Morale Hazard. Its another way of alleging that Failure should have Pain attached to it. Wall Street is not stunned. While spreadsheets delineate fiscal risk, contracts delineate the personal pain of failure. When the fiscal rewards go away or get going electronegative, thats when the contracts have ended or get expire. At which sharpen any Pain connected [...]

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Scala and Clojure are two JVM compatible languages, but is either one poised for stardom ? With one focused on concurrency influenced by Erlang and the other influenced by LISP, its a toughened call. Andrew Glover’s post intermits down the merits behind each language.

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Microsoft research has a CLI implementation with generics support… At several conferences we have in public avered that generics will be added to some next version of.NET. With those two pieces of data, I nonplus the question – how wide spread should generics be utilized? Was ATL goodness, or something removed a bit too far?

For those of you unfamiliar with generics, they are essentially C++ templates implemented at the runtime level. I’m not a compiler wonk, so I have to collocate with my most canonical understanding – fundamentally the CLR would do dynamical class generation at runtime, thuse keeping code bloat, but contributing you the performance benefit of powerfully typewritten classes. In addition, since the runtime keeps the identity of the class being a generic, features like reflection really process right.

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After learning this on ValleyWag :

“YouTube, he said NewTeeVee, is merely proceeding to realize revenues of about $70 million to $90 million in 2008. InVideo ads – the kind Sanchez took Google rived off – will be an even littler part of the pie.”

I know this isn’t apples to apples. These are 1999 dollars, broadband penetration was dramatically downcast back so and we weren’t an advertising held mode, but and then once more, we didn’t give to subsidise the bandwidth of every non commercial-grade video on the internet and do everything we perchance could to fend off copyright law.

I simply can’t help but put up a link to my original article and a Broadcast.com quarterly release. If alone we had today’s bandwidth costs backward and so…

broadcast.com Reports Record Second Quarter Revenue Revenue Increased 130% From Same Period in 1998 – Company Fiscal Information

July 12, 1999

Broadcast.com (Nasdaq: BCST) Wednesday covered revenue adding up $13.5 million for the second quarter terminated June 30, 1999, an increase of 130% over $5.9 million in the same period in 1998, and a 31% increase over the first quarter of 1999. Net loss for the second quarter of 1999 was $1.9 million, or $0.05 per introductory and thined share. This compares with a final loss of $3.5 million, or $0.11 per introductory and cut share during the second quarter of 1998.

Broadcast.com staked firm revenue growth, with revenue from Business Services increasing to $9.5 million for the second quarter of 1999, a 138% increase over the same period of 1998 and an increase of 34% over the first quarter of 1999. Business Services revenue interpreted 71% of the full revenue covered. Promoting revenue increased to $4.0 million for the quarter terminated June 30, 1999, an increase of 114% over the same period of 1998 and an increase of 25% over the first quarter of 1999.

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Darren Stokes sides with Joel over Jeff on whether programmers should cognize C.

This hale debate cues me of unpaid radio operators brabbling over whether newbies should be permited to fix a license without geting a line Morse code.

Morse Code

So Eric, assure us about your experience as an amateur “ham” radio operator?

My call sign is KA9KEF.  To pay off my Cosmopolitan class license, I had to go a published exam as easily as a Morse code test at 13 words per minute.

Real, you cognise Morse code?  Today, it’s potential to pay back a ham radio license with no code at all. 

Yes, and I remember that’s hideous!  It’s just incorrect.

Why do you recollect that?

If I had to hear Morse code, so everybody else should as well.

So does anybody rattling take Morse code these days?

Well, I say not.  But don’t bug me with facts that distract from my point.  Hearing Morse code should be a rite of passage for all hams.  Anybody who paid off a license without code is not a “existent ham”.

But you — you are a “existent ham”.

Yep.  I went the Morse code test.  13 wpm.

So you’re nonetheless actively involved in recreational radio?

Well, no more.

Oh.  When was the last time you applyed your ham rig?

I say it’s been a few years.

How many years are in “a few”?  Possibly five?

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We hardly put up some updated bits and samples for ASP.NET Active Data… I advance you to plump foot them up and allow us experience what you intend…

Some coolheaded newfangled stuff in this release:

1. Ocular Studio Integration is much uncontaminating
2. Right away sustains "pretty" URLs
   http://products/details/1 rather of http://products/details.aspx?id=123
3. Full documentation
4. Extra support for 3rd party control vendors and O/R Mappers (more details making out before long)

Scott Hunter of late did a HanselMinutes podcast that you should discipline out..

ScottGu did a post of late that arrives at the high-pitched points of Active Data… 

Hold them a try, we’five hundred love to have your feedback!

http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/dynamicdata

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In response to my penultipate post, reader “David” (the other David?) xClaims: “Um, I don”t get it – what’s this for again? Is it a microformat or something? I herewith take xClaims are confounding.” My vote: Abstain + a Comment (infra):

I try you, David. And point had. Note to Self: bear on to elaborate messaging around Claimspace. Thanks for the feedback and hold open it deriving. As with any unreleased product and all on-key innovations (once more, other June), it’s tough to prognosticate how folks will employ Claimspace. Usage will take the messaging. But for whatever it’s deserving, I *love* your first xClaim! And I indicate out that you simply made the SECOND public xClaim, in history.

To your questions,

Question: “what’s this [an xClaim] for once more?”
Answer: An xClaim is an author-delineated, reader interactive rating/canvassing mechanism for the Web that enables a person to put forward that, ‘I made this resource and I like to be known in person or further the recognition of my resource on these terms [my claim]. What do you call up? Vote/Comment hither.’

Question: “Is it a microformat or something?”
Answer: An xClaim is a control, not a microformat…even so. For my thoughts on the difference between a control and a microformat, visit http://blogs.msdn.com/korbyp/archive/2007/04/12/microformats-are-like-rfid-tags-for-the-web.

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aspx. For any demonstration sites that we leave (Tagspace and Claimspace are being planed as services, foremost and first, for inclusion in other Web sites), we are crack-interested in habituating bing microformats like rel , XFN , hCard , and hCalendar. For xClaims, in peculiar, we are currently enquiring the extent to which we can apply VoteLinks or whether we require to commence a conversation with the ok folks at microformats.org and elsewhere  to research a young microformat or extension of an bing one. Read the rest of this entry »

Coherent Algorithms , Harald Ganzinger and David McAllester. ICALP 2002.

It is wide taken that many algorithms can be briefly and clear verbalised as ordered inference rules. Nevertheless, logic programming has been out or keeping for the study of the campaigning time of algorithms because there has not been a clear-cut and accurate model of the run time of a logic program. We lay out a logic programming model of computation appropriate for the study of the run time of a wide of the mark variety of algorithms.

Thusly, there are two independent styles in logic programming. The first is Prolog-style goal-placed, or rearwards, search. The idea is that you have a set of rules, and a goal, and you nondeterministically take rules that might have demonstrated that goal, straining to regain a sequence of deductions that could have shown this goal. It’s sent for backward look since you are straining to reason out backward from the goal towards a good proof.

The other style is, course, sent for frontward search (bewilderingly, this is as well sent for the reverse method in theorem testing). The idea is that you have a goal, and some rules, and a geting going set of facts. You and then hold the rules to the facts you have, lucubrating your database of facts and enabling more deductions. You maintain coming this until either you observe the goal you were stressing to prove in the database of facts, or the database impregnates (ie, no more deductions are demonstrable) and the goal is unprovable. The idea is that your database is an inexplicit data structure, which you update as part of the search. This makes believe frontward look for a particularly lifelike method when you’re proving to cipher closures — graph algorithms, dataflow analyses, that kind of thing.

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For Java developers expending the Spring framework, the project late denoted an of import milestone in the form of Web Flow 2.0 which builds upon the MVC module used in Spring apps.

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When: Wednesday, November 22nd, 2006
Where: Rock Bottom @ State & Grand
When: 6PM

Last day to get out before the entire Midwest descends on our fair city for the holiday shopping season.

Bear down!
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