I am a researcher/trader and I spend a large portion of my time programming, but I am ultimately paid off the change in profitability of the strategies I've worked on and not on the code I've written. It's a means to an end.
When someone is working on a purely technical project, how can they successfully argue for the value of their work? How do you measure the value of a purely technical project? Are there other metrics that matter?
You must not be considering the total return of all your wealth just a limited subset. If you started with 10k and earned 300% (138.6% continuously compounded) then after 5 years you will have over $10mm. Wait another 3.3 years and you're a billionaire...
Julia lover here. I love having math at my fingertips and the ease of writing x’x\x’y. I like writing numerical code, knowing I can change types later and it will likely work. Still, I miss tab-tab from ipython for method completion from time to time and I work all day in mostly C++.
I get upset when they call it unlimited data and then cap the rate you can download. if you can only download 1 unit an hour, you are effectively capped at 744 Units per month.
It would also be great to see how these scale with terminal size. I personally use iterm2 but after switching to a new Macbook pro this year with two 5k displays it's noticeably slower. I'm assuming some O(n^2) scaling behind the scenes but I haven't measured anything myself. Still, @gnachman I love your term especially with terminalplots.jl and drawing Julia repl images inline.
Get an individual patent and get arrange to get paid via royalty licensing. As I understand it, this is all long term cap gains. However. I am not a lawyer or a tax advisor.
`date 1>&2 | sleep 1 | date 1>&2 | sleep 1 | date 1>&2`
you'll actually see the three date commands output immediately so the three julia processes would actually launch in parallel if they were in a pipe