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by osullivj 10y ago
Not all management value comes from managing downward, from the manager's supervision of their direct reports. Managing upwards and outwards are critical too. For instance, setting sales and marketing expectations on when new product r
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by osullivj 10y ago
Need a US bank account to sell [1]. Not quite as restrictive as devpay's requirement for a US legal entity, but still a hassle. I think I'll stick with a free AMI and stripe/quaderno for payments/VAT for license keys to
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by osullivj 10y ago
Another way of putting it: German history since 1870 is series of attempts to recreate the Holy Roman Empire. Bismarck & the Kaiser's Second Reich, Hitler's Third Reich, and now the Merkel led EU imposing the ECB facilitated E
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by osullivj 10y ago
Stack based, and concatenative, like Forth.
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by osullivj 10y ago
Well I did a BA in Philosophy in the late 80s, and it's served me well as a developer. Software development is just applied ontology really...
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by osullivj 10y ago
That an empty slogan like "transform through delivery" should seem meaningful speaks volumes about the sad state of enterprise IT. Alas, in my experience, there is often little delivery of new systems and features. Too many egos,
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by osullivj 10y ago
It's a sales pitch by a consulting shop looking for work with corporate clients. I find it odd that Benjamin Wootton posted his own marketing content here on HN. His message should be directed at senior corporate IT managers - decision
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by osullivj 10y ago
Yes. However, a crappy, leaky, JS engine running crappy JS code will steal all resources even quicker. I hope a JS engine built with Rust smart ptrs will be less leaky than one built in C/C++. In my experience, hand rolled memory pooli
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by osullivj 10y ago
Looking forward to it too; this is a big deal because it will put a Rust implementation on many millions of desktops. I'm totally fed up with CPU and memory hogging browser bloat on my laptop. My dev env runs so much better when I kill
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by osullivj 10y ago
Thanks for the pic. I had a 16K expansion pack for my ZX81, but it was third party, so a little cheaper than the official Sinclair product. Perhaps 30GBP rather than 50? I remember there being much chat at the time about the dreaded "R
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by osullivj 10y ago
The Jupiter Ace inspired me to port the Forth Interest Group's 8080 Forth implementation to the Camputers Lynx back in summer 83. There was no assembler for the Lynx, but there was a hex editor, so I hand assembled the 8080 ASM listing
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by osullivj 10y ago
Some good points explaining why spreadsheets are so sticky. I do my books for my limited company in Google & Excel. Points 2 & 5 are key for me: flexibility and awareness. I tried freeagent.com a while back. Initially it seemed very
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by osullivj 10y ago
Does nano server support 32 bit binaries now? I played with Windows Server 2016 containers on Azure earlier this year, and nano did not support 32 bits then. That rules out a huge amount of legacy Windows Server SW.
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by osullivj 10y ago
Brad Cox was a visionary, and his Planning the Software Industrial Revolution paper [1] from 1990 stands up well today. Especially worth referencing to any developer taking a dogmatic stance on static vs dynamic binding. [1] http:/&#x
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by osullivj 10y ago
govert's excellent ExcelDNA [1] enables one to build XLL Addins in .Net. Many use it for crafting Excel extensions, including BlockSpring. I used it for SSAddin [2] to build cron jobs as well as tiingo and quandl downloads in Excel. [1
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by osullivj 10y ago
My point is to explain the hard headed calculation behind a hiring process that has a lot of folk crying "not fair!"
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by osullivj 10y ago
When designing a hiring process one should consider the balance between false positives and false negatives, and the cost of the process. Obviously we all want to hire talent and reject duds. A cheap quick process runs the risk of false pos
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by osullivj 10y ago
Why will ArangoDB succeed where RethinkDB failed commercially? Can't see any mention of changefeeds on the Arango website, which is the killer Rethink feature for me.
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by osullivj 10y ago
There are also remain voters who wish they'd voted leave.
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by osullivj 10y ago
Back in the late 90s I worked at a US bank with an older and wiser dev who'd done long stints at DEC and IBM. HE used to comment that it's no accident that IBM nearly collapsed at the same time as the Soviet Union actually did, as
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by osullivj 10y ago
That's a very generous view of the investment banking sector, and one that doesn't quite align with my 17 years experience in that line. For example, your view doesn't accommodate how GS packaged credit derivs designed to fai
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by osullivj 10y ago
You're right - the employees accept the bargain. GS and many other banks run a force or stack ranked grading system. Those at the bottom are shown the door when there's a round of cuts. I know from first hand that after several ro
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by osullivj 10y ago
Of course they don't have "people". Every large organisation has a human resources department. The clue is in the name "human resources"; they are just resources.
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by osullivj 10y ago
rightmove.co.uk I lived in a scuzzy part of North London from 97-99 (N15), then a nice area (N8). Looking at rents on rightmove now, you need to pay ~1500GBP/month for an apartment in N8. All decent areas will be similar or more. Chea
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by osullivj 10y ago
Which sectors are you targeting? Banking, startups, media, energy? Also, getting hired may not be your biggest challenge. The London accommodation market is difficult. Apartments in desirable or even just acceptable areas are outrageously e
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by osullivj 10y ago
I know a trading Director for a rates desk who got GBP2.2M EOY 2007. MD would be more.
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by osullivj 10y ago
MD on a major bank trading floor is very much a hands on job. Probably supervising between 2 & 20 junior traders, ultimately tesponsible for their positions, and setting strategy. An IT MD in a bank would have headcount in the 100s.
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by osullivj 10y ago
That's why I voted remain, despite all my misgivings about the ECB buying Greek govt debt off German and French banks to save them, and the bullying of Ireland, Italy, Spain and Portugal.
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by osullivj 10y ago
All good points. Also, the City of London has it's own police force, quite separate from the Metropolitan Police (the Met) who cover the other 31 boroughs of London.
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by osullivj 10y ago
The article refers to "London", but likely that means what is now the City of London, just one of 32 boroughs of Greater London. Few live in the City of London ("the City") these days, it's mostly business and finan

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