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warfare_expert

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I started programming around 11 that eventually led to a full time career in Computer Science. I currently hold a PhD and work in Finance/Computer Science at a hedge fund.
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warfare_expert··on Rate my startup: Make stupid simple websites for work, play and life.
Thanks ! https also helps a lot. Looking forward to using it!
warfare_expert··on Rate my startup: Make stupid simple websites for work, play and life.
so expensive though for casual personal use...
warfare_expert··on Rate my startup: Make stupid simple websites for work, play and life.
same here
warfare_expert··on Rate my startup: Make stupid simple websites for work, play and life.
Thank you! I have played with it and it's really awesome...I have been planning to use weebly for a couple wiki but it's so hard to use for fast changes. Orbs fits the bill perfectly.

Some things I would love to see: 1. colors in text 2. security (can I store a bank account number or passowrd in a private orb) 3. renaming the home paeg 4. image linking to a web url instead of just allowed to upload 5. embedding stuff (photo slideshows, youtube videos etc..)

warfare_expert··on Rate my startup: Make stupid simple websites for work, play and life.
Do you plan to support search ? for a information filled wiki, search is vital.

Any possibility for private pages/orbs ? especially for a couple to share information.

warfare_expert··on Ask HN: What are Wall Street programmers up to?
I recently moved to NYC to work at a hedge fund after giving up an alternate offer at Google last year. You could say my timing wasn't the best.

I would say the experience as a developer/analyst in any hedge fund or bank depends on 1. How well is it doing (PnL) ? Affects your job prospects and compensation/bonus. 2. How much alpha do you contribute to ? (back office vs mid office vs front office). You make more closer you are to the market, projects are much more exciting and you learn real world finance from the frontlines 3. People and Culture. 4. Compensation: Wall street pays base + bonus where latter takes more and more importance with time. Normally they can grow way faster than any silicon valley firm. But in these times, hard to say unless you work at a place that is still doing quite well.

I love where I am right now because I love learning and I am practically overwhelmed with how much I can learn and grow in my current position + people around me are fantastic (insanely smart brains + nice people). My projects have ranged from script automaton to price modeling, and there is much more to come as I learn. That keeps me excited.

warfare_expert··on Startup School 2008
While a lot of these are good behavioral techniques to project confidence, for the long term there is no substitute to create a healthy self-image that just makes you very cool to be around without even trying. Just like we have an opinion about our friends, people at work and so on, we also have an opinion about ourselves, both at conscious and subconscious levels. A lot of happiness and events in life stems directly from what opinion you hold of yourself. And eventually that opinion leads to a self-fulfilling prophecy...i.e. if you think you are no good in a particular setting, it eventually becomes so. A strong self-image can totally turn around your relationship with other people, your work and environment

To get started, try the book Psycho-Cybernetics...it contains a treasure of information to be acted upon... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psycho-Cybernetics