Hey you work at bloomberg currently? On Jan 9, 2012 9:00 AM, "Michael Muller" <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Paul Chauvet wrote: > > There's one person who should have come to your meeting - he might be > > looking for projects to get into soon! > > http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-16440126 - New York Mayor Michael > > Bloomberg takes coding course. > > I'm actually surprised to hear this because I always assumed that he had at > least minimal coding skills. > > For anyone who doesn't know, Mike is the founder of Bloomber LP, a very > successful finacial information company (and my employer for two years). > His > hands-on inolvement in the original technology of the Bloomberg Terminal > was > very much a part of the cultural history of the company, but apparently he > was > more hardware oriented. His tech skills are also probably fairly dated. I > was told he once said something like "there are people who know more about > technology than me, and people who know more about finance, but no one > knows > more about both." > > More on his story at > > http://techcrunch.com/2011/11/28/founder-stories-how-michael-bloomberg-got-his-start-i-brought-you-a-cup-of-coffee/ > > > > > Jokes aside, I think its a good thing when people who are not who are > > normally considered 'computer people' get into things like this. More so > > for high profile people. > > > > > > ============================================================================= > michaelMuller = [email protected] | http://www.mindhog.net/~mmuller > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- > "We are not safe," said Ariel Cohen, a counterterrorism expert with the > Heritage Foundation, a Washington think tank. "Our commuter transit > systems do > not have metal detectors, bag searches, random body searches. Our level of > vigilance is nowhere near that of Israel, and Israeli buses have been hit > again and again." --> Good idea! Let's do what doesn't work for Israel!! > > ============================================================================= > _______________________________________________ > Mid-Hudson Valley Linux Users Group http://mhvlug.org > http://mhvlug.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mhvlug > > Upcoming Meetings (6pm - 8pm) Vassar College > Feb 1 - Home Networking Made Simple with Amahi Home Server > Mar 7 - March 2012 Meeting - 9th Annivesary of MHVLUG > Apr 4 - April 2012 Meeting >
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