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Gates of Fire by Steven Pressfield is a favorite of mine.

> Besides, erlang definitely gives you new perspective in building large scale system; supervision tree (let it crash), the actor concept, message passing, preemptive vm, built-in distributed erlang nodes, the repl, hot code swapping - any much more

Can't emphasize this enough. Programming in Erlang will enable you to build novel mental models, useful beyond Erlang/Elixir.

Moreover, Erlang is a small language, and once you get past the unusual syntax, pretty easy to learn.

I work on a large scale production system in Erlang on a day to day basis; feel free to email me if I can be helpful in any way.

I'd argue the opposite. Since no one is catering to them and they're frustrated with all the new technologies they don't understand, the elderly would pay a premium for accessible solutions that bring them value (they're in the stage when they're spending money, not really trying to save).

It's an 'unsexy' problem, and the average young developer/product person can't quite grasp the challenges the elderly have, but it's a significant, severely undeserved market.

If you're (thinking of) working in this space, feel free to shoot me an email and bounce ideas; I've been thinking about this domain for a while.

As a temporary solution, you could spoof the user agent by running chromium from command line: chromium-browser --user-agent="Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux i686) AppleWebKit/535.2 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/39.0.1132.47 Safari/536.11"

Good point! I always blindly assumed that removing whitespaces would lead to a decent size improvement, even after gzipping, so I ran a small test (gzip on linux, default parameters):

http://i.imgur.com/U1O4Xg5.png

The raw json contains the whitespaces, while they were removed in the minified json. So there is a 47% improvement for the uncompressed version, and a 21% improvement for the compressed version.

What would be interesting to see is how the second (compressed) number scales with the filesize (I don't know enough about compression algorithms to guess that).

EDIT: I really don't know how to format a table in plaintext...

I really like Palo Alto for exactly the same reason. Nice sidewalk cafés and very walkable.

Unfortunately, few Caltech classes have lectures that are actually worth it to be posted online (unlike the MIT ones, who are IMO far superior in teaching quality, for the most part)

Excellent point. Since the Ancient Olympics, the Games were a period of truce. Any ongoing conflict was suspended. It was almost the only time where any disputes would be postponed for a later time.

And we're talking about an actual war, not some political disagreement. Those athletes would probably try to kill each other the next month or so.

It's really sad that people take advantage of such a great event to gain attention for different causes, even if those causes are right. It happens every single time.

Countries will always have disagreement no matter what. Save those for a later time. Not the Olympics.