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True | djdillon | null | Gigli came to mind as soon as I read this! Well done.
... and how can you disrespect any of Costner's tremendous body of work?? | null | 0 | 1317409151 | False | 0 | c2nukw5 | t3_kvarj | null | t1_c2nukw5 | t1_c2nijt4 | null | 1427668935 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | lpetrazickis | null | I read Roald Dahl. | null | 0 | 1317409169 | False | 0 | c2nukzr | t3_kwhif | null | t1_c2nukzr | t1_c2nuhbx | null | 1427668936 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | some_dev | null | Binary data is a way to representation information. Computers manage information by managing the binary representation of that information. Your argument isn't valid. | null | 0 | 1317409177 | True | 0 | c2nul14 | t3_kwhif | null | t1_c2nul14 | t1_c2ntg0g | null | 1427668937 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | djdillon | null | Google Wave is a perfect example of trusting your project enough to fail. I still think it was a tremendous idea. A great deal of the work done in Wave has gone on to find places in Google Docs, etc. | null | 0 | 1317409247 | False | 0 | c2nulf2 | t3_kvarj | null | t1_c2nulf2 | t1_c2nsgzs | null | 1427668942 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1317409266 | False | 0 | c2nulih | t3_kwhif | null | t1_c2nulih | t3_kwhif | null | 1427668943 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | deafbybeheading | null | The problem is that many languages punt on this: they provide integers and floats, but no fixed-point support (never mind arbitrary precision arithmetic). When you need to solve a problem, rolling your own fixed-point library is the last thing you want to do, and an ad-hoc integer-based fixed-point solution is ugly and... | null | 0 | 1317409360 | False | 0 | c2num23 | t3_kwf95 | null | t1_c2num23 | t1_c2nu0yn | null | 1427668950 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | phaker | null | After some googling around it appears F# on Mono is still WIP. | null | 0 | 1317409544 | False | 0 | c2nun2w | t3_kuhn3 | null | t1_c2nun2w | t1_c2nrt19 | null | 1427668966 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | I_TYPE_IN_ALL_CAPS | null | > Floats are not reals.
> Ints are not integers.
[EXCEPT IN PASCAL](http://cs.nyu.edu/courses/fall99/A22.0002-003/variables.html). ;-) | null | 0 | 1317409571 | False | 0 | c2nun83 | t3_kwf95 | null | t1_c2nun83 | t1_c2ntnhr | null | 1427668967 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | The problem with this point, though, is that if you already have a system in place and you want to do this rethinking and redesigning of the system, most of the time you end up actually making the whole thing more complicated not less.
Why is that? Because backwards compatibility is king.
The idea that redoing everyt... | null | 0 | 1317409618 | False | 0 | c2nunia | t3_kwhif | null | t1_c2nunia | t1_c2nuiga | null | 1427668970 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Pragmataraxia | null | > You can't go to the surface; that's madness! Nothing can survive that kind of radiation.
Evolutionary processes are very effective, just not optimal. | null | 0 | 1317409634 | False | 0 | c2nunlj | t3_kwhif | null | t1_c2nunlj | t1_c2ntzmh | null | 1427668971 | 8 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | yellowstuff | null | Yeah, I see it as a good failure. It was truly innovative, and it seemed like the kind of thing that Google could deliver better than anyone else. The fallout may have been a little embarrassing, but it didn't cost them much. They should try more projects like that. | null | 0 | 1317409791 | False | 0 | c2nuohe | t3_kvarj | null | t1_c2nuohe | t1_c2nulf2 | null | 1427668984 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Pragmataraxia | null | Kind of... I mean mammals didn't out-compete their dinosaur masters, they just got eaten for 200 million years until something changed the game.
I'm not saying that you don't have a point, but if the human race has any clear and present danger, it's our own success that is the cause... | null | 0 | 1317409799 | False | 0 | c2nuoj9 | t3_kwhif | null | t1_c2nuoj9 | t1_c2ntzoa | null | 1427668984 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | featherfooted | null | IT LOOPS? Must. Watch. Again. | null | 0 | 1317409853 | False | 0 | c2nuotz | t3_kvtrp | null | t1_c2nuotz | t1_c2nqzcy | null | 1427668987 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | SilverEyes | null | All we need to do then is find the global maximum and the shortest path to get there for a function we don't know.
Wait... shit. | null | 0 | 1317409927 | False | 0 | c2nup8l | t3_kwhif | null | t1_c2nup8l | t1_c2ntzoa | null | 1427668992 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | dealjunkie | null | Yes. From https://stripe.com/faq:
We feel pretty strongly about data portability. We'll try to keep you with us by offering a better product than all of our competitors, but we won't keep you by locking you in. If you want to leave us for somebody else, we'll help you migrate your credit card data in a secure and PCI-... | null | 0 | 1317409981 | False | 0 | c2nupjk | t3_kvu8y | null | t1_c2nupjk | t1_c2nq9va | null | 1427668996 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | alexbarrett | null | Using a different algorithm each time! | null | 0 | 1317409997 | False | 0 | c2nupn5 | t3_kvtrp | null | t1_c2nupn5 | t1_c2nuotz | null | 1427668997 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | ShamwowTseDung | null | AskJeeves anyone??? | null | 0 | 1317410012 | False | 0 | c2nuppv | t3_kst87 | null | t1_c2nuppv | t3_kst87 | null | 1427668999 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | featherfooted | null | Nope. | null | 0 | 1317410119 | False | 0 | c2nuq9z | t3_kwf95 | null | t1_c2nuq9z | t1_c2nun83 | null | 1427669006 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | bitwize | null | And that's precisely why we should abandon the algroithm and switch to a synchronous, signal-based software model. Because that's precisely how the brain deals with structured information as described in the Revelation of St. John. | null | 0 | 1317410309 | False | 0 | c2nurc3 | t3_kwhif | null | t1_c2nurc3 | t1_c2ntg0g | null | 1427669020 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Tordek | null | FTL Whoosh? | null | 0 | 1317410325 | False | 0 | c2nurfl | t3_kvnyx | null | t1_c2nurfl | t1_c2nly7l | null | 1427669022 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | Hahaha. So you have no arguments and you therefore take on the language.
Hahaha. thanks for the laugh. | null | 0 | 1317410368 | False | 0 | c2nuroe | t3_kv8db | null | t1_c2nuroe | t1_c2ntewg | null | 1427669025 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Etab | null | (no disrespect at all to OP -- thanks for sharing your work)
What's the appeal of light-on-dark themes? They seem to hurt my eyes. Am I just a freak or something? | null | 0 | 1317410407 | False | 0 | c2nurvo | t3_kvpld | null | t1_c2nurvo | t3_kvpld | null | 1427669028 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | franktinsley | null | I'm not sure about the notion that users don't accept new systems. If the system is not actually an improvement, i.e., more powerful and easier to use, then yes users generally despise new systems.
This happens a lot when a system is redesigned and then released because it can be difficult to know exactly what functio... | null | 0 | 1317410482 | True | 0 | c2nusb2 | t3_kwhif | null | t1_c2nusb2 | t1_c2nunia | null | 1427669033 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | featherfooted | null | I closed it after Kruskal's the first time... MUST RELOAD SLIDES. | null | 0 | 1317410492 | False | 0 | c2nusdb | t3_kvtrp | null | t1_c2nusdb | t1_c2nupn5 | null | 1427669034 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Buckwheat469 | null | Code reuse/repurpose is not the same as piling new code on top of original code. The parallel would be that a fruit fly has 137 million base pears and 8 chromosomes. It can mate, has a stomach, a beating heart, a brain, and it can even fly! It can also be used in human drug trials. A human has the same ancestral parent... | null | 0 | 1317410514 | False | 0 | c2nushm | t3_kwhif | null | t1_c2nushm | t1_c2nteuq | null | 1427669036 | 10 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | >which confirms other researchers’ findings that a person feels the most refreshed when awoken during the REM phase.
This is why you're doing this? Or...what? I really cant understand the reason behind it. It "may" be cool , but from what I could see it's more like scary. Why would anyone do this to themselves?
| null | 0 | 1317410616 | False | 0 | c2nut10 | t3_ku203 | null | t1_c2nut10 | t3_ku203 | null | 1427669043 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Pxtl | null | I'm just worried about all the abandoned projects hosted on BerliOS. Ever tried to find a download for an old, abandoned piece of software, and can't find the download link anymore? Every time we lose a major file/project host, this becomes more painful. | null | 0 | 1317410679 | False | 0 | c2nutdm | t3_kwoid | null | t1_c2nutdm | t3_kwoid | null | 1427669046 | 44 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | okpmem | null | If we are to use and "evolutionary" approach to fix society, we first need the right fitness function. GDP is not the right fitness function.... | null | 0 | 1317410784 | False | 0 | c2nutyb | t3_kwhif | null | t1_c2nutyb | t1_c2nup8l | null | 1427669054 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | 732 | null | I format my code properly, I document heavily. I write many extra necessary steps included that the user will never see. It includes many levels of hierarchy and nonsense that the user just doesn't fucking care about. But you know what. It makes it that much easier when **I** need to come back and change the code. Or a... | null | 0 | 1317410784 | False | 0 | c2nutyd | t3_kwhif | null | t1_c2nutyd | t3_kwhif | null | 1427669054 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | metadave | null | Ok, so that Intel or AMD chip in your computer makes you an Intel / AMD Guy. I tried to get them to open source their designs, but I didn't get a response. | null | 0 | 1317410824 | False | 0 | c2nuu66 | t3_kuhn3 | null | t1_c2nuu66 | t1_c2nl9t7 | null | 1427669056 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | makis | null | bello fare il programmatore in Italia, ve'? | null | 0 | 1317411014 | False | 0 | c2nuv65 | t3_kvo92 | null | t1_c2nuv65 | t3_kvo92 | null | 1427669069 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1317411092 | False | 0 | c2nuvli | t3_kw47b | null | t1_c2nuvli | t1_c2ntuio | null | 1427669075 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | assholeapproach | null | I like it. It's soft on the eyes. | null | 0 | 1317411102 | False | 0 | c2nuvnj | t3_kvpld | null | t1_c2nuvnj | t3_kvpld | null | 1427669077 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | kolm | null | > Similarly, if you want to be a better programmer, you ought to understand some of the theory behind the algorithms you study.
If you don't understand the algorithms you use you are no better than a trained pony running in circles without an idea on why.
For me, understanding algorithms is always the "play" si... | null | 0 | 1317411117 | False | 0 | c2nuvqt | t3_kvtrp | null | t1_c2nuvqt | t3_kvtrp | null | 1427669078 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1317411124 | True | 0 | c2nuvsj | t3_kwf95 | null | t1_c2nuvsj | t3_kwf95 | null | 1427669078 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1317411160 | False | 0 | c2nuvzr | t3_kwf95 | null | t1_c2nuvzr | t1_c2ntv1s | null | 1427669081 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | niczar | null | Absolutely.
Unless you get the certification yourself. And if you get the certification, you don't need Stripe. | null | 0 | 1317411393 | False | 0 | c2nuxa1 | t3_kvu8y | null | t1_c2nuxa1 | t1_c2ns59f | null | 1427669098 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | junkit33 | null | If a tree falls in the woods... | null | 0 | 1317411397 | False | 0 | c2nuxb0 | t3_kwoid | null | t1_c2nuxb0 | t3_kwoid | null | 1427669098 | -21 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | some_dev | null | Louis? | null | 0 | 1317411479 | False | 0 | c2nuxqo | t3_kwhif | null | t1_c2nuxqo | t1_c2nurc3 | null | 1427669106 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | kamatsu | null | >they manage binary data - not information. The fundamental abstraction is wrong.
Learn your information theory. Information *is* binary data. | null | 0 | 1317411519 | False | 0 | c2nuxyc | t3_kwhif | null | t1_c2nuxyc | t1_c2ntg0g | null | 1427669106 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | killerstorm | null | There is such thing as diminishing returns. Yes, general understanding of algorithms helps a lot. But diving deep into specifics -- not so much.
I was a member of university's ACM ICPC team, I participated in three national level and one regional level (Southeastern Europe), so I spent quite a while learning/training ... | null | 0 | 1317411630 | False | 0 | c2nuyjd | t3_kvtrp | null | t1_c2nuyjd | t1_c2ntnzz | null | 1427669113 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | lee1026 | null | doubles is probably close enough - there are 52 bits in the mantissa. If you lose 1/(2^52) of a dollar every microsecond, you will lose less then a dollar in your life time. | null | 0 | 1317411725 | False | 0 | c2nuz36 | t3_kwf95 | null | t1_c2nuz36 | t1_c2ntn8r | null | 1427669121 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | acecool | null | Dumb question, but what if any differences are there in the design of calculators and PC hardware for math precision? TI and HP calculators use regular CPUs like the Zilog Z80 and 6502 and that were once used on home computers. Do calculators have any special hardware or software that eliminates rounding or twos compli... | null | 0 | 1317411857 | False | 0 | c2nuzt5 | t3_kwf95 | null | t1_c2nuzt5 | t3_kwf95 | null | 1427669130 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | gwax | null | Ok, let me see if I've got this right:
Existing code bases are complex and require a great deal of obscure knowledge to maintain, therefore we should stop putting effort into writing maintainable code because the sooner it becomes unmaintainable, the sooner we get to throw everything away and start over from scratch.
... | null | 0 | 1317411857 | False | 0 | c2nuzt8 | t3_kwhif | null | t1_c2nuzt8 | t3_kwhif | null | 1427669130 | 12 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | mbetter | null | I would say that no, it's not a reasonable assumption. Tablets don't have arrow keys, nor do smartphones. Disabled users as well might have alternate arrangements for navigating on the web that do not include accessible arrow keys.
Also, even when present, arrow keys are used by the browser for its own purposes. I co... | null | 0 | 1317412020 | False | 0 | c2nv0pv | t3_kvtrp | null | t1_c2nv0pv | t1_c2ntliu | null | 1427669145 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | wot-teh-phuck | null | Please let me use this everywhere; I swear I'll credit you for it. ;-) | null | 0 | 1317412069 | False | 0 | c2nv107 | t3_kwhif | null | t1_c2nv107 | t1_c2nts45 | null | 1427669146 | 23 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | perluv | null | I can definitely understand the problem of losing a link that while not used often may still be valuable to quite a few folks. It would be great if Github could somehow step in and provide a community junkyard. With as many free repositories that they currently host, I can't see this being a big burden on them. By co... | null | 0 | 1317412358 | False | 0 | c2nv2o1 | t3_kwoid | null | t1_c2nv2o1 | t1_c2nutdm | null | 1427669167 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | niggertown | null | If programming was naturally enjoyable we'd spend all of our days programming instead of masturbating. People naturally enjoy things that have a high payoff to effort ratio. If you're naturally smart programming will be more enjoyable because you don't have to sit around for days coding something that has a marginal pa... | null | 0 | 1317412493 | True | 0 | c2nv3ge | t3_kvtrp | null | t1_c2nv3ge | t3_kvtrp | null | 1427669178 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | doenietzomoeilijk | null | I've spent the last few weeks mostly un-fucking code that looked a bit like that code. Only it didn't have comments, less spaces, and more lines that were >400 characters. And ternary operations WITHIN ifs. And indenting that was part tabs, part spaces. | null | 0 | 1317412634 | False | 0 | c2nv480 | t3_kvo92 | null | t1_c2nv480 | t3_kvo92 | null | 1427669188 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | josefx | null |
> Nobody really cares if a speckle of light leaks
While the lightning computation itself can be imprecise, you can get really ugly tears in 'solid' objects if the vertex coordinates differ even slightly. Sometimes it is even necessary to split polygons just to make sure that the borders go through the exact same v... | null | 0 | 1317412808 | False | 0 | c2nv57u | t3_kwf95 | null | t1_c2nv57u | t1_c2nu5zk | null | 1427669201 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | seppyk | null | One major point the author failed to mention is if you are looking to make a decision, the major stakeholders need to be present at that meeting.
A lot of time is wasted in meetings simply because backtracking is needed because one or more of the key stakeholders weren't present to put their stamp of approval on the d... | null | 0 | 1317412900 | False | 0 | c2nv5op | t3_kv8db | null | t1_c2nv5op | t3_kv8db | null | 1427669208 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | 00kyle00 | null | Are your threads pooled or is the startup cost on each iteration negligible? If its not, see if you can use real thread pool.
Creation of Vectors may be faster if you can make it without using 'new' in threads (if you use default new, then it probably needs to synchronize internally).
Did you measure where you spend ... | null | 0 | 1317412985 | False | 0 | c2nv660 | t3_kwo7p | null | t1_c2nv660 | t3_kwo7p | null | 1427669214 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Rhomboid | null | There's also decimal floating point (DFP). Some platforms like [POWER6](http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/wikis/display/WikiPtype/Decimal+Floating+Point) support this in hardware, and it's usable from C with the IBM XL compiler and [gcc.](http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Decimal-Float.html)
This is not the same as f... | null | 0 | 1317413278 | False | 0 | c2nv7tb | t3_kwf95 | null | t1_c2nv7tb | t1_c2ntvgn | null | 1427669236 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | monocasa | null | Most of berlios.de doesn't appear to be under archive.org either. : \ | null | 0 | 1317413299 | False | 0 | c2nv7y1 | t3_kwoid | null | t1_c2nv7y1 | t3_kwoid | null | 1427669238 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Iggyhopper | null | Which is computed faster? I mean, since fixed points are just integer, are they generally faster than floats?
Just curious. | null | 0 | 1317413307 | False | 0 | c2nv7zc | t3_kwf95 | null | t1_c2nv7zc | t1_c2nu5zk | null | 1427669238 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | bitwize | null | Sarcasm. Shoulda flagged it. | null | 0 | 1317413311 | False | 0 | c2nv80f | t3_kwhif | null | t1_c2nv80f | t1_c2nuxqo | null | 1427669239 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | collision | null | We're interested in much more than the US market. (I'm from Ireland, actually, and the payment landscape there sucks.) We're working on expanding to more countries right now. Unfortunately, there's a decent amount of work involved in expanding to other countries, since we've to work with individual banks in each countr... | null | 0 | 1317413350 | False | 0 | c2nv87u | t3_kvu8y | null | t1_c2nv87u | t1_c2nrwye | null | 1427669240 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | collision | null | We're working on fixing that. Where are you based? | null | 0 | 1317413369 | False | 0 | c2nv8b5 | t3_kvu8y | null | t1_c2nv8b5 | t1_c2ntffo | null | 1427669242 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1317413394 | False | 0 | c2nv8g3 | t3_kwf95 | null | t1_c2nv8g3 | t1_c2ntja8 | null | 1427669243 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | jlt6666 | null | Or, you know, someone could just do it. | null | 0 | 1317413469 | False | 0 | c2nv8v6 | t3_kwoid | null | t1_c2nv8v6 | t1_c2nv2o1 | null | 1427669249 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | collision | null | I can't quite figure out what they do. We make it easy for developers to accept payments online. They seem much more businessy/stock-photo-oriented. | null | 0 | 1317413516 | False | 0 | c2nv95d | t3_kvu8y | null | t1_c2nv95d | t1_c2ntrmw | null | 1427669252 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | joeyh | null | I've written to the Berlios admins to see if I can help preserving an archive of the software there. I'd hope to put it on archive.org.
| null | 0 | 1317413558 | False | 0 | c2nv9dp | t3_kwoid | null | t1_c2nv9dp | t1_c2nutdm | null | 1427669255 | 40 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Shinhan | null | ctrl+shift+t
nice :) | null | 0 | 1317413630 | False | 0 | c2nv9ro | t3_kvtrp | null | t1_c2nv9ro | t1_c2nqzcy | null | 1427669262 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | collision | null | We've been up and running in production for over a year now. We have users who rely on Stripe to process millions of dollars in sales for them.
We're in this for the long haul. For whatever it's worth, [our investors include Sequoia and Peter Thiel](http://techcrunch.com/2011/09/30/sequoia-backed-stripe-launches-to-di... | null | 0 | 1317413631 | False | 0 | c2nv9ry | t3_kvu8y | null | t1_c2nv9ry | t1_c2nrvkt | null | 1427669262 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | metamatic | null | Yeah, JavaScript is particularly bad in this respect, because you don't even have integers. | null | 0 | 1317413652 | False | 0 | c2nv9vw | t3_kwf95 | null | t1_c2nv9vw | t1_c2num23 | null | 1427669263 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Amadiro | null | Whether they are faster or not is entirely dependent on the hardware you use; but fixed-points are easier to implement. So a lot of consoles and other custom-build hardware (like for instance all game consoles by nintendo) use fixed-points exclusively. On a normal PC, floats are probably faster, as there is no hardware... | null | 0 | 1317413668 | False | 0 | c2nv9yy | t3_kwf95 | null | t1_c2nv9yy | t1_c2nv7zc | null | 1427669264 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | collision | null | Repeated from elsewhere, but we've been up and running in production for over a year. We're PCI Level 1 Certified, which is the strictest level of certification available from the card industry for storing cardholder data. | null | 0 | 1317413680 | False | 0 | c2nva0x | t3_kvu8y | null | t1_c2nva0x | t1_c2nq4r0 | null | 1427669265 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | TikiTDO | null | The problem is that we teach a lot of programming as if it is completely removed from computer that executes the problem. When you get into a low number software course in most non Tier 1 schools you will learn things like: "This is when you use the if statement. This is when you use a function. This is when you use a ... | null | 0 | 1317413681 | False | 0 | c2nva1k | t3_kwf95 | null | t1_c2nva1k | t1_c2nufp1 | null | 1427669265 | 10 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | collision | null | Happy to answer this question: we only support US-based businesses right now, but that's a bug we're working on fixing. I guess we should make it clearer on the homepage. | null | 0 | 1317413725 | False | 0 | c2nvaac | t3_kvu8y | null | t1_c2nvaac | t1_c2nrjil | null | 1427669268 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | mk_gecko | null | I guess -- run it in Wine. I'll be doing that in a few weeks as I switch from XP to Ubuntu more. | null | 0 | 1317413743 | False | 0 | c2nvadm | t3_kvpld | null | t1_c2nvadm | t1_c2nu6oo | null | 1427669269 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | hobbified | null | > ect
"et cætera" doesn't abbreviate to "ect". | null | 0 | 1317413776 | False | 0 | c2nvajq | t3_kwf95 | null | t1_c2nvajq | t1_c2nsx2h | null | 1427669272 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | gbvb | null | I agree to an extent but I think it is naive to think that frameworks and underlying foundations and the requiremnts do not impact the architecture. Continuing the somewhat lame analogy of a building, if there a big boulder in the middle of the land where you are building a library, and they want to preserve it, you wi... | null | 0 | 1317413783 | False | 0 | c2nvalf | t3_kwdsp | null | t1_c2nvalf | t3_kwdsp | null | 1427669272 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | brasso | null | Maybe archive team would be interested in that. | null | 0 | 1317413805 | False | 0 | c2nvapo | t3_kwoid | null | t1_c2nvapo | t3_kwoid | null | 1427669274 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | cunningjames | null | Well, sure, but it’s still not quite right to say “the axioms of set theory are inconsistent”. In most systems they probably consistent, and the inconsistency of plain old elementary set theory is why axiomatic systems were developed. | null | 0 | 1317413805 | False | 0 | c2nvapw | t3_kw47b | null | t1_c2nvapw | t1_c2nuvli | null | 1427669274 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | hobbified | null | At least it's a repost with the new correct URL. All those times it was posted previously, it was at a Sun URL, which Oracle has rendered non-functioning. | null | 0 | 1317413879 | False | 0 | c2nvb43 | t3_kwf95 | null | t1_c2nvb43 | t1_c2nu767 | null | 1427669279 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | While i don't like Node.js (really, why does it even exist?), the guy has a point . He really has a point. | null | 0 | 1317413923 | False | 0 | c2nvbbi | t3_kwhif | null | t1_c2nvbbi | t3_kwhif | null | 1427669281 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Pandalicious | null | >I know just what you mean.
No, I don't think you do... | null | 0 | 1317413931 | False | 0 | c2nvbd3 | t3_kwisa | null | t1_c2nvbd3 | t1_c2nte92 | null | 1427669281 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | hobbified | null | Read the article. The author is a fuckton smarter than you are. | null | 0 | 1317413941 | False | 0 | c2nvbf0 | t3_kwf95 | null | t1_c2nvbf0 | t1_c2nt1us | null | 1427669283 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | perluv | null | People will have an easier time mentioning your great volunteer/savior effort for this if you change your name to something more pronounceable. | null | 0 | 1317414000 | False | 0 | c2nvbpq | t3_kwoid | null | t1_c2nvbpq | t1_c2nv8v6 | null | 1427669287 | -17 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | shevegen | null | Compared to github or even sourceforge, Berlios really didn't have anything extra ... | null | 0 | 1317414252 | False | 0 | c2nvd3y | t3_kwoid | null | t1_c2nvd3y | t3_kwoid | null | 1427669304 | -7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | some_dev | null | I wasn't sure if you were him, if you were referencing him, or if it was just a coincidence. Your comment history wasn't nutty, so I assumed that it was #2. | null | 0 | 1317414302 | False | 0 | c2nvde5 | t3_kwhif | null | t1_c2nvde5 | t1_c2nv80f | null | 1427669307 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | ErikRThomas | null | Maybe not, it is on the other hand a word with four syllables. | null | 0 | 1317414321 | False | 0 | c2nvdif | t3_kvtrp | null | t1_c2nvdif | t3_kvtrp | null | 1427669310 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | progx | null | I am from Italy (I'm not Italian though) and I can say that most of the Italian programmers are terrible at their job. I think part of the issue of what makes them terrible is pride. Most of them think they are good programmers and that they don't need to improve, when in reality it's quite the opposite.
It's for th... | null | 0 | 1317414429 | True | 0 | c2nve55 | t3_kvo92 | null | t1_c2nve55 | t3_kvo92 | null | 1427669318 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1317414475 | False | 0 | c2nveeu | t3_kwhif | null | t1_c2nveeu | t3_kwhif | null | 1427669322 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | PervyBastard | null | No you don't. You hate C/C++ on Linux. Which admittedly is about the most horrible thing on earth, software-wise. But there is other stuff out there. Stop bitching, grow a pair and move on. | null | 0 | 1317414480 | False | 0 | c2nvefh | t3_kwhif | null | t1_c2nvefh | t3_kwhif | null | 1427669322 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1317414533 | True | 0 | c2nveps | t3_kwf95 | null | t1_c2nveps | t1_c2nti2t | null | 1427669326 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1317414875 | False | 0 | c2nvgn0 | t3_kwhif | null | t1_c2nvgn0 | t1_c2nv107 | null | 1427669351 | 10 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | was_saying_boo_urns | null | for (repost=0.1; repost<=100; repost++) {repost=repost+0.1}
>99.19999999999987 | null | 0 | 1317414933 | False | 0 | c2nvgzs | t3_kwf95 | null | t1_c2nvgzs | t1_c2nuiv5 | null | 1427669355 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Corgi_Cowboy | null | Are you serious? If someone I don't know who is my age or younger called me boy to my face I'd be insulted. As a grown man in America it would sound really weird if people asked who were you hanging out with last night and I said "the boys" instead of "the guys" and if you think about it there are only a few times wh... | null | 0 | 1317415031 | False | 0 | c2nvhih | t3_kvo92 | null | t1_c2nvhih | t1_c2nudx5 | null | 1427669362 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | jared84lsu | null | Way to totally miss the point, pal.
When you get canned, I'm sure you'll be saying it's because you're too smart for those guys or some other horsecrap along those lines. | null | 0 | 1317415058 | False | 0 | c2nvho6 | t3_kv8db | null | t1_c2nvho6 | t1_c2nuroe | null | 1427669364 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | shevegen | null | Dinosaurs were depending on the plants. And the plants changed a lot during that time, they were in a huge decline, so the dinosaurs were suddenly left with insufficient food, which led to their collapse.
It is a much easier explanation than the impact of a meteor as well, because a dinosaur was HUGE and needed to eat... | null | 0 | 1317415093 | False | 0 | c2nvhuf | t3_kwhif | null | t1_c2nvhuf | t1_c2ntzoa | null | 1427669367 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Sir_Edmund_Bumblebee | null | In some industries what you said is true, in software it couldn't be further from the truth. The barrier to entry in software is minimal in most fields, and even in tougher ones VCs are happy to throw money at you if they think you can overthrow one of the major players. Yahoo was dominant until Google came along, IB... | null | 0 | 1317415294 | False | 0 | c2nvivs | t3_kvo92 | null | t1_c2nvivs | t1_c2nudw9 | null | 1427669381 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | kmmeerts | null | I can't believe I ever trusted MtGox with even a small amount of money and my e-mail address. | null | 0 | 1317415366 | False | 0 | c2nvj9b | t3_kwf95 | null | t1_c2nvj9b | t1_c2ntja8 | null | 1427669386 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | okpmem | null | Indeed. Because there were lots of plants, dinosaurs were in a local minima of being really big. They could not escape that hole in time... | null | 0 | 1317415509 | False | 0 | c2nvk15 | t3_kwhif | null | t1_c2nvk15 | t1_c2nvhuf | null | 1427669398 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | bradleyjx | null | I wrote a piece of software that (among other things) did rankings based on pretty deep tiebreaker formulas and a ton of fractional values.
Learned very quickly just how hard floating point is to manage. | null | 0 | 1317415577 | False | 0 | c2nvkew | t3_kwf95 | null | t1_c2nvkew | t3_kwf95 | null | 1427669400 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Lerc | null | Every new thing has a high probability of sucking. Later versions of successful products have the same chance of sucking but a much higher visibility level.
The problem is people expecting to use a sucky thing because it is descended from a non sucky thing. cf. Unity. | null | 0 | 1317415627 | False | 0 | c2nvkoi | t3_kwhif | null | t1_c2nvkoi | t1_c2nuje3 | null | 1427669404 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | quotability | null | Knowing Italy, Nepotism. | null | 0 | 1317415696 | False | 0 | c2nvl27 | t3_kvo92 | null | t1_c2nvl27 | t1_c2nnn28 | null | 1427669410 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Zaziel | null | I use math to estimate how much beer to buy for my parties. | null | 0 | 1317415705 | False | 0 | c2nvl4g | t3_kwf95 | null | t1_c2nvl4g | t1_c2ntzbq | null | 1427669415 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | pgngugmgg | null | > As far as I know by now, you have no fucking idea what you're talking about. You say that someone has to program the evolution trainer so that evolution can take place in a meaningful way, and this proves that your mind has about the size of a pea, but you scream out as if you had 3 PhDs. This situation here, kid,... | null | 0 | 1317415764 | False | 0 | c2nvlfi | t3_kucjn | null | t1_c2nvlfi | t1_c2nrluz | null | 1427669415 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | rlbond86 | null | Same as TimTheTinker, my Intro to Numerical Methods course spent a few weeks on this. | null | 0 | 1317415804 | False | 0 | c2nvln1 | t3_kwf95 | null | t1_c2nvln1 | t1_c2nruvb | null | 1427669417 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
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