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Not the OP but I was at Sheffield in the late 80s and remember the paternoster in the Arts tower well!

Barclays - missing VP (between AVP and Director), and Capital One isn't an investment bank...

Our core banking app has 1000+ tables.

Yup. When I used RPG400 we'd use the first 4 columns for revision numbers as they were originally reserved on the punched cards but not used on the editor...

I know people with kids that live in NYC - it's perfectly affordable a bit further out into the boroughs and they all have the subway.

I also know a lot of people that had kids and moved to the burbs - but they all commute via public transport (either train or bus).

I guess my point is that anecdotes don't really mean anything?

Nope. Sorry, but lots of cities have very expensive housing in the center where rich people live. I will start with NYC, San Francisco, LA, London, Sydney, Boston, Melbourne, Hong Kong, Toronto, Paris, Barcelona, Madrid, Prague, Munich, Berlin, Rome, Amsterdam, Copenhagen...

Agreed. Lots of rich people ride the subway in NYC too:

http://gothamist.com/2015/12/31/best_subway_celebrity_sighti... https://www.thrillist.com/entertainment/new-york/celebrity-p...

I don't disagree with the negative connotations of the name, but it's not named after the Turkish people, but rather after The Turk, a chess-playing machine invented in the 18th century: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Mechanical_Turk#Overvie...

Similar situation here. Separating the concept of humans from food providers has been very beneficial in our household. We still give the cats a lot of attention.

This. Mine will eat and eat and then I will manage his weight back down from 21 pounds again.

Had similar problems with our cat who was able to retrieve food from every automatic feeder we tried, apart from the perfect pet feeder [1] which was the only model that defeated him.

[1] http://www.perfectpetfeeder.com/

Do you have a source for that?

From wikipedia [1] Atlanta has the 3rd largest percentage, but it's 11th for total population. Admittedly those figures are for 2005, but I wouldn't expect Atlanta to make up that much on the top 3 in the last 10 years?

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_demographics_of_the_Unite...

The chart suffers from the same problem as the fuel light - how far you can drive depends on both the amount of fuel left and the current driving conditions. I don't see how the chart is any more accurate than the on-board computer, given the difference in MPG for different road conditions.

What am I missing?

Only 50% of road maintenance is paid for by drivers via gas and registration taxes, the rest is covered by town and city taxes. So assuming that cyclists cause less than 50% of road wear, they are already paying more than their fare share of maintenance costs via town and city taxes.

These figures are from 2010: http://usa.streetsblog.org/2013/01/23/drivers-cover-just-51-...

I have a gym membership to a gym near work and shower at the gym after cycling in. Obviously that won't work for everyone, and it's not overly cheap, but I use the gym for other stuff too, so it works out.

I don't think Draftkings or Airbnb have 'won' - they are both facing significant legal challenges in various states (and in the case of Airbnb, globally) - it's not clear that either of them will emerge with a viable business.

Zenefits is an example of the exact opposite of your point - financial and state regulators have little tolerance for companies that break regulatory laws, regardless of how fast they are growing. See also Sand Hill Exchange [1].

[1] http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2015-06-19/bitcoin-buc...

"Finance" is such a broad term with respect to IT - you'll find anything if you look hard enough. The following is based on my experience only - I'm sure there will be lots on here with different experiences:

* I've seen more C++/Java/C# than anything else, with a large legacy base of COBOL/RPG (yes, GMI, we're looking at you...).

* Industrial-grade quant libs (for risk, P&L, models that need regulatory approval) tend to be in C++, with the infrastructure to run them increasingly in Java.

* Lots of VBA on the desktop. Every department runs on Excel...

* Python is making inroads (see Quartz at BofA, Athena at JPM), but I suspect that it's still vastly outnumbered (by whatever measure) by C++/Java.

Some firms (and departments in bigger shops) embrace new technology agressively - at my firm I know of large Scala projects, python, big data (mainly Mongo/Hadoop), R and some Haskell.

That said, on my first job in the UK for a large insurance firm, we employed a team that wrote custom CICS machine code for Z-series mainframes. Beat that with yer fancy functional languages...

So no, I wouldn't say that python is dominant.

Only, Mondo isn't even a bank, yet. From the FAQ [1], "your money will be held in a separate, protected account by Wirecard, our issuing bank".

As Matt Levine keeps pointing out [2], "Tech businesses trying to disrupt finance tend to think that they are solving a technical or data or customer service problem, but the problems of finance are always and everywhere regulatory problems."

[1] https://getmondo.co.uk/faq/ [2] http://www.bloombergview.com/articles/2015-06-19/bitcoin-buc...

My first job was writing JCL decks - it's not that bad.

The headline is (I suspect deliberately) misleading. The actual guardian article is here [1] and is more nuanced, claiming that "One giant container ship can emit almost the same amount of cancer and asthma-causing chemicals as 50m cars, study finds". That's hardly "all the cars in the world", given that latest estimates put this figure at over 1 billion [2].

Ships produce more sulfur oxide pollutants than cars because they use different fuels, and thus produce different pollutants.

A large container ship does produce more more carbon dioxide emission per mile and per gallon of fuel than a car, but ships in general have the lowest emission levels of any other method of cargo transport , producing fewer emissions per ton of freight per mile than barges, trains or trucks.

[1] http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2009/apr/09/shipping-...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Motor_vehicle

I can think of many micro-districts in the other boroughs (which, btw, are part of New York City) - breweries (Red Hook), auto repair (northern Queens), car dealerships (Northern Boulevard), bakeries (Greenpoint), hipster hat shops (Williamsburg)...

IIRC, Aqua Santa in Williamsburg used to only accept AMEX. Think they take other cards now though.

My first job was writing JCL decks on an IBM ESA/390. We had several shelves of manuals for the thing. And people read them.

Now if only they'd come up with a device to make sure drivers stop at stop signs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GneVKDI_bEc

My guess is that GNOME 3 and Unity require roughly as much CPU power and RAM as Windows 7

I have a 7 year-old Dell laptop that wouldn't run Vista with anything like acceptable performance. I installed Debian/KDE and performance is absolutely fine.

The only tricky bit (as other comments have pointed out) was the wireless device driver, which I had to download from the Broadcom website.

Here's the short video of Merckx's record breaking attempt: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqjEvDlFqdM

Been posted many times before [1].

1. https://hn.algolia.com/?query=they%20write%20the%20right%20s...

Goldman's core risk management system (SecDB) is written in python, as is JPMorgan's Athena and BofAs Quartz. I believe the main people responsible for SecDB implemented Athena at JP and then Quartz at BofA.

+1 for The Box.

Was that the Spectrum magazine article that claimed the Spectrum was actually a Spectrum Plus under the hood, and all that was required was to poke in the printed page of machine code - in hex, mind you - to unleash it's glorious abilities.

A couple of hours of typing later, and the big red 'April Fools' message appears...