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by jeremy_k 7y ago
This is the defacto learning guide https://www.railstutorial.org/ , although not currently updated for Rails 6. Oh I totally missed his reply in this thread https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20718729 (cur
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by jeremy_k 7y ago
It's interesting that you would say a language could 'taint the simplicity and cleanliness of the syntax' of another language. You can still work purely in Erlang and not deal with Elixir can you not? I'll say my own per
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by jeremy_k 7y ago
Came across it from the reading list on the Alan Kay post. Good to hear its an easy read, might sit down and dive into it tonight.
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by jeremy_k 7y ago
https://ecampus.oregonstate.edu/online-degrees/undergraduate... Scroll to the bottom there and it talks about the math. I took up through Calc 2 in high school so I only needed to complete the discrete math course. But
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by jeremy_k 7y ago
Yeah I didn't mind learning C and the two operating systems courses were both heavy into Unix and C, which really gave me an idea of what was going on under the hood. But I would have liked that to have been complimented with more Pyth
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by jeremy_k 7y ago
Check out Oregon State's Postbaccalaureate Computer Science Degree. https://ecampus.oregonstate.edu/online-degrees/undergraduate... Its basically exactly what you want, an online degree geared only for Computer Sc
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by jeremy_k 8y ago
Been following TruffleRuby, I did recently just spin up a super dummy app where I swapped out mysql to postgresql, made a migration to create a table and generated some fake data. Opened a console and ActiveRecord was able to query. Thats a
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by jeremy_k 8y ago
To note: been working on Rails for 6+ years. I was reading the parent comment and some of the other comments about the mental model of a beginner. I suppose if you're first exposed to Rails and start using 'scaffold' it can g
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by jeremy_k 8y ago
https://nvd.nist.gov/vuln/detail/CVE-2018-8778#VulnChangeHis... Looks like someone added more information today
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by jeremy_k 8y ago
The problem is that BEAM wasn't built to excel at number crunching or doing computationally expensive work. A good explanation here https://stackoverflow.com/questions/11214336/what-makes-erla... But I'
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by jeremy_k 9y ago
I really enjoyed Functional Thinking, read it a few months ago. Its a very good introduction to get yourself thinking... functionally! All the examples are Java 9, Scala, Groovy, or Clojure, which isn't my cup of tea since I don't
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by jeremy_k 9y ago
Buy yourself a yearly subscription to Safari Books ( https://www.safaribooksonline.com/pricing/ ). I got an account through work and its been highly beneficial because of the sheer amount of books available.
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by jeremy_k 9y ago
Just grabbed one! With tons of non technical product people floating around, I figured this would be nice a fun gift for the office.
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by jeremy_k 9y ago
I really wanted to like Ghost. I self hosted a blog for a couple years (didn't use that much) and really enjoyed tinkering around with the JS and deploying some custom code. But I just really felt like having no metrics was a huge disa
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by jeremy_k 10y ago
I do it through Vanguard and it takes roughly 10 minutes. The process is nothing more than clicking buttons to put money into a tIRA, transfer to a Roth IRA, and purchase shares. Although it is suggested to leave the money in the tIRA for s
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by jeremy_k 10y ago
Everyone here is commenting on the Roth income limits. Look up what a backdoor Roth contribution is. Basically avoid having a tIRA by keeping all your pre-tax money in a 401k and then you can contribute to a Roth IRA every year. The only p
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by jeremy_k 10y ago
But what about the second cohort of people (those who's houses have ballooned in price) who aren't over-leveraged (because they've owned it for a very long time) and have every reason in the world to vote to block things that
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by jeremy_k 10y ago
If anyone is interested in seeing a small project built with Gluestick, I have one here https://github.com/jer-k/phoenix_gluestick_example . The Gluestick portion is under the _web/ directory. As a note, Gluestick
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by jeremy_k 11y ago
As a former Track & Field athlete I thought Trac ( https://www.tracchicago.com/ ) was really interesting. To have the ability to get automatic timing / splits in practice would have been amazing. I can remember the d
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by jeremy_k 11y ago
I really hope they have an option to switch it back to chronological. I tend to check Instagram at the end of the day and just scroll back until I see things from the previous day, then I know I've seen everything. I don't follow
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by jeremy_k 11y ago
Agreed. I actually hope it provides the screen sharing capability with the possibility of video also. There are tons of non-developers that I always feel like I wish I could just Screenhero them and show them something, but having a random
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by jeremy_k 11y ago
My mental model jumped from significant to large too easily, sorry about that. What notifications were you seeing? I'm trying to think what I would receive that wasn't another user interacting with me and all I can recall is somet
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by jeremy_k 11y ago
Interesting. I receive no emails and rarely any push notifications from Twitter. I use it every day while riding the bus, although I'm mainly a consumer and hardly tweet anymore. Did you and I fall into different categories or somethin
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by jeremy_k 11y ago
Yeah but rain. I lived in Oregon for 22 years, and I've been living in California since 2012 and although its been through a drought, let me tell you some things I don't miss after being back in Oregon for the holidays. Waking up
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by jeremy_k 11y ago
I'll just add my two cents here. My parents are Baby Boomers and neither kept up on technology (they're both finally comfortable using cell phones and texting, not quite to apps yet however). I loved playing video games growing up
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by jeremy_k 11y ago
Just got the confirmation that Programming Elixir and Metaprogramming Elixir shipped. They can't get here fast enough.
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by jeremy_k 13y ago
Exactly, Europe is an inverse of the US when it comes to SMS and data prices.
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by jeremy_k 14y ago
It was a general question and your answer along with everyone else's summed up exactly what I was wondering. I'm definitely going to check out the book.
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Ask HN: What exactly does the equity % on a job offer mean?
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by jeremy_k 14y ago
I always use the left shift. And instinctively use my left ring finger if I need an uppercase Q, A, or Z. The right shift is just too far away.

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