Do you feel like you're no longer learning anything? Are you working for a boss that doesn't understand the technical issues you are facing? Is your machine so underpowered that you bring in your own laptop to work on? Not getting the recognition you deserve? If any of the above apply, here's a great opportunity for you. This is a chance to join a small development team for an independent financial research company based in Manhattan. Your role will be quite flexible, working on a variety of different projects. The team is always open to new ideas, with opportunities to work on side projects that you think might have value to the company. With all the chop in the Financial Markets right now, the research industry is a fun place to be. You'll learn a lot and get to talk to some of the smartest people in the business. So what technologies will you be using? C#, .Net 2.0 moving towards 3.5, AJAX.Net, Javascript, SQL Server 2005 (including SSIS), Math & Graphing Libraries are among the list. We're looking for someone with 3 - 5 yrs of related experience.
posted to MeFi Jobs by rottytooth at 8:30 AM on January 11, 2008

Accordions: Piano vs. Chromatic Button. In the long term, which is better to learn?
posted to Ask Metafilter by rottytooth at 12:48 PM on January 8, 2008 (10 comments)

If these walls could speak
posted to MetaFilter by rottytooth at 5:03 PM on September 25, 2007 (16 comments)

What is sprung vs. unsprung narrative?
posted to Ask Metafilter by rottytooth at 1:17 PM on September 5, 2007 (9 comments)

The Splasher: Caught? (bugmenot) The Splasher(s?) has defaced graffiti in NYC for the last seven months, focussing on graffiti artists who have found commercial success often posting pieces of a growing Manifesto. The Manifesto calls for a new radicalism in graffiti and art in general, apparently inspired by Jeanette Winterson, Guy Debord, and Sixties anarchists. Is Cooper the Splasher? Now that he's caught, is this the end, or is there more yet to come?
posted to MetaFilter by rottytooth at 5:14 AM on June 29, 2007 (30 comments)

The artist who explored the beginning of life last year presents his meditation on the end of life, designed to teach kids about the hazards of underage drinking.
posted to MetaFilter by rottytooth at 9:22 AM on April 27, 2007 (22 comments)

StatisticsFilter: I have a set of factors and need to determine which have the most influence and which the least: not on a numerical output but on each other
posted to Ask Metafilter by rottytooth at 11:47 AM on January 9, 2007 (7 comments)

using System;

namespace Financial.Research.Company
{
    class WebDeveloper
	{

		public string JobDescription 
		{
			get { return @"
Are you working for a boss that doesn't understand the technical issues you 
are facing? Is your machine so underpowered that you bring in your own 
laptop to work on? Need to be a little more autonomous? Not getting the 
recognition you deserve? Enjoy esoteric conversations over lunch?
 
If any of the above apply, here's a great opportunity for you. This is a 
chance to join a small development team for an independent financial research 
company based in New York City. Your role will be quite flexible, working on 
a variety of different projects. The team is always open to new ideas, with 
opportunities to work on side projects that you think might have value to the 
company.
"; }
		}

		public Computer Environment 
		{
			get { return new VeryFastComputer("w/ Dual Screen Monitors"); }
		}

		public string Location 
		{
			get { return "Midtown, New York"; }
		}

		public string[] RequiredSkills 
		{
			get { return new string[] {"C#", "ASP.Net"}; }
		}

		public string[] PreferredExperience
		{
			get { return new string[] {
				"Microsoft CMS", "SQL Server", "XSLT", "JavaScript", 
				"Design Patterns", "Technical Architecture", "UX Design"
				};
			}
		}
		
		public WebDeveloper(string[] experience, string fromAddress, string pathToResume) 
		{
			Email application = new Email();
			application.From = fromAddress;
			application.AttachFile(pathToResume);
			
			// Here's the challenge -  You'll need to decrypt the company name 
			// to work out where to send the application. The class name gives the
			// game away :)
			string company = Rot13Encoder.Decrypt("perqvgfvtugf");
			
			// Don't forget to include the source code that you used to 
			// decrypt the company name above :)
			application.AttachFile(codeUsedToDecryptCompany);
			
			application.Send("itcareers@" + company + ".com");
		}
	}
}

posted to MeFi Jobs by rottytooth at 1:36 PM on December 7, 2006

What will replace postmodernism?
posted to Ask Metafilter by rottytooth at 7:50 AM on July 27, 2006 (55 comments)

Motherfucker: The Movie to document the well known travelling party in NYC. Is it a "turn of the century Studio 54" or a "scene even beneath most hipsters"? And will we ever see a film of Michael T's other project, Rated X: The Panty Party? [photos here -- NSFW]
posted to MetaFilter by rottytooth at 3:42 PM on July 14, 2006 (86 comments)

I just finished Rebecca Goldstein's (excellent) book Incompleteness. If I'm understanding this correctly, Godel's theorems were instrumental in ending logical postitivism, by showing that the movement could never produce a mathematical system which defines arithmetic while being complete and self-consistent. So what about Intuitionism? Isn't that nominalist as well, and subject to the same logical inconsistencies? How do they answer this? (Also, any relevant book suggestions would be appreciated)
posted to Ask Metafilter by rottytooth at 7:10 AM on July 14, 2006 (18 comments)

You knew it was coming: This year's 50 Most Loathsome New Yorkers revealed (previously covered: 2005, 2004, 2003 ) [apologies for NYCfilter]
posted to MetaFilter by rottytooth at 3:05 PM on March 30, 2006 (39 comments)

Tom Hanks to star in some movie about Starbucks
posted to MetaFilter by rottytooth at 3:00 PM on March 29, 2006 (50 comments)

"First Pro-Life Monument to Birth" (NSFW) featuring a nude Britney Spears giving birth on a bear-skin rug.
posted to MetaFilter by rottytooth at 9:13 AM on March 24, 2006 (100 comments)

The inevitable deal for a Welcome Back, Kotter movie has been struck. It will be scripted (and DIRECTED) by Tom Brady, responsible for not one, but two Rob Schneider vehicles. And in the lead role as Kotter we have ... Ice Cube???
posted to MetaFilter by rottytooth at 12:43 PM on March 14, 2006 (35 comments)