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by _ak 11y ago
Honestly, I'm not surprised. As Robert Griesemer, one of the core Go team members, confirmed the other week in his GopherCon talk "The Evolution of Go", Go inherited a lot of concepts from Oberon. Oberon is from the Wirth fam
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by _ak 11y ago
Why?
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by _ak 11y ago
I'm not saying either of them is better because or the amount of people they attracted. I merely ask why Go managed to interest more people than Lisp in an order of magnitude of time less.
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by _ak 11y ago
I don't think you understand what average resp. median age means. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_median_... Japan and Germany are the ones with highest median age.
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by _ak 11y ago
As I suspected, irrational dogma.
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by _ak 11y ago
> Margherita with garlic is equally absurd as marinara with mozzarella. Why? What are the specific definitions or margherita and marinara that don't allow these modifications? Without undisputed definitions, this is just irrational
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by _ak 11y ago
Salmon and oysters used to be poor people's food in lots of European countries, as well. Tastes and fashions change.
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by _ak 11y ago
Well, if that is true, then why is German statistically the country with the highest average age in the world (on par with Japan), even though their food is quite bland?
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by _ak 11y ago
You should rather ask yourself why Lisp hasn't been able to attract the same large and active community in 5 decades that Go has been able to attract in 5 years.
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by _ak 11y ago
You confuse parametric polymorphism with reusability. The former is merely one of several ways to achieve the latter. The Go way for reusability usually consists of interfaces.
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by _ak 11y ago
"Mental retardation" has been a medical term since relatively recently. The "retardation" means nothing more than "being held back". But people did pick it up as a derogatory term, and so it was replaced with &
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by _ak 11y ago
They operate offices in Hamburg and Berlin. They specifically target German advertisers. They won't be that stupid to even attempt that argument.
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by _ak 11y ago
Facebook is operating in Germany, among other countries. If they want to earn money in Germany, they need to obey to German laws and regulations, obviously.
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by _ak 11y ago
Also, euphemism treadmill. "Retard" in the context of medication means that a drug is slowly and continously released into the bloodstream.
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by _ak 11y ago
No, there's been a concentration of construction-related scandals with corruption, bribery, etc. in Berlin over the last 40 to 50 years.
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by _ak 11y ago
Yep, the proud feeling about Berlin's grandiose track record when it comes to corruption and incompetence in major construction projects.
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by _ak 11y ago
Dude, if you wanted to open a file and read the first line, then just do so. What you're doing is try to derive this simple task in a cery complicated matter full of weird symbols that, even if you don't believe it, are not entire
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by _ak 11y ago
So what you're saying is that these purely functional languages are so restricted that if you want to do anything useful in them, you _need_ this concept that nobody on the internet is able to actually explain. Makes me want to use pur
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by _ak 11y ago
The Go 1.5 GC guarantees that the GC stops the program for a maximum of 10ms within a 50ms timeframe.
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by _ak 11y ago
Why React?
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by _ak 11y ago
Who is Mr. Yager and why should I believe in his to appeal to authority?
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by _ak 11y ago
Because, in history, other countries were forgiven their debts, as well, especially so Germany. If Germany gets their debts forgiven after waging war over Europe, then why not Greece after living beyond their means? That would be consistent
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by _ak 11y ago
My theory is that this was his endgame: the eurogroup is now forced to make a move, unless Merkel and her entourage want to go down in history as those that broke up the Euro by moralizing demands of having to pay back debts but could have
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by _ak 11y ago
http://www.catb.org/jargon/html/H/hack-value.html
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by _ak 11y ago
The point I'm trying to make is that you can develop and debug Go code perfectly fine without a debugger, as shown by the large-scale deployments of software written in Go. Not adding Go to your tech stack because of that is... not ver
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by _ak 11y ago
I think you should ask yourself how all these tech companies that use Go in production ever reached the confidence to use Go in production without a "proper" debugger available.
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by _ak 11y ago
You think you may save money in the short run, but private health insurances can hike their rates almost as they like, and they certainly do with people aged 40+.
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by _ak 11y ago
I'm not saying the market is still dead, but for a company like Borland, 10 years ago there was nothing they could have done to recover from Eclipse taking over the market. Even then, IntelliJ was a relative niche product (compared to
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by _ak 11y ago
As a former Borland employee (not for very long, 2006-2009, and actually working in their Austrian offices, which originally became part of the company through the Segue acquisition), I certainly didn't have the complete picture, but o
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by _ak 11y ago
2015, the year of the GNU/Linux desktop! For real now!

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