ProtobufTransportProtocolSerializationProvider Enterprise OO Garbage is alive and well.
Are you sure this is not a German thing? /s
protokollprellbockverkehrprotokollserialisierunganbieter would be a lot catchier and roll off the tongue with ease.
Deutsche Bank makes source code publicly available for the first time
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Re: Deutsche Bank makes source code publicly available for the first time
#52Get ready for a data dump of 40 year old COBOL code /s But in all seriousness, this is a great step forward in institutional software. Open up software to further progress towards standardizing an industry's software interface.
I would much prefer a bank using that over, say, Python
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#53Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't know C#. Should I assume this is the way to write comments? That's just terrible. /// /// Log a message with the specified . /// /// The level of log entry. /// The exception to log. /// The format of the message object to log. /// The first argument for message formatting. [StringFormatMethod("format")] void Log (LogLevel logLevel, [CanBeNull] Exception exception, string message, T1 arg1);
Yeah, that's the standard way to write comments. It looks terrible but it's not bad to write because Visual Studio auto-generates the comment skeleton for you.
It’s not the standard way. It’s the standard way for documentation so Intellisense can provide information about the function. The standard way still uses C/C++ style double slash ( // ) and multiline style ( // )
Re: Deutsche Bank makes source code publicly available for the first time
#54Get ready for a data dump of 40 year old COBOL code /s But in all seriousness, this is a great step forward in institutional software. Open up software to further progress towards standardizing an industry's software interface.
I would love for a few banks to dump all their old COBOL code on to GitHub. Not because it would necessarily be useful for anything, but simply because it would be fascinating to read... There is actually very little open source COBOL code available, of the massive quantities of COBOL code written over the decades the vast, vast majority of it remains closed source. Sadly I think a lot of it is just going to be lost…
For a probably extreme but real example, I think I would prefer my Grandfather's specific duties with the Atomic Energy Commission in the 1940s not be released. I don't even like talking about what kind of scientist he was in some crowds.
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#55Aren't banks allready shifting over in larger scale to quntum computing? Would also explain the openess from a bank. Though national banks and nation state backed banks are imo often quite a few steps better than the rest - then again at times even though publically supported fks up like Nordea.
Re: Deutsche Bank makes source code publicly available for the first time
#56I wonder if the openness of cryptocurrency and blockchain tech prompted this in any way. edit: can someone explain why I'm getting downvoted?
Because the reason is plainly stated in the article if you bothered to read it. Also, OSS existed for decades before the blockchain came along so to question any correlation between this and that would be absurd.
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> Your descendants probably. Go back three or four generations, and most people can't even remember any of their ancestors names. Why should I care about the privacy of people who died long before I was born, and whose names I can't even remember? > To me, when I sign up for confidential that means now and always. Not until death do us part. I guess it is a matter of personal preference. But why should I care about w…
Although I agree with you in general, to play the devil's advocate, it's also possible that the current state of affairs is a side effect of the state of record keeping over the past couple hundred years. Given modern data storage paradigms, with perfect[0] recording of a wide range of data, it's entirely possible that people might care in the future. For example, if you have an ancestor who was near-sighted, you are…
> For example, if you have an ancestor who was near-sighted, you are automatically disqualified from any colonization missions (regardless of your own eyesight) due to the presence of potentially-flawed genes.
I don't find the future you describe very plausible. Keep in mind that you only inherit (on average) half of each parent's genes, a quarter of each grandparent's, an eighth of each great grandparent – so even if your great grandpa had some nasty health problems, odds are you didn't inherit whatever genes might have been responsible for them. Also, don't you think by then, our knowledge of human genetics will likely have advanced to the point that we don't need to assume you might have bad genes because your ancestors had health issues, we actually have a complete sequence of your individual genome, along with a much better understanding than we have today of what all those individual genes do?
Re: Deutsche Bank makes source code publicly available for the first time
#58Aren't banks allready shifting over in larger scale to quntum computing? Would also explain the openess from a bank. Though national banks and nation state backed banks are imo often quite a few steps better than the rest - then again at times even though publically supported f ks up like Nordea.
I have not seen any evidence that banks are shifting over to quantum computing. As far as I can see, quantum computing itsself is far from useable in any production setting -- it is mostly in early R&D stage.
Re: Deutsche Bank makes source code publicly available for the first time
#59Great move. I really believe in the "free software, free society" idea of the FSF. After this batch, I'm sure there will still be a lot left to open source, but it's definitely a big step! If we're fortunate, others will follow suit. Germany is a great country for stuff like this. They have a relatively high share of Linux users, OpenStreetMap usage, etc. I feel like they're very critical towards their own country an…
AFAIK it's also the only first-world country where Firefox has the (slight) majority market share over Chrome on desktop.
According to this map (2017) Chrome is the majority practically everywhere, besides some Central African countries.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e1/StatCoun...
Re: Deutsche Bank makes source code publicly available for the first time
#60Earlier quoted context omitted.
AFAIK it's also the only first-world country where Firefox has the (slight) majority market share over Chrome on desktop.
According to this map (2017) Chrome is the majority practically everywhere, besides some Central African countries. https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e1/StatCoun...
That map probably includes all platforms. If you restrict it to desktop(as I mentioned in my comment) Firefox comes out ahead: http://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share/desktop/germa....