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stefantalpalaru 5 years ago | link | on: Go Defer Simplified with Practical Visuals

Why would you tag the explanation of a trivial language feature with “AI”? Is “AI” the new “VR” in the buzzword hierarchy?
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  blackflicker 5 years ago | link
  
  I put that tag incorrectly, may bad, sorries.

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adsouza 5 years ago | link | on: The Zoo of Go Functions - Learn Go Programming

I feel like this would benefit from an ontology that indicates how these are related to each other.
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  blackflicker 5 years ago | link
  
  Hmm, can you give an example?
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    adsouza 5 years ago | link
    
    An example of an ontology?
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      blackflicker 5 years ago | link
      
      🤓 Got it.

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qbit 5 years ago | link | on: Learn Go: Constants — Visual Examples

I enjoyed your post but the auto-adding of browser history items makes me rage inside! I had to rage quit to get back to lobsters!
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  blackflicker 5 years ago | link
  
  Thx! I don’t understand what you mean, sorry :-( What should I do better?
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    pushcx 5 years ago | link
    
    There’s some javascript on the page that breaks the back button.
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      blackflicker 5 years ago | link
      
      Hmm, that must have been because of Medium.com. Can you send me a screenshot so I can tell them about the problem?
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        pushcx edited 5 years ago | link
        
        It would just be a screenshot of your article with me, offscreen, futilely typing Alt-Left.
        
        And is sounds like qbit may have had a different problem where the js used history.pushState() incorrectly and there were too many items to go back through. Again, won’t be visible in a screenshot.
        
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        blackflicker 5 years ago | link
        
        Hmm, ok, I’m telling them about this problem. I hope they’d fix it.
        
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        blackflicker 5 years ago | link
        
        They said:
        
        We’re not seeing any problems with this on our side. I think in this case it would be best if you could ask the user who is experiencing problems to write in to yourfriends@medium.com where we can troubleshoot this directly with them.
        
        Oops :(
        
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        qbit 5 years ago | link
        
        The issue I had was basically exactly what pushcx explained. Every heading I scrolled past added an entry via history.pushState(), so every press of the back button just went up to the previous heading.
        
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        blackflicker 5 years ago | link
        
        If you can’t email them, I can try again. Which browser and device you were using when you had the issue? Thx for your help btw!

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adsouza 5 years ago | link | on: Ultimate Visual Guide to Go Enums

The problem with the example implementation of String() is that it needs to be kept in sync with the set of values in the enum type.
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  codemac 5 years ago | link
  
  I don’t know if this was updated after your post, but he does introduce the stringer tool. Which I realize is a little ridiculous as a language tool, but thought I’d point it out.
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    blackflicker edited 5 years ago | link
    
    No, Stringer recommendation was there.
    
    In the post, first I’m trying to explain how enums work rather than the best practices. Then, I widening it more about what to use for enums. Including stringer and iota.

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blackflicker 5 years ago | link | on: What are you working on this week?

I’ll be writing new articles to my Go programming blog.

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adsouza 5 years ago | link | on: A visual how to guide to Go variables

While I like the “humanized” approach, it does seem rather specific to language that have the same sentence structure as English.
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  blackflicker 5 years ago | link
  
  Wow, good comment! I hadn’t looked at it from this perpective. My native-language isn’t English btw, however, I used to English, so it comes natural to me in Go.

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owen 5 years ago | link | on: About Go Language — An Overview
Looks like a good primer to Go - thanks!

Smaller number of packages as compared to other ecosystems like Node.js and Ruby. However, it’s increasing.

I’ve heard this as a criticism before, but as a person who did quite a bit of Ruby, I think this isn’t a downside but is instead an upside ;)

Consider some of the most frequently downloaded Ruby gems. Lots of these are right in the Go stdlib:
- json, multi_json -> encoding/json
- mime-types -> mime
- tzinfo -> time
Is this just a case that Go has more batteries included than Ruby or Node.js?
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  blackflicker 5 years ago | link
  
  Yeah, exactly! I know what you mean, I came from both Nodejs and Ruby communities to Go. And, millions of fragmented packages bit me too…
  
  I put it there in disadvantages however I don’t think most of them as disadvantages, only that, people can may judge it that way, I’m not sure.