And less than sixty years ago we helped overthrow a democratically elected government in Iran and put in place the Shah. [Who was evil in ways that Hitler *would* understand.]...and if I understand you, you're complaining that the Iranians used some props you find offensive.
Not to mention the minor fact that Allan Dulles bragged left and right about the CIA hand in the overthrow to the point where every kid in Iran knew the score...
I've been doing this stuff on a semi-pro basis for some years now.
Any recent DSLR from Nikon or Canon will do great. Get something simple and shoot away. Later on, You can get technical but it really is besides the point. Take pictures of what moves you and make a difference for you. Don't sweat the technical stuff until later on.
My point is that total debt isn't really very interesting. Whether debt is effectively owed by the tax-paying public or by private financial institutions matters, for example.
I understand your point clearly. BUT recent history have shown that private debt have a nasty habit of becoming public debt in a crisis. My point was to show the amount of debt that the UK government is going to inherit if the wheels come off those financial institutions. It will resemble Iceland...
Now, the UK debt is of longer maturity and therefore less volatile and it's denominated in pounds so Bank of England can just run the press and inflate the stuff away. But it's still a dicey operation.
Your source appears to be nearly two years out of date. A lot has happened in that time, so I don't think we can read too much into those figures today.
Ups. My bad. The UK have in fact overtaken Japan by now in total debt to gdp.
Yeah, it's horrendous, how dare the UK be one of the few countries in the EU capable of balancing it's books making it one of perhaps 2 or 3 economies in Europe whose AAA rating is perfectly safe.
+5 funny
The UK actually have the second highest total-debt-to-gdp ratios in the world. Only slightly below Japan who is wide seen as a bug in search of a windshield.
I hope you see the problems with a programming language that requires a spiritual ascension after a decade+ journey?
+5 Funny
C++ and Java were perfect for the challenges we faced 15 years ago but they have run out of steam now and complexity is threatening to overwhelm us again. Therefore I'm looking for a bigger hammer with more leverage to gain more productivity.
Turing-complete is not the point. Abstraction and leverage is the point. Assembly language is also Turing-complete and the reason we don't use it much is exactly the same. Productivity in assembly sucks.
LISP however is a nightmarish construct made to entertain academics with academic constructs, which it may do exceedingly well, but for practical real-world applications the usefulness of LISP is long gone if it ever existed beyond a rudimentary level.
I steadfastly held the same view that only academic wienies had any use for Lisp or even worse Scheme. It took me some 15 years to see the light but now I work exclusive in Lisp and Scheme.
Languages are NOT created equal and the challenges we face now needs more powerful languages. That is where Lisp and Scheme come into their own. I think, I'll look into Haskell next. Another language that I previously wouldn't touch with a ten-foot pole.
Time is a great teacher although it tends to kill all it's students
>> so you wouldn't mind outsourcing your girlfriend to me for a warmup, as long as you get her back wet and ready for you to focus on important stuff?
>Sure, you can take her shopping.
Funny as hell. Wish I had mods but the truth really isn't that far away and isn't that funny. The words are "Retail Happiness" and it makes us all wet and ready for another round.
What age really brought me is a very realistic way of evaluating things in the respect of "how can that be maintained, by somebody who is not me?".
Very insightful but think of the corollary: "How can this be maintained by someone who can't REMEMBER the details anymore?"
Way too often You have to maintain Your own shit so You might as well keep the smell down. Making You code obvious is a Big Win and often a sign of deeper understanding although few seems to understand it. Another lesson from a graybeard.
Essentially your idea is to have the government extract taxes from people equally by creating inflation, and thus taking money from everyone according to how much they have. It seems like a good idea on the surface, because we get rid of the expense of paying for the IRS, and it's fair: it taxes people according to their wealth.
Nice try. Now have a look at who holds their money in cash and bank accounts vs. who holds it in financial assets and is protected from inflation. Guess who gets shafted by inflation. Thanks for playing.
Oh, the infamous Lafffer curve (too lazy to post a link to wikipedia, check it yourself). Too bad it has not been proved, nobody knows where the optimal point is (why they always assume the optimal point is with LESS taxes, and no with more?), and everything else.
One has to marvel at small government people who point to the Laffer curve. The curve shows the optimal strategy for a bloodsucking leech (government in their point of view) and they complain that the bloodsucker is doing a bad job. The contradiction is mind blowing.
Never mind the fact that, the only proof for the Laffer curve is repeated assertion. But I guess that's good enough for economics these days. Particularly the Chicago branch of economics.
Manager: "I need a perfect solution to the Traveling Salesman Problem - I just signed a 7-figure contract saying we'd provide that in 2 weeks."
That shit almost happened to me. Exactly traveling salesman problem. So like a good CS graduate I raised the blinding obvious problem only to be shot down. Some hired gun (Olafur) had already implemented some shit that he claimed to be perfect.
Guess who the manager (Michael) believed.
I don't work there anymore. Retarded manager, shitty weather and lousy food. They deserve each other.
If we need to get into a pissing contest then it's masters degree in software engineering. And the university in question happened to the country's leading in that particular field at the time, not that You would be able to find the country nor the continent on a map. So how high can You piss, sir?
Or why not become a "financial engineer". You get to use your brain, you get paid massive bonuses for creating zero wealth, and you don't get treated as a second class citizen.
Amen to that. I'm handing back my masters degree in IT plus a lifetime of experience in order to start in B-school to become a quant. I'm tired of taking it up the ass.
OK. I'm a fan but this is just a matter of marketing and legal doing a circle jerk. I find it hard to picture a more offensive scenario but those are the hard facts of business.
Everybody else are speculating, even if you think that "oh this company has really good products and I think they'll sell well in the future" and invest long term that's speculation.
NO. That is called investing. Gambling on a company becoming profitable and giving a good ROI is a GOOD THING.
Speculation is disregarding the prospect of ROI and just gambling that the stock price will go up. Just like the resent housing bobble.
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It's going to be so much fun when they catch a terrorist with a bomb in some body cavity. Imagine the TSA after that.
And less than sixty years ago we helped overthrow a democratically elected government in Iran and put in place the Shah. [Who was evil in ways that Hitler *would* understand.] ...and if I understand you, you're complaining that the Iranians used some props you find offensive.
Not to mention the minor fact that Allan Dulles bragged left and right about the CIA hand in the overthrow to the point where every kid in Iran knew the score ...
I've been doing this stuff on a semi-pro basis for some years now.
Any recent DSLR from Nikon or Canon will do great. Get something simple and shoot away. Later on, You can get technical but it really is besides the point. Take pictures of what moves you and make a difference for you. Don't sweat the technical stuff until later on.
My point is that total debt isn't really very interesting. Whether debt is effectively owed by the tax-paying public or by private financial institutions matters, for example.
I understand your point clearly. BUT recent history have shown that private debt have a nasty habit of becoming public debt in a crisis. My point was to show the amount of debt that the UK government is going to inherit if the wheels come off those financial institutions. It will resemble Iceland ...
Now, the UK debt is of longer maturity and therefore less volatile and it's denominated in pounds so Bank of England can just run the press and inflate the stuff away. But it's still a dicey operation.
Your source appears to be nearly two years out of date. A lot has happened in that time, so I don't think we can read too much into those figures today.
Ups. My bad. The UK have in fact overtaken Japan by now in total debt to gdp.
Debt by nations
Yeah, it's horrendous, how dare the UK be one of the few countries in the EU capable of balancing it's books making it one of perhaps 2 or 3 economies in Europe whose AAA rating is perfectly safe.
+5 funny
The UK actually have the second highest total-debt-to-gdp ratios in the world. Only slightly below Japan who is wide seen as a bug in search of a windshield.
Total Debt to GDP ratios
Sorry to burst Your bubble but the bond market will discover this fact eventually.
Software development is MUCH easier nowadays.
Sure, but the problems were so much easier back then.
I hope you see the problems with a programming language that requires a spiritual ascension after a decade+ journey?
+5 Funny
C++ and Java were perfect for the challenges we faced 15 years ago but they have run out of steam now and complexity is threatening to overwhelm us again. Therefore I'm looking for a bigger hammer with more leverage to gain more productivity.
The spiritual ascension is entirely optional.
Turing-complete is not the point. Abstraction and leverage is the point. Assembly language is also Turing-complete and the reason we don't use it much is exactly the same. Productivity in assembly sucks.
LISP however is a nightmarish construct made to entertain academics with academic constructs, which it may do exceedingly well, but for practical real-world applications the usefulness of LISP is long gone if it ever existed beyond a rudimentary level.
I steadfastly held the same view that only academic wienies had any use for Lisp or even worse Scheme. It took me some 15 years to see the light but now I work exclusive in Lisp and Scheme.
Languages are NOT created equal and the challenges we face now needs more powerful languages. That is where Lisp and Scheme come into their own. I think, I'll look into Haskell next. Another language that I previously wouldn't touch with a ten-foot pole.
Time is a great teacher although it tends to kill all it's students
In Denmark, we routinely pay $8.2/gallon these days. $4 gas would be nirvana around here.
>> so you wouldn't mind outsourcing your girlfriend to me for a warmup, as long as you get her back wet and ready for you to focus on important stuff?
>Sure, you can take her shopping.
Funny as hell. Wish I had mods but the truth really isn't that far away and isn't that funny. The words are "Retail Happiness" and it makes us all wet and ready for another round.
That shit has to go.
What age really brought me is a very realistic way of evaluating things in the respect of "how can that be maintained, by somebody who is not me?".
Very insightful but think of the corollary: "How can this be maintained by someone who can't REMEMBER the details anymore?"
Way too often You have to maintain Your own shit so You might as well keep the smell down. Making You code obvious is a Big Win and often a sign of deeper understanding although few seems to understand it. Another lesson from a graybeard.
Hey. That last bit was rude and extremely inappropriate. Think of the children.
Essentially your idea is to have the government extract taxes from people equally by creating inflation, and thus taking money from everyone according to how much they have. It seems like a good idea on the surface, because we get rid of the expense of paying for the IRS, and it's fair: it taxes people according to their wealth.
Nice try. Now have a look at who holds their money in cash and bank accounts vs. who holds it in financial assets and is protected from inflation. Guess who gets shafted by inflation. Thanks for playing.
Oh, the infamous Lafffer curve (too lazy to post a link to wikipedia, check it yourself). Too bad it has not been proved, nobody knows where the optimal point is (why they always assume the optimal point is with LESS taxes, and no with more?), and everything else.
One has to marvel at small government people who point to the Laffer curve. The curve shows the optimal strategy for a bloodsucking leech (government in their point of view) and they complain that the bloodsucker is doing a bad job. The contradiction is mind blowing.
Never mind the fact that, the only proof for the Laffer curve is repeated assertion. But I guess that's good enough for economics these days. Particularly the Chicago branch of economics.
Manager: "I need a perfect solution to the Traveling Salesman Problem - I just signed a 7-figure contract saying we'd provide that in 2 weeks."
That shit almost happened to me. Exactly traveling salesman problem. So like a good CS graduate I raised the blinding obvious problem only to be shot down. Some hired gun (Olafur) had already implemented some shit that he claimed to be perfect.
Guess who the manager (Michael) believed.
I don't work there anymore. Retarded manager, shitty weather and lousy food. They deserve each other.
If we need to get into a pissing contest then it's masters degree in software engineering. And the university in question happened to the country's leading in that particular field at the time, not that You would be able to find the country nor the continent on a map. So how high can You piss, sir?
so instead, as a quant, you're going to be an integral part of a system that forces many many other people take it up the ass. bravo.
You know, it's a lot more fun and rewarding to do the fucking.
and with all that you are still NOT an engineer. Please try a REAL engineering degree like EE.
Very funny. I already have a degree in EE. Just not a masters. Not that it makes much difference on the matter on hand.
Or why not become a "financial engineer". You get to use your brain, you get paid massive bonuses for creating zero wealth, and you don't get treated as a second class citizen.
Amen to that. I'm handing back my masters degree in IT plus a lifetime of experience in order to start in B-school to become a quant. I'm tired of taking it up the ass.
Adobe PageMill 2.0 puts it after 1997.
OK. I'm a fan but this is just a matter of marketing and legal doing a circle jerk. I find it hard to picture a more offensive scenario but those are the hard facts of business.
Apple was never really a software company at its heart. It was always a hardware company that chose to write its own software.
I'd say Apple is a software company that make some big and flashy dongles for their software.
A Mac without the OS X etc is just a flashy, high-end PC. It even runs Windows.
Everybody else are speculating, even if you think that "oh this company has really good products and I think they'll sell well in the future" and invest long term that's speculation.
NO. That is called investing. Gambling on a company becoming profitable and giving a good ROI is a GOOD THING.
Speculation is disregarding the prospect of ROI and just gambling that the stock price will go up. Just like the resent housing bobble.