mrdoops

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by mrdoops 8y ago
Generate a temporary link that, when clicked sends an event to your system to deprecate the link and redirect the user to a presigned S3 download. In my case the file attachment was the product and it was important the system know when some
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by mrdoops 8y ago
There's different kinds of "fast" is the problem. Are you juggling lots of messages concurrently and orchestrating across complex topologies of nodes? A BEAM language is going to excel. That's why Whatsapp, Discord, and
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by mrdoops 8y ago
I'm liking the trend of designing runtime-behaviour agnostic libraries in Elixir. We get such powerful runtime capabilities with OTP, but indulged in the wrong context our cool OTP processes can be imposing assumptions onto our users.
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by mrdoops 8y ago
It's not strictly a per-company problem. The incentives are for per-watt i.e. bigger system = bigger commission for the company instead of maximizing customer savings with Solar. The incentives don't align customers, sales, utilit
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by mrdoops 8y ago
It's really easy to use Erlang libraries in Elixir. It's nice to be able to tap into an ecosystem with Erlang's maturity while still using modern tooling like Elixir.
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by mrdoops 8y ago
But what of the newbie developer? Is he/she going to just roll their own dependencies and do so in a way that's tenable? Green developers make up most of the category. I guess I was trying to approach a few concerns beyond just de
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by mrdoops 8y ago
The way I see it, our over-dependency (sorry for overloading the phrase) on Javascript as the de-facto web language has the pendulum far in one direction. How much longer can we keep this up? What's the maximum capacity of a developer
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by mrdoops 8y ago
Elm will be amazing when it doesn't have to compile to Javascript.
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by mrdoops 8y ago
I disagree a smart contract language is without value to business - but I agree it's speculative and unclear at the moment. The best we can do is look at cloud platform and programming language maturation/adoption to get a feel fo
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by mrdoops 8y ago
Tends to take 12 years for a programming language with traction to really take hold. Maybe 4-6 years for the language to reach maturity so long as it was well-designed and implemented; given early adopter feedback is present. Smart Contract
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by mrdoops 8y ago
That's the issue. How do you solve merit without an Orwellian system monitoring everything everyone does? Without some kind of capability for privacy-respecting decentralized systems - solving for Merit is a function of dystopia.
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by mrdoops 8y ago
The Gig Economy hasn't even started yet. We've yet to solve Identity (Who is this?) and Merit (Is this person qualified/competent?). Hell, we've only barely started decentralized finance let alone scalable-decentralized-
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by mrdoops 8y ago
Take something like Augmented Reality, there's a lot for the imagination to run with like reduced dependencies on physical location for high-fidelity communication (less text, more full-body expression). Or we could imagine dynamic tut
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by mrdoops 8y ago
I think my most valuable career choices have come from imagining what potential sci-fi futures could be. What sort of stories would be told given some technological problems solved in the coming years? Then I look for the problems that are
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by mrdoops 8y ago
Agreed. The BEAM run-time and the preemptive scheduler implementation is designed to never block and keep chugging a long; highly desirable for the Actor model. The trade-off is you're further from the metal and raw-compute isn't
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by mrdoops 8y ago
Between pattern matching and typespecs you get a lot of the "hey you're doing something wrong" checks at compile time to avoid errors. Definitely not a complete solution; a language like OCaml or F# will be better if you&#x27
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by mrdoops 8y ago
I'd try building a small service or set of subscriber/workers to start. Messaging infrastructure and API clients are a good place to get a feel for the language. Ideally something that can benefit from the concurrency and stabilit
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by mrdoops 8y ago
If your app is going to do anything real-time with lots of messaging or reactive / live behavior, then Elixir is going to hit it out of the park. There's a reason Discord and Whatsapp are using the BEAM.
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by mrdoops 8y ago
Taken further we find the problem of bottlenecked economic throughput or market participation due to the poor's access to capital. Markets thrive on distributed inputs to arrive at a consensus on value - the more participants participa
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by mrdoops 8y ago
Seems like Toyota Connected has similar projects in development - although maybe more focused for on-demand capabilities. Electric and self-driving capabilities aside - this sort of service subscription seems to have no major technological
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by mrdoops 8y ago
What's stopping existing car companies from doing direct sales like Tesla? Removing barriers to customers giving you money is generally a win. How many Tesla's were purchased in the last year that wouldn't have been if the st
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by mrdoops 8y ago
Pattern matching would be nice in this scenario. Would help with isolating responsibility by breaking out the if statements into functions responsible only for the case they know to handle. The additional opportunities to name with more gra
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by mrdoops 8y ago
Be careful. Elixir is the gateway drug to OTP. There's no going back once you get that taste of sweet sweet Actor-model concurrency.
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by mrdoops 8y ago
I wonder to what extent the data being fed to these models are the issue. Or rather the problem is the systems that generate these data-sets and how representative of reality they are. If we make an app that involves humans and that data is
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by mrdoops 8y ago
What kind of crucial infrastructure and components are made of the same plastics consumed by said bacteria/fungi? If it was released to just consume plastic what kind of damage could it do? Can we engineer such a thing just for ocean p
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by mrdoops 8y ago
Bottleneck to PV is battery capacity. For Solar to meet peak demands and replace fossil fuels there has to be storage capacity and likely a fair bit of investment into grid infrastructure to meet volatile productions. Getting utility compan
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by mrdoops 8y ago
When municipal fiber started moving into Utah, CenturyLink was a big offender of paying off local authorities to restrict and limit deployment. Lots of cities and areas didn't get upgraded for that reason. Less customers for fiber mea
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by mrdoops 8y ago
Maybe a CRDT or Operational Transform?
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by mrdoops 8y ago
Go is a language designed to take CS college graduates to productive engineers at Google with as little fuss as possible. Considering it was designed for an organization in the scope of Google, it's less likely to be the best option fo
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by mrdoops 8y ago
The worst part of Elixir is when you're working with other languages and you know it'd be better in Elixir.

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