Comment on: For 40 years, computer scientists looked for a solution that doesnt exist
1 17 Aug 2015 06:15 u/justletmevoat in v/programmingComment on: After All These Years, the World is Still Powered by C Programming
It'll always be C...
Comment on: Infographic : R vs Python for Data Science/Data Analysis
Python, Lua and occasionally Julia.
Comment on: Infographic : R vs Python for Data Science/Data Analysis
As a programmer - R is painful, and I'm sick of its stupid data structures.
Comment on: The code in your banner is triggering me
Dude those extra asterisks in comment banners just ask to be wrecked. Don't impose additional overhead on upkeep to look after stupid formatting.
Comment on: Does Voat not unit test or is it just not included in the GitHub repo?
I'm sick of having other people's unit tests break for shitty reasons.
Comment on: Does Voat not unit test or is it just not included in the GitHub repo?
They break stupidly when code changes, and people defend them saying "Oh, well, good unit tests don't do that", and then these good unit tests never exist, and you've got to stub or mock everything, so your tests don't test any fucking thing useful, and then the API for the DB library changes or you have to update versions and you have not only update your tests to that, but also the fucking stubs.
Fuck unit tests - out of all the different kinds of testing possible it is the most useless.
Comment on: RedGrep Using LLVM to optimize regular expressions
They were theoretical first.
Comment on: Does Voat not unit test or is it just not included in the GitHub repo?
Unit tests are overrated.
Comment on: Why this sub sucked on Reddit and how to make it not suck here
Personally, I think you have to be small in order to have a group as general as "programming". Communities should fragment to keep them sufficiently small and focused.
What are you talking about? This algorithm is quadratic, and is hence in P. I don't see how NP being P or otherwise changes this one bit.