Reply to: When I were a lad...

[PlanB]

Moved from the State of the Market thread.

Probably for the best, although there are only so many times you can say the market is dead.

[jamesbrown]

Suity is a man of our times.

Adapt and overcome...

Or in suity's case, adapt.

[cojak]

Suity is a man of our times.

Adapt and overcome...

[LondonManc]

JSON Schema | The home of JSON Schema

HTH

Wow, from MS Access to JSON in under a year. Hope you didn't get a nosebleed.

[DoctorStrangelove]

i remember being young and impressionable too.

I can't

Now what did I come in here for?

[BR14]

I remember when Dr who was good


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i remember being young and impressionable too.

[GhostofTarbera]

Wot? Like Doctor Who?

I remember when Dr who was good


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[DoctorStrangelove]

about time

Wot? Like Doctor Who?

[BR14]

about time

[cojak]

Moved from the State of the Market thread.

[GhostofTarbera]

A what?

Loving all the yesteryear chat, btw. I think we should change the thread title to "when I were a lad..."

Ahhh yesteryear, When girls were hairy


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[ladymuck]

Doesn't it just mean - state of the market = not what it used to be.

Yeah probably

[eek]

A what?

Loving all the yesteryear chat, btw. I think we should change the thread title to "when I were a lad..."

Doesn't it just mean - state of the market = not what it used to be.

[ladymuck]

...
Tedious twaddle
... acquisations

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A what?

Loving all the yesteryear chat, btw. I think we should change the thread title to "when I were a lad..."

[BritishLad88]

Absolutely spot on by pauldee in my opinion. I actually put all this down to working practices/methodologies from 2 different environments & 2 different generations/eras.

That's one line of code every 3 seconds, non stop, for 8 hours. I can barely type that fast, so I struggle to think that you were stopping to think about whether you were applying the best approach.

You would not have survived in core banking days or cobol and RPG - code still running 85% of all banks world wide

I worked on both sides. My current gig is with an investment bank (my second FS gig actually) down at Canary Wharf and I have colleagues who are (believe it or not) staying at their desk all day churning out code after code non stop with a narrowed solution without ever thinking of improvement of their code bases. They have their headphones plucked in and hardly speak to you. They work over 10 hours each day (1st ones in & always last ones out).

I expect I would have been fine. You're comparing things that happened decades ago with modern coding practices.
There may still be a lot of Cobol and RPG around but banks are slowly and painfully replacing it in order to stay competitive with the more agile Monzos and fintechs.

Conversely, I've also worked on a few smaller-med size companies & startups where they're doing agile - one of them was actually a Monzo competitor who has close links with them (i'll leave you guys to figure out which challenger bank it was). The way they work is as pauldee mentioned already ...

In my personal opinion, and having worked in both different environments, I think in particular Investment Banking branch of FS, their methodologies to build software is maybe a bit outdated. I'm sure they're playing catch up. But as already mentioned, It wiill be slow & painful. I'm just speaking from my experience.

I know i might be making strong acquisations here but dare I say the people here who's been strongly defending the idea of non-stop churning of code is good/measure of ..... actually haven't worked in the modern software building environments & just can't accept the goodness those modern environments brings.