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Ok, if you want to know all the features, I think the best way is to read this: http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/beta/technology, and then try it out to get a feel for all the UI changes.

According to wikipedia, Chrome 5 does not support WebM: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chrome_%28browser%29

WebSockets: Yay, you're finally right, Chrome did pioneer WebSockets. Sadly, it did not update its implementation to reflect the changes to the standard based on feedback from the numerous other browser vendors that actually implemented it but chose not to release it because of it volatility.

IndexedDB: Google was actually pushing for Web SQL Database, which got rejected. Learn more here: http://hacks.mozilla.org/2010/06/beyond-html5-database-apis-...

Crash Protection: IE8 was the first browser with this feature.

Jetpack: Ok, this one is important right? So for bonus points, let's look at the first jetpack release:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/12025/version... (scroll the to bottom: May 20, 2009)

Now for Google's launch of their great extensions platform: http://techcrunch.com/2009/12/08/chrome-extensions-live/ (December 08, 2009). Darn, guess Google stole that one from Mozilla's playbook (and yet, still no powerful extensions :().

WebConsole: Everyone and their mom has been using Firebug since the dawn of time. Chrome wasn't even an inkling in Google's eye then.

HTML5: Firefox 4 is STILL the only browser to support HTML 5 parsing. Previous versions of course supported other features such as video and audio, but since you didn't go into details here, I'll leave it at that.

CSS3: No details again? Ok, well rounded corners has been in Firefox so long I can't even remember (1.5 or 2?). Lots of these features were around before Chrome existed. But no more for this since you only mentioned it in passing.

Call me a fool for taking the bait (http://xkcd.com/386/), but with all due respect please stop trolling, and learn about what you're talking about before you speak.
(take 6 (anthony-simpson))
We're very interested in expanding the product to include a desktop website version as well for a nominal monthly upgrade. The reason we didn't start out there is because we felt the mobile lure was a little stronger, due to the fact that many restaurants already have websites. Do you think the product would be more compelling if it offered both from the outset?
I'm in this spot too. A friend that had success with craigslist recommended the site, but there are almost no quality jobs on our local city's board. It really is mainly just people looking for free work in exchange for "a small percentage of the company" or something for my portfolio.
The best way to improve any type of writing is workshopping. Find other people writing similar material, and offer to give them feedback on pieces they are working on if they will do the same.

There are plenty of established online workshops for fiction, but with a bit of searching you can find people willing to do this for any type of writing, non-fiction, essays, reporting, technical writing, etc.

All the practice and theory or technique books in the world won't help you much if you don't have an audience to let you know what's working and what isn't.
Not that I doubt that, but how would you even go about measuring such a thing? Obviously, there's a cost to using google version too (DNS lookup + one more point of failure). It would be nice to have real numbers for what percentage of visitors actually have the libraries cached. Remember, that the files are versioned and they're also serving less popular libraries than jquery. My guess is that it would be slower to use the google version for some library/version combos. The question is which ones.
Woops, forgot to say thinks for pointing out the link.

So thanks! :)
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Lots of discussion (especially about entrenched players) in this previous News.YC thread "The hell that is a restaurant website"

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1130419
A restaurant desktop website builder is in our roadmap. The tricky bit is that most restaurants seem to want their own customized look and feel, which is more time consuming to put together.

With mobile websites you generally want something that loads quickly, displays all the restaurant information in an easy to access manner, and is somewhat customizable (colors, logo, etc) but doesn't go too far cause then you would lose usability.
To this should be added some information for would-be rescuers of drowning people.

The instinctive drowning response is a climbing response. What you see are twin splashes as the person's arms flail wide looking for something to grab on to. If they find it the automatic response is to grab it, climb up, and stand on top. The person doing this is panicked and has massively more strength than you think. If you are swimming and a young child does that to you, you will go under water. If you panic, you will get the same reflex, and will drown yourself.

Therefore if you wish to rescue someone who is drowning, you have 4 basic options.

1. The most common response is to go to them and try to rescue directly. If the water is shallow enough that you can stand, letting them climb up you can be OK. Otherwise this is suicide. Frequently one drowning leads to multiple others, and this is exactly how they get started.

2. Keep your distance and hand them something to climb on. They can't see a pole to grab it, but if they touch, they will climb, which gives them air.

3. Wait until the drowning person is unconscious. Then go to them and tow them in. If you can't stand in the water, and don't have anything to do 2) with, this is recommended.

4. (For trained people only.) Swim up behind them, grab them from where they can't grab you, and lift them up to get air. Talk soothingly to them until they relax, and then tow them in. If they get hold of you, DIVE so they let go, back off, circle around, and start again.

If you do not have lifeguard training then I strongly recommend against trying #4. Unless you know how to do the eggbeater you won't know how to hold them out of water. And if they grab you, you have surprisingly little time to make the correct response before you are drowning as well.

Oh yes, and another data point. Drowning is the #1 cause of death in toddlers. It is quiet. It is fast. Beware of the backyard pool.
Kudos for a great idea. I had my head in the menu space several years ago (pre rich-mobile), and I can't believe this idea never occurred to me. Looks to be executed very well. Good luck. "WDITOT?"
This is a winner for sure. Everybody's been talking about this lately and I think you won the race in terms of execution. I hope to god most restaurant owners buy into this
The drowning response is also why you are strongly advised to not get into the water to assist a drowning victim and why trained rescuers who do so violently manhandle drowning victims (if you administered similar aid on land it would look like a violent assault featuring a choke-hold delivered from behind). Drowning victims are virtually incapable of cooperation in their own rescue and their panicked struggles have the very real potential of drowning would-be rescuers.

I pulled someone out once (in flagrant violation of the above advice) -- my (possibly inaccurate) recollection is that he made no noise whatsoever between entering the water and exiting it beyond the sound of the first splash.
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My obligatory http://xkcd.com/386/

Jetpack has been around since May 20, 2009 https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/12025/version...

What's new in Firefox 4 is that it is integrated instead of being an extension.
Your second link is broken.
Lots of companies adjust the truth in promotions?

When was the last time you saw a shampoo commercial with real unaltered hair in it?

Do you think Nokia shows the download delays in their ads?

Do you think Sony show an actual tv display in their ads? Is it not easier to overlay a perfect picture onto the screen in post production?

Are McDonalds burgers really perfectly round and tidy?
Where is the documentation for noprocrast, maxvisit, minaway, delay?
> But also, if you consider taking classes in test only form ok, why not simply drop out and take the GED?

I enjoyed playing sports. I had really outstanding English, Civics, and History teachers. I had a lot of (not always positive, but useful still) social contact with my peers. High school is full of good things, just not all the time. Take the good, find a way around the bad. I don't think I'd be a better person today if I didn't experience high school.
The most dangerous traps now are new behaviors that bypass our alarms about self-indulgence by mimicking more virtuous types.

I quit playing all Facebook games when I realized why they are so bad for me: so many of them are glorified work simulators (virtual farms, restaurants, crime empires, etc.) that falsely satisfy that part of the brain that wants to get some work done!
That thread was very much part of the inspiration for this project! Plus many others around the interwebs.
Thanks for the input, I'll validate our blog tonight. We do extensive testing and validation of our mobile sites on many mobile platforms but obviously were sadly neglectful of our Wordpress blog. Doh!
I didn't miss your point, I rejected it.
Beta is incredibly faster for me. Roughly takes around 1 sec to fire up, Chrome still "feels" faster & much more nimble.

It really feels like Mozilla is playing catch up now, trying to take things back to basics & fix some core issues (like startup times, plugins slowing things down, JS performance & so on).

Kudos to Google for giving the browser that once we all used something to aspire to.
You have definitely built something that I would want, if only my favorite restaurants would be willing to sign on.

Also, as a Nokia employee, I hope that your pages are compatible with our phones....
I used freeprivacypolicy.com for the PP and ToS from Wordpress, however I modified both of them extensively due to people warning me against the Wordpress ToS being basically like Calvinball. A caveat: freeprivacypolicy.com WILL continue to send you email until time literally ends or our planet is sucked into a black hole.
I care about the nook, it's a great eReader, and I use it daily. I suppose you're referring to the iPad, which isn't an eReader.
Perhaps then the solution is to make the work more like these games. Which makes a lot of it a UX challenge.
Though most fads are not trends and most trends are not fads, there are the occasional instances like the Internet circa 1995 that are both fads and trends. The fallacy of youth is to treat all fads as trends; the fallacy of age is to ignore all trends as fads.
I'm sure that you can somehow differentiate between investing in government bonds and "investing" in forex.

Maybe there is no sharp distinction between one and the other but I think there is a spectrum of actions between investing and gambling.
When I received lifeguard training 2 dozen years ago, I was taught ways of rescuing people that don't involve the use of force, and the person teaching the class strongly recommended against learning the more violent approaches that were once used.

As I recall, her claim was that they were less effective, and carried a significant risk of causing injury.
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Hi I'm a security researcher, and here's your invoice.
Well I've got to give you credit for saying it to our faces, considering I designed that site. Now on the count of 3, tell me how a software engineer with no design experience can figure out in under a month how to put together a full-featured web application with a frontend, user control panel and admin interface and still worry about the uniqueness of the landing page graphic design? My real concern was that it worked and it communicated our message.

Edit: I should mention that I totally agree with your comment. Can't wait to hire a graphic designer :)
Instead of creating mobile friendly resto sites, why not create a weebly for restaurants, perhaps removing flash as an option making it at least readable on mobile. Perhaps use html5.

I suspect that the majority of restos don't even have a site and making it super easy for them to customize, upload menus, sell unique resto themes, etc., provides great value. Perhaps even tie into reviews around the web and pics via apis.
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There's some interesting things being done by 7 degrees, not with the LinkedIn API, but in the same space. They have pulled in so much data that you can practically find out how you're connected to anybody. They incorporate LinkedIn in the sense that you have the option to give it your LinkedIn credentials and it then scrapes your connections through it. I know exactly how I'm connected to Bill Gates, for example (i.e. I know so-and-so, who knows so-and-so, etc., who knows Bill Gates). https://www.mypeoplemaps.com/
The last update email I was sent from these guys (coincidentally received on April Fool's) said I'd receive a unit no later than July 31st, as a conservative estimate.

No communication between then and now, over 3 months, so I emailed them 5 days ago - no lick of a response.

And can someone clarify this for me, because I have a paypal receipt showing I sent them 5 bucks:

"Although no money was ever collected from those who have pre-ordered..."
I'm founder of StageHQ.com and as Guestlist we're tiny compared to Eventbrite. Anyway in our first 10 months we've served nearly 1M$ in tickets using only PayPal as payment gateway.

In this time we've had some problems regarding people configuring their own Paypal account, Paypal's usability, and other minor issues, but we've not heard about this kind of treatment from any of our customers.

In fact an event with more than 3K attendees celebrated in Paris and collecting +100K€ has been using Stage and Paypal as its unique payment gateway with no major problems. The paypal's behavior detailed by opencamp organizers totally sucks but I can't refer it as usual from our experience.

Our main reason for using Paypal is simplicity. Open a merchant account is far from be an easy or even possible step for many small, casual event organizers. We could provide our own payment gateway but this would probably force us to change our pricing model that currently is a fixed, not percentual, fee of 1$.
That depends whether your goal is business success or becoming a better coder. :-)
My now 8yo, then 3yo, almost drowned in a hotel pool while I was swimming just a couple of yards away from him. I reached him in seconds, and his reaction was to scale me like a tree, at which point I flung him onto the concrete. He had some scrapes and bruises, but he was alive.

I'm not a trained rescue professional, and I didn't know any of this information before you posted it. It's kind of amazing to look back and see how textbook his response was (and how terrifyingly unprepared I was).
This is incredibly useful information, thank you for posting it. In emergency situations (like drowning) I tend to try to rescue people who might be in danger (as long as it's safe, of course). This I did not know and it could have had dire consequences for me.
Although no money was ever collected from those who have pre-ordered

Bullsh!t.

Just because they didn't collect the entire cost of the wakemate, they can't claim not to have collected money. Many here on HN and elsewhere (myself included) paid the down payment of 5 bucks to get on the waiting list. Of course I don't care about the 5 bucks, but for them to claim they didn't take any money.......
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They do offer credit card payments.
Everybody has caught on to paypals so called "fraud protection", which often involved going to ridiculously elaborate steps to prove fraud.

For a pair of pants I bought, I had to actually go to a retailer and get them to write a letter with their letter head, proving that they were a cheap copy. There is absolutely no reason a retailer would waste time doing this, why would they. They have a business to run, and are not doing a charity.

So now most savvy people purchase on paypal with their credit card, and when paypal pulls something like this, they just do a chargeback or threaten to do a chargeback.

Paypal are incredibly inflexible at times, their site is horrible, but they still have some advantages.
It's authoritative knowledge such as this that makes the Internet worthwhile (if you can find it among all the garbage). I had no idea what drowning was like before reading this. Thanks for writing this blog post!
In regard to 3... How do you know when the drowning person is unconscious... that would be when they dip under and don't come back up? They're lungs would be full of water then? So you would have to swim down to them, pull them to dry land (they won't float) and resuscitate them? I understand sometimes that could be the only option... but seems like a heavy responsibility.
How do you deal with the opposite problem - employment or just making money feels like a waste of time?
Looks awesome. A quick glance at the demo showed that the site was hosted on your domain, even though custom domains are offered in all plans. It might work to offer a cheap/free plan that's hosted on your domain, and use that as a loss leader to gain adoption in the early stage.
Blarg, too late to edit.

There's an apostrophe in the link, in "Conway's" that's getting stripped out of the URL. The following link now works for me:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glider_(Conway%27s_Life)
You are comparing the first mass-market release of Chrome extensions with the first alpha release of Jetpack, which isn't fair. A better comparison would be the first dev channel release of Chrome with support for extensions. That was May 14 2009:

http://news.cnet.com/chrome-extensions-draw-near-but-advance...

... which is slightly before the first Jetpack alpha which was May 20 2009.

In any case, the issues that both extension systems try to address have been well-known for some time. It isn't surprising that multiple people came up with similar ideas on how to fix them.

ninja edit: Got timelines mixed up first time 'round
Looks more "Windows 7"-like on here, in that there's more of that smudgy glass effect. Looks prettier when active I think, although when not the glass becomes more transparent and since there's so much of it, toolbars from applications underneath it seem to show through a lot, which creates a lot of visual noise. That's not entirely Firefox's fault, and it looks okay when it has focus, so it could be worse.

Seems faster to start, although it's disabled every addon I had before, so hardly a fair test.

In general it seems to be more like Chrome. Which I think is probably a good thing - if Chrome has demonstrated a better way to do things, I don't have a problem with Firefox following their lead.
Ugh, this entire post is lifted from the original source and then a link is posted at the bottom. The person who actually wrote this great article is getting none of the revenue. Go to the original instead at gCaptain.
I've been writing a couple of small games with Clojure + Swing as a way of learning Clojure, and it's been very smooth so far. I haven't even touched concurrency or macros yet but the basic language feels even more consistent and logical than Ruby.
The person who actually wrote the article is Mario Vittone. Looks like he just cross-posted to another site.
Add a 8 hour delay before a poster can see his karma points from a post. Let other users see how many karma posts have but do not let the poster see the points. It takes away the instant gratification aspect to karma.
If I make it sound as easy as taking paid vacation, then yes, but with a small sample size.

The much larger sample size I have for a related question: is it any easier to take vacation at a company which offers 3 weeks instead of 2 weeks annually? To this, I've found the answer is "no."

Both situations have a simple explanation, which is that, except for the smallest companies, the person(s) setting the PTO policy is not the same as the one approving absences. That is, my manager cares about my availability, whereas HR and/or Accounting cares about how much I get paid during such absences.
If you were to look at the byline on the gCaptain article, you'd see it's the same individual who has crossposted it.
and the non spamish reasons for wanting to verify an account on a server. e.g. security risk.
We've arrived at a very interesting point in the evolution of programming languages. For a lot of tasks there are several functionally interchangeable languages to choose from, so increasingly language choice is a matter of taste and style. Languages are developing the same kinds of brand identity that used to be the domain of cars and clothes.

In this context marking is everything.
I can't comment on how much the extensions might have affected things, but startup time was significantly improved:
https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox/Sprints/Startup_Time_Improv...
One major point missed by this article is motivation — with a team of founders, drive to work is very high. You have someone else to interact with, work with, and keep you on task. I've found that working on projects solo, it's a lot easier to "fall off the wagon", so to speak — get distracted working on the wrong things, working without feedback, or stop working at all. This obviously differs from person to person, but it's one of the reasons why I believe more in a team rather than a single founder.
Actually, in the US, the "who was first?" date is the date of invention, not the date of patent application submission. Of course, it's not always easy to prove that you invented something on a particular date, say, a date before your competitor submitted their patent application. It's especially difficult if you've been developing an idea in secret for some time before applying for the patent (though I believe there's an 18 month grace period before the USPTO will publish your patent application filing).

Or so a patent lawyer told me, anyway. It's possible I misunderstood something.
It's not a bug in human vision, it's a feature of human writing & reading. Yu cn strp a whl lt of lttrs frm a sntnc nd stll b abl t rd it.
Do you know who cares about "originality" in landing page design? People who design landing pages...

Your customers won't know that this layout is well-worn territory for paid web apps. They will just see a beautiful, easy to understand website. Which it is...

Nice work.

You can design something to impress the HN crowd once you get traction. In other words, pay for the fluff with profits.
This is already on the front page here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1490284

And a follow-up here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1492344
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The link at the bottom has better content on the "why be a solo founder" question

http://www.somestartup.com/?p=36
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