This blog exists purely as a place for me to dump random links and thoughts I have rather than emailing them to my friends. It'll have large amounts of inside jokes. Also there will probably be times when I write "you" or refer to an email. Just pretend that you are reading an email to you. If you don't know me you likely won't find anything here interesting. If you do know me you also will not find anything here interesting.
Saturday, February 21, 2015
Friday, February 20, 2015
Why the Euro will ultimately fail
http://www.maximise.dk/why-the-euro-will-ultimately-fail/
This disaster was entirely avoidable if the Euro bureaucrats had bothered to read Robert Mundall and Marcus Flemming’s seminal paper from 1962 which stated that according to well established macro economic models it was impossible to have domestic fiscal autonomy, fixed exchange rates, and free capital flows: no more than two of those objectives could be met. They won the nobel prize in economics for this in 1992, so it’s not exactly an obscure crackpot theory.
Since the euro is, by definition, the currency used in the eurozone the exchange rates must be fixed. One euro in Greece is the same as one euro in Germany. The same goes for free capital flows, if you have one euro in Spain and can’t spend it in Germany the eurozone doesn’t make much sense. So if it has to work the Euro zone members must give up their fiscal autonomy. What does this mean?
Saturday, February 14, 2015
A Tale of Two Zippers
http://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=4364
This is an interesting blog post about how zippers are made, and the tiny difference between automated and non automated zippers. He has some other good stuff on the blog too.
This is an interesting blog post about how zippers are made, and the tiny difference between automated and non automated zippers. He has some other good stuff on the blog too.
dtrx: Intelligent archive extraction
http://brettcsmith.org/2007/dtrx/
dtrx stands for “Do The Right Extraction.” It's a tool for Unix-like systems that takes all the hassle out of extracting archives.This works really well for just extracting every kind of archive on Linux. It has good options for things like creating a folder if the files inside are all at the top level (so you don't end up with 100 files in whatever folder you are working in). Works well as a shortcut in whatever file manager you are using.
Sunday, February 1, 2015
Showcase your language one vote at a time
http://codegolf.stackexchange.com/questions/44680/showcase-your-language-one-vote-at-a-time-experimental-challenge
If you hang out on Stack Overflow at all you've probably seen this, as it's been near the top of hot questions for weeks, but I figured I'd post it as I've found it very interesting.
The way it works is people posted a language along with an interesting fact. Then as people upvote those languages people could edit them with examples of interesting code snippets of a length equal to the upvotes. In other words, if a language had 4 upvotes there would be 4 examples of interesting code snippets, of lengths 1, 2, 3, or 4 characters.
If you hang out on Stack Overflow at all you've probably seen this, as it's been near the top of hot questions for weeks, but I figured I'd post it as I've found it very interesting.
The way it works is people posted a language along with an interesting fact. Then as people upvote those languages people could edit them with examples of interesting code snippets of a length equal to the upvotes. In other words, if a language had 4 upvotes there would be 4 examples of interesting code snippets, of lengths 1, 2, 3, or 4 characters.