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dawkins··on Spain orders blocks on Archive.today and its mirrors
for many months I could not access the Linux Mint website... because of this.
dawkins··on Handy – Free open source speech-to-text app
In Spanish works very well
dawkins··on An unordered list of things I miss in Go
I agree. The limited expressiveness in Go also worked as an advantage because of its simplicity. Additionally, as the article mentions, the lack of lambdas made the syntax less convenient. For me, it struck a good balance before generics and other features were added.
dawkins··on Android features I envy as an iPhone user
The feature I miss the most is marking numbers as spam
dawkins··on Major standard library changes in Go 1.20
So happy that they added the ability to extend response deadlines with http.ResponseController.
dawkins··on Fusion energy breakthrough by Livermore Lab
Argument - Monty Python https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ohDB5gbtaEQ
dawkins··on EU-wide maximum limit of €10K for cash payments
In Spain the limit is 1K€
dawkins··on Fastly acquires Glitch
What an amazing track record from Joel Spolsky: Launched Fog Creek, then StackOverflow, Trello and now Glitch (which I think is the successor of Fog Creek)
dawkins··on Billing systems are a nightmare for engineers
Invoicing gets even better in countries like Portugal, where you have to send to the tax authorities every invoice that you generate.
dawkins··on Lithuania evacuates its embassy in China
Cuba?
dawkins··on Apple’s $13k operating system (2013)
Great read. They wrote a DOS in 35 days using punch cards. Amazing.
dawkins··on Kairos
And Spanish
dawkins··on “It's a truck full of traffic lights”
I saw the video and it is crazy that they think it is even close to production.
dawkins··on Tesla owners asking what happens if 'full self driving' isn't real
In my Kia (2020 model) it works most of the time but it also tried to crash me a couple of times. Of course it is disabled now.
dawkins··on Why Is Esbuild Fast?
Simple optimizations, Advanced always broke my code.
dawkins··on Why Is Esbuild Fast?
I switched from google closure to esbuild and it is amazing how fast and well it works. It even generates smaller code in my use case (200k lines app). Also the creator is really nice. He implemented two features I requested right away, which surprised me a lot. What a great project!
dawkins··on Hyundai buys Boston Dynamics for nearly $1B
That is a great point
dawkins··on Ethereum Is a Dark Forest
> Proof-of-work systems are pure, unadulterated energy waste

The more you pollute, the richer you get. I can't understand why nobody talks about this.

dawkins··on Ask HN: PostgreSQL or MySQL?
This was in older versions. From 5.7 ONLY_FULL_GROUP_BY is enabled by default.
dawkins··on Go compiler internals: Adding a new statement to Go
Now that you have pointed where it is, it really looks easy to understand how it works. Thank you!
dawkins··on Go compiler internals: Adding a new statement to Go
That was a fun read. Very interesting.

I have noticed that the AST nodes don't have a parent reference. I wonder how it knows for example when encountering a "continue LABEL" that the code is nested maybe deeply in a loop with that label. The only way I would think of is traversing the tree up but I think there is no way of doing this. How do they do it?

dawkins··on SwiftWebUI
This reminds me a lot about ASP.net Webforms. Maybe this is better conceived but trying to program the web like a desktop app created more problems than what it tried to solve.
dawkins··on Ask HN: Who is seeking a cofounder?
It's an sports club management system (online reservations, classes, memberships, POS, Inventory...). Lots of modules that I will like to explore the possibility of selling it to another market.
dawkins··on Ask HN: Who is seeking a cofounder?
I prefer not to share it but if you are interested send me an email to pedrogarcia2659@gmail.com I can send you a link.
dawkins··on Ask HN: Who is seeking a cofounder?
I have a SAAS product which is already selling but I am looking for a sales cofounder to explore new niches.
dawkins··on Why I Don't Like Golang (2016)
I have been using Go in production since 2012 and I find it a fantastic tool. Except for point 8 ("The sort.Interface approach is clumsy") the rest are features for me.

I am so grateful for the Go creators for having made it as it is. What worries me is the recent changes: modules (never had a problem with GOPATH) and Go 2 proposals. I hope they are able to keep their vision as it started.

dawkins··on Write Your Own Virtual Machine
Do you know if the Go compiler does this too?

Edit: Nevermind, it doesn't: https://github.com/golang/go/issues/5496

dawkins··on How to Write Unmaintainable Code (2017)
In Go single letter variables are used when they are short lived (3 or 4 lines) and in this cases I find it way more readable than long names.
dawkins··on Please, do not install every shit
From Go proverbs:

  "A little copying is better than a little dependency."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PAAkCSZUG1c&t=9m28s
dawkins··on How did Google Talk change from a dream to a nightmare?
I miss google talk but it was just chat. I use hangouts this days for chat, voice and screen sharing and it works well enough.
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