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Yeah, that whole applications on the web thing is totally just a fad. I'll right get on rewriting Google Maps using a Java front-end.
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hi berntb. i upvoted your reply for the analysis.

a def'n of propaganda is "information, ideas, or rumors deliberately spread widely to help or harm a person, group, movement, institution, nation, etc." (dictionary.com). is this what you're claiming chomsky is doing? if so, what is the info he is spreading and whom is he trying to harm? i believe such a claim is VERY strong, and would fall under the area of mudslinging. it's a popular fox news tactic too.

A) he does NOT criticize israel more than other places (he says something similar many times elsewhere in the 3 vids). he is saying that as an american citizen, the places where the usa has an influence is where he feels he is most obligated to act. thus, if the situation in sudan is not a byproduct of usa policy, he feels the moral obligation is not as strong as in places where the usa has directly affected a region (middle east, south america, vietnam, etc.).

are you assuming that chomsky has said nothing about sudan?

i'm unsure what your critique here is. chomsky is on the record about making comments on (quick, abridged list): serbia/yugoslavia, venezuala, mexico, vietnam, iraq, afghanistan, russia, germany, iraq, iran, syria, israel, palestine, lebanon, cuba, canada, usa, china, phillipines, korea, japan, south africa, haiti, honduras, east timor, tibet, india, pakistan, libya, turkey, indonesia, brazil, egypt, jordan, georgia, colombia, cambodia, australia, etc.

and yes, chomsky has made commentary regarding sudan. further, it is consistent with what i mentioned above: he has public comments about the american bombing of a pharmaceutical company in sudan.
see here at 0:00 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grqPwqwoOcA
lots more info here: http://www2.math.uic.edu/~takata/WorldTradeCenter/WTC_Articl...

another factor: chomsky is american. thus is it "propaganda" if the majority of his writings concern america? isn't this acceptable? the same concern with the fact that he's jewish and has personal ties to israel. thus why is it considered "problematic" if the majority of his words and thoughts concern the 2 things he is a part of? (he even mentions this at 2:00).

further, your "all other left wingers" and "demonization of israel" is extreme hyperbole. i'm going to ignore that comment. i find all right wingers to participate in extreme hyperbole where the demonization of anyone that disagrees with them as more or less standard.

B) by "existential threat", are you referring to "israel's right to exist is questioned"?

i'll also ignore the "sadat and plo" unicorns-are-real statement, since as you say, no one knows whether it's true or not.

i'm unsure what the rest of your points are referring to. and i don't see how they support your "chomsky writes propaganda" thesis. it's a very weak thesis (i'm being generous). propaganda involves the spreading of misinformation ("lies" if you will). the only point you've brought up is that "chomsky focuses too much on israel" (he doesn't) and "ignores sudan" (again, wrong). i fail to see the connection to propaganda.
It's a little more plausible if the point of comparison is a 2000 era Mac: http://arstechnica.com/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=19&t=111404...
I think it has to be taken on a case by case basis. It's extremely difficult to do a well-designed dynamic layout that doesn't look too boring/un-crafted.
An offerwall could be a good substitute.
The jquery people are being incredibly generous. Others would have just tweaked the JS to produce some shock site or text to the effect "you are a bandwidth thief".
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During a sale can't the company just dilute everyones stock and redivide the new stock amongst whoever is still at the company? That way anyone who is not present at sale time gets a very diluted stock. I think this is why if you leave the company and your vested you still get much less percentage of a company than you theoretically should have. I would think this is the norm?
Completely disagree.

I don't even think Google "adopted" NaCl, it's still more a private project of a few, compared to Chrome(OS) and Android.

NaCl is one of those technologies that I secretly hope fails. Pull the plug on x86 already, FFS.

Saying that the Open Web needs an app-store to compete with the walled gardens is also a fallacy. Quite the contrary, the web competes with the walled gardens because it doesn't have such master-record. You will see this pattern repeat itself; the chaotic nature of the web beats any attempts to impose "order" upon it. Cf. the dismal failure of dmoz and other curated directories, compared to search engines.

If you want to use performance critical software that pushes the limits of your machine, download it, use Java or whatever.

I doubt the app-store model will survive long term; individual merchants and vendors tend to move faster than the infrastructure that houses their shops and supports their business (almost literally.) The moment a few merchants diverge from the proscribed machinery of the market, and exploit inefficiencies, as they will, is the moment you will see this model come apart at the seams. If the entire model isn't killed along with its platform by changes in technology.

The one good example I can give you is the buildings built throughout South East Asia to house street-vendors. Specially in Cambodia and Vietnam, the governments built multi-story shopping centers, just piles of concrete, and invited vendors to push their carts in and congregate. The markets might have looked like proper malls at some point, but with time, they're just shaded bazaars like any other street market, except this one isn't dried by the sun and there is no drainage. Over time, the building has all the appeal of a street market, except you have to climb up some slippery stairs tightly packed with pickpockets. However, most higher-end merchants gather around the vertical-bazaars and open proper walk-in shops with more products, better presentation, and all the amenities of a private property (fan, seats, water cooler, bathroom, TV/radio, etc.)
I'm just taking this list as what it is: A list of very well crafted websites that hopefully inspire others for their own work.

And really, what's wrong with style over substance? It's not like a firm needs to have a Reddit/Gmail style of a design.

I, like you, use Facebook, Gmail, and Reddit quite a bit. However, I don't consider their design to be as outstanding as their functionality (which I know we'll disagree with). Thus, I wouldn't say they are my favorite web designs.
The only people for whom "first impressions count" is a better business model than "you come back over and over again" are web designers. These sites seem to exist only to fill the niche of sites that exist to please web designers. I can't imagine many successful startups employing these people.
I don't think Google Maps does any heavy lifting and number-crunching in javascript in the browser; in fact, all it does in js is "remote out the UI part".
That is the number of likes for the Facebook Platform, nothing to do with him.
It's generally accepted that it's a good idea to avoid cocaine unless you're really sure that you can take it without getting addicted. Similarly, I think it should be generally accepted that it's a good idea to avoid WoW unless you're really sure you can play it without getting addicted.
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If you look at design as being purely aesthetic, then I agree with you. If, however, you approach design as does an architect, that is, to facilitate human interaction with a necessary medium, then these sites suck.

They are a chair that looks really great from a distance, but that you can't sit in. It's pretty and pointless.
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Yes, always link to the main source. This comment from there

"Unless Facebook figures out how to increase their per user monetization by 25x, Facebook would not become a Google sized company. At its current and past monetization rates social networking has not been a very desirable area except as it affects the strategic interests of these companies."

was interesting.
Considering NaCl in the context of papers like http://eprint.iacr.org/2010/594 (timing the CPU cache to break AES) is... interesting. You'd hope that Google would have considered such issues, but a quick search doesn't yield anything.
I'm stunned. I've spent a year looking for a language with
that set of features, and I mean, I really tried!

There's a few odd choices. The use of some fairly bizarre operators for unsigned integer arithmetic is slightly weird (a bit like *. for floating point operators in O'Caml). And it seems to be bootstrapped from Pascal, which is a curious choice given that it compiles to C. There's also no built-in bignum type, (though this has the positive
benefit that the author is still free to license it BSD -
use GMP for bignums removes that possibility).
but you can't just right-click on a binary executable and "view soure", bro! ~

Seriously, people managed to write successful, cross-platform software without expecting everyone with any kind of gadget or device to run it with one click.
Wolfram Alpha does this. I think it helps with writing formulae.
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jQuery appears to be the staple of modern web development/design. With javascript turned off, quite a few of these sites still remain pretty and usable.
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Hmm.. Bad coding in the site engine:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "index.cgi", line 509, in <module>
main()
File "index.cgi", line 499, in main
if 'iPhone' in os.environ['HTTP_USER_AGENT']:
File "/home/mikeash/lib/python2.6/UserDict.py", line 22, in __getitem__
raise KeyError(key)
KeyError: 'HTTP_USER_AGENT'
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Half of generation nought need another five years time, I suppose.
Alternatively, all the toddlers I've met yet have successfully hidden their 1337 h4xx0r1ng skills from me. Probably have a secret agenda, them darn toddlers. Holding back the singularity until we've died of old age, I bet.
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>Finally, are you thinking of registering 365 different domains? Oy.

He could register one domain and put each project on its own subdomain.
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No, but they can create new stock. Or give some sort of bonus/better conversion ratio only to holders of preferred stock (VCs), with bonuses for current employees. Or...
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Have you ever seen a clean, bare creative space?

The home of Steve Jobs. And since the entire essay hinges upon that sentence, it just came crashing down completely.
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He may just have had bought that mansion at that time, but it wasn't minimalist by accident.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/pacman3000/4042368287/

As to your second point: minimalism and 'clutteredness' are independent properties. From the photos, I think the office is still much more minimalist than many other (home) offices you could find.
I'm impressed by your ability to deduce whether or not a plugin is shitty based solely on what OS it runs on.
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so here you go:

Impresions unique	total | Clicks u t | click-thru (%) u t

11,488	74,563	243 286	2.12% 0.38%

Click-thru is rather poor, but that is probably because an online notepad isn't the hottest thing right now. Anyway, I think the reddit audience still classifies as a rather receptive for these kinds of web apps, you probably would have gotten an even lower click-thru rate on other sites.
So is reading someone else's postal mail theft?
> I encountered an environment that viewed social networking as a frivolous form of entertainment

I don't think Google to this day actually wants to be in social networking; the problem they have with Facebook is they can't index it, they can't be a gateway to Facebook as they are to everything else; Facebook in many ways is the gateway for its users.
I've got a touchscreen laptop. It lets my 3-year old muck around with Tux Paint and educational Flash games but it's not much more useful than that. You'd really need both a transformable hardware setup, and two entirely different UI paradigms for it to make sense. And it would still be hard to compete with a netbook plus a tablet for most folks.
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is there any set date for opening .ng TLD domains for public?
Loosely related: there's an "Ubuntu Cola" brand available here in Sweden.
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Gcc can do some interesting things with macros. I have used multi-statement macros that "return" a value. Another option is using the comma operator, which I think is legitimate C.
I only found out about it after I had started writing this one. I have never seen a physical copy of it.

I also think the fairly brutal way that the Learn X The Hard Way format forces you through typing in working code is a good way for people to learn how to 'read' a new/weird syntax <-- not meant derogatively, just strangely unfamiliar.
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I read somewhere recently that most sites are using central layout now as opposed to fixed or liquid. I was looking for tutorials but I didn't find any, how would I go about making a central layout?
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Google could show much better judgment in their response. Perhaps he did technically break the rules, but not wantonly and not with malevolent intentions. He deserves a warning, and perhaps to have some percentage of his income returned to advertisers, but taking ALL the money in his account and completely shutting off a significant portion of this man's income stream for what amounts to a relatively innocent mistake is a huge overreaction and a lousy thing to do to someone. You're better than this Google.
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I couldn't agree more if I were suddenly granted the magical ability to concur with the power of a thousand suns.

As far as NaCl goes, the absolute last thing the web needs is portability/endianness issues. I'm writing this comment on a phone (ARM), and I also browse on my desktop machine (x86-64) and my netbook (Atom, x86). (Not to even mention PS3/XBox 360/Wii/older Macs, all of which come with browsers.) Wanna make web the web worse? Force developers to target several architectures for their apps, or greet users with "Your CPU isn't supported!" pages. Lots of Webapp developers have trouble with cross-browser issues!

If you look at Firefox plugins (native) versus extensions (Javascript), you can see fairly plainly that, even though it's slower, the ease of development in Javascript (even with all its quirks) outweighs the benefits of native code, even for heavyweight extensions.

The best solution, in my opinion, is to expose a (fast) bytecode VM to web developers. Javascript is okay for a lot of purposes, but it's a messy language, and can be pretty clunky. A bytecode VM (one that at least has a Javascript front-end) could solve most of these problems. Off the top of my head, the JVM has Rhino for JS (as well as support for Ruby, Python, Clojure, and a host of others) and is easily restricted, if somewhat heavyweight. The Lua VM is faster than the JVM, is portable to a number of platforms (having a clean, portable, lightweight implementation), and I suspect that a Javascript front-end would not be hard, given the similarities between the languages (Lua could be described as a cleaner, faster Javascript). The language of choice would be up to the developer, as long as it could target the VM (and we'd not have to put together hacks like minifiers or $language-to-JS compilers like CoffeScript and Objective-J). Getting Google, Microsoft, and Mozilla to agree on a VM is trickier, although I hear MS loves Lua.

I also agree with the app store assessment (1000 suns, etc.), but have little to add.
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There's no shortage of failed great technology, unfortunately.

You need a way to get this launched, which means you need widely-available clients (PNaCl), and you need the content as otherwise nobody needs those clients you don't yet have, and you need the tools for developing the content which aren't available, and you need a way to interest enough folks in this technology into adopting it, whether by pushing them (cash) or pulling them (cool, useful, solves my problem, etc).

And you need to sort out and preferably prevent the security attacks and how you're planning on providing content protection (yes, you're going to need some sort of copy protection get more than token commercial content), the usual UI adoption issues for non-tech users (they're the big market, and not the geeks), and with all the usual nasties that can derail or dissuade the early adopters of any technology.

Getting to critical mass with these sorts of products is inherently entertaining, and involves rather more thought and cash and effort than with the technology itself. Have you looked at how all that'll happen here, rather than looking (just) at the (admittedly cool) technology?
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If you MUST learn elisp, at least use its Common Lisp package; it adds features and makes some sane changes to elisp that make it into a modern Lisp:

http://dto.github.com/notebook/require-cl.html
you just need a container, make the width of it about 980px and set the margin like so: #page_container {margin:0px auto;}
According to Brendan Eich, the designer of Javascript:

JS had to "look like Java" only less so, be Java's
dumb kid brother or boy-hostage sidekick. Plus, I had
to be done in ten days or something worse than JS would
have happened.

(See comments from http://www.jwz.org/blog/2010/10/every-day-i-learn-something-... for that and more from him)

Given that constraint, JS is an amazing hack. But it's 2011 now. Why should we have to use Javascript for client code in the browser--why shouldn't we be able to use Ruby, or Python, or C#, or Clojure, or Haskell, or F#, or Lua, or whatever else we want? It seems ridiculous to me that we're having a resurgence of language innovation on the desktop and on the server, but not in the browser.
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I was thinking about this the last few weeks until I saw a blogpost somewhere talking about the rise of HTML5 on mobile devices for 2011.

I though to myself, HTML 5 would indeed be nice to create a cross platform mobile chat client. But i'm kinda noobish and I was wondering if something like XMPP would be able to come close to a blackberry messenger group chat experience with the Delivered, read, etc msg status.

Anyway, Happy new year to all of you :)
The reason this is interesting and relevant is that the Mayor of London have started using him to predict their weather.

If the Mayor of NY is saying no-one knew it was coming and nothing could be done - he was wrong. This team predicted it weeks ago.

While Piers Corbyn may be a nutter he is still a very accurate weather forecaster.
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Not disagreeing with you, but just one point:

> Saying that the Open Web needs an app-store to compete with the walled gardens is also a fallacy.

Chad doesn't say that the open web needs an app store, just that "it needs a realistic answer to native code." I assume he wants to avoid a future of fast app store apps vs. slow open web apps, not encourage the creation of a one-stop shop for web apps.
It will be pretty weird to try to sleep with the wake mate plugged in while it was on your arm(and very uncomfortable). Also he is talking about MacBook batteries catching fire, not antennagate, read the comment again.
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For the most complicated apps you are right, but most applications are not that complicated and web technology solves problems that Java has not even recognized as problems. Things like advanced accessibility, semantics, device independence (SVG, CSS Media Queries) true open standards ++. You can do much more with a web browser today than "browsing the web" and browsers has done amazing development the last 5 years and will continue with amazing development the next 5 years as well.
NaCl works on both ARM and x86 using the same downloadable bytecode. The long term goal seems to be to translate the bytecode in the client using a sandboxed LLVM to target the local architecture

See the following video from the recent LLVM Developers' Meeting

Portable Native Client,
David Sehr, Google [mp4,269mb]
http://www.llvm.org/devmtg/2010-11/videos/Sehr_NativeClient-...
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There are some difficulties with that - certainly for beginners.

http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/elisp/html_node/Coding-Con...

What I am trying to do is make it possible to get people to start writing 'code that works' up to the point that they want to stop learning and start writing their own code.

If you know how a language/build setup works in general, then you can work out why in your particular case something isn't working.

If you literally can't read a languages syntax (and for most programmers Lisp is as unreadable as the Cyrillic script is to someone used to the Latin script) then 'do this and it will work' is key to a smooth learning process.

Once people have got over that, then they can take the training wheels off the bike themselves.
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