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Why/How Wall St. Programmers Earn Top Salaries (Follow-Up)
- msredmond 15y agoWe got so much interest in our "What do the highest-paid programmer's make?" article http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2592671 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2592671 ($400K for a former HFT dev) we wrote this follow-up with a deeper look inside the industry, languages and tools used, etc.
- glimcat 15y agoQuick peeve: these are not programmers. These are computer scientists and applied mathematicians in the area of high-volume finance who happen to write code. They are being paid to write cutting-edge algorithms which are optimized in the extreme because it gives people who are playing with huge sums of money an edge in their ongoing tech war with their competition.