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https://blog.codinghorror.com/everything-is-fast-for-small-n/ The problem with software is that we have: 1) At the top a manager as in "N=1". If he ever programmed, he no longer does it anyways, he "escaped". For him it's "simple". A 4 Mhz ZX-Spectrum machine would have solved that yesterday...

Luckily I'm old enough to have lived before even Hacker News took the format of Joelonsoftware to a whole new level, and Joel himself split ways with his business partner who had codinghorror but I still read it. So please read this carefully...

I'm linking to this article because I want to debunk a very damaging red herring that has pretty much become the norm when pointing out the horrors of software developer burnout. It's almost a meme that the cause of burnout is "just" overwork (hours above the legal limit of 8 per day). "It...

Incidentally, a related topic appeared on Hacker News: https://oilyraincloud.com/2021/08/16/mental-health-impacts-of-a-big-tech-job/ "The toxic environment of the job’s demands can often be expected from management. It’s a constant grind, and over the years that has become the norm."

I'm not sure I follow. I am able to produce such formulas precisely because I know what I'm talking about, and my displease with "fellow coworkers" stems from them not knowing or caring what I'm talking about.

Well perhaps I could, but money is only part of the equation, the other part is effort. And effort estimations in software development are not portable from job to job. Like if you're a truck driver, the effort requirements across different jobs are fairly consistent. And not just that, but...

I've converted it to hourly rate since it seems to be a popular way of comparing income. They said €50,000. I currently make €60k, with health insurance, 26 days of vacation per year (in addition to 15 national holidays) and a range of benefits I won't be enumerating here. May not look like a...

#1: Full time employment, EU-based, so no idea what W2, 1099 or C2C would translate to. #2: An agency indeed. Dunno their margin but I'm currently working for a product company so there's no middle man (which probably explains the higher rate - even though it might actually be lower than what...

In short, I will not settle until I make myself at least a billion dollars. Axiomatically, that's not gonna come from a salary or in general "doing your job". Why so much money? Because I want to change the world. If you think of "the world" only as "Earth" and you know some physics, that's...

Not to forget, the "bonus". The "opportunity" to work with the crap shitted by the minds of the genii paid at $30 / hour. I've a vast experience in it and so traumatized at the same time that until I reach at least $300 / hour might still not feel I'm over it.

I knew early in the process they can't match my current paycheck, let alone challenge it. So why did I continue the charade? Tell them the embarrassing politeness "I'm willing to accept a lower pay, provided it's more than compensated by the opportunities that come with it" in as an honest voice...

Well the good part is they made me an offer. Go from $40 / hour I'm currently making, to $30 / hour. "Bonus", I would have to relocate as there's no work from home (my current comfy setup although there's a large office if we want to go there) to "butt in the seat so that the manager can see...

Anyway, being in control on my side of the fence, I'm curious what's on the other side. So I accepted a recruiter's invite and going forward with it. As told you already, I'm on my 5th interview on Monday and looking forward to it :) If it were a standard IT "anal probing" series of tests where...

So I was approached by a recruiter with regards to a job in finance (I left finance some 5 years ago). I've been so far in 4 interviews and if you read Hacker News regularly, you might have stumbled upon "The rise of never-ending job interviews" (...

Thanks Baron, I also do #1-#4 but maybe not regularly enough.

Thanks for the comment. I strive to be a top trader one day, not just a mediocre developer by my assessment ( and IQ of 125 last given on a formal paper and taken under what "less than ideal conditions" is an understatement). Looks like the top 5% quantile doesn't cut it for developer. I'm...

What's your strategy (those who experienced it)? Also like all mental health issues, it's not always obvious to you personally that you're off balance. Oftentimes there's no "shit, I'm burned out" realization before some consequence of it hits you in the face. So for me how do I realize I'm on...

So anywayz, even correcting for aberrant market data, trading strategy research matches and exceeds it's predecessor and dependable - market data. In "the combinations of unforeseen crap that gets thrown at you is only as creative as it is limitless". I long time renounced to binary logic when...

Following on my "historical options data" thread ( https://www.elitetrader.com/et/threads/historical-options-data.358125 ), I went medieval on the data I have and gave up trying to "correct" it, rather just drop anything that's bad behaved. The marketdata I paid for has about 10,000...

I'm looking for a "rubber duck" partner to do some trading strategy debugging :) If you're not familiar with the term this definitely says you're not a software developer: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rubber_duck_debugging