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by antipax 10y ago
Yes, it absolutely is an improvement over erlang-style tuples IMO, and it also vastly improves the interoperability story between the stdlib, date/time/calendar libs, and database libs.
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by antipax 10y ago
Quite hard, in fact. My own personal experience doesn't matter much, though, because ultimately Elixir is Erlang and obviously Erlang has been pushed extremely hard in production (Klarna, Heroku, Riot Games, etc.).
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by antipax 10y ago
Super excited for this release. I have to say that learning and using Elixir has been more pleasant than any other language I have ever worked with. Code is easy to follow due to the functional nature of the language, and the community is o
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Elixir's (Almost) Insane Flexibility: “Mutable” Iteration via Macros(ericent.in)
4 points by antipax 10y ago|0 comments
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by antipax 14y ago
What? `heroku run bash` also works and is shorter.
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by antipax 14y ago
Apple will have to respond to this, I think. This is really what the possibility of mobile computing is, not just our information anywhere we want it.
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by antipax 14y ago
This creates a remote (in this case just another directory on your local machine) and you have to push to it, rather than your commits and changes instantly being synced to dropbox
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by antipax 14y ago
Reminds me of parsec in Haskell: http://book.realworldhaskell.org/read/using-parsec.html
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by antipax 14y ago
Agreed on your last point. I stopped reading halfway through because of all the (questionable) assumptions the author made. I'm a massive fan of Obj-C and I think it could be a great tool for web development, but (other than potential advan
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by antipax 14y ago
Read these rules for the Xanadu project: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Xanadu#Original_17_rule... and to me, at least, it becomes very clear why the WWW won the race.
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by antipax 14y ago
Great write-up, thanks.
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by antipax 14y ago
Biggest problem with these games (I've found, anyway) is that your sword controller cannot magically stop in mid air when your virtual sword hits another sword or a wall or whatever. It really ruins the immersion.
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by antipax 14y ago
I'd argue it's already been disrupted by rap.
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Coursekit is now Lore(lore.com)
33 points by antipax 14y ago|26 comments
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by antipax 15y ago
Hope that when the "smart grid" or whatever you want to call it does come around, it comes with the electricity equivalent of net neutrality.
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by antipax 15y ago
The Spotify app does it, so I imagine it can if it's been implemented.
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by antipax 15y ago
Pretty hilarious, considering the author of "node.js is cancer" works for eBay
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by antipax 15y ago
Yup, I was only talking about the "fish operators" as he calls them.
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by antipax 15y ago
It's not actually syntax. The language allows you to define infix operators, and they're just functions like any other with full documentation searchable on hoogle: http://www.haskell.org/hoogle/
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by antipax 15y ago
To be fair, monadic code does not necessarily have side effects. It's just a useful way of thinking about computational steps. `Maybe` is a monad that is completely pure and has no side effects: http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/
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by antipax 15y ago
Just tried to find a Snap HTTP header on ladygaga.com. Couldn't find it. Definitely curious, do you have any more detail about what they used it for?
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by antipax 15y ago
Haskell web frameworks are maturing rapidly and the language is a joy to work in, once you learn how to approach problems in it. Haskell has probably not reached the peak of it's popularity yet (and frankly it's overdue for some mainstream
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by antipax 15y ago
I just used it at work to build an ad server. For a web app that has a few well defined features, Snap is awesome and fast, and working in Haskell is totally a joy. It doesn't have the high level functionality that a web framework like rail
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by antipax 15y ago
call a function taking no arguments without using (): foo = do myfunction
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by antipax 15y ago
Cool. I don't know that I'd call them sensible in general, though, even if they are sensible for you. Disabling disk image verification permanently, for instance, is probably a bad idea. Expanded save/load panel by default is awesome, thoug
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by antipax 15y ago
Uh, looks exactly like the new Safari downloads window.
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Live stream of team coding and drawing RPG in 14 days for charity(twitch.tv)
9 points by antipax 15y ago|1 comments
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by antipax 15y ago
To be fair, not really an easter egg.
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by antipax 15y ago
Kod ( http://kodapp.com/ ) has a node.js-based integrated scripting environment, but I don't know if plugin functionality reaches the power you describe, and I'm not even certain there are any third-party plugins. It would be incredibly p
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by antipax 16y ago
If you have Gmail, you can actually use yourusername+someuniquestringidentifyingwhoyougaveyouraddressto@gmail.com which will still direct all email to your inbox. However, if you decide you no longer want email from a sender, you can simply

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