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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.

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.”

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?

“The difference is that in Iceland we allowed the banks to

fail,” Grimsson said

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.)

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".

When analyzing the web contents of SNCF, I made this realtime tag cloud charter for Twitter. It’s a lot of fun.