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Russ Cox’s response to “Go Is Not a Community Driven Project”(groups.google.com)
198 points by f2f 7y ago|177 comments
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One year later: The VPNFilter catastrophe that wasn't(blog.talosintelligence.com)
2 points by f2f 7y ago|0 comments
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by f2f 7y ago
I don't like setbacks, but I fully endorse rigorous testing.
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by f2f 8y ago
you get a bonus point for mentioning dhog, may he rest in peace.
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by f2f 8y ago
K&P usually refers to Kernighan and Plauger's Software Tools, or The Elements of Programming Style. For the book Kernighan and Pike wrote, The Practice of Programming, the canonical abbreviation is TPOP. Sorry about the pedantry.
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by f2f 8y ago
counterpoint: launchd works.
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by f2f 8y ago
they cleverly don't mention that there's cargo space in the front, where the engine is on normal SUVs :) the back may not be as spacious in as one would expect.
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Securing the Public Go Module Ecosystem with the Go Notary(golang.org)
2 points by f2f 8y ago|0 comments
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by f2f 8y ago
This is the fat-tree connection diagram for one of the cabinets of a CM-5. It was posted on a wall at one of the national labs in the US which had the pleasure of working with a CM-5 around the time War Games was in theatres. People still g
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by f2f 8y ago
they tried to be cheeky. is ignoring that a problem sufficiently inconveniencing you that it requires a post on a forum?
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by f2f 8y ago
nb: you mean "cite". why would you make me do this? you can doxx people on your own dime... still, for posterity: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18328964 "...now I am working full time as a Rust develop
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Wuffs: a domain-specific language for handling untrusted file formats(github.com)
1 points by f2f 8y ago|0 comments
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by f2f 8y ago
i think steveklabnik was hired very early on in the rust project's life as a community liaison. not sure if he still does that work but he posts here regularly and perhaps can point to one, or advocate for such a position if one does n
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by f2f 8y ago
Also worth checking: http://0.30000000000000004.com/ most popular previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10558871
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by f2f 8y ago
> Go’s spec isn’t formally proven, for example, so you could make a similar claim: how can people know that it all works without a proof? that's moving the goalposts. let's see Rust's language spec finalized first, then we
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by f2f 8y ago
well, they did screw up the previous one :(
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by f2f 8y ago
jwz doesn't like HN
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by f2f 8y ago
love the book. didn't think the show captured the essence of it that well, looked like a 4-episode set piece for a future cooking series. but the book is really good. sits on top of the educational pile for me, together with the "
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by f2f 8y ago
The performance optimization part of the article is very relevant to experienced Go programmers. Also, pjw, the W in AWK is on the Go team at Google and Kernighan, the K, wrote the canonical Go book.
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GoAWK: an AWK interpreter written in Go(benhoyt.com)
228 points by f2f 8y ago|88 comments
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by f2f 8y ago
Pity the list isn't updated anymore, or uriel would've sure put these gems by Charles Forsyth in it: [B]y treating "compiling C" as a subset problem of "compiling C++", gcc and especially clang are vast whales
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by f2f 8y ago
At one point SpaceX was down to a single make-it-or-break-it launch. Had that failed the company would've folded. Not true anymore, but was at least at one point in the past. Previous HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.
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Go: Generic generics proposal(groups.google.com)
2 points by f2f 8y ago|0 comments
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by f2f 8y ago
Was the analysis performed at the Department of Redundancy dept?
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by f2f 8y ago
a quadrillion tons of diamonds. fix your title.
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by f2f 8y ago
it's there at the bottom: 10^10^10^56 "Around this vast timeframe, quantum tunnelling in any isolated patch of the vacuum could generate, via inflation, new Big Bangs giving birth to new universes [...] this is also the time requi
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by f2f 8y ago
true mathematicians don't do practicality. https://xkcd.com/435/
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by f2f 8y ago
Neither of which is very effective. Aikido is not a very efficient form of martial arts, even though it looks good. Jazz is not a popular form of music even though it sounds good. Lisp is not a popular language even though it writes good.
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VPNFilter threat is bigger than we thought(bgr.com)
1 points by f2f 8y ago|0 comments
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Experience with Viruses on Unix systems (1989) [pdf](usenix.org)
21 points by f2f 8y ago|4 comments

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