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Right. After reading so much Go hate I'm not sure who is serious anymore.

Fact? My team is using Atom, VS code, IntelliJ and vim-go for Go. There has never been a problem with tabs vs spaces. On save gofmt converts all spaces to tabs and when I open Go files in vim-go it converts them to spaces according to my settings. Same for all other editors, whether you like tabs or 7-space indent.

Rust is not an alternative to Go. Go is significantly easier to learn as it's very simple. Crystal and Nim come close but they do not have the backing of a large tech company and their ecosystems are not as mature.

This is a good tool for cost estimation - https://cloud.google.com/products/calculator/

Google Compute Engine instances will always be more expensive than DO/Linode because GCP offers so much more. GCE instances will only be cheaper than DO droplets if you will shut down the instances when you don't need them as you don't get charged for them when they are off unlike DO.

Is it really surprising that programmers that practise additional 10 to 15 hours a week improving their skills outside the scope of whatever project or tech stack they are limited to at work were better in this person's experience?

It would be pretty incredible if spending a lot of free time on challenging personal projects made someone a worse developer or had no impact at all.

I would imagine the best employees quit because they thought it was unfair to be paid the same or almost the same as people who know and contribute a lot less. It would have been better to just pay everyone above the market by some percentage but this would not make for a sexy headline.

You can still do remote work from a cheap location

Wouldn't the employer insist on paying in the local salary range?

curl|bash is no less secure than any script you download and run as a regular user. When you add a third party apt repository and install a deb package do you always verify that the postinst script doesn't do anything malicious?

The only mistake I see in this case is doing this over plain HTTP. Let's Encrypt is free and there is no excuse for not enforcing HTTPS for this.

The reason I said hostile is that in most discussions on Hacker News and Reddit a lot of people argue that the only reason women are so under-represented in tech is that all the guys are very hostile to women. This survey goes against that. For some reason they refuse to believe that some things are more interesting to women than men and vice versa.

How come there are as many women (47) answering this survey as trans people? Is there anything in the Rust community that is hostile to women but not trans people?

In fact trans people appear to be over-represented in this survey as 1.7% of people in it were trans compared to optimistic 0.3% of the US being transgender [0]

[0] https://www.quora.com/What-percentage-of-the-US-population-i...

Is this a problem due to not being able to buy physical/cloud infrastructure or developers with cannabis money or something else?

Can we avoid the overhead of starting and shutting down processes by running a single Python process and communicating using something like grpc [0] (or even JSON-RPC for maximum simplicity)?

How do web frameworks like Flask handle multiple concurrent requests? Would performance increase if we started multiple instances of this Python web server on the same machine and load balanced them? The code would be much simpler if there was no need to handle process management.

[0] http://www.grpc.io/

It could be done just before they are about to arrive. There are many ways to make sure people are not discriminated on Airbnb and the time it would take to implement those changes would most likely cost less than the bad press they are getting.

Even if they don't care about people being discriminated against they could at least think about the loss of potential customers.

In the UK it is illegal to refuse to let your property based on the person's race [1] and I am sure it's the same way in many other western countries.

People using Airbnb to rent out their property are effectively breaking the laws and due to loopholes in regulations cannot be held responsible. It's a lot more than just social rules.

[1] https://www.citizensadvice.org.uk/housing/discrimination-in-...

Why do they need to see the picture before booking? If they only want to know what the guests look like to recognise them in person when they arrive, Airbnb would only show the picture after booking.

If Airbnb required and stored pictures they could be used to identify them in case they trash the house.

I can't think of anything else the property owners would claim to use the profile pictures for.

If you snap at someone because you are having a bad day you should apologise to that person or at least clarify that it's not personal.

Having a bad day is not an excuse to be rude to someone, especially if they are not aware of that.

When you use these datasets you pay for how much the query has to scan. For example, if you do a select on a single 8 byte column with 1 billion rows in the table you are paying for 8GB.

Every month the first TB is free but if you go over that you have to pay $5 per TB. They are not exactly doing this for free.

Do people actually believe that Putin personally ordered to shoot down that plane? What incentive did he have to do something that would obviously turn the whole world against him and lead to many sanctions?

Do you think him doing something obviously stupid like this is more likely than just supplying serious weapons to incompetent "soldiers"?