Monoprice sells 'em on the cheap.
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I decided not to move because I didn't think the local economy offers a lot of choice for software engineering jobs. When I visited people remarked, we've got VaynerMedia, we've got OpenTable, we've got CarbonFive, etc. etc.
This news sucks because I really want to see Chattanooga grow into a techhub, but it also confirms the suspicions I originally had. :/
As someone who has made the transition from Ruby to Elixir, I'm really, really intrigued by Crystal.
Though, upon a cursory look into the Crystal docs and community, a couple things are clear...
Elixir killed it on all the things surrounding the language.
- docs
- testing
- Slack chan, IRC, mailing list
- package manager (Hex)
- build tool (Mix)
- web framework (plug & Phoenix)
- books from major publishers (manning, pragprog, etc.)
- ElixirConf
- ancillary teaching (ElixirSips, LearnElixir, Elixir Fountain, etc.)
While the language may not be as computationally performant as some of others mentioned, all the things above lower the barrier to entry for adoption and make Elixir a more attractive language than some of the counterparts. And it's amazing that a language this young has nailed it on these fronts.
Goes on to list strategy for only content writing system. No mentions of strategy on sales calls.
"If you want action don’t write. Go and tell the guy what you want." -- David Oglivy
Complaining in the abstract isn't helpful.
If Elixir had arrays, why would that be better than using other enumerables like lists or tuples?
Leaving out compounding interest could massively affect the returns shown in the chart.
That's good enough for me, I'll follow the oracle.
Cool discovery: if you search for a financial institution, they return logos as Base64.
Super rad.
I don't think there's one canonical formula. But here are David Skok's thoughts:
"To compute the cost to acquire a customer, CAC, you would take your entire cost of sales and marketing over a given period, including salaries and other headcount related expenses, and divide it by the number of customers that you acquired in that period. (In pure web businesses where the headcount doesn’t need to grow as customer acquisition scales, it is also very useful to look customer acquisition costs without the headcount costs.)"
"If you want action don’t write. Go and tell the guy what you want."
If you are "profitable" as a one-person company; make sure you are paying yourself a market-rate salary or are at least factoring in your time as a cost. If not, your SaaS acquistion metrics could be way off.
1) Found a list of potential prospects
2) Called 30 prospects each day
3) Repeat steps 1-2 for 4 years
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Reporter based in an area with great transportation choices (NYC) says, "Austin w/o Uber and Lyft ain't so bad. There are new alternatives."
As someone who wants to use Elixir more and see its community flourish, what libraries does Elixir need so this project could be done without Python?
I'm guessing some sort of Beautiful Soup or Nokogiri equivalent?
There are 2-3 really good Elixir libraries around dates and times: calendar, goodtimes, etc.
Choice is great, but I really like a canonical library around something so core as time.
"Estate tax" is equally charged language, even if you aren't superrich and affluent.
He's referencing processes on the Erlang virtual machine, not OS processes. A BEAM process is much lighter weight.
Quick strawpoll: are others in that boat too?