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Go 1.23 Released 2 years ago

But better than this is would be if my go tooling didn't default to trying to pull codebases through a proxy

Forgive me for being cynical, but I don't like that out of the box the toolchain tries to pull all the code at `example.com/business/logic` through google servers.

I think a government blocking a project from existing is by definition a failure.

And it also shows that cryptocurrency projects will always be at the mercy of the whims of government(s).

“Stored away for long periods of time to minimise fading” is such a polite way of saying “so that future generations have a chance of seeing it, _you_ aren’t able to see it today”.

My friends and family who could not afford to buy have almost all left the city completely, so I guess you’re right in the sense they don’t rent _in Auckland_ any more. Last Summer I spent half my time driving between Warkworth, Rotorua, and Hamilton just to see those nearest and dearest to me. We all used to live less than 20 minutes from the Harbour Bridge.

1. Jacinda Ardern is no longer Prime Minister. This is a recent change without much fanfare, so it’s not unreasonable the author made this mistake.

2. ...Is Auckland suddenly more affordable? As someone who grew up there but currently living overseas, it’s news to me. A lot of my friends are saddled with large mortgages they could only get with help from their parents. In a low wage economy they will struggle to pay if interest rates rise from their historic lows.

Are you me? Our services with all the best practices are also the worst to work on because the business value is hidden in layers and layers of indirection, abstraction and nested packages. It’s like someone took a recipe card to bake a cake and wrote each word on a single page (because god forbid we ever repeat ourselves) and then abstracted away a function behind a series of factories and interfaces that will join those pages with string, and now each word has a single context-less definition so we can tick the “S” box in SOLID.

That only happened if you ignored and dismissed updates for weeks.

I should be able to ignore and dismiss updates for years.

I recognise I'm taking on risks, but it's my hardware and my data. Some of these updates are downgrades in functionality and behaviour. I specifically don't want to be forced to accept whatever patch is pushed out.

You were frustrated the customer didn't pay you an arbitrary amount to live off based on their mood instead of frustrated that your boss didn't pay you a legally mandated amount to live off.

The worst part about tipping culture is that somehow bosses have convinced their staff to be upset at customers.

2) Most GitHub users put a lot of value in their repo pages,

I think you underestimate how many "Single commit, push and forget" test repositories are out there.

right, but then so does support - by making sure that your customers are happy and therefore recommend your brand and become repeat customers. so do your cleaners - by making the workplace a tidier building so that your other staff are more productive. every team ultimately is there to "facilitate" another team to work better and make more money.

where do you draw the line?

Really? There are a lot of jobs that could be automated. If you are writing software with the goal of improving current processes, sometimes you can get a better result by looking at WHY the process exists, and if it could be replaced entirely.

An example: Self driving cars will eventually put Taxi Drivers out of jobs. Does that mean a Start-up that wants to be in this industry is evil? I don't think so.

I think this in the same vein as "We don't interview a psychic every time there is a murder".

If you want the BBC to be unbiased, then you could make the argument they have previously being biased towards climate change denial, given that a 50/50 interview on TV is not representative of the ratio of scientists who believe/don't believe in climate change.

Trade Me has been gamed though, by importers and people using it as a virtual store for selling or trading their niche. I'm not sure what the answer is, but a way to filter out the high-volume sellers would be nice.

I remember my statistics lecturer was fond of pointing out that NASA estimated the probability of SOMETHING failing on launch was (1). That is, because of the complexity of the project, there was always something that was missed or broken - although it could have been as simple as a bulb that was backlighting a switch might be blown, or a cupboard might have been restocked incorrectly, or a calculation for external events might be slightly off.