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Observed mentions: 2014-12-08 08:41:45 UTC to 2026-10-22 10:17:39 UTC.
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| 2014 | 2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 16 | 1 | 15 |
| 2015 | 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 80 | 17 | 63 |
| 2016 | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 135 | 18 | 117 |
| 2017 | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 164 | 20 | 144 |
| 2018 | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 174 | 26 | 148 |
| 2019 | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 196 | 30 | 166 |
| 2020 | 2020-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 159 | 21 | 138 |
| 2021 | 2021-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 184 | 34 | 150 |
| 2022 | 2022-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 220 | 45 | 175 |
| 2023 | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 221 | 27 | 194 |
| 2024 | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 163 | 13 | 150 |
| 2025 | 2025-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 167 | 24 | 143 |
| 2026 (partial) | 2026-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2027-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 65 | 15 | 50 |
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Read the full README on GitHubWhat Hacker News says
16 sourcesAs a quick word of caution (which doesn't invalidate anything you've said), Go has a long-standing bug[0] whereby syscall.Setuid doesn't always apply to all threads (on Linux at least) so extra care does have to be taken.
[0] https://github.com/golang/go/issues/1435
In Docker Image Insecurityhaha, there is if I ever want to get another programming job!
It's bad, trust me. The ping function is just a retouched version of Go's icmp test: https://github.com/golang/go/blob/master/src/net/ipraw_test....
and that's the _good_ part.
In Show HN: Simple monitoring serviceThey're using one issue tracker for everything: https://github.com/golang/go/issues
Issues for sub-repositories like this go there also.
In Go 1.4 is releasedHere's a search of the go source for use of that: https://github.com/golang/go/search?p=3&q=%22for+range%22&ty...
Most of them are tests, but I see a couple genuine use cases:
1. Draining a channel until it closes.
2. Since range of a string gives utf8 runes, the RuneCountInString function in the utf8 package simply has an integer count, and does a range through the string increasing the count in every loop.
In Go 1.4 is releasedDoesn't look like it's been pushed to the canonical git repo or Github just yet: https://go.googlesource.com/go https://github.com/golang/go/releases
Aside from that, this is yet another great release! :)
In Go 1.4 is releasedWhat a hilarious coincidence. :)
I'm guessing you can't go giving out concrete legal advice for free, but could you point us towards languages that are fixing this? I see that Julia's stdlib uses MIT for non-external libraries,[1] and Go uses a BSD-style license that explicitly requires distributing the license with binaries,[2] so they're both in the same boat we are. AFAICT D's stdlib uses the Boost license[3] which explicitly allows one to forgo distributing the license with compiled artifacts, but I don't know if solving this issue entirely would require the entire compiler to be licensed under Boost as well. Presuming that interpreted languages can gracefully ignore this issue, I don't know which other "new" languages we could look at for inspiration.
[1] https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/blob/master/LICENSE.md
[2] https://github.co
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I've made several CLs like this commit [1], yet I am not seeing myself listed under contributors.
[1] https://github.com/golang/go/commit/912ec1990bd09f8fc128c3fa...
In Golang on GitHubNo, it's because the page only tracks the top 100 contributors, the cutoff is currently 6 commits.
For instance "spaolacci" is #86 with 8 commits, he's only ever been an author not a committer: https://github.com/golang/go/commits?author=spaolacci
In Golang on GitHubYou can select a timeframe like this:
https://github.com/golang/go/graphs/contributors?from=2008-0...
In Golang on GitHubUnfortunately, this joke makes GitHub Graphs page much less useful, because graphs start from 1972.
https://github.com/golang/go/graphs/contributors
Is there a way to get this fixed?
In Golang on GitHubI find it interesting that Rust has a lot more contributors compared to Go. Comparing https://github.com/golang/go and https://github.com/rust-lang/rust, all contributors: 380 vs 695, contributors with more than 100 commits: 17 vs 35.
In Golang on GitHubhttps://github.com/golang/go/commit/7d7c6a97f815e9279d08cfae...
https://github.com/golang/go/commit/0bb0b61d6a85b2a1a33dcbc4...
https://github.com/golang/go/commit/0744ac969119db8a0ad32539...
https://github.com/golang/go/commit/d82b11e4a46307f1f1415024...
In Golang on GitHubDid anyone do anything special to get their contributions attributed to their GitHub account? Mine are not showing up here: https://github.com/golang/go/graphs/contributors
In Golang on GitHubNo, it's just that the Go team have decided to continue with their current contribution process rather than using pull requests. I don't know whether this is a permanent decision or not.
"The Go team will not be accepting pull-requests here. Contributions must still go through the normal code-review process and gerrit. The updated contribution steps are not yet available though."
https://github.com/golang/go/pull/9219
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