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True | sidcool1234 | null | Yes, I agree, see their work, see their knowledge, see their code....But why to test their attitude and passion in a technical interview? | null | 0 | 1317089644 | False | 0 | c2mu3f5 | t3_ks1qu | null | t1_c2mu3f5 | t1_c2mtpg0 | null | 1427651348 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | sidcool1234 | null | You are painfully honest. | null | 0 | 1317089673 | False | 0 | c2mu3k6 | t3_ks1qu | null | t1_c2mu3k6 | t1_c2mtf44 | null | 1427651350 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | sidcool1234 | null | I fully agree with you. | null | 0 | 1317089708 | False | 0 | c2mu3qs | t3_ks1qu | null | t1_c2mu3qs | t1_c2mstd9 | null | 1427651353 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | sidcool1234 | null | Not really, but measuring attitude and passion is something they are good at, independent of the domain. | null | 0 | 1317089749 | False | 0 | c2mu3xv | t3_ks1qu | null | t1_c2mu3xv | t1_c2msgup | null | 1427651355 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | sidcool1234 | null | Neither have I, my friend, neither have I. | null | 0 | 1317089766 | False | 0 | c2mu41e | t3_ks1qu | null | t1_c2mu41e | t1_c2msgqc | null | 1427651356 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1317089781 | False | 0 | c2mu44a | t3_ks1qu | null | t1_c2mu44a | t1_c2mtiye | null | 1427651357 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | trigraph | null | no one cares about where you invest your time because it is probably wasted on meaningless bullshit anyway. | null | 0 | 1317089809 | False | 0 | c2mu4a1 | t3_krzdn | null | t1_c2mu4a1 | t1_c2mt95q | null | 1427651359 | -5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | VikingCoder | null | > So improve the OS and WM until I can run untrusted native code without any fear of viruses or keyloggers.
Agreed - I like Google's Native Client project.
> It would be better to solve all these issues and have a superior OS made of reusable components than to give up and say "fuck it" and use web browsers instead. I mean, there's only like 2 or 3 web browsers anymore, and they rarely do what I ask them to. They are agents of the website owners for the most part.
HTML5 is a "lowest common denominator" remoting technology, and things like Native Client aren't ubiquitous yet, and certainly haven't been standardized upon. So, for now, HTML5 is an interesting, low-effort target. | null | 0 | 1317089892 | False | 0 | c2mu4pr | t3_krzdn | null | t1_c2mu4pr | t1_c2mtvzs | null | 1427651364 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | ThreeHolePunch | null | >Yes but there's a certain point where you install too many plugins in FF as well
Oh, I agree. I don't go hog-wild at the add-on site. I just get a few essentials to maintain private, secure browsing, plus a couple handy utilities. | null | 0 | 1317089955 | False | 0 | c2mu50s | t3_krv1k | null | t1_c2mu50s | t1_c2mu1gv | null | 1427651368 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | xanatos387 | null | Yes.
There are plenty of shady companies, many far worse than Palantir. And as I said above, HBGary is clearly more to blame.
But most of those companies have never played themselves off as the good-neighbor, upstanding member of the community - or when they do, they're not taken seriously. Palantir does. If they want to act like a cool, socially-conscientious place to work in Silicon Valley, they need to do better. This is not how such a company behaves.
Palantir specifically paints themselves as a force for good, as *supporting* civil liberties. Their actions are the opposite, and I'm just pointing out their bullshit. | null | 0 | 1317090033 | False | 0 | c2mu5e2 | t3_ks1qu | null | t1_c2mu5e2 | t1_c2mtzig | null | 1427651373 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | ascendant23 | null | Boy, he sure cut that straw man down to size. | null | 0 | 1317090055 | False | 0 | c2mu5j8 | t3_krv1k | null | t1_c2mu5j8 | t3_krv1k | null | 1427651375 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | coderanger | null | What actions, outside of those undertaken by HBGary, do you see as anti-democratic-process? To be clear I am not an employee of Palantir but I have volunteered at many events they have sponsored either in part or in full (SuperHappyDevHouse, Hacker Fair, etc). In fact the next SHDH is one I organized and is fully sponsored and hosted by Palantir and I'm quite sad I'll be out of town for it. As the adage goes, extra-ordinary claims require extra-ordinary proof and everything I know of the company both from their actions in supporting the hacker/maker culture of SHDH and Hacker Dojo, and from knowing people that work there has made me believe they are a positive influence on both the area and the government. | null | 0 | 1317090406 | False | 0 | c2mu77r | t3_ks1qu | null | t1_c2mu77r | t1_c2mu5e2 | null | 1427651398 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | case-o-nuts | null | This is analogous to VNC, but done with HTML5 | null | 0 | 1317090664 | False | 0 | c2mu8fp | t3_krzdn | null | t1_c2mu8fp | t1_c2mrc29 | null | 1427651413 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Daenyth | null | Someone was just saying above here (in r/programming no less) that he never realized it did anything. | null | 0 | 1317090989 | False | 0 | c2mua4d | t3_krv1k | null | t1_c2mua4d | t1_c2mqrmu | null | 1427651435 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | kostmo | null | I am reminded of [this article](http://nfarina.com/post/9868516270/git-is-simpler#commandline), which talks of how Linus Torvalds designed the data model of Git (which is written in C) before anything else. | null | 0 | 1317091054 | False | 0 | c2muag6 | t3_krzdp | null | t1_c2muag6 | t1_c2mqahc | null | 1427651441 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | tsk05 | null | Step 1) Don't apply to work at an evil company.
Anyone working for Palantir is literally helping to ensure the government and corporations can spy on and intimidate citizens. | null | 0 | 1317091056 | True | 0 | c2muago | t3_ks1qu | null | t1_c2muago | t3_ks1qu | null | 1427651441 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | throwaway-o | null | ###GNOME
Exactly what I expected too. For a fleeting moment, I thought this submission was in the /r/GNOME subreddit. | null | 0 | 1317091138 | False | 0 | c2muawu | t3_krv1k | null | t1_c2muawu | t1_c2mr7jz | null | 1427651447 | 10 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | coderanger | null | I'm not sure I understand your question, but IMO you should be able to judge technical skills and merit from a mix of their code portfolio and resume, while interviews are critical to determine if someone would be a social fit for your company. With that in mind, seeing how someone reacts to difficult questions that they probably don't know the answer to can be valuable from a social analysis PoV if you think this is likely to come up frequently in their line of work. It is probably more useful to give them an incrementally obvious problem though (start very simple and slowly evolve the problem) to see how they work and interact with you. | null | 0 | 1317091174 | False | 0 | c2mub2c | t3_ks1qu | null | t1_c2mub2c | t1_c2mu3f5 | null | 1427651449 | -4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | positivelyskewed | null | Disagree. There are plenty of above average programmers working solely on proprietary work, and they can't show it to you. If you only look at those who have open source work they can show you, you're limiting your search to: people lucky enough to have time to spend on open source, nerdy teenagers who don't have anything else to do, people who obviously aren't putting in enough effort on their paid work and would rather go home at 5 so they can work on some unrelated open source project.
I think only one of those groups has a high probability of containing desirable candidates.
You're completely missing this group: people who devote all of their energy to working on the problems their companies are paying them to solve. | null | 0 | 1317091190 | False | 0 | c2mub5t | t3_ks1qu | null | t1_c2mub5t | t1_c2mtpg0 | null | 1427651449 | 8 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | womtard | null | Wow. You're all missing the point here.
> As long as you haven't joined in the *Functional Monks in their Monasteries of Statelessness*, programs are made of behavior and data.
Who gives a toss what he thinks he's talking about; this may be the best original phraseology I've heard all year! "The Functional Monks and their Monasteries of Statelessness".
Actually, it'd be a wicked cool name for a band and their first album.
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True | positivelyskewed | null | These situations aren't analogous. With code, there are ideas that are _secret_, and must be kept that way. The value of the code is directly tied to the limited number of people who know how it works. Once the secret is out, no matter what subset of people gets to see it for what reason, it's basically worth almost nothing because anyone can just write some code to replicate the idea, which is incredibly cheap compared to the cost of actually researching and developing the idea and then coding it up.
If you can show your artwork as part of a portfolio, you can take it back. No actual value is destroyed when you show people artwork. | null | 0 | 1317091546 | False | 0 | c2mucvp | t3_ks1qu | null | t1_c2mucvp | t1_c2mu0fp | null | 1427651472 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | mycall | null | I was wondering why .NET 4.0 supported COM much better. Now I know -- WinRT. | null | 0 | 1317091618 | False | 0 | c2mud9z | t3_krouy | null | t1_c2mud9z | t3_krouy | null | 1427651476 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | jerf | null | > A call to `lockMouse` may trigger a user agent to prompt the user for permission.
(I'd add that the "may" is probably to allow you to grant access to a site once and retain that setting; "must" would imply that you could never do that and there's no reason for that level of paranoia.) | null | 0 | 1317091821 | False | 0 | c2mueau | t3_ksdfr | null | t1_c2mueau | t1_c2mtgzl | null | 1427651490 | 15 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | dakboy | null | You hit one of my 2 complaints about the ribbon.
The second one is the squandering of precious screen real estate. In a world where displays are getting wider, not taller, using up a larger percentage of the height of the screen takes too much space away from me actually doing my work. | null | 0 | 1317091834 | False | 0 | c2mued4 | t3_krv1k | null | t1_c2mued4 | t1_c2mr75k | null | 1427651490 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | what about weather? | null | 0 | 1317091899 | False | 0 | c2muenf | t3_krzdp | null | t1_c2muenf | t3_krzdp | null | 1427651494 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | elder_george | null | Nitpick: Common Lisp *per se* is only 27 years old. | null | 0 | 1317092017 | False | 0 | c2mufae | t3_krzdp | null | t1_c2mufae | t1_c2mtwp1 | null | 1427651503 | -1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | holy shit, i hate those whiteboard interviews. it's important and all to accurately gauge understanding, but really? a fucking whiteboard? i don't know about the rest of you, but i like the ability to add newlines. | null | 0 | 1317092027 | False | 0 | c2mufbx | t3_ks1qu | null | t1_c2mufbx | t3_ks1qu | null | 1427651505 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | coderanger | null | That isn't entirely true. If you show off a design then someone can easily take it, slice it up in Photoshop, and make a knock off. This would be be obvious copyright infringement and such cases are unfortunately common. The harder part is proving infringement for software. This is why I said you have to be selective about what you show off, a unit test is usually a good place to start as it doesn't usually show any business-critical details. Input validation or parsing code is also usually safe. Just avoid anything named "run()" or "main()" ;-) | null | 0 | 1317092072 | False | 0 | c2mufkb | t3_ks1qu | null | t1_c2mufkb | t1_c2mucvp | null | 1427651510 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | seiggy | null | Exactly, what HR team knows the difference between C++ and C++0x, or even C#. It's better for your tech team to ask questions like that. HR will never be able to give you any useful info from having them ask technical questions. | null | 0 | 1317092076 | False | 0 | c2mufla | t3_ks1qu | null | t1_c2mufla | t1_c2mu41e | null | 1427651510 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | jrochkind | null | I am not familiar with this sort of thing (I don't write in Java or use IDE's for the languages I do write in), so I'm actually honestly asking:
The automatically generated test really can assert that the method _does nothing else_ but what's expected? How does it do that? It checks the state of the object (or the entire world?) before and after and makes sure it's identical but for the variable of concern? If this really ends up working in a robust way, I guess that is kind of impressive; can you point me to documentation for an example of something that does this?
Impressive technically, but I remain skeptical of it's utility. If someone is going to change a setter or getter to do something other than set or get (without a good reason, which there occasionally is (eg marking dirty state on set or caching on get), is having to change a test too really going to stop them? I'm doubting that tests can save you from stupidity (your own or your teammates or successors). | null | 0 | 1317092292 | True | 0 | c2mugqp | t3_kq001 | null | t1_c2mugqp | t1_c2mrbaw | null | 1427651525 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | x-skeww | null | Well, yes. It's called using libraries, frameworks, and middleware. And the result is indeed a reduction of bugs in your code. Since that code is usually very well tested, it also usually means a reduction of bug overall. | null | 0 | 1317092301 | False | 0 | c2mugs7 | t3_krklz | null | t1_c2mugs7 | t1_c2mn06z | null | 1427651523 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1317092532 | False | 0 | c2mui09 | t3_krzdn | null | t1_c2mui09 | t3_krzdn | null | 1427651539 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | coderanger | null | Most portfolio work for art and design isn't "open source", it is fully owned and copyrighted by the person that paid for the work. The artist or designer just retains the right to show it off in specifically documented ways. Be proactive and start assembling one now. It isn't even limited to jobs, they are very useful for conferences and other professional development. | null | 0 | 1317092589 | False | 0 | c2muian | t3_ks1qu | null | t1_c2muian | t1_c2mub5t | null | 1427651542 | -1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | dspeyer | null | Why do you have an object at all?
I admit I'm not familiar with db2, but why not just have a function "load"? Or put the functionality into a constructor of whatever's being loaded? | null | 0 | 1317092695 | False | 0 | c2muiuh | t3_krzdp | null | t1_c2muiuh | t1_c2mtexm | null | 1427651549 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | dafragsta | null | What about "Beer?" | null | 0 | 1317092736 | False | 0 | c2muj2w | t3_krzdp | null | t1_c2muj2w | t3_krzdp | null | 1427651552 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | troyanonymous1 | null | I do like NaCl. I'm afraid it won't catch on, or won't go far enough, but it's a step in the right direction, especially if it can be separated from Chromium. | null | 0 | 1317092770 | False | 0 | c2muj8v | t3_krzdn | null | t1_c2muj8v | t1_c2mu4pr | null | 1427651555 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | bryte | null | Are the bugs publicly viewable? Be nice if there was a public bugzilla instead of just a forum for these kinds of things (something to poke your manager/program manager for I guess). | null | 0 | 1317092814 | False | 0 | c2mujgr | t3_ks0s7 | null | t1_c2mujgr | t1_c2mr1hk | null | 1427651557 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | ordinarydude | null | My full name only consists of one word. Many sites force me to lie the second word! :( | null | 0 | 1317092829 | False | 0 | c2mujja | t3_jzpo5 | null | t1_c2mujja | t3_jzpo5 | null | 1427651558 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1317093003 | False | 0 | c2muker | t3_ks1qu | null | t1_c2muker | t1_c2ms2pj | null | 1427651571 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | aaronla | null | > Dick, in this story, is a Designer. Not a Usability Analyst.
Ah, so you're saying he's a _bad_ designer. Got it.
Edit-add: \[[cite](http://www.amazon.com/Design-Everyday-Things-Donald-Norman/dp/0385267746)\] | null | 0 | 1317093005 | True | 0 | c2mukf5 | t3_krv1k | null | t1_c2mukf5 | t1_c2mpk0d | null | 1427651571 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | VikingCoder | null | I believe it's being developed out in the open, and could be incorporated into any browser.
EDIT: Downvotes? Seriously?
http://code.google.com/p/nativeclient/wiki/Source?tm=4
It **is** being developed out in the open, and can be incorporated into any browser. | null | 0 | 1317093051 | True | 0 | c2muknd | t3_krzdn | null | t1_c2muknd | t1_c2muj8v | null | 1427651574 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | superiority | null | > Spend time with users? Who has time for that?
On Microsoft's "Building Windows 8" blog they talk a lot about how they [use tracked data from users to help make design decisions](http://blogs.msdn.com/b/b8/archive/2011/08/29/improvements-in-windows-explorer.aspx). | null | 0 | 1317093118 | False | 0 | c2mukzg | t3_krv1k | null | t1_c2mukzg | t1_c2mpdjv | null | 1427651578 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Otterfan | null | But where do we find a piece of busted, crappy, inefficient code to test out on interviewees? All of our code is perfect... | null | 0 | 1317093121 | False | 0 | c2mukzz | t3_ks1qu | null | t1_c2mukzz | t1_c2msz9b | null | 1427651578 | 26 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | bicols | null | It would only really be an open door if you ran it as root, btw there's this cool thing I heard of, it's a firewall... | null | 0 | 1317093254 | False | 0 | c2mulod | t3_krzdn | null | t1_c2mulod | t1_c2msfud | null | 1427651589 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | positivelyskewed | null | What information do you gain from reading input validation or parsing code? That just seems like a waste of effort for the interviewer and the candidate. If you're trying to hire someone to write complicated algorithms, or come up with efficient solutions to nontrivial problems, why are you looking at their code for some ridiculously trivial problems?
Almost no company would be OK with you sharing any part of their proprietary software, because the legal definition of what's OK and what's not OK would be too fuzzy. You will have to pry this permission from their cold, dead hands. To go through those great lengths so that some interviewer can see how you checked that the user doesn't enter letters into a numeric field just doesn't make sense.
As an interviewer, I'm not sure I'd even be interested in talking to someone who thought that their shitty parsing code was actually impressive or informative enough to justify the huge amount of effort it would take on their part to get permission from management. I'd more than likely assume that they were not given permission to share this code, and that they're violating some kind of confidentiality agreement. Why do you want to hire people who are going to share your code with other companies to benefit themselves?
I think your suggestion is only useful if you're only interested in finding out if the person actually has a pulse. There are better ways to test this. | null | 0 | 1317093399 | False | 0 | c2mumer | t3_ks1qu | null | t1_c2mumer | t1_c2mufkb | null | 1427651597 | 9 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | jrochkind | null | Re: Controller
Most well-designed MVC frameworks I've seen call the individual active methods in a controller an 'action' or 'action method'. Cause, well, that's generally what the C part actually is. (I haven't looked, but I suspect the GoF or whoever popularized MVC used the 'action' term too, it's so widespread).
If you call it 'Action' instead of 'Controller', would that make you happier with, um, MVA design? | null | 0 | 1317093493 | False | 0 | c2mumvr | t3_krzdp | null | t1_c2mumvr | t3_krzdp | null | 1427651602 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | alekseykorzun | null | There goes my Goober class! | null | 0 | 1317093499 | False | 0 | c2mumx5 | t3_krzdp | null | t1_c2mumx5 | t3_krzdp | null | 1427651602 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | rawlyn | null | I find it hard to take linguistic advice from someone who has such awful grammar. Two examples that made me sigh with disbelief:
> Now days
I guess that's the same as "nowadays".
> There's lots of exceptions
There is lots of exceptions?... *Really?!*... | null | 0 | 1317093627 | False | 0 | c2munlb | t3_krzdp | null | t1_c2munlb | t3_krzdp | null | 1427651611 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Bjartr | null | >why not just have a function "load"
Tracking state of some kind without polluting the app with globals?
>Or put the functionality into a constructor of whatever's being loaded?
That actually seems to make more sense, for loading at least. I wish the article had said this instead of going "We renamed it, now it's better." | null | 0 | 1317093664 | False | 0 | c2munst | t3_krzdp | null | t1_c2munst | t1_c2muiuh | null | 1427651615 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | mcguire | null | Brilliant! I just renamed my AbstractBeanFactoryBeanManager to BurnsLikeHabanero! | null | 0 | 1317093713 | False | 0 | c2muo1y | t3_krzdp | null | t1_c2muo1y | t3_krzdp | null | 1427651618 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1317093733 | False | 0 | c2muo5y | t3_krzdp | null | t1_c2muo5y | t1_c2mr2ou | null | 1427651619 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | khoury | null | I think most people who don't like it is more "won't" than "can't". A lot of people put their foot down and throw a fit instead of learning a new way to do things and try to assess whether or not it realistically works better or not. | null | 0 | 1317094023 | False | 0 | c2mupm1 | t3_krv1k | null | t1_c2mupm1 | t1_c2mry2k | null | 1427651638 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | quad50 | null | at least no one can claim that the OOP expert hierarchy is arrogant! | null | 0 | 1317094051 | False | 0 | c2mupph | t3_krzdp | null | t1_c2mupph | t3_krzdp | null | 1427651639 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1317094060 | False | 0 | c2mupr7 | t3_krv1k | null | t1_c2mupr7 | t3_krv1k | null | 1427651640 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | quad50 | null | at least no one can claim that the OOP expert hierarchy is arrogant! | null | 0 | 1317094063 | False | 0 | c2mupsg | t3_krzdp | null | t1_c2mupsg | t3_krzdp | null | 1427651640 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | blueeit | null | Reminded me of the [Medieval Helpdesk](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFAWR6hzZek). | null | 0 | 1317094072 | False | 0 | c2mupw7 | t3_krv1k | null | t1_c2mupw7 | t3_krv1k | null | 1427651642 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | NitWit005 | null | I don't mind the ribbon exactly, but does the time their research show was saved by the new interface actually exceed the time wasted looking for where the new buttons are? Consider me doubtful. Google searches for "word print button" were very highly ranked for some time.
Much of MS's motive seems to be that they have to visually change programs or people don't think they've been upgraded. Your "ordinary" user won't know that you've added a Visual Basic scripting engine, template documents or whatever. | null | 0 | 1317094090 | False | 0 | c2mupzu | t3_krv1k | null | t1_c2mupzu | t1_c2mpo7j | null | 1427651643 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | TheCid | null | Sign up with the government as a defense contractor and use some of their code. | null | 0 | 1317094150 | False | 0 | c2muqcg | t3_ks1qu | null | t1_c2muqcg | t1_c2mukzz | null | 1427651648 | 24 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | vampirate | null | I had a phone interview with these guys last week. Never heard back. ;,,( | null | 0 | 1317094196 | False | 0 | c2muqku | t3_ks1qu | null | t1_c2muqku | t3_ks1qu | null | 1427651651 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | troyanonymous1 | null | I hope so. | null | 0 | 1317094220 | False | 0 | c2muqpa | t3_krzdn | null | t1_c2muqpa | t1_c2muknd | null | 1427651652 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | krische | null | > after 4 years of having to deal with the fucking ribbon on every single Microsoft application, you start learning how to guess where they decided to hide things
And how did you know where things were before that?
The ribbon UI isn't bad, it's just not what you were used to. There is a difference. | null | 0 | 1317094255 | False | 0 | c2muqwg | t3_krv1k | null | t1_c2muqwg | t1_c2mrda4 | null | 1427651654 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | redwall_hp | null | What the hell happened with Lion? Did someone fire all the good designer/UX people when Steve wasn't looking?
I'm going to stick to Snow Leopard for awhile anyway, since I don't want to buy a Universal version of Photoshop until I absolutely have to. | null | 0 | 1317094256 | False | 0 | c2muqwk | t3_krv1k | null | t1_c2muqwk | t1_c2mprej | null | 1427651654 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Bjartr | null | >Whereas in OOP the first question you ask is, "What system does this represent?"
I think this is part of where people are getting sidetracked. IMO, OOP does not mean system modeling, at least, not in a way significantly different than any other programming paradigm. It is just a way to organize related data and procedures in such a way as to increase readability and maintainability. The fact that the groupings can reflect other systems has less to do with the nature of OOP and more with the nature of people and our familiarity with certain types of real-world processes. | null | 0 | 1317094428 | False | 0 | c2murnk | t3_krzdp | null | t1_c2murnk | t1_c2mtwes | null | 1427651665 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | px403 | null | Oh hey, you're right, that is an XKCD cartoon. I totally thought it was Palintir cartoon! | null | 0 | 1317094431 | False | 0 | c2muro6 | t3_ks1qu | null | t1_c2muro6 | t1_c2mtczl | null | 1427651665 | 8 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | khoury | null | Actually, I think he's asking for a justification for change. | null | 0 | 1317094535 | False | 0 | c2mus53 | t3_krv1k | null | t1_c2mus53 | t1_c2mtt9a | null | 1427651672 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | iconoclaus | null | Apparently neither you nor Dick know what a designer is or does. Modern design methodologies (such as [design thinking](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Design_thinking)\) are heavily based on prototyping, user observation, and redesign. That is to say, they are user-driven. Design hasn't been about 'visual appeal' since... what, the Baroque era of four centuries ago? Which is precisely why 'baroque' is an insult to many designers. | null | 0 | 1317094538 | True | 0 | c2mus5f | t3_krv1k | null | t1_c2mus5f | t1_c2mpk0d | null | 1427651672 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | mcguire | null | > You're completely missing this group: people who devote all of their energy to working on the problems their companies are paying them to solve.
You're also missing another group: talking monkeys. In my experience, that group is significantly bigger than your group; if you are looking at someone who sounds pretty good, but can't actually provide any evidence, odds are they're wearing simian underwear. | null | 0 | 1317094549 | False | 0 | c2mus79 | t3_ks1qu | null | t1_c2mus79 | t1_c2mub5t | null | 1427651672 | -3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | zip117 | null | > Their entire business is making huge amounts of data transparent to relatively clueless users, and as shown by their continued financial success they are pretty darn good at it.
I agree completely, I don't know how they manage to convince people to pay huge sums of money for their software. Their most advanced GIS features are timelines and heat maps, and I'm not sure their data mining capabilities even go beyond simple network analysis. | null | 0 | 1317094673 | False | 0 | c2musrx | t3_ks1qu | null | t1_c2musrx | t1_c2mtzig | null | 1427651679 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | khoury | null | Let's also not forget that fiction books aren't the only things people will be reading. A search box is vital for a technical ebook to be usable, especially if it's meant to be used as a reference. | null | 0 | 1317094678 | False | 0 | c2mussr | t3_krv1k | null | t1_c2mussr | t1_c2ms2fs | null | 1427651679 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | baconOclock | null | I wanna try out your program in CUDA but I keep getting 404 errors from this link. | null | 0 | 1317094802 | False | 0 | c2mutct | t3_krpem | null | t1_c2mutct | t1_c2mt05x | null | 1427651688 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | stesch | null | That's tradition. Lisp and Scheme sound awful, too.
| null | 0 | 1317094900 | False | 0 | c2mutt7 | t3_kri4f | null | t1_c2mutt7 | t1_c2mu00d | null | 1427651694 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Bjartr | null | >the proper class is centered around the data it contains, and not the functionality it performs.
I'm trying to understand why this is necessarily better. For the sake of discussion, let's say we have a gun-like object. It can shoot bullets. Why is something like `BulletStore` better than `BulletShooter`? Shouldn't the name of a class depend on how it is intended to be used? Why should the user of the class know it stores its own bullets when all they care about is shooting bullets? | null | 0 | 1317094944 | False | 0 | c2muu0f | t3_krzdp | null | t1_c2muu0f | t1_c2mstzf | null | 1427651696 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | eaturbrainz | null | They're both just slightly different use-cases of existential types. | null | 0 | 1317094948 | False | 0 | c2muu1c | t3_kroia | null | t1_c2muu1c | t1_c2mp8aa | null | 1427651696 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | redwall_hp | null | Yes. I hate it when browsers do stupid things like opening new tabs right after the selected one instead of the end of the stack. Being able to tweak behavior like that is one of the major reasons I stick to Firefox. (Also, I turned off that domain highlighting thing in FF5/6 as soon as it came out.) Oh, and Firebug.
Most casual users probably don't care too much, but power users will generally pull their hair out when you change things like that on them. | null | 0 | 1317095003 | False | 0 | c2muuba | t3_krv1k | null | t1_c2muuba | t1_c2mtwbk | null | 1427651700 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | dead_ed | null | one thing (and the main thing) I really hate about the ribbon is that it does one thing I think you should never do and that's *move things* on the user. It kinda works here, though, but remains annoying. | null | 0 | 1317095029 | False | 0 | c2muufs | t3_krv1k | null | t1_c2muufs | t1_c2mpssz | null | 1427651702 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | RealDeuce | null | Say what? Sorry, you're being too general. My SMTP server name for example is not a design choice the developer is not making... nor is my password.
Just a couple qualifications would make that significantly less wrong though. | null | 0 | 1317095067 | False | 0 | c2muumj | t3_krv1k | null | t1_c2muumj | t1_c2mswjy | null | 1427651704 | 12 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | NanoStuff | null | Apologies, terrible oversight. Fixed. | null | 0 | 1317095090 | False | 0 | c2muuqr | t3_krpem | null | t1_c2muuqr | t1_c2mutct | null | 1427651707 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | NitWit005 | null | There is no "end user". There are many, just like anything else.
If I go to the store and want to buy beer, tomato sauce or anything other common item, there will be 50 different kinds. Stores have learned that not everyone likes the same kind of tomato sauce.
The address book metaphor will please some people, most will be neutral and some will be so pissed they'll want to stab you in the face with something sharp.
Apple has gained in popularity, but be careful. That doesn't mean there is universal appeal. You can be wildly successful with a product that appeals to 40% of the population, but is disliked by the other 60%.
A good design actually needs a target audience. | null | 0 | 1317095244 | False | 0 | c2muvhl | t3_krv1k | null | t1_c2muvhl | t1_c2mpuie | null | 1427651715 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | pytmand | null | Worked for me on OSX. | null | 0 | 1317095268 | False | 0 | c2muvls | t3_krpem | null | t1_c2muvls | t1_c2momgt | null | 1427651716 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | andrew-d | null | Hah, that is rather ironic! I might have to rethink my bad-naming-convention ways ;-) | null | 0 | 1317095276 | False | 0 | c2muvnc | t3_krd8f | null | t1_c2muvnc | t1_c2mrqjv | null | 1427651716 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | MrGreg | null | They've also been known to acquire rival's technology through less than legal means. http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/02/17/idUS121866071120110217 | null | 0 | 1317095321 | False | 0 | c2muvvk | t3_ks1qu | null | t1_c2muvvk | t1_c2mrsxg | null | 1427651720 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | yoden | null | To be fair, while I generally think win 7 is vastly superior to XP, the control panel is a disorganized pile of shit where it's impossible to find anything.
Luckily, search makes finding things (or even opening the control panel) completely unnecessary. For me, the real solution was not to learn the new control panel, it was to learn to just use the start menu to search for the settings I wished to change. That's the real sad thing that "first in wins" prevents; new paradigms take even more flack than reorganization. | null | 0 | 1317095397 | False | 0 | c2muw9e | t3_krv1k | null | t1_c2muw9e | t1_c2mrtyo | null | 1427651725 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | freakwent | null | It's pretty!
http://www.webtoolkit.eu/wt/examples/charts/charts.wt | null | 0 | 1317095478 | False | 0 | c2muwlp | t3_krzdn | null | t1_c2muwlp | t1_c2mrq6z | null | 1427651730 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | dspeyer | null | > Tracking state of some kind without polluting the app with globals?
What state do you need to load things? | null | 0 | 1317095493 | False | 0 | c2muwo6 | t3_krzdp | null | t1_c2muwo6 | t1_c2munst | null | 1427651731 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Instantiation | null | Well, for starters I was just aiming to give a synopsis of the author's point, not necessarily my own opinion. But that said, you would probably just call the object "Gun". It makes sense that you can Gun.Fire(), because that's something that Guns do. BulletShooter would be unnecessarily ambiguous, under the presumption that Guns can do something besides shoot bullets, and therefore BulletShooter would not be a faithful representation of the actual functionality.
...well, it's hard to answer in detail to a contrived situation. The answer will always depend very heavily on the context of the problem. But think about it from the point of view of state. The "user of the class" should care because when you .Fire() a bullet, you are changing the state of the object by reducing the bulletCount (or whatever). So it is an operation that has side effects. One of the purposes of OOP is to contain and control those side effects in a container of sorts, which is the class. If your class does not faithfully represent the things it contains, then you have problems. That's why a BulletShooter is not sufficient, because it most likely has other gun-like properties that are unrelated to bullet shooting.
Also, another problem is that you seem to be working on the presumption that there is a single user for the gun, and they only use it in a single way, and they don't care about non-bullet-shooting side effects. In that case, how is it even gun-like? If nobody interacts with it like a gun, it probably isn't a gun and you have to answer these fundamental questions before you can get to higher-level implementation issues.
That said, I don't think it would be unreasonable to have a BulletShooter interface (in a Java sense) or abstract/virtual class (for C++) which a Gun can implement. Then the user can instantiate a BulletShooter and never deal with the other aspects, if that truly is all they care about. But at this point I'm just speculating on your hypothetical, so... yeah. | null | 0 | 1317095681 | False | 0 | c2muxmw | t3_krzdp | null | t1_c2muxmw | t1_c2muu0f | null | 1427651743 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | mindcandy | null | I'll ask everyone to **please** read the [section on security](https://docs.google.com/a/google.com/document/d/1uV4uDVIe9-8XdVndW8nNGWBfqn9ieeop-5TRfScOG_o/edit?hl=en_US&authkey=CM-dw7QG&ndplr=1&pli=1#heading=h.iygyzqljyy2b) *before* commenting on the security implications of this proposal. *After* you have read it, feel free to complain to your heart's content. | null | 0 | 1317095718 | False | 0 | c2muxt9 | t3_ksdfr | null | t1_c2muxt9 | t3_ksdfr | null | 1427651746 | 34 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Sephr | null | The website doesn't control the cursor, it locks it in place so it can't leave without the user unlocking it through esc. | null | 0 | 1317095735 | False | 0 | c2muxw1 | t3_ksdfr | null | t1_c2muxw1 | t1_c2mtv5c | null | 1427651747 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | sketerpot | null | The government, much like Sauron, can make evil use of the palantíri of Westernesse. It is better that they sink into the ocean like that doomed land.
Wow, that was the nerdiest thing I've said all week. | null | 0 | 1317095840 | False | 0 | c2muybz | t3_ks1qu | null | t1_c2muybz | t1_c2muago | null | 1427651753 | -3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | In my experience:
* Programmers treat computers like toolboxes, and consider figuring out how to put together the pieces a normal (and fun) part of operating a computer. The key to usability is to design the software with the user's needs and intended tasks in mind. To a programmer, this seems like reducing the usefulness of a program.
* Programmers tend to be logical thinkers, not visual thinkers, and hence are mostly blind to the nouns and verbs of UI and graphical design. They will underuse fonts and colors, ignore white space and make the entire UI equally bland rather than emphasizing the important parts and adding graphical illustrations where appropriate.
* Programmers are very lazy. If they can, they will construct their UI out of completely generic, reusable components, regardless of whether they are appropriate or not. Why implement drag and drop when you can just add [Up] [Down] buttons next to a list?
* Programmers live in an abstract world of data structures and algorithms. When they look at a UI, they don't just see what's there, they see the underlying objects, their statefulness, and consider how they want to mutate that state. To a programmer, it seems entirely natural that a Preferences dialog has "Ok" "Cancel" "Apply" buttons, where pressing "Cancel" after pressing "Apply" doesn't revert you back to the original state.
For example, most of what Apple has done has been to liberate the UI from its programmer trappings. They introduced such advances as true per-pixel scrolling (and then analog inertia), non-rectangular windows with shadows (because our eyes are great at interpreting shading), universal drag and drop (because it avoids unnatural statefulness/modality), instant-apply preferences (because light switches do not have "Ok" "Cancel" buttons), print-like font rendering (because aliased shapes do not appear in nature), etc.
All these things undoubtedly made a programmer roll his eyes at a UI designer and curse them for having to rewrite their perfectly good rectangular windowing system or their perfectly good bitmap font renderer or their perfectly good layout manager.
(Note: I'm a programmer.) | null | 0 | 1317095872 | True | 0 | c2muyho | t3_krv1k | null | t1_c2muyho | t1_c2mq7aa | null | 1427651755 | 9 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1317096156 | False | 0 | c2muzv0 | t3_ks0s7 | null | t1_c2muzv0 | t1_c2mujgr | null | 1427651772 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | rmeredit | null | A server name and a password are not option settings - they don't change the functionality of the tool. | null | 0 | 1317096284 | False | 0 | c2mv0gq | t3_krv1k | null | t1_c2mv0gq | t1_c2muumj | null | 1427651780 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | bucknuggets | null | Good question - I've done it both ways. Note that in this scenario, this utility is going to load something like 1-100 million rows into a database partition.
Generally, it seems to simplify the overall program to make it a class that also includes methods related to loading. These include:
* adding an audit record in our audit system
* unzipping the load file
* detaching the partition to load into
* running the actual load or import utility
* reattaching the detached partition
* 'set integrity' on the newly attached partition
* parsing the load messages to gather all counts & important messages
* closing out the audit record
Almost none of these need to be public methods, but it's a lot of related code. And it helps to keep it together. | null | 0 | 1317096310 | False | 0 | c2mv0l8 | t3_krzdp | null | t1_c2mv0l8 | t1_c2muiuh | null | 1427651781 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | mcguire | null | > Take a look at how TCP handles this issue then tell me this is a great idea.
"If the sender infers that data has been lost in the network, it retransmits the data"? How is that a bad idea?
(That article is horrible. "TCP uses a sequence number to identify each segment of data" is false; the sequence number is *per-byte* in the segments.) | null | 0 | 1317096331 | False | 0 | c2mv0oe | t3_ks4su | null | t1_c2mv0oe | t1_c2mt9b1 | null | 1427651782 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1317096346 | False | 0 | c2mv0r1 | t3_krzdp | null | t1_c2mv0r1 | t1_c2munst | null | 1427651783 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | FalcorTheDog | null | They fixed this in iOS 5. | null | 0 | 1317096423 | False | 0 | c2mv14f | t3_krv1k | null | t1_c2mv14f | t1_c2mt0i3 | null | 1427651788 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | preshing | null | You are right, it's a variation on that. However, I discovered that f(x) = -4*x**-0.4 made a pretty good replacement for f(x) = log(log(x))/log(2) in the range 6 < x < 36. This saved code size since I didn't have to import math or use log.
The idea is the same though: Given the escape distance abs(V) and the number of iterations to escape, make a continuous real-valued function. That's the key to avoid banding. Once you have that function, treat the resulting values as inputs to whatever R, G, B curves you want. I searched for some curves which I thought looked good. | null | 0 | 1317096601 | False | 0 | c2mv1up | t3_krpem | null | t1_c2mv1up | t1_c2mqol9 | null | 1427651799 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Bjartr | null | >That's why a BulletShooter is not sufficient, because it most likely has other gun-like properties that are unrelated to bullet shooting.
Wouldn't this lead to the only way to 'really' fix that is to put everything the class is and can do in the name?
I pretty much agree with the rest, the gun was just a quick object I came up with to ask about that one thing, I didn't put the thought in to find an object that covered all the other stuff.
I think the article fails because it conflates the naming of classes with the architecture. Classes are named for their architecture, not designed for their names. The article would have been far more effective showing the right way to design things, rather than listing examples of poor names for bad designs. | null | 0 | 1317096664 | False | 0 | c2mv23k | t3_krzdp | null | t1_c2mv23k | t1_c2muxmw | null | 1427651802 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | It's somewhat analogous to VNC (which, FWIW, already has HTML5 clients), but it has the potential to be much more efficient than VNC. | null | 0 | 1317096735 | False | 0 | c2mv2dd | t3_krzdn | null | t1_c2mv2dd | t1_c2mu8fp | null | 1427651806 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | BernzSed | null | It looks like you're making a joke. Would you like help? | null | 0 | 1317096848 | False | 0 | c2mv2us | t3_krv1k | null | t1_c2mv2us | t1_c2mtvvu | null | 1427651812 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
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