What does it take to become a software engineer for a hedge fund? Is there any point in teaching yourself how to code? Do you need to go to university?

NOTE: This blog post complements a PyDistrict presentation on the same topic posted on this date. Thanks to Rami Chowdhury for inviting me to speak, and the PyDistrict organizers for hosting me. Code samples from this talk are available at this GitHub rep... (more…)

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Hi everyone! I've started hacking around prettier to add support for Python files since I wasn't happy with autopep8 and yapf (and I'm using prettier at work). I'm working on this in my free time s... (more…)