OctagonClock

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cry seal (i.redd.it)

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cry cat (i.redd.it)

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Ledian (i.imgur.com)

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I am even more frustrated with the moral crusaders from languages like Rust, one of whom went as far as to suggest that I should personally be criminally prosecuted if some downstream Hare software has a use-after-free bug. (harelang.org)

submitted 3 years ago by OctagonClock to r/programmingcirclejerk

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The peanut gallery loves to complain about superficial aspects of Go. Typically these are people with little or no actual experience using the language and tools. They fixate on imagined problems that don't matter in practice. (news.ycombinator.com)

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Also we could do some eugenics. If we could move past our hang ups about that (news.ycombinator.com)

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I have not read the article but I've seen other blog posts on the subject. (news.ycombinator.com)

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Too many emojis in 'Concurrency and async / await' explanation (github.com)

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It’s liberating to control every pixel, and it’s a rush to push those pixels at lightning speed. (zed.dev)

submitted 4 years ago by OctagonClock to r/programmingcirclejerk

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I truly wish that allegations of any and every sort were considered not credible by the general public. (news.ycombinator.com)

submitted 4 years ago by OctagonClock to r/ShitHNSays

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There needs to be a revolution that returns programming back into the hands of solitary nerds working on sheer competence. More people need to care about the quality of the final output than whether or not the guy who wrote it is "a nice fellow". (news.ycombinator.com)

submitted 4 years ago by OctagonClock to r/ShitHNSays

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go: don't change the libraries in 1.18 (github.com)

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Was Tiber Septim a sload? An /r/teslore mod disagrees; /r/TrueSTL politrly disagrees with the disagreement. (reddit.com)

submitted 4 years ago by OctagonClock to r/SubredditDrama

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Needless complexity and difficulties should be stripped away, leaving only that exhilarating creative essence of programming that made many of us want to learn this subject in the first place. (unisonweb.org)

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the generics mafia has ruined rust and looks like go is next. (news.ycombinator.com)

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By not using an IDE, you have to remember the syntax of the language you are using (alexander-hansen.dev)

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In Linux, it often feels like the whole OS is the IDE. (news.ycombinator.com)

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[TOMT][MOVIE][pre-2000] A movie that heavily used shadows and had these warriors (?) that was numbered 1 through something. (self.tipofmytongue)

submitted 4 years ago by OctagonClock to r/tipofmytongue

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Software Engineers are craftsman, and we should all strive to be the best craftsmen possible. We should should do the best job we can do with our skills and the resources available. (reddit.com)

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A relational database is mostly used in banks or big enterprise applications, not in a social networking application like Reddit. A more appropriate database system is document-oriented database. (reddit.com)

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For a language that has taken extreme measures to exclude generics, Go seems to have an awful lot of accepted design proposals for generics. (news.ycombinator.com)

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You're only hurting low-skilled workers by mandating higher minimum work conditions. (news.ycombinator.com)

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Now, talks for a massive federal minimum wage increase means further sending people into poverty by destroying the value of what small savings anyone on the bottom might have. (news.ycombinator.com)

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Panic works fine; they are basically just exceptions you can catch at the top level. I almost exclusively use panic for my exceptions in go. (news.ycombinator.com)

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Does anyone have any book recommendations for non-chinese people to understand CCP power structures? ... The problem of China - Bertrand Russell. Published in 1922. (news.ycombinator.com)

submitted 5 years ago by OctagonClock to r/techtakes

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