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Being responsible for trading system uptime grows hair on your chest.

• fizwhiz 7y ago
  That's a pretty gendered statement.
  • gotoeleven 7y ago
    We've already learned in the last couple years that there are no physical characteristics whatsoever that are associated with gender. And no mental characteristics either.
    • glouwbug 7y ago
      Would a "sexist statement" been a better use of terms?
    • fizwhiz 7y ago
      Poe's Law strikes again.
    • apta 7y ago
      Can't tell if sarcastic.
• kemonocode 7y ago
  It makes your voice hoarse, that much is for sure.
• RobRivera 7y ago
  This is hands down the best chuckle I had in a month. Context: my dayjob is being responsible for trading system uptime at a major bank.
• bdcravens 7y ago
  To make up for the hair you're no doubt pulling out from your head.
• hermitdev 7y ago
  I work on trading systems. My uptime record was 9 months. Only went down because the DBs went down and our 3rd-party ODBC lib went nuts and hung on reconnect. We traded world wide, so the systems had to be up nearly 24/7. We had a 2 hour maintenance window on the weekends. I know some shops that are US only and start and stop their systems daily. I took stability quite seriously. My first boss was fired after knocking is out of the options market at open on a Monday. Refused to accept responsibility and opened the firm up to a potential $600K fine. He was out the door before noon.