I’ve been studying up for my new job, which is beginning next Monday. Even though I’m going to be a Systems Administrator and not a programmer, I have a feeling I am going to need all the programming skills I can get my hands on to contribute the maximum to the database and product development efforts.
Here is a subset of the links I found – enjoy!
- 5 Habits of Highly Profitable Software Developers
- 8 Elite Development Principles
- 10 Essential Development Practices
- 10 SQL Server Integration Best Practices
- 15 Best Practices for Writing Super Readable Code
- 20 Design Tips for MySQL Enterprise Data Architects
- 28 Essays in Best Software Writing
- 97 Things Every Programmer Should Know
I recently had the chance to visit a company that is engaged in providing Accounting Fraud Risk Metrics for public US companies. Even though many of the data analysis techniques are the same, their overall outlook is vastly different from what I’m used to, due to their exclusive focus on company balance sheets and publicly released accounting data. In the world of quant research, especially so for HFT, there is a huge disconnect between the fundamentals and the information used to devise actionable strategies.
While I was working in the quant investment sector, it was almost pointless looking at the company balance sheets. For our purposes, it didn’t matter whether companies were healthy or unhealthy – only their trading characteristics mattered. And since were were focused on the market as a whole rather than any single corporation, balance sheet analysis really never came up at all. Even if it had, I would take what was written in the public filings with a grain of salt, after hearing about the shenanigans of Lehman Brothers, Bear Stearns and all those other wall street jokers.
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I’ve been locked out of my blog’s admin interface for a while, and thanks to a lot of things going on recently didn’t spend time figuring out what was wrong until now.
I had forgotten that I was using an htaccess file on my webserver to prevent unknown ip addresses from using the admin portal. I should have added a new entry to the allow list after moving out of my old place two weeks ago.
Now that it’s fixed I should start updating again pretty soon. I’m still looking for a job, but the search might be coming to an end in the next couple of weeks, I’ll be writing here about it once things are finalized.
So I just got out of the prometric facility, pretty disappointed… I’m still proud of my score, but just feel like I could have done a lot better with more luck. Too many people get perfect scores in math! Thanks to this, a 750 sounds good but isn’t really that great. On the other hand, my verbal score was dismally low but might actually be a decent percentile since the verbal test is so much harder. I guess I got what I deserved for not practicing enough – those analogy questions are pretty tough, and some of the reading comprehension really made me feel a time crunch. Even so, I filled out all the answers, so I’ve got no excuses for getting so many wrong. Depending on my writing score I might have to take the GRE again… geez, prometric is getting a lot of business from me lately.
I thought I was ready, but after going through two 5000 word vocab lists I found a ton of hard words to try to remember for tomorrow. I just noted them down as I went through the lists, and used http://www.easydefine.com/ once I was done.
These are all words that I’ve either never heard before, or previously learned but never used and forgot the definitions to. I’ll be lucky if I can remember a third of these tomorrow! All you smart readers out there, see how many you already know:
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