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by jbooth 12y ago
Sure, I agree that we had no choice at that point but to bail the banks out. But when reviewing the decision afterwards, I think we need to reject lines of argument that the government did really great on the deal so it's not that bad
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by jbooth 12y ago
Because it's embracing too big to fail. Unless we want 'too big to fail' to be the rule going forward, and unfortunately it seems that it will be, we should reject the idea that the rest of us are the beneficiary of having t
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by jbooth 12y ago
If the risk was so low, why couldn't a private entity bail out the banks? Would have been a gangbusters investment, right? 8.6% is a good return for that risk?
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by jbooth 12y ago
So here's my question, how come no browser has a way for a java applet to manipulate the DOM? We've got GWT compiling java to JS, we've got this compiling scala to JS.. and the JVM was originally built to run inside of a br
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by jbooth 12y ago
You know that you can get the NH budget and audit it yourself, right now, right?
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by jbooth 12y ago
In addition, this incredibly low inflation happened in an environment with rock bottom interest rates and the fed basically printing money because you can't cut interest rates below 0. Those moves were supposed to create hyper-inflatio
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Neither do bald assertions with a smiley face. We've been supposed to see hyper-inflation Any Day Now since like 2009. I'm sure it's just around the corner.
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by jbooth 12y ago
In terms of 'trained', it seems like their attitude towards crowd control was to out-macho the crowd, which can only really escalate the situation. Look at that picture of the dude on top of the APC brandishing the mounted gun.
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by jbooth 12y ago
You're right regarding larger system architectures where it's more about the services and less about what language each is written in. 1) Regarding concurrency, Go really pushes you towards writing things in a scalable way with t
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by jbooth 12y ago
Java dev who loves Go here. Go takes what I consider 'best practices' in Java, things like delegation-rather-than-inheritance, and manage-concurrency-through-BlockingQueues-and-ExecutorServices, and makes them the 'idiomatic&
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by jbooth 12y ago
You can make it harder -- the trend recently is to make it easier.
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by jbooth 12y ago
It's probably possible to create a situation where a JVM process calls Rust code which then calls back to some Java function, if you're inclined to spend enough time hacking with JNI (is it possible to pass a function pointer out
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by jbooth 12y ago
Words like 'monad' and 'kleisli category' (which I've never heard of) absolutely REEK of impracticality to me, regardless of the concepts. There's a rule for academic papers where if the author is writing in cl
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by jbooth 12y ago
So he invested time in building up his straw-man before tearing it down? The problem with being in such a rush to confirm your own worldview is that you don't learn anything from anyone else's. The 'worse is better' p
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by jbooth 12y ago
So, uh, what are you actually after? Just use Scala if that's what you want. If you can't be bothered to manage memory in rust, then it seems hard to believe that native compilation makes a difference for you. Is it all just abo
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by jbooth 12y ago
The point is that you reach an area where the mathematical ideas don't map perfectly to the underlying functionality you're providing. You can make your language "unsound" by violating those mathematical principles, or y
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by jbooth 12y ago
If you read the article, he puts forth a few examples where generics make code re-use possible, where it was impossible before. This not only means less effort, it means fewer bugs.
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by jbooth 12y ago
Go has first-class functions, if it had generics it'd be trivial to put together libraries for most of the functional-collection goodies, while still having imperative style available for when you care about performance or when it&#x27
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by jbooth 12y ago
"Talking it out" isn't an option when you're dealing with code that's older than last week, let alone code written by developers that you've never met - you can't talk it out retroactively. That's a
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by jbooth 12y ago
Call the A-10 late 90s / early 2000s MySQL. Sinfully ugly and gets the job done.
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by jbooth 12y ago
Why not both? Satellites make an SR-71 silly so we shouldn't build another one, but let's say we did. What's that project look like?
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by jbooth 12y ago
Compared to their neighbors? After adjusting for a worldwide-unique embargo? Honestly, I'm not into communism and am very surprised that their figures are as good as they are. It's dumbfounding.' I guess it's more a st
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by jbooth 12y ago
He was making an economic argument, not a political rights argument. How come nobody hit the ceiling when we didn't close our embassy with China today?
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by jbooth 12y ago
Any hedge they have is probably based on typical sales volume, this situation is not typical.
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I'm just saying it's silly to call the government socialist based on the gov't % of jobs growing in an otherwise shrinking economy. The government could be cutting jobs (not that Detroit's is) and still growing as a % o
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by jbooth 12y ago
Let's say the government employed 1 person, total, and every single private employer moved out, creating a situation of 100% government employment. Would you still phrase it as "the government created a socialist state"? Whip
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by jbooth 12y ago
I guarantee you that whatever mistakes the city government in Detroit made, above and on top of socio-economic things that are hard for them to control, nobody ever said "I know, we'll create a socialist mini-state in detroit and
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by jbooth 12y ago
Why could we not have at least seen this happen? "“We outsourced Thomas Friedman to an Indian content farm, where they produce for pennies a word, any kind of material you want. Really, it’s terrible and I felt kind of guilty after I d
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by jbooth 12y ago
Cool stuff but why didn't you just use an existing LMDB wrapper or write a new one? What's this offer that an LMDB wrapper doesn't?
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by jbooth 12y ago
If you're interested in building a distributed DB on top of LMDB, I took care of part of the problem (replication/consistency) in my flotilla library at https://github.com/jbooth/flotilla Basically I'm j

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