5ourpuss

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   by 5ourpuss 9y ago

   We have a web application developed in elixir, it's really amazing. I highly recommend the book: the little elixir & otp guidebook. understanding OTP and the actor model will crank your elixir code up to 11.
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   by 5ourpuss 9y ago

   I often dream about doing what the author is currently doing: Tooling around, writing software in a language I want to learn full-time. If I could get a patreon going... ANYWHO, I didn't come here to malign the author. I came here to a
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   by 5ourpuss 9y ago

   > grew up in a town with 30,000 people (much smaller than Cedar Rapids) in the PNW. It's rabidly republican. Also 30% Hispanic. You grew up in a completely different part of the country than what I am referring to: The Midwest, sp
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   by 5ourpuss 9y ago

   I agree with you, Chicago is brutal. I'm actually moving out west in a few months for the exact reasons you listed! But, as I said, I grew up in the rural midwest. I would caution people against considering it a cheap-land utopia. Also
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   by 5ourpuss 9y ago

   I'm from the Midwest, from the Cedar Rapids area, moved to Chicago, and I have to say I would NEVER EVER move back there. People from these areas are extremely conservative and xenophobic. The restaurants and any business you might fre