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by shijie 1mo ago
I'm fairly certain you just replied to the author
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by shijie 1y ago
Not an inaccurate title, but very hard to parse!
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by shijie 2y ago
Irrationally, I always think that posts like this are about me in my own role at work. Thankfully, I’m not this out of my depth. My impostor syndrome has decreased by 6% today.
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by shijie 3y ago
I recently went down the rabbit hole to find a dumb TV. It was surprisingly difficult. I ended up with a Sceptre 65 inch TV, to which I’ve plugged in a rooted, jailbroken Chromecast. It’s been awesome. The TV is fast to boot up, responsive,
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by shijie 3y ago
Something I’ve learned as someone with high proficiency in another language that I learned in adulthood (I would never say fluent, maybe “functionally” fluent): Poor pronunciation (I.e. thick accent) but good grammar is usually more forgive
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by shijie 3y ago
In this context I meant “all but” == “everything except” i.e it is almost impossible. Are you saying it means the opposite of how I used it? I’m not certain what you mean.
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by shijie 3y ago
This is untrue. https://thinkingelixir.com/elixir-in-the-type-system-quadran... .
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by shijie 3y ago
The language is still strongly typed, and with the language being purely functional, I found myself not missing static typing nearly as much as I thought I would. Things just work, and they break during compilation if they don’t. I will say
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by shijie 3y ago
We’re experiencing this at my place of work. Our backend stack is Python, and coming from an Elixir/Phoenix background, adding a durable queue to our infrastructure should be trivial but because of the nature of Python, it is all but
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by shijie 3y ago
It tripped my “trying to hard to write eloquent, witty prose” senses. I proofread a lot of papers in college and wrote a lot of columns in the school newspaper. This is a common style. Thesaurus-driven word choice.
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by shijie 4y ago
It seems that every ShowHN that features an Elixir project is well-polished, has a sensical API, and has friendly, solid documentation. Is this a function of the nature of the language, the community, or a mix of both?
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by shijie 4y ago
As someone going through a horrible divorce, replete with custody fights and the whole nine yards, I’d still say that you’re thinking about this wrong. I am the father of a three-year-old girl. I would go through my marriage a thousand time
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by shijie 4y ago
> Why does everyone leave out the important details?? Most people are more interested in a narrative than they are the truth.
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by shijie 4y ago
Not every critical or mean-spirited comment is bigotry. You got your fee-fees hurt because there’s probably some truth to the comment, even if it’s mean. Buck up, quit complaining, prove the parent comment wrong in your day-to-day work. Rig
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by shijie 4y ago
I’m not aware how prevalent this technique is in Japan, but here in the US it is totally unheard of. I watched the whole video. What an exquisite result. So impressive. It makes me realize the level to which some people dedicate toward thei
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by shijie 5y ago
So for parents of phone-using-age kids, what is your tactic for healthily limiting screen time? Behavioral, technological, etc… As the father of a 2 1/2 year-old, I’d love to hear suggestions, even though this scenario for me is a few
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by shijie 5y ago
Yes, basically. Fun fact: Blazor and LiveView were developed independently, around the same time as each other! Just two similar implementations in disparate communities.
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by shijie 5y ago
I’m going through this right now. I’ve done everything I could to try and save the marriage. My spouse is on the warpath. We have a 2 year-old daughter. I would be willing to work on myself and expect nothing in return for the rest of my li
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by shijie 5y ago
I was also struck with commenter’s swift label of her apology a “non-apology.” I’ve seen this on Twitter and elsewhere. It’s basically a proxy for “I don’t think you’ve suffered enough to be forgiven.” And that strikes me as honestly a litt
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by shijie 5y ago
This just seems like a rather clever permutation of ad hominem. “The reason I won’t refute your argument is that it is so incorrect that it would take me forever to explain why.”
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by shijie 5y ago
I have had a completely opposite experience during the last 5+ years as full-time Elixir dev, but I can empathize with running into a few scenarios where some library wasn't implemented in Elixir, or the library you want to use is no l
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by shijie 6y ago
Lowdefy looks great. I'm currently looking for something like Django Admin that isn't necessarily a part of Django (I'm an Elixir dev myself). Have you used Lowdefy extensively? Pros and cons? Limitations? Are you involved wi
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by shijie 6y ago
This is a great list of suggestions. Also, Halo CE is one of the greatest multiplayer games of all time. My friends and I still play Halo CE (NHE) on LAN all the time.
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by shijie 6y ago
I would say that with SO, amortized consensus is fine due to there being a "right" answer to a technical problem or question (more or less). Twitter deals mainly in the market of human opinion, which is necessarily far more nuance
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by shijie 6y ago
As a daily user of Elixir since 2016, having come from a Python/Django background, I can assure you that you can know very little about OTP/Beam and still be immensely productive. But once you learn the underlying concepts that gi
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by shijie 6y ago
Do you eat nose-to-tail? I hear a lot about people’s carnivore diets and they sound mostly like an “animal flesh diet,” which is lacking in myriad key micronutrients. It seems one would absolutely need to supplement animal flesh with kidney
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by shijie 6y ago
My thoughts exactly! As the Elixir code at my company continues to grow at a rapid rate, writing OTP services for everything has allowed me to never have to think about entire classes of bugs and edge cases simply by virtue of the patterns
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by shijie 6y ago
I’m surprised to hear that you believe this to be a myth. The only sources claiming this to be a myth seem to be popular news sites referencing each other in a circular fashion. Here’s a detailed study on the matter: https://www.
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by shijie 6y ago
Citing RationalWiki as your source doesn’t lend a great amount of credence to your argument. That section on Quillette sounds like it was written by an angry teenager. Maybe you could cite Wikipedia instead: https://en.m.wikipedi
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by shijie 6y ago
I would imagine Quillette, being a conservative-leaning publication, routinely disagrees with this person’s socio-political beliefs, so ad hominem must necessarily be used.

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