Some good news

From our friends at GS

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The return of functional languages

This is an interesting microtrend in Wall Street tech -- the use of functional languages. Very interesting, there's a Haskell group that is working in the Quant space at a major bank in NYC; a hedge fund is using a lot of OCaml; and now I hear a midtown bank is talking about using F#...

Beware of Social Networks

I'm told a certain investment bank (that, coincidentally is not doing well) sent out a mass e-mail to their employees to beware of social networks... Hmm, I wonder what they have to be scared of?