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maleck13on Lego sales topple as children turn away from the building bricks

My kids love LEGO, but the price of buying new sets seems very high and off putting to me. So instead only buy sets at xmas

maleck13on Hospitals across England hit by large-scale cyber-attack

So government agencies will negotiate with terrorists it seems?

maleck13on Kubernetes clusters for the hobbyist

Used this recently and found it great. That's for the hard work and effort that clearly went into this.

maleck13on Ask HN: How many are 30+ years and still active programmers?

36 still code occasionally in work but do a lot of future planning, technical direction and leadership work. Experience is a huge benefit and I love having experienced people on my teams. I do a lot of side projects and open source

maleck13on Principles

I agree with finding a balance. A blunt attack may knock one person's confidence causing them to no longer offer ideas while for another it may encourage them to think a little harder about the problem before offering a solution.

maleck13on I’m joining the Go team at Google

You do also have panic available which is for exceptional cases

maleck13on “Eat, sleep, code, repeat” is such bullshit

I was a gardener until I was 25. I hated it. My father is still a gardener and he loves it. I am 35 now an I eat sleep and live software and I love it. Although I do try to work on l my own projects in my own time. I have 2 young kids and admit I find the balance hard. If you love what you do then it often doesn't feel like work, but like a hobby that you also get paid for. You see this is sports and many other vocations not just software.

maleck13on Writing a very fast cache service with millions of entries in Go

Can you explain further why golang is bad for data stores, do you mean cache in particular? Seems contrary to many of the new datastores that I see being developed: etcd[1] , cockroachdb[2], influxdb[3] just to name a couple that are written in go.

[1]https://github.com/coreos/etcd [2]https://github.com/cockroachdb/cockroach [3]https://github.com/influxdata/influxdb

maleck13on The Way of the Gopher: Making the Switch from Node.js to Golang

Just wanted to add my thanks to the author for writing this enjoyable piece. After working with node for 4 yrs & golang for 1yr, I think they both have their place. If forced to choose one, I would currently pick golang due to its excellent tooling, strict typing, excellent std lib and simple deployment.

maleck13on Panicparse: Crash your Go app in style

This looks great. Will definitely be making use of it

maleck13on Poll: What language/framework do you hack in?

Grails/Groovy at home PHP at work.