I didn't expect to see javascript about Jira tickets in the source!
Readit Newspaphillips commented on Market Structure Primer (2019) primer.prooftrading.com... · Posted by u/firloop
The svg infographic on page 'Life Cycle of an Order' > 'Overview' is outstanding. Source indicates Adobe Illustrator as the generator.
Oddly, the direct hyperlink to this page doesn't seem to work properly though: https://primer.prooftrading.com/lifecycle-of-order/
paphillips commented on Sharing data types on a multi-language project mortoray.com/sharing-data... · Posted by u/ingve
Taking this concept further one could model in RAML [0] to define both the types (flat or nested) and api definitions. It's based on YAML 1.2 with enough maturity to provide capabilities such as union types, extensions, includes, user-defined facets, etc.
The AMF project [1] can be used to parse and transform to/from RAML, OpenAPI, GraphQL, and json schema. Code generation to languages of choice can be bolted on from there.
I'm using this approach to define canonical data models. Subsequent code generation scaffolds internal application integration apis, master data management (MDM) entities, and SQL/OLAP artifacts for ETL / BI purposes.
This approach keeps overall end-to-end data architecture consistent, in sync, and versioned under source control. Additionally, flat types as required by relational systems are re-used and composed into nested complex types more appropriate for apis. Metadata is layered on as needed to refine the models for system-specific needs, for example to add user-facing field groups, descriptions, and formats for BI datasets, sensitivity levels and other data security controls, business rule definitions for MDM, etc.
[0] https://github.com/raml-org/raml-spec/blob/master/versions/r... [1] https://a.ml/docs/
paphillips commented on Learn electronics by practice beletronics.wordpress.com... · Posted by u/Sandman
I miss electronics retail, even with its issues. Radio Shack had the Forrest Mims engineer's notebooks for learning electronics, and it was great to be able to drive down to a Fry's to pick up a component that you needed in a hurry on a weekend.
Shout out to Anchor Electronics in Santa Clara, San Mateo Electronics Supply, and of course Jameco, which are still alive.
I'm also lamenting the loss of SF Bay area electronics surplus: Weird Stuff, Halted/HSC, and the latest casualty, Excess Solutions. Is there any place left around here to find used/surplus electronics?
Lay 'em down, and smack-em yack-em. COLD got to be!
Hey, you know what they say.
Remember: profits are a direct measure of the inefficiency of a given market.
In a functioning market, the existence of profits either drives businesses to reduce their own profits by competing on price (problem: cartels) or else drives new businesses to emerge in order to seize some of those profits (problem: barriers to entry).
To have record-breaking profits means that are markets are record-breakingly inefficient, and an inefficient market is useless (or possibly worse than useless).
One of my favorite economics professors called the second one 'OBSCENE PROFITS!'. His vocal delivery of those two words in front of the class was always highly animated and packed full of energy.
It is intuitive that, as soon as enterprising individuals catch wind of high profits being made somewhere, there will be an inrush of competitors looking to seize their share, which then continues until until some type of equilibrium is reached.
The fundamental breakdown in this type of efficient market mechanism is that it requires a reasonably level playing field: referees and rules. Complex systems without adequate regulation may result in local optima one or a few participants, who achieve regulatory capture, externalize costs, or achieve monopoly, oligopoly, or similar advantage to the disadvantage of all others. Regulation is required to achieve the global optimum for the wider group (i.e. society).
Cancer is an a example of a biological system exhibiting high growth with broken mechanisms of regulation. Similar outcomes can be observed when there is a disruption to a predator population, leading to an explosion of prey species, resulting in an ecosystem that is overrun and exhausted until balance returns.
paphillips commented on An example of LLM prompting for programming martinfowler.com/articles... · Posted by u/mpweiher
One initial reaction to the prompting style is how similar it is to a human-to-human interaction. For example, a team lead communicating requirements to a wider team composed of less experienced engineers may also follow this type of iterative exchange, continuing until he or she is satisfied that the team understands the work to be done and has the guide rails to be successful.
I recently heard a description about the way this technology will change technical work that resonated: we will become more like the movie director, and less like the actors.
Since this position is primarily onsite: Is the company able/willing to help with relocation?
My understanding is that relocation assistance is not available for this position. I will double-check to be sure, and if it is now offered I will reply here.
Sorry but reading in the same paragraph "Mulesoft" and "won't have to fight crusty, antiquated, and temperamental APIs" is just too wrong for me to just ignore.
For knowing Mulesoft all too well, there is nothing modern and pleasant about Mulesoft, it's ironically the perfect definition of a crusty, antiquated system, that for no good reasons Salesforce acquired and is now trying to make some sort of ROI out of it with an aggressive marketing.
Still, I wish you good luck, you may well be a great place to work for.
Everyone's mileage varies - we found it to be the best among the major offerings, for our specific needs.
[edit] Oh, I see, the actual 2020 census data is down: https://www.census.gov/2020results
Says for maintenance.
The bizarre thing was that the page source at that time had almost nothing except some odd javascript to build a "508 Daily Report" table of Jira tickets or some nonsense.
That view appears to still be up here: https://www.census.gov/main/
I can't really blame someone for a bad deployment given the raging government dumpster fires at the moment.