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In reality, the reviewer is thinking, so what have you done for me lately?

But how can you show how proactive you have been in your quarterly performance review without testing out various user funnel strategies, optimizing conversion rates and paying consultants for A/B tests?

'tech companies became marketing companies that employed tech' is the money quote for me.

It is huge blinking neon sign that screams 'get out now'. Unless you are also doing the marketing of course.

They were more like things the go runtime was doing but which I had no clue or information about, rather than bugs. The top info was indeed rss.

Go seems to be still a bit of a black box in terms of performance/memory profiling.

On one recent project, the go memory profiler was showing about 35MB allocated while top showed memory usage at 500MB to 1GB. In another instance the performance profiler would show microseconds elapsed while the user experienced tens of minutes with no response from the program.

I really think they should consider including a function level profiler instead of just a sampler, as well as provide more insight/control over all the goroutines that are generated.

Just saying golang is better than node.js may not be saying all that much.

Friends dont let friends use social networks.

Russia heading fast to dystopia is not surprising, really.

It would be interesting if the common availability of spellcheck turned out to obviate such reform. Technology would be retarding progress and enabling ossification in this instance.

Well english has replaced itself many times, just compare old english, middle english, Shakespeare vs now. It is evolution and english is good at adapting, but even so, in Roman times no one would have predicted English to dominate society. These things can change quite rapidly and history is not at an end by any means. And with the internet, I think the changes/evolution could be quite dramatic.

Yes, currently Chinese is the main alternative with the most population and has some of the features I mentioned. It is also great for business with many people learning it to attract some of the chinese money floating around and lots of foreigners there to make their fortunes. But just a couple of decades ago it was russian. A major war between the US and China and it might be Hindi next. Never safe to predict the future.

What I would like to see is a language that is much more succinct, less bound in grammar rules/syntax but also less irregularities and ambiguities. English could evolve into this. Latin could have too but currently it is dead. Change happens.

While I agree that language policing like you see in France or the drive for culture preservation via language in various parts of the world is tragically misguided if not actively harmful, the one thing that gives pause is that we do not have a 'perfect' language in english by any means. Learning other languages and lingustic evolution gives hope that we can trend towards better options in the future. So lets not declare english as the winner just yet.

They really should have stuck with int main. What's unfortunate is the quantum leaps they've been taking in terms of complexity to just get an app up and running on their platform. But I guess that's the only way their engineers can justify their salaries/bonuses. Same as with that horrific nightmare of an app Facebook puts out.

It's the principle of "first, do no harm". Almost nobody follows it, but there are good reasons it is the first and in many circumstances the only real piece of advice that can be given. Look up 'via negativa' as well and daoist wu wei philosophy if inclined.

Jiayou! But I think there has to be innate demand for it, and for the right reasons, not just because it is cheap and available.