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Unix and Beyond: An Interview with Ken Thompson(genius.cat-v.org)
51 points by luriel 14y ago|22 comments
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by luriel 14y ago
Enneff works with ken in the Go team at Google. As for his particular insight, if you are familiar with his work, that should be enough. For those not familiar with his work, this interview might be a good starting point: http://genius.cat
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by luriel 14y ago
You should look up how Plan 9 handles debugging, you just import /proc from the remove machine, and run the debugger locally. This works even across different architectures, and the debugger is completely network unware, is all handled tran
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by luriel 14y ago
> Once again, the Unix-Haters were right. As usual. Except that the creators of Unix were some of the biggest X-haters, as I noted here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4528049 Unix gets blamed for lots of things that could not be
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by luriel 14y ago
Some of my favorite quotes about X ( from http://quotes.cat-v.org/programming/ ) : "Programming graphics in X is like finding the square root of PI using Roman numerals." -- Henry Spencer "Sometimes when you fill a vacuum, it still sucks.
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by luriel 14y ago
> It is too bad that Ken Thompson didn't get at least acknowledged for his role in making it happen. Interesting, can you say more about this? Is he not mentioned because officially he is part of the Go team?
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by luriel 14y ago
C++ is not intimidating, it is terrifying. Erlang is nice, but has its own not-so-simple issues: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0eBDWigORY Interestingly, many things in Go's design that might seem 'deficiencies' from the point of view of
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by luriel 14y ago
I have found at least the Go stdlib much more uniform and reliable than the Python stdlib, perhaps not as complete, but it also has things that are missing from the Python stdlib, and unlike with the Python stdlib I don't find myself reachi
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by luriel 14y ago
And unlike Jobs, Elon is behind much of the engineering and research his companies work on. And also unlike Jobs, you can sense a certain humility in how Elon talks both about himself and about others. When Neil Armstrong spoke against priv
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by luriel 14y ago
If you have Go questions and can't find the answer anywhere, feel free to post to StackOverflow or http://reddit.com/r/golang You will get an answer quite fast.
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by luriel 14y ago
Even more afraid than those of us that keep our networks open. If you 'close' your network, and somebody does something nasty over it, you have to prove it wasn't you, while if you leave your network open it is obvious that it could have be
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by luriel 14y ago
> One reason it's common for GPU makers to be secretive is that there is a very big risk that GPUs and their drivers violate patents, and the makers of these products want to make it as difficult as possible to ascertain whether patents
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by luriel 14y ago
That is a list of wrappers for C libraries, there are even more pure-Go libraries: http://go-lang.cat-v.org/pure-go-libs And I maintain both pages, and I have to confess they are badly outdated because is hard to keep up with all the libr
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by luriel 14y ago
Given that Rob created one of Go's ancestors using the same CSP concurrency model back in the 80's precisely to build GUI apps, I think it should work quite well: http://doc.cat-v.org/bell_labs/squeak/
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by luriel 14y ago
Is already possible: https://bitbucket.org/binet/go-python But is simpler to just write all your code in Go, Python code is not just slower, it is also less reliable and less maintainable.
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by luriel 14y ago
There is Go support for SWIG: http://www.swig.org/Doc2.0/Go.html Still, it is rarely used, building in pure Go is much nicer, because one of the great things about Go is building systems where you can understand all the pieces. And if you
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by luriel 14y ago
Most of the software industry is built on cargo cult.
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by luriel 14y ago
None of those things are like in Go, which was precisely my point.
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by luriel 14y ago
Go doesn't stop you from building datastructures, actually is really nice for building datastructures. It simply doesn't provide a simple way to build some kinds of generic datastructures, but when the ones provided by the language are no
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by luriel 14y ago
Java <= 1.4 had nothing like Go's maps, slices, channels (quite useful to build queues and FIFOs), or interfaces. So no, its not like Java <= 1.4 at all, and that is without going into all the other fundamental language, library and
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by luriel 14y ago
There is also #go-nuts in irc.freenode.org and http://reddit.com/r/golang
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by luriel 14y ago
Besides the usual "use golang" advice, there is also a custom search engine for Go: http://go-lang.cat-v.org/go-search No solution is perfect, but really, is not like C for example is much more searchable.
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by luriel 14y ago
Knowing you "have a problem" doesn't mean you or anyone understands the problem or what to do about it. And even if you know what to do, doesn't mean you can do it either, the psychological, social or just practical barriers can be impossib
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Go At Conformal(cyphertite.com)
86 points by luriel 14y ago|42 comments
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by luriel 14y ago
I can never remember the (ba)sh redirection syntax, and I used it for decades. Rc on the other hand is much more clean: http://rc.cat-v.org
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by luriel 14y ago
Apple has truly become a religion, and one with plenty of zealots.
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by luriel 14y ago
What did you expect? Even before getting elected Obama voted for telco-immunity, and then picked Biden as VP, who not only helped write the DMCA and is a well known drug warrior, but who proudly claimed to have written most of what become t
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by luriel 14y ago
Gorilla and pat (by the author of Sinatra) are probably the web "frameworks" I would recommend if you want to stick with minimalist idiomatic Go style. http://code.google.com/p/gorilla/ https://github.com/bmizerany/pat And just say no
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by luriel 14y ago
If you need an ORM with Go you are probably _doing it wrong_. ORMs make little sense other than to make flawed OO type systems match relational databases. Just do it right from the start: use a database model that matches your application.
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Zeus: Boot any rails app in under a second.(github.com)
2 points by luriel 14y ago|0 comments

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