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Re: City Trading Desk opportunity

Steve Callaway

5/19/2005 9:35:00 AM

hehe everything fine apart from the emacs caveat; and
I /loathe/ emacs. Eclipse = teh win :)

rgds

Steve Callaway

--- jdrysdale@astoncarter.co.uk wrote:
> This is a permanent or contract opportunity for
> someone of side of
> Investment Banking to move into a critical part of
> there business Quant
> Analytics and Risk, below is a general spec - if you
> would like more
> information please feel free to contact me on 0207
> 324 7930 or
> jdrysdale@astoncarter.co.uk
>
>
> this new developer will be creating risk analysis
> and pricing tools for
> the derivatives trading desk. The project is pretty
> much greenfield. It
> will use existing systems, but only peripherally,
> essentially we will
> be a self-contained group reporting to me and
> another Quant Analyst.
>
>
> The spec itself -
>
>
> 1. Exposure to, and interest in a variety of
> programming languages. We
> will be writing in a mixture of java, ruby and lisp,
> however experience
> in python instead of ruby, and scheme instead of
> lisp is fine.
> Knowledge of any other languages, such as haskell,
> caml, prolog is a
> bonus, but by no means required.
>
>
> 2. Appreciation and knowledge of open source work is
> important, as we
> tend to use a great deal of this.
>
>
> 3. Working knowledge of linux/unix. The candidate
> may well be currently
> working in a pure windows shop, but as long as they
> use linux at home
> then that's fine. They don't need to be at the
> sysadmin level.
>
>
> 4. Our development environment is strictly emacs, so
> familiarity with
> this is important, but not a dealbreaker.
>
>
> 5. Must be happy to follow extreme programming
> practices, in particular
> pair programming. I'd expect to pair with him/her
> pretty much full time
> in the weeks I'm at London.
>
>
>

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1 Answer

Brian Schröder

5/19/2005 9:44:00 AM

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On 19/05/05, Steve Callaway <sjc2000_uk@yahoo.com> wrote:
> hehe everything fine apart from the emacs caveat; and
> I /loathe/ emacs. Eclipse = teh win :)
>
> rgds
>

Though it seems your editor has neither spell-checking (teh) nor
autocompletion (rgds) ;-)

best regards,

Brian

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