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I have no problem with app stores existing. I am yet unsure whether app stores piggybacking on the web is bad for the web or just benign tunneling.

There is a key difference between this and IE's play for control of the web a decade ago. MS was trying to deliver native Windows code over the web and keep people locked in to their OS. Chrome apps are implicitly encouraged to use web standards and couple to Chrome only when necessary. I don't think Google is trying to hijack the web, I think they are just trying to expand its scope.
This looks great, and I love the design and simplicity of your site.

With Goodsie and now PintPay, e-commerce is going to be a blast. Maybe you should look into partnering with them? I'd love to have everything in one place.
>3.2 GHz iMac

Found your problem.
Every merchant agreement I've ever seen doesn't allow you to charge payments for third parties. This is to prevent fraud at a minimum, and I am sure there are myriad other reasons.

I wonder if they arranged special terms with the merchant gateways or if they are just trying to fly under the radar? There's gotta be a reason no one has done this 100x before...
Dunno. IIRC Every time I have seen the "bad" Fibonacci recursive algorithm has been followed by the "good" recursive one (bottom-up), which is O(1) in size if your language/implementation does tail-call elimination...
I'd say a house big enough for a au pair to live in as well, you might find it better hire a nanny.
I think the [very sic] referred to the fact that it should be "my boyfriend and me." That's all.
You still need to serve a static HTML page, even if most of the body content loads from elsewhere. Serving a small static HTML file certainly scales well, but not infinitely.
A lot of them use Macs.
Suggestion, you need a big fat section on your site that addresses why I should trust you. Integrating a payment system might be easy, but switching to something else if your system is shut down isnt. So my biggest concern moving to something is, what if your product fails for whatever reason, how can I be assured that I can leave easily and that I will get x days of advance notice. Im sure you can plan for this but letting people know that you'll be around for a long time and what happens in a worst case scenario will help.
I don't know if that's always true (at least, not for founders I want to work for). I worked at a startup where the founder totally ruined his personal credit, and was paid a small portion of what everyone else was making until well into profitability. I bought a beautiful house in a good neighborhood while working for him. He _still_ lives in a tiny rented condo.

If things work out, I'll walk away with enough to pay down some of my mortgage, and he'll be set for a life of luxury. But if things don't work out, then I still have a great house, and plenty of savings. He'll have no credit, and no savings.

It seems like a poor use of funding to pay the founder a great salary (i.e. more than key employees) at an early stage startup: before profitability, or even early into profitability.
Pretty sure they no longer supply new people with Windows machines, only Linux, Mac, and now it sounds like ChromeOS.
If your latest fad games include, say, _Order & Chaos_ or even _Tiny Wings_ then you'll be disappointed. Angry Birds is so 2010.

Can connect digital camera and process RAW images? Perform simple adjustments?

Useful on airplane?
I used to work at a C.S. research institute in California. Every machine there had GNU/Linux installed as their sole OS. I also worked for a German research institute - when I started in the 90's it was a bunch of Windows machines, some GNU/Linux, some Solaris. Today with a new generation of college graduates, virtually no-one uses GNU/Linux any more, it's almost exclusively Windows, although a few people have Mac Books. There are a few GNU/Linux compute servers, but they're only rarely used.

What are other people's experiences over the last decade? Any apparent changes in the usage of different OS's?
You can't tell the transit unions, "you all have 1 year of employment left before we replace you with computers."
>PayPal has a shocking record of abusing it's customers, and it can only do so because it isn't bound by the same laws as banks are.

Some might argue that they can only continue to do so due to a lack of competition, competition which is stifled by the very legislation ostensibly aimed at helping consumers.
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This has been the latest side project of mine. I've tried to make something that (1) has a chance of being completed by myself working on weekends, and (2) is engaging, entertaining, and fun. I suppose it turned out a bit geeky.

I have a number of ideas for future improvements, but before I get to them it would be helpful to know what you think.

I welcome your feedback. Thank you.
Http://techentrepreneurship.com/2011/05/11/leaving-your-mark/
The push by Amazon into cloud services was very different from the business they were pursuing up to then. OK, so they were essentially just wringing some money out of all the infrastructure they already had in place but it was quite a radical change for an incumbent.
Amazon wasn't the "startup" in his example. His point was the 5 year wait time for a "giant"* to get a product out the door...

* who, even worse for their case, already had the infrastructure, resources, engineers, etc. to get it done.
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Does anyone know if a monthly subscription is required to have one of these? I've already got laptops that work and I'm not interested in paying a monthly fee for something that doesn't do everything I want it to, when I wont even be using it 100% of the time. In fact, I hate monthly fees on just about everything.
I work in healthcare. What types of problems are you running into?
Seems like a great idea, but it doesn't work for me. I tried to search YouTube and got nowhere (FF4.x, MBP 10.7 DP)
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They are running mainly Mac and Linux. No idea on any particular distro, though.

http://www.edibleapple.com/google-revamps-new-employee-compu...

Here too, but you've got to be a googler to see it: http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Desktop-Linux/topics

It's pretty interesting how the two big enemies both depend on each others innovations in rolling out products. Macs google, and Macs make Google.
He replies by handwritten notes on the printed email. These are sent by snail mail to the recipient.

And he's using email to about the same extent that a telegraph is a telephone. (With a telegraph, you speak your message out loud, and then the message is sent via a wire to a recipient, so it is just the same as a telephone, right?)
Cited study here:

http://www.springerlink.com/content/bx23551862212177/fulltex...

The study's conclusion is far less dramatic then the sensationalized headline implies, but does include the following lines:

"Further confirmation of the current results and their implications regarding a direct correlation between erratic honeybee behavior and mobile phone-generated electromagnetic fields would substantiate one more explanation for the “disappearance” of bee colonies around the world. This phenomenon accounts for 43% of all bee losses, apart from overwintering (39%), mite disease, (15%) and pesticides (3%) as recently described in a national survey performed in the United States (Bee Alert Technology 2007). Experiments should be undertaken to establish the correlation between the time necessary for the onset of worker piping and the intensity of the electromagnetic fields present in the vicinity of the beehive. For future experiments, in complement to the present original study and in order to reach more “natural” conditions, mobile phone apparatuses should be placed at various increasing distances away from the hives. Video recordings showing the modifications in the bees’ behavior in the hive should also be performed."
Did you try hitting it?
Just a piece of self-glorification. I brushed my teeth, it is hard - all 32 teeths, complicated distributed problem, can't do them all at once consistently, yet i still was able to do it.
That actually seems high to me considering how cutting edge they are. I'd think Mac's would be the vast majority, followed by a fair number if linux machines. I'd of expected Windows boxes to account for a tiny amount of testing machines, and maybe a few biz/marketing hold-outs, but even those guys I'd expect to be predominately on OSX and running either bootcamp or VM'd for Windows.
My guess is they use them like smart terminals and ssh into something else.
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I was at Clojure Conj last October and in a room of 200 or 300 Clojure programmers, it looked like probably 70% of everyone had a MBP running usually OS X, sometimes Ubuntu, and the other 30% (myself included -- although I dual-boot Windows) were running Linux on a PC laptop. I would be surprised if more than 10 people were running Windows as a primary OS.

However, it's worth noting that the average age of the crowd there was almost definitely above 25.
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You're right. I was a little presumptuous there. My mind is corrupted by all the post-pc speculation going on. :)

I do think that these devices are more of an internet window. At the same time, they are in standard PC form factor. I feel chromeOS chose a bad form factor. Think about it, you are happy carrying your laptop or having a desktop with your current internet window (iPads), but imagine carrying and having chromebook with a macbook. That doesn't look like a solution, thats an ugly desk. Point being - I won't be the only one who will every now and then, mistakenly or otherwise, compare chrombooks to the PCs. If they look like one, they might as well bang like one.
If Android Market lowered its cut to 15-20%, iFlowReader could live again on Android tablets. I consider it very shortsighted of Google to not try to compete with Apple on this point.
right, but the point being made was that the storage fee Google/S3 charge is not a one-time thing - it recurs monthly.
At my workplace, it's about 40% Windows, 40% MacOS, and 20% Linux. Those who use Windows generally use it to ssh and/or VNC into our general-purpose Linux compute servers.

I personally have a Linux desktop as my main machine and a Linux netbook as my portable. I could see Google going the same way with its own employees, since the only things my netbook has to do is connect to the vpn and ssh to my desktop, where I connect to my existing screen session and keep going right where I left off. A Chromebook could do that sort of thing relatively easily.
Google builds some of the most popular - and in my opinion, exciting - Windows software that has ever existed. Between Chrome, Earth, Picasa and others I imagine a decently large number of devs need to work on Windows machines for more than just "testing".

(also, in your post "I'd of" should be "I'd have")
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I think you're thinking

Googlers == "People who use Google"

when its actually

Googlers == "People who work at Google"

I know I did at first :D
What the hell, I thought you could get unlimited mobile broadband at least in the Netherlands? This pricing makes no sense.

I mean here in Sweden I can get mobile broadband (i.e. a USB dongle I plug into my laptop) from Three with a speed of (up to) 6mbit/s and no datacap for 9 euro/month. 25 euro/month gives me up to 32mbit/s, and still no caps.

I wouldn't be surprised if they have some sort of operator kickback scheme for the chromebooks, but we'll see if/when they launch them in Scandinavia as well.
The really weird thing is that it runs BETTER on IE9 for me than on Chrome. Must be all the fishies swimming around.
It's less than a buck a day. Should be able to find 20 empty cans and recycle them daily, if not actually do something profitable with the device at the rate of $1/day.
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Very true that this first generation (and a few after) may be lacking. I was thinking in terms of the first poster whose lament about "the future of computing" I read to mean the long-term future.
Your video is interesting as you attack competitors directly. Curious to hear what kind of feedback did you get from others and if there are any legal issues involved.

I also wonder how important is extra 15-25 seconds worth as far as online meetings are concerned (which usually last for >30 minutes).
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I think the $28 include the 3G connection.
What experience would that be? To my knowledge, Rovio still has not released a paid version of Angry Birds although it has been planned since February at least.
http://chrisjean.com/2009/04/20/git-submodules-adding-using-...
Took long enough, there are already so many competing task managers with more features on the market. Will we see collaborative task lists? I'd like to see them in the same way that Google Calendars are sharable, that would be the killer feature.

Honestly the GTasks app for Android (which was written before the API) is the only reason I use GTasks.
I too was disappointed by that book. While conveying anything substantial about a language in that little space is quite difficult, I was underwhelmed by his overviews of Prolog, Haskell, and Erlang (each of which I have some experience in), and suspect the other treatments are equally lacking. It also annoyed me how he characterized the language in the first few pages ("Scala is Frankenstein's monster!" or something like that) and then pushed the metaphor for the rest of the section.

You may be better served by _Essentials of Programming Languages_ (http://eopl3.com/), _Concepts, Techniques, and Models of Computer Programming_ (http://www.info.ucl.ac.be/~pvr/book.html), or _Programming Languages: Application and Interpretation_ (http://www.cs.brown.edu/~sk/Publications/Books/ProgLangs/) - also knows as EoPL, CTM, and PLAI, respectively.

It really helps to cover several styles of language with interpreters in one common language, to avoid getting hung up on syntax and other surface details. Anyone whose entire impression of Lisp / Python / Erlang / K consists of bitching about parenthesis / significant whitespace / "ugly syntax" / "unreadable noise" has cheated themselves.
This also works with live camera feed because of how OpenCV handles video streams. You can extract frames from the stream and then run the same face detection code on those extracted frames.

This is a great post given that a lot of the OpenCV functions, while powerful, are either missing documentation or have outdated documentation.
knuth, the destroyer of trees.
Loop is a fucking mess and, in Common Lisp, is not strictly implemented. But while I wouldn't recommend it to anybody, for any given implementation (clisp, say), yes, you can.
"Bucking the trend"? I can't think of a single x86 laptop in existence that's locked down.
Sorry, what's your comment in response to? You're saying I should try out for Bloomberg?
Careful. The three exceptions in that document are:

* Public interest (clearly inapplicable)

* Implied contract

* Covenant of good faith

The latter two seem like real issues for tech companies. But the HR process of every moderately professional company in the world is designed in part to inoculate them from "implied contract" claims, so having an offer withdrawn is unlikely to leave you with a viable implied contract claim.

Eleven states, including CA and MA, honor some "covenant of good faith" process. But it's unclear to me how exposed the standard offer letter used by most companies are to "covenant" claims. For instance, most will state specifically that "Your employment with Company is at-will and either party can terminate the relationship at any time with or without cause and with or without notice."

I don't think you're right; Patrick is probably not "dead wrong" that companies can withdraw offers.
This story looks similar to mine, except that the last Windows version I really used was Win98SE.

I even went further : for those of my family wanting my help, I made them switch to Linux and guess what? They never needed to call. It's not so much that Linux is unbreakable, but that they don't know how to install whatever stupid apps (laden with virus), they don't know how to upgrade their drivers (and they don't need to), etc.
This isn't gonna resonate with a lot of people on HN, but it's prayer, meditation, and writing. I'm a devout Christian and those things are more important to me, as much as I like programming.
The narration on the video is pretty funny. It didn't come across as exactly "professional" and at some point ought to be less trash talk, more demo. Nonetheless, amusing.
Is it feasible to call the script that authorizes an individual sending email address on demand? Or in a loop for every possible support-*@domain.com?
Bummer. I've been enjoying my competition-free life for the last 18 month since I've launched my iPhone app GeeTasks, but this was not meant to last, it seems.
You're right, I apologize. Sorry, should not post under the influence of burritos.
I think you're confused: the original link doesn't cite a study, it's the full text of the study in HTML format.
Houses are not websites when they fail people often die.

In that video he is trying to build long term structures and he complains not about the building codes, but the fact that there is no data to support the safety of new building ideas. The whole point of a building code is you get to avoid running the numbers, if you build a structure using these methods with these materials it's safe. There are rules for temporary structures like tents, but if you want it to last for 50 years you need to demonstrate it's safe. And, if he was capable of demonstrating he could build a safe house out of toothpicks and spit he could have done so because the only limit on his construction was providing number so an engineer could demonstrate the safety of the structure. And, the compromise of "build a load baring structure from well understood materials and fill it however you like" is vary open.

PS: You can build a floating house.
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I can feed a starving child in Africa for that. That's kind of messed up that you'd rather rent the Chromebook than help starving kids in Africa. What happened to "Don't be evil"?
We already use a lot of open source tools (I got pretty good at Python at my current job). We're not as open to using new technologies as I'd like though (there's a review process for each new thing). Unfortunately, for each open source thing we use, management tends to think that they can now cut our deadlines in half since we said it would "save time" :)
Well it makes sense, given that Google is predominantly a linux-based company.

But it's a fallacy to equate "cutting edge" with "not Windows". Windows may not be as fashionable in the same way that Macs are with the Starbucks/college campus crowd, but it's certainly no less "cutting edge" a desktop operating system than OS X or Linux.
It was a thinly veiled bash on Mongo.
The biggest issue I find with netbooks is vertical, not horizontal resolution. 800px high is not too shabby.
That's what this (http://www.geekosystem.com/raspberry-pi-25-dollar-pc/) is for, remember?

If mom & pop can do their Facebook and email on the Chromebook the kid can hack away on one of these for the price of a movie and a slushy...
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He obviously, isn't involved in any customer support :)
OS X has its own app store now, so this can be compared to Chrome OS webstore.
Interesting suggestion, thanks!
This is because it was Apple that devised the Agency Model and was the first to propose it to the Big Six publishers as a way of getting them on iOS.

"....which I think is understating the role of the publishers, who would have rejected it if it hadn't been very much in their own interests."

Apple just gave them a better deal than the one Amazon was willing to fight dirty to maintain.
Is there a backstory to Mongo vs. Riak? I've noticed that there's definitely a "Mongo user" and a "Riak user" and they tend not to agree about stuff.
True that. It’s not like the web is full of prototypes and ideas from other high profile companies except Apple.

Haters are going to hate…
Nope. I wasn't.
Don't worry, they already have iPads.
Yes, I like my fonts big, easier to read. Not that I'm sight impaired, it's just a personal preference. And beauty is in the eye of the beholder, isn't it? Everybody has his/her own taste.

I also like to use proportional fonts when writing code (Python, C++, PHP, SQL), which has raised many eyebrows too.

As for my preference for Comic Sans: I find it a very nicely rounded font, easy on the eyes, and very readable letter forms. There's absolutely no trolling involved here: I just like it for my own use, I'm not forcing anyone else to use it, I'm perfectly fine with other people using Consolas or Monaco in their code editors.
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I commented on this video: http://tvdinnr.com/#/v/Ey-VNes5YQs
It does host the .crx extension files which can be pretty huge for games that work offline, which represents most games on the webstore.
What's glossed over here is that this is only an issue if you're allowed the offline_access extended permission:

From the article:

By default, most access tokens expire after a short time, however the application can request offline access tokens which allow them to use these tokens until you change your password, even when you aren’t logged in.

Further, Facebook explicitly revokes tokens when you change your password.
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For the canvas version, IE9 is much faster than Chrome 11.
Scrum for the average human.
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So, you can get a full featured eeepc for the same price as a chromebook, but google expects people to pay just as must because (I guess?) it's so simple to use and doesn't have viruses? I don't think that's how normal people buy things. People don't want simple for simple's sake. They want good design. People do want features. They do want power. They will not choose a less powerful solution because of vague imputed simplicity. As far as I can tell, the only simplicity benefits a chromebook has to offer is by providing strictly less features.

The ipad, although superficially similar to a chromebook in some senses, is a completely different product. Its design, both software and hardware, is utterly and completely unlike chromebook. You won't get far extrapolating ipad's success to chromebook.

Microsoft would not be able to sell a version of Word without print capabilities, even though it would be slightly simpler. No one would buy it obviously. I think a lot of technically oriented people have the wrong idea about what constitutes a valuable trade-off between simplicity and power in a product. Like I mentioned, people want well-designed.

Chromebook is an uncanny valley netbook, and it will be a disappointment. Unless I'm wrong. :)

PS - Another thing technically literate folks overestimate due to tribulations of the past is the extent to which viruses continue to be a nuisance.
Yes it does, see this comment http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2538255
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True there's more to programming than sitting down and writing code.
It seems the author hasn't read SICP:

http://mitpress.mit.edu/sicp/full-text/book/book-Z-H-11.html...