If you look closely, those aren’t angle brackets, they’re characters from the Canadian Aboriginal Syllabics block, which are allowed in Go identifiers.
Optimizing
It is a profoundly erroneous truism, repeated by all copy-books and by eminent people when they are making speeches, that we should cultivate the habit of thinking of what we are doing. The precise opposite is the case. Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them. Operations of thought are like cavalry charges in a battle—they are strictly limited in number, they require fresh horses, and must only be made at decisive moments.
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Thunks
What patterns are being completed, inside your mind, that you never chose to be there?
IX
Survival and propagation
If we want high-quality, powerful tech to flourish in the world, we can start by hacking the learning curve.
Worse Is Worse
it’s ironic that in the tech industry, despite all the talk of “disruption”, this notion of creative destruction is largely absent, and we’ve consigned ourselves to the grooves of local optimum established thirty years ago