richjdsmith

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by richjdsmith 7y ago
There is a no-sail zone quite near the coast of Grenada due to an active underwater volcano. The volcano is called Kick 'em Jenny and has sunk numerous boats over the years. On one instance it sunk a boat and killed 60 people.
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by richjdsmith 7y ago
That's incredible. Which province are you from? I know that over the 6 years I spent in Alberta (I'm from BC), I was always shaking my head at how much worse their healthcare was than it was back home in BC. It really is a crying
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by richjdsmith 7y ago
When I first looked at Phoenix ~18 months ago, I was a fairly fresh developer and couldn't figure out the separation of Views and Templates (coming from Rails). I'm just now going through the Programming Phoenix 1.4 book and it&#x
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by richjdsmith 7y ago
Too little too late. Google says this today, until they change their mind 18 month from now - as Google does.
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by richjdsmith 7y ago
I doubt I will forget the time I first booted up an Elixir Phoenix server and got something like `[info] Sent 200 in 409µs` and stared at that `µs` for a while before it dawned on my that that was the symbol for microseconds. I was so used
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by richjdsmith 7y ago
Before Windows 8 made anti-viruses obsolete, they used to offer AVG for around half the price it was online. I'm not sure any longer because I haven't found the need to install one since then.
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by richjdsmith 7y ago
Out of curiosity, are you actually from a small town? If so, what was it that everyone knew everyone? The town I grew up in was around 20,000 people. While I absolutely ran into people I knew when out doing errands, I don't think it wa
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by richjdsmith 7y ago
Submit it. I wholeheartedly agree!
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by richjdsmith 7y ago
Damn.... I wish I'd seen this literally yesterday.
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by richjdsmith 7y ago
Wait what? Can you give me a source or further reading on this?
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by richjdsmith 7y ago
That's really sad - he will be sorely missed by the Erlang and Elixir community, and probably the entire programming community as a whole.
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by richjdsmith 7y ago
That's hardly worse than anything done against your privacy in Chrome...
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by richjdsmith 7y ago
This is awesome and absolutely hilarious!
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by richjdsmith 8y ago
Boy, I'm not sure quite why, but the idea of a spreadsheet with nearly 2 million cells stresses me out... Why that over a DB?
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by richjdsmith 8y ago
How often does that break the internet with our "modern" always-build-spa's world?
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by richjdsmith 8y ago
Thanks for this!
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by richjdsmith 8y ago
In fact, last time I was living in Alberta but regularly driving to BC a couple years ago, it was cheaper to buy most beers/wines in BC, and nearly the same on hard alcohol (mostly because of Costco liquor stores being available in AB
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by richjdsmith 8y ago
Same. Love the ideas happening in Notion, but until I can go from idea to having it in my phone in less time than it takes for me to find a pen and paper, I'll stick with other tools.
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by richjdsmith 8y ago
I don't know, I just arrived in Paris night and immediately after stepping out of Garre Du Nord, I was walloped with an overwhelming scent of urine. Not that far off.
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by richjdsmith 8y ago
>To learn a pure functional language is almost to start learning programming from scratch. I think this is exactly it. When I decided to try Elixir, I figured it'd be just a bit more effort than trying out any other OO language. It
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by richjdsmith 8y ago
The UK is already there. My VPN was blocked recently and I had to go to my network provider with my ID to prove my age(?!) so I could access my VPN again. I was not impressed.
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by richjdsmith 8y ago
Sikhs are some of my favorite fellow Canadians. The Sikh community puts a lot of effort into really integrating into the Canadian culture and it shows.
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by richjdsmith 8y ago
Great video! I don't suppose there is an online version of your presentation for Tout est terrible[1] is there? I looked but couldn't find one. Ca va si c'est suelement en francais. [1]: https://ferd.ca/tout-e
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by richjdsmith 8y ago
I tried Elixir back during the period that the Phoenix framework (the real draw - for me personally - to Elixir) was transitioning between v1.2 and v1.3. Trying to figure it out while things were changing - the documentation hadn't eve
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by richjdsmith 8y ago
I'm sure companies are thrilled to take advantage of our low programmer salaries compared to our neighbors to the south. Until that divide is narrowed though, I see no reason Canadian talent will stay in Canada.
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by richjdsmith 8y ago
Not sure why you're getting downvoted. This is absolutely a cause. Anecdotally, my parents did well during the recession using it as a time to purchase assets "on sale" as my dad put it. Now, 10 years later they've done
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by richjdsmith 8y ago
Just curious, do you think hell.js with its node_modules filled with (sometimes) thousands of unmaintained or non-versioned dependencies will age any slower?
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by richjdsmith 8y ago
Adding a services directory with logic moved out from my models into POROs helped a lot for taming the mess.
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by richjdsmith 8y ago
Every single time I remember that Pakistan is a nuclear power, I am a bit worried. It's certainly in a top 5 position of countries I'd rather not have access to nuclear weapons.
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by richjdsmith 8y ago
That's the issue. Frankly, if I could donate or pay to use Telegram and in exchange, it was open-sourced so I could be sure I wasn't the product, I'd have my wallet out in a heartbeat.

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