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Completely agreed. I’m a convention over configuration believer

It could also be that they might be sued for stating the real reason so they went with something that would be dismissed if it went to court.

Erlang is uniquely suited to chat systems out of the box in a way that most other ecosystems aren't. Lightweight green threads via the BEAM vm, process scheduler so concurrent out …

What's this built with on the frontend and backend?

Dawww thank you!

Ive been working in Elixir since 2015. I love the ecosystem and think its the best choice for building a web app from a pure tech/stability/scalability/productivity perspective (I …

Coding will only be held as high value if its a product led growth company. Its a cost center otherwise.

I definitely want to become an owner and learn about the business. I've even conceived and executed projects to improve the bottom and top line revenue. That being said, as a devel…

I think the former colonies might disagree with your assessment of a graceful decline and dissolution of the empire https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partition_of_India https://en.wiki…

While I agree with you in that we should have more native applications that are more conscious of how much resources they're using, making that transition from Electron to Native i…

I imagine part of it is that it's far easier to lose your job disagreeing with your superiors in the private sector ("Not a culture fit", "Not a team player"). It's better to just …

I'm always here to speak praises for Ryan Bates. His practical videos to build features was a huge insight for me as a junior developer at the time.

It is historically not great at number computing. This is being addressed by a relatively new project called Nx. https://github.com/elixir-nx/nx It is not the right choice for CPU …

I owe a lot to Ryan Bates and Railscasts for transforming from a CS student to junior software engineer. It provided the details in mentorship that supplemented what I received IRL…

The scale of time over which this will happen will be soo great that we humans most likely wont need to worry about it. We will either die out or evolve many times before then.

I understand where you're coming from related to this. We (in the US) hear this critique with regards to the NHS or the Canadian healthcare system. The part you're missing is that …

As a brown man living in a post 9/11 United States, I get treated extremely differently when I have a beard vs when I am clean shaven.

I pay Viz and Shonen Jump as a subscriber in their apps. Whats frustrating is that I only get a tiny subset of their catalogue. I can't ready some of their older series. I'm even w…

This also worked for me. I deleted the Instagram app from my phone. If I want to see it, I can look at it from the phone browser. The experience is just barely not smooth enough to…

I think its related to weight. We have to acknowledge that there is a serious obesity epidemic in the developed world. The majority of adults are overweight and obese. This is anec…