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by srazzaque 6y ago
Disclaimer: I've ordered it, but haven't yet received it. So some if this is inference based on other reviews. If you want something built well, portable, got some guts and has a reasonable warranty/support story - consider t
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by srazzaque 6y ago
Im the same, s/vim/emacs/, though I'm also very comfortable in Vim. I use Emacs for a tonne of stuff, and basically any other language I use. But for Java, with its deeply hierarchical codebases and general verbosity, th
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by srazzaque 6y ago
Odd, I've had nothing but positive experiences with Linux on Thinkpads for 3 machines running (t61p, x220, now an x260). Not sure what distro you're using, but from what I hear, a lot of the Fedora devs use Thinkpads, so if you&#x
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by srazzaque 6y ago
Agreed. The only caveat I'd offer is, for MS Word specifically, you can have: (1) Large complex documents (i.e. lots of links/references, sections) OR (2) Many collaborators. Pick ONE. If you must have both of these, leave track c
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by srazzaque 6y ago
I'm super-curious, do you have any raw numbers, benchmarks or other comparative points about developing on them (vs commodity h/w) to share? It's uncommon to find people that have worked across both mainframes and commodity h
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by srazzaque 6y ago
Thanks for the insights, I'll certainly hit you up!
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by srazzaque 6y ago
Thanks! Until your reply, I was pretty sure the intersection of lispers and markets devs was close to nil. It's been mainly Java/C++ from what I've seen. It's a shame that you couldn't open source it. If you're
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by srazzaque 6y ago
I did not know that MT4 uses FIX! But I can't speak for Rust or Go. If there isn't one already, there really should be...
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by srazzaque 6y ago
I think both you and nurettin raise a very good point, in that FIX had some great aspirations, but the wiggle-room in the standards was too wide, and has resulted in, well, not a very a meaningful standard. The existence of certain companie
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by srazzaque 6y ago
> What I do like about fix clients (not fix protocol) is the extra value they provide by keeping your sessions alive, tolerating hot restarts, logging in and out on schedule and managing multiple sessions. I agree somewhat, but I think t
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by srazzaque 6y ago
I hear your pain... There's definitely brokers doing some strange things out there, or being overly sensitive to the order of fields. Let's not even talk about repeating groups. > custom delimiters Surely you mean custom _messa
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by srazzaque 6y ago
I read it quite a while back, so memory is a little hazy. It's one of the few books (perhaps the only one I've found) that approaches this subject matter from the perspective of an engineer wanting to architect their own system fr
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by srazzaque 6y ago
Yep, IB is Interactive Brokers. And I hear you about the brokerage rates here!
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by srazzaque 6y ago
Of course, and in practice you basically always need to tweak your FIX layer when connecting to multiple brokers. Whilst there will be differences, you can rely on a surprising amount being uniform. The general session/authentication f
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by srazzaque 6y ago
I'm in Australia, so the choices here are also a bit limited. Also, I'm less interested in equities. In the CFD space, my shortlisting technique now is basically "do you offer cTrader", because as mentioned above, this m
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by srazzaque 6y ago
Common Lisp on SBCL. I lived on the JVM for quite some time (and still do), and I wanted to explore other ecosystems out of sheer curiosity. Got to playing with Lisp/SBCL, some initial tests showed it was pretty quick, and was impresse
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by srazzaque 6y ago
(Disclaimer that I'm working on an open source FIX engine in Lisp.) This is a really cool project! But alas I couldn't use it as I'm not in the US, and I don't trade with Alpaca. And I feel like this plays into a negativ
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by srazzaque 6y ago
Yep you're right, it's definitely not doing as much as getopt, though it's the same general use case. It's output is a dictionary representing your command line arguments, which you'd then use in your program to act
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by srazzaque 6y ago
Apologies - updated.
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by srazzaque 6y ago
It's literally 4 characters in Q. .z.x But in reality you'd probably use: .Q.opt (which is 6 characters!) Update: reference to .Q.opt See https://code.kx.com/q/ref/dotz/#zx-raw-command-line
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by srazzaque 7y ago
There's something to this. Maybe you won't get the most altruistic people, but you'll absolutely get a higher quality cut of the workforce. I've heard that the Singaporean government has a similar philosophy. Their prime
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by srazzaque 7y ago
I'm not sure how it is across all of the US, but when I was in NY, I was certainly surprised to see advertisements for prescription drugs on TV. These always embed "ask your doctor about X". That's just completely unhear
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by srazzaque 7y ago
Did you actually see a quote from Kx before making that decision? I've first-hand seen the cost/proprietary argument thrown into the face of KDB, to then see companies proceed down a path of other technologies, with a 10x spend in
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by srazzaque 7y ago
Agreed - lombok is a kludge for language features, but back when it was big there weren't a lot of alternatives beyond switching to an entirely new language and stack (a tough thing to sell in large enterprise). Regarding IDE support -
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by srazzaque 7y ago
Agree that enforcing meeting discipline is key. Banning meetings altogether seems like a crazy idea. We are social creatures after all, and often a 5 minute conversation can save 10 or more emails or 30 "chat minutes". Amazon has
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by srazzaque 7y ago
You're right - it is indeed a serif font, which I've seen many times (but never considered using it as my daily driver).
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by srazzaque 7y ago
I agree with you, it's not how technical people are hired. But, I think it's entirely necessary in certain contexts, once we realise the software world is bigger than just Web. Learning languages and libraries is easy. But new par
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by srazzaque 7y ago
Until reading this and learning about Go Mono - I hadn't ever thought to look for both serif and monospace attributes in a single font. I just assumed that monospace implied sans-serif. I personally find serif fonts _far_ easier to rea
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by srazzaque 7y ago
Disclaimer: I haven't used Rails since around 3, but my assumption is the DX hasn't changed too much. Plus if Rails N was marketed at Rails "N-1" devs, then new devs coming in late have a lot of learning to do. > avoi

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