I started coding in Elixir about a year ago, and my experience with the community has been great.
I was coming from Python and JS, where evidently the community size is orders of magnitude larger, but in my experience that is more than compensated by how engaging the Elixir community is.
I’ve had very helpful interactions on the Discord channel and through the ElixirForum… also, you tend to get very good/thoughtful answers. So to me community size has not been an issue.
Also, just out of curiosity, what do you mean by “niche”? As far as I’m aware the use case of Elixir is pretty general purpose (obviously with its strengths and weaknesses - like any other language).
In Postgres you can chose whether to treat NULLs as distinct or not (meaning that when treating NULLs as NOT DISTINCT you can insert many for an otherwise unique row).
“In the 1960s, Babou was frequently seen with Dalí, who claimed to have been given the wild ocelot by the head of state of Colombia. Dalí had always been a cat lover and had an interest in exotic animals. He enjoyed a visual pun and would sometimes wear a cat pattern or coloured coat when travelling with Babou. In 1969, he was photographed leaving a Paris metro station with an anteater on a lead.
For a time in the 1960s, Dalí was more often than not accompanied by Babou. In a restaurant in Manhattan, although Babou's leash was tethered to the table, a fellow diner became quite alarmed until Dalí assured her that Babou was an ordinary cat “painted over in an op art design." On another occasion, when Babou and Dalí were visiting a gallery in Paris, Babou "made a nuisance" on some valuable 17th-century lithographs. Dalí claimed that the connection with him could only increase their value and the dealer increased the price of the lithographs by 50%. Dalí also agreed to sell the dealer a batch of his lithographs to placate him.
In 1970, Robert Wernick reported in Life magazine that Babou had a younger companion named Bouba who were led into the hotel Meurice on a leash by one of Dali's assistants and made sick by the hotel's revolving doors. The Meurice was a luxury hotel in Paris since 1815, where Dalí was a regular guest for 30 years in its best known suite, the Royal Suite, which had been home to King Alfonso XIII during his exile from Spain. Writing in his memoirs, the actor Carlos Lozano (a friend of Dalí) stated, “I only saw the ocelot smile once, the day it escaped and sent the guests at the Meurice scurrying like rats for cover.”
Babou also accompanied Dalí on a transatlantic crossing on the SS France.”*
In my case I enjoy reading The Economist and do not mind paying for it, but some years back I had to cancel my subscription (I was cutting back on expenses) and honestly I found that experience so much against the business values they preach that it has made me not subscribe again, even if it means not reading their publication.
(Every few years I go to check if they have made it easier to unsubscribe, but last time I checked they still had the same practices)
Edit: I can also imagine that I’m a minority and so it really pays off to keep doing this.
I avoid subscription services like the plague because of this (and other reasons).
I can't know if they're going to do this kind of crap until it is to late. Even if some one reviewed services for this they could change at any time for the worse. So I just assume it will happen and try to limit getting into that bad arrangement as much as possible.
I think that your theory is not accounting for how ageing will change the way you interact/adopt technology. Looking at the "old" edge of the charts from a youngish perspective might miss some important drivers of how older people view the world...
You will be welcomed in the city. I'm an expat living in Barelona for the last 7 years and in my experience tourists have always been welcomed.
The local exasperation is against rising rent prices, which can be linked to the high increment of unlicensed apartments being rented out for tourism... personally I've got nothing about the sharing economy, but in my experience most of the flats I've seen are being rented out "professionally" meaning they are not being shared. I understand this is a limited sample, but if it is representative of the larger set then the story that AirBnb is helping Barcelona households make an extra income would not stand, and it would rather be a small number of people making a killing out of unlicensed apartment renting.
The easiest solution would be for AirBnB to release audited data and prove that it is in fact helping small households the most and not a small number of people.
(Keep in mind that hotel capacity is still able to cope with current levels of tourism, except during the Mobile World Congress)
