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Re: How and Why Wall Street Programmers Earn Top Salaries

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____/ Hardon on Sunday 31 Jul 2011 05:34 : \____

> <http://developers.slashdot.org/story/11/07/31/003239/How-and-Why-Wall-Street-Programmers-Earn-Top-Salaries>
> 
> <quote>
> "Given the level of interest in the recent highest-paid programmers
> discussion, our reporter decided to do a follow-up looking into the
> languages and skills needed to work on high-frequency trading
> systems. There's actually a pretty wide range of languages/tools used,
> but Linux is the 'default' OS and, not surprisingly, the 'ability to
> work under pressure when the traders are screaming at you' is a
> must-have skill."
> </quote>

Linux jobs can pay x10 as much as other jobs because a Linux sysadmin can probably
manage up to x10 machines.

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