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I love Chrome, but the one big -- and really nasty -- surprise for me was that it has IE-style (i.e. invisible, exploitable, in the wild) security vulnerabilities.

I've used Firefox since the very earliest betas and it has never, ever been exploited to infect my machine. Sure, it's had big holes, but I've never seen them widely deployed in the wild. I ran without antivirus software from 2003, because it just wasn't necessary.

Chrome, on the other hand, has been clearly and unambiguously the only possible vector for three separate, massive viral infections on my machine in the last 6 months, infections severe enough to take out my entire OS and require a reinstall[1]. Sure, in two cases they were viruses delivered by ad networks on sites that I probably shouldn't have been visiting -- but one was just a rogue ad hit while browsing Twitpic. Now I run Antivirus software again, and every couple of weeks a compromised ad network -- even on quite reputable sites -- will trigger an alert and automatic cleaning. For some sites I switch back to Firefox.

Chrome's amazing performance has to come from somewhere, and my impression is that that boost comes because it runs "closer to the metal", i.e. fewer layers of virtual machines and sandboxes. But that design decision has drawbacks, and one of them seems to be security.

[1] Infection details: Chrome running on Windows XP (first two times) and Windows 7 (final time). I didn't do forensics on the actual vector, but all three times rogue Java applications started up and then installed additional infections, which appeared within seconds of the first attack, making it hard to say which virus was the first to break in.
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I feel almost diametrically opposite :) I find the Chrome interface so simple as to be almost brain dead. Chrome's handling of tabs and sessions is much worse than Firefox. As a power user of browsers I just feel Firefox is streets ahead of Chrome. I honestly cannot think of a single thing I prefer about Chrome. The only reasons I have it installed is just to see what the fuss is all about and as an alternative to Firefox if I have display or other problems in 1 browser.
Firefox has had automatic (prompt-required) updates since 1.0.
When I said "type inference", I actually had system F in mind. And I didn't see ML (not even F#), nor Haskell, nor Miranda, nor Clean… So yes, `var` is too weaksauce.
Anyone looking at jqTouch should also check out jQuery Mobile http://jquerymobile.com/
This stops making design sense when the tab bar (which shows info for many pages at once) is sandwiched between the window title and the address bar (which show info for exactly one page at a time). You go from specific to general then back to specific again.
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> What got me hooked on chrome was the unified address bar that just worked

Has anyone used CyberSearch add-on for Firefox? It's one of the add-ons I got so used to, that's the biggest reason I am sticking with Firefox.
Usability. I use a JS-capable browser, but many blind people don't, and they may be interested in this tool nonetheless.
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Definitely too complex... Tidypub or jottit win on the simplicity.
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Im a designer and im looking for ways to generate side income. im considering designing shopify/wordpress themes but im not sure of how much sales to expect from that.. anyone got a better idea or useful insights??
That's awesome then.

IMO Discussing the problem you want to solve with your idea is more useful than discussing the idea itself.

Btw, my startup Besperk ( http://besperk.com ) is about discussing such things. Interesting I meet you.
A friend of a friend who works for the government apparently was recently doing some work on high-speed interactions between orbiting bodies. Orbiting bodies like satellites and space planes? Time will tell...
Actually, sometimes I wish we used accent marks more. You have no idea how hard English is to pronounce until you try to teach the "rules" to someone else.

I mean, one could claim that "ghoti" is pronounced the same as "fish."
I have a programming, computer security, and cryptography blog and it seems that that crowd either doesn't have, or runs another browser, Macs as often as the TechCrunch crowd.

Firefox	27,725	45.15%

Chrome	16,856	27.45%

Internet Explorer	6,191	10.08%

Safari	6,085	9.91%

Opera	2,165	3.53%

Mozilla Compatible Agent	1,395	2.27%

Mozilla	418	0.68%

Konqueror	185	0.30%

Opera Mini	126	0.21%

SeaMonkey	107	0.17%

OS:

Windows	35,928	58.51%

Linux	10,855	17.68%

Macintosh	10,709	17.44%

iPhone	1,726	2.81%

Android	926	1.51%

iPad	625	1.02%

not set	181	0.29%

iPod	159	0.26%

FreeBSD	88	0.14%

SunOS	69	0.11%

17% Mac users (even more if you count iPhone, iPad, & iPod) but still only 10% Safari.
I love how he first dismisses real life reactors that publicly failed before he finds an example of how real engineers work. Was TMI not designed by real professional engineers?

But it gets worse. He uses the safety of a large, stationary object as his example of how well engineers design systems. Why not hold up something that moves as his example instead? Like a helicopter? Oops, helicopters have a nasty tendency towards fatal failure modes. You can have redundant engines, but if you lose a helicopter blade, not much can be done other than provide you with an ejection mechanism.

But what about airplanes? Much better than helicopters. They can lose power and be landed safely. Heck, as http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Airlines_Flight_232 documents, one plane was mostly successfully landed with no hydraulics, no control of its flight surfaces, and just 2 operational thruster engines.

But add an interesting constraint, such as desire to make it hard to spot on radar, and the next thing you know you get something like the B-2 stealth bomber. Unstable on all 3 axes, and will fall out of the sky like a rock the second the automatic computer corrections stop going. Do you think that the air force spends $737 million per airplane on something that wasn't designed by engineers? Yet they built something that will literally fall out of the sky if there is a problem with the computer!

While I agree that Star Trek has lots of plot holes that you can drive large trucks through, I don't think that their lack of engineering mindset deserves to be near the top of the list. The warp engines are unstable? Well they need to burn a lot of energy, which means you need an intense energy source. They use matter/antimatter. Doesn't take much going wrong for that to blow, and anything less energy dense won't cut it. Not really a plot hole.

They use force fields everywhere? Well it takes energy, serious energy, to get actual matter up to warp speed. By using force fields preferentially and for structural integrity they save incredibly on weight, and therefore efficiency. Those engineers are to be commended for figuring out how to strip out even more matter, and not criticized for failing to use poorly suited low tech solutions.

A lot of his "problems" just aren't.
Almost EVERYONE I've interviewed, including senior programmers, think that if you do this:

void nullThis(Object o) {
o = null;
}
Object o = new Object;
nullThis(o);
System.out.println(o.toString());

throws a NPE
Got 17/19. I did not get Rasmus Lerdorf PHP.
I also did not get the Ada Lovelace one, but I should have, I just couldn't recall it.
i'd say if you're just starting out and have a chance to work for a big company that's been around longer than google, go for it. there's a lot to learn from large orgs that you aren't necessarily exposed to in small team environments.

after college, i joined a fortune 100, where i worked for three years. during that time, i had extra time to devote to consulting gigs and working on my startup. had i joined a startup, there definitely wouldn't have been much free time to do my own thing.
It doesn't work because Firefox doesn't support mp3 format through <audio> html tag.

This script supports only Safari and Chrome by now.
I'll design an app that helps you plan excessive infrastructure projects for developing nations that plunge them into debt so they can be exploited for political gain! The World Bank will love that!
I think you've already done the most important thing you could by creating a separate room that delineates home life from office life.

The biggest distraction I've found while working with a remote team is dealing with IM. In practice I've found this can be more distracting than low level banter in the office - you can tune out to this, and it's always obvious if a message is directed at you. Not so with group IM, where unread messages may or may not be directed at you. In short, and assuming your colleagues are happy with it, I recommend going 'Do not disturb' for a few hours every day while you focus on work without distraction.
I'm not so sure. I tried to get a free Android device to see if Android is an interesting platform to develop for, but couldn't find anyone that could get one for me (and I'm not ready to sign a 2-year contract just for an experiment :)).
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Passing an object by reference is the same thing as passing an object reference by value. It is just semantics. Its not even splitting hairs. Its demanding that his specific definitions are somehow more correct than any other.
The holodeck is one of the most-abused plot elements in Star Trek. Basically every time budget was short or the production crew felt like using other costumes, they'd just use the holodeck as magical plot element. With grave plot inconsistencies as a consequence.
I switched to Chrome from Safari, and while I still find Safari's design to be neater, and prefer it's Reader to Readability, I just can't go back to the separate URL and search bars. I can't un-know that subtle yet profound improvement in usability.

I'm sure there's a SIMBL plugin to add this to Safari but I find SIMBL to be a source of memory leaks. Hopefully Apple comes to the party and just adds it.
So, whats the reasoning behind it?
That's just canvas, it's no surprise. The four seperate webfonts as data URIs are bigger than that canvas would have been as an image anyway.

Try typing <script into one of the signup fields for the real easter egg!
Or Niklaus Wirth:

http://www.sporcle.com/games/supreddit/prog_lang_wirth
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I cannot second this enough. Suspension of disbelief isn't some accidental aspect of fiction, it is essential to enjoying it. When even a casual viewing (as opposed to rigorous pseudo-scientific analysis) can't maintain suspension of disblief, then you have a problem if your target audience is geeks.
My friends know a certain bench at the beach with a beautiful view and a nearby internet cafe to be my two "Santa Monica Beach Offices" which I try to frequent at least a few times a week. Mental clarity and calm is priceless and those spots do it. I cannot stress enough how important it is to find something to allow you to periodically decompress a bit.

I used to work 18 hour days in the film industry. Sure the overtime was great, but you were too tired to enjoy spending it and by the time the weekend rolled around all you wanted to do was sleep. Needless to say I missed out on a lot those years. Ultimately I got out of the industry (for the most part anyway) and while that ridiculous overtime was no more, quality of life improved dramatically. They call a brutal job with good pay the "Golden Handcuffs" for a reason.

Remind yourself that you don't want to someday suddenly realize you're 50 years old and have no idea where the last 25 years have gone.
Surely, given your description and timeframes, the most likely vector is Flash, not Chrome?
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man you gotta be such a sucker to fall for this one.

debt, assumed by despotic and self serving governments, 20% of which goes to fund their militarily held regimes without providing growth, which enslave generations, all well documented, all neo-colonialism: suckers & selfishticos sign-up here, your dream awaits. join the world bank in its phony do-gooder endeavors.

god what the hell is wrong with people, is propaganda really this good? i mean, seriously. this is on the front page. people voting this up are very evil or very very very stupid, which these do you up-voters prefer to be?
Well except that it isn't true. As many have remarked, those things weren't funded in the past by banks, but by kings or similar autocratic rulers. Secondly, many people chipped in for free or almost free for religious reasons. Thirdly, ornate buildings are simply out of style, that's why they're not being build so often any more. Fourthly, any modern sky scraper is technologically much more advanced than those old ones (who just took a long time because of all the details), and in that sense I'd argue just as 'cool' as the old ones. And lastly, intricate ornate buildings are still being build, even if only few and between - e.g. the Sagrada Familia.
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I accidentally down-voted you. My apologies — your contribution is genuinely helpful.
> two equal strings will always be represented by the same pointer.

That's not right at all. Two equal strings /may/ be represented by the same pointer. Only if all strings are interned will this trick be useful and I don't know of any languages that intern all strings

Also, cache and branch prediction effects don't seem to be accounted for.
It's worth noting the response to O'reilly's own Safari To Go iPad app on the Safari Books online blog which was based on PhoneGap. The app has since been pulled from the App Store. See http://safaribooksonline.wordpress.com/2010/11/24/ipad-app-s...
It looks like it's hosted in the US (ec2-184-72-37-90.us-west-1.compute.amazonaws.com). Also, the front end proxy is doing some heavy filtering to weed out the cheap hit-and-run nodes participating in the DDoS but still accepts legitimate browser-based requests (persistent). Notice how a Reset (R) is sent right away on the first try:

08:57:41.211436 IP managed.unixy.net.49467 > ec2-184-72-37-90.us-west-1.compute.amazonaws.com.http: S 1398247905:1398247905(0) win 5840 <mss 1460,sackOK,timestamp 2031832550 0,nop,wscale 7>

08:57:41.264403 IP ec2-184-72-37-90.us-west-1.compute.amazonaws.com.http > managed.unixy.net.49467: S 1288073904:1288073904(0) ack 1398247906 win 16384 <mss 1460>

08:57:41.264424 IP managed.unixy.net.49467 > ec2-184-72-37-90.us-west-1.compute.amazonaws.com.http: . ack 1 win 5840

08:57:41.318642 IP ec2-184-72-37-90.us-west-1.compute.amazonaws.com.http > managed.unixy.net.49467: R 1288073905:1288073905(0) win 16384

The Reset packet sent from the EC2 node to the initiating node is a probe to identified non-existent nodes (spoofed). Notice in the above handshake that the initiating node didn't send a packet-response to the Reset. On the second consecutive attempt though all appears well (because the EC2 node added the initiating node to the ACL).

08:57:42.961708 IP managed.unixy.net.49468 > ec2-184-72-37-90.us-west-1.compute.amazonaws.com.http: S 1394481180:1394481180(0) win 5840 <mss 1460,sackOK,timestamp 2031832989 0,nop,wscale 7>

08:57:43.016547 IP ec2-184-72-37-90.us-west-1.compute.amazonaws.com.http > managed.unixy.net.49468: S 1406181195:1406181195(0) ack 1394481181 win 5792 <mss 1460,sackOK,timestamp 26523835 2031832989,nop,wscale 3>
08:57:43.016564 IP managed.unixy.net.49468 > ec2-184-72-37-90.us-west-1.compute.amazonaws.com.http: . ack 1 win 46 <nop,nop,timestamp 2031833002 26523835>

08:57:51.100914 IP managed.unixy.net.49468 > ec2-184-72-37-90.us-west-1.compute.amazonaws.com.http: P 1:18(17) ack 1 win 46 <nop,nop,timestamp 2031835023 26523835>

08:57:51.180674 IP ec2-184-72-37-90.us-west-1.compute.amazonaws.com.http > managed.unixy.net.49468: . ack 18 win 724 <nop,nop,timestamp 26525876 2031835023>
08:57:56.206546 IP managed.unixy.net.49468 > ec2-184-72-37-90.us-west-1.compute.amazonaws.com.http: P 18:39(21) ack 1 win 46 <nop,nop,timestamp 2031836300 26525876>

08:57:56.261630 IP ec2-184-72-37-90.us-west-1.compute.amazonaws.com.http > managed.unixy.net.49468: . ack 39 win 724 <nop,nop,timestamp 26527146 2031836300>

08:57:56.678942 IP managed.unixy.net.49468 > ec2-184-72-37-90.us-west-1.compute.amazonaws.com.http: P 39:41(2) ack 1 win 46 <nop,nop,timestamp 2031836418 26527146>

But I wonder just how long they'll be able to evade the attack.

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Granted, but the way Chrome updates itself in the background is magical.
And Google even has one, http://code.google.com/p/google-ctemplate/, which does just that (I realize that this was not an option for the OP in 95 ;) )
This extra cost will discourage sites from accepting comments, which is a scary idea. It was nice to have the internet as a relatively open medium. But those days are clearly numbered...
Its a well known 'feature' of Internet Explorer:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q294...

Apache has had a work around for this since.. forever.
To be more friendly to non-powerusers I suppose? Here's the Issue in Chromium's bug tracker:
http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=1695
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So you're trying to do the iPhone of the retail banking industry? Get the weaker but competent operations to cede control over fees and the user to you, to do something other than the short-term diphittery that's plagued the industry forever, and make everyone piles of money.

I do hope that you tone down the designery stuff once you launch. Google Analytics gets a pass on the front end, but I definitely don't need XSR from MixPanel and TypeKit all up in my banking experience. I know it's heresy to designerbros, but the UX problem with existing banking has nothing to do with typography and everything to do with 3270 emulation & petty bureaucracy.
No offence, but FUD? What _exactly_ has allowed you to assert that Chrome is up there with IE vulnerabilities and that Firefox can be cleansed of having been exploited.

Chrome doesn't have "the best" sandboxing?
Quoting Steve Wozniak: "Never trust a computer you can't throw out a window". I apply it to cloud storage in general.
Shouldn't we really be trying to get to the bottom of who is behind this DDoS attack? If Wikileaks is said to be a terrorist organisation, isn't this an act of war?
Does Chrome bundle Flash and handle updates itself? Would be interested to compare the lag if that were true.
If BankSimple is really going to be immediately contactable via "Phone, chat, FaceTime, Skype, email, whatever.", then they're bound to be innovating on the internal stuff too.

Can they realistically contract out the call center to any of the companies that service existing retail banks?
I mean, one could claim that "ghoti" is pronounced the same as "fish."

And taking this full-circle, according to Wikipedia, in the Klingon language ghoti means fish.
> jimrhoskins 13 points 6 hours ago[-]

> Chrome does it too, FYI

> permalink report reply

http://www.reddit.com/comments/ee4zc/_/c17gc36
Probably the best decision I ever made in my life was to study Math because I wanted to study Math, when everyone advised me to take a more "vocational" course. Talk to everyone, find out what the jobs are, take the one that sounds most interesting and forget The Plan. While you're at it, buy a copy of Johnny Bunko. I wish I'd read it earlier.
I don't see why fast Javascript should equal frequent CPU wakeups.
You can't upload photos or other files from the web browser in iOS, which is a stupid limitation.
They couldn't exactly rewrite the fictional rules of a universe where bridge consoles explode whenever the ship gets hit and so forth. I don't know how Gene's presence or absence makes much difference; a lot of the dumb engineering ideas (like the exploding consoles) originated in work beyond his control. The first exploding bridge console in Star Trek history was in the Kobayashi Maru sequence in Wrath of Khan, a film that Gene had virtually no creative control over.

Still, even in the original series it's intended that the Enterprise is a capable warship; the original show bible compares it to an imperial warship of the colonial era, and on multiple occasions (the Romulan incursion in "Balance of Terror"; the near-war with the Klingons in "Errand of Mercy") the Enterprise is deployed directly to the front line of potential combat. (The Enterprise-D would fulfill similar roles in episodes like "Best of Both Worlds", "Chain of Command", or even the first season episode "The Neutral Zone".)
Meh to prompts. They are a usability nightmare -- they come at the exact time they are most inconvenient: when I am using the browser. And for 99% of people the answer should always be yes. You should have to specifically opt in to prompting and the default should be silent automatic updates.
Firefox's prompts are a pain in the neck. "Do you want to install the latest Firefox?" No! I want to browse the web. That's why I opened my browser. Every time I get that message I groan because I know I should upgrade but I don't want to sit through a download, install and browser restart.

I always thought a "upgrade Firefox on next restart" checkbox which downloaded in the background and kicked off the installer on browser shutdown would be nice.
Didn't see the exact rules in the article, but I would imagine the more one saves, the higher the chance of winning -- much like the standard lottery.
I don't understand the logic - why would attacking a terrorist organization be an act of war?
I'm similar.
I'll watch about 2 minutes of a video, and see if the presentation is engaging enough to warrant spending the time to watch the video.

If I can download the video, I do that and watch it on my trainride home.

Else the window gets closed
Hey, at least they stopped the TOS practice of using the "it's the Roman/Nazi/postapocalyptic Cold War/Amerindian/Ancient Greek planet!" principle to use other costumes.
When $ 0.01 of goods became popular.........what can we rely on to get a job?
Specific page in which I did not find.But they do have headsets for $ 0.01.
Cloudsigma is based in Zurich, Switzerland and seems to be fairly big. They should be able to cope with this kind of attack:

http://www.cloudsigma.com/
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Is it actually still possible (with that I mean realistic) to make a profit that way?
You'd say the banks have seized all algorithmic trading oppertunities, if you try something like that at home you'll always be second violin.