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Is this mentioned somewhere on the page? I was wondering what they do. I commented yesterday but I'll say it again, this is awesome. This entire thread is great and a true inspiration.
I just vaguely worked it out after getting addicted.
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I just vaguely worked it out after getting addicted.
Haha, I had an addiction phase as well. It drives me crazy how the beginning is hard, then it gets very easy, and suddenly, you lose.
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Isn't elixir supposed to scale better than this?
BEAM is not fast. You're probably going to get better performance with Node.js. It is however really really low-latency. But that doesn't help with handling load. Anyway, even so I'd guess bandwidth or the database is the issue.
BEAM/Erlang/Elixir's main advantage IMHO is parallelism and "cheap" concurrency that's easy to wrap one's head around. It reuses multiple cores, and processes (lightweight threads) are both cheap (smaller stack size, per-process GC) and easy to get right (due to immutability of data structures and supervision). Also you'll get less spiky latency even under high load.
Node.js main advantages are the breadth of the library ecosystem, industry familiarity and its JIT compiler (if used correctly). At the cost of more setup one can also run an instance per core if they care for parallelism.
So I'd suggest that with BEAM he'd get quite a good performance both in terms of developer time and in serving many (network bound) requests on a multicore machine.
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Sounds like this flow chart someone shared on Facebook recently: https://scontent-ort2-2.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/273415552...
It is a lot like that and I want to find a better resolution for it. I don't want ideas to stop, I've had times where I've looked at a game system that I've built and had no idea what to do next. That's also horrible. Having a new idea shouldn't just have me building some new thing from scratch either. Working out how to navigate that tightrope when you are the client and it's not just solve this problem is one I'm s…
A hobby project from about 5 years ago https://cmdchallenge.com . There is zero monetization and the only reason I keep it running is that it has been pretty low maintenance and doesnt cost anything to run (one small $5 vm). There seems to be some small groups who use it as a learning tool. I don't think it is a great way to learn shell fundamentals by any stretch but the low barrier makes it a bit more accessible th…
I was a bit annoyed I couldn't use keyboard shortcuts in most online json formatters so I build my own mostly for my personal use. After a while I got the idea to ask the guy who owns jsonformatter.com if he wants to host it and after a while he got on board. So there you go : https://jsonformatter.com/
I posted this as a show HN a few weeks ago, I maintain a small, completely free html/js game. There's no chance of it ever making money in its current form, it's just a fun waste of time with a few hundred players[0]. [0] https://wallsmash.com
