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by dxbydt 15y ago
http://bit.ly/jcvm4R That's my list of the first 50 people who joined Facebook, using the Graph API & a bit of Java. Look for Saverin, Zuckerberg, Moskovitz & rest of the gang. Its all in there! Wrote this to find the first millio
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by dxbydt 15y ago
Dude, chill. I have worked on Wall St for over a decade at this point . There is a huge, HUGE diversity. Some use toolsets they are comfortable with, others with what they get interested in ( after it crosses a certain stability threshold o
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by dxbydt 15y ago
I think you should look at DSLs. Seriously. You can code a domain specific options parser in scala so that your final code actually looks like this - "@ $20 spot, price 5 calls, @ $25 strike, 59 days to expiry" This is as simple as it can g
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by dxbydt 15y ago
Yeah right. We should freeze all CS s/w h/w R&D now that time-tested stable for loops & RAIDs have been invented. That'll teach them!
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by dxbydt 15y ago
uh, what do you guys do exactly ? Folks on TC are asking the same question btw. Are you building a fastclick 2.0 ? fastclick++ ? fasterclick ? fastclickclick ?? Heh. Seriously would like to know what it is you use scala for. "next-generatio
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by dxbydt 15y ago
don't buy the wampler book as a 1st book. too many forward references, you are constantly flipping pages. also, portions of the scala api are a work in progress. constructs for multidimensional arrays have changed several times. i may recom
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by dxbydt 15y ago
Say you decide to code up a bunch of risk analytics in Scala. Say Scala doesn't do it for you 2 years from now. You really haven't lost anything - just hire a bunch of VBA jockeys & they'll migrate you back to Excelland in a reasonable
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by dxbydt 15y ago
They "think" they are experts at it. Yeah. If they were experts at predicting which ones would fail, they would simply buy shitloads of puts on xyz & wait it out instead of hedging themselves in case xyz doesn't default. Also, you give
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by dxbydt 15y ago
Absolutely awesome. I've been rewriting most of my financial analytics code in Scala & its a genuine pleasure to see code sizes reduce 5-6 times & being a lot more expressive at the same time, not to mention speed improvements. Just
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by dxbydt 16y ago
You're too close to the forest to see the trees. Forget you are a hacker for a minute and think of yourself as say a screenplay writer. Where would you rather be, LA or some hicksville town ? If you are in LA and you bump into some two-bit
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by dxbydt 16y ago
While I respect your opinion, I will say that for someone from the midwest who's never been to SV until yesterday, it does feel like something out of a science fiction movie. Its just so vastly different out here in the midwest. Hell, I can
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by dxbydt 16y ago
I just came back from SF yesterday, and would certainly recommend dropping everything and going there. Better yet, relocate to Palo Alto. Every other office on University Avenue is a startup and the ones that aren't are either VC firms or g