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Why The Global System is Killing Trust - Global Guerrillas
Trust is an essential building block of any economic and social system. Systems that attempt to operate without it inevitably fail. A loss of trust typically preceeds a collapse in legitimacy.
January 2012
December 2011
Les meilleures vidéos insolites
August 2011
Why You Fail Miserably In Online Business
April 2011
WIN: Zombie Fortress Protection! - Epic Fail Funny Videos and Funny Pictures
January 2011
Japan Blocks the Young, Stifling the Economy - NYTimes.com
The result is that young Japanese are fleeing the program in droves: half of workers below the age of 35 now fail to make their legally mandated payments, even though that means they must face the future with no pension at all. “In France, the young people take to the streets,” Mr. Takahashi said. “In Japan, they just don’t pay.”
December 2010
Yahoo Acquisitions: Why did the web services group at Yahoo fail after acquiring Flickr, Delicious, Upcoming, MyBlogLog and others? - Quora
Why did the web services group at Yahoo fail after acquiring Flickr, Delicious, Upcoming, MyBlogLog and others?These acquisions were supposed to re-vitalize Yahoo. Lots of smart people and a solid acquisition streak. Why did it end up having such little impact?
Iceland Is No Ireland as State Free of Bank Debt, Grimsson Says - Bloomberg
“The difference is that in Iceland we allowed the banks to
fail,” Grimsson said
November 2010
A Time for Survival
EPIC FAIL: the sorry state of web education in schools | o p e n m a t t
Tristan Nitot (nitot)'s status on Friday, 12-Nov-10 17:04:23 UTC - Mozilla status updates
October 2010
Why Google TV will fail, in one sentence
But if there's not (and I suspect there isn't), then citing this as "the" reason for GoogleTV to fail is nothing more than an egocentric exercise in melodrama. (In which case, it's no wonder this post appealed to Gruber.)
Backdooring a custom DocTestRunner - Python Testing Cookbook
While doctest runs the code examples, it doesn't provide the nice reports some of the other BDD tools have. I dug in to find out how to write my own DocTestRunner that would:
parse the name of the scenario, turning it into a "Given a blah blah blah" statement
look at the line preceding a code example, and if it starts with #when, print that out "when we add a carton of milk..."
look at the line preceding a code example, and if it starts with # (but not #when), print that out followed by the outcome of the test run, "ok" or "FAIL".
September 2010
August 2010
Pour des raisons économiques, le gouvernement britannique conserve Internet Explorer 6
June 2010
Twitter Tag Cloud Live! | Xiaoji Chen's Design Weblog
fail :)When analyzing the web contents of SNCF, I made this realtime tag cloud charter for Twitter. It’s a lot of fun.
May 2010
Diaspora's curse - (37signals)







