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by bboreham 10y ago
"[November 15, 2007], the Sterling Money Markets Liaison Group [...] including bankers from Barclays, Citigroup, JP Morgan Chase, Royal Bank of Scotland, Deutsche, Goldman Sachs, HSBC Holdings and Lloyds. Eight attended from the Bank o
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Author appears to be in Nepal, which has no extradition treaty with the USA.
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I don't think so. They all had code-names - 123 for Windows was Rockport; Improv was Back Bay and the one I'm talking about was another place, but the exact name escapes me. I believe Improv was written in Objective-C while the on
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Lotus went straight to OS/2, because Windows was a toy. Oops. Around 1991 they had an all-new cross-platform super-product under development, but it crashed and burned and they had to plough on with 123. I did a lot of the low-level GU
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You think Larry Wall chose the name with no reference to existing terminology?
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That's a future, not an option. The potential loss is unlimited.
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Weaveworks | Senior Backend Developer | San Francisco, London, Berlin, Madrid | ONSITE, Full-time, https://www.weave.works * Senior backend dev: develop microservices (primarily in Go) and container tools * Developer experience&
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Large IBs do hire dozens of new graduates every year into IT. You have to be bright, articulate, interested.
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Knowledge and experience of how the market reacts to other movements. I guess you could call some of that "instinct". Of course, they did know more than the machine did in certain situations, but not enough to make up the cost.
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For around eight years my primary job function was to put investment bank traders out of a job, by automating what they did. There were still humans in charge of the algorithms, but they moved more towards Python programmers than market tra
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"No, the code must be correct: I tested it"
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> fun stuff about people physically carrying information This is a thing, though. https://aws.amazon.com/snowball/ Or if you have 100PB: https://aws.amazon.com/snowmobile/
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What is it you are proposing to invest in? Regardless of the answer to that, your question appears to boil down to "what will be the future value of asset X, compared to asset Y". And not many people can accurately answer that que
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> What's wrong with market based prices? Both LIBOR and this chicken price are _supposed_ to be market-based; however the price negotiations are all confidential. An alternative is to mandate total visibility of all bids and offers,
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Although a recent ruling said that Uber drivers are employees in England and Wales. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-37802386
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“The major problem—one of the major problems, for there are several—one of the many major problems with governing people is that of whom you get to do it; or rather of who manages to get people to let them do it to them. To summarize: it i
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Recall that at the time Java was set to make Windows irrelevant. Microsoft had a massive success, via XML, in derailing this future. To explain a little, the Sun position was "use Java to write everything; then it all talks together ni
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Trireme – Open Source Application Segmentation for Kubernetes(aporeto.com)
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Consider "where xyz was trading last week". This is the price at which deals got done - at which both the buyer and seller thought they were getting a "good enough" deal. On that day, there are many people holding the s
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by bboreham 10y ago
As others have said, this is code. In my experience, folks writing code come to need a VCS ("oops, didn't mean to change that"), a debugger ("why did it do that?"), a test environment ("what happens if I change
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I lived and worked within ten miles of London Heathrow airport when Concorde was flying; not under the flight path but off to the side. Every time Concorde took off you had to cease conversation until it passed; it was that loud.
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I had a Sony Ericsson P800 in 2003: http://cdn2.gsmarena.com/vv/pics/sonyericsson/snp800_00.jpg
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I'm not suggesting this would be done repeatedly. Just when you need to debug something. Nonetheless: https://wiki.alpinelinux.org/wiki/How_to_setup_a_Alpine_Linu...
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Takes about 2 seconds to fix: $ docker run -ti alpine /bin/sh / # apk add --update curl fetch http://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/v3.4/main/x86_64/APKINDEX.tar.gz fetch http:&#x2F
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> The GoF list of design patterns is very much tightly coupled to the peculiarities of Java at the time the book was written GoF publication date: 1994; Java launch date: 1995 The patterns are essentially Smalltalk-based, though the auth
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It turns out you cannot simply order people to do something they find inconvenient or difficult, even if it is in their best interests.
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The original problem they are trying to solve is a big crowd of waiting people develops at the bottom of the escalator, and since London Underground passageways are quite narrow this blocks back until the platform gets overcrowded, which is
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Instances of bankers being jailed: http://www.reuters.com/article/us-libor-hayes-appeal-idUSKCN... http://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-barclays-libor-trial-idUKKC...
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I think it's the "all the logic in the presentation code" that is emphasised as bad, and that is what you saw in typical JSP example code 15 years ago. "Mainstream Java" then tried to sell EJBs as the answer, which
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Containers is an exploding field, and basically "Linux systems programming". Sure it's more niche than the web, but there are many many companies hiring, all over the world.

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