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null | zhyla | null | Most aren't too new but this was the first time I'd seen reference to the enumerate() generator. My loops just got one line shorter. | null | 0 | 1143753418 | False | 0 | c3pzi | t3_3ppe | null | null | t3_3ppe | null | 1473822542 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | moozer | null | It's nice to know how many visitors your site gets. To get you started I show you how to log statistics of all your visitors, in a simple way. The log will be saved in a text file. | null | 0 | 1143755551 | False | 0 | c3q1b | t3_3q1a | null | null | t3_3q1a | null | 1473822543 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | [deleted] | null | I prefer
while True:
instead of
While 1:
| null | 0 | 1143755881 | False | 0 | c3q1p | t3_3ppe | null | null | t3_3ppe | null | 1473822543 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | dmh2000 | null | "Languages To Learn
Tired of C, C++, and Java? Try CLOS, Dylan, Eiffel, Objective C, Prolog, Smalltalk, or TOM. Each of these languages has different capabilities and a different "flavor." Try a small project at home using one or more of them. "
I would suggest that these days, the languages to chose from wou... | null | 0 | 1143756317 | False | 0 | c3q1z | t3_3od1 | null | null | t3_3od1 | null | 1473822543 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | shaurz | null | A nice trick I like is creating dictionaries with generators, e.g.
d = dict((key, 0) for key in keys)
instead of
d = {}
for key in keys: d[key] = 0 | null | 0 | 1143759913 | False | 0 | c3q4n | t3_3ppe | null | null | t3_3ppe | null | 1473822545 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | vagif | null | >vim provides programmable interfaces for all these languages.
There's principal difference between providing interfaces, and providing programming environment.
Practically all editors provide interfaces, even MS Word.
But only emacs is live programmable ENVIRONMENT. | null | 0 | 1143761076 | False | 0 | c3q56 | t3_3nix | null | null | t1_c3pro | null | 1473822545 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | Topper1 | null | Me too. just seems better, because you're basically evaluating whether an object evaluates to True, which 1 does, but so does 2, 3 "1" etc. | null | 0 | 1143761972 | False | 0 | c3q5j | t3_3ppe | null | null | t1_c3q1p | null | 1473822545 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | tobyhutton | null | You can write some quite fantastic apps using vim as your platform, it's just not as nice or easy as with emacs. | null | 0 | 1143767879 | False | 0 | c3q8a | t3_3nix | null | null | t1_c3q56 | null | 1473822546 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | bugninja | null | So, as a web developer, I assume that I can send Eolas the bill for updating all my sites right? I sure as hell am not going to bill my clients for this, it isn't them asking for the change.
We need a class action suit against Eolas now for all the time it will take developers to update websites, then maybe they'll... | null | 0 | 1143788803 | False | 0 | c3qhw | t3_3q4h | null | null | t3_3q4h | null | 1473822552 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | fredrikj | null | Normally this'd be too pedantic, but since the topic is efficiency: "while 1:" is faster. Try a loop with two statements in the body (a simple arithmetic operation and a break condition); the while 1: version should be about 40% faster. This happens because True is actually a variable, so the interpreter needs to look ... | null | 0 | 1143794249 | False | 0 | c3qk1 | t3_3ppe | null | null | t1_c3q1p | null | 1473822553 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | msabramo | null | Easy way to do multiple dispatch in Ruby | null | 0 | 1143796285 | False | 0 | c3ql3 | t3_3ql0 | null | null | t3_3ql0 | null | 1473822553 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | Andys | null | Yep, this is normal. Lets see, what was I using 5 years ago? CGIs in Perl calling on an old version of a Postgres database that didn't even support columns bigger than 8kb.
I'd be horrified to have to still use that stuff today. On the other hand, my knowledge of the HTTP protocol is just as useful today as it wa... | null | 0 | 1143797118 | False | 0 | c3qlu | t3_3nrd | null | null | t3_3nrd | null | 1473822553 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | Andys | null | Thanks for the interesting tidbit. But it doesn't strike me as very "Ruby-esque". What would you use this for, and what about duck typing, how does this fit in with that? | null | 0 | 1143803378 | False | 0 | c3qo4 | t3_3ql0 | null | null | t3_3ql0 | null | 1473822554 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | brianmce | null | Some of this has been superseded by 2.4. For instance the DSU example can be often done even more efficiently with the new key parameter. eg. to sort based on the second element of a tuple:
items.sort(key=operator.itemgetter(1))
Similarly, efficiently sorting in reverse order can be done without the extra r... | null | 0 | 1143807694 | False | 0 | c3qpg | t3_3ppe | null | null | t3_3ppe | null | 1473822556 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | oofoe | null | The author right to mention the mention the bit about joining strings instead of concatenating them twice... I recently was able to cut the run time of another programmer's code from 10 minutes to thirty seconds by changing the plusses to list joins. It makes a HUGE difference. | null | 0 | 1143808639 | False | 0 | c3qpt | t3_3ppe | null | null | t3_3ppe | null | 1473822556 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | summo0 | null | a nice one! | null | 0 | 1143809254 | False | 0 | c3qq3 | t3_3qn4 | null | null | t3_3qn4 | null | 1473822556 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | toastspork | null | Here's a hint. If you are going to write an article about great (free) fonts, *don't* include samples as images that you then *re-size* in the HTML. It makes them look crappy and aliased. | null | 0 | 1143812965 | False | 0 | c3qsb | t3_3qn4 | null | null | t3_3qn4 | null | 1473822557 | 9 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | Rafe | null | Does it? What's your browser? | null | 0 | 1143813393 | False | 0 | c3qsi | t3_3qn4 | null | null | t1_c3qsb | null | 1473822557 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | summo0 | null | everythink looks OK for me | null | 0 | 1143817307 | False | 0 | c3qv7 | t3_3qn4 | null | null | t1_c3qsb | null | 1473822558 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | keithb | null | don't know what toastpoks' using, but I'm here with Firefox 1.5 on WinXP and many of the fonts look pretty shabby. It'll be interesting to compare with Firefox and Safari on my Mac when I get home. | null | 0 | 1143820292 | False | 0 | c3qxh | t3_3qn4 | null | null | t1_c3qsi | null | 1473822558 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | dhick | null | I think you're right on with that idea. I've seen the same thing. | null | 0 | 1143820777 | False | 0 | c3qy0 | t3_3pml | null | null | t3_3pml | null | 1473822560 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | rfisher | null | Yeah, they look bad on my Win XP workstation here at work with LCD monitor in Firefox. Viewing the image itself (at its normal resolution) & it looks fine.
MSIE doesn't show the problem, but—for some reason—it's ignoring the img tag width (because it specifies only width & not height?) &a... | null | 0 | 1143821445 | False | 0 | c3qyi | t3_3qn4 | null | null | t1_c3qsi | null | 1473822560 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | [deleted] | null | It doesn't happen in Internet Explorer because IE doesn't understand the max-width CSS property. In other browsers (*edit: except those on a Mac*), what happens is that the shapes are jagged along the diagonals because the scaling algorithm is dumb. In Firefox, you can right-click an image and select "View Image" to se... | null | 0 | 1143821486 | False | 0 | c3qyl | t3_3qn4 | null | null | t1_c3qsi | null | 1473822560 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | msabramo | null | Comparison of code generation tool CodeWorker with AutoGen, with examples | null | 0 | 1143823029 | False | 0 | c3r00 | t3_3qzy | null | null | t3_3qzy | null | 1473822560 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | Rafe | null | "Other browsers" doesn't include Safari or Camino, which must already have bilinear interpolation. I guess they call something in Cocoa or Quartz to do it. Do the Windows libraries not have such a function? | null | 0 | 1143823112 | False | 0 | c3r05 | t3_3qn4 | null | null | t1_c3qyl | null | 1473822560 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | [deleted] | null | Oh sorry... I counted all the Windows and Linux browsers I could think of and assumed I was being sufficiently cross-platform. :)
*Edit: Ignore this paragraph; see Rafe's reply.* You sounded uncertain, so I did some searching, and it looks like [Safari's image scaling is poor too](http://earthlingsoft.net/ssp/blog/2... | null | 0 | 1143824833 | False | 0 | c3r1y | t3_3qn4 | null | null | t1_c3r05 | null | 1473822561 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | [deleted] | null | Wow, you really mutilated [toast](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toast)[spork](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spork)'s username. :) | null | 0 | 1143825345 | False | 0 | c3r2g | t3_3qn4 | null | null | t1_c3qxh | null | 1473822561 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1143827099 | False | 0 | c3r3z | t3_3qn4 | null | null | t3_3qn4 | null | 1473822563 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | Rafe | null | That article is from mid-2003, Safari's early days. Safari might still have been in public beta at that point. I think the problem it describes has long been fixed. | null | 0 | 1143827720 | False | 0 | c3r4m | t3_3qn4 | null | null | t1_c3r1y | null | 1473822563 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | djwhitt | null | Programming is backwards... if you compare it to the wrong fields. Compare programming to writing, and things line up a little better. | null | 0 | 1143831677 | False | 0 | c3r7o | t3_3r28 | null | null | t3_3r28 | null | 1473822564 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | Baseline | null | Wow... This looks like it might perfectly meet my needs. I've been wanting to have a nice replacement for the 'struct' module for years, and this looks phenomenal. | null | 0 | 1143831947 | False | 0 | c3r7u | t3_3qjz | null | null | t3_3qjz | null | 1473822564 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | EliGottlieb | null | How DO you implement function pointers in Java? | null | 0 | 1143833780 | False | 0 | c3r97 | t3_3pck | null | null | t1_c3pw3 | null | 1473822565 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | [deleted] | null | Just in time to demonstrate the fallacy of Paul Graham's assertion that software patents are never used. | null | 0 | 1143833966 | False | 0 | c3r9d | t3_3q4h | null | null | t3_3q4h | null | 1473822565 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | RyanGWU82 | null | I've written a rejoinder to this article called "[How Do I Impress With My Code Sample?](http://www.ryanpark.org/2006/03/code-sample.html)" I'm interested to know what people *are* looking for in a code sample, and what *I* should be looking for if I receive code from prospective employees. I'd be interested to hear y... | null | 0 | 1143837008 | False | 0 | c3rbr | t3_3r5p | null | null | t3_3r5p | null | 1473822567 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | [deleted] | null | Ad-whore.
Seems inspired by the "dicks and assholes" rant from "Team America" | null | 1 | 1143837182 | False | 0 | c3rbw | t3_3qy8 | null | null | t3_3qy8 | null | 1473822567 | -5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | predditor | null | Reminds me more of the comedian who said something like "everyone who drives faster than me is an asshole, and everyone who drives slower than me is a moron." | null | 0 | 1143837548 | False | 0 | c3rcb | t3_3qy8 | null | null | t1_c3rbw | null | 1473822567 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | predditor | null | *If you are a good, conscientious candidate, you have a nice suit*
Stop right there, cowboy. | null | 0 | 1143837786 | False | 0 | c3rci | t3_3r5p | null | null | t3_3r5p | null | 1473822567 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | probablycorey | null | Anyone that doesn't already follow these tips is most likely a lost cause. | null | 0 | 1143839894 | False | 0 | c3rdi | t3_3r5p | null | null | t3_3r5p | null | 1473822567 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | amichail | null | I don't believe potential employers should just look at code samples. They should also watch you code "live" over weeks on a large open source project of your choosing. In this way, they will get a more accurate picture of what you would do on a daily basis if they hired you.
I'm working on such a system (which ha... | null | 0 | 1143840207 | False | 0 | c3rdk | t3_3r5p | null | null | t3_3r5p | null | 1473822567 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | mikepurvis | null | I was thinking the same thing.
On the other hand, I do consider PHP "apps" and PHP "quickies" to be very different beasts. I'm not going to bust out objects and XML and whatever, just to make a [quickie photo gallery](http://www.eng.uwaterloo.ca/~mjpurvis/pics/index.phps). Then again, I still separate processing fro... | null | 0 | 1143842359 | False | 0 | c3ree | t3_3r5p | null | null | t1_c3rdi | null | 1473822568 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | josephgrossberg | null | Yeah, that's overstating it. Fixed. | null | 0 | 1143842799 | False | 0 | c3rej | t3_3r5p | null | null | t1_c3rci | null | 1473822568 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | josephgrossberg | null | I wish our recruiters could glean this before passing along candidates. | null | 0 | 1143842823 | False | 0 | c3rek | t3_3r5p | null | null | t1_c3rdi | null | 1473822568 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1143843142 | False | 0 | c3reu | t3_3r5p | null | null | t1_c3ree | null | 1473822568 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | automatthew | null | [Why's Camping](http://code.whytheluckystiff.net/camping/) | null | 0 | 1143843234 | False | 0 | c3rev | t3_3r5p | null | null | t1_c3ree | null | 1473822568 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | josephgrossberg | null | I think that is a great idea, but very time-consuming and ambitious.
Plus, there's the (pop) Heisenberg effect -- if someone's watching, you code differently. :) | null | 0 | 1143843493 | False | 0 | c3rez | t3_3r5p | null | null | t1_c3rdk | null | 1473822568 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | jdunck | null | Wow. Which are you?
Mark Pilgrim did a lot of great writing, and now uses ads to defray the cost of keeping the content up, even though he doesn't blog actively any more.
Or would you like to pay his bandwidth bill, dear John? | null | 0 | 1143844548 | False | 0 | c3rfi | t3_3qy8 | null | null | t1_c3rbw | null | 1473822568 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | moe | null | heh, "mendacious motherfucker" - the guy knows how to turn a phrase. | null | 0 | 1143845472 | False | 0 | c3rfy | t3_3r5p | null | null | t3_3r5p | null | 1473822568 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | amichail | null | But this is something that takes place over a long period of time. Moreover, you may not know initially that the people watching are even potential employers. They could be anybody.
| null | 0 | 1143846528 | False | 0 | c3rgs | t3_3r5p | null | null | t1_c3rez | null | 1473822568 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
null | predditor | null | *If you are a good, conscientious candidate, you have clean clothes*
Slow down, champ! | null | 0 | 1143846855 | False | 0 | c3rh0 | t3_3r5p | null | null | t1_c3rej | null | 1473822570 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | MrRipVanWinkle | null | It is all good now, my public reddit face. | null | 0 | 1314835226 | False | 0 | c2gmvk3 | t3_k07at | null | t1_c2gmvk3 | t1_c2gkk5a | null | 1427543914 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | nessaj | null | So in about four or five generations most, if not all the protected surnames will become unprotected and will switch places the current common ones? Nice time-bomb prank your ancestors pulled, I like it. | null | 0 | 1314835245 | False | 0 | c2gmvmt | t3_jzpo5 | null | t1_c2gmvmt | t1_c2gl5rn | null | 1427543915 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | bloodwine | null | The PHP and RoR hate is likely due to the same reason: they are so easy to use that there are a lot of bad, poorly coded projects out there written in both languages (yes, I know RoR is a framework and Ruby is the language, but for the sake of argument they are treated as the same in the public mindshare)
I can't spea... | null | 0 | 1314835352 | False | 0 | c2gmw32 | t3_jzvwv | null | t1_c2gmw32 | t1_c2gknss | null | 1427543920 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | MrRipVanWinkle | null | For some who still know it by another name: this is Hudson, renamed. | null | 0 | 1314835383 | False | 0 | c2gmw7h | t3_jziok | null | t1_c2gmw7h | t3_jziok | null | 1427543922 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | obeythehypnotoad | null | Yeah, yeah, nice examples about tackling locale issues with Collate. Maybe I missed it, but I didn't see any suggestion that sort actually be modified. | null | 0 | 1314835678 | False | 0 | c2gmxic | t3_k0jua | null | t1_c2gmxic | t1_c2gmjqv | null | 1427543940 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | chronoBG | null | Yep, sprockets makes real non-nightmarish js/coffeescript development viable.
| null | 0 | 1314836110 | False | 0 | c2gmzci | t3_jzvwv | null | t1_c2gmzci | t1_c2gggw9 | null | 1427543964 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | chronoBG | null | Well, it IS a new version... | null | 0 | 1314836188 | False | 0 | c2gmzop | t3_jzvwv | null | t1_c2gmzop | t1_c2gj5g6 | null | 1427543968 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Jacqula | null | Thanks for the article.
Also, when asking for a surname, when a two-lettered surname is used, don't say 'error' something is wrong, there should be at least 3 characters in the surname field. | null | 0 | 1314836192 | False | 0 | c2gmzpg | t3_jzpo5 | null | t1_c2gmzpg | t3_jzpo5 | null | 1427543968 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | YuleTideCamel | null | In an ideal world that shouldn't matter since the IEnumerable should be raw data and completely disconnected from the database at that point. | null | 0 | 1314836355 | False | 0 | c2gn0f8 | t3_k0j2t | null | t1_c2gn0f8 | t1_c2gmoca | null | 1427543978 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | hagbard2323 | null | Can someone elaborate the utility of this application? Much appreciated | null | 0 | 1314836460 | False | 0 | c2gn0uz | t3_k0q6s | null | t1_c2gn0uz | t3_k0q6s | null | 1427543984 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | YuleTideCamel | null | I agree with the sentiments of the article. The one point of contention is that in all cases you should never expose an IQueryable beyond a repository. While I understand the importance of terminating at the repository level and exposing an IList as much as possible, there are casese where you want to punch a whole thr... | null | 0 | 1314836512 | False | 0 | c2gn13f | t3_k0j2t | null | t1_c2gn13f | t3_k0j2t | null | 1428195817 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | PBAsydney | null | Or zip codes that demand five numbers. We use 3 number postal codes in Iceland. | null | 0 | 1314836659 | False | 0 | c2gn1pu | t3_jzpo5 | null | t1_c2gn1pu | t1_c2gg9om | null | 1427543995 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | tasteface | null | Just in case you didn't realize it, you're getting downvoted because you're racist. Just wanted you to know. That's all. | null | 0 | 1314836745 | False | 0 | c2gn22t | t3_jzpo5 | null | t1_c2gn22t | t1_c2ggpe5 | null | 1427544009 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Brillegeit | null | > And it was not 200.000 people with those surnames, but 200.000 different surnames.
Which is exactly what my post says. :) | null | 0 | 1314836854 | False | 0 | c2gn2j0 | t3_jzpo5 | null | t1_c2gn2j0 | t1_c2gl5rn | null | 1427544013 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | theoldboy | null | TLDR;
Using incorrect sort comparison function produces incorrect sort results. | null | 0 | 1314836927 | False | 0 | c2gn2u6 | t3_k0jua | null | t1_c2gn2u6 | t3_k0jua | null | 1427544015 | 19 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | This sounds like an opportunity for a new webservice API.
Give it a name, and it calculates and derives what it thinks the person would like to be called as. | null | 0 | 1314836937 | False | 0 | c2gn2vt | t3_jzpo5 | null | t1_c2gn2vt | t3_jzpo5 | null | 1427544015 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | That depends entirely on your target market. "wrong" is very, very audience dependent. | null | 0 | 1314836951 | False | 0 | c2gn2yc | t3_jzpo5 | null | t1_c2gn2yc | t3_jzpo5 | null | 1427544016 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | PBAsydney | null | Alveg sammála. | null | 0 | 1314837124 | False | 0 | c2gn3nf | t3_jzpo5 | null | t1_c2gn3nf | t1_c2gm83v | null | 1427544038 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | cogman10 | null | I disagree. The test, in its simplest form, can be administered with 2 people and a computer. If the person acting as judge can reliably determine which messages come from the computer, voila, you have failed the test.
The whole process can be done in less than an hour. I have automated tests that take much longer th... | null | 0 | 1314837248 | False | 0 | c2gn45y | t3_jzchy | null | t1_c2gn45y | t1_c2gm0fy | null | 1427544047 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | albertzeyer | null | It is basically the same as FScript Anywhere but for Python.
By injecting a Python terminal into a running application, you can script the application. There are several Cocoa bridges which can be used for that (MacOSX also provides one by default). See the example which is doing that.
But that are not the only thing... | null | 0 | 1314837257 | True | 0 | c2gn47e | t3_k0q6s | null | t1_c2gn47e | t1_c2gn0uz | null | 1427544047 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | userd | null | If it's a Hong Kong feature, then it is still wrong for Yao Ming. The whole article is about how different places have different traditions. | null | 0 | 1314837357 | False | 0 | c2gn4mr | t3_jzpo5 | null | t1_c2gn4mr | t1_c2gh9rn | null | 1427544045 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | PBAsydney | null | Not really, some families just decided to pick those up back in the day, the most common to my knowledge is Blöndal. | null | 0 | 1314837408 | False | 0 | c2gn4un | t3_jzpo5 | null | t1_c2gn4un | t1_c2gjsj3 | null | 1427544049 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | frezik | null | Perl's sort() doesn't need to be modified, because it isn't broken. One of its comparison operators, 'cmp', is broken, but I'm guessing it has to remain as it is for backward compatibility reasons. Either that or it's been overlooked through some major Unicode improvements in Perl thus far. | null | 0 | 1314837417 | False | 0 | c2gn4vz | t3_k0jua | null | t1_c2gn4vz | t1_c2gmxic | null | 1427544049 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | PBAsydney | null | Sigurrós is actually a legal female name. | null | 0 | 1314837463 | False | 0 | c2gn53i | t3_jzpo5 | null | t1_c2gn53i | t1_c2gjeoy | null | 1427544050 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Kensin | null | Honestly, this really is the kind of thing I would have expected perl to do better in than other languages. | null | 0 | 1314837623 | True | 0 | c2gn5ss | t3_k0jua | null | t1_c2gn5ss | t1_c2glqic | null | 1427544057 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | alecco | null | Very surprising. This looks suicidal for App Engine. Amazon gives much better pricing for equivalent services. And also they actually have good user support. | null | 0 | 1314837758 | False | 0 | c2gn6df | t3_k0mwl | null | t1_c2gn6df | t3_k0mwl | null | 1427544064 | 24 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | gwynjudd | null | So are you saying Nguyen of your friends have a different name? | null | 0 | 1314837840 | False | 0 | c2gn6pz | t3_jzpo5 | null | t1_c2gn6pz | t1_c2ghmdm | null | 1427544066 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | xardox | null | People who can spell his name, and know him and his work. | null | 0 | 1314838323 | False | 0 | c2gn8ns | t3_k0gbq | null | t1_c2gn8ns | t1_c2gmmf4 | null | 1427544085 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Pxtl | null | That didn't last very long.
Frankly, I never understood why he commanded so much respect - Java 1.0 isn't anybody's favorite language. | null | 0 | 1314838375 | False | 0 | c2gn8w8 | t3_k0gbq | null | t1_c2gn8w8 | t3_k0gbq | null | 1427544089 | -6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | xardox | null | ...And except for that guy Bill Joy who kept trying to get him to dump Emacs for VI. | null | 0 | 1314838419 | False | 0 | c2gn92w | t3_k0gbq | null | t1_c2gn92w | t1_c2gmu13 | null | 1427544092 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | wdr1 | null | I think in her mind she did. If I remember correctly the original wording was something like "That won't work." We assumed it was for *technical* reasons, not cultural. | null | 0 | 1314838549 | False | 0 | c2gn9mv | t3_jzpo5 | null | t1_c2gn9mv | t1_c2gm70b | null | 1427544099 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | vsymm | null | I'll save people the misery of skimming this garbage with a quick summary.
* You have to iterate over an IQueryable before it fetches results. Yes, this was the *first point*, and no, there was no need for it to be said.
* If you write a fucking braindead query, performance issues may occur. No shit sherlock.
* ... | null | 0 | 1314838580 | False | 0 | c2gn9rg | t3_k0j2t | null | t1_c2gn9rg | t3_k0j2t | null | 1427544101 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | celiomsj | null | I hate how so many websites and softwares can't handle a simple accent in your name. I wonder the frustration people get with the more complex issues. | null | 0 | 1314838665 | False | 0 | c2gna44 | t3_jzpo5 | null | t1_c2gna44 | t3_jzpo5 | null | 1428195813 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | wdr1 | null | It was pretty intense, particularly given the way Olympic tickets are sold. We actually set some internal records that day.
One image I'll never forget was trying to find the box office at Beijing National Stadium (aka the Bird's Nest) the night before the final round of onsale tickets. When I arrived at 5 or 6pm,... | null | 0 | 1314838896 | False | 0 | c2gnb37 | t3_jzpo5 | null | t1_c2gnb37 | t1_c2gmi5x | null | 1427544120 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | ChaosMotor | null | Joran Van Der Sloot. | null | 0 | 1314839137 | False | 0 | c2gnc4b | t3_jzpo5 | null | t1_c2gnc4b | t1_c2ghkwh | null | 1427544133 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | 010101010101 | null | Get the text layout to be sensible no matter what size my browser is set to display text. | null | 0 | 1314839222 | False | 0 | c2gncht | t3_k07at | null | t1_c2gncht | t3_k07at | null | 1428195808 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | repsilat | null | [Reaction](http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2947477) from users on HN:
> Our app (python runtime) is going from about $9 a month to projected $270 a month, almost entirely due to frontend instance hours...
> Oh shit, and the $270 a month is *with* the 50% discount...
> So come winter, I'm looking at >... | null | 0 | 1314839391 | False | 0 | c2gnd5x | t3_k0mwl | null | t1_c2gnd5x | t1_c2gn6df | null | 1427544148 | 33 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | shevegen | null | My hero!!! | null | 0 | 1314839505 | False | 0 | c2gndlz | t3_k0pdk | null | t1_c2gndlz | t3_k0pdk | null | 1427544152 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | alecco | null | I just deleted my only remaining app, it was just a leftover since I played with App Engine, but just in case. | null | 0 | 1314839755 | False | 0 | c2gnent | t3_k0mwl | null | t1_c2gnent | t1_c2gnd5x | null | 1428195806 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | dawnerd | null | And that folks is why locking yourself into one hosting provider is a bad idea. Gotta be careful with amazon too. Make sure you have a way out if needed. | null | 0 | 1314839786 | False | 0 | c2gnese | t3_k0mwl | null | t1_c2gnese | t1_c2gnd5x | null | 1427544169 | 14 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | mr_chromatic | null | The modules mentioned are in the Perl 5 core. | null | 0 | 1314840016 | False | 0 | c2gnfrs | t3_k0jua | null | t1_c2gnfrs | t1_c2gn5ss | null | 1427544181 | 15 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | rspeer | null | Extra bonus level: I've known, or known of, a few people who have a single word as their full name. The most famous one would be Prof. [Arvind](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arvind_(computer_scientist\)).
These names generally arise from non-American cultures, of course, but not all. I'm probably mangling this story, b... | null | 0 | 1314840079 | False | 0 | c2gng1r | t3_jzpo5 | null | t1_c2gng1r | t1_c2gghxh | null | 1427544188 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | What the fuck is this, Jeopardy? I'll take "Who gives a shit" for $300, Alex. | null | 0 | 1314840251 | False | 0 | c2gngre | t3_k0gbq | null | t1_c2gngre | t1_c2gn8ns | null | 1427544196 | -14 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Gargilius | null | Reminds me of many a fun time I had with local (US) administrations and such... what drives me nuts, is when people take upon themselves to modify my name because it doesn't fit in whatever form they are using, so even if you made sure that things were initially input right, you never know what happens downstream.
... | null | 0 | 1314840476 | False | 0 | c2gnhpf | t3_jzpo5 | null | t1_c2gnhpf | t3_jzpo5 | null | 1427544204 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | uhhhclem | null | Sabu, Miou-Miou, and Raimu are some other examples.
Also Silk, Horn, Hyacinth, Nettle, Blood, Musk, Remora, Lemur, Loris, Tarsier, Potto, and Pike, but their computer systems were a good deal smarter than ours. | null | 0 | 1314840549 | False | 0 | c2gni04 | t3_jzpo5 | null | t1_c2gni04 | t1_c2gng1r | null | 1427544217 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | novagenesis | null | I think ORM+AJAX can be a very bad idea, yes... However, I don't suspect the same with HTML.
What I learned from writing a caching system for the rarely changing data in my app was that many relevant rows of data are necessary in post-rendering or unrelated lookup for even my POST requests. And to be honest, the very... | null | 0 | 1314840577 | False | 0 | c2gni4f | t3_jzzv6 | null | t1_c2gni4f | t1_c2gmn5q | null | 1427544217 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | **BREAKING: MAN GETS ANOTHER JOB!** | null | 0 | 1314840604 | False | 0 | c2gni8e | t3_k0gbq | null | t1_c2gni8e | t3_k0gbq | null | 1427544212 | 56 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | Java (the language, at least) isn't the thing Gosling commands respect for, except maybe among ignorant Java programmers. | null | 0 | 1314840758 | False | 0 | c2gnivj | t3_k0gbq | null | t1_c2gnivj | t1_c2gn8w8 | null | 1427544220 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | flyingfirefox | null | http://imgur.com/KDfpO | null | 0 | 1314840783 | False | 0 | c2gnizi | t3_jzpo5 | null | t1_c2gnizi | t1_c2gjsny | null | 1427544231 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | Meh. We told them using GAE was just plain retarded in the long run. They didn't want to listen to us. | null | 0 | 1314840816 | False | 0 | c2gnj42 | t3_k0mwl | null | t1_c2gnj42 | t1_c2gnd5x | null | 1427544227 | 19 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | mycall | null | I wonder if they use KERMIT protocol. | null | 0 | 1314840830 | False | 0 | c2gnj6f | t3_k0gbq | null | t1_c2gnj6f | t3_k0gbq | null | 1427544224 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
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