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You should probably go back to your "well payed job".

"I really like JavaScript" might be a compelling personal narrative, but it makes a pretty uninteresting submission to Hacker News :(

1. There is a difference between voting for something and funding it. 2. There is a difference between being employed by a company and being its CEO. 3. These differences are signi…

This is almost exactly how a plot device in Neal Stephenson's REAMDE plays out. In almost exactly the same part of the world. Bizarre.

The code is super awkward, I'm pretty sure buggy, and unfortunately illustrates that the author has only a superficial understanding of Go idioms :(

Agreed. In particular, I found the "reference value" approach that Go uses for time parsing incredibly quirky, but ultimately intuitive and unambiguous. http://golang.org/pkg/time/…

It seems that antirez believes he's allowing Redis to approach AP and/or CP semantics by providing primitives that users can compose in ad-hoc ways according to their requirements.…

The NSA has nothing to do with the parent's proposal. Your entire reply is a non-sequitur.

> Humans use . Indeed.

> Are you suggesting that it isn't in Emacs? Yes, of course. Emacs is obviously and inarguably not immediately intuitive.

There is no reason why "editing plain text" should be anything other than immediately intuitive. Advanced, time-saving features, like multi-cursors or regexp-based find-and-replace…

Text editors appear to be approaching a design ideal. At least, for the ways we currently use them.

import ( "./utils" This is what's known as a relative import, and it's very bad. You want "github.com/johnnye/short/utils", or (better yet) put your base62 stuff in package main, s…

Guarding your library boundary with a recover doesn't absolve your library internals from being nonidiomatic by using panics. (That the stdlib uses panic/recover in a few specific …

defer and recover have nothing to do with each other, except that in the few circumstances where it's appropriate to use recover, you often do it within a defer block. > are you sa…

Note I said "as a matter of course". I agree it's useful in certain very limited circumstances, like parsing. But certainly not database work, unless you have a very different idea…

No, you don't. You should never be using recover as a matter of course. You seem really hung-up on this point. Can you link to some code that illustrates your concerns?

If you're recovering from panics, in general, you're doing something wrong.

> it's incredibly hard to find a good engineer that knows > his stuff. They generally have PhDs and years of > training in math and whatever particular field they work > on. If you…

> Rust tasks have the same large fixed-size stack as OS > threads. A fine-grained concurrency model like a task > graph would be build on top of them. In the absence of other conte…

> CSP and channels are meant for getting real (cpu > intensive) work done. You don't just use threads (or > greenthreads) "because concurrency". The whole point of green threads is…

Those are both sub-problems.

> Paste and match style (incredibly useful) is "alt-shift- > command-v" i.e. four keys . . . Four is too many. Three > is too many for such an important function. I've literally ne…

> I don't take personal calls at my desk. My phone is on > silent at all times when at the office. If I need to > make a call, I step out. > > Even my desk phone is on silent. It s…

> there seems to be quite a few people suggesting that go > is the correct choice for every task. Literally nobody has said or implied anything like this.