Oh thats far too easy. Just use your company provided PTO or take a leave of absence. Why even bother asking HN for that when you should be asking your employer's HR team?
PTO, even unlimited, is managerial discretion (not HR) and is rarely allowed more than two weeks in a stretch.
What's a leave of absence?
As a financial tech worker, what you're describing sounds like academia or European standards. Of course they're great solutions, they just don't exist as options for some of us.
As a retail trader I prefer desktop heavy apps rather than web based ones. I believe what is missing in the crypto space is an algotrading app that allows me to code my own strategies and indicators.
I've been thinking a lot about algorithmic trading and imagined interfaces where you can code or build your own strategy from some blocks; this is really something I'd like for myself. But it's a bit out of reach for me right now as such an app, in my opinion, would really need a lot to be built before it can be useful; not an easy MVP here.
Also, have you tried TradingView? What do you think about them? They have scripting for strategies and indicators. It is an array-based language, I think, somewhat similar to R, just simpler. Nevertheless, I was able to craft quite interesting things in there.
As for desktop apps vs web-based: desktop apps definitely have their uses and advantages. I'm not saying web-based is better, but I think it's just more approachable, and there are ways where some of the existing apps might be improved.
Yes, many!
Through out my career I had to implement from scratch two sorting algorithms. First was to sort subtitles on a playing video in javascript in real-time. The second was a custom sorting algorithm of text blocks on an image.
"I see some naive schmuck". Chill man, why the hostility? I'm only using free data to test it. I have no problem start paying for their API if the idea is validated.
