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smabie

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blog.headlandstech.com 2y ago

Rationalizing Latency Competition in High-Frequency Trading

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www.bloomberg.com 5y ago

Jane Street, DRW Traders Made Billions as Virus Hit Markets

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shrimpfarm.finance 5y ago

Earn BNB by Farming Shrimp

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cryptm.org 6y ago

The Value of Alternative Investments

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cryptm.org 6y ago

The Low Beta Anomaly

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cryptm.org 6y ago

Statistical Analysis of Counter-Strike win-rates

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cryptm.org 6y ago

ETFs, Volatility and Leverage: Towards a New Leveraged ETF Part 3

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cryptm.org 6y ago

ETFs, Volatility and Leverage: Towards a New Leveraged ETF Part 2

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cryptm.org 6y ago

One Weird Trick to Profit Off of a Global Market Meltdown

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news.ycombinator.com 6y ago

Ask HN: How to take a CLI app and put it on the web (client-side)

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cryptm.org 6y ago

Prediction Markets: Strategies for Alpha Generation

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cryptm.org 6y ago

Xs: A concatenative array language inspired by kdb+/q and Forth

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cryptm.org 6y ago

Show HN: Xs, a concatenative array language inspired by kdb+/q and forth

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trade.collective2.com 6y ago

Passive Investing: Perfect for This Age of Passive, Wimpy Men (2017)

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smabie.github.io 6y ago

Analyst Recommendations: Got Alpha?

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smabie.github.io 6y ago

Diversification, Risk and Leverage

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smabie.github.io 6y ago

ETFs, Volatility and Leverage: Towards a New Leveraged ETF

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code.kx.com 6y ago

Kdb+/q 4.0 released, adds support for multi-threaded primitives

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news.ycombinator.com 6y ago

Ask HN: What is the next logical iteration of array languages?

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news.ycombinator.com 11y ago

Ask HN: Effects of lamictal on programming/problem solving

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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.

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.

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?

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.