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Thats correct and thats an issue.

Firefox has been forced to follow Chrome on this AFAIK because otherwise some website features (popular ones.. specially GDocs) wouldn't work optimally. Even right now, loading Google sites is faster (specially GMail) on Chrome because only Chrome has SPDY support (coming in a Firefox near you in some weeks thanks to the fast release mechanism!)

The Web APIs aren't stable at many levels, and HTML5 ain't standard. It's a bunch of drafts and some are even conflicting (hello audio APIs).

It seems to me that Google is the main company right now pushing in new drafts and protocols - using it to make other browsers incompatible. Generally the drafts are technically fine and good, the issue is the way they're used to kill diversity and obtain complete web (or "internet") control.

You can start to see a lot of "you need Chrome to see this website. Chrome, the fastest browser on earth by Google! <click to download>.

Specially true if you use Opera or IE which do not update as often as Firefox and Chrome.
Seem like Color is trying so hard, it kind of turns me off from wanting to try it.

http://www.color.com/#howItWorks

Specifically:

* the background music with strumming guitar and bells seems really "yesterday" Apple-esque

* doorbell sound at the end reeks of trying to get consumer to associate that noise with the Color brand

You can try to brain wash me to fall in love with your product, but don't make it so obvious!
They are unordered. For certain types of updates, the order is immaterial and a hash of attributes could be applied. On the other hand, if you are mutating a tree as you go along, the order is important and you want to call methods and/or functions to traverse and apply side-effects.
I don't have that problem either with FF or Chrome. If they fixed it between your post and mine, at least $41M gets you reactive web devs. :)
On the other hand, google doesn't appear to take the extreme copyright stance that Wolfram Alpha does.

Read their TOS: http://www.wolframalpha.com/termsofuse.html, specifically their Attribution and Licensing section.

If you incorporate results from Wolfram Alpha in any work without attribution meeting their standards you will have breached your TOS and they suggest you also will have committed copyright violations and academic plagiarism. If your work is not personal (unshared?) or academic, then they demand you negotiate a license.

Google seems happy to let you know sin(x) is wiggly and send you on your way.
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They really should give the VC's their money back. You can't win them all.
I take your point, but the Twitter analogy would be a microblogging service that bans the use of articles in messages.
I hate replying to my own post, but my old post is too old to add an edit to and there seems to be some interest on the subject. I found an old article about him, that was written after we sold our venture, when he was purchasing the Tampa Bay Lightning, it sums him up pretty well:

http://www.sptimes.com/2007/08/12/Lightning/Jeff_Sherrin__De...
People keep buying Android for lots of reasons, they can be a lot cheaper, they have more options (keyboards, big screens), they are pushed a lot by carriers, lots of carriers don't carry the iPhone.

The interface problem with Android might come in to play when people are considering their second smartphone, and devices are a lot faster these days. Of course, no one should need a dual core or quad core CPU for a smooth experience on their phone.
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This is disgusting behavior from what could be considered the first "app store". What a shame.
There is a simple answer, but it's not one that most people who are in a position to fix it will like; "it sucks now and I couldn't care less why. Fix it ASAP because it's killing your UX"

And as far as the author of this article goes…maybe he is off on the technical stuff, but he understands the most important, which is that UX is broken in Android for this, among a few other reasons.

Someone open a big report against AOSP? All versions, high priority; "UI Anmations Broken"
This is awesome, great work. I hope unnoticeable updates become the norm for all desktop software.

I have to ask, when do you plan on dropping the version number from Firefox releases?
The point is that all generic text fields on OSX have supported Emacs keybindings since forever, not vi or nano keybindings.
wtf? Why would I ever want to be interrupted with someone's (even my friend's) stupid skateboarding video?

I can't think of a single use for this product.
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Can you say anything about the "push" to 3.6 users? It was suppose to happen last week. I just checked on http://gs.statcounter.com and usage dropped .4% in the last week, but I'm not sure how accurate it is:

http://gs.statcounter.com/#browser_version-ww-daily-20111129...

I imagine that there are many 3.6 users who simply aren't into tech news like those of us here, and they simply don't know they should upgrade.
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Safari on OS X and Mobile Safari on my iPad both redirect from color.com/#landing to color.com, then back to color.com/#landing. So hitting back once takes me to some kind of intermediate hell that redirects to /#landing.

But I’m glad it’s working for you. Maybe it’s my fault!
So... mobile justin.tv without audio with Facebook integration? Did I miss anything?

Seems like a thing I might use if it had audio, which they might be working on.

PS: I hope they still have at least $40.5 mil still in the bank.
>There is no tendency in evolution towards intelligence.

What? An obvious ability to learn is found in lots of animals, and in the cases where the benefit outweighs the additional caloric requirements, the evolutionary tendency is towards intelligence. Of course it's not the only one, but it's a pretty big trump card natural selection-wise when it reaches a sufficient level, as humans have clearly demonstrated.

Millions of years are a dime a dozen in the time scales of the universe, and parallelize that across more than trillions of planets. I think your intuition is way off here.
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> And the rest of us are stuck wondering what the heck just happened when we accidentally press one of these shortcuts.

This seems to imply you shouldn't have keyboard shortcuts at all. After all, the principle of least astonishment says that if you hit a key combination you didn't intend, nothing you didn't intend to happen should happen.
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We all understand how it works, it is not complicated. Why you feel the need to explain this is amazing to me. There are problems with how it works, something you ignore in your "reply". Like getting to the start screen of an app, where an app always assumes it comes from the start screen, rather than in the middle of the app.
And to think that Microsoft is paying them for it.

O how the mighty have fallen.
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A variation: maybe we're just the first ones in the neighborhood. Maybe life needs elements only present in third generation stars. Earth could be an instance of extremely accelerated evolution because some favorable traits and we are at least some millions of years ahead of the rest.
The individualists turn into hard bargainers as they carefully probe their own market value and frequently re-negotiate relationships. They carefully invest in keeping their skill-base current and avoiding being shunted into the sunset end of the ecosystem for as long as possible. This sort of developer likes to hedge bets, stay invested in multiple projects and keep one foot in the open source world at all times. They position themselves for massive upsides when that is a possibility, and the ability to walk away from failures with their own reputations intact where there is real risk.

Full agreement on this point. Once I started looking at my own career from this perspective I couldn't stop. Books like The Passionate Programmer and The Pragmatic Programmer as well as heaps of prose from pg, patio11, edw519, and tptacek guide my continuing quest for increased leverage.
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Do you know that security wise, since Chrome does not need administrative privs to install it means any bug, trojan, etc, can replace the Chrome binary and use it to capture/control/send/etc anything users are running?

That's the main reason why app INSTALLS should require admin privileges in general.

That's also why Chrome model for updates is a double-edged sword, and security wise its bad.

For Entreprises, you should be able to manually push out Chrome updates without getting any admin prompts or the need for admin privileges.

Regardless, for non-Entreprise use, seemless update of the browser is something one wants to have.

AFAIK Firefox plans to have an authenticated updater service running for that. It means you can't subvert the Firefox binaries to capture/control/whatever the user's pc as you need admin privileges to upgrade.

And the updater process is a tiny process that verifies signatures before upgrade, thus the likehood that it gets compromised or has bugs is very low (specially compared to browsers which are one of the most complex piece of software ever made)
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You could be at Startup Weekend and live broadcast your Office Hours session to the world... if they had audio, which can't be that far behind.

EDIT: Nevermind. They limit the broadcast to 30 seconds.
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I wouldn't get stuck on the lack of audio part. It can't be too far behind.
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I'm from Waterloo (RIM's hometown) so I'm biased, but there is a significant flow of Ontarians to Silicon Valley, Redmond and NY whereas there's no corresponding flow from the US to Ontario. So I'm tempted to call it a shortage of jobs rather than people.
And people complain about Linux wasting your time.
Chrome does a non-standard install and also can be self modified which isn't secure. Chrome could be replaced by a keylogger+chrome by anything running on the system.

That's why admin privileges are required for accessing Program Files to begin with.

Using a separate updater process is actually the clean way to go, on Windows.
Nice troll.

In the unlikely event you're actually asking in earnest, it's the same reason electrical engineers learn about electrons, or chemists learn about orbital shells, or authors learn about Shakespeare, or linguists learn about Latin, or biologists learn about Mendelian genetics, or physicists learn about Newton, or military generals learn about Thermopylae.
You can set per-user shortcuts for this. http://www.hcs.harvard.edu/~jrus/site/cocoa-text.html

I'm unsure if it works in 10.7 though.
Off the topic here, are there still many people download software programs from download sites, like download.com, brothersoft.com or softpedia?
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Hmm, I can reproduce this in Safari, but not in TextEdit, nor TextMate, under 10.7.2.
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You keep saying that in this thread, but I can't for the life of me imagine why you would launch a live-video product without audio. It just doesn't make any sense, is likely to be taken as the site "being broken", and finally result in a "um..that's dumb" when the fact that audio is intentionally excluded is revealed to the user.

To be blunt, for a video-broadcasting site, frickin' AUDIO isn't a "fringe" feature.
I get the same thing in safari, but not FF
Maybe... or maybe a more appropriate Twitter analogy would be that links to articles weren't automatically linked.
Is there a good way to phrase (i.e. "Doctor Speak") for something like "No Code unless a probably positive outcome with intervention"?
At the end of the article, the author explains how "once a good developer recognizes his/her own value, [she turns] to either an individualist-mercenary mindset or a collectivist guild-like mindset."

He elaborates on the "guild-like mindset":

> The other kind of developer turns to guild-like structures, which serve as centers of balance-of-power politics in the constant wars against the developer-capitalists. Except that instead of taking on the dynamics of class warfare along an upper-lower dimension, the conflict takes the form of exit warfare along an inside-outside dimension. Rather than form a union to negotiate with management, the talented developer will simply exit a situation he/she does not like, and use guild-like resources to move to a better situation. Stock options are simply not as effective in limiting mobility as the power of Russian nobility to whip serfs into immobility once was.

I've tried to make sense of what that means, but I'm lost in the balance-of-power, upper-lower/inside-outside, and guild references. If someone has a moment, could they please explain this paragraph in clearer terms? Perhaps as a basic narrative of what a guild-minded developer would do when she recognizes her value?
But it's Social! And Facebooky! To not give them money would be like starving a puppy! You wouldn't starve a puppy would you?

Admittedly - it's a puppy that will chew up your credit cards and sell your beans recipe to all comers, but hey, isn't he cuuuute!
I don't understand the downmod I've received.

A little white box hanging off the side of a Sony/Samsung/LG tv is not the user experience or brand experience that Apple want to give you. They want their white shiny logo, in the goddamn middle of your 50 inch TV bezel.

I'm sure they could use iTunes to push songs onto something that is not an iPod too. They don't want to give you that. They don't want to give you a patched together experience at a low price point. Nothing they do is about that. They want to give you an integrated apple experience.
My eyes are still bugging out from the 55 seconds I spent on jwz's site. Arg!
I'm on page two of the story but I am already starting to doubt the writer's basic understanding of technology and question whether continuing to read it is a waste of time:

1) "If your bakery doesn’t have an iPhone, it will soon be at the mercy of outfits like Yelp." - What does that even mean?

2) "A little known fact about Google, for instance, is that its investment in Python (one of the three languages the company uses for its work)" - Gonna go out on a limb here and state that Google uses more than three languages.
My thanks for this tangential line of thought. I didn't know what was being referred to.
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I generally have trouble judging the use or viability of services like this. My first reaction was to call it useless because I doubt that I will ever use something like this. But I've said the same thing about other services, most recently Instagram. Apparently I'm not in their market.

Now looking past whether or not I will ever use this (I won't) there isn't as far as I know much in the way of social video sharing. While there is of course Youtube, Color seems to place an emphasis on easy seamless sharing, something that people seem to want.

Some things I feel that would make the product far more compelling would be audio, and privacy. While I haven't logged in, it seems that videos shot through Color are available on the site for browsing Youtube style. I would much prefer directly sharing them to networks of my choice.
Just to let you know you're not alone, that one went completely over my head as well.
pork, it's not allowing me to reply to your comments so I'll just reply here.

I'm not disagreeing with you that audio is necessary and if it's part of the development plan, it should have been a major priority and I probably wouldn't have launched without it.

With that said, it's an assumption on our part that audio is necessary, even for for short 30-sec videos and they are putting that assumption to the test. Without audio, I don't think it'll work... but who knows. Until you test, you can't tell for sure.
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> The title of the article assumes that gifted kids are supposed to like math.

That's not really true; it just assumes that some gifted kids would, a priori, be expected to like math.
Maybe I'm nitpicking, but I'd say that effect is due to an increase in demand for robot programmers, not due to a decrease in the supply of the productive workers.
Rather than move the mountain by unionizing and forcing big employers to pay up, skilled and connected developers can simply go around the mountain and disappear to the slightly better job down the street. As long as you are wired into a community of talented developers (and perhaps willing to relocate) you will have options. Spending years trying to "fix" a BigCo IT group from the bottom up is not likely to be the most rewarding use of a talented dev's time.
Seems to me that Firefox has served it's purpose. I hope there's a visionary at the helm of the Mozilla Foundation budget.
The article described old-guard programmers who mastered a technology and then couldn't find work when the technology died off.

I have a hard time understanding this: programming skills are extremely transferable and learning the hot language/platform of the month isn't extremely difficult. Is it just inertia that prevents them from doing this?
So besides being nothing but a crappy Facebook plugin, it's also not available outside the U.S.A. Good thing you prevented those furriners from downloading your app, otherwise they might upload their soundless foreign videos...

Color.com, instead of not rendering at all on Firefox, now does render after about a 1.5 second delay. So there's some improvement. At this rate, in about 1000 years they'll have something worthwhile.
Drawing a superficial parallel to some other poorly understood or fictional organizing principle seems to be the author's main schtick.

http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2009/10/07/the-gervais-principle-o...
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While I can understand the issue the change creates for the author, a nexus between the emacs interface and Apple's overall user experience philosophy would appear to be somewhat hard to find.
Nice work — that's definitely great to hear. Looking forward to the upcoming updates.
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I don't believe there are many people that will disagree with you on that matter. I read something today that described the release cycle as "increasingly erratic" and that was on a tech site which should know better. The improvements are there for all to see though, it's just a matter of whether users are willing to give each and every update a go.
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I was tethering my old Nexus One to my Roku for a couple of days when I moved; it was enough to push me over the soft cap. Believe me when I say that their throttling is more than noticeable. It is worse than Edge.
How old is your set? My TV, which is about 2 years old, isn't this bad. I have 3 HDMI cables running out of it, and when I turn on a device (like the Blu-Ray) it turns the TV on and switches to the correct input. Then I turn off the TV when I'm done and it shuts off the Bly-Ray.

It all pretty much just works.
I am happy that is actually an infographic: original analysis presented graphically. Too often, an “infographic” is just a list that someone did in Illustrator.
It isn't an old guard thing. It is a personality and strengths thing. I am not particularly old guard (I am 37), and while I am about average in the technologies I do know, I suck at learning new platforms/technologies. It's like pulling teeth.

Those who are good at it just don't get how hard it can be for those are not quick learners in this sense. This is part of not knowing their own value -- claiming that learning new languages is "easy." It is. For them.
That's a cool feature, I've been using http://www.mathpimp.com/ for that, Google is a cool alternative, for now and then.
You have to wait to post replies sometimes, depending how many levels down the conversation is. This is a safeguard against threads full of knee-jerk back-and-forth responses, I suppose.
How do you explain Perl not faring so well?
Actually, I just had this conversation with a student of mine; I teach CS, and have been trying to throw at least a few proofs each term into most of my upper-level classes. They're generally simple proofs and the initial reaction is that the thing to be proven is "obvious" and thus doesn't need to be proven.

...but then, as they try to write out the steps of the "obvious" proof, or explain them to me verbally, we discover that they don't have nearly as good a handle on all the definitions and the details as they thought they did. Having to wrangle a proof, even a simple one, does an unparalleled job at developing a deeper understanding of the theory.

(For example, in my database theory class: Prove that any two-column table must be in BCNF. On the way through to the "trivial" two- or three-line proof, one has to understand what it means to be a key of a relation, what a functional dependency really is, and the notion of transitive dependency. Even if you never decompose a table into BCNF, the other concepts help you build some important mental models.)
I remember hearing about this. Sounds like she should have placed a limit on the number of deals Groupon could sell. But what's the connection to his line about having an iPhone?
Just my personal preference. I don't want or need my SmartPhone to pretend to be a computer. I already have a computer. A SmartPhone just needs to do the most common tasks as efficiently and trouble free as possible. Being as it's a SmartPhone and not the constitution of my country freedom isn't really at the top of my priority list. If it was seamless I wouldn't mind just having a list of options to choose from but when we start talking about evaluating a bunch of different replacement apps/ROMs/etc I lose interest. It's too much time to invest into a device that is supposed to make my life easier.

My benchmark for SmartPhones is how difficult it is to complete some common tasks. I've found in most cases for Android that process resembles an if/then/else function. If I use app X then I do Y but only if A=2.2 && B=3.1 else I just give up and decide it's not worth the effort. I would prefer to just learn the one, maybe two, ways of possibly doing it and adapt. I don't need to modify the device to adapt to my every whim in part because that assumes I actually know exactly how I want it to work. I really don't. I want the OS to figure some of those things out for me.
I think not having audio makes it easier to use on small mobile devices in a crowded room, like watching at a party or on a subway.
How would you classify these things? Bugs that are resulting from "undocumented features"? Or is it PEBKAC and they're calling you to be personal tech support?

If it's 1 you can point to the spec, and if it's 2 you might have to sit down and explain why it's not your domain? Or if it is, how you would bill to fix it?

In either case I'm thinking this client fits in the "Thanks but no thanks" for future work.
Phonegap optimizes for development time. Where that's a limiting factor, it's a good option to consider.
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