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vor 7 Jahrendiscuss

>learn the meaningful stuff, you will never code in your job implying the code that can be thrown away is the code they get paid for hmmmm

hellbanner

vor 7 Jahrendiscuss

> The idea began with two friends reading together at a bar in San Francisco, annoyed by the assigned reading of a demanding book club. Because everything was invented in San Francisco in the last 20 years.

hellbanner

vor 7 Jahrendiscuss

WEAPONS OF MASS DISTRACTIONS https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdaPJLJCK1M

hellbanner

vor 7 Jahrendiscuss

Touch screens are awful for operating while you focus elsewhere. I miss touch typing and I sure like adjusting car controls without looking away. What's that, trust driverless cars you say? Never, and the basilisk be damned.

hellbanner

vor 7 Jahrendiscuss

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdaPJLJCK1M&t=6s remember that anyone can manipulate these algorithms

hellbanner

vor 7 Jahrendiscuss

You forgot the rest of the title.

hellbanner

vor 8 Jahrendiscuss

Fantastic tutorial: http://learnyousomeerlang.com/book

hellbanner

vor 8 Jahrendiscuss

That's mostly it. Personally I find Elixir's syntax confusing. For example:

Losing the ; and . function endings from Erlang you can put same-named functions throughout your module. I tried doing

def create def handle(:create)

def update def handle(:update)

But the compiler warns. So that loss isn't helpful.

Atoms require a : because variable names are lowercase.

Uppercase variable names and lowercase module names is easier to read in Erlang.

The syntactic sugar is too clever for readability imo.

The package management through mix is decent. I used to use an erlang.mk file, looking at hex it looks like the Erlang ecosystem is quite evolved.

Phoenix + Ecto seem to be very actively maintained, useful if you're writing web apps.

When I tried Cowboy a few years ago some of the documentation was out of date, so that's a point in Elixir's favor.

hellbanner

vor 8 Jahrendiscuss

Well at least you aren't mad enough to revolt because then change might occur. Ah right, revolt is impossible due to economic conditions.

hellbanner

vor 8 Jahrendiscuss

Hah. I interviewed for a [growing in popularity and market share] top 20 cryptocoin. They had some curious choice of words in their "freelance" contract, notably that it would use German copyright law to transfer rights of all inventions I ever made.

I pointed out that a couple of the phrases in the contract, when combined, indicated they would have IP rights to EVERYTHING I did not just work they paid me for.

They moved on to another candidate.

hellbanner

vor 9 Jahrendiscuss

OS updates will fix this - but the bug remains on the chip, right? Hm, I guess I'll check for updates =)

hellbanner

vor 9 Jahrendiscuss

I see - so this is more accessible? We're all fucked, then?

hellbanner

vor 9 Jahrendiscuss

This is different from the intentional backdoor, Management Engine?

hellbanner

vor 10 Jahrendiscuss

If you want something done right, do it yourself.