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by pelle 17y ago
According to my calculations a good enterprise solution costing eleventy billion dollars would require a fourty billion dollars annual support contract.
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Bullion and Bandits: the Rise and Fall of Another Visionary(financialcryptography.com)
2 points by pelle 17y ago|0 comments
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by pelle 17y ago
I wrote a piece on them last year which also had some good discussions on it on they HN page: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=253569
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The inverted pyramid of Identity(financialcryptography.com)
1 points by pelle 17y ago|0 comments
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Why Contenture could be good for bloggers and simple web apps(stakeventures.com)
1 points by pelle 17y ago|0 comments
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by pelle 17y ago
As a RoR developer I have often been hired into optimize various services. One of the biggest issues I have seen is this exponential growth of queries. I have routinely seen requests at clients with 2-3000 queries (even with query caching).
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by pelle 17y ago
It kind of shocked me when I came back to Denmark. Then it just amused me. It's funniest when people write it as "fåhk", which I'm seeing more and more. It is also probably the reason why DHH uses it so liberally in keynotes etc. It might h
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by pelle 17y ago
I wrote this comment on ESR's site but it's in the moderation queue: Interesting article. I myself am Danish but living in Miami. I left about 20 years ago but was back in Copenhagen for a couple of years recently. I did see a big change in
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by pelle 18y ago
Thank you very much for that link. That explains a lot. I guess it's up to us to create new precedence.
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The exquisite torture of best practices(financialcryptography.com)
1 points by pelle 18y ago|0 comments
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How to go about getting a credit card processor(stakeventures.com)
30 points by pelle 18y ago|2 comments
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Nassim Taleb on the Financial Crisis(econtalk.org)
5 points by pelle 18y ago|1 comments
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by pelle 18y ago
I'm glad no major damage happened. Anyway your mention of fnid prompted me to learn a bit about arc and the arc web server which looks very interesting. Might have to play with it a bit. http://arcist.com/doc/srv.html
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by pelle 18y ago
This is a myth. Most contracts are not even written down and are perfectly legal. For example if you're in a restaurant and order food you have accepted a contract to pay for that food once you finish. The contract does not include any lega
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by pelle 18y ago
I caught it here: http://skitch.com/pelle/beksu/hacker-news-hacked
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by pelle 18y ago
Great comparison with cobol. I love it. There is a burgeoning "agile" movement amongst some (albeit very few) lawyers to improve things. I wrote this rant about it a while back about how lawyers really should learn a bit from the agile move
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by pelle 18y ago
As many of the commenters pointed out the summary becomes a part of the agreement. I think it would even trump the legalese if there is some inconsistency between them. What people fail to understand is that the contract/agreement itself is
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Refactoring the Consulting Agreement(blog.extraeagle.com)
5 points by pelle 18y ago|0 comments
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by pelle 18y ago
I had worked with electronic signatures for years, but lawyers have generally chuckled over lay folks focus on signatures. As you rightly say intent is the only thing important. However your argument about how a court decides if there was i
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Profiles of Panamanian Micro Entrepreneurs(stakeventures.com)
2 points by pelle 18y ago|0 comments
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by pelle 18y ago
I don't think you can consider Austrian school of economics nor the Chicago school fringe economics. Milton Friedman and Friedrick Hayek were hardly fringe loonies, but rather continued the free market tradition of classical economists such
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by pelle 18y ago
You are right of course.
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by pelle 18y ago
I love De Soto's work check out his foundations site for more: http://ild.org.pe/en/home Common law has a pretty good alternative to contract law for the kind of cases you mention. This is known as Tort law. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/
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by pelle 18y ago
You are both right. When it comes to the Money Supply economists talk about M0 which is actual currency issued by the federal reserve (or your countries equivalent). Then there are M1 to M3 which are count increasingly less hard money and t
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by pelle 18y ago
I myself am an armchair economics. I am fairly well read on the subject over the year. I think to an extent the article has a point. However if the whole point of the post is true, then it's summary should of course also be taken into doubt
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by pelle 18y ago
That is the original reason, but randallsquared is absolutely right that Libertarian economists from for example the Austrian school of economics believe that complex systems can not be micro managed by a small group of experts.
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by pelle 18y ago
I believe he's referring to National Insurance. But as far as I remember NI is the government pension scheme and not related to health insurance. I can't remember if I had to show my NI card when going to the doctor when I was at university
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by pelle 18y ago
Bravo, right on. Historically big cos use government to keep smaller competitors out. Just look at internet businesses. They are fairly unregulated and while there are short term market leaders, these are constantly being challenged and eve
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by pelle 18y ago
I agree as well. Too many people in the US use the term "liberal" or "socialist" without really understanding what that means. The same seems to be very much true at the moment about libertarians. Zed who I have a world of respect for doesn
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by pelle 18y ago
Also by definition we are at liberty to believe whatever we want. Kind of by definition we don't have any leaders to define what we think, even though many of us read lots of stuff by Rothbard, Mises, Hayek, Rand etc. Me I am definitely a l

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