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It's a write-only language.

Agreed. Once long (10+ years) ago, google3 may have been peak codebase. Nowadays, not so much. Edit: I guess it also depends at what level of abstraction you work. High: can be eas…

Well, I can't speak for you, of course. I also haven't seen that code you reviewed. And I won't try to evangelize you. I'd say, in a nutshell, that Go is readable and reviewable be…

Huh? Go has its tradeoffs, some people don't like it and that's fine. But nobody can deny that it is by far one of the most 'readable and reviewable' (the argument in question) mai…

Merging as a one-keyword feature for all flavors of SQL is almost impossible. It gets hairy when you have columns with composite types. E.g. depending on database, records can be J…

Some databases like ArangoDB ( https://www.arangodb.com/ ) allow you to use Javascript instead of SQL. However, using a type-unsafe (read weak typing), turing-complete language int…

Gravity is infinite at the singularity (the middle of the black hole). Everything gravitates towards that point. Our best understanding is that no information can exist here. Black…

Go solves 99% of the problem quite nicely. You don't often deref pointers in Go, because of auto-addressing. E.g. there's no arrow operator as in C, the dot derefs when necessary. …

I understand and agree but read carefully. The assumption _is_ the (entire) hypothesis. It is not existentially quantified or set in the base-case. It is the entire hypothesis.

> We will show, by induction, that [for all sets] of n horses, every horse in [each] set has the same color. > Now [assume that] for all sets of n horses, every horse in [each] set…

That's only if you equate the recruiter to a minimum wage worker and yourself to their customer. There's a superiority bias in that rhetoric. The recruiter is a well-employed tech …

Personal opinion: Google carefully treads the gray lines of legality and morals/ethics. Facebook leadership, on the other hand, decided a long time ago that they care about legalit…

You have a box with random garbage in it. I have a box with a football in it. We entangle the football and the garbage. You stand far away from me. If you randomly open your box no…

"The Bank Behind High-Interest Loan Apps"

Good prose often involves misdirection. Making the reader believe something to be one way, while it was something else all along. Then, in a built up climax, undo the knot in a sin…

They're saying that both of those expressions are valid, not equivalent. SELECT count(star) FROM table and SELECT star FROM table Are both valid, not equivalent. Furthermore, listi…

It's much easier! Just call ethereum's `crypto.ToECDSA` [1] with a big-endian encoded 256-bit unsigned integer of interest, e.g. 0x1 or 0x100, as described in the article. Try the …

But why? Why create a tool that does `git status` 10x faster?

Array-indexing in C and C++ _is_ pointer arithmetic! It's syntactic sugar. Array-indexing in safe languages is bound checked iff the compiler can't prove the index value to always …

Pointer arithmetic is abstracted away for _safety_, not convenience. You can read about in e.g. Go's FAQ. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/32700999/pointer-arithme...

HTTP/2 is only necessary if you want to stream, most of gRPC can be implemented over traditional request/response cycles.

Note that trailers have existed since HTTP 1.1.

In the comparison with Ethereum: invoking a smart contract function does not require value transfer beyond gas (transaction cost). Most such calls carry no ether attached, this is …

AFAIK Tether is always liquid because the coins are minted on-demand. There is never scarcity. No incentive to provide immediacy.