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It's not completely separate. The maintainer of Absinthe got started working with the maintainer of GraphQL-Elixir. I'm not purporting they still work together, just that they have…

I had a brief stint of working with Elixir a while ago, and got side-tracked and spent that time going down the GraphQL/Relay rabbit hole instead. During that time I was ramping up…

This is a pretty informative article. A coworker recently gave a very basic introductory tech talk at lunch about Bitcoin and cryptocurrency fundamentals, so this article hit me at…

Self-driving cars have been in the development phase for so long, I'm really excited to see them start rolling out in these beta tests. I'm curious what sort of unconsidered edge c…

A friend from college and I have been talking about starting a project, but are unsure if we're overly optimistic with how it would fit in the market today. I imagine there must be…

As someone with a few years in the industry who's currently volunteering to help teach high school kids coding for the first time -- you have no idea how easily code confuses newbi…

Twitter employee here. Admittedly I work in a remote office and not in HQ, but I've noticed NO day-to-day changes. The work, the management, the atmosphere have all been remarkably…

It's murky, and depends entirely on how concretely they made those promises. To me, common sense should dictate no, but to others, it might [1]. (Story covers lawsuit against Twitt…

I think the answer is that when Twitter IPO'd there were very clear expectations for the company to perform similar to its perceived contemporaries: Facebook and Google. If you loo…

From public news sources, I imagine it's the value prop of live streaming sports games -- ESPN is largely owned by Disney, and from what I've heard it's failing as of late. Issue w…

I really don't think this is it. I think more than anything it's the amount children share in common. Adults are lame. The world is big. There's a lot to do and a lot of time to do…

This is fantastic, thanks for sharing it! On another note, I'm a huge fan of small utilities like this. Sometimes cruising HN it's easy to get it in my head that a project isn't wo…

I can't speak to the technical specifics of the story, but it was riveting regardless! I can't really fathom why someone would go through all of this trouble, was it obvious and I …

In my (somewhat limited) experience, there's no such thing as writing code without testing it. The question is: are you testing this manually every time or are you automating it? I…

Passive aggression. I was searching for the noun of passive aggressive recently and someone corrected me, and I'm glad they did! (Hopefully this is helpful not hurtful).

What? > There are a lot of people in the middle class who live paycheck to paycheck because they manage their income poorly. I want a citation on that, that's all. I want a statist…

I'm really not trying to say people below the poverty line can't function or move cities, what I'm saying is a lot of people can't do a lot for financial reasons and it's unhelpful…

I was referring to his income inequality essay and a few of his essays in Hackers and Painters, but it wasn't fair to call him out specifically, I've edited my comment to reflect t…

> because they manage their income poorly That's a good start. "There are a lot" may not mean most, but it doesn't absolve it of providing some proof.

Exactly. This article should have been retitled "What do those who keep their wealth know that those who lose their wealth don't?"

> Move to where the money is. Oops I was born in a small poor suburb outside of Pittsburgh and barely make enough each week to feed myself and pay rent, where am I getting money to…

Someone can either find a citation for me or dispute this, but the ROI on life insurance is pretty high. The morbid problem is obviously you personally never prosper from it (excep…

As I replied above, not having liquid cash is proof of being poor, not of managing your money poorly. What I want a citation for is: > There are a lot of people in the middle class…

This is a citation for the claim "people in the United States are poor". What I want a citation for is: > There are a lot of people in the middle class who live paycheck to paychec…

I think this article is short-sighted and poorly written. Its most grievous offense to me is lumping all non-rich people together. The 22-year old out of college who needs a place …