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True | executex | null | Not proof just plain text. | null | 0 | 1320099991 | False | 0 | c2vyrmc | t3_lv0aa | null | t1_c2vyrmc | t1_c2vyi0o | null | 1427811149 | -2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | helm | null | What you do hear about people like Steve Jobs is that they sometimes inspire a feeling that what the engineers are doing is the most amazing thing in the world. That's when he wasn't ripping them a new one, of course. | null | 0 | 1320100016 | False | 0 | c2vyrq5 | t3_lv0aa | null | t1_c2vyrq5 | t1_c2vyddy | null | 1427811158 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | com2kid | null | > You are absurd or delusional. No one gets paid 80k straight out of college, very few rare cases that happens, or in the case they get to work for a top company like Microsoft / Apple / Amazon / Google, or some wall street high fidelity trading.
I live in the Pacific Northwest, where salaries are set by Microsoft ... | null | 0 | 1320100098 | False | 0 | c2vys39 | t3_lv0aa | null | t1_c2vys39 | t1_c2vycpl | null | 1427811156 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | zsakuL | null | Not sure which one you're referring to as weeks ago, but the [hqx](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hqx) algorithm doesn't produce as good results as Kopf Lischinski but it runs extremely fast, such that it can easily be used in real-time. Kopf Lischinski produce great results but would probably need all images/animations ... | null | 0 | 1320100337 | False | 0 | c2vyt40 | t3_lv9fz | null | t1_c2vyt40 | t1_c2vwbu3 | null | 1427811168 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | rossteferian | null | i believe a few snes emus have had an option to apply some of these techniques for quite some time
edit: looks like lots of emus/etc do it http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image_scaling#Applications_to_arcade_and_console_emulators
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True | noir_lord | null | Links? | null | 0 | 1320100375 | False | 0 | c2vyt97 | t3_lveee | null | t1_c2vyt97 | t1_c2vwqye | null | 1427811170 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | executex | null | Again what you are talking about is a minority of software companies the richest of the rich. No one in the Pacific Northwest can compete with Microsoft / Amazon / Google for salaries, and they don't have to, because those companies do not always have openings.
>Have you tried asking? Seriously?
Yes, and usually ... | null | 0 | 1320100385 | False | 0 | c2vytaq | t3_lv0aa | null | t1_c2vytaq | t1_c2vys39 | null | 1427811171 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | redjamjar | null | thanks ;) | null | 0 | 1320100388 | False | 0 | c2vytbe | t3_lvk4y | null | t1_c2vytbe | t1_c2vyrgn | null | 1427811171 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | code_zombie | null | Nothing stops a person from creating something on their own whether it be for personal use or to sell to others. If you want to do something cool and low-level, just buy some cheap hardware that you can flash or load with your own programs and have at it.
Something that works on $40 hardware could be very desirable i... | null | 0 | 1320100440 | False | 0 | c2vytji | t3_lvib8 | null | t1_c2vytji | t3_lvib8 | null | 1427811174 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Mjilaeck | null | It also kind of depends on the culture as well. With the older members of my company 'meeting' means we have to all go to a conference room and sit around a table or it doesn't count.
With my development team, it means that we open up a group chat window and keep working.
Really I also prefer the second method becaus... | null | 0 | 1320100451 | False | 0 | c2vytl2 | t3_lv0aa | null | t1_c2vytl2 | t1_c2vx5vi | null | 1427811178 | 29 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | gfuller23 | null | The people that get treated that way are probably your low level outsourced QA working in QA sweat factories. The higher skilled QA positions get more money and more respect. But this thread isn't about QA, it's about software engineers. They are not the same thing. | null | 0 | 1320100461 | True | 0 | c2vytn0 | t3_lv0aa | null | t1_c2vytn0 | t1_c2vvc76 | null | 1427811178 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | duckedtapedemon | null | Exactly. They recognized that they had a tool that could help people learn, and they could get it to a much broader audience with a simpler UI.
Notice I didn't say better UI though, WA is obviously very limited, while Mathematica is very powerful. The last math class I took was right when WA came out so I've never s... | null | 0 | 1320100710 | False | 0 | c2vyup5 | t3_lv0aa | null | t1_c2vyup5 | t1_c2vx7ch | null | 1427811188 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | sidneyc | null | That's what you said before. My point is that a system that cannot guarantee reliability on a single node can most certainly not guarantee it in a distributed setting, because that will always be harder.
It seems that you are claiming that MongoDB gives a reliability guarantee when run on multiple nodes that it cannot... | null | 0 | 1320100926 | False | 0 | c2vyvmy | t3_lrljb | null | t1_c2vyvmy | t1_c2vyjgf | null | 1427811201 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | Dude, I want to play that. I also want to port it to the iPhone. | null | 0 | 1320101011 | False | 0 | c2vyw1b | t3_lunsh | null | t1_c2vyw1b | t1_c2vt0xw | null | 1427811207 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | pkrecker | null | I think they are pumping up FB's recruiting standards to a godlike level. Yes, everyone they hire is good, but FB has issues finding talent just like every other company. Also, FB may not be the best place in the world to work: http://framethink.wordpress.com/2011/01/17/how-facebook-ships-code/ | null | 0 | 1320101015 | False | 0 | c2vyw1s | t3_lveee | null | t1_c2vyw1s | t3_lveee | null | 1427811207 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | RadarListener | null | I wrote a post about it here: http://ryanbigg.com/2011/10/screencast-pilot/. | null | 0 | 1320101124 | False | 0 | c2vywka | t3_lvpz5 | null | t1_c2vywka | t3_lvpz5 | null | 1427811213 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1320101166 | False | 0 | c2vywrq | t3_lv0aa | null | t1_c2vywrq | t1_c2vvs7t | null | 1427811216 | -1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | kyz | null | >I don't know why a binary that has no calls in it would really need nigh on a megabyte of libc code from the linker.
Because you get most of glibc and its i18n code/data.
* glibc is written to presume it's going to be the system's main shared C library. It places a high value on reusing code that's already in the... | null | 0 | 1320101194 | True | 0 | c2vywv6 | t3_lunsh | null | t1_c2vywv6 | t1_c2vx5mu | null | 1427811217 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | vingborg | null | BASIC? On a VIC-20? Jees, man, that's still, like, a gazillion steps up from SOLDERING THE BLEEDING TUBES TOGETHER!!! | null | 0 | 1320101328 | False | 0 | c2vyxf9 | t3_lvib8 | null | t1_c2vyxf9 | t3_lvib8 | null | 1427811226 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | ntr0p3 | null | I'd like to join Swedish UnionLeaders Guild 201.
That or the Swedish Bikini Inspectors Guild. | null | 0 | 1320101350 | False | 0 | c2vyxi7 | t3_lv0aa | null | t1_c2vyxi7 | t1_c2vxnj8 | null | 1427811226 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | ithika | null | Ah so you are trolling. | null | 0 | 1320101389 | False | 0 | c2vyxnu | t3_lu5zm | null | t1_c2vyxnu | t1_c2vylkx | null | 1427811228 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | _ack_ | null | You left out the part with the tea-bagging and llamas. | null | 0 | 1320101463 | False | 0 | c2vyxxg | t3_lv0aa | null | t1_c2vyxxg | t1_c2vyluc | null | 1427811231 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | kamatsu | null | Interestingly, the author incorrectly states the title of the art of computer programming as "the art of programming" and then abbreviates it as TAoP. | null | 0 | 1320101488 | False | 0 | c2vyy1c | t3_lvas4 | null | t1_c2vyy1c | t3_lvas4 | null | 1427811233 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | grendel97 | null | New York Times article referenced in the story: http://www.nytimes.com/1994/03/11/business/chip-makers-competing-creeds.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm
| null | 0 | 1320101510 | False | 0 | c2vyy4s | t3_lv0aa | null | t1_c2vyy4s | t3_lv0aa | null | 1427811235 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | Sadly, I worked for a company that also hired a psychologist to try to fix a bureaucracy problem. I was astounded that they thought it would help. | null | 0 | 1320101544 | False | 0 | c2vyyab | t3_lv0aa | null | t1_c2vyyab | t1_c2vu9kd | null | 1427811237 | 11 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | kking254 | null | No. Don't do that. | null | 0 | 1320101597 | False | 0 | c2vyyiz | t3_lvjon | null | t1_c2vyyiz | t3_lvjon | null | 1427811241 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | ntr0p3 | null | Depends entirely on the application.
If I'm writing an algorithm for missile guidance... I'd like to be able to prove the missile will get to the right spot, most of the time. | null | 0 | 1320101603 | False | 0 | c2vyyjs | t3_lv0aa | null | t1_c2vyyjs | t1_c2vyh8d | null | 1427811241 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | tugs_cub | null | In 1982 how many people were writing COBOL as a day job? It sucks but this is why human beings have hobbies. Like writing multi-user dungeons. | null | 0 | 1320101815 | False | 0 | c2vyzh1 | t3_lvib8 | null | t1_c2vyzh1 | t3_lvib8 | null | 1427811254 | 8 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Malfeasant | null | what's funny about that is i'd guess it's ridiculously easy for anyone who has taken an intro to computer science, while anyone who is self-taught with practical experience will look at that and say, "wha?"- so the article claiming that facebook doesn't care whether you have a degree is a little misleading. | null | 0 | 1320101824 | False | 0 | c2vyzik | t3_lveee | null | t1_c2vyzik | t1_c2vwz33 | null | 1427811261 | 9 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Xdes | null | WTF I just gave a pretty good reason (IMO) as to why "stupid" and other subjective words shouldn't be used in a professional environment meant to have concise direction.
Whatever. | null | 0 | 1320101921 | False | 0 | c2vyzyc | t3_lu5zm | null | t1_c2vyzyc | t1_c2vyxnu | null | 1427811260 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | SirBastille | null | An algorithm class would likely be more applicable than an intro to CS. In my algo class, those sort of write ups were a common occurance and how the majority of our labs/assignments were issued. In my intro classes, you were lucky to go beyond having to implement an array. | null | 0 | 1320102114 | False | 0 | c2vz0ty | t3_lveee | null | t1_c2vz0ty | t1_c2vyzik | null | 1427811271 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | MertsA | null | Wolfram Alpha also has a lot more data and is better at figuring out what you want it to do. | null | 0 | 1320102251 | False | 0 | c2vz1h9 | t3_lv0aa | null | t1_c2vz1h9 | t1_c2vx7ch | null | 1427811287 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Igggg | null | So the guy worked for free for a global multinational corporation that would then get the profits off his work? And he's a hero? And then people wonder why corporations abuse their workers? | null | 0 | 1320102427 | False | 0 | c2vz2aq | t3_lv0aa | null | t1_c2vz2aq | t3_lv0aa | null | 1427811290 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | EyeAmAhEr | null | This is a fun, excellently written book, which I have been working through for a while now. Am I the only one, though, who was disappointed to learn that it is not about actually soldering parts together? IMO, the cover etc. clearly implies that it is (partially) about building real hardware, not simulations. Still ...... | null | 0 | 1320102477 | False | 0 | c2vz2it | t3_lv39p | null | t1_c2vz2it | t3_lv39p | null | 1427811292 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | MertsA | null | "Whoops, must've left out a semicolon." or better yet "You mean /dev/null isn't web scale?" | null | 0 | 1320102542 | False | 0 | c2vz2u1 | t3_lv0aa | null | t1_c2vz2u1 | t1_c2vxdij | null | 1427811296 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Poddster | null | >If only instead of all that crap we were taught what was written in Petzold’s book, it would’ve been one of the most useful courses ever, because:
>It would really be about computer architecture and not about memorizing instructions or writing programs for a painfully outdated compiler;
>I would actually lea... | null | 0 | 1320102666 | False | 0 | c2vz3fl | t3_lvas4 | null | t1_c2vz3fl | t3_lvas4 | null | 1427811312 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Malfeasant | null | minor detail... that guy's destined for management. | null | 0 | 1320102735 | False | 0 | c2vz3s8 | t3_lvas4 | null | t1_c2vz3s8 | t1_c2vyy1c | null | 1427811315 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | I had a peer in college who majored in mathematics but decided to take some computer science courses for fun. His plan after undergrad was to earn a PHD at some school in Hungary (he had a scholarship lined up). I remember him mentioning a Facebook programming challenge and laughing at it saying, "Wow they build scaled... | null | 0 | 1320102756 | False | 0 | c2vz3vn | t3_lveee | null | t1_c2vz3vn | t1_c2vwrms | null | 1427811315 | 34 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | noiserr | null | From the article:
> The three of us spent the next six hours editing fifty thousand lines of code.
your comment:
> That is the insane part. It should not have required fifty thousand lines of processor-specific code to implement a graphing calculator!
Why do you think all 50K was processor specific (I am assumi... | null | 0 | 1320102799 | False | 0 | c2vz436 | t3_lv0aa | null | t1_c2vz436 | t1_c2vtvyb | null | 1427811318 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Malfeasant | null | heh see, i'm a college dropout so what do i know :D | null | 0 | 1320102800 | False | 0 | c2vz43c | t3_lveee | null | t1_c2vz43c | t1_c2vz0ty | null | 1427811318 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | sporkexec | null | > If there is no code in your link, it probably doesn't belong here.
/r/apple has a wonderful place for you. | null | 0 | 1320102832 | False | 0 | c2vz49o | t3_lui39 | null | t1_c2vz49o | t3_lui39 | null | 1427811320 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | noiserr | null | The author of the article already stated it was a C program (in his google talk). | null | 0 | 1320102900 | False | 0 | c2vz4lt | t3_lv0aa | null | t1_c2vz4lt | t1_c2vu8mp | null | 1427811324 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Poddster | null | More time coding, less time blogging. | null | 0 | 1320103018 | False | 0 | c2vz566 | t3_lvkvs | null | t1_c2vz566 | t3_lvkvs | null | 1427811328 | 8 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Xdes | null | I spend more time on programming for the infrastructure than actually programming the business logic. | null | 0 | 1320103230 | False | 0 | c2vz67s | t3_lvcga | null | t1_c2vz67s | t3_lvcga | null | 1427811338 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | rfurlan | null | You are making a leap by assuming that both requirements are related. Nodes may fail and regenerate and the cluster will remain healthy. If anything a distributed system is more resilient than a system running on a single machine. | null | 0 | 1320103595 | False | 0 | c2vz80c | t3_lrljb | null | t1_c2vz80c | t1_c2vyvmy | null | 1427811362 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | Hey, I *like* pasting libraries together. | null | 0 | 1320103731 | False | 0 | c2vz8og | t3_lvib8 | null | t1_c2vz8og | t3_lvib8 | null | 1427811370 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | IrishWilly | null | We'll need a distraction. | null | 0 | 1320103941 | False | 0 | c2vz9oj | t3_lv0aa | null | t1_c2vz9oj | t1_c2vwjkc | null | 1427811384 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Kinglink | null | You forgot the C Union. Rarely used correctly, but a great memory saver when utilized correctly. | null | 0 | 1320104117 | True | 0 | c2vzako | t3_lv0aa | null | t1_c2vzako | t1_c2vuqg6 | null | 1427811396 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1320104127 | False | 0 | c2vzams | t3_lv0aa | null | t1_c2vzams | t1_c2vye6q | null | 1427811397 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | hashmal | null | > Code documentation is one of those tasks that software developers like to slack on.
So… I'm the only one to find documentation exiting? It's one of my favorite tasks: explain to others how to use my code. (of course, documenting other's code is boring, but hell, who else is in better position to document code tha... | null | 0 | 1320104168 | False | 0 | c2vzatf | t3_lv4c8 | null | t1_c2vzatf | t3_lv4c8 | null | 1427811399 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | glenra | null | If you have a "knack" for breaking things, being in QA is cool because when you find a bug you can just verify it, document it, file the bug, and consider it a productive day, leaving somebody *else* the stress of having to actually fix it. :-)
You often get to define what constitutes "correct behavior" for the progra... | null | 0 | 1320104238 | False | 0 | c2vzb5t | t3_lv0aa | null | t1_c2vzb5t | t1_c2vumyu | null | 1427811405 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Kinglink | null | You're talknig about QA then not Programmers.
But seriously. There are great QA people but they are paid shit, because they have very low skill thresholds. go to a local college and find people who want to test your game on break. Cheap short term labor. People WANT to test games because they think it's a way into... | null | 0 | 1320104268 | False | 0 | c2vzbbf | t3_lv0aa | null | t1_c2vzbbf | t1_c2vvc76 | null | 1427811408 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | 3_14159rate | null | I worked for a power company as an intern and they had a union for their programmers.
Apparently when the company had decided to get an it department the person in charge of that kind of thing thought it sounded like a union job and made it that way.
anyways, I don't think they liked being in the union. Their hours ... | null | 0 | 1320104279 | False | 0 | c2vzbda | t3_lv0aa | null | t1_c2vzbda | t1_c2vubpt | null | 1427811408 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | MacEnvy | null | In the same way that stoners "worship" signs for High Street in any given town, sure. It's exciting and a cool story, plus you get a meaningful memento for later. | null | 0 | 1320104290 | False | 0 | c2vzbew | t3_lv0aa | null | t1_c2vzbew | t1_c2vywrq | null | 1427811408 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | sidneyc | null | You seem to be confusing redundancy (which affects the probability of failure) and reliability guarantees (which guarantees non-failure under certain assumptions with 100% certainty).
My original statement was that, if MongoDB cannot provide reliability guarantees on a single-node instance, it is a toy. I said that be... | null | 0 | 1320104331 | False | 0 | c2vzbmn | t3_lrljb | null | t1_c2vzbmn | t1_c2vz80c | null | 1427811411 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | IrishWilly | null | *Experienced* programmers that already have a history of shipped titles are in demand. Entry level dev jobs in the game industry are still basically of the mindset 'you should be happy you get to work in the games industry'. And of course I'm not suggesting entry level should be paid the same as lead programmers or sen... | null | 0 | 1320104416 | False | 0 | c2vzc1p | t3_lv0aa | null | t1_c2vzc1p | t1_c2vvldm | null | 1427811416 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | MacEnvy | null | Incidentally, [call center unions](http://www.nccu.co.za/) are in fact popping up in various places around the world because of that exploitation. | null | 0 | 1320104452 | False | 0 | c2vzc82 | t3_lv0aa | null | t1_c2vzc82 | t1_c2vwkje | null | 1427811418 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Kinglink | null | It's amazing that someone who breaks into your office, programs on your computers, can even ask for money.
It sounded like in the story, they didn't want money, they just wanted to do it. I wonder if that was a hindsight thing "Well they did it on their own, but maybe we should hire them back if they are that dedi... | null | 0 | 1320104501 | False | 0 | c2vzcgn | t3_lv0aa | null | t1_c2vzcgn | t1_c2vuhuf | null | 1427811421 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | "We finished in January 1994. Graphing Calculator has been part of the Macintosh ever since. Teachers around the world use it as an animated blackboard to illustrate abstract concepts visually. It shipped on more than twenty million machines. It never officially existed."
That was fucking inspiring. | null | 0 | 1320104539 | False | 0 | c2vzcny | t3_lv0aa | null | t1_c2vzcny | t3_lv0aa | null | 1427811433 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | glenra | null | Some QA folks write code in order to test , say, an API. Or write test frameworks, or at various levels help the developers isolate their bugs. Others don't write code but do make use of deep subject-matter expertise to determine what constitutes correct behavior. For instance, if you were writing software for use by b... | null | 0 | 1320104547 | False | 0 | c2vzcp5 | t3_lv0aa | null | t1_c2vzcp5 | t1_c2vu484 | null | 1427811433 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | It's amazing what working for no money can do. | null | 0 | 1320104576 | False | 0 | c2vzcuh | t3_lv0aa | null | t1_c2vzcuh | t1_c2vuiyk | null | 1427811428 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | ithika | null | The phrase in question is:
> Not only does this prevent the programmer
from properly expressing her intent, but stupid errors in type-level
programs simply cause type-level evaluation to get stuck rather
than properly generating an error (see §2).
If (a) you think that subjective words shouldn't or aren't used in ... | null | 0 | 1320104650 | False | 0 | c2vzd76 | t3_lu5zm | null | t1_c2vzd76 | t1_c2vyzyc | null | 1427811434 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | MacEnvy | null | Sounds like a lot of Craigslist ads I've seen. | null | 0 | 1320104679 | False | 0 | c2vzdc7 | t3_lv0aa | null | t1_c2vzdc7 | t1_c2vv18o | null | 1427811435 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | Stackoverflow FTW | null | 0 | 1320104709 | False | 0 | c2vzdhi | t3_lv0aa | null | t1_c2vzdhi | t1_c2vvb6p | null | 1427811436 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | cbuosi | null | Yeah, but they use the Interpolation, Eagle, etc filters, not the fancy nice filter from TFA. | null | 0 | 1320104754 | False | 0 | c2vzdqi | t3_lv9fz | null | t1_c2vzdqi | t1_c2vyt5p | null | 1427811438 | 8 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | You know, I got mixed up and was thinking of the one that takes a pixelizedated image such as someone's face and attempts to do that Hollywood-esque "zoom in, enhance!" thing. Totally different. | null | 0 | 1320104775 | False | 0 | c2vzdut | t3_lv9fz | null | t1_c2vzdut | t1_c2vyt40 | null | 1427811439 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | Care to elaborate? Not trying to be a dick, just curious. | null | 0 | 1320104848 | False | 0 | c2vze7c | t3_lvjon | null | t1_c2vze7c | t1_c2vyyiz | null | 1427811448 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | glenra | null | If you dove in deeply enough to solve *this* bug you might not have the time/energy/knowledge/brainpower to find the next dozen bugs elsewhere in the system. Revel in your larger scope! There's also a crucial difference in mindset: the QA person *expects* things to break, so he finds ways in which they do. Whereas the ... | null | 0 | 1320104859 | False | 0 | c2vze9i | t3_lv0aa | null | t1_c2vze9i | t1_c2vv9vt | null | 1427811448 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | zanotam | null | Missing semi-colons will simply lead to the thing not compiling... which would be obvious.... | null | 0 | 1320104877 | False | 0 | c2vzec7 | t3_lv0aa | null | t1_c2vzec7 | t1_c2vz2u1 | null | 1427811446 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | btreecat | null | This is why when some devs in my office needed a quick app they went with asp.net because it was that or django and they spent 5hrs trying to get django going on a server and got no where :-( | null | 0 | 1320104882 | False | 0 | c2vzecx | t3_lvcga | null | t1_c2vzecx | t3_lvcga | null | 1427811446 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | AReallyGoodName | null | Heck even those of us who went through university wouldn't be able to give you such solutions without first sitting down and thinking about it for a while. I wrote the damn towers of hanoi program years ago when learning about recursive functions. But I certainly couldn't remember it off by heart.
It's part of the rea... | null | 0 | 1320104888 | False | 0 | c2vzee7 | t3_lveee | null | t1_c2vzee7 | t1_c2vyzik | null | 1427811446 | 10 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | TrevelyanInc | null | Thanks for making sure that useful software made it to prime-time.
It's amazing that you can remember so many technical details. I don't know the names of the variables from my last project, and I left it a week ago. | null | 0 | 1320104943 | False | 0 | c2vzen2 | t3_lv0aa | null | t1_c2vzen2 | t1_c2vxvdo | null | 1427811450 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | b-nasty55 | null | It is a pretty great book. For all the programmers complaining about pasting libraries together, read this book and you'll know more than most in the industry about the h/w details.
Even if you know this stuff (I did when I read it), the narrative is cool how he builds ideas until it clicks together as a modern machin... | null | 0 | 1320104960 | False | 0 | c2vzepi | t3_lvas4 | null | t1_c2vzepi | t3_lvas4 | null | 1427811451 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | Nobody ever pays me in gum :( | null | 0 | 1320104964 | False | 0 | c2vzeps | t3_lv0aa | null | t1_c2vzeps | t1_c2vut6m | null | 1427811451 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | erikd | null | I also work on a compiler and we also have a test suite.
However, we have a section of the testsuite tree called Broken-skip. All currently failing tests are under the Broken-skip part of the tree and those tests never get run during a normal run of the test suite.
New tests, that do not yet pass go in Broken-skip. ... | null | 0 | 1320105007 | False | 0 | c2vzex6 | t3_lvk4y | null | t1_c2vzex6 | t1_c2vytbe | null | 1427811453 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | DiogenesTheSincere | null | Why?*
*This question is purely out of interest and not a challenge. | null | 0 | 1320105050 | False | 0 | c2vzf4i | t3_lvib8 | null | t1_c2vzf4i | t1_c2vz8og | null | 1427811456 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Xdes | null | One will see that that sentence tells one nothing about the errors. It says they are stupid without telling one how, in the author's opinion, they are stupid (or even give a paraphrase of a stupid error).
Why even include it if it doesn't have any meaning? What I mean by this is why don't they get the essay reviewed b... | null | 0 | 1320105327 | True | 0 | c2vzgg0 | t3_lu5zm | null | t1_c2vzgg0 | t1_c2vzd76 | null | 1427811474 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | elder_george | null | The [first 'compiler'](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A-0_programming_language) ever, developed by Grace Hopper's team was actually a linker: it combined predefined functions together.
Since 1960s the best minds of computer science and industry worked on averting what was called '[software crisis](http://en.wikipedia.or... | null | 0 | 1320105388 | False | 0 | c2vzgr7 | t3_lvib8 | null | t1_c2vzgr7 | t3_lvib8 | null | 1427811478 | 53 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | JL235 | null | JavaFX is great, a step in the right direction, but still far behind the alternatives out there.
Old examples, like the Java Store, were also shockingly bad. | null | 0 | 1320105471 | False | 0 | c2vzh5a | t3_lvs01 | null | t1_c2vzh5a | t3_lvs01 | null | 1427811492 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1320105483 | False | 0 | c2vzh7q | t3_lv0aa | null | t1_c2vzh7q | t1_c2vzbew | null | 1427811491 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1320105486 | False | 0 | c2vzh8c | t3_lv0aa | null | t1_c2vzh8c | t1_c2vtwb5 | null | 1427811491 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | [deleted] | null | > The pyparsing grammar shown will parse not only Hello, World! but also any of:
>
> * Hey, Jude!
> * Hi, Mom!
> * G'day, Mate!
> * Yo, Adrian!
> * Howdy, Pardner!
> * Whattup, Dude!
And also any of:
* Later, hosers!
* Heh, heh!
* Oh, shit!
* Really, enough!
* ... | null | 0 | 1141192587 | False | 0 | c2jgi | t3_2h7q | null | null | t3_2h7q | null | 1473821760 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | i5bala | null | Simple Struts Tutorial !! | null | 0 | 1141201540 | False | 0 | c2jqi | t3_2jqg | null | null | t3_2jqg | null | 1473821766 | -2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | wreel | null | Don't the first and fourth point pretty much invalidate the whole article. Given that we're on 2.4 and 2.3 is prevalent. | null | 0 | 1141215106 | False | 0 | c2k1b | t3_2hbi | null | null | t3_2hbi | null | 1473821771 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | vetler | null | Except that closures are more than anonymous methods. ;) | null | 0 | 1141220727 | False | 0 | c2k7v | t3_2k0x | null | null | t3_2k0x | null | 1473821775 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | [deleted] | null | Seems more like he hates the result of people using them in situations where something simpler would do.
So when is a good time to use a design pattern? | null | 0 | 1141220808 | False | 0 | c2k7y | t3_2jny | null | null | t3_2jny | null | 1473821775 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | tobytripp | null | I try to use them where they reduce complexity and/or enhance communication. A class named TransactionVisitor communicates more about its purpose and responsibility than TransactionManager or TransactionHandler.
I don't think it's helpful to bash patterns because many developers misuse them. | null | 0 | 1141223881 | False | 0 | c2kbk | t3_2jny | null | null | t1_c2k7y | null | 1473821777 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | lynxcat73 | null | that seems to be a terminology confusion on behalf of whoever named this part of C#; the demonstrated example does seem to implement actual closures. (it doesn't exactly stress-test anything, though, so who knows what devils may be in those details...) | null | 0 | 1141224983 | False | 0 | c2kdf | t3_2k0x | null | null | t1_c2k7v | null | 1473821777 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | fnord123 | null | He implements a Singleton (something to avoid!), a Factory (something unneeded in Ruby due to Duck Typing - and evidence of Ruby's power as it doesn't need to go out of it's way to implement a Factory), and a Visitor/Iterator.
I think this particular article is weak due to the examples, but if he expanded it to some... | null | 0 | 1141225921 | False | 0 | c2kfe | t3_2gwi | null | null | t3_2gwi | null | 1473821779 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | moe | null | the reduce() example is a strawman. nobody sane would use reduce() to emulate sum() | null | 0 | 1141228490 | False | 0 | c2kk3 | t3_2hbi | null | null | t3_2hbi | null | 1473821781 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | leoboiko | null | Much better in [free verse](http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/story-of-mel.html).
| null | 0 | 1141234183 | False | 0 | c2krd | t3_2knm | null | null | t3_2knm | null | 1473821785 | 12 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | --k | null | Help!!! He's influencing me!!! | null | 0 | 1141235791 | False | 0 | c2kt8 | t3_2k1o | null | null | t3_2k1o | null | 1473821786 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | [deleted] | null | Nice use of Infogami. | null | 1 | 1141236228 | False | 0 | c2ktm | t3_2k1o | null | null | t3_2k1o | null | 1473821786 | -2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | [deleted] | null | what a dupe. http://reddit.com/info?id=19304 | null | 1 | 1141238806 | False | 0 | c2kws | t3_2knm | null | null | t3_2knm | null | 1473821789 | -4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | [deleted] | null | That was two months ago. Give him a break. | null | 0 | 1141239210 | False | 0 | c2kxg | t3_2knm | null | null | t1_c2kws | null | 1473821789 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | brendankohler | null | ...which brings me to the point that reddit should do a source comparison with previous submissions and provide possible duplicate links to the submitter so that they can make their own educated decision on the matter.
It shouldn't be too hard to develop an algorithm to extract the rarest words and store them for ma... | null | 0 | 1141240479 | False | 0 | c2l05 | t3_2knm | null | null | t1_c2kws | null | 1473821790 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | adnam | null | > His code was not easy for someone else to modify
Possibly the understatement of the year. | null | 1 | 1141241317 | False | 0 | c2l1p | t3_2knm | null | null | t3_2knm | null | 1473821790 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | yanilkr | null | Nice article. But the funny thing is a web page with javascript tutorial gives a javascript error in ie. Managers dont buy it. | null | 0 | 1141241597 | False | 0 | c2l22 | t3_2k1o | null | null | t3_2k1o | null | 1473821792 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | leoc | null | Searching Reddit for "The story of Mel, a real programmer" (currently) shows the duplicated post as the fifth hit. Reddit could probably cut down significantly on the number of accidental duplicates by searching on the title as well as the contents of an optional "dup search" field, then showing the submitter the top r... | null | 0 | 1141241934 | False | 0 | c2l28 | t3_2knm | null | null | t1_c2kxg | null | 1473821792 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | brendankohler | null | No that's definitely not enough.
"A real programmer he was" wasn't even close enough for me to merit clicking on the link. I'm not going to go through every other submission with "real" and "programmer" in it.
I really think a keyword comparison of the whole document is a better solution. | null | 0 | 1141242231 | False | 0 | c2l2f | t3_2knm | null | null | t1_c2l28 | null | 1473821792 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
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