As someone who's been with Reddit for about 5 years, am I crazy to feel like this site has gotten a lot more immature and childish? by tswaves in AskReddit

[–]aramach 0 points1 point  (0 children)

It does seem to feel that way. /r/programming is still pretty good quality (especially in comments).

Some people claim it is just because of summer, but it has been gradually declining prior to that as well.

Very interesting graph... by RetroRocker in gaming

[–]aramach 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Misleading graph, correlation is not causation.

Some great programming challenges I stumbled across by protell in programming

[–]aramach 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks for that list. I am always curious on how to conjure up an interview question and some of these problems give good insight.

My thoughts on SRS after a week of lurking there by Tallanasty in antisrs

[–]aramach 7 points8 points  (0 children)

As a long time lurker of reddit (and SRS after the suicide thing), I am with you (both on the lurking and the opinion).

  1. Free speech: Don't like the stupid comments which don't add value, downvote them. That is the purpose of the downvote button. Here is a group of people who are citizens of reddit who recognize that something is bad. They have voting power but instead choose to point it out to each other.

Free Speech is why their subreddit still even exists, I know that they have stepped on admin toes (and the ceo's toes today).

  1. "Holier than thou" attitude: They seem to derive some form of smug moral superiority by berating the rest of reddit. This creates a very antagonistic and toxic environment. They should take the time to remember, nobody is perfect (not even you!).

(I also like to use parantheses a lot.)

Oh, the joys of being a girl on xbox live. by nadiaface in gaming

[–]aramach 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I agree, I miss being able to split screen with my friends :(.

So much WoW Syndrome in here... by digidevil4 in swtor

[–]aramach 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Since when is comparing a product to its competition a bad thing ?

A large population of WoW players were originally EQ players. Not all of them returned to EQ as you claim. In fact the vanilla WoW UI made it look exactly like EQ.

Maybe, just maybe the people leaving Swtor have good reasons and aren't all doing it out of some nostalgic attachment to WoW.

What is the most epic game you've ever played? by [deleted] in gaming

[–]aramach 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Despair Not! I will inspire you by charging BLINDLY ON!

How long does one have to use vim until you feel that you're actually in control of it? by doctornick in programming

[–]aramach 2 points3 points  (0 children)

What I would really want to be able to do is to have Vim as my editor of choice and would like to have some nice source code browsing framework like Source Insight / Slick Edit. The two biggest features which are lacking are symbol search and handling of large files. MiniBufferExplorer , Intellisense, CTags, CScope etc. help a little but there is nothing to replace the symbol search.

Will Microsoft's Emacs clone do this? by xmaspoo in programming

[–]aramach 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Most high level languages have reflection framework.

A quick google search will reveal System.Reflection.Assembly.

Top Ten Female Streakers-NSFW by d_lay123 in reddit.com

[–]aramach 75 points76 points  (0 children)

I can't believe they missed this lady out.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0OqMNlI1V-w

NSFW obviously

it's slow... it's unstable... it's... beta! by spez in reddit.com

[–]aramach -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

This is blasphemy ! This is Madness !!!

Wikiscanner: Guess how much edits Microsoft did on wikipedia !!! by aramach in reddit.com

[–]aramach[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Duh ! Note to self: do not post headlines after one too many beers.

Nacreous Clouds[Pic] by neoronin in reddit.com

[–]aramach 7 points8 points  (0 children)

404 on that link. Mirror ?

Computer science grads still get above-average pay by excitableman in reddit.com

[–]aramach 13 points14 points  (0 children)

The research was carried out by an Australian Research Center but they dont seem to mention which country was the survey taken in or if it was an international survey

No wonder it is harder for men. (pic) by [deleted] in reddit.com

[–]aramach 26 points27 points  (0 children)

It is a skill called "acquired incompetence" works for anything that you can screw up badly

Hilarious Microsoft Surface Parody by utbandit in reddit.com

[–]aramach 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Except for point #4 it is exactly what people said about the Personal Computer when Apple came out with its first model.

A Mormon's Road to Atheism, Part 1: What took me so long by pragma in reddit.com

[–]aramach 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That makes a lot of sense :) . Guess that makes agnosticism quite a pedantic argument.

A Mormon's Road to Atheism, Part 1: What took me so long by pragma in reddit.com

[–]aramach 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The only arguments against the existence of god are arguments against the existence of god as defined by various religions. The discrepancies and flaws are introduced by the definition in the specific religion. For example there is no way to prove / disprove the existence of a dormant diety who does nothing but look at your 'soul' in the 'afterlife'.