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I kind of get that feel too, and I think it might be related to the fact that many spammy/scraper news sites and amateur operations use designs off of themeforest or popular free WP themes, which tend to be fairly minimalist and white space heavy. Whereas pretty much all high end news outlets have extremely busy designs, and we have been conditioned to associate that with trustworthiness.
That seems somewhat backward, because it would discourage those with limited assets from starting businesses and trying to improve their situation.
To answer your question: to make the page more readable, if resizing changes column width.

But your question is the wrong question. The reason to have a fluid layout is to have a single version of the page that looks good on screens of all sizes, computers, tablets, and phones.
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I have no idea how anyone who's ever read the mongodb source code can entrust it with their data.
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Agree.

I'm not a big fan of Calacanis but he did provide the most interesting arguments (and color) when he was a regular (even when he was far off the mark). Especially when Dvorak was around too.

Much better than the current ensemble of "me toos".

PS. I also thought it was cool of him to write:

"I’d throw in my little ThisWeekIn.com copy-cat network to make up with Leo to get the job done. I’ve been looking to repair that burned bridge for a while."
No, thought I've read about Sencha Touch and several others.

I am planning on having a Web-app component to my next product, actually, and have been reading about them all; Dojo and jQuery Mobile are the two finalists I'm considering.

But the primary app is a game, and the production values for games make doing them entirely as web apps not an option.

Clunky scrolling would be a problem, sure, as well as choppy animations. I'll have to see what can be done when I actually dive in to writing the HTML5/CSS components.

The thing is, it's certainly POSSIBLE for web apps to animate better than they do. It may not be time for web apps to take over on phones, but it's only a matter of time. Processors in phones are getting more powerful, and the WebKit-based browsers are being optimized; scrolling animations really shouldn't be significantly slower done in JavaScript than they are in, e.g., Java on Android.
It's interesting that rewriting in Clojure was "less work and more timely" than migrating to Akka or waiting for Scala 2.10. Any insight as to why? Having written no Scala, I'm not sure what the Akka changes would entail.
Not sure what's optimistic about it. Those features are there. You don't need to wait for them because they were easy to implement from w/in the language itself. Same way you traditionally build libraries.

All those companies are moving their languages and libraries at an incredibly slow pace and will continue to do so (since their languages don't really give them any alternatives). Nothing pessimistic about that. They are large companies with little room for flexibility.
I don't see how the man-mad warming camp can make-such-matter of fact assertions such as in http://daringfireball.net/linked/2011/09/07/krugman-shape-of... when the evidence does not seem to be conclusive. It's even more alarming that the other side is belittled.

Surely there must be something more compelling than "An Inconvenient Truth" on the matter?
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This was me. Only one troll and a few hundred views. Good on you, HN.
This policy seems to be a relic of the times before google docs allowed 10gb files of any type. Because the two services share a purchased storage pool but have different policies regarding taking items out.
My assumption is this will disappear, especially with how close google is tying Picasa to google+, i.e photos and videos uploaded on google+ are stored in Picasa. Not being able to download videos from google+ kind of defeats the whole data portability argument google keeps talking up and using against facebook.
The trouble with factory tours is that they're uneven in quality. Many of 'em don't let you see anything interesting. I've soured on them after a couple of bad experiences. The Ben & Jerry's ice cream factory in Vermont should be fascinating, but it consists of watching a long video followed by looking through a window at the factory floor while they point things out to you. You're not allowed anywhere near the actual machines. The Lindt chocolate factory in Zurich is even worse -- there's no tour at all, you're just stuck in a museum room at the factory. The free tasting redeem 'em both somewhat, but for what it costs to get there you might as well just stay home and eat ice cream and/or chocolate without the factory.

Best factory I've ever seen wasn't open to the public, it was a factory making fibrous cement sheets. I've also toured radiotelescopes and the National Ignition Facility, but the fibrous cement sheet factory was way cooler.
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Thanks for the idea... I am planning on making it fluid so that it will look good on mobile. I think I will make it full screen with a long sidebar on the side that can be hidden. It is never a bad idea to steal UI design from Google :)
I actually do my development in cross-platform native code. My currently library can target iOS, Android, and Windows, and I'd be able to add most other major platforms pretty trivially.

I agree that some UI changes are necessary between platforms as different as the PC, the Wii, and a touch-screen-based phone. But I very much disagree that you can't take advantage of solid cross-platform tools. I've written such tools, in fact.

Some native code to interface to native UI is necessary, but none of the native UI is really rocket science, and something offered natively on one phone can typically be done manually on another. Then it becomes an abstraction in the cross-platform library, and your code doesn't need to know how it's implemented.

But then again I'm a game developer, so I guess you've admitted that I could potentially already understand cross-platform development. ;)
Well you should think like in the article. The article is blaming people for counting on social security and other government handouts instead of saving up and paying for it themselves.

The solution to this, of course, is MORE government handouts, more taxes on those who did manage to get a bit of money together. In general boiling down to massively punishing those who did do what the article describes as the ideal.

In most socialist parties in Europe this is actually a known tactic : make people screw up their lives, give them crumbs so they live miserable lives but don't have enough incentive to fix things (sometimes people like this die in their home, and it isn't noticed for 2 months. Then everybody's shocked how "society abandoned" these people, when of course it's the exact reverse). Then socialists blame society for "forcing people into unemployment".

Massive numbers of people will choose the easy option, no matter how horrible the life it gives. And of course, accepting responsability for your own life is ... not the easy option.

So it must be closed off, or you best be prepared for disaster.

London was but a warning, like the car burnings of Paris were before. And you can make the mistake of assuming these riots, and car burnings are over, but that's a mistake. What really happens is that there is a constant low-level rioting that's been going on for a decade now. What "set off" the big riot was simply a screwup on the hands of the police. Maybe someone got transferred and their replacement neglected to deploy the police the first night ... whatever. And the people who are on the street every night got their chance, the message spread, and a few thousand people joined the riots, because the first 10 got through the security. Car burnings are a constant menace for 13 years in most French cities, but usually people get caught after 1-5 cars. So most nights, we're talking 5 car burnings over all of France. What happened during the "riots" is simple : some guy burns 10 cars without police intervention, calls his friends.

Of course, the solution to this is to force the taxpayer to provide the infrastructure for these groups to become million-members groups, instead of a few thousand member groups like they are today. That's socialism. That's Europe.
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>The reason I'm skeptical about the hypothesis "burning fossil fuels is likely to cause significant and disastrous climate change in the future" is that it's all based on simulations which can't be tested against experiment

I'm skeptical that this is your true reason. Many, if not most, fields of science are built in areas where it's hard to run a true physical simulation of the model. For example, take machine learning, where nearly every method is developed without novel collection of new data, but is run entirely on data that has previously been collected and been analyzed over and over again.

If you run simulations, you should already know ways to test them without collecting new raw data, particularly if you have a large corpus of data from the real system.

What's your true reason? Is it that you just think that humans can't impact the climate?
Akka actors are the accepted production solution in Scala.

I wonder how the author translated actor heavy code to clojure - I guess the closest available concept would be agents.
Yes, it is possible. Postgres supports custom data types and operators on those data types, and (using the GiST subsystem) you can create indexes using those custom operators.

Unfortunately, there is a caveat: this will more than likely require writing custom C code. I've never tried to implement GiST indexing for a new data type, so I don't know just how much effort would be required.

What kind of distances did you have in mind?
That sentence isn't even correct. There is a MASSIVE difference between simulation based science and experiment based science.

I consider simulation based science interesting as theory (theoretical science), but it should NEVER be taken as accepted fact.
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What innovation of Apple's has Samsung copied here?
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http://www.skepticalscience.com/its-not-us-basic.htm is what you are after.

See also http://www.skepticalscience.com/its-not-us-intermediate.htm and http://www.skepticalscience.com/its-not-us-advanced.htm depending on the level of discussion you like.

How do human CO2 emissions compare to natural CO2 emissions? http://www.skepticalscience.com/human-co2-smaller-than-natur... is also related

The whole site is rather good. You can pull up your objection and erad the discussion: http://www.skepticalscience.com/argument.php
FTFA: Climate change may or may not be occurring. But there is no dispute that 98 percent of climate scientists believe that it is happening and is man-made.

The problem is in the phrasing of the question. Questions like "are global average temperatures increasing on a decade-to-decade timescale?" and "is climate change at least partly due to human activity?" are very different questions to "is the observed change in climate due primarily to anthropogenic factors?" and "to what extent is this likely to be a problem in the future" and "is it time to agree to [random policy proposal X that might help to cut CO_2 emissions slightly]?" -- but all these questions are treated as if they're the same question.

I'm so glad I work in an area of science where politics rarely intrudes.
Simple state machines don't really have a lot of math behind them. Just a diagram of states and state transitions. The only time math comes into it is if you need to prove something about them, then your general graph algorithms should be able to take care of it. You can whip up all the code you need for a state machine in less than a page of code, there really isn't much to them.
Do you mind saying why you don't find thousands of scientific articles published in a wide variety of journals compelling?
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> What's the qualification for a "nicer" driver system, that isn't better driver support?

Windows effectively has user-installable drivers and Linux, for intents and purposes, does not. In fact, Windows has the equivalent of apt-get for drivers -- a central auto-updating repository. Comparably, Linux is a backwards wasteland when it comes to drivers and driver management.
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Is it going to have the same/similar multi-replication for enterprise only limitation that Riak has or is this going to be funded in some other way?
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Energy use has been correlated with economic output for virtually all of human history.

So either this trend is reversing (which seems unlikely to me), we are in for a prolonged recessionary period, or this is just a temporary dip due to new lighting technology, and the trend will revert.
Hey, I'm all about the generalization.
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I put LED rope lights on top on my kitchen cabinets and the indirect light is great for nighttime dealing with baby bottles, snacks, etc and they also look nice in the day. I just leave them on all the time. Has really cut back on using the halogen under cabinet lights or the 9 overhead CFLs.

Also have a small LED lamp in the bath fan/light. Obvious middle of night advantages there: don't need to burn your retinas with the normal lights.
incidentally this has been done in Australia under the auspices of NEIS apparently over the past 20 years (link to monthly success story here: http://www.nna.asn.au/success-stories )

On top of it, there is a layer of mentoring as well:

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Simply out of curiosity for this same topic, do you happen to know of a good resource for finding out even just some of the less trivial differences that this solves? I'm sure it does but off hand I don't know them (I'm not all that multilingual).

I understand it'll bring in glyph orderings that don't exist in en_US or whatever you've got the default set to, such as 'Ç' in french among others.
I'm skeptical that this is your true reason.

What's your true reason? Is it that you just think that humans can't impact the climate?

Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong, but please don't accuse me of lying about what I actually think.
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"Proof will be in the pudding of course, these guys are far from ready at this point, and are approaching the hard part of a project."

They may be approaching the hard part of the project, just as the desktop is becoming irrelevant. It's already too late. It was too late when they started, but it's really too late now.

"Like most things you should choose the OS that meets your needs, and for most people using a Microsoft stack, with Microsoft trained users, using software aimed at Microsoft platforms then this could be the answer."

I don't see how it could be. It is a clone of Windows XP (a ten year old operating system, no longer supported by Microsoft). It runs on less hardware, works with fewer Windows applications, and works less reliably, than a Linux system with WINE (which I also don't consider a useful substitute for Windows in the context you're speaking of, but it's better than ReactOS currently, and probably well into the future, since it has more active developers, more commercial support, and smaller more obtainable goals).

Again, I think ReactOS is a solution looking for a problem.
> I've seen electrical rates cited on more than one occasion as the sole reason why they are not making snow 24/7 during the pre-season when they don't even have customers on the mountain. But don't take my word for it,

Fair enough.

> it's published on the power company website.

Hold it - those cites just say that night rates are lower. They don't say that lower rates are "the sole reason why they are not making snow 24/7", let alone the only reason why ski resorts run their snow machines at night (which was the original claim).

I don't know what fraction of a ski-resort's expenses go to power for snow-making. Do you?

The fraction that goes to power goes to the question whether day-time vs night time actually makes a difference that matters. For example, saving 100% of 1% is only 1%. I doubt that a ski resort would risk pissing off customers to save 1%.

For example, it may well be that day-time made snow is inferior, or that the transion layer from day-time made snow to night time made snow annoys skiiers. (IIRC, most natural snowfall is at night.)
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I have some CDs I want to trade/sell and will definitely be using Murfie.

I'm not sold on renting music I already own from them though. But then again I don't want to pay for online backup either, so I'm probably not the target market on that side of the business.
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I'm curious how much - if any - of the abating rate is due to shifting patterns of device usage. Our household, for example, is much like Mark Pilgrim's: "My 7-yr-old is sitting in front of a working 42-inch HDTV watching cartoons on an Android phone. The future is now." [1]

We have a fully functional 37" Sharp LCD, and yet the majority of our media is consumed via laptops, tablets or phones.

All of which draw power, of course, but likely less power than a large television. And even if they were comparable in terms of power consumption, the fact is that the computers would be on even if we were watching TV.

Throw in wider trends like the number of people cutting the cord (getting rid of cable) and it makes me curious about whether using smaller devices - particularly those designed to be power efficient - and the absence of others has an impact.

The plural of anecdote isn't data, however, so I have no idea if this is relevant or not.

[1] http://twitter.com/#!/diveintomark/status/112491024936476672
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I'm not so sure this is a Clojure vs Scala story, as much as it is a Write One To Throw Away story.

"The form of the Clojure code mostly follows the form of the Scala code, most of the same functions"

Well evidently not. Otherwise, the code would not have seen a 75% reduction in lines of code.

What specific transformations resulted in this delta?
John Cook is my hero I've referenced his site in so many arguments with people on friend's facebook statuses[1].

[1] This is a hobby of mine, many friends of friends seem to work in the coal mining industry and therefore need the cognitive dissonance of climate change denial (not skepticism you will note, denial) in order to operate.
Query hints are not likely to happen, at least not in the way that they do in other databases. There's been a number of discussions about it and you can see some of the aftermath at http://wiki.postgresql.org/wiki/OptimizerHintsDiscussion

As for Materialzed Views, there's some options there currently, though it looks like native support would be a lot nicer: http://tech.jonathangardner.net/wiki/PostgreSQL/Materialized...
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No, but decreasing power consumption may more important than increasing computing power for mobile devices.
I don't think you're lying, but I do think that there's a different reason you are skeptical that is deeper and probably harder to express.

"You can't rerun the climate" is a common enough sentiment, but when I hear that from technical people and probe them the same way, most will admit that it's not a logical reason to distrust scientific reasoning, and will come up with some other reason.

Never tried it online though, so maybe I come across like too much of a jerk without vocal tones.
> What's your true reason?

It's always good to throw out a nasty insinuation.

> Is it that you just think that humans can't impact the climate?

How about fact that none of the proposed "solutions" actually address the supposed problem, but instead just give control over to a bunch of folks who were demanding that kind of control long before anyone thought of AGW?

Then there's the rent-seeking.

Then there's the fact that almost none of these people act like it's a serious problem. They want me to pay, but their only change is to line up to collect a check.
I'm sorry, but this doesn't really disprove anything important. All it proves is that Arrington can give fair coverage to companies he has invested in- not that he is obliged to.

There is a potential for abuse here, and just because he hasn't done it before now (perhaps the stakes haven't been high enough?) doesn't mean he wouldn't in the future.

The comments on the post make a great point- Seesmic has 4210 posts written about it, while Tweetdeck has only 2580. Seems a little disproportionate, no? The old "any publicity is good publicity" line might apply here.