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Three. :)
Yeah, I don't get it. The delivery of the talk is a little.. pointed.
But the perspective offered is incredibly compelling. And my work experiences -- both positive and negative -- are sympatico with so much said here.
Can confirm, see same outage -- started about 20 minutes ago (US East).
One of my all time favorite talks in software.
Yes, but it's woefully out of date.
Fun fact -- Ian (maintainer) is/was a backend dev at Square Enix.
Plug for this book when stepping beyond syntax (I'm just a satisfied reader):
https://pragprog.com/book/jgotp/designing-elixir-systems-wit...
It was hugely helpful to me in wrapping my head around something bigger than hello world.
Learned on the job. Previous professional background PHP, JS. Beginner to what I think to be competent ("full stack", a range between infra and clustered prod deployments to page layouts in Phoenix LiveView) in about four months.
I've been able to find high quality Elixir packages without trouble. I haven't had to fall back to Erlang packages for any holes but I feel confident because I could.
We're using it for "data-intensive realtime" (ish) apps at the moment.
DIRT (h/t Bryan Cantrill? http://dtrace.org/resources/bmc/DIRT.pdf)
I hope to expand it to other more mundane CRUD-y microservices in the future just for the low maintenance, productivity, easy grokkability it offers.
Intrinsic value of the company > devaluing cash pile
(Presenting as "record stock growth" but in reality just trying to hold even value.)
FWIW, we try to be open about those processes just for that reason:
What pension fund?
Deeply timezone aware, fluid UI to manage, granular time increments.
IMO v1 is primarily about thoughtful multi-perspectival interactions. The Revolution is to come.
Real goods -- like pieces of companies (stocks) or tangible assets (housing, etc).
In my layman opinion -- the western central banks are in cahoots continually "soft landing" (optimistic) or manipulating (pessimistic) and at an accelerated rate since 2008.
The marketing isn't booming up. The nominal metric is falling rapidly.
Currency devaluation (mostly)
Not just 1995. Windows 10 spyware/crapware is a fundamental violation of the customer's interests in my book.
EDIT: is/was, I've heard they turned some of it down supposedly.
The problem is that the OS upgrades invariably slow down older phones, so even if you're perfectly happy with your iPhone to begin with, it starts to act slow as it gets the newer OS's.
This is a truism and from my experience it rings false. I ran an iPhone 5 for four years without feeling degraded.
FWIW, as background, I'm an ex-overclocking PC enthusiast and I consider myself very sensitive to any sorts of performance lag.
I don't buy a simple reliability narrative. I'm going to go with household income / cost divergence with a heavy salting of currency devaluation on top as "the real reason".
This is a Walmart counterattack. Walmart is on the verge of capturing large swathes of busy "middle-class buyer" pickup orders.
Amazon saw it and responded quickly.
Neither. My background was all C family until I read PragProg and then stumbled over Elixir in a search for another language for edification.
Just such a joy to write both syntactically and conceptually.
I wrote C to get through school. I wrote PHP to hack CRUD web apps. I write JS because it's ubiquitous and I'm required to. I write Elixir because I love to do it.
I think we underestimate how hard it is to polish hardware to Apple-level tolerances.
Especially because:
1. It takes a lot of capital to even attempt.
2. The traditional players in position to do so do not have it in their DNA (Dell, HP, et all).
Slightly shooting from the hip here (as I'm still learning).
Low-ish volume- design your system such that data flows [at the relevant crucial points] through a single actor to ensure proper concurrency.
High volume- trickier but I think same idea in principle. First thought that comes to mind here is the new GenStage stuff in Elixir.
Have you tried a headset yet? I think this time is different.
I thought it sounded like an early adopter money pit myself until I actually tried a Rift. It won me over even while underpowered (MB Air!) in very simple demos.
Yep, talking to myself:
http://www.nhtsa.gov/About+NHTSA/Press+Releases/nhtsa-expand...
"The five recall phases are based on prioritization of risk, determined by the age of the inflators and exposure to high humidity and fluctuating high temperatures that accelerate the degradation of the chemical propellant."
So I guess I'm a phase 2 or 3 kind of owner. Meanwhile, sitting at the vaunted 10 year marker in a hot 'n humid climate...
http://hondaairbaginfo.com/news-updates/statement-by-america...
"Automobile models and model years included in the first stage of this recent expansion of the Takata non-desiccated passenger front inflator recall"
Doesn't make me feel warm and fuzzy as a 2006 Odyssey owner.
I hear you on the control thing. You mention you are a power user above so my two cents is that likely puts you outside of the user base Mozilla covets. In the last couple years, the words "Firefox" and "power user" went hand-and-hand but I'd wager Mozilla would trade customer bases with Google in a heartbeat.
FWIW, the Developer Edition feels pretty lean and mean. I haven't tried since I am a web developer, but it looks like you can remove most or all of the parts that make it web developer-y if you are so inclined.
Agree. And as someone who's been running the Developer Edition as his primary browser for some time, I'm happy to report that it has been by enlarge reasonably stable--even though I've had e10s enabled.
Birth interventions in general tend to skew toward unnecessary and dangerous.
Unnecessary interventions due to overly zealous electronic monitoring of "normal numbers", perverse financial incentives to turn rooms over quickly, and callous prioritization of personal time (by some not all) doctors make American hospital birth pretty terrifying to me.
The actual white paper: https://www.blackhat.com/docs/us-15/materials/us-15-Domas-Th...
Monthly. My, how nimble! Maybe one day they can aspire to Patch Tuesday heights.
This one, albeit local only, was a lot of fun too: