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wow thats a really slick and usable design. the call to action page if you click to a story is really fresh to.
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Thank you for your feedback, it is very appreciated.

The current problem with our website is: We didn't put the newest data up. We have other plans with it and kind of starved the consumer version of new laptops.
Nevertheless your points are very valid, the categorizing of products needs improvement, very much.
We have many better gaming laptops in our complete database, I hope we will manage to make them available to everyone in the next few weeks.

About the wording, we are no native speakers, so our English is definitely a week point.
I used a similar technique on my web-based timeline-software. The aim was for the timeline to work at almost any size. Not quite perfected it but getting close.

If you want to play with the resizing, you can use this link - http://www.tiki-toki.com/timeline/entry/43/Beautiful-web-bas...
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It looks like they're using HTML5 Boilerplate.
I'm guessing a combination of javascript and css media queries. http://twitter.com/#!/beep and http://twitter.com/#!/scottjehl were both part of this project. Ethan Marcotte has a responsive web design book that recently came out. http://www.abookapart.com/products/responsive-web-design I think there's 20% off today with the code BOSTON for the launch of the Globe's site as well.
I assume they are testing the waters for something similar for the NYT. I think it's very successful visually, and certainly a nice use of this new technology. My only nitpick is that I wish there was more letter spacing on the headlines. I don't know why the type has to be so squished.
TestFlight are doing excellent work - congrats guys!
I thought the story was that the Unladden Swallow team had actually started expanding into new directions after walking away from LLVM disappointed, but the project then got cancelled from higher-up?

I guess my point, in keeping with the parent, is that you'd expect Google to be interested in sustaining a team looking into performance improvements in an important part of their runtime longer-term, but that didn't happen.

Edit: On an unrelated note, it's good fun to take a look at http://speed.pypy.org/ and consider how close the averaged 4.5x speedup of PyPy trunk over CPython is to the original "make it five times faster" goal of Unladden Swallow.
where the hell is the TLDR?

i just want a place to submit an idea and prototypes and get cash ....
Great job making the font size respond to Cmd+. Many sites seem to drop the ball on this important feature (ahem LinkedIn, NYTimes mobile).
http://mediaqueri.es/, now stop picking examples from certain place, give some background what you want to talk about.
That's a really interesting question. I remember one time when I actually started to design a new spoken language which could be understood by machines. Didn't get too far with that though.
I think the OP is correct, despite all the people downvoting him for his tone. All these allegations have been been documented.

Don't forget this is the same Saipan that hired Jack Abramoff and lobbied Tom Delay (before BOTH went to jail on other corruption charges).

We turn now to Abramoff’s special relationship with the South Pacific island of Saipan and how it connects to his ties to House Majority Leader Tom DeLay. Saipan is an American territory in the South Pacific also known as the Commonwealth of the Northern Mariana Islands. In the mid-1990s Abramoff was on the payroll of Saipan officials aiming to stop legislation that would crack down on sweat shop conditions, which run rampant on the island. In 1997, Abramoff arranged a lavish trip to the island of Saipan for Delay.

The Delay trip was originally reported by Brian Ross, Chief Investigative Correspondent for ABC News. We are going to play 2 excerpts from the report that aired on ABC’s 20/20 on March 13th, 1998. In this first excerpt, Ross interviews Allan Stayman, a Clinton administration official in the Department of Interior who was investigating labor conditions in Saipan. Brian also talks to a worker in one of the factories and ends with Eric Gregoire, a human rights worker. Most of the workers in these factories are from mainland China.

http://www.democracynow.org/2006/1/4/forced_abortions_sweats...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Abramoff_CNMI_scandal
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Slashdot experimenting for a while with letting high-karma users disable ads.

They didn't disable them by default -- they just started showing a checkbox in the sidebar providing the option as a thank-you for "your contributions to the site" or something like that.

I don't see the checkbox anymore (I never bothered to check it; I don't visit much nowadays), so perhaps they decided the experiment wasn't a success.
In principle it's doable with just CSS properties, but I don't know quite how good the browser support is.
Some additional info to reduce some apparent confusion.

I learned about Processing 2.0 from here:

http://www.creativeapplications.net/processing/generative-ar...

I already knew about the IDE modes; being able to generate an Android app straight from Processing code is pretty slick (especially as you mix in stuff like Pure Data) though it has some limitations.

The above link adds, "Processing 2.0 adds a third option, 'JavaScript', which allows you to publish direct to HTML5 Canvas (using the now in-built Processing.js). And it works. It just works."

The best Processing page I could find that included this was the changes page, which also nicely lists other new features.

I picked the word "compile", in quotes, because while see as in fact compiling, I also tend to think of compiling as taking a high level level and outputting something lower-level. Though that's not a necessary condition, I had a feeling that if I left off the quotes there'd be complaints about how this wasn't really compiling, title is misleading, etc.. But there you go.

edit: also, video: http://vimeo.com/28117873
That's part of the edit after an extremely useful post with insight into the reality started getting downvoted because it didn't conform with the political or whatever beliefs of the downvoters. HN would be better without the pathetic reactionary losers who use downvoting to promote their political beliefs.
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Yes, yes and yes. Absolutely. Key parts of the sordid, brutal and shameful history of american slavery in the 20th century. US slavery in the last 100 years, and the support and defense of that slavery by the certain groups of interest, should be taught in every social studies and US history class in every credible school. But it isn't. Instead we get propaganda about how that was all in the past and the US is free. Ha. The truth is very different.
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I am the person talking about OmniPlaces.com. It's an amazing experience and Paul was right-on with his questions. Given the time limit, I was not able to answer all the questions. Our site provides powerful search features (instant, error tolerant and local), which are important for location-based apps and mobile apps. In addition, we provide aggregated links to other important sites such as Yelp, Foursquare, and Gowalla. Our core value is the backend technology and product developed by Bimaple, which are also ready to be used by other companies.

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Hi everyone;

This is my weekend project, GetDoma.in. It is a domain availability/whois and pagerank checking tool.

Please check it out and let me know what you think. I'd love to get some feedback and suggestions that might help me to add more functionality to the project.

Thanks.

http://getdoma.in
Lonely Planet is still my go-to for travel guides. Their content, however, is not yet crowd sourced...
From what I heard, Credit Suisse has replaced most Haskell with F# now.
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I didn't downvote you, while I don't think you did the best job of making your point, everyone who clicked downvote should take a minute and read the Wikipedia page on it Saipan because it does sound like a seriously messed up place.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saipan
When he says "store their data since 1997" I believe he means "store data dating from 1997 on" - slight confusion in choice of wording!
I must admit that I haven't checked your list against the Kendo UI. However +1 for a nice description of how to present a framework to potential new users.
http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/elisp/html_node/Scope.html

http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/emacs-paper.html#SEC17

The docs and the man himself say it best.
I would've loved to hear some more from Harj, he got some good questions in but it seemed to me he had a hard time actually hearing the interviewees (and vica versa). Plus Paul's enthusiasm probably didn't make it easier to get a question in (not meant as critique towards Paul).
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It's really interesting and it has to potential to transfer a lot of startup/business related knowledge in a short amount of time. But it could definitely be optimized (better seating arrangement/better sound). Perhaps it takes away some of the spontaneity, but picking more suitable startups beforehand and perhaps a 5min briefing for the interviewers so you can get to the point more quickly would go a long way.

I've done a bit of research on how to transfer expertise and I feel that this (public office hours) really is an effective way to do just that, you can learn a lot from this, even if you're not the interviewee.
Hi Phil, I've been following your blog about US taxes, but didn't know you post at HN. Small world.

I also have my doubts about this program. Employers are humans, and humans never associate "quality" with "discount".

Right now, the people who are unemployed face the real risk of exiting the economy altogether, along with their knowhow, and this will cost the economy as a whole in the long term.

Meanwhile, businesses are not going to hire if the consumers aren't there.

The problem with trying to restart the economy with government stimulus is that people are maxed out on their debt. The debt is acting like a sponge, sucking out any additional money that come from the government. The NPR Planet Money talked about how Japan's economy entered its longest growth period post the crash when the PM forced the banks to clean up its bad loans and recapitalize. Subsequently, government stimulus started to take effect. The government has been reluctant to do this, and it will cost the US in terms of its economic dominance as competing countries race ahead on its capital.

I believe any government money is better spent not trying to put people back in employment through incentives, but instead keep these people "engaged" in the economy. Be it through reimbursement of expenses in attending job interviews - fuel is expensive when you are out of work; Making the pool of "consultants" and "contractors" that you allude to more visible.

The mainstay of jobs post crash is going to be a small pool of permanently employed plus casualized, short term contract work. The sooner the government recognizes this, the better.
It's funny because Telerik's evangelist has been pushing HTML5 hard lately (http://www.telerikwatch.com/) and I found it curious because Telerik's current offerings are useless to anyone who wants to write an HTML5 solution on MVC (they do have a half hearted MVC project but it pales in comparison to the free solutions available for Javascript/JQuery development)
I imagine the downvotes have a lot more to do with the way you wrote and not what you wrote.
Unfortunately the site is badly broken in Firefox 3.6.
Keep in mind that the point isn't to be flashy when you resize your window, it's that the site will work just as well on tiny mobile screens, medium tablet screens, and large computer screens without separate domains, crappy shim layers (I'm looking at you, wp-touch), etc.
We did the same thing on my college newspaper this semester (we're still working out bugs ) – http://spartandaily.com
> How about whole galaxy cluster made of antimatter?

Galaxy clusters are too small a structure to be candidates for this. They still interact with their neighbors' matter, they pass through intergalactic particles all the time, and they're simply not isolated enough to do this undetected. At a larger scale, the universe is not cluster-like, it's filament-like:

http://cosmicweb.uchicago.edu/filaments.html

Those filaments are all gravitationally connected and they share the same type of matter from which they were created.

> Isn't the void separating clusters really really empty?

No, vacuum is relative. While the matter density of intergalactic space is very low, the sheer size of that space means there is a lot of stuff in it. The intergalactic space is mostly filled with protons that would be detectably annihilated if they came in contact with an antimatter galaxy. Furthermore, galaxies are colliding and spewing jets of stuff at each other all the time. There would always be annihilation going on that we could see.

> And what if roughly half of the galaxy clusters are made of matter and half of antimatter? Would the annihilation radiation be detectable from the background?

Yes, in two ways. First, if there were antimatter pockets as "small" as galaxy clusters within our observable universe, we would detect massive annihilation patterns along their boundaries from a time when the universe was much more dense than it is now. This is not the case, as the CMB is uniformly chaotic and mirrors the likely structure of the observable universe in its infancy. There are no such pocket boundaries visible in the cosmic background radiation.

Second, there would still be annihilation going on, both from anti-galaxies plowing through the intergalactic proton plasma and from galactic collisions. This would mean seeing antimatter galaxies really lighting up in the gamma spectrum and we'd also see some very long-lasting otherwise unexplained intense gamma sources in the sky. Both are not occurring within our visible horizon.

There is also the distinct possibility that antimatter pockets would, due to billions of years of annihilation events, be separated from matter pockets by huge gaps. We do not see such gaps in the distribution of matter.

Again, all this may be going on beyond our horizon, but if it does that also means antimatter regions would have to be vastly bigger than galaxy clusters.
The problem is actually that bitcoins are 100% not reversible and almost all other forms of payment are.
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How is it wrong? He's making good points. Do you have counter point to his exact statements?
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As an SJSU alumnus, I'm glad to see this.
Cool story, but why is this on HN?
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I think responsive design that changes when resized like this is a bit annoying and unexpected. When I'm using the page and I resize it, I lose my place on the page and all the content reflows. There's nothing in traditional media that works that way.
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You can still use Posterous Spaces as a public blog. Each space can be public or private.

We're solving a similar problem as google circles. The basic difference is that Posterous Spaces are symmetric sharing so all members of a space can post.
Perhaps, but again - there is some seriously messed up stuff going on there. It's hard to not be outraged and have that spill over. He's outraged at the situation (in addition to being downvoted for the TRUTH), so I think it's understandable.
It's weird, when a layout is too clean it feels like the site is fake somehow.
whitewatermap.com. So far its extremely regionally specific but that will change in the near future. Any recommendations for content options that don't diminish the effect of the full screen map?
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You might be referring to "The Dead Past," a classic short story by Asimov.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dead_Past
I think "short release cycles give you wonderful things" is very on-point for startups. Switching to them has been a boon to BCC and to many of my clients who could lose BCC in the petty cash drawer.

Consider a software company which does yearly releases -- not that uncommon. Averaged over time, there is six months of developer labor which is structurally incapable of helping out customers. That's crazily wasteful. The code is written. It works (well, you know). But, for process reasons, it just can't be put into production right now. It's like having six month timelines on receivables for work already completed and accepted: egads, that's a problem.

That also means that, on average, every new feature laid has a six month air gap between when it is completed and when Real Customer Feedback starts coming in about it. The developer has already forgotten what they did and the design rationale for it.

Six months is also plenty of time for development to go totally off the rails, into the well-trod territory of producing working code which does not provide customer or business value. I've sunk months into features which didn't go anywhere. I have clients that have man-years invested into core features of new releases which were never even seen by plural percent of the user base.

By comparison, if you're releasing bi-weekly, you generally have one week between completing a feature and when you start getting feedback. You have one week for things to get off the rails prior to customer behavior measurably saying "This? Yeah, couldn't care less." You might actually remember design rationales for things you did when called to improve upon them.

The utility of this pretty much keeps increasing the lower you get your iteration times.

Fog Creek used to do yearly releases, largely as an artifact of selling software which had to be installed on 3rd party servers. Like almost everybody else, they have largely transitioned to hosted SaaS. This means they move quite a bit faster now. That has been pretty much unalloyed Good News, both for the engineers and for the business as a whole.
That's just it - for me, it seems like they achieved responsive design without being broken and annoying.

But some of it is subjective, and I only saw the new design today. It might not hold up so well to heavy use.
Or for people who like to not have their browser be fullscreen all the time.
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While I agree that the statements are not judgemental, I disagree that they are not so merely because they are presented as facts. It's entirely possible to present facts in a light that makes them ageist (or X-ist, for some value of X).
>> There's nothing in traditional media that works that way.

And that is exactly the point - it feels like we are finally waking up to what the web can really do that traditional media cannot. I'm sure in a few years having the content reflow will be something users expect of every website (not that it is something people do all the time - see the comment that guywithabike made).
I smell filament group(http://www.filamentgroup.com/). Anyone know who led the design?
I actually had never seen that link but its kinda useful. I guess I was looking for something other than "write a blog" and the targeted pages were new. Thanks.
Seems to compare favorably to the Andy Rutledge redesign (http://andyrutledge.com/news-redux.php) save for the ads. The ads on the story pages don't work as well resulting in horizontal scrolling.
There's a retrospective here which addresses quite a lot of it: http://qinsb.blogspot.com/2011/03/unladen-swallow-retrospect...

Partly it sounds like performance-critical code at Google tends to get written in a lower level language instead, so Python performance isn't as critical, even though they use it quite a bit.

Agree that it'd be great if they helped out the PyPy team though, since it's showing such great promise and has some pretty impressive numbers already.
Even worse, on Chrome on Mac the entire page flashes black for a fraction of a second every time you select something from a drop-down list. Unusable.
hint: there are over 3000 pages launched via launchrock, but not all of them are startups.
This doesn't really offer anything new, pagerank checking and whois scripts are floating around the internet everywhere, for $10 I'm sure you can get one which does alexa and social bookmarks as well..

You've got a nice domain, why not put together a decent domain name generator (take a look at what others are doing and put your own spin on it) but this market (pagerank / whois) is already flooded and crowded.
By your own admission you are not a tax lawyer. Perhaps this is why you are conflating two different things, income and assets.

All US income for 10 years after expatriation was subject
to US income tax for 10 years

Yes, and that was bad enough, but what is new is this:

they take progressive amounts on *assets* above the
inflation-indexed $600k exemption up to a top rate of 35%
(same as the estate tax). The 50% thing is a special case
for future deferred income from a US asset; you pay 30% up
front and 30% on distribution, which comes out at 51%

That is a tax on assets in addition to income. Assets. Meaning everything you've built up to this point, not just your continuing revenue streams while overseas. An asset tax for expatriation is a new development in American history.
This redesign is all over filament's home page, so it looks like they indeed were.
EDIT: http://filamentgroup.com/lab/introducing_the_new_responsive_...
I see no more insanity in basing a bonus on cost of living than in basing a salary on market rate. They're both outside the direct control of either party and lack any fundamental relationship to the properties of the particular company.
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Anyone recommend any books for Best Practices and Development of Back End Infrastructure? I'm well versed in MYsql, Java, PHP, Ruby.
This is called an adaptive layout.
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You just pass the cost on to your employee. Hire them for X/(1 + expected tax rate) instead of X.
Nope, by what I can see. Basically all CSS[3]. The JS they have seems to be for libraries like Modernzr (HTML5 related) and some other things.

Basically, in the CSS there is code like "@media screen and (min-width: 480px) {}" where everything within the curly braces is ONLY for browser windows that are > 480px. So, you can do all sorts of combinations like max-width: AND min-width:. When the window is resized it uses new rules.

AFAIK people refer to this as 'Responsive web design' and thankfully is being picked up by a lot of designers/developers. There's a ton of ready-made CSS frameworks and the like available for people to use.

(People, feel free to correct/clarify my explanation)
This isn't a slam against ReactOS, but it's ready for 80% of real world use if you're using late 90s/early 2000s applications. Seems like Marat might've been stretching the truth to the president.
The real success here is not the fluid design (which is awesome). It's getting it through inside a traditional media company.

I'd love to read a frank overview of that process as well as the design itself.
What a bizzaro world it could have been...if all our Gadgets would appreciate.
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+1 was very exciting to see the vox.io live temo call during the demo day!