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They are getting paid to take the risk on financial instruments, because they're experts at it. They have no need to take any risks on their technology infrastr
by tansey 15y ago
They are getting paid to take the risk on financial instruments, because they're experts at it. They have no need to take any risks on their technology infrastructure.
- dxbydt 15y agoThey "think" they are experts at it. Yeah. If they were experts at predicting which ones would fail, they would simply buy shitloads of puts on xyz & wait it out instead of hedging themselves in case xyz doesn't default. Also, you give them too much credit when you use words like "technology infrastructure". I've been to many of them & the extent of their infrastructure is RAID & the extent of their technology is writing a for loop in VBA.
- cmkrnl 15y agoBoth RAID and VBA For loops are time-tested, well understood, stable technology.
- dxbydt 15y agoYeah right. We should freeze all CS s/w h/w R&D now that time-tested stable for loops & RAIDs have been invented. That'll teach them!
- nickik 15y agoAs somebody that programmed VB for 4 years. I say move away from it if you ever ever want to work productivly. The language is shit.
- cmkrnl 15y agoOh I know :) Luckily, I only had to maintain a little MS Access frontend, the type of thing that everyone does once in their lifetime.