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Because I've been "browsing" O'Reilly's Safari, I ended up with 25 - 30 tabs open (maybe 40). I started bookmarking them so that I could close them. When I went into Chrome's bookmark manager to check my work and maybe export a backup, the bookmark manager page was blank except for a few basic elements and non-responsive.

Googling the issue provided no authoritative answer. Several descriptions of similar behavior, spanning several months, with private individuals coming up with their own solutions -- which varied. This included posts to the Google help forum(s); private solutions -- I didn't see one response from a Googler.

Some solutions were involved enough, in an annoying way, that I didn't want to try them if there was something simpler. Reading between the lines of the solutions I happened upon, and remembering some of my past experiences with Chrome -- albeit some time ago -- when resource/memory utilization/exhaustion seemed to be an issue, I started closing tabs, trusting that since I could see the bookmarks within the bookmark bar's "Other Bookmarks" folder, the bookmarks were actually saved and I would have a reasonable chance of retaining them. (This is what I originally wanted to confirm in the bookmark manager before closing the tabs.)

Sure enough, after I'd whacked 10 or 15 tabs open to O'Reilly Safari pages, the bookmark manager started opening completely and responding properly, again.

Apparently, Chrome was reaching some limit and failing silently -- in this case, failing to successfully initialize/open the bookmark manager.

Big meh. Chrome may be fast and innovative in terms of execution and rendering, but it -- and Google more generally -- still leave a lot to be desired in terms of usability and well considered feedback especially for the general user.
I eventually want to focus on younger kids. But I want to be super careful screening any teachers that would be allowed to teach young children over live video, so this may take a while for me to find the right instructors.

Shoot me an email, and I'll let you know when I have something appropriate for your children. You can also check out the site in the meantime.
So is he saying that he is unsure of the capability and valuation of Facebook based on Zynga's business model?

This point still doesn't make sense in regards to investing in Facebook if he is talking about the product being sold is software rather than virtual goods. One company that uses the platform has an unsustainable (according to the author) business model - therefore the company hosting the platform has a problem as well?

And if the point does make sense, the author is certainly leaving a whole lot of his reasoning and explanation out of the actual article.
i liked your idea ... in fact i was thinking for someone to start an online collge/university who can also offer diplomas and degrees based on open courseware ... by the way connecting student is being done by OpenStudy (http://openstudy.com/) so you may study the pros and cons and implement a better platform or may be tie-up with them ... I wish you all the best.
Instead of doing a competition, I think it would've been better to reach out to designers in the community to see if they wanted to contribute.

I remember offering my services to the Appleseed social networking project as to help the project garner more attention and look more professional. I'm sure there are other designers out there willing to do so knowing that it is open source project.

But a competition? No way. I'm not spending hours on a project with little contact with the 'client' when my work might never be used.

On a sidenote, spec-work is still very common with large companies. I guess that's the price one pays when it comes to multi-million dollar contracts.
>Second, the fact that haskell is a testbed for researchers doesn't make it the ideal language for "real world programming" in my opinion.

Once upon a time Lisp was a language for researchers.
If I had $50 billion on this day to buy part of 1 company, I'd take Goldman no question.

A few years ago if you got Facebook stock at a lower valuation, sure that would make you a lot of money. But if Facebook makes $2 billion now, and they already have 25% of the internet users as members, where does the growth come from? 50b valuation is right given their current revenues, but they're not going to go from 25% to 100% of total internet users. And their cost structure will not go down to 0. So we're basically betting on how much more money Facebook can squeeze out of each active user. I just don't see it being a huge amount.

Where as GS has a lot of ways to make money, and has proven their ability to make money over and over and over again through a lot of markets and a lot of times. Facebook could peak at $100b and you only doubled your money. (Which isn't that good for this kind of investment).
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Just because US law defines IP as an incentive not an inherent right doesn't mean that culturally it's only a incentive.

You have poorly defined what "ethical" means. So far the only clarification you have made is that legal and ethical are too different things. Some people disagree and define "ethical" as "law-abiding" which means that copyright infringement is unethical.

To be clear, I'm not saying you're wrong, I'm just saying that there is a degree of relativism to your statement. Just because you don't think that copyright infringement is unethical doesn't mean that people who do are wrong.

I'm not really a proponent of moral-relativism but ultimately I have to accepted that ethics are a human construct and as such disagreement will arise over its precise definition. For example, I think eating meat is unethical but most people don't. Does that make me wrong?
The $88 billion market cap for Goldman Sachs is the value of all GS shares, including those held by insiders. So if you could buy $50 billion of GS shares at the current price, you'd own about 57% of the company.
This isn't some guy looking to get cheap work from random designers. It's a core member of an open-source project asking its ardent followers if they'd like to contribute something, with a smallish cash prize as a nice thank-you.
Strictly speaking there's no need for a DNS-like system to use domain _names_ - you could use domain keys instead (locating the authoritative servers could then be done with a DHT of some sort). The problem then is that it becomes hard to type them in manually, but people could exchange such things with QR codes, or abbreviated hashes of the keys. You do lose usability, but it's a compromise that wouldn't be entirely unusable.
This is not a correct understanding of "market cap". Goldman's market cap includes the value of ALL shares, not just the shares available for public trading.
Can you have a 2001 style bubble.. with one company?
I assume Rich is selling exactly this. Company XYZ wants $hard_to_implement_feature. Company gives Rich money specifically so he'll implement $hard_to_implement_feature, and then they get $hard_to_implement_feature.

An example of this was my department wanted a certain feature in the Moose library, so we offered to pay one of the developers to write it. Then it turned out we didn't actually have funding for this ("pay someone to work on free software? fuck that") and so it never happened. But for a company with it's act together, this is a great way to make your internal codebase cleaner, and you get to say, "thanks to us, everyone gets this".

If this is his business model, it's a good one.
It's in the algorithm. Theirs is better then yours. Trust me on that one.

When a few publishers complain to their adwords representative that they get no conversions from your site a few flags could be raised. Such as a site audit by a Googler.

Make sure you monitor your adsense messages just in case.
I like the idea, but I think you're over complicating it with the whole billing stuff.

I would setup a system where for $7/mo. you can have up to 3 MAC addresses registered in the system. All the AP's would be configured with a known SSID and wpa2 key and the 3 device Mac addresses are registered in each persons access point. (you might have to run dd-wrt or tomato on the routers).
I'm just using "ethical" to contrast things that would be wrong no matter what the law says. Breaking the law is unethical - that's why we don't need a "Rule 1: Don't break the rules." Stealing would be unethical even if there were no law. But copying something without the author's permission isn't unethical except when the law says so.
Did you know that Philip Morris is now operating as the Altria Group?
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or tunnel through existing infrastructure, which you would be anyway with the other options. I actually like that the internet is a library, a shopping mall and any number of other things all at the same time and am not too fearful that yanking DNS entries would be such a terrible thing. I never used fidonet but I did have a uucp email address and set up dialers to get email working between unix systems back in the 80's. I feel like we are always tunelling over something existing, so why not use the most convenient. Wouldn't a VPN over the public internet give you the same result? Of course, your provider could pull the plug on you, but you switch to another, just like if someone else started transmitting on your frequency if you're using ham radio. the FCC tends to take a dim view of encryption (which they are also unable to define, or rather differentiate between providing confidentiality vs message ciphers for obscurity) so you would have to embed your subversive internet within benign ordinary traffic.

There's nothing forcing any of us to use ATT or comcast or whomever, its just a more fun place on a network where there are more people. If you grew up with uucp as your mail carrier and progressed to ccMail and finally a netcom shell account you'll remember how boring it was reading physics papers on gopher servers and looking at fluid dynamics latex documents. There was a time though between gopher and veronica and today's 500 million people wasting 2 hours every day checking out each other's cat washing stories and playing at being farmers. Maybe I'm just remembering it all wrong, but I kind of like the current internet.
"The market value of Goldman Sachs is just $88 billion. I'd take more than half that company over the whole of Facebook any day of the week."

GS was founded in 1869; Facebook in 2004.
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The author doesn't quite get it. Nonwithstanding the fact that physical infrastructure is never free (his fido example is a case in point: phone lines), once something turns big corporations will enter the game, and then even freifunk-like architecture would suddenly be corporate-owned, as their nodes outnumber private ones.

Also, what non-free internet? Pirate bay is still up (despite many attempts), wikileaks is still up (!), etc. Wikileaks isn't even blocked by the search engines.
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Instead of more laws, tougher rules or oversight authorities, it may be worthwhile to just reduce the number of regulations, papers, fees, approvals, stamps or 'adeverințe' needed to function. Tougher rules won't work when the rulers are inherently corrupt; rules are the very thing that justify their power.
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This isn't a startup. It's a fun side project no one is expecting to make any money from.

I understand the no-spec mentality, but it seems odd to apply it to open source or a fun, no-profit side project.

If a designer is interested in Ruby committers and wants to make it look pretty, then have fun!
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Apple may never address any of your concerns. They're continually leaving niche markets: the eMac is dead, their blade server and SANs are dead, WebObjects is a free afterthought for Xcode. Even QuickTime is getting server mainstreamed with HTTP streaming. Apple's specialty is a general-purpose platform. Like a Luxo task light that can fit anywhere from a machine shop to an art gallery.

Besides, diffusion from classroom to home never worked. Home to classroom and office, however!
Oh come on. It's a TWO HUNDRED DOLLAR PRIZE. It's obvious to everyone involved that they're not looking for the best possible design for this site; this is a satisficing exercise.
I tried that. It didn't work.
But there is a secret: The goal is not to raise good kids. The goal is to raise good adults.
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I think the sense of entitlement from a donation is unbounded, since it was voluntary. People are usually more clear that a business transaction is thing x for money y.

If you're pointing out that people are acting irrationally, then, yes, they are. The difference is that we tend to treat "business transactions" different from other kinds - I think monetary donations are not seen as business transaction, so the expectations are different. See this excerpt from Dan Ariely's Predictably Irrational: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=8923395...
http://theinternets.com

* gasp * someone bought The Internets! All of them! What'll we do?!
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I believe that my portfolio page is evidence of this, I can't think of any other reason why it'd have such a high pagerank (4). I don't think there are any offsite links pointing to it. (It has the same pr as my homepage and service page, both of which have numerous incoming links.)
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I am willing to bet a lot of money on the opposite side. My guess is that all existing x86/x86_64 code will continue to work just as well as it did before.

My guess is that CPU microcode designed to detect that h264 decoding being offloaded to the GPU was from a Usenet post instead of from Hollywood would be difficult, if not impossible, to implement. (My point: the CPU doesn't even see bits from the video to decode anymore. So it probably can't fuck them up, even if it wanted to, which it doesn't.)
Your multiple A/b Split tests, Multi country view is spot on when looking at ad units. Imagine trying to have 1 ad unit for both japanese and a US website.
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Also, almost all of the korean free-to-play MMORPGs require IE to launch them from.
Why wait? Blu-Ray is about as high-quality as it gets, and nobody is having any trouble pirating those.
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Wolves and chihuahuas are the same species, too. Their body mass difference is well over 10%.
Developers do speculative work for clients all the time. So, for that matter, do software security people, and the dollar value of an hour of software security work dwarfs both web devs and designers. But don't feel bad, because lawyers also do work on spec, and their bill rates crush ours.

Designers need to stop acting like some kind of special priesthood. Yes, people try to take advantage of them, just like they try to take advantage of everyone else. The answer isn't to brand every contest, audition, or consult project as immoral and exploitative.
No, I wouldn't use it.

Have you seen the rubbish on relationships on Yahoo Answers?! Sheesh, there's some special kind of crazy people on there.
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The problem with the "chain of trust" is that most of the links are held by Chinese companies who bid the lowest. All it takes is one employee with access to the key to leak it, and then everyone has it.

Note the ready availability of HDCP-strippers, for example.
I completely agree with you .. several times i've been in debate with my friends (and they just dont get it) that cost of education is going to go lower and lower (and not higher as it is surveyed & assumed) - the only thing that would matter is quality of teachers/teaching environment ...

i think it's great startup idea to create an online college based on open courseware and conduct virtual classes and group sessions to help students - also eventually offer degrees ...
I'm just staggered that this article doesn't even mention the most destructive personality at a company: the status-quo politician. This person absolutely has an agenda other than improving the company: personal comfort and status.

So I find Horowitz's description of the Heretic somewhat ironic:

However, sometimes really smart employees develop agendas other than improving the company...

The young heretic might be guilty of this: Specifically, he builds his case that the company is hopeless and run by a bunch of morons. The young heretic has yet to learn that a company has three types:

1. The Status-Quo Politician. 1%
2. The Enablers 98%
3. The Heretics 1%

The Enablers can be further divided:

a) Those who are naive or don't understand psychological abuse
b) Those who do and don't care.

My advice to young heretics: identify the status-quo politicians and discuss with CEO. If the CEO doesn't see it, perhaps be cause he's non-technical, leave. Your company is going down the toilet.

Also note that there are plenty of politicians who are also interested in making a ton of money by making the company great.
"Method based history" for Subversion is out
I can't find any evidence that guelo, or his consulting company, was in any way involved in the site.
That's all very well, but how do you explain Castle Ridge Rd? (last map) There are also some loops that have the same weight as dead ends.

Alternative explanation: the municipality surveyors assign prominence-values to roads, based on width etc, which happen to (often) coincide with dead ends being lighter. Google uses these values; competitors don't.

I agree it is a nice effect, both useful and beautiful.
I'm not sure I understand your question.

If you mean: I have an authentication service, Auth.com, and I would like the users to be able to enter their user name and password on AnotherSite.com, how do I stop javascript on AnotherSite.com hijacking their submission to Auth.com?

Then the short answer is, you can't. That is why all services redirect you to their own login page, where they control the HTML (and can audit to be sure that no one has injected code into their site).

What Facebook does is usually in an iFrame, which accesses the user information relatively securely. Any interaction more complex than a "like" is generally redirected via facebook.com (e.g. any permission grants). iFrame's used to be riddled with flaws, but I believe they are considered fairly safe these days.

Go educate yourself on the protection of XSS and CSRF/XSRF, and you'll be able to answer all of your own questions.
In fact, Accel, Facebook's earliest venture investment firm, has already cashed out a fair chunk of stock.

http://venturebeat.com/2010/11/19/facebook-accel-34-billion/
Ah, I see what you mean but I disagree with your premise - I think that IP is an ethical gray area and that copyright infringement can be unethical absent the law/economics. I think it would be unethical for a programmer in a country that doesn't recognize the GPL to use GPL'd code in a proprietary product, for example, because they would be going against the expressed [reasonable] wishes of the content creator.
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If you asked him nicely, I bet the prize would also be payable in the form of grizzled man hugs, a video of sweet karate moves or maybe he'd even let you get to first base.

Don't get me wrong, I don't know tenderlove at all and I've never even met him (or twatted with him on the twitter). But I have a lot of karma so obviously I know things.
Many VC funds have 1-2 years they can tack on in addition to the 10-year life in cases where one or more of their investments have not exited.

That said, it's not the return multiple that matters for VCs, it's the IRR (i.e. time is a factor).
That wasn't always the case.

And even so, this is just another DRM tool that Netflix will use, unless they opt to only use Intel's built in DRM (which would be strange given the wide competition Intel's hardware DRM faces from TPMs and the like.
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I wonder how this would fare if the device had been secured with a PIN or some other password. Are we now back around to a situation similar to the warrantless searches US Customs and Border Patrol can do when crossing a border?

Edited to add: I just perused the decision linked to in the article[1] and it doesn't appear that the court addressed that issue. The majority's decision does make reference to a "locked footlocker" that was opened without a warrant, and that the US Supreme Court ruled that the search was invalid because it was "distant from the arrest." It doesn't seem to address breaking open the lock.

1 - http://www.courtinfo.ca.gov/opinions/documents/S166600.PDF
Then why not provide a 200 dollar RFP, solicit designers that love open source, and pick the best one?

You gotta realize that designing stuff takes time. This means that there's a bunch of designers working hard for a prize that will most likely not be there. This isn't like OSS contributions where patches are integrated, this is direct competition for compensation, in the form of a spec work contest.
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There is some amount of chromosomal damage that will now occur with our cheap, plastic materials and water tables full of pharmaceuticals.
When they weren't the market leader[1], Apple used to give good discounts to schools to use Macs. What about now?

[1] You can argue that they are the market leader in the next generation of computing, tablets.
One can't escape the corporations or governments' influence. They are already in every aspect of one's life. Rather than trying to build a super secret treehouse away from their gaze it's more productive to find a way to protect people's freedoms within the current system. To make it so senators do not have the power to meddle with the network arbitrarily.
If its not ethical, its almost illegal. And here it also deals with a buzzword "privacy".
Don't underestimate the engineering and financial expertise needed to produce gallon jars of pickles for $2.99 and still make a profit.
Didn't much of Silicon Valley's early investment come from the US government, such as the military ?
Fon(http://fon.com) already does this. They sell low cost Routers that have a public Wifi network. Giving away your bandwidth gives you access on other people's networks.
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Does your method have 100% effectiveness in creating good and productive adults? Because otherwise it seems like there is room for improvement.

It's also rather vague, while effective parenting is distressingly high on specifics. The "secret" (if you would call it that) described here would appear to fit your description — there's a bad consequence for fighting and a good consequence for apologizing.
“There was a minor controversy on campus when OpenCourseWare was being rolled out. Some students thought opening up the courses was unfair since they worked hard to get in and paid $30k+ per year to attend MIT.”

I got angry just reading that. Apparently the admissions process at the university wasn't thorough enough.

Try living in a country where none of the universities are in the top-50 or top-100 rankings.
Hidden quantities are an ECN thing, I think, so options markets might not have had that order type.

Which exchange?

I was not under the impression icebergs are an order type. Maybe my knowledge is a bit dated?
I'm pretty sure building http://rubycommitters.org/ takes time as well and I don't believe anyone is paying Aaron to build it. In fact, it sounds like it's costing him his hard earned "love bucks".

Get over your hostility and either do something fun on the internets, or don't.
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