Having been involved with computers for 50 years now I have certainly seen some changes. As machines have become faster and memory cheaper the accessibility of increasingly powerful capabilities to average programmers has improved. But the results are not always much of an improvement — in my jaundiced view things are prettier but flakier than [...]
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Layering or Why Nothing Works
Posted in Uncategorized on September 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Greed and Market Chaos and Canadian Elections
Posted in Uncategorized on September 15, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
While I am dismayed at the continual chaos in financial markets, it is interesting to note that in the US, at least, this chaos is traceable to the systematic dismantling of regulations designed to protect the investor. There has been a mantra chanted by the ’suits’ that unrestricted free markets are the universal solution to [...]
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