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I've posted these before[1]: * No public bug tracker * epmd's security (or lack thereof) * Can't insist that epmd be started separately (`erl -no_epmd` won't start epmd but it also…

I've seen this explanation in a few places and while I don't discount it entirely, I find it difficult to believe it's the sole factor at play; primarily because of the dearth of o…

Microsoft's DNS server was forked from BIND 4, Merchant Server was an acqusition that run on Python in it's first incarnation and as dalke mentions various networking infrastructur…

That sort of glitch sounds like the kind of thing Dropbox does (did?) from time to time because it's not aware of bundles. (For those unaware, on OS X many files are actually folde…

There's nothing whiny about it. They're explaining to their customers what happened which is a part of their job.

I don't think it's anything out of the ordinary. Attacks happen quite regularly, most are mitigated quickly and quietly.

Actually I think I may have first picked it up from this vclock library: http://labix.org/vclock

I (a go noob) somehow got the impression that you're supposed to version your API when writing go libraries. ie, your library should be github.com/501/foo/v1 rather than github.com…

Collating all the tradeoffs and bugbears would benefit both the existing community and newcomers. Things that bug me that immediately come to mind: * No public bug tracker * epmd's…

That will produce a list of 2 funs. I think you meant: [ N + 1 || N

XPC services implemented in golang would be very handy - here's hoping iOS 7 gains full XPC support.

This ticket might interest you: http://code.google.com/p/go/issues/detail?id=837 Maybe one day it'll come. If on that day iOS has gained a public XPC API I'll be quite the happy ca…