<div dir="ltr">I used to work upstairs from a company that had found an interesting niche in the sports betting industry. Imagine a well known football star has an accident in training. This means his team is no longer favourite to win their next match. If gambling site A has updated to reflect this, but site B has not, it's possible for a gambler to bet on one team on each site and be guaranteed a profit... and this process could theoretically be automated. The company's business model was to keep tabs on lots of betting sites and charge for providing responses to millions of automated 'what odds could we offer on team A without creating a win-win situation anywhere?' questions.<div><div><br></div><div>- Andy_R</div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 1 January 2016 at 19:01, Peter Korsten <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:peter@severity-one.com" target="_blank">peter@severity-one.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Op 1-1-2016 om 13:37 schreef Jay Vaughan (ibisum):<span class=""><br>
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This next job for me is definitely one to deal with the frustration in my current one. It'll be just Java, and not Java, and code reviews, and helpdesks, and JIRA, and Confluence, and Subversion, and Jenkins, and Artifactory, and god knows what else I'm doing. I'm very careful not to label it as an 'in between' job, because it isn't; it's definitely a step up. But I don't think I'll be staying for another 15 years.<br>
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Gotta keep those code reviews going though Peter .. they’re worth it.<br>
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But they're also draining, and they were particularly badly organised. Nobody really cared, so I stopped doing them. Too many other things to do.<br>
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The problems I have with code reviews is that people generally write crap code. There's just no satisfaction in it. You nurture some bright Indian developer, have him constantly improve, and because he's so bright, he moves to a better-paid job, while his successor is someone straight from university. And the focus is always on production and deadlines.<span class=""><br>
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And yes, it's an entry into the online gambling/betting industry. If you work in IT, and you don't mind year-round sunshine, and you're willing to work for a wage that would be considered average in the Netherlands for a similar position: they're happy to hire you, and help you move.<br>
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.. except: Java. Meh.<br>
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Java is simple. Simple is good. I'm not yet convinced about closures in Java 8, and generics are particularly badly done, but Java is everything that C++ could have been, but isn't.<span class=""><br>
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(Also, I already went through interviews for a company like this here in Vienna, called GreenTube. I realized that I really, really didn’t want to be involved in gambling - which is a huge social problem in this part of the world. But, they sure were doing some cool things ..)<br>
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For me, the defence industry is on the other side of the red line. The betting industry doesn't cause social problems, it merely facilitates them. :)<span class=""><br>
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Still, I like the idea of moving to Malta. Maybe they’ve got a new R&D division that is devoted to technology nobody really cares about?<br>
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Unfortunately, the Maltese are very good at making money, even though the country itself isn't very rich, or at least not as rich as its western European friends. Having said that, the change over the past 15 years has been momentous. Whereas before the Maltese would go abroad in search of a better life, now others are flocking to Malta for the exact same reason. Finding Maltese working in restaurants is becoming difficult.<br>
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So, because the Maltese like to make money, there isn't a lot of R&D going on technology that nobody really cares about. There is some R&D done here, but it's very specialised, and less than half of the EU average as a percentage of GDP. If you like R&D, move to the Nordic countries. Year-round sunshine might be a bit tricky, though. Plus, they drive on the wrong side of the road.<div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><br>
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