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   by osullivj 10y ago

   Thanks - Thorlo is new to me. Their page on fibres [1] is interesting, even though it doesn't mention merino it does talk about wool & silk blends. Now I want to get merino silk blend, but they're not cheap. [1] https:/&
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   by osullivj 10y ago

   Thanks: this paper was new to me. As well as being the most popular functional programming system, Excel is also the most popular end user dev platform. I agree that Excel needs a mechanism for reusability, but IMHO that should be a better
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   by osullivj 10y ago

   With you on the new socks. For me, nothing is better than a brand new pair of merino wool socks. Merino is so light, strong and breathable you can wear them two days running. Not cheap, but worth it for sheer comfort.
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   by osullivj 10y ago

   The article asserts that there's never been a book about Auftragstaktik. Maybe not on that single topic, but TN DuPuy's Genius for War goes into great detail on the history and development of the Prussian General Staff and their c
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   by osullivj 10y ago

   Accurate yes. Realtime not necessarily. EOD risk doesn't need real time market data.
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   by osullivj 10y ago

   It may be difficult to summarize the features, but can you produce a one sentence description of the chief benefit? Your 3rd party developers will be interested in the feature set, but their decision making budget holding manager will want
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   by osullivj 10y ago

   1) is excellent advice. I stumbled on this approach when a good friend died suddenly a couple of years ago. Some other friends couldn't make the funeral, and I wrote it all down for them. Then I found it was a huge help for me...
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   by osullivj 10y ago

   Longhorn is a loaded term as it was an MS project name for Windows Vista a few years back: longhorn.ms
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   by osullivj 10y ago

   C++ & Python are my primary langs; I also do Java, C#, JavaScript, VB, R, x86 asm. I'd learn Rust if I had the time because I think it's a genuine advance in terms of concurrency. Python is a good option for you as it gives yo
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    by osullivj 10y ago

    "that he knew changing the LIBOR number affected the valuations of swaps — a type of credit derivative based on interest rates". Wrong! The men convicted of Libor manipulation were all interest rate swap traders, so the swaps at i
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    Saving the Whale: Excel, SpreadServe and JP Morgan's Synthetic Credit Portfolio(spreadserve.com)

    1 points by osullivj 10y ago|0 comments
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    by osullivj 10y ago

    Turning water into wine at the wedding surely disrupted liquor store sales in the Canaan area ;)
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    by osullivj 10y ago

    Likewise: I regard code generation as a red flag these days. The version skew issues when code generated off slightly different versions of messages are in play can be really nasty. CORBA suffered from that issue big time in the late 90s. A
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    by osullivj 10y ago

    I had no idea IEX had got so complicated. What happened to good old fashioned time precedence at price level limit order books?
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    by osullivj 10y ago

    Bear in mind that permie roles usually include pension, private healthcare, sick pay & holiday allowance. So the total comp from the permie role goes beyond the take home.
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    by osullivj 10y ago

    I've long worked in banking, so the 500-600 I look for with London roles assumes trading systems knowledge. So I agree, outside banking rates will be lower. FYR I'm currently working a six month C++ Windows MFC gig in Gloucestersh
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    by osullivj 10y ago

    500-600 is a typical London rate. Outside London 300-400 is more likely.
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    by osullivj 10y ago

    Strongly agree based on my work in the financial sector since 2009. Everything's driven by regulatory compliance now. To the point where RegTech is a thing.
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    by osullivj 10y ago

    I did the same to enable XML messages to flow over MQ between an RS/6000 based front office FX options system, and a back office S/390 system. IIRC there were six (!!) different EBCDIC codepages that could be in play. I had a code
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    by osullivj 10y ago

    Gotta follow the rules in Deutschland! Not so in Italy...
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    by osullivj 10y ago

    Giles Thomas? I remember going to the Resolver One launch in 05 or 06ish. About the same time as I was working with a couple of rates traders plugging monster spreadsheets into my etrading infrastructure; one doing rates structured notes pr
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    by osullivj 10y ago

    That's intriguing. I've done a bunch of XLL coding in C++ and C# (with Excel-DNA) for trading floor Excel over the years. Gotta wonder what you're building in D. Have you got a quant analytics lib in D? Or maybe market data c
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    by osullivj 10y ago

    Well no; my last sentence was quite explicit about their aim being world domination. Al-Baghdadi, the ISIS leader, has been quite open about wanting a global caliphate. That why western Jihadis travel to the middle east to join them. That&#
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    by osullivj 10y ago

    Interesting. Occam's Razor says "don't multiply entities beyond need", not "don't multiply types of entities beyond need". Of course, you could argue that types are entities too. So many worlds minimizes e
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    by osullivj 10y ago

    Yes, the security response to the Provisional IRA campaign in the 70s, 80s & 90s was often low key. IMHO the British govt didn't want the British population to be so alarmed that they'd demand NI be expelled from the UK. I&#x2
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    by osullivj 10y ago

    Teach them Python by building a game in PyGame?
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    by osullivj 10y ago

    There are some great, great names on this list: Woz, Brad Cox, Jeff Minter, Charles Moore are among my faves. But there are a couple who are notable for promulgating opinions about programming rather than actually producing widely used code
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    by osullivj 10y ago

    All good points from swtf: especially on C++ and masters level maths. I'd add Python too; hopefully you've already had some contact with that as a web dev. Back in 2007 I was building automated rates market making systems in Pytho
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    by osullivj 10y ago

    In my 30 years of experience, the single biggest factor is your manager, the person you report to. My last permie gig (2010-12) had great tech, great pay & great colleagues, but all that was negated by shitty slave driving chaotic manag
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    by osullivj 10y ago

    Decent article, but it seems mainly focused on the client facing aspects of the insurance biz. Nothing on stress testing and risk management or treasury operations, where AFAIK, there's lots of dated tech holding insurers back.