Suspicion
"There is the dangerous cliché in the financial world [that] everything depends on confidence. One could better argue the importance of unremitting suspicion." - John Kenneth Galbraith
View ArticleGuice callbacks should take parameters
Guice is easy to use when you want to build a web of objects based on a static configuration. However, it gets awkward when you want to create multiple, similar webs of objects, where only a few nodes...
View ArticleCapsule reviews of a few web comics I like
Maybe it's just that I haven't found the right web site yet, but discovering good web comics online seems a little harder than it ought to be. I went looking for new comics the other day, and found...
View ArticleWhy can't Wall Street plan for emergencies?
When not following the election, I've found the latest financial crisis to be pretty interesting; how can so many smart people be collectively so stupid as to put the entire system at risk? I don't...
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PixelToy Returns
With the launch of Google App Engine, I decided to give it a spin by rewriting PixelToy, a Java Applet (and backend server) that I wrote more than a decade ago to learn Java. This time, the...
View ArticleIdentity and Ownership
Thought this was interesting: "Ownership means that I have something to lose. If you're a banker, it means that you've got collateral. It also means that I'm credible, so you can give me credit. When...
View ArticleBrowsers as fourth-party software
(This is in response to an article by Doc Searls.) Seems like browsers are doing a lot of things already to manage vendor relationships, where "vendors" are websites: they remember passwords for you...
View ArticleEar training, with links to neat YouTube videos
In an attempt to improve my musical skills, I've been practicing with Interval Ear Trainer a little bit every day. It's a web app that plays two notes, either sequentially or at the same time, and...
View ArticleGo Puzzler
Russ Cox explained a while ago how interface types work in the original implementation of the Go language. But reading about an implementation when your grasp of the language is shaky is sometimes...
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