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by zallarak 11y ago
One of the most enlightening moments I had when working with engineers vastly more capable than me was the disproportionate amount of time they spent planning and designing versus coding, and how much faster they moved as a result.
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by zallarak 11y ago
You have an excellent skillset. I think you'll do great! If you run into any hiccups, feel free to email me (see profile) but I think you should do fine :-).
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by zallarak 11y ago
Really impressed by the fast page loads and readability. This matters more than anything and they nailed it. I wish other publications thought like this.
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by zallarak 11y ago
I disagree. It is wholly insignificant in the grand scheme of things. Twitter can't be fixed by putting so much thought into an icon - the core engagement of it is slightly broken. Chris Sacca had a great article on what is wrong with
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by zallarak 11y ago
Hopefully someone from the government is reading this, and realizes it's time to simplify this bureaucratic process.
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by zallarak 11y ago
This seems very cool - are there case studies of adopting this type of workflow for complex projects?
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by zallarak 11y ago
Wow, seeing the s&p outperformed is no small feat. Another notable thing is that your s&p performance could be much higher if you invested in a crash (2008 or 2002).
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by zallarak 11y ago
Wow, excited to see what is meant by this: Qasar will help scale our organization and operations as we tackle bigger and more ambitious projects My interactions with him at YC left me impressed.
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Should your startup use Heroku?(blog.instavest.com)
3 points by zallarak 11y ago|0 comments
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Instavest (YC W15) seeking software engineer
1 points by zallarak 11y ago
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by zallarak 11y ago
The idea of using probabilistic data structures instead of counting every point of data (for things like customer analytics) is pretty significant -- getting caught in the weeds of managing every data point is error-prone and inefficient.
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by zallarak 11y ago
Great perspective on how big Starbucks actually is.
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Waiting for Bitcoin(blog.instavest.com)
15 points by zallarak 11y ago|8 comments
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by zallarak 11y ago
Investing isn't easy - that's why I think its good to start earlier and learn quickly. This way, when you have a larger capital base, you've learned some lessons and hopefully conquered some behavioral pitfalls.
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by zallarak 11y ago
High pay is definitely a positive outcome. But it is one of several things that matter, not the only one. The fallacy I think lots of people fall for is to over-weigh its role in contentment - but it definitely does have a role.
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by zallarak 11y ago
There are 2 sides to this. 1. Quit: I spent a summer in investment banking, at a prestigious bank after 2 years of hustling at a state school (way easier to get this type of job at an ivy league). I left after a summer despite loving the pe
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5 tips for Working with unreliable web APIs(blog.instavest.com)
5 points by zallarak 11y ago|0 comments
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by zallarak 11y ago
Very cool that it is open sourced - seems like there would be a lot to learn from the code. Link: https://github.com/pipelinedb/pipelinedb
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by zallarak 11y ago
Thanks for letting us know of this. This is a constraint set by working with a brokerage partner. I think it's a good constraint though because trading with small amounts makes transaction fees to big relative to your capital base ($3.
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by zallarak 11y ago
Great point :-)!
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by zallarak 11y ago
Good question. We were not using nginx to begin with (rather, serving it through our app server). It was an alternative to nginx and is super easy to set up: https://github.com/evansd/whitenoise#quickstart-for-other-ws.
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by zallarak 11y ago
I can see that perspective. My thoughts were that each of these were not the "best" way to do things, but provided a great effort/benefit ratio. For example, if you have a very high traffic website, then you're better of
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by zallarak 11y ago
Hey, Thanks for the suggestion! I will look into it. Hope you're having a great summer in SF.
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by zallarak 11y ago
We worked with a third party API for a data source which had inconsistent formats for dates. Also, we A/B test inputs and its awesome to be able to change how users input dates on the front-end without server-side code changes.
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by zallarak 11y ago
Agreed. My goal was to share what I thought were solutions to generally common problems, and were't incredibly easy to find (i.e. > 3 google searches to find). The three libraries I selected were general tasks that lots of developer
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Useful Python Libraries for Startups(blog.instavest.com)
168 points by zallarak 11y ago|46 comments
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3 Stock Market Investing Truths I Used to Hold(blog.instavest.com)
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Instavest (YC W15) Is Hiring a Senior Software Engineer
1 points by zallarak 11y ago
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Instavest (YC W15) Is Hiring a Senior Software Engineer – Python
1 points by zallarak 11y ago
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by zallarak 11y ago
I came here to mention this! I saw you present this at the Recurse Center a long time ago.

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