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I definitely feel this. I'm only 24, but already I can feel the effects of being in a chair for 8-16 hours a day. It's sad that it is happening so quickly, but it has really made m…

I'm literally going through this at the moment. I'm currently 24. I do still love programming, and I'd like to think i'm pretty damn good at it. But do I want to be doing it as a j…

I think he's not so much against having Minecraft run on Windows 8 at all (i'm sure if Java support it, it'll run), I think he's just more averse to serving it via Microsoft's stor…

This may just be me picking on one small part of the entire post, but I have a serious technical problem with some of the author's claims, not least of which is his feelings that F…

http://go-lang.cat-v.org/organizations-using-go A very comprehensive list of the organizations using Go; I think it's kept reasonably up to date, but new ones are popping up on the…

> Given that it has no template language Ahem... http://golang.org/pkg/html/template/ It doesn't have its own equivalent of RoR or Django yet because most of the batteries needed f…

I've been looking at making a 2D game library for Go based on some older Go code, and various people have made similar efforts, but there's nothing yet that's full and complete. Th…

I think in real usage (in my experience), this is very rarely the case. The only thing Generics are really extremely useful for is writing data structures that you can re-use with …

The great thing about Go as a web language is that alot of the bones are already there - templates and HTTP handling are already waiting for you in the standard library. The most p…

To be fair, this will change as go becomes more popular and mature, I don't even know why people keep bringing it up. Is "C" any more searchable? If C was 3 years old, search resul…

First of all; Go is compiled to binary form, it doesn't run on a VM (yet?). Second of all; the words you're looking for are "get" and "For", not "gets" and "Fore". Sorry to be a gr…

I've had very similar concerns about GC vs. Manual memory management for games. It's good to finally see some sort of quantitative research and investigation, rather than people th…

I think alot of these examples use esoteric or just plain "bad" C code just in order to create pits for programmers to fall into. In real life you would avoid writing code like thi…

If everyone dictated their own hierarchy for their code base, utilities like go build and go get wouldn't work. The guidelines are just guidelines - you can still do whatever the h…

Just thinking of a specific case, but what do you think about subscription games that promise a lifetime membership (e.g. Star Trek online), then end up going F2P anyway? I would p…

Image processing and machine vision is a big one. Part of the skeletal tracking algorithm for Kinect is implemented as a set of shaders on the Xbox's GPU. That's just one example, …

To be fair, no programming language has really taken a first-party approach to those specific problems. SIMD and GPGPU both fairly difficult low-level concepts as they stand: I thi…

This is an interesting counterpoint to the original time post; it's better to think about the amount of energy and focus you're putting into something, because in the end these res…

This reminds me of the movie In Time[1]. The movie itself isn't particularly amazing, but I definitely resonated with it's underlying themes around the value of both time and money…