kamaitachi

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by kamaitachi 5y ago
Moved into a small company that does process control (SCADA) systems development. Took a fairly large drop in salary but the work/life balance improved and job satisfaction increased. I'd previously done a lot of work in embedded
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by kamaitachi 5y ago
Wow - TIL. Thanks. I've been out of the HFT business for a while, so i guess things have moved on.
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by kamaitachi 5y ago
I was working in HFT as a dev team lead around the time of this article (2105). I remember this was being seriously considered by one of our target exchanges (can't remember if it was Eurex or Globex). Our main HFT trader didn't s
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by kamaitachi 5y ago
Interestingly, I just made the swap the other way. I've been using Linux since the late 1990's (SuSE 5.x) and using Debian as my sole OS for the last 15+ years. I took the plunge and bought a MacBook Pro M1 about 6 months ago. Wha
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by kamaitachi 5y ago
The Guardian
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A new augmented reality app is bringing the Cold War to life(euronews.com)
1 points by kamaitachi 5y ago|0 comments
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Serial adventurer let her Facebook followers plan a trip across Europe(euronews.com)
5 points by kamaitachi 5y ago|0 comments
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by kamaitachi 5y ago
I grew up looking at this - brilliantly funny. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MMiKyfd6hA0
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by kamaitachi 6y ago
I'm in my mid-50's and coding full-time for a living. Twice in my career, I've found myself in senior management roles (CTO in an EMEA organisation, and Software Eng Manager in a medium sized tech company). In both cases, it&
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by kamaitachi 6y ago
Bad Voltage did a good show recently dedicated to FLoC. https://www.badvoltage.org/2021/04/01/3x26/
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by kamaitachi 6y ago
The Economist is similar. You can subscribe online but in order to cancel, you need to chat to a human. It took several attempts by me to tell them I don’t want to change my subscription plan to a cheaper one - I wanted to cancel. It’s a re
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by kamaitachi 6y ago
Different tools for different jobs. If I’m doing a lot of script editing (and maybe even Python), I use vi/vim. If I’m writing C/C++, I use VS Code. Just add an extension and it works out if the box. Previously, I used Eclipse for
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by kamaitachi 6y ago
I work in a company that uses C# for HFT. However, we moved away from “pure C#” about 10 years ago, to use FPGAs, especially in the ultra low latency stuff. A lot of strategies can still be profitable with C#, colo’ed servers and kernel byp