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by zgm 3mo ago
Annex Risk | Full-stack + Backend Engineer | Bay Area, Austin | Full-time The cost of homeowners insurance, especially in natural catastrophe prone areas, has skyrocketed in recent years. Annex is solving this problem with better digital in
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by zgm 4mo ago
Annex Risk | Full-stack + Backend Engineer | Bay Area, Austin | Full-time The cost of homeowners insurance, especially in natural catastrophe prone areas, has skyrocketed in recent years. Annex is solving this problem with better digital in
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by zgm 8mo ago
Annex Risk | Backend + Data Engineer | Bay Area, Austin | Full-time The cost of homeowners insurance, especially in natural catastrophe prone areas, has skyrocketed in recent years. Annex is solving this problem with better digital infrastr
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by zgm 9mo ago
Annex Risk | Backend + Data Engineer | Bay Area, Austin | Full-time The cost of homeowners insurance, especially in natural catastrophe prone areas, has skyrocketed in recent years. Annex is solving this problem with better digital infrastr
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by zgm 11mo ago
Annex | Backend + Data Engineer | Bay Area, Austin | Full-time The cost of homeowners insurance, especially in natural catastrophe prone areas, has skyrocketed in recent years. Annex is solving this problem with better digital infrastructur
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by zgm 2y ago
Annex Risk | Product Engineer | Bay Area | Full-time The cost of homeowners insurance, especially in natural catastrophe heavy areas, has skyrocketed in recent years. Annex Risk is solving this problem with better digital infrastructure for
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by zgm 12y ago
As a recent graduate, I cannot recommend Pragmatic Programmer and Code Complete highly enough. Pragmatic Programmer fills in the gaps you need to succeed as a professional programmer. Code Complete is a field guide to managing software comp
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by zgm 12y ago
+1. This book is a goldmine of good coding practices.
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by zgm 12y ago
Same. I love the functionality SourceTree provides, but it frequently ends up eating all of my CPU (2.3 GHz Core i7) even for trivial operations. I have recently tried Tower and it provides similar functionality without the performance issu
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by zgm 12y ago
We've recently adopted Spark SQL and our queries run 5 - 200x times faster than with Hive. Our experience with Spark Streaming, on the other hand, has been mixed. Our streaming app runs stably most of the time (up to 4 days in some cas
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by zgm 12y ago
1. Start at the simplest subsystem, and work from there. This is especially true when working with third-party, legacy, or undocumented code. In the absence of documentation, your only way forward is to read the source code[0]. Find the mai
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by zgm 12y ago
TellApart - Burlingame, CA. New York City (Full-Time, Intern, Visa): Software Engineering TellApart helps many of the world’s most successful retailers unlock the power of their customer data by applying the latest advances in cloud computi
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by zgm 12y ago
Interesting. I'll definitely look into these. Thanks!
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by zgm 12y ago
There was a discussion on an earlier thread ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7489401 ) about bringing App Stores to servers. Would people use and/or pay for something like this?
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Even Among the Richest of the Rich, Fortunes Diverge(nytimes.com)
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by zgm 13y ago
Thanks, josho! I appreciate the concrete, actionable advice.
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by zgm 13y ago
Thanks, dredmorbius! I'll definitely keep these in mind going forward.
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by zgm 13y ago
As a new grad about to enter the workforce, I find this more than a little disconcerting. Do any experienced engineers have any advice on how to avoid this kind of mistreatment?
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TellApart Hits $100 Million Revenue Run Rate(techcrunch.com)
2 points by zgm 13y ago|0 comments
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by zgm 13y ago
"One reason why one goes to college is to learn how to learn social acclimation around people wealthier than you are, because this is a useful skill in convincing them to give you things that you want." This is probably one of the
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by zgm 13y ago
I don't actually have access to the Light Table source code. I'm actually just replacing the node-webkit libraries in Chris's release with ones compiled on Snow Leopard, so I don't think there would be much of an advantage to having it on G
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by zgm 13y ago
I've outlined the steps here: http://blog.zachmichaelov.com/2013/04/light-table-on-os-x-10...
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by zgm 13y ago
From what I can tell, everything's working as normal. Let me know if anything breaks though.
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by zgm 13y ago
No problem. :)
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by zgm 13y ago
For those of us still stuck in the Dark Ages, I have patched Light Table so it can run on OS X 10.6.8 (Snow Leopard). You can download it here: https://s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com/lighttable/LightTable0.4....
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Light Table working on OS X 10.6.8(s3-us-west-1.amazonaws.com)
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by zgm 13y ago
This. Vim is great for simple scripts and small projects, but once a project grows beyond a certain size I really prefer an environment with more robust refactoring like Intellij.
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by zgm 14y ago
This hit the nail on the head. It's not knowledge; it's the connections you make that you're paying the premium for. Also, at least for the foreseeable future, a degree will still be necessity for most entry-level jobs. So while online educ
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by zgm 14y ago
As a college junior myself, I am tired of the perpetuation of the unrealistic (and false) idea that if you don't start a company right out of school, you're doomed to failure. Thank you, Dan, for being the voice of reason.
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by zgm 14y ago
In addition to all the other patterns books mentioned, Head First Design Patterns is a great intro the subject. I think you will get more out of GoF if read this first.

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