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> But fundamentally no one should ever be trying to merge code that hasn’t been unit tested. If they are, that is a huge problem because it shows arrogance, ignorance, willingness …

Consider it is not an unheard of experience to join the workforce, use a preconfigured macbook with precisely 1 SSD, and spend one's career building on SaaS platforms like AWS Lamb…

> The language has memory-safe concurrency (except for maps, which is weird)... My understanding is you should operate the other way around. Things aren't safe for concurrent mutat…

I work somewhere going through a similar process for much the same reason. And to be frank, I'm wondering if how it ends is in me looking for a new job. I know there's good reasons…

10 hours isn't too bad when dealing with a giant organization. Often problems cut across teams and services, and troubleshooting then liaising and ultimately getting a remediation …

I do the opposite. Across C, Python and Go, I was prepared and had a good understanding of the languages and stdlibs before joining through reading books and working through the ex…

A single server is much faster than most people think, too! In the microservice or serverless arrangements I've seen, data is scattered across the cloud. It's common for the domina…

Leetcode is programming. It's not sprint planning, 1 on 1s, backlog grooming, jira tickets, slack support, gathering requirements, making estimates, negotiating features with manag…

As a general rule for dev work, trying to make evidence based decisions is fairly difficult. There's just not that much evidence around yet that can make it obvious as to if in you…

I largely agree with you, that rather than introducing Rust into your workplace it's easier to change workplaces. I currently work in a Go shop. Why Go? Did it win some business va…

Lets see what the Go doc example looks like: sort.Slice(people, func(i, j int) bool { return people[i].Name In Python one might write: people.sort(key=lambda person: person.name) O…

Pretty simple for me: I like working with Free and Open software much more than proprietary software. I think it's important for society, and I have more fun that way too! Also the…

Reminds me of discussions I had in the early 00's! People would say "Linux is cool and I'd like to try it, but Windows is where all the jobs are" . It's a fine point, and quite rea…

There are significant pockets of non-git users in the developer community ;) I find hg much more pleasant to use than git, and can generally still work in git based teams while usi…

Largely complaints of Rust seem to boil down to the programmer needing to describe object lifetime information in code. We can, as the original post did, show approaches that are o…

Increasing we automate processes, have programs do the work humans once did. It's extremely helpful and productive, but it has a darker side. The processes are rigid because machin…

I work in a company that's all in with serverless on AWS, but unlike you I can't give a glowing recommendation. The answer should always be "it depends". IMHO the more distributed …

I find interviewing skills are more important than job skills in terms of income. Trying to get a 20% raise by doing a good job I've found to be a protracted difficult task, but a …

I do that, create the ticket. I want to believe it means one day we will do that TODO, it'll beat the priority of all the other tickets in the queue. But it never does, there's alw…

https://research.swtch.com/gorace describes a loss of memory safety through data races, but I note it says "In the current Go implementations" and was written in 2010. I never hear…

Wanting SQLite in Go touches on something that I think is quite a waste in modern Go circles, but happens everywhere to varying degrees. There's often (for instance, in Go projects…

Is it memory safe? As I understood it you lose that as soon as you start using the namesake keyword, "go".

I'm going to mention my own tiny experience report as a frequent SQL user, of Go's simplicity pushing a lot of burden onto the user in the relatively simple task of querying a list…

> your greater system model has to assume it can die at any instant for any reason Correct. This is something I have to design for in the system anyway, because in practice anythin…

IRC's influx of new users has been dropping off for a long time. Personally I started using IRC 20 years ago, there were a lot of new users then. The big IRCnets were massive[a] co…