rluhar

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by rluhar 15y ago
I graduated in Computer Science in 2004 from a very well respected British University. I graduated with a first. There is usually a very clearly signposted path to getting a "good degree" without necessarily having to know all that much cor
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by rluhar 15y ago
Minato-ku,Tokyo
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by rluhar 15y ago
I don't think you can count Liberal arts as "impractical" subjects. They may not be "job oriented" but I believe having a foundation in the liberal arts does allow for perhaps a broader education than focusing on a very narrow (albeit deep)
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by rluhar 15y ago
The article lines up with my experience helping screen / hire graduates on to the technical program of a large US based investment bank in London. Only graduates from a handful of Universities in England (and the Republic of Ireland) were c
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by rluhar 15y ago
And financial companies, banks, hedge funds etc. Even the most "boring" financial companies (actuaries, insurance companies) process huge amounts of data where performance becomes critical. We have a data base that gathers about a 5GB of m
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by rluhar 15y ago
Google (and Bing and a few others) now determine most of what people can see when they go looking for information online. The reason Google is in this position is because they have figured out how to most profitably use the content generate
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by rluhar 15y ago
I agree. If you look at the curriculum of any MFE (Masters in Financial Engineering) program (CMU being the most reputed from what I hear), you will find C++ there. Most quants I work with have used C++ while they were at University. Even
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by rluhar 15y ago
I work on a high frequency trading desk at a large bank. We do not use q for our trading models but just like the write of the parent comment, we use it for back testing / regression testing our models. Our quants also like writing / speci
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by rluhar 15y ago
Financial porn or not, the article still offers an interesting look at how a company or a group of people could be structured and how a "value driven approach" may (or may not) beget success. The debate on the social "value" of hedge funds
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by rluhar 15y ago
Going public? (though they explictly said they won't). Hedge funds are notoriously sensitive about privacy. The fact that Bridgewater has been featured in a number of high profile articles in main stream media makes me wonder if they are lo
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by rluhar 15y ago
Reminds of the plot of "The Producers". Sometimes real life can be stranger than fiction..
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by rluhar 15y ago
No, not really true at all. The Sikhs and Malyalees are rather large communities, with large diasporas as well. I think "highhandedness" is too much of a generalisation (?) for such a large and diverse group of people!
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by rluhar 15y ago
I don't think it is quite the right comparison. I think most Indians who end up being CEO (or senior executives) in companies have had some sort of post graduate education abroad, or they have work experience starting in a multi national co
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by rluhar 15y ago
I have not read the book mentioned in the op, but I tend to use a somewhat similar technique to declutter my mind. When focusing on a particular problem, or topic I tend to scribble (or doodle) in my notebook without any constraints. Once I
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by rluhar 15y ago
I tend to run, read and just chill out. Most weekdays start at 5 and end at midnight (work about 12 hours a day, I don't work for a startup, but for MegaBank here in Japan). So the weekends are spend just forcing myself to slow down, and
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by rluhar 15y ago
Having worked with recruiters a few times, I would say you are most definitely an exception rather than the rule. Mostly it comes down to buzzword bingo. I had problems when trying to explain to a recruiter that we were looking for a junio
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by rluhar 15y ago
I get confused when I come across things like "Do what you love." I believe that there is always a degree of serependity when it comes to discovering what you love doing. You enjoy doing something, you do it more - eventually you "love" it.
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by rluhar 15y ago
Indeed. But sometimes you need "magic". If you have a developer that is working on a specific part of an application, building business logic that does not require her to know how MQ transactions are handled, or which database drivers are
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by rluhar 15y ago
Very good point. But - in a large enough project (I am talking more than 5 developers), especially with work being done offshore, there will be mediocre or inexperienced developers. I think having a framework like Spring is helpful.
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by rluhar 15y ago
To work in a call center, you need to be able to speak, read and write English. You do not need a university degree, you do not need to possess a particular technical skill set. Most call centers will offer just enough training to get an
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by rluhar 15y ago
I think it depends on how the frameworks are used. Our development team moved from maintaining every dependency in code, to using Spring for dependency injection (and not much else) and saw measurable improvements in productivity. It is es
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by rluhar 15y ago
A lot of banks still have mainframes lurking somewhere on which they run (legacy?) accounting and settlement systems. Interestingly, a lot of the mainframe / COBOL programming jobs are outsourced, mainly to Indian companies. Infosys and TC
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by rluhar 15y ago
Agreed. You also have to think about who can approve the hours booked. So you would need to have some sort of hook into the HR / Org database which determines each users entitlements. It gets very very complicated! Technically, the probl
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by rluhar 15y ago
I second that. I had problems with shin splints and sore knees running which seemed to go away once I switched to VFFs (Bikilas). You must take it slow and really focus on your running form to avoid hurting yourself though. Also, in my exp
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by rluhar 15y ago
Off topic - but does anyone know of a Crossfit gym or a Crossfit group in Tokyo?
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by rluhar 15y ago
Indeed. Though it really depends on the asset class. On liquid asset classes (equities, FX, etc.) there has been more and more focus on algorithmic market making and order execution. High frequency trading outfits and having extremely laten
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by rluhar 15y ago
I respect the author's point of view, and I have to agree that Wall Street has .. well.. no moral compass (or maybe its compass points continually to $$$). But I don't completely agree with his description of what a quant does. It all depe
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by rluhar 15y ago
I guess "clean code" is in the eye of the beholder. A lot of my work involves supporting scripts written in an extremely terse language (q http://code.kx.com ). Coming from a Java background, the code looks horrendous, incomprehensible eve
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by rluhar 15y ago
Agreed. In my experience, a programmer would usually work in a team lead by a developer. In banking tech (my domain), a programmer is usually a contracter or offshore. A developer would be a employee and would be onshore.