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New comment by throwaway_1more in "Purely Functional Sliding Window Aggregation Algorithm"

throwaway_1more — Sat, 01 Mar 2025 17:42:53 +0000

If the value you dropped wasn't the max, no problem, if it was, you recompute over the window. It is amortized.

New comment by throwaway_1more in "Purely Functional Sliding Window Aggregation Algorithm"

throwaway_1more — Mon, 24 Feb 2025 22:43:21 +0000

Max is not like sum, you can just maintain one value over the window and update from new ones arriving immediately?

New comment by throwaway_1more in "Software engineering job openings hit five-year low?"

throwaway_1more — Fri, 21 Feb 2025 05:23:56 +0000

I got some great opportunities from that post but lately, it has been a nothing burger. I have been without a job for nearly a year and have applied to many positions on that thread with just one reply and that fizzled out despite being objectively qualified (a take home assignment, successfully completed within the allotted time of 24 hours).

New comment by throwaway_1more in "Steve Ballmer's incorrect binary search interview question"

throwaway_1more — Tue, 03 Sep 2024 17:05:36 +0000

I recently interviewed for a senior level role for a complex domain (payments), this is an area I have more than a decade of experience. The interviews went flawlessly because I know payments inside out, not just in US but in UK and most EU jurisdictions. The funny bit is that the role being senior, influencing, soft communication skills and managing conflict are even more important than the subject matter expertise and I nailed those areas as well (they threw an obnoxious senior manager that kept interrupting me as I calmly answered the questions, the follow up was that my performance was a masterclass in handling conflict). The final round was with a business person who fancied himself the defacto subject matter expert and kept throwing trivia questions about payments. His plan was to go through as much trivia as he could until he could find something to justify a no. His last question (he literally stopped as soon as he got his way after this question), the question was, have you got personal experience working on real-time payments? I do, in more than one countries (US introduced this very recently as part of fednow), he pushed me about the fednow and obviously this is so new that I only have read the specifications and evaluated a few vendors to decide whether to build or buy. He used this as justification to make a negative reommendation, claiming I don't have real-time payments experience.

Honestly, I don't want to work in an environment like that, it was a large US bank and where their biggest problems are not product innovation or focusing on customer but production failures! An area I have rescued several large companies in, apart from payments expertise and made sure I communicated this. But sometimes you get lucky and don't have to find out the hard way that this place is not pleasant.

New comment by throwaway_1more in "Ask HN: What are you working on (August 2024)?"

throwaway_1more — Sat, 24 Aug 2024 23:46:24 +0000

I am currently working on building a lending platform. My goal is to both run it as a product loaning money to businesses and sell the software as a service to other investors as well. Very early phase, talking to a few friends who are currently in this line of work. I have a couple decades of experience myself but as an engineer and leader, not as a product or business owner, so if you have advice or ideas, please respond here, I would love to hear from you.

New comment by throwaway_1more in "Ask HN: Who wants to be hired? (May 2024)"

throwaway_1more — Wed, 01 May 2024 19:44:14 +0000

Location: Bay Area, Phoenix, NYC, London, Amsterdam

Remote: Yes but also love working with in person teams

Willing to relocate: Always :)

Technologies: Java, Flink, C, Shell, Terraform, AWS, Postgres, Cassandra, Couchbase, redis, Kafka

Resume: Java engineer with deep experience building payments, risk, investment banking, embedded finance and data engineering capabilities, building APIs and rescuing difficult to maintain codebase. Well versed in Java, kafka, flink, Cassandra, Postgres, AWS, terraform and scripting. Experience with automation using shell, C and java. Significant leadership experience with teams ranging from 12 to 120 people, including remote and geo-distributed teams.

Email.com: 's' 'l' 'o' 't' on findmeaslot

New comment by throwaway_1more in "R/Java bans Kevin Bourrillion because he mentioned another programming language"

throwaway_1more — Wed, 01 May 2024 19:25:13 +0000

Ouch that hurt! I am unemployed right now and eating from my severance and 401k!