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by lectrick 11y ago
Well, there's probably a few things going on. One is that, without much fail, I seem to be able to pick the winners of the next horse race in technology. I don't know if it's some kind of sensation of some kind of powerful em
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by lectrick 11y ago
I have some bad news for you (and for Edsger W. Dijkstra, who you would probably be a fan of)- In the "real world" of programming work, you will likely rarely encounter most of those things. Real-world dev is NOT about "compu
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by lectrick 11y ago
> Thanks, that's a really helpful answer. I really like this language, I've met Jose Valim and he's a super nice, super smart guy, as is Chris McCord. So I feel naturally motivated to promote it. Also, it's just lots
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by lectrick 11y ago
If we would all just have used Lisp from the get-go, then none of this would have even been necessary. ;) > Don't you rather be learning new concepts rather than new syntax/APIs? I ran out of new things to learn in Ruby, around
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by lectrick 11y ago
"Elixir Sips" is a nice little screencast site showcasing and howto-ing various Elixir features. They have an episode on Dialyzer: http://elixirsips.com/episodes/125_dialyzer.html
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by lectrick 11y ago
Some of this is opinion, but I looked at Go and didn't like its exception model (or total lack thereof). Checking for errors after every possible bit of code that could go wrong seemed like an ugliness to me (disclaimer: beauty is in t
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by lectrick 11y ago
Good luck! I think this is a great time to start a new Elixir framework, and competition (or perhaps, "coopetition") is good.
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by lectrick 11y ago
> Not about Elixir specifically, but don't people get tired of switching languages? Are you a developer because you don't want to keep learning? Maybe you walked into the wrong room? ;) > What, people will now have to port
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by lectrick 11y ago
> but unfortunately because it uses a functional language, it drastically cuts down the mindshare of developers. I don't even know any developers in real life that use functional languages. 1) Once upon a time, almost no one used ob
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by lectrick 11y ago
WISH I COULD EDIT: Yes, the "20 moving parts" seems like quite a bit of an underestimate, now. Would love to know the actual figure. It is certainly FAR less than a typical ICE vehicle, which is a welcome reduction in complexity.
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by lectrick 11y ago
In all likelihood, it means exactly what it sounds like. :/
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by lectrick 11y ago
> Also, cars are basically software at this point. Especially tesla. An ICE vehicle has over 10,000 moving parts. A Tesla has 20, or so. Source: http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=387514 So tell me agai
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by lectrick 11y ago
Misfired joke. Ah well.
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by lectrick 11y ago
Been to Florida many times. It has always failed to impress overall. Art deco in Miami Beach is cool though, as is NASA/Cape Canaveral. Fondness for EPCOT center. And Key West. OK Florida isn't that terrible. Some of the people, t
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by lectrick 11y ago
> or more likely, he is an otherwise unremarkable trouble maker. You know what? Perhaps that's up to him to decide. And perhaps he deserves that chance.
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by lectrick 12y ago
I too read those guidelines in their entirety and there is nothing there at all about the poignant use of so-called "swear words." Also: http://thefuckingweather.com/ http://www.whatthefuckshouldimakefo
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by lectrick 12y ago
You know... I've seen this notation on discussion forums (and probably IRC etc.) for years, and had no idea until now that it was a reference to this shell capability lol
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by lectrick 12y ago
I swear I should start a consultancy in the control of software complexity because I am seeing this sort of thing everywhere, and the downages and security issues will only continue (or get worse, as we continue to rely more on software)
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by lectrick 12y ago
It seems related to Dunning-Kruger http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect
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by lectrick 12y ago
Certainly one of the dumbest moves I've seen by an app in a long time. I was a loyal checker-inner, though, and still use Swarm, although other people keep asking me "people still use Foursquare?" I like the recommendations i
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by lectrick 12y ago
This is exactly what I came here to say. When considering market forces at a high level, no effect occurs in a vacuum. If the government subsidizes farming, then food prices WILL go down (which is arguably a good). But subsidizing fast-food
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by lectrick 12y ago
When looked at from a pure cost/benefit standpoint (on a salary ruler), it doesn't make much sense. But perhaps there's still an intangible benefit.
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by lectrick 12y ago
> Yeah, us software engineers are renowned for our communication skills. I like to think that I have some pretty good communication skills, and that they make me a better programmer.
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by lectrick 12y ago
1) it puts software into /usr/local, in userland, which is safer from both an OS stability and security perspective, since 99% of installable software doesn't deserve to run as root anyway. And then it modifies the PATH so th
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by lectrick 12y ago
> That it installs things as a non-admin user is not specific or inherent to its goal. Yes, yes it is. I was there when it was originally released, and its most radical feature at the time (when root-installing package managers were prev
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by lectrick 12y ago
I have never hung my OS X boot simply by updating Homebrew packages. I have frequently hung up my Linux distro boot simply by apt-get updating. To the point that I now run all my Linux OS'es in a VM and take a snapshot prior to updat
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by lectrick 12y ago
The whole point of Homebrew is: 1) To install things in userland 2) To make maintenance easier. Is there a Linux package manager that puts everything in userland in a place like /usr/local? If not, then it installs things into
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by lectrick 12y ago
> you actually make sure all of those 50 web sites can talk to all the sites they consider important This requires you to trust the 50, correct?
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by lectrick 12y ago
How do they do proof-of-work?
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by lectrick 12y ago
Actually, having met a few of them, a surprising number are using PHP, which made me quite angry lol.

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