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Re:Where did software go wrong? (2020) by ecpottinger on Wednesday December 14, 2022 @04:02AM (#33981450)
Well, my friend study in university for Nuclear Physics, yet ended up working for the Toronto Stock Exchange programming monitoring software of the trades.

They also paid a full year's bonus for working in December for Y2K, so yes, there is the money.

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Re:Where did software go wrong? (2020) by TheOtherHobbes on Wednesday December 14, 2022 @05:38AM (#33981906)
One of the reasons progress in physics has been slow is because Wall St hoovered up much of the talent.

Even if you have a good PhD, opportunities in physics are very limited. And they don't pay all that well.

Get a job as a quant and it's not remotely hard to earn $500k a year.

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Re:Where did software go wrong? (2020) by Consultant32452 on Wednesday December 14, 2022 @07:46AM (#33982742)
Not just Wall St, but also Silicon Valley. For several years it felt like the big names would literally just hire everyone they could with exorbitant salaries to starve the rest of the market (and other markets by proxy).

A bunch of our brightest spent their energy trying to shove one more ad in your brain.

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