DConf 2019: All Spreadsheets Must Die -- Robert Schadek
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Mostly appears as a link in Who is hiring job posts from a company using D, and once as deeper background in a thread about Excel.
What it is
A DConf 2019 talk by Robert Schadek arguing that spreadsheets are the world's dominant programming language and that D can be used to replace them. It looks at spreadsheet quirks and then at techniques for moving away from them.
Recommended by 0 HN commenters across 0 different months, 2020 to 2023.
What Hacker News said
Cites mhh__ · 2020-02 · on “62% of general counsels use Excel and email to manage contract data: survey”
Easy to the uninitiated sure - and that's not a bad thing - but anything that needs maintaining (in a professional sense) shouldn't be in a spreadsheet. I realize this is an unrealistic proposition, but think of all the principles we've developed (as an industry) that spreadsheets violate - no separation of code and data, prone to repetition etc. [this video] There was a talk at DConf about this with a bit more depth than what I've written here, and potential replacements
Cites kal31dic · 2020-06 · on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (June 2020)”
Symmetry Investments | Senior Software Engineers and DevOps | REMOTE or VISA (London, Hong Kong, Singapore) | D, Julia, other functional and systems languages | Full-Time, Fixed Term, Flexible Symmetry Investments is a post startup c. 5bn alternative asset management company with around 175 people across multiple time zones and locations. Our core technology team has been remote first for some time, and the whole company is following suit, post-COVID. I'm one of the three people running the firm, responsible amongst other things for technology across the firm and I’m posting this myself. That should give you an idea both about how seriously we take technology and the culture of the firm. We
Cites kal31dic · 2020-08 · on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2020)”
Symmetry Investments | Senior Software Engineers and DevOps | REMOTE or VISA (London, Hong Kong, Singapore) | D, Julia, Kotlin, other functional and systems languages | Full-Time, Fixed Term, Flexible Symmetry Investments is a post startup c. 5bn alternative asset management company with around 175 people across multiple time zones and locations. Our core technology team has been remote first for some time, and the whole company is following suit, post-COVID. I'm one of the three people running the firm, responsible amongst other things for technology across the firm and I’m posting this myself. That should give you an idea both about how seriously we take technology and the culture of the f
Cites kal31dic · 2020-10 · on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2020)”
Symmetry Investments | Many Varied Roles | REMOTE or VISA (London, Hong Kong, Singapore, Jersey) | D, Julia, Kotlin, other functional and systems languages | Full-Time, Fixed Term, Flexible Roles we are hiring for: - Technical: developers, DevOps, infosec, documentation, UX, process designers, documentation, team and tool design, Windows and Linux desktop support, system / server administration - Business: risk, operations, legal, compliance, finance, administrative, organisational design, documentation, internal communication, investor relations processes - Investment: economics, analytics, portfolio research, investment research - Market Data: contract administration, data cleaning - Other
Cites kal31dic · 2020-11 · on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (November 2020)”
Symmetry Investments | Many Varied Roles | REMOTE or VISA (London, Hong Kong, Singapore, Jersey) | D, Julia, Kotlin, other functional and systems languages | Full-Time, Fixed Term, Flexible Roles we are hiring for: Technical: developers, DevOps, infosec, documentation, UX, process designers, tool design, Windows and Linux desktop support, helpdesk management, system / server administration, desktop and server research Portfolio Management: entry-level execution traders / portfolio managers, trade assistants Business: risk, operations, legal, compliance, finance, administrative, organisational design, documentation, internal communication, investor relations processes, org ops Investment: eco
Cites kal31dic · 2020-12 · on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (December 2020)”
Symmetry Investments | Many Varied Roles | REMOTE or VISA (London, Hong Kong, Singapore, Jersey) | D, Julia, Kotlin, other functional and systems languages | Full-Time, Fixed Term, Flexible Roles we are hiring for: Technical: developers, DevOps, infosec, documentation, UX, process designers, tool design, Windows and Linux desktop support, helpdesk management, system / server administration, desktop and server research Portfolio Management: entry-level execution traders / portfolio managers, trade assistants Business: risk, operations, legal, compliance, finance, administrative, organisational design, documentation, internal communication, investor relations processes, org ops Investment: eco
Cites kal31dic · 2021-02 · on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (February 2021)”
Symmetry Investments | Many Varied Roles | REMOTE or VISA (London, Hong Kong, Singapore, Jersey) | D, Julia, Kotlin, other functional and systems languages | Full-Time, Fixed Term, Flexible ## Roles we are hiring for - Developers, documentation, UX: We are looking for outstanding native code developers who would like to write D as well as people to work with practitioners using Symmetry Integration Language to deliver value to the business. Also looking for people to write documentation and work on the build. - Platform as code: DevOps, infosec, documentation, process designers, team and tool design, Windows and Linux desktop support, system / server administration - Legal: #lawyerswhocode o
Cites kal31dic · 2021-08 · on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2021)”
Symmetry Investments | Many Varied Roles | REMOTE or VISA (London, Hong Kong, Singapore, Jersey) | D, Julia, Kotlin, other functional and systems languages | Full-Time, Fixed Term, Flexible ## Roles we are hiring for - Business Analysts: business analysis, documentation, team and tool design - Native Code Developers: We are looking for outstanding native code developers who would like to write D. Our experience has been that strong C and C++ developers can learn D quite quickly. - Functional Developers to work with Practitioners using Symmetry Integration Language to deliver value to the business. - Documentation: At Symmetry we recognise the value of writing and have for example a Pulitzer