<t>QuoteOriginally posted by: DominicConnorIt's a fucking mess.Even as we speak, P&D are teaming up with a vast law firm to do seminars on the bonus shit. Tax is one issue, and we can assume others.The only issue we have is that the lawyers think 70 people is a "big" number to turn up for breakf...

Regarding the car, trackstar, I am afraid you would have to be happy with an extremely unimpressive Jag S-type, since that's what I saw him in once.

<t>My 2cAs far as I understand anp31415, your idea would be to keep the existing models (since you are still talking about Base Correlation) and just postulate some diffusion (or another stochastic) process for that input parameter. I really think this is, from a fundamental point of view, a bad ide...

<t>QuoteOriginally posted by: BullBearYesterday, in my southern EU country, a head hunter told me that (gross/annual) € 28k is an outrageous (almost obscene) expectation for a wage.Is it that much in other EU countries (for someone that studied 19 years including 2 yrs M. Sc. + 5 yrs undergraduate L...

I have just read this, maybe it is of some interest.

<t>QuoteOriginally posted by: TrickyNathanHi all,I have 2 questions about random recovery:1- I was wondering how consistent is giving a value to super senior tranches since they don't have any in the real market. With random Recovery, we introduce additional variance to be "closer" to the market, is...

<t>QuoteOriginally posted by: daveangelthe best thing to do is to ignore the jobs board completely except for jobs posted by Administrator which seem to be genuine. I never cease to be amused by the number of different permuations that SJ, orgtel and others come up with. they must have a whole team ...

<t>I agree with the fact that this forum is an unvaluable source of knowledge, but most importantly it constantly provides some food for thoughts to the reader. However the bogus job ads are really obnoxious, mostly because they leverage on the fact that these days there are a lot of people who are ...

After the pile of nonsense I feel the urge to rewatch at the Stewart Vs Cramer at the "Daily Show", in which this guy gets what he deserves.

I agree with you guys but apparently a lot of people here don't share that opinionhttp://www.wilmott.com/messageview.cfm?catid=3&threadid=68949

<t>Another (well known) financial commentator/blogger putting the blame on a single formula. People should write about what they know and understand. I actually enjoy reading Felix Salmon on his blog, but by writing this he shows as much incompentence as the one shown by the people who blindly belie...

<t>QuoteDude, you may have the name and influence you have. You may be a top head hunter and screw me if try to get a job in the UK but you're so fuckin arrogant and stupid that even stink!! You are the one that should study management and finance. You quant guys are stupid assholes that can't under...

Yep,unless preproc definitions have changed, I define _SECURE_SCL to 0 (as well as _HAS_ITERATOR_DEBUGGING 0, although I don't think that this last one would impact release mode)

I already use them, but unfortunately I need to run under Windows (mostly). Actually I was just wondering whther anybody who underwent the same migration has noticed the same problems

<t>Well I 'm not doing that, just becasue the MS guys have decided to become sloppy programming the Visual C++ in VS2k8. Actually, I also checked the Intel compiler (which can be still used through VS IDE) which produces roughly the same performance as of VS2005, despite the build process is much sl...