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I Blame Markowitz
"I have an idea where to place the blame.
The culprit is a powerful meme of intellectual laziness that has infected the financial community for the last half century: Modern Portfolio Theory, the mathematics of reducing risk through diversification.
The new alchemy of mixing investment portfolios has overtaken the old-fashioned discipline of evaluating fundamentals of individual investments. MPT is the dangerous meme that made this possible."
Writing an NPAPI plugin for Mac OS X
"Recently I have been doing some work to make life easier for NPAPI plugin developers. As part of that effort I started to revive our NPAPI SDK and rewrite some of our sample code. Today I’m going to explain how to write an NPAPI plugin for Mac OS X, based on the basic sample plugin in our SDK. It is actually pretty easy now. You can have one built and running in the browser in minutes."
More audio and video docs
Having <audio> and <video> natively means that you can do a lot of cool things, like CSS transforms, and wrapping in canvas and ....
Firefox Themes: The Contention Between Visual Hierarchy and Toolbar Customization
Alex is someone I was incredibly impressed with when I first talked with the Mozilla folks. Having an amazing interaction designer like him on the team is fabulous, and I can't wait to work with him, and the other great designers... as well as the developers.
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