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by neya 7y ago
I started out re-writing the core of Wordpress to Elixir around last year. Once of the decisions I had to make was with databases. I started out with flat files as well and realized they can quickly grow complex when you have more than a ha
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by neya 7y ago
Before Elixir, I considered Scala because static typing was a strict requirement for me. After I tried Elixir, I found out that good, reliable and maintainable code doesn't have to be necessarily static typed.
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by neya 7y ago
Thank you HN. If you're interested, I'm actually documenting my journey as a consultant building ideas on Elixir at https://medium.com/build-ideas/ Thank you.
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by neya 7y ago
Ok, I've heard of Haskell and I've been to many Haskell meetups too. This was before I found Elixir. For me, the biggest problem with Haskell is that it will turn cryptic if you don't touch the codebase for say, 6 months. Bec
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by neya 7y ago
Yup, launching soon. Probably will open source it too.
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by neya 7y ago
I was a Rails user for almost a decade. I switched to Phoenix/Elixir 3 years ago. Elixir is a super simple language. It has no OO concepts and everything is functions first. In fact, it's so good that I started teaching it for uni
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Gates Foundation, WHO and Wuhan Institute of Virology Allegedly Hacked(twitter.com)
4 points by neya 7y ago|0 comments
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by neya 7y ago
They're pretty similar, but Vue enforces structure and good patterns early on in the development cycle. React gives you more freedom. I've been a consultant using both for over 3 years now, full time and I can tell you I just use
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by neya 7y ago
> The current entry level iPhone; iPhone SE 2020 with A13 is now faster in Single Threaded performance than ALL current shipping Android, including Flagship Android. And judging by the Qualcomm roadmap, this will likely remain the same i
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by neya 7y ago
https://medium.com/build-ideas I started writing about engineering, code, electronics, audio mostly. The idea of my blog is to help other people build their ideas (Hence the name). It started out as a blog to help newcomers
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by neya 7y ago
Let me give you another perspective - I own a Suzuki SX4 S-Cross that comes with a fluid, super responsive and intuitive touchscreen with voice commands in it, which can also be controlled from the steering. You can do stuff like ask to cal
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by neya 7y ago
Not just that Apple has actually started to sell users' data to Goldman Sachs as well. The worst part is, this is opt-in. Not opt out. And opt out is incredibly so backward that you need to email some address instead of just clicking a
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by neya 7y ago
Every GitHub repository with a `readme.md` file formatted with Markdown would disagree and proves otherwise. Markdown solves 90% of the problem, which is more than good enough.
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by neya 7y ago
Call me old school if you like, but the cleaner solution in my eyes are to create well-defined CSS classes for such margins and use them in my designs. <div class="margin-10">..</div> <div class=&quot
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Ask HN: What if the internet goes down? What's plan B?
3 points by neya 7y ago|1 comments
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by neya 7y ago
You mean a watch you can't use to see the time as frequently as a normal mechanical watch or the battery would die?
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by neya 7y ago
That's super useful, thank you very much for sharing!
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by neya 7y ago
Which product? Cloud Storage?? Is there Cloud CDN (or some other CDN) on top? If not, it's not surprising. With a proper CDN setup (say with Cloudflare) that number should be much lower than that of Netlify. Particularly with Cloudfla
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by neya 7y ago
I am an experienced user and avid customer of Netlify. Netlify is amazing for small sites, blogs and what not. But as you go up in traffic, that's when you start to realize how over-priced their charges are, atleast for bandwidth. I&#x
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by neya 7y ago
> They pride themselves in craftsmanship. Designing a good logo is also craftsmanship.
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by neya 7y ago
I know this sounds crazy, but for E-Commerce, you never go with all these third party "platforms" as your sole business strategy. 1. First of all, you can't differentiate much in terms of offering and most of the time, you&#x
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by neya 7y ago
I can totally see the value of Tailwind UI, and as an experienced user of UIKIT ( https://www.getuikit.com ), I don't see much difference, to be honest. Can someone please help me understand what is so good about Tailwind UI
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by neya 7y ago
I don't know if it's just me, the background image of the app just gave me a paedophile-ish vibe
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by neya 7y ago
> Maybe a sensationalist title The article is specifically about iPhone 11 pro (which is one of the newest phones from Apple). What's so sensationalist about it to demonstrate potential health hazards using a newly launched phone at
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iPhone 11 Pro Emits Twice the Amount of Radiation for Safe Use(popularmechanics.com)
99 points by neya 7y ago|25 comments
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by neya 7y ago
How to optimise front end apps? Don't use pure javascript based frontend. Do all normal crud apps on regular server side code. Eg. A normal rails CRUD app is much faster even with the intermediate page loads factored in, than a heavy r
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by neya 7y ago
Sorry if it came across as this way, this has nothing to do with her gender. I would have said the exact same thing even if it was a male author and I mean it.
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by neya 7y ago
On another note, I hate posts from Rachel. My opinion is from reading a dozen posts from her blog by now. It's usually about complaining of fellow colleagues and her employers. I would really hate to be her colleague. I've never s
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Chinese spy spills secrets that expose communist party espionage [video](youtube.com)
2 points by neya 7y ago|0 comments
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by neya 7y ago
I was just watching this documentary the other day and I am actually not surprised. For anyone interested in this topic, should really have a look at this documentary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdR-I35Ladk

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