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extjs is pretty far along - I am using it extensively, but my interest in this article stems from a constant search for credible alternatives.

The first thing I look for is a lazy-loading tree grid control (i.e. child nodes fetched on demand, reliably limited to visible row counts).
Amen: the next 'it'?
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Unfortunately the bang "!" was removed from the headline. The argument of the article is that programming does not equal computer science. Maybe this was a typo, or maybe the HN software doesn't like bangs.
You're probably right, they'll make some principal payment, perhaps even par -- but in what currency? If it's drachmas, you're getting a claim on the various things Greece exports. Hence views on the value of greek bonds are increasingly driven by views on the prospects for the olive oil market. After three millenia of maturation, this is now considered a commodity market with little potential for pricing power . . .

P.S. The Germans may, at some point, prefer to bail out their banks, as there they have some capacity to draw a line and call a halt.

The _real_ question is the implications of a Greek default / euro withdrawal on European political integration. The Germans care a great deal more about that, and are probably prepared to pay a very high price for it. The question comes down to, how much of others' welfare states must they underwrite, and how much will they underwrite.
> try to make something that "felt native".

I beg you to reconsider. I think this is the current problem with mobile web apps today; too many are trying to feel native. Instead try to make it feel smooth and responsive, as a web app.

Generally, don't be ashamed of being a web app. Embrace the web's strengths; users will appreciate it.
What nonsense. What have jews to do with it? Maybe banks shouldn't be able to profit from such a basic necessity as food when they have plenty of other things they can bet on.

Plus, when it comes to speculations, real world effects do have an influence but a new market of supply and demand of the speculation itself is created based on hopes, rational or otherwise, of falls or rises of prices, which is most often detached from "real reasons based on the facts on the ground".
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It's like any other bubble - it started basically because of a lack of anywhere else to invest, and at some point it just grew because it was growing. Remember 1999?

Unless you hold a short position in food futures, I don't think you are particularly confident in the correctness of this statement.
"I take the hard view that science involves the creation of testable hypotheses" - Michael Crichton

A computer simulation is not a testable hypothesis, never has been, never will be. There are millions of variables that go into our climate, to say that a computer simulation can capture all of them is naive at best.

In regards to the diamond planet, nobody is suggesting we radically alter the world economic system over a guess about a "diamond planet". The "climate change" crowd has an entire legion of people dedicated to killing the world economy over a bunch of un-testable computer simulations.
That's how I understand how the California law works. If it's not related to your company's core business (which gets into legit IP issues most especially trade secrets) what you do on your own time with your own resources is yours, full stop.
Maybe because offline apps and localStorage started as a part of specification which later became HTML5?
There seems to be a lot more detail in those articles.

The 1999 deregulation of the futures markets by the Commodities Futures Trading Commission for example, is missing from the World Development Movement infographic. This appears to be a critical detail that's missing.

For your second link, I hit a paywall, so here's a link to get around that:
http://theglobalrealm.com/2011/02/04/the-food-bubble-how-wal...
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>Also 98% chance seems pretty high

and what is the alternative? To pay back with 74% of interest? In real money (ie. euro/dollar)? The only possible non-default way is several times inflation of Greek currency.
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My post was not arguing against the specific relevance investors had on food prices, but rather the attitude that just because something is legal/allowed that any parties partaking in the action bear no responsibility.
A call for donations is always fair, but I'm confused by:

I *have* to go to the (clojure/conj), but the total cost of the journey is above what I can reasonably afford right now.

Why have? I don't get it.
Looking at the CSS, I see you're styling the id tags. I'm not a designer, but my experience is that you should only style your ids sparingly and use classes for most stuff.

Also you have a bit of code to recreate some jquery functionality. Maybe for your purpose it's unnecessary to load all of jquery, but consider that if you use Google's CDN, there's a strong chance the user already has jquery cached. Look at the HTML5 Boilerplate for a snippet on how to use Google CDN and fallback to the hosted version. Again, might not be necessary for your limited use case.
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Google has two efforts in this direction, the Dart VM and PNaCl. On many levels both are about as ideal as you could possibly imagine. However there is virtually no chance either is going to be adopted by other browsers. Neither are standard and both would require adopting huge new toolchains and codebases.
Your question is too broad, so I'm going to give a broad answer.

I would use the Ruby language and Ruby on Rails framework and customize the Spree http://spreecommerce.com/ E-Commerce software.
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Fair enough, but I personally believe the AVL structure is sufficiently simple.

Let me compare treaps and AVL trees: Both insert at the same point, then proceed to rebalance. The treap will rotate upwards until p_new>p_parent. The AVL will update balance information upwards until bal_parent%2==1, then update and possibly rotate once.

That's a couple of conditional operations extra, and field operations instead of tree operations. The final step in particular is less elegant, but straggling cleanup operations are everyday things and well worth the better performance, to me.
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Minor nit - futures are not options. If you buy a futures contract, you have the right and responsibility to buy wheat for $1000 in the future.

If you hold the futures contract at it's expiration date, you must take delivery, so pretty much all speculators have a pressing need to offload their contracts to somebody before the due date.
Indeed, it's rather sketchy code asking for a race condition.

I guess Opera looks at it from "Hixie" perspective: if 3 out of 4 engines do this and sites rely on it, then that's the standard.
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I see what you mean. I am just not sure the banks are fairly blamed here. It is still possible that they are simply conducting their business of helping to establish correct prices for goods.

Attempts to fix prices for food usually backfire - then producers have no incentive to produce food anymore if production costs are higher than the allowed maximum price.

Also, isn't bankers buying food futures at too high prices equivalent to abandoning food futures? It means the bakery can not afford to buy a food future anymore (because banks drove the prices for futures up too much). So they'll have to do without the futures and simply buy at market rate once they need the wheat.

The allegation is that banks would never actually buy the food they have the futures for (they don't have silos for storing the food).

So the most damage they can do is destroy the utility of food futures. I don't see how introducing laws against food futures would help against that...
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jgc has two articles on the front page of HN, and both are sweeping generalizations that, in essence, miss the point entirely. In this one, about presentations, he fails to understand that how you present is not to be separated from what you present. I too have heard lectures where somebody reads from notes. They are often awful.

Without writing my own tome (which would obviously be flawed), I'll simply implore you to consider the following question when putting your presentation together: Are you trying to teach or to persuade?

If persuading, keeping it entirely verbal may be effective (if you are good at such things). However, if teaching, most evidence points to opening up as many sensory channels as possible to get the information across. Usually, that means verbal and visual.

The most important thing is to structure your talk so that the audience's mind is engaged. A simple trick to help is to ask questions (even if rhetorically), then reveal the answer.

In other words, it's how you use the slides, not whether you use the slides.

Same with pie charts, btw (the other offending article).

EDIT: emphasis
> I don't know much about their development process and efficiency level so I won't say more.

http://netsplit.com/2011/09/08/new-ubuntu-release-process/
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Humidity means water vapor. You can't have water vapor without water. The article says "water may be present". QED.
Even if you're under the California law, be very careful that the two work-worlds never overlap. And, keep very good dated records.
This application is a killer idea, really IMHO. Because:

1) everybody like to give his opinion, it's one of the first occupation on the networks.

2) the amen data are damn kick-ass data.

I think we will hear about Amen a lot in the next months...
The Cadbury factory in Tasmania (Australia) is now similarly weak - no more factory floor tour: now you just watch a video and see a basic chocolate making demo. It's also only redeemed by the shop selling discounted and seconds chocolate.

A real shame.
As far as I know there's no Linux support for the Doxie, so you're out of luck there. The ScanSnaps, while being quite a bit more expensive and bigger do have a decent support.

If we're only talking about the odd invoice, any normal scanner would do, too. If you get one of those printer/scanner combinations, you'll also save some space.

Yes, the app situation for Linux isn't that good. The Evernote web app alone isn't as comfortable as a native application, and I haven't seen anything decent out of the open source sector.

I'd recommend going a bit more low-tech. Create a script that invokes the "scanimage" command with the desired parameters, then moves it to your "cloud" directory (Dropbox, Ubuntu One etc.). There, run OCR software over it, dumping the result in a file. If nothing major has changed, tesseract would be the free OCR software of choice.

For simplicity's sake, I'd recommend that the script automatically chooses the file name, you just add some "tags", e.g. if your script is called "scan_stuff", you'd invoke it as "scan_stuff amazon invoice", and the result would end up as "~/Dropbox/scans/2011-09-13-14-46-amazon-invoice.pdf", alongside a "2011-09-13-14-46-amazon-invoice.txt" file generated from that. This makes it easy enough to search by date or by a rather generic type.

The SANE scanimage command supports batch mode, even if you don't have an automatic feeder (--batch-prompt).

This might not be as automatic as some of the specialized solutions for Windows or Mac, but it does handle special cases a bit better. You can just have a parameter or separate script for that and don't have to mess with Preferences each time something slightly different comes in (e.g. color, higher dpi, different target directory…).
It's really common in warmer areas like Florida. Most of us have heat pumps with an emergency "heat strip" resistive heating element that's really expensive to run.
Sorry to be nitpicky, but Italy is the first I in PIIGS, the second being Ireland.
This doesn't necessarily have to be at the UI level. If sites have a well defined API they can still be indexed but serviced for users by native apps. In fact, this is better than kludgy scraping.
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"Never again play games with users, it's literally just like malaria."

This is pretty fun
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Yes, this was confusing, and is now hopefully addressed in the new version of the text. Thanks for pointing this out,

Laurent
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I don't know about the average family but in the past 5-7 years I've replaced almost everything in my house that consumes electricity - HVAC, water heater, dishwasher, fridge, television, computers and light bulbs. Almost all of those went to more energy-efficient models. I think the only thing that's gotten worse is the huge pile of gadget chargers.
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Reading articles like this makes me wonder my Opera bothers having their own HTML engine at all (at least for desktop). Why not use webkit and help develop that? I cant see any advantages from Opera's point of view, just a big bunch of problems, and another set of browser specific bugs for web developers everywhere.

I mean, how many man-hours were wasted (for Opera and the BBC) as a result of this bug alone?
If a presentation can be fit into three slides, then why use slides at all? At that point, it seems better suited to a one-page Word doc. To wit: one of the most effective short-form idea communication tools I've ever seen is the infamous "P&G Memo" used by Procter & Gamble. It's worth Googling, absorbing, and pressing into service. You'd be amazed at how pretty much any complex idea can be condensed into a single page -- not to mention how much more readily it will be received and digested, which is the entire point of communication.

As for Powerpoint and Keynote, reserve those for actual presentations (i.e., delivered live in front of an audience). Try to avoid them as handouts or passed-around documents, unless requested by the recipient (And even then, politely push back if possible; most people have been conditioned to ask for PPTs when they don't really need, or even want them).
Italy does not have a deficit problem, it has a political problem. And everybody knows who it is.
This is one of my biggest beefs with MIT's new undergraduate curriculum: in the panic over the post dot.com crash in enrollment (from 400 students per class for decades to a bit less than 200) among other things orders came down from on high to purge Scheme from it. So now it's Python and Java, and as you might know Mr. Python hates functional programing.

(My biggest beef is personal, in that I'm by nature a scientist and what was most interesting in the department has been officially purged, although a cut down version of 6.001 (SICP) is still being taught in January, and you can even earn credit if you're one of the first N to sign up (purely a resource constraint there).)

(Also BTW, enrollment has climbed back up, 305 sophomores are declared EECS majors this fall term.)

Problem is, the multi-core future is very much here today and as far as I know functional programming remains the best practical way to address SMP/cNUMA systems (well, you can always go to actors but then you end up copying a lot of data if you're not functional and in general they haven't caught on like their proponents had hoped, except that of course that style is used for less tightly coupled multi-processor systems like today's big supercomputers).
A video with some Filament guys talking about the project (on boston.com, ironically enough):

http://www.boston.com/video/viral_page/?/services/player/bcp...

Video says the site was by Globe staffers, Filament and Upstatement.
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Good job now the interesting thing is turntable is US only. Proxy?
And that's the difficult thing. It's inspiring to hear about how a team's long-running lack of constructive feedback finally led to success, but what about the 20 other teams who have gone 3 years and still haven't found it? Don't get me wrong, I like reading stories like this, but there is a lot more at play.
That's only your entire history if you stopped using it on or before 3 PM PDT on August 15th. It's interesting, but that end number needs to be a whole lot higher.
The teaching vs. persuading argument is very interesting, and I'd urge you to write about these thoughts even if they are, to use your words, flawed.
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I wish they went into more details about the customization. Their description sounds like something that could be generally applicable. Who doesn't want leaner server with maximum airflow with a minimal amount of fans? Google's customizations make more sense, as they're integrating it with their racks (not doing DC conversion in the power supply).
The last time I ordered servers for my employer, I was incredibly annoyed by Dell's website because it doesn't show prices on key pieces of hardware to business customers. The result is that you can't really plan anything until you start taking calls from extremely annoying Dell salespeople who eventually send you an offer with prices in it - an offer that may of may not contain the products you actually wanted. The worst part is that you just know you're getting totally ripped off (otherwise they'd have prices on their site) and that after this stuff finally arrives at your door the same obnoxious customer service reps keep calling you to sell you more stuff. So that was the first and last time I bought something from Dell. What an ordeal.
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One thing that I noticed (and backed by circadian rhythm research) is that using electronic bright devices at night disrupts the sleep pattern, making it more difficult to fall asleep, and so I keep on reading.

For this reason, I prefer to read with a nook e-ink, illuminated by a nightstand lamp with a switch off timer, say 1 or 2 hours, to "force" me to go to sleep in a timely manner. This way the lighting is not right in front of my eyes but shining somewhere from the back.
Google have been doing this for a long time. http://news.cnet.com/8301-1001_3-10209580-92.html
"...the color white was chosen because it represents a hex number with the largest value in a 24-bit red green blue (RGB) color space: 0xFFFFFF, so programmers worldwide wear white in celebration."

Only Programmers would have a holiday in which we wear white after labor day to celebrate.
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He requested an energy audit from his utility, Nstar, to help cut his power use. ... He replaced his electric dryer with a gas-powered one.

Tell me again why electric cars are supposed to be superior to those powered by gasoline?

OK, I'm being snarky, but I really think this underscores the fact that supporting electric cars has become more of a religion than a rational conclusion based on any real evidence.

Regarding energy usage, it drives me crazy that people fixate to such a degree on, e.g., the heat coming off of lightbulbs. In climates that require heating, this isn't waste: it's heating the house. In the winter, there's no reason to go around turning off all your lights and appliances. It all goes into heating your house, so the only cost is the difference in price between electric heat vs. oil/gas. So claiming that a decrease in energy draw for a light of X% translates into an X% improvement in energy usage is just wrong. (granted that in the summer, A/C must work in the other direction; but my complaint is that our discourse never approaches this level of nuance)
There are many schools of thought around using IDs vs Classes, some of the old was that "ID's are faster to parse", but really, its an old habit for many to use IDs. I think the answer is always "it depends", but I'm somewhat using classes and aria roles over IDs now anyway.

The "jquery functionality" you speak of is a query engine, but web kit based browsers have "querySelectorAll", which is native C code. jquery uses it (where available)… but being that we were trying to build something that downloaded very quickly on spotty 3g connections, we chose to write a couple of utility functions. (The total byte count for application.min.js is 3186).
Aside from having a great design, what's excellent about this is that they're working with new design concepts and implementing them well. Responsive web design is huge for newspapers and other sites with lots of text and images. The Boston Globe is hopefully the first of many great redesigns using this method.
And if you are smart you can outsource charging many of those gadgets. Many probably do without realizing the impact. Charge your laptop as you browse the web in a coffee shop; charge your phone in your car; charge your MP3 player at work; etc...
In other news, people blog about other meaningless pet peeves...

Seriously, for any chart type, there are cases of misuse, even if the over-glorified Edward Tufte says no.
Note that jashkenas reopened that issue[1] (which was closed in April) in response to this article.

You have to love a BDFL who's willing to discuss things.

[1] https://github.com/jashkenas/coffee-script/issues/1191#issue...
The Globe developed (and released!) an incredibly neat piece of software to let them preview changes on 10+ devices simultaneously.

https://github.com/marstall/shim

You can see it in use very briefly from 1m 18s in:

http://www.boston.com/video/viral_page/?/services/player/bcp...

They should release a video of shim in action. A video explains it much better than words can. (I was lucky enough to get a sneak peak of all their new stuff a little while ago.)
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I'd love to see where Adobe or Oracle would fit in on that chart.
This reminds me of the PGF manual: http://mirror.ctan.org/graphics/pgf/base/doc/generic/pgf/pgf...

In section 7.6 Plots and Charts the author explains very clearly the typical issues with bar diagrams and pie charts. Moreover, the whole chapter 7 Guidelines on Graphics is worth reading even for those who are not interested in the PGF package.

The PGF manual is one of the best introductions into that topic I'm aware of.
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Nice. How did you arrive at that price point?
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