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Recently I've been building a fully internationalized (i18n) and localized (l10n) web application for the first time with Go's golang.org/x/text packages. I've found that the packages and tools that live under golang.org/x/text are really effective and well designed, although it's been a bit of a challenge to figure out how to put it all together in a real application.

In this tutorial I want to explain how you can use golang.org/x/text packages to manage translations in your application. Specifically:

• How to use the golang.org/x/text/language and golang.org/x/text/message packages to print translated messages from your Go code.
• How to use the gotext tool to automatically extract messages for translation from your code into JSON files.
• How to use gotext to parse translated JSON files and create a catalog containing translated messages.
• How to manage variables in messages and provided pluralized versions of translations.

Hello! I was talking to a friend yesterday who was studying for a programming interview and trying to learn some algorithms basics.

The topic of quadratic-time vs linear-time algorithms came up, I thought this would be fun to write about here because avoiding quadratic-time algorithms isn’t just important in interviews – it’s sometimes good to know about in real life too! I’ll explain what a “quadratic-time algorithm is” in a minute :)

here are the 3 things we’ll talk about:

1. quadratic time functions are WAY WAY WAY slower than linear time functions
2. sometimes you can make a quadratic algorithm into a linear algorithm by using a hashmap
3. this is because hashmaps lookups are very fast (instant!)

I’m going to try to keep the math jargon to a minimum and focus on real code examples and how fast/slow they are.

Luke Skywalker joins forces with a Jedi Knight, a cocky pilot, a Wookiee and two droids to save the galaxy from the Empire's world-destroying battle station, while also attempting to rescue Princess Leia from the mysterious Darth Vader.