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Thank you for putting so much work into this, but it's not Python 3!

That's not necessarily a bad thing! People move to cities to find a better life, and they usually find it. That's great unless you think a life of rural poverty is some kind of nob…

Why has no one brought up overcrowding in Japan? You don't think that's going to affect the birth rate? http://inventorspot.com/articles/six_startling_scenes_overcr...

"[God has] an inordinate fondness for beetles" -- favorite J.B.S. Haldane quote. About 1/4 of all known animal species are beetles.

1) obscurantist jargon. check. 2) banal observations once you finally figure out WTF they are talking about. check. 3) lauded for being the smartest, greatest, most brilliant intel…

The RedMonk programming language rankings seem much more plausible to me. They're based on 1) questions on StackOverflow and 2) projects on GitHub. http://redmonk.com/sogrady/2013/…

Function overloading can be accomplished by name mangling at compile time. PROGRAMMER SEES INTERNAL REPRESENTATION foo(int a, char b) foo_int_char foo(int x) foo_int

>Ok, so it's not just a language wart, but a fertile source of pointless inefficiency in everyday Python code, glad to know. The fact that it's used all the time would suggest it's…

Thank you for the explanation! Converting to a rune slice and back does give me the behavior that I wanted. It still looks butt ugly to me, but at least it works. In Go: fmt.Printf…

You're right. You're not very familiar with Python. String slicing with numbered indices is used all the time. And you can slice more than just strings! It's one of the coolest fea…

Thank you for expressing it so eloquently.

> What happens when you take a slice of a string? What happens when you slice a unicode string in Go is that it cuts multi-byte characters right in half, unless you get the byte bo…

A very good point. I still think it's a big win if it makes it 1% easier for new programmers to understand.

Why not a 2-word struct with the rune count instead of the byte count? There's zero performance cost for many strings because the rune count is known at compile time. For the rest,…

That's 10 minutes where I could be... you know, living my life , man. Everybody knows what + does. You don't have to teach a high schooler that "if A or B" means "if either A or B …

Some thoughts after spending ~100 hours with Go. - Function overloading is a major convenience that you will miss. There are differently named versions of every function and you wi…

Austrian School economists don't make predictions, but when they do they're right 100% of the time, except when they're wrong in which case I will remind you that Austrian School e…

Good to see the Austrian School weirdos at the Ludwig von Mises Institute have given up real-world economics and now just play video games. Hopefully in the virtual world their inc…

"All this means that on the scale of hundreds of years our population growth may actually look like a very steep sigmoidal curve. But of course, in 2050 our planet and species will…

OMG! America is under attack by birth control pills! Yes, women in the US freely choosing to use birth control is just like forced abortions and house raids in China. "The root cau…