Thomas O'Rourke@tomjoro

Mostly software, sometimes skiing.

Joined March 2009
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Revealing to the world a **previously unknown** Easter Egg hidden in Windows 3.11 in MediaPlayer (I'm in the list). 33 years! How to activate?? @davepl1968--> answers? #Windows31 #RetroComputing #EasterEgg #MicrosoftHistory #Windows311
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Call for Speakers for ElixirConf EU 2023 is open and I've just submitted a session! sessionize.com/elixirconfeu-…

ElixirConf EU 2023: Call for Speakers

Join us for Europe’s largest Elixir ConferenceFor nearly a decade, ElixirConf EU has been the must attend Elixir event in Europe. Every year, hundreds...

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Actually, #ChatGPT is helpful understand how to explain things to people. Long haul, but I got it to admit #Elixir is safer than #Rust if we restrict to the languages (not programmer) and the definition of safety as memory issues, race conditions & undefined behavior. :)
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ChatGPT's knowledge of programming languages is often incompetent contradictory gibberish, and scary. As a coder, I will sleep better tonite knowing this AI will probably only get worse as it trains off it's own crowd-generated nonsense. #Elixir and #Java examples.
Check out my latest article: Is Pure Functional Programming a Lie? linkedin.com/pulse/pure-func… via @LinkedIn (updated from my earlier tomjoro.github.io article).

Is Pure Functional Programming a Lie?

Is functional programming a lie? As usual an #elixirlang promotion full of philosophy, controversy, etc.! This same text can be found on my GitHub blog: https://tomjoro.

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Thomas O'Rourke retweeted
70s Sci-Fi Art@70sscifi
1 Jan 2022
It’s the year 2022…
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Is functional programming a lie? (spoiler: no, but mutation is a lie). As usual an #elixirlang promotion in disguise :) - Philosophy, controversy, etc. tomjoro.github.io/2021-12-14…

Is Pure Functional Programming a Lie?

As more computer languages adopt functional constructs it seems pure functional languages have been pushed into a corner. Many developers are familar with closures in Javascript, and they are now...

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Michal Slaski@michalslaski
24 Apr 2021
Today I tried to use a local Python Jupyter Notebook and here are the training times: 0.6s - Elixir Livebook 2.7s - Python 3.9.4 12s - Jupyter Notebook 23s - Google Colab local runtime 1m50s - Google Colab free hosted runtime
Michal Slaski@michalslaski
23 Apr 2021
I was playing around with Google Colab and Elixir Livebook today. The former required 1m50s to train my model. The latter required 0.6s to train the same model. That was 172x faster! [1/3] #MyElixirStatus #elixir #nx
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(after reading the teasers from José and guessing) A few weeks ago I tweeted about how great a match Elixir, with its immutable-functional-concurrency, would be for the GPU. It's coming true - Yay!
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Live, from Finland it's... Taking Elixir Live at a Bank! (recorded at ElixirConf EU Virtual in October).
Erlang Solutions
@ErlangSolutions
10 Dec 2020
In this talk @tomjoro & @m1halo, share their experiences introducing Elixir to OP Financial group. Several production Elixir systems have been launched, including a payment system based on facial recognition. Watch the talk at piped.video/NvyrKcDtpUQ #FinTech #BestOfTheBEAM
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In this presentation I pose the question: How does one safely "kill" a thread in #java, #Ruby, #csharp, #rustlang, (or any language with a shared memory model)? How about in #elixirlang or #erlang? Why?
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Three of the most influential Computer Science books ever written and that have survived on my bookshelf for over 30 years - they never get old.
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Why keep old books? all my notes are in there:
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Presenting in front of a "virtual" (but very real) audience is nerve-racking! We need to make on-line presentations more engaging - I need to hear people laugh at the jokes.
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#elixirlang /#erlang developers who have been wondering for years "what is this #docker thing for?" are now very confused.
While hw people are nitpicking hw performance: #AMD vs Apple/#Arm vs #Intel , vs 7nm, 5nm, etc. -- there are a bunch of sw engineers thinking: welcome to the parallel age, your old sw benchmarks do not apply, and we need to retool software development. #elixirlang, #golang
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“In the future, we may not have to go to work; the work would come to us”!
Humanoid History@HumanoidHistory
8 Nov 2020
The home office of the future, previewed by Walter Cronkite on "The 21st Century," 1967.
Why does #entertainmentweekly have unicorns in source html? I found this randomly by accidentally hitting source view (muscle memory?) while watching #StephenColbert view-source:ew.com/tv/stephen-colbert-el…
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Thomas O'Rourke retweeted
Joel Kemp@mrjoelkemp
9 Oct 2020
"To power their chat systems, Discord runs 400-500 Elixir machines. The most impressive feat is that Discord’s chat infrastructure team comprises five engineers. They all learned Elixir on the job." Geez. elixir-lang.org/blog/2020/10…

Real time communication at scale with Elixir at Discord

A case study of how Elixir is being used at Discord.

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