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Post by nunez »

nose wrote: post #115
ryukoposting wrote: post #40

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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…

I find it interesting that nobody from the finance community is directly speaking about their experience in this thread. What's the equivalent of hacker news for financial folk?

Wallstreetoasis used to be it; not sure anymore

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Post by veltas »

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…

In defense given the amount of web content being processed it makes a lot of sense to use JS and related tech. It's put to good use here.

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Post by graemep »

wyre wrote: post #212
linkregister wrote: post #198

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The trading occurring on the Bloomberg terminal is of bonds, equities, and commodities.

Sure, this subthread was about finance people in general, the big short in 2008, and other government-funded bailouts.

If you look at ancestors there are repeated references to trades and trading, not to finance or banking.

Re: Gloomberb

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Post by cztomsik »

slowin wrote: post #116
CharlesW wrote: post #78

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The source is prominently linked: https://github.com/gloom-sh/gloomberb > please don't write command line tools in non-compiled languages! Around 40% of Linux CLI tools are written in interpreted languages.

> The source is prominently linked: https://github.com/gloom-sh/gloomberb This is how I found out it's a javascript project and didn't install it. I only even bothered to do that because I actually wanted to try it. I'm just saying it would be awesome to have that right there next to the curl command. > Around 40% of Linux CLI tools are written in interpreted languages. And I prefer not to use those. Everything I sai…

I think the point was that even Bash is interpreted.

Re: Gloomberb

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Post by dpmartinez »

jeffbee wrote: post #208
dpmartinez wrote: post #163

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Right but it doesn't answer my question about what you don't consider a slop TUI though. > Slop is slop when the author could not have done it without the AI. For Vim (1.) and Linux's AI adoption policies, there are some contributors who couldn't have made a PR / patch without AI. Are Vim and Linux now considered slop because they allow AI contributions? (1.) https://github.com/vim/vim/blob/master/CONTRIBUTING.md#usi…

I would say this is a fair question, and that slop can be laundered when there are multiple collaborators and at least one of them knows what they are doing. Whereas a monograph written entirely by Claude is always just slop.

> I would say this is a fair question, and that slop can be laundered when there are multiple collaborators and at least one of them knows what they are doing.

Sounds like you consider Vim and Linux to be slop by your definition. As an example:

https://github.com/vim/vim/commits/master/?since=2026-08-02&...

Claude's contributions are littered around the vim's C codebase, so surely Vim is now a 100% slop TUI?

So my question still remains, what tool do you think isn't a 100% slop TUI?

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Post by globular-toast »

graemep wrote: post #224
wyre wrote: post #212

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sure, this subthread was about finance people in general, the big short in 2008, and other government-funded bailouts.

If you look at ancestors there are repeated references to trades and trading, not to finance or banking.

Unless you're trading physical goods for other physical goods, ie. bartering, then it's finance.

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Post by cedilla »

munksbeer wrote: post #196
wavemode wrote: post #182

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A stock exchange is nothing more than a marketplace. Anyone can start their own (the challenge being, getting a bunch of companies to want to list their stock with you). That freedom is actually why it's hard to create a Bloomberg competitor - in order to provide their data stream, Bloomberg has to have partnerships with hundreds of companies worldwide who run exchanges for stocks, bonds and other instruments. If exc…

> A stock exchange is nothing more than a marketplace. Anyone can start their own (the challenge being, getting a bunch of companies to want to list their stock with you). Not really true. I can't just start a stock exchange. I need to comply with a bazillion regulations. Then I need a license, which I won't get. As much as the crypto space is disliked, it also showed what happens when regulation isn't stopping you.…

There was also a lot of fraud and mismanagement. People's crypto vanished and no one at the exchange was able to reconstruct how because there was no sufficient security and no real bookkeeping.

There is a lot of regulatory capture in the financia sector, but that does not in imply that no regulation is necessary at all

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Post by munksbeer »

cedilla wrote: post #228
munksbeer wrote: post #196

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> A stock exchange is nothing more than a marketplace. Anyone can start their own (the challenge being, getting a bunch of companies to want to list their stock with you). Not really true. I can't just start a stock exchange. I need to comply with a bazillion regulations. Then I need a license, which I won't get. As much as the crypto space is disliked, it also showed what happens when regulation isn't stopping you.…

There was also a lot of fraud and mismanagement. People's crypto vanished and no one at the exchange was able to reconstruct how because there was no sufficient security and no real bookkeeping. There is a lot of regulatory capture in the financia sector, but that does not in imply that no regulation is necessary at all

"Then, probably correctly, regulation came, and now that is all gone."

Re: Gloomberb

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Post by linkregister »

yulker wrote: post #215
linkregister wrote: post #194

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No, I meant exactly what I wrote and nothing more.

Trading securities is under an incredible amount of regulation, making your point flippant rather than substantive

You continue to read subtext that is simply not there.
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