henryprecheur

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by henryprecheur 16y ago
I agree that the Fed is probably doing too much. I'm glad to live in Canada where central bankers act like robots and not like cowboys :) We'll probably never know for sure if QE2 was worth it or not. It's a trade-off, let's hope that the u
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by henryprecheur 16y ago
There's nothing fishy about it. They buy treasury bonds from primary dealers, which include Goldman Sachs. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Primary_dealers
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by henryprecheur 16y ago
1M people viewed this cartoon ... This is scary. The guys who did this clearly don't understand macro-economics. And yet many people will be convinced that QE2 "is bad" because "deflation is good, I can buy more stuff for less money" or "Be
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by henryprecheur 16y ago
The great depression has NOTHING to do with the Greek crisis. The crash of 1929 was caused by the financial sector, not by a crushing national debt. In 1929 the US federal debt was less than 20% of GDP [1]. It's not because a looser monetar
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by henryprecheur 16y ago
Being unable to devalue the currency (print money to pay debt), is --I think-- a good thing. It is harder for politicians to postpone the pain, they have to cut spending and do what's needed for the country/state/province to recover fiscall
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by henryprecheur 16y ago
I think this includes your salary/compensation. That's probably why they asked you to sign those stock options, so they could say "Hey look, we paid this guy $X for R&D. That's a tax credit of $Y."
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by henryprecheur 17y ago
The per-capita numbers wouldn't be as dramatic. Canada's population grew by 10% between 99 and 09. Also saying that "Canada is fiscally prudent" is true if we consider only the Public debt (which excludes household debt). France has the opp
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Will IPv6 ever be a reality?(henry.precheur.org)
3 points by henryprecheur 17y ago|0 comments
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Power corrupts, but it corrupts only those who think they deserve it(economist.com)
1 points by henryprecheur 17y ago|0 comments
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Employee: money + control = motivation(economist.com)
1 points by henryprecheur 17y ago|0 comments
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Google errs(economist.com)
1 points by henryprecheur 17y ago|0 comments
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The search for a second Earth gets serious(economist.com)
4 points by henryprecheur 17y ago|0 comments
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New-year irresolution(economist.com)
1 points by henryprecheur 17y ago|0 comments
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Great documentation, great software(henry.precheur.org)
1 points by henryprecheur 17y ago|0 comments
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The power of mobile money(economist.com)
4 points by henryprecheur 17y ago|0 comments
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by henryprecheur 17y ago
Secure & correct programs don't always have a nice code. For example qmail is probably the most secure smtp server around. But the code is not easy to read. Pretty much all the stuff Dan Bernstein writes is secure and correct. But his c
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Security in Your Pocket: OpenBSD on ARM(informit.com)
5 points by henryprecheur 17y ago|0 comments
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by henryprecheur 17y ago
He doesn't really predict "misery until the end of 2011", you can have a growing GDP and a rise of unemployment at the same time. Unemployment is well known lagging indicator. Its rise until at least 2010 is something widely accepted by gov
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by henryprecheur 17y ago
The article was and still is mostly right: http://www.economist.com/opinion/PrinterFriendly.cfm?story_i... U shaped recovery still seems more likely.
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by henryprecheur 17y ago
Just to show how good OpenBSD's manuals are, look at those: http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=strncpy http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/man.cgi?query=malloc They don't just explain what strncpy & malloc do. They also explain
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by henryprecheur 17y ago
I use OpenBSD at home for my router and my desktop. I don't plan to go back to Linux anytime soon. OpenBSD is robust, well documented, and simple. On the other hand it lacks many fancy features. For example it filesystem is somewhat dated
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Python: Double or single quotes?(henry.precheur.org)
2 points by henryprecheur 17y ago|0 comments
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by henryprecheur 17y ago
That's portability. Portable and clean code are 2 different things.
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The evolutionary origin of depression (economist.com)
2 points by henryprecheur 17y ago|1 comments
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by henryprecheur 17y ago
Funny but sound like a urban legend.
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by henryprecheur 17y ago
I can understand the frustration caused by this kind of bug, but it's actually pretty easy to fix: generator = (x * x for x in xrange(10)) # A generator my_list = list(generator) # Build a list, reusable That's the Python way o
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Reforming American health care: Heading for the emergency room(economist.com)
1 points by henryprecheur 17y ago|0 comments
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by henryprecheur 17y ago
It can be acceptable if you use CRC. You can lose a few bits and still be able to read your data. Most media today are unreliable. I don't know what the numbers are for CDs, HD, or floppy disks, but the probability of spontaneous bit switch
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by henryprecheur 17y ago
My previous company used Zimbra for 6 month, after 3 months almost everybody switched to Gmail, it was an absolute pain to use back then, after 6 months we got rid of Zimbra. It was 2 years ago. We're using Zimbra at work right now. It got
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Dynamically create a type with Python(henry.precheur.org)
51 points by henryprecheur 17y ago|7 comments

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