I actually like Go quite a bit. A reasonable compromise between low-level concepts and high-level usability
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@ecolix Yet everybody knows that Edison was a douchebag theoatmeal.com/comics/tesla
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@garybernhardt My guess it's like with many Steve Jobs stories: Nice to tell your friends about, never ever to imitate yourself
@tedneward But they show XKCD strips without the alt text, and without a link to the source. How clueless is that?
@garybernhardt The reaction is amazing, and shows how much respect Linus gets. Imagine *anybody* else doing this
Totally unrelated to my last tweet, my kids claim I cry every time I see a certain movie. Ridiculous.
Even after watching it for the 25th time, "It's a wonderful life" remains one of my favorite movies of all time. Must see, every Christmas.
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Call me spoilt, but it feels seriously weird to learn a language without a REPL #golang
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“Seemingly superficial fit and finish issues are *everything*” prog21.dadgum.com/160.html
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The #golang tour at tour.golang.org/ seems a nice way to start with the language
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Very cool RT @debasishg: Erlang on Xen - a low-latency VM for zero-footprint clouds prsm.tc/Idhk7C
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@VaughnVernon Just looking at the samples and comparing them to the succinctness of something like Clojure