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The JS community has moved beyond DOM abstraction libraries entirely. Using polyfills is now the preferred way to reach older browsers. JQuery serves a role of abstracting the stuff that polyfills can't fix, or to go all the way back to IE6 where the differences are too great to mess with on your own. Without that, there really is no reason to use JQuery at all.
One thing I really like about Google is that if this is a hit, they will bring it to other platforms. Counter to what Google would like, this is one reason I feel comfortable sticking with iOS.
Since when does Google have a phone number, even for apps users?
Obligatory: http://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=Round_Rects_Are_E...
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It was nice, but I'm not one of those "OMG Siri is the best thing ever" people. I'm the guy that upgraded to ICS... 6 months+ ago and I still unlock my phone, swipe to the other screen and tap the Camera icon instead of unlocking to the left. I have familiar usage patterns.

The extra info is "nice". That's how I would describe it. For those that like Siri, this is going to be up their alley. The natural voice recognition isn't as good as Siri's and there are some bits missing (I still freaking can't say "Navigate home" to get directions home, even though I can say "Navigate to McDonald's" and be launched into turn-by-turn).

I think in a few months or even when they release next month it will be capable of what Siri can do and will also have the intelligence to give you that info ahead of time.
The only difference, for the sake of the demo/pr stunt, was that the glasses have a 3G or 4G Radio and G+ Hangout integration.

Think about it, though... The experience of wearing the glasses is probably very difficult to properly explain or show. You can't really put it on a camera and get a true representation. They have a long way to go before it's ready.
Disagree. Competitors like WhatsApp with greater cross-platform reach, on top of the repeated worldwide BBM outages in recent years contributed to RIM's woes, to the extent that having a BB now is considered a burden.
Hey @chris, thanks for your f/b. Would love to hear more details on this.

As a note @bubbles doesn't use a regular pixel perfect approach to render its views. We've not completed all parts yet, but even now we provide more pages/app with less than a third of "style-sheets" as compared to say Twitter.

Try this trick. Open a published letter and press CTRL + / CTRL - on that page. See what happens to the letter.
It's such a blatant oversight for a device that is touted no least as "the internet in your hands" that I keep wondering why I so rarely see other people mention it.

I was with you up until this last sentence. People who know what LastPass is (let alone use it) are in a tiny minority.

Given how they treat the development community (hello Xcode nightmare), which I'd wager is a much larger group, I don't think it's entirely surprising that something like password manager support would be further down in the list of priorities.
@[2:0] results in a link to a Birthday Calender app?
Not every device is for every use case. I would rather a 10 inch device for that, but would prefer 7 for reading a novel. Everything is tradeoffs.
A person that behind the times isn't going to buy anything on the internet anyway

I just had my largest ever budget approved by someone who uses IE8 at home in 1024x768 resolution. Not that this proves anything, but only goes to show that money is not always where you think it is.

Besides, visitors may interest you in ways other than making a sell.
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Maybe there is a market in the porn industry? Looks like a winner for shooting POV videos.
That's a pretty cheap tactic, claiming this is by Google when clearly it is not.
Is this what we have to look forward to with Metro?

The design seems like a children's book combined with some ISP "landing page" from 1995. Everything is big and bold, yet the entire page is almost completely devoid of meaningful content. It's just a vast array of disorganised links, or more precisely, a whole bunch of vast arrays of disorganised links, with no sign of any rational information architecture or even basic scannability.

Sorry, but I just can't find anything nice to say about it. It has absolutely no redeeming features whatsoever AFAICS.
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I agree with all the comments that other gentleman posted here.

- Need a Video Tour
- Homepage Needs a better Redesign shot at explaining the product better.

You have a users first 30 seconds of attention when he/she first lands on the page.. Lure them during that time.

Good luck with your endeavour!

+1 for the Gmail Plugin Idea.
>Where is the focus?

Every Google product exists to one end: Get more people looking at Google Ads.

Google ads are so pervasive that almost anything that gets people to be on the internet more is straight up beneficial to Google.

Search? Ads right there.

Gmail? Ads right there.

Youtube? Ads right there.

Google 411? Collect massive quantities of voice samples to train the systems that became Youtube's automatic subtitle system. More features on Youtube = more eyes on ads.

Android? Web browser in your pocket = ad delivery in your pocket. Then there's in app ads too. And then there's the invaluable data mining that makes the ads worth more to sellers by making them more effective.

Google+? Never leaving Facebook means never seeing a Google ad, action had to be taken.

Google+/Chrome/Currents for iOS? Get people on that other device looking at more ads too!

Self driving car? Can you imagine how many ads you could be looking at during the time you normally spend driving?!

Glass? Ads ALL THE TIME.
Here's one angle..MS has 2 large very different customer sets, the enterprise and the consumer and in the past it seemed that a lot of the UI was some sort of a compromise targeted to both.

The consumer tech group is definitely getting stronger at design .. and the enterprise tech arm can rely on its salesforce
A nasty situation no doubt, but manageable. What I would do is:

0. Rename IE to 'intranet'.
1. Configure IE to only access Intranet.
2. Switch everyone to chrome/firefox, keep bookmarks, etc
3. Hire some university students to temp man the support line as you are flooded with support requests.

As I said a nasty situation. Perhaps it would be best to spread a rumour that someone was fired thanks to IE. That way you are not evil IT getting in the way of everyone's job.
Chrome now tops the iOS App Store charts

http://itunes.apple.com/us/rss/topfreeapplications/limit=10/...
This isn't a startup, but I wouldn't mind some feedback on my side project: http://comparerc.com

I haven't really launched it except to a handful of people, so traffic is basically zero. Email in my profile if you're interested. Thanks!
to do sales, you need to really know the product...I don't imagine an off the shelf sales guy will be all that effective.

And I'd imagine cost is also an issue. With your own sales team you can just hire people to work on commission...and here you not only have to hire a sales team...but also include a healthy profit margin for Elastic.
I think jQuery 2.0 is partly a response to Zepto.js [1] -- they're both jQuery-API-compatible, and they both drop support for OldIE (Zepto drops all of IE, though [2]).

[1]: http://zeptojs.com/
[2]: http://zeptojs.com/#platforms
I agree, when it's something more than a head mounted camera taking pictures of things I don't care to take pictures of, or telling me the weather when I don't care or can obviously tell by looking out a window...then I'll be interested (maybe).

As many people say, "it's the software stupid", so I'm waiting.
I'v did some single apps.
* https://trakrapp.com/ (server's certificate has expired) an issue tracking app. with Backbone, Jquery.
* http://mei.fm/create Wwn's online stack editing app. (need to signin to get full functionality). A team structure the code with the help of Jquery, Mustache.js, Underscore.
* http://rssminer.net/demo .yet another RSS reader. I write it with Jquery, Mustache.js, Underscore.
You are right.

Probably the best way would have been: By late 2012, jQuery will still be supporting a browser released in 2001 but by early 2013 it won't support a browser that was released in 2009.
No, they cannot. Sovereign immunity is absolute. US citizens can only sue when granted permission.

As 30thElement noted, the Federal Tort Claims Act grants this permission to sue. But there is no such right, and it is within the Federal government's power to change its mind and repeal the statute.
It's not anonymous, I've written SOX/FINRA compliance software for BES/BBM and he who controls the BES server can access the BBM messages.
If you watch the video closely they actually do have GoPros strapped to their chests, and it looks like they then used the GoPro HD footage to create the blog post video about the whole thing.
Not crazy; just jaded.

It's an early prototype for chrissakes. The real devporn comes later. For now, just sit back and enjoy the show.

FWIW I pre-ordered and can't wait to hack around with this thing.
It's a long life and at 25, you've still got a ways to go :)
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A PR firm. It's like you can't even get your mind around the idea that there are people who don't see this issue your way.
I'm not everyone, I have my own opinions.
That made me sadder than it should have.
This is not something that's going to market next week. These are prototypes and it's obviously got some way to go.
And the Gopro logo all over their suits..
The web browser. I loved my BB, but ditched it when it became clear to me that they didn't take browsing seriously.
The gopro is way bigger and afaik it doesn't connect to the internet and stream.
IE8... released in 2009

Microsoft is the only major browser vendor to believe that a 3-year-old browser is acceptable on a supported OS (XP). Google, Mozilla, Apple, Opera support XP with their latest browsers.

I agree it's too soon to drop support for IE8, but I'd love to see more pressure put on MS for leaving XP+IE users stuck with a second rate browser.
Nice look, but, slow as hell to load. 15 seconds before anything appeared. Maybe because I'm in Australia. (my net connection is around 5mbit so its not that).
You keep coming back to "generalized knowledge doesn't comprise red-flag knowledge", and I keep coming back with specific examples of red-flag knowledge. For instance, I can name the actual title of a copyrighted movie the Mega staff pushed onto the site. It was _Taken_, produced by Luc Besson. How did they know it was there, you might ask? Because they put it there.

Admittedly these issues are for the courts to decide, not message boards, but come on: by all the evidence available to us message board peons, these guys were a bunch of crooks.
I spent time going through each page "and" reading through these HN comments and I still don't know what the product does. Great graphics, but I didn't grok what the product was in the first 10 seconds (and still don't after 2 minutes).
haha, love the comment. I was a Management consultant and I felt the exact same way, the only way out for me was to start my own company - SaleMove. It is a lot harder, but yet much more rewording
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I the cost of maintaining apps exceeds their value as customers, then they're going to lose support. Don't forget supporting these old broweres isn't free, cheap, or easy.
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This is hilarious and insightful. I feel stupid for not seeing this while reading the OP article.

(Why the throwaway account?)
so a product with good brand and following has not much value without the original founders and teams ? Can't the product be run by a different team and company?

There are many situations where another company could see value in buying a product that the acquirer is no longer interested in maintaining.
I have no idea what your product does and I'm not inclined enough to sign-up (especially with my facebook account) to find out more.

Why is "@bubbles" all over the place? You don't even own the Twitter handle.
Several problems:

1. Not very robust - it keeps forgetting the Google passwords I've typed in

2. Why do I need to enter two Google passwords - my 'main' password AND an application-specific password?

3. Not very easy to use. For example, where's the option to see my browsing history on Chrome for iPhone?
I appreciate the reply, but I can't help noticing that you didn't actually answer my question.
It looks great actually! What kills ,e about Microsoft though is that, especially recently, they've done a great job in making their sites, OS, and software quite pretty but they still after all this time have absolutely horrendous font rendering in Windows which kills every design they come out with. I'm a developer who uses a Mac as my primary machine, Linux as a secondary machine and in the past month has been forced to use Windows at my new job. I wasn't happy about it but it turns out I've gotten just about as productive with it as any other platform. But the problem is that now, 4 weeks in, I get terrible eye strain and the whole system looks ugly because fonts are jagged except at really large sizes. It's ironic that this new site looks awesome on my iPad and Mac but not so much on their own OS, Windows. Why can't they fix that already?
Thank you for posting this... whoever you are.
And MS will technically support IE8 for Win7 with security updates till 2020 for the same reason IE6 on XP is still supported until 2014 (and IE 5.01 on Win2000 was supported until 2010).
Since you asked, yes, you are crazy for looking at the video broadcast to the Hangout and thinking that it's indicative of the UI available on the HUD. Or that because they didn't show a feature that it's not planned, even for v1.

There have been public mentions and acknowledgements of some of the features that you call out as missing. You're, plainly, uninformed.
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This is quite nearly the PERFECT book, one that every web developer should read front to back.
Why would an Australian company want to hire "B" and "C" grade devs, let alone import them?

Wow, this thread is misinformed. There's plenty of world class "A" grade talent in Sydney. Some of those people leave, some of those people stay. You just have to know where to look.

Funnily enough, not everyone wants to move to the US, because if you're not a founder of a tech company, there's very little reason to leave Sydney for SF.
#win
Unfortunately once you get into heavy picture viewing, you need to go to OpenGL. In fact, almost all of the top selling custom launchers and live wallpapers are OpenGL.
We let users write letters directly from the browser and send it to anyone on email. You can put hand-draw signature on your letters using mouse/touchscreen, draw, sketch, collage etc.

Sorry, we're a bit early-on into our product, couldn't meet expectations :-(
goodbye facebook. why?
You do realize that IE 10 will be supported by jQuery 2.0, right?
Yea, MS has in general never released new versions of IE for a version of Windows that entered extended support, and the extended support phase lasts for five years!
> They were ready to ship QNX when they were bought

I've no idea where you're getting that but when they QNX was not ready to ship anything on mobile back then. They've been building the whole ecosystem around the core QNX system.
Looks like he escaped his remaining pair of $58M golden handcuffs. Well done! Enjoy!

…and will be granted an additional 100,000 shares in 2014 should he stay with company… – http://www.macrumors.com/2011/04/27/apple-svp-bob-mansfield-...
> "I wonder what they are using the send the image feed, surely not 3G or even LTE...

They showed today how they had multiple people on the roof with portable microwave dishes, hand aiming at each individual skydiver, with redundant backup alternative RF. The first skydiver released smoke to let his tracker know his position.
Guys checkout how much google pays to its employees http://www.visasquare.com/visa-greencard/salary/google-inc-3...
I know we've all read about the exciting "external brain" aspects of augmented reality in books like Accelerando, but sheesh guys, we have to start SOMEWHERE.

If I have to buy 10 pairs of Google Glass to light a fire under Apple, Qualcomm, and Valve's asses to get the immersive AR glasses I always wanted I will gladly do so.
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Sadly these guys wrote an identical blog post a year ago about how their previous manufacturer was unprofessional. The new one was supposed to be top notch, since they met him in person and toured the factory before signing.

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/cwandt/pen-type-a-a-mini...
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What? When I met Jeff Barr from Amazon, she was a woman.
If you are a developer and you have not encrypted your IP on a laptop you are going to leave by itself, well, your shareholders would probably be pretty disappointed.
Funny enough, my porn client called me about that seconds after he saw that video.
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I think it is MS's fault for taking years to speed up pace of browser development. DOM2 (important for jQuery) and XHTML are at least 10 years old now, and both are not supported by IE8 and took until IE9 to support.
>The headcount growth has been purely from Elastic’s own reinvested revenues.

>Elastic has started to field interest from venture capital firms looking to provide funding, Efti says, but for now the company is focusing on the business.

Good for them. It's refreshing to see a company grow organically with their own reinvestment.
>Elastic has started to field interest from venture capital firms looking to provide funding, Efti says, but for now the company is focusing on the business.

Good for them. It's refreshing to see a company grow organically with their own reinvestment.
An app and/or desktop client and I would probably switch to this full time. Definitely a cool idea.
Post starts with:

I’ve been following every single article, video, or meme mentioning Google Glass since its first demo video a few months ago. Google promised a lot; Glasses were meant to be something like “an augmented brain.” It would offer contextual information, interactivity, quick reference, and much more. And now I feel betrayed. Why?

And ends with:

We all know that this is a really early prototype and are willing to see (and buy) something as revolutionary as the iPhone. In the end, the most intelligent move of the day was releasing the early version of the product only to developers (with a US$1,500 price tag), to gain the necessary feedback and try to get things working while surfing on the huge PR wave.

You just answered your own question.
This was what I was going to point out. Great responsive design. Now if only their operating system was as sleek and as this ;)
Very nice finally something from MS that looks great. The simplicity and clean, clear, and crisp look is definitely a win for me. But it's to little to late, everyone's shifted a lot of their focus to Apple and Google.

BTW I think it's hilarious that they're using modernizer on their site, maybe it's the best choice they've got to cover up some of their own mistakes.
Yeah, the australian company called Where 2. Keyhole (another acquisition) quickly became Google Earth. YouTube, DoubleClick, Urchin (Google Analytics).

Google's been surprisingly good at making acquisition flourish (and has had some examples on how not to do it... DodgeBall anyone?)
The other risk I've seen in Chinese manufacturing is duplication of your design. Some vendors will manufacture a larger run and then place the float on the black market. This is particularly true for smaller orders.

I know of at least one niche electronics manufacturer - they have the parts made in China, but they load the firmware back in Australia. They've gone to great lengths to make the device useless without the firmware. It's a bit of a pain shipping-wise, but gives them some security.
That's just you. Loads in 1 second flat here in NY.
Only took a couple of seconds for me in Australia, though I'm on fibre.
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For me, it's not about what they may/may not have done. What enrages me is how the government has behaved. The level of force was ridiculous (i mean - helicopters... for a video pirate!?). Not to mention they stole lots of legitimate data and have barely provided a means to some people to retrieve their data. Which wouldn't have happened at all if the MAFIAA had it their way.
That's so much BS. Like supporting old browsers is that hard/expensive.

Everyone keeps saying that, but I have never ever seen numbers to back it up.

Letting it all blow up in the user's face is not an option to me. And I do business with publicity agencies, they don't give a fuck about this stuff, as far as they know everyone owns the latest macbook.
This is intentional. Windows uses font hinting which attempts to align the anti-aliased font to whole pixels vertically and sub-pixels horizontally. This is done to maintain readability at small sizes. Apple doesn't use this type of font hinting and applies sub-pixel anti-aliasing proportionately.

See this comparison of the two methods in detail: http://damieng.com/blog/2007/06/13/font-rendering-philosophi...
Thanks Sam :)
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WhatsApp has the cross-platform compatibility, but I find it horribly slow and inconsistent compared to BBM.

When I send something with WhatsApp, I know it will probably get there, but I'm not sure when, in what order, or at what relative time - and it takes a while to figure that out. When I send something with BBM, I know that it will either get there instantly or not at all, and I know that right away. For me, the latter is better.