Go to work for a global investment bank. MS, GS, CSFB, or a software vendor/consulting firm that sells systems to one of those guys.
If you don't mind selling out and going the analysis/project management route, you will travel a lot. You'll never see rural China this way, but Chicago, NY, London, Singapore, Hong Kong, and Tokyo are all on the list. As an added bonus, you'll fly business class, stay in the best hotels, and bill everything back to the project.
Pure coding roles see v. little travel, however. You can move around some, but you're on your own to do it. (no expense account, etc)
uh, hold on a bit before you run out there and conquer the market:
1.quantlib is really used for pricing derivatives and checking the risk profile of options positions. it kicks ass, but i don't think you'll really be able to use it in a real time data feed scenario. i mean, most trading desks (i'm talking professionals not mangy ass day traders) only use something like quantlib once or twice a day. it just takes too long to calculate the greeks (especially the vega) since it's usually done numerically.
2. if you do want to play around with quantlib in a way that is much superior to trying to integrate it with octave and gnuplot (talk about the lego-land approach!!), try this R Quantlib.
3. don't know what you want to do exactly, but probably something like LinuxTrader would be plenty for your needs. what you really need is an efficient way to display a lot of news and quotes. anything else is probably overkill. i mean, what do you really think you're going to do anyway???
Kishotenketsu is a result of the Japanese aversion to direct confrontation, and consiousness of status.
exactly! what you'd end up with is an api that has 100 different functions all of which can only individually hint at the general direction of the output without making any kind of assertion about what is actually the correct output given your parameters. and care would be taken so that one function stands out as an obvious alternative to the others, except for maybe the more "senior" functions that have been built into the library from some time back. but, that's ok, because those functions, while the most obvious to use, would be the least useful in terms of the quality and clarity of values returned.
from a pure valuation standpoint, the returns that MS share holders recieve come from the monopoly tag team in both upstream and downstream markets (the OS and the application). to weaken that link would dramatically change the dynamics of the free cash flow forcasts going forward.
that is to say nothing of the signalling effect that it would have in the market. begining to sell office for linux be taken as a very pessimistic signal about MS management's view of their relative strenth.
the stock would take a beating and the lawsuits would fly. at this point i'm pretty sure it would do nothing if not make a train wreck of the equity value.
Those of you who remember how the diaper smell went from interestingly aromatic to puke-inducing as soon as the baby started to eat meat
what a lie.
i used to work across from a vegetarian in a very spacious office. he used to eat his oh so healthy veggie lunch real quickly and then sit there and watch an episode of far scape and fart. i will tell you there was nothing sweet about it.
he wasn't so bad in the mornings (maybe because he didn't eat beans and tofu for breakfast), but once lunch came and went he was like pig-pen from peanuts all day long! you could tell if the guy had been in a room because you could still detect a hint of what we used to call his "aura" about 1/2 hour later.
sorry for the post, but i just couldn't stand to let that comment go down.
It also points out one manner in which consumers are harmed by this illegal monopoly-- they are forced to pay high prices.
sorry but that's not how consumers or society is harmed by monopoly behaviour. the macroeconomy doesn't care who gets more benefit from the trade. the edge could go more to the buyer or to the seller - it doesn't matter. the fact that the trade is made means that all consumers who purchased did so because the price was at most exactly equal to their expected benefits.
the problem lies in the trades that didn't occur - the dead weight loss. there is real economic loss when there are ready buyers at what would be less than the monopoly price but greater than or equal to the price in perfect competition.
now, this dead weight loss is partially offset by the economic rents being charged by the monopoly but they are not as great as the Q*P of the goods would be had the price been lower. the extra quantity demanded would more than make up for the loss of the monopoly rents and therefore society would happier for it.
... so there is an increase in demand and supply stays the same. Distilled alcohol prices rise above gasoline quickly and all of a sudden...
the boeing 777 project was commissioned in 1990 and took 5 years before they had one plane in "revenue service". they were taking orders from 1990 on. i'd think that would give you enough harvest/planting cycles to adapt.
do you really think that your assumptions are valid stating that demand will increase while supply will stay constant? c'mon - if there were profits to be made, they'd set up greenhouses in oregon and grow the stuff if others wouldn't. and trust me, you'd have a lot of farmland in mexico and all over the world turning to cane before it would get to that point.
... diesel cars got to be big enough that regular gas stations (not just truck stops) started to carry diesel. That increased the gas stations cost, and thus raised the price...
although i respect your industry perspective, i think you may have spent too much time exposed to the fumes while researching. please explain how carrying diesel raises gas station costs which leads to higher priced diesel?
even if you take the first part of that sentence, "diesel cars got to be big.." and you try to talk about it in your world (of dynamic demand/static supply), then why, now that the number of retail diesel consumers is a fraction of that in the early '80's, have we not seen the price relative to gas returning to previous levels?
*disclaimer: i don't know the diesel market so i am assuming that ooglek's post reflect the true price history of diesel rel to gas.
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obviously u dont know much about japan.
Go to work for a global investment bank. MS, GS, CSFB, or a software vendor/consulting firm that sells systems to one of those guys.
If you don't mind selling out and going the analysis/project management route, you will travel a lot. You'll never see rural China this way, but Chicago, NY, London, Singapore, Hong Kong, and Tokyo are all on the list. As an added bonus, you'll fly business class, stay in the best hotels, and bill everything back to the project.
Pure coding roles see v. little travel, however. You can move around some, but you're on your own to do it. (no expense account, etc)
uh, hold on a bit before you run out there and conquer the market:
1.quantlib is really used for pricing derivatives and checking the risk profile of options positions. it kicks ass, but i don't think you'll really be able to use it in a real time data feed scenario. i mean, most trading desks (i'm talking professionals not mangy ass day traders) only use something like quantlib once or twice a day. it just takes too long to calculate the greeks (especially the vega) since it's usually done numerically.
2. if you do want to play around with quantlib in a way that is much superior to trying to integrate it with octave and gnuplot (talk about the lego-land approach!!), try this R Quantlib.
3. don't know what you want to do exactly, but probably something like LinuxTrader would be plenty for your needs. what you really need is an efficient way to display a lot of news and quotes. anything else is probably overkill. i mean, what do you really think you're going to do anyway???
Kishotenketsu is a result of the Japanese aversion to direct confrontation, and consiousness of status.
exactly! what you'd end up with is an api that has 100 different functions all of which can only individually hint at the general direction of the output without making any kind of assertion about what is actually the correct output given your parameters. and care would be taken so that one function stands out as an obvious alternative to the others, except for maybe the more "senior" functions that have been built into the library from some time back. but, that's ok, because those functions, while the most obvious to use, would be the least useful in terms of the quality and clarity of values returned.
this gets no play in my ride.
from a pure valuation standpoint, the returns that MS share holders recieve come from the monopoly tag team in both upstream and downstream markets (the OS and the application). to weaken that link would dramatically change the dynamics of the free cash flow forcasts going forward.
that is to say nothing of the signalling effect that it would have in the market. begining to sell office for linux be taken as a very pessimistic signal about MS management's view of their relative strenth.
the stock would take a beating and the lawsuits would fly. at this point i'm pretty sure it would do nothing if not make a train wreck of the equity value.
Those of you who remember how the diaper smell went from interestingly aromatic to puke-inducing as soon as the baby started to eat meat
what a lie.
i used to work across from a vegetarian in a very spacious office. he used to eat his oh so healthy veggie lunch real quickly and then sit there and watch an episode of far scape and fart. i will tell you there was nothing sweet about it.
he wasn't so bad in the mornings (maybe because he didn't eat beans and tofu for breakfast), but once lunch came and went he was like pig-pen from peanuts all day long! you could tell if the guy had been in a room because you could still detect a hint of what we used to call his "aura" about 1/2 hour later.
sorry for the post, but i just couldn't stand to let that comment go down.
It also points out one manner in which consumers are harmed by this illegal monopoly-- they are forced to pay high prices.
sorry but that's not how consumers or society is harmed by monopoly behaviour. the macroeconomy doesn't care who gets more benefit from the trade. the edge could go more to the buyer or to the seller - it doesn't matter. the fact that the trade is made means that all consumers who purchased did so because the price was at most exactly equal to their expected benefits.
the problem lies in the trades that didn't occur - the dead weight loss. there is real economic loss when there are ready buyers at what would be less than the monopoly price but greater than or equal to the price in perfect competition.
now, this dead weight loss is partially offset by the economic rents being charged by the monopoly but they are not as great as the Q*P of the goods would be had the price been lower. the extra quantity demanded would more than make up for the loss of the monopoly rents and therefore society would happier for it.
... so there is an increase in demand and supply stays the same. Distilled alcohol prices rise above gasoline quickly and all of a sudden...
... diesel cars got to be big enough that regular gas stations (not just truck stops) started to carry diesel. That increased the gas stations cost, and thus raised the price...
the boeing 777 project was commissioned in 1990 and took 5 years before they had one plane in "revenue service". they were taking orders from 1990 on. i'd think that would give you enough harvest/planting cycles to adapt.
do you really think that your assumptions are valid stating that demand will increase while supply will stay constant? c'mon - if there were profits to be made, they'd set up greenhouses in oregon and grow the stuff if others wouldn't. and trust me, you'd have a lot of farmland in mexico and all over the world turning to cane before it would get to that point.
although i respect your industry perspective, i think you may have spent too much time exposed to the fumes while researching. please explain how carrying diesel raises gas station costs which leads to higher priced diesel?
even if you take the first part of that sentence, "diesel cars got to be big.." and you try to talk about it in your world (of dynamic demand/static supply), then why, now that the number of retail diesel consumers is a fraction of that in the early '80's, have we not seen the price relative to gas returning to previous levels?
*disclaimer: i don't know the diesel market so i am assuming that ooglek's post reflect the true price history of diesel rel to gas.