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See, remote work doesn't work!

Just a nitpick but Django is definitely not convention over configuration, you might be thinking of Rails.

> At the same time things such as realtime/WebSockets feel so unnecessarily complex in Django and so much easier to work with in Node, Elx, Go, literally anything else.

So this is where Elixir shines. If you need highly scalable real-time applications, then it's no contest. If it's a pretty straightforward crud app then it's really going to come down to preference.

> Or even, better, what are the concrete examples in which one is a better choice--from your own experience?

I personally chose Phoenix because of liveview. It removed the need for me to maintain what feels like two separate apps when you have a back-end and then a front-end in React/Vue/whatever.

That's something only you (or your team) can answer. Does one of them help you solve a problem better than the other?

If you can't articulate an answer to that, then I would suggest using whichever your team is most productive in.

I agree. Can we stop with this type of talk? It's a huge turn off, and that is coming from someone who considers himself left of center.

Who do they think they are reaching with this rhetoric?

Man, I remember reading this article while I was still getting my bachelors in Mechanical Engineering (a little over 10 years ago) but was tinkering with programming.

Made the switch to software and am now a senior software engineer. Didn’t know then that I would somewhat follow the trajectory outlined here.

I agree

I assume it means that jobs are available and people aren't taking them

What do you think it will reveal?

> I am not a darwinian, but most folks are these days

Personally, I'd be shocked if that were true.

Have you seen https://skaffold.dev/ ?

But you _did_ catch covid so being careful isn't always enough. I don't think it's emotional or unreasonable for your family to require the vaccine before you visit.

Also, I'm not suggesting that you will "kill everyone" by not getting the vaccine, but it really isn't just about you and that you personally will probably recover.

Do you think it's a reasonable thing for most people to take your stance and not get vaccinated? We are at the tail end of this thing _because_ we have a vaccination available.

They don’t sound so useless to me then :)

They clearly led to the development of skills that produce great economic value.

FAANG is engineers do great but not sure I’d classify the vast majority of them as rich...

Yes, becoming a wealthy doctor is rare.

Again, the original point isn’t that it’s impossible to get rich by selling your time but that you’ll most likely need some leverage (i.e. in the form of owning a business)

Why the pedantry? Those examples are exceedingly rare.

I miss mine. Wish I held on to it.

Apple Watch for exercising. Paired with Airpods, it makes tracking workouts and listening to podcasts very enjoyable.

I was super skeptical about getting a Roomba, but there was a great deal during around the holiday's last year, and we pulled the trigger.

I'm still 100% happy with the purchase. Does it vacuum as well as a person? No, absolutely not, but what it does do is remove 90%+ of the work.

My only suggestion is that you get one that has a self-emptying container. We have two kids and a cat, and we still only have to change the bag every few WEEKS.

I'm not going to tell you it's perfect. It will occasionally get stuck, or you have to clean it out, but boy has it removed a lot of work for my wife and I.

huh? It's certainly not a pretty language, but it's definitely readable.

We use Ruby/Rails and Go pretty heavily at work it's much easier to jump in and grok Go code than rails (written by the same engineers mind you).

Go removes abstractions (to a fault sometimes) so, anecdotally, it's pretty damn easy to just read and figure out what's happening.

Do you have a phone, a computer or even a relatively new car?

I presume you do. You are already being tracked.

No, in the case of attaching it to the car it is moving with you (and would thus trigger the alert). Your point still stands though that it can be used like that to find out where someone lives.

> Am I missing something?

Clearly.

He's clearly quoting the racist comment, not being racist themselves.

I suspect, unfortunately, that the true answer here is "experience".

My current side project is too small to consider seed capital. It's too niche.

It has replaced about a third of my income so the goal is to start another project soon.

What is the goal of this "scam"?

You either don’t or you have to sacrifice sleep, leisure time or something else.

I have a full-time job, two-kids and a small SaaS side-business and it is all consuming.

I either get up early or stay up late to work on my own stuff.

The goal is to transition into working for myself but that is going slowly and I’ve been at it for a while so I’m feeling a bit burned out lately...

Thoughts of just selling the damn thing and just working my 9-5 are becoming more frequent...

haha so true

Wasn't their previous major outage because of a bad migration?

Speaking of "closer to the database" Ecto is now one of my all-time favorite libraries.

Every time I think "this is going to be tricky".. nope. Ecto seems to have thought of that.