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by gregors 4y ago
I very much didn't like the ampersands the first couple of years looking at Elixir code. I think I've gotten used to it now. Looking at my own code, it's definitely more terse than it used to be. I do usually move such things
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by gregors 4y ago
I recently onboarded 2 JR developers who didn't know Elixir. I purchased pragmatic's video course for them, but they both liked the Joy of Elixir better. In contrast, the seniors liked the pragmatic training better.
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by gregors 4y ago
It's the chocolate ice cream vs vanilla ice cream argument. There isn't an accounting for taste. If static typing if your thing it's never going to taste the right way to you. I'm just the opposite, I greatly appreciate
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by gregors 4y ago
why not a quarter bagel, my spreadsheet calculations show nothing but benefits!!!!!
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by gregors 4y ago
I used to use this back in the day.... https://github.com/viccherubini/get-shit-done
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by gregors 4y ago
A long time ago I was on a project that used SQlite in production. At the time WAL mode didn't exist and the writer blocked the reads as well. We worked around the single writer issue by having multiple db's open. In our case it w
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by gregors 4y ago
I live in another TN city rolling out municipal fiber. I live in a middle class area of town. I've been asking for 1G for years, but ATT keeps telling me "there's not enough need in that area of town". That changes as so
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by gregors 4y ago
That's part of the problem. People need to stop thinking of these devices as bicycles and much closer to motorcycles.
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by gregors 4y ago
I chose my current employer because I had the option to choose an Elixir/Phoenix stack. In addition, I managed to get another senior developer to join me and leave his secure quasi-government job because of Elixir as well.
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by gregors 4y ago
While that's true, there are work arounds. Github does support Subversion. Having found myself on a team (in the past) that was tied to an outdated version control solution (source safe), you can still use Git locally to facilitate bra
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by gregors 4y ago
Write the code you wish you had. Define your expectation. Does your coding ability keep up with your expectations? Does that continue to hold for you or anyone else on your team on your worst day? Don't have any expectations and are ex
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by gregors 4y ago
I'm never going back!
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by gregors 4y ago
Berlin seems to have some solutions https://thespinoff.co.nz/society/23-05-2022/why-berlin-voted...
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by gregors 4y ago
This is a very leading question. Are you trying to invoke Cunningham's Law on purpose? Or just in a very pro-lisp environment that HN is known for? A better question might be to "compare & contrast Python OOP vs Lisp CLOS&quot
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by gregors 4y ago
This sounds like a perfect question for a company that's hiring engineers who want to focus on optimizing DNA storage. If that's your goal you should just put that in the hiring criteria. You'll get more candidates that know
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by gregors 4y ago
I was under the impression that VSCode originally had pieces of the open source licensed Atom editor, as well as other bits here and there. I haven't confirmed this to be 100% true, but I've seen articles like this https:/&#
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by gregors 4y ago
Coinbase was fined 6.5 million for wash trading crypto https://www.cftc.gov/PressRoom/PressReleases/8369-21
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by gregors 4y ago
They're playing 1 on 1. I loved breaking the backboard https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBluMt9taF4
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by gregors 4y ago
Ruby is a helluva lot of fun and a lot of engineers at Shopify like it. Life isn't just about taking the shortest route sometimes. One of my favorite quotes > I think that it's extraordinarily important that we in computer sci
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by gregors 4y ago
Living in Knoxville and loving it! Chattanooga is also great! * Great Smoky Mountains National Park nearby * Municipal internet being worked on in Knoxville, already running in Chattanooga * University of Tennessee * Oak Ridge National Lab
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by gregors 5y ago
Here's an interesting RV internet set up. https://wa9ace.net/2021/08/01/rv-internet.html
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by gregors 5y ago
Definitely check out Chattanooga, TN and Knoxville, TN Chattanooga has a great tech and outdoor sports (rock climbing and whitewater) and the fastest municipal internet in the country. https://epb.com/fi-speed-internet/
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by gregors 5y ago
I hear a lot of how motorcycles are dangerous and they absolutely are. But 1/2 of wrecks are single vehicle wrecks and most of the other wrecks are cars turning in front of motorcycles or motorcycles getting rear-ended at lights. Ameri
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by gregors 5y ago
I like the https://www.fuelly.com web site to see what other people are getting as well as trend lines. For example - https://www.fuelly.com/car/toyota/prius/2021 In my area there are 2 types of g
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by gregors 5y ago
Check out CollapseOS http://collapseos.org/ It's targeted at this specifically
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by gregors 5y ago
As someone who uses and likes Elixir and Ruby, the syntax is more accurately described as Erlang and Ruby in a car crash.
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by gregors 5y ago
I like Phoenix, I really really do...but you are correct regarding docs. The documentation in Phoenix is fine for "what does this function do?". However, if you want the Rails Guides experience - it's just not there.
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by gregors 5y ago
I'll politely disagree with you and illustrate the many many many unicorns that were brought into existence under dynamic languages. And places such as Shopify which are after-the-fact adding typing to previously untyped languages. Eve
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by gregors 5y ago
This reminds me of when Howard Stern left terrestrial for satellite radio because the FCC kept fining him - only to deal with the corporate censors at the new company.
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by gregors 5y ago
This is not "political censorship" this is "corporate censorship", at least be precise about what you are saying. It's absolutely within their right to self censor their product.

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