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That's the difference between "managing up" and "managing down". The PHBs and those who get promoted rapidly spend their time kissing ass...
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"The culture of mission command in Sweden dates back to 1943, when senior Swedish army officers were taking note of the tactical superiority of German troops fighting Soviets on the Eastern Front." Auftragstaktik: mission command
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Don't invest time and money in automating any business process until it's really hurting you. Don't integrate with Stripe until you can't keep up with manual onboarding for billing. Don't automate cloud hosting unti
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Last year I contracted for a mortgage origination system vendor supplying Virgin Money aka Northern Rock. The client preferred to run a heavily customised Windows C++ 90s version of the system, with XP desktops. All attempts to persuade the
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Agree with the main thrust of this article - Excel is an amazingly successful platform for end user developed software. Once a .xls[x] has even one worksheet formula, it's a program. However, IMHO the major flaw is that there is no sep
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I have seen one scenario where engineers get sales commissions: quants in investment banks. Typically in banks traders will get 3% of PnL before costs are stripped out, or 10% after costs. Traditional sector coverage sales will get a volume
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There are generally accepted scientific theories that have zero predictive power. The theory of evolution is a great explanation of how we got here. But it can't predict what's next.
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There are shared cultural roots in monasticism in medieval Europe. The monasteries were keepers of books, learning and scholarship in the long interregnum after the fall of Rome and up to the Renaissance. Oxford, Cambridge, Bologna and the
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A worked example would be helpful...
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I do the same for LDN clients.
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HR are not your friends. The clue is in the name: human resources. You are just a resource to be managed. And managed out if you become a problem. HR's main function is reducing legal exposure risk due to harassment lawsuits etc. That,
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I ported a large Fortran codebase for mech eng analysis to Xenix from VMS back in the late 80s. We needed more than 640K, so DOS wouldn't do, and this was before Windows. I had to write a device driver for the 68000 based graphics card
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How's the SQL engine implemented? I had a quick look at the xlwings code on github and couldn't see it...
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Empiricism's contribution is the emphasis on testing hypotheses. Provando e reprovando (test and test again) as Galileo said. That approach was brought to it's finest pitch with Popper's Falsificationism. But hypotheses need
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My director of studies, Eddie Craig [1], used to assert that there are sound pragmatic reasons for rejecting pragmatism. I think he was only half joking... [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Craig_(philosopher)
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I believe Latin is a language option on Vatican City ATMs.
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Well VC are investors and money managers. If they've raised a new fund, then they need to put it to work. Capital that's just sitting there as cash on deposit isn't working, which means the VCs running it aren't doing th
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The acquisition mechanism is a bit of head twister. Once you're on top of it you can be very productive with Zope.
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The JP Morgan Whale incident [1] was a classic recent example of huge amounts of cash being managed in spreadsheets. [1] http://spreadserve.com/blog/entry/saving-the-whale-excel-spr...
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No mention of web sockets or asynchrony? Fifteen years ago I was coding against Zope. I've used Django a fair bit too. Both were heavyweight, blot-out-the-sun one-way-to-do-it. Now I use Tornado because it's lightweight, has good
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I started out with Zope 15 yrs ago, then switched to Django. Now I use Tornado for it's support for web sockets and an async programming style. Tornado coroutines work beautifully with RethinkDB.
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The article spends many paragraphs on the complexities of the B2B and B2C players in insurance, their distribution channels, and how they get paid. It spends one sentence on noting how the pricing of risk is based on actuarial models, and t
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Nice! Question: how does the price API work? Is it Google docs specific, or could the sheet run in Excel?
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How does the Excel integration work? I just had a quick look at the website and couldn't find any info about Excel...
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Show HN: Excel Addin for Baremetrics and Google Analytics
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Market data is mentioned. Does excel-d support RTD?
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Oh yes! It's a perfect example of Cartesian rationalism and a great French achievement. Better in every regard. But I do insist on keeping my pint of ale ;)
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Forgive the nitpicking, but the US measures are slightly different than Imperial [1]. They're both based on ancient English weights and measures. However, a US pint is 16oz, and an imperial pint in 20oz. An important distinction if you
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You can get this kind of decoupling from a pub sub msg bus. And async too. Much better than point to point HTTP.
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Cold turkey has never worked for me; it's impossible to sustain concentration on code with the nicotine monkey on my back. I use Nicorette gum to get through the day, then reward myself with an after dinner smoke. The first cig of the

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