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& doesn't always imply a value is on the heap. Escape analysis will ensure that pointers to the stack are safe. Here's an example with a bit of explanation: if you pass a value to …

Same reason Amazon didn't show a profit for years. Just means they are continuing to spend more than they make in an effort to grow and to find those killer apps and services that …

They do have a reputation issue, and it does cost them some business. There are CTOs who basically won't touch a google product in beta because there are so many things that get pu…

If wal-mart stops selling a brand of ice cream, is that censorship? Is it censorship that wal-mart doesn't sell playboy in their store? If not, then why is the removal of an app fr…

Go's journey here has been interesting. Early on it was possible (though rarely seen in practice) to end up with a cpu bound thread not yielding because it didn't hit yield point l…

I went through a pretty intense crunch time at a fortune 10. We had one person go to the hospital with tachycardia and 3 people who were vomiting. There were only 10 people on the …

> Didn't she inject code into an unrelated internal extension? Depending on your definition of code, that's probably not the case. She added an entry to a config file that containe…

The author touches on the reason, but I'd phrase it more strongly. Shared mutable data concurrency is hard because it removes ability to locally reason about code. x=1 x++ assert(x…

I've seen both extremes. For instance I'm told github largely has a rails monolith and that they have to run headless instances of rails to do database leader election (although th…