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> Any work that is more than six months should be nearly language independent. I'm not sure this is true in finance. Speed matters. A lot. It's called high fre
by conductr 4y ago
> Any work that is more than six months should be nearly language independent.
I'm not sure this is true in finance. Speed matters. A lot. It's called high frequency trading for a reason. These firms will spend a million bucks just to make their fiber optic cables 1 foot shorter.
- klyrs 4y agoJust the kind of short-sighted idiocy that keeps good people out of the industry. How long does it take to get that network upgrade installed? It doesn't happen overnight. It takes me a week to get decent at a new language, a month to get good. That's, what, $10-20k on "training" assuming an output of zero in that first month? That's peanuts.
- dennis_jeeves1 4y ago>I'm not sure this is true in finance. So if it's not 6 months, how much will it take for a seasoned programmer to learn the stuff?