nicobn

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Principal Engineer @ Tuned.com. We're hiring!

nick at tuned dot com.

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Comment · 5 years ago

Tuned | Remote (Worldwide) | Software Engineer and Software Reliability Engineer (AWS/Rust/Java/Kotlin/React/Flutter) | Full-time | http://www.tuned.com

Tuned is a cloud-based algorithmic trading platform that gives anyone the ability to build and grow a quantitative trading business. Using Tuned, traders have access to real-time market data and high-powered testing capabilities to help them build winning trading strategies and then get paid for sharing trading signals with their communities. We launched in July 2020 and in this time Tuned traders have facilitated over $1b in transaction volume. After raising our first major round of funding, we’re looking to grow our team with software engineers interested in building complex and scalable systems that democratize access to financial markets and enable the creation and protection of wealth.

You’ll join me on a team with experience working at companies big and small, spread across 7 timezones, with a shared interest in cryptocurrencies, fintech, and trading communities.

Apply here: https://jobs.lever.co/tuned or send me an email (see my profile) if you'd like to talk!

Join Discord: https://discord.com/invite/nN8PaRW85K

Comment · 5 years ago

Tuned | Remote (Worldwide) | Software Engineer (AWS/Rust/Java/Kotlin/React/Flutter) | Full-time | http://www.tuned.com Tuned is a cloud-based algorithmic trading platform that gives anyone the ability to build and grow a quantitative trading business. Using Tuned, traders have access to real-time market data and high-powered testing capabilities to help them build winning trading strategies and then get paid for sharing trading signals with their communities. We launched in July 2020 and in this time Tuned traders have facilitated over $1b in transaction volume. After raising our first major round of funding, we’re looking to grow our team with software engineers interested in building complex and scalable systems that democratize access to financial markets and enable the creation and protection of wealth.

You’ll join me on a team with experience working at companies big and small, spread across 7 timezones, with a shared interest in cryptocurrencies, fintech, and trading communities.

Apply here: https://jobs.lever.co/tuned or send me an email (see my profile) if you'd like to talk!

Join Discord: https://discord.com/invite/nN8PaRW85K

Comment · 5 years ago

We launched in July 2020 and in this time Tuned traders have facilitated over $1b in transaction volume. After raising our first major round of funding, we’re looking to grow our team with software engineers interested in building complex and scalable systems that democratize access to financial markets and enable the creation and protection of wealth.

You’ll join me on a team with experience working at companies big and small, spread across 7 timezones, with a shared interest in cryptocurrencies, fintech, and trading communities.

Apply here: https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/2472215316/?refId=rPGNtUi... or send me an email (see my profile) if you'd like to talk!

Join Discord: https://discord.com/invite/nN8PaRW85K

Comment · 5 years ago

Tuned | Remote (Worldwide) | Software Engineer (AWS/Rust/Java/Kotlin/React/Flutter) | Full-time | http://www.tuned.com

You’ll join me on a team with experience working at companies big and small, spread across 7 timezones, with a shared interest in cryptocurrencies, fintech, and trading communities.

Apply here: https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/2472215316/?refId=rPGNtUi... or send me an email (see my profile) if you'd like to talk!

Join Discord: https://discord.com/invite/nN8PaRW85K

Comment · 5 years ago

I've been working remotely on/off for the past decade and vastly prefer it to commuting to an office. It has afforded me the opportunity to live in a corner of the world that I truly love: a quiet and remote 20+ acres property in rural Colorado.

In my experience, the key is to work for a company that is remote-first (or even remote-only), because it will be structured accordingly. I've never worked on a team that's partially remote - I can imagine that could cause friction and a certain degree of alienation.

I would also add that there is definitely an advantage to being on-premises and in a tech hub for an engineer that is at the beginning of their career: easier access to mentoring and learning opportunities, creating a professional network, meeting friends, etc.. It's a tradeoff.

Comment · 7 years ago

I've actually seen your hypothetical in action, but the bug was even more subtle. Assume service A, B and C. A and C both need information from each other which is usually cached. Normally, you'd deploy one service at a time so the call chain would go A -> B -> C -> A or A -> C then A -> B -> C but in this particular instance, A and C's caches were cold, causing an explosion of service calls that took both services down.

Comment · 7 years ago

Teaching is a skill and like any other skill, it needs practice. I have immense respect for teachers who have dedicated their lives to perfecting their craft.

Comment · 8 years ago

Howard Stern makes a risk-free $80M/year for 4 hours of radio 3 days a week. Maybe he could make that much making podcasts, but why risk it ? He's at the tail-end of his career anyway.

Do you know a lot of "smart" people who would trade a guaranteed $80M/year for possibly more doing podcasts ?

Comment · 8 years ago

You're being downvoted - maybe because of your tone - but I partially share your sentiment. A good counterexample to "overdistribution", not without its own set of problems, is the LMAX architecture.

See: https://martinfowler.com/articles/lmax.html

Comment · 9 years ago

A car attack killed 6 and wounded 30 in Melbourne in January of this year.

Granted, attacks are much rarer in Australia. Part of this is attributable to the population difference: all things proportional, you'd expect 13 attacks in the US for 1 in Australia if the rate is the same between the two countries.

Comment · 9 years ago

You seem very sure of yourself. I'm going to be generous and attribute your confident demeanor to a lack of imagination.

Comment · 9 years ago

What he's saying is that your cure might be worse than the disease.

Nobody knows what the effects of mass-confiscation would have on American society, but the range of possibility includes civil war and massive unrest. Most people would surrender their firearms peacefully but there's a strong minority that would not do so peacefully.

Comment · 9 years ago

In areas with strict gun control but access to a black market, mass killings still happen with firearms (see the November 2015 attacks in Paris or the 2017 Quebec City Mosque Attacks).

In areas with strict gun control but limited access to firearms, mass killings still happen with other modalities. A lot of things can effectively kill a bunch of human beings assembled in a restricted area: knives, machetes, bombs, trucks, etc..

The idea that restricting one modality of mass killing will prevent all mass killings is misguided. Would it reduce the frequency or the lethality ? That's debatable. Someone who has decided to pursue mass killing as systematically as the Las Vegas shooter will simply find another weapon to kill en masse.

Comment · 10 years ago

I think you're doing the right thing. The first step towards financial independence is building a reasonable emergency fund. The peace of mind is liberating.

Comment · 10 years ago

So, your solution is to liquidate a bank that controls 2 T$, employs 265,000 persons and has over 200 B$ in shareholder value? Don't get me wrong, this fraud affected a lot of people but ultimately liquidating the whole thing will have a negative effect multiple orders of magnitude greater.