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The misanthrope in me has almost completely taken over when dealing with incoming sales calls, and I've almost completely abandoned the idea that anyone calling me to sell anything…

This has the same energy as the opening of Joe Armstrong's (RIP, Joe) talk, The Mess We're In: https://youtu.be/lKXe3HUG2l4

It is indeed very websockety. While it is a server-side rendering framework, it relies heavily on javascript and websockets (or fallback to ajax, if websockets aren't available). H…

Honestly, only tangentially (at best). Nitrogen is fundamentally an Erlang web framework, however the OTP skills learned should be universal. but we don't dive too deeply into OTP.…

Thank you! You're right, the leanpub listing should have a link to the project's homepage, and a link to the Github. And I had removed the "Fork me on Github" banner thing from the…

I just want to say thank you to Stripe for being amazing. I'm just now dealing with canceling service with a traditional merchant account (I switched completely over to Stripe back…

It blocks the on-page ads, but, if you opt-in will show you notification ads (non-invasive notifications), and will pay you for them.

Indeed! Evan was a great member of the Erlang community. In addition to those qualities, he is just a very friendly and likable dude.

Holy moly! So cringeworthy!

Screensavers are great. I spent endless hours watching Screen Antics (aka Johnny Castaway)[1], and the silly things he did. But I also watched countless hours watching this art scr…

I imagine Unity will live on in some way with a Ubuntu flavor called Uubuntu.

> I have averaged a sale per month for the last 10 years from people clicking through onto this page. That might be enough of a "Why" to justify the title.

PG doesn't appear to be active any longer ( https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=pg ). Looks like 2 comments in the last 2 years (and last post is almost a year ago).

My favorite is PG's request to limit the fluff and get back to technical discussions like posts about the "Innards of Erlang": https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=512145 Which lea…

Oh man, I remember that thread when it happened. That was something else. A glorious exchange.

I have one major use-case for (very cheap) inkjet printers: on the beach. I run a non-trivial number of beach volleyball tournaments[1], and the beach is not a terribly hospitable …

Surely sometimes when you glance over a patch that even without actually working through the code, you get a vibe that something doesn't seem quite right. I know I've gotten patche…

In the show House M.D , Dr. House explained his desire to become a doctor as based on an experience as a kid with the Japanese caste system: "When I was 14 my father was stationed …

Autocorrect? My phone corrects postgres to "postures".

The idea that Erlang/OTP is an OS is something promoted by Garrett Smith in this talk ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZGHzI9F5YE ), and the idea that it is intentionally OS-like…

Thanks, I'll look into them!

After years of only reading technical, business, and philosophical books, I finally decided to take the plunge and read some fiction about 2 years ago. Since then, I've caught up w…