osullivj

58 ms·

571.
by osullivj 10y ago
Also tiingo.com
572.
by osullivj 10y ago
I owned a Land Rover Discovery 3 for several years. It was the most unreliable and expensive vehicle I've ever had. The thought of semi-autonomous JLR vehicles on public roads horrifies me.
573.
by osullivj 10y ago
Interesting. I'm guessing it doesn't support COM interop?
574.
by osullivj 10y ago
There won't be a definitive result until 7am BST. Apparently the final result must be available well before the London markets open at 8am BST. Various regions will announce their counts through the night.
575.
by osullivj 10y ago
I see they've got Packard from Prediction Company as well. Bass, Thomas A., The Predictors, 1999, gives a good account of Packard & Doyne Farmer's work on market prediction.
576.
by osullivj 10y ago
I've heard that Bank of America is backing away from the Quartz program, and so there's less IB demand for Python devs in London.
577.
by osullivj 10y ago
In my experience the Land Rover dealer network can't actually fix them. My local dealer was never able to fix the electric park brake on my Discovery 3. An independent specialist fitted a whole new park brake assembly, which cost ~1100
578.
by osullivj 10y ago
Agreed. I owned a Land Rover Discovery 3 for 9 years. It was disastrously expensive to run. Power steering, suspension compressor, park brake, turbo cross pipes; all failed multiple times. I'm now happily driving a leased Mitsubishi Ou
579.
by osullivj 10y ago
I see Demis from DeepMind is there too.
580.
by osullivj 10y ago
An awful lot of software has been built and deployed with VB, WinForms, MFC etc. It needs to be maintained just like other legacy tech eg mainframes.
581.
by osullivj 10y ago
Google's acquisition of DeepMind was just that - an acquisition. So that runs counter to Rodriguez's thesis.
582.
by osullivj 10y ago
Walgreen ownership has been bad for Boots and bad for the NHS: http://www.theguardian.com/news/2016/apr/13/how-boots-went-r...
583.
by osullivj 10y ago
Mark Suster has invested a lot of his own money, and his investors, in uBeam. So of course he'll talk it up. No way will be ever do or say anything that will harm the value of his own investment. We call it "talking your own book&
584.
by osullivj 10y ago
One more important thing you need to know about the enterprise you're selling into: what spending approval levels does the champion and his/her management chain have? Often they'll have discretion over anything under 10K, and
585.
by osullivj 10y ago
Yes! Take risks, try new stuff, follow your muse. Later on, possibly with responsibilities like partner, kids & mortgage you won't have so much freedom.
586.
by osullivj 10y ago
Can't help wondering why this isn't being built in Athena...
587.
by osullivj 10y ago
Are you really building production code in Rust?
588.
by osullivj 10y ago
Where does the computation happen? Is it all handled by JS in the browser, or is any done on the server side?
589.
by osullivj 10y ago
Whitehead: Western philosophy is just 2000 years of foot notes on Plato. Murray Gell-Mann: philosophy is the discipline whose adherents kick up a load of dust and then complain they can't see.
590.
by osullivj 11y ago
Strongly agree on scaling Excel. Excel is deeply entrenched in corporate environments because it's the go to tool for users when IT depts can't or won't deliver what they need. Consequently there's a huge amount of Excel
591.
by osullivj 11y ago
Couldn't agree more. UK has govt, finance, media, energy & tech all in London, which is massively overweight at ~10M people in Greater London vs 65M across UK. Germany spreads it out far better with govt in Berlin, finance in Frank
592.
by osullivj 11y ago
Nice demo, but it will never get real adoption for the same reason that 3D viz never got trading floor buy in: https://etrading.wordpress.com/2006/05/31/visualizing-the-ma...
593.
by osullivj 11y ago
Love it! How about NaaS? Null as a service? You'd need to make the return value configgable somehow, to yield a NULL, Null, None, Nullptr or 0 depending on the consumer.
594.
by osullivj 11y ago
Two of my faves, Random Walk & Trading & Exchanges, have been mentioned by several others, so I won't comment further. Some other books I've enjoyed have been Lewis: Liar's Poker, Das: Traders, Guns & Money, Niede
595.
by osullivj 11y ago
Seconded: Harris Trading and Exchanges is an excellent book. I read it in 2006 when I was working for a rates trading desk, and wrote a series of blogs posts on it: https://etrading.wordpress.com/category/reading-harris
596.
by osullivj 11y ago
C++ and Python are my primary languages, the ones I choose for my own projects, and the leads on my CV. I also do a fair bit of C# and Java, simply because they are so commonplace. For my current contract, C++ is the core lang, but extensio
597.
by osullivj 11y ago
I need Windows cloud hosting for SpreadServe, as it's an MS Excel centric server product. I opened an Azure account as I wanted to try Server 2016 Containers. I left two Windows 2016 hosts running, but doing nothing, and attracted a mo
598.
by osullivj 11y ago
It's not impossible to host a quant library XLL as a service. I've done it with the QuantLib XLL. My HN profile has links that detail how it's done.
599.
Ask HN: Longest hex speak?
1 points by osullivj 11y ago|1 comments
600.
by osullivj 11y ago
I took a look at the mock up, and I think you're aiming for the same space as Karma Platform; converting spreadsheet-as-db to web app.

More ›