TIL. Ty!

Also :x is the same as :wq

Imma build a wall with bricked internets.

Here’s a video out there where he’s talking to Twitter devs telling them they need a total rewrite because their stack is too complicated.

Someone gives him the slightest amount of pushback by asking what exactly he means by a rewrite and he cannot give a coherent answer. Someone else asks him to clarify what it is about their stack that is ‘crazy’. Elon gets very flustered and can only respond by calling the guy a jackass.

He knows absolutely nothing about programming.

Well, its backend uses Elixir and is performant as fuck so not trash in all possible ways.

And for me Slack shits the bed fairly often and their recent UI enshitification made absolutely no comprehendable sense to me.

Also, your generalization of people who do or don’t like a specific app is wild to me.

Seems like a good way to get put on a ‘list’.

Vim does code completion just fine if you set up your language server correctly.

Elixir does have for loops.

https://hashrocket.com/blog/posts/elixir-for-loops-go-beyond-comprehension

That being said, I have worked at a company who uses Elixir 4 years now and I have never once written one.

Sounds like you need to answer back with numbers.

Calculate how much time is needed for writing tests.

Then calculate how much time was spent writing ineffective code, then add the amount of time it took to rewrite that same code.

I guarantee the latter amount will be more.

Bonus points if you can calculate the amount of money lost from an unavailable application, then add in the amount of money lost from the confidence your customers are losing in that app.

Maybe a response to their ‘solution’ would be to ask them if they were under the impression you weren’t being careful/paying attention before the bugs occurred?

Imagine if a trumpet cleaning supply company wrote up an article about the importance of cleaning your trumpet regularly, and somewhere in the article they mentioned something like, ‘oh and you can use your trumpet cleaning spray to clean your trumpet’. Does this mean the information is incorrect? No? Any more or less valid than some dude named Craig on YouTube showing you how he cleans his trumpet? I don’t think so?

Yeah it’s an ad, but it’s an informative ad from an organization that obviously has some passion for the area of their product. I think it would actually be kind of weird if a company that does version control had absolutely no documentation on what version control best practices are.

They told us in boot camp the difference is about $10k.

Is this that “no-code” thing my PM keeps yapping about?

I always kind of felt like those voices began to be drowned out the more and more popular reddit became. You’re correct about Lemmy’s scale, but there is certainly a sweet spot. I’m happy knowing Lemmy hasn’t yet reached its own, and reddit’s is long gone. I’m happier here and it’s likely only going to get better.

Yeah, but a rich fossil.

exercism.io

It’s Kata code challenges but highly tuned to specific tools of a language. There’s an Elixir kata for GenServers for example.

You can also request one on one code reviews from a volunteer mentor. Really great community and they have grown way beyond just Elixir in the last few years.