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Jobless drop not enough to stop fear
July 29 - Shorter-than-expected unemployment lines in the U.S. were not enough to stop fears the economy is growing too slow to support a pick-up in job creation. Conway G. Gittens reports.
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JavaScript Minification Part II
Variable naming can be a source of coding angst for humans trying to understand code. Once you’re sure that a human doesn’t need to interpret your JavaScript code, variables simply become generic placeholders for values. Nicholas C. Zakas shows us how to further minify JavaScript by replacing local variable names with the YUI Compressor.