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Re: Executable Examples in Go

#2
It's not a secret; they're all over the place.

The article title is "Executable examples in Go". You shouldn't editorialize titles, especially when it makes the title significantly worse.

Edit: seems the article title has changed or is A/B tested so never mind I guess (can't delete since there are replies), but it's still not a "secret".

Re: Executable Examples in Go

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post #2

It's not a secret; they're all over the place. The article title is "Executable examples in Go". You shouldn't editorialize titles, especially when it makes the title significantly worse. Edit: seems the article title has changed or is A/B tested so never mind I guess (can't delete since there are replies), but it's still not a "secret".

Are we looking at the same article? Its title quite clearly is “Go’s best-kept secret: executable examples” so the title here is only minorly editorialized.

Re: Executable Examples in Go

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post #2

It's not a secret; they're all over the place. The article title is "Executable examples in Go". You shouldn't editorialize titles, especially when it makes the title significantly worse. Edit: seems the article title has changed or is A/B tested so never mind I guess (can't delete since there are replies), but it's still not a "secret".

Are we looking at the same article? Its title quite clearly is “Go’s best-kept secret: executable examples” so the title here is only minorly editorialized.

I also like how the HN submitter changed the name of the programming language to "Golang". I guess they also call Ruby "ruby-lang" since they didn't get "ruby.org"?

Re: Executable Examples in Go

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post #2

It's not a secret; they're all over the place. The article title is "Executable examples in Go". You shouldn't editorialize titles, especially when it makes the title significantly worse. Edit: seems the article title has changed or is A/B tested so never mind I guess (can't delete since there are replies), but it's still not a "secret".

Are we looking at the same article? Its title quite clearly is “Go’s best-kept secret: executable examples” so the title here is only minorly editorialized.

The article (at the linked page, not here) title was changed. The original was as GP described it, and in the last few minutes it was altered to match the HN title.

Re: Executable Examples in Go

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post #2

It's not a secret; they're all over the place. The article title is "Executable examples in Go". You shouldn't editorialize titles, especially when it makes the title significantly worse. Edit: seems the article title has changed or is A/B tested so never mind I guess (can't delete since there are replies), but it's still not a "secret".

Are we looking at the same article? Its title quite clearly is “Go’s best-kept secret: executable examples” so the title here is only minorly editorialized.

It shows like that for me too now, but I am 100% sure this wasn't the case a few minutes ago. I copy/pasted the title.

Re: Executable Examples in Go

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post #2

It's not a secret; they're all over the place. The article title is "Executable examples in Go". You shouldn't editorialize titles, especially when it makes the title significantly worse. Edit: seems the article title has changed or is A/B tested so never mind I guess (can't delete since there are replies), but it's still not a "secret".

Are we looking at the same article? Its title quite clearly is “Go’s best-kept secret: executable examples” so the title here is only minorly editorialized.

In arp242's defense, I opened the article a couple of minutes ago and it showed the same title he was faced with until I refreshed the page.

Re: Executable Examples in Go

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post #2

It's not a secret; they're all over the place. The article title is "Executable examples in Go". You shouldn't editorialize titles, especially when it makes the title significantly worse. Edit: seems the article title has changed or is A/B tested so never mind I guess (can't delete since there are replies), but it's still not a "secret".

https://xkcd.com/1053/

Re: Executable Examples in Go

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post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Are we looking at the same article? Its title quite clearly is “Go’s best-kept secret: executable examples” so the title here is only minorly editorialized.

I also like how the HN submitter changed the name of the programming language to "Golang". I guess they also call Ruby "ruby-lang" since they didn't get "ruby.org"?

Golang is a common way to refer to Go, especially for SEO purposes. “Go” is hard to search for.

https://go.dev/doc/faq#go_or_golang

I use “golang” for clarity all the time, and I’m sure many others do as well. There’s no ambiguity you’re talking about the language then.

Re: Executable Examples in Go

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post #2

It's not a secret; they're all over the place. The article title is "Executable examples in Go". You shouldn't editorialize titles, especially when it makes the title significantly worse. Edit: seems the article title has changed or is A/B tested so never mind I guess (can't delete since there are replies), but it's still not a "secret".

Are we looking at the same article? Its title quite clearly is “Go’s best-kept secret: executable examples” so the title here is only minorly editorialized.

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