the-archive-public VS hn-search

Thanks! The game here is written in Inform7, and it was so difficult to make progress that it took me three years on and off to finish the game. So if you do it that way, beware :)

Abridged story: https://github.com/statico/the-archive-public/blob/master/Th...

Backend server: https://github.com/statico/glulxe-httpd

Contrast with https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

It is fast but, nowhere close to accurate or useful for this specific example. Could not find a way to force the plural form. Neither quotes nor plus worked.

You can also look through the "YC Search"/Algolia links to see both commentary from people who knew Aaron and/or papers / links / etc to things about him: https://hn.algolia.com/?q=aaron+swartz

> People tend to forget that Golang was created on purpose for poor programmers.

Nobody is forgetting that quote. Trust me, it has been repeated a lot[1].

That said, I think this framing of the issue really needs to die. Rob Pike is saying they're "not researchers", that they're "typically fairly young", not that they're poor programmers. Notice that in the list of languages they may have learned, "C or C++" is present. The idea is not that Go is designed for people who can't possibly write C++.

This framing also implies that the language being better for n00bs means that it's also necessarily worse for everyone else. There are some tradeoffs where this is a defensible position, but I think on the whole it's just not generally true. A good example is preferring composition over inheritance: I think the former is generally more understandable and a lot of people actually contort C++ to use it this way too. (For example, in some codebases, only pure abstract base classes are ever inherited; everything else is final.)

When I see this quote repeated as if it implies that Go is just generally designed for bad programmers, I feel like it reads like flamebait. The real answer is that it was designed to be so easy that any idiot can use it. Or in other words, Go is very grug-brained[2].

To each their own, but it's been over 10 years since that quote and Go has evolved a lot. Is it perhaps time to put it to rest and stop reading into it so much?

[1]: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu... - though I'm sure it has been paraphrased and linked even more than this.

[2]: https://grugbrain.dev/

Lots of related threads:

https://hn.algolia.com/?q=arrested%20facial

"Man Wrongfully Arrested by Facial Recognition Tells Congress His Story"

"Eight months pregnant and arrested after false facial recognition match"

"Innocent woman arrested in false-positive in facial recognition system in Brazil"

"Georgia man is falsely arrested after facial recognition tech gets it wrong"

"Wrongfully arrested man sues Detroit police over false facial-recognition match"

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

Fair. I wasn't aware of that, for the same reason that if you search Titan vs Claude on HN, you'll find way more mentions of Claude:

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&que...

I think its fair to say this is also a hedging strategy then.