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If I can't use the software without an active subscription, it is definitely not one and the same. I like Sublime Text's license of 3 years of upgrade with a purchase, no limitation on usage of the software. Unclear (AFAICT from the FAQ) how it would work for CodePerfect 95.

I had my credit card out at "Vim Keybindings", only to be slightly disappointed by the Windows-only limitation (for now). Looking forward to try this out on Linux soon. Although I'm pretty happy with Vim, I'm curious to see if I'm missing out on a significantly better experience.

That being said, not a fan of a monthly subscription for a native desktop application.

I'd take that a step further and require that the PR fixes an existing issue opened by a different user. Go ahead and fix a typo too if you want, but that alone won't get you a t-shirt.

> The "Business Source License" is not an open source license, and lying to the community about it is nothing short of gaslighting.

They do state that it is not an open source license in the article:

> Although we’ve come to refer to the BSL as eventually open-source since it converts to an OSI-approved license at the conversion date, due to the grant restriction, it is formally not an open-source license.

Go's context is fine to signal cancellation, but it lacks a way to wait for that cancellation to complete gracefully. And the fact that it is also an arbitrary bag of values is concerning. It worries me that it started "polluting" the stdlib's API without solving those issues first. Dave Cheney wrote a good article about it: https://dave.cheney.net/2017/08/20/context-isnt-for-cancella...

Thanks for sharing, good to hear stories from people that have done it.

I don't think you can expect a daily practice to have "an equivalent effect" to a 60-day retreat. I know there are 10-day retreats for vipassana meditation just about everywhere in the world (probably for many other types of meditation too), though I've never been to one (scares the hell out of me to be honest, must be so incredibly hard - both mentally and physically).

I recently started meditating for 20-30 minutes at a time, once or twice a day, and the eerie calmness that settles in when I'm done (for the "good" sessions) is a great feeling. I can only imagine what 10 and 60 days can do.

> A) I don't doubt it can be difficult for women - but my statement holds true.

That doesn't make any sense? You said:

> If a girl feels harassed - then that's it. Guilty.

Yet you go on and acknowledge that it may be hard to get their harasser convicted. In all those 3 cases I mentioned (including Ghomeshi), there were many victims that felt harassed. Yet no one in any of those cases was convicted. How does that make your statement true?

> In Canada, and in a growing number of jurisdictions - there is 'harassment' so long as the victim feels as if there was.

Nonsense, it's still an uphill battle for victims to get their harasser convicted in Canada. See Jian Ghomeshi, Marcel Aubut and the First Nations women v. the police in Val d'Or for recent examples.

I posted this in another thread here, but it's documented in the linked page:

  > A value that is a number, true, false or null in JSON is parsed as a value.
  > E.g. '3' is a valid number while '3 times' is a string.

It is ambiguous only if you think it can be a completely useless format. If you decide to use it, chances are you considered it useful, and the only useful way this can parse is as a number, otherwise it would't be able to represent numbers, booleans and null. I'd say it parses pretty much as expected, and as such, contrary to other comments, you don't have to go back to the docs every so often.

Only quoteless strings have no escapes, and according to the docs the rule is:

  > quoteless strings include everything up to the end of the
  > line, excluding trailing whitespace.

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From the docs:

  > When you omit quotes the string ends at the newline.
  > Preceding and trailing whitespace is ignored as are escapes.
  >
  > A value that is a number, true, false or null in JSON is 
  > parsed as a value. E.g. 3 is a valid number while 3 times is 
  > a string.

(edit: formatting)

Error handling does not obscure the business logic, it is very much part of the business logic.

> But the expense of extra lines of co[d]e come at significant maintenance costs.

All lines are not created equal.

    if err != nil {
        return err
    }

Those 3 lines have very, very little maintenance cost.

The obvious must also be mentioned: less lines of code usually mean building on abstractions - the lines of code are in there, somewhere, but not in your code. Better hope that abstraction is well-tested. Of course it's all a matter of balance, but I disagree with "more lines of code is inherently a bad thing", which stated another way, would mean "cram as much information as possible in a single line of code".

In the end, lines of code are a bad metric of software.

Would be nice if the services' header linked to the official AWS product page.

I use them extensively for test cases (`cases := []struct{...} { ... }`) as mentioned in the slides. Also sometimes to marshal/unmarshal one-off json or xml payloads.

Work: OSX on 2012 rMBP / iTerm2, Vim+vim-go, Go

Personal: Arch Linux on Asus Zenbook UX31e / dwm, zsh, Vim+vim-go, Go

edit: sorry for the reply, that was meant as a top-level comment. I'm afraid it's a bug in my iPad HN reader.

May I kindly ask for Google Music support too, I use it and would love such a service. I was with rdio before, and getting notifications of new releases for artists in my library is what I miss the most.

Maybe he did it for fun. Hacks don't have to be useful. Brad Fitzpatrick provided a Go solution to goal (https://github.com/eatnumber1/goal). Ken Thompson used to write quines (http://cm.bell-labs.com/who/ken/trust.html). No harm in doing so, especially when it is not wrongly marketed as some kind of useful problem-solving library.

Thanks for sharing, very interesting article. Your previous post is great (and relevant) too: "Dissecting Message Queues".

http://www.bravenewgeek.com/dissecting-message-queues/

I agree to some extent, but I wanted to make clear that this book is not about implementing AES or SHA algorithms. It's about using them (the author actually makes that very clear, the algorithms are treated as black boxes).

Yes you can still use them wrong, and you're not much more advanced. But the original comment seemed to suggest it was about implementing the low-level algorithms.

This book is not about writing your own crypto libraries, it is about using Go's crypto packages.

I've written a couple "polite" crawlers in Go (i.e. obeys robots.txt, delays between requests to the same host).

- Fetchbot: https://github.com/PuerkitoBio/fetchbot

Flexible, similar API to net/http (uses a Handler interface with a simple mux provided, supports middleware, etc.)

- gocrawl: https://github.com/PuerkitoBio/gocrawl

Higher-level, more framework than library.

Coupled with goquery (https://github.com/PuerkitoBio/goquery ) to scrape the dom (well, the net/html nodes), this makes custom scrapers trivial to write.

(sorry for the self-promoting comment, but this is quite on topic)

edit: polite crawlers, not scrapers.

While oil usage is globally still growing [0], so contrary to some replies, we are not already in a phase-out situation, some countries have taken steps to do just that, and I doubt they are reverting back to 19th century lifestyle.

Sweden aims to drastically reduce its dependency to oil by 2020 [1], replacing it with renewable energies. Of course the "how" part of the phase-out will vary depending on the region of the world. But this is doable, not science fiction.

I guess my point is that positions like "face it, we need oil so let's build more pipelines" are the ones that are holding us back from a better world.

[0]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_oil_consum... [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Making_Sweden_an_Oil-Free_Socie...

It's not quite that simple. The truth is that we just don't know how to move oil safely. The sane thing to do would be to phase it out.

"The IEA (International Energy Agency) found the risk of a rail spill is six times as high as the risk of a pipeline spill, but pipelines simply spill more when they rupture."

http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2013/05/14/pipeline-oil-spills-...

Your metaphor, to me, would be more along the lines of the browser frame, the clicking, the scrolling, ... Not the content and the design.

Oh well, I guess even Swedish names would be pretty easy for Swedes, when you have he choice between "hell" and "kitchen table" :D

Easy for me as I know black metal (extreme metal in general) quite well, so I got 18/20 (they did put some obscure bands in there). But that is funny how close some names look/sound.

As someone else pointed out, they should've added more Swedish bands (was Marduk there? I don't think so?) so that it would be harder even for Swedes, I guess. But then again, Sweden is better known for death metal and melodic death metal (that must sound funny for non-metalheads!), and those bands tend to have english names, such as At The Gates, In Flames, Dismember or Entombed. Hard to mistake for Ikea brands!

awesome, thanks!