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Leap year bug. Almost guarantee it was looking for March 3rd data and couldn't find any and threw up.

Leap year is a more likely snag here.

My theory is that this was a leap year bug.

I just got an email from Robinhood support on the outage, half an hour before markets close. I don't actively use RH as my main brokerage so not a big deal to me, but obviously thi…

I wish people talked more about how Robinhood really enabled this sort of reckless speculation. Day trading on your smartphone was not really a "thing" pre-Robinhood, and then they…

It's not a loss leader. Yes, they pay the bureaus for access, but you're giving them rich data about you (I'd argue credit data is even richer than what FB has on you) to use to ta…

I was surprised that the FTC actually blocked the Harry's shaving acquisition because it would be anti-competitive, and the Fitbit acquisition is still on the block as well. Not cl…

Nothing is "free" - you give Credit Karma perpetual access to your credit report and in exchange it gives them rich data to target loan products to you for which they make big refe…

Ok, but why is that a bad thing for engineers that are interviewing? If the interview process is largely memorizing 200 or so commonly asked algorithm questions and that is the gat…

It's pretty standardized. 99% of the questions you could possibly be asked are on leetcode for most large companies.

So what? It's a logic test. And you're still proving that you have enough experience to code well in general language e.g. java, python, javascript, ruby, etc. It would be way more…

Honestly having an interview process that is highly standardized and teachable + learnable is a good thing, so I'm not sure why people complain. You know exactly what sort of quest…

Yep, exactly. This is Kaplan 2.0.

Lambda School didn't invent the ISA.

I found his constant Twitter boasting distasteful and cringeworthy. It always came off like an infomercial. Coding bootcamps are not all bad, though, it's just that I think if you …