dsymonds

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by dsymonds 13y ago
If you had seen lots of resumes and references, then interacted with those people later, you'd distrust resumes and references too.
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by dsymonds 13y ago
I'm fully aware that it's a figure of speech. I'm calling out the hyperbole because it doesn't enlighten, and lacks self-reflection. A much more useful comment would have been to describe how crucial $concept is to his p
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by dsymonds 13y ago
http://commandcenter.blogspot.com.au/2011/12/esmereldas-imag...
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by dsymonds 13y ago
Looks like AT&T syntax: https://github.com/torvalds/linux/blob/master/arch/x86/boot/...
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by dsymonds 13y ago
It might be useful, but I suspect it will still be a lot of work to expand the translator to be generally applicable. It's a fair amount of work just to get such a translator to operate on a specific code base.
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by dsymonds 13y ago
60k of very subtle, complex, intertwined C code is actually quite a lot. Porting the runtime to Go is also on the drawing board, but later. Right now the compiler complexity makes it harder to work on, hence porting it first is going to pay
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by dsymonds 13y ago
That sounds like a variation on rsc's 3rd approach (but with runtime code generation instead of boxing) with the same drawback: slower execution. It also makes certain kinds of debugging harder (how do you map a PC that's pointing
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by dsymonds 13y ago
http://swtch.com/~rsc/regexp/regexp1.html should be required reading before any developer tries to become a "regex wizard".
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by dsymonds 13y ago
Yes, "internal representation" has a specific meaning. If you had said "standard representation" or something then I would have agreed with you.
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by dsymonds 13y ago
That has nothing to do with "a string's internal representation". That is just how a range loop is defined/implemented.
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by dsymonds 13y ago
No, read the article more carefully. A Go string's internal representation is a sequence of bytes. There's nothing UTF-8 about it.
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by dsymonds 13y ago
Go doesn't have the concept of an immutable array/slice. It's been proposed (largely to bridge the divide between string and []byte), but it doesn't fit quite right with the rest of the language.
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by dsymonds 13y ago
The string type is immutable, which is the main reason for using it instead of []byte.
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by dsymonds 13y ago
I think that's because Go is reasonably good for, say, 90% of situations, and if you're in the 10% where it is not a good fit then you already know that and you know better than to try using Go in that situation, and thus few peop
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by dsymonds 13y ago
Yes, because otherwise no-one would work there.
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by dsymonds 13y ago
Google uses stack ranking only for calibration across the company. There's nothing like "bottom 10% get fired", and in a team of high performers it's perfectly okay for everyone to get a great performance review, so ther
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by dsymonds 13y ago
If you're including external tools, there's a bunch of tools that do it for Go too, such as rx ( http://godoc.org/kylelemons.net/go/rx ).
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by dsymonds 13y ago
His reference to a lack of dependency issues is a runtime aspect: A Python program requires the right Python interpreter and all the right Python modules to be set up correctly on the target system. For Go, you can build a single binary in
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by dsymonds 13y ago
That seems like a terrible approach. Why not major in business or economics?
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by dsymonds 13y ago
You need to implement that part yourself. Look in peers.go. It'll be dependent on how you discover peers in general.
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The first Go program(blog.golang.org)
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by dsymonds 13y ago
(michaelochurch will never take advice to pull his head in, so this is for the benefit of others who may be misled by his warped view of Google.) - There's no such thing as a "Perf Room" as a special thing. calibration happen
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by dsymonds 13y ago
Yes, it still exists.
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by dsymonds 13y ago
I don't see the arrogance, nor the implication that his/her title was based on having the same background (I think it's obvious that a 2h interview is going to find out more than just that). You seem to be cherry-picking from
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by dsymonds 13y ago
"go get" is supported in App Engine, but only the download part, since the package will be built with your app (either through the dev_appserver, or when you upload it). go get -d <package>
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by dsymonds 13y ago
It's ironic that the description has a language style error: "Nitpicker is a language style checker which compares your text ..." s/which/that/
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by dsymonds 13y ago
"has to" is a bit strong. The standard assumption is that pointer arguments should be set (or the function is documented otherwise), and the responsibility is left with the caller. It just bubbles out from there.
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by dsymonds 13y ago
In fact all three of those things are being worked on, or planned for the medium term.
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by dsymonds 13y ago
You can if you want, and some folk do, but that's really outside the scope of the language itself and much more about your project management, revision control, and so on.
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by dsymonds 13y ago
The x-axis data is not numerically ordered, so there's no good reason to keep it oriented that way.

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