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by osullivj 11y ago
Seems like a very similar model to quandl: curated, normalized data, APIs & Excel addin, financial data. Free to start, and pay for premium access. How are you differentiated?
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by osullivj 11y ago
Curry houses & chinese restaurants. Pizza Express, Ask, Nandos: so many restaurant sub sectors have been taken over by chains running economies of scale. Why not Indian and Chinese?
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by osullivj 11y ago
rightmove, zoopla?
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by osullivj 11y ago
I'm in my 40s too, and I'm not going for incubators or accelerators. I can't afford to as I burned all my saved capital last year, taking 6 months away from contracting to build my product. I've got a mortgage to pay and
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by osullivj 11y ago
Seems like all of MS's dev effort has gone on cloud and mobile enablement rather than new features or major GUI changes in Office. Which I for one am happy about. They need to protect the value of the Office franchise by maintaining ba
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by osullivj 11y ago
So is this official Unicredit open source? I'm impressed if it is...
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by osullivj 11y ago
Some OSS here: https://github.com/SpreadServe Sign up for the beta here: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!aboutgroup/spreadserve AWS hosted instance: http://54.148.111.119:8888 Docs:
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by osullivj 11y ago
https://etrading.wordpress.com/2015/09/10/blockspring-sympho...
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by osullivj 11y ago
You can do that with SpreadServe[1] now. Instead of Google docs it uses real Excel .xls spreadsheets and supports VBA and XLL addins. It turns your spreadsheets into async scriptable servers. There are Python & Java APIs. [1] http:&#x2
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by osullivj 11y ago
A delightfully cynical take on it all. I have to agree!
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“The idea, in Europe and beyond, is to limit how far banks can adapt their spreadsheets to make their assets look less risky.” They should be required to publish live spreadsheets on their websites showing their RWAs with daily marks. Sprea
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Thanks for explaining!
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I'm not familiar with the epithet 'toolbag'. I take you're not likening Bobby to a bag of tools. In this context, is toolbag a metaphor for scrotal sac?
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by osullivj 11y ago
35 years ago I was getting into coding for the first time on Commodore Pets and ZX81. I read about The Last One [1] in the computing press in 1981 and thought that maybe the world won't need programmers. Well, the world needs programme
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by osullivj 11y ago
Yes, Linux has dominated the commodity server space. Look what happened to Sun & Solaris. But what about the desktop? Back in the late 90s there was much talk of how the Linux desktop would take over, KDE vs Gnome etc. IBM and Sun backe
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by osullivj 11y ago
When I first saw a whole stack of low latency C++ Win32 based servers running on Windows supporting an interest rate trading business back in 2004 I was amazed. Talarian SmartSockets was used for interprocess pub/sub between servers. T
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by osullivj 11y ago
I'm not familiar with Mono or any of the .Net on Linux efforts, so forgive my ignorance. However, having a running .Net stack with a CLR VM and class libs is not the whole story when it comes to running Windows native server side stuff
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by osullivj 11y ago
People forget that MS used to have it's own Unix in the 80s: Xenix. I ported a large DEC PDP Fortran codebase to run on Xenix back then - it was far too big to fit in the 640K DOS limit. Writing the Xenix device driver for the 68000 po
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by osullivj 11y ago
The page to get the addin says it's Excel 2013 SP1 or later. What kind of addin is this? Is it an XLL or an xlam? Or something else...
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by osullivj 11y ago
The Blessed Margaret is still very controversial here in the UK, to say the least. Her detractors tend to overlook what a mess the country was in before she came to power: 3 day week, constant strikes, rubbish piling up in the streets, IMF
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Both IBM and USSR were bloated, inefficient, slow moving, hierarchical, bureaucratic organisations. Gorbachev failed to save his org, despite heroic efforts. Gerstner did rescue IBM. Maybe if Gorby had saved the USSR Putin would still be wo
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I used to work with an old IBMer who used to say "it's no accident that IBM nearly collapsed at the same time as the Soviet Union did". Lou Gerstner famously rescued IBM from oblivion by turning it into a consultancy led comp
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Is any of the ticker plant code behind the dealer quote pages in Fortran? Or any of the auto-ex stuff? Curious, as that's the stuff I had to plug in to. Via an ION gateway, naturally...
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True for market data - exchange feeds will always be better. They are good on historical data and reference data though.
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Exactly right. I first coded in Fortran in the mid 80s on a mech eng code base written in Fortran 66. Fortran 77 was avoided because it was too new. In the early 90s I worked in reservoir engineering where we used 77. Fortran was the choice
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The BBG UI certainly hasn't changed since then. They bought in John Lakos ( https://www.linkedin.com/pub/john-lakos/4/117/888 ), the "Large Scale C++" author to help them make the jump to C+
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by osullivj 11y ago
Bloomberg runs on 25 million lines of Fortran... https://etrading.wordpress.com/2006/06/01/25-million-lines-o... The NY Times is right to point out that it's the range of offerings in Bloomberg that make
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Anything goes!
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Anyone who enjoys Kuhn's Structure should go on to read Paul Feyerabend's Against Method, and Farewell to Reason. To summarise: there is only one rule in science, and that is "anything goes!". There are interesting paral
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Financial trading applications often need big grids of data - take a look at openfin...

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