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Software engineer at Openfolio, and I spend the rest of my time racing a mini-transat sailboat in the NYC area.

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The McRib as Arbitrage (2011)

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www.pagerduty.com 5y ago

PagerDuty to Acquire Rundeck

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www.bloomberg.com 5y ago

Amazon Offers $500 ‘Prime Bike,’ Encroaching on Peloton’s Niche

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Enhanced Amazon Macie Now Available with Substantially Reduced Pricing

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www.bloomberg.com 6y ago

401(k) Plans No Longer Make Much Sense for Savers

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www.nytimes.com 6y ago

Opinion – I’ve Seen a Future Without Cars, and It’s Amazing

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Microsoft Introduces Virtual ‘Theater’ to Relieve Video Meeting Fatigue

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Facebook Ran Multi-Year Charm Offensive to Woo State Prosecutors

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Darknet Sellers Build Trust

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Oil crash busted broker’s computers and inflicted big losses

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10 common security gotchas in Python and how to avoid them

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Amazon Neptune Generally Available – AWS News Blog

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Knocking Down the Big Door – Cinta Infinita

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www.bzarg.com 9y ago

How to pronounce hexadecimal

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Pando: Quitting the Silicon Valley Swamp

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www.sequoiacap.com 9y ago

Sequoia – Elements of Enduring Companies

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2017 Outlook: Pandas, Arrow, Feather, Parquet, Spark, Ibis

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en.wikipedia.org 9y ago

Pearson product-moment correlation coefficient

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medium.com 9y ago

Moving On: Generational Change at First Round – Howard L Morgan – Medium

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www.wsj.com 9y ago

Goldman Sachs Drops Out of R3 Blockchain Group

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Messenger Platform v1.3 Features – Messenger Platform

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docs.celeryproject.org 9y ago

What’s new in Celery 4.0

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morepypy.blogspot.com 9y ago

PyPy3 5.5.0 released

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blog.newrelic.com 9y ago

Dating App Grindr Hooks Up with New Relic to Scale and Optimize

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Process Streaming Data in Real Time with SQL

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www.techrepublic.com 9y ago

Microsoft releases 64-bit Office for Mac

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www.wsj.com 9y ago

Chip Card Nightmares? Help Is on the Way

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insights.openfolio.com 10y ago

Brexit causes over 75% investors to lose money in June

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aws.amazon.com 10y ago

Elastic Network Adapter – High Performance Network Interface for Amazon EC2

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morepypy.blogspot.com 10y ago

PyPy2 v5.3 released – major C-extension support improvements

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It slightly lags, but you can include pip requirements in an environment.yml file, and they install normally.

I really only use conda for the non-python bits of our stack: numpy/scipy/pandas etc - packages that are a pain to install on Heroku.

We've transitioned our local/dev/prod instances to use conda on Heroku, and couldn't be happier. It was a tiny bit of work to get it set up, but now everything is consistent, and we can set up new local environments in seconds.

Openfolio - New York City - Full Stack Engineer - Full Time ONSITE

The Company: Openfolio (https://openfolio.com) is a platform where investors share their portfolios—not dollar amounts, but their contents and ideas—to see how their investments compare. Data derived from our network brings fresh insight and increased transparency to personal investing, helping everyone in our community make smarter, more confident investment decisions.

We are currently a team of 4 people: one business/technical founder, two engineers (one front-end, one back-end), and one business development and data guy. Funding comes from a seed round of $3.0M.

What we’re looking for: An engineer, first and foremost. Someone who can help scale our app from 50k to 5mm users. The ideal candidate will thrive in a work environment that requires strong problem solving skills and independent self-direction, coupled with an aptitude for team collaboration and open communication.

Basic Requirements: Interest about investing, including financial/market data, research would be a big plus, BS/MS/PhD in Computer Science/Math/Physics/Engineering, 2 – 6 years of software engineering experience, Strong experience with Python, Solid understanding of SQL databases such as Postgres

Contact: Josh Owen josh@openfolio.com

Python Wheels 11 years ago

Unless you want things compiled with SSL, then you're kind of hosed at the moment.

What are people actually doing with tiny pcs that require much computing power? I use one to serve a dashboard on a monitor at work, but haven't done anything else with them.