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It stopped being its own OS long ago. Now the dual-screen computer is a standard Windows PC with a pretty case and fancy keyboard, and the terminal software is just a win32 .exe.
Why do they even bother with special hardware? The keyboard I guess I can see. Seems like the whole thing could just be web app now.
Mayor Bloomberg Will Learn How To Write Code In 2012
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#32Earlier quoted context omitted.
It stopped being its own OS long ago. Now the dual-screen computer is a standard Windows PC with a pretty case and fancy keyboard, and the terminal software is just a win32 .exe.
Why do they even bother with special hardware? The keyboard I guess I can see. Seems like the whole thing could just be web app now.
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Why do they even bother with special hardware? The keyboard I guess I can see. Seems like the whole thing could just be web app now.
This is definitely true, the tech Bloomberg uses was novel in the 80s, but the functionality of a modern browser now outstrips that of the terminal program. There's actually some functions in the Bloomberg Terminal these days which just fire up an embedded browser to render the content!
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#34Earlier quoted context omitted.
It stopped being its own OS long ago. Now the dual-screen computer is a standard Windows PC with a pretty case and fancy keyboard, and the terminal software is just a win32 .exe.
Why do they even bother with special hardware? The keyboard I guess I can see. Seems like the whole thing could just be web app now.
Also, wrt to being a web app, there are users and then there are users. Sure, certain customers' usage might be fine for the web (and it can be run remote from anywhere on the web for the obvious reduced performance due to remoting), but receiving 50k+ ticks a second and pumping screen updates to 8 monitors in a trading situation is not something a browser is good at.
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#35I will consider hiring him in 2015
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#36http://www.codecademy.com/jobs
http://37signals.com/svn/posts/161-why-are-you-not-hiring-re...
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#37Earlier quoted context omitted.
It stopped being its own OS long ago. Now the dual-screen computer is a standard Windows PC with a pretty case and fancy keyboard, and the terminal software is just a win32 .exe.
Why do they even bother with special hardware? The keyboard I guess I can see. Seems like the whole thing could just be web app now.
Also most of the big clients have physical connections to Bloomberg directly rather than going over the internet (for redundancy, security and performance reasons), and you need to optimize the data going over those connections. If you have a few hundred people at one client all watching 1000 prices in real-time you don't want to send all that data to every user separately so you need to use a fan-out node located at the client site.
These are just a few of the kind of complications you'd need to deal with if you wanted to build a web app that did the same thing. I doubt there's a single web app in existence which has anywhere near the level complexity that Bloomberg on the web would have.
It might be possible eventually but we're still someway off.
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Or, the more people who can code, the less valuable the skill? Meh, or not.
Maybe it's not supply & demand, but a network effect: For reading, I would argue the ability to read become more valuable as the literacy rate increases, as society starts to run on the written word. Perhaps computer literacy is the same.
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#40Well, is writing code the new literacy? Most people in the west can read and write at some level, even if they never write a novel. The future might be like that with code - there are signs of it, where knowing how to write a little script or a SQL query can make a huge difference in plenty of different fields