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The original sin of Pandas is row indices

People outside the industry just use that as cope because they making way less money.

"How do you live with yourself making high 6 fig / 7 figs a yr?"

Quite easily in fact.

Don't most array languages have first class functions?

LTCM wasn't really an options selling fund though selling equity options did become a big trade for them

Also they were more of advisors in the fund then anything else

Safer bet would be to hold short term treasures.

Why? the mean can be negative?

Turns out mediocre code is fine most of the time though

Or you could beat the guy up

With a 10% edge you really don't need to be very good

And in fact if these guys were good they wouldn't be banning people at all

Actually in reality these so called professionals will diagnose you almost immediately

Or maybe they don't need an abstraction and just think they do because it's easier than the alternative.

Having had a few interactions with the Indonesian government, the Netherlands should have just kept them.

Maybe the art carved by the modern desert racers is better anyways

No chance they spend the most on leisure activities. Definitely it's baby boomers.

People like to play these games and thus probably good for societies

World would be pretty full without competitive games / sports

Could they ever operate without the gambling?

If you're laser focused on a end product then learning can happen remarkably quickly.

Useful in society says a lot?

Your entire comment basically talks about how a Yale degree means you probably better tho?

If you're truly underpaid for your experience and location then you should be able to get a new higher paying job easily. And if you can't easily get one well maybe you aren't underpaid.

almost all of them?

All quants know pandas. beyond that their technical skills are often quite limited.

It makes sense to invest resources into something everyone knows how to use, even if it's suboptimal.

Yeah and Finish devs also make a small fraction of what's possible in America

In my experience, it's just not that good? I programmed professionally in Lisp (Racket to be specific) for a couple years and while I was initially enthusiastic about it, my enthusiasm for it diminished over time.

The heavy line noise in service of an easy to understand macro system just isn't worth it (moreover, a lot of languages have advanced macros these days without S-expressions).

Looking back, I think I was so into Lisp because I just wanted to feel superior and better than the dirty Java or Python programmers?

You can send everyone not on a list to spam and auto respond with a link to pay you $10 to get on the white list

should be doable

A better question you could ask is: have you ever wished you could display images on a window

Author says Rust wouldn't solve the crowd strike outage but then literally admits that it would have prevented it?

This article makes no sense

got contacted by a trading firm when one of the founders saw one of my Show HN posts. Was my breakthrough into the quant / hft industry and I now run my own trading firm: that one event massively changed the trajectory of my entire life.

So who would sell it to you then? At any given time there's not very many actual natural buyer and sellers for a single security.

No one has gone back for real spreadsheet work tho