November 2009
13 posts
“The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism.”
– Sir William Osler
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“The only distinction between the Internet bubble that ended in 2000 and the...”
– Management and the Financial Crisis (We have met the enemy and he is us …) by William A. Sahlman
“Coding isn’t fun if you can do is call things out... →
MongoDB’s performance as compared to others →
MapReduce API for MongoDB →
Fantastic Visualization of Cell Scaling →
Wealth is not about the money you amass but it’s... →
Failure of a euphoric capitalism →
The collapse of Soviet communism was a glorious moment. It remains so, despite mistakes and disappointments along the way. But today’s crisis tells us of the failings of a euphoric capitalism. Capitalism will not now perish, as communism did. But the signal ability of liberal democracy is to learn and adapt. We learnt from the 1930s. We must now learn the lessons of the 2000s
Thumbs up to EU for objecting Oracle's acquisition... →
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CIT files for Chapter 11 - Yet another house built... →
Like Lehman Brothers, Bear Stearns and most Wall Street firms, it was also over-dependent on short term financing.
The failure of CIT’s bank-holding company is the biggest measured by assets since regulators seized Washington Mutual banking unit in September 2008