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One of the biggest challenges I find in working with this data is that normally finance is separate from the ERP system and as such getting those two sets of data to tie out is next to impossible... in the CPG industry, with regards to sales and marketing reporting, everything is about the UPC. Well, finance is more about profit centers... it is more nuanced than that, because if it weren't that would be easy enough to solve.

Rifken1

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How Hardware Affects Software

I have always been fascinated with how changes in hardware affect how we write software. 

A couple of decades ago, memory was a very limited resource. It made sense back then for our software to take hold of some piece of memory and mutate it as necessary. However, allocating this memory and cleaning up after we no longer needed it was a very error-prone task. Some memory was never freed; sometimes memory was allocated over another structure, leading to faults. At the time, garbage collection was a known technique, but we needed faster CPUs in order to use it in our daily software and free ourselves from manual memory management. That has happened—most of our languages are now garbage-collected. 

Today, a similar phenomenon is happening. Our CPUs are not getting any faster. Instead, our computers get more and more cores. This means new software needs to use as many cores as it can if it is to maximize its use of the machine. This conflicts directly with how we currently write software. 

In fact, mutating our memory state actually slows down our software when many cores are involved. If you have four cores trying to access and manipulate the same piece of memory, they can trip over each other. This potentially corrupts memory unless some kind of synchronization is applied. 

I quickly learned that applying this synchronization is manual, error-prone, and tiresome, and it hurts performance. I suddenly realized that’s not how I wanted to spend time writing software in the next years of my career, and I set out to study new languages and technologies.

It was on this quest that I fell in love with the Erlang virtual machine and ecosystem.

- José Valim

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Took a position and inherited a Ruby on Rails app. This thing was built by a 15 year vet but it’s a mess. It’s so fragile. Every little change has massive side effects. I can feel the aftershock ripple through the codebase. It’s not small either. I’m not saying you can’t build crap in elixir but I’m over tracking down mutable state transformations. Plus I’m ready for a change. I also believe elixir will be see a wider adoption and will prove to be a lucrative career choice. In 10 years when someone inherits my crappy elixir app they’ll be pissed off they can’t just mutate state and then they’ll rebuild it in “Python on Bike Lanes

p_r_m_n_

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I'm running from the enemy inside. Looking for the life I left behind. These suffocating memories are etched upon my mind. And I can't escape from the enemy inside

The Enemy Inside, Dream Theater 

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2014

[ayswl]

I'd say one particular challenge comes from the temptation to work solo sometimes. It can often be easy to get tunnel vision and forget the collaboration element when your head is stuck in front of a computer screen. To avoid this, it's important to take a step back and reassess where the days work is heading, which is best achieved by sharing with others - the more regularly we do this, the less risk there is of work going off on a tangent.

Adam 

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Working in a traditional full-time web development role at an established company can give you the opportunity for structured learning, everyday exposure to mentors, experts and best practices you likely won't get as a freelancer without making the effort to track them down. Even if you ultimately want to end up in a freelance position, it's worth considering developing your skills in a more traditional setting before leaping into the unknown. You'll be more marketable if you've built a decent portfolio and have some experience working in the field before you start freelancing. You'll also have a higher skill level and quality of work to share with your clients.

[ayswl]

Don’t get me wrong, I love Starbucks and I hate the latte principle (if I want a $4 cup of coffee you better believe I’m going to buy a $4 cup of coffee, and I’ll throw in a muffin too). I own a car, I take good quality vitamins, and I’ll buy new shoes if I think they’re cute. But I don’t go overboard. If what you want in life is the most expensive leather furniture and can’t settle for the IKEA couch that is clean and presentable (and happens to be used but is still in excellent shape), then yeah, of course you can’t afford to travel. But you made that choice. You chose leather name-brand furniture over floating in the Dead Sea, visiting Rembrandt’s house and snorkeling in the Great Barrier Reef. I know girls who own 20 different bottles of department store (i.e. pricey) eau de toilette because, get this: they believe night perfumes and day perfumes are supposed to be different. Think about it: that is a conscious decision to have eau de toilette sitting in a drawer than to travel. I also know a not-rich somebody who spent $150 on one curtain panel. Yes one, not a set. These are not people who have buffer room in their bank accounts to afford these types of things – these instances were the very definition of splurging. If you spend money you don’t have like that, please don’t be envious and call me “lucky.” I set up my finances and ‘consider my wallet’ or so to speak, all so I can live my dream of world travel. That means I’m still comfortable, I have everything I need (actually more than I need), but I place higher value on plane tickets than fancy cars and gadgets that end up collecting dust, in or out of storage.

Joyce Grace

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Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional.

Chili Davis

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Then I guess Senpai-sama takes it to a whole other level huh.

[ayswl]

As a magician it is our job to not make our tricks trivial and seems like a puzzle for them [spectators] to figure out because that's exactly what they're going to do. It's our job to take the sleights, the moves, everything we've learned and create an art piece, create fiction, create something that isn't real for them to enjoy.

Chris Ramsay

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Creating fiction, real fiction in the spectators mind is something wonderful, because only then do they forget about methods. if you've done your job right, they don't care about the method they're highly entertained by the piece of art, the fiction you've created for them and are happy to thank you after the performance rather than wanting to inspect anything.

Chris Ramsay

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Neither is there anyone who loves, pursues or desires pain itself because it is pain.

Cicero