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by acconrad 9y ago
I'd feel a lot better about moving into the suburbs if autonomous vehicles (with wifi so I can work in transit) actually became a widespread thing
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by acconrad 9y ago
Awesome idea, just signed up to help out and review code! Is there an incentive / gamification system to reward strong reviewers so their reputation increases as they provide good feedback to companies?
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by acconrad 9y ago
I actually think phoenixframework.org is pretty robust on this at the moment, and using the #elixir chat in Slack is also awesome.
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by acconrad 9y ago
It's a functional language! And it's based off of Erlang, so if you like Erlang, you can use call Erlang directly in Elixir. And if you like piping things / pattern matching (common in F#), I think you'd enjoy it :)
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by acconrad 9y ago
There are already recipes for deploying to Heroku, and I've had no problem using Elixir and Phoenix apps on Heroku for the past 2 years. If you use EngineYard or other bare-metal solutions like AWS or Google Cloud, I would imagine ther
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by acconrad 9y ago
All of my pet projects are run on Elixir/Phoenix. If there is a language/framework to learn, this would be it. As approachable as Rails with the benefits of handling real time applications (chats are trivial with Channels) and fas
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Magic: The Gathering Is Turing Complete (2012)(toothycat.net)
2 points by acconrad 9y ago|0 comments
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by acconrad 9y ago
Radical honesty doesn't have to mean blurting out everything you are thinking. I can tell you the truth without having to explain every way I rationalize how I would process that sentence to you. For example, if someone asks you "
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Why aren’t we more outraged about eating chicken?(theconversation.com)
1 points by acconrad 9y ago|0 comments
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by acconrad 9y ago
Funny how if you embrace it, it actually helps retention :)
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by acconrad 9y ago
None of these 4 reasons (TD;LR: you waited until the exit interview, you assume mentors want to manage, you assume the natural ascension of developers is management and not higher-level IC roles, you aren't supporting them and their ca
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How to Build a Rumor(randsinrepose.com)
6 points by acconrad 9y ago|0 comments
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by acconrad 9y ago
Couldn't you just soak the sponge in bleach? Bleach kills everything and it's a liquid, which can get to the depths of your sponge.
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by acconrad 9y ago
> On the phone from London, the author told National Geographic how he was inspired by his Irish uncle, who ran in the Olympics, and why he believes running barefoot is more natural—and less likely to result in injury. I stopped readin
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by acconrad 9y ago
So with reference 2 I don't understand how you can be okay eating mussels but not okay eating eggs or dairy. If a hen naturally drops eggs and those eggs don't turn into chicks, they will rot anyway. And dairy involves no death. S
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by acconrad 9y ago
Opportunistic omnivores that wreak havoc on wherever they go? Sounds like another sentient species I'm acutely familiar with. If you replaced "wild hogs" with "humans" the narrative wouldn't read much different
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The quitting economy(aeon.co)
274 points by acconrad 9y ago|189 comments
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by acconrad 9y ago
I just saw this show up on Netflix even though it has been out since the beginning of the year, but now it's giving me all sorts of doubts. Part of me thinks this is clearly being peddled by the Gawker folks to give them a better image
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“Nobody Speak”: The Gawker vs. Hulk Hogan trial will change how you see the case(businessinsider.com)
2 points by acconrad 9y ago|2 comments
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by acconrad 9y ago
Calorie restriction diets don't make sense to me the way they are phrased. Reduce calories by 20-50%...of what. My current calories? Of the RDA 2000? Cause the thing is the logical conclusion of this prescription is you eat approaching
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by acconrad 9y ago
Seems to me that an accurate analogy is Rails:Django::Sinatra:Flask
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by acconrad 9y ago
Catalant ( https://gocatalant.com ) - Software Engineer (Python/Flask) - Boston, MA - Full-time salaried, onsite We are looking for pragmatic engineers. Our team is responsible for creating and supporting a marketplace that
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by acconrad 9y ago
I was hoping this would be a guide on managing architectures, common use case traps for handling things like scalability and state. Instead this is just a long-winded way of recommending an opinionated front-end tech stack with resources to
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by acconrad 9y ago
> But here's the best part for me: lifting is an escape, in a way that most other "leisure" activities (reading, watching TV, etc) are not. When I'm doing a bench press, it is a simple battle between me and gravity.
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by acconrad 9y ago
Full disclosure I'm a competitive bodybuilder and powerlifter, so realize I might be an extreme data point. That said, I still very much care about longevity and maximal health. I do intermittent fasting in roughly 14-16 fasted and 8-1
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by acconrad 9y ago
What world is this author living in? I see khaki all of the time. It's the most common material for shorts (jean shorts may be on the rise, but the go-to fabric is still cotton/cotton-khaki) and it's a prep staple here in the
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by acconrad 9y ago
Yeah except that character encoding question assumes I know how Python handles bytearrays. That trick answer of "it will break" threw me for a loop because I needed language-specific knowledge about the types that Python could han
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by acconrad 9y ago
Glad someone pointed that out. I chose b[l].e and got it wrong and was scratching my head...
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by acconrad 9y ago
> The idea, however, was not to require any python-specific knowledge But the quiz specifically mentions on multiple answers that "In Python, unlike language X, Y, Z" OR "In Python, like [similar language] A, B, C&quot
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by acconrad 9y ago
Couldn't you just use arc (with arc_ecto if you're using ecto)? Arc is basically the Elixir version of Rails' Paperclip, which does all of the heavy lifting for you.

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