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Re: Jane Street's Figgie card game

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Post by pinkmuffinere »

matt_daemon wrote: post #9
lewiscarson wrote: post #6

There is a fantastic blog post by Ross Rheingans-Yoo about the shortcomings of poker as a tool to teach trading and why Figgie is a better one. https://blog.rossry.net/figgie/ He also wrote an equally brilliant eulogy about Max Chiswick, one of his colleagues, who helped him develop it. https://blog.rossry.net/chisness/

Wow, that’s sad about Max Chiswick. I was reading about him and his peculiar approach to eating only a couple of months ago. May his work on poker live on.

His peculiar approach to eating??? Wow I need to hear about this. I’ll Google, but do you have any recommended articles?

Re: Jane Street's Figgie card game

#42

Post by sebg »

pinkmuffinere wrote: post #41
matt_daemon wrote: post #9

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Wow, that’s sad about Max Chiswick. I was reading about him and his peculiar approach to eating only a couple of months ago. May his work on poker live on.

His peculiar approach to eating??? Wow I need to hear about this. I’ll Google, but do you have any recommended articles?

https://chisness.substack.com/p/automate-the-food

Re: Jane Street's Figgie card game

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Post by infecto »

pjmlp wrote: post #40
xrd wrote: post #7

I downloaded the app to try it. It's interesting, appears that you can join a game with other players? I see two tabs: "4 starting" and "12 active" But clicking on these had no effect until suddenly the overflow broke rendering. I am fascinated by this app mostly because it has a recruiting message at the bottom from Jane Street. I've never seen that before. But, it's also interesting because it is one of the more po…

From the screenshots this is the kind of stuff that could have been a Web game.

Define web game? I played it in my browser.

Re: Jane Street's Figgie card game

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Post by infecto »

xrd wrote: post #7

I downloaded the app to try it. It's interesting, appears that you can join a game with other players? I see two tabs: "4 starting" and "12 active" But clicking on these had no effect until suddenly the overflow broke rendering. I am fascinated by this app mostly because it has a recruiting message at the bottom from Jane Street. I've never seen that before. But, it's also interesting because it is one of the more po…

Interesting, works fine for me on both mobile and web. I am sure there are bugs in it but of the few games I played it worked fine though I imagine live is a much better experience when it comes to live bidding.

But overall this is a fairly common recruiting tool for firms like this, Jane Street is a definite outlier in how proactive they are but its not out of the norm for these this type of top tier org.

Re: Jane Street's Figgie card game

#47

Post by infecto »

nsarafa wrote: post #19

Why not use your own characters or companies to trade? Would be way more fun having some mascots to trade instead of common cards

Which is a good message that this type of role / career is not good for you. The excitement is in the winning, does not matter what is being traded as long as you win.

Re: Jane Street's Figgie card game

#48

Post by hcnews »

infecto wrote: post #47
nsarafa wrote: post #19

Why not use your own characters or companies to trade? Would be way more fun having some mascots to trade instead of common cards

Which is a good message that this type of role / career is not good for you. The excitement is in the winning, does not matter what is being traded as long as you win.

lol hyperbole much.

Re: Jane Street's Figgie card game

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Post by xrd »

999900000999 wrote: post #36
xrd wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I agree about RN. But not about flutter. I just used aider to code a brand new flutter app from scratch. It has Google login. And a webview on a second screen. It looks gorgeous and is performant. And deploying it to my android device from within the aider session worked flawlessly.

https://techcrunch.com/2024/05/01/google-lays-off-staff-from... Google did a major cut to its flutter team last year. It's a great framework, I've used it for several projects. But I doubt it's future...

Ok, I'm glad you mentioned that you have used it in the past. I have not, have only done RN and plain Android using java and kotlin. Your comments are spot on. Thank you.

Re: Jane Street's Figgie card game

#50

Post by infecto »

hcnews wrote: post #48
infecto wrote: post #47

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Which is a good message that this type of role / career is not good for you. The excitement is in the winning, does not matter what is being traded as long as you win.

lol hyperbole much.

What’s the hyperbole? This is partly a recruiting tool. If you think the game is not exciting then this is probably not the career for you. Do you have something more substantive than a weak attack?
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