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There is an air of either incredibility or sheer jealousy in these comments. Nevertheless, I just wanted to tell the OP that he did a great job. Thanks for sh
by quant123 14y ago
There is an air of either incredibility or sheer jealousy in these comments. Nevertheless, I just wanted to tell the OP that he did a great job. Thanks for sharing. I work in the finance industry as a quantitative software developer, and it certainly is not an easy job for one person to do. In fact, I tried (independent of my professional work) doing this myself, and I ended up losing a lot of money. If people are trying to do this, please please be careful. Big companies, like ones I have worked at, have technical and human resources that are vastly more powerful.
- jspaulding 14y agothanks quant123 ;)
- stmartin 14y agoDid you mean incredulity instead? I'm not jealous of the money he made - I'm a sw developer, I have a good salary, my wife's an accountant, and we do well - what I am 'jealous' of is not having the time to do something like this, regardless of the outcome. Clearly, I'm prepared to take the risk... but if you have 2 children, you may think differently about spending your time doing this instead of on your family. Money cannot buy happiness. It can pave the way to it, but happiness only comes through surrender to another person or a cause greater than what one can accomplish by him or herself, and in no other way. And when it comes, it's an unintended side-effect, rather than something that one can pursue (which is one of the reasons I hate the 1st amendment and the way it's worded).