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The author seems to imply we will all switch to Chrome because of speed, and speed alone. You know what? My PC is faster than it ever was, CPU never hits 100% and Firefox runs fast enough for my needs. With my new i7 system I expect this to be truer than ever before.

I switched from Opera to Firefox, despite Firefox being noticeably slower, because of extensions. I love extensions. In fact, right now I'm unable to imagine a web without extensions. It would be like using a OS without the ability to write scripts or code to interact with it. I realize this probably doesn't apply to all Firefox-users, but I seriously suspect it applies to almost all early adopters.

Why would I switch to to Chrome with extensions lacking, when it offers me nothing more than Opera? In fact Opera offers more than Chrome, is just as fast (based on actual machine-to-human metrics, not artificial millisecond wanking) but that didn't stop me from going to another browser.

Speed is only one factor in the equation, and on modern machines it is highly irrelevant. If speed was that important to everyone, why didn't Opera turn out to be the top dog years ago?
As a tort, doesn't theft require that you're taking someone else's property and depriving that person of its use?

Using someone's bandwidth surreptitiously isn't really "theft" as much as it's virtual trespassing. Just because you're checking your mail doesn't stop someone else still using the connection (or even blocking you with a single click).

the idea that because something is easy to steal means it's not theft is ridiculous.

I'd agree with that, but I don't think it's "theft" (so my counter examples were poor, I'd admit ;-)). It's more like someone jumping in your swimming pool without permission, rather than actually stealing the water.
I wondered about that. I've been using Pipes a little lately but am no expert. I'm not sure if Pipes can deal with operations upon non organized content. You could probably use a service like Feed43 first though.
I'm not a heavy user of nginx although I've read more than I care to about all of the various options lately.. and my single data point is that nginx would be the better option of the two right now.
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Ruby 1.9 and JRuby seem to finally be tipping the scales for Ruby. Both generally outperform Python 3.0 (though not 2.x) in this test. Ruby 1.9 versus Perl almost shows equivalency with Perl just pipping Ruby 1.9 but JRuby beating Perl ;-)

Of course, just how canonical are these benchmarks? I consider them pretty definitive for my own casual uses, but if there are others let us know!
I'm a bit surprised this is a top link off of HN, I remember it topping reddit many years ago – hardly hacker “news.”

As I said about this product then, taking 3 tabs of LSD should not be required before reading a “how to program in this language“ book. The cartoons are great, but if they had some bearing on the content e.g.

3.times{ puts 'chunky bacon' }

then I wouldn't feel so much like I was sitting through some performance from the gifted kid class which is sort of boring and semi-insulting: Why yes, imagining what it would be like to be a butterfly at Valley Forge is very creative, but is neither dramatic nor historically enlightening (cf. Beavis and Butthead watching Beck's “Pay no Mind”).
not an iPhone killer per se. but you could differentiate your product by making a phone that tethered to most console gaming and computing devices. think of being able to take any console online by hooking up your phone (wire connect or wifi/bluetooth if that's an option). it's the internet, a controller, keyboard, microphone, touchscreen, camera, game save / profile storage. it's a pretty robust peripheral now.
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This is a total fluff piece. They talk about a phone which has been rejected as too dull, but dell has not even commented on making a phone, nor have any of the carriers commented on it being too dull. Either this is link bait pure and simple or I failed at reading it.
I've used Lighttpd, Cherokee, Nginx and of course Apache (although stripped down for speed) on a high load production site for serving static files and reverse proxying.

Nginx wins no contest. Highly stable, serving for almost 2 years now with zero issues.

Lots of features, much simpler config, uses less resources.

Hot config reloading. Hot binary upgrading.

Low grade? Hardly.

Issues with others:

Lighttpd - configing slightly annoying, uses more cpu and memory

Apache - slow performance and memory hog even when stripped of all it's extra modules, (just try and support 5000 keep alive connections on it)

Cherokee - very nice, well thought out and featureful and fast but had some stability problems in production, I may take a look at it again later on because it has a sweet admin interface
I've never needed to do that. The auto-merge has never failed for me.

Give me an example of when you "wouldn't like its auto-merge".
Just install a local svn repository :/
This looks like a one of "Murphys Laws of Work"

e.g. http://www.bored.com/jokes/0241377.html (Conway's Law #2)
BitTorrent is only a few kb, and speed dial has propagated to most other browsers.

And why does XUL have to be slow? Couldn't it be sped up instead of throwing it away?
The real question is whether $5k + $5k/founder AND startup school is worth 5%.
I suppose any good VCS should work fine. Each dev should get his/her own branch which is periodically merged upstream.

We use SVN and it does the job just fine. In fact, we are still stuck on 1.4 so we track merges ourselves which isn't really a big deal.
Whoops I did 500 submissions the other day. I hope they didn't count them all.
nginx hands down. nginx is probably the most stable piece of software with the least problems we run here at engineyard. We've had thousands of nginx instances in production for years now and I can truly say it is one of my favorite pieces of software.
There's several points to this article. At first it's about cult followings, but then it morphs into a self-examination of the consequences of being a public figure. Finally, Eliezer ends with a question about the impulse to praise someone highly.

1) There is an enormous difference between "having a cult-like following" and "having a cult". Anyone who argues that Startup School is some sort of cult facility for churning out brainwashed followers is just plain dumb. Fortunately, I've never seen anyone admit such an opinion, so hopefully they don't exist.

2) When you choose to become a public figure, like both Eliezer and PG have done, you do give up a certain element of privacy. This applies as much to intellectual figures (like pg, Einstein or Feynman) as to more common ones (like Angelina Jolie, Tony Blair or Stephen Fry). That is part of the deal. Some people can't take it and so they attempt to escape the public life. Others can. But all make that trade-off between private life and public recognition.

3) Writing an article or a public comment about how to become a writer is not the same thing as wandering into the library to pick a book. When pg writes an article and publishes it, that is a public statement. It is perfectly reasonable that it gathers public feedback from a large number of people. Comments are also completely public, and in a format that encourages interaction. If you don't want to interact with your readers, you don't have to. But if you choose to, you cannot complain that they will sometimes disagree with you in bizarre ways.

4) One of the consequences of interacting with a large number of people is that some of them will disagree with you for the sake of disagreeing. Again, that's life... Every "mainstream" figure has contrarians who will criticise them just because they define themselves in that way. If you can't take it, don't be a public figure. Hopefully, the 90% of ppl who do think you're great make up for the 10% who want to disagree with everything you say.
uhh... 2 years will get you half a mill in addition to your normal salary?

why wouldn't you stay? :|
Uh being contacted by lots of companies because you announce having a baby is definitely NOT the future. Unless Facebook ad Twitter design away the "unsubscribe" button.
I second this recommendation, except on a vastly smaller scale. My uptime currently reads about 530 days. My wee little nginx has not needed a restart in the entire time, except for reloading configuration files. This is through, and this is a back of the envelope number, probably 20 million HTTP requests.

It is far and away the most stable software I've ever seen (at least, among non-trivial publicly-accessible pieces of software).

It also has memory requirements which are low enough that some Japanese toilet seats probably qualify.
What extensions do you use, that are so important to you, if I may ask? Of these, are there any that would not also function as either desktop widgets or filters applied by a proxy server to the incoming/outgoing content? I moved from Firefox on a PC to Safari on a Mac, and I'm missing it much less than I thought I would; I never really used anything other than Adblock. How is thine ride pimped?
I Google for
site:news.ycombinator.com <key_words_here>
when I want to find an old article.
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The hardware pricing structure is true enough, but the whole anti-hipster sentiment has been done ad nauseam. Just because Apple has good marketing and is fashionable does not mean their stuff is junk.

I bought a MBP because it hits a real sweet spot in terms of UNIX, consumer apps, and hardware support. I've used both Windows and Linux heavily at different times in the past, and frankly, the headaches haven't been worth it. I do hold out hopes that Linux will become compelling enough for me to switch back, but for now it will stay on my servers.
Well, I'd agree that both PG and I have "cult followings" but that's not at all the same as "cult-like followings".

I should mention that this post is part of a series on things that prevent nonconformists from cooperating (http://lesswrong.com/lw/3h/why_our_kind_cant_cooperate/). You're right, this sort of thing is personally uncomfortable for me, and you're right, I did volunteer for that in the course of allowing myself to become a public figure. But it also has consequences for the larger community.
Your critique is fair, but I have to say I really enjoyed the library analogy, flawed though it may be. I was fascinated by the mental image of groups of people behaving that way in public.
and providers lose the power they have over the industry

In Europe they have no power at all. It's quite nice and you can choose any phone you fancy, no lock-downs included. Insert your provider's SIM and you are pretty much ready to go.

People here typically adapt to a new phone around once a year, and odd as it may seem, these days phones are pretty generic things. All phones seems to do the same, and the competition seems to be on how to do it best, how to offer the best experience.
Bits are information, so it makes sense to use them as evidence of a crime, but can the bits themselves really constitute a crime?

"Ooh, you put a zero next to that one. Naughty, naughty."
I thought about trying it out, but as far as I can tell it doesn't support regex url matching.
There is a second edition of The Ruby Way released last year(2008).
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My list of essential extensions are as follows:

* Adblock plus (with Filterset.G)
* Firebug
* Gamil notifier
* Greasemonkey
* Platypus (reformat and edit webpages live, script it, ready for Greasemonkey)
* Rikaichan (Japanese dictionary with lookup directly in your browser with a simple mouse-hover)
* Linkification (Create links out of any non-linked address on pages)
* Mouse Gestures (Not just navigation, things like image-zooming and whatever you feel like)
* Ubiquity (which pretty much has "extensions" on its own)
* User agent switcher (Because some sites gives you different content than google)

Some of these things can surely be implemented in Chrome or will be implemented sooner or later. Some can probably be implemented outside the browser, but that means another layer of indirection while working with your data. In other words: A step back.

I don't expect all of these extensions ever to be ported to the core of any browser. In fact that would make very little sense as only a fringe share of the market would need it or want it.

However having the ability to have extensions and go crazy with your customized install is what makes Firefox great. And this is where Chrome fails. It wont let you make your browser yours.
It seems that nearly every post about Chrome results in a multitude of comments like this one, about how extensions are key and Chrome is useless without them. Google realizes this and is working on bringing extensions to Chrome. Mozilla, on the other hand, isn't working on bringing process-per-tab to Firefox at all. It almost seems like willful ignorance.

Firefox may be dead simply due to Mozilla not having any long term strategy vision about how to stay relevant. The issue isn't that Chrome doesn't have extensions now, but what is Mozilla doing now to plan for the future when they no longer have the extension advantage. So far it looks like nothing.

Even Firefox's vaunted new JS engine in 3.5 isn't going to be turned on for extensions, only web content. Meanwhile not only does Chrome's extension code get the V8 love, they also run as a separate process, which means they won't impact performance of browsing as much as Firefox's extension framework does.
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County officials "changed votes at the voting machines", "affected outcome of elections"
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Don't bother reading the sequel it's not bad, but it's nowhere near as good as canticle.
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(1) I doubt that ANWR has ground-level oil because I think that the Inuit would have exploited it.

(2) The Inuit know, or at least knew, how to survive in that area without significant tech. If "all the tech disappears" happens in winter and they wake up naked and outside (with no inside available), they don't wake up. If it's summer, they can cope.
I don't think I even realized what it was.
Firefox has changed lots since 1.0, you probably just don't realise it because it's taken a while. Off the top of my head:

* Major look and feel changes in 3.0

* Spell checking in 3.0

* Performance improvements throughout the browser.

* Improved support for adding/removing plugins

* Allow searching of addons from within Firefox

* Improved Mac OS X integration.

* The Awesomebar.

* Completely revamped everything to do with bookmarks.

* Improved options window

* Revamped Downloads window, with download progress in the bottom right.

Coming soon in 3.5: Private browsing, dragging tabs into new windows. For a lightweight browser, this adds up.
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> If the cops have to cause a mild inconvenience to 50 people to successfully prosecute one bad guy - then so be it.

"mild inconvenience"?

If it's a "mild inconvenience", surely you won't mind paying for n instances, for non-trivial n. You've used 50 above, so let's start there.

Are you personally willing to pay for the "mild inconvenience" suffered by 50 innocent people?

What? You're not willing to pay? You're only willing for other people to pay?
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pretty basic amazonfps question - do customers have to have an amazon account to complete their transaction?
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I think its a bit of a stretch to forecast the current redesign to something that will be happening decades later. I can't accept the fact that even in 2015 it will be the same game on the internet much less 2035. Scoble sometimes has some insightful writeups, but somehow correlating the facebook redesign to technology ubiquity in the future is a murky forecast at best. No one can predict what will happen then. The future on the web remains to be built.
the "Shift" feature seems like a good idea. I often find myself shifting a task into another day.
The shootout makes clear:

"How can we benchmark a programming language?
We can't - we benchmark programming language implementations.

How can we benchmark language implementations?
We can't - we measure particular programs."

The other thing that I have to note is that "Time measurements include program startup time." Which I think would distort something like Erlang greatly. It takes a long(ish) time for Erlang to start up, but then it runs very fast.
Intuitively it seems like ads ought to act as a constant revenue stream vs. the static one time cost of downloading an app. In theory, this should lead to more sustainable revenue streams. It would be interesting to see more data along these lines from more app developers.
I am finding that HN is down more often these days. Is it because of occasional spikes or is it a persistent occurrence. Perhaps pg could explain what's going on under the hood?
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Not only that, but he also uses Vi (http://www.paulgraham.com/pfaq.html) when everyone knows that Emacs is the only true way!
NB, the first link in that story is busted, it should be http://nctimes.com/articles/2009/03/18/business/z8bf28a6caf4...
This feels like good news, but I'm not sure I know enough to read into it -- any good theories on the root cause if this?
Unless people just get sick/bored of the app the same way people tend to stop using a paid app.

I think this would require a more long term analysis.
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"In Europe they have no power at all. It's quite nice and you can choose any phone you fancy, no lock-downs included. Insert your provider's SIM and you are pretty much ready to go."

Likewise in India. And India is a pretty large market for cell phones. I heard a million more cell phone customers were added last month, recession be damned.
Confess to HN:  Indubitably, this downtime must have been our fault.
HN went down just as http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=527064 was voted up to #1. This was the article "You're calling who a cult leader?" at http://lesswrong.com.

Considering that the Less Wrong site format was inspired by HN, that LW is based on Reddit source code, and that Reddit is a Y Combinator company, I guess that writing about (famous LISP advocate) Paul Graham and then getting voted up on Hacker News was just Too Much Recursion for a site named after lambda calculus.
I find it handy when HN goes down. Lets me get some work done. :)
Every time facebook makes a change, everyone whines about it for a month then actually likes it. Why would this change be any different?

It would seem people are just perpetually afraid of any sort of change at all
I have a feeling I'm going to be stuck between stages 2 and 3 for the rest of my life.
I'm sorry but the Porsche analogy is just crap. If you ask Porsche enthusiasts, they will not list "trunk room" or "more leg room" as desirable features of their next Porsche. If you ask the thousands of people who buy a Porsche because it is a status symbol, then yes, they will want it to be more like a Volvo. Does Porsche listen to the former? Heck yes they do. And the latter? They are laughed at and ignored while their checks are cashed.

For the record, I am indifferent to the redesign but do not use Facebook too much. FWIW, I think the average facebook user is just scared of a website changing in general and the concept of "redesign" is entirely lost on them.
I appreciate you taking the time to write this well thought out response owkaye. My interest in a co-founder stems from me having no experience in hacking or tech, felt it best to bring in someone with vested interest. Wasn't thinking 50/50, probably more like 80/20 because I'll be funding.
You make some good points I am going to think about heavily.

Regarding YC, I believe they offer a ton of value beyond the money...especially for someone on the outside like me.
The mindsharing, networking to other YC founders and hopefully, eventually, VC's when the beta iterates successfully are worth giving them a vig.
I on the other hand become further unproductive. I keep coming back every 30 seconds to see if it’s up again and end up doing nothing at all.
I'm actually looking for somehing a lot simpler: vi/Emacs keybindings and a better mouseless browsing experience in general.

EDIT: Sorry, I'm looking for such features in Chrome.
That's the one I was talking about, yeah. On OS X ad blocking isn't such a big necessity since GlimmerBlocker does all of it no matter what browser.
SRWare's Iron is Chrome with all the privacy-compromising stuff turned off. It also has adblocking similar to ABP via an adblock.ini file in the installation directory.
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That's what hnstatus.net is for. Put it in a tab and the title will tell you within a minute when HN comes back.
Check out this question Alan Kay asked on Stack Overflow: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/432922/significant-new-in...
I prefer http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robinson_Crusoe - Crusoe built all sorts of things to make his life easier from wood. Tom Hanks just spoke to a volleyball the entire time.
Oh, no, no more ads please. I will gladly pay just not to have something taking the real estate of my screen and trying to interrupt.
I am with 37signals take on this: asking money for your work IS ok!
http://www.37signals.com/svn/posts/1615-how-did-the-web-lose...
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a portion came from organic growth

a portion came from lots of programmers losing their jobs due to a bad economy and deciding to try their luck at the startup game.

a portion came from programmers thinking they have a better chance in a down economy
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Too much recursion? I thought Arc had tail recursive optimization; guess we better check and make sure our functions are written properly so this doesn't happen again. ;-)
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I've seen an app like this before ..

My recollection was that it was generalized so that a user could specify a site, and the app would say whether the site was up or not .. but it did not monitor to let you know when it was back up ..

Combining the two would make a very handy tool .. to be able to monitor when any site is back up ..