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Curious then, I was certain I spent the last 2 years building a grid computing system for an investment bank using modern C++... Must be me. Seriously, what's
by shin_lao 17y ago
Curious then, I was certain I spent the last 2 years building a grid computing system for an investment bank using modern C++... Must be me.
Seriously, what's the point of such posts? You take from two and three experiences and extrapolate to a whole industry?
- wglb 17y agoI think that there is truth in this posting, having been at a large insurance company for 10 years. Some of what he is saying may be particular to banks, but there is an "enterprise" software mindset that his description is a fair representation of, for large commercial financial outfits. By the way, I did c++ for most of those ten years, and my team (very small) was the only c++ in the sea of thousands and thousands of programmers. And they did have a grid effort (which produced a particular astonishing very positive result), all written in c#. But again that was a very small team.
- davidw 17y ago> You take from two and three experiences and extrapolate to a whole industry? If one were to be cynical, we could say that PG's essays about startups, pre-YC, were based on exactly one experience. And yet, they still are very well written and contain good advice. Of course, it's necessary to be up-front about the fact that it's an anecdote rather than some kind of broad survey.
- shin_lao 17y agoI think PG's essays come with an implicit "this is my point of view through the prism of my experience" disclaimer.
- hyperbovine 17y agoYou should bear that in mind everytime you read anything.
- prodigal_erik 17y agoNever worked in banking, but I'm having trouble imagining that. Are the bankers aware how often the phrase "undefined behavior" appears in the C++ standard? Do they have formal verification tools, like I used to hear rumblings about Ada? Or just a crazy high qa/dev ratio?