@Chan-HoSuh more of the same. playing with some things. still doing jobs you wouldn't expect me to be doing. getting easier though. slowly, but surely.
@hbdgaf the salary would be adjusted to accommodate the cost of living. The gist of it is greenfield development using a proprietary Python-based language, building out a financial analysis framework that will be used by the firm's top executives to inform their capital allocation decisions
I still have a few commits to make to remove some of the spaghetti monster and make it do more of what I want it to... but that's scary similar to my hobby project.
I've been working on a layer for pandas and talib to do all the technical analysis stuff as precomputes. Find a target set. Do some level of stastical favorability for each TA brick. Then restack them over and over until you find the best set of conditions yet. Repeat ad nauseam ad infinitum. Different goal. A lot of the same tools. The precompute bit is to help the computer learn which conditions are most favorable.
It's fun. I tend to make progress in waves. The most recent bet was doing both CSV and SQL of the same data set. That way I can both manipulate it and do precomputes across many rows at one and search it more easily.
I'm right at paying my annual lot rent. If I'm going to make a move, I need to do it closer to end of year or I'm flushing money down the toilet... That and I'ld have to do some research to find parks for campers in the NY area.
Yeah, I really need some time fixing some stuff I have on github if it's ever going to get that far. Someone would totally find some of the wing-it code and go geez bro... what were you thinking
@Chan-HoSuh If there's a similar complexity python code-base to look at, not your proprietary product of course, but something of similar complexity... it would be a good thing for me to look at, so I don't jump in to a fire I can't put out or dance on without knowing it -- that would be good.
hmmm, let me think about the Python code base thing
I don't know if I would worry too much about that... basically there's only two guys that will ask you really technical questions, and one of them is me
the other people will mainly be checking fit, seeing what makes you tick... and what has turned out to be key: whether you can work with users without being weird or pissing them off
@Chan-HoSuh Yes. I like to see where I'm considering jumping. It's not that I want to ace the interview. It's that I don't want to overpromise and underdeliver - then wind up wandering the streets of NYC as a hobo.
apparently one guy was really promising but he refused to look anyone in the eyes
yeah, let me send you my sales pitch tonight :)
well, I think sometimes these stories get exaggerated... my general experience is you'd have to really do something atrocious to end up the way you are envisioning
@Chan-HoSuh wut? I tend to follow social norms on that one. I tend to look down when embarrassed or avoiding saying something that would be worse than looking down, make eye contact the rest of the time. You know what I mean.
The biggest problem with meetings is when they take SO much time that they get in the way of having the time to do the job, but I'm not sure you're talking about that.
As long as everyone present either learns something or says something constructive - they all needed to be there. If you're in neither party more than half the time - then it's a waste of time. <-- what I think about meetings.
