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by osullivj 9y ago
My side project does this by serverizing Excel sheets. Take a look at my profile for links.
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Interesting: optimized for integration is what I've been doing too. If you've got a minute to take a look at the links in my profile I'd be keen to hear your feedback.
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I'm in London too, doing a bootstrapped Excel startup. See my profile for contact details.
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Great point right at the end from the original author of the sheet: if I made it into a web app, I wouldn't be able to change the model so quickly...
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Yes! The #1 determining factor of my productivity and contribution across my career has been my boss, and quality of relationship with boss. Don't waste your precious time trying to please assholes.
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the author of this review of Dennett's latest is a Notre Dame theologist. So he's naturally hostile to Dennett's reductive materialist position.
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The article makes it clear that this is a German military planning exercise, and not something Angela Merkel's govt is doing. No significant political player is planning for it AFAIK. Similar to US military "invasion by Canada&quo
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I remember friends telling me back in 88 [1] about driving round London from one rave to another high on MDMA & LSD. Back then I thought driving on acid was insane. This sounds like driving while the car is on acid! Which is a terrifyin
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Getco HFT C++ coding challenge and solution
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If the "talk" isn't in natural language, then it's a refutation of Wittgenstein's private language argument.
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Pricing Monkey and OpenFin: the return of the fat client(etrading.wordpress.com)
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Bank employment profiles are very pro cyclical. Retail branches can be cut, but HQ buildings and systems are the fixed cost. Beyond that, as economies cycle up and down banks meet rising and falling demand by hiring and firing. This trend i
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by osullivj 9y ago
I live in London during the week; obviously there's massive light & noise pollution, as well as pollution pollution. But at the weekends I'm in Worcestershire, in a village that is not on the gas main, and has no street lights
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by osullivj 9y ago
There was always a work around for those embargos during the Cold War. I know someone who did time in the 80s for sending DEC kit to Bulgaria in crates marked "tractor parts".
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MS's devenv is excellent, and IMHO doesn't get the recognition it deserves. Folk often talk of Windows and Office as the twin pillars of MS, but I'd say Visual Studio is the third pillar. MS has always done a great job of dev
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A futures contract on a real exchange like the Merc is a big step forward for exchange members like tier one banks, and smaller trading shops that have access to futures via brokerage relationships. The article also mentions ETFs, which wil
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S/390 has good interop for Cobol & C++: http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg27003846&ai...
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by osullivj 9y ago
Interesting. I've been looking for alternatives to React or Angular for some time. I've enjoyed playing with Elm recently. My preferred back end is Python Tornado RethinkDB, so browser GUIs in Python is appealing. I looked at htt
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by osullivj 9y ago
That's a key point. If you want to get a share of the Excel user base, you're new offering needs to be Excel compatible.
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Telecaster is the most playable in my book - very low easy action. The author doesn't mention slide; Tele and Les Paul seems to be preferred over Strat by the best slide exponents.
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BBC & Guardian. spiegel.de has a lot of English content and is good for the German perspective. Also news.google.com
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The issue list [1] shows a very short list of minor patches. Cutting a release is more than patches - testing and packaging is a lot of work. However, I do wonder at the motivation for this release, since the wider OSS world has been advoca
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I recommend Tom Wolfe's Electric Kool Aid Acid Test if you're curious about Kesey.
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There are 3.2M EU citizens in the UK, and 1.2M UK citizens in the EU. So it makes sense for the EU27 to offer reciprocity.
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I'm a UK citizen contracting for London investment banks by day, and bootstrapping evenings and weekends. I'm looking forward to the London labour shortage. Regulatory driven work keeps piling up in banks, Brexit will only add to
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by osullivj 9y ago
Suggest a tweaked version that sends rejections from major publishing houses to aspiring novelists.
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Strongly agree with ygra on the cross platform GUI view. This has been my experience since I coded against XVT [1] 25 years ago. I suspect it's a general truth that applies to any abstraction layer; for instance ORMs or AMQP. Abstracti
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Thanks - this has been an area of interest for me for some time, being a philosophy grad and long time dev. Good to see the Turing name check. I'd expect Godel, Church and Quine to figure too. "To be is to be the value of a bound
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Spreadsheets are heavily used in all financial sectors. Personally I've connected many trader developed pricing spreadsheets to etrading systems at investments banks. Last year I was contracting for a large UK mortgage lender who used
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Looks like Plexus Interop is yet another middleware abstraction layer. Dresdner did something similar 15 years ago when they open sourced Open Adaptor. There's no special source here - no interesting pricing, risk management, quoting,

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