Ask HN: How would you describe Bloomberg Terminal to a complete layman?

1 points by Brazilian-Sigma 5 years ago | 1 comment

Just saw a Bloomberg Terminal post, I have been ignorant of finance in my CS career so far. Any resources to learn computer finance, Bloomberg, and all the hype around it in finance scene?

verdverm 5 years ago |

The Bloomberg Terminal is an ultrafast dumb machine connected to the best financial information and news system. When I worked there many many years ago, they did not send data to the terminal (think frontend client). Instead, they sent draw commands so that the actual data could not be snooped on.

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