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Re: Gloomberb

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Post by elictronic »

Ntrails wrote: post #59
elictronic wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Here's an article. Basically if your trading stocks no. If you are trading different instruments or want interaction with the money folks (connections) yes. https://financetracked.com/bloomberg-terminal From it: "Bonds and Fixed Income: It provides the best data for interest rates and debt markets. Global Economics: It easily connects data from different countries, such as currency rates and government debt. The Chat…

Depends a bit how you're trading stocks - bbg is still an extremely attractive data provider so I'd not dismiss them out of hand.

There are alternatives that cost much less than 30k per year for just stocks. They need to prove their value proposition for that more generalized use case.

My dismissal is their problem to solve.

Re: Gloomberb

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Post by m0k167eh »

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.

ditch the name

explain where you got the data from

else this will just be bit of Bloomberg meme

Re: Gloomberb

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Post by xp84 »

talentedcoin wrote: post #139
enquirewithin wrote: post #133

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You can have any opinion, so long as it’s mine.

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How is it "adding no value"?

It's not crazy to prefer a package manager package to a curl|bash YOLO. OP is stating that preference, which various people have agreed with. If you posted "I love curl|bash install method - please do more of this" that is also fine. Either way it's a signal for both the author and anyone considering shipping this type of software, that their audience may have a certain preference.

Re: Gloomberb

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Post by nemomarx »

talentedcoin wrote: post #139
enquirewithin wrote: post #133

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You can have any opinion, so long as it’s mine.

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I know it's kind of a nitpick, but is there really no value at all in "your install is just curl | bash and that seems insecure and risky"

I would want to know that about any project before I try and evaluate it personally.

Re: Gloomberb

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Post by Bluescreenbuddy »

u8 wrote: post #8

Yeah... people aren't paying Bloomberg $31,980 per year for a TUI. They're paying for the data source... and I don't think you have Bloomberg's connections.

You're paying for direct lines to these firms. It's a big chat/social media platform. Combined with the data and news and you got yourself a hell of a platform

Re: Gloomberb

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Post by nemomarx »

alaudet wrote: post #149
slowin wrote: post #64

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 h…

I don't know man, seems like a cool project and is open source. I guess he could have just sat on it and used for himself exclusively. It's auditable and totally fine for an open source project and nobody is forced to use it. It's free to use under the MIT license, what else can you really ask for.

https://gloom.sh/cloud

Is it? I see some kinda subscription, so there's gotta be some non MIT portion of it

Re: Gloomberb

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Post by JumpCrisscross »

allthetime wrote: post #76
globular-toast wrote: post #63

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

That should have been obvious from the mere fact that the bottom rungs are almost completely populated by silver-spooned nepo-babies.

> the bottom rungs are almost completely populated by silver-spooned nepo-babies

You’re thinking of investment banking, corporate finance. Trading has always been the place folks from less privileged backgrounds got into finance. In the old days, Jews. (Like, into the 50s.) In the 80s, poor schmucks.

Re: Gloomberb

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Post by tingletech »

slowin wrote: post #64

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 h…

you can test it out with

  bunx gloomberb
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