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Intercom’s New AI Features(intercom.com)
5 points by hew 4y ago|0 comments
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by hew 5y ago
Three. :) Yeah, I don't get it. The delivery of the talk is a little.. pointed. But the perspective offered is incredibly compelling. And my work experiences -- both positive and negative -- are sympatico with so much said here.
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The Art of Destroying Software (2014) [video](vimeo.com)
23 points by hew 5y ago|4 comments
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by hew 6y ago
Can confirm, see same outage -- started about 20 minutes ago (US East).
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by hew 6y ago
One of my all time favorite talks in software.
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Expert reaction to naming of coronavirus disease: COVID-19, virus: SARS-CoV-2(sciencemediacentre.org)
1 points by hew 7y ago|0 comments
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by hew 7y ago
Yes, but it's woefully out of date. Fun fact -- Ian (maintainer) is/was a backend dev at Square Enix.
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The Art of Destroying Software(vimeo.com)
1 points by hew 7y ago|0 comments
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by hew 7y ago
Plug for this book when stepping beyond syntax (I'm just a satisfied reader): https://pragprog.com/book/jgotp/designing-elixir-systems-wit... It was hugely helpful to me in wrapping my head around something b
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by hew 7y ago
Learned on the job. Previous professional background PHP, JS. Beginner to what I think to be competent ("full stack", a range between infra and clustered prod deployments to page layouts in Phoenix LiveView) in about four months.
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by hew 7y ago
We're using it for "data-intensive realtime" (ish) apps at the moment. DIRT (h/t Bryan Cantrill? http://dtrace.org/resources/bmc/DIRT.pdf ) I hope to expand it to other more mundane CRUD-y micro
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by hew 7y ago
Intrinsic value of the company > devaluing cash pile (Presenting as "record stock growth" but in reality just trying to hold even value.)
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by hew 7y ago
FWIW, we try to be open about those processes just for that reason: https://automattic.com/work-with-us/how-we-hire-developers/
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Lumen: An alternative BEAM implementation, designed for WebAssembly(github.com)
13 points by hew 7y ago|0 comments
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by hew 7y ago
What pension fund?
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Elixir and the Beam: How Concurrency Works(medium.com)
4 points by hew 7y ago|0 comments
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by hew 7y ago
Deeply timezone aware, fluid UI to manage, granular time increments. IMO v1 is primarily about thoughtful multi-perspectival interactions. The Revolution is to come.
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Android Trojan steals money from PayPal accounts even with 2FA on(welivesecurity.com)
4 points by hew 8y ago|0 comments
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by hew 8y ago
Real goods -- like pieces of companies (stocks) or tangible assets (housing, etc). In my layman opinion -- the western central banks are in cahoots continually "soft landing" (optimistic) or manipulating (pessimistic) and at an ac
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by hew 8y ago
Currency devaluation (mostly)
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Class action lawsuit alleges Apple Watch screens are defective(patentlyapple.com)
2 points by hew 8y ago|0 comments
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by hew 8y ago
Not just 1995. Windows 10 spyware/crapware is a fundamental violation of the customer's interests in my book. EDIT: is/was, I've heard they turned some of it down supposedly.
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Greg Young – The Art of Destroying Software(vimeo.com)
2 points by hew 8y ago|0 comments
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by hew 9y ago
> The problem is that the OS upgrades invariably slow down older phones, so even if you're perfectly happy with your iPhone to begin with, it starts to act slow as it gets the newer OS's. This is a truism and from my experience
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by hew 9y ago
I don't buy a simple reliability narrative. I'm going to go with household income / cost divergence with a heavy salting of currency devaluation on top as "the real reason".
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Sperm counts among western men have halved in last 40 years(theguardian.com)
3 points by hew 9y ago|2 comments
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by hew 9y ago
This is a Walmart counterattack. Walmart is on the verge of capturing large swathes of busy "middle-class buyer" pickup orders. Amazon saw it and responded quickly.
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What is “brain hacking”? Tech insiders on why you should care(cbsnews.com)
1 points by hew 9y ago|0 comments
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by hew 9y ago
Neither. My background was all C family until I read PragProg and then stumbled over Elixir in a search for another language for edification.
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by hew 9y ago
Just such a joy to write both syntactically and conceptually. I wrote C to get through school. I wrote PHP to hack CRUD web apps. I write JS because it's ubiquitous and I'm required to. I write Elixir because I love to do it.

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