mmartinson

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   by mmartinson 8y ago

   Also maybe you are not young. Maybe this isn't the first sort of work you've done. If not you, then maybe someone else reading and wondering the same thing. Try to be consistent and avoid plateauing for long stretches. Consistency
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   by mmartinson 8y ago

   I'm curious what usage this saw 2014-2015, and what the current drive is to bring it back to life.
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   by mmartinson 8y ago

   Curious, do you manage to fall asleep by 8 or 9? I'd love to get up early more regularly, but I find it tough up turn my mind off before the world quiets down.
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   by mmartinson 8y ago

   Thank you pg maintainers, you've made such a wonderful thing.
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   by mmartinson 8y ago

   Agree that Elixir and Erlang lend themselves well to this style, but I strongly disagree that everything written in them does or that the languages help enforce this pattern in any way. It's quiet the opposite really from what I'v
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   by mmartinson 8y ago

   Paul Graham's essays are a consistent joy to read.
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   by mmartinson 8y ago

   I seems to me like breaking ground on gimbal-free stabilization is the killer feature here, if it is impactful as the marketing video suggests. For mountain biking, much of the video captured is too shaky to really watch without it being su
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   by mmartinson 8y ago

   I think it's because you can give them money, and then be shooting incredible video 10 minutes later without much setup or hassle. Just like a small computer in an aluminum case with a good screen and camera, putting a few pieces toget
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   by mmartinson 8y ago

   Awesome. Thanks
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    by mmartinson 8y ago

    I think Elixir can be pretty easy for newcomers if they have the chance to work with someone who provides guidance on the OTP parts of the ecosystem. Immutable fp has a whole lot less weird stuff going on than some popular oo and imperative
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    by mmartinson 8y ago

    This is a tough one that takes some real work if it happens at all regularly. My experience with this has taught me that it can be extremely helpful to address this concern with the person asking for support, in person, and not while active
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    by mmartinson 8y ago

    sick burn
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    by mmartinson 8y ago

    Coming to Elixir/Erlang from Ruby, there is a whole new world of thing to break and horrible mistakes you can make. Fortunately, the language/VM also makes it a whole lot easier to fix the horrible new mistakes once you discover t
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    by mmartinson 8y ago

    I think I would also prefer there to be no reminding. On the topic of the pin operator though, it seems more clear to me that it's an assertive component of a match, rather than needing to reference all variables in a scope in the case
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    by mmartinson 8y ago

    Ya I get the sense the Erlang example is written a bad faith a little.
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    by mmartinson 8y ago

    Love this. As someone who has been playing casually for years with a few attempts to use scales and music theory to up my base understanding, this is something I could see myself using a lot. Having some labels or explainers for the differe
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    by mmartinson 8y ago

    Ya for sure. Without getting a debugger into the application code, it sometimes seems completely impossible to look at a piece of dynamic code you're not already familiar with and decide if it's going to work. I've found this
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    by mmartinson 8y ago

    While you have some good points, I'm not sure monolith and modularity are mutually exclusive. Some places I'm sure think some places think far ahead, and determine that the cost of microservices isn't worth the later benefit
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    by mmartinson 8y ago

    While it's obviously safer and super helpful to have a compiler guarantee that there are checks for all cases, having a non-exhaustive pattern match call still be a big improvement over imperative checking of specific fields for contro
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    by mmartinson 8y ago

    I think Nerves is cool because it really lowers the conceptual overhead for the cohort of web developers using Elixir to hack on hardware projects. There was a whole track on Nerves at ElixirConf in Bellevue last year, and I saw a ton of pe
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    by mmartinson 9y ago

    "Mr. Zaremba said big tech companies were offering him two or three times what he believed his real market value was" Seems this fellow knows a whole lot more about computers than he does markets hahaha
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    by mmartinson 9y ago

    This feels like it's straight out of The Corrections. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Corrections (If you haven't read this, stop everything you're doing and go find a copy)
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    by mmartinson 9y ago

    I've been see more Elixir/Erlang stuff on HN recently. It makes me happy. There's some useful stuff in here for sure. If this is your own blog post here is some feedback. - It contains a lot of very Phoenix-specific tips, tha
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    by mmartinson 9y ago

    Hahaha
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    by mmartinson 9y ago

    I feel like figuring out where a method is coming from to be a routine source of tedium and a massive gumption trap when working on Ruby projects. This, along with bugs rooted in hidden state mutations, far overshadows the time saving conve
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    by mmartinson 9y ago

    I would suggest Elixir/Phoenix if your priority is maintaining and scaling a business application. I would offer that suggestion with caution, though, if you're considering building a core skill set for employability today. A smal
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    by mmartinson 9y ago

    I think Rails helps developers make ok choices to the structuring of their application, particular if it's serving a domain that models easily into a fairly conventional RESTish-API relational data structure. The strongly-held conventi
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    by mmartinson 9y ago

    And specifically, thank you Postgres contributors and maintainers for your time and energy. You've done your community and peers an invaluable service.
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    by mmartinson 9y ago

    I've been spending a good part of a last year working on a chatbot with a very domain-specific scope, with that goal of arriving a product that delivers a modest but effective user experience. It's hard and it takes an unbelievabl
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    by mmartinson 9y ago

    I did a bootcamp fall 2014 in Vancouver. I got a couple decent job offers the week I finished, took one of them with a startup, and have been working there since. I had no professional experience before, but took 8 months off before the boo