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Three. :)

Yeah, I don't get it. The delivery of the talk is a little.. pointed.

But the perspective offered is incredibly compelling. And my work experiences -- both positive and negative -- are sympatico with so much said here.

Can confirm, see same outage -- started about 20 minutes ago (US East).

One of my all time favorite talks in software.

Yes, but it's woefully out of date.

Fun fact -- Ian (maintainer) is/was a backend dev at Square Enix.

Plug for this book when stepping beyond syntax (I'm just a satisfied reader):

https://pragprog.com/book/jgotp/designing-elixir-systems-wit...

It was hugely helpful to me in wrapping my head around something bigger than hello world.

Learned on the job. Previous professional background PHP, JS. Beginner to what I think to be competent ("full stack", a range between infra and clustered prod deployments to page layouts in Phoenix LiveView) in about four months.

I've been able to find high quality Elixir packages without trouble. I haven't had to fall back to Erlang packages for any holes but I feel confident because I could.

We're using it for "data-intensive realtime" (ish) apps at the moment.

DIRT (h/t Bryan Cantrill? http://dtrace.org/resources/bmc/DIRT.pdf)

I hope to expand it to other more mundane CRUD-y microservices in the future just for the low maintenance, productivity, easy grokkability it offers.

Intrinsic value of the company > devaluing cash pile

(Presenting as "record stock growth" but in reality just trying to hold even value.)

FWIW, we try to be open about those processes just for that reason:

https://automattic.com/work-with-us/how-we-hire-developers/

What pension fund?

Deeply timezone aware, fluid UI to manage, granular time increments.

IMO v1 is primarily about thoughtful multi-perspectival interactions. The Revolution is to come.

Real goods -- like pieces of companies (stocks) or tangible assets (housing, etc).

In my layman opinion -- the western central banks are in cahoots continually "soft landing" (optimistic) or manipulating (pessimistic) and at an accelerated rate since 2008.

The marketing isn't booming up. The nominal metric is falling rapidly.

Currency devaluation (mostly)

Not just 1995. Windows 10 spyware/crapware is a fundamental violation of the customer's interests in my book.

EDIT: is/was, I've heard they turned some of it down supposedly.

> The problem is that the OS upgrades invariably slow down older phones, so even if you're perfectly happy with your iPhone to begin with, it starts to act slow as it gets the newer OS's.

This is a truism and from my experience it rings false. I ran an iPhone 5 for four years without feeling degraded.

FWIW, as background, I'm an ex-overclocking PC enthusiast and I consider myself very sensitive to any sorts of performance lag.

I don't buy a simple reliability narrative. I'm going to go with household income / cost divergence with a heavy salting of currency devaluation on top as "the real reason".

This is a Walmart counterattack. Walmart is on the verge of capturing large swathes of busy "middle-class buyer" pickup orders.

Amazon saw it and responded quickly.

Neither. My background was all C family until I read PragProg and then stumbled over Elixir in a search for another language for edification.

Just such a joy to write both syntactically and conceptually.

I wrote C to get through school. I wrote PHP to hack CRUD web apps. I write JS because it's ubiquitous and I'm required to. I write Elixir because I love to do it.