High frequency trading is far from the only pointless activity software and hardware developers are employed to do. At least in that realm they are pushing the state of the art, unlike presenting ads or yet another crud app.
You do realise that Jane Street (one of the big HFT market makers) publishes basically all their technical work and contributes to massive amounts of open source software? They are to my knowledge one of the main contributors to the OCaml ecosystem as well.
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High frequency trading is far from the only pointless activity software and hardware developers are employed to do. At least in that realm they are pushing the state of the art, unlike presenting ads or yet another crud app.
Pushing the state of the art? That's only meaningful if the results are published. But I suspect that everything is kept secret.
Come on, it is not difficult to find better things to do with your brains. Like work in medicine, etc.
You do realise that Jane Street (one of the big HFT market makers) publishes basically all their technical work and contributes to massive amounts of open source software? They are to my knowledge one of the main contributors to the OCaml ecosystem as well.