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If you have the option then the country is not your primary concern. The quality of your PhD experience is 95% determined by the quality of your supervisor and lab-mates. So you sh…

My recollection is that I usually found the lectures to be as exciting as the lecturer did. So if he was excited, so was I. Are you perhaps not sufficiently conveying your interest…

I think it means Individual Contributor work, so he's coding stuff not managing people

Trading. Check out firms like Optiver, Jump Trading, XR, etc. Big bucks for FPGA devs

I think that term encompasses a wide range of designs. The article seems to be describing a particular style of event-driven architecture, used to organize code within a single pro…

First thing is you need to actually be a good engineer. No point optimising if you suck, just put your head down and learn. Next thing you need to know is the rules of the game in …

You are correct about the tech industry here (low salaries relative to US) but developers working in finance in London make comparable money to Bay Area tech firms. People routinel…

Here's a great idea: bitcoin settlement, custody, and clearing for institutional investors. There is a huge first mover advantage to be had signing up to prime broker every hedge f…

Some things to avoid early on so you can get a working app out quickly: 1. Don't build OO abstractions, just use structs as data and operate on it with free functions. 2. Don't be …

Which did you prefer? I currently work in the former environment (but everyone is like that guy), and it's super noisy and distracting but also fun.

This sounds cool. Two questions: 1. Without giving away secrets, how do you find such clients? 2. You must have some great stories. Would you care to share any?

I'm including the Gryadka author's rebuttal here, for completeness: Thank you for the analysis of my post but it seems that you didn't get it correctly. Even to read a value you ha…

No. I think he understands exactly what the article means, and is correctly stating that it is not necessarily foul play at all.

Yes that's what I worked out as well. That's not doing any operations just storage.

That is specifically if you want to get a job as a trader. The best way is by spending time playing poker, bridge, etc. Sports betting is also good. Any game where you are making d…

Depends what your goals are. If you want to get a job at an HFT e.g. Jump: as a student you're not expected to know much about finance or trading, the prerequisite knowledge is sim…