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Java's verbosity made us all hate type systems in the early 2000s so many of us migrated to dynamic languages such as Python, Ruby in the mid 2000s that allowed us to work fast and…

I've pretty much dumped Twitter for Mastodon. My mental health couldn't keep up with the air of constant outrage on Twitter.

Yup, that's exactly what they're doing: https://github.com/mozilla/send/blob/65c24990cd1646bc8c6e6c0...

I don't know for certain without digging into the code but they are probably using the WebCryptoAPI and doing everything client-side to encrypt the file. The URL that is shared con…

I would get a Z-Wave daughter board and use Z-Wave devices for controlling the electronics. Z-wave devices aren't Internet connected so you only have to worry about locking down th…

We don't need another federated network. Administrators of those nodes are putting themselves into danger. What we need to develop is a purely decentralized p2p network that is res…

Keep in mind that Erlang processes != System processes. Erlang processes are preemptively scheduled microthreads that are scheduled by the Erlang VM.

No, usually there's an accept process spawning working processes and passing the connection off to it. Erlang can have two versions of a module present in memory at a time. At the …

The comments here describe doom and gloom of the web dying. I doubt the web is going anywhere. The future is going to hyperlink driven link data services that can power both native…

Turner broadcasting uses Lua/openresty and riak: https://github.com/bakins/lua-resty-riak

Basically, open heroku

This is a fantasy of mine as well. A generic opensource PaaS would be awesome. Now if I just had the ambition... It is quite an undertaking.

this isn't any better than using a live server for testing. Build a good client library for your applications to use, mock the client library and don't worry about tests failing be…

Works until you're forced to build a PHP site with GDBM as a backend because everyone but you thought it was a good idea.

Using generators in Python will get similar laziness in Python: from itertools import imap map(f, imap(g, imap(h, someList))) I think Python 3's map built-in is a generator so you …

If you really want power, use NumPy: from numpy import arange def squares_numpy(n): a = arange(n) return a * a $ python -m timeit -s "from squares import squares_append" "squares_a…

I can't tell you how many projects I've shelved for months and when I returned thought, "Damn it. How do I build this again? Oh look a Makefile. Thank you Past Eric." Even for proj…

Yeah, because of cowboy and Erlang's design it is going to out perform a single process evented server hands-down. 1. The evented servers are bound to one CPU, Erlang will use all …

As far as I know, the one process per dyno is not a restriction that Heroku puts on the application, it is an architectural decision of the application. Spawn up worker pool if you…