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The language breaks with a tradition established in the past 15 years, which says that every new language must be at least a few hundered times slower and less memory efficient than everything that came before it (I know there are exceptions)

Go is simple and fast. It has garbage collection, it facilitates parallel programming and it does away with lots of useless OO cruft. At first sight I like it.
"So what? The real experts here would never "tear you up". They'd just teach."

I'm not so sure, if you say something uninformed about computer security I completely expect tptacek to tear you up, for instance.

On the other hand you'll learn some real stuff in the process.
Group birthday cards where there's always a few people secretly signing the card a couple of minutes before it's given to the guest of honour...
Ah, of course.

Although, gotta wonder how these stack-allocated objects interact with closures.
Is a house and big savings really the stuff you want to have to show? I feel a bit like you, but what floors me is that I seem to have not fulfilled a single one of my childhood dreams. There never seemed to be the time. So I really, really try to focus on making at least some of these dreams real now. For example I always wanted to develop games. While I have created some mobile games and primitive browser games, there is none that I am proud of. So I'll focus on that - of course surviving economically is always a challenge :-/

Anyway, you probably have different dreams, but forget about the house and money. I know sometimes it can sting to see others who seemingly earned more in the same time, but in the end, it was never what I personally cared for. I would say having published books is something to show for, for example.

Also remember the law of sunk costs...

Besides of all the practical advice, there is also a philosophical aspect, isn't there? The meaning of life... It helps to think about death, and what will really matter in the end. Granted, children might be happier about inheriting a large lump of money than having a cool dad with interesting war stories. I don't know - but I personally find the thought very depressing that building a house and raising a family should be the completion of life. Nothing against raising a family, I just don't know yet what to tell my kids: I don't want to tell them "build a house and raise family and your life will be fulfilled" (infinite circle).
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Also abroad or within the same country ?
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Graphs with y-axes not at 0? Ick...
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Agreed - which makes pointing this out as the first problem in a "gee Google can't write JavaScript article" seems a bit overblown.
Sure, but perhaps that is not a battle this particular group wants to fight.

BTW, Erlang's syntax has some annoyances that go beyond just not being C. "Ant turd tokens", for instance. Nothing that's going to stop a competent developer, of course.
[The sun] is hot because its enormous weight – about a billion billion billion tons – creates vast gravity, putting its core under colossal pressure.

But, isn't it hot because the confinement permits nuclear fusion? Just sitting there and having gravity is totally related to being hot or not; it's not like you can create energy out of nothing. If the sun were made of bananas, wouldn't it just become a very compact, cold sphere of crushed bananas?
Errm, actually (modern) militaries are highly decentralized. The corporal on the ground has a great deal of latitude and is expected to show initiative and creativity.

Contrast that with the highly centralized militaries of WW1 - the attempted result wasn't "get bogged down for 4 years while our troops are mass-slaughtered".
The results are still debated though.

See http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=925539
lostsheep,

I would just like to give you an encouraging word: If you have written books and have a high karma score here, then you are a giving person, and you should feel good about yourself. No amount of money can buy happiness although it can sometimes buy less stress.

I think nearly everyone here will support your desire to create something where you can work from home; I have that dream too, however, with a mortgage and family, your options seem limited. If you are a good programmer, you should be able to find a new job quickly, even in a bad economy. Don't settle for a crappy boss.

I have a friend that started a software company in college and is doing quite well. He wants to start a self-sustaining community where families like yours can come live (cheaply) and work for a year or two, while they disengage from the grind, and start a new independent career. I wish he had it going already.

My only real piece of advice is: I think our biggest burden in life is to be nice to others. Try to smile and talk to everyone around you, love then, give to them, and to your family, and this selflessness will make you happy.
Yes:

http://lesswrong.com/lw/c1/wellkept_gardens_die_by_pacifism/
Isn't a little early to be doing performance comparisons for Go?
Step 1 cannot be done.
Step 2 is very, very hard.
Step 3 cannot be done.

Good luck :)
The huge mass causes a big gravitational pull towards the centre which in turn increases the temperature and pressure inside the core of the star. This enormous temperature and pressure starts nuclear reactions.
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The laptop is a desktop replacement 18.4" Acer with intel chipset (4500HD graphics etc.) bought from Amazon (free shipping and no tax! Looks like it's not available anymore, probably discontinued) 6 months ago. The netbook is a Dell mini 10v from Dell outlet on one of its 15% off offers.

The Acer has an HDMI output. I connected it to my 24" 1920x1200 Samsung and point and clicked the monitor applet on the gnome panel and viola, dual monitor support at full resolution without having to fiddle xorg.conf! Point and clicked to configure the wifi on both machines without any problems. Man, I was ecstatic, probably due to the low expectation from my Gentoo experience -- I was expecting to vi a few things to make them work :)

To be honest, I did have to add a fixmtrr.sh to gdm PostLogin and a line (MigrationHeuristic greedy) to xorg.conf to fix the intel video performance regression in Jaunty on both machines, when I felt the desktop effect was a bit sluggish. Now the desktop animations are smooth as butter even on the netbook.

I did choose to install 32-bit Ubuntu with server kernel (to get PAE in Jaunty) to take advantage of the full 4GB RAM, instead of 64-bit because flash and a few other things don't work as well as in 32-bit.
How surprising that no reply mentions a child-like approach to the world: curious, inquisitive, playful, fun-seeking.

I believe the simple and sad reason most people won't recognize problems or unaddressed issues around them is because they've been trained not to.

It's called "education", and is a double-edged sword. It'll take you places, but then it'll take places away from you, too, if you're not aware. The very places you need to "think out of the box".

The brain will stick with "what works" and "what's often used", but great insights and breakthroughs don't come from the masses, but rather from individuals exploring the less-traveled paths.

As Pablo Picasso says, "It took me four years to paint like Raphael, but a lifetime to paint like a child".

Funny things, a child asks "why? why? what if?" and most people won't pay attention. Then a bearded grownup asks "why? why? what if?" and gets to be called a visionary!

Have fun!
This might help (if you haven't read it already): http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/subdomains-and-subdirectories/

I use subdirectories.
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It is a pity that he doesn't say anything about the awesome CSP-based concurrency system, which is one of the greatest features of the language.

That aside, it is a very good read (although I think his complaints are a bit silly, iota might look a bit strange, but works really well, and it is very simple, anyone can understand how it works in 30 seconds).
Next up, a thorough evaluation of Visual Basic from a Microsoft employee.

Doesn't quite have the same ring to it, does it?
> if channels grow the ability to span across different nodes

This is being considered, rob said he has been thinking a lot about it, but obviously they want to get something as important right.
It seems something is forcing on you a change. You don't know yet what it is but if you'll take your time and the support from your family you'll realize soon.

Take a big breath nothing is lost better days are comming. Your curriculum shows you are capable to do things good now you'll have to find the new reason for your life to guide your doings

One thing is very important: stay clean, let the new goal arise from inside, from your heart not your mind.
People like us reach imbalance in the favour of the brain now the heart is aiming for a little attention to become equal with your realist part. And then the equilibrum will bring the peace
The percentage is what it's all about though, isn't it?

If you earn $30000/year and have to spend $12000 on self-paid health insurance, that's an unbearable 40% of your income.

If you earn $250000/year and choose to spend $20000 on health insurance, that's a reasonable 8% of your income, and you're probably getting better risk mitigation too. (eg: no copays, 100% coverage, vs the out-of-pocket costs that would go along with the cheaper insurance.)

And $250000/year isn't even that rich anymore. In northern NJ, that's just starting to get comfortable.
I'm wondering if there's anything more... "web two-ish" that people have used. I could probably just hassle a friend or something to do the translation; it's so small. But I'm curious. That looks like a decent site if you have a larger document.
Hi lostsheep,

given what you tell us about yourself, you could off course just go ahead and totally change your life from one day to the other and "create something new that will be challenging and interesting [...]", that you can do from home.

Sometimes though, if you don't know what "that thing" is that you wanna do, it helps to take a step back and look at the situation.

If i were in your position, i would start a list with all the things that make me unhappy. Be honest, take your time and try to dig deep. The goal here is to fully understand why you are unhappy. It is a lot easier to understand what you want to do next, once you figured out what is wrong right now. Let me give you an example. If you don't feel respected in your job, it might help to start writing a blog or start another side project that gives you the respect and the appreciation that is difficult to get in your current job.

Once you've analysed why you're unhappy you already made a huge step forward. You're now in the know and a second step from here could be to create something like a change log. What i mean is, that you could try to find a solution for the biggest things that make you unhappy. You could have a chat with your boss, check your finances to see if you could work less, have a couple of interviews to validate your options etc. Work on the change log and try to find solutions for more and more things that make you unhappy. Give yourself a realistic timeline, work against it and measure the progress. [It helps a lot if you have someone on your side to give you feedback btw].

Sometimes it also helps to make a list of all your achievements. Write down every single thing you every did. I'm pretty sure it will be an impressive list and you can use it to determine what you really want to do next.

Finally, go ahead and tell yourself that you love the long hours at work, and the commute, and your difficult boss, and the fact that you still try to figure out what to do with your life, and that you still pay off your mortgage, because this is your life, it is all there is! :)
lostsheep, thanks for talking to us out here. All of us go through this form of crisis.

My personal experience is the converse: that I start by being unhappy, then I find reasons for them. I suspect it's happening to you too. You think you'd be happier if you saw your children more, but reality can be rather different and surprising. Until you work out your unhappiness, better not to be surrounded by people you genuinely care about. Unhappiness can be rather contagious.

I'm over in Australia, and I can't tell you much about finances, but you need to work out how to own your own home. Once you are secure that way, you'd be able to go out on your own.

You are probably the best judge of whether the time is right to strike out on your own, and whether you have the necessary skills.

In the meantime, here is a mind hack: if you are being hit by depression - make sure you smile at yourself in the mirror several minutes a day (See the guy who wrote the Shangri-La diet). Also, exercise those facial muscles and wear a smile. It will do your mental state a whole lot of good. I wish I could point you to the study. There were some police people who were practising snarls and other microexpressions in order to learn to predict aggression - but they noticed that simply practising those facial expressions made them aggressive. So the converse has to be true too. Smile. For your own wellbeing.
Subdomains loose you SEO juicyness. So no, better to use diretories (unless you're say Yahoo I suppose).
No you don't have to be _very_ big, not even big, for the language to become a design consideration. You just have to do more than ship a few strings back and forth between the browser and the database.
Some yays for subdomains:

- they allow me to share all administrative code behind the scenes (logging framework, key generator, common scripts, etc.);

- they're free for me on my current hosting plan;

With all due respect, I'd say this guy has bigger problems than subdomain vs. own domain. I reads a lot like he's on a $5/month plan, and it's a deal-breaker to spend eg. $20 for a slice or linode where all those considerations goes away.
For most gamblers, that is a good thing. Sure, if you play for a long time your winnings average out to a 5% loss; that's how the casino makes its money. But over the short term the random element means that the slot machine can pay out much more than 100%. So people play in the hopes that they'll get lucky and hit a high-pay-out short-term streak.

No one would play if it paid out 95% on every pull.

Of course, the real gamblers play poker or blackjack, where the odds really can be in your favor, if you develop the necessary skills.
On point 11, the language has closures.
A lot, I hope.

Why did they even bother? Just port OpenBSD or somesuch to the hardware.
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BTW, even if its an 20% project thrown out in the wild it would be interesting to see how it fairs.the people used email before gmail came along, which was also a 20% project.And look at it now, its real big.May be same can happen with Go, or maybe not.Well, I don't care either way :)
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The little beast looks like a virus. Hmmmm...
While Erlang is great, it is certainly not a systems programming language, it requires a really complex runtime/vm, and it is not related to C in any way (and many of us still love C, and are happy to see a language to fixes its shortcomings).

One could (and some are planning to) write a kernel in Go, doing the same in Erlang would be much harder, if possible at all.
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Any one have any recommendations for an off the shelf affiliate management software for a Basecamp-like application?

It needs to support

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3. provide automatic affiliate sign up

4. integration with credit card providers

5. provide payout reports so that we could write out cheques

I had a look at Post Affiliate Pro, and it does everything except #2.

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Other languages that support closures have stack allocated objects too. So its no different in this case.

Maybe this wikipedia article has details: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thunk
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My advice is why don't you start with some simple things first like making small positive changes in your routine. Getting up early, eating healthy, exercising, meditating for 10 min a day. In my experience these small changes infuse me with energy to deal with problems in my life. Once you feel more hopeful and confident about yourself you can decide what is best for you. Weather getting a new job near your place, going free lancing or something else.

All of us at one point or another feel lost and connecting with your friends and family helps a lot but its most important to connect back to yourself.

Best of luck.
For an example of the broken stuff, consider string handling: [98, 114, 111, 107, 101, 110] == "broken".

It also doesn't have first class records. A record is nothing but a tuple, with some compile-time sugar that reminds you what the fields are. If Employee records have a name field, then you access it by saying e#Employee.name.
Aside from my s.o., I tend to talk about such things with friends.

When I wanted to quit my job and start working as a freelancer my s.o. was very supportive, a friend who has been freelancing for a long time provided insight on what I was getting myself into, and another friend who I worked with a lot was kind enough to point out my related weaknesses.
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don't get all caught up in some kind of false choice

Excellent advice. I think often times when we feel 'stuck' there are a world of other options we are not considering. If things are truely that bad on all perspectives, it shouldn't be hard to find a partial solution that improves them.
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You are right. It is a breath of fresh air for me. I'm going to take this advice.

It is just feels awful to lose business that you can execute perfectly well for a reason such as "being too small".
... which, in turn, resists the gravity (iirc?) i.e. supernovas are formed when this balance collapses and a series of fission/fusion reactions fail to stabalise the star. This helps create heavy elements, as the star explodes and some magnificent forces are unleashed, seeding the surrounding space with the necessary stuff for "further development" - later stage stars, planets, coments/asteroids and life.

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I personally find the thought very depressing that building a house and raising a family should be the completion of life. Nothing against raising a family, I just don't know yet what to tell my kids: I don't want to tell them "build a house and raise family and your life will be fulfilled" (infinite circle).

What a strange comment. First, the meaning of life (or the closest that life has to an intrinsic meaning coded in genes) is exactly the infinite circle that you point out. Just ask a fish or a tree :-) Second, if you go searching for some kind of meaning in life, it had better be temporally infinite! So why would you complain about that?
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I wonder if there's a vocabulary in some industry, like maybe the gambling world, that can describe the players in this game without loaded words like 'sociopath' and 'loser'. I sort of liken the clueless to a scam artist's potential victims, someone who thinks he can play and win against a scammer but clearly can't, vs. a 'loser' who knows not to bother.
Funny.

Blogger complaints that there's permanent lack of some optimizations in the code because authors have chosen an intuitive way of expressing things in the language. The problem is maybe not the authors, but the fact that efficient way of programming in JS is usually counter-intuitive.

Wake up JS, it's XXI century! ;P
I think your words resonate with a lot of the HN readers, but you need to look a little deeper into the cause. For me, I still liked my profession, but the job I had wasn't allowing me to do the things that fulfilled me. Simple solution was look for a job that did.

Sometimes when your stuck in a job that is really wrong it poisons your mind and absolutely everything looks bleak. Try and think back to the times you were having fun and either change your current job to fit that ideal (believe me, you may have more power to do that than you think), find a new, better job (sounds like you have some good job hunting ammo in your books, code and HN karma) or start up on your own.

If you do the latter, just be aware that being your own boss isn't for everyone - if you read HN too much it may seem that it's the only thing worth doing but that's very far from the truth. If what fulfils you is hard-core coding then spending a large percentage of your time looking for clients/jobs, doing accounts, sales & marketing etc. etc. etc. etc. may just make your situation worse.
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I probably did not explain it very well. What I don't want is to defer answering the hard question indefinitely by passing it on to my kids.

It is irrelevant that our genes/life "wants" to reproduce. We have to make up our mind as to what we want to do with life. Actually our genes/life does not want anything. It just so happens that historically reproducing was a good strategy for genes to survive (might not always be true in the future, or for all kinds of genes).

Or actually we don't have to - nothing really matters. But to me it matters. Other people are probably different, in fact I know several whose lifelong dream is exactly to own a nice house and a family. But for me to simply reproduce biologically is not enough.

Edit: of course my kids will still have to find their own answers. I just don't want them to be burdened by having to be my fulfilment in life.
I too was in a similar situation some time ago. I just left everything behind me and went on a long journey.

I stayed among some of the the most poor people, I stayed with most astute people. I slept on railway platforms, traveled in bull carts, I stayed with tribal and I visited different temples.

I realized that there is nothing in this world that can make me feel complete except my inner desire. In this journey i was only with myself and hence discovered what that inner desire was. The journey also gave me strength to go with it.