jonbodner

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by jonbodner 2mo ago
There is no rebuilding society because of energy. All of the oil and coal that could be extracted by a civilization that only has wood for fuel has been used. If we go back to the Stone Age, we aren’t returning to the present. If we’re luck
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by jonbodner 4mo ago
It’s not potential, it’s actual. There are court cases and settlements and everything. I’ll be getting a little money from Anthropic. As for how I feel, I think that LLM companies are incredibly short sighted. If I was them, I’d be funding
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by jonbodner 4mo ago
For Go it had to be a Gopher (as it is the mascot for the language). My editor showed me the artwork and I approved it.
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by jonbodner 4mo ago
Yeah. I don’t think people are aware of how few books are purchased. At this moment, Learning Go is 45,855 on Amazon US across all physical books. This is in the top few percent of book sales. The number tends to bounce between the 50,000s
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by jonbodner 4mo ago
I'm the author of O'Reilly's "Learning Go". Here are the last 13 months of paperback book sales: - Mar 2026: 124 - Feb 2026: 140 - Jan 2026: 157 - Dec 2025: 306 - Nov 2025: 484 - Oct 2025: 218 - Sep 2025
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by jonbodner 1y ago
Except that's not the case at all. That one poll is extremely dodgy. Here's are other polls: https://www.timesofisrael.com/poll-70-of-israelis-support-se... https://en.idi.org.il/articles/5864
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by jonbodner 2y ago
And gold is a non reactive physical object. Storing gold is cheap compared to the infrastructure required to keep Bitcoin ledger information.
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by jonbodner 2y ago
I’m the author of Learning Go from O’Reilly, so I might be a bit biased. What I’ve found is that different publishers put different amount of effort into producing good content. O’Reilly is almost always excellent. Others are less so. It’s
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by jonbodner 3y ago
Sure. But it’s hard to ignore that they are far harsher on Israel than any other country. But don’t take it from me. Take that from a senior editor who left HRW after 13 years: https://www.timesofisrael.com/outgoing-human-ri
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by jonbodner 3y ago
Oh, you sweet summer child. Who do you think "private supporters" are in Saudi Arabia? And no, I don't think anyone with anything resembling power or wealth in Saudi Arabia supports human rights. HRW execs admit via email to
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by jonbodner 3y ago
You are aware of Human Rights Watch’s history with Israel, right? Here’s a taste: https://www.theatlantic.com/international/archive/2009/07/fu...
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Go, Generics, and Concurrency(medium.com)
1 points by jonbodner 4y ago|0 comments
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by jonbodner 5y ago
If you are looking for a way to map SQL queries to type safe Go functions, take a look at my library Proteus: https://github.com/jonbodner/proteus Proteus generates functions at runtime, avoiding code generation. Perfo
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What Is Cloud Native? 5 Principles of Cloud Native Software(capitalone.com)
2 points by jonbodner 5y ago|0 comments
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The Five Principles of Successful Software(medium.com)
5 points by jonbodner 5y ago|0 comments
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Improve Java Code Coverage and Quality with Unit Tests and JaCoCo(medium.com)
4 points by jonbodner 8y ago|0 comments
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Microservices: Stone Soup for the Enterprise(medium.com)
8 points by jonbodner 8y ago|0 comments
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by jonbodner 8y ago
We used HJSON as the config file format for https://github.com/capitalone/checks-out and it worked out very well. It's a shame that it hasn't caught on, because it fixes the warts in JSON in an elegant way.
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by jonbodner 8y ago
The video for the talk is now available: https://youtu.be/zPd0Cxzsslk
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by jonbodner 8y ago
Unfortunately, the transcription doesn't match what I said. The video is now available at https://youtu.be/zPd0Cxzsslk
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by jonbodner 8y ago
Hi, I'm the presenter AMA. One general comment; not every question was intended as a WAT. Some were setups to introduce a WAT.
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by jonbodner 8y ago
I chose true := false for the humor and shock value. As you point out, accidentally redefining the meaning of len or new or close is far more likely.