Maultasche

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by Maultasche 7y ago
Last year I learned the basics of Elixir and wrote some toy projects with it. This year I'm starting to delve into the more advanced aspects of Elixir and I'm hoping to get into Elixir web development with Phoenix before the end o
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by Maultasche 7y ago
That is indeed the rule in European countries I've driven in and (modified for which side of the road is being driven on) some US states (like Oregon) have similar rules. California, on the other hand, allows people to drive in whateve
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by Maultasche 7y ago
I had never heard of "arity" either until I started reading about functional programming concepts. It seems to be used a lot within the functional programming world, but not so much outside of that.
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by Maultasche 7y ago
It is required when leaving the Schengen area. They like to know when people are leaving so that they know who is overstaying and who isn't. The airlines want to see the passport too, but every time I've left the Schengen area (Ge
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by Maultasche 7y ago
When I was in college the professor of my software engineering class explicitly warned us to never use floating point numbers for money. He went on at length of the dangers of floating points for dealing with money and warned us that people
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by Maultasche 7y ago
Back when I was learning Hungarian I was frustrated when trying to figure out what the proper word order was. Then I learned that most combinations of subject,object,verb were just fine and the difference between them was emphasis. It becam
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by Maultasche 7y ago
Anyone who think Venice shouldn't have been built on islands in the first place is ignorant of history. Since it was built on islands in the centuries after the collapse of the Western Roman Empire, it had protection that other cities
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by Maultasche 7y ago
Yeah, a lot of people simplify it and say it was guns, horses, and armor that allows Cortes to conquer the Aztecs, but I eventually learned that it was nothing like that. The guns, horses, and armor (although there were only a few relativel
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by Maultasche 7y ago
I wasn't surprised that they got so many applicants, but I was surprised they got so many quality applicants. I guess it was because it was a remote position with a not too many restrictions about where the candidate had to live, so
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by Maultasche 7y ago
The initial government was pro-American, but the consequence of pushing a country to have democratic elections is that they sometimes elect people that you don't like. When you want a country to be free and democratic, you can't a
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by Maultasche 7y ago
I immediately thought of that quote as well.
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by Maultasche 7y ago
In Germany, marriage is viewed by the state as only a legal function. You must have a civil ceremony at a government office to make your marriage legal. Religious ceremonies are not legal marriages. After the civil ceremony (if you want to)
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by Maultasche 7y ago
That's the magic of irrigation. Farms can be located in dry areas, which is common in much of California, where it doesn't rain from May to October. I remember the first time I went to a place with green grass in summer and being
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by Maultasche 7y ago
This is the most readable assembly code I've ever seen.
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by Maultasche 7y ago
I know a lot of people here have fond memories of Encarta, but I found it to be a disappointment. When my family first got a copy of it with a new computer I was probably about 16 at the time (around 1994 I think) and I was excited to explo
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by Maultasche 7y ago
FunFunFunction is my favorite. It has a nice balance of silliness and interesting information.
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by Maultasche 7y ago
Just ask them directly. I've simply asked my Indian coworkers if anyone else in the workplace also speaks their native language and they have no problem talking about it. I've learned a lot from asking them about their languages.
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by Maultasche 7y ago
And they're all dead!
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by Maultasche 7y ago
I still say that to this day. I was stuck at that part of the game for so long that this has never left me.
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by Maultasche 8y ago
I recently decided to learn Elixir because I had heard good things about it from happy Elixir developers. It was the first functional language I learned and I found its concurrency model to be particularly interesting. I don't think it
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by Maultasche 8y ago
I did that the last time I was in the Netherlands. I spent little time in Amsterdam and a lot of time in the other parts of the country. I had a great time and most of the other people I encountered were locals . My strategy was to figure o
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by Maultasche 8y ago
> PS: Avoid boilerplate phrases that constitute 'sweatshop-smells' like "passionate developer". The phrase "work hard, play hard" is one of those phrases that raises alarm bells for me. I get an image of peo
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by Maultasche 8y ago
I've gotten the sense that the most common migration path is Ruby->Elixir. It seems that many of the people using Elixir previously used Ruby. The creator of Elixir was active in the Ruby world and Elixir has similar syntax to Ruby.
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by Maultasche 8y ago
I agree. In fact, I'll plug my blog series "Learn with Me: Elixir" where I'm writing about Elixir as I learn it and anyone can learn it along with me. It's the first functional language I've learned, and I&#x27
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by Maultasche 8y ago
We had chickens when I was a kid and they can really be mean to each other. I witnessed bullying and the killing and eating thing happened once as well. They were always happy to see me because I was the one that fed them. I imagine dinosau
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by Maultasche 8y ago
If he only wants to deal with one person, the other developers could report to you, and he won't need to worry about dealing with them.
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by Maultasche 8y ago
Yeah, Russian is far worse. I learned Polish for a while, which I understand has a lot of similarities to Russian, and it was far more difficult than German. I remember having decline words differently depending on which number came before
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by Maultasche 8y ago
One book I remember well is Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion ( https://www.amazon.com/Influence-Psychology-Persuasion-Rober... ). That really made me aware of all the things people do to try to influence other people.
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by Maultasche 8y ago
I look for what a technology is good at and what it isn't so suited for. All technology has its advantages and disadvantages, and I want to find out what those are. What sort of applications is it suitable for? What operating systems d
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by Maultasche 8y ago
I'm learning Elixir right now, and I'm enjoying it so far. I've never learned Ruby, having worked with Javascript, C#, C++, and Python in the past. Interestingly, what prepared me to understand Elixir the best were the Rambda

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