anthony_barker

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by anthony_barker 6y ago
If you look at The Black Death - great for young workers. Shit for land owning royalty. Same stuff
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by anthony_barker 6y ago
Financial services company here. Calc + Pandas + google sheets for us.
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by anthony_barker 6y ago
The same could have been said about lotus 123 in the early 90s. Companies got rich getting himem.sys working
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by anthony_barker 6y ago
Ubuntu since 4.10 and linux since the late 1990s. Why? because I am a bit lazy and it is still pretty close to debian. On the server its a mixture of ubuntu and debian. I don't like snaps and windows10 vms should be automated and bette
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by anthony_barker 6y ago
They have a lot of cash are and are looking for growth. The best way is to go up the supply chain. Using arm you tapping into a huge industry of people who know how to make chips. Plus as others said TSMC are ahead of Intel and will actuall
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by anthony_barker 6y ago
Don't you think that companies are just reacting to the fed/bank of england etc keeping rates at 300 year lows? https://www.bankofengland.co.uk/-/media/boe/files/monetary-p...
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Queues are Databases (1995)(arxiv.org)
96 points by anthony_barker 6y ago|30 comments
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by anthony_barker 6y ago
When I did data center stuff for a large company the biggest cost was network - not servers. Specifically network security and redundancy. Its amazing to me that this is all included for basically free except for Application level filtering
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by anthony_barker 6y ago
Why not in km? Why do miles even come into eu science projects?
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by anthony_barker 6y ago
NT 3.5.1 SP3 had all the internals - 2000 just added a new UI. Best if run on a DEC Alpha chip
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by anthony_barker 6y ago
Its quite competitive citadel makes money. But Citi bought a company and then sold it. KCG went bust ... The big money is trading options, etfs, equities,cme futures against each other and against swaps. But for swaps you need an otc desk.
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by anthony_barker 6y ago
Java code base from redhat (now IBM)... looks complete though
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by anthony_barker 6y ago
I would add google meetings... I think it has the nicest interface and works better than the others cross platform. Its a pity there is no cross platform communication standard - it looks like it will evolve like messaging with dozens of c
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by anthony_barker 6y ago
Hmm. 1) their VPN solution is overly expensive 2) Mongodb document database similar 3) Lambda I want to use but other than the sns/sqs connected tool I agree as an api endpoint google's offering is better 4) Cognito horrible doc
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by anthony_barker 6y ago
office 360 seems to work ok. The bank I used to work for moved to cloud exchange already.
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by anthony_barker 6y ago
paypal had a sql like api.. worked great
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by anthony_barker 6y ago
we are working on a blockchain based card processing solution which depends on your volumes. Ping me
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by anthony_barker 6y ago
Thinkpad with FHD screen and nvme drive... very nice
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by anthony_barker 7y ago
I used it for a while - but was worried about security. Is it as hardened as ssh?
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by anthony_barker 7y ago
Canada wins 500,000 jobs lost at 10% of the population. Oil and gas prices is a double whammy.
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by anthony_barker 7y ago
Fill in Windows and you get the same shit. I think it is often x86 and shitty drivers all around... My thinkpads haven't really had issues. Had linux exclusively since 1999.
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by anthony_barker 7y ago
I've been using ubuntu since the first release. I have issues with the switch unity gnome plus the odd kernel issue. Battery performance also at times has been an issue. I stick to several year old thinkpads for hardware and LTS relea
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by anthony_barker 7y ago
Japan /Tokyo is super efficient in this. Every metro station allows you to add your pennies to your metro card in an efficient coin counter. Bakeries in France now have this as well
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by anthony_barker 7y ago
US is way behind europe in consumer protection which is ironic as US used to lead in this.
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by anthony_barker 7y ago
He misses some stuff. 1) 4 hours of time overlap rule - you need to have overlap of 4 hours between teams 2) Requirements need to be much tighter with outsourcing. Often you need a full BA whereas with some devs you can work without a forma
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by anthony_barker 7y ago
Doing the same in Paris. 1-2 hours at home and then go in. Leave work later though 7-7:30 pm to available for US west coast people
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by anthony_barker 7y ago
Lots of pros 1) we use it as a slack replacement 2) git integration 3) stellar Blockchain payments 4) encrypted file sharing 5) great system for key management
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by anthony_barker 7y ago
IBM did some productivity study in the 70s. Top productivity was 2 people in an office. I had one of those IBM offices back in the day. Great for IT productivity.
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by anthony_barker 7y ago
This only works in growing industries. In many industries the answer has been lets see if there is a department in 3 years.
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by anthony_barker 7y ago
Tell that to the 3 billion people who are just scraping by with no local government help.

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