Nwallins

It does not tell you how to calculate the interchange, but it does explain what interchange is and describes the variables that go into the equation.

Nwallins

16년 전discuss

Interestingly relevant to BSD-style vs. GPL-style licensing:

> The vision of freedom that most of the big corporate interests had was the ability to make their platform sticky: to destroy interoperability so that (for example) Java software developed on Microsoft platforms could only run on Microsoft platforms. They wanted the freedom to capture developers. ... "Freedom" is a freakishly relative word. The freedom of the large software companies is directly at odds with the freedom of developers.

Nwallins

16년 전discuss

    #!/usr/bin/env ruby

    # you insensitive clod!

Nwallins

16년 전discuss

> The argument for evented concurrency assumes threads work. Async design isn't a reaction to MRI's crappy green threads.

Truly? To my understanding, event loops require inversion of control (and likely callbacks and broken exception handling). This is a large cost that requires a benefit to be worth it. I understand that benefit to be: you don't have to deal with threads (or bad implementations of such).

This blog post comes to mind: http://www.unlimitednovelty.com/2010/08/multithreaded-rails-...

Nwallins

16년 전discuss

Too bad they don't dogfood it (source: Default.aspx):

    <div class=mainholder>
    ...
    <div class=sidebar>
    ...
    <div class=maincontent>
    ...
    etc.

Also, the classic (header, 3-col, footer) layout is missing.

e.g.

    HEADER
    ------
    C|C |C
    C|C |C
    C|C |C
    C|C |C
    C|C |C
    ------
    FOOTER

Nwallins

16년 전discuss

> Can you explain that further?

Here's a stab: The culture here is such that comments are for the sake of the readers and not the writer. Some amount of self-promotion is fine, but too much is not appreciated.

Nwallins

16년 전discuss

Sounds like Jamie Dimon, of JP Morgan Chase. He ended a multi-billion IT outsourcing deal with IBM in 2004:

http://www.informationweek.com/news/global-cio/outsourcing/s...

Nwallins

16년 전discuss

> Many Microsoft decisions since the mid-90s (when I first started holding MSFT) have made life overall worse for me

That has nothing to do with your being a shareholder.

Nwallins

16년 전discuss

> Big corporations tend to operate in their stock's best interest, and this can still cause serious problems for their shareholders.

Erm, what? This seems contradictory on its face. The shareholder's only interest in a company is its stock performance, be it stock price or dividend payments. What sort of tendencies are you thinking of, here?

Nwallins

16년 전discuss

The punchline is at the end:

> Nobody wants to work for it anymore. There's no honor in taking that after school job at Mickey Dee's, honor's in the dollar, kid. So I went the white boy way of slanging crack-rock: I became a stock broker.

Nwallins

16년 전discuss

> don't the US corn subsidies for ethanol actually make corn more expensive?

My understanding is that the subsidies are there to incentivize corn production. The video says that the subsidized cost of corn production is actually negative -- that you can go plant a corn field and will have made money before you sell a single ear.

Once the corn is produced, if there are additional subsidies for ethanol production from corn, then that may divert corn from food uses. It may increase the cost of HFCS production.

But the cost of corn production is still lower despite, or perhaps even because of, the ethanol subsidies.

Nwallins

16년 전discuss

> These are obviously mutually exclusive definitions!

Not at all. He is saying racism is a subset of tribalism, as is being an OS fanboy. Tribalism the the umbrella term.

Nwallins

16년 전discuss

> However, the other counter argument against HFT is that it actually doesn't really provide liquidity to the market, as evident by the June flash-crash.

As far as I can tell, this is the only argument presented against HFT.

> But HFT dealers stopped trading that day, triggering a lot of people's stop-market orders

Are there other factors involved in this outcome, or is this a canonical HFT failure?

Nwallins

16년 전discuss

> the researchers hypothesized that, given some premises about evolution, poor women would have more kids earlier.

Um, isn't this already well known? Did they not craft the hypothesis to fit their existing understanding?

> Then they went and tested it.

No comment.

Nwallins

16년 전discuss

What exactly do you mean by replication with devices?

Nwallins

16년 전discuss

The "trouble" is only when you want a single process to monopolize the entirety of CPU resources. In today's (and even yesterday's?) processing environment, there are often tens if not hundreds of processes running at once, and 5 or 15 of them may be "performance critical".

Are multicore architectures not able to distribute this sort of load?

Nwallins

16년 전discuss

Erm, so the trouble with meritocracy is that higher education is bad? And we don't want to subject underprivileged demographics to the intellectually conformist ... education conveyor belt?

That we want to keep underprivileged demographics at home so they can critique the elites from afar?

Clarity is severely lacking. It's hard not to file this one under Anti-intellectual tripe.

Nwallins

16년 전discuss

> partly because I'm paranoid about getting sued by the RIAA.

No need to be paranoid, here. They only go after big distributors, not downloaders (aka leeches).

Nwallins

16년 전discuss

> the reuters/AP of ...

Unintentional irony? Both of those organizations' reputations have become quite tarnished. They are certainly not contemporary bastions of fair-handed transparency -- witness Reuters' photo manipulation and AP's quote-whoring.

Nwallins

16년 전discuss

> Option – Open Source the Product

> No, Not really an option at all. Who would work on it? Sure lots of people love to consume open source projects, but very few people contribute to them. And I have put a LOT of money into this product, I am not going to just give it away until I can at least break even. I have to put my kids through college, hopefully reclaim part of the money I have put into the company, etc. And lets face it donation type projects never, ever make money. Advertising on the site, etc are all pointless wastes of time.

Um, how is this not an option when terminating the project is? I'm not saying that he should open source anything, but this justification is silly, especially when compared to his previous explicit option of killing and burying the project.

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