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Comment by aswanson

11 years ago

I did not expect this good of an article on this subject from a business publication. Well done.

bloomberg is mainly a technology company

  • We make the vast majority of our money from selling our software subscriptions and have ~4k employees in R&D. Depending on what data you use[1], if we were a public company we'd be the 4th largest in the world by revenue.

    [1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_largest_software_co...

    (My intention is not to bikeshed over who is or isn't in the "Software & Programming" industry or specific ranking, but to convey a sense of scale)

Time to follow @ftrain on Twitter then.

  • "C is a simple language, simple like a shotgun that can blow off your foot... Think of C as sort of a plain-spoken grandfather who grew up trapping beavers and served in several wars but can still do 50 pullups." Most certainly.