[Possible Spam]RE: [Haskell] Job Posting (Looking for a few good functionalprogrammers)

[Yaron Minsky]

David Bergman wrote:

>Yaron,
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>This is probably out-of-topic, but: are you, or have you considered, using
>the .NET implementation of OCaml. I managed - painstakingly - to integrate
>it into a toy .NET project of mine, using .NET Direct3D, and see some virtue
>in that combination.
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I've been following OCaml/.NET integration, and it does seem potentially 
quite interesting, particularly in a business environment like ours 
where all of the traders use Windows machines.  Which .NET 
implementation did you look at, OCamIL?  Or F#? 

>If only we Haskellers would be as lucky: both a fast implementation and an
>integrated one with a Real (trademark...) environment such as .NET :-(
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>/David
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>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: haskell-bounces at haskell.org 
>>[mailto:haskell-bounces at haskell.org] On Behalf Of Yaron Minsky
>>Sent: Thursday, February 03, 2005 3:28 PM
>>To: S. Alexander Jacobson
>>Cc: haskell at haskell.org
>>Subject: Re: [Haskell] Job Posting (Looking for a few good 
>>functionalprogrammers)
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>>S. Alexander Jacobson wrote:
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>>>Yaron, would you mind sharing the reason your firm chose OCaml over 
>>>Haskell for your applications?
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>>I started the quantitative research group, and I knew OCaml 
>>very well, and didn't know Haskell except by reputation.  As 
>>to the merits, it is my general impression that OCaml is 
>>faster, and is all around a more pragmatic language than 
>>Haskell.  That's merely an ill-informed impression, but there it is.
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>>Yaron
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>>>For others, I would love to organize an informal gathering of NYC 
>>>Haskell programmers if there are any.  If you are 
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>>interested, please 
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>>>contact me and I'll try to make it happen.
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>>>-Alex-
>>>______________________________________________________________
>>>S. Alexander Jacobson tel:917-770-6565 http://alexjacobson.com
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>>>On Thu, 3 Feb 2005, Yaron Minsky wrote:
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>>>>Jane Street Capital (an affiliate of Henry Capital
>>>><http://henrycapital.com>) is a proprietary trading 
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>>company located 
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>>>>in Manhattan. The quantitative research department is 
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>>responsible for 
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>>>>analyzing, improving, and generating trading strategies.  It's an 
>>>>open and informal environment (you can wear shorts and a 
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>>t-shirt to 
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>>>>the office), and the work is technically challenging, including 
>>>>systems work, machine learning, statistical analysis, parallel 
>>>>processing, and anything that crosses our path that looks useful.
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>>>>One unusual attraction of the job is that the large 
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>>majority of our 
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>>>>programming is done in OCaml.  Pay is competitive, and we're a 
>>>>reasonably small company (around 85 employees), so advancement is 
>>>>pretty quick for someone who performs well.
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>>>>Here's what we're looking for:
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>>>>- Top-notch mathematical and analytic skills.  We want people who  
>>>>can solve difficult technical problems, and think clearly and  
>>>>mathematically about all sorts of problems.
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>>>>- Strong programming skills.  Pretty much all of our 
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>>programming is  
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>>>>in OCaml, so being a solid caml hacker is a big plus.  But we're  
>>>>also interested in great programmers who we are convinced will be  
>>>>able to pick up OCaml quickly, so anyone with a high-level of  
>>>>proficiency with functional languages could be a good match.
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>>>>- Strong Unix/Linux skills --- We're looking for someone 
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>>who knows  
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>>>>their way around the standard unix tools, can write 
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>>makefiles,  shell 
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>>>>scripts, etc.  We use a beowulf cluster for 
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>>compute-intensive  jobs, 
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>>>>so experience programming for and administering clusters is a  big 
>>>>plus.
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>>>>If you're interested (or have any students you think might 
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>>be a good
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>>>>match) and would be willing to relocate to New York, please send a 
>>>>cover-letter and resume to:
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>>>>yminsky at janestcapital.com
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