MetaCosm

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by MetaCosm 13y ago
Go AST is something that I think will really help as it grows for writing great tooling.
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by MetaCosm 13y ago
For some reason, I really enjoy showing this slideshow to people -> http://blog.menfin.info/Presentations/20120709_Golang_introd... ... it is short, gets across a lot of the core ideas very quickly.
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by MetaCosm 13y ago
The list of cool things Go doesn't have is a darn long one. They opted for simplicity at lots of points. I think it is worth noting these were decisions, not necessarily oversights. There are a lot of great languages that end up mostly ac
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by MetaCosm 13y ago
Unlike C, Go isn't overloading what is returned, it has an extra param, and the language has been baked to handle doing like initialization and checks in single line if statements. It does force the developer who might actually have a clue
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by MetaCosm 13y ago
I suspect unless someone gets real exciting about this and modifies one of the toolchains, this won't happen in the near future. You can do (1) with some ugly syntax. Regarding (2) and (3) -- I know some projects are happening in both tho
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by MetaCosm 13y ago
Asus G75VX (laptop) with some aftermarket parts (x2 -- one for home, one for work) Intel HM77 Chipset with a i7 3630QM, 32GB of DDR3 1600 MHz (Crucial), 2x M500 960GB SSDs (Crucial), GeForce GTX 670MX with 3GB GDDR5, 17.3" screen (1920x1080
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by MetaCosm 13y ago
Do you mainly use the Pixel in ChromeOS, or go developer mode and boot Linux?
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by MetaCosm 13y ago
I don't understand, so explain it to me like I am a child, I am certain I am missing something basic and the developers on the project aren't as dumb as it seems. Seriously, it seems so goddamn basic. I am going to walk you through step by
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by MetaCosm 13y ago
What? It ONLY looks for localized copies. When you have import "github.com/gorilla/mux" it will look in $GOROOT/src/pkg/github.com/gorilla/mux and $GOPATH/src/github.com/gorilla/mux if it is missing, you can fulfill it with go get git
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by MetaCosm 13y ago
No need to fork, it puts a copy of those libraries under ./src, so you always have a sealed (hermetic) referentially complete copy. You don't bet your production software on things randomly downloaded from the internet at compile time. Thi
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by MetaCosm 13y ago
My summary from the last time it was posted. "Original author didn't localize dependencies, obviously caused problems."
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by MetaCosm 13y ago
This is one of the worst analogies I have even been exposed too. It is a straightforward issue, we don't need an analogy to grasp it, it was almost explicitly designed to muddy the waters. It did a good job of hiding circle reasoning, logi
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by MetaCosm 13y ago
Rampant speculation, but while drinking me and some developer friends came up with a theory on this. There was a sweet spot, a golden age if you will where a lot of things came together for kids / young adults to drive them to be developer
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by MetaCosm 13y ago
First of all, I don't think it is my responsibility to ensure contractors are paid X, that is their responsibility, they set the rate. I decide if I think their skills match their rate. I can't decide what is "good" medical care for them,
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by MetaCosm 13y ago
http://www.testplant.com/products/eggplant/mobile/ was the testing platform for mobile. (I think it had a different name a few years ago, but could just be my fuzzy recollection)
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by MetaCosm 13y ago
... I am stealing that phrase, it is awesome. "Anecdote stalemate." ... I might add ", bitch!"
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by MetaCosm 13y ago
He was in the US (Arizona if I remember correctly), and had been incorporated for a number of years... but I have no idea about his health care situation... the joy of contractors, I don't have to care. I give him $180 an hour for X hours,
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by MetaCosm 13y ago
He was relatively expensive, $180 an hour. But his estimate was about 40% duration versus other ones, and he delivered quicker than expected. Probably closer to 35%. So, while a lot of the bids we got were at $85, him working at $180 for
529.
by MetaCosm 13y ago
Tests: Two tier, he used an tool we ended up buying for the UI testing (actual phone automation, cool stuff, trying to remember company name), and full unit test with deep (not 100% coverage). UI was presetup by a designer, so he didn't hav
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by MetaCosm 13y ago
"""When not even a Stanford or MIT engineering degree is good enough to keep an engineer employed at 60, there is genuinely no market for engineers that age. Plan accordingly.""" Wait, what I did 40 years ago won't guarantee my employment n
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by MetaCosm 13y ago
I think we are reaching the golden age of the older developer. Companies are learning how much more great developers are worth than poor ones. Retention bonuses have gone crazy (getting a 3 year / 250k bonus package isn't even that intere
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by MetaCosm 13y ago
That generally leaked in from other industries, but it seems to be going away. Since great developers are productivity multipliers ... companies are starting to understand that keeping them coding when they are 25x more productive than an
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by MetaCosm 13y ago
One of the sharpest developers I have ever worked with -- was 63. He did only mobile development and only would agree to work 30 hours a week. When I pressed him on it, he explained that he liked to constantly be working on both Android a
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by MetaCosm 13y ago
If I make a new interface that is an mix of io.Reader, io.Writer and io.Closer and I call this interface YouDidNotSeeMeComing -- then the file struct would also implement it... without even knowing it!
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by MetaCosm 13y ago
I am someone who has shipped code in many "less popular" languages (Erlang, Eiffel, Lisp...) and am currently exploring / building apps with Go. As someone with some actually time with Golang, could you elaborate on the pain point a bit? I
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by MetaCosm 13y ago
Yep. Beyond that, realize that some parts of design like dealing with visual hierarchy ( http://hackdesign.org/lesson/19/ ) can come very easily to engineers. Other parts like color theory or font design might feel less natural. Find a
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by MetaCosm 13y ago
You are correct on some points. 32 bit was broken, realtime is a non-feature. It does (by design) lack generics and meta programming (Pike talked about these at length at one point). I have to disagree on the concurrency model, I think me
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by MetaCosm 13y ago
The processes are first class and can be killed and monitored from the outside.
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by MetaCosm 13y ago
People are advocating Go because it delivers. It has great concurrency primitives (channels), it is "boring" language syntax wise, and it is fast. Beyond that, it deals with a lot of the 'ugly' things around the edges of other languages.
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by MetaCosm 13y ago
The best parts of python... are C.

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