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w84t1me··on Why Did Ancient Europeans Just Disappear 14,500 Years Ago?
Because the middle east was a sea of peace, social stability and contentment beforehand? The Iraq war was a disaster, but let's not kid ourselves about a simplistic root cause.
w84t1me··on How We Built Uber’s Highest Query per Second Service Using Go
A reliable runtime is listed in the three main benefits of using Go. Are the runtimes for the alternatives really any less reliable?

I can buy that the language is easy to learn since the feature set is very limited, but is productivity in the first week/month really what to optimise for?

They also list performance as a benefit.

Go is a reasonable choice, but I doubt that the result would have been much different if they'd used any other modern statically typed language such as Rust, Scala, D, or even Nim.

w84t1me··on How We Built Uber’s Highest Query per Second Service Using Go
Client code relying on the fact that your class implements that interface when it wasn't intentional and might change perhaps?
w84t1me··on Twenty years after Pokémon launched, its impact on Wikipedia remains
Psyduck... Psyduck... https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psyduck
w84t1me··on Comparing Rust and Java
It might be a reference to debugging Spring autowire.
w84t1me··on Time and time again we’re forced to label new technology as “Creepy”?
Forced? Facebook still is creepy and so are web analytics. Why do you think so many people have resorted to ad blockers? I find it amusing that LinkedIn was picked as a platform to claim the non-creepiness of something.
w84t1me··on Why Go solves so many problems for web developers
My comment was more about Go posts on HN being upvoted like crazy whenever they appear rather than any specific issue with your post. It's like a magic recipe for upvotes around here.
w84t1me··on Why Go solves so many problems for web developers
It includes the magic upvote string in the title: "Go". The content is irrelevant, as long as it's positive.
w84t1me··on Show HN: Windows 98 in browser
It would be fun to see the BSOD in my browser just for nostalgia.