Apple iMac 27 inch died

[minestrone]

My last IB gig was mostly writing apps for dumping massive amounts of data from the DB into excel spread sheets. Soul destroying stuff really. Excel was king and the notion of taking whatever logic they had on their spread sheets and placing it in an application was never going to be on the menu. Of course there was always stale data issues with folk passing round 2 year old files.

[sasguru]

My last IB gig was mostly writing apps for dumping massive amounts of data from the DB into excel spread sheets. Soul destroying stuff really. Excel was king and the notion of taking whatever logic they had on their spread sheets and placing it in an application was never going to be on the menu. Of course there was always stale data issues with folk passing round 2 year old files.

Why GAS if you can earn bags of money writing VBA?
What these low-rate third-rate provincial geeks who work for substandard clients in Swindon and the NE don't realise is that no-one gives a fook if they've mastered the arcane points of C++.
It's all about models to make money ....

[AtW]

It's all about spending money on models ....

FTFY

[d000hg]

Eew, VBA. Done some work in that. Only £800/day to you sir.

[amcdonald]

That looks very sweet but isn't sitting within easy reach of a 27" screen a tad uncomfortable?

Not if you play battlefield, I've got a 26" screen and it's only just viable

I really want a 32" screen sat on my desk

[proggy]

Why GAS if you can earn bags of money writing VBA?
What these low-rate third-rate provincial geeks who work for substandard clients in Swindon and the NE don't realise is that no-one gives a fook if they've mastered the arcane points of C++.
It's all about models to make money ....

You have a point, however the high frequency trading systems and stat arb systems that prop desk use will be written in C++ and deployed as close to the exchange as possible.

[AtW]

You have a point, however the high frequency trading systems and stat arb systems that prop desk use will be written in ASIC and deployed as close to the exchange switch as possible.

FTFY

[scooterscot]

How come I'm still using my 24" inch 2006 white iMac on a daily basis without any failures to date? Perhaps it's a user thing.

[eek]

Why GAS if you can earn bags of money writing VBA?
What these low-rate third-rate provincial geeks who work for substandard clients in Swindon and the NE don't realise is that no-one gives a fook if they've mastered the arcane points of C++.
It's all about models to make money ....

the end client is public sector. Oh

[Hairy]

Hmmm, could it be?