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New comment by dullgiulio in "We're migrating many of our servers from Linux to FreeBSD"

dullgiulio — Mon, 24 Jan 2022 20:42:47 +0000

> But it's not going to be Unix as we know it.

Right, that's Plan9.

New comment by dullgiulio in "Upcoming Features in Go 1.18"

dullgiulio — Tue, 09 Nov 2021 17:25:41 +0000

No shortcuts.

Errors reach end users, and they cannot read stack traces.

Every shortcut makes for bad errors, bad troubleshooting and unhappy users.

Errors document code (you literally write, in English, what you were trying to do but failed, at each level of your program.)

Errors report to the user the clear intent that failed and why.

Errors are a huge differentiator in quality. There is no shortcut to quality.

New comment by dullgiulio in "Upcoming Features in Go 1.18"

dullgiulio — Tue, 09 Nov 2021 17:11:01 +0000

Please no. I am still fighting the battle of adding contextual information to the error using fmt.Errorf.

I am tired of seeing

SocketException: hostname.com

as full error message.

New comment by dullgiulio in "Time to retire the CSV?"

dullgiulio — Wed, 18 Aug 2021 15:19:06 +0000

Readable but not comprehensible. CSV is hard to beat in that sense, being somewhat "natural" like a table written on paper.

New comment by dullgiulio in "I hate almost all software (2011)"

dullgiulio — Sun, 15 Aug 2021 07:32:04 +0000

No, a normal light switch on the wall is all you need.

New comment by dullgiulio in "No Cookie for You"

dullgiulio — Thu, 17 Dec 2020 19:03:03 +0000

No, it failed because it acts on the wrong side. If you don't want to be tracked you shouldn't send cookies in your request.

New comment by dullgiulio in "Why is the Google Cloud UI so slow?"

dullgiulio — Wed, 09 Dec 2020 18:42:11 +0000

This comment makes little sense. AWS is even less uniform when it comes to tools, exactly because of its organic growth. This clearly has no impact on its success nor its features.

Google does have a problem with management and the org-chart, but not the way you think.

New comment by dullgiulio in "Fucking, Austria changes name to Fugging"

dullgiulio — Fri, 27 Nov 2020 10:37:36 +0000

Most probably all these names just indicate market day...

New comment by dullgiulio in "Ruby's Proposed STM"

dullgiulio — Fri, 30 Oct 2020 19:10:11 +0000

That's the Go runtime.

New comment by dullgiulio in "OAuth 3"

dullgiulio — Thu, 22 Oct 2020 17:01:52 +0000

You have to implement UnmarshalJSON. Between each attempt to deserialize into a possible struct, be careful to return on errors that are not JSON serialisation errors (for example caused by reading from the underlying Reader, etc.)

It's ugly and verbose but there is no need to use empty interface.

New comment by dullgiulio in "Building even faster interpreters in Rust"

dullgiulio — Fri, 25 Sep 2020 15:34:22 +0000

No, that SIMD is good for string matching and Rust regex crate (written by burntsushi for 'ripgrep') makes very good use of it and is thus a nice library for implementing quick matchers.

New comment by dullgiulio in "Go’s Major Versioning Sucks – From a Fanboy"

dullgiulio — Wed, 16 Sep 2020 13:41:48 +0000

And is Go so hard to upgrade for your application?

Go the language is really best in class when it comes to keeping backwards compatibility.

New comment by dullgiulio in "Q: A faster re-implementaiton of jq written in Reason Native/OCaml"

dullgiulio — Mon, 14 Sep 2020 16:37:39 +0000

Redirection is not a parameter, meaning that would still not work with this Q tool.

New comment by dullgiulio in "The Art of Debating for Software Developers"

dullgiulio — Tue, 08 Sep 2020 16:56:07 +0000

Another reason for people trying too look overly confident is when they are overly exposed over a certain topic.

For example, if you have very narrow job titles and roles in a team ("he is our DevOps, she is our architect"...) everyone will have to defend their role, often trying to sound infallible.

If instead you make the whole team responsible for all team tasks, everyone will be more open to leveraging everyone else's suggestions.

New comment by dullgiulio in "The Art of Debating for Software Developers"

dullgiulio — Tue, 08 Sep 2020 11:26:48 +0000

Tangentially, the adage "strong opinions, weakly held" is nonsense. If you have a strong opinion, you look like a fool if you change your mind when evidence is shown to you.

It is much better to just stay humble. Show your insecurities and lack of knowledge openly and early, you'll be surprised to see how people reactions change from hostile/confrontational to outright helpful.

New comment by dullgiulio in "Ask HN: Suggestions for books about API design?"

dullgiulio — Sat, 05 Sep 2020 15:30:46 +0000

I really cannot agree with the "just use GET" suggestion. GET must not be used for actions that modify the data server-side. Also, POST and PUT means some action is or is not idempotent.

Using different methods than GET is easy in the browser (easier than JSON-P) and avoids a huge class of problems that come with abusing GET.

New comment by dullgiulio in "Italian Ruby"

dullgiulio — Mon, 31 Aug 2020 16:14:42 +0000

Correct, "per difetto" means flooring a number.

New comment by dullgiulio in "One Year with ThinkPad and Linux (From MacBook Pro)"

dullgiulio — Fri, 28 Aug 2020 16:03:54 +0000

I have been using double tap to select (and simply drag) on Linux for years, never had to click. And my touchpad is far from magic...

New comment by dullgiulio in "Flow browser passes the Acid tests"

dullgiulio — Sat, 13 Jun 2020 18:13:41 +0000

Again, disabling features is a feature given to the site developer, not to the visitor, who's actually running the code.

It would be so much better if browsers were User Agents and respected user settings before the will of the site creator.

New comment by dullgiulio in "Async Python is not faster"

dullgiulio — Fri, 12 Jun 2020 17:39:37 +0000

Languages that to green threads don't do them for memory savings, but to save on context switches when a thread is blocked and cannot run. System threads are scheduled by the OS, green threads my the language runtime, which saves a context switch.