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I agree, it's a work in progress. If you have more links, I'll be happy to add them. I have a much longer list of companies that use Go ( https://quicknotes.io/n/1XB0-companies-usi…

The title of this article is a manipulative propaganda. If you don't bother reading it, it suggests that Edison hired people on H1B as their own employees and then fired existing e…

Obviously you have way more information about this, but judging from what you've disclosed, it's a terrible investment. Stock in a company is worthless (literally, as in "worth $0"…

You're asking a question that requires a book to answer. Such books are plentiful, for example http://www.nolo.com/products/form-your-own-limited-liability... The same goes for pat…

MIT license requires attribution ("The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.") so removing you …

I write it fully acknowledging that programming language flamewars are pointless, but this article just shows that you don't even have to try hard to create a biased comparison. He…

Yes, you are missing the point. In Go, iteration order of keys was always non-deterministic. At some point it was changed to be also random i.e. iterating the same hash the second …

You're blaming a language for a bug in your code. interface{} is nothing like void* because it's type-safe. interface{} is (type, value) i.e. it remembers the type of the value it …

It's actually very false. "Security" is an invisible quality, by which I mean it cannot be easily observed and because of that it cannot be easily compared and because of that is n…

Pointing out the obvious: engineers are not "goods" that Google or Apple produces. Even if consider employees salary to fall under that dubious categorization, good luck proving th…

Acman's behavior is not bad because he's shorting Herbalife. It's bad because after he bought short position, he's using his money and influence to crash Herbalife, by any means ne…

Of course it's Ackman's fault - he's the one bribing all those people. He's much bigger problem than people taking the bribes. He's the one trying to exploit the system for financi…

Here's a list of no-ones using Go in the real world: https://code.google.com/p/go-wiki/wiki/GoUsers

I would say that the reason he struck gold (which is different from being valuable) is because he's a good programmer who happened to work on a break away product. There are much m…

If he was hired by Facebook, he wouldn't have (co)developed WhatsApp. If Facebook hired him, he would most likely be worth (to Facebook) as much as any other random Facebook progra…

I'm not the author of penflip but you're missing a big thing: Editorially had 11 people on staff ( https://editorially.com/about ). Penflip apparently is just one person. If penfli…

Given that (in aggregate) startups are phenomenally successful, looks like the Swiss made the right decision.

It's actually the opposite of the "bus nonsense" and actually the concerns are valid. In SV, poor(er) people complain about too many rich(er) people coming in. When it comes to imm…

There is no gene for religion. There is a very simple explanation for religion: most people conform to the culture of their surrounding. That's why most people growing up in Muslim…

They are not refusing to debate. They have debated this many times over in the past. What they don't do is repeating that debate every week. It would take a lot of their time and i…

Hoare didn't invent 0-valued pointer. It was there since the beginning of time. Or at least the beginning of the CPUs. People talk about getting rid of nil like it's actually possi…

I doubt Google has as simplistic view of their business as you do. Google's bottom line is the same as everyone else's: making money. Currently, the ads are very lucrative for them…

We don't need to insinuate anything. It's clear that both Microsoft and Apple are pulling the strings. They didn't collectively spend $4.5 billion to just have Rockstar do whatever…

A private corporation pumping money into police department. What could possibly go wrong?

1. Shortage of housing is even worse near Google campus than in SF 2. Angry mob or your opinions should not dictate where people choose to live. I could offer many suggestions as t…