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move 2 SF if u r a hardcore dev. NYC is for lawyers and finance guys...

MichaelCrawford 12y ago
You must not know much about NYC. There are lots of hardcore dev jobs in New York. That's because all the finance guys use Sun Workstations. Someone has to write that code. I have first-hand knowledge that the very highest-paid software development work to be found is writing quantitative investment code in C++ for Manhattan investment banks. I used to do that - but for a hedge fund in the Bahamas. As a result, Bloomberg, Solomon-Page and the like are all over me like a cheap suit. I don't do that kind of work anymore as I came to regard it as unethical. If I do a good job, then my clients are taking money out of your retirement fund.
- lingua_franca 12y ago
  lol am writing C++ for trading in a big investment bank in Manhattan everyday. many of my colleagues are not hardcore dev at all, neither can they make similar amount of money as counterparts in CA.
  - MichaelCrawford 12y ago
    I must say I am growing weary of being unemployed. I speculate that I know how to time certain specific parts of the market, however I don't want to do myself what I won't do for a bank. My current theory is that I could contribute much of my ill-gotten gains to the Portland Rescue Mission as well as the Blanchet House of Hospitality.
  - MichaelCrawford 12y ago
    This Bud's For You: Self-Employment: Even On A Good Day Things Are Hard http://www.warplife.com/mdc/essays/business/self-employment.html http://www.warplife.com/mdc/essays/business/self-employment.... tl;dr I got nothing but crap from some guy who had $200,000,000.00 in his own personal hedge fund, because all his other coders were completely cool with working at one-quarter my pay, despite that their code often crashed, thereby costing that jackass tens of millions of dollars per year. Nobody else at that firm had ever even heard of such things as C++ initalization lists, alone alone used them in their code.
  - MichaelCrawford 12y ago
    Some guy was earning more than a million dollars per year working as a finance programmer in Manhattan. Unfortunately when he left the firm, he was caught making off with its source code. I am dead certain that I am just as good a coder as he was. I speculate - SPECULATE mind you - that I have a novel way to time the market. Quite likely there are others who know what I do, but I've never heard anyone mention it in any public way. But before I invest any actual money, first I'll trade on historical data - that is, I will develop a fixed formula for determining whether to trade, what equity to trade as well as how much - then run my formula through historical data, to determine whether it beats any of the existing funds. If that turns out to work, I'll use "funny money" to try trading on the current market. If that turns out to work OK, I'll use real money to buy and sell real equities.

You must not know much about NYC. There are lots of hardcore dev jobs in New York. That's because all the finance guys use Sun Workstations. Someone has to write that code. I have first-hand knowledge that the very highest-paid software development work to be found is writing quantitative investment code in C++ for Manhattan investment banks. I used to do that - but for a hedge fund in the Bahamas. As a result, Bloomberg, Solomon-Page and the like are all over me like a cheap suit. I don't do that kind of work anymore as I came to regard it as unethical. If I do a good job, then my clients are taking money out of your retirement fund.

lingua_franca 12y ago
lol am writing C++ for trading in a big investment bank in Manhattan everyday. many of my colleagues are not hardcore dev at all, neither can they make similar amount of money as counterparts in CA.
- MichaelCrawford 12y ago
  I must say I am growing weary of being unemployed. I speculate that I know how to time certain specific parts of the market, however I don't want to do myself what I won't do for a bank. My current theory is that I could contribute much of my ill-gotten gains to the Portland Rescue Mission as well as the Blanchet House of Hospitality.
- MichaelCrawford 12y ago
  This Bud's For You: Self-Employment: Even On A Good Day Things Are Hard http://www.warplife.com/mdc/essays/business/self-employment.html http://www.warplife.com/mdc/essays/business/self-employment.... tl;dr I got nothing but crap from some guy who had $200,000,000.00 in his own personal hedge fund, because all his other coders were completely cool with working at one-quarter my pay, despite that their code often crashed, thereby costing that jackass tens of millions of dollars per year. Nobody else at that firm had ever even heard of such things as C++ initalization lists, alone alone used them in their code.
- MichaelCrawford 12y ago
  Some guy was earning more than a million dollars per year working as a finance programmer in Manhattan. Unfortunately when he left the firm, he was caught making off with its source code. I am dead certain that I am just as good a coder as he was. I speculate - SPECULATE mind you - that I have a novel way to time the market. Quite likely there are others who know what I do, but I've never heard anyone mention it in any public way. But before I invest any actual money, first I'll trade on historical data - that is, I will develop a fixed formula for determining whether to trade, what equity to trade as well as how much - then run my formula through historical data, to determine whether it beats any of the existing funds. If that turns out to work, I'll use "funny money" to try trading on the current market. If that turns out to work OK, I'll use real money to buy and sell real equities.