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I work at a hedge fund, and I spent 98% of my time writing code. I usually work on 2-3 experiments simultaneously, and every day or two take 2 hours off to work
by malux85 3y ago
I work at a hedge fund, and I spent 98% of my time writing code. I usually work on 2-3 experiments simultaneously, and every day or two take 2 hours off to work on "zany schemes" -- moonshot type ideas that occasionally are very lucrative, and therefore justified time-wise.
1 meeting a week, for 1 hour.
I work 3AM to 11AM, then about 12:30PM to 6PM on my side gig https://atomictessellator.com https://atomictessellator.com
- danielEM 3y agoOut of curiosity - are you working in NZ? What software stack you're using at hedge fund? Can you tell how many lines of code did you commit in a first week of December? :-) Not asking, but asking - what is your hourly rate? :-) Congrats on side gig - interesting idea!
- malux85 3y ago> Out of curiosity - are you working in NZ? Yes > What software stack you're using at hedge fund? Cant discuss > Can you tell how many lines of code did you commit in a first week of December? :-) 43 commits, 3440 lines added, 374 removed > Not asking, but asking - what is your hourly rate? :-) Wont discuss with strangers > Congrats on side gig - interesting idea! Thanks! It's heaps of fun and it's only just started making new discoveries, time to lab-test some soon
- malux85 3y ago^ just to clarify, I work from home in NZ but the company I work for is in USA
- danielEM 3y agosimilar here, except I'm in PL
- danielEM 3y agoLike 25 years ago I dreamed of visiting NZ :-) Never been there, but still want to learn to perform Haka! :-) Thanks for answers! That is hell a lot of the code for one week! About software stack - how do you post job ads if you can't say what you're working with? :-)
- malux85 3y agoNZ is nice but it’s too small, I live in the biggest city, and the Python community is very small, and culturally NZ pretty barren being such a young country. I lived in Germany, Spain and the UK for the last 10 years and it was much better - but had to return here for family. It is nice to visit though! Make sure you try bungee jumping! We don’t post job ads :)
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- gardenhedge 3y agoHow much can you get done in 2 hours for the zany schemes? Do you use any software methodologies?
- malux85 3y agoit’s not solidly time boxed, sometimes it might be a whole day, if something is yielding positive results, everybody here is very senior so we all have a good intuition for which rabbit holes will yield Software methodologies for the zany schemes? Not really, I prefer to do exploratory code inside the debugger (I wrote my own which has a bunch of extra extensions) and the others use Jupyter to riff freely, there’s no constraints when exploring More engineering rigour goes into prod stuff