Hedge fund job is alive and kicking in CA

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<p>[Develop</a> software for a quantitative hedge fund](<a href=“http://sfbay.craigslist.org/pen/sof/759613192.html]Develop”>http://sfbay.craigslist.org/pen/sof/759613192.html)</p>

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<p>I wonder if anyone actually does item #2 before submitting. =)</p>

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<p>If you are a good enough programmer you can quickly create a program with a random number generator with a 50% chance of printing out either H or T 50 times and then copy and paste that into word.</p>

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<p>hah it’s easier to do that in excel - simple random function and variable assignment</p>

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<p>^thats why i won’t get this job. it’s been over 2 years since i programmed anything, and that was at a high school level. either way, if you are actually flipping a coin, you probably aren’t cut out for this job.</p>

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<p>why complicate this with random number generation, etc.? why not just flip the coin 50 times? should take about five minutes.</p>

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<p>matlab:</p>

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