tmat

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by tmat 9y ago
So build your own things and do it your own way. I find that is what works best for me. Put food on the table through contracting, build my own things around the contracts to provide recurring revenue. Keep going till it's enough. I ha
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by tmat 9y ago
your team is to dumb to be in charge of other peoples money.. Bought cannabis seeds(in a legal state) with coins I bought at coinbase(sent to another wallet, then purchased..) 3 years later I get an email saying my account has been closed d
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Non-technical founders should outsource their MVP(blog.grillwork.io)
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by tmat 9y ago
This happened to me as well, the only way I was able to get above that plateau was to go freelance and start my own thing. Charging a fair market value for my time. Best decision I ever made.
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Let go of that legacy system, it's costing you a fortune(blog.grillwork.io)
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by tmat 9y ago
Well in my situation Phoenix is really overkill. I don't build monolithic apps anymore. To me Phoenix felt lake taking Ruby and slapping it on Elixir. It didn't really feel like, "The Elixir Way." So I set out and learne
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by tmat 9y ago
Yep, that's exactly it. I'm just not very eloquent ;)
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by tmat 9y ago
Yes, but I can run a Elixir app at scale far far far cheaper than I can a Ruby app.
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by tmat 9y ago
I discussed moving my companies chat to discord because its a better experience than Slack in every way. They wouldn't go for it because it's marketing is so gamer oriented and wouldn't look professional when we invite clien
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by tmat 9y ago
We're an Elixir shop and I wouldn't change it for the world. We're betting on it heavily.
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by tmat 9y ago
I think what I learned the most about my past year of working heavily in Elixir is this.. Don't learn elixir.. learn Erlang/OTP if you really want to harness the power of Elixir. Elixir is nothing but a series of macros which give
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by tmat 9y ago
In my experience so far and what I was told was bank on 1000hrs worked in a year.. figure out how much you want to make in that many hours. You need to triple your FTE salary because insurance, taxes, and savings(401k)). For me that comes t
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by tmat 9y ago
in the US in my first year, full time contracting I did 130k on right at 1200 hours worked. I'm on pace to do the same this year working mostly 20-30hr weeks. The rest of the time I'm spending working on my own projects and hopefu
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by tmat 9y ago
there are clear value adds to sass i find.. not so much w/ coffeescript.. sass is more than just syntax sugar.
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by tmat 9y ago
as a react/redux developer i tend to write very functional javascript.. We had a CTO try and ram TypeScript into the project and it went over like a fart in church.
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by tmat 9y ago
having access to the webpack config to set things up the way I like and such. I've also had issues with getting SCSS to work before I eject as well pretty continuously through the versions.. not sure why.
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by tmat 9y ago
love create-react-app, to get up and running but I've never liked keeping it that way.. I've found ejecting and forging forward from the base react app is best.
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by tmat 9y ago
we're talking about 3-4 seconds here.
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by tmat 9y ago
So what you're saying is because some people abuse dogs, no people should be able to own dogs.. TIME TO BAN DOG OWNERSHIP!
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by tmat 9y ago
no never.. it's to easy to get at least something basic up.
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by tmat 9y ago
ah gotcha ya were on the same page lol..
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by tmat 9y ago
nice! good luck...
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by tmat 9y ago
heaven forbid they have to follow immigration laws.
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by tmat 9y ago
sad and pathetic, some really great speakers but I wouldn't go near that shit hole and I sure as fuck wouldn't pay because I'm a straight white male.
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by tmat 9y ago
fantastic pov.. thanks for sharing
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by tmat 9y ago
I love the excitement coming out of the elixir community.. it really shows. can't wait to see what you're working on.. phoenix app or something else? we do straight elixir / plug api with a separate node/react front end.
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by tmat 9y ago
concurrency will always limit ruby.. it will never ever get there and that's ok because that's not ruby's goal.
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by tmat 9y ago
for the same reason kids come out of college woefully prepared to build software in the real world. college is an absolutely horrible environment to learn programming. programming should have a journeyman apprentice program like electrician
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by tmat 9y ago
best thing those of us championing elixir can do is build apps in elixir that need to be maintained.. the more elixir apps in the wild, the more jobs we can create. my studio is doing all of our greenfield backend work in elixir and we&#x27
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by tmat 9y ago
I was kidding that's what we're doing.. I run a studio focusing on elixir, react, and react native. we started as a ruby shop.

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