load01 08/01/2011

• Your Career: Using Google+ to find work - Business - Personal finance - Careers - msnbc.com

  Do job seekers need yet another social networking site? Maybe.
  It’s probably the last thing you want to hear since many of you already have enough to deal with figuring out what you should and shouldn’t post on Facebook, whom to linkup with on LinkedIn and whether tweeting is really going to land you a dream job.
  In comes Google with its own social networking site Google+ to make your life even more complicated. But it may be worth considering, especially if you’re in technology, marketing, social media or anything to do with the Internet. That is, if you can score an invite.

  tags: misc

• How and Why Wall Street Programmers Earn Top Salaries - Slashdot

  I'll be posting anonymously, but I think many here have a very poor understanding of what we do. Most of that is because we do tend to be a very secretive group, but if you were to sit down with some of us, you would see that we really do very normal (and useful!) things in the market.
  
  I work on the algo and core infrastructure. I wrote price feeds that take 1/5th of a microsecond in C++ and (a little slower) in Java. I understand in fine detail how cache and the the PCI-e bus works. I have a very good understanding of algorithms and the constant-time tradeoffs. I know when to make something simple, when to use and avoid threads, and I can debug in minutes and push out a new version in the seconds before market open (not many people can handle that level of stress well). I read the C++ and Hotspot assembly, and know how to program for superscaler architectures specifically. If you really need me to, I can even crank out some VHDL code.

  tags: culture

• ‪O'Reilly OSCON Java 2011, Raffi Krikorian, "Twitter: From Ruby on Rails to the JVM"‬‏ - YouTube

  Uploaded by OreillyMedia on Jul 25, 2011
  O'Reilly OSCON Java 2011, Raffi Krikorian, "Twitter: From Ruby on Rails to the JVM"

  tags: technology

• Feds may be muzzling scientist over Arctic research « Summit County Citizens Voice

  Battle over Alaska offshore oil drilling heats up
  By Bob Berwyn
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  SUMMIT COUNTY — Last summer’s Deepwater Horizon oil-drilling disaster in the Gulf of Mexico clearly showed the conflict between science, energy policy and politics, and the looming battle over drilling in Arctic waters will be no different, as a watchdog group claims that federal scientists are being muzzled and harassed over their efforts to disclose potential impacts of energy development in the fragile Arctic marine environment.

  tags: technology

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