What gets on my tits more is people who are pretty bright in one field (hacking) thinking that entitles them to just brute force their way through reasoning about some other field (finance) that in their arrogance they think is simpler.

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gerdesj 21 hours ago | parent | next [-]

... and yet somehow I have muddled along running an IT company for 25 years (I'm the MD) and I have a fair idea about finances, including surviving some rather unpleasant financial environments that have rocked up over those years.

One month in 25 years, my partners and I didn't pay ourselves. That's as close as we have got to having issues. We keep six months payroll, corp. tax and VAT in readies. The property mortgage is nearly paid off.

I'm no hacker and I treat finances as a means to an end - no more and no less.

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user3939382 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

It bothers me that finance people think they’re smarter than everyone when all their jargon bullshit boils down to SQL statements any senior DB person would understand.

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danielmarkbruce 3 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Totally. Tech people don't have jargon that boils down to something simpler, nope. No "artificial intelligence" or "machine learning" or "back propagation" or "neural networks" or "big data" or "scaling up" or (one could continue for days....)

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user3939382 2 days ago | parent [-]

SQL seniors can understand anything in finance. Senior finance people would be baffled from chapter 1 of anything serious in CS. That’s the difference between general purpose programming and a math DSL.

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consz 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

My anecdotal experience is that both of those statements are untrue.

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danielmarkbruce 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

This is laughable.

	▲	user3939382 19 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Which part? You can’t find any mainstream finance concept that can’t be expressed in SQL, or it’s laughable that finance people don’t understand computing? Which part is laughable, would love to know.