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by luriel 14y ago
I think the main Go site could be improved, but i quite like the new version of the Go tour: http://tour.golang.org
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by luriel 14y ago
> Also there's the IRC channel and Google group if you can't find what you need. The irc channel is #go-nuts in freenode, in case anyone was wondering. And there is also http://www.reddit.com/r/golang
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by luriel 14y ago
You might want to watch this talk about using Erlang in production: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0eBDWigORY Go and Erlang have some differences, and I found particularly interesting that pretty much all the issues they have with Erlang
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by luriel 14y ago
Revel is getting traction mostly among people who (like its author) are not very familiar with Go. As gorilla http://gorilla-web.appspot.com/ and pat https://github.com/bmizerany/pat (by the creator of Sinatra) are much more in line wit
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by luriel 14y ago
Should all languages also allow users to define flow control structures? Yes, some languages do this, but there is (as almost always) a trade of between simplicity and flexibility. I think Go strikes a very nice spot there. In go the built
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by luriel 14y ago
> The most popular web frameworks i've seen for Go so far are Web.go (a Web.py clone) and Revel (a Play clone). Unfortunately both web.go and specially Revel were developed by people that were not (yet?) familiar with Go's style, and th
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by luriel 14y ago
#cat-v has all the fun in Freenode.
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by luriel 14y ago
Not sure if russ is still reading this thread, but AFAIK, yes, he, or one of the many secret rsc clones is the primary author of fontsrv.
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by luriel 14y ago
Imagine what Elon Musk could do with that kind of money. Either terraforming mars or we might make it to Alpha Centauri by the next century.
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by luriel 14y ago
From wikipedia: "Unlike previous aircraft, such as the F-22, all software for the F-35 is written in C++ for faster code development." Seems that C++ is fulfilling its intended purpose nicely: http://harmful.cat-v.org/software/c++/I_did_
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by luriel 14y ago
Is Carmack also spreading FUD? It seems the web people have deluded themselves into thinking they really understand the implications of letting webpages interact with video drivers, and some of the graphics industry were just to happy to he
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by luriel 14y ago
Also somebody in the gonuts list noted that both versions are using the database differently, if you fix the Go version to use prepared statements it doubles throughput.
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by luriel 14y ago
Also with things like WebGL security is only going to become a bigger problem. Yes, they fix and push fixes out faster, but that doesn't inherently mean your browser is more secure, only that there are less people out there with browsers th
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by luriel 14y ago
> However, I don't understand how skepticism about the role of intellectual property protections has turned into uncritical acceptance that it only causes harm. Is not uncritical acceptance, there has been plenty of research and evidenc
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by luriel 14y ago
When prototyping stuff is trivial to have a fail(err) function that panics in case err is not nil. I sometimes do this, and then remove the fail() function to force myself to properly handle the errors. (Still, often is best to handle the e
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by luriel 14y ago
Your guess is probably quite accurate, is also probably mostly benchmarking the quality of the PostgreSQL drivers, the Go ones are good, but I'm sure there has been much more work in optimizing the Java ones.
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by luriel 14y ago
Not dogma, just common sense based on experience. Panic() is for truly irrecoverable exceptional situations where you do not expect the caller to catch it.
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by luriel 14y ago
> No surprises here. Google did a benchmark on go, java, scala, and c++ that's worth reading. No, is not worth reading, is misleading at best and has been throughly debunked: http://blog.golang.org/2011/06/profiling-go-programs.html N
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by luriel 14y ago
Most pharma research is already done by universities and other government subsidized organizations. Most of the drug development costs come from the byzantine approval and regulatory process. And for the government to pay for it by going ar
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by luriel 14y ago
Yea, right, just look how well that has worked to end the insanely counterproductive and vicious drug prohibition we have to endure now.
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by luriel 14y ago
> Is anyone actually arguing at this point that our current patent regime is accomplishing this end? All through history patents have always hindered innovation and progress, and there is plenty of research to back this up: http://lev
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by luriel 14y ago
Magic overdose. Compare with Go, where you can easily read the whole spec and keep the whole language in your head: http://golang.org/ref/spec
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by luriel 14y ago
If you read the acme[1] paper you will see Rob Pike explicitly acknowledges the influence of Oberon. This can be seen even more clearly in Acme's more direrect predecessor: help[2] [1]: http://doc.cat-v.org/plan_9/4th_edition/papers/acme/
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by luriel 14y ago
Acme was also Dennis Ritchie's editor of choice, there is a picture of him and his working environment here: http://acme.cat-v.org Also wish Russ had shown acme in a full screen setup, one of the most awesome things about acme is how well
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by luriel 14y ago
There is also Rob Pike's excellent post titled "Less is Exponentially More": http://commandcenter.blogspot.nl/2012/06/less-is-exponential...
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by luriel 14y ago
HTTP is a truly messy protocol, and from what i have seen the proposals for HTTP2 aren't going to make it much simpler, quite the contrary (as the author of Varnish explained here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4253538 ) and don't
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by luriel 14y ago
A Ian Clarke put it: "It is the responsibility of every citizen to ignore dumb laws." And I would add: if people didn't ignore dumb laws society would crawl to a halt and collapse.
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by luriel 14y ago
> He knew what he was doing, and hew knew what he was doing was wrong. He might have known (and even the extent of this is not clear) that what he was doing was illegal. But that doesn't mean it is wrong, law and morality are two very d
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by luriel 14y ago
> Now, here's a question: How similar is Go to Sean Dorward's Limbo? If we put them side-by-side how many similarities would we see? If no one answers, I may just do this myself. I think it would be interesting. Quite a few, and you mig
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by luriel 14y ago
> enterprise-costs support, with all that entails, [...] Provide enterprise-friendly DBA training, certifications, and other related materials. Most of those things are basically a scam (and often also a racket). > Have your sales r

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