GopherCon 2014 Videos
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GopherCon 2014 Videos
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#2Finally! Thanks for all the effort!
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#3I am watching the keynote, it looks interesting. I don't know Go at all, though I know several languages including C.
I don't quite know what he is talking about when he talks about main and initialization. Can anyone elaborate on this for me?
I hate to say this because I feel like a jerk in doing so, but I'm about 25 minutes in and the little gopher that scrolls across the screen (some sort of advertisement, I think) is so distracting. It is awful.
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#4OK, who wants to put on a GopherCon 2015 next year, dedicated to actual Gopher[1][2][3][4]?
I mean, there is a precedent for this sort of thing.
http://iubio.bio.indiana.edu/soft/util/gopher/gophercon1.txt
[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gopher_%28protocol%29
[2]: gopher://gopher.floodgap.com/
[3]: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/overbiteff/
[4]: gopher://sdf.lonestar.org/
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#5OK, who wants to put on a GopherCon 2015 next year, dedicated to actual Gopher[1][2][3][4]? I mean, there is a precedent for this sort of thing. http://iubio.bio.indiana.edu/soft/util/gopher/gophercon1.txt [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gopher_%28protocol%29 [2]: gopher://gopher.floodgap.com/ [3]: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/overbiteff/ [4]: gopher://sdf.lonestar.org/
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#6OK, who wants to put on a GopherCon 2015 next year, dedicated to actual Gopher[1][2][3][4]? I mean, there is a precedent for this sort of thing. http://iubio.bio.indiana.edu/soft/util/gopher/gophercon1.txt [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gopher_%28protocol%29 [2]: gopher://gopher.floodgap.com/ [3]: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/overbiteff/ [4]: gopher://sdf.lonestar.org/
I was pretty disappointed when Mozilla dropped native Gopher support from Firefox.
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#7OK, who wants to put on a GopherCon 2015 next year, dedicated to actual Gopher[1][2][3][4]? I mean, there is a precedent for this sort of thing. http://iubio.bio.indiana.edu/soft/util/gopher/gophercon1.txt [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gopher_%28protocol%29 [2]: gopher://gopher.floodgap.com/ [3]: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/overbiteff/ [4]: gopher://sdf.lonestar.org/
From the first link:
Finally, the relative numeric success of Gopher over WWW was discussed (there are orders of magnitude more Gopher servers than WWW servers out there): Gopher seems to have won out primarily because of the ease of entry (it's much harder to put up a WWW server than a Gopher server), although another factor may be that a hierarchical presentation is more appropriate than hypertext for the broad-based audience of a CWIS.
:)
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#8> Ken: lary and sergey came by tonight...
> Ken: p.s. one of larrys comments was "why isnt function spelled func?
> Rob: fine with me. seems compatible with 'var'
> Rob: anyway we can always say, "larry said to call it 'func'"
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#9I've wondered what the story was on Go's dependency management, so I'm glad someone brought it up at the end of the keynote. Pike said that it was up to the community to develop tools to deal with that. This is what happened in the Clojure community when Leiningen became the de facto standard, but its dependency management builds on a pre-existing system (Maven). I am curious if this is on anyone's radar, or if it isn't considered a problem.
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#10I really enjoyed the keynote.
The joke about the profound error of using whitespace just shows how partisan these discussions are. In go, with the semi-colon insertion rules and with gofmt, there is an implicit whitespace rule all over again.
Personally, I like whitespace because its how my mind reads code. Its nice in Python, mostly because of how concise Python is to read. Its a bit of a bind in Java, where you don't trust tools to roll-up functions but on the other hand they all seem so long and full of boilerplate. With gofmt, the go world lives in a significant whitespace world they just don't want to admit it :)