unrealwh

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by unrealwh 18y ago
for the last time, delicious does not run on erlang. erlang was used to in part of the migration of data
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by unrealwh 18y ago
name one yahoo property that bought completely new hardware for a new version rollout
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by unrealwh 18y ago
haha thats the way it was done at yahoo. go ask HRC now, they'll probably tell you that you are being migrated to a VM-based platform. i'm not speaking derisively, its long time yahoo and other web companies backed off of the ridiculous p
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by unrealwh 18y ago
i believe not only will this be worse than the depression for the US, it will indeed do in the US entirely. a nation's most important piece of paper is not its constitution (you can burn and rewrite one of those anytime you want one), it is
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by unrealwh 18y ago
$200/barrel is indeed wrong, its a lowball number. i expect $500 or more. where do you think all those trillions the Fed is printing up now will end up? what happened the last time the Fed printed up trillions in 2002? commodity bubbles! ex
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by unrealwh 18y ago
china will be as doomed as the rest. what do they hold? US debt. its toilet paper. their economy is coupled to US consumption. they are developing a domestic market but to do so will take another twenty+ years....the tidal wave of debt is c
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by unrealwh 18y ago
I keep saying it - things are fine. Real value has not been wiped out actually $50 trillion in paper wealth was wiped out in the last twelve months alone. The fundamentals of the economy are fine. no they are not. the comptroller of the
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by unrealwh 18y ago
not surprising that python is competitive...afaik haskell also crushes erlang in lightweight threading benchmarks (supposedly the core strength of erlang).
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by unrealwh 18y ago
well if you are in emacs you could just start up erc...
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by unrealwh 18y ago
is this a web frontend to bitlbee? looks very similar in functionlity.
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by unrealwh 18y ago
are you trying to tell me aff somehow predated yahoo? i'll file this story under "bs" and you should too
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by unrealwh 18y ago
more like "why i want to be a pseudo-intellectual". the author seems obsessed with name and meme dropping with the intent of dazzling us with the contents of his browser bookmarks, few of which he probably even understands, but he knows eno
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by unrealwh 18y ago
whats the surprise? in good markets, excess risk makes you rich. in bad markets. it kills you. the able manager knows when to realign the portfolio
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by unrealwh 18y ago
interesting but not in the way you intend. once people watch a "sure thing" like aff flounder from its first trading day, it will indeed be a bullet-proof confirmation that this is a nuclear-winter economy...not like you need aff to confirm
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by unrealwh 18y ago
does levchin really have the midas touch? are slide and yelp ever going to be viable? yelp missed the boat, they should have sold out in 2006 when the hype over "local" was peaking. slide will be indeed likely end up as the king of the widg
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by unrealwh 18y ago
totally the opposite! i can't think of one region that has benefited more from the Fed's policy of moving us to a bubble-based economy. the economic model of silicon valley in the last two decades has been predicated on transferring massive
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by unrealwh 18y ago
everyone will be cutting back...why? firstly, the climate permits it. i assume now that any company holds a latent 10% rif in good times, just waiting for a bad market so it can lose the 10% to throw the market a bone secondly, consumer/bus