ntonozzi

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https://nicot.us

ntonozzion Go best practices, six years in

I don't think there's anything wrong with that. Rust is designed for a specific market, and it sounds like you aren't part of it.

ntonozzion Pinterest Reinvents Itself to Prove It’s Really Worth Billions

> But really, the point is to make Pinterest much bigger by making it less of a big deal—less flashy, easier to use, and more of a utility.

They it made it faster and more image focused.

ntonozzion Swift vs. Go

Optionals are a way of returning either result or an error, and are not similar to interfaces. Go works around this by providing multiple return values, but because it lacks generics, it is very common to manually check for errors.

I'm not sure about Swift, but in some languages you can statically check case statements to make sure that every enum has a case, which is not possible with Go.

ntonozzion Suture – Supervisor Trees for Go

How do languages like C deal with interrupts? Is it possible to deal with asynchronous exceptions if your handlers are reentrant?

I suppose this would still have issues dealing with unfinished work under a mutex.

ntonozzion Using BitTorrent with Amazon S3

Can you elaborate on this? My current ISP definitely shapes torrent traffic to the point where it is impractical to download anything larger than a few KB.

ntonozzion Is Git a Block Chain?

Both git repositories and bitcoin are specialized Merkle trees. Merkle trees are incredibly useful and general; they are used in many kinds of verification, especially of large chunks of data.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merkle_tree

ntonozzion Slur, a decentralized, anonymous, Bitcoin-based marketplace for information

It seems completely wrong that arbitration requires revealing the content of the secret.

ntonozzion [dead]

If you think there is a better way to do it, you can send a pull request.

ntonozzion Building a better and more diverse community

Really impressive program! I'm glad that these guys are encouraging diversity, but focusing on keeping the bar for admission the same across all candidates.

ntonozzion PagerDuty raises $27.2M in Series B led by Bessemer

We tried switching to VictorOps and in the first hour their website started crashing our browser.

It turned out each event was rendering in its own frame, and when we had more than a couple hundred alerts, the browser took more memory than available.

Supposedly its fixed now, but I'm not interested in being a beta tester for an alert system.

ntonozzion Ask HN: Little hacks that make your life easier?

Where can I find hop?

All my search results talk about traceroutes.