stevecoalbear

Most importantly, it makes investors think dumb people are smart.

Did you know that to have a .cat domain, your content needs some link to the nation of Catalonia? That is why they offer a Catalonian translation.

It should instead trigger a little germ icon, like a virus, because it's like a virus.

It doesn't matter which one you mean, because Go has neither of them.

Go's full of hacks, and holds no shame over it. Zero-initialized everything, and proceeding to 'defer' instead of RAII, generic builtin types despite lack of generics (until recently), no builtin list type, slices having capacity...

This was Go's design philosophy until Rob Pike left - to do the simple thing simply and not try to be clever about it.

Go's entire schtick is being simple, eschewing language complexity in favour of letting the programmer handle it themself. Like C, but with pointer safety and garbage collection.

We learned from C++ and Rust that languages can be so smart that people can't effectively use them. Go is the opposite. It's so dumb that anyone can use it, but it doesn't have some native language features you might want.

In most cities it's illegal to build a new neighbourhood without an HOA

Wealthy neighbourhoods get actual protection, rather than protection-as-an-excuse-for-surveillance.

You're absolutely right! If you have nothing to hide, you have nothing to fear. That's why I installed a camera in your bathroom and made it publicly accessible to the internet. If somebody commits a crime in your bathroom, they'll be trivially caught.

Find me some evidence that Flock ever helped catch a criminal.

2026

It once came up whether my grandmother went to music festivals in her youth. Of course not, she said, they hadn't been invented yet! They didn't have electronic music, because they didn't have electronics. And nobody was playing guitar on stage for 12 hours. You could hold a short small concert in a hall, but you couldn't hold a big rave.

Other things that are surprisingly less than 100 years old include electronic music, Germany, Croatia, capitalism, the end of slavery, worker's rights, fiat currency, central banks, stock markets as more than a niche thing, and so on.