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by davidmr 14y ago
I find this extremely hard to believe. Aside from the obvious fact that glassdoor's data set can hardly be judged to be a fairly conducted survey, I simply don't buy that the average software engineer salary in, say, trading firms, is less
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by davidmr 14y ago
Much, much worse than the bug in the market making algorithms was the design failure of not having some out-of-band mechanism to kill order traffic (or of said mechanism's failure to be tested adequately). This is a risk management failure
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by davidmr 14y ago
As I learned to do phone screens, some people made it past me into an onsite interview that really wouldn't have come close to getting a job. After meeting two or three of us, we just told our internal recruiters that they weren't suitable
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by davidmr 14y ago
I'm thinking of it as a test for the simplest possible thing I can ask someone that will tell me immediately if they're worth talking to or not. I mentioned this in another post, the one I use that people bomb most often is: "I want to run
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by davidmr 14y ago
The number of people who claim 10+ years experience with Linux and cannot write even the most basic of shell scripts is simply staggering and quite depressing. (literally: "I want to run this command on 100 files. Write me a for-loop in the
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by davidmr 14y ago
That was definitely part of it, but we've changed our strategy a bit in an attempt to compensate. At first we were looking for people who had a lot of HPC-specific Linux experience. This, however, is a relatively small field because the cos
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by davidmr 14y ago
That's very true. We do actually do that with our production team. It's split into "ops", which is the day-to-day work and "engineering", which is the more complicated, more interesting work. We hire junior people we think are smart into th
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by davidmr 14y ago
That's a curious association I've never made. Can you say a bit more about that?
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by davidmr 14y ago
> But 85 percent said finding Linux talent is difficult. I couldn't agree more with this statement. I work in Chicago--which you think would have a rather large pool of Linux talent--but it's incredibly hard to find really top-notch Lin
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by davidmr 14y ago
I'm trying very hard to be as neutral as possible (as opposed to "Oracle bad. Raaaaar!"), but I've been part of the HPC community for a long time, and Oracle has done their best to tell us that we don't matter at all to them (Grid Engine, L
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by davidmr 14y ago
I can think of precisely zero ethical ways you could already have more than 100k machines participating. An explanation from you would be very, very nice to see.
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by davidmr 14y ago
This is (almost entirely) a myth. http://www.salon.com/2009/09/25/askthepilot335/
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by davidmr 14y ago
That first bit isn't quite true. At a given altitude, a specific attitude and thrust setting will maintain constant altitude and velocity. Obviously it's much more complicated than that, but this is taught to pilots (although not included i
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by davidmr 14y ago
I, like the others in this thread, can only speak to Chicago laws. Here, a verbal lease is a perfectly valid lease, subject to the laws of the city and state (we usually call it "month-to-month"). I wouldn't say it's exactly common, but it'
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by davidmr 14y ago
Are you being sarcastic? I genuinely can't tell.
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by davidmr 14y ago
What about Jon Von Neumann (and many others)? Your comment is excessively snarky and wrong.
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by davidmr 14y ago
If the last 5 years have taught us any lessons at all, it's that assuming traditional asset managers know anything --no matter how obvious--can get everyone in a terrible amount of trouble. Assume, but verify.
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by davidmr 14y ago
That's selling jwz a little short, my friend. A better way to say that would be "got rich as fuck and bought a nightclub", but that doesn't really fit your angle.
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by davidmr 14y ago
> Anyone who is worried about waiting a few minutes for a trade to complete is Doing It Wrong. Why do you get to decide that? I could think of several examples where I would be concerned about a trade happening quickly (hedging bets mad
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by davidmr 14y ago
$3MM with 34 mouths to feed and families to insure, an office to maintain, and infrastructure to build out doesn't exactly seem like a lot of money.
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by davidmr 14y ago
This is a not-infrequent situation. We have an announcement over the PA system any time an exchange is having technical difficulties. It doesn't happen super often, but I'd say that it happens somewhere in the world one to two times a month
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by davidmr 15y ago
My impression from working in their building (at a different company) is that they really don't have that many tech people. From what little one can divine from elevator conversations, it seems like far less than 1/10 have anything even rem
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by davidmr 15y ago
I said I was genuinely curious, not that it was done wrong. There's no need to look for an argument where none exists. I've written and/or read literally hundreds of TeXed documents, all in native TeX fonts and not once thought, "gee. This
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by davidmr 15y ago
It looks very nice, but I'm genuinely curious as to why someone would go to the trouble of TeXing up a document and choose to use anything other than the standard Computer Modern font. Is it purely a matter of taste?