osullivj

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   by osullivj 11y ago

   More specifically, the GS alumni who lead the Athena and Quartz builds at JP and BAML are now commercialising that approach as wsq.io
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   by osullivj 11y ago

   LTU has a good discussion on Fetzer's classic critique of program verification: http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/2783
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   by osullivj 11y ago

   I started working in financial tech in 97, and I've seen a number of "one model to rule them all" efforts come and go since. Back in the late 90s I saw consultants touting Java coded UML models as the way for banks to build t
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   by osullivj 11y ago

   LOL! A veruca is a form of foot infection [1] I remember having them as a kid. Hackers often regard recruiters with disdain [2] So this must be some kind of elaborate joke at the expense of recruiters? [1] https://en.wikipedia.o
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   by osullivj 11y ago

   The market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent. Someone once said...
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   by osullivj 11y ago

   Nice photo of Mueller briefing JFK. Next but one, on Kennedy's left, is Werner Von Braun, leader of Hitler's rocket program. Here's NASA's bio page for Von Braun... http://history.msfc.nasa.gov/vonbraun&#
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   by osullivj 11y ago

   Classic from Rich Hickey. I remember mugging this up for a C++ interview in late 96. It was state of the art then.
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   by osullivj 11y ago

   Flash Harry was played by the recently deceased George Cole, gawd bless 'im. I've had first hand experience of the London recruitment scene, as permie and contractor, for many years now, and much of it is just as described in this
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   by osullivj 11y ago

   Looking back it's amazing how little change there was through the twentieth century in fundamental consumer tech. Radio, TV, record players, fridges, washing machines & vacuum cleaners were all available in the 1930s. Sure, they be
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    by osullivj 11y ago

    Very powerful technique. However, one of my C++ coding rules of thumb these days is 'can I step through it in the debugger?'
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    by osullivj 11y ago

    LOL! No - 1729 is not my PIN ;)
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    by osullivj 11y ago

    I wasn't surprised to see that Tottenham seems to have the highest density of fried chicken. But I was surprised to see it seems to have more than SE LDN...
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    by osullivj 11y ago

    Whenever I need an arbitrary const int I use 1729. I've left a trail of 1729s in the codebases I've touched over the years, and I like the thought of other hackers recognising the number when they have to fix the bugs I've le
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    by osullivj 11y ago

    And good evidence for this has been how developer friendly MS has always been. As Ballmer put it "developers, developers, developers!" Even at their most Netscape destroying height of evilness, MS was always great at documentation
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    by osullivj 11y ago

    All Souls is unique among Oxbridge colleges in having no undergrads.
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    by osullivj 11y ago

    Yep, and those bond (and swap) prices are not public prices in the same way as equity prices from exchanges. They're indicative dealer quotes. ALLQ shows a stack of dealer quotes. No other system does this...
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    by osullivj 11y ago

    Yes - the Frisch Peierls memo was key... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frisch%E2%80%93Peierls_memoran...
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    by osullivj 11y ago

    A change like this making it through to production is indicative of a test failure, either automated or human. I have had the luxury of substantial human test teams on trading systems before 2008, and it was great. They wouldn't let so
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    by osullivj 11y ago

    To stop brokers screwing their clients by routing orders to their mates.
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    by osullivj 11y ago

    I was working at a large British bank in 2005 when Jira started to get adoption by several teams. The approved bug tracking product was ClearCase ClearQuest. If you think the Jira GUI is ropey you should see ClearQuest. Absolute nightmare.
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    by osullivj 11y ago

    Very cool! The guys at http://romaxtech.com should take a look at this...
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    by osullivj 11y ago

    And here's Brad Cox's rejoinder... http://virtualschool.edu/cox/pub/NoSilverBulletRevisted/ Planning the Software Industrial Revolution is also a classic... http://virtualschool.edu/
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    by osullivj 11y ago

    Well, Python is certainly better than VBA. But what these "improve Excel" addins or replacements tend to overlook is that compatibility with existing spreadsheets is key to adoption. IMHO of course.
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    by osullivj 11y ago

    Any Americans care to comment on JFK's accent? Was it mid-Atlantic? Or New Englandish?
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    by osullivj 11y ago

    I imagine it sounds impossibly plummy to younger Americans, much like the 1930's aristo RP English spoken by, for instance, Deborah Devonshire (see youtube interview) sounds to younger British people. I like the sound of that mid-Atlan
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    by osullivj 11y ago

    https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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    by osullivj 11y ago

    Why are you posting this on HN? This is politics & popular culture story, and has no tech content. I come to HN to get away from this kind of stuff.
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    by osullivj 11y ago

    http://blog.rust-lang.org/2015/04/10/Fearless-Concurrency.ht...
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    by osullivj 11y ago

    The author wonders why Rust is getting attention in 2015, despite lacking GC. The answer is concurrency, a much more difficult problem than avoiding null ptr derefs. C++ advocates are right to say that with Boost libs and C++ 11 and 14 it&#
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    by osullivj 11y ago

    I did Philosophy of Science as a 2nd and 3rd year option in the late 80s at Cambridge. I remember Redwood, but not Lipton. When did you do your thesis?