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crtc

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    Comment #41885807

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plan_9_from_Bell_Labs since the author seems to be confused in this regard.

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    Comment #34430550

    It accesses the module proxy proxy.golang.org, which is run by Google. If you want to opt-out of this module mirror, you can turn it off by setting GOPROXY=direct. The proxy has a …

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    Comment #34429740

    True, I quickly checked https://rubygems.org/ https://www.nuget.org/packages https://crates.io/ ... they all show download statistics of their packages.

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    Comment #30740897

    His name is really Sims?

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    Comment #30690435

    This is by design: https://go.dev/doc/faq#Does_Go_have_a_ternary_form Ken Thompson added ?: to B / C and then he took it from us in Go due to the wisdom he gathered in between.

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    Comment #30689549

    Finally! This will be the last day I see the words "Go" "lack of"/"no" and "generics" in one sentence.

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    Comment #29659634

    Yes, but reflection is part of the problem: "And even that traversal is not sufficient in the general case when type reflection gets involved, as reflection might look up methods b…

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    Comment #29658035

    The release notes usually contain everything.

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    Comment #29656621

    > No mention of why they left them out in non-interface types. Actually it does: "Or, we could decide that parameterized methods do not, in fact, implement interfaces, but then it'…

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    Comment #29482375

    On a somewhat unrelated note: What consequences did the Rust mod team resignation lead to? The last thing I heard was the blog post: https://blog.rust-lang.org/inside-rust/2021/11/…

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    Comment #28423633

    I hope it is. I wouldn't trust a seven-month-old to drive my car.

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    Comment #28423136

    Why should they fold if no government outlaws it.

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    Comment #28422530

    > Back in the '90s, "Object-Oriented" got redefined in popular imagination to "good". If your language or system was good, it was then by definition object-oriented, and anything g…

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    Comment #26748351

    > there would be some confusion with the popular Chicken Scheme compiler. Or Agda (the hen): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zPY42kkRADc

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    Comment #26748303

    It's more people having a platform to speak out about how they feel.

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    Comment #26748198

    In German C# is pronounced "C Lattenzaun" or "C Schweinegatter", which is quite a mouthful.

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    Comment #26436309

    > with types you need way less unit tests It's a misconception that developers who use dynamically typed programming languages write tests that perform tasks of a static type syste…

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    Comment #26156697

    TIL a new word: megamorphic

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    Comment #26155651

    What about "Old Car Smell'?

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    Comment #26122360

    Can this be transferred to programming languages like ALGOL?

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    Comment #25064135

    Why do Rubyists like this convoluted and almost childish communication style?

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    Comment #22909976

    How can "Rassenschande" be a Nazi slogan? How can "Herrenvolk" be a Nazi slogan?

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    Comment #17624912

    > But that often comes with slow implementation/decision costs. It also comes with feature bloat.

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    Comment #16886570

    Why would you choose a coconut over a watermelon or a football?