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by crawshaw 14y ago
You can: func main() { x := 4 f := func() { fmt.Println(x) } ch := make(chan func(), 1) ch <- f f2 := <-ch f2() x = 5 f2() } http://play.golang.org/p/NK5YLVT4zB
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by crawshaw 14y ago
For those who didn't dive into the spec, the non-blocking recieve syntax has changed to use the select statement: func f(ch chan int) { select { case v := <-ch: fmt.Println("got", v) default: fmt.Println("did not bl
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by crawshaw 14y ago
For careful error handling, my favorite language is Go. It lacks exceptions, so you have to return errors as in C. But it has python-style tuple return, making it easy to return a value or an error from any function. The fact that errors ar
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Sometimes great works fit on one page(ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
1 points by crawshaw 15y ago|0 comments
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by crawshaw 15y ago
Brilliant. Given the target audience, I think a more concise description language that pseudo natural language would work better. Regardless, such a service can bring basic alerting to the huge number of sites which currently have nothing.
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by crawshaw 15y ago
The http server in Go supports SPDY. http://golang.org/pkg/http/spdy/
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Who ordered sequential consistency?(bartoszmilewski.wordpress.com)
10 points by crawshaw 15y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: have you seen a spike in password resets since the PSN Hack?
5 points by crawshaw 16y ago|0 comments
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by crawshaw 16y ago
Java solved a number of problems, but introduced some of its own. The work I do in C++ I could do in Java, but the extra memory and compute overhead would cost us on the order of another engineer. Go interests me because it might let me esc
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by crawshaw 16y ago
Protocol Buffers ( http://code.google.com/p/protobuf/ ) Not what you would call cool technology, but definitely the best technology I have used this year. Protobufs get out of the way so you can get work done.
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by crawshaw 16y ago
The Forever War - Joe Haldeman Excellent science fiction.
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by crawshaw 16y ago
I have used SimpleDB and wrote some basic Scala bindings for it: http://github.com/crawshaw/saws No service outages yet, but response time rarely drops below 50ms (from an EC2 instance) and there is a serious long tail on queries. I have
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by crawshaw 16y ago
http://www.estful.com/ A site for recipes. No-one uses it, and I feel that it needs a lot more work.