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thanks. what development tools do you use to develop JS applications?

thanks for the great response

ok yes I know about those libraries...I guess what Im asking is why use GWT when such libraries exist?

Im considering starting a new web app and want to know more about GWT vs just Javascript (GWT compiles Java to Javascript). Does GWT offer productivity gains over just using JS? An…

Economics can contribute to economics, so long as they are not dynamic macroeconomic theorists. That stuff is witchcraft.

Actually Hayek and Keynes never used much math in their arguments. Keynes ideas were put into economic models by later economists with science backgrounds: Alvin Hansen, Paul Sameu…

huh? They are called the "Fundamental Theorems of Welfare Economics" - look it up in any graduate econ text. Stop ranting.

Economics in the 40-50s was about Markets vs. Planning. The big economic names at the time - Hayek, Keynes, were debating the merits and faults of markets and planning. Einstein th…

gradubation...lol

Good thinking.

depressing =(

I am building a web app that provides a graphical rich web interface to the functions of the statistical programming language R. Here is my elevator pitch: http://www.youtube.com/w…

I dont think Mac OS X server is really anything special - Mac OS X itself can be a good server. Unless your using some specific Apple-only technology like Xgrid, plain OSX is fine.…

Cool idea but a rather expensive way to go (if you consider hardware + colocation fee) compared with a VPS. Although the mac mini is dedicated its laptop parts make it on par or wo…

simple solution: just force MS to install Chrome Frame by default in IE. This may not increase awareness of other browsers, but it does make developers life easier.

clojure is cool. I just got a book yesterday.

I prefer to read up on people whose work is timeless: Claude Shannon, John Tukey, Jon Klienberg, the bioinformaticians whose work will one day discover a cure for cancer, etc.

His argument points out the benefit of web applications- your software may suck now, but maybe not so much next week.

Machine learning made statistics cool.