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by lightbendover 10y ago
Writing a custom parser for "data files similar-to but different-from CSV" is day-to-day life in B2B.
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by lightbendover 10y ago
I married my wife within a month of her receiving her MD. I believe I was more stressed about wedding planning than she was about medicine at the time. That said, surgical residency is no picnic.
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by lightbendover 10y ago
I was the lead engineer on a new financial exchange that we launched just this month. Honestly, it involved some of the lowest lows of my career to date and while it is assuredly my greatest accomplishment of the year, it in no way felt tr
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by lightbendover 10y ago
My wife is a neurosurgeon in residency and she absolutely works 90-~110 hours just about every week. She barely sleeps and eats one or two big meals a day (almost always ordered from Seamless), we have to live within a couple blocks of the
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by lightbendover 10y ago
We recently implemented an extensive test suite that can be run with either mocks for service dependencies or in a live configuration, depending on config settings. Before, we simply had integration tests that relied on very specific dat
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by lightbendover 10y ago
My wife got a PhD in neuro without a masters. It was part of an MD/PhD program. The PhD itself took a bit under 3 years in the middle of med school. Given 7 years of residency and another year of fellowship, she can expect her first
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by lightbendover 10y ago
We have been very happy with Clubhouse. Still missing some templating features we'd like to see and it could probably use something along the lines of Themes, but it has been a good fit for us.
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by lightbendover 10y ago
From my past life in DC, we always just called it "Up North."
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by lightbendover 10y ago
If you turn off the QA servers, then production is your QA server. This may be the surest sign in the entire comment section.
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by lightbendover 10y ago
I feel like tracing is the biggest thing missing from the article, especially since the author takes a hard stance on logging. Tracing is one of those things that will eventually save the day for you (ops released a bad config on some load
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by lightbendover 10y ago
Having witnessed the growth of countless engineers, including myself, it comes down a personality trait as far as I can tell. Some people make their code and their products a huge component of their identity and it becomes very difficult f
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by lightbendover 10y ago
"Tell me more about the array you want me to sort" is the only valid initial response to "best way to sort an array." That said, the question posed had very little to do with sorting arrays and I'm not sure where yo
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by lightbendover 10y ago
In my experience, the real '10x' productivity bump comes from engineers who can internalize huge swaths of the codebase and make all of the necessary connections. Given a large enough product, that will be out of reach for the ma
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by lightbendover 10y ago
Almost every B2B venture eventually recreates Excel so I'm inclined to agree with you. A popular (and good) common methodology would go a long way.
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by lightbendover 10y ago
> The JWT library I'm using in Laravel blacklists tokens by storing them in their own table, rather than invalidating them. The main rationale for JWTs is that it removes the session store as a point of contention (and secondarily i
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by lightbendover 10y ago
Not even Microsoft's own JavaScript libraries (e.g. Excel) have first-party type defs, at least as of a few months ago. Making matters worse, that aforementioned Excel library has polymorphic parameters everywhere. We gave it a shot
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by lightbendover 10y ago
Merchant cash advances (a sizable, although definitely not huge, segment of lending) do not have an interest rate, they have a factor rate, which is an entirely different thing in finance. The factor rate is simply a multiple on the amount
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by lightbendover 11y ago
It's really not so surprising that you couldn't reproduce Dataminr, a ~$200M company, in your spare time.
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by lightbendover 11y ago
Plenty allow retail investors, e.g. Lending Club and Prosper. That said, I can't really advise participating as a retail investor since institutional investors employ technology (that you have no access to) in order to instantly scoop