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Re: Gloomberb

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Post by brendoelfrendo »

rdiddly wrote: post #50

Useful on its own merits. Everybody who's distracted by the name and can't get past it, there's a thread developing here somewhere, where they're comparing it to Bloomberg.

Yeah, I think a few of the widgets here are neat and useful. It's not a Bloomberg replacement, but it might be a good replacement for a few tabs? You could get the info elsewhere, but I like this presentation more.

Edit: Ah, they're offering a pro subscription. While I appreciate that cloud services aren't free, I'm not sure that I'm willing to pay to replace a few browser tabs. Not for me, but maybe for someone!

Re: Gloomberb

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Post by dpmartinez »

KomoD wrote: post #52
dpmartinez wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> The download button doesn't even work properly. Clicking download in the top right gives me a .dmg, the other download button in the hero gives me the .exe, the one in the footer gives me a .dmg I mean, it works for me? The site is clearly not ready and maybe they didn't expect people to find it, but that doesn't mean the site is bad. It is just a work in progress. I'm not even interested in the site anyway the sof…

> I mean, it works for me? Doesn't invalidate my experience. > and maybe they didn't expect people to find it What do you mean? It's linked on the Github repo. > but that doesn't mean the site is bad. I think a site that doesn't work properly is a bad one. That's just my opinion.

> What do you mean? It's linked on the Github repo...I think a site that doesn't work properly is a bad one. That's just my opinion.

I mean isn't this the point of open source?

You can fork the repo and fix the problem instead of complaining?

Re: Gloomberb

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Post by globular-toast »

pizzalife wrote: post #57
ryukoposting wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Asked a dear friend in the finance industry what he thought about Bloomberg. He's the type of guy who uses these systems daily. Mostly paraphrasing: 1) Bloomberg was lightyears ahead of anything else in the pre-internet days, so there's a lot of UI familiarity. 2) Bloomberg's chat is important because, as a hedge fund or investment bank, the chat is how you buy and sell bonds. You agree to the trade in the chat, then…

It's funny to think some of the world's largest trades are being done in something that resembles a game's tradechat. (WTS bonds)

I find it a bit less funny. There is this perception that what finance people do is super important and grown up but following a brief stint in the industry I realised it literally is just a game. We used to trade bits of stationery and trading cards for fun at school. They never stopped. The only difference is people who never consented to any of this are paying for it all, especially when it all goes wrong.

Re: Gloomberb

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Post by slowin »

I really wish people would mention their stack when they have these curl install scripts. I'd rather use a real package manager, but I'm not totally against installing a compiled binary this way. I am, 100%, not going to install some Java/Type-script nightmare like this though. How is it resolving the dependencies? Is it installing some version of node, bun... on my machine? How's that working with other versions I have installed?

Related: please don't write command line tools in non-compiled languages! Don't make the runtime your user's problem.

Re: Gloomberb

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Post by grahammccain »

I don't think the finance field needs a better bloomberg, I think the whole interface and everything needs to be rethought. Part of the moat is the data, and data access. But I think we need to completely reimagine the terminal interface and interactions with the introduction of AI. The finance industry probably will be slow to adapt, but I genuinely think someone could completely disrupt 99% of the wall street businesses with an original idea.

Re: Gloomberb

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Post by MyHonestOpinon »

gymbeaux wrote: post #12

When I see new software now, my first thought is an LLM wrote it and it makes me not want to use it. I also assume there are bugs and it’s not particularly feature-rich.

It is becoming very hard not to use an LLM. I have been working on a project all this year. I started doing everything by hand, and I am using LLMs a little bit more every day. I suppose we want to use projects that were crafted with care, whether or not LLMs were used. But it is not easy to figure that out. It reminds me. 30 years ago, before code formatters were popular, you could tell good code just by looking at how carefully formatted it was.

Re: Gloomberb

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Post by janlukacs »

gymbeaux wrote: post #12

When I see new software now, my first thought is an LLM wrote it and it makes me not want to use it. I also assume there are bugs and it’s not particularly feature-rich.

same and for some reason people are downvoting. why would we use vibecoded stuff with sensitive information?

Re: Gloomberb

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Post by lq9AJ8yrfs »

pizzalife wrote: post #57
ryukoposting wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Asked a dear friend in the finance industry what he thought about Bloomberg. He's the type of guy who uses these systems daily. Mostly paraphrasing: 1) Bloomberg was lightyears ahead of anything else in the pre-internet days, so there's a lot of UI familiarity. 2) Bloomberg's chat is important because, as a hedge fund or investment bank, the chat is how you buy and sell bonds. You agree to the trade in the chat, then…

It's funny to think some of the world's largest trades are being done in something that resembles a game's tradechat. (WTS bonds)

For a long time fixed income trading took place over AOL Instant Messenger and later Yahoo chat rooms.

I am not making this up.

There were custom frontends that would enrich things like cusips.

Re: Gloomberb

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Post by hodder »

methodical wrote: post #69

Bloomberg's moat is the messaging service within it, not it's aggregation of data

People repeat this rhetoric all the time, but I promise you, finance professionals can and do easily migrate to other messaging platforms such as ICE chat. This isn't a moat for BBG
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