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One type Paul hasn't mentioned here is the who-are-you-to-talk. Particularly when responding to a moral argument, plenty of people love to point out how the author herself may have transgressed at some stage in life. It is as if honest confessor has no business opining strongly against what he once did. This appears to me as the most tangential of all forms of disagreement. Thoughts?
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I was just taking a jab at the "anonymous tipster" that TC wrote about on the first line of the post.

If you check the forum thread, of the 4 people who mentioned they had conflict with Cuil, only 1 had actually posted on that forum before... the other 3 were new accounts. I don't see how the forums are "abuzz" with only one thread either...

Further down one member with 3000 posts said, "I get occasional visits from twiceler showing up in my logs but I'm certainly not being pounded."
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I can't wait to hang my perfect score on the fridge.
20 - arh im going blind
Thanks, all :) Going to check them all out now
Thanks for the endorsement :-)
Amazon reviews are kind of questionable anyway because anybody can write a review. If your name is, say, John Lott, you can create an account with the name Mary Rosh and write yourself some 5 star reviews. Also, Amazon has been known to scrub negative reviews. You have to read between the lines. I don't think that would really change.
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"Prince McLean" is a particularly obnoxious Apple apologist. You may also know him as Daniel Eran Dilger of roughlydrafted.com

He regularly posts essentially the same article on both rouglydrafted.com and appleinsider.com, often citing one of in the other, and even defending his alter-ego if he's been called out.

See here:

http://www.appleinsider.com/articles/08/08/15/inside_mobilem...

Then here:

http://www.roughlydrafted.com/2008/08/22/is-apples-mobileme-...

I have no problem with writers using pen names, but when you're writing the exact same material on two different sites using two different names, cross-linking between them, and defending yourself under a different name, thats crossing the line.
"If you work regularly in IE you may have also used the fantastic IE web tool bar."

This author has obviously never used the IE web tool bar for serious work (like trying to figure out what to change to get IE to render well). It is far from "fantastic".

It's good that these developer tools are getting "baked in". That means a 50 meg download to get an update to a tool that few users of IE will actually have a need for.
Why is "invest time and money" important?

None of the claimed benefits of a patent system depend on the invention process.

If someone falls in the shower and wakes up spewing new ways to bend metal, I want her to tell all. I don't want her to go trade secret and I don't want her to say "what's the point - I won't benefit from my secret sauce because it came in the wrong color jar."
For those with good scores, was this effortless? I ended up running out of patience. Spending longer would have given better results, but does that miss the point?
Open source is more respectable than free and it comes with a lot of benefits. Plus services are more profitable over the long-term than licensing.

But yeah, it's probably more difficult to ramp up that vibe in a mature company. Even internally.
"... I love the comic book format of this - great idea! ..."

Thank Scott McCloud.

McCloud is to the comic world what Stallman ~ http://www.scottmccloud.com/inventions/inventions.html (Creators bill of rights) and Linus is to the computing world by writing & thinking extensively how to innovate ~ http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/search-handle-url?_encodin... and push both the art and science of comics as hard as he can. My favourites include http://www.scottmccloud.com/comics/mi/mi-archive.html and all time favourite Monkey Town ~ http://www.scottmccloud.com/comics/mi/mi-17/mi-17.html
"No charismatic figurehead leader, but leadership that focuses on building the organization instead of investing their time in extensive PR work."

I find it interesting that a company's leadership appears to be valued just like this by people inside the company, but that people outside the company often value it in the opposite way.
Second try on Google, found an article. http://mbilf.com/2008/09/on-google-chrome/

The team was Lars Bak and Kasper Lund, both apparently employees of Google. It was probably a separate team Google set up, good way to keep a start-up style approach to projects.
Thoughts on Google Chrome
Great example of determination!
I'd say improves, assuming the press seems to indicate that people want it (which I'd guess it usually does). It also indicates that you successfully handled a little attention (successfully dealt with reporters/bloggers and your servers didn't 'splode).
make a (short -- 3-4 min) screencast. pg et al are probably not going to have time to play with your app to the extent that you'd like (or perhaps at all), plus you get to show your idea/prototype in the best possible light.

if you're feeling lucky, submitting it to news.yc can get some additional attention.

i was a single founder, did this and it helped me 1) bring on a great cofounder and 2) get accepted into yc.
A commenter elsewhere said that IE8 does this, and that it's worked wonders. Can anybody confirm that?
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This is a pretty unique opportunity to be able to choose what the devs discuss.
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Basically, WebKit is the most immediately understandable large scale C++ codebase I've ever seen. They have a strict culture of code reviews on check-in, and reverting any changesets that cause regressions. My commits have been rejected for style--I was first pissed, and eventually impressed :P

I can't speak for Mozilla's collaborative culture (and the fact that Firefox emerged from Netscape means it can't be half-bad), but just on an aesthetic level, WebKit C++ is a lot easier on the eyes than Mozilla. One thing that's interesting about WebKit is that in the last 12 months when I've been pulling upstream changesets from them, I've noticed that they're not afraid to do project-wide renames to keep the code clean. It seems like a small thing, but it's a lot more approachable to see clean C++ that uses namespaces and abstracts away platform differences in a coherent way. Mozilla is full of COM interfaces like

#define NS_IHTML_CSS_STYLE_SHEET_IID \
{0xb5cc4ac0, 0xeab6, 0x11d1, {0x80, 0x31, 0x00, 0x60, 0x08, 0x15, 0x9b, 0x5a}}

class nsIHTMLCSSStyleSheet : public nsIStyleSheet

... and so on. edit: To be fair, I'm just a lot more familiar with WebKit, so maybe someone can defend (or pick apart) Mozilla's sources better than I can. If you check out WebKit, you'll also notice that there's an impressive collection of 210MB(!) of individual layout tests.
I would also throw in that this is built in to Safari. It's very nice, though I don't know if it's quite as full-featured.
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The sun's surface rotates with a period of 25 to 35 days, depending on latitude, so I would guess not.
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Good stuff!

I always kicked ass in courses where I immediately scoped stuff out and divided it into the smallest possible chunks.

The trouble with a lot of todo programs is that they make doing this with your tasks kind of a pain -- so you just end up with a single task "Do $massive_project" with a due date. I'm hoping to solve this with a side project.
Would you mind if I submitted this as a news item?

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This is tremendously exciting. There are tons of comments here that are insinuating that Google is doing this to screw over Mozilla somehow. I think this is bogus:

1) I know the comic was long, but they explicitly cover their agenda -- they're taking the time and money to make some hard decisions about the browser that really need to be made (or at least investigated), like separate processes per tab / embedded-object, aggressive javascript revisions and embedding features that are relevant to the new world of applications design.

2) Mozilla sending impressions to Google is still money in Google's pocket. Judging from Mozilla's $millions cut, it's handsome change, too. They have no incentive to kill this golden goose.

3) With all due respect to the (tens of?) thousands of people that have contributed to Netscape/Mozilla/Firefox, why should we even care about Mozilla/FF? When the Mozilla codebase was open sourced, it was roughly equivalent to NS6, which was a dog compared to IE (remember why even the majority of geeks was using IE5/5.5? NS4 was an ancient PoS and NS6 was glacially slow and horrendously unpolished). A lot of us only cared about NS because it ran on the open source OSes we preferred to use, and it represented an alternative to the MS-only world we saw coming our way otherwise. I don't see how Webkit isn't better than the Mozilla codebase in any metric you can throw at it.

Conspiracy theorists: Stand down. Sure, a monopolistic Google would be as bad as any other monopoly, but I don't think this is the keystone piece to the formation of the new evil empire.
Who knows but that what's next on Google's plate is a great implementation of SVG or whatever, to be a completely open alternative to AIR and Silverlight. I think we can almost expect it.
Well, this can't be anything but good for (us) users.

It's a bit peculiar though, how both the recently published IE8 and now "Chrome" both have tabs isolated.

I hope Opera will be able to keep up with all the competition!

The inventors of Mouse Gestures & Speed Dial etc deserve quite a bit of respect.
Exactly. Nobody knows everything...none of us are "done" learning how to program, unless we're not doing any programming anymore.

One certainly gets better at it, the more time spent on the subject. So, one who programs might not be a good programmer, which comes from knowledge, enthusiasm, and experience, but if you build something that works, it's better than 99% of people who come up with ideas and do nothing with them.
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Meet Chrome, Google’s Windows Killer
http://blogoscoped.com/google-chrome/22

What would you use this incognito feature for, except the obvious? Are they really creating a feature just for that one thing?
Comic down because for web traffic. Still available hacking the URL:

http://blogoscoped.com/google-chrome/1
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That presentation is amazing. Everyone else (adobe, microsoft, sun, ibm, w3c) must be shi*%@ng themselves!

I can't wait to use it. I'm sick of FF's crap memory footprint and single processes. Bring it.
I understand why they did this (right now my OmniWeb has a rsize of 1GB and vsize of 2.9GB), but the idea of a process manager for a browser still bothers me.
"... We're releasing this beta for Windows to start the broader discussion and hear from you as quickly as possible. We're hard at work building versions for Mac and Linux too, and will continue to make it even faster and more robust. ..."

Yeah great strategic move. If you start developing exclusively in the G-sandpit will this restrict any sale of an application/startup?
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Here’s the Google Chrome Browser Comic Book
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"... Here is Google’s entire comic book–BoomTown’s not going to say the search giant is juvenile, but a comic book?–that it is using to explain the technical details of its new browser called Chrome. ..."

Kara you old fuddy duddy. It's a "graphic novels" and all the audience this technology is aimed at understands glyphs better than newspapers. Choosing Scott McCloud also means they have good taste. Didn't think I'd say that about google.
1. Rerolling the dice is still a faster (and thus better) way of solving this problem.

2. He could've used the time he spent writing that article to release a free dice rolling iPhone app that implements his special Settlers roll. It could even keep track of when to stop rerolling sevens. There are several similar apps already in the store. It would be trivial to write one that auto-rerolled sevens. This is something that might actually be of use to people, though, then again, maybe not.

To me it looks like the author wasted his time.
App is mostly functional but doesn't live up to the marketing hype. Surprised you're accepting payments this early. The lofty promises of "no more accountants," "safe from the tax man" and "it does everything you need" strike me as careless if not legally binding. Unclear why the word "online" is needed 5 times on the home page - seems obvious enough this thing is a web app. Signed up for the free "forever" account. The language is starting to drag - work on copy editing. Maybe simplify the 'Select Package' headings - e.g. just say: "Single user account | Free | [Select]" or something to that effect. Consider adding a success page after that form - better yet just log the user in.

Setup let me bypass all elements so I posted to payroll - and I think that broke your algorithm because now the (ks-Info-Neutral) div at the top of every panel says: "An error occurred, please try again."

Invoiced a customer, which wasn't easy. Stymied because I didn't specify a tax. Good thing I remembered where to set that constant - had to back out, re-entered Setup then added a Tax Item...which should have worked but didn't - until it occured to me maybe I should give it something called a Parent Group. Boom, but now I notice the tax rate isn't transferring from the Setup pane. That's right, the Invoice displays 0% even though I entered Tax Item in Setup as 3.4%. Oh well, it works - and that concerns me. On to the financial statements. It appears I owe my creditors negative 1 million dollars. Haha so does that mean they owe me? Need some commas in there to separate digits into threes. Nice drilldown on the P&L. Open in Excel link broken. Hiding Help - oh this is wild: Help is a different feature than Help! with an exclamation mark which logs me out and takes me to an unbranded site.

Caveat: I've built some corporate tax software for a US state revenue dept and managed expense+reporting tech evangelism at a corporate card company. That said, my work has been tangential at best to Bionic Books and I'm not a CPA so take my comments with salt.
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s/Absurdity/Gridlock

http://www.marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2008/07...
I didn't start it.
If I was them, I'd be looking at:

- selling it as a corporate intranet platform -- in fact, knowing Google, this is probably already in beta internally

- similarly, convincing corporations to make it the installed browser of choice, due to improved security

- selling a low-priced GooglePC, or even giving it away. Preconfigured internet with some partner, and make Chrome the default and only shell, with prominent links to Google apps.

- putting it on cell phones via Android? But it sounds like the Android team is going with WebKit and not Chrome just yet.
Wow! It really sucks being colour blind -- I scored 51 :(. Thankfully I'm not the designer at my startup.

I wish I saved a screenshot to share my embarrassment.
I wonder what 37signals has to say about this.
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I find Scoble's constant self-promotion wearying. Specifically the use of "we" in the following paragraph:

Laurent Haig tells me about when we launched CoComment with this simple blog post from a Swiss Chalet. He wasn’t planning on that (he didn’t have his PR team’s approval), but got tens of thousands of signups in the first 24-hours. Or, how we launched Qik from an Apple store without even having a company employee present.
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You can bet they will. The V8 engine is unlikely to present much of an obstacle. We have a large JS codebase and the Opera, WebKit (Safari), Spidermonkey (Gecko/Firebird), Rhino (Spidermonkey port to Java) and JScript (IE6/7) engines are no hassle to support.

The hard part is DOM interaction and styling. But as they're using WebKit and are putting a lot of effort into compatibility - this should be a breeze.

The really hard work is support for IE6. 1990s JS assumptions, very bad and inconsistent DOM behaviour, etc.

New, open JS engines with a different take on executing JS (Tamarin, V8) are wonderful news for JS developers everywhere. And consumers too, of course.
Google chrome's process manager
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" ... Chrome is nothing less than a full on desktop operating system that will compete head on with Windows."

Say what? A full on desktop operating system?

Please.
That is an interesting question. (An is it evil question ).

I guess it comes down to what they are trying to achieve with the browser in the first place. Is it improving the web experience or creating a dominant browser?

I think it's likely that the latter will creep in once they're at it for a few years. But for now the first seems to be a pretty important goal. For now, Firefox is a pretty important way to further that goal. And for now, Google seems happy enough to sink some cash into that goal. $15m-$20m p/y is probably a reasonable sum (compare to other expenses in this area) as long as A: Firefox significantly improves the web for users & B: That is a Google goal that they're willing to pay for.

It's not charity either. What's default search worth on the open market? Probably something.
It's good advice, but I don't like the way this article rests on the assumption that studying before an exam is this dreaded beast in the academic experience. Cramming's one thing... no one likes to sweat through those final precious hours leading up to a test.

But spending a few hours/day in the library the week leading up to an exam never killed anyone. I kind of enjoyed my time alone to pore over my semester's notes. It was meditative.

The advice in this article (take notes like study guides, study them over 2 10-minute intervals each day) is harmless enough. I just don't like the presentation.
I happen to be reading "Good to Great", the followup to this book, and I find its idea of "Level 5 Leadership" pretty interesting. Basically "Level 5 Leaders" are the exact opposite of what you typically think of as a CEO - self-effacing, stay in the background, rarely take credit for their successes, generally attributing them to luck or to the great people who work for them. But there's a paragraph that talks about how that's the exact wrong personality you need to become a CEO - generally the self-promoting, egotistical types get the nod, and that's why there are vanishingly few great companies.
Agreed on the presentation.

What struck me is how technical it was (for a comic book quick overview). It's obviously geared towards developers--they really wanted to plant their flag in the sand and say "we're doing this: here is why it is good."
I hate to be Mr. Spelling Bee Person...

I really appreciate the correction. Spelling is important.
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Agreed, but the situation was a little different. We licensed software from academics, and during integration you'd find there were methods that seemingly ran afoul of an obscure patent, etc. These were not improvements (just general algorithms)
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This is great. I'm looking forward to trying it out.
Hey, another mathcamper on news.yc. '02/'03 alum here.
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And we'll likely never have an ad blocker for this browser... heh
I don't think pedantic comments really add much to the discussion.

The audience here understands what he means, though the writing may not be clear. Chrome could eventually be positioned as a layer between applications and the OS, with an added kick of internet-integrated goodness.

Let's ignore the mistakes as long as they don't impede our ability to understand, and instead let's focus on meaningful discussion.
As someone who is fed up when Flash crashes and takes down the whole browser IT'S ABOUT TIME someone put each tab on a separate thread! The small performance penalty will pay for itself abundantly with the improved stability it will provide.
From last week: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=286911
Mozilla Not Worried About Google Browser
Any material that requires only 5-10 minutes of unbroken concentration is too superficial to be worth your time.

If you can, take something else, if you can't, consider taking a bad grade and focusing on something else anyway.

The suggestion in the article is awful. It is far more important to work hard at concentrating for long periods of time. All this method is doing is conditioning you to be scatterbrained. We get enough of that already.
58% in a month! I think it's not just the share, but iPhone's increasing a mobile web user population. There's still a small number of people browsing web on mobile. The connection speed on mobile is so slow, and the mobile browser cannot load web pages designed for PC browsers or doesn't provide rich usability for it.

But iPhone user can enjoy browse PC websites everywhere with high speed connection. I think more and more people will use internet on iPhone frequently as they get used to it, and wonder if there'll be some users browsing Internet more on iPhone than PC in the future.
With three d10s and one d6 you could do this:
d10 a: 6,6,6,6,6,8,8,8,8,8
d10 b: 4,4,4,10,10,10,3,3,11,11
d10 c: 5,5,5,5,9,9,9,9,1,12
d6: d10a,d10a,d10b,d10b,d10c,d10c

One roll, no relabeling. d6 tells which d10 to pull your number from.
if google books version is not opening for you

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Yes.

ars technica reviewed IE8: "Running a tab in its own process allows that tab to crash (for any reason) without disrupting any other tab."

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080731-ie8-beta-2-get...
It's brilliant design work. Favorite thing I've noticed so far: The trick of managing to introduce N different members of the design team, and give you an idea of what each one is working on, during the presentation by having each one deliver five lines and then hand over to the next. This trick would never, ever work in a screencast or a movie -- even if every individual had the acting chops to pull it off, it would feel like a circus act. But in comics, it works, because the comic characters are sufficiently abstract that they can take over from each other, almost mid-sentence, without a jarring discontinuity.

I swear that reading McCloud is almost enough to send me to art school.
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Great news. makes me curious about Google chrome on Android phone!
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They're definitely competing but Google knows that browser usage stats don't change overnight so they're just hedging their bets. So it doesn't matter whether Firefox or Chrome wins, Google wins in the end.