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golangnewson A remote UK community living off-grid

It is faster and more efficient on a long image-heavy page like this, because they're not loading the larger images until the user scrolls to them (try reloading the page and scrolling quickly to see). So it's not entirely pointless.

golangnewson EU to stop changing the clocks in 2019

Yes very true that’s probably the best argument against it.

golangnewson US imposes new tariffs on $200B of Chinese goods

You seem to assume China will not retaliate, but they already have.

golangnewson US imposes new tariffs on $200B of Chinese goods

The consensus among economists is that it's a terrible idea which will hurt everyone. Often this sort of trade war is a precursor to real war.

Trade is not a zero sum game.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-05-02/economist...

golangnewson EU to stop changing the clocks in 2019

School hours are 9-3:20 where I live, so they are nowhere near in line with working hours as you need time to get to work and not many jobs finish that early. Most schools run breakfast clubs and after school clubs as a result.

golangnewson EU to stop changing the clocks in 2019

It really would not be difficult to move school later - school hours are already out of sync with 9-5 of 9-6 or the other hours parents work, if anything it’d be welcome.

golangnewson EU to stop changing the clocks in 2019

That’s what I meant by It would simplify a lot of coordination though, I agree zones don’t help this sort of question, if anything they hinder.

Main problem with getting rid of zones are day boundaries and people getting used to a 24 hour clock and arbitrary hours ( even the proposer here used am and pm!), so days would start at odd hours - at least the term noon would be a lot more accurate :) It would seem odd for Saturday say to start at 23:00 in some places though.

golangnewson EU to stop changing the clocks in 2019

The article poses the question:

I want to call my Uncle Steve in Melbourne. What time is it there?

Google tells me it is currently 4:25am there, so I'd better not call.

The answer without time zones would be:

It's 18:30 UTC

Google tells me business hours are 23:00 to 03:00, so I'd better not call.

Abolishing time zones would make little difference to this kind of question, it will always rely on knowledge of local hours and on top of that your Uncle's schedule.

It would simplify a lot of coordination though.

Unlikely to happen any time soon IMO as people are attached to the status quo and have no big reason to change.

golangnewson Apple Special Event [video]

Days since an update:

Mac Pro, Mac mini - 1427

MacBook, iMac, MacBook Air - 464

The only thing updated recently was the MacBook Pro (to fix the keyboard).

golangnewson Mistakes C/C++ Devs make writing Go

If you like C++, try rust, if you like C, try go.

golangnewson Google wants websites to adopt AMP as the default for building webpages

So why do we need AMP at all?

Even if it were proposed in good faith, the power it gives google is too dangerous.

golangnewson Ask HN: Is the new MacBook Pro worth its value for a developer?

No. I own one and regret buying it. The fingerprint sensor is the only useful bit of the touch bar, missing esc key is annoying if you use vim, and the keyboard is pretty terrible, even if I hadn't seen different keys come off or come loose. Have another appointment to get it fixed next week.

golangnewson Exploring Error Handling Patterns in Go

That's a feature, not a bug. It means I don't have to deal with anyone's 'clever' code.

It's not about saving the compiler work at all, it's about saving the hundreds of humans who have to read your code after you the work of understanding the abstractions you created.

golangnewson France approves 720MW of solar as price falls another 5%

Are they building stored energy reserves as well?

Yes, they are.

https://www.edie.net/news/6/Green-light-for-first-UK-hydro-s...

https://www.fastcompany.com/40580693/exclusive-tesla-has-ins...

golangnewson Show HN: Didyougogo – An Altavista slayer

I really like this idea, and the very simple implementation - big things start small. We need more search engines, including ones which are not supported by advertising.

Thanks for submitting.

golangnewson Why decentralized social networking never makes it

Decentralised social networks, like decentralised currencies, are solving the wrong problems.

golangnewson On the uses and misuses of panics in Go

This (optional types) is one thing I'd really like them to explore for go 2.

golangnewson Why Google Stores Billions of Lines of Code in a Single Repository (2016)

Thanks

golangnewson Why Google Stores Billions of Lines of Code in a Single Repository (2016)

What problems specifically did you see? Was this because the repo was too large?

I understand at google scale you'd need lots of tooling but why at a smaller scslr of merging a dozen small repos?

golangnewson Portable Cloud Programming with Go Cloud

go reflect is not commonly used, goroutines are pretty simple to pick up. I have used several large codebases with zero use of reflection. The point of go is it restricts you to 25 keywords (the basics that you sneer at above) so senior people can't get fancy and produce an impenetrable mess/marvel that beginners will take months to orient themselves in.

It is definitely easier to write well than js IMO, and harder to make a big ball of mud in.

golangnewson How to build an NPM worm

Importing lots of code from others is a path towards bugs and mistakes. You end up not understanding your dependencies, importing far too much (because you want function x but also get a-z), amd dealing with changes you didn't want or need which mix security fixes with features.

Better to minimise dependencies particularly for trivial functions. Not just for security but for ease of development.

golangnewson Fedora CoreOS, Red Hat CoreOS, and the future of Container Linux

If you're on coreos, probably just wait till early next year to see what the new OS will be like, then make a decision.

golangnewson DigitalOcean’s quarterly report on developer trends in the cloud

yes I've done that - been pretty happy so far.

golangnewson Show HN: Pesky Adblock – Blocks site access to visitors without an adblocker

Association with and tolerance of racists and fascists has consequences.

https://gitgud.io/moon-men/moonman-doom

golangnewson Debugging Serverless Apps: from monitoring invocations to observing systems

It seems that'd be too expensive for AWS for a free tier. I really like the idea of serverless, it just doesnt seem to live up to the promise in its current implementations. Are they spinning up a server per function?

golangnewson Debugging Serverless Apps: from monitoring invocations to observing systems

I don't really understand this - if you need to 'keep your lambdas warm' why not just run them as a process?

There seems to be a lot of book-keeping and ritual for something which is supposed to just let you focus on the important bits of code, without worrying about how it runs.

golangnewson Concorde ‘B’

The name also succinctly states the strongest objection to the idea (noise pollution).

golangnewson Ask HN: Is 2018 the end of Facebook?

I was thinking more of this one which is more directly relevant to abusing user expectations of privacy:

http://www.businessinsider.com/well-these-new-zuckerberg-ims...

Neither murdoch nor Zuckerberg are admirable characters.

golangnewson Permanent Daylight Saving Time? Florida Says Yes, but It’s Not So Simple

No, again DST changes clock time, not agreed times of work (which vary by industry anyway).

golangnewson Permanent Daylight Saving Time? Florida Says Yes, but It’s Not So Simple

That’s exactly what DST is

No, it’s not.

Time zones and DST change clock time, this suggestion is to instead change the agreed times for work in a given place.