thedoops
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7 years ago
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on: Let’s Talk Concurrency: Panel with Sir Tony Hoare, Joe Armstrong, Carl Hewitt
Scala and Akka are... less simple. It's also not like the actor model takes over the whole paradigm. Actors are largely a runtime concern. You're still using modules and functions. The JVM is also less suited to implementing an Actor model. A lot of the BEAM's power comes from the preemptive scheduler.
thedoops
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7 years ago
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on: Would you still pick Elixir in 2019?
If all you're doing is CRUD apps, there's not much more to gain from Elixir. But if you're doing things like pulling in Redis or Sidekiq, or building around realtime use cases - Elixir has so much more to give you.
thedoops
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7 years ago
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on: Would you still pick Elixir in 2019?
I've found CQRS and DDD designs fit well with OTP and elixir. The actor model with pattern matching ends up cutting away a lot of the classical OOP DDD details.
The issue I see is carryover from other ecosystems taking paradigms that aren't necessary and don't fit into libraries and patterns. It feels like there are still conventions to settle on.
thedoops
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7 years ago
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on: Would you still pick Elixir in 2019?
Different tools for different jobs. Rust is more of a systems language for close to metal performance and memory safety. Elixir is memory safe from a functional perspective utilizing the actor model. Elixir is good for real time concurrency and higher level systems.
thedoops
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7 years ago
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on: How much less efficient are north-facing solar modules? (2016)
Good rule of thumb is that the best production per panel ratio to get the most utility consumption offset (so you drop to the lowest tier) will return the most savings.
Shaded or North facing panels in the northern hemisphere are almost never worth it. Put what you can on the south and look into a better AC unit, new windows, LEDs, and insulation first.
thedoops
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7 years ago
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on: Erllambda: Run Erlang and Elixir in AWS Lambda
Pattern matching is a good fit for lambda use cases.
thedoops
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7 years ago
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on: When Adolescents Give Up Pot, Their Cognition Quickly Improves
Like alcohol, if weed is taken close to bedtime it will interfere with the sleep cycle. I wonder how much of the cognitive impact is sleep related?
thedoops
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7 years ago
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on: Deploying Elixir
Deployment and configuration is among the top priorities from both the core team and the community from what I can tell. There's been a lot of discussion about it and some resources being dedicated in the last year. So only a matter of time, but a little heavy on initial deployment for sure.
thedoops
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7 years ago
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on: What tech stacks are indie hackers using for their apps, and why?
In Elixir+Phoenix you get all the CRUD conveniences as in other frameworks, but you also get trivial Reactive/real-time capabilities that would get very hairy in something like Rails.
thedoops
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7 years ago
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on: Ask HN: What are the best Sci-Fi books you've ever read?
The Star's My Destination by Alfred Bester (also known as Tiger Tiger). Really great Count of Monte Cristo type plot with teleportation and a great antihero. I'm surprised it hasn't been adapted to film or long form series yet.
Anathem by Neal Stephenson is superb and I recommend you carve out some time to really let it soak in. Anything by Neal is phenomenal, but Anathem stands out for me.
Aurora by Kim Stanley Robinson is my favorite sci-fi book I've read in a while. Generation ships, AI, and a fascinating narrative perspective. I'm a sucker for realistic/hard scifi with well-researched technical explanations, and KSR is among the best.
thedoops
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7 years ago
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on: The best laptop right now: Huawei Matebook X Pro
I'm cautiously anticipating Lenovo's announcement of the P1 which will supposedly ship with the intel+Vega chip. Rumors are that same chip will be used in the next Gen MacBooks.
They're also working on some Ryzen cpu model equivalents to the t480, t580, etc. All of which will have better graphics performance than the equivalent Intel cpu.
What I really want is a Ryzen Thinkpad x1 2 in 1 with good Linux support, but maybe that's too much hopeful thinking. My t430 will suffice until I find something worthy to upgrade to.
thedoops
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7 years ago
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on: Demand for Ruby on Rails is Still Huge
Elixir is an absolute pleasure. The benefits of Ruby's developer experience with a maintainable, scalable backbone.
thedoops
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7 years ago
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on: Marc Benioff of Salesforce: ‘Are We Not All Connected?’
You're right. Salesforce is a big, complicated, multi-tenant, CRUD application coupled to an Oracle database. Multi tenant architectures themselves aren't an issue, but Salesforce implemented it well before the days of containers. All the Apex code has to be "bulkified" which means writing almost everything for multiple records in an execution context. This adds to the mental effort and reduces readability. A major concern when not all consultants do it well.
They've been trying for years to replace the Oracle database with Postgres, but it's not easy in such a large, heavily used enterprise application.
For many situations I recommend integrating with a messaging system and using the REST apis from something like Ruby.
Lightning is not bad, but it's slow compared to the front end framework competition. It is pretty fast to develop with though.
thedoops
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7 years ago
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on: Tesla is laying off ‘about 9%’ of its workforce as it ‘restructures’ the company
The classic solar sales and installation company business model isn't shaping up very well. Operating margins aren't the best due to the need for local assets in frequently changing markets as incentives come and go. It's definitely more profitable to sell batteries/panels/etc to the solar installers than to run the operation itself.
thedoops
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8 years ago
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on: 'The Gig Economy' Is the New Term for Serfdom
The gig economy has barely begun. It won't be in full force till I can see quest/gig markers in mixed reality. Ironically I think to implement a gig economy to this extent we'll have solved the problem of merit to the point money is much less influential. It could very well reverse the tide of egregious wealth inequality. The challenge is to build systems which can securely aggregate data on a person's subject matter expertise. The better we can estimate categorical competence the better we can make opportunities visible.
thedoops
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8 years ago
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on: Scientists suspect a link between the digestive system and problems with sleep
Less sugars, carbs, and highly glycemic foods such as wheat, rice, and corn will probably make the most difference. Basically avoid the sorts of things in a Little Debbie snack. It'll improve your skin a lot too!
thedoops
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8 years ago
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on: BBC adapting Terry Pratchett’s iconic Discworld books for six-part TV series
Hire the people who worked on The Frankenstein Chronicles. They really did a great job on getting the dirty London/Ankh Morpork right.
Regardless I'm skeptical if they can pull Discworld off. Probably a good idea to start with a Vimes mystery if the casting is good.
thedoops
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8 years ago
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on: Google’s Fuchsia OS on the Pixelbook
Probably something more architecturally sound for future platforms in augmented and virtual reality among other things. One of the biggest issues with Android is managing permissions for apps to system resources. Proper sandboxing of 3rd party code is a big deal, especially if the next generation experiences are so much more immersive.
thedoops
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8 years ago
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on: Tesla employees say Gigafactory problems worse than known
Was this a bottleneck to the end product? If at some point in the process there's a different bottleneck, I'd expect it to be reasonably construed as dangerous. That being said it sounds like an ownership problem. Red tape made from past fires (not the pink slip kind ) can easily become the real problem in a complex operation like this.
thedoops
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8 years ago
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on: Facebook to Let Users Rank Credibility of News
What if Facebook is weighting the votes based on content consumption and interests of users? If that's the case, then it's possible to get some interesting results. We need to be doing experiments like this.
