g_goblin - Slashdot User

Comment Re:De Icaza Responds (Score 0) 498

by g_goblin on Wednesday October 07, 2009 @08:52AM (#29668669) Attached to: London Stock Exchange Rejects .NET For Open Source

(well, ok, .NET would have created a system that would run your line-of-business apps without problem, but when it comes to very high performance, low latency systems, its simply not suitable, a bit like Java is not suitable for nuclear reactors).

Funny how people make claims without stating facts. The Chicago Mercantile Exchange uses JAVA as the runtime for their trading engines and I don't hear anyone complaining about speed. Round trip times are less than 3ms if you are in the Chicago Metro Area.

We have run .NET for our main trading platform for over three years. We haven't had a problem with it yet. It all depends upon how good the architects and developers are.

I'm willing to bet it wasn't Microsoft who wrote the heart of TradeElect but Accenture. Through experience with that company, it is the turd that can't be polished. Besides, what was the LSE thinking when they brought in a third party to develop their trading system? It should have been developed in house.

Comment Re:...because H1Bs are forms, not people (Score 0) 574

by g_goblin on Saturday January 24, 2009 @12:31PM (#26589429) Attached to: Senator Prods Microsoft On H-1B Visas After Layoff Plans

Highly skilled huh? So their papers say. 15 to 20 percent of all H1-B Visa holders have phony papers. Sorry, but if an H1-B employee and a citizen have the same skillset, the citizen should keep his/her job over the H1-B employee. That's the way it should be in any country. Fat lazy Americans? You must be a smelly, lazy Frenchmen or worse a smelly, rude Indian.

IT Workers Cushioned From US Economic Downturn 357

Posted by timothy on Sunday September 21, 2008 @04:22PM from the employment-tends-to-be-binary-though dept.

DontLickJesus writes "According to the AP, technology has been the least hardest hit by the U.S.'s recent economic downturn. Quote: '"Overall technology employment is up in America and the wages associated with it are up," said John McCarthy, a vice president with Forrester Research.' The article goes on to say that companies realize the worth of their [IT] staff. This paired along with a recent article regarding the value of data centers when selling a company leads one to believe that the business world, while historically not fond of IT workers, is showing its true opinion of the sector."

Apple Bans iPhone App For Competing With Mail.app 464

Posted by Soulskill on Sunday September 21, 2008 @08:36AM from the forbidden-fruit dept.

recoiledsnake writes "Another submission has been rejected from the iPhone App Store, this time for 'duplicating the functionality of the iPhone Mail application.' The author claims that his application allows the user to log into their multiple web email accounts and that Apple seems to be confusing Gmail and Mail.app. This comes on the heels of Apple rejecting an application for competing with iTunes and rejecting other silly but harmless apps as being of 'limited utility.'" ComputerWorld has an update to the rejected Podcaster app mentioned above. It seems the developer has used Apple's "Ad Hoc" service to begin distributing the software despite the fact that they blocked it from the App Store.

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