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Re:Elixir Saves Pinterest $2M a Year in Server Costs by sph on Tuesday August 29, 2023 @09:23AM (#37307521)
If I had said 1/4th the effort would that have invalidated my argument? I pulled that figure out of my arse from experience. YMMV.

You'll note I'm not selling anything here, and no one is paying me a commission.

A junior that got "swindled" by my claims and spends a weekend learning Elixir becomes a better programmer and earns another feather on their cap. How tragic.

Junior devs, if you want to become a senior greybeard like me, learn anything that tickles your fancy, and ignore anyone that says it isn't worth your time. Even learning COBOL will make you a better programmer. I can only promise that Elixir is more fun than COBOL.

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Re:Elixir Saves Pinterest $2M a Year in Server Costs by Horffupolde on Tuesday August 29, 2023 @09:39AM (#37307759)
He just means that junior developers don’t understand hyperboles because they don’t have the intuition yet.
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