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Shahbaz Chaudhary
Personal blog · falconair.github.io · on HN as shahbazacprogrammingbusiness
Shahbaz Chaudhary's personal blog at falconair.github.io covers programming and business. Since 2015, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 10 times, most often “Simulating a financial exchange in Scala”. The last post was in 2017, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this blog for a write-up on how stock exchanges work and how high-frequency traders make money, and for a post arguing for multi-column code editors.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Shahbaz Chaudhary builds tools for trading-system developers, data scientists and teachers, including FIX Parser, Agent Debugger and Class Planner.
Most-linked posts?
- Simulating a financial exchange in Scala3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2015-01-12
What Hacker News says?
There are several books which speak about HFT at a high level. If you are curious about the actual mechanics of stock exchanges and (a bit about) how various parties make their money, I wrote a bit about it at http://falconair.github.io/2015/01/05/financial-exchange.htm...
Comment linking /2015/01/05/financial-exchange.html
on “Online Algorithms in High-Frequency Trading”Submitted Adventures in financial and software engineering as a story · 118 points
HN discussionHere is one, programmer centric, answer: https://falconair.github.io/2015/01/05/financial-exchange.ht...
Comment linking /2015/01/05/financial-exchange.html
on “Traders question value of stock-market circuit breakers”Submitted Adventures in Financial and Software Engineering as a story · 19 points
HN discussionSecond image ( http://falconair.github.io/assets/multicolumn/4k.png ) shows IntellJ IDEA, that has multi-column editing. The first screenshot ( http://falconair.github.io/assets/multicolumn/retina.png ) shows Atom, that has multi-column editing as well. WTF? He also has an IQueueFactory class, that seems like some nice antipattern to me ;) *Edit: also, use QuickFIX, don't write your own. Been there, done that, does…
Comment linking /assets/multicolumn/retina.png
on “Seriously, we need multi-column editors”Submitted Seriously, we need multi-column editors as a story · 16 points
HN discussionSubmitted Writing Trading Utilities in JavaScript – Part 1 as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Simulating a financial exchange in Scala as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Simulating a financial exchange in Scala as a story · 2 points
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