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by osullivj 10y ago
I know the article focused on 2D, but it's worth mentioning www.vtk.org for 3D. C++ native, with excellent Python bindings.
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by osullivj 10y ago
And make it a little clearer that they aren't his ideas, so noobs don't get the wrong impression.
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by osullivj 10y ago
Very sad that the author aspires to be Martin Fowler. Fowler is an adept populariser of other people's ideas, and he does that as marketing effort for Thought Works. AFAIK he has not originated any innovation over the last twenty years
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by osullivj 10y ago
Anyone got a good primer on the whole topology electrics thing? At the level of a Quanta magazine article?
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by osullivj 10y ago
Claiming "we are a family" in a business environment is always a reg flag for me. Team is a much better metaphor. Sports teams back each other up, but ultimately underperformers get dropped. You don't get fired from a family,
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by osullivj 10y ago
I went to the Resolver One launch in London about 10 years ago. I was excited about it, being something of a Pythonista. I think it suffered from the same problem that afflicts many attempts to create a better Excel; which is being somewhat
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by osullivj 10y ago
The Blessed Margaret also said "the problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money"
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by osullivj 10y ago
Does xlwings support RTD? One thing the BBG addin allows users to do is subscribe to live ticking market data.
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by osullivj 10y ago
And the Sokal affair [1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sokal_affair
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by osullivj 10y ago
Glad to see undergrads are still being taught how to build up a Forth system from scratch in asm. Back in 1983 I ported an 8080 FIG Forth [1] impl to the Camputers Lynx. The Lynx was Z80 based, but Z80 is a superset of 8080. I had to rip ou
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by osullivj 10y ago
RethinkDB certainly has schema. Indices have to be defined in order to get_all (=select) and join. My JSON docs are quite flat and use foreign keys heavily to facilitate queries & joins. Guideline: if you find a doc with a member list i
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by osullivj 10y ago
Happy to answer questions by email - see my profile for the addr...
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by osullivj 10y ago
Yes, Virgin Money does a range of retail financial products. Their residential and buy to let mortgage offerings are based on their 2012 purchase of Northern Rock from the British Gov't. Northern Rock collapsed during the 2008 financia
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by osullivj 10y ago
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/rigid-designators/ A rigid designator designates the same object in all possible worlds. Translation to software terms: a safe pointer/reference refers to the same object in
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by osullivj 10y ago
"Philosophy is the discipline whose adherents kick up a load of dust, then complain they can't see". Murray Gell-Mann. Mind you, I do have a degree in Philosophy from a faculty very firmly in the analytic school. Logic, metap
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by osullivj 10y ago
Nice angle. Yes - motivations, consequences and the apparent and underlying connections between them often confound. Especially if you take things at face value!
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by osullivj 10y ago
"Consistency is the virtue of a narrow mind" (Emerson; my take - new evidence requires new thinking). "No entity without identity" (Quine). "Listen to the system" (me, when debugging & reminding self to act
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by osullivj 10y ago
You don't mention a language; I suggest you pick one then look for a good free text. For example, choose Python then go for Mark Pilgrim's Dive into Python. I'm sure others could make recommendations for C#, Java, Ruby or Jav
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by osullivj 10y ago
MacIntyre also wrote Agent Zigzag about Eddie Chapman [1]. Recommended if you like WWII espionage, double agents etc. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eddie_Chapman
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by osullivj 10y ago
They do. I got a Samsung C480 colour laser printer, scanner, copier a few weeks back to replace a broken Dell. The cartridges are far more accessible than the Dell. All three functions are reliable so far; so it's been a good buy for 2
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by osullivj 10y ago
With no investment and little revenue how is the team getting paid?
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by osullivj 10y ago
Seconded. decisionmodels.com has excellent stuff on the difference between F9, sh-F9 and ctrl-sh-F9, and explains when the formula graph gets rebuilt. When you're building calc heavy XLL addins it's important to have a clear under
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by osullivj 10y ago
I'm guessing this is a bug in the MacOS specific GUI layer for Excel 2016 for Mac. If the core calculation engine, which must be shared with Excel for Windows, had a bug like this it would have noticed and fixed long ago. My guess woul
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by osullivj 10y ago
I've owned BARC for 10yrs now, and I've taken a hell of a beating. I'll never buy any kind of banking equity again.
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by osullivj 10y ago
Suggest Alphaville's coverage of Plus500: http://ftalphaville.ft.com/tag/plus500/
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by osullivj 10y ago
URL please? I've tried untapt, and been unimpressed. I'm going to need a new contract at some point, so I'm open to a new route to market.
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by osullivj 10y ago
I'm having an excellent experience coding against RethinkDB in Tornado Python. A shift in programming style from conventional callbacks to use Tornado's gen.coroutine is necessary. Having made that shift it's become very easy
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by osullivj 10y ago
This looks very much like the REST API that MS released back in 2011 for the SharePoint hosted Excel Services [1]. Obviously that configuration required a SharePoint deployment on your own server. It looks like this new offering [2] [3] sim
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by osullivj 10y ago
Yes. The treasury depts in those French and German banks thought they were being smart buying Greek debt, because they got another 50 or 100bps from Greek euro govies as opposed to German, and they were both AAA. There's a reason you&
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by osullivj 10y ago
Suggest you look for an opening on JP Morgan's Athena project, or Bank of America Merrill Lynch Quartz. Both those platforms are C++ on the inside with Python APIs. The originators have gone independent here: http://www.wsq.

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