Thank god for readability.
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" At the risk of getting sued, let me throw you geeks a bone and part the Goldman veil a bit. The Goldman Sachs risk system is called SecDB (securities database), and everything at Goldman that matters is run out of it. The GUI itself looks like a settings screen from DOS 3.0, but no one cares about UI cosmetics on the Street. The language itself was called SLANG (securities language) and was a Python/Perl like thing, with OOP and the ORM layer baked in. Database replication was near-instant, and pushing to production was two keystrokes. You pushed, and London and Tokyo saw the change as fast as your neighbor on the desk did (and yes, if you fucked things up, you got 4AM phone calls from some British dude telling you to fix it). Regtests ran nightly, and no one could trade a model without thorough testing (that might sound like standard practice, but you have no idea how primitive the development culture is on the Street). The whole thing was so good, I didn’t even know what an ORM really was until I started using Rails and had to wrestle with ActiveRecord. The codebase was roughly 15MM lines when I left, and growing. I suspect my retinas are still scarred by the weird color blue SecDB was by default. "
My, they sure are delicious fruits.
Aldi is feared in Germany by their suppliers. Once they pressured farmers to sell their milk at such low prices that the farmers went on strike and poured their milk onto the fields instead of selling it.
The working conditions seem to be average for a discounter. Meaning: Not very good but that is to be expected.
If you have access via an UK IP you can watch the series online: http://www.channel4.com/programmes/the-it-crowd/4od
Although it covers more than just genetic algorithms.