<t>DE Shaw treated me well. Met a bunch of folks who seem really smart, asking tough brain teasers (the telephone screen is also a BT, which caught me completely off-guard). But after finding out that I was so ignorant as not having heard about efficient market hypothesis, they politely showed me th...

<t>I am an ex quannabe who gave up because failed and didn't want to retake Teckchek C++. I used to complain a lot on this forum about the C++ accent in QF. Now at MS, ironically I am doing C++ full time in Linux, simply because there's no better choice for performance reasons. I regularly eat 4GB o...

<t>Last time I checked (~ 1 year ago), Eclipse CDT was not ready for prime time. VS probably has 1000x more man hour behind it, and it showed. Now that I am at MS, it's funny that I am doing most of my coding in emacs/gdb. VS studio is nice, but not as nice as all the things that come preloaded with...

Having taken Brainbench C++ test and glanced at the content of Cuch's book, I am fairly sure that reading his book will NOT be sufficient to pass this test (JP Morgan, for example, dropped me because I failed Brainbench).

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Go to the property dialog of your project. Select C++ -> Advanced. On the "Disable Specific Warnings", list the warnings you want to ignore, separated by semicolons. Example: 4996;4267

<t>My understanding: Windows/Office code base is a mixture of C++ and just plain C. Newer, non-infrastructural projects are mostly C#. QuoteI've never known what exactly what to say to people who say they don't like programming yet want to be quants.At the interview I was asked a small C coding prob...

<t>I have temporarily revoked my title as nocturne2 quanabe. In this thread I talked about why I became interested in QF a few months back. Since then I have had a lot of fun with Hull, Quantlib, babbling and annoying a few on this forum, while slacking full time at work. I have also hated every min...

TJ may be less annoyed with twofish if the latter uses the term "keep in mind" more sparingly. At times this term can sound condescending.

<t>Quote In an interview, I'm obviously not going to be so flippant and informal. For example, my fluent knowledge of English will speak for itself without pointing out, "hey did you happen to notice I have great communication skills? Yea! I'm kick arse!" C'mon. Likewise, I'm not going to draw any c...

Yes, IBs and hedge funds use machine learning, but under different names like regression, classification, time series forecasting etc. I guess you can put them under computational statistics.

Install GhostScript+GhostView, open the ps file with GhostView, and then File->Convert->pdfwriter.

<t>QuoteOriginally posted by: stuntprogrammerWhen I joined this forum not that long ago, some of my first questions were to try to understand why C++ was so heavily used, since there are other tools that are significantly easier to use/more productive and are good enough for the job. I was seeking t...

<t>As for Lisp macros and the CLOS (multimethods and such), you've got to see them in action to believe. Sexy is an understatement. Perhaps Sexxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxy? Try to do this is C++/Java/C#: Let's say you're working on a 2D graphics library, with classes like Circle and Square and Triangle, each of...

<t>QuoteI mentioned ocaml versions of functions for pricing some time back, and how the code was so much more concise and performed equally well. These topics are related. What you often want is to have a fixed set of "things" and then be able to write lots of functions over those things. Functional...