Ixiaus

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   by Ixiaus 12y ago

   I don't think you understand what "type errors" means if you are making that assertion; or your multi-contributor codebase has such excellent test coverage that your tests are doing for you what a modern type system can do fo
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   by Ixiaus 12y ago

   Helm is amazing. Helm all the things. One of my favorites is helm-hoogle for completion of Haskell type signatures, function names, etc...
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   by Ixiaus 12y ago

   I built another one that I left (it's still going) and am now the director of software at a startup that went through the same Techstars class mine did.
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   by Ixiaus 12y ago

   http://plumlife.com It's a fun product :)
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   by Ixiaus 12y ago

   In that case I stand corrected - I thought I remembered reading that in the guidelines. Downvotes instead of comments is still a personal peeve but I guess I can't chide people for it on HN, lol.
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   by Ixiaus 12y ago

   The Riak guys have better experience here and I would argue that it's pretty well battle-tested when Apple is deploying hundred node Riak clusters for production :) (Riak is built on-top of Erlang)
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   by Ixiaus 12y ago

   By latency, what do you mean? Erlang excels with Input/Output (the VM's I/O manager is well-tuned) and network applications. I think WhatsApp is latency critical, no user ever said it's okay to have their message show
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   by Ixiaus 12y ago

   Down voting is not for disagreeing, read the guidelines for HN. If you disagree, provide a comment as to why. Down voting is for completely irrelevant comments, inappropriate comments, etc... [EDIT] To be clear, I did not downvote you and I
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   by Ixiaus 12y ago

   We're an Erlang and Haskell shop, I'm very interested.
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    by Ixiaus 12y ago

    This is where many people get confused. If I have to build a distributed system, I will pick Erlang/OTP over Haskell any day. Everything in Haskell is wonderful, including concurrency. It does not have a built in DNS system (for node d
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    by Ixiaus 12y ago

    For what kind of embedded thing? We're using it for embedded things too...
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    by Ixiaus 12y ago

    Go will not eat into Erlang. Go's type system is deplorable and an embarrassment, it lacks a virtual machine to do the things Erlang can do, it lacks all of OTP, etc... What I do see eating into Erlang is Scala and Akka, though.
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    by Ixiaus 12y ago

    I disagree with your final conclusion. You also aren't considering the number of unspoken (big, as in banks, or the DoD) users of, say, Haskell because for many it's a competitive edge.
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    by Ixiaus 12y ago

    Erlang's strength is in its virtual machine which has supervision trees built-in, a built-in DNS system, built-in inter-node RPC, hot code reloading, massive concurrency, etc... I still haven't experienced a programming environmen
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    by Ixiaus 12y ago

    Huh? "Hardcore feel" is definitely there and the language is anything but "writing config txt files to some underlying system". I've built applications in the > 10k SLOC range that use a consensus algorithm for d
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    by Ixiaus 12y ago

    This sounds very interesting and I've been wanting to do something similar in Haskell.
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    by Ixiaus 12y ago

    Build a web-app (and soon mobile apps) for emacs' org-mode. - Haskell - No stats, still building - Fed up w/ such an excellent tool being so unusable on anything but Emacs (prevents non-emacs users from collaborati
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    by Ixiaus 12y ago

    CrashPlan - I love it.
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    by Ixiaus 12y ago

    Helm is incredible. Helm and org mode too!
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    by Ixiaus 12y ago

    I haven't actually tried to use multiple Stackage repos. I only think it's great because I helped a friend get started in Haskell and chose to see if Stackage would help with his cabal hell woes (it did and made the experience mor
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    by Ixiaus 12y ago

    Full-timer here. I use cabal sandboxes heavily and recommend you do so. Nix is great but you have to take some time to set it up and learn it - sandboxes are pretty standard and work as you would expect with ghc-mod (not that Nix doesn&#x27
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    by Ixiaus 12y ago

    http://colander.readthedocs.org/en/latest/ Is really mature and I've found it to be a wonderful tool - it has an addon called Deform for serializing forms into colander schemas but colander is not limited to
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    by Ixiaus 12y ago

    But...the licensing...
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    by Ixiaus 12y ago

    Spaced repetition algorithms and programs are a godsend. Org-drill and diligence has increased my retained knowledge of vocabulary, grammar, mathematics, and logic. Other people probably use Mnemosyne which is great but having space repetit
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    by Ixiaus 12y ago

    I left Dropbox for Google Drive because of Condoleeza Rice appointment and also because Google Drive has been much lovelier to use.
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    by Ixiaus 12y ago

    It's smooth for me (Chrome on Ubuntu) but it's still a maddening design choice.
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    by Ixiaus 12y ago

    First: interesting company and concept. I would love to see this go further, will be keeping my eye on it. Second: who's idea was it to implement that wretched parallax effect on their homepage? Not only is it a tawdry but it gives me
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    by Ixiaus 12y ago

    I've learned my lesson trying to structure "large projects" inside of a single "project" or logical repository. A developer I hired at one point had read an article written by someone in the OSS community promulgati
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    by Ixiaus 12y ago

    BlueMix is actually pretty exciting to me; I think IBM has finally stepped up as a competitor in the "cloud" ecosystem where Microsoft has really failed.
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    by Ixiaus 12y ago

    This is where "environment structuring" becomes very effective - if you want to establish the habits but you find yourself missing days or being sporadic, it's most likely because your environment isn't structured to s