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rotor posted:this is true a lot of places, financial and otherwise if you are immune to heart-sink-into-feets moments then you pretty much dont work
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May 24, 2012 08:25
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behold the future of perl muahahaha
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May 24, 2012 08:26
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everyone please stop writing perl
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May 24, 2012 09:03
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Gogey posted:yeah I heard it was just worse in finance but I guess not necessarily so?
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May 24, 2012 09:08
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my stepdads beer posted:everyone please stop writing perl no ok good discussion
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May 24, 2012 11:01
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Casao posted:no every perl i have ever seen has been incomprehensible soup
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May 24, 2012 11:04
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perl is great, autoviv is great, man i am really starting to like it a lot
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May 24, 2012 11:24
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Jonny 290 posted:perl is great, autoviv is great, man i am really starting to like it a lot
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May 24, 2012 11:25
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no gimmick, perl puts bread on my table. its good poo poo
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May 24, 2012 11:28
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Resplendent Spiral posted:what's up with this thing i hear where there's some freaky server based version of excel that gets used one of our competitors basically migrated all their Excel/VBA to a huge windows cluster somehow, I don't know the details but apparently it can be done and must have only made sense from a wage cost standpoint Ridgely_Fan posted:it seems like a lot of the math that funds do is high-dimensional integrals that they have to use mcmc / gibbs / whatever sampling for, and it seems like that stuff would be pretty amenable to cuda some of the big problems are very parallel like valuing derivatives portfolios which uses a lot of fancy math as you said it may or may not surprise you to learn that until very recently there was a 1+ month lag in knowing the value and other metrics of a big portfolio, as of 2008 volatility made this impossible to remain status quo and as a result even relatively small shops like ours have 1000+ cores working 24/7 to value our holdings the the ultimate goal of real-time valuation and risk measurement, but even today we're lucky if we're 2 days behind Gogey posted:Really cause I heard the bad thing about working in the financial sector as CS is horrible hours, constant strict deadlines and pressure, and the knowledge that if you gently caress up, you gently caress up a lot of things hard? it depends, if you work in retail banking for example it's basically big office IT but if you work in capital markets where JPM just lost $5b in a month, it can be much more intense pay is commensurate though so there's a pretty smooth spectrum of options available depending on your personality and goals
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May 24, 2012 12:42
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Internaut! posted:one of our competitors basically migrated all their Excel/VBA to a huge windows cluster somehow, I don't know the details but apparently it can be done and must have only made sense from a wage cost standpoint http://blogs.office.com/b/microsoft-excel/archive/2010/02/08/calculating-excel-models-on-an-hpc-cluster.aspx
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May 24, 2012 13:07
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yaoi prophet posted:one of my favorite classes i ever took was how technology influences the way people communicate, we covered stuff like why people still say 'hi this is X' even though caller ID makes it pointless (it's to make sure that the other person can hear you and can respond)
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May 24, 2012 13:15
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Jonny 290 posted:no gimmick, perl puts bread on my table. its good poo poo Perl is for making my life easier
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May 24, 2012 13:30
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perl is fine
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May 24, 2012 15:35
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my stepdads beer posted:everyone please stop writing perl
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May 24, 2012 15:36
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but my perl code is readable 
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May 24, 2012 15:37
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no its not
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May 24, 2012 15:38
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i wish perl were a little more restrictive with the vast number of ways you can do the same poo poo, other than that, A++++++, good language, would use again
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May 24, 2012 15:40
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Shaggar posted:no its not
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May 24, 2012 15:41
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Dante posted:That seems wrong because I don't do it to anyone I know personally and they don't do it to me either. I'm pretty sure people still only say that when they're calling someone they don't know personally, as an introduction. i think this is kinda dependent on whether or not you grew up with caller id. most of us did so we just know who's calling before we answer, but my grandparents didn't have it so they always say "hi ulysses this is your grandpa/grandma!" when they call me
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May 24, 2012 17:10
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it depends on who I talk to whether I do it, for offices I know, always, cellphones and offices I don't, no.
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May 24, 2012 17:12
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asm's not that bad, gets a bad rap tedious more than anything
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May 24, 2012 17:15
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JawnV6 posted:asm's not that bad, gets a bad rap mlyp
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May 24, 2012 17:16
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someone post the cobol time traveler story please and thanks
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May 24, 2012 17:16
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JawnV6 posted:asm's not that bad, gets a bad rap it's bad because it's tedious
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May 24, 2012 17:16
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eh, when i want things to happen within ns it's not like i can toss it through an OS or w/e
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May 24, 2012 17:23
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Gogey posted:yeah I heard it was just worse in finance but I guess not necessarily so? I've interned at SIG (http://www.sig.com/) and Amazon and SIG was definitely a more stressful environment. You could tell that the smallest mistake meant losing tons of money, it turned me off working for a financial company. Amazon is a lot more laid back, but it may be a west coast/east coast thing idk
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May 24, 2012 17:36
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JawnV6 posted:eh, when i want things to happen within ns it's not like i can toss it through an OS or w/e list of things the average programmer needs to happen within ns:
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JawnV6 posted:eh, when i want things to happen within ns it's not like i can toss it through an OS or w/e
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Fren posted:list of things the average programmer needs to happen within ns:
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May 24, 2012 17:42
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Gazpacho posted:page duck monster to this thread
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May 24, 2012 17:42
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May 24, 2012 17:44
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JawnV6 posted:eh, when i want things to happen within ns it's not like i can toss it through an OS or w/e this post would make sense if mov was a privileged instruction
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mov zig for great justice
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Markov Chain Chomp posted:so wait, is this code running in ring 0 or? Nomnom Cookie posted:this post would make sense if mov was a privileged instruction
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May 24, 2012 18:10
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JawnV6 posted:the sole implication of 'there is an OS booted on the system when my code is running'
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May 24, 2012 18:15
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CaptainMeatpants posted:someone post the cobol time traveler story please and thanks the punchline is that in the year 9999 they still need cobol programmers you can reverse engineer the rest from that also Jonny 290 posted:no gimmick, perl puts bread on my table. its good poo poo
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May 24, 2012 18:15
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but the voice of cobol must be heard (it's a strained raspy voice punctuated by coughing fits brought on by years in smoke filled offices)
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Sweeper posted:Amazon is a lot more laid back bwahahahahaha
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