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by jmcgough 9y ago
Using Heroku at the moment (largely because I was already familiar with its ecosystem) for a phoenix app, though they don't have support for Elixir. In the future I'm considering doing my own hot deploys to AWS, but the cost of ru
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by jmcgough 9y ago
You can freely play most songs you want now (through youtube, bandcamp, soundcloud, spotify). I don't think there needs to be a 2017 version of Napster, because music isn't locked in physical albums anymore.
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by jmcgough 9y ago
kudos to whoever posted the entirety of war and peace
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by jmcgough 9y ago
Feeling like you're a bad fit for your job or that you're underperforming can reeally contribute to stress and anxiety. For me, I'm happy when I'm pushing myself to get deadlines done and to achieve goals that I set for
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by jmcgough 9y ago
What's up with their graphs? The scale on the x-axis is a tick for every 5 quarters, I feel like it'd be easier to read if they'd drawn it out differently.
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by jmcgough 9y ago
Seems more like they threw their hands up in frustration and went with something that was more immediately understandable to them. I haven't used Vue yet, but I'm curious how nice it is to develop with after the codebase has grown
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by jmcgough 9y ago
I fell in love with the language, which is why I kept using it to begin with - working in a functional language is great, and it's very readable and powerful (pattern matching <3). With that said, I could write basically anything El
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by jmcgough 9y ago
It became open source in the 90s. It's been used by several high-traffic sites/apps to support chat clients (Riot Games, WhatsApp, and I think Fetlife), but outside of that has seen very little adoption. I think it's a lot ha
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by jmcgough 9y ago
I left academia about five years ago, and don't want to create the impression that I'm some brilliant academic researcher (I spent three years doing rat/staining/counting work in a lab and wrote an honors thesis on the t
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by jmcgough 9y ago
Great to see more posts like this promoting Elixir. I've been really enjoying the language and how much power it gets from BEAM. Hopefully more companies see success stories like this and take the plunge - I'm working on an Elixir
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by jmcgough 9y ago
I spent three years of undergrad working on neurogenesis research - was actually able to show that voluntary exercise could help ameliorate memory deficits caused by a model of a neurodegenerative disease we'd induced in rats. A Lumino
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by jmcgough 9y ago
NPR had a good story the other day about the coalition of Trump's voter's, and how different the groups are. There were definitely those who voted for him and didn't expect him to keep his promises (promises that didn't
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by jmcgough 9y ago
I sometimes feel like we got stuck with an early beta version of democracy (winner takes all elections, single candidate voting, no restriction on campaign durations, etc), with no easy upgrade path because politicians don't want to ch
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by jmcgough 9y ago
The only clear consistency in his policy is undoing everything Obama did. It's really weird and petty.
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by jmcgough 9y ago
At the same time, if you've never seen a solution that uses something like DP, you're not going to see a DP problem and think "oh, I can use DP for this". Part of it is ensuring that programmers have awareness of the to
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by jmcgough 9y ago
Would one need to create an LLC or something to claim R&D credits?
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by jmcgough 9y ago
It's a much smaller group of people in this case, so my guess is that the people who'll stick around are people who already do trading and are somewhat knowledgable. There have been other x plays streams with a small number of vie
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by jmcgough 9y ago
I learned Phoenix and OTP at basically the same time. I knew I'd need to build out a worker queueing system as part of a web app, so I started reading an OTP book while I was building the initial structure of the Phoenix app. By the ti
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by jmcgough 9y ago
Elixir uses pattern matching for its functions. You can define multiple functions with the same name, and which function is used depends on which one "matches" first, based on the arguments. E.g ############ # no args def my_func
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by jmcgough 9y ago
Not saying it's true in this case, but I think that's typically code for "people think you're a jerk". It can really bring down team productivity to have a toxic coworker, especially if management isn't willing
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by jmcgough 9y ago
Elizabeth Yin (500 startups partner) just quit: https://techcrunch.com/2017/07/03/employee-email-claims-500-...
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by jmcgough 9y ago
It's probably some mix of a lack of impulse control and enjoying the chase. He meets an attractive woman and pursues her, without stopping to think whether or not what he's doing is inappropriate or even assault. Edit: I just fini
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by jmcgough 9y ago
Yes, you are victim blaming. You are immediately assuming with no evidence that she's some kind of conniving she-devil. They are not in tech. They are in venture capital, and it's more challenging to get a position at a VC firm th
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by jmcgough 9y ago
He was aware that she was in the process of interviewing for a job with his company. It is not okay for him to hit on her in that situation, because he has power over her.
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by jmcgough 9y ago
His career depends very much on his reputation, and his reputation was just dragged through the mud over the past week. It's difficult to know whether this introspection and contrition is genuine, but his post is all about salvaging hi
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by jmcgough 9y ago
So does the farmers market in berkeley, and they double the value of it to incentivise lower-income people to eat healthier food.
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by jmcgough 9y ago
He essentially confirmed the accusations and took an indefinite leave of absence from Binary Capital yesterday ( https://techcrunch.com/2017/06/23/vc-justin-caldbeck-is-taki... )
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by jmcgough 9y ago
traceroute -m 50 bad.horse
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Justin Caldbeck takes indefinite leave of absence from Binary Capital(axios.com)
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by jmcgough 9y ago
If you read the article, the allegations include him groping women without their consent. That's not just making someone uncomfortable, that's sexual assault.

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