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Right. After reading so much Go hate I'm not sure who is serious anymore.

Fact? My team is using Atom, VS code, IntelliJ and vim-go for Go. There has never been a problem with tabs vs spaces. On save gofmt converts all spaces to tabs and when I open Go f…

Rust is not an alternative to Go. Go is significantly easier to learn as it's very simple. Crystal and Nim come close but they do not have the backing of a large tech company and t…

This is a good tool for cost estimation - https://cloud.google.com/products/calculator/ Google Compute Engine instances will always be more expensive than DO/Linode because GCP off…

Is it really surprising that programmers that practise additional 10 to 15 hours a week improving their skills outside the scope of whatever project or tech stack they are limited …

I would imagine the best employees quit because they thought it was unfair to be paid the same or almost the same as people who know and contribute a lot less. It would have been b…

> You can still do remote work from a cheap location Wouldn't the employer insist on paying in the local salary range?

curl|bash is no less secure than any script you download and run as a regular user. When you add a third party apt repository and install a deb package do you always verify that th…

The reason I said hostile is that in most discussions on Hacker News and Reddit a lot of people argue that the only reason women are so under-represented in tech is that all the gu…

How come there are as many women (47) answering this survey as trans people? Is there anything in the Rust community that is hostile to women but not trans people? In fact trans pe…

Is this a problem due to not being able to buy physical/cloud infrastructure or developers with cannabis money or something else?

Can we avoid the overhead of starting and shutting down processes by running a single Python process and communicating using something like grpc [0] (or even JSON-RPC for maximum s…

It could be done just before they are about to arrive. There are many ways to make sure people are not discriminated on Airbnb and the time it would take to implement those changes…

In the UK it is illegal to refuse to let your property based on the person's race [1] and I am sure it's the same way in many other western countries. People using Airbnb to rent o…

Why do they need to see the picture before booking? If they only want to know what the guests look like to recognise them in person when they arrive, Airbnb would only show the pic…

If you snap at someone because you are having a bad day you should apologise to that person or at least clarify that it's not personal. Having a bad day is not an excuse to be rude…

When you use these datasets you pay for how much the query has to scan. For example, if you do a select on a single 8 byte column with 1 billion rows in the table you are paying fo…

Do people actually believe that Putin personally ordered to shoot down that plane? What incentive did he have to do something that would obviously turn the whole world against him …