Southy

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by Southy 7y ago
> 0.1-0.2% FTFY! :D
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by Southy 7y ago
Cygwin is the best option because you can easily access all of the installed binaries for use with GUI emacs running in windows. But I don't consider that to be a real native option, it is some kind of weird halfway house that sort of
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by Southy 7y ago
Great response, I really like chicken when working on Mac or Linux, but it's windows (where I do most of my development) that it struggles. Some eggs just don't install and the error messages are really bad at that point. Trying t
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by Southy 9y ago
Agreed, people like DHL, FedEx and ParcelForce in the UK were not delivering packages when they said they would. There was a 3 month phase when I didn't recieve a single next day delivery on the next day. It is a very rare occurance no
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by Southy 9y ago
Sure I am, for a personal project, of which I have a couple, a $5 per month Digital Ocean droplet can run pretty much anything I will ever write. Professionally my company uses AWS, and I will concede that you might make a small saving usin
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by Southy 9y ago
Indeed, I work in many languages with many frameworks, and if my CTO decided that we were going to use Elixir then I would happily start using it. For me personally though, I can't see any advantages of using it over a JVM stack.
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by Southy 9y ago
I disagree that Elixir is easy to learn, the syntax ok, it's weird compared to most OO languages, but actually using OTP is a real paradigm shift that requires a totally different way of thinking about issues. I did not find that easy
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by Southy 9y ago
100% This. The use cases for OTP are actually quite narrow, despite what Erlang/Elixir evangelists tell you. Discord is a fantastic use for OTP. Writing a CRUD app with a couple of reactive/interactive pages for comments on videos
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by Southy 11y ago
It’s more usually referred to as pay2win