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The answers are pretty obvious.

1. Chrome is marketed all over the web (and in real life) and bundled through shareware. Google is spending a tremendous amount of money to market Chrome. Apple is not doing that with Safari.

2. Safari is the default in OS X, but OS X is still small compared to Windows.

3. Safari on Windows is not as fast as Safari on OS X, presumably because Apple cares more about one than the other, whereas Chrome is fast on both platforms. The author seems to assume that since they are both WebKit browsers, that means they are the same, but that isn't true by any measure: First, Google doesn't use the WebKit multiprocess code or the WebKit JS engine, it has its own, and both of those components are very important for speed; and second, even aside from those there are many factors that go into making a browser fast, and just using WebKit (or Gecko or Trident or whatever) doesn't fix them automatically.

The real question is how many people use Safari on OS X. That's where it is optimized and bundled. I am guessing the percentage is pretty high, but if it is low, then that would be a surprising fact that requires explanation.
Are you going to have subtitles for your 30 second tutorial video? ;-)
If you tend to use a lot of tabs (I have anywhere from 50 to 150 open at any given time), Chrome certainly isn't faster than Firefox (or Opera).
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I worked in (deployed) military hospitals from 2008-2010, so I saw both the psych early-PTSD admits, and seriously injured people who may be at risk of PTSD later.

The best PTSD research I've seen has been sponsored by MAPS (www.maps.org), with MDMA-assisted psychotherapy. http://www.maps.org/research/mdma/ MDMA, the active component in the street drug E so beloved of ravers from the 1990s, is actually useful in rapidly accelerating traditional psychotherapy, turning a ~5 year treatment process into a 5-10 session process. This is both a huge improvement in patient care outcome AND a huge cost savings.

If anyone is looking for an end-of-2011 501c3 donation, MAPS is one of the best organizations out there for this kind of research, and operates on a very efficient/lean budget, where the vast majority of money raised goes directly to medical research. They publish financials online, and John Gilmore (Sun, EFF, etc.) is one of the major donors.
I just threw email darts at the dartboard that is Android blogs. A few of them stuck, and people started to download. That got me some decent ratings, and it's kept going from there.
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As I said in another comment, emailing Android blogs got me a couple of app of the day type things. I also stumbled across my app being the top comment in a fairly popular Reddit thread which I responded to (as the developer) which got me a spike of good ratings and activity. To be quite honest, it was a fair amount of luck.
The search bar!
The point they allude to is that the bubble is only accessible for a narrow subculture even inside IT. Specifically, it's not accessible to the biggest cohort of the IT workforce : the people who keep things running at huge companies call center employees/admins/weak programmers. There's a huge lot of those.

I agree in the valley they've become kind of rare, most of them moved out. But that did not happen voluntarily.
This is a question with a really easy answer: Chrome is the best browser out there right now. That's it. No deep mystery, just a superior product.
Is this just for desktop browsers?
Er, does OpenDNS exist only to make you money? This seems like exactly the simplistic analysis that the post was objecting to.
The annual cost of Princeton tuition in 2010 was $48,580. This is not true. That's the cost of tuition + room/board + etc.
Oh, I need to add two things. First, why no color? The outcome may have been different. Second, I wonder if the order they are displayed would affect the outcome. I say this because I think in hindsight that I was more likely to dislike a logo the further down the list it was. Food for thought.
If you can't cancel Comcast, send a complaint to them (call, fax, write, email) as a current customer. Figure out how much you've spent over your lifetime with them, and include that figure in your mail. Ideally get your message sent to someone in the line of business but not in the support organization, and maybe it's worth sending letters to lots of random people within their upper management.

I think 10k people sending letters to individual comcast execs about this issue would have more impact than 10k cancellations, and at far lower cost to the individuals. (I live far from the CO, so Sonic.net Fusion doesn't work well at my residence; webpass is not available, so the only option with good bandwidth is Comcast Business).
I like the spirit. Keep developing. Keep learning.
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> > Also, there was a moment when someone was submitting content and it appeared under my nick "bpfh".

> Thanks. Those two security issues are fixed now.

You fixed one way of nickname duplication, but so long as you allow arbitrary utf-8 strings, there are all sorts of non-printing characters to use. You should really get a list of everything to filter. I don't have any experience with node.js, so I don't know if anyone has written a library that does it.
Some people would have a hard time surviving in the real world outside of Google's walls.

I can see why a guy on the Chrome UI team would dismiss a valid business strategy of hedging against the IE + Firefox user-base that uses the search bar and address bar for 100% of their searches (vs. going to http://www.google.com directly) ... having their default search engine switched on them.

To him, owning a share of the browser market is not really important to Google, in that way, because he has this image of himself and Google being the good guys and doing to no evil.

Someone drank the kool-aid.
http://hackemist.com/SafariOmnibar/
This 13-year-old article uses two anecdotal data points to arrive at a conclusion that reinforces the Cato Institute's preconceptions. The only certain conclusion that can be drawn is that spending more money does not always improve education. Hardly a revelation, and hardly a basis to make public policy decisions on.
I like how most languages now a days are trending back towards LISP-like functional languages by supporting constructs like closures, lambda expressions, etc. It's all about modularity and making the programmer most productive, which LISP seems to do quite well. I guess John McCarthy was on to something.
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Hi, at last I could be able to collect some money around 850$. Now, I want to buy a smartphone. I am biased for Android since I don't have a Mac and I want to develop on it. Which phone do you suggest? Currently, I am between Samsung Note, Galaxy 2 and Nexus.
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Definitely a nice tool, but similar software has been commercial around for quite a while. The real problems start to appear as soon as mass scanning sets in.
Please make the Chrome address bar awesome.
Chrome is never going to get a dedicated search bar, the address bar in Chrome is designed to get you where you need to go. If you know the direct url that's awesome; but if you don't that's no problem as a Google search will take you where you need to go.

I feel this is much better than the Safari/Firefox way of handling things, where you essentially switch between two modes (usually by tabing) of either trying to find something or trying to hit a direct URL. Users don't want to operate in modes, they just want to find things.
The correct word here is "its", not "it's"
pg, can we have white text instead of black text on the red background?
I would say Chrome is doing some pretty innovative stuff with V8 (and open sourcing it to spawn amazing things like NodeJS) as well as Native Client & VP8/WebM.
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There would have to be some sort of standard API where multiple companies sharing a business could talk to a central lift system to share information about their employees.
'Imagine a physicist or a mathematician calling a theory "too powerful". It explains too much! You can prove too much with it!'

Actually, I can perfectly reasonably imagine a physicist complaining that a theory is too powerful. If a theory has the capability to explain any possible observation, it similarly does not have the capability of being falsified...
Summary: He worked hard. Super fucking hard.
I get a sense that it's the opposite: your emails to your congresspeople fall on deaf ears while some of these grassroots picking on companies is resonating.
"You live in an extremely exploitative society where the powerful coast while the vulnerable drown."

Dear God, man. You need perspective. Visit middle Afria, northern Africa, and throw in some place in southern Asia. They're much, much worse. Oh and the vulnerable may "drown" in America, they're killed in these places.

But don't worry, those are far, far from the worst places to be poor. Go to the middle east, look how the poor run in panic when the police comes by. That's not a coincidence. And in the worse places, notice how women flee in panic from you. Not because they fear you, in fact quite the opposite, but because they'll be immediately attacked if seen talking the least little bit to an infidel (or even a muslim foreignor). Even if it's stumble bump "oh, excuse me". Not that they're free from attack if they don't, but ... I've not seen this personally, but the really unlucky ones here are orphans (and there's a lot of them, since half these women are prostitutes out of necessity and don't have access to condoms). Oh and local muslims will tell you they pay "zakat" to help these people. Needless to say, you will find Imams almost exclusively with a well-stocked table and a pipe that makes one dizzy from 3 meters distance in the most expensive "teahouse". The government hands out a little bread, irregularly.

And those are just places I've seen directly. I've heard from a few colleagues similar situations exist in other places (Dubai seems to be about the worst, where they withold water from the poor)

The worst poor in America don't have a roof over their heads at night
The omnibox is already awesome. It's Chrome's definitive UX feature, and I'm surprised nobody else has implemented it yet.
> I wouldn't be surprised if for those $300 million they also got Mozilla to accept using Native Client in Firefox later on.

If you're suggesting that Mozilla would do something bad for the web for money, then I think you couldn't be more wrong. Mozilla is a nonprofit exactly for this reason.

(Worth noting that the for-profit Opera opposes Native Client too - it isn't just nonprofits that have values.)
What about movies?
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Safari on Windows was never intended to garner market share. It was created so that web site authors that couldn't be bothered to have a Mac could checkout how their site works on Safari. It has succeeded wildly.

Remember, these were darker days. Webkit was the strange thing on the internet. There was no Chrome. There was Konqueror, but the webkits had diverged. You made your site work on IE and Firefox in your preferred order, then after drying your tears with the shredded remains of your schedule gave two minute's thought to making it not obviously be complete rubbish on Safari and maybe Opera.

So of course it sucks on windows.

• It feels like a Mac but in a Windows world which is like speaking English with an outrageously French accent.

• It operates through layers of compatibility designed to identically preserve the Mac behavior above perform well.

• When you come down to it, it is the away team. If the user wanted a Mac experience, they'd have a Mac.
No, the real question we should be asking is whether the quality of output will be equivalent or better. Replacing authors who were able to make writing their life with a bunch of part time hobbyists isn't the same.
It's nicely produced, but seriously inaccurate.
I would argue that the major challenge Japan faces is the demographic trends in that country. Japan is rapidly getting older and is very hesitant to allow immigration to fill the gap. Eventually a very small number of workers will be forced to support a massive number of retired citizens.
There is no real increase in living standards...Japanese people are increasingly consuming cheaper goods.

These two statements contradict each other.
To be perfectly honest, Apple pushing the latest iOS versions to older devices is not really a good thing. iOS 5 is a dog on my 3GS.
DMCA is also not enforceable against the offshore, dedicated infringers targeted by SOPA and PIPA. The Pirate Bay laughs at DMCA takedown notices, for example.
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You really think Firefox was ever going to be in a similar position to Windows? The two situations aren't even remotely comparable.
I actually disable the google bar in my Firefox because the awesomebar takes care of whatever I need. It's pretty much the same as google's search bar. I'm not sure why anyone feels the need to use the separate bar.
+1 for MAPS, they are probably my favorite non-profit today. The great thing about their research is not only the results, which are unparalleled, but also they are completely innovating on the methodology. The triple blind protocols they're using are way better than anything the commercial pharma companies are using today, and the fact that MAPS is able to get amazing results despite the fact that they aren't using a bullshit methodology designed to make them look good says volumes about the quality of what they are doing.
Yes, their debt is currently held locally. However, how long can that last? The Japanese government is trying harder to get ordinary citizens to buy government debt - which suggests that other sources have dried up.
You (supposedly, I haven't looked into it) can develop for iOS on a windows or linux machine. (I believe the Unreal dev kit works like that - you must develop from a windows machine.) If you're willing to figure out how to do that, I'd suggest an iphone.

If you're set on android, then my recommendation is to get a Nexus.
It's not just you. I hated Apple for the first half of last decade because until about 2005, I was only exposed to Apple software for Windows, which is abysmal. Using Apple software on a Mac blew my mind.

Even though Chrome and Safari share a foundation, I just find Chrome more usable. Things like keyboard commands to open the last closed tab, how it waits to resize tabs until after you move your mouse away form the tab bar, and the animated sorting of tabs just to name a couple. Chrome feels faster too; hard to quantify, but apparently quite important to user perception.
Not necessarily. All a url/search bar needs to do is check if what you enter is a valid URL, then search if that fails. (And maybe also if DNS resolution fails?) If it's a valid URL, it never needs to hit the search engine... if it is, that's when you want to search anyway.
Using John Gruber's publicly reported stats as one data point, Safari commands a majority share on Mac OS X.
Surely China is more culpable than Amercan consumers and corporations?
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People certainly get attached to their historical revenues, but let's not forget that businesses like books, movies, and music all have hit-dominated economics under the current model and that this has co-evolved with the kinds of products that are available. Cutting the potential upside of the big hits does disproportionate damage to the overall industry's expected returns. I know you were specifically discussing books where initial production costs are low (in comparison to marketing), but consider what happens to film and television.

As you say, under a new regime without copyright as-is, new people may come in to fill the void. However, they may not be real replacements for the old-media dinosaurs. If it becomes impossible to try to make something like "Lost" with any reasonable expectation of a return, then products as complex and expensive as "Lost" simply won't get made. We should be cognizant of this kind of tradeoff as policy evolves.

I think the recent story about Louis C.K. points out one possible angle of filling the void; it's comparatively cheap for him to try a stunt like that. Generally, things produced by individuals with relatively little "refinement" (sound, graphics, costumes, marketing, etc.) seem like good candidates for business model innovation. On the other hand, the pilot episode of "Lost" cost millions of dollars just in production (i.e. before they even had any idea if it would be popular and got a marketing budget). If we want a new regime that still allows such projects to be undertaken, Kickstarter-like services and "Please just pay me $5" probably aren't going to cut it (no disrespect to Kickstarter or Louis). I don't know if, in the context of big budget projects, they even represent a meaningful step toward a solution.
Convenient omissions from the article indeed. The reporter appears to have been in haste to be the first to make a timely report of the 'success' of the GoDaddy boycott.

You will need to be patient to get any real numbers. The domain registration transfer process can take 3-5 days to complete, so it's improbable to actually know anything right now! Real facts on the success or failure of the boycott campaign will be seen in the upcoming weeks.

Also for better tracking of how many domain registrations may or may not have lost keep an eye on webhostinginfo's charts. Specifically the market share percentage: http://www.webhosting.info/registrars/reports/GODADDY.COM
Yep, when i have to test something in Firefox i always forget that to search in Google (or in other popular site) i can't just write it in the address bar.

And it always remember all my sites so to go to hacker news i just write an "n" and it writes the rest... and i can even delete the suggestions with shift+delete.

So yeah, i also don't have any idea what the parent comment was triyng to say.
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Thanks for reminding me about this; when it comes time to look for a new apartment this list is going to be very important.
If SOPA is getting this much flack for supporting a bill that threatens free speech, I think corporations that fund slave labor should be taken to task as well.
1. It's fast
2. It updates automatically
3. It's fast
4. I can have all my settings/passwords/bookmarks synced across all my machines regardless of OS
5. It's fast. It opens faster than notebook.exe on Windows and Preview.app on OSX
Great talk, thanks for the link. The power of emacs isn't immediately obvious, until you try to use it for something it wasn't explicitly designed for.
So I cant register a domain there and sell memorabilia from Nazi Germany, right?
Not really no, most of it is Android's + Qualcomm's modifications (which are usually public and easily available).

However, there are some HTC hardware-specific parts that are used mostly and needed by any serious third party android distribution (like CyanogenMod).
I think it's really hard to get accurate figures here.

Clearly a lot of major CA employers choose to put factories or large operations in other states for cost reasons; some of this may be regulatory, some may be taxes, some may be availability of labor, some may be availability of other resources (cheap power in OR/WA, old industrial facilities to repurpose, ...).

I don't think a lot of companies move their HQs from California to elsewhere, but you could easily have a much bigger effect from California-HQ companies putting their major new facilities out of the state.

I personally would like to put my business in Washington, Nevada, Hong Kong, maybe Texas, or potentially Colorado or Montana, for a mix of tax, regulatory, and cost reasons. Unfortunately, with the possible exception of Seattle, there's really no way to reliably locally hire enough computer security people, or to have proximity to customers, to overcome the advantage of the Bay Area. The alternative is some kind of distributed company, or recruiting and relocating lots of people, but that makes the difficult problem of a startup even harder.
Except you can just write it in the address bar (and hit enter). Try it!
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The MAPS conference in Oakland early this month was amazing too -- I shot video for it, which should be on their website soon.
I tend to agree. I don't want to discount the nice work that the author put forth, but I grabbed a cheap, well-written ebook here: http://recipeswithbackbone.com/ that has many more of the patterns you mention. It was worth whatever I paid for it.
For the longest time Firefox was the only easy option in town.

Opera has always been a bit fringe like linux (while still being good). IE.. well enough said. Safari was a decent choice on mac for a couple years before Chrome.

Thats where my comparison to windows resides. It was the only decent option. It took OSX a big part of the 00s to reach mainstream dominance over Windows XP.
In SF, you can't leave anything in the cabin of the car, or meth faeries will break in (costing hundreds to replace windows) and stealing a $1-2 item. Removing and replacing the nav system every time I use the car would get really annoying, or if I loan it to someone else who doesn't do so, so I'd have to factor in the inconvenience of replacing the glass several times per year.

Plus, the internal inputs into built-in nav are a big plus; it works a little bit better than the aftermarket stuff, and having turns on the driver information display is worth it to me too.

What would really make sense is a Model S for around here, and then getting a TDI (I wish they sold the A4 TDI in the USA, but a VW Passat or A3) for really long trips. I get about 28-30mpg on highways at 75mph in my A4 (with APR chip, and about 100k miles), but that's with premium fuel. But I guess depreciation dominates fuel cost for a while longer.
The default in Chrome seems to be to do search suggestion as you type in the unified bar, so for instance if you decide to visit linear.com and do so by typing linear.com and hitting return, after you type "linear" and before you type the "." it suggests "linear equations", "linear algebra", and "linear regression".

Their documentation says it is doing this by sending the data to Google whenever you pause while typing in the bar, and that 2% of these requests are randomly logged, and it is anonymized within 24 hours.
First "it's" is fine. Please submit a patch in the form of a regular expression.
They still support PIPA though which is almost as bad.
I think what's interesting is that he admits to having had no special inclination towards math before college. Only during college, and out of a fear of failure, did he become really good at math.
This is an important concern for any US citizen who may migrate their domains to a Gandi. French law differs dramatically from US laws when it comes to matters of libel, slander and privacy.

Why does this matter? If your a US site, and you piss off someone in France then the pissed off individual has a target local to them (Gandi) who they can send legal threats to based on French laws. Or really a mixture of US and French laws.

If you would like to look up more on the subject when dealing with international law conflicts, consider reviewing US-EU safe harbor.