adamkittelson

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by adamkittelson 9y ago
I'm not familiar with the author, but writing a programming book has got to have the worst possible effort to return value ratio if one's goal is solely self-promotion. I'm disinclined to believe anyone would put in that kind
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by adamkittelson 9y ago
I've certainly enjoyed Elixir as an nth programming language and the idea of Elixir as a 1st programming language is really interesting. I know I've seen at least one educator in the community speculate that Elixir (or FP language
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by adamkittelson 9y ago
I'm usually the last person to jump to the defense of anything golang related... but people seem to be raising eyebrows about the nodejs dependency. Assuming they're using it for asset compilation etc I really don't see the p
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by adamkittelson 9y ago
Or we could explore the possibility that the acceptable amount of human feces on the streets of a major city in a first world country is none.
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by adamkittelson 10y ago
Tangentially related, but on our slack this morning everyone is griping about the updated blue text color on repo pages at Github. It's pretty ugly.
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by adamkittelson 10y ago
And when you see that do you wish they'd never been hired due to this insurmountable hole in their knowledge of data structures or do you take 30 seconds to tell them about sets?
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by adamkittelson 10y ago
I think the fact that no one seems to even remember that GitHub had a similar incident in 2010 https://github.com/blog/744-today-s-outage is a good thing to keep in mind for the GitLab team. This too shall pass etc.
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by adamkittelson 10y ago
I didn't get the sense that the sound effect for dragon attacks was meant to be interpreted as being produced by the dragon, I took it as being in the same vein as the "BRAAAM" effect in the article.
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by adamkittelson 10y ago
I've been using packet.net for a small side project, they do bare metal / single tenant servers but the provisioning is very similar to linode/digital ocean. Their ~$35/mo ($0.05/hr) option is on par with digital oc
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by adamkittelson 10y ago
It felt like they weren't just predicting disaster, but hoping for it. Like being right about Trump's election victory having dire consequences is somehow preferable to everything turning out ok despite their candidate losing.
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by adamkittelson 10y ago
Homebrew sometimes takes a while to get new erlang releases available. I seem to recall a release about a year ago that took over a month to become available. Something about other apps in homebrew that use erlang having to update before th
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by adamkittelson 10y ago
I think that touches on one of the problems with hiring in tech. People tend to think things they learned earlier chronologically are simpler or more fundamental and necessary building blocks in order to be competent at the things they lear
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by adamkittelson 11y ago
About a year ago I tried to unpublish a version of a library I'd pushed to Elixir's hex.pm package manager but the API rejected it. Turns out they only allow you to revert publishing for an hour after you push. It was a little inc
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by adamkittelson 11y ago
I've tweaked my implementation some to make it more conducive to non-automated play. The experience needed to level is significantly lower after level 10 or so than in the original. Also in my implementation rather than play as the ori
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by adamkittelson 11y ago
I've actually been working off and on on a MUD using Major Mud's dataset in Elixir for the last two years.
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by adamkittelson 11y ago
Will it? My knee-jerk reaction to this was that Elixir already has more adoption than Rubinius, but then I stopped paying attention to Rubinius years ago. Do people use it for real stuff?
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by adamkittelson 11y ago
From the announcement 5 days ago http://www.reddit.com/r/announcements/comments/3cucye/an_old... "Steve is rejoining Alexis, who will work alongside Steve with the new title of “cofounder”." Co
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by adamkittelson 11y ago
It'd be cool if they'd use this to wrap their own XML-only APIs to provide JSON wrappers.
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by adamkittelson 11y ago
I'm using https://github.com/scrogson/oauth2 to let users login with Facebook in the Phoenix app I'm working on and it works well.
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by adamkittelson 11y ago
I used Weber when I first got into Elixir a little over a year ago. It was a cool framework and I even contributed to it (mostly keeping it up to date as new versions of Elixir were released). But... the last commit was 9 months ago. Weber
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by adamkittelson 12y ago
If there was an option not to connect to AT&T wifi hotspots I couldn't find it. Unlike most wireless routers it wouldn't only automatically connect to ones I've used before, it would eagerly connect to any AT&T hotspo
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by adamkittelson 12y ago
This was one of the reasons I left AT&T. They have hotspots everywhere that my phone would connect to and they inevitably either sucked or were located just far enough away from the store I was visiting that the phone could connect but
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by adamkittelson 12y ago
This isn't really related to the act of highlighting syntax, but I noticed the example code for Elixir at https://highlightjs.org/static/demo/ is quite out of date. Records generally aren't used anymore,
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by adamkittelson 12y ago
A lot of that is by design. It's my understanding that they made the decision not to wrap erlang standard libraries just for the sake of wrapping them, because the erlang standard libaries work just fine when called from elixir. If som
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by adamkittelson 12y ago
There was an interesting critique of Mass Effect's morality system recently at http://www.avclub.com/article/mass-effects-universe-gets-ugl...
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by adamkittelson 12y ago
Personally if I could eliminate all the aspects of my job that aren't just writing code I would be ecstatic.
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by adamkittelson 12y ago
previous discussion, 2 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8866601
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Building an Erlang Project with Mix (Elixir's Build Tool)(kelly-mclaughlin.com)
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by adamkittelson 12y ago
Here's a link to a discussion on the mailing list that touches on why Python-style significant whitespace wasn't used: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/elixir-lang-talk/u6P...
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by adamkittelson 12y ago
Yeah, it's also fun that you can do it in a multiple function head pattern matchy way defmodule FizzBuzz do def fizzbuzz(x), do: fizzbuzz(x, {rem(x, 3), rem(x, 5)}) def fizzbuzz(_x, {0, 0}), do: IO.puts "fizzb

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