notanaverageman

Not that I regret it, but I found out that creating a community around an open source project is not like what you expect. I've been working on a tool for a very popular project for more than two years, adding features, refining it etc. since I had my time. Reading many comments on HN and Reddit on how people don't like current dominant tool or its alternatives, what features they expect etc. I thought I've got one that people would like to use.

I have open sourced it and shared it on a few places and got zero traction. Ok, I thought, I can talk about it here and there, so it would get more visibility. People don't like it much since I'm promoting my own tool. I posted a blog post about some technique on tool's website and people seemed to like it on Reddit. A few people wrote comments like "interesting" or "amazing" and I was happy for the first time. Then someone wrote that you should not make your friends/alt-accounts comment on your posts, it's cringe and that happiness went away.

I've been a lurker on social media nearly whole my life. Putting myself out there feels like an unpleasant experience. I'm still deciding whether to continue or just go back to lurking and keep my tool to myself.

The hardest thing for me when I started using Go after a decade of writing C# is to accept that Go and C# are very different and Go is a much simpler language. It is actually more similar to C than C#.

For a time I tried to write Go like it is C# and got frustrated a lot. After accepting that they are fundamentally different languages it became much easier.

For a large group of people, lifespan of a phone is the same as the lifespan of the battery. They complain that the phone gets slower day by day, but they don’t know what causes it. Most of them come up with deleting WhatsApp messages so that the storage will be freed and phone will get faster.

Showing a persistent notification that “the battery has degraded and should be replaced” can increase the average lifespan of a smart phone significantly. These people don’t really care about shiny new apps or security patches. They just call people and send messages on WhatsApp. And maybe do some browsing on Facebook.

On iPhones, if the battery is degraded at least it drains up quickly and this hints that there is a problem with the battery. However, on most Android phones even 4-5 years old batteries last at least a day and they do so by reducing the CPU clock speed significantly. I know that Apple got fined for doing this in the past, but I haven’t heard any Android brand got fined for the same thing.

As anecdata, I have replaced the battery of my iPhone 6S at least three times and I will probably replace it again in a few months. And the phone is still very much usable.

More than 50000 people died there in one of the fiercest fights of WWI and many of those people was buried there without a grave. So those lands are treated as graveyards of martyrs, and therefore have historical and cultural importance.

Turkish people would not accept building the bridge and the roads there even if it was cheaper.

You still have to use stackalloc to allocate on stack. With Span<T> you don’t have to use the unsafe keyword and you can pass the allocated array to other functions easily.

Any method does an extra null check and a cast to ICollection<T> which incur unnecessary performance degradation. Of course this is in micro optimization scale. If you do not call Any() on a hot path it does not matter which one you use.