[malux85]

I work at a hedge fund, and I spent 98% of my time writing code. I usually work on 2-3 experiments simultaneously, and every day or two take 2 hours off to work on "zany schemes" -- moonshot type ideas that occasionally are very lucrative, and therefore justified time-wise.

1 meeting a week, for 1 hour.

I work 3AM to 11AM, then about 12:30PM to 6PM on my side gig https://atomictessellator.com

[danielEM]

Out of curiosity - are you working in NZ?

What software stack you're using at hedge fund?

Can you tell how many lines of code did you commit in a first week of December? :-)

Not asking, but asking - what is your hourly rate? :-)

Congrats on side gig - interesting idea!

[malux85]

> Out of curiosity - are you working in NZ?

Yes

> What software stack you're using at hedge fund?

Cant discuss

> Can you tell how many lines of code did you commit in a first week of December? :-)

43 commits, 3440 lines added, 374 removed

> Not asking, but asking - what is your hourly rate? :-)

Wont discuss with strangers

> Congrats on side gig - interesting idea!

Thanks! It's heaps of fun and it's only just started making new discoveries, time to lab-test some soon

[danielEM]

Like 25 years ago I dreamed of visiting NZ :-) Never been there, but still want to learn to perform Haka! :-)

Thanks for answers!

That is hell a lot of the code for one week! About software stack - how do you post job ads if you can't say what you're working with? :-)

[malux85]

NZ is nice but it’s too small, I live in the biggest city, and the Python community is very small, and culturally NZ pretty barren being such a young country.

I lived in Germany, Spain and the UK for the last 10 years and it was much better - but had to return here for family.

It is nice to visit though! Make sure you try bungee jumping!

We don’t post job ads :)

[malux85]

^ just to clarify, I work from home in NZ but the company I work for is in USA

[danielEM]

similar here, except I'm in PL

[gardenhedge]

How much can you get done in 2 hours for the zany schemes?

Do you use any software methodologies?

[malux85]

it’s not solidly time boxed, sometimes it might be a whole day, if something is yielding positive results, everybody here is very senior so we all have a good intuition for which rabbit holes will yield

Software methodologies for the zany schemes? Not really, I prefer to do exploratory code inside the debugger (I wrote my own which has a bunch of extra extensions) and the others use Jupyter to riff freely, there’s no constraints when exploring

More engineering rigour goes into prod stuff