Maultasche

13 ms·

91.
by Maultasche 8y ago
I've been learning Elixir, which is really good for creating concurrent and scalable systems. Concurrency has always been something that has fascinated me and I see in Elixir a chance to make very concurrent code without having to deal
92.
by Maultasche 8y ago
Yeah, I've been excited about Elixir as well and I've been learning it this year. In fact I started writing about it as I've been learning it in the hopes that someone will find it useful as a tutorial to help them learn as w
93.
by Maultasche 8y ago
Before learning Elixir, I used functional-like functionality in C# (LINQ) and Javascript (particularly Rambda and Bacon.js) before learning Elixir, and I found that was plenty of preparation to understand Elixir. There's no need to st
94.
by Maultasche 8y ago
A few years ago, my dad gave me my grandfather's history textbook from when he was in high school in the 1930s in California. That was an interesting read. In addition to it having a slight racist bent when discussing non-European civi
95.
by Maultasche 8y ago
The "Tides of History" podcast covers this period in Episode 13 in relation to the fall of the Roman Empire. https://wondery.com/shows/tides-of-history/ It particularly focuses on the experiences of the
96.
by Maultasche 8y ago
From their perspective, we also breathe a flammable gas. With all that methane, oxygen would be the fuel on Titan. Very strange being indeed.
97.
by Maultasche 8y ago
Yes, syphilis was first noticed when it started to spread around Europe in the 1490s not long after sustained contact with the Americas. So it's likely that it did come from the Americas, but it hasn't been proven. It's also
98.
by Maultasche 8y ago
I don't know about the rest of the country, but in California the postal service will still deliver mail-in ballots even if they are not stamped. The counties will reimburse the postal service for the costs of the unstamped ballots. It
99.
by Maultasche 8y ago
That's one of my favorites. He's not just informative, but inspirational. I even enjoy watching the videos where he covers something I'm already familiar with.
100.
by Maultasche 8y ago
That was one of the most interesting cities I've visited. The city was a mix of medieval architecture and pieces of a Roman palace. There were the brick walls of buildings built between Roman columns and there was a Roman-era mausoleum
101.
by Maultasche 8y ago
I think that I would find Dart a lot more compelling if it emitted WebAssembly instead. There aren't a lot of languages that can compile to WebAssembly at the moment.
102.
by Maultasche 8y ago
I love the Coding Blocks podcast. It's one of my favorites. I also recommend Developer Tea.
103.
by Maultasche 8y ago
When living in Germany, I found that the Germans were quite blunt in comparison to the United States and discarded a lot of the word fluff and fake friendliness that I often see people using in the United States. They prefer to be direct an
104.
by Maultasche 8y ago
He was able walk for short distances, but only with difficulty and a lot of pain. He often used a cane to help him out. Winston Churchill records seeing Roosevelt slowly walk over to greet him, and knew how difficult it was for Roosevelt to
105.
by Maultasche 8y ago
No, not really. I started studying computer science in 1995, and functional programming was presented as a very nice concept that never worked out because the performance was terrible. I heard about academic types loving their functional la
106.
by Maultasche 8y ago
I discovered his books on the Byzantine Empire when I was about 15 years old, and I loved reading them. He made history so interesting and it was about a subject I previously had no information about, in those days before the Internet. I&#x
107.
by Maultasche 8y ago
The southwestern section of Iceland is the most touristy. If you get outside of it, things are a lot better. I did a drive around the island and it was quite pleasant until I got around the the southwestern side again. The roads filled with
108.
by Maultasche 8y ago
I suspect that he sees that Apple has a lot of customers who don't want to move away from the Apple ecosystem, that Apple products have large profit margins, and that Apple has a huge boatload of cash and keeps making more. Apple&#x27
109.
by Maultasche 8y ago
That was my first thought when I saw the headline. I thought it was a reference to Dune, and not to an animal species.
110.
by Maultasche 8y ago
I suspect that's an average of people who work full-time, people who work part-time, and people who don't work at all, such as unemployed, retirees, and children.
111.
by Maultasche 9y ago
I wonder how that company fared after they fired all their engineers. I can't imagine that went well.
112.
by Maultasche 9y ago
I can confirm that. I specifically signed up for FirstTech for their Chip and Pin cards. Their Mastercard is quite good for traveling and has Chip and Pin. It was great when I was traveling in Iceland where pretty much every transaction was
113.
by Maultasche 9y ago
I got Civilization really early on before it was obvious that it was going to be popular. I love reading the thick manual, strategy guide, and advances chart. I really enjoyed starting a civil war by capturing another civilization's ca
114.
by Maultasche 9y ago
That was interesting. I do believe that's the first time I've heard a positive story about Comcast. It's amazing how much cooperation has to happen to make the Internet work.
115.
by Maultasche 9y ago
I disagree. I think that C# generics are way better. The C# generics are supported at the virtual machine level, whereas Java just pretends to do generics. Java generic types are unknown to the virtual machine since the compiler just compil
116.
by Maultasche 9y ago
I remember that in the very early days of Firefox, some websites would refuse to serve pages to anything that wasn't Internet Explorer. I did not see the point to that and I was not amused. Firefox didn't have a problem displaying
117.
by Maultasche 9y ago
When I went to Iceland, I was expecting to see close to zero immigrants and their descendants among the Icelandic population. I was surprised to see quite a few people of African and Asian descent working in Icelandic stores and speaking fl
118.
by Maultasche 9y ago
IGA is a grocery store chain. Well, actually it's a franchise where each store has the IGA brand but it is individually owned and operated. They tend to be popular in smaller towns where a local resident owns and runs the store. There
119.
by Maultasche 9y ago
That's a good way of looking at it. Code is also a form of communication. By writing code, you're communicating the the computer, with other developers who will come and read it, and with your future self who may not remember what
120.
by Maultasche 9y ago
Interesting, that was a really useful analogy. So what I learned is that our body is like an Actor model with lots of asynchronous processes sending messages to each other. I'm sure that's a leaky analogy, but it makes things simp

More ›