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There might be some selection bias, users who still like the contents of the current frontpage are more likely to still be around than users who as the frontpage shifted away from …

Afaik FLAC this days uses an ogg container, which is where the metadata goes, so support should be as good as for Ogg Vorbis. In practical terms, I have a huge collection of FLAC, …

It is such a shame that ARM has taken over MIPS place in the embedded world, and that SGI crashed and killed it in the server space, MIPS is a much nicer architecture than ARM or P…

I'm not a big fan of RMS, but this is a good point, in our current world the freedom to control the software that runs on devices you own is becoming more and more essential, not h…

Everyone should read this post, the origins of copyright are very enlightening when trying to understand the insane system we have now. Intellectual property is system of monopolie…

Welcome to the Internet. As Paul Vixie pointed out ages ago: "The Internet is not for sissies." Trolls are almost as old as the net, and they are not going to disappear without som…

> Allow companies to patent innovations but legally force them to license it to others for a "fair price". And who gets to define what is a "fair price"? The whole point of patents…

I propose HTTP 0.2, a subset of HTTP 1.1 with some simple extensions: http://http02.cat-v.org

Java is the new COBOL.

Go is mind-stretching in its practicality and pragmatism. Most (but not all) its ideas have been implemented before elsewhere (but then, that is almost bound to be true of any new …

Google is a very big and diverse organization, I'm sure there are some that do promote pretty much every language you ever heard of (and many you didn't). Actually, I remember some…

There have been many changes to both the Go language and the stdlib, but it is really easy to keep your code updated (specially since gofix was introduced: http://blog.golang.org/2…

Nope. There is nothing that forces Googlers to either use or promote Go.

All technology should be a means to an end. Anything else is either art of intellectual masturbation. I suspect most claims of how new technology makes people who 'live tech' more …

For me Go has made programming enjoyable again.

> Is Go adoption happening? Slowly (not surprisingly giving the youth of the language), but it is happening, see: http://go-lang.cat-v.org/organizations-using-go

Also, most modern software/hardware is not particularly exciting from a usefulness point of view. It is mostly the same stuff that has been around for ages in a slightly smaller pa…

Except that building a "properly written PHP app" is way harder than in almost every other language in widespread use. The number of pitfalls and traps you can fall into almost sur…

Events are evil, much better use something like Plan 9 (port) libthread ( http://man.cat-v.org/plan_9/2/thread ) or Russ Cox's libtask ( http://swtch.com/libtask/ ). Or better yet,…

CAs are one of the biggest scams of the last twenty years.

Copyright is a (supposedly temporary) government granted monopoly. It is very often used for censorship, and its origins are in the censorship system (ie., requirement for publishe…

It is worth noting that Bruce Eckel pretty much gave up on C++ as a hopeless mess long ago. After some time in Java-land and Python-land this days he is hanging out in Go-land.

Even if others did it before, it is still an annoying line noise.

Code Search allows using regexps for searching, which is one of the things that made it super awesome.