Starfighter was a blast to play, and taught me a lot about the back end of stock trading.
I did a lot of silly things after winning the initial play through.
- Solving the final challenge using a basysian spam filter on trade directions triples.
- Live 3D market visualization in Minecraft
- Buddy of mine built a stock exchange stack, speaking the same protocol, and we had PvP contests on who could market make the best on it. I won with a PHP powered marketing making bot with live code reloading.
- Built a cardboard box out of scrap electronics from adafruit that would let me adjust a market maker bots net position by tilting the box from side to side.
- Was either #2 or #3 to solve all the challenges
On the business side, if I recall correctly, most companies wanted to just shove the winners down their existing bad hiring pipeline process, and a lot of successful contestants who showed up already had great jobs, and so weren't actually looking.
I did a lot of silly things after winning the initial play through.
- Solving the final challenge using a basysian spam filter on trade directions triples.
- Live 3D market visualization in Minecraft
- Buddy of mine built a stock exchange stack, speaking the same protocol, and we had PvP contests on who could market make the best on it. I won with a PHP powered marketing making bot with live code reloading.
- Built a cardboard box out of scrap electronics from adafruit that would let me adjust a market maker bots net position by tilting the box from side to side.
- Was either #2 or #3 to solve all the challenges
On the business side, if I recall correctly, most companies wanted to just shove the winners down their existing bad hiring pipeline process, and a lot of successful contestants who showed up already had great jobs, and so weren't actually looking.