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As others have said, there's usually a pretty clear separation between developers and quants.
The quants are the math geniuses who write the valuation models.
The developers handle the UIs, data processing, and the less-intensive math.
As a general rule for the non-quant side, expect to need algebra but not calculus. Some understanding of finance is always helpful, but if they didn't ask for it, they're probably just looking for UI work. Just make sure you're clear with them about what you can and can't do.
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Would assume that some part of the programming would involve real-time acquisition / monitoring of data, not missing data for even a single time instant. In essence, aspects of multi-threaded programming, concurrency, etc.
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http://xkcd.com/1503/[^]
Now, who wants to guess which squirrel normally asks questions in QA?
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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That's no balloon... that's a B-Ark.
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All 10 of them!
"I had the right to remain silent, but I didn't have the ability!"
Ron White, Comedian
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I counted 11.
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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Binary is so old school! 
"I had the right to remain silent, but I didn't have the ability!"
Ron White, Comedian
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Strange, but the oldschool ways somehow also meant less holy wars, not so steep learning curves, more productivity, less documentations, no Q&A, no conventions and style wars, managers actually knew that they were clueless and things usually were around for a longer time than a month or two.
When did we leave those things to complete Bozos to decide over? And why did we do that?
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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I think it is a funny cartoon, but just as for most of the XKCDs I think I'm missing the actual joke.
Someone care to explain?
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Doofus T Brain-Cell wrote: I am looking for a COBOL Developer for a emerging technology/Software development based company in the heart of Cork.
 I cannot in any shape or form bring "COBOL" and "emerging technology" together without placing "is not an" between the two.
veni bibi saltavi
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Nagy Vilmos wrote: Doofus T Brain-Cell
I used to work for that guy... I see they're still looking to replace me. 
It was broke, so I fixed it.
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You worked for someone with the name Doofus?
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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I didn't say that was his name... who hasn't at one time or another worked for or with a Doofus?
It was broke, so I fixed it.
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Those who claim not to probably were the Doofus themselves. 
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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Well, COBOL is in a sense technology, and some smelly brown things are known to emerge from the water...
Geek code v 3.12
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- r++>+++ y+++*
Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
I use 1TBS
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It's emerging like dead bodies from a glacier in the spring time... 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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Check this: COBOL on COGS[^]
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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I like the "DATE OVERFLOW" in the bottom left corner. Very professional... Probably a Y2K bug?!?!? 
Anything that is unrelated to elephants is irrelephant
Anonymous
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The problem with quotes on the internet is that you can never tell if they're genuine
Winston Churchill, 1944
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I'd just like a chance to prove that money can't make me happy.
Me, all the time
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It just means the COBOL is well past it's "Best Before" date!
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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IIRC, that flew past in 1981.
veni bibi saltavi
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It's in it's "undead" phase: which probably means it's about to be fashionable with impressionable idiots again...there is still a .NET version of the damn thing!
(Which to be honest doesn't surprise me too much, give the massive base of business centred code which was written in it)
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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COBOL ain't dead - it's only sleeping...
Last month connected us an old (and forgotten) customer and asked about adding new features to the application...He still uses the COBOL version, that we stopped supporting in 1997!
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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We've been asked to add functionalities in one of our oldest machines... its software is in QBasic.
Geek code v 3.12
GCS d--- s-/++ a- C++++ U+++ P- L- E-- W++ N++ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t++ 5? X R++ tv-- b+ DI+++ D++ G e++>+++ h--- r++>+++ y+++*
Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
I use 1TBS
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