Earlier quoted context omitted.
Are you sure this is not a German thing? /s
protokollprellbockverkehrprotokollserialisierunganbieter would be a lot catchier and roll off the tongue with ease.
That made my day...
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
#72I did bother to read the 7 paragraphs.
My question is basically that - OSS existed for decades; why only now in big finance?
That their clients wanted such a trading platform... is that the reason you are saying was plainly stated?
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#73What a misleading title, instead ...
DB is releasing a small program for interop into the public domain to encourage others to use it too.
Re: Deutsche Bank makes source code publicly available for the first time
#74Great 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…
> 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 and don't take things for granted (not the "we're so proud of our country" idea).
This is especially also the case, because of the post-WWII history of East Germany. The Stasi managed to subdue the entire population, mainly with surveillance methods.
And this was before the internet. When they still had to actually go out and infiltrate people's homes in order to place down bugs (microphones).
The worst part about this for me, is that this is not just an unfortunate fate that Germans in particular have to be worrisome about. The only reason other nations are less worried, is because they're collectively less aware of this having happened, of it being entirely possible for this to happen, again.
Re: Deutsche Bank makes source code publicly available for the first time
#75On a side note, I find the design of their website to functional but tasteful.
Their promoted research-paper is also more engaging (and less bloviating) than I was expecting:
https://www.dbresearch.com/PROD/RPS_EN-PROD/PROD000000000045...
>Ironically, the political compulsions imposed by the aging population are one reason for this. For starters, 56 per cent of Germany’s voting population is above 50 years of age. The members of the major political parties are on average 60 years old. This has led to an implicit consensus between the government and the people, to maintain the cosy status quo for as long as possible, hoping the day of reckoning might only affect following generations. A literal endorsement of Keynes’ maxim, “in the long run we are all dead"
I'll have to read through all of it before I can tease out its agenda.
Re: Deutsche Bank makes source code publicly available for the first time
#76Earlier quoted context omitted.
I don't understand what exactly this code is about but I have problems imagining the Deutsche Bank as a company that acts "for the greater good". As a german I envy you for your drug laws.
It seems to be about standardising communication between desktop applications using an RPC broker server (Plexus Interop). It’s aimed at traders, who often use multiple desktop applications (for trading, news, comms) in various runtimes (Java, C#, Python, etc). This tool is some at creating a standard platform enabling those other tools to communicate with each other. I guess like a sort of cross-runtime service bus…
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#77Link to code: https://github.com/symphonyoss/plexus-interop
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);
That's not comment, that's the description of the function and of its arguments. That feeds automatically into intellisense, and ships with the binaries as meta data, and can be used to auto-generate the documentation of your library
Re: Deutsche Bank makes source code publicly available for the first time
#78Now we can seen how to implement a atomic transaction which is bank-safe
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#79Re: Deutsche Bank makes source code publicly available for the first time
#80Get 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 bet it's Java.