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When your whole business model is based on government granted and government enforced monopolies, you have very little right to complain IMHO.

See also Russ Cox's "Zip Files All The Way Down" article: http://research.swtch.com/zip

Most medical research already happens in publicly-funded bodies, bit it is then spun-off and captured by big pharma. Not to mention that as many have pointed out over and over agai…

It is a textbook case of regulatory capture . Still, abolishing patents would go a long way to allowing real competition and progress in healthcare.

Actually this a well known process known as regulatory capture . Where the regulated industry ends up in some kind of symbiosis with its regulator, encouraging it to both grow and …

In somewhat related news, here is Russ Cox's excellent blog post about cool hacks with the zip format: http://research.swtch.com/zip

This is a good move, any government using Oracle is wasting taxpayers money and being irresponsible and negligent with its citizen's data. One could talk of NSA backdoors, but ther…

If you hire a Go programmer, it probably will be somebody that deeply cares about their work, somebody who has a certain sense for aesthetic and technical simplicity, and other qua…

I count this as a Go feature.

you can also add just after import "fmt" add: var _ = fmt.Println That way it will never complain that fmt is imported but not used. Still, I never had need for this. Once you have…

Go does incremental compilation just fine. Nobody has bothered to add parallel compilation because building Go code is already so ridiculously fast.

Many people are not looking for a "better C++", in the land of C++ it seems "better" means "more features", and some of us are not interested in more features, but in a better sele…

Full case folding is already in tip and will almost certainly be part of Go 1.1.

> This seems like needless boilerplate: why not instead simply pass a closure over a channel that the goroutine will execute? I have never seen this technique used in Go, but it se…

> So what exactly do you propose? Sane and simple standards that can be implemented in any platform without requiring hundreds of man years of effort. Nothing done in the web today…

The Web 2.0 craze is leading us back to the "Best viewed with" insanity of the 90's. And is only going to get worse, with WebGL is not just "Sorry your browser is not supported, pl…

Here are the slides from Andrew's great "10 things you (probably) don't know about Go" talk: http://talks.golang.org/2012/10things.slide

Because one of the nice things about Go is that I don't have to worry about this. Is not just unidiomatic code in itself, but it creates unidiomatic APIs that behave in ways Go pro…

Panic() should only be used to signal either programmer error, or truly panic-worthy situations where state is so messed up that crashing is the only good option. Put another way: …

Anyone using panic/recover across API boundaries to emulate exceptions should have their brains gofmt-d. But so far I have not noticed anyone doing this, perhaps because actually r…

Well, given how hopeless it is to try to do threaded programming with Python, I guess that is not a consideration Python programmers usually worry about.

The only mainstream language that has checked exceptions is Java, and it is almost universally agreed, even within much of the Java programming community, that checked exceptions c…

In Go unused variables are an error, so you are forced to either handle errors or explicitly ignore them (by assigning them to _).

Apple controls what I can install or not install on hardware that I already bought and which is mine , Apple does all it can (which is a lot) to make it close to impossible for me …