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jeremydeanlakey

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About jeremydeanlakey

Mommy Saver = app to make a crying infant smile in 2 seconds. (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.mommysaverapp)

Tighter Ship app (in progress) = small-business-bookkeeping as a super-fast and super-easy to-do list.

Actuarial work 2008-2015, software engineering 2015+, real estate investor, OMSCS student, father

Recent public activity

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    To make this more concrete: If your service layer method requires data to be saved and the results to be sorted, you want to call a data layer method that saves it and a library me…

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    Comment #42511469

    The central idea around cognitive load is very good, central to writing good code. But it's deeply mistaken to oppose smaller (or more correctly: simpler) classes/functions and lay…

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    Comment #34263443

    > The bottom line is, a non compete is not something that springs on you. It's pretty standard now for employers to spring on you a previously-unmentioned non-compete clause at the…

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    Comment #32720620

    The desire for social connection at work might be dependent on phase-of-life. My first job out of college had lots of socializing. In fact, that's where I met my wife. Now I have k…

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    Comment #28878952

    "when a company has a monopoly on a network it... basically becomes a government." A monopoly functions like a government. Or inverted: a government functions like a monopoly. I fi…

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    Comment #27806880

    I like the refactor bot idea. I'd be a little nervous to lean on Copilot to refactor, but I'd love a bot that just implements the changes that IntelliJ can already recommend to me.…

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    Comment #27186816

    > $530 million bet > long puts against 800,100 shares I find the title misleading. Unless I misunderstand, Michael Burry has not actually put $530M of his money at risk. He's made …

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    Comment #26903864

    Ever since I first started working as a developer, I've wanted to preach the idea that code UX is important. Some issues I found: 1) It took me years to clearly specify what clean …

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    Comment #26853629

    A thesaurus is one of my favorite dev tools.

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    Comment #26529573

    > tech will change everything, but once the dust has settled the questions that matter will mostly be retail questions, not tech questions I'm not disagreeing but how will we know …

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    Comment #22558721

    I created this after trying to use Finicity's API for my personal project. This handles authorization, endpoints and parameters, paging, mapping responses to typed objects. Note th…

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    Comment #22348189

    This is a really great resource! I'm planning on using it in the coding lessons I give my kid. Thanks for the link!

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    Comment #22211509

    When I was a student, buying lattes would have significantly hurt my freedom. My stress level would be higher and I may have struggled to graduate before running out of money. Afte…

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    Comment #22034955

    > keep it stupid simple https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KISS_principle

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    Comment #21988322

    > You might think "just crank up the growth until you hit $10k/month". Something weird happens ... you ended up losing money with high growth. Ratio of new customers showing losses…

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    Comment #21586167

    I plan to use this with my son because I think he's going to struggle socially as I did when I was a kid. One thing about body language though - I think it's one thing to read abou…

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    Comment #21502715

    I wonder does the compute power per dollar have to level off so soon?

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    Comment #21476352

    I think you're right that in case of obvious mistake, like a typo, a question would sound condescending (like "I think you can't handle feedback" instead of "let's make sure we und…

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    Comment #21475937

    They didn't have my favorite one: using questions instead of statements For example, "Why did you do it this way?" instead of "Here's why you should do it a different way". (or "ha…

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    Comment #21304906

    One perspective that I gained much later than I should have: Suppose you have a small software company, Reinvest Software with big margins and lots of opportunities to expand. You …

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    Comment #20970679

    Here in the US, we had a candidate include a picture of himself... wearing a captain hat and striking a dramatic pose. He said he put it there to filter out the wrong kind of compa…

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    Comment #20829484

    It looks like @GooglePlayDev responded on Twitter 4h ago. https://twitter.com/GooglePlayDev/status/1166999937156100096 Good luck to the developer!

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    More direct link without all the ads and clutter: https://www.instagram.com/p/BxFlIZpAT7a/?utm_source=ig_embed