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[–] [email protected] 13 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I don’t see any of them play an if err != nil { return err } so they can’t be all that smart now, can they

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 months ago (2 children)

the world would've been a better place if pike never got goog to greenlight his third attempt at neophp

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Bit of a wash, tbh: I like that the “but simplicity!” computer touchers now write their trash code in a memory-safe language; it sure reduces the amount of extremely preventable issues by introducing some other extremely preventable issues.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

as much as java is a nuisance (in oh god so many ways), I mind it less than go. far fewer lucky packet minefield explosions with it.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

He also did sawzall, but thankfully that didn't get widely adopted

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago (1 children)

circa '06 my then-boss wanted me to "implement sawzall for mailserver logs"

(I was extremely green at the time and I've since wondered whether that was one of my first gartner quadrant moments)

[–] [email protected] 6 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

I should also note that this place was xen on gentoo on refurb p3s. it involved adventures with gluster and nfsv3 and almost-all-the-docs-were-still-russian nginx imap/pop proxies and... fun times

(I did learn a fair deal there. foremost among what I learned was how willing someone would be to pay me dogshit money if they could get away with it)