more on "!":

Run the given cmd/pipeline, and put it's output at the current cursor ___location:

    :r ! <cmd>

Filter the whole buffer through the given cmd/pipeline:

    :%! <cmd>

Filter a visual selection through the given cmd/pipeline: make selection (with mouse if you have :set mouse=a or gvim, or with any of the variations on 'v'), then hit '!'

you will pop into a command line like this:

    :'<,'>! <cmd>

'< is the beginning of the visual selection, and '> is the end.

When a company engages in systemic risk, it discounts that risk by the amount of the system the company doesn't occupy (e.g. if Goldman does something that will create a 10% chance of a $100 billion dollar loss, spread evenly across the financial industry as a whole, and if Goldman only makes up 5% of the industry, Goldman will only take into consideration a 10% chance at a $5 billion loss. The other $95 billion isn't their problem and their shareholders could sue members of the board if the board allowed the company to take it into account).

Not true in the United States; we've had an alternate minimum income for quite a while.

>the company used a proprietary programming language and involved lots of ___domain specific knowledge

FogBugz developer?

Heh, no. Probably shouldn't mention the specific company...it was a Boston-area firm that's big in the medical billing software space.

Writing Lisp without an even more IDE-like feature, macro-expansion, would be almost as painful.

Funny, most programers who make heavy use of macros heavily rely on IDE-like features such as macro-expansion.

regular strings now use more than 8 bits per char.

>An unappreciated miracle of our world is how rare shortages are among truly free-market goods.

Name some (specifically, name some in the United States).

>No, it did apply to companies too: larger commercial operations tended to be more successful than small ones.

How are you defining success? How well the company did per-capita (per employee)?