darkmarmot

A lot of Ruby devs moved to Elixir.

He's saying that tidally locked bodies are products of simple physics and you can't extrapolate deeper meanings from them.

With nanoplastics, ocean acidification, global heating, rising sea levels, falling crop yields and the related Holocene extinction at work, I think AI is going to have to play a serious game of catchup.

Religion is a helluva drug.

It's a tiny fraction of what we already emit -- above the tropopause and, you know, weather? The primary concern is related to ozone damage.

As someone who went to school for this, no. Mammals evolved to survive colder conditions. Going hotter and with higher CO2 is not going to be awesome for our biology.

Especially since human brains suffer significant cognitive effects above 1,000ppm.

I have NEVER met a recruiter that seemed technically savvy at even the most minimal level. That's kind of astounding.

Many systems have lots of leaders to handle concurrency. Ours has millions of them for instance.

Better: shows like "The Boys" at least provide a gruesome window into "realistic" superhero behavior in a corporate hellscape.

We use it across multiple versions of our software running in the same cluster. As long as you dark launch API changes, it's not much of an issue.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQ0CvjAJXz4

(Doh, just realized I was replying to Mr. Elixir himself! And you're familiar with our project anyway :)

Well, you can focus on doing 1x and browsing the web most of the time! :)

Have you tried doing this with distributed computing? It's not very feasible...

Laws that preclude the existence of billionaires...

Lower death rate in hospitals by sending sick people to hospice! https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-care/doctors-say-hca-h...

I don't throw it away, I keep it as a reference. But for anything interesting, I might rewrite from "scratch" three times easily.

We could replace alcohol with GHB. Done.

We use hot code reloading because taking our system down for any length of time could kill people (real time medical software).

We run a distributed cluster of 32 Elixir nodes across 4 data centers. Typically, we do rolling deployments -- but when we need a fast fix for something, pushing patches against the live system is real life saver!

Thank you! I worked quite a bit on the HL7 one! And I started on one for FHIR - but it's such a pain to work with I put it aside and considered releasing it as DumpsterFHIR or TrashFHIR. I don't think the company would be keen on that, though :)

We’ve actually released multiple open source Elixir libraries (I wrote the HL7 one, but one for MLLP - those are for medical messaging). My coworker has done several talks on the system, one linked here: https://www.erlang-solutions.com/blog/how-hca-healthcare-use...

I’m not aware of another systems language that pulls off nine nines of reliability. Having been paid to write Java, C#, and Elixir systems, I’ve found the BEAM to provide vastly better fault tolerance. My current project has requirements for zero downtime and zero data loss, actively replicates across 4 data centers across the US and handles the real-time medical data millions of hospital patients.

If the success of Cisco, Whatsapp, Discord and nine nines worth of uptime isn't enough... you can link to our stodgy Fortune 100 company using it successfully!

https://www.erlang-solutions.com/blog/how-hca-healthcare-use...

We sold it to our Fortune 100. Our Elixir application tracks a fair percentage of healthcare patients across the US in real-time, can handle loss of systems or data centers with zero downtime, data loss or interruption and we update it live. https://www.erlang-solutions.com/blog/how-hca-healthcare-use...

Clarence Thomas actually dissented on this and said it was crazy.

I'm gonna assume it just lies based on the jurisdiction.

So what advantages to comprehension or usability would you like to offer over Elixir? (as it doesn't really focus on type/category theory like most other FP languages)

I'm not that sensitive and have loved recruiting code games/challenges put out by other companies (like Scribd's AI recruiting game way back...) I was just noting that when I shared this link with my extended team, there was a pretty negative reaction because of how this type of thing has been used in the past by unscrupulous actors.

Looks fun and interesting. I will say your recruiting call at the end made some of the devs where I work swear off your service... I think there have been enough scams in this vein that it rubs certain people in a bad way.

Inelastic demand is one oft cited trait.