davidcaseria

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by davidcaseria 10y ago
Do you plan on using Scala and Akka Persistence in the future for the entirely event-based system? http://doc.akka.io/docs/akka/current/scala/persistence.html . We have been using it at the finance compan
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by davidcaseria 10y ago
The Startup School logo is really cool - a bunch of Y Combinator 'Y's forming a tree. It fits what they seem to be going for with by calling the MOOC 'Startup School' and symbolizes the programming definition of Y Combin
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by davidcaseria 10y ago
Avoiding large data migrations is one of the reasons to consider if using Command Query Responsibility Segregation (CQRS) and Event Sourcing (ES) is right for the application domain. It seems in this example the domain events haven't c
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by davidcaseria 10y ago
We're currently in the midst of implementing the independent application so we have not definitely solved our projection issues yet. The main issue we have been running into is a performance bottle neck after restarting the application
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by davidcaseria 10y ago
I work for a finance startup that uses Akka Persistence to implement an event sourced architecture. It has worked pretty well for us, much better than the original CRUD system. Akka can support a variety of different databases via journal
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by davidcaseria 10y ago
If moving from SF, someone can take a 50% pay cut and still maintain the same quality of life in Chicago [1]. As someone who works for a Chicago based startup I think if you adjust those salaries for the cost of living they are very reasona
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by davidcaseria 10y ago
While that may be true for some/most startups in Chicago, the startup I work for, M1 Finance, is definitely looking for people passionate about building a great product and company: https://www.m1finance.com/ .
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by davidcaseria 10y ago
While I agree with Thiel on a lot of areas, I think he underestimates the power individuals to be more ambitious despite the norms of the local population. I work for a startup, M1 Finance ( https://www.m1finance.com/ ), base
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A Chicago FinTech Startup Comes Out of Stealth with $9M(chicagoinno.streetwise.co)
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by davidcaseria 10y ago
Buying "nominally the same securities" is exactly the reason why tax-loss harvesting is borderline illegal. It goes directly against the IRS warning on "substantially identical" securities. http://www.investop
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by davidcaseria 11y ago
Looking at the syntax briefly it seems very similar to Scala. Is there any major differences between Scala and Kotlin?
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by davidcaseria 11y ago
Hi @sama, you've been outspoken about the potential long term side effects of prolonged 0% interest rates. What do you think will be the worst side effect? Do you have any general advice for individuals to avoid the bad effects?
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by davidcaseria 12y ago
This is something I have been working on too (and have even taken some of the same steps). Thanks for sharing!
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by davidcaseria 12y ago
This is great resource for exploring sorting algorithms. I think it would be beneficial if there was a way to determine the order in which each sort finishes.