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Yes, let's dig into it.

Putin subtle? Like the switcheroo? And a second one would be subtle? The guy's an outright buffoon.

I'm not going to read the article because the question as a title suggests to me that the journalist could have done more research.

That aside, this reminds me of the UK which regularly has floods in winter, and droughts in summer. Now if we have too much water in one season, and too little water in another, surely it's not too hard to figure out a common solution to both. I call it a "dam". Are there reasons the UK doesn't do this? Too much focus on trains?

I don't agree. The web has many examples and tutorials of the basics. I come to HN for the special stuff. If I want to see a terraced house I can go to any town in the UK. I go to Barcelona when I want to see a Gaudi. Great that the author wrote this. Assuming it didn't get in the way of him doing something better then I might agree that the world is a better place (let's give that emotive defender speech stuff a kick), good for him, but I don't see that HN is a better place. This is not the first time that beginner dev Go stuff has been posted here, and hung around the top of the first page, it's increasing. If that's the direction HN is heading in, the impressive stuff displaced by junior tutorials, the Gaudis will leave, the juniors will post, watch the feedback loop.

Coincidentally, I listened to this yesterday: http://philosophybites.com/2015/03/rebecca-roache-on-swearin...

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Edit: no, seriously, as the other commenter mentions: "This site is well known and I have been using it as reference for a long time." If looking for something like this, it would've been hard to avoid this. This post seems sponsored, or friends doing favours. Weird.

No. 1 on HN front page is an ominous sign to me.