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   by michael_miller 15y ago

   SO is good for getting answers to quick commonly asked questions. If I encounter an error, and can't solve it after a few minutes, I'll usually Google it. More often than not, SO is the first result, offering a quick fix for the problem. I'
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   by michael_miller 15y ago

   It's hard to live on $75k in Manhattan, but you can live fairly comfortably on that salary in other boroughs or NJ. I would be very surprised if the offer hadn't gone up substantially since this post was written. Nowadays, new grad offers f
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   by michael_miller 15y ago

   It's interesting that Microsoft chose to adopt monochrome icons after Mac OS X / iTunes adopted monochrome icons. I'd be curious if Apple's design was a major influence on Microsoft's designers, or if the idea for monochrome icons came prim
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   by michael_miller 15y ago

   http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4627 specifies that the encoding must be Unicode: "JSON text SHALL be encoded in Unicode. The default encoding is UTF-8."
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   by michael_miller 15y ago

   "What I'm working on now."
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   Microsoft's "Shrimp and Weenies" Memo(allthingsd.com)

   3 points by michael_miller 15y ago|0 comments
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   by michael_miller 15y ago

   On the other hand, having a salary can be quite addicting. Going from making >$100k straight out of school(probably $150k with stock+bonus), to living on $30k (or whatever your 'ramen salary' is) is quite a challenge, especially when yo
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   by michael_miller 15y ago

   It's not fair to take affirmative action solely on family income, as the cost of living varies vastly across the US. $100K in Manhattan is nothing, but can translate to an extremely comfortable lifestyle in rural Texas.
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   by michael_miller 15y ago

   Aren't noncompetes non-enforcable in California? (I'm not a lawyer)
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    by michael_miller 15y ago

    Facebook actually already has an advertising office in NYC right near Grand Central. The news is that they're expanding to include an engineering office in NYC.
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    by michael_miller 15y ago

    I feel exactly the same way. I had the experience of working with a designer on two projects, both of which he gave me pixel-perfect mockups for. One project was an iOS project, the other a web project. Getting the pixels to match up for th
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    by michael_miller 15y ago

    This looks great! It sounds like the async call unwrapping solves the concern from my Ask HN: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2539148 .
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    by michael_miller 15y ago

    What skills do HFT shops look for in a developer? Do they require finance knowledge, or do they "just" want a rockstar systems hacker who can optimize packet delivery latency by hacking the kernel?
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    by michael_miller 15y ago

    [can't reply directly to your latest comment, so doing it here] 'first year' == new grad? What is the income "ceiling" in this role? And why is supporting trading software bad? What does it entail?
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    by michael_miller 15y ago

    Curious, what was your role, if you don't mind saying? Were you a developer? Did you find the problems you were working on interesting? Would you go back?
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    by michael_miller 15y ago

    That seems really, really low in comparison to Silicon Valley. The typical numbers I've heard thrown around are 90-100k for new CS grads, plus bonuses. Does "Technology Analyst" refer to 'IT guy' or 'developer'? Also, the salary seems reall
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    Ask HN: What's it like working as a finance developer?

    2 points by michael_miller 15y ago|12 comments
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    by michael_miller 15y ago

    This definitely feels like something that will help a lot. I tend to be doing similar things in many places of my code, like getting the current user's document from the user DB, and handling errors in the same way(by passing {error: "descr
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    by michael_miller 15y ago

    Thanks for the suggestions and links! I will definitely read up on some "production" node.js code; this is something I really have not done at all. I've pretty much learned node.js based on a few simple examples, and the API docs. This is p
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    by michael_miller 15y ago

    The server is pretty monolithic; the majority of the code lives in a single file, with two modules taking care of some code which we share between servers.
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    Ask HN: How do you write clean node.js code?

    6 points by michael_miller 15y ago|9 comments
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    by michael_miller 15y ago

    But what is 'personally identifiable'? Say a patient had a complaint about the cost of a visit, and stormed out of the office saying 'screw you' in the waiting room, and the review noted this. Other patients who were in the waiting room wou
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    by michael_miller 15y ago

    One thing worth noting: Doctors aren't able to respond to reviews at all. If a patient posts a completely baseless, factually untrue review of a doctor, the doctor cannot say anything due to privacy laws regarding the patient. This is in co