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This is where ads come in: a backpack company can run ads that should be shown to people interested in buying backpacks, and it’s potentially a win-win: you find a cool item that you buy, and the company gets a new customer.

Yes, aggressive measures such as:

-Allowing employees to apply to be permanent remote employees

-Allowing 2 WFH days per week

If you want tools that you can manage yourself, then a combination of StatsD + Grafana for metrics, and Sentry for errors. For logs, Graylog if you want to set up something complicated but powerful, and syslog-ng if you just want to dump the logs somewhere (so you can simply grep them).

2) You can always encapsulate errors. Your code will still have a type assertion or switch, but you don't need to use string parsing (although I have seen string parsing used in libraries such as mgo - the MongoDB client library).

3) Because maps are references, just like slices. You can still call len() on a nil map and therefore treat it as an empty map? If you mean the assignment to nil maps: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/golang-nuts/RkYIF8Sq...

4) This is subjective I think, but I disagree. I like just being able to type "return" instead of for instance typing in 6 different places "return something, err".

5) Do you mean un-exported structs (and therefore lowercase)? I haven't come across this, but I can see where it could be an issue. I usually just use VSCode and mouse over to quickly see a name's definition.

I agree with you that it's not perfect, but as I saw someone else say on the internet, it's the least bad language (in my opinion). And I don't envy you for working with dependency injection in Go :)

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You should download the Scala IDE and play with a feature called the "Worksheet".

See here: https://github.com/scala-ide/scala-worksheet/wiki/Getting-St...

#2 is especially known for its technical institute (IST, where I study), which competes with another one in #8 for the title of the country's best engineering school (the one in Porto has been winning past years' programming competitions).

#6 is known in the country for its CS degree.

I'm in Portugal, and for instance The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo is shown as being available for 3,99€. The movie page then lists the movie as being available for rent at $3.99 (SD) or $4.99 (HD).

When I open the iTunes store though, the movie is only available for purchase at 13,99€.

I take it that your movie page gets the data from the US store, but from a user experience point of view it should get the data from the user's country.

To me it just looks like a kid who is willing to randomly make up stuff to try and get a Raspberry Pi for free.

As amusing/crazy as this was, I'm not really sure if it merited it's own blog post (or HN submission for that matter).

However, one thing that they all have in common is that they have spoken of leaving Portugal sometime in the future. Be it after their first year or so in consultancy or after their PhD, the thought of leaving has crossed their minds.

Given that other industries are a lot worse than tech right now (civil engineers, lawyers, etc) I'm not really sure how this will turn out for the country.

A list/grid of emoticons would be fine for displaying the options. Nike+ does something similar to this when it gives you the option to say how you felt during a workout.

I'm from Southern Europe and I'd say it's quite normal for waiters to greet customers like that (except on fancy, expensive places of course). You don't have to "create bonds" with them, it's just a matter of being friendly.

Also, don't forget that waiters in the U.S. live off their tips, so I guess that can be a reason as to why they try to be as friendly as possible.