Posts filed under “Politics”
Using code coverage to decide what to deprecate
A recent post on building a slimmer jQuery got me thinking about the process of deciding what to cut. From a code perspective, it’s easier to add new features than remove old ones. From a user perspective, it’s much, much easier to add new features than remove old ones. Nobody knows about your new feature, [...]
The best Chronotrigger reference ever
Arrested Development is one of the finest shows to have ever been made. You should stop what you’re doing right now and go watch the whole thing on hulu. Anyway, when I was watching it for the first time, I spotted a reference to Chronotrigger that blew me away. The clip below is what I’m [...]
Malaria Contracts
Based on a previous idea: The United Nations, wanting to rid a country of malaria, tries an experiment. Instead of drafting a plan, it sets sells a billion one dollar contracts. Each contract pays out more than one dollar over its term, if and only if malaria is kept to a certain level or lower [...]
The Fed – not that bad. The gold standard – not good.
I feel obligated to write this because I’ve seen so much talk on the Internet about abolishing the Fed and reinstating the gold standard. I find that in general, whenever a group on the Internet are alarmed, the panic is overblown or misdirected. I have some OCD hangups about this. Here goes. First of all, [...]