sotojuan

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by sotojuan 10y ago
This isn't going to change for years. If you want an Elixir job, go freelance.
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by sotojuan 10y ago
You said it yourself—Octave isn't trendy or cool.
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by sotojuan 10y ago
The way to get these out-of-the-norm gigs is to get good—so good they can't ignore you (to quote Cal Newport) or in this case that they'll say no because they need your skills. If you get good and are known to be good, you can ask
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by sotojuan 10y ago
> If you don't, you're free for whatever every evening. Sometimes a lot of "house chore"-y stuff requires going to places that are closed after you get home. Unless you have flexible-ish work start time (which many te
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by sotojuan 10y ago
Meh, I'll never understand how people can do this outside of financial need. As soon as I graduated college I got my own apartment (in NYC). Definitely worth the money.
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by sotojuan 10y ago
Welcome to programming with web technologies!
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by sotojuan 10y ago
> Gentleman's club This is what most closely resembles what I want! Of course, in 2017 it'd be for everyone. We could even be like those strange upper class British clubs that don't allow people to talk to each other.
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by sotojuan 10y ago
The web has a long time to catch up in terms of technology (iOS has poor support for APIs that would make web apps compete with native) and culture (most businesses don't care that their app is slow and bloated and defer resources to t
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by sotojuan 10y ago
> It's always packed and everyone brings a laptop. This is the problem with NYC coffee shops. They're place to go talk with a friend for a bit or for a first date. They're not really places to casually hang out all day.
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by sotojuan 10y ago
These are common in immigrant neighborhoods (especially Chinese)—plenty of "clubs" (not dancing clubs) with activities but also just places to hang out. Bakeries also fit this description in those neighborhoods.
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by sotojuan 10y ago
The problem is that React best practices have changed in the past year alone. Buying a book from say, early 2016 would be useless now.
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AVA 0.18(github.com)
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by sotojuan 10y ago
Angular 1.x app, if anyone's interested.
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by sotojuan 10y ago
I agree with you but FWIW there are both big (Bluebird) and small (pinky-promise) packages to promisify stuff.
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by sotojuan 10y ago
IMO promises and Bluebird made `async` obsolete.
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by sotojuan 10y ago
The last thing I want Elixir to be is shoehorned into the web app space and community of Ruby, but it seems inevitable. Oh well.
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by sotojuan 10y ago
That's fair, haven't really delved into NYC real state. That said, I've never seen or heard of a property (condo, house, apartment, etc) for a million in a desirable Manhattan location. Even in Park Slope or Sunset Park in Br
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by sotojuan 10y ago
Sadly a lot of exercism exercises boil down to Regex and are generally uninteresting. Practicing Elixir/Erlang means practicing OTP/distributed computing. The core language takes at most a week to learn.
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by sotojuan 10y ago
If you want to own property in Manhattan probably, or at least close to it. If you want to own property elsewhere (Brooklyn, Queens, SI, Bronx), you need to be upper middle class and have some savings—no millions needed though unless it&#x2
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by sotojuan 10y ago
I went to a college like this, albeit not as extreme as Trinity. I didn't pay tuition though. Most colleges like Trinity and my alma mater make money off wealthy but average students and international students. Both pay full price most
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by sotojuan 10y ago
Is there a reason they put old, dumb memes in some of their imagery? http://www.underconsideration.com/brandnew/archives/mozilla_...
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by sotojuan 10y ago
I've been much happier since quitting the Twitter/Medium bubble. I've limited my HN time as well.
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by sotojuan 10y ago
Yes, Rails isn't innocent in this (most web things aren't). Just wanted to give an example.
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by sotojuan 10y ago
Ember has never been the trendiest and hottest framework. It quietly sits in the back, takes what it can get from other frameworks and attempts to innovate on them (see FastBoot vs. the mess that is server-rendered React) while enjoying a s
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by sotojuan 10y ago
Unfortunately a lot of us in HN make our living writing thick clients that ultimately perform worse than server-rendered apps with little benefit. It's just too easy to find a front end dev job that pays well, at least where I live.
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by sotojuan 10y ago
My favorite part about Elixir is that it doesn't try to reinvent the wheel. It's not an untested, trendy new paradigm or tool. It's based on decades of Erlang/BEAM/OTP experience and Ruby/Rails/last 10~ ye
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by sotojuan 10y ago
Fair enough, but you can comment on here as well.
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by sotojuan 10y ago
I see this attitude even in NYC itself. A lot of people dislike the idea of taking the bus (even though it costs the same as the subway) for some reason.
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by sotojuan 10y ago
That's a fairly recentish development (40s-50s). See Who Framed Roger Rabbit? :-)
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by sotojuan 10y ago
It's funny because back home in Texas I'd drive that distance (in miles) regularly to do stuff with friends and think nothing of it. Take a taxi from Harlem to the Botanical Gardens when there's no traffic (so never, or at 3-

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