amorphid

Why not just milk it until the money train dries up or you are rolling in cash? Just because one or more companies offer the same product doesn't mean you're going to squashed. What will tank your business is losing focus & giving up before you needed to.

I usually buy brand name over generic stuff because it is quantifiably better to me in some way. Cereal that tastes better, garbage bag doesn't rip, etc.

Using Chrome in Android, the arrow to auto scroll up to top doesn't work for me at all. I can only manually scroll back up.

Slack isn't perfect; I agree with that. I haven't experienced the CPU issue, but it does seem to like RAM quite a bit. I just opened it w/ one account active, and it was eating maybe 400MB of RAM. I bumped that up to 6 open accounts, and now it's chewing up maybe 2GB of RAM.

I don't see any compelling reason to adopt IRC. It does nothing that I care about that Slack doesn't do. If Slack completely implodes, I would search for Slack alternative. If IRC really was my only option, I'd use it just long enough to write a basic alternative myself that replaced or extended IRC w/ the features I really want.

For me it's mostly about gow people use metaprogramming.

In Ruby, if I'm trying to find the source of a dynamically generated method in a dynamically generated class, that usually requires me to run add a debug statement, run the program, and see what's being passed. Even if I have a stacktrace, I often find it difficult to understand what the code is doing without running it.

I find Elixir code easier to read, and grepping my way through the code base is often enough. And to be fair, a debugger is often less than useful in macros involving AST & when dealing with a process that got a random message from who knows where.

This is a rather simplistic argument... With Ruby I find it hard to avoid using a debugger. With Elixir I never need a debugger.

I'll check it out tonight!

I quite like mix and hex. Now all we need is sane, Elixir-y dialyzer errors!

It'll go up in Idaho, too, when supply dries up. Won't it?

"Move to Boise. There aren't too many people yet!"

I friend of mine got a PhD in Electrical Engineering, which took him 7 or 8 years years. Right around his 30th birthday, I remember him saying that he'd been in school since he was 5. When I think of it that way, if my 20-something self could have been paid to delay entering the working world, I enjoyed school, and I was willing to be a professor's minion, getting a PhD would have been an extremely attractive option.

> I don't think high functioning autism is a disability, it's a character type that is a bit out there

If you don't understand how to interact with people, you don't understand. You need help to figure it out, or you need help to realize you don't need help.

Have you considered that you stink are completing those puzzles because they are so damn boring? I hate learning that way. I never make it past the first chapter of CTCI when I try to attack it head on. Find another way that works for you. I did. My personal "learn all the things" path to success has been taking things apart and learning to understand the pieces.

Having a mild form can be even more difficult. You appear different enough that people can tell, but your similar enough to other people that people don't understand the difference between you not getting it and simply misbehaving. When someone who will never get why they're being disciplined for what to them is acting normally keeps getting repeatedly punished, it's usually going to go poorly.