loxs

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by loxs 10y ago
Erlang can have long living processes (green threads) and that's usually how we solve problems. There is absolutely no problem (it's encouraged) to have thousand of processes living minutes or hours if we need so.
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by loxs 10y ago
I use uBlock Origin and it did auto play.
393.
by loxs 10y ago
Yeah, I was just giving an example. Not saying that this in particular will be a stumbling stone.
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by loxs 10y ago
For example, at one point (presumably very soon) you'll need to understand the difference between Erlang strings (char lists) and Erlang binaries which are called "strings" in Elixir. There might be quite a lot of confusion i
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by loxs 10y ago
Of course it's (much) better than anything else... though my experience is that it's quite hard to scale your application that much... You always need some shared resource and it gets ugly. And I also suspect Erlang has some imple
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by loxs 10y ago
I don't think Erlang's VM is that optimized. Currently (as far as I remember) the upper limit is to run 1024 schedulers (threads) but I imagine it certainly wont be 10x more efficient than running 100 schedulers on 100 core machin
397.
by loxs 10y ago
What country is this in? Your budged is more than or maybe comparable to most people's budget in my home country - Bulgaria. And they certainly don't get to sacrifice hot water and phone. Please note that I'm not saying this
398.
by loxs 10y ago
Yeah, maybe Facebook won't fail as a company, or at least not soon. But I can get OP's argument. I can see it stop being a cool thing people use to connect to their friends. Once a viable alternative is available.
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by loxs 10y ago
No, because different people have different metabolism. Think of it as if the body has a "target" weight. It actively tries to reach that weight and can compensate overeating (easily, by throwing away excess food) and undereating
400.
by loxs 10y ago
Absolutely the same impressions with Garmin Forerunner 235. Pebble is way way behind.
401.
by loxs 10y ago
I'm always amused when a new and "better" (browser) technology's website makes my browser hang up.
402.
by loxs 10y ago
I have seen exactly the opposite effect on myself. After exercise I can (and really want) to eat the world.
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by loxs 10y ago
The biggest QOL feature of Erlang compared to other "concurrent" systems like node.js for example is that you have the comfort of executing blocking calls. Blocking for the caller that is. No need to pass callbacks. You write your
404.
by loxs 11y ago
Great... it's probably time for me to do some mobile stuff :)
405.
by loxs 11y ago
Impressive! It would be great if we also get an Android port... would be the first sane cross platform mobile framework.
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by loxs 11y ago
My experience is with Occulus. Full HD is not enough as you clearly see the pixels. I was so distracted by the "low" resolution that I couldn't immerse myself at all. Probably 4K will be better, but I suspect it still won&#x2
407.
by loxs 11y ago
I can confirm. This is the case in the whole "Eastern Block". Most people do no work and are perfectly fine with that. At the same time they complain about their low salaries and shitty countries.
408.
by loxs 11y ago
Actually it does something kinda sorta similar with Facebook Pages and Groups. Especially now that lots of people write directly on their Pages instead of in a blog. You can "like" the page which is similar to following RSS. Admit
409.
by loxs 11y ago
Well, it's complicated on why it happened that way. USSR is one undeniable factor.
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by loxs 11y ago
Polls are one thing and then there comes the reality. I am Bulgarian. And I don't know a lot of people who work in Russia or dream of emigrating to Russia. On the other hand I know a HUGE amount of people who reap the benefits of the E
411.
by loxs 11y ago
You got the Bulgaria bit wrong again. Actually Byzantium was Bulgaria's arch-enemy during most of our existence. These sentiments are nor forgotten.
412.
by loxs 11y ago
Actually you got the Bulgaria part a bit wrong. Currently the population is ~70% pro-EU.
413.
by loxs 11y ago
I understand that, but my point is still valid. Mercurial is not "guilty" about this, but certainly suffers
414.
by loxs 11y ago
Well, IMHO, nowadays this classifies as bad design. It may have been the better design, but currently git's nomenclature is the standard and not complying to it will only hurt mercurial.
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by loxs 12y ago
Actually that's the reason I use iOS
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by loxs 12y ago
And Turkey
417.
by loxs 12y ago
Writing something in PHP made sense in 2004. Although Erlang was around at the time, it wasn't at all well known. And no, you are not absolutely right, Facebook is not a PHP (only) shop. Their chat backend is in Erlang and that's
418.
by loxs 12y ago
Cooperative vs. Preemptive multitasking is not the same as Light threads vs. OS threads/processes. Erlang (and also Haskell for example) does preemptive multitasking with light threads. And that's what I'm talking about. Yeah
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by loxs 12y ago
I use Emacs and with a bit of tinkering, it's great. Some of my colleagues use IntelliJ IDEA and they swear by it. I certainly recommend trying.
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by loxs 12y ago
Sadly, I have to agree :(. This is the weakest aspect of the Erlang ecosystem...

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