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Here's the blog post on how it was made: https://postlight.com/trackchanges/the-magic-elixir-behind-y...

Merry Crisis!

Sunken cost fallacy, I presume

Horde [0] is a really interesting Elixir library for distributed, self-healing state using CRDT

[0]: https://github.com/derekkraan/horde

The first excellent episode of British TV series Inside No. 9 revolves around a game of Sardines. Wholeheartedly recommended, for pitch-perfect Brit dark humour

Good old normalization of deviance: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/25742063/

Thank you for this comment! As someone who fell in love with Derek Jacobi's voice since recently watching Kenneth Branagh's Henry V (my favourite opening ever), that's definitely something for me!

Perhaps not as technically impressive, but this [0] other short game/experience from the same creator is extraordinarily charming and well produced!

[0]: https://alexanderperrin.com.au/paper/shorttrip/

> Kinda like a cheap girl :P Wow, nice use of sexism to annihilate any quality that could be attributed to your comment.

Please don’t.

Software should be designed for ease of reading, not ease of writing.

- John Ousterhout

That is one of the most wholesome things I’ve ever read, thank you!

To those inspired by this achievement to look more into polar expeditions, I can highly recommend Michael Palin’s “Erebus”. It’s a riveting read on the challenges, successes, and tragedies of the British explorer ship Erebus, its commanders, officers, and crews.

Apologies if this is incorrect (on my phone atm) but I've been using <space> as leader for two years now, and have never ever noticed lag in insert mode.

Perhaps it's a setting you have enabled/disabled, or unrelated to vim?

And a couple of (stunning) tracks from Mogwai

That video is extremely impressive! Colour me excited

The multi-touch extension sounds amazing. I went to try it, but it doesn't seem to work. I see the little dialog in the bottom right corner when I have my fingers on the trackpad, but nothing happens on keystroke.

It's mostly definitely due to the recent update to Sierra. If you do use Sierra, have you managed to make it work?

It's fascinating how brilliant this solution is. Let it slowly bounce on the comet, so that the rebounce velocity is very low, it doesn't affect the comet trajectory in any way, and they're collecting data during the slow descent. Nice.

This looks incredible, congratulations to the Elixir team!

Perhaps more exciting than the first part of the post is the second bit about the future. It's fantastic to see such a clear path forward for concurrency in Elixir. Definitely looking forward to GenStage.Flow

Fantastic week for the Erlang/Elixir ecosystem!

Another thanks to the teams behind all these amazing releases, and particularly (for this news) Phoenix.Presence and Phoenix.PubSub, for the wide range of new exciting applications they'll have.

This comment from Reddit sums it up pretty well: https://www.reddit.com/r/elixir/comments/3gd1n3/what_are_the...

I just discovered about HiPE as well, and I just gave it a try with a simple fibonacci module. Running fibonacci(40) went from 3.9s BEAM to 0.7s HiPE.

I know it's a silly test, but it's pretty sweet to witness such a massive difference out of the box. :)

I honestly don't get that comment. It quickly mentions that the BEAM hasn't got a bright future, and then goes on the qualities of Scala, and how Ruby was horrible.

How does that contribute IN ANY WAY to a thread about a new version of Elixir being released? I'm not saying that what they say it's wrong, just tremendously out of context and unnecessary.

Wow, that thread is impressive. I think I've never seen a Github thread that long, complex, and yet with such politeness.

The internet may have ruined me, but I somehow expected the thread to end up in insults and nasty things after a while; and here I am, amazed. Really well done.

José Valim (the Elixir creator) is soon releasing a free ebook [0] on Ecto 2.0, and it's probably gonna give some good insights into Ecto in general, so I would definitely recommend getting that :)

[0] http://pages.plataformatec.com.br/ebook-whats-new-in-ecto-2-...

True. Although, I don't understand why it has to be a Chrome app. Why not just a NW.js app? Maybe for the whole "connect with your phone" functionality?

Perhaps somebody could shed some light on this?

A fantastic and widely recognised alternative is Signal for iOS, (and its counterpart for Android, TextSecure), created by Open Whisper Systems. People like Edward Snowden have been praising it.

iOS: https://itunes.apple.com/gb/app/signal-private-messenger/id8...

Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.thoughtcri...

Ultimate Guitar, I'm looking at you. The worst.

40%, since some days. :)

http://www.livescience.com/49133-super-efficient-solar-energ...