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Re: Show HN: Can’t afford Bloomberg Terminal? No prob, I built the next best thing

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Welcome to the wonderful world of "Show HN"

I don’t get this same feeling on all ShowHN posts. Most of them, especially for individual projects like this, are supportive critiques of the thing being “shown”.

Says the man who's never posted a Show. You wouldn't know, bud, you wouldn't know. :D

Re: Show HN: Can’t afford Bloomberg Terminal? No prob, I built the next best thing

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I know you are joking. But asides from the securities offered by the typing system and borrow checker, Rust (and Go; and maybe others to some extend) have going for them is that the compiled binary is "OOTB". I'm on ubuntu, and it seems all python tooling is there to start running Gamestonks Terminal. But more often then not, getting a Python, Nodejs or Ruby project running requires a lot of fiddling, insider-informa…

Aren't PAR files meant to address that?

Probably. As would appimg or snap or any other packaging.

But all of these don't make the packaging easier, they merely move the complexity of such setups from "all users" to "the devs". Which helps a lot.

But it's still easier if no-one has to deal with this.

Re: Show HN: Can’t afford Bloomberg Terminal? No prob, I built the next best thing

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Okay, how do you properly install a python environment? I always run into trouble trying to get a project to run with Python and pip. It's either a build failure or just a complete pain to manage the virtualenv.

What's the easiest way to get this running?

Re: Show HN: Can’t afford Bloomberg Terminal? No prob, I built the next best thing

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Is it just me, or is the feel of the comment on this post different than other HN posts? There are a lot more snarky jokes. A little more combative. It feels like why I stopped reading Reddit. I hope it doesn’t metastasize to posts on other topics.

Bloomberg would be threatened by an alternative to their cash cow terminals

Re: Show HN: Can’t afford Bloomberg Terminal? No prob, I built the next best thing

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Can you provide some more context on this?

It's a quote from "The Big Short".

Don't forget the best line in the movie, usable anytime there is a bit of malfeasance afoot:

"Holy shit, that’s just fucking crazy. That’s fraud!"

I find myself quoting this a hell of a lot in the last few years.

Re: Show HN: Can’t afford Bloomberg Terminal? No prob, I built the next best thing

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It's the best scene in the movie. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qo1OSqBQYmk

Reading the comments, I'm struck by how I read this scene totally differently to most of them. I see an overworked, annoyed young analyst sent to deal with two rich kids (starting a hedge fund with money they made 'taking boats down the river', then skipping the ISDA requirements by calling their neighbour) who are wasting everyone's time by not even doing the absolute minimum research -- it was 2006, just Google ISD…

To test this out, I googled ISDA capital requirements and sure enough it doesn't mention the capital requirements in any of the links I found (ymmv).

I think the issue is that they're bespoke transactions so the credit support required may change depending on the context.

Re: Show HN: Can’t afford Bloomberg Terminal? No prob, I built the next best thing

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Can you provide some more context on this?

Quote from the movie Margin Call.

You're thinking of: "Please, speak as you might to a young child or a Golden Retriever. It wasn't brains that got me here, I can assure you that."
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