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Morgan Stanley | Java and Scala Senior Software Engineers | Full Time | London / New York | ONSITE

We're hiring Senior Software Engineers to work in our calculation infrastructure group at Morgan Stanley. We build and maintain large compute grids and distributed caches to support large scale risk calculations. We also build data streaming, job scheduling and visualisation products to support these calculations

- Java/Scala Developer (Tooling) - London or New York - https://ms.taleo.net/careersection/2/jobdetail.ftl?job=31180... We're looking for someone who'd like to build tools around Jupyter/Zeppelin on top of one of the most interesting and complex Scala projects around, this is the role for you. Scala not required but willingness to use Java/Scala/Python is welcome.

- Java Developer - London - https://ms.taleo.net/careersection/2/jobdetail.ftl?job=31039... We're looking for someone who'd like to build, maintain and optimise large compute grids, both on-prem and in the cloud, as well as distributed caches. This role involves being ultimately responsible for these systems while still being an individual contributor.

If you're interested, apply directly or reach out to me with any questions.


Can you please provide your email id?


Average speed check zones. Multiple cameras that identify your car and ensure your average speed between point to point is not above the legal limit. Sure, you can go above the speed limit and then slow down, but it would be a pain to have to slow down, specially if you put cameras the entrance and exit of service stations in highways to discount breaks.


This would be a crazy revenue boost for metro areas outside of rush hour, where interstates are typically 55mph zones, while the traffic collectively moves at 65-70mph; going any slower than the flow is dangerous, but it's a dilemma to risk a ticket or risk a rear-ender.


That is very US specific. In Europe, in a lot of office-based work if you get sick you take some days off and it doesn't impact your normal yearly 20-30 day vacation allowance. If you need more than X days (in my case 5), you need a paper from your doctor, otherwise you self declare as sick. At my workplace, people tend to work from home if they are just feeling a bit sick.


It's mostly a fairly recent trend even in the US. For most of my career, I had separate vacation and sick days (as well as, possibly, personal/floating holidays). I'm not sure when the shift occurred but apparently a combined pool is pretty much the norm these days.


The new trend is 'unlimited' vacation days, where nothing can impact you vacation time, because you have to fight with your manager for it.


Fortunately, it's a trend that seems to have had fairly limited pickup. It really does seem like a bad system in practice. I have always, other than the odd day lost when I've hit a cap or whatever, used every day of vacation I've been allotted. In past roles, I've even taken month long vacations where I was totally out of touch.

I would not want to be in a situation where my vacation time depended on some prevailing sense among coworkers of the appropriate number of days to take off.


> Fortunately, it's a trend that seems to have had fairly limited pickup

It's been the case at the last four places I worked: large corporations who knew their H1B workforce wouldn't ask for time off, and startups where I wouldn't get any spare moments to meet with my managers to ask for vacation.

(Fwiw, the vacation time at the start ups was perfectly decent, given the situation. I think I took ~3 weeks off each year. At the big company, it was a total fiddle.)


In Java the default value for a String (or any object) is null, not an empty string.


Did you not read my whole comment? Please read the whole thing before replying.


Read the whole comment. Still don't see nothing that invalidates my answer to "Can you name one language that has strings that initialise to anything but a valid object containing an empty string?".


You specifically mentioned Java, and I specifically mentioned reference-based languages, with Java being the most obvious example.


He would definitely deserve it. But he's Canadian so his contributions would more correctly be classified as going towards Canadian songwriting.


Haha... Valid point. I'd have to explore the intricacies of Canadian songwriting before I could confidently make the assertion, but my feeling is that Cohen's songwriting falls in line with the American tradition.


I've explored the intricacies of Canadian songwriting. J Biebs.


(Biased Canadian)

I'd say Cohen is entirely Canadian. He has this very self-deprecating humor that you don't really get from Americans.


I'll concede that Cohen is a Canadian songwriter. It's interesting to me, though, that he launched his music career in New York.


That's where all the good record labels and record producers were. All good Canadian musicians/actors/directors go to the US. They largely leave Canada behind without much mention of Canada during their careers besides Drake and to a lesser extent Neil Young being the exception.

Leonard's first album had amazing production by american producer John Simon (who also worked with The Band, Simon & Garfunkel, Janis Joplin), probably the best in Cohen's entire career, so he chose well deciding to work out of Columbia's studio in NYC...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Songs_of_Leonard_Cohen


I'm struggling with the use of the word American here, both you and the parent posters. In my opinion all Canadians are just as much Americans as anyone from the USA.

Not sure what else you can call someone from USA, so I guess it makes a bit of sense.


Last time I checked Canada was in the Americas but I get your point.


I know, but Canadians never call themselves Americans.


In London, recruiters and real estate agents appear to be interchangeable. The bullshitter ratio is off the scales.


This is common practice in London. I stopped answering calls with the reception ID as they are normally just recruiters doing what you mention. The problem is that somehow they get my mobile number and stealing contacts as they themselves move between recruitment agencies is also common practice.


Agree. A good few years ago a large part of students at my uni used joe as their linux editor.


It's a pity it is only available in US layout. I can't get used to that small Enter key having used ISO layout my whole life. I personally use a Filco with MX Browns and am really happy with it.


I can understand why you'd call the US Enter key small, but speaking as a Canadian who often has to pick between US and "Canadian Multilingual" keyboards, it's the international Enter key I call small -- I'd much rather have an enter key that's longer in the home row so my pinky doesn't have to reach as far. Of course I'm also the type to prefer Caps Lock as Backspace and I use Colemak. And it's hard to adjust to a new way of typing when you're used to another keyboard. Still funny to see this -- I make a point of only buying or recommending the US layout for ergonomics, myself...


I switched from ISO to ANSI about two years ago. ANSI is much better imho, once you get used to it (and you will!).


I don't think terms like "Fuck-ups" or "screwed" should belong in corporate communications, start-up or not. It's cool they are talking about this openly, but unfortunately what I took from their write-up is that their communication style is less than professional.


I don't care what language they use, personally. However I am at work and having the F-word in 72pt font blaring from the top of my browser made scroll down very quickly. I doubt my bosses would be thrilled to see that.


Man, I'm sorry, but what sort of job do you have where seeing the word "Fuck" is like an actual job risk?


It pays awesome and is easy work. If the handbook prohibited saying the word "zucchini" under penalty of dismissal I'd happily strike the word from my vocabulary.


Sorry, fuck-up is an acceptable professional term now. A fuck-up is an error that is so bad that from CEO to customer, there is no sense in calling it anything other than what it is. Send 10 emails at once to a customer? Sorry, we fucked up. Lose 25% of revenue for several months? Sorry, CEO, I fucked up. It is an admission that you have made an error that will happen less than once a year and hopefully only once a career.


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