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by osullivj 11y ago
Often restated as "by building rather than buying this tech, we get competitive advantage". Rarely true, IMHO, but it keeps developers off the streets, so who am I to complain?
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And Mussolini copied it all from Gabriele D'Annunzio's irredentist Regency of Carnaro in Fiume 1919-20 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italian_Regency_of_Carnaro
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by osullivj 11y ago
Quite correct. Goebbels was on the left wing of the party originally, but was ultimately a Hitler loyalist. The Night of the Long Knives in June 34, and the killing of Ernst Roehm, was all about the purging of any threats from the the left
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by osullivj 11y ago
I find those people are often happy to speak English once I've spent a few minutes torturing them with my appalling French.
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by osullivj 11y ago
Raymond mentions MS Detours in this article on patching. I've had great success troubleshooting 3rd party DLLs with Detours interception of function dispatch, specifically Excel XLLs.
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How Big Banks Thread the Software Performance Needle(nextplatform.com)
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Last time I was on an FX trading floor (2010) clients seeking voice quotes for spot would get a sales person who would be using the sales version of the FX single dealer platform. Sales guy would voice quote the electronic rate made by the
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by osullivj 11y ago
Cash FX (spot, forward, simple swaps, cross rates) is almost totally automated. FX options is less automated. Since FX is less capital intensive than rates or credit, there's still a fair bit of old fashioned trading activity there, ev
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"Evenly distribute complexity". This is hard to do. As a new codebase takes shape it is hopefully well modularised. But inevitably there will be one or two modules that become knotty concentrations of complexity. The form of the c
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Yep - premature abstraction is just as bad as premature optimisation.
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"Listen to the system". When I'm debugging, I always being all kinds of preconceptions about possible root causes to any issue. Those preconceptions often stop me reading and understanding error messages properly. So I take a
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by osullivj 11y ago
Bloomberg keyboard with specialised func keys for std cmds.
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I can understand that. You do need leverage to negotiate such a deal - a niche skill, or familiarity with an existing codebase.
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A lot of banks & building societies built mainframe systems to run mortgage businesses in 70s. They're still running on them, and don't want to bear the cost of transition. When the housing market is buoyant they transact and
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Become an independent consultant/contractor.
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"If you have some money left over at the end of the month, imagine being able to move it into a P2P lending platform with one click. Or being able to choose a mortgage from any one of a number of providers based on your previous spendi
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by osullivj 11y ago
It was very popular in the late 90s and early 2000s. A lot of stuff was built on Tomcat/JSP/JBoss foundations, and this drove the expansion of Apache Java projects. But time to market is everything, hence the rise of Ruby on Rails
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by osullivj 11y ago
This article misses the most important rule of framework building: don't build a framework to solve a class of problems until you've seen at least three concrete instances of the class. If you don't respect that guideline you
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by osullivj 11y ago
Yes - the limit order book mechanism was designed as an automation of open outcry. It was not designed to cope with illusory liquidity from eg quote stuffing or market makers quoting away from top of book then pulling orders when TOB trades
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by osullivj 11y ago
EIS & SEIS [1] tax breaks for UK angel investors are a strong argument for the UK. Also R&D investment has tax credits too, so startup salary spend on new product dev is treated well by the UK tax office [2]. Don't know if PT &
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by osullivj 11y ago
Awesome, but quite standard for major broker dealer banks. Any major market making broker dealer will have tech designed to protect itself from being on the wrong end of trades with better informed market participants. And those better info
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by osullivj 11y ago
I went to East Africa for the first time in 2013 and was surprised to see British style plugs on Zanzibar. But how could it be otherwise, since electricity would have been installed under British rule in the first half of the 20th century..
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And once some devs turn it into an "engineered application" the change cycle jumps from minutes or hours to days, weeks or even months.
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by osullivj 11y ago
1) is priceless. In banks I've seen many traders build pricing and risk solutions in Excel that would take weeks or months for developers who don't understand the products and/or maths to build. In some games, time to market
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Yes - lots of banking software is developed in Excel. I'm referring to the software developed by non developers - by end users. Excel is their IDE of choice. They develop in Excel because vendors and in house IT teams don't meet t
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by osullivj 11y ago
The article says they sold for stock, not stock options. Even so, they should have sold for part or all cash. Taking stock that's not blue chip was foolish. However, we should bear in mind the times. It was 99, and the market was roari
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by osullivj 11y ago
Two years - that's a long honeymoon! Three years in a permie job looks perfectly respectable on your CV/resume. You will not look like a job hopper by any measure. So I say it's time for a new role. I've hired a lot of s
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Have they published the source? On github?
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Yes, I keep running into this. I leave trailing commas in my JSON as it evals fine in Python. Then my C++ code, using boost::property_tree chokes on it. property_tree also needs double quotes, not the single quotes in this example.
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by osullivj 11y ago
Yeah, seems very web dev centric.

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