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by gills 18y ago
I don't know. Have Americans forgotten how to work hard? This article is a year late, which seems to be fashionable these days in the financial world.
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by gills 18y ago
Some people are outraged. Much of the 'populace' of this forum: http://www.tickerforum.org and the originator of this one: http://financialpetition.org
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by gills 18y ago
What's a peapod order?
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by gills 18y ago
I was relieved to see this in the comments... "Michael Arrington - July 17th, 2008 at 2:33 am PDT I think literacy needs to become a requirement to get a job at the PTO. Morons."
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by gills 18y ago
Here are prepared remarks from one senator who has some brass. http://bunning.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=NewsCe...
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by gills 18y ago
If you don't have enough cash on hand to buy a house, you may well want to wish the opposite. Or if you hold a mortgage today, you definitely should wish the opposite -- most folks don't have enough cash on hand to cover the average coupon
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by gills 18y ago
Thank you. I like hearing what the people on this site have to say about those types of issues and if they hold any relation to your businesses and strategies, even if they are 'off-topic'.
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by gills 18y ago
Well said. But is our financial system worth saving? Here's a way to make sure it doesn't happen again: don't let it happen this time. Get on the phone to your congresspeople NOW, and don't stop pestering them until they pass law barring th
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by gills 18y ago
The Bill of Rights does not secure the right to earn a profit. Every one of these corporations had a choice between doing the right thing and doing the easy thing. A true patriot would fold the business before allowing it to be used to inf
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by gills 18y ago
It wouldn't collapse [all of] the financial industry. Any banks which may already be insolvent without FRB loans would have to declare bankruptcy. There are probably a couple solvent banks out there. Failure seems to be a fair and natura
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by gills 18y ago
Maybe. The scrolling widget has some advantages over a keypad. It has strong association with the physical odometer in the car (not all cars have odometers like this, mine does not, but it is a very strong association). The user doesn't
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by gills 18y ago
This is the Chewbacca defense and Congress knows it. They need to put a leash on the Federal Reserve and make them withdraw the slosh that's pumping the commodities exchanges.
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by gills 18y ago
If the Fed would actually do it's job and drain the swamp (remove excess credit from the system), it would help calm the bubbles.
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by gills 18y ago
that's funny, it made my morning :) In a high school expository writing course I was required to write a parable. As with most assignments at the time, I wrote it during the last 20 minutes of the preceding class. The topic I came up with
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by gills 18y ago
I logged in just to mod you down, due to the dull sadness I feel at your apparent sense of obligation to spew such bile. This blog post is full of misconceptions and appears to be written by an individual who has not sufficiently delved int
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by gills 18y ago
Since many (most?) of this community are nerdy people and cannot share your experience, would you please enlighten us with your motivation for such actions? I'm interested in hearing from the other side of the aisle. Edit: Unless you are
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by gills 18y ago
Public infrastructure may be designed to last many decades, but at least around here (Seattle) it only lasts a few years before being 'upgraded' for whatever reason, usually due to growth. On a meaningless and cynical tangent, I think the
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by gills 18y ago
I'm glad you got something out of it. I didn't. I think it's a cruel stereotype, and the upvotes that comment has received are telling of the lack of sincerity on this topic. There are many things you can do with IT/ICT to help the develop
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by gills 18y ago
I don't see what value this adds
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by gills 18y ago
I once built an app similar to this, where all the dom elements were built by the script. Good concept, but I thought the search engines handed out penalties for displaying different facets to robots vs users?
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by gills 18y ago
I enjoy the constant learning required to solve new problems. To echo some other sentiment in this thread, take the problem domain you are most passionate about and find a way to improve it through programming. I once ended up in a rut wher
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by gills 18y ago
Literature is often of higher quality than magazine articles. Non-fiction books often delve more deeply into a subject than a series of articles. Many books are not available online in their entirety; at least not for free. And when I do
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by gills 18y ago
You're right. I should find a way to turn the tables ;).
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by gills 18y ago
I have used a closed-source framework pretty heavily for a few years, and when I need to really understand how to use some part of the API, I will go home and recreate the observed behavior from scratch. While it's sort of inefficient (why
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by gills 18y ago
What a load of hooey. Simply put: Police officers are not my peers. They do not represent a balanced cross-section of my geographic or socioconomic neighborhood. A single police officer cannot perform the duties of the jury afforded me b
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by gills 18y ago
When did everyone forgot that HTML is presentation markup? It's object code. The content is back at the ranch in a database.
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by gills 18y ago
My version of this has always been that some people are as smart relative to myself as I am to my cat. There's no way I can even comprehend the chasm between us.
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by gills 18y ago
As an added bonus, sometimes the get() will do something more interesting in a subclass, like query a piece of hardware or a remote sensor. In that case you want the getter as interface so that the client can ignore the underlying complexi
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by gills 18y ago
The purist side of me agrees with the author. I try to design my objects around behaviors and make them appear stateless to other objects and other developers. But sometimes you just need a data cow, and when the language makes you use obj
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by gills 18y ago
Wow, they made the site much cleaner as well.

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