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True | [deleted] | null | Holy shit that's an awesome story! | null | 0 | 1320062682 | False | 0 | c2vtykg | t3_lv0aa | null | t1_c2vtykg | t3_lv0aa | null | 1427807422 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | Great story!
And here I was thinking that all that stuff about Lumbergh trying to take away your red stapler was fiction...
| null | 0 | 1320062786 | False | 0 | c2vtysl | t3_lv0aa | null | t1_c2vtysl | t3_lv0aa | null | 1427807424 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | seanx820 | null | So did he ever get paid? Or was he already rich?
| null | 0 | 1320062865 | False | 0 | c2vtyz5 | t3_lv0aa | null | t1_c2vtyz5 | t3_lv0aa | null | 1427807426 | 17 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | 3825 | null | please do tell me more about formal analysis? like A-B testing? | null | 0 | 1320063222 | False | 0 | c2vtzou | t3_lv0aa | null | t1_c2vtzou | t1_c2vtxmt | null | 1427807442 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | beeff | null | Lispworks and Allegro are not worth the expense just for the IDE. I've found myself to be more productive coding in slime+emacs. Lispworks is certainly the nicest IDE, with some great libraries; I use Lispworks' CAPI for GUI front-ends. In the end, you're just faster if you don't have to grab back to your mouse every ... | null | 0 | 1320063274 | False | 0 | c2vtzsx | t3_lul3i | null | t1_c2vtzsx | t1_c2vqrcp | null | 1427807438 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | lispm | null | Right, Common Lisp has a lot of syntax. It falls into two categories:
* s-expression data syntax: conses, lists, arrays, symbols, numbers, strings, reader macros, ...
* Lisp syntax for Lisp forms: variables, data, function application, special forms, macro forms.
| null | 0 | 1320063347 | False | 0 | c2vtzy4 | t3_lul3i | null | t1_c2vtzy4 | t1_c2vto33 | null | 1427807445 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | marshull | null | Is it that time of year again? | null | 0 | 1320063425 | False | 0 | c2vu04b | t3_lv0aa | null | t1_c2vu04b | t3_lv0aa | null | 1428185250 | -7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | SCombinator | null | What a shitty shitty interface. Took me minutes to find the search, and then I only get 3 fucking results before hitting 'more.' Great. Just great.
Feels like the fucking thing is a flash website from 1999. | null | 0 | 1320063438 | False | 0 | c2vu057 | t3_ltc8w | null | t1_c2vu057 | t3_ltc8w | null | 1428185250 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | constructive use of time | null | 0 | 1320063656 | False | 0 | c2vu0lz | t3_lucrs | null | t1_c2vu0lz | t3_lucrs | null | 1427807453 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | PSquid | null | I was half-expecting that to be in German (which is a nice enough language, it's just I'm not especially fluent in it), but then I was pleasantly surprised. | null | 0 | 1320063751 | False | 0 | c2vu0st | t3_ls1zz | null | t1_c2vu0st | t1_c2v80yf | null | 1427807456 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | deong | null | Yeah, but I don't care. Every time I read that story, I still get a smile on my face and I still read to the end. | null | 0 | 1320063777 | False | 0 | c2vu0un | t3_lv0aa | null | t1_c2vu0un | t1_c2vu04b | null | 1427807457 | 14 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | iconoclaus | null | I remember that Turbo Pascal manuals were such awesome books to learn programming from. Far better than the "Learn ____ in 21 days" and other such rashly written series that became popular later in college. I learned programming almost entirely from reading Borland's manuals while in high school (Turbo Pascal and Turb... | null | 0 | 1320063889 | False | 0 | c2vu128 | t3_lunsh | null | t1_c2vu128 | t1_c2vr62k | null | 1427807460 | 9 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1320063938 | False | 0 | c2vu15x | t3_lucrs | null | t1_c2vu15x | t1_c2vtpdi | null | 1427807460 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | Christ, WHY?
You'd be better off having a CSS declaration listing all your layout DIVs and just changing that so you don't have "guide_borders" all over the fucking shop. | null | 0 | 1320064020 | False | 0 | c2vu1cf | t3_lucrs | null | t1_c2vu1cf | t1_c2vqk7a | null | 1427807463 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | Wow, looks much better than the Firefox version. | null | 0 | 1320064080 | False | 0 | c2vu1hb | t3_lucrs | null | t1_c2vu1hb | t1_c2vp47v | null | 1427807464 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | oilytheotter | null | I've read this story a few times over the years, but never looked at the guys wiki page. Now that I finally did, I see this story was on This American Life a few years ago. Very excited to hear them tell it. Thanks! | null | 0 | 1320064126 | False | 0 | c2vu1l2 | t3_lv0aa | null | t1_c2vu1l2 | t1_c2vtpw4 | null | 1427807466 | 9 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | julesjacobs | null | > The same principle which governs Perl's boolification and comparison behaviors governs Perl's operand behaviors.
Sorry, I didn't explain myself well enough. I do think that the . operator which converts things to strings is a bad decision, but I don't think that a different operator name for strings concatenation... | null | 0 | 1320064250 | False | 0 | c2vu1vn | t3_ltzu6 | null | t1_c2vu1vn | t1_c2vrlvw | null | 1427807478 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | doogle88 | null | > We wanted to release a Windows version as part of Windows 98, but sadly, Microsoft has effective building security.
Classic. | null | 0 | 1320064283 | False | 0 | c2vu1yd | t3_lv0aa | null | t1_c2vu1yd | t3_lv0aa | null | 1427807471 | 481 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | jasonbourne0305 | null | I started learning in 1984 on a Tandy 1000 EX. I miss those days. | null | 0 | 1320064340 | False | 0 | c2vu239 | t3_lv0aa | null | t1_c2vu239 | t1_c2vtw6k | null | 1427807474 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Reddit-Hivemind | null | >The monitor burst into flames.
At this point I just lost it and started laughing. Great article. | null | 0 | 1320064372 | False | 0 | c2vu26m | t3_lv0aa | null | t1_c2vu26m | t3_lv0aa | null | 1427807479 | 140 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | julesjacobs | null | He asked about Lisp, and I gave him two suggestions on development environments. If he was specifically asking about *Common* Lisp, then I apologize (though I'd still strongly suggest he'd reconsider that decision). | null | 0 | 1320064380 | False | 0 | c2vu276 | t3_lul3i | null | t1_c2vu276 | t1_c2vtdmu | null | 1427807476 | -1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | pg1989 | null | This story is older than dirt. The chance that the OP is the subject of it is minuscule. | null | 0 | 1320064478 | False | 0 | c2vu2g5 | t3_lv0aa | null | t1_c2vu2g5 | t1_c2vtqgz | null | 1427807479 | 174 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | plbogen | null | I went to school with a guy who got his PhD in CS and is a SDE in Test for Microsoft. | null | 0 | 1320064650 | False | 0 | c2vu2ue | t3_lv0aa | null | t1_c2vu2ue | t1_c2vtvi1 | null | 1427807482 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | MrProper | null | Maybe more in the lines of: the programmers fucked up, but not only can we show they did that, we can show them how and where, and we can offer a fix for their fuck-up, just from seeing the results of their work (thus we are superior to code monkeys) | null | 0 | 1320064712 | False | 0 | c2vu2zo | t3_lv0aa | null | t1_c2vu2zo | t1_c2vtzou | null | 1427807484 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | icyone | null | But its also not based in fact, so there's that. | null | 0 | 1320064848 | False | 0 | c2vu3c3 | t3_lui39 | null | t1_c2vu3c3 | t1_c2vtsol | null | 1427807488 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | kakaokoen | null | Thanks. i hate that 1px fuck-up.. bonus for putting outline to actual use | null | 0 | 1320064854 | False | 0 | c2vu3co | t3_lucrs | null | t1_c2vu3co | t1_c2vqz5b | null | 1427807487 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | More likely he means [formal methods](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formal_methods), as formal analysis seems to be something to do with fine art. Formal methods are about checking the correctness of a program. A simple example of this is a type system: A type system will not let you sqrt a string, and won't let you pri... | null | 0 | 1320064875 | False | 0 | c2vu3ej | t3_lv0aa | null | t1_c2vu3ej | t1_c2vtzou | null | 1427807487 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | dist0rtedwave | null | [Hoare Logic](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoare_logic) is a good place to start. With that concept, the right logic, and a good static analysis, there are a lot of things you can prove to be true about a program. | null | 0 | 1320064947 | False | 0 | c2vu3kf | t3_lv0aa | null | t1_c2vu3kf | t1_c2vtzou | null | 1427807489 | 9 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | badsectoracula | null | They wanted to show off the speed of PowerPC and the best way to do that was to program it in assembly. Compilers at that time sucked hard at optimization - especially compilers for a chip that according to the author had no more than 200 units available worldwide. I doubt if there were compilers available at all.
Als... | null | 0 | 1320065010 | False | 0 | c2vu3ps | t3_lv0aa | null | t1_c2vu3ps | t1_c2vtvyb | null | 1427807489 | 17 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | That's because SDET pays more. | null | 0 | 1320065042 | False | 0 | c2vu3si | t3_lv0aa | null | t1_c2vu3si | t1_c2vu2ue | null | 1427807490 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | thefro | null | Mine is 6 series, so that may explain it. Thanks you! | null | 0 | 1320065062 | False | 0 | c2vu3uu | t3_lucrs | null | t1_c2vu3uu | t1_c2vt6rv | null | 1427807492 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | lampshadish2 | null | Tell me how I'm wrong instead of downvoting me. | null | 0 | 1320065075 | False | 0 | c2vu3vx | t3_lui39 | null | t1_c2vu3vx | t1_c2vu3c3 | null | 1427807492 | -2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | 3825 | null | I'm having trouble understanding it. Computing... | null | 0 | 1320065158 | False | 0 | c2vu43l | t3_lv0aa | null | t1_c2vu43l | t1_c2vu3kf | null | 1427807493 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | 3825 | null | so the QA folks actually debug code? | null | 0 | 1320065203 | False | 0 | c2vu484 | t3_lv0aa | null | t1_c2vu484 | t1_c2vu3ej | null | 1427807496 | 8 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | 3825 | null | if you can do that without looking at the code, I salute you | null | 0 | 1320065253 | False | 0 | c2vu4cb | t3_lv0aa | null | t1_c2vu4cb | t1_c2vu2zo | null | 1427807500 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | 3825 | null | I was told QA was a stupid dead end job. That teaches me to not take a single opinion as the complete story. | null | 0 | 1320065306 | False | 0 | c2vu4h0 | t3_lv0aa | null | t1_c2vu4h0 | t1_c2vu2ue | null | 1427807502 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | plbogen | null | Not than other CS PhD jobs. | null | 0 | 1320065321 | False | 0 | c2vu4ie | t3_lv0aa | null | t1_c2vu4ie | t1_c2vu3si | null | 1427807500 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | papercrane | null | I believe he means formal verification, which is when you produce a formal proof (i.e. math proof) that the program or algorithm meets the specifications. It's very hard to do for computer programs and almost always impossible.
If it can be done though your program is pretty much guaranteed to work unless your assump... | null | 0 | 1320065355 | False | 0 | c2vu4l8 | t3_lv0aa | null | t1_c2vu4l8 | t1_c2vtzou | null | 1428185245 | 48 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | It's also easier. Pays 100-130k if you're at 63 to 65+ level, assuming you interviewed and negotiated well on hiring. | null | 0 | 1320065537 | False | 0 | c2vu525 | t3_lv0aa | null | t1_c2vu525 | t1_c2vu4ie | null | 1427807515 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | rodrigostrauss | null | I'm the coder behind the project, so fell free to ask me anything about it. :-) | null | 0 | 1320065736 | False | 0 | c2vu5k0 | t3_lv3o8 | null | t1_c2vu5k0 | t3_lv3o8 | null | 1427807523 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | name_was_taken | null | I got halfway through this course before I ended up wandering somewhere else.
One of my issues with it is that there are a couple places it says, "Here there be magic!" and says it's too hard to make the component, and you're suppose to just accept that it works. That's contrary to the whole course design, and it's r... | null | 0 | 1320065827 | False | 0 | c2vu5tp | t3_lv39p | null | t1_c2vu5tp | t3_lv39p | null | 1427807530 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | __j_random_hacker | null | Then `s/you/the author/g;` in my comment. | null | 0 | 1320065836 | False | 0 | c2vu5uh | t3_lv0aa | null | t1_c2vu5uh | t1_c2vu2g5 | null | 1427807530 | 30 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | thoneney | null | Well the title is in quotes so i dont think hes saying he did it | null | 0 | 1320065862 | False | 0 | c2vu5x6 | t3_lv0aa | null | t1_c2vu5x6 | t1_c2vu2g5 | null | 1427807530 | 39 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | mulander | null | bookmarked ;) | null | 0 | 1320065884 | False | 0 | c2vu5z6 | t3_lv0aa | null | t1_c2vu5z6 | t1_c2vtwb5 | null | 1427807531 | -14 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | grayvedigga | null | This is gold. Now I don't have to have my standard rant at these posts every 6 months when I can't stand it any more. | null | 0 | 1320065895 | False | 0 | c2vu60l | t3_lv0rx | null | t1_c2vu60l | t3_lv0rx | null | 1427807531 | 10 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | scgtrp | null | There is a huge difference between supporting higher-order functions and forcing all code into using them. | null | 0 | 1320065973 | False | 0 | c2vu68k | t3_lul3i | null | t1_c2vu68k | t1_c2vtw2w | null | 1427807533 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | stackoverflowsuck | null | So Reddit, can you answer this question? I'm very sorry for grammar. English isn't my first. | null | 0 | 1320066013 | False | 0 | c2vu6c9 | t3_lv3re | null | t1_c2vu6c9 | t3_lv3re | null | 1427807533 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | frezik | null | The question was closed for a good reason, and that reason applies on Reddit, too. If you're trying to come up with reasons why stackoverflow sucks, you'll have to do better.
My best guess is that the poster wants lazy evaluation, but doesn't know what it is. | null | 0 | 1320066047 | False | 0 | c2vu6fz | t3_lv3re | null | t1_c2vu6fz | t3_lv3re | null | 1427807534 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | Apple:
The project was so plagued by politics and ego that when the engineers requested technical oversight, our manager hired a psychologist instead. | null | 0 | 1320066064 | False | 0 | c2vu6hp | t3_lv0aa | null | t1_c2vu6hp | t3_lv0aa | null | 1427807534 | 59 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Stick | null | Ohhhhh, they're lesbians??? | null | 0 | 1320066116 | False | 0 | c2vu6mh | t3_lucrs | null | t1_c2vu6mh | t1_c2vto77 | null | 1427807535 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | koggelmander | null | Inc(Vote); | null | 0 | 1320066137 | False | 0 | c2vu6oi | t3_lunsh | null | t1_c2vu6oi | t1_c2vsfus | null | 1427807536 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | koggelmander | null | I fondly remember the Norton Guide for BIOS/interrupts. It was a TSR you could invoke with a hotkey. And ne.com (Norton Editor). Brings a tear to me eyes. | null | 0 | 1320066431 | False | 0 | c2vu7ie | t3_lunsh | null | t1_c2vu7ie | t1_c2vti0h | null | 1427807541 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | slurpme | null | Clearly you've never met many CEOs... it's all about the Bling2.0... | null | 0 | 1320066525 | False | 0 | c2vu7s7 | t3_lucrs | null | t1_c2vu7s7 | t1_c2vt9s9 | null | 1427807544 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | BusStation16 | null | Um, this is not the same thing at all, it imitates some of it kind of. | null | 0 | 1320066530 | False | 0 | c2vu7sl | t3_lucrs | null | t1_c2vu7sl | t1_c2vp47v | null | 1427807544 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | kreiger | null | In my opinion, using "new" has two problems: It introduces a static dependency, and it adds responsibility to the code using it.
I believe that each unit of code (class, method) should be responsible for one "thing" and one thing only. Using new additionally makes that unit responsible for the location and constructio... | null | 0 | 1320066615 | True | 0 | c2vu811 | t3_lr1g7 | null | t1_c2vu811 | t3_lr1g7 | null | 1427807546 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | stackoverflowsuck | null | Lazy evaluation? Why this? Actually he asked why do we use floatign points formats today, when we can store original expressions today. This isn't really only lazy evaluation, he ask more in general sense, why do we need any floating formats? It isn't clear to why we should suffer from rounding errors.
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True | sempf | null | Awesome read, thanks. | null | 0 | 1320066775 | False | 0 | c2vu8h8 | t3_lv0aa | null | t1_c2vu8h8 | t3_lv0aa | null | 1427807551 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | sat0pi | null | Oh, please. You're telling me computationally intensive, mathematical software that involves graphing complex mathematical equations does not need to be written in assembly because by 1993 computers were blazing-fast? I distinctly remember most graphically or computationally expensive code being written in Assembly bac... | null | 0 | 1320066834 | False | 0 | c2vu8mp | t3_lv0aa | null | t1_c2vu8mp | t1_c2vtxyx | null | 1427807553 | 25 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | anonpatriot7 | null | > Later version introduced so-called overlays (dynamically loaded pieces of code) that allowed to overcome this limitation.
As far as I can remember, the overlays were present in TP 3.0. The first PC-only version, TP 4.0, had modules (units) which could overcome 64K limit in a much nicer way (essentially each modul... | null | 0 | 1320066838 | False | 0 | c2vu8n1 | t3_lunsh | null | t1_c2vu8n1 | t1_c2vt1gl | null | 1427807553 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | icyone | null | Sure.
1. Siri is not a cloud-based service.
2. You don't pay for Siri.
3. It's only available on the 4S to get people to buy the 4S, as previous versions of the software ran without issue on the 4 and 3GS without issue.
4. Doesn't require any server resources or any kind of authorization to use.
Basically th... | null | 0 | 1320066904 | False | 0 | c2vu8uc | t3_lui39 | null | t1_c2vu8uc | t1_c2vu3vx | null | 1428185243 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | hexbrid | null | Yes but it didn't have to support unicode. | null | 0 | 1320067038 | False | 0 | c2vu993 | t3_lunsh | null | t1_c2vu993 | t3_lunsh | null | 1428185242 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | homeworld | null | My favorite line in the article sounds straight out of Dilbert:
>Since that left no managers in the loop, we had no meetings and could be extremely productive. | null | 0 | 1320067145 | False | 0 | c2vu9kd | t3_lv0aa | null | t1_c2vu9kd | t3_lv0aa | null | 1427807570 | 471 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | julesjacobs | null | Because it's slow and it's very hard to implement. How would you implement comparisons like sin(sqrt(34)) < cos(log(5345))? How would you deal with ever expanding expressions in an iterative algorithm? | null | 0 | 1320067148 | False | 0 | c2vu9km | t3_lv3re | null | t1_c2vu9km | t3_lv3re | null | 1427807570 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | dearsina | null | usually it's more like "i expected x to do y, but it did z", and then a programmer edits the code. | null | 0 | 1320067163 | False | 0 | c2vu9m0 | t3_lv0aa | null | t1_c2vu9m0 | t1_c2vu484 | null | 1427807572 | 8 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | mkosmo | null | Even the stuff in C made architecture assumptions. Compilers back then didn't take nearly as much guesswork out of it. | null | 0 | 1320067177 | False | 0 | c2vu9nh | t3_lv0aa | null | t1_c2vu9nh | t1_c2vu8mp | null | 1427807572 | 19 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | They can, depends what the program is doing. QA on a compiler would naturally include writing code.
Also these days some QA revolves around automated tests, which are tests which have to be programmed.
[An example from Google](http://www.google.com/intl/en/jobs/uslocations/mountain-view/swe/software-engineer-in-test-... | null | 0 | 1320067197 | False | 0 | c2vu9pz | t3_lv0aa | null | t1_c2vu9pz | t1_c2vu484 | null | 1427807573 | 9 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | LoyalToTheGroupOf17 | null | I like Emacs, I love Common Lisp, and I'm lucky enough to be able to program in Common Lisp for a living (small amounts of JavaScript, Java and C# too, but 95% Common Lisp).
I can't stand Slime. Most of it is very good, but the debugger (sldb) ruins it. Why doesn't it offer a break loop, like any other Common Lisp de... | null | 0 | 1320067208 | False | 0 | c2vu9r2 | t3_lul3i | null | t1_c2vu9r2 | t1_c2vqtfr | null | 1427807573 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | LoyalToTheGroupOf17 | null | They may be better for *your particular needs*, just like Common Lisp is much better for mine. The three languages are designed for rather different purposes, which makes it rather pointless to argue about which ones are best in general. | null | 0 | 1320067351 | False | 0 | c2vua6v | t3_lul3i | null | t1_c2vua6v | t1_c2vri08 | null | 1427807578 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Alexis_ | null | because evaluating an expression like that takes a long time. Imagine storing a value like that in a database, then trying to sort the number in increasing order. Instead of reading one floating point value and comparing to another (which the CPU is optimized to do very, very fast) you now have to evaluate every single... | null | 0 | 1320067416 | False | 0 | c2vuaef | t3_lv3re | null | t1_c2vuaef | t1_c2vu821 | null | 1427807585 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | frezik | null | We have floating point formats because we don't have infinite memory. We'd also like things to be reasonably fast and hardware accelerated.
Lazy evaluation does prevent at least some rounding errors. Consider:
a = 1.0 / 3.0
b = a * 3.0
print b
In a non-lazy language that isn't somehow covering up the rou... | null | 0 | 1320067464 | False | 0 | c2vuajt | t3_lv3re | null | t1_c2vuajt | t1_c2vu821 | null | 1427807588 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | frodokun | null | MPW (Apple's Macintosh Programmer's Workshop) supported C and C++ at that time, along with products like Lightspeed/ThinkC.
The toolbox kept the Pascal calling convention, which required C to specify "pascal" for functions that had those calling conventions, but the majority of programming work was done in C. | null | 0 | 1320067515 | False | 0 | c2vuapx | t3_lv0aa | null | t1_c2vuapx | t1_c2vu3ps | null | 1427807591 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | novacoder | null | Probably because the demand for software QA analysts is much greater than mathematicians in the labor market. Plus knowledge of probability, statistics and combinatorics is very useful to have in QA work. | null | 0 | 1320067536 | False | 0 | c2vuas0 | t3_lv0aa | null | t1_c2vuas0 | t1_c2vtvi1 | null | 1427807591 | 12 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Xdes | null | WTF who uses the word "stupid" in an essay? If this is what the academic environment is about then I'm glad I'm not going down that route. | null | 0 | 1320067686 | False | 0 | c2vub8d | t3_lu5zm | null | t1_c2vub8d | t3_lu5zm | null | 1427807596 | -4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1320067724 | False | 0 | c2vubcm | t3_lv0aa | null | t1_c2vubcm | t1_c2vu43l | null | 1427807597 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | stackoverflowsuck | null | > you now have to evaluate every single expression in your table to find its actual numeric value.
WRONG WRONG WRONG. sqrt(5) < sqrt(6). I don't need know anything about sqrt(5) or sqrt(6) bit-wise. | null | 0 | 1320067744 | False | 0 | c2vubfh | t3_lv3re | null | t1_c2vubfh | t1_c2vuaef | null | 1427807598 | -3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | AMostOriginalUserNam | null | Perhaps, but the statement holds. | null | 0 | 1320067747 | False | 0 | c2vubg3 | t3_lv0aa | null | t1_c2vubg3 | t1_c2vtxa9 | null | 1427807598 | 8 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | pnpbios | null | consider that the software he was writing was a graphing calculator. | null | 0 | 1320067751 | False | 0 | c2vubgo | t3_lv0aa | null | t1_c2vubgo | t1_c2vtvi1 | null | 1427807598 | 12 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | dlink | null | Not to be "that guy" but aren't stories like this exactly why programmers (I include video-game makers in this) are forced/expected to work long hours for minimal pay? Becuase they are "getting to do what they love" and would, for the better part of a year in this case, do it for free?
*edit*
Is there any sort of Un... | null | 0 | 1320067833 | True | 0 | c2vubpt | t3_lv0aa | null | t1_c2vubpt | t3_lv0aa | null | 1427807600 | 185 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | refaptoring | null | This comparison would be more meaningful if it did not compare absolute sizes. I'd like to see an estimate of how much storage for approximately 39K would have cost in TP 3.02 days versus how much storage for a modestly sized development environment costs today. Also, how much it costs to develop the things commerciall... | null | 0 | 1320067857 | False | 0 | c2vubsl | t3_lunsh | null | t1_c2vubsl | t3_lunsh | null | 1427807600 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Junglebook3 | null | That is simply an amazing story. | null | 0 | 1320067866 | False | 0 | c2vubto | t3_lv0aa | null | t1_c2vubto | t3_lv0aa | null | 1427807600 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7497796873809571567
Here you have a video of the guy from the story, explaining this same story. I had a great time a few years ago watching this. It's about 1h long. | null | 0 | 1320067916 | False | 0 | c2vubzo | t3_lv0aa | null | t1_c2vubzo | t3_lv0aa | null | 1427807600 | 14 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Xdes | null | Wow, web pages need too much hierarchy. | null | 0 | 1320067935 | False | 0 | c2vuc1r | t3_lucrs | null | t1_c2vuc1r | t3_lucrs | null | 1427807601 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | I work QA (at R&D level) for a navigation software company. We need to independantly verify that all the algorithums the design department decided upon are actually the correct implmentation. | null | 0 | 1320068008 | False | 0 | c2vucal | t3_lv0aa | null | t1_c2vucal | t1_c2vtvi1 | null | 1427807602 | 12 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | srt19170 | null | Use Amazon Mechanical Turk and take the average of ten answers. | null | 0 | 1320068017 | False | 0 | c2vucbd | t3_lu9e9 | null | t1_c2vucbd | t3_lu9e9 | null | 1427807603 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | julesjacobs | null | Clojure and Racket are better for starting with because of their simplicity. The Common Lisp specification is over a thousand pages. | null | 0 | 1320068084 | False | 0 | c2vucib | t3_lul3i | null | t1_c2vucib | t1_c2vua6v | null | 1427807604 | -2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | salt44 | null | We were using it in HS-equivalent in the UK in 2008. | null | 0 | 1320068103 | False | 0 | c2vuckz | t3_lunsh | null | t1_c2vuckz | t1_c2vs6qz | null | 1427807604 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | no but how can I prove that the accuracy circle on my Navagation device is actaully a 95% confidence circle unless I can calculate that independantly. Ie from the simulated GPS timing signals of known values | null | 0 | 1320068123 | False | 0 | c2vucnl | t3_lv0aa | null | t1_c2vucnl | t1_c2vu484 | null | 1427807605 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | electronics-engineer | null | I don't post here much because most of the fine folks in /r/programming have no experience with the kind of programming I do - chip costs of around 5 cents, quantities shipped over 100,000 per hour64 bytes or less of RAM, optimized assembly language. | null | 0 | 1320068123 | False | 0 | c2vucnm | t3_lv0aa | null | t1_c2vucnm | t1_c2vtstq | null | 1427807605 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | canofsocks | null | Probably because they realized that the GNU GPL is annoying. | null | 0 | 1320068167 | False | 0 | c2vucsi | t3_lu441 | null | t1_c2vucsi | t1_c2vryrq | null | 1427807607 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | whatsamatteryou | null | [For anyone who wants to hear it](http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/284/Should-I-Stay-or-Should-I-Go). Act two. | null | 0 | 1320068169 | False | 0 | c2vucsq | t3_lv0aa | null | t1_c2vucsq | t1_c2vu1l2 | null | 1427807607 | 8 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Alexis_ | null | wow, you are COMPLETELY misunderstanding the point!
what if you want to store sqrt(6) in one row and sin(pi) in the next? you have no idea which is larger without evaluating.
Edit: How the hell should the computer know that sqrt(5) < sqrt(6) without actually reading the expression and turning it into a number, whi... | null | 0 | 1320068190 | False | 0 | c2vucuw | t3_lv3re | null | t1_c2vucuw | t1_c2vubfh | null | 1427807608 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | Ah, I was confusing Venkman and the DOM inspector. | null | 0 | 1320068207 | False | 0 | c2vucwi | t3_lucrs | null | t1_c2vucwi | t1_c2vtmxh | null | 1427807608 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | dist0rtedwave | null | I'd say the takeaway is that hoare logic lets us say "if these (pre)conditions hold before a program executes, we can guarantee that these (post)conditions hold after a program. An example would be
{x=3}
y:=x
{x=3, y=3}
If you do this sort of thing for an entire function or program, in a lot of cases you can use the ... | null | 0 | 1320068226 | False | 0 | c2vucya | t3_lv0aa | null | t1_c2vucya | t1_c2vu43l | null | 1427807609 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | stackoverflowsuck | null | Sorry. Well, I got it. My example is tiny part of every-possible-expression. | null | 0 | 1320068367 | False | 0 | c2vudfn | t3_lv3re | null | t1_c2vudfn | t1_c2vucuw | null | 1427807615 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | ravenex | null | B-but, I still want to create my own programming language and the world's best operating system in it... | null | 0 | 1320068443 | False | 0 | c2vudom | t3_lv0rx | null | t1_c2vudom | t3_lv0rx | null | 1427807617 | 38 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Nikola_S | null | Who is the author've, and what is the authorrself? | null | 0 | 1320068549 | False | 0 | c2vue0r | t3_lv0aa | null | t1_c2vue0r | t1_c2vu5uh | null | 1427807624 | 26 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | QA can get stuck at mid level never breaking above middle managment (and rember if your boss is not going up you can't replace him) as you tend not to be popular above a certain level as you can be seen to be getting in the way if things are going right and always to blame if they go wrong, so politically it can be a b... | null | 0 | 1320068553 | False | 0 | c2vue1f | t3_lv0aa | null | t1_c2vue1f | t1_c2vu4h0 | null | 1427807624 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | knome | null | Ah, the old `COMMON-LISP` scheme macro. And you thought `LOOP` was a monster.
| null | 0 | 1320068580 | False | 0 | c2vue4k | t3_lul3i | null | t1_c2vue4k | t1_c2vttrg | null | 1427807625 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | I'll just put this here with the rest of the fire.
Cool screensaver | null | 0 | 1320068634 | False | 0 | c2vuecf | t3_lv0aa | null | t1_c2vuecf | t1_c2vu26m | null | 1427807628 | 78 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | lampshadish2 | null | It's amazing how you're so sure you're correct, and yet you're completely wrong on points 1, 2, and 4. | null | 0 | 1320068758 | False | 0 | c2vuerp | t3_lui39 | null | t1_c2vuerp | t1_c2vu8uc | null | 1427807633 | -2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
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