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by tom_b 10y ago
I wonder if you are less impacted by the lack of CS degree than by your "Software QA Engineer" label. My own experience was that my initial position as a software performance engineer resulted in a perception that I was a "te
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by tom_b 10y ago
Nice data munging out of Indeed.com here. The article author gives a detailed description of searching Indeed in a write-up linked from the original article as well ( http://r4stats.com/articles/how-to-search-for-data-s
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by tom_b 10y ago
I've never come across a great book of relational models specific to domains. My favorite general db book is Database Systems: The Complete Book (DS:CB), by Hector Garcia-Molina, Jeff Ullman, and Jennifer Widom. This is a good book fo
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by tom_b 10y ago
I personally like collection+json as a response type for REST. I will say that my own efforts at using a hypermedia-containing response type for a REST api shared across several teams have been mostly wasted effort. Consumers of the api t
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by tom_b 10y ago
Requirements were to allow internal and external teams the ability to CRUD a small set of resources using multiple programming languages, OS, and include command line scripting ability. Direct access to our HIPAA/IRB database instances
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by tom_b 10y ago
I have had some success stealing the immutability ideas out of Datomic and sticking them into normal RDBMs. I generally add a timestamp and a deleted flag to normal entities in the schema. Updates or deletes result in new tuples with late
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by tom_b 10y ago
I also did not hear back after doing the challenge in December using Clojure. But I also indicated in my cover email that I probably wasn't a good candidate if relocation was a must and that could have easily been a deal-breaker for t
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by tom_b 10y ago
My experience using environment variables as recommended above has been positive. I currently maintain a Clojure web app (a REST server really) and have found that maintaining configuration options, like a keystore and keystore password, i
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by tom_b 10y ago
Cool - thanks to all three of you for Starfighter. I'm sad it didn't work out as envisioned. Looking forward to the eventual write-up when it fits into your time.
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by tom_b 10y ago
The founders wound it down. Thomas is threatening to actually do a write-up about the experience sometime (poke, poke).
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by tom_b 10y ago
I think the clearest answer is Dweck is saying that misunderstanding her concept of the growth mindset leads to a "false growth mindset" rather than strictly defining the term. FTA: But Dweck recently noticed a trend: a widesp
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by tom_b 10y ago
Just anecdotally, I have friends who have been very successful with buying and renting condos/apartments in a college town. Demand for rental units stays high (well-known, reputable public university). Oddly enough, they have generall
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by tom_b 10y ago
I was taken aback when I realized just how few people understand the United States progressive tax system and how income tax brackets work. That misunderstanding is so pervasive (in my experience) that I can't even imagine people havi
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by tom_b 10y ago
Oh, I default to using the hacker label as a compliment to programmers here on news.yc. I tend to assume (based on reading bits of code from various news.yc contributors) that many devs (carefully not bucketing myself in this group) here e
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by tom_b 10y ago
I laughed too - but also wouldn't mind working professionally in a Clojure-oriented shop despite having some freedom to use Clojure now. But I'm a lone wrangler of parentheses in my current role and if I could (in my location) jo
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by tom_b 10y ago
Interesting that Bay Area hackers make more than local hackers when they relocate outside the Bay Area. FTA: A 2015 report by Hired found that when engineers from the Bay Area relocate to other areas, they out-earn engineers on the
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by tom_b 10y ago
As a youth baseball coach, I have noticed that none of the players talk about a favorite baseball player or team. We're cord-cutters and my own kids never even mention watching a game. Not a good sign for MLB.
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by tom_b 10y ago
Lack of obvious career development opportunities. Concern over the viability of the business. Discomfort with idea that projects were frequently cost-centers without tangible benefits for customers.
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by tom_b 10y ago
If it is an option for you geographically, look around at college town school districts where maybe there is some remaining socioeconomic diversity (e.g, the whole school district isn't made up of employees of the university). My kids
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by tom_b 10y ago
Anecdotally, my personal network and I have found the reluctance to direct hire into senior dev jobs the same across the country in RTP, NC. I'm not sure it is really related to proprietary tech here, but rather reflects uneasiness in
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by tom_b 10y ago
I have semi-copied what AWS did a couple of years ago. Each api consumer has an api key with a private key known to the consumer and server-side. Requests are SSL only and are signed with the private key by the consumer side (including an
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by tom_b 10y ago
I agree with the above recommendation. I have read John Cook's blog for some time and think he might be a good fit as a consultant for bringing you up to speed and reviewing your current teams' work. http://www.johndcoo
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by tom_b 10y ago
Adjunct side-gigs can be fun. Teaching students who started at zero and wound up quite capable of sophisticated hacking was very rewarding for me. If you have been curious about teaching and find an opportunity, I highly recommend trying
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by tom_b 10y ago
I am curious about demand for this skill in the market. But I just don't see it - machine/statistical/deep learning gigs just seem really rare. I know this isn't a great metric, but searches on Indeed.com: "deep
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by tom_b 10y ago
Hi, I found Larry Harris' Trading and Exchanges: Market Microstructure for Practitioners a solid introduction to market making and trading. Terms and concepts are easy to pick up from the text. I was comfortable enough after readi
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by tom_b 10y ago
No, not really. When my purchase was made, the Macbook Pro had the nicest screen and form factor with 16GB of memory. I debated the Carbon X1 at the time, but I recall it was limited to 8GB of memory. I regularly work with Java-based ETL
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by tom_b 10y ago
I run Debian and XMonad on a Macbook Pro with 16GB of memory. Nice machine. I guess it would still dual boot to OSX, but I haven't tried for more than a year.
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by tom_b 10y ago
I would recommend starting with Stephen Few's books: Show Me the Numbers and Information Dashboard Design: Displaying Data for At-a-Glance Monitoring to get an idea of visualization from a business needs perspective. These are eas
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by tom_b 10y ago
Thomas, were many starfighters you referred not getting offers? I love the idea of a (properly scoped) project/challenge in the hiring process and find myself profoundly worried when no code gets discussed in tech interviews. I also
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by tom_b 10y ago
Ignoring the breathless nature of the article, this is a buzzword label for a commodity skill set that pays a commodity salary in tech. It is also the commodity skill set that my employers have all paid me for. There has been for a long

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