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Observed mentions: 2012-01-25 21:39:53 UTC to 2018-10-09 20:37:53 UTC.

0122012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments20122013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments20152016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 1 mentions; 0 submissions, 1 comments2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 0 mentions; 0 submissions, 0 comments2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC to 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC (exclusive): 2 mentions; 0 submissions, 2 comments2018

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20122012-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20132013-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20142014-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20152015-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20162016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC101
20172017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC000
20182018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC202

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floatboth·Oct 9, 2018
I actually adopted GOPATH for everything. I use https://github.com/motemen/ghq to quickly clone non-Go projects into the ~/src/github.com/user/project style paths. But… I don't like Go itself (anymore). It's not just the 'if err != nil', it's more the general attitude/philosophy from which it comes. Go is anti-intellectual, the designers basically don't respect the user. "You're too stupid to use generics/Result<A,B>/monads/whatever" is what it feels like they think of you. Go internals are more infuriating than Go language though… Especially the Plan9-based custom assembler. It truly is a horrific atrocity. I've had to deal with it two times: 1. That assembler does not support all instructions and even addressing modes (!) of amd64, so people have had to create hacks like https://github.com/minio/c2goasm to run asm functions without the
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overhead of cgo. Please actually read that project's README, but tl;dr it assembles your code using a normal assembler and STICKS THE BINARY CODE INTO A GO ASSEMBLY FILE AS HEX CONSTANTS. This hack actually didn't work for me when I tried to use some SIMD code, so I had to resort to cgo with its call overhead. 2. I also tried (and failed) to port the Go runtime to FreeBSD/aarch64. This was the last straw, this is what made me actually hate Go.
In Go 1.11 got me to stop ignoring Go
divan·Oct 9, 2018
That's funny, but since I started using Go, I now organize all projects under GOPATH, i.e. in `~/src/github.com/user/project`, no matter what language it is in. GOPATH and HOME are almost synonims now. I find it so much better experience than using tons of `~/Work`, `~/Projects`, `~/Code`, `~/SomeLang/` etc. as I used to have before.
In Go 1.11 got me to stop ignoring Go
javajosh·Jul 19, 2016
As an aside, it would be interesting to adopt a convention where certain links included a hash of what it pointed to, avoiding the case that the (sub-)resource changed out from underneath the link. This implies that you'd want to link to a specific version of a (sub)resource. E.g. you could do something like what github does with: https://github.com/USER/PROJECT/commit/COMMIT_HASH#DIFF_HASH where the DIFF_HASH is a fragment pointing to a particular resource within the commit.
In The History of the URL: Path, Fragment, Query, and Auth
sequoia·Jan 25, 2012
This is pretty cool and I know non-javascript users (besides some screen readers) aren't as common but you've gotta give something to people w/o JS, even if it's just "Please turn on javascript. Read text version here a:github.com/user/project/README.md" or something. I understand modern web apps not always degrading but this is almost 100% flat text, there should be some way to serve all users. Looks nice tho!!
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