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LaPingvino

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About LaPingvino

Contact information at https://joop.kiefte.eu/

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    It literally comes from the original Twitter, it's meant to be what X killed in Twitter.

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    Comment #33648286

    I'm going to be blunt and state that what most people want is not what they actually need. If you use Git for how it was designed, the commands remain generally pretty clean. If yo…

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    Comment #33648260

    There are two reasons Git is better, and the UI is NOT one of them: speed and repository format. I think Keith Packard wrote about this best: Git is technically under the covers wa…

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    Comment #30532482

    They have mentioned that you don't really need it as an explanation after they already said for a long time that they do consider it, from the start. They never strayed from that P…

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    Comment #30532440

    No, the documentation stated that Go was designed for reading without backtracking. That results in single pass compilation being possible and thus being faster, but that was never…

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    Comment #30532347

    They never rejected it. In the very first post launching it they commented that they considered Generics but didn't add them because they didn't find a way that works well with Go'…

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    Comment #30532249

    Generics were considered at the very release. Go just focuses on getting it right. And I love it for it, because to this day Go is the only language that got OOP right, and now Gen…

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    Comment #22332188

    I've designed an interview test before and I am ironically now doing a very similar interview test to what I designed for the company I used to work at. It worked extremely well fo…

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    Comment #17598461

    When I had to get the right people for a job, I made the sifting assignment simply: write an app that consumes a JSON API. I got an Indian guy with a long CV who never even tried, …

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    Comment #11117643

    actually, there is already a Swiss bank that wants to do just bitcoin in the process of getting licensed http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2015-05-27/switzerland-open-bi...

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    Comment #10662909

    There are several points where he won't mention the language. Which languages do you think he meant?

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    Comment #8389956

    What you see there is very early, I wrote that in a day, the point is to build on it and provide more shortcuts for things that suck to do/type in Debian. One thing I am planning t…

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