It's not stupid at all. By giving into the racket, Netflix demonstrated that it's not a technical issue at all, so that argument no longer flies. It's clear that the ISPs are capable of supporting the service, they just don't want to.
They're actually hurting their current customers, those that can't get a text message through to their lost Apple brethren. Shame on them for having traitors in their flock, I guess.
Sure, I'd just say that Go has been extremely stable since before 1.0 (~2 years).
Author's point was that we should not use "not good" languages for the fear that we might be stuck with them for next 20 years. I'd rather be stuck with a language whose designers are very resistant to change vs one that gets features haphazardly bolted on every few years (PHP comes to mind).
Every single thing listed in the article can be added to Go at any point, since it currently has a very minimal feature set. Once something like generics are added, they have to support it until the end of time or risk having an unstable API like Rust did for a while there.
In this case, buf will not be available outside of the if statement. Go fmt can already leave your insignificant whitespace as is, I just wish it could also leave the if error != nil statement say in one line instead of formatting it to take three.
You might be surprised to learn that in the trademark law, common words like "paper" or "candy" can be used by multiple companies without them infringing on each other while "Coca-Cola" is way too specific for that.
Amazing how the old is new again. Welcome back, CGI!
I hope everyone's aware that this is just a toy and should never be used to do any real work, because most command line tools were never written to be exposed to the internet at large.
Did you read the article? It is exactly that, a wage for being a swiss national (and alive). The title's a bit sensationalized because.. well.. fucking news can't get people to click on their stories otherwise, but it's technically valid.
Why on earth does every kid need to learn how to build websites?! Their heads are already being stuffed with useless stuff that is of no interest to vast majority of kids. Expose the kids to programming and let them decide, if they want to pursue it further.
I find it disconcerting that a significant portion of those invited are simply "too busy" to attend. Wouldn't you WANT human rights activists to stir trouble instead of avoiding it?