apaulsmith

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   by apaulsmith 15y ago

   The Credit trading technology teams at Citi (London & New York) are using Clojure. EDIT: fixed spelling.
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   by apaulsmith 15y ago

   The amount you can capture value in a 'big company' depends a lot on the industry you are in. If you are in the right niche, say finance then A.N Other Big Bank will pay 1,000 to 1,200 USD per day for good programmers and more like 1,200
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   by apaulsmith 16y ago

   That's from the film Lock Stock & Two Smoking Barrels; http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0120735/quotes?qt0344512 Not sure if it was original when included in the script or not.
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   by apaulsmith 16y ago

   Working in finance the definition of FU money isn't when you can retire, but when you get to say FU before you hang-up the phone and not afterwards. Nicholas Taleb has a similar explanation in one of his books (probably Black Swan).