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you don't have time to recompile a software package but you do have time to read hackernews?

is time the right word here?




My job pays me units of money in exchange for a finite time per day spent dedicated to advancing their goals. There are more potential things to do for the company than fit into the time they pay me to spend; and I'm not going to work for free past that time just to fit all those things in. Therefore, I have to optimize—to choose which things are most worth the company's time. Compiling and configuring software packages are rather low on that list (which shouldn't be surprising, given that I'm a programmer, not an ops person.)

I read HN on my own time.


In the time it probably took you to type that comment, I compiled caddy from source. I've never even used it before, but in general Go programs are very easy to build.


> but in general Go programs are very easy to build.

So long as you organise all your code according to GOPATH. You can't just compile it in your Downloads folder.


Yes I think the GOPATH is bullshit but it's also not hard to move files from one directory to another.




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