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by osullivj 9y ago
The author is right to highlight the adoption of specific vertical solutions to replace Excel by business as they grow, because "the Excel workflow becomes unwieldy and burdensome". That's because Excel based solutions have t
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My kid will never learn Z80 assembler on a Sinclair micro.
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And it's said those Trident subs are running Windows XP.
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European Govt Bond market making including order management on inter dealer broker electronic markets, risk driven automated hedging with Eurex futures and ax driven quoting on dealer to client markets. Ten years ago. Can't share the c
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by osullivj 9y ago
"But somehow you would assume that an IT recruiter must be interested in the technologies they work with every day, no?" Indeed no. The author is failing to see it from the recruiter's point of view. Recruiting is a sales job
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Yes, the City is sparsely populated. But there are a lot of people in the Barbican Centre.
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As kpil points out, Excel enables end users to develop their own solutions. What kind of business critical processes are you finding Theodores?
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I've been hoping contract day rates would go up too. But 925 in the East Mids is amazing. I'm intruiged - would you mind emailing (see profile) some details?
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I'm a developer to the core, and I've been coding since the late 70s. But I also read a lot, and I've always fancied being a writer and cranking out some middlebrow tech flavoured stuff like Neal Stephenson or Douglas Adams.
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Very slick GUI: nice work!
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I know what you're saying; your employer owns the most productive part of your day. The fix that worked for me is get up at 3am so I own the most productive first three hours of the day. Everyone's asleep then, so there are no int
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Someone once said 90% of problems go away if ignored. In the 19th century British foreign policy coined a phrase for this approach: "masterly inactivity".
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If you enjoyed this I strongly recommend Steven Levy's Hackers [1]. Also Amazon's recent Halt and Catch Fire, which really captures the spirit of the 80s and what we called the micro revolution at the time. [1] https://
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True. Excel makes a distinction between functions and commands. Functions can't modify other cells, commands can. Since VBA can be used for "automation" (invoking UI events) it can modify cells.
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In UK local elections last week the UKIP vote collapsed, so one could argue that right wing populism is in retreat. The media narrative is that the Tories have captured that vote since becoming the party of Brexit.
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The author makes an excellent point about the integration barriers raised by running a business on an aggregation of cloud services. Sure, they all provide REST APIs. But as your suite of services evolve you must constantly re-implement you
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No Excel? It's the most widely used visual, grid based functional programming environment. MS claim more than a billion Office users. Any time one of them edits a formula in Excel they're programming. Would also be nice to see AVS
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Yes, and they paid by the issuers of the securities they're rating. Surely a conflict of interest...
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"The first revelation is that not only was Greece bankrupt in 2010 when the EU bailed it out, and that the bailout was designed to save the French and German banks, but that Angela Merkel and Nicolas Sarkozy knew this; and they knew it
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Review of “Adults in the Room” by Yanis Varoufakis(theguardian.com)
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When they ask if it's work or vacations I always say "meetings". Worked for me so far...
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Wir fahren gegen Engeland was a marching tune [1] too, so I've got to wonder if the board game was a tie in. Goebbels was extremely media savvy, so I wouldn't put it past him. [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xA
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Show HN: Google Analytics C# boilerplate(github.com)
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by osullivj 10y ago
In wholesale finance Python has been deployed for core systems over the last 10 years. For example JP Morgan's Athena platform goes well beyond glue or automation and handles pricing, intraday risk, EOD risk, etrading and STP. Hundreds
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If only you had a London office...
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You're correct on all points in my experience. My previous contracting gig involved writing Windows Server based code for a UK mortgage lender that interfaced between the internet based Hometrack valuation service, and a Fujitsu ICL c
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Very interesting site - thanks. But I'm disappointed with its coverage of the Irish Potato Famine. It gives an estimate of 750K. In 1850 Ireland was the most densely populated nation in the world, with 8M. In 1950 there were only 4M.
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I've seen the tactics I described work very well in investment banking, purely in terms of personal advancement. I naively adopted a USMC style approach as a newly minted manager and got beaten up and stabbed in the back massively by t
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Those USMC principles are fine principles; they exhort leaders to care for and develop the juniors under them. In my experience, in a political corporate environment, behaving that way will hold you back. Instead of "know your marines
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C++: compiler errors thrown from heavily templated code Python: incompatibility between 2 & 3, especially next( )

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