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Virtual Gold Rush
Via the Division of Labour, This BussinessWeek article, Innovation in the Age of Mass Collaboration, describes how a conservative mining company discovered gold by opening up its proprietary database...
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Minsky and Housing Bubble
Dr. Hyman Minsky's explanation of boom and boost in a capitalist economy is based on structure (or rather change of) of financial relationships. It is highly relevant today as it describes what is...
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Learning Haskell
I stumbled onto Haskell around 2 months back while searching for resources on spreadsheet programming. I wanted to do Buy vs Rent calculations before deciding to buy a house. Microsoft Excel is pretty...
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What would Gandhi Really Do?
WHAT WOULD GANDHI DO? Fred Thompson thinks Code Pink's sanctimonious question is actually reprehensible. During World War II, Gandhi penned an open letter to the British people, urging them to...
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Haskell, DSL and Monad
Haskell is an amazing language. One can easily embed a DSL (domain specific language) using monad. Let's take an concrete example to illustrate the power of DSL and Monads in Haskell. I was always...
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Another DSL embedded in Haskell - a partial make replacement in less than 10...
My earlier post on Haskell described a small DSL for calendar apps. In this post, I will show a very simple DSL (written in just 6 lines of code) to replace (a small portion of) GNU make utility....
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More on Haskell DSL
In an earlier post, partial make replacement, I developed a small Haskell based DSL to express GNU make like rules. In this post, I take the idea further to support multiple dependencies per target....
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Financial vs Real investment
James Kroeger makes this ridiculous claim in the post "The New Deal Didn’t Always Work, Either": Here you are guilty of conflating the two definitions of 'investment.' Rich people, generally, do not...
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Poor Texas?
Paul Krugman ridicules the Matthew Yglesias's claim that Texas is rich due to its low taxes and less regulation because he used median income instead of per-capita income for the comparison. He goes on...
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Minimum wage increase by other means
The employer mandate provision included in the House Democrats' bill requires employers to either provide health insurance (with upto 72.5% of the premiums) to all employees or pay an additional...
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