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by bitwalker 12y ago
> * Go has a great, consistent, modern, bug-free standard library. Erlang - not so much. Erlang has one of the most battle-tested standard libraries around. OTP is rock solid. It may not be bug free (I don't know that any language c
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by bitwalker 13y ago
Software development as a career isn't about making you as the developer comfortable. Your job is to build high quality software using the tools given to you. If you are good at your job, and you are able to be a convincing salesman, y
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by bitwalker 13y ago
I've started using Elixir on my projects over the last few months, and I absolutely love it. It's not just the cleaner syntax, the language adds features on top of what Erlang already provides, and provides easy interop between th
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by bitwalker 13y ago
I think the difference here is that the migration of internal state happens the moment the module is swapped out in memory. Erlang doesn't have mutable state, so state is instead passed around within a module. When a fix needs to be de
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by bitwalker 13y ago
Thanks for breaking it down! I'll have to investigate further, but there is a lot here to like.
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by bitwalker 13y ago
> It's not. iIRC there's even a version of the JVM with code reloading. I've seen some info about the JVM implementation, but I could've sworn it wasn't able to preserve state while hot swapping. I haven't d
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by bitwalker 13y ago
Is it actually possible to do hot code reloading while preserving the state of the running system in Common Lisp? I'm genuinely curious, I kind of had this impression that it was a feature fairly unique to Erlang.
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by bitwalker 13y ago
If that was true then people wouldn't be trying so hard to build alternatives.
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by bitwalker 13y ago
That's good to know, might have to give that a shot next time. I've actively avoided doing it that way up until now since it's the standard recommendation not to. I just upgraded mine to 10.9.1 today from 10.8.5, by booting f
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by bitwalker 13y ago
You can't use Software Update to install OS updates (you can update everything else through there though). It's fairly easy to install the updates via USB as long as you have your configuration and drivers backed up though.
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by bitwalker 13y ago
Tickets being a revenue source because some people value the convenience of parking illegally over the cost of the ticket is one thing. Tickets being given deliberately as a means of increasing revenue is another. I've been given ticke
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by bitwalker 13y ago
Personally I don't find Ruby and Elixir to be very similar. Maybe some of the terms are the same, but in general they feel very different. Elixir has a much more consistent syntax than Erlang (imo), it's macros are more powerful,
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by bitwalker 13y ago
I recently started programming in Elixir. I chose to rewrite the customized Hubot instance I'm running at my company from the ground up in it - it's been a great way to learn the language, and especially OTP. OTP is really what ma
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by bitwalker 13y ago
You didn't need to download Xcode for that, you just run `xcodebuild -license` from the command line.
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by bitwalker 13y ago
I suppose you might be right, but I definitely don't feel that way myself. If it wasn't for GitHub, I don't know if I would've made an effort to get involved with the projects I use. It's made it insanely simple to
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by bitwalker 13y ago
I'm curious why you need to preserve the timestamps. I'm not saying it doesn't make sense, I just haven't ever had a time where that's been a requirement.
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by bitwalker 13y ago
Yeah this happened to me, I created another post about it as well with some screenshots. So bizarre. http://i.imgur.com/27NyTmm.png
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by bitwalker 13y ago
I came home from work a few minutes ago, hopped on HN, and I was logged in as some other random user. I have no idea how, I've never logged in to HN on any computer as anyone other than this account. Even stranger, when I logged out, i
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Every time I logout, I get logged in to HN as someone else(i.imgur.com)
10 points by bitwalker 13y ago|2 comments
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by bitwalker 13y ago
async/await are just sugar over the much older asynchronous delegate pattern that has been in the language since day one. So yes, they were.
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by bitwalker 13y ago
This is my first foray into explaining anything programming related, and I'd like to do more of it. I'm looking for suggestions on writing style, issues with the code, or with how I've explained things - so any comments or su
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Learn By Example: Scala Parser Combinators(bitwalker.github.io)
3 points by bitwalker 13y ago|1 comments