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> In a decade or so Go the awkward things about Go will have multiplied significantly and it'll have many of the same problems Python currently has. The stdlib packages are far bet…

> Early in the development process, when testing the incomplete application, I remembered that Subversion (the version control system after CVS, before Git) had a –dry-run option. …

> And as a consequence, C# can pack the value types directly in the generic data structure, instead of holding references to heap-allocated objects. > This is very important both f…

the page is really laggy on Edge, kills any interest in wanting to explore more (strangely, it's much snappier on Chrome)

> Amazon / Google / Microsoft offer managed versions of the database and make bank on it. Easily millions in revenue. Original creator / company doesn't get anything, and the hyper…

No. Scrollbars are besides the content, AI-generated content is the content. An article absolutely deserves to be called out if the author has the gall to AI-generate it and then s…

I always do this. There's usually one field that you can put at the start that never changes. But the field at the end will keep changing as you add more fields to the SELECT list.…

Headers are missing IDs for URL fragments to jump to e.g. https://strongly-typed-thoughts.net/blog/zig-2025#error-hand... doesn't work

> appeals to HN and nobody else Your argument is that writers do this because of "economics", but to the detriment of readers. I don't see how this extends only to HN readers. It a…

This is awful. The alternative isn't "no name", it's a full and unambiguous name (even if it's a mouthful). If you can't come up with a good short name, stick with the long one.

> Spaces should be used to line up the code so that the root keywords all end on the same character boundary. SELECT file_hash FROM file_system WHERE file_name = '.vimrc'; This sty…

Built-in password managers don’t work across apps. They only work for the browsers they’re built into.

Sometimes Software is Done, or Why Hugo Why (2024) https://commaok.xyz/post/on_hugo/ > When I first used Hugo I loved it. It was fast. It was simple. It just worked, as much as any…

This is null trivia, a lot of it is not worth memorizing because it's not important. Personally I was surprised that NULL AND FALSE does not result in NULL, but who cares ?

Too much layering. Code like this makes a huge song and dance around what is ultimately issuing an SQL query to the database and returning the results. The solution must always sca…

entertaining and very true. I will be sending this article to people next time I see them waffling on something.

I almost never used `dir` because `ls` is supported by PowerShell. Is there a reason you have to use CMD?

I think anything other than deferring Close() and then calling Close() again explicitly is overengineering. Like anything that requires creating a cleanup function, capturing a nam…

Wow, that's awful. So they abuse "forgot your password" as a login method, with the added obstacle of having to come up with a random password every time. And they don't see any pr…

but if he was a scammer, "Adam" didn't have to follow up with a vitriol-filled email chain after abruptly hanging up. This felt personal, he genuinely felt wronged because the smal…

> KISS to the rescue. Ha. KISS would be sticking to left joins and profiling their performance (with the appropriate indexes added) and finding alternative solutions only when it’s…

> But it certainly is not something you'd want for writing the documentation for an enterprise-grade product. MDN documentation is written in markdown. I’ve always felt this was a …

Thanks, a lot of these Tech Influencers on Twitter really like to post screenshots without giving source to the original link (and shamelessly promote their stuff once it goes vira…