For most of us, interviewing is hard. And annoying, frustrating, and stressful. Most interviews these days consist of a string of 1-hour interviews covering:
A bookmarkable interface for executing read-only SQL queries against your database
This one is very much exposing my biases (I just released Django SQL Dashboard 1.0 which provides exactly this for Django+PosgreSQL projects) but having used this for the past few months I can’t see myself going back. Using bookmarked SQL queries to inform the implementation of new features is an incredible productivity boost. Here’s an issue I worked on recently with 18 comments linking to illustrative SQL queries.
Ability to perform symbolic computations is a crucial component of any mathematics-oriented package. Symbolic mathematics is used to work with complex expres...
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