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The Beirut Explosion – Is It A Bird? Is It A Plane? Is It A Faked Video Of A Missile?
In the days after every catastrophe, it is inevitable that rumours and misinformation will be passed around on social networks and by word of mouth. This appears to be a universal human behaviour. The disaster in Beirut is no different. In the three days s…
via bellingcat on Aug 07, 2020
pkg.go.dev is more concerned with Google's interests than good engineering
pkg.go.dev sucks. It’s certainly prettier than godoc.org, but under the covers, it’s a failure of engineering characteristic of the Google approach. Go is a pretty good programming language. I have long held that this is not attributable to Google’s stewa…
via Drew DeVault's Blog on Aug 01, 2020
Gripes With Go
You’ve read a lot of posts about the shortcomings of the Go programming language, so what’s one more. Lack of sum types Type assertions Date and Time Statements over Expressions Erroring out on unused variables Error handling Lack of Sum types A “Sum” ty…
via nerdypepper's μblog on Aug 01, 2020
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