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The WordPress Merging Problem(underjord.io)
1 points by lawik 6y ago|0 comments
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by lawik 6y ago
Sounds about right. With wasm being relevant for edge computing and serverless I'm keeping a close eye on the Lumen project compiler as I expect that to be more feasible for this sort of work. The advantages for OTP remain mostly in lo
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by lawik 6y ago
I'm not using it in huge scale. But I've worked with companies that run it in production, yes. There are a lot of Elixir products and systems out there and before those there were quite a few in Erlang. I don't have a suffici
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by lawik 6y ago
I think I understand your concern as the foundation is arguably old. But as someone actively following Erlang and Elixir the sentiment feels absurd. Elixir is very recent, very modern and Erlang/OTP has a very strong track record. Ther
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by lawik 6y ago
So nice when it works and has been breaking incredibly badly for me recently. The Python extensions that vscode was trying to bring up whenever I connected to my remote had some weird interaction with a virtualenv and just pinned the server
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by lawik 6y ago
Not quite accurate but very funny :)
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by lawik 6y ago
How does the coverage of APIs compare. Just AWS is a gigantic set of APIs. I see most of what I'd need in the Ansible Module Index but it doesn't seem like it covers all that is available.
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by lawik 7y ago
I'll look into that :)
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by lawik 7y ago
After living a year or so with Windows, two monitors and a KVM switch for one of those monitors. It ain't there yet. It does detect it but it'll just throw your stuff all over the place. MacOS has been incredibly solid on that not
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Show HN: Web development – Self-evaluation checklist(evaluate.underjord.io)
4 points by lawik 7y ago|2 comments
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by lawik 7y ago
I think the biggest hurdle would be the Functional Programming aspects. Elixir was quite easy for me to approach coming from mostly PHP, Node.js and Python (preferred Python before Elixir). Phoenix has a sprinkling of magic or syntactic sug
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by lawik 7y ago
Gotchas, probably some of those. Both in Elixir and Phoenix. It is an entire language plus an entire web framework. A lot of people find Elixir more approachable than Erlang. But I wouldn't be surprised if Erlang is technically simpler
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by lawik 7y ago
I would say it is quite mature. The ecosystem is a bit smaller and younger, so sometimes you'll find an insufficient library somewhere or no library at all. But I've never had a show-stopper in that regard. I've done plenty o
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by lawik 7y ago
It is well suited to running concurrently as in, many cores, and in a distributed fashion, across many computers. It was built to run telephone switches and similar highly available, high performance gear in a way that is resilient to failu
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by lawik 7y ago
I think there is work to get static typing in Erlang. This tweet thread was where I stumbled into it: https://mobile.twitter.com/slashdotdash/status/1238513622189...
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by lawik 7y ago
I'm delighted. I've programmed since my teens but I never really enjoyed math and have mostly picked up what I need when I really need to. I think more in the ways of programming than in math, so this is a good way of helping me w
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by lawik 7y ago
Probably because it is built on tools that are made to scale arbitrarily and solve a large amount of very general needs. This need is simple, the tool is not built for simple needs though it can meet them. I dislike the UX of AWS but the co
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by lawik 7y ago
I run the setup of S3 + Cloudfront and never ran into their index problem because I'm not trying for URLs without document file extensions. I assume that's the reason for really wanting index redirect in directories. Pretty URLs,
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by lawik 7y ago
Nah, that's usually based on salary I think. And you don't get one during this time off. You just freeze-dry your employment. Stasis basically.
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by lawik 7y ago
From my experience people are more likely to use this for studying, trying a business idea (not the HN meaning of startup) or extended travel. Startup I imagine is an outlier in what its used for. It lines up well with the very advantageous
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by lawik 7y ago
I think this was what I tried to use for one of those shared file system setups for a web app where we needed shared files. And the daemon responsible for this would end up hard-locking the VPS it was running on. Oh yeah, here's the is
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by lawik 7y ago
I think there are plenty of reasons. You might like the OS a lot but not care about Apple's feelings. Spite is another one. Or fun. It's a neat thing to do. Hacking-wise. You might want the high performance hardware without the pr
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by lawik 7y ago
Is it disproportionate. I use Google. I like some things they do. But for anything where I'm not a paying customer I find my trust eroding and I find myself considering options that aren't as gargantuan. With that scale accountabi
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by lawik 7y ago
I find it approachable for someone that doesn't know FP. It doesn't require shifting all of your knowledge and habits at once. It might not teach you everything there is to know about FP but I think the question originally was roi
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by lawik 7y ago
Easy enough, for me. I have roughly the same history of languages. Functional programming as a paradigm was the biggest hurdle for me. But Elixir guide docs help yout quite a bit there. Job opportunities are fine, not Python+ML or JS+React
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by lawik 7y ago
Good comment covering the languages. I came from Python. For me Elixir was much more approachable as a first step into a functional language. Syntax, documentation, getting started/onboarding. I believe there are efforts under way to m
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by lawik 7y ago
You don't need to learn Erlang to learn Elixir. You can just use some what Erlang provides when you need it. Some people want to approach things very ground-up but I've taught people Elixir. It's fine to learn Elixir and you&
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by lawik 7y ago
I've happily dipped into Erlang libs when I need to. I'm also increasingly capable of reading Erlang code though I only write Elixir. I would not recommend starting with all of Erlang before doing Elixir but it may work better for
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by lawik 7y ago
I'll second the Elixir guide and maybe go on to the Phoenix guide for web dev. I just read enough to get going and then start building, then go back, read more, fix what I built. But people learn differently. I don't really get th
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by lawik 7y ago
I think there is a touch of catch 22 in "are there enough devs? are there enough companies?" But from my end it looks to be improving. I've gotten going with doing it professionally and I hope to maintain that focus mostly.

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