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by abadger9 4y ago
agreed, i think it's time to check out fintech; thank you
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by abadger9 4y ago
great idea, thank you
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by abadger9 4y ago
you're spot on - working at apache cassandra has been on my list for 7 years. Not a big fan of the databricks engineering team went to school with a few of them and didn't enjoy my interaction with them
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Ask HN: Where to Go from Here?
6 points by abadger9 4y ago|6 comments
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by abadger9 4y ago
It was not! If you look in my history you'll see I talk about my experience starting a consulting company. I had a personal website and brand at the same time, and it was probably a huge waste of time. I never appreciated the engagemen
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by abadger9 4y ago
this happened to me with facebook pre ipo! someone tried to impersonate them and screw with me on a fake technical interview. That person ended up getting kicked out of our college for academic reasons and the campus facebook recruiter foun
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by abadger9 4y ago
everyone starts somewhere :) I started with 1 as well.
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by abadger9 4y ago
I have a consulting business on the side - the more you're able to build an effective network, the more sustainable it is. You either grow your clientele from referrals and your reputation and then it feels like you're printing mo
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by abadger9 4y ago
this is the one that got me started in low latency java a decade ago - http://blog.vanillajava.blog/ - I've spoken with Peter a couple of times, he's a phenomenal technologist
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by abadger9 4y ago
Having worked in the JVM ecosystem building low latency systems for over a decade, I always aspire to have the minute knowledge Aleksey has. I wish there was a book/MOOC for more senior engineers, but i've found myself content and
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by abadger9 4y ago
I've applied to duckduckgo so many times and recieve a whitelabel "thank you for your interest" within a week everytime. I'm pretty certain it's not my resume because i've worked at FAANGs and lead a team of 20
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by abadger9 4y ago
I spent a bit of my career dealing with aterisk, i still don't think i understand it..
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by abadger9 5y ago
I have a private consulting company which has delivered some pretty sizable footprints (touches most fortune 500 companies via integration with a service) and i prefer deploying without containers. In fact i'll say I hate deploying wit
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by abadger9 5y ago
I'm always surprised by how fast cloudflare rejects my app. I would love to work there, but have gotten a 'Thank you for your application' email within 2 days of applying. Having worked at a unicorn start up and some notable
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by abadger9 5y ago
I deployed a personal app to Heroku when i was quite young and Heroku was barely a company. I lost access to the email that was tied to that heroku account, to their credit, the app is still deployed (and quite embarrassing to look back on)
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by abadger9 5y ago
Definitely not! I deactivated my linked in 5 years ago and got emails from Amazon, Snapchat, and some stealth company that didn't want to disclose their name since Monday. I think it's not as necessary on the engineering side, but
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by abadger9 5y ago
i'm sure they might when the light reaches them, given the context of planets in our neighborhood, probably in a few hundred/thousand years?
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by abadger9 5y ago
I've done some OCR side projects during hackathon weeks over the years (with google tesseract). This is a neat idea, I can only imagine the difficulty with which transcribing the variety of terrible handwriting will cause frustration a
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Ask HN: Best Books on the JVM?
57 points by abadger9 5y ago|6 comments
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by abadger9 5y ago
Nice work! I'm building a messenger as well which plays on time dynamics (differently) as side project, your UI is phenomenal. Happy to see a thoughtful take on messenger apps, imo the current model is (1) stale (2) 20-30 years old wit
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by abadger9 5y ago
Sorry about that, we're unable to discuss our projects with adjacent teams within the company. What you're saying is a valid frustration, the motivation behind the original comment was to put a thermometer on the repo.
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by abadger9 5y ago
I'm a lead engineer on the search team of a publicly traded company who's bread and butter is this domain. I was curious about this list, it candidly misses the mark- the tech mentioned in this blog is what you might get if you hi
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by abadger9 5y ago
on a tangential note, i was fortunate to work at netsuite early in their development (00-10) and it was the best professional experience of my life. Their low attrition rate speaks to the caliber of their leadership