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Comment · 2 months ago
I'm just over here wondering how/where/when I can buy this
Comment · 3 months ago
Insane is still far too easy. For the highest skill level it should be -really- hard. Was still able to solve one in under 3 minutes.

I -love- this idea though!!

Comment · 6 months ago
Wasn't QUIC all done in the 3.x versions? Is there something in this release related to QUIC support?
Comment · 1 year ago
Oh man, this must just be subjective because I find Ecto to be beautiful compared to the absolute trainwreck of Activerecord. Having compile time guarantees through Ecto is wonderful.
Comment · 1 year ago
I agree with this sentiment, though in practice it doesn't seem to be much of an issue the vast majority of the time. Sometimes you do need that niche library though, and end up forking and updating for your needs.

Given how rarely this comes up it feels like a tolerable problem that will only diminish as Elixir adoption continues to increase; I am aware of many rail shops that are slowly and quietly switching everything to Elixir, and it feels like that snowball continues to pick up pace as Elixir improves and those libraries are created.

Comment · 1 year ago
Very true it is actually designed for telecoms, but like you mentioned the distinction is so small it's not really even a stretch to say it is purpose built with at least the general architecture of web in mind.
Comment · 1 year ago
> Add in problems finding developers skilled in Elixir and Phoenix and the small available libraries.

Is this actually a problem you see? I'm going on 15 years in the industry and haven't seen any issues training people up on a new language in just a couple months.

If you need an expert in some library or language to make meaningful business progress I feel like that says more about whatever tool or language you're using, and I simply don't see that with phoenix or elixir in the years I've worked with it.

Comment · 1 year ago
After programming with elixir and phoenix for a few years (with many prior years of rails experience) I have a hard time seeing why one would choose rails.

Elixir is more performant, has compiler safety guarantees that are only getting better as types are introduced, is actually designed from the ground up for web dev (being based on the Erlang VM), and... it's just way more fun (subjective I know). Elixir is what I always wished Ruby was, and I couldn't be more excited about the coming type inference.

Programming with Elixir makes me feel like Ruby is a previous generation language, much like Ruby made me feel that way about Cobol or Fortran, it really is that stark.

Comment · 2 years ago
To expand on this, many states have a large white pine lumber industry. The white pine is highly susceptible to a type of fungus harbored by currants.

The fungus does not spread from white pine to white pine, only from currants to currant, or currant to white pine, so eliminating the nearby currants protects the white pine industry.

Comment · 2 years ago
One of the most powerful features of vscode is extensions. Until zed has a comparable extension set to rival all the things I use in vscode, I couldn't care less about 50ms vs 70ms lag on keystroke renders.
Comment · 2 years ago
Typescript takes away a significant amount of the pain for me; the only hold up after that was getting an environment set up to compile it. Deno supporting typescript without any configuration is incredible.
Comment · 4 years ago
I've done freelancing before at 4 days a week and loved it, and have generally negotiated into 4 day workweeks at various startups. Give a shout-out to your company if they're hiring ;)
Comment · 4 years ago
Thank you for the correction
Comment · 4 years ago
As someone currently growing more cucumbers than I can handle (gardener problems), I've been eating at least 2 a day of a few different varieties, including a somewhat bitter pickling variety.

That said, I've never experienced the burping side effect many report. Makes me very curious what's going on metabolically to cause some to burp but not others. Can gas produced by the microbiome of the upper tracts of the intensities make it back up into ones stomach?? All very fascinating regardless.

Comment · 4 years ago
Because the FDA exists?? Because that would be fraud to claim otherwise, and fruit/veg sources are easily traceable back to their source, particularly at quantity?

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