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by genwin 14y ago
> maybe ethics needs to be a required first quarter class. As long as it covered all the ethical lapses the school itself profited from, it wouldn't be a double standard.
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by genwin 14y ago
If they accept "tough luck" they're not going to go much beyond minimum wage. It's a dog-eat-dog world. > business that ignores a patent because it is convinced the patent is unfounded and would not stand up to a court challenge Same th
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by genwin 14y ago
I can kinda see the students' point. If the exam was unreasonable as they claim (they claim it was completely unrelated to the lectures), it may be grounds for cheating rather than go through a lengthy costly path to correcting the exam or
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by genwin 14y ago
1. Cash out a $99K retirement account. 2. Don't eat out for a few weeks. 3. Pay off student loan.
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by genwin 14y ago
Resistance is futile! It is a slick language. It hit version 1.0 in March, which is probably why you're hearing so much about it now. Its concurrency model lets you keep all the machine's processor cores busy, without you going insane; th
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by genwin 14y ago
Here's some relevant code: http://blog.golang.org/2010/08/defer-panic-and-recover.html
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by genwin 14y ago
I think one of the points of the OP's article is that in Go you don't have to code like you've done here, where a single return value means one of two things (in your example: value in the map, or special reserved value that indicates the k
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by genwin 14y ago
That's a potential issue with any language, I believe. In Go you can recover() from what would otherwise be a termination. For example, I have a function that grabs and parses RSS feeds. If my program is fed junk by the remote site, I don't
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by genwin 14y ago
> If you do not wish to check the error code, you must be explicit. Or you can ignore all the return values, like in your fmt.Println() example. > I say "partial" because functions that only return 1 value can ignore the return im
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by genwin 14y ago
> I find programming to be easy (relatively). I find interfaces to be almost insurmountably difficult. That's a personality type (mine too). Probably best to bite the bullet with HTML/CSS. I think non-web interface builders are a thing
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by genwin 14y ago
Well put. Yes it's sad that half of Americans think the best response to most offenses is shoot-to-kill, ask questions later. My city has a professional police force; I don't think it's a big coincidence that we also have a relatively low c
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by genwin 14y ago
Since they realized they got a bigger budget only by spending all their previous budget.
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by genwin 14y ago
True! But the whole cross-state trip likely has plenty of open road.
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by genwin 14y ago
> If you are not working in a domain like that, you need to measure to even know whether the language is even a significant bottleneck. Or, if one is confident that the project can be done in Go, and that existing performance measuremen
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by genwin 14y ago
It's a chicken/egg thing. People will use Go for projects that its existing libraries can handle. That will be more people as the libraries expand. Given the extent of today's libraries I'd say that Go is useful for plenty of projects.
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by genwin 14y ago
No, that's the first I heard of it; I looked it up. Thanks, I'll keep this mind if I work on C# again.
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by genwin 14y ago
My best reference is the book "Programming in Go". The first chapter is like a tutorial.
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by genwin 14y ago
I agree with mseepgood. For a GUI app I likely would always choose the web (HTML, CSS).
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by genwin 14y ago
We were doing it wrong, for sure. It was a largish team with lots of drill-down done into each person's status. I had no power to change it.
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by genwin 14y ago
YMMV. With a relatively small bit of concurrency code, for example, I can poll 100 RSS feeds virtually simultaneously; e.g. if the maximum return time of the remote sites is 5 seconds the whole thing finishes in < 6 seconds. If I wanted
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by genwin 14y ago
I wish it was a stand-up! If standing would've forced it to be only 15 minutes, that is.
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by genwin 14y ago
I don't know about JVM, but the concurrency features of Go are amazing, far better than multi-threading in .NET IMO. If an app can benefit from concurrency (and major apps usually can), Go may be a better choice than .NET.
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by genwin 14y ago
I've searched for "golang <something>" a hundred+ times and never haven't found what I was looking for, at or near the top of the list.
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by genwin 14y ago
True. My last project started each day with 2 hours of scrum.
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by genwin 14y ago
Hopefully Wikileaks will survive so I might know the wedding parties and whatnot that this thing wiped out "accidently" in the "war on terror". Otherwise, cool technology.
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by genwin 14y ago
I soon stopped reading for the same reason. However, US collapse is highly likely, if only because every time we kick the can down the road on the national debt we accelerate the debt growth. We certainly won't be paying it back, but when w
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by genwin 14y ago
Nah, just a web page showing how much in debt you are to the company.
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by genwin 14y ago
The law as I understand it is, the 4th Amendment doesn't apply at and beyond the security checkpoint. You could be arrested (by police) for saying no. And of course you'll end up on the no-fly list and have to move to another country if you
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by genwin 14y ago
Ultra Modern Slave: What is the price for water? Private Gov't: We see in our bank records that you can afford $500 a month. We already started taking that out of your account.
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by genwin 14y ago
Based on that episode, me too. It would take a decade of reading about their excellent customer service before I'd trust them.

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