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Re: 404. PAGE Not FOUND

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Post by _random_ » Sat, Feb 07, 2015, 7:55 PM UTC

apaprocki wrote: post #26

gecko wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

C++, sure, but their other main language is actually FORTRAN...

Yep, we have an entire hardware engineering team that maintains our fleet of time machines that we use to travel back to 1987 to recruit new FORTRAN programmers. Actually, our second language is (server-side) JS.

"(server-side) JS"

Why would you pick an unmaintainable language for the server side?

Re: 404. PAGE Not FOUND

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Post by apaprocki » Sat, Feb 07, 2015, 10:13 PM UTC

_random_ wrote: post #41

apaprocki wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yep, we have an entire hardware engineering team that maintains our fleet of time machines that we use to travel back to 1987 to recruit new FORTRAN programmers. Actually, our second language is (server-side) JS.

"(server-side) JS" Why would you pick an unmaintainable language for the server side?

Care to elaborate why you think it is unmaintainable? It has worked out well for us. We chose between Lua and JS and ultimately JS won because it was easier to find people who knew it and could be productive faster without training / time to learn Lua.

Re: 404. PAGE Not FOUND

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Post by chrismcb » Sun, Feb 08, 2015, 4:09 AM UTC

toddsiegel wrote: post #16

Maybe I am no fun, but I find this error page disorienting and a little disturbing. Errors pages mean you've probably messed up somehow and are associated with user frustration. This page, and the other Bloomberg error pages posted in the comments, do not help to mitigate that. Github does a nice job of walking the line of cutesy, but useful error pages. But then again, who doesn't love Octocat? https://github.com/40…

They are supposed to be humorous. How is github's better than bloombergs?

Re: 404. PAGE Not FOUND

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Post by udorash » Sun, Feb 08, 2015, 11:29 AM UTC

Credit goes to Stephanie Davidson http://paralleluniver.se/

Re: 404. PAGE Not FOUND

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Post by gecko » Sun, Feb 08, 2015, 5:46 PM UTC

apaprocki wrote: post #26

gecko wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

C++, sure, but their other main language is actually FORTRAN...

Yep, we have an entire hardware engineering team that maintains our fleet of time machines that we use to travel back to 1987 to recruit new FORTRAN programmers. Actually, our second language is (server-side) JS.

I have a lot of friends who work at Bloomberg on Fortran code. I believe you that your #2 is JS, but either I have the weirdest luck of finding people who work at Bloomberg, or Fortran has to be pretty high up there.

Re: 404. PAGE Not FOUND

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Post by wiresurfer » Mon, Feb 16, 2015, 2:48 PM UTC

apaprocki wrote: post #21

I wasn't expecting to find this on the front page considering they've been floating around Twitter/etc for over a week. But I'll certainly make use of the opportunity to say the new site is entirely Node based and the team is interested in hiring more good Node devs in NYC. Contact me if interested, email in profile!

Hey @apaprocki, The archive pages for bloomberg (at businessweek.com) seem to have dead links and redirecting to businessweek.com instead of the content article. Is that intentional? or maybe just in the process of being fixed.