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by osullivj 8y ago
Seconded; Life and Fate is a wonderful novel, and the only viable literary response to the Holocaust that I've read. Grossman's Writer at War is also excellent, and IMHO mandatory for anyone interested in WWII. His chapter on The
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Not just equities but other asset classes too. I've seen it used for persisting Eurex order book state for futures contracts. London contract rates for KDB devs seem to be 1000GBP/day.
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Put some in Premium Bonds [1]. No interest, but you get capital preservation and a shot at the monthly GBP1M prize. Likely you'll pick up a few GBP25 prizes over a year, so it will be as good as a cash deposit, given the crappy savings
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I'm guessing you haven't spent time at home looking after pre school kids. It is exhausting and relentless. Just going to the toilet alone for 5 mins seems like an unimaginable luxury. So an office environment, with opportunities
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They created modern banking. The Medici Bank [1] extended credit across Europe to finance trade. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medici_Bank
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They have a special term for staff that haven't spent their entire career at GS: "lateral hire". A friend joined as a lateral hire, and was only really accepted as an equal when he voluntarily gave up his five days paternity
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Large corporate envs are highly political at senior levels. Sounds like you're focused on building solutions and making users happy, which leaves you exposed to backstabbing from peers and seniors. To operate successfully at senior lev
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Pair with a strong senior developer, and observe as they troubleshoot. Learn troubleshooting and debugging tools like gdb, ldd, nm, strace for Linux, or SysInternals & Visual Studio debugger for Windows. Troubleshooting, debugging and d
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I've built large systems with RethinkDB, and proprietary NoSQL DBs. My experience is this: if you need to query any significant volume of data, you must have indexes. And once you start figuring out the indexes, you're designing a
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How are you differentiating from BlockSpring and Zapier?
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IIRC the English translation of Master & Margarita was first published in 1968. Marianne Faithful pass her copy to Mick Jagger, who read it in one sitting, overnight, then write Sympathy for the Devil. What Jagger wrote was a long way f
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There's a phrase we use in investment banking: "talking his own book." A trader is talking their own book when the superficially neutral view they give of the market is designed to promote the value of their own positions. Th
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Why would they when Excel is already on every biz desktop and they know how to use it?
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The upside of Stoke is cheap housing, great beer, and it's the World Capital of Darts.
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Agree with others saying leasing is the best way to fix costs. I've also had a great experience running an old Merc. I got 1999 soft top CLK back in 2011 with 63K miles. It's now done 110K. Nothing has gone wrong, so I've don
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Reddit has a cars subreddit.
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Java was still new and cool in the late 90s. Sun shipped a lot of Solaris boxes, so an awful lot of stuff got built as Solaris, Apache, Oracle, Java. The SAOJ stack if you like, rather than LAMP.
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Wonderful piece for those interested in early WWII aviation. There are lessons for software development in there. Brad Cox's classic Planning the Software Industrial Revolution [1] highlights the importance of gauges to Eli Whitney&#x2
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Ditto whippets.
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I've seen that too - but with corporate IT dept support - at a large UK mortgage lender running a loan origination system initially built in the 90s with an MFC Win32 GUI. Over the years the system has been so heavily customised by the
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Agreed. I'm surprised Rees-Mogg isn't advocating it...
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I guess the UK could have a referendum on leaving the WTO.
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Yes. In the event of a hard brexit, the UK could honour it's Good Friday Agreement open border commitment by imposing no road blocks or control on the NI side of the Irish border. What the RoI govt & EU do on their side is up to th
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Yes. A referendum on restoring the death penalty in the UK would likely get a strong yes vote. In that case the people's will would be wrong. The most important feature of democracy is that it gives enables people to remove governments
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Cut Windows licensing charges for corporates to ensure that the total cost of ownership of Windows is lower than ReactOS. IMHO ReactOS should target corporates who have old Win32 apps still running on XP or Win7 that they can't or won&
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Your job is now about making the team productive, rather than just yourself. Switching between coding and managing is only possible IMHO if you started out as an individual contributor, became expert in the codebase and environment, and the
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There's been a lot of consolidation in the HFT sector recently [1]. Back in 2008, when HFT was hot and new, a lot of money was made. But lower post crisis volatility and multiple HFT firms chasing the same opportunities has compressed
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Being anti gay marriage isn't necessarily homophobic. I'm a straight male in the middle of a divorce, and I share an apartment with a gay male friend. Divorce is an ugly and painful process, and the only sure way to avoid it is to
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I've seen SSRIs (Prozac etc) make a life changing difference for my daughter, my brother and my ex. But not my son. My 2p, etc...
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