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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…

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…

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 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 | Backend + Data Engineer | Bay Area, Austin | Full-time The cost of homeowners insurance, especially in natural catastrophe prone areas, has skyrocketed in recent years. Ann…

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…

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 programm…

+1. This book is a goldmine of good coding practices.

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…

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…

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 …

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 cu…

Interesting. I'll definitely look into these. Thanks!

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 th…

Thanks, josho! I appreciate the concrete, actionable advice.

Thanks, dredmorbius! I'll definitely keep these in mind going forward.

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?

"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 …

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…

I've outlined the steps here: http://blog.zachmichaelov.com/2013/04/light-table-on-os-x-10...

From what I can tell, everything's working as normal. Let me know if anything breaks though.

No problem. :)