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by osullivj 11y ago
Here's two more: karmaplatform.com and kdcalc.com. This whole area of converting end user produced Excel solutions to scalable systems does seem very promising. But no one has nailed it yet, and I suspect there are at least two reason
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by osullivj 11y ago
Have you looked at spreadsheetweb.com and calcfusion.com? The former seems mature, with plenty of real paying customers. The latter is new, and I guess they're still working on getting traction.
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by osullivj 11y ago
You're welcome. Yes, merino would increase the cost massively. I pay 5GBP per pair. High end sports clothing is made from merino: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merino#Athletic_clothing_and_o... The combination of
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by osullivj 11y ago
Gotta be merino wool. Cotton socks just don't cut it...
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by osullivj 11y ago
So I guess the message is that because Mondo own the stack, they can integrate with 3rd parties eg TFL for missed checkout alerts. IMHO the real innovation will come when they can automate cash management. For instance, if I have a cash sur
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by osullivj 11y ago
No surprise to Hjalmar Schacht topping the IQ chart; he had a big hand in introducing the Rentenmark and arresting hyperinflation in the early 20s. Ten years later he innovated again with mefo bills to finance New Deal style economic expans
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by osullivj 11y ago
You need leverage. That's how you improved the initial offer on signing - because there was the implicit threat you'd not sign. To get another raise you need a credible alternative gig, and to be prepared to walk. You also need to
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by osullivj 11y ago
Sounds like mid 90s style C++ MFC GUI dev with widget IDs in the .h needing to line up with the .rc and all refs in the .cpp.
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by osullivj 11y ago
I spend about 40USD/month on spreadserve.com. ~10 for Web Hosting, ~10 for Atlassian Jira, and ~20 for Amazon AWS.
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by osullivj 11y ago
1. Start by personally introducing the new hire to all team members. This helps them feel comfortable approaching them later on to ask questions. 2. Ask them to write a "how to set up a new dev env" wiki page. The next new hire ca
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by osullivj 11y ago
Individual contributor, as opposed to team lead or manager.
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by osullivj 11y ago
Could it be any more black?
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by osullivj 11y ago
Yes; back in '99 business didn't get it. I was working for Chase Manhattan in London at the time, and I remember my colleagues and I laughing when we heard senior management had asked if they could buy the internet!
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by osullivj 11y ago
Social software - FB, Twitter etc - didn't exist in 1999. Cluetrain was precient in describing the space they would occupy, and how important they would be for business.
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by osullivj 11y ago
Interesting. How did they find the roles? I'm self employed and operate my own UK limited company as a contracting vehicle. Working for Bay Area start ups sounds attractive...
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by osullivj 11y ago
Didn't realise it was a long standing graphics in joke. Reading this took me back 20 years to my time as an AVS/Express developer. AVS used the teapot as a standard object for testing geometry pipelines.
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by osullivj 11y ago
I lived in London for 12 years, and earned good money working in banking. I loved it for all the reasons you spelled out. But then the financial crisis happened, the banks started firing people, we got burgled three times in one year, and I
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by osullivj 11y ago
Yep - currently bootstrapping spreadserve.com while contracting 5 days a week. It's tough...
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by osullivj 11y ago
So how will Goldman's containerise SecDB/Slang? I'm wondering about the DB clusters...
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by osullivj 11y ago
C++ MFC in Visual Studio 2003. No STL, no Boost, no templates. Like mid 90s C++ in fact, because the codebase dates back to the mid 90s. It's a contract gig on a legacy mortgage system.
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by osullivj 11y ago
Excellent point. I'm contracting on a banking project currently, enhancing a C++ MFC fat client application that dates back to 1995. The client org - a UK bank - runs it on Windows XP.
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by osullivj 11y ago
I code in both 2 & 3, and had been nervous about that. New stuff with low dependencies in 3, and older stuff with Python C API dependencies in 2 (eg spreadserve.com). I was worried that the move to 3 would force migration of my 2 based
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by osullivj 11y ago
I'm not sure what a flaneur is either. But I do recognise it as a term Nassim Taleb uses frequently.
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by osullivj 11y ago
Disappointed. I thought this article was going to be about DEC Vax hardware.
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by osullivj 11y ago
Years ago, during the original dotcom crash, I was working in banking. All the banks were firing, not hiring. I got an interview at Morgan Stanley by contributing a feature to their open source A+ project[1]. Running code counts for a lot!
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by osullivj 11y ago
My understanding is that the Polish team cracked the three rotor Enigma. Turing & co extended that work to four rotor plus plug board.
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by osullivj 11y ago
I hear BofA are back pedalling on Quartz. Kirat has left, and there's some new senior IT mgmt who don't want to put all their eggs in one basket. Just gossip, would be interested in any confirmation/refutation...
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by osullivj 11y ago
I've got a bunch of examples of use of Excel as a calculation engine for pricing and risk management in investment banking at spreadserve.com
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by osullivj 11y ago
Nah, Java is the new COBOL. Billions of LOC that will never be replaced, running on arcane infrastructure. In this case the arcane infrastructure isn't mainframe hardware or OSes, it's J2EE bean containers, XML configged ORMs, and
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by osullivj 11y ago
So Roy is Victor Niederhoffer's younder brother. Victor's Education of a Speculator is must read for anyone interested in trading.

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