Havoc Pennington

For GNOME
summit attendees we're buying some coffee, dessert, and snacks on
Saturday afternoon from a local French
restaurant. litl's founder John Chuang plans to drop by as well to
meet people an...

In an effort to outdo other software developers in nerdiness, I read a
blog called Accrued
Interest, subtitle "Come for the analysis and research on the
U.S. Bond market. Stay for the geeky Star W...

I've been wondering for a while why nobody contrasts Obama's health
care proposal with some of the past Democratic proposals. It's a
market-based, incremental proposal, that makes use of existing
...

Worst
stock plunge in 20 years.
Here's a relevant
post from last year, when the stock plunge was much less dramatic.
Lessons for the next bull market (yes there will be one eventually):
Low intere...

Nice, factual, 1-chart explanation of the competing tax proposals. (Thanks Luis.)
Barack Obama's policy proposals.

McCain was always the respectable Republican, who opposed
tax cuts without spending cuts, did not deny environmental
threats, had a reasonable approach to immigration, and was against the
scorched...

"If synchronous IO becomes a problem, it can be made asynchronous
later." Tempting to imagine that some operations on local files are
"fast enough" to implement with synchronous IO. "Premature
opt...

Chris mentions
Javascript embedding using SpiderMonkey.
When GNOME first started out, there was much talk of using Guile as an
embedded language. The concept was similar to the architecture of
Em...

Most people know about the price/earnings
ratio. If you want to learn one more thing about financial
numbers, return on
equity could be a good choice.
Return on equity is annual profit divided ...

Even though I spend all day as a software developer, I find it useful
to understand something about financial and business topics. Many
people (including a much younger version of myself) reflexiv...