboVision. I never understood what it was, though. Instead I wrote my own windowing unit, albeit not in an OO approach. | null | 0 | 1320055057 | False | 0 | c2vtl8t | t3_lunsh | null | t1_c2vtl8t | t1_c2vsjk0 | null | 1427807255 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | kabuto | null | That makes me remember the fun you could have with pointing the timer interrupt vector to some other function. For one program I used it to slowly cycle one of the DOS colors from white to yellow as a highlight effect for the currently selected line in a list. | null | 0 | 1320055214 | False | 0 | c2vtli2 | t3_lunsh | null | t1_c2vtli2 | t1_c2vs35n | null | 1427807258 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | BoldAssertion | null | **Beat Microsoft at market share.** | null | 0 | 1320055861 | False | 0 | c2vtmj8 | t3_lucrs | null | t1_c2vtmj8 | t1_c2vta24 | null | 1427807271 | 12 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | diox | null | Venkman was (and still is) a JavaScript debugger, and only that. Before Firebug, Mozilla had the DOM Inspector and the still popular [Web Developper addon](https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/web-developer/) . | null | 0 | 1320056112 | False | 0 | c2vtmxh | t3_lucrs | null | t1_c2vtmxh | t1_c2vsh17 | null | 1428185252 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | m0dE | null | I'm a gook and what is this | null | 0 | 1320056150 | False | 0 | c2vtmzi | t3_lunsh | null | t1_c2vtmzi | t1_c2vs35n | null | 1428185253 | -5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1320056864 | True | 0 | c2vto33 | t3_lul3i | null | t1_c2vto33 | t1_c2vsu14 | null | 1427807299 | 9 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | lebski88 | null | You think those rich women will want anything to do with you? | null | 0 | 1320056935 | False | 0 | c2vto77 | t3_lucrs | null | t1_c2vto77 | t1_c2vr30e | null | 1427807292 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Troebr | null | This is insane. | null | 0 | 1320056944 | False | 0 | c2vto7o | t3_lv0aa | null | t1_c2vto7o | t3_lv0aa | null | 1427807292 | 44 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | malkarouri | null | wow | null | 0 | 1320057201 | False | 0 | c2vtonb | t3_lv0aa | null | t1_c2vtonb | t3_lv0aa | null | 1427807303 | -1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | gospelwut | null | Then the CEO sells it as such during a conference, and somebody has to make it so 2 weeks before the project cut off. | null | 0 | 1320057301 | False | 0 | c2vtotd | t3_lucrs | null | t1_c2vtotd | t1_c2vs3ts | null | 1427807301 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | AeroNotix | null | Is OP the author? | null | 0 | 1320057352 | False | 0 | c2vtowu | t3_lv0aa | null | t1_c2vtowu | t3_lv0aa | null | 1427807302 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Poddster | null | And it only took him 4 hours to make the bingo program. I imagine that's the most programming he's ever done in his life. | null | 0 | 1320057623 | False | 0 | c2vtpch | t3_lsyok | null | t1_c2vtpch | t1_c2vfwcw | null | 1427807308 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | gospelwut | null | You'd be surprised what people are impressed by. I spent 6 months programming some pretty intense internal tools; not a word. I installed Wordpress and ripped their old code into PHP from ASP (+ some massaging to get the subdomain on to a *nix box because fuck IIS for blogs). I got a raise.
I need the [jackiechan.jpg... | null | 0 | 1320057640 | False | 0 | c2vtpdi | t3_lucrs | null | t1_c2vtpdi | t1_c2vt9s9 | null | 1427807308 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | electronics-engineer | null | Ron Avitzur is the author.
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ron_Avitzur | null | 0 | 1320057947 | False | 0 | c2vtpw4 | t3_lv0aa | null | t1_c2vtpw4 | t1_c2vtowu | null | 1427807312 | 25 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1320057957 | False | 0 | c2vtpwo | t3_lucrs | null | t1_c2vtpwo | t1_c2vta24 | null | 1427807312 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | kjmitch | null | Sadness, I found a conflict. I use Tab Mix Plus and the Ctrl+Shift+M shortcut used to activate Tilt is reserved for merging windows in Tab Mix, and I don't see that I can run both addons at the same time. Anyone able to duplicate or fix this issue? | null | 0 | 1320058109 | False | 0 | c2vtq57 | t3_lucrs | null | t1_c2vtq57 | t3_lucrs | null | 1427807315 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | __j_random_hacker | null | That is the most bizarre development story I've ever read.
Do you know the Seinfeld episode where George Costanza gets fired, but decides to keep going into work anyway? That's probably my favourite episode, because it just nails George's particular kind of lunacy. It's funny because *he thinks he's showing them who... | null | 0 | 1320058307 | False | 0 | c2vtqgz | t3_lv0aa | null | t1_c2vtqgz | t3_lv0aa | null | 1427807317 | 135 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | Takes me back too. I remember carrying home the large and very heavy Borland C++ 3 box on the bus. Happy days. | null | 0 | 1320058326 | False | 0 | c2vtqi9 | t3_lunsh | null | t1_c2vtqi9 | t1_c2vsjk0 | null | 1427807317 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | polarbeer | null | I got the following:
* Java 7 SDK
* Android SDK 2.4
* Eclipse Indigo SP1
* The ADT plug-in
I installed them in order and they worked.
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True | polarbeer | null | Apologies. I was excited to get the thing. Now that I have it I want to get going with it but am looking for some pointers in where to go. I'm sorry if that wasn't clear. | null | 0 | 1320058419 | False | 0 | c2vtqoo | t3_luqga | null | t1_c2vtqoo | t1_c2vsljy | null | 1427807327 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Sammoewel | null | tl;dr, srry bro | null | 0 | 1320058850 | False | 0 | c2vtre6 | t3_lsyok | null | t1_c2vtre6 | t3_lsyok | null | 1427807339 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | kylotan | null | My 7600GT supports WebGL, so I'm not sure where your information came from. | null | 0 | 1320059206 | False | 0 | c2vts0n | t3_lucrs | null | t1_c2vts0n | t1_c2vt6rv | null | 1427807338 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | lampshadish2 | null | Ethical, logical, and consistent. Of course you'll get downvoted. | null | 0 | 1320059571 | False | 0 | c2vtsol | t3_lui39 | null | t1_c2vtsol | t1_c2vsy4i | null | 1427807345 | -8 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | AeroNotix | null | I was just wondering because I'd seen you around the /r/Electronics subreddit but not in the programming section at all. Thought it would have been interesting to see where you got your electronics know-how from. | null | 0 | 1320059654 | False | 0 | c2vtstq | t3_lv0aa | null | t1_c2vtstq | t1_c2vtpw4 | null | 1427807347 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | oSand | null | If you squint, they look the same. | null | 0 | 1320060174 | False | 0 | c2vttrg | t3_lul3i | null | t1_c2vttrg | t1_c2vqtk1 | null | 1427807360 | -1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | name_was_taken | null | My issue with natural language-ish systems is that they seem to be really open and free, but you're still actually constrained to saying things a certain way, just like regular programming.
In this case, "Instead of going nowhere, say" is a magic command that you have to memorize.
He says, "Quoted text after a room... | null | 0 | 1320060244 | False | 0 | c2vttw6 | t3_lufna | null | t1_c2vttw6 | t3_lufna | null | 1427807359 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | exscape | null | > Since the minimum size of a typical gcc compiled, standard C binary on Mac OS X is 19440 bytes (unless you start doing [1] weird things to the executable)
Hmm.
serenity@79 ~ $ cat test.c
#include <stdio.h>
int main() {
printf("Hello, world!\n");
return 0;
}
serenity@79 ~ $ ... | null | 0 | 1320060474 | False | 0 | c2vtubq | t3_lunsh | null | t1_c2vtubq | t1_c2vt8xc | null | 1427807365 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | AdmiralBumblebee | null | Re-read what I said.
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True | mahcuz | null | There's a plethora of good advice available on that website - check out the archives. | null | 0 | 1320061007 | False | 0 | c2vtvb1 | t3_lv0rx | null | t1_c2vtvb1 | t3_lv0rx | null | 1427807377 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | dimmu_burger | null | Wouldn't it be better to remove the guide_border class from the element so browsers aren't doing useless class lookups? Or just add one class that outlines all div's then remove that for production. | null | 0 | 1320061065 | False | 0 | c2vtvet | t3_lucrs | null | t1_c2vtvet | t1_c2vqk7a | null | 1427807379 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | GeneralMaximus | null | Haskell is a strict, lazy, purely functional language rooted in mathematics.
Common Lisp is a homoiconic programming language that allows arbitrary transformations on program source and does not limit you to a single programming style.
The difference. It's huge. | null | 0 | 1320061113 | False | 0 | c2vtvi0 | t3_lul3i | null | t1_c2vtvi0 | t1_c2vqzqu | null | 1427807381 | 15 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | 3825 | null | Why do people with PhD in mathematics work as QA? Am I completely underestimating the job of QA? | null | 0 | 1320061113 | False | 0 | c2vtvi1 | t3_lv0aa | null | t1_c2vtvi1 | t3_lv0aa | null | 1427807381 | 30 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | Because Common Lisp isn't functional.
| null | 0 | 1320061117 | False | 0 | c2vtvid | t3_lul3i | null | t1_c2vtvid | t1_c2vqzqu | null | 1427807381 | 12 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | rdmiller3 | null | From the article:
> I knew nothing about the PowerPC and had no idea how to modify my software to run on it. One August night, after dinner, two guys showed up to announce that they would camp out in my office until the modification was done. The three of us spent the next six hours editing fifty thousand lines of ... | null | 0 | 1320061353 | True | 0 | c2vtvyb | t3_lv0aa | null | t1_c2vtvyb | t3_lv0aa | null | 1427807387 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | Eh, I'd rather say the opposite, NOT having higher-order functions are kinda confusing, especially in a functional language where a function really just is a black box which returns a value.
If you would tell a beginner that that's basically what a function is then it would make sense to be able to call functions with... | null | 0 | 1320061420 | False | 0 | c2vtw2w | t3_lul3i | null | t1_c2vtw2w | t1_c2vsc7a | null | 1427807387 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1320061477 | False | 0 | c2vtw6k | t3_lv0aa | null | t1_c2vtw6k | t1_c2vtvyb | null | 1427807390 | 8 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | dukejarlsberg | null | Found a video of this guy telling this story at a Google TechTalks thingie the other day - link [here](http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7497796873809571567) - real interesting story imo :) | null | 0 | 1320061548 | False | 0 | c2vtwb5 | t3_lv0aa | null | t1_c2vtwb5 | t3_lv0aa | null | 1427807391 | 133 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Purple_Haze | null | Obviously it was in assembly language, all serious software was. | null | 0 | 1320061614 | False | 0 | c2vtwf2 | t3_lv0aa | null | t1_c2vtwf2 | t1_c2vtvyb | null | 1427807393 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | mkantor | null | Browsers are very fast at that kind of thing, and unless your site is particularly crazy, it shouldn't make any kind of noticeable difference.
Still, personally I'd opt for class named "layout" or something so I can at least re-use it for styles that I'll actually need in production. Firebug's always been a better to... | null | 0 | 1320061788 | False | 0 | c2vtwrb | t3_lucrs | null | t1_c2vtwrb | t1_c2vtvet | null | 1427807397 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | mkantor | null | You could actually even try to mimic this tool with CSS using 3D transforms without too much effort. | null | 0 | 1320061966 | False | 0 | c2vtx3n | t3_lucrs | null | t1_c2vtx3n | t1_c2vqj18 | null | 1427807402 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | dimmu_burger | null | Indeed. Firebug/web-dev tools are the way to go. | null | 0 | 1320061999 | False | 0 | c2vtx5v | t3_lucrs | null | t1_c2vtx5v | t1_c2vtwrb | null | 1427807402 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | rdmiller3 | null | The article says this happened in **1993**.
By that time, anyone with any sense was writing computational software in C and using calls to *graphics libraries* to draw on the screen. So all that nonsense about not knowing how to port the code to PowerPC would have been largely irrelevant unless the code was a steamin... | null | 0 | 1320062063 | True | 0 | c2vtxa9 | t3_lv0aa | null | t1_c2vtxa9 | t1_c2vtw6k | null | 1427807414 | 9 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | Yes and no. There is a spectrum, between formal analysis and verification by screenshot ;-) | null | 0 | 1320062229 | False | 0 | c2vtxmt | t3_lv0aa | null | t1_c2vtxmt | t1_c2vtvi1 | null | 1427807409 | 59 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | smog_alado | null | You aint tricking me. This is not Prototypal inheritance, its good old classical inheritanece a-la C++ | null | 0 | 1320062282 | False | 0 | c2vtxr0 | t3_lthpe | null | t1_c2vtxr0 | t3_lthpe | null | 1427807411 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | It applies to every site, I don't know how to change that. From what I saw it seemed to be an un-implemented feature (It looks like they plan to be able to change it via preferences)
The only way to turn it on/off that I am aware of would be to rename the file to something else when you don't want it on. Chrome applie... | null | 0 | 1320062332 | False | 0 | c2vtxun | t3_lucrs | null | t1_c2vtxun | t1_c2vtav1 | null | 1427807413 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | rdmiller3 | null | Not in **1993**.
By 1993, I was writing Linux kernel driver code in C. Only the tightest, most time-critical parts got implemented in assembly. | null | 0 | 1320062389 | True | 0 | c2vtxyx | t3_lv0aa | null | t1_c2vtxyx | t1_c2vtwf2 | null | 1427807415 | 8 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | MarshallBanana | null | *Editing*, not writing. They had to go through fifty thousand lines of already written software and fix any parts that made assumptions on the specific processor architecture it was going to run on. Lots of software did that back in the day, since Mac OS *used* to only run on a single processor family. | null | 0 | 1320062605 | False | 0 | c2vtyez | t3_lv0aa | null | t1_c2vtyez | t1_c2vtvyb | null | 1427807420 | 56 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
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