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Re:Calling All Hackers: How money works (2024) by user3939382 on Wednesday January 07, 2026 @05:19AM (#46524654)
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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Re:Calling All Hackers: How money works (2024) by consz on Wednesday January 07, 2026 @06:57AM (#46525373)
My anecdotal experience is that both of those statements are untrue.
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Re:Calling All Hackers: How money works (2024) by danielmarkbruce on Wednesday January 07, 2026 @10:07AM (#46527204)
This is laughable.
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Re:Calling All Hackers: How money works (2024) by user3939382 on Thursday January 08, 2026 @10:07PM (#46549639)
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.
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