Robert Sanders

"And sometimes to prevent an undesirable outcome you have to deal with blackmailers. We all agree that TARP sucks. But I've yet to hear anybody seriously propose a desirable outcome of a "LEHMAN *ALL* THE BANKS!!!" scenario. It's a no-win situation. We could have committed economic suicide just to spite them, I suppose. The trick from now on is to prevent the bastards from getting into that position of "you can't afford to let us fail" power in the first place. And Krugman has supported reforms to do just that. What's the alternative?" - Robert Sanders

"He reads books?!? **BURN HIM!**" - Robert Sanders

"I've been ranting about this for a while; I am both pleased and annoyed that there is an opportunity to actually educate myself about it. Thanks for the pointer!" - Robert Sanders

"Opposition and lying, dirty tricks are different things." - Robert Sanders

"This is what always seems to happen. If people on a team can't even agree on an indentation width but must each have their own precious snowflake of a visual layout, how are they going to coordinate their editors to treat the bastard tabspace scheme consistently?" - Robert Sanders

"And you can do that with a tabless file. Get a smarter editor." - Robert Sanders

"Like reading code, which is far harder when lines are (apparently) randomly indented. I've worked with people who inserted tabs into a previously space-only codebase, and everybody else hated them. Someone inevitably had to untabify their code to make it readable, which caused SCM noise and merge conflicts, and that all took away from the bottom line. By the way, those weren't observations; they were a rather ill-informed opinion and a series of rhetorical questions." - Robert Sanders