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Of course you won't see devices like the Crunchpad[1] or the Touchbook[2] on those kinds of lists. Just like how other devices similar to later Apple products, like the Sony Vaio X505[3], Neonode N1[4] or Palm Tx[5], seems to become convienently forgotten in similar lists. But when they are actually remembered someone will come along and redefine the argument in Apples favor anyway, so what does it matter really...

[1] http://techcrunch.com/2009/06/03/crunchpad-the-launch-protot...
[2] http://www.alwaysinnovating.com/touchbook/
[3] http://www.zdnet.co.uk/reviews/ultraportables/2004/09/02/son...
[4] http://www.gsmarena.com/neonode_n1-391.php http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ru2GjBTHRY
[5] http://www.palminfocenter.com/view_story.asp?ID=8140
I am a Chinese programmer and I have to say, we cannot jump the conclusions that nodejs.org is blocked in China at this period. Only quite few persons cannot open the site. We shouldn't be that sensitive and lead the topic even more political.

GFW is really INSANE, but this is not the right place to fuck it.
> not a product that treats me like a dumb user

I use both Chrome and FF, and I never felt like a browser was "treating me" like anything. They're both tools.

Maybe because I AM a dumb user? ... Oh god.
1) You are now saying that if government does not constantly watching you then your potential abuse is unbounded.

Isn't it ironic?

2) It does not make sense to count number of agencies wiretaps in order to save budget.
In order to save budget you just give less money to the agencies that do not deliver.

3) Freedom of speech is important, because without such freedom society tends to make wrong decisions (such as supporting abusive totalitarian governments).

4) I'd suggest you to think about how email spam detection works and what improves detection ratio.

Dragging "innocent until proven guilty" principle into such detection system is incorrect, because decision if person is innocent or guilty is made after initial arrest, not before.

5) Most privacy concerns are about Facebook etc., not about government.

BTW, I wasn't able to find a good answer to the question "why privacy is important". Were you able to?
What I find interesting is that the subtitles on DVDs, like "Deadwood" circa 2007 use a blocky font that looks like it was taken from a 1983 PC CGA card.

Closed Captioning fonts are hardly better.
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Someone in that thread mentioned that SPDY is used to achieve the speedups in Amazon's Silk browser. It does look like we're seeing the beginnings of something big.
This is great news! Now we just need better support for SPDY web servers..

Edit: This looks promising https://github.com/indutny/node-spdy
If I found you a dozen extra violin-playing science hopefuls with high scores and GPAs who were black you and I both know exactly what would happen. The "meh, they don't have a hook" functions as a post-hoc neutral justification of a policy whose stated goal and naked application is to discriminate on the basis of race. It's as transparent a fig-leaf as "We can't admit blacks, they might only speak Ebonics, yo!" would be if you were staring at a transcript which showed multiple awards for competitive forensics, a 4.0 GPA, and a role as Iago that got written up in the NYT. It is also, verbatim, the justification of ethnicity-conscious "holistic" admissions processes which were adopted at Harvard in the 1930s with the explicit, documented aim of keeping "the Jewish problem" to a manageable level.
I like that once again the approach of "build it and deploy something on it" seems to work more effectively than "specify it over a five-year intensive period".

I imagine that's just my inner lazy engineer talking, though; there are some protocols that would definitely have been better off specified properly from the start (I'm looking at you, SMB)
Got you. My bad. I must say that is exactly why I devote myself into computer science: it's a world that you know what you gonna get when you do things right and more importantly people believe that is the right way to live. I'm living in US for about half year and will go back at the end of this month. One thing I'm 100% sure now is that I will come back here.
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Yeah, but you don't need SPDY as much on the application servers as you do the frontline servers (Apache, nginx, lighttpd...) where its benefits are more pronounced.
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Python.org is blocked BEFORE 2.6.4 releases. If you know Chinese you can read this article: http://www.douban.com/group/topic/8332828/

The date blocking detected is 15th Oct, however, v2.6.4 is released on 25th Oct.
Less than a week after Chrome passes Firefox and we get the "is firefox doomed?!" articles. Good old Internet blog pundits...
I wonder if they have contacted Facebook about some of their practices, which may be similar?
"While it might frustrate some to learn that the man who hectors subway riders to buy a granola bar is making more money than many of those commuters"

In my opinion, the article is implying this guy is making pretty good money but they've left out all the important details. As I said, I respect the guy for making a living and it's nice to put some numbers to what these guys earn (I've always wondered), I just take issue with what I see as a bit of embellishment and misrepresentation on this particular success story.
Actually there is a stable API that works much like Chrome's, it's called Jetpack [1], the problem is that most addons don't use it, in part because also like Chrome's, it's much more limited - the default JS API basically gives the addon access to the whole Firefox internals.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jetpack_(Firefox_project)
Can you explain why you prefer the font rendering in OS X, or do you think it's just a matter of what you've grown used to? I think fonts in OS X look notably fuzzy, and the strokes all tend to look too bold.
Harvard's endowment is $32 billion, equal to the annual budget for the US department of education. I don't think they need to worry.
A decent number of them would:

1. Type "Google" on the search bar
2. Click on the first result
3. Use Google

I've seen that over and over again.
> All that statistics gives you is the probability of having a result at least this extreme with an unbiased coin.

If you subscribe to frequentist statistics and use the null hypothesis of "coin is not biased", yes. But if you're a Bayesian you can compute the probability that the coin bias is greater than a given amount.
Tons of use cases.

College students in student organizations / greek organizations can all be in the same path, and share rich content with each other in real time.

Family members of several generations (Grandparents, parents, kids, etc) can stay connected / share information.

Or just even a generic close group of friends!
It took until a year ago to figure out how a cat drinks water. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/11...
Page content detection currently is ONLY targeted to Wikipedia. It checks article content and block it when a "keyword" detected.
> A successful business takes about 1%-5% luck. The rest is skill and/or intelligence.

I'd put it considerably higher than that, especially in markets that have strong dynamical-system type effects (winner-take-all markets, strong dependence on feedback factors like visibility/brand, etc.), where small differences early on that are nearly impossible to predict can magnify arbitrarily to large differences later on. If I had to put a number on it, probably 60-70% luck, once you pass a baseline level of competence.

Even in my own personal endeavors, it's really surprising, and---even in hindsight!---seemingly random what stuff succeeds and what doesn't, and which factors turn out to matter. Especially true of any sort of online commerce, where the difference between successful and unsuccessful websites is in part the quality of the content or product, but also strongly dependent on the vicissitudes of information flow, "virality", etc. Nonlinear dynamical systems have complex dynamics, and they don't always correlate very strongly with anything except the system's internal dynamics...
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Thankfully, Gmail allows a grace period to allow you to cancel the sent message.

Not that I have had to use it.

I am also very happy with myself for putting my most important files in Dropbox, so it is semi-idiotproof.
I am beginning to lose patience with this conversation. I do not accept your point of view and your classification of my actions. You have done nothing to attempt to convince me that you're right except for repeating that you're right and strawmaning. You have not responded to my specific questions that might have helped me understand your argument. Have a pleasant day.
Excellent point. A SPDY->HTTP proxy or SPDY support in tools like perlbal, squid and Varnish would go a long way.
I'm very sorry but some of what you said was lost on me as there was a little bit of broken English in there. If I understand correctly, are you trying to say that nodejs.org isn't being locked and that only a few people are having this issue? And are you also trying to say that we shouldn't be jumping to conclusions and this isn't a political issue and that while the GFW is ridiculous this isn't the place for a political discussion? I'm just trying to understand because I honestly didn't completely understand your comment.

I disagree and think this is a perfect time to talk about the politics of it even if this is a false alarm and an isolated issue. Does the GWF really help China politically? Don't the Chinese citizens know that information is being kept from them.

I think just knowing that your government is keeping information from you is enough to make a person dislike and distrust their government. At the same time I wonder if I'd feel the same if I grew up with censorship. It's one thing to have freedom then have someone take it away and it's another to not even know what you're missing out on. If the Chinese people don't know that there's a whole wealth of information they cannot access then they probably don't care. But if they once had full access and now it's gone I'd imagine they would be very angry about it.
SPDY absolutely was intensively specified: http://mbelshe.github.com/SPDY-Specification/draft-mbelshe-s...
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Are you sure 2.6.4 was not mentioned at all on the site before its release? Django 1.4 is not out yet but there's quite a lot about it on their site, for instance.
My friend (Asian wife) hopes that his son might get into MIT. His son is not a superstar but has done quite well in math competitions. His son was a pretty good baseball player until they had to decide between Math competitions and sports. I always tell him that his son has to become more interesting - less one-dimension Math/Science stud - like Cal Newport talks about on his blog. And that some schools for MIT could be looking for a few good baseball players.

The interesting thing is that the cutthroat high school his son is enrolled at - the AP weed-out courses, the hardest ones are the humanities. Courses like Modern European History.

> For these students, extracurricular activities play a different role than for their peers. They don’t use activities to signal their qualities, they use them instead to transform themselves into more interesting people. In other words, what’s important about an activity is not its impressiveness, but its impact on your personality.

http://calnewport.com/blog/2010/02/18/want-to-get-into-harva...
> She used to tell our class about how she had to modify her car (by removing the dome light and adding a locking gas cap) so that Klan snipers couldn't shoot her as she opened her car door at night or put foreign substances into her gas tank.

I doubt there are many young people today who have that kind of dedication. I wish I did.
Haven't all the benchmarks shown that Silk is actually slower?

In any case, I'd imagine the benefits are from the cloud caching than any other factor.
I'm 22 and I can't stand IM notifications either.
Yale has an explicit, declared policy to discriminate by race in admissions and hiring decisions. Sorry, it felt at least a little relevant towards the question of whether Yale racially discriminates.

You can review, but not make copies, of this written policy. It is kept at - I kid you not - the Office of Equal Opportunity Programs.
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Apache already has a mod-spdy (https://code.google.com/p/mod-spdy/), and varnish is in wait-and-see mode (https://www.varnish-cache.org/lists/pipermail/varnish-misc/2... "SPDY isn't even an official IETF draft
yet")

I agree. Getting SPDY into Apache, ngnix, varnish, squid etc. would be all we need to get the benefits of this new protocol.

The front-end SPDY server could then communicate via HTTP via a low-latency connection.
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I'm sure. Python.org/download does not contain any information about future releases.
It's a lot harder than it seems though.
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Came here to post the same thing ... he definitely said "this st will leave a hole in your teeth"
It's also a matter of what monitor you have - (at least on Linux where you can tweak it) configurations that look great on some monitors can look really bad on others
I recommend Firefox to some people, depending on what they are looking for. Firefox has had addons for much longer, and they are much more fundamental, than on Chrome or Safari. For example, while Safari and Chrome both have an AdBlock, Firefox's works much better (no flashes of ads, blocks more video ads, etc).

And modern versions of Firefox are doing a lot better again. It is much faster these days. They now have a much better release cycle, and their updater is smoother encouraging people to keep on the upgrade treadmill.

I wouldn't write Firefox off. The recent increase in competition in the browser space has done great things for all of the browsers; they have all improved dramatically over the past couple of years.
Most of the most intelligent people I know are actually pretty bad at monetizing that, though, in part precisely because they're way too distracted by the constant drive to learn new things (rather than picking a few and building a solid market niche), and in part because many seem more interested in the mental challenge of understanding something than the actual profits from monetizing that understanding.
There are bike power meters that measure exactly the wattage one can put out. Why did the author bother calculating drag coefficients and such?

A 40km time trial takes about an hour to finish, at about 250W sustained ( 250W/h = 900kJ ), or about 22.5kJ = 5.3 kCal per km.
Do you have links on that? Legitimately curious.
I'm a developer who uses Chrome. I've already forgiven you for calling me "not very good" at my job, so no worries about that.

I would, however, love to know what the development tools in Firefox are that you find less mature or nonexistent in Chrome. There were some omissions in the first year or so of Chrome's development, but I find myself quite happy with it these days.

I'd gladly switch, though, if there are things I don't know about that could make me more productive.
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Bing had already said they would pay for firefox, just as they would for Apple. It is disappointing to see all the doomsayers here, you would have thought this was an obvious point.
I would really like assembly to be a viable addition to the programmer's toolkit. So far, I haven't seen any tutorial material that explains the issues and best practices in modern x86-64 assembly programming. All the books I've looked at for Intel assembly assume the old x86 environment.
No problem. I should have also mentioned that we didn't add our first FTE until revenue was about 3x my corp job, so close to $350 at the time. My theory was that even if revenue dropped by half overnight, it would be possible to keep our FTE employed and scrape by long enough on the remainder to either wait it out or decide to fold (and that's with a year's worth of cash on hand). But I'm super risk averse, and others probably could handle less buffer.
> Come again? So I as an artist should only be expected to be paid for one sale of my digital album? This makes no sense and sounds like some crazy argument just to justify copying music without paying anyone.

No, you as an artist can offer the product for purchase and/or download ("original" as in it comes from you). Real fans and People Who Want To Support Musicians can then buy it from you. People Who Suck And In Res0nat0r's Opinion Steal Music can copy one of the original copies.
Supporting musicians can be done in ways other than obtaining copies of their work in a format you don't want by paying off middle-men you don't like. You have obviously found one by donating money to some guy on youtube, and there are many others. No one in this thread is against supporting musicians.
An interesting fact is that the way most Chinese people knows that they are information-managed is from "inside". "Lords" of Weibo (a soceity site) have controlled almost ALL WEIBO USERS. And they don't like the gov though most of them are beneficiaries of the gov, or the "system" they called.

Nodejs.org is NOT blocked on both China Telecom and China Unicom's 3G network. I've tested.
Also all the old Bell Labs people who're now at Google. I'm sure Rob Pike could get more money than he does at Google if he wanted to go into the startup game, but he isn't interested.
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+1,000

One drawn out litigation is all you need to start a chain of legal holds that end up forcing you to retain email indefinitely. One of the organizations that I'm familiar with is retaining all email sent or received since 1992, due to a series of long-standing lawsuits. If you're retaining email for one litigation, it can and will be used in a subsequent litigation if you have it.

But on the other hand, many, if not most email communications are ephemeral in nature. In many large companies and government especially, IM was seen as a toy that kids played with, and was banished from corporate networks. At the same time, they provide NO convenient tools for sharing data and NO ability to search through the limited data storage options available.

The result? Employees use email to send IM-like messages, and the mailbox becomes a defacto, uncontrolled, electronic file cabinet.

So if you let people take care of ephemeral communications with IM/voice/video, (especially voice/video) you probably improve communications and limit liability. And if you use sharepoint or a similar tool to share stuff, you can setup retention policies, etc to manage those risks.
If I were there, perhaps.
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I am a Chinese programmer and I have to say, we cannot determine whether nodejs.org is blocked in China at this period. Only quite few persons cannot access this site. We shouldn't be that sensitive and lead the topic even more political.
Anandtech did a good rundown:

http://www.anandtech.com/show/5139/amazons-silk-browser-test...
Three false negative, one false positive, and one "whoops".
Yes. But relatively few industries actually have such a requirement. This particular company is a consulting company.

The other thing to consider is that Microsoft Lync is also a phone and video chat system. Don't assume that IM replaces email -- I'd bet you would see alot of voice/video.
Actually what you're saying is even worse. You're basically saying that almost no one makes money on the iPhone. Unless you're Rovio or PopCap -- you're selling nothing.

And given the fact that I already know a few independent WP7 devs who can make a living purely from WP7 apps makes me wonder if the iPhone app store really is the iPhone lottery for developers. This can end up actually turning into a really bad story for iPhone developers.
I oppose user tracking not necessarily because there's something to hide, but because a sense privacy is a fundamental component of a sense of independence, and for me, independence is one of the critical components of happiness.
As long as we are doing anecdotal evidence here, I work in an office with two other developers. All three of us use and recommend firefox (and did before we started working together) but develop for chrome first because of the dev tools.
Nginx reports that it is in the works, but no ETA: http://forum.nginx.org/read.php?2,217299,217325
Older people who aren't IT don't get newsgroups, wiki, etc. Email to them is like a fast paper memo.
Don't most admissions discriminate? For example, http://yale.lawschoolnumbers.com/stats/1011/

Play around with the year/school. Clicking on data points shows self-reported profile information. It's pretty clear there is a shifted standard in many cases.
It really depends on what you are trying to accomplish if you need to worry what Google is reporting with respect to the page load time.
In general, it's always good to pay attention to page load times, regardless what Google finds of it!

You can experiment with Asynchronous calls, or slow load jQuery scripts, which kick off after the headers and html framework already have been loaded.

Overall, I would not worry about the reports in Google WMC that much, just try to get faster in general.

If you are serious in delivering an ultra speedy service online, there are services which can test your site or application on multiple locations, different OS and connection speed or using a different browser.
But these services are pricy, trust me on that one!
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It's not insane. It's simply objective. How do you define "best match"? The gut feeling of the admissions officer? You need an objective measure.
If the cost of frequent updates is breaking add ons that aren't actively maintained, I'm not so sure that's a bad thing. The majority of the slowness criticisms that ff receives seem to be caused by add ons.
Dead on for me. Chrome under Ubuntu.
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Because their brand CAN be diminished if they start accepting more students. More students need more professors, and it might be hard fighting over who gets to hire the best professors. It might also change the student community. I go to a university that is considered prestigious in my country, and what I like the most about it is how it's so easy to find incredibly smart people on the campus, with which you can have great intellectual discussions. If there were more people, it could be harder to find who these great people are.
It's a Brazilian public university, which means it's free, and while recently it was created a quota for black and public school students, the majority of students is accepted in a completely color, name, cultural blind manner.
This is definitely not legal - http://www.indianrail.gov.in/disclaimer.html.

There was a discussion sometime back in HSI about this - http://hackerstreet.in/item?id=6252
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Is it wrong to ask both projects to merge? Both have features worth keeping, but it seems somewhat a duplication of effort on both's part.

repos.io would probably be perfect if I could go around tagging things.
How silly. Employees will continue using e-mail to communicate with each other, except now they're going to use personal Gmail / Hotmail / Yahoo accounts to do it.
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