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Comment on WPF 3.5 SP1 Coolness by LukeSkywalker

LukeSkywalker — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 09:27:13 +0000

Microsoft Surface SDK:

http://news.cnet.com/8301-10805_3-10059451-75.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20

Comment on Vista: Blue screen of death by Arouttcor

Arouttcor — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 10:52:49 +0000

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Comment on Nomura - Greenfield Development? by Ralf Malf

Ralf Malf — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 10:50:28 +0000

Nomura have bits of both but are predominantly a Java shop. The Gigaspaces comment is interesting though. They started up a greenfield project earlier this year using Openspaces with heavy use of dynamic languages (Ruby, Groovy and Python). Gigaspaces aren’t anticipating any revenue from Nomura any time soon….

Comment on Market Crisis Videos by Chris Dunn

Chris Dunn — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 17:44:20 +0000

Scary stuff…

Comment on Laws of Productivity by Chris Dunn

Chris Dunn — Thu, 02 Oct 2008 17:43:11 +0000

Hey there… first time on your blog. Nice article. Have you read “Getting Things Done” by David Allen? Also, “The Four Hour Work Week” by Tim Ferriss is great (corny book name, but great content).

Best,

Chris Dunn

Comment on Investment Bank == Bank Holding Company by LukeSkywalker

LukeSkywalker — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 16:31:46 +0000

I hear you with regard to the astonishing malpractices within front office dev teams, but I hasten to add that this is not wholly symptomatic of bonus culture.

The demands put upon fire fighting dev teams are because of the speed in which markets and opportunities move, and less because of the short-termism of the dealing desk.

Personally, my feeling is that the cultural arrogance of front office vs. back office roles in banks means that the profit-centres will always be able to veto any expert guidance from the lower departments.

It’s this same arrogance which has brought the entire system to its knees. I can imagine Devil’s Advocate II - but with Keanu playing an Avaricious young banker? At the end will again be Vanity: they believed their own b.s.

Comment on iPhone > G1? by Joel

Joel — Thu, 25 Sep 2008 00:18:47 +0000

Hi,

Can’t find your contact details - would like to drop you an e-mail. cheers

Comment on iPhone > G1? by TJ

TJ — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 19:56:01 +0000

And a headphone jack….doh

Comment on Investment Bank == Bank Holding Company by Harsimran Singh

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Comment on F# @ Investment Banks by Chris McMahon

Chris McMahon — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 17:30:22 +0000

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