smabie

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151.
by smabie 3y ago
What if one person has significantly more money than the other person? Prenups exist for a reason
152.
by smabie 3y ago
Rust is a lot easier to learn than C++.
153.
by smabie 3y ago
Rust isn't really a functional language at all? It's pretty much just an imperative language with some type level features.
154.
by smabie 3y ago
Rust is pretty popular among crypto trading firms and those tend to pay very well.
155.
by smabie 3y ago
These salaries for executives really don't seem that high? I mean that said the business wasn't doing well and the executives presumably weren't doing an awesome job.
156.
by smabie 3y ago
You want different addition functions for floats vs ints vs unsigned ints?
157.
by smabie 3y ago
I dont really get why Jetbrains even makes specific IDEs. I just use Intellij for everything and it seems to have same functionality as all their language specific IDEs?
158.
by smabie 3y ago
Yeah agree. Jetbrains stuff just feels much more polished.
159.
by smabie 3y ago
Doesn't really make a difference either way. Companies just use some other aptitude test instead
160.
by smabie 3y ago
Considering how mind boggling slow most software is, doesn't seem we are gravitating to the more performant options..
161.
by smabie 3y ago
If you don't care about allocations why are you using Rust in the first place? Also if you are super sloppy with allocations I would expect something like Java or Go would be faster since GC is more efficient.
162.
by smabie 3y ago
Feeling called out that I don't know Perl or SQL :)
163.
by smabie 3y ago
Pretty much everyone I know has gone thru this exact sequence of math courses, including myself.
164.
by smabie 3y ago
And the terrible package management story is not one of those reasons
165.
by smabie 3y ago
Work in trading / finance in Chicago or NYC.
166.
by smabie 3y ago
I've heard of some windows HFT systems, tho I'm sure that's suboptimal.
167.
by smabie 3y ago
Then no one would really use Python then? It's far too slow
168.
by smabie 3y ago
Have most people on HN? Highly doubt it
169.
by smabie 3y ago
It's a full time job bc your competitors are full time quant traders :)
170.
by smabie 3y ago
Women like ambitious men who are good at things? Seems reasonable to me
171.
by smabie 3y ago
You're suggesting that some people shouldn't be allowed to work harder than others?
172.
by smabie 3y ago
Do you have any links / tools for this?
173.
by smabie 3y ago
Were you screened for morality or ethics at your current job?
174.
by smabie 3y ago
Why? Maybe they were good employees? Just because they did something bad after really isn't thst relevant.
175.
by smabie 3y ago
Turns out trading doesn't require that much advanced math
176.
by smabie 3y ago
Pretty sure everyone thinks about social status
177.
by smabie 3y ago
Government stunningly incompetent? Who would have thought..
178.
by smabie 3y ago
Yep totally agree: HFT pays out the ass for any tech due to their very particular requirements.
179.
by smabie 3y ago
What market are you referring to? Certainly not financial markets where market makers make up majority of volume?
180.
by smabie 3y ago
This is my experience as well: almost no existing software is written with ultra low latency in mind (it's optimized for throughput instead). Getting latency in the micros with low jitter is extremely difficult and requires a bunch of

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