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True | conceptualism | null | Charm++ seems like an attempt at an Actor Model framework for C++, but due to some NIH syndrome they had to call their actors chares.
The compiler wrapper is just ugly and unnecessary. It would have been better had they just provided a C++ interface for the core functionality.
There's no security model of any kind and the documentation is very thin. The license is will keep everyone who's not in Academia away. | null | 0 | 1317169829 | False | 0 | c2n3hn0 | t3_ksm2f | null | t1_c2n3hn0 | t3_ksm2f | null | 1427655910 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | nothis | null | [1974, man!](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPMFhcC4SvQ) It's amazing how far ahead pre-rendered CG graphics have always been to real-time rendered ones. Also today's Avatar level theatrical CG will probably once run on a mobile phone. Crazy. | null | 0 | 1317169842 | False | 0 | c2n3hp9 | t3_ktd67 | null | t1_c2n3hp9 | t1_c2n36hh | null | 1427655911 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | ottawadeveloper | null | thank you. apparently three years of comp sci DID teach me something lol | null | 0 | 1317169860 | False | 0 | c2n3hsa | t3_krv1k | null | t1_c2n3hsa | t1_c2mu2n8 | null | 1427655912 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | zingbot3000 | null | Might want to get your hearing checked, since I didn't actually make any sound. | null | 0 | 1317169912 | False | 0 | c2n3i23 | t3_kteac | null | t1_c2n3i23 | t1_c2n3euo | null | 1427655915 | -6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Yodamanjaro | null | It'll teach you more than that when you get a job - believe me, I just got one. I remembered quite a bit more than I thought I did. | null | 0 | 1317169982 | False | 0 | c2n3idc | t3_krv1k | null | t1_c2n3idc | t1_c2n3hsa | null | 1427655919 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1317169999 | False | 0 | c2n3igh | t3_kt17p | null | t1_c2n3igh | t3_kt17p | null | 1427655920 | -1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | Yeah, I love when a typo in an XML file causes an exception with a 200 line stack trace that gives you no idea of what the problem actually is.
I worked on a project that used Spring once, I'll never go anywhere near it again. I'll take a job digging ditches before a programming job using Spring. | null | 0 | 1317170019 | False | 0 | c2n3ikg | t3_kssh2 | null | t1_c2n3ikg | t1_c2n1a05 | null | 1427655922 | 8 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1317170040 | False | 0 | c2n3ioh | t3_kteac | null | t1_c2n3ioh | t1_c2n2n22 | null | 1427655923 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | ruinercollector | null | .NET being a peer to C++ in terms of direct OS runtime access is a step *up* from where it is now. | null | 0 | 1317170044 | False | 0 | c2n3ipe | t3_kl1qp | null | t1_c2n3ipe | t1_c2l5tzv | null | 1427655924 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | conjury | null | Disagree. The overly cute headline completely failed to telegraph the abject shallowness of this article with sufficient clarity. It was actually worse than the headline made it appear to be. | null | 0 | 1317170098 | False | 0 | c2n3izb | t3_kteac | null | t1_c2n3izb | t1_c2n2ze4 | null | 1427655927 | 24 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | jerf | null | Yes, that's a great rephrasing of the exact same thing I said. | null | 0 | 1317170156 | False | 0 | c2n3j9f | t3_ksdfr | null | t1_c2n3j9f | t1_c2n09px | null | 1427655931 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | mwatson26 | null | no me gusta | null | 0 | 1317170162 | False | 0 | c2n3jaa | t3_ktje5 | null | t1_c2n3jaa | t3_ktje5 | null | 1427655931 | -1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1317170185 | False | 0 | c2n3jeg | t3_kt17p | null | t1_c2n3jeg | t1_c2n136m | null | 1427655934 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | TankorSmash | null | Hey do you have the source for this? I'd like to mess around with it. I'm no good at copy and pasting apparently, I've imported string and random plus renamed fitness to calc_fitness, but I think it'd just be easier if you posted the entire source =D | null | 0 | 1317170200 | False | 0 | c2n3jhd | t3_ktg7o | null | t1_c2n3jhd | t1_c2n2ugo | null | 1427655934 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | ruinercollector | null | Have you used the developer preview release? The "tablet UI" works quite nicely with a mouse and keyboard. | null | 0 | 1317170322 | False | 0 | c2n3k2g | t3_kl1qp | null | t1_c2n3k2g | t1_c2ljudk | null | 1427655942 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | deoxxa | null | If it's any consolation, I upvoted it!
Edit: I upvoted the original comment because it was a valid and useful response to my post, being that my post wasn't really clear about what exactly I wanted and this helped to make it more so. Also, programmers are, in general, terse. I know this because I am one, so I didn't take offence at what haskell_rules said. | null | 0 | 1317170351 | True | 0 | c2n3k76 | t3_krzys | null | t1_c2n3k76 | t1_c2n047h | null | 1427655945 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1317170364 | False | 0 | c2n3k9m | t3_kteac | null | t1_c2n3k9m | t1_c2n3izb | null | 1427655945 | 8 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | ruinercollector | null | Agree with you, other than on Metro not looking/working great with a mouse and keyboard. It's quite nice with a keyboard. In fact I've found it easier to use with keyboard alone than the current windows desktop UI. | null | 0 | 1317170397 | False | 0 | c2n3kg6 | t3_kl1qp | null | t1_c2n3kg6 | t1_c2lbqka | null | 1427655948 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | blastfromtheblue | null | aye, i'm on a netbook right now. i may still try out this tool at my desk, but i'm unable to use it on the go... | null | 0 | 1317170400 | False | 0 | c2n3kgu | t3_ktenx | null | t1_c2n3kgu | t1_c2n2yiy | null | 1427655948 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | deoxxa | null | I'll track down a copy, it looks pretty decent. Thanks! | null | 0 | 1317170416 | False | 0 | c2n3kk2 | t3_krzys | null | t1_c2n3kk2 | t1_c2n1bfy | null | 1427655949 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | uprise78 | null | It's HTML5 and it's in the cloud man. | null | 0 | 1317170656 | False | 0 | c2n3lre | t3_kt17p | null | t1_c2n3lre | t1_c2n136m | null | 1427655967 | 8 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Exallium | null | no =) That makes me feel better for some reason. | null | 0 | 1317171001 | False | 0 | c2n3nft | t3_kteac | null | t1_c2n3nft | t1_c2n3ioh | null | 1427655985 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | blastfromtheblue | null | thanks for tipping me off that this exists | null | 0 | 1317171109 | False | 0 | c2n3o0y | t3_ktenx | null | t1_c2n3o0y | t1_c2n3df6 | null | 1427655994 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Ragnarok2kx | null | The first thing you can look up to improve on the article's ideas is the concept of elitism and/or diversity preservation.
It tries to solve the problem of losing beneficial characteristics, mainly through an archive of sorts that saves the individuals with better fitness.
| null | 0 | 1317171133 | False | 0 | c2n3o53 | t3_ktg7o | null | t1_c2n3o53 | t1_c2n2ugo | null | 1427655996 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | bradshjg | null | Apparently you don't hang out with enough Greek people, because Opa is absolutely appropriate for any situation requiring comment. | null | 0 | 1317171161 | False | 0 | c2n3oa1 | t3_kteac | null | t1_c2n3oa1 | t1_c2n3dy0 | null | 1427655997 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | rafrombrc | null | The squaring is a bit suspect. And it still allows for false positives: if a word is off by two letters, each the same distance but in an opposite direction from the correct letter, the total would be 0. I think you'd be better off taking the absolute value of the difference between each individual character, so you're only summing positive numbers, and a 0 total is only possible if every character's difference is 0. | null | 0 | 1317171165 | False | 0 | c2n3oai | t3_ktg7o | null | t1_c2n3oai | t3_ktg7o | null | 1427655997 | -5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | technomancy | null | Dang; I came here to brag about OCaml, but that takes the cake. | null | 0 | 1317171187 | False | 0 | c2n3oer | t3_kteac | null | t1_c2n3oer | t1_c2n2r5s | null | 1427655999 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | caust1c | null | In addition to that, few people know that vim [has a built in tutorial / beginner's guide.](http://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/kqnmm/til_vim_has_a_builtin_beginners_tutorial_that/) | null | 0 | 1317171205 | False | 0 | c2n3oif | t3_ktenx | null | t1_c2n3oif | t1_c2n2ttg | null | 1427656000 | 8 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | hortinstein | null | Been looking for a good reason to play around with erlang again after using it in a concurrency class a while ago. This tutorial looks incredible! Bro-tocols illustration... And a progress quest clone in erlang count me in. Need some more functional programming xp! | null | 0 | 1317171240 | False | 0 | c2n3oog | t3_kt9ee | null | t1_c2n3oog | t3_kt9ee | null | 1427656002 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | innervision | null | In Brazil they use it as a (half-assed, I admit) greeting. For example, when you walk into someone you didn't expect. | null | 0 | 1317171408 | False | 0 | c2n3pi2 | t3_kteac | null | t1_c2n3pi2 | t1_c2n3oa1 | null | 1427656013 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | lukedanielcameron | null | Well, now I have no excuse not to learn Vim. I'm not sure why, but these online tutorials always seem to hold my attention longer than the vim tutor. | null | 0 | 1317171716 | False | 0 | c2n3r17 | t3_ktenx | null | t1_c2n3r17 | t3_ktenx | null | 1427656034 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | I'm testing that technology as we speak and I can say woow that girl can bring her milkshake to my yard any day! is that a dead hobo? lol, i should probably leave and not pay the bill and it's a pretty amazing novelty, we will have our product ready by 2015 as soon as we sort some minor bugs. | null | 0 | 1317171764 | False | 0 | c2n3r9m | t3_ktenx | null | t1_c2n3r9m | t1_c2n3b79 | null | 1427656038 | 16 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | tsujiku | null | Squaring a negative number results in a positive number, so the case you mention could never happen... | null | 0 | 1317171792 | False | 0 | c2n3reb | t3_ktg7o | null | t1_c2n3reb | t1_c2n3oai | null | 1427656037 | 8 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | day_cq | null | hipsters i know use these:
- http://www.call-with-current-continuation.org/fp/
- http://nosmileface.ru/krawl/krawl_by_example.html | null | 0 | 1317171809 | False | 0 | c2n3rh8 | t3_kteac | null | t1_c2n3rh8 | t3_kteac | null | 1427656039 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | buffering | null | It has nothing to do with CUPS or virtual printers.
The Quartz graphics engine renders and generates PDF content natively. This makes it very easy for developers to consume and generate PDF data and many 3rd-party apps make great use of it. For example, if you copy a math formula from Grapher.app or part of a diagram from [OmniGraffle](http://www.omnigroup.com/products/omnigraffle/), that content is sitting on the clipboard as PDF data.
As a result, PDF is a very convenient format to work with in OS X, for both users and developers. | null | 0 | 1317171951 | False | 0 | c2n3s59 | t3_kssyt | null | t1_c2n3s59 | t1_c2myzmn | null | 1427656047 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | nusi42 | null | In PostScript you have to run the whole PS job to be able to print the last page. That means if you have a 10000 pages job and the last page was printed on white paper although you wanted to have it on green paper, then you will again wait 1 hour for your PosScript interpreter to run the PS job again, up to the point where it can finally print the last page.
In PDF you jump to the last page and print it. Takes milli seconds.
In a normal office printing environment, which will happen more often?
1. The clerc programs a raytracer in PostScript and shows it to the manager
2. The clerc prints the last page of a job again
I like PostScript as much as the next best nerd.
But for printing, PDF-X is more usefull.
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True | peeweejd | null | that is very cool! | null | 0 | 1317172521 | False | 0 | c2n3uvw | t3_ktenx | null | t1_c2n3uvw | t3_ktenx | null | 1427656083 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | makis | null | [this](http://www.epica.com/images/D/d_1116_01-01.jpg) is intuitive.
[this](http://ryanmckern.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Mac-OSX-Lion-Address-book.png) is not. | null | 0 | 1317172579 | False | 0 | c2n3v63 | t3_krv1k | null | t1_c2n3v63 | t1_c2mxe1c | null | 1427656087 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | theineffablebob | null | Well, when you have 16 hours to render a frame instead of 16 milliseconds, things are gonna look a bit better. | null | 0 | 1317172588 | False | 0 | c2n3v7i | t3_ktd67 | null | t1_c2n3v7i | t1_c2n3hp9 | null | 1427656089 | 8 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | romwell | null | $995 in 1990! That's almost [$1970 today](http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=%24995+dollars+in+1990+today). No wonder it didn't really spread.
I guess it shows how bad pricing can kill anything (speaking of which, Borland Delphi, still keeps being popular in exUSSR due to high piracy rates).
Also, calling it a "media charge" must have been outright sadistic. | null | 0 | 1317172651 | False | 0 | c2n3viq | t3_kssyt | null | t1_c2n3viq | t1_c2n3h4c | null | 1427656091 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | vitriolage | null | [Here](http://www.matthiasmueller.info/publications/tallCells.pdf) is the paper that describes the technique. **PDF Warning** | null | 0 | 1317172705 | False | 0 | c2n3vss | t3_ktl1t | null | t1_c2n3vss | t3_ktl1t | null | 1427656095 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | autumntheory | null | It makes sense that the parent combining method works better at the beginning, but eventually causes a bit of the issue. It allows for more permutations to be burned through at first since you're changing more characters at once. However, once the whole thing levels off you're making far less drastic changes.
While it's neat to watch their iterations, evolutionary algorithm always just seem to be fancy, drawn out random number tricks. Which I suppose is the point, I'd just like to see something substantial built with them. | null | 0 | 1317172738 | False | 0 | c2n3vxz | t3_ktg7o | null | t1_c2n3vxz | t3_ktg7o | null | 1427656097 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | stevely | null | Bresenham. Only one 'h'. | null | 0 | 1317172746 | False | 0 | c2n3vz6 | t3_ktd67 | null | t1_c2n3vz6 | t1_c2n35ie | null | 1427656097 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | el_chupacupcake | null | I hate to be that guy, but: Why is a website authored to discuss the history of computer graphics and the birth of modern technology styled to look like a MS Word document? | null | 0 | 1317172805 | False | 0 | c2n3w9g | t3_ktd67 | null | t1_c2n3w9g | t3_ktd67 | null | 1427656100 | -19 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | teambob | null | No she really couldn't, trust me I was there watching her try. :) I ended up helping her, in return for a second jelly bean for my daughter. :) | null | 0 | 1317173437 | True | 0 | c2n3z9n | t3_krv1k | null | t1_c2n3z9n | t1_c2mupm1 | null | 1427656140 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | vincentrevelations | null | Very cheap to host, and it doesn't need pictures. The design is simple, yes, but also clean and clear. | null | 0 | 1317173483 | False | 0 | c2n3zgv | t3_ktd67 | null | t1_c2n3zgv | t1_c2n3w9g | null | 1427656143 | 8 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | TurtleRacer | null | 'Loks of mobile hackers' probably don't use a 'learn vim in your browser' website though | null | 0 | 1317173577 | False | 0 | c2n3zvw | t3_ktenx | null | t1_c2n3zvw | t1_c2n2yiy | null | 1427656148 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Xdes | null | Having gone through this and emacs tutorial I can confidently say that emacs is more intuitive with keybindings, but vim has faster keybindings. | null | 0 | 1317173588 | False | 0 | c2n3zya | t3_ktenx | null | t1_c2n3zya | t3_ktenx | null | 1427656149 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | ZeuglinRush | null | Or, you could install pentadactyl on firefox. ENTIRE INTERNET IS VIM | null | 0 | 1317173959 | False | 0 | c2n41ph | t3_ktenx | null | t1_c2n41ph | t3_ktenx | null | 1427656173 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | artytrue | null | I meant to imply that i'm a more geeky person than I perhaps would have been. And yes, Artytrue too. | null | 0 | 1317174125 | False | 0 | c2n42j6 | t3_ktd67 | null | t1_c2n42j6 | t1_c2n32kv | null | 1427656184 | 8 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | The built in vim documentation sucks, especially for new users.
For instance, I just fired up the command you gave me, I see a giant TOC, now what? I can scroll up and down, that's all. Enter does nothing.
The vim plugin system is even worse.
Your premise is laughable anyway: I want to learn C. Okay, download gcc and have fun! | null | 0 | 1317174230 | False | 0 | c2n431i | t3_ktenx | null | t1_c2n431i | t1_c2n2ttg | null | 1427656190 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Rhomboid | null | I think what he was really asking was how do you know that that sequence of bytes represents something encoded in utf8 as opposed to something encoded in iso8859-1 or cp1252. The answer is that you don't know that. You must be told what encoding to treat input as. Guessing or assuming is what causes mojibake.
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True | el_chupacupcake | null | >Very cheap to host
That cannot possibly be a valid concern in 2011, can it? I mean, we're not talking billions of page views here, so if there *is* any savings it's negligible compared to audience loss (more on that next)
>it doesn't need pictures.
Setting aside the fact that it talks about graphics and that should, logically, beg for graphical content, there's the matter that this information is only in a usable format for linguistic learners. I'm a visual learner, which means I best take in information through pictures, illustrations, video... images, moving or stationary. I'm also a graphics professional (and most of us are visual learners) so it'd be nice if this discussion could be made in a way that's more beneficial to me. It wouldn't cost linguistic learners a thing, but would mean the world to visual ones.
It's not like it's that hard to add a *bit* of graphics and styling, right?
>clean and clear
Communication is about more than making something "clean and clear." It's also about making something people actively want to read. In speech this is why we have tone of voice, inflection, volume and pitch, jokes, allegories and any number of aids. For a clear example of how amazingly effective this is, go to youtube and find footage of Al Gore as vice president. Then go find him doing appearances for An Inconvenient Truth.
Similarly, when conveying information in a written form, we have other aids. We have layout, color theory, infographics and editorial illustrations, the lately-popular subject of typography, and hosts of other tricks and tactics developed throughout history as beneficial aids.
I don't mean to make this personal, but I have a major sticking point when anyone suggest that the the first, or primary, or top-most concern of communication is to be "clean and clear" because it ignores the *entire history* of human communication. It's only been in the last 50 or so years that this has been a "primary concern," and it's frankly misplaced. | null | 0 | 1317174404 | False | 0 | c2n43v0 | t3_ktd67 | null | t1_c2n43v0 | t1_c2n3zgv | null | 1427656202 | -7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | twopoint718 | null | No, the red pages! | null | 0 | 1317174627 | False | 0 | c2n44xb | t3_kssyt | null | t1_c2n44xb | t1_c2n2kgh | null | 1427656214 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | do you work for that website? There was an ad for go-parallel which doesn't make any sense, it consisted of runners who go twice as fast in parallel. That's about as far as I got. | null | 0 | 1317174629 | False | 0 | c2n44xp | t3_ktgtz | null | t1_c2n44xp | t3_ktgtz | null | 1427656214 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | awwaiid | null | Hopefully Perl will fall so out of fashion that a whole new wave of hipsters will start programming in it to be retro! Perhaps that has been our plan all along... | null | 0 | 1317174662 | False | 0 | c2n4538 | t3_kteac | null | t1_c2n4538 | t3_kteac | null | 1427656217 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1317174978 | False | 0 | c2n46n4 | t3_ktg7o | null | t1_c2n46n4 | t3_ktg7o | null | 1427656238 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | justus87 | null | But who created the 'puts'? | null | 0 | 1317175070 | False | 0 | c2n475o | t3_ktg7o | null | t1_c2n475o | t1_c2n3boj | null | 1427656245 | 10 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | performedbeef | null | Wow, I'm just a young'n but this is incredible stuff! Was it more common in 1998 for a game to have its own software engine?
The only contact I've had with graphics engines has been at the level of Model and Texture objects and calls to Draw(), so I just can't get over how absurdly low level this is. | null | 0 | 1317175131 | False | 0 | c2n47g5 | t3_ktd67 | null | t1_c2n47g5 | t3_ktd67 | null | 1427656248 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | Well, that is the result of the only time he wanted to devote into it.
(And game (engine) programmers are not (always) interaction/graphics designers) | null | 0 | 1317175148 | False | 0 | c2n47iq | t3_ktd67 | null | t1_c2n47iq | t1_c2n43v0 | null | 1427656251 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | ascagnel | null | The big comparison would be how in some cases render times increased or remain the same, even for pre-rendered CGI.
[Toy Story needed 8-15 hours to render a single frame](http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/3.12/toy.story.html), while [Cars 2 needed an average of 11.5 hours to render each frame](http://news.cnet.com/8301-13772_3-20068109-52/new-technology-revs-up-pixars-cars-2/). Remember that even though the time stays the same (the median is dead on, and I'd imagine the average isn't far off), CPU power has greatly increased between 1995 and 2011. I even remember a quote where The Incredibles actually took longer for its final render than Toy Story (can't find a source though). | null | 0 | 1317175320 | False | 0 | c2n48bn | t3_ktd67 | null | t1_c2n48bn | t1_c2n3v7i | null | 1427656260 | 9 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | petrilli | null | "Infinitely scalable"? I do not think those words mean what you think they mean. | null | 0 | 1317175424 | False | 0 | c2n48tz | t3_ktl52 | null | t1_c2n48tz | t3_ktl52 | null | 1427656266 | 11 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | brianpeiris | null | I'm curious. Is it that you can't or you won't? Chrome Frame is supposed to install without admin level privileges so I'm wondering if they've managed to block it somehow or if you just don't want to violate company policy. | null | 0 | 1317175451 | False | 0 | c2n48yo | t3_kt17p | null | t1_c2n48yo | t1_c2n28qu | null | 1427656268 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | day_cq | null | yah, if you want to learn C, go to http://tryc.org/ and get used to interactive C console while enjoying video tutorials streamed through the tube. And, don't forget to CLICK HERE IF THIS IS FLASHY YOU WON IPAD!!! | null | 0 | 1317175491 | False | 0 | c2n4959 | t3_ktenx | null | t1_c2n4959 | t1_c2n431i | null | 1427656270 | -13 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | day_cq | null | > friends who still use nano/pico
you mean for mutt, right? | null | 0 | 1317175598 | False | 0 | c2n49mc | t3_ktenx | null | t1_c2n49mc | t1_c2n3f2g | null | 1427656275 | -1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | malfy | null | Ah ok, in which case \si really is a pointless addition :P Maybe it's so you can stay in normal mode and get the cursor placed into the ()? | null | 0 | 1317175613 | False | 0 | c2n49pc | t3_kr2x5 | null | t1_c2n49pc | t1_c2mostq | null | 1427656277 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | virt_vera | null | What browser are you using? Javascript has historically been confined to a single thread. | null | 0 | 1317175717 | False | 0 | c2n4a77 | t3_kt72f | null | t1_c2n4a77 | t1_c2n2edo | null | 1427656283 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | what the fuck are you talking about? | null | 0 | 1317175768 | False | 0 | c2n4ags | t3_ktenx | null | t1_c2n4ags | t1_c2n4959 | null | 1427656286 | 6 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | No, there is a huge difference between random search/brute force and genetic algorithms.
Your function has no memory, tries from the start in every iteration whereas in a genetic algorithm, you have a population and fitness, thus, the system has memory and it is guaranteed to yield results faster than brute force search (in every iteration, you are improving the result), but you are not guaranteed to get the optimal result in real life situations.
Other than that, yes, evolving a pre-defined string is just an exercise. If one is aiming for an exercise, I would say going for NP-Hard problems would be more gratifying (like the [travelling salesman problem](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Travelling_salesman_problem) for instance). | null | 0 | 1317175805 | True | 0 | c2n4an4 | t3_ktg7o | null | t1_c2n4an4 | t1_c2n46n4 | null | 1427656289 | 12 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | jerf | null | Depending on the nature of the randomness in question, that algorithm will either never terminate (a psuedorandom generator whose possible states does not include that string at all), or not terminate for a very _very_ long time. Certainly not in anything remotely resembling the amount of computation necessary to run ~4000 generations of this algorithm. | null | 0 | 1317175846 | False | 0 | c2n4au8 | t3_ktg7o | null | t1_c2n4au8 | t1_c2n46n4 | null | 1427656291 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | elder_george | null | That's the point. Programmer can make all the mistakes usually associated with multithreading, but he can't get any benefits of multithreading by design. | null | 0 | 1317175944 | False | 0 | c2n4bbj | t3_kt72f | null | t1_c2n4bbj | t1_c2n4a77 | null | 1427656298 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | jerf | null | Evolutionary algorithms tend to work better than other algorithms when the solution space is sort of "spiky", with a relatively complicated fitness where there are many local optimas but not too many global ones, and no easy "human" way to characterize any of them. The reason you don't see very many real applications is that the average programmer doesn't encounter this problem.
Their usefulness is generally overstated to the point of absurdity. Useful arrow in the quiver? Sure. Solution to every problem? Not hardly! | null | 0 | 1317176064 | False | 0 | c2n4bws | t3_ktg7o | null | t1_c2n4bws | t1_c2n3vxz | null | 1427656306 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | unicock | null | I understand your point, but it's simply false to claim HTML4 not can do video. | null | 0 | 1317176120 | False | 0 | c2n4c7l | t3_kssyt | null | t1_c2n4c7l | t1_c2n2b52 | null | 1427656311 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | wolf550e | null | I'm sure you know SGML was a technology for knowledge representation, not typography. For some time, HTML was guided by the semantic web people but then with the e-commerce boom the marketers demanded typographic presentation control which lead to CSS and the various vector graphics and 3D tech.
The sharing of physics papers is not the use case the modern web is concerned about. | null | 0 | 1317176197 | False | 0 | c2n4cmd | t3_kssyt | null | t1_c2n4cmd | t1_c2n2lu6 | null | 1427656316 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | jerf | null | No, Scala is definitely not mainstream; your U was unusually cutting edge.
That's good. Every university should throw in at least one Hail Mary longshot meant to change things up for the students. It's sad to interview a fresh grad with nothing but all C++ and one token Java course, or vice versa. | null | 0 | 1317176280 | False | 0 | c2n4d0o | t3_kteac | null | t1_c2n4d0o | t1_c2n2nh5 | null | 1427656321 | 21 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | jerf | null | {accidentally duped my other message... then Renmauzuo replied to this one （ ´,_ゝ`) } | null | 0 | 1317176283 | True | 0 | c2n4d1r | t3_kteac | null | t1_c2n4d1r | t1_c2n2nh5 | null | 1427656322 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | erikd | null | For a language which is not Turing complete and is actually useful have a look at the [Coq theorem proving assistant](http://coq.inria.fr/).
One of the features/limitations of the Coq language is that you cannot write a non-halting program. This sometimes means that programs that do in fact halt are initially rejected, requiring the programmer to provide a proof that they do indeed halt.
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True | khoury | null | They don't. Who said they did? | null | 0 | 1317176405 | False | 0 | c2n4do5 | t3_krv1k | null | t1_c2n4do5 | t1_c2n0i39 | null | 1427656330 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | icheishvili | null | Sure they do. You can cluster as many nodes as you want to. Now there may not be an infinite number of servers in the universe, but I put that string into my buzzword compliance calculator and got a smiley face :) | null | 0 | 1317176827 | False | 0 | c2n4fnh | t3_ktl52 | null | t1_c2n4fnh | t1_c2n48tz | null | 1427656355 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | Laziness | null | Games back then were still largely software rendered. In the late 90s you started to see games that had the ability to use GPUs but they still offered CPU rendering as an option. Quake 2 immediately comes to mind here.
Typically to get performance out of the CPU you had to pull out all the stops and do some strange unorthodox things behind the scenes. A lot of it involved 'cheating' the system or in other words, deriving 3D scenes via very non-3D means. | null | 0 | 1317176850 | False | 0 | c2n4frr | t3_ktd67 | null | t1_c2n4frr | t1_c2n47g5 | null | 1427656356 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | lx45803 | null | Why use anything other than nano? No troll, I honestly don't get what the advantage is. | null | 0 | 1317176875 | False | 0 | c2n4fw1 | t3_ktenx | null | t1_c2n4fw1 | t1_c2n3f2g | null | 1427656358 | 4 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | seydar | null | Syntax highlighting. If nano does it, I don't know how to make it do it. That's the only reason for me. I don't use any fancy features often, though I do occasionally. | null | 0 | 1317177047 | False | 0 | c2n4gq5 | t3_ktenx | null | t1_c2n4gq5 | t1_c2n4fw1 | null | 1427656369 | 2 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | dawpa2000 | null | It is possible to block unapproved executables easily using Software Restriction Policies in Group Policy. | null | 0 | 1317177242 | False | 0 | c2n4hl7 | t3_kt17p | null | t1_c2n4hl7 | t1_c2n48yo | null | 1427656380 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | BunsOfAluminum | null | I find this interesting, but could someone tell me what a useful application of this type of algorithm is?
Help me think about this in a way that isn't just "Hello, World!" | null | 0 | 1317177309 | False | 0 | c2n4hx8 | t3_ktg7o | null | t1_c2n4hx8 | t3_ktg7o | null | 1427656385 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | TheOtherWhiteMeat | null | The great programmer in the sky. | null | 0 | 1317177395 | False | 0 | c2n4ibe | t3_ktg7o | null | t1_c2n4ibe | t1_c2n475o | null | 1427656391 | 11 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | specialk16 | null | You are one pretentious douche aren't you? There is a *huge* amount of money in IT, and a *huge* amount of money in software development (including QA). Enough to consider it a business. I know you are on your high horse of "civil engineering > *", but let me tell you a couple of things.
1. I wonder, giving your pretentious attitude, if you actually think that good software can be created and tested by any idiot who follows a random internet tutorial. Protip: it isn't. It takes years of preparation, many many years of experience, to get a good software developer and architect.
2. The whole "agile guru" bullshit is known all over the business. Any good software developer will do a good job irrelevant of what methodology he is told to use. The problem here is management, they are the ones who usually try to hard implementing the trend of the month.
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True | vanishing | null | Followed closely by Forth, for people who thought lisp went totally mainstream in the 70s. | null | 0 | 1317177655 | False | 0 | c2n4joo | t3_kteac | null | t1_c2n4joo | t1_c2n396c | null | 1427656409 | 20 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | gnomon_ | null | So, here is a [brainfuck-to-Scheme compiler](http://paste.lisp.org/display/3275) that I wrote on my Palm Pilot while bored in real analysis class about... oh my spaghetti monster, six years ago.
It's a compiler, not an interpreter: it returns a procedure which, when called, runs the Brainfuck program interactively. Because it's a compiler, it leverages the underlying Scheme compiler, which means that this may be the most roundabout way known to humankind of compiling Brainfuck to machine code - somewhat hilarious, given that the language was originally crafted specifically to make writing a compiler for it as trivial as possible. (even more hilarious is that I originally wrote it in [LispMe](http://www.lispme.de/lispme/index_en.html), which compiles down to SECD bytecode and then runs that with compiled 68000 machine code - but on the Palm Pilot I used at the time, the Motorola chip was actually emulated by an ARM chip)
Anyhow, the version at the paste above performs some trivial optimization, namely run-length encoding of multiple sequential inc/dec or adv/rew instructions. A _slightly_ more complicated later version performed loop detection and hoisting (easy to do but fiddly: recursively check loop points for all the instructions which occur between that loop point and the position of the code pointer at loop entry, then classify the loop as static (which can be replaced with a constant at compile time), computational (which can be parametrized at runtime by a read from the cell on which the result value depends), recursive (which contains one or more of these four kinds of loops), or an outlier (which either exceeds the stack depth of your recursive analysis function or which is not recognized as one of the first three patterns); outliers bubble up to parents) and made for some fast programs.
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True | renesisxx | null | Yep, everything in software. I think the Matrox Millennium was the first hardware-accelerated graphics card, IIRC.
I wrote an insane 3D engine in the early 90s. Back before there were any books or texts really written on things like gouraud shading, phong shading, texture-mapping. Everyone had to figure this stuff out for themselves on paper.
There is seriously something to be said though for software rendering - it is far, far more flexible than hardware rendering. If you want to do some kind of special procedure or effect that the card can't do then you're in trouble. For example, if you don't want to use polygons, then you're generally back to software rendering (e.g. voxels). Using hardware rendering limits you to the lowest-common-denominator defined by the 3D libraries and the 3D hardware manufacturers. | null | 0 | 1317177796 | False | 0 | c2n4kdi | t3_ktd67 | null | t1_c2n4kdi | t1_c2n47g5 | null | 1427656418 | 7 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | There's something about a completely unformatted web page that is just so nice in this age of CSS. I love a nicely designed page as much as the next guy, but this just feels so utilitarian. And retro. And we all know retro is cool. | null | 0 | 1317177832 | False | 0 | c2n4kji | t3_ktd67 | null | t1_c2n4kji | t3_ktd67 | null | 1427656420 | 51 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | PotsAndOwls | null | It's fascinating. The thing about biological evolution, though, is that there is no "end point" that a species is aiming at. So it seems to me that you're demonstrating a rather different **kind** (if I may be so bold) of evolution. How would you describe the difference between your simulated evolution and natural selection? | null | 0 | 1317177878 | False | 0 | c2n4kr4 | t3_ktg7o | null | t1_c2n4kr4 | t3_ktg7o | null | 1427656423 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | [deleted] | null | 0 | 1317177960 | False | 0 | c2n4l6i | t3_ktenx | null | t1_c2n4l6i | t3_ktenx | null | 1427656434 | 1 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | rubbsdecvik | null | No problem. A friend of mine showed me that. It's amazing. | null | 0 | 1317178024 | False | 0 | c2n4li3 | t3_ktenx | null | t1_c2n4li3 | t1_c2n3o0y | null | 1427656433 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | shevegen | null | Vim is cool but I am too lazy to master it.
I stopped wanting to learn emacs and vim and I am proud of it.
I use a simple GTK based editor these days and I don't need anything else other than my brain when writing software really. | null | 0 | 1317178362 | False | 0 | c2n4n68 | t3_ktenx | null | t1_c2n4n68 | t3_ktenx | null | 1427656454 | 0 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | berlinbrown | null | It is interesting that graphics library libraries in game do cool stuff. You have libraries for camera movement, physics, realistic water simulations, face rendering.
Well in Enterprise development, you have that library that connects to the database or a wrapper over the library that connects to the database. Or the library that parses a file.
Somehow, the database is so complex that we need libraries to connect to it (efficiently). Or files so complex, that they need dozens of frameworks to parse it.
Sigh. | null | 0 | 1317178448 | False | 0 | c2n4nl2 | t3_ktd67 | null | t1_c2n4nl2 | t3_ktd67 | null | 1427656458 | 3 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | foxingworth | null | Yes, but this is because the later Pixar movies look much better than earlier Pixar movies. Compare frames from Toy Story 1 and The Incredibles. Pay attention to things such as lighting. | null | 0 | 1317178910 | False | 0 | c2n4pvd | t3_ktd67 | null | t1_c2n4pvd | t1_c2n48bn | null | 1427656489 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | ben174 | null | I was right with you up until a month ago when I finally decided I should probably at least learn vim so I don't look like an idiot when I'm on a system that doesn't have nano installed.
Now I'll never go back. vim has amazing shortcuts which nano can't duplicate. You can do in a few keystrokes what would take dozens of keystrokes in nano. This tutorial isn't complete enough to really show you the good stuff, but I highly suggest doing some research. | null | 0 | 1317178954 | False | 0 | c2n4q2w | t3_ktenx | null | t1_c2n4q2w | t1_c2n4fw1 | null | 1427656492 | 12 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | [deleted] | null | >I don't mean to make this personal, but I have a major sticking point when anyone suggest that the the first, or primary, or top-most concern of communication is to be "clean and clear" because it ignores the entire history of human communication.
Not to generalize, but IMO programmers tend to have substance over style attitude, clean and clear is the most important aspect when it comes to delivering substance. This is targeted at programmers. I find this format very easy and quick to read. | null | 0 | 1317179406 | False | 0 | c2n4sbv | t3_ktd67 | null | t1_c2n4sbv | t1_c2n43v0 | null | 1427656520 | 10 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | x-skeww | null | >styled to look like a MS Word document
It isn't styled to look like anything. There isn't any CSS. | null | 0 | 1317179750 | False | 0 | c2n4tv0 | t3_ktd67 | null | t1_c2n4tv0 | t1_c2n3w9g | null | 1427656541 | 12 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
True | elventear | null | Infinite servers, can't give you infinite scalability. | null | 0 | 1317180338 | False | 0 | c2n4wo5 | t3_ktl52 | null | t1_c2n4wo5 | t1_c2n4fnh | null | 1427656577 | 5 | t5_2fwo | null | null | null |
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