javaistheworst

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by javaistheworst 12y ago
In the longer term, I would expect both of rthem to be afraid of the many smaller local players in each country when they start to up their game in terms of hosting. People are starting to become wary of putting all your data in one cloud -
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by javaistheworst 12y ago
Not mentioned but important is coding - if you are a quant in an IB these days, you will be expected to do some level of coding - often C++, Python, and maybe some Excel VBA to plug things in for the desk to play with, while IT production-i
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by javaistheworst 12y ago
The speed with which the news is published, retracted, updated, edited, syndicated, these days is having interesting effects on other industries. One example is the algo trading systems going off strat due to a news posting, which may then
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by javaistheworst 12y ago
A similar model for London, especially in the city and along the river, would be a constant - the old adage about never being more than a few feet from a rat are spot on. Bear in mind, the officially reported numbers are often a fraction of
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by javaistheworst 12y ago
We are using Erlang and trying out Elixir on one of our projects, and so far it is working out very well - a big chunk of that comes down to the way concurrency is handled especially in the context of letting things fail, accepting they wil
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by javaistheworst 12y ago
Excellent - will have a play with this tonight. Docs look pretty good too, only thing that stands out right now which I want to dig into a bit more is one of the special forms, specifically the dot one - looks like something that would be t
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by javaistheworst 12y ago
Most people in our large open plan office now wear large noise cancelling headphones in an attempt to drown out the gossip by the coffee machine, the colleague behind making a phone call with details far too personal to be sharing/scar
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by javaistheworst 12y ago
Walking around Northern British towns on a Friday evening can provide a glimpse of those early hominoid alcohol consuming ancestors.
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by javaistheworst 12y ago
So anyone who posts anything critical about Java the language is now a troll? Must be fun in your world!
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by javaistheworst 12y ago
It would be cheap and easy to label this view as almost a perfect example of Stockholm syndrome, but I would suggest you may need to be a little more objective and critical of your tools. The master works with a variety of tools exactly bec
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by javaistheworst 12y ago
I have created a new account, but I don't recall mentioning it was a throwaway - sounds like someone has a bad case of the assumptions!
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by javaistheworst 12y ago
No really, Java the language is bad. Terrible in fact. The fact I need an IDE to make it workable (just) highlights this point. J2EE was terrible too, because it showed where things can go, if you let the Java astronaut architects lead. Som