The SEC is considering mandating that Python be used to express certain financial contracts, allowing the potential buyer to 'programmatically input the user's own assumptions regarding the future performance and cash flows from the pool assets, including but not limited to assumptions about future interest rates, default rates, prepayment speeds …

Well, optimistically assuming that everything works out between Novell and Apple I have posted a new tutorial on using a NavigationController in MonoTouch. Nothing fancy: Just navigating between two TableViews. Lots of screenshots to try to make the steps as clear as possible, source on github...

Let me know if …

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Having just finished Cormac McCarthy's "Blood Meridian" -- a book which in two typical pages produces the words: "squailed," "vadose," "bated" (not in it's normal sense), "terra damnata," "carreta," "monocline," "sleared," "rebozos," "fusil," and "clackdish" -- I have an opinion on this post from O'Reilly on eBook Annotations

The only thing worse …

This is thought-provoking: http://blog.the-scientist.com/2010/03/25/amazing-rats/

Does this imply that rats form a mental model of their opponent's agency?

U. Utah's Matt Might has implemented lambda expressions in C++, so for instance:

    Function2<int,int,int> h(int a, int b) {
     return lambda<int> (x,y) --> a*x + b*y ;
    }

the value of h(3,4)(1,1) is 7.

This thought-provoking post on /dev/why!?! argues that backward compatibility is the root cause of the new iPhone restrictions. The argument is summed up in this quote:

I can think of incidents where Apple reverted OS changes, dumped new APIs, or was forced to committing massive engineering resources to something …