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The 808 has specialized synthesis circuits for every sound. Nowhere does it use a traditional VCO+Filter circuit AFAIK.

Yes. Translation layers typically have horrible performance, unless the target is designed with the translation in mind.

Nope, NYT is wrong on that one. I suspect they are referring to the implosion of the real estate sector which brought down a number of companies, but none of them where banks.

QE is a word with a specific meaning, it's not just a synonym for "stimulus". It refers to the buying of financial assets by the central to increase their value, and/or to increase the money supply. Ending a currency peg has nothing to do with that.

Note that the bailout operations that did take place did so after the end of the peg.

Sweden only let one of its smaller banks go bankrupt, in the early 90s, and has never done any QE.

Given the transaction costs of credit swaps, it doesn't make sense to trade them for companies as small as Groupon. That's why there are credit indexes, and Groupon is not part of any AFACT. They are definitely way too small for single name credit swaps.

I don't even think they have any outstanding marketable debt instruments.

The idea is that Shen has a turing-complete type system, so it shouldn't even be possible to create a more powerful type system (given a specific definition of "powerful").

The term DRAM is used to differentiate it from SRAM, which is faster but less dense.

"To make sure that the popularity of one language over another didn’t skew the results, Vos grabbed an equal number of commit messages per language."

The rating only covers default risk, not currency risk.

There is some discussion about this app on the monome forum: http://post.monome.org/comments.php?DiscussionID=11648

That doesn't work either, since then you will have more than one result. Which one will you dispatch on?

Overloading on return type is fundamentally impossible in dynamic languages, since they dispatch on values, and the return value can not be known before the function is called.

ARM recommends using Thumb2 for non-legacy software. Thumb2 is denser than x86, so actually ARM is the one with the advantage here (unless you have an existing ARM codebase).

Many arm chips support both a RISC ISA (the original ARM), and a more CISC-y ISA (thumb2). They consume less power and perform better with the latter. So well, in fact, that some chips don't even bother with the legacy RISC mode.

Neither Self nor HotSpot uses tracing. It's a relatively new compilation technique, the implementation in the original tracing paper used java bytecode as the source language.

I think you are confusing tracing with adaptive compilation.

Yes, it does have variant types and pattern matching, and an option type in the standard library, just like ML.

Contrary to ML, it doesn't require variables to be initialized when declared. The typestate system checks (statically) that they are not referenced before initialized.

The self hosted Rust compiler is probably the largest piece of Rust code right now:

https://github.com/graydon/rust/tree/master/src/comp/

Rust is not very functional at all. E.g. no lambda, no closures (yet).

Compared to Go:

* Rust does not have NULL!!

* Rust has parametric polymorphism.

* Rust has more predictable memory/cpu usage thanks to forgoing global GC for a novel memory management model based on stack allocation/RAII, immutability, isolated processes and reference counting.

* Rust has a very Erlang-like model of handling failures.

* Rust has typestate, which is an easy to use way of proving properties about your program statically, or check them dynamically via assertion.

* Rust has no shared mutable state.

Those are facts. My personal, more subjective, opinion is that Rust is a lot better thought out than either D or Go. If this niche is too crowded, I'd rather see them go and Rust win. :) But given that Rust lacks shared global GC, I guess you could say it's closer to C++

Calling Javascript a functional language is quite a stretch. All native data structures are mutable, the function literal syntax is extremely clumsy, and there is no algebraic datatypes, pattern matching or TCO.

Sorry, but "being scared to death" and "being in fear for their lives" are your words, and has not appeared in any news reports so far.

The Swedish word "livrädd" just means "terrified", not that you are in fear for your life.

What about entrepreneurs (who are currently getting hurt by inflation falling below the long term trend)? Why do they deserve to be punished while people holding cash don't?

Real mortgage interest rates did not go negative at any point during the housing bubble.

> For the most straightforward, plain English explanations, I'd recommend Peter Schiff - he was correctly predicting the housing crash almost to the letter

Yes, but his predictions after that has been rubbish, anyone who would take his investment advice would have lost a ton of money. You say we should take what Krugman says with a grain of salt since he's been wrong before. Doesn't that also apply to Schiff?

You are confusing monetary policy with fiscal policy.

Do you seriously believe that subsidies of western farmers is helping people in Africa? What is the "tragedy as a possible solution" you are speaking of?

That's exactly what it is (Sci-fi). It was never operational, just a mockup for propaganda reasons.

There is a very interesting video about the entire project here: http://vimeo.com/8000921