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Day: March 15, 2017

What are some common beginner mistakes in Go programming?

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Posted in categories: Information Technology

They’re minor things, but they’re things I keep slipping up on: Sometimes Golang hides the difference between a type and the pointer to the type. That doesn’t mean the asterisk is decorative. Most of the time, Golang doesn’t hide the difference, and you do need to put that asterisk in. It is idiomatic to assign […]

Have you ever lied about your nationality while traveling abroad?

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Posted in categories: Countries, Personal

Nope. Australians enjoy a good reputation in the parts of the world I have been to (Europe, North America), and I have not been to the parts of the world where they might not (India, Papua New Guinea?). I have been to New Zealand, but any animus there is jocular and reciprocated. The Austria/Australia confusion […]