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Elixir is a functional language as well, and borrows inspiration from Clojure in particular. I haven't dug into Clojure enough, but I'm curious why you think a conventional MVC-style framework wouldn't be a good fit (not that
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And yet the poor are the ones overwhelmingly playing the lottery. When you're making six figures you don't really need to win a lottery to be happy and have your needs met, compared to someone living paycheck-to-paycheck. You&#x27
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"community consensus gathering wasn't necessary for Phoenix to emerge as an option-of-choice, it gained traction because it is _good_" I think it also because there's two camps of elixir devs - those who came from Ruby a
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Screen readers, and I think it can lead to more easily understood CSS, though a lot of people are using styled components etc now
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Friends in the industry all say it's a nonstarter that it does not (and will not) have cross platform support, as much as they hate Unity. Godot's official stance on it is that you should hire a team to port it for you lol...
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As a counterpoint, having a broad range of skills and experiences has been hugely important for me and my employer, and hasn't limited my career or compensation. I fill in the gaps where I'm needed, and it's up to me to creat
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https://nickyflowers.bandcamp.com/track/wii-shop-channel-rem... The other amazing thing Nicky Flowers did :3
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I think part of the challenge is no one wants to throw their hands up in the air and abandon amyloid after so many years and dollars spent on it. Instead, they say "well we just weren't doing an early enough intervention", wh
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> they prescribe both boosters, and inhibitors, to treat the same symptoms So here's the interesting thing - there's evidence that 5-HT2a receptors are way too dense in people with depression. Antagonists obviously have a block
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As someone two months into their first python job - the ecosystem is solid for ML / data science, but there's a lot of places where it's painfully lacking. I hate the most popular ORM (sqlalchemy) and alembic has a lot of foo
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> But you do you, is the point I've never understood this type of selfishness. If you get sick you will, on average, infect another 2-3 people. It's not just about you.
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When I was a kid, around 2002, I was lucky enough to tour EA's campus. They joked about how they called it "the dorm" and I saw sleeping bags in offices. Didn't really put two and two together until the livejournal post
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You did the right thing. The one and only time it took a week for me to go from verbal to written offer (with poor / spotty communication in between) was, as expected, a dumpster fire when I finally joined. If they can't get their
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They were doing fine without it, but Pokemon Go completely changed their trajectory as a company - just a huge influx of cash.
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They aren't nearly as influential as you might think, especially in modern times. Maybe they were during the cold war or when they protested in support of Nixon. Their media reach is pretty limited, The Washington Times has a small num
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Civility becomes increasingly less meaningful when a radical minority viewpoint is being forced on the country.
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It's interesting to think of a world where their approach was scientifically possible and they faked it until they actually made it. We'd still be talking about how scrappy and brilliant she is, and all this other stuff would be t
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I wrote 2-3 of those and I really wish more languages had a similar approach with their standard library. When you get an error there's a verbose explanation you can ask for, which describes the problem, gives example code and suggests
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More big companies that use open source should do this or something similar. The dividends to security, developer productivity, etc are probably extremely high, particularly for a company with hundreds or thousands of engineers already. It&
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Part of Bloomberg's value is, counterintuitively, because it's so expensive. This limits the user network to people who can afford it, typically professional traders at major firms.
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Yes, the entire field of cancer treatment is a scam and every oncologist spends 12 years of school/residency just so they can make as much as a good software engineer with no degree.
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Seems like an odd example when HIV/AIDS can be prevented through PrEP now.
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KA Applegate has always been unusually forthcoming about using ghostwriters, especially for back when no one talked about them.
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This is the 3rd person from my teenage irc days who has gotten v& for something stupid. Paige was a bit unhinged so it's not surprising. Some day I'll dig up my old hard drive with chat logs for entertainment.
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Green-field projects help a lot for getting over this mindset. Having to figure out the right patterns and approaches by myself then live with those decisions and have to improve them down the line taught me much more than extending existin
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Push notifications are really powerful for creating habits as well.
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It's pretty well studied that people who grew up poor have a harder time saving and are actually more reckless about spending, because they a) didn't have modeling or financial education from their parents and b) had to spend mone
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Most economists don't think it's related, or at least a minor cause. Inflation is happening on a global scale right now. The biggest problem we've had is a breakdown of our supply chain because of the pandemic.
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Lawyer pay honestly isn't that great. I know lawyers who went to top schools and routinely work 60-80 hour weeks to make as much as SWE do. The lawyers who didn't go to top schools became public defenders etc and make about 70k a
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Foone uses they/them pronouns.

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