Why not just milk it until the money train dries up or you are rolling in cash? Just because one or more companies offer the same product doesn't mean you're going to squashed. What will tank your business is losing focus & giving up before you needed to.
Readit News_d8fd commented on Ask HN: How to pursue acquisition? · Posted by u/throwaway334455
I think you make a big mistake in using the word 'inflated'. The joy of doing something is configured in our brains, and we enjoy that. Science has shown that we like and are willing to pay more for things merely on the brand.
Its like saying that all kisses are the same, its inflated that you want it from a specific person!
I usually buy brand name over generic stuff because it is quantifiably better to me in some way. Cereal that tastes better, garbage bag doesn't rip, etc.
On a mobile phone it is not so great. A single scrolling page like the recent hype but the menu disappears when scrolling down forcing me to scroll all the way back up to select the next menu. Never understood those designs. Keep my menu and home button in my screen at all times please.
P.s. I know there is a little arrow that does an animated automatic scroll upwards but for me needing such a thing is a clear indication of a flawed design. Instead of fixing the symptom you should fix the root cause..
Using Chrome in Android, the arrow to auto scroll up to top doesn't work for me at all. I can only manually scroll back up.
amorphid commented on Slack Is Buying HipChat from Atlassian bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/uptown
For one thing, an IRC client doesn't pin a core of my cpu at 100% and consume half a gig of ram...
(But I realise I'm well out on the losing end of this argument, even in groups of old-school hard core technical friends/colleagues, I've been given the "crazy look" when suggesting we just use irc for chat... )
Slack isn't perfect; I agree with that. I haven't experienced the CPU issue, but it does seem to like RAM quite a bit. I just opened it w/ one account active, and it was eating maybe 400MB of RAM. I bumped that up to 6 open accounts, and now it's chewing up maybe 2GB of RAM.
amorphid commented on Slack Is Buying HipChat from Atlassian bloomberg.com/news/articl... · Posted by u/uptown
There are two camps: the we-should-just-use-irc camp, and the we-need-every-feature camp. You fall in to the former, and I would bet that a lot of people here fall in to the former.
However, many people fall in to the latter, and Slack handily beats the competition there. There is also an element of having nice and polished features baked in that appeals to many people. Want it on your phone? There's an app. Want to search? Baked in. Want convenient chat bots? Click a button.
To be sure, all these things are possible in IRC and other lo-fi chat protocols, but getting them set up is easy on Slack. I see this as similar to the argument of Linux vs. OSX. Linux can do practically anything OSX can, but it requires tweaking and setting up. It's a battle of pick-and-choose vs having it all baked in.
I don't see any compelling reason to adopt IRC. It does nothing that I care about that Slack doesn't do. If Slack completely implodes, I would search for Slack alternative. If IRC really was my only option, I'd use it just long enough to write a basic alternative myself that replaced or extended IRC w/ the features I really want.
As someone who resort to IEx.pry daily I'm curious if you have any tip to share about your workflow so that you don't need a debugger.
To you use typespecs and Dializer? (I haven't looked into those yet.)
My experience is that a good share of bugs is avoided thanks to immutability, but I still get nil-related issues now and again.
For me it's mostly about gow people use metaprogramming.
In Ruby, if I'm trying to find the source of a dynamically generated method in a dynamically generated class, that usually requires me to run add a debug statement, run the program, and see what's being passed. Even if I have a stacktrace, I often find it difficult to understand what the code is doing without running it.
I find Elixir code easier to read, and grepping my way through the code base is often enough. And to be fair, a debugger is often less than useful in macros involving AST & when dealing with a process that got a random message from who knows where.
Along the lines of comments below... what are the sweet spots people are finding for Elixir? I've used Erlang a lot in the past and like it, and would love to have an opportunity to use Elixir for some projects, but it seems that for regular old CRUD kinds of stuff, I'm not sure it's a win compared to Rails.
This is a rather simplistic argument... With Ruby I find it hard to avoid using a debugger. With Elixir I never need a debugger.
Disclaimer: I'm a maintainer but the next Dialyxir release makes a major improvement on this, thanks to contributions from Andrew Summers. He wrote a parser for the Erlangified term strings and uses the Elixir (1.6) pretty printer to print all the terms the way Elixir would. We're still fine-tuning the error messages and explanations but there is an RC on hex[0] - give it a spin if you haven't yet.
I'll check it out tonight!
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