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OpenGamma
Company blog · opengamma.com/blogprogrammingbusiness
OpenGamma is the company blog at opengamma.com, writing about programming and business. Since 2011, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 14 times. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (6) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
OpenGamma is a London FinTech company. HN comments mostly post its job listings or describe its open-source software and Bloomberg API use, with one blog post cited as a real-world example.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 6 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Join the leading firms using OpenGamma's derivatives margin analytics to improve their capital efficiency.
Most-linked posts?
- /2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2011-05-05
What Hacker News says?
OpenGamma | London | Web Developer | Full-time | Onsite | https://opengamma.com/ We’re a FinTech startup dedicated to reducing the costs of trading. Role: * Angular 8 (TypeScript | RxJS | NgRx | SASS) Web developer Key facts: * We're 50 staff, mostly based in our HQ in Old Street, London * Tech stack: Angular, ngrx/store, Highcharts, Java 8, Kotlin, AWS (everything from Lambda to Cloudfront), Terraform, Github You c…
Comment linking /jobs/?gh_jid=4219403002
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (July 2019)”Submitted Partial Application in JavaScript Revisited as a story · 4 points
HN discussionOpenGamma | London | Web Developer & Java Developer | Full-time | Onsite | https://opengamma.com/ We're a FinTech startup dedicated to reducing the costs of trading, and we're hiring! Roles: * Angular 8 Web developer for our Frontend team (TypeScript | RxJS | NgRx | SASS) * Java back-end developer for our Customer Onboarding team (Java 8 - 11, Kotlin, AWS Lambda/Batch/DynamoDB/S3) Key facts: * We're 50 staff, mostly…
Comment linking /careers/
on “Ask HN: Who is hiring? (August 2019)”Submitted Just Released: ElSql, a Standalone Java Library for Managing SQL as a story · 3 points
HN discussionReminds me of the completely Open Source financial analytics company Open Gamma ( http://www.opengamma.com ). They also have a GitHub account with (in their own words) functional java code https://github.com/OpenGamma . This Java paradigm of "private final static" all over the place and its ugliness is one of the prime reasons Rich Hickey considered creating Clojure.
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on “Didn't see this coming: The Goldman Sachs Github Account”Submitted JNA, JNI and Raw Java Performance & Optimization for Mathematical Operations as a story · 2 points
HN discussionIf you want to go into "banking" (and have the skills needed), but would prefer a startup then maybe opengamma would be interesting: http://www.opengamma.com/
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on “Silicon Milkroundabout: Forget the banks, come and join a London startup”Submitted Managing a large, mixed, Public/Private project using Git as a story · 2 points
HN discussionAs a follow-up, first real-world example I've seen so far of this release benefiting the community: http://www.opengamma.com/blog/2012/02/02/bloomberg-market-da...
Comment linking /blog/2012/02/02/bloomberg-market-data-api-opengamma-1.0-release
on “Bloomberg market data API made public for C++, .Net, Java, Perl”Submitted The Source in Open Source Is Critical - Even in Financial Services as a story · 1 points
HN discussionThe API requires a subscription. The API SDK was open-source licensed so that either open-source or proprietary applications could include it in their distribution so that they can consume Bloomberg data "out of the box". An example is OpenGamma -- http://www.opengamma.com/ -- it is an open-source app that ships with the BLPAPI and if you run it on the same PC as your Bloomberg Terminal install, it will just work an…
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on “How the Bloomberg Terminal Made History and Stays Relevant”Submitted Testing Java Code in Maths Libraries as a story · 1 points
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