newt0311

11 ms·

31.
by newt0311 18y ago
50,000 for the first. $2 for the thousandth? This is where the economies of scale really shine.
32.
by newt0311 18y ago
Its the government. Making idiotic useless (or on a more moderate note: shortsighted) regulation is its purpose in life.
33.
by newt0311 18y ago
Don't insult SGML!! SGML is actually quite nice. With omitable and case-insensitive tags, its pretty easy to work with if it is used in its intended domain: document markup . YAML is great for exchanging data but SGML and YAML target diffe
34.
by newt0311 18y ago
YES!!! Finally an explanation from a non-economist that doesn't descend into progressive-populist-bankers-are-evil propaganda. And yes, a second video showing the actions of the government would be nice.
35.
by newt0311 18y ago
I don't know... I am with Herbert here: "The universe is always one step beyond logic." We may (and in my opinion, definitely will) continue to refine theories of physics in the future but I don't think we will ever achieve perfection. Ther
36.
by newt0311 18y ago
By "people", do you mean the average Joe or programmers like yourself who take the time to visit sites like HN and posting comments?
37.
by newt0311 18y ago
Classically, the definition of entrepreneurs has been the former. People who set out to make companies and get rich. Just try google: define:entrepreneur. When we use a language, we should respect its definitions or pretty soon people start
38.
by newt0311 18y ago
US debt != US govt. debt. The bubble started sometime in the 1980s when it became clear that the US was unlikely to ever run a trade surplus. Its been inflating ever since. Also, bonds are just a proxy for cash. There is effectively no diff
39.
by newt0311 18y ago
Update: A way to make sense of this is that China is making a massive bet on the future of the US. Namely, they are assuming that the US will continue to be rich which will maintain the value of US securities which can eventually be cashe
40.
by newt0311 18y ago
Right now, the major barriers keeping China's capital in China are actually chinese regulation and china's economic growth in that order. China has very strict capital regulation on how money can be moved around across borders. Also, so far
41.
by newt0311 18y ago
No. This is the classic sign of a bubble in US govt. securities. One thats been building up for decades. The redesign will come when the Chinese decide to use all this US debt to by US property. They can already buy several Fortune 500 comp
42.
by newt0311 18y ago
"The file-format [PDF] is only semi-open and Acrobat files are larger than I’d like them to be, when compared to the amount of information encoded within them. There’s also the small point of cost." I would like to point out that this was w
43.
by newt0311 18y ago
What the hell?! This is what counts as front-page material? Here is a question for cringely: maybe the chart is only designed to show subjective differences and the people who made the chart concluded the scaling by diameter instead of area
44.
by newt0311 18y ago
If you look in a periodic table, you will find that Boron, Carbon, and Nitrogen have 5, 6, and 7 electrons altogether. Any element with fewer valence electrons will be ineffective in forming latices with covalent bonds (as they have too few
45.
by newt0311 18y ago
I think addresses and pass-by-reference drive people crazy when they start
46.
by newt0311 18y ago
Sensationalism. It also infects the media. interesting essay on the same by Crichton: Why Speculate? : http://www.michaelcrichton.net/speech-whyspeculate.html
47.
by newt0311 18y ago
"Oh please. Contracts get modified in bankruptcy all the time -- in fact, the inability to modify mortgages is the exception. In a standard business reorganization all contracts are capable of being modified by the judge or by consensus of
48.
by newt0311 18y ago
Second. Also, its kind of funy and very disturbing when researchers think they can analyze so complex a subject like differences in behavior in relation to wealth with such a small sample-size and with so many free variables. It illustrates
49.
by newt0311 18y ago
Not quite: MySQL GA release with known crashing bugs: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=380092 Comparison of MySQL and PostgreSQL releases: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=381899
50.
by newt0311 18y ago
Excess inefficiencies if they have to adjust immediately. They would have to unroll all the debt in a few days instead of the months it would take to unroll the debt in an orderly fashion.
51.
by newt0311 18y ago
assets != cash. Also, if the cash reserves die out, they will probably fall short of the reserve requirements in place.
52.
by newt0311 18y ago
At least for chase, they will happily send you an email every time there is a transaction on your account. If you want a URL to post to, pull up the history of the account and just refresh that.
53.
by newt0311 18y ago
Benchmarks between DBs are pretty rare because they are so difficult to control for. The configurations make a big difference. One set of benchmarks is here: http://tweakers.net/reviews/657/6 but thats in 2006. Also, MySQL has known fatal
54.
by newt0311 18y ago
From what I have heard, the plugins work pretty well. Also, the postgres team has decided to integrate some replication into the core codebase so expect some change on that.
55.
by newt0311 18y ago
Canada 2008 real GDP growth rate: 0.7% US 2008 real GDP growth rate: 1.4%* Whats the point of not having bank failures when you earn less? Or another way to put it: whats the point of not loosing money if you don't have any to begin with. A
56.
by newt0311 18y ago
Progress in software.... Is it just me or is it that most progress nowadays seems to be just rediscovering features that old specialized apps like emacs have had for decades now? Seriously, conversations... GNUS has had that for ages and it
57.
by newt0311 18y ago
Yet, the basic point holds. On the whole, the Internet makes people and organizations vastly more productive. Furthermore, morphine and opiates are regularly used when the benefits outweigh the costs (like for anesthesia) so thats not a v
58.
by newt0311 18y ago
False analogy: Heroin does not have significant positive side-effects (at least not in a monetary sense). Ie. it cannot make you more productive. Technology on the other hand does.
59.
by newt0311 18y ago
Yeah, but college didn't teach them about basic finance!!! Clearly its not their fault. On a more serious note: It would be nice if some finance education was mandatory. Ex: there is no good reason for having any credit card debt and yet
60.
by newt0311 18y ago
Nope. Backref and friends can be implemented on top of DFAs. Grep offers an example of such an implementation.

More ›