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Re:I Don’t Care How Well You Code, Understand Your Compensation by gaius on Tuesday August 09, 2016 @09:32AM (#12254335)
You finance people work under the assumption that everybody cares—or should care—about the underlying concepts of your field

Those aren't finance terms, they are taxpayer terms! Long term capital gains, alternative minimum tax, everyone knows who the IRS are...

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Re:I Don’t Care How Well You Code, Understand Your Compensation by hifumi on Tuesday August 09, 2016 @10:09AM (#12254565)
But those acronyms are vague and I had no idea what they were until you spelled them out.
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Re:I Don’t Care How Well You Code, Understand Your Compensation by 1812Overture on Tuesday August 09, 2016 @04:03PM (#12257343)
That's the point of the article.
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