Posted by Jeff October 27, 2008
Alberto and Bob were kind enough to comment. Sounds like good news:
Clover is a commercial product with similar functionality, but it looks like I\’ll wait for the new Crap4J version.
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Posted by Jeff October 23, 2008
Crap4J is/was a great Eclipse plugin which computes code crappiness via JUnit coverage testing vs. cyclomatic complexity. In short: Tests Good, Complexity Bad.
I tended to use it for TDD as a lightweight coverage tool. You could simply run a test, and the gutter annotations show if the line was tested or not:
Unfortunately, as of the Eclipse Ganymede release, Crap4j no longer finds the tests… and Agitar is defunct/acquired.
What’s a good Crap4J replacement?
No TagsPosted by Jeff September 22, 2008
A while back, This American Life did a fantastic show on the subprime crisis - “The Giant Pool of Money”. The show did a great job of tracing the steps as crap loans were repackaged and aggregated, ending up as AAA paper:
Alex Blumberg: Glen [Pizzolorusso, who was an area sales manager at an
outfit called WMC mortgage in upstate New York. Just to repeat, he was making 75
to a 100 grand a month. That’s over a million dollars a year] had five cars, a 1.5 million dollar vacation house in Connecticut, and penthouse that he rented in Manhattan. And he made all this
money making very large loans to very poor people with bad credit.Glen Pizzolorusso: We looked at loans. These people didn’t have a pot to piss
in. They can barely make a car payment and we’re giving them a 300, 400
thousand dollar house.
Now these same folks have gotten their own podcast: Planet Money.The topics are dead on target:
Government Wants to Buy ‘Toxic Waste’ for You
The U.S. Treasury Department and members of Congress are considering a $1 trillion plan to buy up bad assets on Wall Street. Economist Raghu Rajan says that looks like a move made in panic to him. He blames election-year politics, and proposes a way for Wall Street to save itself.
Fri, 19 Sep 2008 17:43:12 -0400Ralph Reed Lands on Planet Money
Ralph Reed provides one of the clearest takes on the financial crisis that we’ve yet heard, and then switches over to politics. Plus, more questions from listeners and answers from us.
Thu, 18 Sep 2008 19:33:37 -0400Naked Short Selling, Meet Moral Hazard
Alex Blumberg takes a peek at the arcane Wall Street practice of naked short selling, while Adam Davidson considers what happens when the Street takes a break from moral hazard.
Wed, 17 Sep 2008 23:44:40 -0400Can You Pick a Politician on Economics?
With the insurance big AIG on the ropes today, questions from listeners poured in. Mike Pesca joins Adam Davidson and Laura Conaway for another round of answers to queries from inquiring minds on Planet Money.
Wed, 17 Sep 2008 23:44:30 -0400What’s the Deal With Lehman and Merrill?
The financial world — and more to the point, the rest of us — woke up Monday morning to a whole new Planet Money. Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy. Merrill Lynch sold itself to Bank of America. And the questions came pouring in. We answered as many as we coul d in 22 minutes.
Tue, 16 Sep 2008 14:10:57 -0400Global Nightmare: If Fannie/Freddie Had Failed
Whatever the cost to taxpayers, foreign financial ministers tell us the U.S. Treasury had no choice but to save Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. They say it was either act now or face economic Armageddon.
Fri, 12 Sep 2008 18:07:02 -0400How Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac Met China
Economist Brad Setser obsessively studies the way China buys American debt. If the buying stops, he says, the American economy would be in trouble — and the laws of economic logic suggest that’s almost inevitable.
Tue, 09 Sep 2008 11:23:14 -0400
Rss is http://www.npr.org/rss/podcast.php?id=510289. Subscribed.Rss is http://www.npr.org/rss/podcast.php?id=510289.
No TagsPosted by Jeff September 10, 2008
My Xootr MG review is up over at Cool Tools. I’ve been taking the Xootr on the commuter rail since April - it’s twice as fast as walking.
Posted by Jeff May 04, 2008
We’ve been working through Artisan Bread in 5 Minutes a Day. It’s amazing. Per the NYT: “The technique is more or less as streamlined as this: Mix flour, salt, yeast and water. Let it sit a bit, refrigerate it, take some out and let it rise, then bake it. The crusty, full-flavored loaf that results may be the world’s easiest yeast bread.” Here’s a video of the authors.
We haz a book.. and a bucket:
So far we’ve made:
- Bread
- Pizza
- Sticky buns
Next up, we made the Challah dough. The bread came out well - very light and airy.
One super-cool thing: By not washing the 5 quart container, more complex flavors can be obtained. Less work and waste - my engineer side loves this.
Looks like we’ll be getting our next yeast from Costco - and keeping it in the freezer.
Posted by Jeff April 15, 2008
Inspired by Redfin’s Walkscore, I’ve done a GreaseMonkey script to link to Yelp from Redfin listings. (thanks rouftop and Navtej!)
It looks like this:
Posted by Jeff March 14, 2008
Posting from Google Docs
As long as I’m posting to test, some Friday links:
Paradox of choice - why abundance of choice is making us miserable.
Business Technology : Bigger Computer Monitors = More Productivity
Pete Seeger’s Banjo
Posted by Jeff March 09, 2008
When using Google Docs, the default Firefox menu is overridden. No sweet spellchecker goodness. Using Tools/Options and unchecking “Disable or Replace Context menus”, you can get both menus.
Confused? Try the movie - 1:54, with sound.
No TagsPosted by Jeff March 09, 2008
This made me laugh hard… bodes well -
No TagsHowdy and welcome to RescueTime- We’ll make this short and sweet…
Here’s your login info (store it in a cool dry place):
Username: jeff@server.com
Password: As IF we would send you your password in cleartext!
Posted by Jeff March 08, 2008
My last post was about full-screen text editors. The goal is to reduce options and choices, encouraging focus and flow.
Turns out, there is a more general solution - Clutter Cloak. Invoke it with a keystroke - CC obscures everything on the screen except the child window immediately under the mouse pointer. I changed the hotkey to Ctrl-Space, easier to type.
This mimics Inattentional Blindness - the tunnel vision we get when in extreme focus. Blocking out extranous content is a great way to promote Flow.
Fun video-how many passes does the White team make in this video?
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