justasitsounds

> I don’t know Go well, but this API would surely piss Alan Kay off.

> Why a function that takes an Actor instead of each Actor being a type that implements a receive function?

That function is a method with receiver type `Actor` - IE `Actor` implements this HandleMessage function.

Granted it is exactly equivalent to ``` func HandleMessage(a *Actor, from gen.PID, message any) error { ... } ```

But I'm happy sticking with composition over inheritance

Coding is the tip of the 'working in software' iceberg. If you don't see value in being able to communicate the reasons behind the technical choices and trade-offs you've made, both within your own team and to other stakeholders then you'll quickly find that your coding time is quickly eaten up by people asking you to explain it.

If you value periods of deep focus or 'flow' then believe me, having concise, accurate documentation that explains why, how and what you are building pays off - if only to help you separate the planning from execution process in your own workflow. I don't think any moderately complex software can be written without some degree of planning - but maybe your experience differs

My house is in a mobile phone blackspot - no reception on any network. I tell every guest if they want to receive or make calls they have to join my wifi and enable wifi calling.

Fine, it's the threat of your guns that is doing such a grand job of keeping you all so very free.

Almost 1% of US citizens are in prison. Your police forces routinely brutalise and oppress large parts of your population even though (or perhaps because) you are all armed to the teeth. The majority of your fellow citizens are a couple of paychecks or one health scare away from homelessness, your social security safety nets are in tatters and your collective Labour rights have been eroded away over the last 50 years. Thank goodness you've got your guns or your government might screw you over

> It is difficult for governments to commit large scale atrocities without the consent of the governed unless those so governed are first disarmed.

Not when the government has tanks, attack helicopters and assorted hardware that IS prohibited for the public to own

> A more modern example was the prohibition of the free movement of the Australian population during covid. Australians were held prisoner by the state and were not permitted to leave.

Not true. You could leave and you could also enter - but would have to stay in mandatory quarantine.

Just do as the Head of Marketing from previousEmployer suggested and "leave out the bugs"

This story hits very close to home for me.

Back in 2001 I worked for a 'Medical Communications' company, building marketing websites for various drugs companies. I was young, it was my first coding job and I desperately needed the money

I even ended up building an internal marketing website for use by sales reps pushing an antidepressant. It was an awful PoS, technically, but it had a basic CMS system and I was flown to the US (from the UK) to show the very friendly team at the drug company how to use it. I was fairly blasé about the ethics of it - they paid a lot of money after all. The drug in question was later removed from the market after it was found to increase suicide risk.

14 years later, my mother had maxxed out on the same kind of anti-depressant. She kept relapsing and the doctors kept upping the dose until they couldn't prescribe her any more. She took her own life shortly after.

Not so long ago, I interviewed a candidate for a data engineer position at the 'FinTech' I was lead engineer at. He turned us down because he didn't like the CTOs attitude towards the credit data we were collecting about our customers. Until that point I hadn't really considered the ethics of what we were doing, again. I started looking for another job the same day.

Oxidation (noun): the act or process of shoehorning Rust into a comment thread

I know it's been mentioned before, but I really feel there is a need to codify an 'internet lore law' about how many comments can appear on a Go themed HN post before someone brings up how superior Rust is

Something like: Pikes law of unfavourable comparison OR HN Golang oxidation rate

You can use a lambda function that is triggered by a cloudwatch alarm when your bill approaches an arbitrary limit.

What you do in response to such an event is entirely up to you