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The first rule of writing safety-critical systems in C: Don't write safety-critical systems in C.

You don't need to measure your impact. It's enough to describe it. "Helped a large client improving their web presence for achieving increased conversion rates." Of course, you wer…

A must-read (or rather: must-see) for anyone who thinks exponential backoff is overrated.

The number of lines needed is not a good measure for gnarliness. (To be fair, I don't know if gnarliness is measurable at all.)

I am afraid I cannot give you a direct answer, but here are two thoughts: 1. There seem to be a consent among Gophers to avoid frameworks where possible and use libraries instead. …

I wonder how the current Go 1.9.x compares to v1.7.3 that was used in the article (which BTW will become one year old tomorrow - happy Birthday!)

Author here. I am excited to announce my Go course for devs who have little or no knowledge of Go and want to learn the complete language from scratch. Happy to answer any question…

This may be an interesting article; however, I stopped reading when I discovered that it is about math/rand and not crypt/rand. Any PRNG that is not cryptographically secure must b…

> is that a valid hypothesis ? No, unless you have some solid studies at hand that would clearly support your „hypothesis“, it is nothing more than a highly biased imputation. Here…

The readme might deserve some love. A one-liner is not that helpful... :)

Generics have their use cases, but in general they are overrated. Especially in (but not limited to) the DevOps area, I bet that 99% of the code needs no generics at all. Having sa…

> which makes it possible to change the path of project without worrying about GOPATH Trying to ignore GOPATH, or trying to work around the requirements of GOPATH, often calls for …

Go is a pragmatic language, designed for programmer productivity. I think Go was never meant to be used as a language for reasoning about models and concepts at various abstraction…

Argh! Forgot to include the "golang" keyword :)

Swift and Go aren't competitors. Different realms, different audiences.

This Reddit thread reveals why the algorithm works: https://www.reddit.com/r/golang/comments/5xrjh0/got_lucky_im...

You are absolutely right to ask about possible downsides of a language before deciding to make the switch. However, there is a problem with your question: Define "not great". Every…

IMHO the term "idiomatic" is overused. Every programming language has its idioms, and I am sure you'll learn them when working through Go tutorials, books, or courses. Important he…

If you want to contribute to the Go project itself, this article is a good start: https://blog.gopheracademy.com/advent-2016/contributing-to-t... For all other Go projects, check t…