How Jane Street Does Code Review (Jane Street Tech Talk)
It’s time for our next Jane Street Tech Talk. When we’ve solicited suggestions for topics, one common request has been to talk about our internal...
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Jane Street Tech Talk, Verifying Network Data Planes
After a summer hiatus, the Jane Street Tech Talks series is back on for the fall! Last we left it, our very own Dominick LoBraico...
By: Spiros Eliopoulos
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Real world machine learning (part 1)
Trading is a competitive business. You need great people and great technology, of course, but also trading strategies that make money. Where do those strategies...
How to design a tree diffing algorithm
For those of you interested in what what interns do at Jane Street, here’s a post from former intern Tristan Hume, on his work developing...
By: Yaron Minsky
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Ironing out your development style
People seem to enjoy talking about programming methodologies. They give them cute names, like eXtreme programming, Agile, and Scrum; run conferences and build communities around...
By: Yaron Minsky
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Hiring an FPGA engineer
Jane Street is looking to hire an engineer with experience in both software and hardware design to work on FPGA-based applications, and on tools for...
By: Yaron Minsky
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What the interns have wrought, 2017 edition
Intern season is coming to a close, and it’s a nice time to look back (as I’ve done in previous years) and review some of...
By: Yaron Minsky
When Bash Scripts Bite
There are abundant resources online trying to scare programmers away from using shell scripts. Most of them, if anything, succeed in convincing the reader to...
By: Todd Lubin
Looking for a technical writer
Update: I’m excited to say that we’ve now hired a (great!) technical writer, so the position is closed.
By: Yaron Minsky
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Caveat Configurator: how to replace configs with code, and why you might not want to
We have a new tech talk coming up on May 17th, from our very own Dominick LoBraico. This one is about how to represent configurations...
By: Yaron Minsky
This is not the performance you were looking for: the tricks systems play on us
It’s often surprising just how much software performance depends on how the software is deployed. All the time and effort you’ve invested in optimization can...
By: Andy Myers
Trivial meta-programming with cinaps
From now and then, I found myself having to write some mechanical and repetitive code. The usual solution for this is to write a code...
By: Jeremie Dimino
