Exclusive: Chopra says ECB’s threats to Ireland were ‘outrageous’ – Independent.ie
The letters urged the then-government to commit to structural reforms and restructuring of the financial sector. “That is not their job,” Mr Chopra said. “Their mandate is to meet inflation. And if you lecture the ECB as to how they might go about that, they talk about their independence. “But when it comes to lecturing others about fiscal policy or structural policy, they’re not at all hesitant. I’m not surprised that the people in Ireland were very upset about these letters from [Jean-Claude] Trichet.”
(tags: trichet banking ireland politics ajai-chopra ecb history)
Writing Minecraft Plugins – The Book
wow, Walter Higgins’ book (from Peachpit Press) is looking great
(tags: books reading minecraft walter-higgins javascript)
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Pinterest’s Hadoop workflow manager; ‘scalable, reliable, simple, extensible’ apparently. Hopefully it allows upgrades of a workflow component without breaking an existing run in progress, like LinkedIn’s Azkaban does :(
(tags: python pinterest hadoop workflows ops pinball big-data scheduling)