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I remember reading some blog posts on the subject when clojure was hot. Can’t find anything with a quick search now.

I agree that at least giving it a shot is better than nothing.

I find that you need to be familiar with at least two distinct API implementations before you have a chance of writing a good abstraction layer for that class of APIs. Three is better. Even if you consciously try to build a cloud layer abstracted away from the concrete AWS implementation, if...

C# is a better language for .dotnet not having type erasure but my understanding is a side effect of the jvm having it is that it’s a more flexible runtime to develop other languages on top of.

I’m at the point in my career where I have minor but not zero influence on a large amount of cloud spend and Google is my last choice for mostly this reason. The tech and uptime are good but they have nothing but contempt for their customers.

Arguably never relevant and a mistake by Cramer to begin with.

GSEs?

Why is the need for this kind of tooling so difficult for companies founded after 1995 to understand?

FWIW I put some money into c+/b- multifamilies. Higher mortgage prices hurt valuations when it comes time to sell but in the meantime neither a recession or sfh crisis should hurt cash flow and inflation should help. I don’t think there’s enough investors to hold up the whole market. If...

I’m deeply worried about the residential housing market if mortgage rates start to meaningfully increase. There have been some pullbacks but mortgage rates have been dropping more or less steadily from 1982. A majority of Americans have no experience with a housing market in a time of steadily...

You can either try to find countercyclicals or you can hold ultrashort bonds, lose less to inflation, and wait for buying opportunities. For countercylicals you want to make sure they aren’t already massively overvalued and that they are resilient to inflation and higher interest rates.

There’s far too much money sloshing around because the Fed kept monetary policy too loose for too long and two different Congresses airdropped way too much money. On top of that, the tepid responses have made people rightly skeptical that those same two entities have the fortitude to do what it...

So you think a ceo wakes up one day calls his coo and says “let’s raise prices by 10%, I need a new yacht” and the coo turns around and says “great idea, don’t know why I didn’t think of that!” If you don’t want your statements to be critiqued as dumb, don’t make dumb statements.

The economist assumption is that they will raise prices as soon as they can. There are no $100 bills lying on the sidewalk. What’s changed is that they can not that they want to. I’m not saying that axiom is a 100% true in every market, every time but it’s a pretty reasonable simplification...

I’m not an economist but I’ve done a fair bit of reading over the years and I don’t think inflation can be driven by corporate profits. That’s confusing cause and effect, with a comforting side dish of a tidy good vs evil narrative. Inflation is a function of supply and demand—for money...

Yes, the dreaded stagflation. The last example was thought to have been caused by a supply shock followed by excessively loose monetary and fiscal policy. Sound familiar?

We are all at different places in our lives. There’s no one right answer.

Does it matter? If you get a VP role at Amazon paying $1MM/year, you can probably stick it out for at least a year. You now have $1MM (less taxes and less whatever you are making now, but still) and you were an Amazon VP which qualifies you to apply for similarly remunerative positions. Since...

Some companies flat out ban short selling and using derivatives in the company’s stock.

If you have all manual cert rotations or all automatic cert rotations you’re less likely to drop a handoff than if you are in the middle of a transition. So be understanding, they are probably trying to get to a better spot.