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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 sta…

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 plu…

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 sy…

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 m…

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 especial…

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, spe…

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 phon…

Walking around Northern British towns on a Friday evening can provide a glimpse of those early hominoid alcohol consuming ancestors.

So anyone who posts anything critical about Java the language is now a troll? Must be fun in your world!

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…

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!

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 thing…