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I think this falls in to the 'best for what?' category. Bookmarks are something that gets used differently by different people.

Some freaks (no offence) with thousands of bookmarks have radically different needs to others.
>> They sometimes inject javascript into production pages to run load tests on new code behind the scenes.

Interesting. Do you remember the reference for this one?
This article is silly. Maybe in some random high school league you can have 11 eligible receivers, but not anywhere else. In the pros, you need to have at least 7 players on the line of scrimmage and the 5 linemen are not eligible receivers.
"... Today, the fear is back: with al-Qaida resurgent, North Korea out of control, and nuclear rumours emanating from any number of "rogue states", we cling, at least, to the belief that not just anyone could figure out how to make an atom bomb ..."

Interesting read. A greater threat today is multiple detonation of car bombs. Easier to build & deploy ~ http://www.walrusmagazine.com/articles/2008.09-lebanon-shia-...
It probably feels faster because WebKit is really good about DOM manipulation. A lot of people don't seem to realize that the lion's share of time for a lot of JS stuff is in manipulating the DOM and re-rendering the page.

Coupling an advanced javascript compiler/vm with a really quick rendering engine leaves you with what you feel there.

Hard numbers, V8 is maybe 3x faster than WebKit nightlies on every benchmark suite I could find.
Agree completely on the first point. Chrome is right, my muscle memory is wrong..
On that note - any FF plugin developers that could create a reversal of those 2 items? If you want to run Chrome and FF - it'd be nice to train yourself in the one way of clicking..
I imagine the main issue is the number of eligible receivers different leagues allow. In the NCAA offensive linemen cannot be receivers, and in the NFL, you have to have at least 7 players on the line of scrimmage, and only 2 of these are eligible (basically linemen aren't eligible).

There are probably similar rules in the high school leagues for the other 10 states.
I'm not sure exactly what scrimmage kick formation is, but from a little googling I was able to determine that the defensive linemen aren't allowed to make contact with the center after the snap.
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These are some really impressive experiments showing the power of V8 on different levels. Worth a look.
In practice, they have the Google home page to promote it...which is perhaps the only thing that can make a dent against something like IE which comes with the OS.

It will likely affect Mozilla, though for the moment it doesn't look like it, since they have extended their partnership for 3 more years. http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10028096-93.html .Though it will be interesting what will happen in that time.
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To answer most of the sibling comments:

"U.S. Court Affirms Employer's Right to Read Employees' Email" at http://goliath.ecnext.com/coms2/gi_0199-14518/U-S-Court-Affi... Keeping anything private on a corporate laptop or accessing private email through corporate network does not guarantee any privacy at all. There is a company right now arguing it has right to read Yahoo email of an employee. http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2008/06/co...

I take downmodding of my comment above as a sign of righteous indignation about US privacy laws.
Isn't it possible for people who want the bomb to kidnap people like this? Unlikely, but possible?

Maybe it was a bad idea to declassify what they did in their lives, I mean in the interest of their security and all...or at least until they were dead!
Eh his last comments are slightly nitpicky, but otherwise... I think we've established that chrome is FAST.
Indeed, many of these amazing new innovations that people are ascribing to Chrome have been there in Safari/Webkit for a while.
Congrats to Paul Graham's evil twin, sock puppet...whatever you wanna call it, haha
For example, right-click the field on dictionary.com and declare that "d foo" in the address bar will look up "foo" using that form from now on.

It's not quite as easy as right clicking the search box in Chrome, but you can still do it by right clicking the address bar and going to Edit search engines. You can manually add named searches there. After the first time you search on certain sites, it will automatically add them as named searches (I noticed this with Amazon, eBay and Wikipedia--you'll see them show up in the Edit search engines area).
"They wanted me to build them a bomb, so I took their plutonium and in turn, gave them a shiny bomb-casing full of used pinball machine parts!"
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here's a shorter history - these groups are populated end-to-end by people who feel their meaningless jobs and accomplishments do not correspond to their obvious superiority, so they sit around bars in strip malls passing pseudo-intellectual banter normally reserved for the bookies gathered in the high school caf. where are all the nobel laureates? doing something meaningful, which is why they don't need to join loser clubs
classic.
I've read somewhere that you can get a very low-yield explosion by just dropping a big enough chunk of weapons-grade fissionable material onto another one. You only get several hundred tons of TNT equivalent of explosive force, but lots of radiation. It would make the perfect terror weapon.
If you left out the insult your comment probably would have been upmodded...
True, you can't prevent anyone from doing it, but you don't have to - all you have to do is make it difficult enough.
"...	Not close to being a startup by then, and it worked out great for them? ..."

I think Apple Computer was lucky initially, since then quite pragmatic.

Apple Records was incorporated in '68 ~ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Records and in business with the major players in the record industry. Apple Computer incorporated in Jan '77 and by '78 the first legal suit was filed http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Corps_v_Apple_Computer. This might seem a long time but in legal time, short. Both companies have been in and out of the courts ever since. At this early stage could Apple Records have squashed Apple Computers brand? I think the smart thing Apple Computer did was negotiate, license where everyone made money and not to reveal themselves as a threat until the iPod/iTunes. The real losers are distributors while both Apples still make money. Apple now controls the chain.
So Marketwatch just reprints press releases?
Well thats going on it a bit harsh, dont you think. First of all, we havent heard Virtual PBX's side of the story, so we can't really take sides, but if he's telling the truth it indeed has been horrible and he should indeed sue.

In fact, I really don't get why he's not suing, unless of course, he's lying.
You know that Prism does this pretty well as well ;)
Poll: Will Chrome take more marketshare from FF or IE?
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But of course, I'm curious, what do you all think?
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I almost downvoted you for that lie, but I decided that it would be a misuse of the downvote.
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Is this why my microwave needs to know the month, day and year before it will warm up a pizza pocket? (I am not making this up).
Does not work at all on my computer (Vista). It starts up OK, but I get a window saying "The application failed to initialize properly (0xc0000135). Click OK to terminate the application." whenever I try to load anything.

http://screencast.com/t/pY0dgFVCLr8
This is essentially how louis slotin died:
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I like many others downloaded it to try it out. I'm back in Firefox now because there are simply too many lackings with Chrome, and I'm not even considering extensions yet.

So if I'm counted in those stats, I want out.
So information gathering?
I happen to disagree. It gives the iluusion of being faster because it scrolls faster than other browsers. This is because it scrolls more. More than other browsers. More than other applications or what is considered the platform default.

This is particularly annoying when you want to scroll with any kind of precision. Including other scrolling glitches, this becomes annoying pretty fast and I would In fact say its scrolling is by definition broken.

As for speed. Tried zooming on any particular with a reasonable amount of content? The entire browser freezes and is on hiatus for several seconds.

The speed is way overrated.
Damn, you solved my quest. I completely misread "must" :-)
There's a discussion in this thread:
http://mbd.scout.com/mb.aspx?s=87&f=2909&t=2717293&#...

Basically it's a kick formation.
I think the point is that a given formation has many more eligible receivers that standard football plays.
If this became widespread, I would think it hurts smaller schools with less talent. Think about schools like USC that have a dozen speedy All-American playmakers in their three-deep. It's bad enough trying to defend them with the current # of ball-eligible players. Can't see why the bulk of teams would want to allow this.
how many people do you think see google's homepage everyday?

and just before clicking search they see this ...

New! Download Chrome (BETA) - the new browser from Google

i guess lots of them clicked it.
I agree... For quite a lot of people email IS too hard for them. Sometimes takes them quite a while to understand how it works. I'd say openID is orders of magnitude more complex and more worrying.

I tried using openID once. It directed me to google or yahoo or something to log in... So then I had to decide if it was really google or yahoo, or if it was some phishing site.

It's a terrible idea, which is sure to fail. There is no compelling reason for people to use it.
I didn't say they'd stop making a browser, I'd suggest people will just stop using it.
The benchmark is really crappy. If the language uses O(n+m) concatenation for strings of length n and m, then the total runtime would be O(n^2). That would happen if strings are immutable and no "stringbuilder" is being used. If that special case was optimized or if the strings are mutable, total runtime is O(n).

Here is the corrected C version:

#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
int main (int argc, char const *argv[])
{
char *str = malloc(sizeof(char) * 238890);
char buf[5];
int i, n = 0, len;

for (i = 0; i < 50000; ++i) {
len = sprintf(buf, "%d", i);
strcat(str + n, buf);
n += len;
}
return 0;
}

It runs 100 times faster than the original program.

Edit: If you think I "cheated" by doing some calculations that I shouldn't do, here is a C++ version that runs just as fast as the improved C version:

#include <string>
#include <cstdio>

int main()
{
std::string str;
char buf[6];

for (int i = 0; i < 50000; ++i)
{
sprintf(buf, "%d", i);
str += buf;
}
}
He's got a "Shlemiel the painter" algorithm going on with his C code... http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000319.html
Chrome is a "thing."
A "thing" is a subset of "everything."
According to this blogger, "Everything sucks."
Ergo, according to this blogger, Chrome sucks.
U.S. Court Affirms Employer's Right to Read Employees' Email

Fraser v. Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company is entirely irrelevant here: That case dealt with whether a company has the right to access emails stored on the company's server. There's a question of privacy there, but not one of computer crime -- Nationwide Mutual Insurance Company did not access computer systems without the owner's permission. This is manifestly different from the situation as I read it to be here, where it was being alleged that the article's author's VPN was being accessed without his permission.

The Structured Settlements case is more relevant, but it fails on two counts: First, the legal theory being put forward by Structured Settlements involves them merely observing what Mr. Palma had done on one of their computers -- their claim is that they didn't access his Yahoo account, but merely saw him accessing his Yahoo account -- and second, the Structured Settlements case has yet to be tested in a courtroom.

Yes, the US has very weak privacy laws, but that doesn't extend to its computer crime laws -- and accessing a computer system without authorization is a computer crime, not just a privacy violation.

And of course, IANAL, the above is not legal advice, etc.
Agreed that the benchmarks aren't exactly perfect, but the performance is pretty amazing nonetheless.
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Agreed - and I'd be interested to see what happens if you replace the sprintf interpreter with a function like itoa.

While I'm not surprised that V8 beats existing Ruby implementations, that's more a demonstration that those implementations aren't very fast. When your benchmark tells you you're beating C, it's probably a good idea to check that your C code isn't stupid, before posting results on your blog...
More features, you mean. I'm not even gonna bother with chrome when it comes out for linux. I have dozens of extensions & mousegestures alone can't be traded for any number of milliseconds.
It's definitely on the list of things to do :)
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Damn, 29 points (as of me posting this) just for saying thanks. You're some kind of karma magnet or something.

Okay, now reply "thanks" to my reply and let's see how many you get ;)
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Ah, ok, fixing the <? was pretty easy, then. Thanks for the fast response.

My complaints about the markup:

1. img tags without alt, which is invalid HTML, and an accessibility problem. Further, some of these are "fake" links, in that they have inline styles to make them appear like links, and inline onclick actions, but are not wrapped in anchors, or given tabindex=0 to make them focusable. You actually can't activate them without using a mouse.

2. css included in the <body>, which causes an unsightly reflow, and is not valid html or xhtml. Wordpress provides an event that triggers at the closing </head> tag, I believe.

3. despite the included css, and an id on almost everything, several elements have inline style attributes. Why is this necessary?

4. An empty inline script tag? What's that all about?

Is it really necessary to require javascript to even view comments properly? It seems like there's a lot of anchors with href="#" that could have reasonable fallback URLs given the data in $dsq_response. Heck, even the form could post to a disqus.com url, so you could comment without JS.

Also, like I said, I do really like where you guys are coming from. Seems like you've got the right idea.
The entire point of this story is that you don't have to be Einstein to build a nuke. Even in the 60's there was enough publicly available information that anyone with an advanced knowledge of Physics could do it. Imagine how much easier it must be now.

On the other hand, we should be worried that someone will kidnap some Plutonium. That it is difficult to get is the only thing saving us. Not very comforting.
We actually took the opposite approach a couple of years ago and designated a specific "no meetings" day every Tuesday for the development team (and so many people work remotely on Fridays that it's effectively a meeting-free day as well). Our team is too big and too diverse to effectively wall off much more time than that without running into major scheduling issues, but even having one day a week completely walled off from any sort of meetings has turned out to be really helpful.
I just use ctrl+click on link OR click with middle/scroll mouse button on link.

Better one click than two.
Hacker News has become slow?
Hacker News is running slow since last couple of days. I can see the difference. Especially when I was testing on Chrome it loaded slow and images did not come. I have reported it to google already but has anyone noticed this behavior?

Also loading data from co2stats.com also takes time while loading the front page.

What do you think? Is it true or it is just me who is having this problem?
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Sorry I've just listened to a clip of the voiceover artist Don LaFontaine (RIP) and couldn't help but read this in his voice -

"And it's an aggressive move destined to put the company even more squarely in the crosshairs of its rival Microsoft, which long ago crushed the most fabled browser of all, Netscape Navigator."
From the page: "Chrome doesn’t send a url to Google, it sends a url hash, so Google doesn’t learn the url from this exchange."

Surely Google has a database mapping URLs to hashes which means Google knows the URLs. The real question is whether Google logs the URL hash exchange which will allow it tie a user to a URL visit.
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For subjective measures I spent a good half hour on Jay Is Games, as flash games tend to push browser & system perf to its limits, but didn’t notice significant differences.

Huh? Flash uses it's own VM, Tamarin, so it's not dependent on the browser. Browser, of course, does play a role in performance of plugins (rate of input etc) but not much. Testing Flash games to see how fast browser and it's JS is a pointless waste of time.
Well, to test in Internet Explorer of course! I'm a front-end engineer for Yahoo!, and unfortunately a stupidly high number of our users are IE users. There are options on other operating systems like Parallels and WINE, but nothing gets the job done like the real thing.
Lars Bak (head of development for V8) has before made VM's for Self and SmallTalk. Other than that he was the technical lead for Java's HotSpot VM.

It's a very interesting approach they have taken, especially with class transitions and compilation. I hope Python / Ruby / Perl and other languages can learn and optimize with these ideas and code base.

Btw. Java was interpreted at first, JIT was first added with HotSpot and the speed improvement was around 20x.
I've voted for Firefox, but it depends on a few factors, such as how much weight Google decides to put behind Chrome. If they start pushing it (really pushing it - marketing lies and all) on the famously minimalist Google home page they have a real chance of penetrating the IE home market.

Of course, in the enterprise people often are not given the chance to instal their browser of choice, and IE will retain a good chunk of the market through this alone, which is the overriding reason that I have for voting for FF to lose market share over IE.
gimmie! I'd love to see what you use...
we should be worried that someone will kidnap some Plutonium.

Why steal it, when it is so easy to make?

it is difficult to get

Plutonium (even explosives-grade) is not difficult to get. All one needs is a uranium-fueled research reactor.

http://www.phyast.pitt.edu/~blc/book/chapter13.html#4

Another alternative would be to use a research reactor, designed to provide radiation for research applications rather than to generate electricity. At least 45 nations now have research reactors, and in at least 25 of these there is a capability of producing enough plutonium to make one or more bombs every 2 years. Research reactors are usually designed with lots of flexibility and space, so it would not be difficult to use them for plutonium production.

A plant for generating nuclear electricity is by necessity large and highly complex, with most of the size and complexity due to reactor operation at a very high temperature and pressure, the production and handling of steam, and the equipment for generation and distribution of electricity. It would be impossible to keep construction or operation of such a plant secret. Moreover, only a very few of the most technologically advanced nations are capable of constructing one. No nation with this capability would provide one for a foreign country without requiring elaborate international inspection to assure that its plutonium is not misused. A production or research reactor, on the other hand, can be small and unobtrusive. It has no high pressure or temperature, no steam, and no electricity generation or distribution equipment. Almost any nation has, or could easily acquire, the capability of constructing one, and it probably could carry out the entire project in secret. There would be no compulsion to submit to outside inspection.

However, making a plutonium-based explosive is difficult (from the same link):

The fabrication requires a wide degree of expertise and experience in technical areas. It requires people capable of carrying out complex physics and engineering computations, handling hazardous materials, arranging electronically for a hundred or so triggers to fire simultaneously within much less than a millionth of a second, accurately shaping explosive charges, attaching them precisely and connecting the triggers to them, and so on. Where would terrorists find this expertise?

Experienced and talented scientists and technicians generally enjoy well-paid and comfortable positions in our society and hence are not likely to be inclined toward antisocial activity. Recruiting would have to be done under strictest secrecy, which would have to be maintained over the development period of many weeks. Even one unsuccessful recruiting attempt could blow their operation. Moreover, a participant would face a high risk of being killed in this work. And if the plot were discovered he would face imprisonment, not to mention an end to a promising career. Terrorists would surely face severe difficulty in obtaining the needed expertise.
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Did anyone else read V8 as VB in the comic?
I'm running it in vmware on a mac, I don't like how it scrolls. Using the touchpad on a macbook, you can scroll down a pixel at a time if you move slowly.

The smallest quanta I can scroll with the touchpad via vmware running vista is far too large.

I really hope the native mac version scrolls better.
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You either read or remembered wrong, or that source was referring to something like an explosives-grade uranium dart being dropped through one or more explosives-grade uranium donuts and from a great height. That method would not work for plutonium, which -- because of its greater propensity to prematurely generate neutrons -- requires the more-rapid mass-assembly method of an implosion.
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