5 ms·
Things you (probably) don't know about Go
- majormajor 14y agoIt's broken on Chrome 19.0.1084.56 on OS X if you open it in a new tab in the background with middle click. Plain black page, arrow keys/space changes the number indicator in the URL, but shows no content. Edit: and on a related note, personally I really dislike the trend of posting slides for review outside of the context of a presentation. As something to click on from the front page here, or to bookmark/print for future reference, a plain page with a list that you'd just scroll up/down normally instead of separate slides would be much handier.
- deleted 14y ago[deleted]
- deleted 14y ago[deleted]
- 4ad 14y agoYou can watch Andrew's talk, along with a talk from Rob Pike and one from Evan Shaw here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JE17r3n1kz4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JE17r3n1kz4
- Xcelerate 14y agoGosh darn gopher. Does anyone know its name? I tried Googling it but couldn't find anything.
- papsosouid 14y agoThings I still don't know because the site is just a solid black page with nothing on it.
- 4ad 14y agoYou probably need an HTML5 compliant browser.
- papsosouid 14y agoI have one. Perhaps the site needs HTML5 compliant markup?
- tedunangst 14y agoYou also need to make sure your screen is wide enough. Running your browser on half of a 1920px screen isn't a supported configuration either.
- enneff 14y agoIt's an HTML5 presentation. I apologize if it doesn't work in your browser of choice. Try viewing it in Chrome, instead.
- georgemcbay 14y agoI viewed it in Chrome on Linux and it took me quite a while to figure out that you advance by clicking the solid black bars on the side of the slides (which don't even show if your browser window is too narrow). More of a UX issue than a technical one, I guess.
- thebigshane 14y ago11. The gopher's name Gordon? [http://glenda.cat-v.org/friends/ http://glenda.cat-v.org/friends/]
- enneff 14y agoNo. His name is not Gordon.
- thebigshane 14y ago`luriel`, isn't 'cat-v.org' your site? Gordon is the mascot for Google's Go programming language. Also was also created by Renée French.
- thebigshane 14y agoI see, so his name used to be Gordon[1] but he changed his name so that now he has no name. [1]: http://reneefrench.blogspot.com/2009/10/gordon.html http://reneefrench.blogspot.com/2009/10/gordon.html
- btipling 14y agoIt has no name.
- roryokane 14y agoThat’s correct. Source: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JE17r3n1kz4&t=1h25m45s http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JE17r3n1kz4&t=1h25m45s (1:25:45 in). (via http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4148148 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4148148)
- zainny 14y agoI got to the landing page and didn't know how to progress either. Why not just add some visible buttons/overlays for next/previous?
- btipling 14y agoI was at this talk. It was the best meetup I've ever gone to. So many people and so much enthusiasm. I only hope it will translate into Go's success.
- delinka 14y agoIt would be nice if it didn't hijack my attempts to zoom in and read on my phone. And some indication that swiping changes slides depending which way you swipe.
- lottoro 14y agoGo is the new Esperanto: Slightly nicer, slightly more regular but it's not clear what problem it solves.
- genwin 14y agoCheck out langalot.com. Python (for example) is a nice language but I doubt it could be used to create as brisk a similar site.
- thebigshane 14y agoThat is actually incredibly fast!
- cageface 14y agoReally? Straightforward, performant, concurrent code is important to a lot of people these days.
- pjmlp 14y agoFeatures shared with many other languages. Still, Go is a nice language.
- goggles99 14y agoFAIL - apparently the presentation does not work properly for half the commentators here. The world is clearly not ready for HTML5 (not everyone uses chrome's flavor of it either) yet so make it work with other browsers as well.
- jdpage 14y agoWell, a big problem is that you're got a pretty huge sampling bias there. The people that it works for aren't going to comment to say "it works!" because that's the state that they expect it to be in. It works fine for me -- Firefox 13.0.1, so it's not just Chrome-flavoured html5.
- roryokane 14y agoAs well as the sampling bias pointed out by jdpage, the breakage is also the fault of this particular HTML5 presentation framework – it is not necessarily the fault of HTML5 as a whole. The page’s user interface could make it clearer that there are more slides and show you how to go to them – for instance, by showing the invisible buttons along the side on page load. And it’s possible that the JavaScript could be written more compatibly, and have better fallbacks for when the browser doesn’t support certain things.