Thanks. You're reply gave me a boost of inspiration. I'm working now to learn more of the Math and modeling side of things, but I know it's going to be a _long_ hard road. Thanks for the link, that site seems to have some great info - I particularly like this http://www.markjoshi.com/downloads/advice.pdf.
I'm curious what sort of side projects I could try that others could take notice on.
I'm partway through the ML class on Coursera and have only recently rekindled my interest in Math. However, my background is in Accounting (undergrad and did a full years as an accountant), and Software Engineering (masters in SE and full time now for some years). Is there a path to actually move into a Quant Job given a software background, to someone who's mathematically inclined? My fear is that I load up on extra "free" math classes, teach myself through MOOC's and self study, and won't have the required degree or connections to break into the field. Is there a recommended path (or is it even possible) to make the major switch from Web Dev to Quant?
Edit to my own thread - I actually did go back to college for a Master's in Software Engineering. It was neither quick nor easy for me, but in the end I did get a degree and have had a pretty successful career for some years now. However, I agree with all the other comments that a degree isn't necessarily required and sometimes wonder if it was even worth the effort.
Can I ask how you got started in the field? I actually began my career in Accounting (my undergrad is in it), and still find the world of finance pretty interesting. Somewhere along the line I ended up in Engineering and have been a Software Dev ever since. But I do still think about getting into trading at some point, but not sure how to transition.
Thanks for sharing that link, as I've never seen this Manifesto before. This puts into words so much better than the explanations I give people for why I prefer remote. It's interesting to see some of these on the list -
-written down processes over verbal
-async communication
-formal communication over informal
We often hear alot about enlarging your net of potential talent (#1) and flexible work hours, but there's much more to it than that.
At this point, I can't imagine _not_ working remotely anymore. I'm just sooo much more productive and happy this way.
As someone recently new to Geo visualization (and data viz in general), I have to say this project looks awesome! Kudos for all the hard work put into this
Cool app! my SO was asking me for something very simple to use, will ask her to give this a try. Is it required to be linked to an actual broker, or can you get limited messages from some other public data feed? For example, get alerts on price movements
Also, side note she uses Robinhood, not sure if there's plans to add that at some point
I don't normally chime in on stuff like this but you're right it does look alot like Noisli (http://www.noisli.com/) I remember when that appeared on HN a while back as well. Nothing wrong with cloning something on your own for fun but it seems like they didn't disclaim this anywhere?
Just bought that book after having it been recommended about a dozen times. Although I can't comment of the contents of the book (haven't read it yet), I want to point out how incredibly popular it apparently is.
This is seriously awesome!! I was just chatting with a co-worker today on PhantomCSS and how I felt visual diffing could possibly be replaced with diffing the actual dom tree. Does anyone know of an open source project working on this? If not, I'd love to start one (although I'm sure it would be incredibly difficult)
That sounds awesome! It's good you mentioned saving for more than 1 years expenses. I'm close to that number but wanted to keep pushing to save for perhaps, 2 years or more. Yeah, send me a message sometime, would love to hear more :)
I'm curious what you're working on for the "entrepreneurial lifestyle". I"m actually thinking of going a similar route to saving up a good few years worth of expenses, and then going solo. I'm trying to decide on contracting/consulting vs build my own product (I've done the latter fairly successfully before). Would you care to share your experiences or perhaps email for a couple questions?
I really like this comment. Things like "scanning excel and emailing based on some criteria" are exactly what led me to programming as a career. I started off small, moved into larger projects, made a career out of it. Sometimes it's nice to revisit the "little" stuff and build something cool that _you_ want to see done, even if it's just a Saturday in a coffee shop size amount of work.
I also had that same impression. I mentioned these thoughts in another thread here on HN (regarding SpaceX) and one of the engineers chimed in saying they have many positions across different areas. I still think it would be cool to join something like this, but would prefer to work on some lower level stuff. I'm currently a Full Stack web developer.
Is there a path to from my current position to something more systems related? Has anyone made this transition before?
This is seriously one of the best comments I've read on HN in a long time. I've always had this same inclination, just never had the time to try it myself. If your current environment doesn't allow you to hire inexperienced/no-education people, you can at least work with juniors more to help elevate them (and in turn the entire team). This concept goes way beyond tech as well and can be applied to many many industries
Wow , I wasn't aware of rent control in SF, but a quick google search shows there's a big debate. Any suggestions on where to best look for apartments? From my brief visit (1 week trip) I really liked pretty much all over the downtown area, although it looks crazy expensive. I'll be living with my gf, so the rent would be split between the 2 of us which makes it easier.
Of all the comments I see stating how happy they were to _leave_ San Francisco. I'm wondering if there's anyone in the opposite - happy _moving to_ San Francisco.
I live in Mid-Ohio (Columbus), and have been contemplating a move for some time. I know there's lots of tech companies outside of the Bay Area, but it seems like there's sooo much concentration there that I want to experience it at least for a short while. I was planning to try it out for a year or so, but now I'm not so sure.
FWIW, I make about 100k and but plan a significant increase when I transition into my own consulting full-time.
It has alot of good resources and a wealth of information. As a seasoned web developer, this is still one of my go-to sites for documentation on web related stuff.
Bookmarked this post and thanks for asking! My plan, which may/may-not work out - Start consulting, work like crazy to get _high quality_ clients, find common needs among them, build products from these common needs. I'm hoping I can find specific things between multiple clients that I might be able to sell as an actual product, alongside the consulting. Anyway I just started indepedent contracting on evenings/weekends about a month ago.. so far it's working quite nicely for me :)
I'm fully using es6 for most of projects now. Started about 2 months ago and will make all new projects I have with it. Import/export, destructuring, templates, string interpolation.. it just cuts down on alot of the cruft (imo).
I did the same thing on a trello board. Had some friends collaborate and add some potential projects too. Perhaps we could make a site which allows groups to form around these and contribute? Could tie it into trello, github, etc. If anyone would be interested in collaborating and building something like this send me a message :)
It's not the boilerplate that get's me. It's just easier to reason about the state using Redux (imho). The idea of 1 single global state which mutates and pushes down (instead of managing observables all over), makes it easier to see when/where something changes. The idea isn't new (check react-cursor for example).
That said, there's nothing wrong with vanilla flux. Just that I find redux much easier to understand and follow.