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You can do this with Firefox currently. You can remove the search box from the UI using "View > Toolbars > Customize..."

Any term you type into the URL bar that Firefox doesn't recognize as a URL will default to a google search. I actually edited this in about:config to default to a secure google search rather than a basic google search.

If you want to get more advanced, you can set keywords to perform custom searches. I have mine set so that typing "w <string>" will search for the Wikipedia article. I use several others "i <string>" for image search, "n <string>" for news, "d <string>" for definitions, and so on. They're easy to set up.
As far as I can tell MySpace only ever had 100M MAU tops. Comparing that to something 5x that is apples to oranges.
People would have to Like the relevant blog post to provide feedback, or Like any of the latest batch of "I hate the new Facebook design" groups that would arise.

I wouldn't worry...
"By what finish line are you judging him? He is well respected by his peers, he writes insightfully on difficult topics. he is independent and is spending his time as he chooses. And he is not done yet."

This is all good. However, I have seen many articles claiming he is some sort of business genius. The numbers he has given from his products prove otherwise.
I recently switched back to Firefox from a two week test drive of Chrome, reasons:

* I don't like how the display of a lot of tabs are handled (dozens of really small unreadable tabs)

* No NoScript (found one extension that didn't work very well)

* It doesn't feel that much faster with dozens of open tabs

* I prefer FF's interface

* Uncertainty about what data is shared with Google

Integration with Google's other services is not a selling point for me.

I now have an "Open in Chrome" item in my context menu for opening Planet Wars replays.
This guy lives in a different world from me. In my world, .NET is just a really good set of class libraries and a well thought out templating system that you can use to present HTML.

I realize that it advertises itself as a lot more than that, and that there are thousands of terrible ASP:whatever controls and the ability to drag and drop them in a visual designer, and a nightmare of ViewState and EverythingIsAPostBack and all that other stuff that people complain about.

But I've never met anybody that uses any of it.

ASP.NET MVC came out, and it didn't change the way I build my stuff in any fundamental way, because the way it expects you to work is the way that anybody who knew their stuff was working already. In the middle of ASP.NET lives a little core of "good". Find it, use it, and you'll be happy.
What's wrong with their copycat of Netflix? I was a subscriber for the past few years until recently, and never had a problem. It was actually cheaper than Netflix for me, blu-rays were included for free, and I got 5 in-store trades a month for spur-of-the-moment selections. Perhaps their collection is a bit smaller, but it's definitely big enough for most people. It rarely disappointed me, and I have film friends recommending esoteric movies for me.
What a shame.

What would have happened if the head honchos at Blockbuster had copied the models of netflix and redbox as soon as they came up in the market, and aggressively pushed them? or acquired them agggressively? (doesn't it happen all the time in the tech industry?)

What awesome leverage they would have had to make these models work successfully for them, with their already existing relationships with the studios?

They must have never read the book 'who moved my cheese' or never put those principles in practice even if they read it.

Wonder what personal traits prevented them from seeing these new biz models as mortal threats.
Patrick builds what Patrick knows.

It's often forgot that it takes in-depth domain knowledge to build a good product. Many highly paid products require arcane knowledge about a niche.

Many software people are good generalists but lack domain knowledge. The good news is that it's not hard to learn domain knowledge. Comparing to dealing with complex abstract CS concepts, domain knowledge learning is often a cakewalk. I would encourage people to look into different non-CS areas from time to time, just to learn about their nuts and bolts.

Edit: I have great admiration for Patrick. I've followed him since the BOS days.
Actually, that isn't the point.

The point was to get people to actually finish a game and turn them into 'people who have sold a game'. They're a couple of important ego boosts and carry some lessons.
1. $60k is pretty much a ceiling for earning potential for many if not most teachers. It can take a long, long time to get there with no hope of going beyond.

$60k may be a ceiling for wage potential in many areas. It's not remotely close to their compensation potential, since teachers get quite a bit of their comp in the form of gold plated pensions rather than pay. In NYC, the starting compensation of a teacher is $60k/9.5 months work ($45k pay, $15k worth of pension). I'll cite a previous discussion where I did the math:

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1673230

4. Many if not most teachers work more than 70 hours a week during the school year when factoring in grading, meetings, correspondence, athletics, extra-curriculars, and other events.

No. The average is about 39 hours/week during the school year.

http://www.bls.gov/opub/mlr/2008/03/art4full.pdf

Do you have evidence for point 3?
Great! I thought I read something about that somewhere. The dialogs were getting out of hand.

Now if Apple would borrow a page from Chrome and MSFT to auto-update my OS X and iOS apps...
Which kernels actually do this?

Also, if I read(2), it's supposed to be putting stuff in my buffer (obtained with malloc or whatever). It would seem very complicated to change the mapping for addresses in this buffer. And if I write to the buffer, it must be copy-on-write (in fact, it has to copy the page if I dereference any pointer into it, because most hardware doesn't distinguish between read-only and read-write at the instruction level.

It just seems like if the kernel really did this level of mapping tricks, that MPI implementations could do something better without this patch. http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/9/14/468
Sure, I've said this a few times because I'm talking to various people, in my perception of how posting here works.

Your assumption that everyone shares in common sense equally is a bit optimistic.

So, then you must agree that they clearly don't understand, as you say "the user can request anything at any time no matter what links we have or haven't generated or what they can see on screen". To me, this shows a lack of understanding of basic guidelines of web programming, namely that you can never, never trust user input, whether it's form submissions or cookies.

Perhaps not common sense, but nor is it an advanced principle. If you've ever used Firebug for more than a couple of hours, you'd have figured out on your own that you can change forms and then submit them. If you've even used a browser for a while, you will have realized you can type in different numbers in query strings. If they haven't noticed that by now - what are they doing taking on a project like this?
And Google since they bought FeedBurner a few years ago.
There's almost no such thing as Japanese text that isn't confusing. It is a rather imprecise language. I'm not sure machine translation will ever work well.
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I agree. No nation will collapse due to internal debt.
Netflix is one of my favorite things in the world. I've been using it since I was something like 11 years old.

I've still never had to purchase a cable subscription.
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At the time, it wasn't just Good Enough, it was great, especially compared to the crappy results that Altavista, Excite and Yahoo churned out.

Now that the internets have expanded exponentially with crap and people gaming the search process, they have dropped down to Good Enough.
For their sake, I hope they still have most of it!
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I don't think Carroll's remark is inconsistent. Rather, he's attempting to show the correspondence between everyday physics and (something like) elementary number theory; both consist of an agreed-upon set of axioms, subsequently focusing future work on identifying how those axioms interact to produce interesting results.

The realization that there are still areas of research doesn't overshadow the amazing fact that we have near-certainty of the foundations responsible for everyday experiences.
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I'm pretty sure MVP works for the kind of game that is most likely to become a viral hit. There is a considerably sharp line between these types of games(stuff like Farmville, Minecraft, Dwarf Fortress, Fantastic Contraption, Civilization, Sims, Rollercoaster Tycoon) where the mechanics are an aid towards making the player perform some inherently fun creative and strategic acts, and big-spend blockbusters driven largely by their built-in content(Modern Warfare, Final Fantasy, Zelda, World of Warcraft), where nearly everything is hand-crafted and scripted to give players a controlled experience.

The latter type of game looks better for marketing purposes and can command a certain kind of audience that wants couch-potato entertainment - but the first kind is ultimately more efficient and profitable, because it can exploit the user's imagination to a far greater extent.
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It's a circular problem actually. Sparc is failing because Solaris is failing, and Solaris is failing because Sparc is inferior.

Cray got reborn in the form of SGI's Altix, which to abuse the analogy would be a pack of wolves compared to the POWER bulls.

The successor to Altix is an x86 cluster using the same high-performance, zero-latency interconnects that they used in Altix (part of the technology that SGI gained from the Cray acquisition).

x86 costs quite a bit less than Sparc. It has far higher performance than Sparc. It runs everything that Sparc does, including if you want it, Solaris. So what's the selling point for Sparc?

Java? Oh, wait -- that's what enabled everyone using a Sparc server to save money by abandoning it.

Amazon saved $17 MILLION by dropping Sun. Ebay dropped Sun (and saved millions in maintenance costs as a result) after a 2-day outage because their Sun boxes crapped out on them, and Sun support dropped the ball.

There are others, of course. Sun tried to stem the bleeding by partnering with AMD, and also by acquiring Afara and attempting to put their CPU designs into practice. x86 ended up beating them at their own game -- lower power consumption, higher throughput, lower cost...

Sparc's probably doomed. I think that Oracle bought an albatross there. There is some worthwhile technology that they might be able to use, like the system interconnects that Sun got when they bought the company that made the Connection Machine, assuming I'm remembering the name correctly. (Thinking Machines, IIRC?)
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Wouldn't offending 4Chan enthusiasts result in great lulz? Perhaps the reason I don't understand is because it doesn't make sense.
>The only reason you're aware of Patrick and not any other one of the thousands of entrepreneurs is because he engages with the community and promotes himself.

Hmm. I don't have a dog in this hunt, but it sounds kind of like saying...

The only reason you think the space shuttle is cool is because it's a plane that flies in space.

The only reason you think a swimming pool is fun is because it's a huge bathtub where a bunch of people can swim.

The only reason you think airplanes are cool is because they let people fly through the air and cross distances in a short amount of time.

I mean, all of that doesn't lack unique value and power, you know?
Nothing at all is absurd about what they're doing - what is surreal is all the media attention and the expectations it has created in the average person regarding this. I don't think it's in the benefit of these four guys, actually. They're lucky in some ways and really unfortunate from other perspectives. I don't even know how I'd feel if I was in their shoes right now.

The idea that 'these guys are going to get all this money, and work for three months, and then surely deliver this top notch 'facebook killer' that we all want to use!' is a bit absurd, that's all, given that there are plenty of other projects working in this area, and there would be no reason at all to think that this one would be superior, the best, or even suitable. If it wasn't for the nytimes, etc. this would be just another project on github. The media has taken a normal situation and screwed it up majorly, and it doesn't appear to me that it's going to turn out that great for anyone involved.
Ask HN: Ruby on Rails why the hype?
Most of my recent coding has been done in asp.net and asp.net mvc of late. I was looking into Ruby on Rails to figure out what all the hype is about. What I can't figure out is where is the business tier? All of the code samples in the "models" that I've seen seem to be straight to database type code. I’ve seen lots of pretty and fast sites using RoR but they don’t seem to do anything computationally interesting (in process). So what I’m I not understanding here?
I like the basic concept and would definitely put money on it. But making internet bets in comments on HN seems unlikely to pan out in the future. You ready to escrow that $10K?
> The read(2)/write(2) solution from userspace would involve no copying as well, assuming a competent kernel implementation.

Even though you've got many others chiming in as to why this might not be so, I'll add my own: A userspace program can modify a buffer after data is read in, then write the modified version out -- this implies a local copy or, at the very least, the semantics of a local copy.
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I couldn't agree more. This article was extremely uncomfortable to read; if it was me being written about I would be embarrassed and probably more than a little angry.
There is a faucet to open, and a big one at that.

The fact that they have gotten to the point where other companies are able to build majorly successful (Zynga) businesses based on their platform, and the fact that they have become ubiquitous with many business' marketing and online presence speaks for its self.

The fact that the total amount of time spent online is greater for those on Facebook than Google (including Youtube) is also important. http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-20016046-93.html

But what is more important is Facebook's pursuit of pushing the envelope and being willing to innovate and lead as the online landscape changes.

The posts above which mentions that people were saying the same thing about MySpace having the user base and then not being able to monetize is like comparing apples to rotten tomatoes. MySpace was not a technology company, Facebook is. MySpace was primarily a media company with little to offer technologically (see: http://paulgraham.com/yahoo.html), Facebook is building a social web that has deep horizontal integration with the Social Graph Protocol, mobile communication, and is actively trying to optimize it's infrastructure for both scalability and user experience. Look as far back to their decision to go with AJAX and not base everything strictly on page loads (as MySpace did), or as recent as their open sourced internal projects... (I don't think MySpace ever worked on any HipHop PHP or Cassandra)

Facebook is in it with the right mindset, to be the leader and game changer in the "social web," and with both the value and quantity of data they are constantly amassing I wouldn't be surprised to see them on par with Google in a few years.

Also, as they grow they can continue to optimize and decrease costs on their end... I'd say they have both a big faucet to open and probably a few leaks they could plug as well, the combination of which makes for a large valuation to be expected.

It's always easier to look at something we don't quite fully understand from the outside (not many people understood the true value of those little text ads on Google until later) and then make blanket assumptions on valuations based on other companies that were inflated but not even on the same playing field as the company being discussed.
people don't have a sense of humor. obviously my comments about chicagoans not knowing how to multiply was a joke, too. They multiply like bunnies.
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I go a little bit further and also drag up the URL bar (and a few buttons) into the Menu toolbar and then disable the navigation toolbar.
> You ready to escrow that $10K?

Sure. As long as you do the same.
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What is happening to HN? Am I the only one who has been here for quite a while but could not care less about Joel Spolsky and DHH critizing each other about the valuation of Facebook--which I actually care even less about, since I will probably never use it in the first place.
As far as I am concerned they could be fighting about the color of their sportscars/computer/whatever.

Next there is this patio11 groupie thing, which apparently leads to some comments, too.

Seriously, why is this even being upvoted?
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Appearances can be deceiving, but it looks like a NASA branded edition of... what's the military surveillance/fighter drone that sits more or less "above" the Predator in the U.S. military's current inventory?
Firefox has firebug and greasemonkey but I'm probably using a different definition of power user.
I can't go back to my current team now as it will not only look ridiculous

You need eat a humble pie and stick with the current team.
I have a kindle edition of "Javascript the best parts" (I bought the ebook bundle, a mobi + pdf, on O'Reilly) and it's good enough. Usually when the book doesn't have long code examples it's fine to read on the kindle. OTOH, sometimes they will convert code to images, which is not so good (e.g python essential reference).

I hope the quality of programming books on the kindle will improve in the future, but now it's not too bad if you buy the mobi/pdf combo. You can always use the pdf on your computer if you need to check something quickly and your kindle is not nearby.

For me, the biggest advantage of having programming books on the kindle is that you can easily carry a few 1000+ pages books around and get some reading done when you have some unexpected down time.

I feel that programming books on the kindle are particularly good when you're learning something new and want to read sequentially. It's not so great for reference as you'd need to jump around and that's not kindle's forte. (although I do use the pdf as reference)

Edit: I forgot to mention that O'Reilly has a 7 day return policy on ebooks. I only wish they had a ebook sample like amazon has.
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I'd bet they make a lot more profit than 37signals.
This goes half way toward solving the problem. What most people want is a pure socket->socket. As evidenced by haproxy, you must still use a pipe intermediary, requiring multiple data copies (on the plus side, it's still fast).

ret = splice(fd, NULL, b->pipe->prod, NULL, max,
SPLICE_F_MOVE|SPLICE_F_NONBLOCK);

edited to add (because I couldn't reply): It almost certainly is faster than read/write, because it's straight memcpy's (which are pretty fast on modern hardware), instead of memcpy's, context switching, special read()/write() logic, and other stuff.
I'll probably always have Firefox installed on my machine, but Chrome is my default browser.
Chrome is the better piece of software, and one of the best desktop applications overall, it obviously was well thought out and well designed from the start: The sandboxing, the update system, the extension system, the omnibox, using webkit, V8.
Chrome still can't seem to get mouse gestures right. I don't care if a page is "protected". I don't care what platform limitations are in place. I just want the same experience, regardless of where I am or what OS I'm on. Right now siphon+xmarks+firefox comes a lot closer to that than chrome.

Past that I think it's a great browser. But until the day comes that I never have to click the back or close buttons, it won't be my browser of choice.
Completely there with you man. Initially I started playing and didn't understand why I couldn't use that weak shale you can dig easily with your hands for a pick and why the harder stone wasn't yielding anything. Once I figured out how to make all wood tools to get better resources, It was over man. I've now made like 5 different homes, and learned how to mark them from the spawn point. My memories of exploration and mining trump those of my daily duties in real life. My latest story was of mining a sub basement of my home, and discovering a vast underground cavern with zombies. I died, and lost that homes location. In the effort to find it, I discovered new land, with more features that replicated the movie Avatar. I have picked the tallest mountain in the clouds for my next project. A case of beer or mt. dew, and a free night, and I will conquer that mountain...

This game makes me want to start mining out of my basement in real life. However my landlord won't let me.

I'd also like to point out that this is the exact success story I needed to boost my ego for my day job and daily projects for startups and indie development.
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Great marketing is a skill that is completely underrated. If you can convince an entire Internet community that you're a great guy, you probably deserve most of the accolades you get. There are tons of people with a large surface area on this site, and many posters are well-respected, but he's actually universally adored. In fact, your post may be the first ad hominem attack I've seen directed at Patrick.