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by osullivj 11y ago
I've got back into low level debugging on Windows for mixed x86 & C++ code recently. Here's my summary of useful resources: https://etrading.wordpress.com/windbg/
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No C# or C++ on signup page language list?
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No mention of Azure or Windows Containers!?
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For any bond with reasonable trading volumes the ratings are irrelevant, because you can just look at the spread over the relevant benchmark - UST, Bund, JBG, Gilt etc. The market tells you how risky it is; think back to 2010 and the way Gr
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Reminds me of Doug Schmidt's ACE Reactor...
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What are your thoughts on the eternal conflict of interest [1] between clients and consulting firms ? Fixed price or time and materials? Target utilisation rates? What do you do with benched employees? When do you bite the bullet and fire t
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Watch House of Lies [1] to find out ;) [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Lies
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Oh yes! I'm 49, and the weight of potential unfulfilled weighs heavy. I guess that's classic mid life crisis territory. In reaction I've never been so focused and impatient with time wasters and wasting. I'm bootstrappin
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Perfectly captures the way I feel. I spend very little time on FB & twitter these days. I fear I'm still spending too much time on HN though...
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#2: Citizen development. This has been going on for years already. And the tool of choice is Excel.
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I had a play with the headless Windows 2016 TP3 on Azure late last year and blogged my experience here [1]. You can even run GUI programs on it; I found it useful to run Sys Internals Process Explorer to track what was really happening with
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Been a big Stephenson fan since Cryptonomicon. Enjoyed the Baroque Trilogy, Anathem & Reamde, but non of them are as good as Cryptonomicon. It's a bit like be an Umberto Eco fan - nothing since Name of the Rose has been quite as go
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Currently reading Carl Sagan's Contact. Loved the 1997 film with Jodie Foster as Ellie Arroway. The book is a real treat.
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"Goldman Sachs and Macquarie Capital were joint lead managers, joint bookrunners and underwriters to the Offer. Aquasia advised the Board in relation to the Offer and Minter Ellison was Dick Smith’s legal adviser." [1] So, the usu
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Good point. Which AU Investment Bank underwrote the float? IBs always let their friends in at a lower price so they can flip when trading starts. In this case it was float at 2.20, so they would have mates in at say 1.50. IB spreads the ris
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Who bought into the float? I'm guessing institutional investors, like pension fund managers, bought many of the shares at $2.20. Serious questions should be asked of those guys too. They have a duty of care over people's pension f
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Remember your employment rights. Or, if you're in the US, remember you have almost no employment rights.
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Yes. The clue is in the title of the department: "human resources". As an employee, you are just a resource to be managed for the good of the company, just like capital, equipment etc. It can be easy to overlook that as most large
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Historically, this has been especially true in investment banking, where every department, desk even, believes it's a special snowflake, and commissions their own solutions. High profitability exacerbated this. Increased regulation mea
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My addin works with quandl too, but avoids using any VBA or GUI. All the HTTP GETs are done on a background thread in C#, the result being your quandl downloads can be far more automated than with quandl's own addin. https:/&#x2F
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The article doesn't provide any reasoning to support the conclusion. No matter, I agree with the conclusion, because in my experience, users solve problems in Excel when their IT department and/or vendors don't provide a solu
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AVS/Express [1] had a great visual programming system 20 years ago for building 3D visualisation systems. They called it the Network Editor [2]. It was very similar to the Unreal Engine Blueprint system. I've also played with MIT&
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Frank Partnoy's FIASCO, Das' Traders, Guns & Money. Also Victor Niederhoffer's Education of a Speculator.
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LO's answer to Microsoft's COM is UNO, and much existing UNO code and samples is in Java. So people often get the impression that LO is Java inside.
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Diseconomies of scale apply in wholesale finance too. Put a big order on a limit order book, and you'll exhaust the liquidity and move prices against yourself. Dealers usually offer wider spreads for large trades as they'll have t
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I saw the Cosmonauts expo [1] at the Science Museum a few weeks back; strongly recommended if you're interested in the Soviet space programme and are in London. The expo includes a real Soyuz capsule and onboard computer. I'll be
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Enterprise sales cycles kill startups. Yes, the stupidity of big orgs is maddening. But it's that same stupidity that leaves so many opportunities on the table for startups to seize.
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Interesting: can you explain how you differentiate from quandl?
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"The time to buy is when there's blood in the streets". Speculators often function as the buyer of last resort - the only buyer when everyone else is a seller. That is very a useful role.
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I find PyCharm addresses that Python weakness nicely. I'm sticking with C++ & Python pro tem. When Rust is a little more mature I think I'll invest.

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