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That sounds excellent, I wish there were something like it in the UK.

Good luck with your pitch.

Did you work this out? Or is it a case of cloning the repo?

There's an open source link so you can download it from there?

Michael Moseley and the BBC are doing some great work challenging the status quo recently, especially with diet.

If you're able to access iPlayer where you are, the programme he did on fasting is well worth a watch if you have an hour spare.

No worries - I have left a note on that issue explaining what I think might help! I will of course be giving phoenix another go asap.

In fact, going back and looking at your docs again just now, I think it probably was just me.

Maybe I was having a bad day...

Hi! It was a few things, but a while ago so can't remember all of them. An example was creating a migration. I had to rely on a blog post from about a year and a few versions of Phoenix ago to get the Cli commands just to add a column to a table. Appreciate now that it is probably in the ecto docs, but that's not really made clear anywhere and even then I didn't find them easy to navigate.

Your docs in general are pretty good and comprehensive, I just felt like a few obvious things had been overlooked.

Might just be me though...!

To add another side to this coin, having recently used Phoenix to write an api after hearing good things, I found Elixir clunky, and Phoenix poorly documented. It tries to be too much like Rails (I realise this is the point, though), and is currently failing spectacularly in my opinion. YMMV obviously.

I don't think there is a definition anyone will agree on for 'startup' in this context. You either have a business that makes money, or you don't.

The whole 2 vs 3 issue is quite annoying when you are starting out with Python. I really, really hope that it is sorted once and for all either very soon or with Python 4, if that comes one day.

It's a great language but really off-putting when there is seemingly a war going on within it.

Thanks, I will have a look. Mostly Go and Python at the moment, so I'm sure there are some decent meetups in London somewhere. I'm Clapham based.

Have you got any experience in London with meetups for people looking for work? I will need to hire at least 2 more devs this year for my startup and have no clue where to start. Certainly don't want to use a recruiter...

Interesting. From my pov, it's just making a satirical statement. But I expect a lot of others will get a bee in their bonnet.

I don't think you can really do anything these days without someone taking offense, so you might as well just crack on with things.

A startup is always a company, but not really a 'business' until it's making a profit.

This should be titled 'When to join an externally funded startup'.

It's a whole different ballgame if you join one that's actually making a profit and doesn't need someone else's cash. Get in as early as you can, if you like the idea and can see it's got longevity.

What counts as a 'tech scene', out of interest? I'm based in London, and don't really have any friends that are programmers, or really see much going on.

Somewhere I can get involved?

I'm working (albeit freelance) remotely on a project that is 100% COBOL at the moment. They have offered full time work for me, so I know it's possible.

I know COBOL isn't C, but it's the same concept - systems programming/secure stuff rather than bashing out websites.

It was slightly tongue in cheek - C is good at what it does, but I agree that there are plenty of good options going forward.

I just don't think C will be 'replaced' across the board though, but I suppose that's obvious.

Of the languages mentioned, I've only got experience with Go (which I use for APIs). Rust looks interesting though, I need to have a proper look at it.

Why does anything need to replace C? It's been fine for years and still does exactly what it needs to do.

I'd echo the other reply. Do as much as you can using online sources (Coursera, edX, plenty of CS and Algorithm courses etc) but just make sure the problem sets and any 'academic' programming is on your Github.

FWIW, I started a Maths degree with OU, and the material was excellent. Then my life took over...