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> You can get a loan at very reasonable rates right now if you meet the criteria.

This is a good point, and one I've read elsewhere. However, I've also read this, which seems to add some nuance, if not quite contradict the above quote:

"The interbank-funds market has seized up and even the most creditworthy corporate and financial firms are paying punitive rates."

http://www.economist.com/world/unitedstates/displayStory.cfm...

It's possible those firms aren't really creditworthy, but giving the 'newspaper' the benefit of the doubt, this would make the situation a bit more complex than you paint it.
This is a really impressive exercise in both Ruby and compilers. He takes care to give enough information to help those with limited C and assembler knowledge.
He should have gone to Babbo as well. That place is fantastic!
You could make brackets optional. And change them to quotes:

translate serendipity to french
translate "go after" to french
Japan didn't do "bailouts", from what I've read. More along the lines of simply never facing up to the bad debts and letting some things fail. That certainly has to be part of it, and has been so far.
At first I didn't notice there's a command prompt at the bottom. At least you could point visitors to it.
It sounds nice, but for that to happen there'd have to be a fundamental shift in how web technology is shaped. I think Europe will plan an increasingly important role in the future of the web, but that will likely be a slow rather than dramatic shift.

There could be a dramatic shift -- say, if the current US economic downturn is protracted and investment / exit opportunities in the US are significantly less plentiful than in Europe, but the more likely case is that if the US economy continues to perform poorly that it'll drag the EU down with it.
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Ex-Freddie-Mac-Now-Cato-Economist Arnold Kling claims (in this interview: http://bloggingheads.tv/diavlogs/14744) that Fannie basically had to lower their requirements in order to meet the HUD requirements mentioned at the end of this article. So a well-intentioned but unaccountable leader makes a decision with unintended consequences, but because that decision reverberates through the market power of enormous governmental structures, it leaves a much larger mark than would be otherwise possible or likely.
His parents were secular/atheist which lends a lot of credence to that idea in my mind.
How does this concept differ from the stochastic calculus based implementations of VaR?
Good work. We had a similar idea and we see potential in this. Dont stop!
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Amen. Mind if I use that quote "Quickbooks, not Oracle".
It looks like a stupid idea prima facie. Charge people you don't think are going to pay more? What kind of "educated" individual thought that one up?

I'd laugh if it weren't on you and me to fix their stupidity.
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Oh, it's a just a whole hell of a lot more complicated than that. The really big threats came from big banks anxious to keep their subprime accounting tricks going as long as possible, and to keep up their oh so profitable derivatives game. The government SINCE 1999 has been quite anxious to keep the charade going as well, since housing and bubble equity was the one shell game that made the economy look like it was growing.

This article, from NINE YEARS AGO, is floating around the right wing blogosphere a lot, accompanied by pretty clueless commentary. Do people really think that if what this program became (and it changed significantly from a program that was simply designed to help more people buy a home) wasn't making bushel barrels of money for the people who helped keep a certain political party in power for most of this last decade, that it would have been allowed to remain?

What the hell has been going on the last nine years? Has there been anyone at the helm?
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Does this article seem like a troll (haven't we seen it here before?).

Meaningful conclusions might be drawn from the data if the actual distributions of income and educational level were mapped against religious tendency, rather than per-capita and percentage. I would speculate that the US would be less distinct.

I am a Christian, and know many who aren't slack-jawed yokels. Although, there seem to be a propensity of religious followers in the world who either lack critical thinking skills or simply fail to apply them to their beliefs (the 'accept at face value and stop thinking' crowd).
Linux Foundation is funded by IBM, HP, Intel. So I guess its just an anti-sun attack. Its just a negative-PR.
>>["The future is Linux and Microsoft Windows," says foundation Executive Director Jim Zemlin]
Stop predicting...Start working!!
Michael Dell once predicted similar thing about Apple. But look at where Apple is today!! And look at Dell!!
For one... the meals weren't free. I'm sure he was tipping generously those nights though.

The one thing that really strikes me is I wonder if this bribing is relatively rare, and the novelty is what made it work.
1. Create a Lisp-based or Lisp-like markup language. Users: "wtf, my eyes".

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This is why having RSS feeds which can feed you all changes/additions to a website is a good idea.

Maybe especially for abandoned websites.
Why is it important to you that others don't read it?
I know the implication is to the current crisis, but to believe that sub-prime is what caused our current problems is plain incorrect. Sub-prime is to today's economic collapse as the Ferdinand's assassination was to WWI: a mere catalyst, but the system was primed by fundamental issues.
Same here except we switched to our own home-brew server to serve static and PHP files in-tandem with IIS.

Lighttpd was and still is amazing, but the lack of direction and precise management with regards to the 1.5 release has really hurt their fanbase.
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Was that written by Paul Graham or by Robert T. Morris?
this is a forum for engineering, not marketing.
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RHEL is shockingly expensive for what you get. Either you do what they approve (in which case you won't really need their support, so you might as well be using CentOS) or you don't (in which case you won't get any support, so you might as well be using CentOS). But RH has the mindshare among developers; if you need to run something like Oracle on x86 then your options are RHEL or Windows.

Solx86 is free and of very high quality (far better than RHEL in package management alone!). But application vendors (e.g. again, Oracle) treat it as a tier-2 platform. So in many cases, it's just not an option.
It's not so much loony as irrational.

Faith is irrational, by definition (Pascal's wager notwithstanding).

Many people believe in many irrational things (the perfection of their children, the ability of their team to win this game) and decent people don't challenge them on it.

It only becomes an issue when irrationally-held beliefs come into conflict with rationality that reasonable people get upset.

Sort of like, your freedom to swing you fist ends at the end of my nose, your freedom to believe in whatever you want stops when it affects me.

(edit - well, of course you are always free to believe whatever you want. But my tolerance of it may be reduced.)
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convince him to move to github by forking it? :-)
"The distinction is between people who, in that area of conflict, tend to give precedence to either belief or science."

I think you're wrong here. I think few give precedence to science. They find a way to work around the conflict. Giving precedence is along the lines of 'I see a green sheep so I know they exist' taking precedence over 'I read on wikipedia that all sheep are white.'Generally, the latter set of believers interpret 'wikipedia' in a way that does not cause conflict or minimises conflict.

Obviously there is a practical distinction between various points on the scale between Obama & Bin laden (with Palin somewhere in between). But the scale is not about how they deal with 'conflict.' It's about how often the conflicts occur & where. That's the practical scale that affects what people do & how they vote.

On the more fundamental scale of how they deal with such conflict, the variations tend to be much smaller.

Edit: Clarification
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No list there. Here it is:

1. Steve Ballmer -- microsoft.com

2. Mitchell Baker -- mozilla.org

3. Jeff Bezos -- amazon.com

4. Sergey Brin, Larry Page, and Eric Schmidt -- google.com

5. Jeff Clavier -- softtechvc.com

6. Paul Graham -- ycombinator.com

7. Arianna Huffington -- huffingtonpost.com

8. Joi Ito -- joi.ito.com

9. Steve Jobs -- apple.com

10. Jonathan Kaplan -- theflip.com

11. Loic Le Meur -- Leweb3.com, seesmic.com

12. Jack Ma -- alibaba.com

13. Matt Mullenweg -- Wordpress.org

14. Rupert Murdoch -- myspace.com

15. Craig Newmark -- craigslist.com

16. Gabe Rivera -- techmeme.com

17. Kevin Rose -- digg.com

18. Sheryl Sandberg -- facebook.com

19. Jon Stewart -- thedailyshow.com

20. Peter Thiel -- clariumcapital.com, thefoundersfund.com

21. Maria Thomas -- etsy.com

22. Anssi Vanjoki -- nokia.com

23. Jimmy Wales -- wikia-inc.com

24. Evan Williams -- twitter.com

25. Jerry Yang -- yahoo.com
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I suppose I did if the Gist of "Too many people confuse faith with the idea of absolute belief" is "Too many people assume that faith = literal belief in Genesis, Leviticus or Luke"

Certainly absolute beliefs matter in a practical sense. If I were in The States, Obama's beliefs wouldn't worry me. Palin's might. In the very theoretical sense, they both worry me a little. But even Palin's beliefs are probably less likely to affect anything to the degree that her social conservatism (related but not equivalent) is likely to have.
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"Google has their eyes on the long haul with Android. Which is why reactions to a somewhat scattered UI in the very first implementation is not something they're worried about too much."

It's too important for them to worry about the details of it?
Thanks all - let me have a read and post back some. Very Much appreciated!
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Hi - it's not a traditional feedreader - we have written queries in the backend to return the feeds. We have actually done much more than that due to the variation in formats and semantic interpretation of RSS and Atom - but basically it's not a traditional feedreader. Thanks.
Now, I enjoy an Apple hardware brainfuck as much as the next, but a phone is never a better phone because of hardware alone, and Google knows this too.

Not sure about this... I think in large part the problem with Windows Mobile phones is the driver quality/integration -- a problem that you can't separate from the hardware too far.

No one else makes a legitimate phone OS with all this support that can be tweaked down to the very roots. For one thing, I'm excited to be able to download an entirely different version of all of Android’s core applications if I don't like the default 1.0 versions—and that’s every app, everything from the dialer to the contacts manager—something that's technically possible in WinMo but often comes off more as an awkward re-skinning and not a top-down integration.

I know the good folks at Google have given this a lot of hard thought, but the fit and finish of those applications is critical to the reliability of the phone as a phone. Software that hook into those interfaces poorly or without good reason risks a lot of reliability for dubious gain. Anyone who used Mac OS pre-X or PalmOS with a lot of extensions knows exactly what I'm talking about.

That said, I'm more and more pumped about it as time goes on. The openness can't hurt, even if Apple isn't on board (and likely won't be for years if ever).
Thanks. Out last name ends in "z" which is why i use it, but fair enough. Giving people an idea of what it does it always pretty tricky so feedback on that is good.

I'll look into the things you mention - the Google feed reader is an interesting idea - and i already have the cached Atom i generate from the queries.
Aye - i use cookies to store your language. Maybe something to do with that.
I am interested in using where a user came from too - i just never had time to do it right now but i will check out how i could achieve that. Would make things easer - at least for location.

Once you log in you can customize it.

Thanks - will have a think about the UI.
No probs - glad to hear of any feedback. This group are focused on early stage stuff so good to hear back. Scripts are styles are inlined in some cases (not all).

The buttons do stuff when it's available - but perhaps i'll hide them when there are no options.

Hey, no worrie about the critique - useful to hear than nothing!
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though this is a nice project in itself--and i don't want, and neither intend to, to insult anybody, i think that this implementation is not actually well suited for anybody new
to compilers to understand what's going on.

AFAICT, newcomers are much better off learning the art of simplicity w.r.t. compilers from niklaus wirth's book on compiler construction (the pdf can be downloaded from his homepage); it is an easy read, and pascal is also a worthwhile language to learn (IMHO, i sure did in the mid-90s and it was no waste of time). there is also much benefit in knowing the tools of the trade if you have to design something other than a simple language, i.e. knowing bison/yacc/cup/antlr/burg etc. is definitiely a plus.
finally, the traditional top-down-approach is also very useful if you're designing, say a DSL, yourself -- it can still be interpreted within the language of your choice (i.e. ruby, perl, python have all nice parser generators for that task) -- no need to directly get to "shores of hell" (again so mid-90s ;), ahem, code generation...
Where is Saudi Arabia?

Saudi is most definitely an outlier. But that is to be expected. They are an unusual case. They are a physical religious hub (like Rome but more) because of the Haj & other reasons. And they did not reach current GDP levels by conventional means.

And where does Israel fall?

I think you might be surprised. Both Judaism & Islam are relatively easy to gauge because of the lifestyle demands they make. Most Jews considered 'religious' would probably observe, kosher (what you can eat), Sabath (No driving, electricity on Saturday), attend synagogue weekly, pray daily, etc. The percentage of Jews that adhere to these is probably around the 20% - 30%. A further 20% - 30% probably adhere to some of these. Not sure about Muslim population. Both are probably becoming more religious over time. Anyway, I think at 25k GDP pp, you could place it above the line, but not too far.

The correlation within Israel, probably works.
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Do you believe you would have gone to the New World if you would be hungry?

Maybe the idea of danger, excitement, etc. appealed. Maybe it was the motivator. But either way, people went because they thought life would be better.
I've always done the whole "If you could squeeze me in, I'd be VERY grateful" bit, followed by a tip later. The meaning is implied so clearly that it might as well have been stated explicitly, plus the host doesn't risk losing his job. Works like a charm.
Agreed on nginx. Even with the relative lack of docs, etc. it's so easy to work with and it never fails. I've never once had a problem.

I've never tried lighttpd because of the dreaded memory leak that everyone talks about.
It's a common but bad comparison, a country is not a company the political actors act not as leaders in the sense of a company. It's a constant process to find common ground between elected representives. If you are looking at political processes don't think about decisions and clear statements think about a permanent negotiation to somehow muddle through. It's basically a very good system to get something done without giving anybody too much power. The alternative is Stalin.
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I don't want to see NYC to get too political but this is at least related to IT. Apologies if cause disagreements.
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If I remember correctly it was mainly written by PG and named after RTM.
It's called Hacker News. Didn't he hack his way into the restaurants?
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If you mean the credit default swaps, those are worthless pieces of paper peddled by companies that didn't have the means to keep up with those contracts. In other words, they are fraudulent.

There was one hedge fund that setup a company with $4.5 million dollars to be able to cover a possible default of into the billions.

Those contracts are worse then worthless and should be annulled like a marriage to Britney Spears.
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You can read this different ways.
"those with the least conflict of interest between their personal political future"
But those not up for reelection could do business as usual, right? Most of us think that "business as usual" means legislation not in the interest of the many.

I don't think your perspective is clear.
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With open source software, we know WHAT is wrong and WHY it is wrong. We may not know HOW to fix it.

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If I said I believed there were a small family of pixies living in my garden, and that I can hear voices from the pixies telling me what to do, it would be hard to see past that to intelligence.

There are several studies to show that lower IQ matches with a higher probability of religion.

Of course there are odd outliers as with anything, but it's still a paradox - how can someone have logical thought, but believe in religion.

For a start the fact that they only believe in one religion and not all the others should be a red flag - an athiest and christian are very alike, the athiest just believes in one less god.
Hi, I'm the one writing the series, and I halfway agree with you.

I started learning to write compilers by getting Turbo Pascal and seeing the whole syntax expressed in BNF in a page or two of the manual, and the Pascal family (Modula, Oberon etc.) are all great starting points if you want to start writing a compiler top down.

Apart from Wirth's text, there's of course also the great series by Crenshaw.

The reason I chose to go in the opposite direction, though, was in large part because starting with the syntax tree etc. has been done to death, and a lot of people hit the wall long before getting something that generates a program that can run.

I also get the impression that code generation is seen like something of a dark art ("shores of hell"? It's not _that_ bad :) ), and that a lot of the time the choice of writing an interpreter instead of a compiler comes down to fear of the amount of work involved with generating code.

Witness how many interpreters don't even generate bytecode (Matz Ruby interpreter, I'm looking at you...) and suffer tremendously for it.

It's not that hard. Generating really fast code is hard, but generating code that beats the pants of an interpreter for the same language is usually fairly easy. Though some languages make it tricker than others to get something efficient, in particular due to the level of dynamic features (Ruby, I'm looking at you).

Another reason was that I want to play with something close to Ruby, and the Ruby syntax is an absolute nightmare to parse when you're the kind of person who appreciates clean, compact syntax descriptions... Who am I kidding? Ruby is a nightmare to parse unless you're the kind of mental masochist who enjoys doing his tax calculations on paper in binary just for the hell of it.

I decided to chicken out and do the "easy bits" first, particularly since a lot of my motivation was to get a platform to experiment with efficient ways of generating code for a language with the level of dynamism of Ruby.

It's as much an experiment for myself, since I've always built compilers top down myself as well. The reason I decided to start posting it was because I realized how quickly one can get to something that's actually semi-usable.

Anyway, a few more parts and I'll get to the parser. It will be based on a parser generator, though a more "Rubyish" one.

(And before anyone asks: No, don't expect a Ruby compiler from me, at least not in the next 5 years ;), I don't have the time, though I will explore topics related to it, such as a Ruby-like dynamic object model)
Due to FEAR.

Every religion injects fear in you.
And every religion now is a form of socio-economic collusion.
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