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Yes. Nobody here wants to learn how Brad Fitzpatrick reasons about, designs, and implements server software. It's all spam.

drhayes9 13y

Second this. One of my favorite things is getting a slice, however small, of how truly great programmers get their work done, why they chose what they did, and what the results were.

We actually need more of this on HN, not less.

ballard 13y

This doesn't reveal any secrets into systems engineering, but it slices:

    package main

    import "fmt"
    
    func main() {
        cake := make([]byte, 2600)
        copy(cake, []byte("Happy Birthday, Lundberg !"))
        lundberg := cake[:8]
        milton := cake[:0]
        fmt.Println("Lundberg got :", string(lundberg))
        fmt.Println("Milton got :", string(milton))
    }

    // :-)  (Ran out of UTF8 smileys and movie fact checkers).
    // And yes could've used string but bytes are awesomer.

pjmlp 13y

Slices aren't Go specific.

ballard 13y

Browsing the go goog client source is 30% of it. Go and others could use screencasts of how they fixed production problems, regardless of what lawyers, job security worriers or "hide the dust" folks would say. Mindset is best communicated by solving something real.

http://code.google.com/p/google-api-go-client/source/checkou...

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