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by osullivj 8y ago
Strongly agree. Backwards compatibility has always been a strong suit for MS. Changing that stance is a major strategic shift, and IMHO would be a huge error, similar in scale to IBM's open PC architecture.
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by osullivj 8y ago
Cool! Can airdev handle spreadsheets that use VB or XLLs?
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by osullivj 8y ago
Reinhard Heydrich, architect of the Holocaust, was Interpol President 1940-42. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interpol#History
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by osullivj 8y ago
Most developers are working on systems that they have no interest in using in their spare time.
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by osullivj 8y ago
Don't ask anything that might embarass your boss, or his/her boss.
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by osullivj 8y ago
vtk.org
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by osullivj 8y ago
If the US had established a colony on the moon, would that colony have eventually declared independence?
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by osullivj 8y ago
Good news for contractor day rates!
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by osullivj 8y ago
Excel sheets in banking often use .xll addins and VBA macros: how does Koala handle those?
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by osullivj 8y ago
BBC's Cunk on Britain. Diane Morgan's brilliant faux naif character - Philomena Cunk - quizzes experts on various topics. If you liked the Ali G spoof interviews with various celebs you'll love this. Look for the Brian Cox in
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by osullivj 9y ago
If VB6==VBA then we're including Excel power users, and there are a lot of them.
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by osullivj 9y ago
I was on the Essex MUD via JANET (Joint Academic Network) as an undergrad at Cambridge in late 87. IIRC there was a "shout" feature that broadcast a message to all users. I used to troll by shouting "VMS is way better than Un
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by osullivj 9y ago
No mention of Windows popularity as crypto mining server OS, due to superior GPU driver SW.
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by osullivj 9y ago
No mention of Wittgenstein, and the argument for the impossibility of a private language. All that material in Philosophical Investigations on how natural language is game like, and an essentially social practice, is highly relevant.
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by osullivj 9y ago
Sounds like they've hooked up Alexa to JP's JPMorganExpress single dealer platform so indicative prices for swaps and bonds can be pushed to the Amazon infrastructure. JPMExpress supports RFQ style trading, just like the single de
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by osullivj 9y ago
IMHO getters & setters can be a bad smell, symptomatic of classes that are just dumb aggregations of data that have no significant behaviour. I've seen them most often in Java - a single paradigm lang that forces every method or da
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by osullivj 9y ago
My fave lang to implement is Forth. Get hold of an old FIG listing and you'll find a tiny number of hand coded primitives in asm at the core. The threaded interpreter is simple and elegant. The resulting system is fast and extensible.
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by osullivj 9y ago
Doug Schmidt's C++ Reactor and Sam Rushings Python Medusa did async networking 20 years ago. But in the late 90s and early 2000s a lot of J2EE based server code was built in Java that used one blocking thread per client; that was a maj
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by osullivj 9y ago
B2B enterprise sales is all about networks and contacts. A late 20s MBA will have none of these. You need someone who can work their existing extensive network as well as cold call, and get you in the door in front of real budget holding de
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Ask HN: Coolest digital watches?
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by osullivj 9y ago
I was a permie at BARC 2004-10 and bought shares in 05, 06, 07 using the employee discount system when they were around 700. I got one free for each paid, and the ones I paid for came out of pretax income, so effectively I paid ~30% of face
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by osullivj 9y ago
Yes - and around that time the switch to SONIA, EONIA and away from LIBOR fixings started.
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by osullivj 9y ago
The article is wrong in a couple of substantial matters. Firstly: "as far as I can tell, he is the only banker currently in jail for crimes committed during the financial crisis." Wrong - the Barclays Swap traders are doing time.
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by osullivj 9y ago
Yes. In 1917 Russia was a semi feudal society with 10% literacy. 40 years later it had 90% literacy, universal healthcare, full employment, nuclear weapons and the world's leading space program. The human cost of those advances was mon
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by osullivj 9y ago
No - the giant foreign loans arrived in the second half of the 20s, after Hjalmar Schacht had cured hyperinflation with the introduction of the Rentenmark. Germany enjoyed a debt fuelled boom until the crash of Oct 29, which caused US banks
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by osullivj 9y ago
I agree that people in the know would not advocate brutal totalitarian dictatorship in 1947. But the idea of a centrally planned economy was far from discredited in 47. Central planning and some smart financial engineering by Schacht had ha
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by osullivj 9y ago
Indeed. Very rarely does an argument change someone's opinion. Smarter people have their views changed by experience. The less smart cling to their beliefs despite experience. Hence the aphorism "consistency is the virtue of a nar
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by osullivj 9y ago
Strongly agree: banks should handle the risk management, not push it onto consumers, forcing them into mismatching hard currency obligations with soft currency revenues. But this isn't surprising as banks are engines for gouging custom
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by osullivj 9y ago
None. I used to read Loaded back in the 90s, when the whole lads mag thing was new.
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by osullivj 9y ago
Amo, amas, amat, amamus, amatis, amant :)

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