Rob Pike

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The link below holds the slides from a talk I gave last year for the Commonwealth Bank of Australia's annual tech conference. They are mostly self-explanatory, with the possible exception of the "attractive nuisance" slide, for which I explained how a small package with good intentions can accumulate both a large set…

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The byte order fallacy

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Whenever I see code that asks what the native byte order is, it's almost certain the code is either wrong or misguided. And if the native b...