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Out of curiosity, what would an "OTP-first" design look like? ETS is built into OTP, so how is using ETS not "OTP-first"? What's wrong with using ETS? It's just an in-memory store.…

Hey, I sent you an email about this but never heard back.

I really feel for the author. We had once decided to participate in Stripe's Identity Verification beta. After submitting the form to request participation, Stripe's system locked …

> In particular, I was itching to learn more about handling concurrency in Elixir. This, of course, led me to GenServers. Might be a nitpicking here, but GenServers aren't useful f…

B-natural is missing.

Jean Rondeau is great on harpsichord (Goldberg Variations): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1AtOPiG5jyk

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lewis_F._Powell_Jr.#Powell_Mem...

Hi, I'm a sledgehammer. Your head looks attractive.

Hey HN, I'm looking for someone familiar with Rails to do a bunch of JavaScript work. Ext JS experience is required. I have the site completely built, but a rewrite/redesign is ver…

Your site similarly looks like garbage. :(

The business is the website.

He's being irrational because it involves his brother's work, and HN usually offers sound advice. I don't care what happens, as long as it's best for the company.

Yes. Very solid yes. You don't see much of this in the media, but Iraq is a stunningly beautiful country. There's a lot that you can learn from the people there (and certainly much…

Find me a CD player that costs $250.

Tabs vs. spaces is soon going to join the following: GPL vs. BSD; VIM vs. Emacs; Centralized vs. Decentralized; et cetera. As long as people are consistent, either way is fine.

I'd be disgusted too, if Ruby (my current language of choice) contained a bunch of completely random methods/functions in the core. I think including things like that in the core i…

Agreed. The dish can last for days, with little preparation (other than the pre-soak). It's a high calorie meal that'll keep me filled for hours. Pretty ideal when I need to just l…

As an avid FreeBSD user, I must say that the article didn't really provide an unbiased comparison of Linux to FreeBSD. It didn't offer any of the advantages Linux may have over BSD…

Oh, yes, because the Israelis totally have their shit together. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihXtbB-4GWw

New Option: "Say It However You Goddamn Like"