mrdoops

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by mrdoops 6y ago
Picking up Elixir is a decent way to get into backend distributed systems from a Ruby/Rails background.
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by mrdoops 6y ago
The runtime isn't designed for fast numerical computations, but rather I/O, concurrency, and robustness. You can however get the best of both worlds by orchestrating the fast numerical computations (C++/Rust/C) with Port
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by mrdoops 6y ago
A market's throughput is limited by the number of participating actors. If a large percentage of the population can't participate, the market's capability to price, evaluate and represent value is hindered. UBI makes sense fo
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by mrdoops 6y ago
Asking lots of questions and thinking through the trade offs of more than one possible implementation before coding. Writing your implementation plan on paper especially helps find those unknown unknowns before you code. If you have trouble
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by mrdoops 7y ago
Agreed. I guess my point is that we need to focus more on making declarative business rules systems more tenable as an approach in general. If we consider the framework + CRUD generators as the most productive way to build a web app (probab
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by mrdoops 7y ago
If the code is clear and it's documented that's probably the best option in most circumstances. The hurdles for making a tenable configuration / logic-as-data system are much higher. Expert/rule-based systems are hard, b
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by mrdoops 7y ago
This, along with the cost of development, is why I have a pet-peeve for hard-coded business logic directly in the code (in most cases). I.e. when a frequently changing business process like a finite state machine for an approval procedure i
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by mrdoops 7y ago
A few reasons. First is that developer's don't buy it, non-technicals do, and it's got serious vendor lock-in capability. The other reason is that an excel-formula-wizard-type user can basically google his/her way to bui
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by mrdoops 7y ago
This area of research is fascinating - my favorite part of research in this area last 6 months is finding DAGs everywhere. More or less Dataflow models work by lifting the computational dependencies into data and breaking each compute step
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by mrdoops 7y ago
The PLC/DCS/SCADA world hasn't really caught up to modern open-source software in a lot of cultural ways. Lots of proprietary components and "pay-to-learn" practices. I expect there's software-engineer types wh
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by mrdoops 7y ago
I'd like to see a 2 year study on absence of Omega-6 and/or Seed oils in the diet.
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by mrdoops 7y ago
Agreed. With 7nm fresh off the presses and 5nm on the way we're should start seeing some efficient SoC's to do the 3D mapping AR needs. Even if glasses aren't ready to be the primary interface - phones with the hardware to ac
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by mrdoops 7y ago
First thing I'd do is go through the Getting Started guide on the main page: https://elixir-lang.org/getting-started/introduction.html to get a feel for Elixir. For setting up an Elixir environment, I'd use A
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by mrdoops 7y ago
I was about 2 years into professional development when I started getting into Elixir. Recursion was a week or two of "err what?" then I got it. Functional composition is way easier to reason about than OOP design patterns (and sho
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by mrdoops 7y ago
What do y'all recommend for frequently updating charts i.e. streaming data sources with histograms, etc?
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by mrdoops 7y ago
They rolled out debounce and throttle fairly recently. There's also some very compelling work on a component abstraction (runs in same Liveview process).
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by mrdoops 7y ago
Most solar companies I know of do removal fees of some kind. Costs of operating past a certain point in the installation process make a fee-free cancellation a risky thing. Beyond Tesla's rental I'd also like to see combinations o
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by mrdoops 7y ago
Trial and error as a programmer dealing with depression and anxiety accounts for a lot, but for resources I'd point you to Robert Sapolsky's lectures on Behavioral Biology (here: https://youtu.be/NNnIGh9g6fA ). Sap
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by mrdoops 7y ago
Motivation is usually a product of mental health. Mental health is a product of a variety of things like work-life-balance, good sleep, healthy diet, physical exercise, and measured progression towards realistic goals. Optimize and improve
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by mrdoops 7y ago
Yeah, at the very least I expect to see Processes used like Liveview when you need containers/reactors to state and/or run-time control for messages between components. I wonder if an approach like Svelte ( https://githu
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by mrdoops 7y ago
My favorite part about the presentation was the correlations between the DOM tree and a supervision tree. If you've looked into the Scenic project ( https://github.com/boydm/scenic ) you know how this Process &
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by mrdoops 7y ago
Productivity is subjective to what's important for the team or organization. I can be productively wasting time if that's my goal. A 10x programmer with superhuman coding powers doesn't really exist, but a programmer who deli
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by mrdoops 7y ago
I find the key point to language adoption is that self-selection that occurs. What type of person and their personality does an ecosystem attract and what is that type of person good at? The BEAM ecosystem is all about fault-tolerance, dist
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by mrdoops 7y ago
Syntax is a subjective concern for sure. My experience has been that Erlang takes a little more effort and time to read fluidly, but only when first learning. I think this is because Erlang uses visually subtle tokens for important language
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by mrdoops 7y ago
Using the Lightning Web Components without the Salesforce back-end is a compelling idea. The design system is well tuned for standard business requirements (rich data-tables, modals, forms, etc.). If there's a good story around using t
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by mrdoops 7y ago
For sure. If there are two flavors of OOP: the Imperative OOP we're familiar with (Ruby, Java, Python, etc.) and the Message oriented variety that Alan Kay described, then Elixir/Erlang are more the Message Oriented flavor. While
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by mrdoops 7y ago
How to you intend to account for merit and credibility across data sources? The way I see it we've scaled our communication of information far beyond are ability to scale our assessment of credibility and merit of said information. Thi
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by mrdoops 7y ago
My bet is LiveView will become the king of the fast prototype. It doesn't do SPA, but it does damn near everything else with ease and so few lines of code.
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by mrdoops 8y ago
Long term I'd like to see what sort of an effect using their own Semi's for delivery would bring. Self driving or not having a fully consolidated supply chain you can tune and rollout for your own needs is a lot of leverage. Logis
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by mrdoops 8y ago
You want a couple things for an engineering laptop: Linux support, good hardware (screen, keyboard, build, trackpad, etc), and enterprise guarantees. XPS sort of does that, but you're still dealing with Dell which has it's own hic

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