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I just wanted to pop in and say that I found the site delightful. It’s aesthetic, concise, and everything works so quickly and responsively.

Atomic Fi | https://atomic.financial | Strong Junior to Mid Level Engineer | Automation, Integration Engineering | Full-Time | REMOTE (US)

Atomic builds tools that help users do common financial tasks like changing their direct deposit when they open a new bank account, changing their payment on file when they open a new credit card, or tracking and automatically cancelling their subscriptions.

Our Automation Engineers build integrations using tools like Puppeteer or by consuming third party APIs to automate those tasks. Knowledge of web fundamentals is a must!

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Atomic Fi | https://atomic.financial | Strong Junior to Mid Level Engineer | Automation, Integration Engineering | Full-Time | REMOTE (US)

Atomic builds tools that help users do common financial tasks like changing their direct deposit when they open a new bank account, changing their payment on file when they open a new credit card, or tracking and automatically cancelling their subscriptions.

Our Automation Engineers build integrations using tools like Puppeteer or by consuming third party APIs to automate those tasks. Knowledge of web fundamentals is a must, but we often find SDET experience translates well so this can be a great opportunity for someone looking to change lanes in the software field.

If interested, apply here: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/atomic-financial/7e781781-c559-4dde...

If you have questions or would like to connect about other jobs, feel free to contact me at jack [at] atomicfi.com

I am diagnosed with EoE as a result of celiac disease. I've had a lot of success with Dupixent as a treatment--just wanted to put that out for HN should anyone be looking for new options.

It’s not hidden. It’s just on the bottle because it’s convenient for a keeper to reference.

Lots of outdoor gear brands are now selling repaired or refurbished used gear and clothing. Since used gear is pretty eclectic in selection it’s hard to find what you want by browsing at a random time.

I built a pretty simple web app that tracks a bunch of vendors and emails me when items matching my filters come in stock!

I think there's a good argument for Elixir and Phoenix. It's shocking how easy it is to do just about anything with it. An excellent database wrapper, incredible async story, beautiful at real time. You can substitute in a JS SPA framework if you need to, but I think you can go really far with LiveView before that's a requirement.

Well, North Dakota is pretty close. It is indeed very large but its population is only slightly larger than Luxembourg.

That sounds like inertial navigation with nav fixes, which predates GPS. It certainly does exist.

It feels that point is undermined when the accelerationists don’t succeed and only make a new equilibrium of killing the kid and replacing him.

It feels to me more like a critique that change is impossible.

Are these hard to swallow? It feels like the author is pushing a particular tone when stating facts (with maybe a couple debatable points) that any software engineer would agree with.

I play flight sim games and GFS is a major factor in my hobbies now. I’m over a year into converting a real F-16 throttle grip into a video game controller, and there’s no end in sight. I’ve become immersed in 3d printing, CAD and PCB design.

I hear it’s also big in outdoor hobbies—backpackers often make their own tents and packs too.

What makes these libraries heart-pounding? Seems like clickbait. (Generally I prefer my heart rate to remain low while using libraries anyway)

I think you would be surprised. There are a lot of concepts that cross over—servant leadership, trusting subordinates with expertise, setting expectations of “what” or “why” and letting your subordinates figure out “how.”

Your point is valid that those in the military can’t just quit, but there is a world of difference between motivated and trusting subordinates and those just going through the motions because they have to. (Same story in software engineers!)

Now, to be clear, the military regularly and routinely fails at the leadership principles they proscribe, but the principles are still good.

DigitalBits also sponsored AS Roma, who are now playing with "SPQR" in place of their sponsor.

Philosophy is not a bucket where "soft" or "unskilled" knowledge work goes either. The author is doing themselves a serious disservice in not really explaining what about prompt engineering makes it not "engineering" and what about philosophy matches it better-- and I say this as someone who is on the caboose of the AI hype train.

Most of the hidden proprietary tech at Goldman Sachs was built in the early 90s, so a bit less sexy than Erlang. Impressive in its own right though.

I have a suspicion that we both agree that both numeracy and literacy are very important, and picking the winner doesn't change a lot.

That said, addition is a very low bar--I cannot think of a single job that would not require at least basic addition.

I speak for myself, not the original comment, but more the latter than the former. I think of it this way: "What needs to change to make teaching children and young adults appealing compared to going into industry?"

And, to be clear, I think teachers are generally qualified. Math just represents a very acute failure mode of our education system.

Teachers get a very superficial respect. They get lip service, but are not treated in accordance with the nominal respect they get.

1. Numeracy is just as valuable as literacy. Sure, matrix multiplication and integrals may not be useful day to day, but the article is talking about algebra.

2. I may be biased, but I believe math is distilled critical thinking. The difficulty is teaching math critical-thinking-first as opposed to test-first.

There are a lot of difficulties in math education in the US, but ejecting algebra from the curriculum just strikes me as utterly bizarre.

A few other, major issues:

* Math has a severe stigma. How many people do you know would readily confess "I'm just not good at reading," almost as a badge of pride? This is common with math.

* Most teachers don't have a strong math foundation. They are not acquainted with some of the foundational ideas that can really enhance teaching and learning math. In some cases, teachers who don't like math will perpetuate the above issue.

* There is little incentive for those strong in math to become teachers. Why go teach introductory math when you can become a software developer and make 4x the salary, with less stress to boot?

I'd look to remedies like paying teachers better, improving their workload, and even revising math curriculums to focus on concepts over testing before jettisoning a whole field like this article advocates.

Words get more precise as they get more exotic, and that is not always what you want. I saw it too much in college--students whipping a thesaurus to make their papers seem 'smarter' but in reality making them incoherent.

I agree, "very" is ok, but it is a crutch. In many of these cases, just dropping the 'very' would be better than picking a new word.

In retrospect all history seems like it followed the inevitable course. I think we can certainly say that Nazi Germany were confident enough in victory to start the war.

It’s not pampering—-those movies continue to exist and continue to do well. Directors aren’t cutting content to make their movie look better on a niche website.

For me, I lost my dog recently. Life did throw a lot more at me than fictional death, and for a little while I’d like to not relive that in movies or games.

Tools like this just equip folks to make these decisions for themselves. They aren’t bellwethers for society.

An audit table is a similar, but not entirely equivalent tool. There are circumstance where both audit tables / soft deletes are appropriate, and where only one of the two is. Other systems that work are append-only tables, event driven systems, and I'm sure there are more that I'm not aware of.

Soft deletion is certainly very situationally worth it. I've found the most value when 1. it is well supported at the ORM layer and 2. business requirements dictate strong auditability of data. While I have undeleted items on occasion, I've used soft deletes more frequently to debug and build a timeline of events around the data.

For context, I've worked in fintech where I often needed to review backoffice approvals, transactions, offers, etc.

I maintain a blog. I do it for me though—the most direct benefit I’ve had is my boss noticing well after I was hired and asked me to write on the company blog.

It’s mostly an outlet for me. I get to practice my written communication, and write a bit about how I think the world of software engineering should be.

That campaign is alive and well in Falcon BMS, a community built game on top of the old falcon games. It’s truly impressive how much work and fidelity they’ve been able to build as a team of volunteers.

I started my career at GS in SLC about six years ago. I remember when the entire technology division ditched the dress-up rules. It felt like a monumental change.

I have to wonder if I worked with some of the managers you interviewed with--that sounds like a familiar phenomenon. A few relaxed people, but lots of folks who brought a NYC investment banking attitude with them to SLC.