Ixiaus

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by Ixiaus 10y ago
It is very dire and painful :-(
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by Ixiaus 11y ago
This is very exciting. We use Erlang in an embedded environment and 19.0 will be a valuable release for us.
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The Tech Story Is Over(medium.com)
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by Ixiaus 11y ago
> Have any numbers to back up this assertion... Nope, just anecdata (based on being a startup in the IoT space). > Amazon does not have tight enough control over its smart home ecosystem... I don't know that for sure, TBH, though
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by Ixiaus 11y ago
Thanks, we've bled a lot to get this product built :-p If you do want one I can give you a discount coupon (my email is in my profile).
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by Ixiaus 11y ago
We have a lot of backers waiting on a European compatible version but it's a classic startup story for us: funding is the limitation. It requires a different power board in our product, which we're totally capable of designing, bu
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by Ixiaus 11y ago
Negatory on Apple winning. I think Amazon is much more likely. They're dominating the connected home right now with the Echo; as a developer, integrating the Echo with Plum's Lightpad is extremely easy , I can't do the same
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by Ixiaus 11y ago
We don't have a 220v version of the Plum Lightpad, otherwise I would offer to send one to you, but not all "smart" switches are quite as bad as your experience. We've done our best to focus on build quality, security, an
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by Ixiaus 11y ago
Haskell version is naive too. My laptop runs the original in about 3.07s and my improvements bring it down to 1.20s though I think there's room for improvement. [EDIT] My improvements were actually not the same algorithm as the origina
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by Ixiaus 11y ago
The other comments have you covered I think but I wanted to reiterate how worth it learning org-mode and spending the time to customize your configuration is. It's a bit daunting at first, so it may take a bit of time and some learni
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by Ixiaus 11y ago
This as well: http://ivorylang.org/ivory-introduction.html
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by Ixiaus 11y ago
Yes, that's a good point of clarification, one that the Ivory or Atom DSL is trying to tackle though.
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by Ixiaus 11y ago
Warning: highly biased opinion incoming. I came from Python to Erlang / Scheme / Haskell and at this point I would answer your question, > What kind of things can I build with Haskell? With: Everything. We use Haskell in produc
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by Ixiaus 11y ago
You've clearly been burned in the past and I'm sorry that was your experience. Not all founders, executives, or organizations are like that though. You will always have to grapple with sociology, hierarchy, and power structures bu
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by Ixiaus 11y ago
Again, there you go with saying I've said something I did not. I never once said you should feel bad for only caring about money, I said if that's all you care about, I would go do something else that's more lucrative and pre
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by Ixiaus 11y ago
Your thinking is clearly very black and white, also highly entitled - quite common with engineers. There is no doubt that a product would not exist without the people to build it but an organization would not exist without the people to org
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by Ixiaus 11y ago
Sarcasm is a crude tool for communicating your point, it also causes me to have less empathy for you. > It is rude to lie to people about the value of their options to hire them. ("Your options are 0.866% of the company"). But
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by Ixiaus 11y ago
Most founders go with no pay for quite some time. You can still be a co-founder and receive pay but being a co-founder conveys far more risk and responsibility than being one of the first x employees in the company. Even if you happen to be
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by Ixiaus 11y ago
It does not warrant cofounder status at all. So much more goes into being a cofounder than simply being one of the first x employees.
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by Ixiaus 11y ago
I second org-drill. Org-mode is my whole personal information manager including information learning w/ org-drill.
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by Ixiaus 11y ago
Seconded on the big backlogs point. Overall I've been pleased though with the rate of releases for JIRA. It hasn't stagnated like many enterprise offerings.
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by Ixiaus 11y ago
I know I'm not the OP but John Dewey came to mind when I first read OP's comment. If I really sit down and dig through some of my books I'm sure I could pull up a few more.
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by Ixiaus 11y ago
As always: depends on the use case. We're using Erlang as the primary language environment for our IoT product for a lot of reasons but one big one is: Hot code loading and a very robust release upgrade environment with a lot of contro
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by Ixiaus 11y ago
Yes very much to org-drill. It's a huge part of my daily life.
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by Ixiaus 11y ago
Yes that's us. Android app will definitely come (I'm the Director of Software and I'm an Android user) but it's going to follow the iOS app which is what we're focusing on / nailing down currently.
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by Ixiaus 11y ago
No because the lightpads themselves are clustered, full-featured Linux machines in the form factor of a switch, they serve that purpose [of a server] within the home so you won't need a server internally at all. But if you needed any a
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by Ixiaus 11y ago
Schedules for when and how long to turn a light on, artificially intelligent schedule or scene recommendations based on data from the motion detection sensor (recos first because poltergeist lights are more irritating than your thermostat o
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by Ixiaus 11y ago
This is actually what we're doing at Plum. We're making WiFi and Bluetooth enabled dimmer switches that are running Linux on-top of an ARM9. The primary software for controlling it is written in Erlang and we're using distrib
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by Ixiaus 11y ago
His comparison sounded much more like "research languages vs. mainstream imperative languages" and Haskell definitely came from research land, just as Idris and Agda are. Plus someone is seriously working on dependent types in Has
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by Ixiaus 11y ago
I'm shipping massive amounts of code written in Haskell - production worthy for a real product - and the benefits of using Haskell over any other mainstream imperative language have been fairly significant.

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