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1. 61.▲
   by innocentoldguy 1y ago

   The inability to contact a human who can make meaningful decisions is one of the reasons why I quit using companies like Google and Amazon. They’re too big to care, but small companies aren’t. EDIT: I have hooves for hands and accidentally
2. 62.▲
   by innocentoldguy 1y ago

   This is probably because C NIFs run in the same process as the Erlang scheduler. If you have a long-running or blocking NIF, it can starve the scheduler and cause significant performance degradation across the system.
3. 63.▲
   by innocentoldguy 2y ago

   Why? The business logic part is where Elixir outshines Gleam the most, isn’t it? What do you gain by doing this? (I am genuinely curious and not trying to be snarky.)
4. 64.▲
   by innocentoldguy 2y ago

   I can't remember which version of Erlang was the most current when I started learning Elixir, but I do know that it was years before OTP 20, which fixed its string issues. Prior to that, Erlang didn't have very good string support
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   by innocentoldguy 2y ago

   Gleam lacks lisp-style macros, and its implementations of BEAM and OTP are not exhaustive. For example, Gleam does not support: - Hot updates. - Full distributed system support. – Low-level process manipulation. - Named processes. - Advance
6. 66.▲
   by innocentoldguy 2y ago

   I worked with Elixir for over five years without knowing anything about Erlang. I know Erlang now, but only because I was interested in learning it, not because I needed to do so to write Elixir code.
7. 67.▲
   by innocentoldguy 2y ago

   I think Clojure is the better option if you want to do FP using the JVM ecosystem. The problem (for me, anyway) I've run into with Scala is that it supports both functional programming and object-oriented programming. Every code base I
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   by innocentoldguy 2y ago

   I think you’re right. I only picked up Elixir about 10 years ago after getting frustrated with Python’s GIL and Java’s cumbersomeness, and feeling that object oriented programming over complicates things and never lived up to its hype. I ha
9. 69.▲
   by innocentoldguy 2y ago

   I have implemented Elixir in critical financial applications, B2B growth intelligence applications, fraud detection applications, scan-and-go shopping applications, and several others. In every case, like the engineering team in this articl
10. 70.▲
    by innocentoldguy 2y ago

    Thanks, Deng! I'm one of those Emacs users who has been using Emacs for years, and I didn't know Emacs Calc existed. Reading the manual now...
11. 71.▲
    by innocentoldguy 2y ago

    I'm sure Gleam fits a niche—maybe something similar to Elm?—but I can't justify using it over Elixir because I'm not willing to trade things like 1. Full access to the BEAM. 2. Full access to OTP behaviours and other features
12. 72.▲
    by innocentoldguy 2y ago

    I spent a lot of time objectively evaluating languages for a new project I built several years ago. Elixir won out. It has now been 12 years and I still believe Elixir was the right choice for the following reasons (this list is not exhaust
13. 73.▲
    by innocentoldguy 2y ago

    My Tesla drives itself virtually everywhere. All I have to do is look out the window, which I'd do anyway. The only times I control my Tesla are when pulling in and out of my garage and when I need to get it going so FSD can take over
14. 74.▲
    by innocentoldguy 2y ago

    I disagree. I understand that Musk invested in OpenAI under the understanding that ChatGPT would remain open source. He has expressed dissatisfaction with the direction OpenAI has taken ChatGPT and wants to return it to its original charita
15. 75.▲
    by innocentoldguy 2y ago

    I came to the opposite conclusion for the following reasons: 1. IEx provides a robust and interactive debugging environment that allows me to dig into whatever I want, even when running in production. I've never lost state in IEx, but
16. 76.▲
    by innocentoldguy 2y ago

    Yes, 自動 is a common prefix in Japanese that means automatic. So, in your example, the first two kanji mean automatic and the last kanji means car. 自動車 (jidousha): Automobile Other examples include: 自動販売機 (jidouhanbaiki): Vending machine 自動ド
17. 77.▲
    by innocentoldguy 2y ago

    I like that you included instructions on disabling and enabling auto_reload manually from within IEx. IEx.configure(auto_reload: true) Sometimes, it is helpful to override your .iex.exs settings for a moment, and it is nice that yo
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    by innocentoldguy 2y ago

    I've never used an IDE to write code, though I have tested a few out on the recommendation of others. For 30+ years, I've only used these plain-text editors in this order: Vi, Vim, NeoVim, Emacs, Kakoune, and now Helix (I used Vim
19. 79.▲
    by innocentoldguy 2y ago

    True. Elixir doesn't get the respect it deserves on Hacker News.
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    by innocentoldguy 2y ago

    One of the biggest things I dislike about Django is its lack of a standard project structure. I haven't used it in years, so things may be different now, but back in the day, even the core team recommended against using the default pro
21. 81.▲
    by innocentoldguy 2y ago

    I got sick of programming, so I switched to management and then technical writing, but soon realized that it is bureaucratic corporate America and its focus on process over achievement that I dislike. I then discovered that I do like progra
22. 82.▲
    by innocentoldguy 2y ago

    Thanks for this write-up. I have worked with a lot of Java engineers who have learned Elixir and make this mistake all the time. In the future, I’ll point them to this article.
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    by innocentoldguy 2y ago

    Here's some information on it. https://gekk.info/articles/towns-tour.html EDIT: Here are some of the highlights: • Towns OS had a custom GUI that was fairly advanced for the time. • Towns OS included multimedia su
24. 84.▲
    by innocentoldguy 2y ago

    Did you read it? It clearly says the team was far too big, and that even members of Obama's team felt it was too large, so Trump shrunk and reorganized it.
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    by innocentoldguy 2y ago

    My comment isn't about compiled vs. bytecode languages. It's about memory management. For example: • In Elixir, each process runs in isolation, has its own heap, and prevents one process from directly accessing or corrupting the m
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    by innocentoldguy 2y ago

    Schmidt, M. S. (2018, June 14). Top Agent Said F.B.I. Would Stop Trump From Becoming President. The New York Times. Also, whistleblowers within the FBI have come forward in recent years to: • Accuse Timothy Thibault of running cover on Hunt
27. 87.▲
    by innocentoldguy 2y ago

    I don't know where you're getting this idea since one of the main goals of the Electoral College was to protect smaller states from more populous states dominating presidential elections. Boudreaux, Paul. "The Electoral Colle
28. 88.▲
    by innocentoldguy 2y ago

    You mean this one? https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/factcheck/2020/09/10/fac...
29. 89.▲
    by innocentoldguy 2y ago

    The Trump-hating FBI disagrees with you. https://www.reuters.com/world/us/exclusive-fbi-finds-scant-e...
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    by innocentoldguy 2y ago

    Elixir is "more secure" than Go due to its isolated processes, functional processing, and immutable data.