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If you could eliminate one trend on Reddit, what would it be? by lolpancakeslolin AskReddit

[–]ameoba 0 points1 point ago

/r/AskReddit posts which circlejerk around what the hivemind hates.

If you could eliminate one trend on Reddit, what would it be? by lolpancakeslolin AskReddit

[–]ameoba 0 points1 point ago

It'd be great if we could go two months between reposted questions. The way things are now, it's more like a two day cycle.

Death threats on the bus by jozerzin Portland

[–]ameoba 0 points1 point ago

Call the fucking cops. What's wrong with people on the internet?

Miles Davis’s Chili by thermin Cooking

[–]ameoba 0 points1 point ago

You get a pass. Chili is up there with hotdogs, baseball & apple pie.

Squatter's rights/unpaid proeperty taxes specifically in Texas? by Mauziein explainlikeimfive

[–]ameoba 1 point2 points ago

Pretty sure you need to get a lawyer on this.

Only thing I would say is that you should put away the money you should have been spending on rent, just in case she comes after you.

Miles Davis’s Chili by thermin Cooking

[–]ameoba 0 points1 point ago

Please tell me you're not American...

Where do I find L2 Missions after Sisters Epic Arc, and what ship class to use? by WingZeroTypein Eve

[–]ameoba 0 points1 point ago

Caldari progression is Kestrel -> Caracal -> Drake -> Drake -> Draek -> Tengu/Raven

Where do I find L2 Missions after Sisters Epic Arc, and what ship class to use? by WingZeroTypein Eve

[–]ameoba 5 points6 points ago

Vexor. Get those drone skills up.

Light Table joins YCombinator S12 by chrisledetin programming

[–]ameoba 1 point2 points ago

How are you going to get hyped on TechCrunch without being involved in YC?

SHSH blobs by superscottin explainlikeimfive

[–]ameoba 0 points1 point ago

ELI5 The difference between subsidized and unsubsidized loans. by xvexploitedvxin explainlikeimfive

[–]ameoba 0 points1 point ago

Second Link when searching on the fucking thread title.

PhalconPHP - A web framework delivered as a C extension by michaelpaulin programming

[–]ameoba 3 points4 points ago

OTOH, writing it in C stops PHP developers from hacking the framework, breaking things and blaming it on the framework...

ELI5: How far away are programs away from being capable of using multi-core processors? by BiscuitMiscuitin explainlikeimfive

[–]ameoba 0 points1 point ago

People have been able to write parallelized programs for decades. It's not that they can't be written, it's that it's more work to write them & they can be significantly harder to debug. Since, until recently, most computers only had a single core, most programmers didn't bother with it. It's only the last few years that multi-core CPUs have become prevalent & developers have been driven to produce multi-threaded code.

There's just one little catch: not every program can be written to take advantage of multiple cores. As they say, nine women can't make a baby in one month. An example is that, if you want to paint a house, you can do it 4x faster by having four people paint different walls but, if you want to make a wedding cake, you can't put the frosting on until the cake finishes baking, no matter how many people you put in the kitchen.

Programming Language vs. Run-time Environment by CeriseWin explainlikeimfive

[–]ameoba 0 points1 point ago

Netbeans and Eclipse are editors/IDEs. They are simply tools that allow you to write code & interface with the rest of your toolset. It's like the difference between writing a novel on a legal pad or a Moleskine notebook - the words are all the same but it feels a little different when you put them on the page.

Java and C++ are languages. They are different ways of expressing ideas to computers. They have different syntax, semantics and standard libraries. This would be like writing your novel in French or English - you can tell the same story but the way you express it might be a little different.

The run-time environment is where the program actually works. This includes your compiler, libraries and possibly a virtual machine. The difference here would be like writing your novel as a commedy or a serious drama - you're telling the same story but the way you tell it is completely different.

It is important to note that a programming language, in the abstract, is completely separate from the concrete implementation of the language. A good example would be Python - you have the standard implementation (Cpython) which has one set of libraries and runs in its own VM and Jython, a completely different implentation of the language specification that runs inside the Java Virtual machine and uses the Java libraries. Similarly, if you're working with Visual studio, you can chose to take your C++ code and compile it to either native code or target the CLI (.NET virtual machine).

What is a virtual machine? It's basically a program that runs programs. If you have ever played a video game in an emulator (or even a Flash game), you've used a virtual machine. The difference is that something like the Java JVM or the .NET CLI pretends to be a new machine that doesn't physically exist rather than recreating something concrete.

There are many reasons why somebody would create a VM. One big reason is that it's possible to completely isolate a program from the rest of the system if it's in a VM - sandboxing was one of the big selling points of Flash and Java (as a browser plug-in). Another is that your program will run on any machine be it a Mac, Windows PC or Linux - a great example of this is how the Z Machine that Infocom used for their games in the 80s allowed them to write & compile their games a single time and run them on every computer of the era, be it Apple, Atari, Commodore, PC or any of the other dozen or so different machines that were in use at the time.

As for your final question, the Oracle/Google fiasco has three major points. The first was a patent about how somebody would implement a VM; they lost this point. The second was claiming that an API (specifically the Java Standard Library) was a copyrighted work; they lost on this point. The third was that Google stole code from them; in the millions of lines that make up a Java system, they found 9 - they have not decided on this but the Judge, a novice programmer, had said that "any schoolboy could write this in an hour" and it shouldn't be considered relevant.

ELI5 The difference between subsidized and unsubsidized loans. by xvexploitedvxin explainlikeimfive

[–]ameoba -7 points-6 points ago

Fucking Google, bitch. If you can't figure it out on your own, you probably shouldn't be going to college. It's not complicated and it's easy to find.

Culture Kills (or Wins) by trzmielin programming

[–]ameoba 1 point2 points ago

No IoC. No DI. No TDD. Libraries from 2000 or 2005. No agile.

Code is not "agile" - development practices are.

r17 now open source by matthewnoursein programming

[–]ameoba 0 points1 point ago

Congrats.

Maddox: "11 Sexy Girls with Star Wars tattoos you don't have the rights to publish." by DoctorDOHin TrueReddit

[–]ameoba 6 points7 points ago

...yet 90% of the images and comics you see on Reddit are blindly reposted on imgur.com without any thought. Hating on 9gag is sort of hipocritical.

Maddox: "11 Sexy Girls with Star Wars tattoos you don't have the rights to publish." by DoctorDOHin TrueReddit

[–]ameoba 10 points11 points ago

Maddox was a cynical 20-something computer nerd over a decade ago. The author's voice hasn't changed much since then.

10 ways to improve your programming skills by dexter2062in programming

[–]ameoba 13 points14 points ago

It's been around so long that it's sort of grandfathered into "normal internet".

10 ways to improve your programming skills by dexter2062in programming

[–]ameoba 7 points8 points ago

Maddox is angry.

*Note: I mentioned Huffington Post earlier in the email as a "content-aggregator." Although some modicum of the articles on their site is original content, Huffington Post is by far the most nefarious content aggregator because they wrap all their stolen content with superfluous "commentary" which qualifies their content theft as "fair use." For example, there's an article on the site titled "7 Things Women Really Want From Sex." The actual article is content entirely taken from "FITNESS Magazine" and "Yahoo! Shine." These articles are little more than wrappers for other people's content. And it's completely legal, because they have just enough commentary to make it seem like an article about an article. Well, there's no reason why anyone can't do the same to Huffington Post's articles. In fact, look for my own site doing just that, coming soon. Sites like Huffington Post make millions off other people's content by abusing the fair use doctrine, so it's time we started giving them their own medicine. More coming soon...

It is time to say goodbye to MongoDB for a variety of technical reasons by mariuzin programming

[–]ameoba 2 points3 points ago

Exactly. There was no reason to bring diversity up at all.

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