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by thedoops 8y ago
Scala and Akka are... less simple. It's also not like the actor model takes over the whole paradigm. Actors are largely a runtime concern. You're still using modules and functions. The JVM is also less suited to implementing an Ac
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by thedoops 8y ago
If all you're doing is CRUD apps, there's not much more to gain from Elixir. But if you're doing things like pulling in Redis or Sidekiq, or building around realtime use cases - Elixir has so much more to give you.
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by thedoops 8y ago
I've found CQRS and DDD designs fit well with OTP and elixir. The actor model with pattern matching ends up cutting away a lot of the classical OOP DDD details. The issue I see is carryover from other ecosystems taking paradigms that a
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by thedoops 8y ago
Different tools for different jobs. Rust is more of a systems language for close to metal performance and memory safety. Elixir is memory safe from a functional perspective utilizing the actor model. Elixir is good for real time concurrency
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by thedoops 8y ago
Good rule of thumb is that the best production per panel ratio to get the most utility consumption offset (so you drop to the lowest tier) will return the most savings. Shaded or North facing panels in the northern hemisphere are almost nev
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by thedoops 8y ago
Pattern matching is a good fit for lambda use cases.
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by thedoops 8y ago
Like alcohol, if weed is taken close to bedtime it will interfere with the sleep cycle. I wonder how much of the cognitive impact is sleep related?
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by thedoops 8y ago
Deployment and configuration is among the top priorities from both the core team and the community from what I can tell. There's been a lot of discussion about it and some resources being dedicated in the last year. So only a matter of
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by thedoops 8y ago
In Elixir+Phoenix you get all the CRUD conveniences as in other frameworks, but you also get trivial Reactive/real-time capabilities that would get very hairy in something like Rails.
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by thedoops 8y ago
The Star's My Destination by Alfred Bester (also known as Tiger Tiger). Really great Count of Monte Cristo type plot with teleportation and a great antihero. I'm surprised it hasn't been adapted to film or long form series ye
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by thedoops 8y ago
I'm cautiously anticipating Lenovo's announcement of the P1 which will supposedly ship with the intel+Vega chip. Rumors are that same chip will be used in the next Gen MacBooks. They're also working on some Ryzen cpu model eq
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by thedoops 8y ago
Elixir is an absolute pleasure. The benefits of Ruby's developer experience with a maintainable, scalable backbone.
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by thedoops 8y ago
You're right. Salesforce is a big, complicated, multi-tenant, CRUD application coupled to an Oracle database. Multi tenant architectures themselves aren't an issue, but Salesforce implemented it well before the days of containers.
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by thedoops 8y ago
The classic solar sales and installation company business model isn't shaping up very well. Operating margins aren't the best due to the need for local assets in frequently changing markets as incentives come and go. It's def
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by thedoops 8y ago
The gig economy has barely begun. It won't be in full force till I can see quest/gig markers in mixed reality. Ironically I think to implement a gig economy to this extent we'll have solved the problem of merit to the point m
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by thedoops 9y ago
Less sugars, carbs, and highly glycemic foods such as wheat, rice, and corn will probably make the most difference. Basically avoid the sorts of things in a Little Debbie snack. It'll improve your skin a lot too!
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by thedoops 9y ago
Hire the people who worked on The Frankenstein Chronicles. They really did a great job on getting the dirty London/Ankh Morpork right. Regardless I'm skeptical if they can pull Discworld off. Probably a good idea to start with a V
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by thedoops 9y ago
Probably something more architecturally sound for future platforms in augmented and virtual reality among other things. One of the biggest issues with Android is managing permissions for apps to system resources. Proper sandboxing of 3rd pa
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by thedoops 9y ago
Was this a bottleneck to the end product? If at some point in the process there's a different bottleneck, I'd expect it to be reasonably construed as dangerous. That being said it sounds like an ownership problem. Red tape made fr
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by thedoops 9y ago
What if Facebook is weighting the votes based on content consumption and interests of users? If that's the case, then it's possible to get some interesting results. We need to be doing experiments like this.
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by thedoops 9y ago
This notion that the Alt-right is just another side of the coin is, I think, a misdirection. In fact I think the whole Alt-right label is entirely arbitrary and doing a significant amount of harm by polarizing the discussion. Black and whit
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by thedoops 9y ago
Elixir and Phoenix are amazing. I use them any chance I get. The problem now is that the ecosystem is still in early stages. You're gonna end up writing some more libraries whereas in an ecosystem like Ruby there are gonna be plenty of
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by thedoops 9y ago
Based in some part on the relative upvotes of other posts in a time period maybe? California users probably haven't waken up in mass yet.
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by thedoops 9y ago
The real value of a teacher in the same room is for immediate feedback. I'm of the opinion that lectures should be replaced with active study sessions where the teacher(s) walk the class through problems and/or help individual stu
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by thedoops 9y ago
I think it's more of a development life cycle problem, Elon started earlier and rocketry ain't easy. It's less a problem of money as it is in scaling up an R&D operation to effectively use the money. Scaling organizations
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by thedoops 9y ago
I'm in sort of the same place, I'm in a reading frenzy to build up a vocabulary and learn category theory, functional concepts, etc.. While this is good I know I ought to spend some time practicing algorithms or building toys to r
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by thedoops 9y ago
Most of the other books I'd recommend in this area are mentioned already, but I'll add Aurora by Kim Stanley Robinson. The primary narrative is from the pov of a generation ship's A.I.. You get to see it learn over time and w
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Clickbait, the Upvote, Fake News, and the Problem of Merit(medium.com)
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by thedoops 10y ago
Fantastic article. I find the idea of cycles being pretty core to this. Jason mentioned it in more detail in a comment below, but the fact a stakeholder can't sway an ongoing project until its cycle is finished is huge. I work on a sma