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Erlang is not a panacea. It excels as a middle layer, one that orchestrates work. It's not a tool to perform intensive calculations.

Maybe it is time to upgrade from that machine.

(serious) hobby project: beanstalk, vertx, java, dynamodb, elasticache. Frontend: Kotlin.

Yeah, but nope. Just get xfce, it has similar ideas and it is so much better.

What briandear is trying to say is that extreme points of view damage the democracy regardless of whether they are to the left or right. And your point is extreme, for example. You…

Yes, why not.

I am curious what would 10 years of experience would translate to.

Dude, never ever sell yourself short. Also proposing a salary of zero implies you work will be worth zero.

My kid would fall asleep 100% in the car. Heck there were times when I would take her for a drive precisely for this purpose. After five minutes driving she would fall asleep. I th…

Apparently the designers of Mass Effect did their Sci Fi homework.

Thinking about how you would shard your data is hardly over engineering. On some storage systems you are forced to anyway: Cassandra, dynamodb. And the cost of building the solutio…

Apparently I should stop using gitlab.com By choosing to not shard your data you have basically put a cap on scalability... or at least one which will be reached faster than if you…

The whole point why you should worry from the beginning is so that you don't have to re-work everything and put a huge risk to the business when you have to do it.

No, by all means share the MD5 hash of your passwords. After all it's a one way hash. /S

While that's true the rest of the world does need concrete answers on questions, rather than, "We are only 95% certain that statement X is true." Basically scientific rigor is impo…

Seems like you are taking your interview rejections to heart. Don't do that. Most companies go with the mode don't hire unless the candidate is a great fit, because they don't want…