This is very upsetting.
I live in Chicago's Logan Square neighborhood & pass by what I suspect is a similar temp agency, while on my way to the gym in the morning. Now I feel even worse for the people in line at its door...
Jeff, thanks! I was in analysis paralysis over how to handle some new functionality & this pushed me over the edge toward trying angularJS. So far, so good...
BTW, I bought the two cheapest ebooks in your list. Hope you got a piece! The 'Recipes' one has been the most handy so far.
True, I'm losing to the market, since January. But 'the market' is unpredictable, unrealized gains on paper. Unless you sell your index tracking positions, you will, in the next couple years, see some nice unrealized losses on paper.
My gains are realized. And fairly predictable.
Also, I only have about $55k in capital. But my rapid buy/sell cycle (not HFT) allows me to keep 'reusing' it.
I trade real money on a similar system, but using genetic algorithms. I worked on it for maybe 4 years before putting money on it in 2013. So far, I'm up 1.05% on $284K traded.
I wrote my own fairly pessimistic backtester. Also, I currently use the generated models for buy signals, but I tend to sell earlier than they dictate, because I find it hard to turn down even a modest profit.
True, Spark may not be better/more concise than JAX-RS, but fun to try anyway.