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by gamache 5y ago
That's a nice snippet of the original source code! Does anyone recognize the language? Googling tells me that VisiCalc was written in Apple II (6502) assembly, but this is clearly not that.
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by gamache 5y ago
> Every squirrel she kills is gradually fed back to her.
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by gamache 5y ago
> The Erlang world is obviously full of bright people with cool ideas, but difficult string handling is a deal breaker for me if I intend to use a language in production grade projects. Is Elixir better at it? Yes, the Elixir stdlib uses
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by gamache 5y ago
Erlang/Elixir is great for internal command-line tools where a several-second startup time is acceptable. If you're looking to distribute the CLI tool externally, it's worth considering other languages. BEAM would make a fine
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by gamache 5y ago
Electrified Garage were the ones who knew where to hit it with a hammer -- seems like a fair deal to me! https://www.buzzmaven.com/old-engineer-hammer-2/
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by gamache 5y ago
IMO it's not as simple as "just use Access". In addition to maps and keyword lists, there are structs in play. Access works with maps and keyword lists, but not structs. There are pieces of code I've written that reasona
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by gamache 5y ago
> Are NFTs somehow more arbitrary and asinine than other collectible markets simply because they're digital? They're precisely as asinine as a certificate of ownership, if a certificate of ownership used a household-month of el
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by gamache 5y ago
Elixir is more powerful than Erlang, due to supporting hygienic macros. Whether this is better or worse is a matter of opinion. :)
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by gamache 5y ago
There are a bunch but they call the Haskell "Scala" for some reason.
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by gamache 5y ago
I'm about six years in with Elixir, five years in production at Appcues. I have no regrets at all -- Elixir and the BEAM have been fantastic. It is convenient to write very scalable and stable systems that operate in soft real-time, wh
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by gamache 5y ago
Windows may be the dominant desktop OS, but Linux (via Android) has a larger install base now. As for office software, G Suite took over the top spot from MS Office a few years ago.
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by gamache 5y ago
I never met Sapir or Whorf. My hypothesis is that libraries like RSpec which offer a thin "rephrasing" veneer over the assertion-based test module are a waste of mental capacity (and this goes triple for Cucumber and other similar
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by gamache 5y ago
I supported Macs in the mid-90s, so I heard a lot of chimes. IIRC the funky chord before the rest of the chime (you can hear part of one at the beginning of the IIcx example) carried actual diagnostic meaning. The one here, again IIRC (it&#
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by gamache 5y ago
You are drinking deuterium already. 1/3200th of the water you drink is HDO.
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by gamache 5y ago
This will definitely clear things up.
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by gamache 6y ago
> finance doesn't necessarily require perfect accuracy Maybe finance doesn't, but billing does.
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by gamache 6y ago
Yes. If you're not interviewing your potential employer, you either _really_ need a job (no shame) or you're blowing it.
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by gamache 6y ago
Short answer: no, Perl is a very rare choice for starting a "serious new application", and Raku's even further off. In Perl's case, it's not that the production-ready libraries and frameworks aren't there -- th
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by gamache 6y ago
He's just about the first Parisian I can understand!
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by gamache 6y ago
Some SE/30's are upgraded SE's; these typically feature the original HD and floppy drive. I own one of these, though I upgraded those components in the late 90's.
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by gamache 7y ago
Amazon installs it on some other AMIs (notably, Ubuntu 16.04 and 18.04), but for other OSes, install instructions are here: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/systems-manager/latest/userguide...
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by gamache 7y ago
Great job to the whole core team! There's a bunch of awesome stuff in here, but I think the one that's going to steal the most hearts is: Enum.sort(my_list, :asc) Enum.sort(my_list, :desc) That rounds off a sharp corn
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by gamache 7y ago
$15 per server per month isn't that extreme. I've used Datadog in production for 3+ years (starting from a headcount of 10) and can honestly say they've been worth every penny. Observability is irreplacable.
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by gamache 7y ago
I use this for DynamoDB and SQS mocking -- it's so convenient. Dockerized, too, so you're one `docker-compose.yml` from using it in CI. The development is not all in-house (and I count this as a definite strength of the project).
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by gamache 7y ago
I don't have a general purpose solution to comparison across types -- it generally takes the form of wrapping whatever might have yielded a `nil` value in a `case` expression. Not a big deal, but in cases where the rest of the computat
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by gamache 7y ago
Here are a few legitimate complaints about Elixir (and in some cases, its host VM, the BEAM): * No mutation support means that for some CPU-heavy tasks, it's not as performant as languages that allow mutation. Some optimized algorithms
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by gamache 7y ago
I believe Zalgo has the answer to this, via an equivalent question. https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1732348/regex-match-open...
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by gamache 7y ago
> If I sell you a lock, and then 10 years later someone finds a vulnerability with the lock I sold you, should I refund you? Kryptonite did exactly this when someone figured out they could open their U-locks with a Bic pen barrel. Full
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by gamache 7y ago
It's not necessarily bad, but it is not secure by default. That's why it ships turned off.
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by gamache 7y ago
I imagine both Slack and Discord have much higher numbers than this, as well as a very different workload (they're doing chat, we're not). I don't want to give the impression that this is happening on a single server, either!

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