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I sent you an email earlier thru your site but it boils down to these few points (iOS version, on iPhone 5)

tl;dr Love the great design! Questionable usability due to animations; needs work before I keep it on my phone.

- Beautiful UI and subtle clean design choices. Very pleasing design!

- Animations need work. Animations are way too slow. Get out of the way of the user and let them get to what they want. If I am ever waiting for the UI to do something, you've done this wrong. Try to keep all transitions < 0.4s if possible.

For example: When in the home screen, hit the search bar. The items that scroll up and push the search to the top: WAY too slow.

Another example: Tapping an item to open it. The photo rises to the top, then the thumbnails come down. Why can't this all happen at once? Another too slow, get to the point moment.

- Google+ style "zoom out" of new items: Visually distracting. After about ten seconds, I just want to turn it off.

- While "zooming out" of those items are happening, the user interaction is disabled so I can't actually stop the scrolling. Try this: Scroll the table down, then as items are animating in, put your thumb down. The scrolling doesn't stop.
Just because privco is full of shit, doesn't mean livingsocial isn't in trouble.

The sad truth is that this down round will hurt the employees more than they know, or are being told. Down rounds aren't made under the same terms as up rounds where the company has the advantage. When the investor has the advantage the terms will weigh heavily in favor of the investor protecting their cash, so what looks like equity today may not be in the future.
Thanks for the info! And ouch, regarding USB 3.0 SDHC card readers...

Separately, did you consider trying other stitching software, like PTGui Pro - or have done for smaller shoots? It seems, at least in the past, that PTGui used to be an order of magnitude faster with similar feature support and results as Autopano Giga.

That said, Autopano Giga directly supports graphics processor acceleration, which I am not sure PTGui can on Mac. Did you take advantage of this feature?
I didn't see that as a lesson learned. You have effort involved in moving 'sites' regardless of if you host your own equipment or 'rent'. If you're on the 'cloud' you have to potentially learn about a new providers API, test to make sure that the server blocks you rent are of the same level and capabilities as what your old provider had (meaning performance testing, etc.).

Basically you have pain regardless of what you do, one just abstracts a very specific piece of the equation away from you. Frankly I see it as they have the talent in-house to manage their own equipment, and thus they can realize a tremendous cost savings for their monthly bills by not running everything on top of AWS... and no matter which way you shake it, five racks of equipment on a cloud service is going to be more expensive.
There is an SSH app for Chrome. If you're "in the cloud" you have a computer to SSH to to code on. I do this with my Chromebook and it works fine; windowed Chrome apps don't steal keys anymore, so C-w is kill-region, not "close the tab".

There is also nothing stopping you from porting your favorite development tools to NaCl. This is something I'm planning to look into in the near future.

they were already using Google Docs and are fine with their crappy old netbook

Also, Google Docs looks really nice on a Macbook's retina display; significantly nicer than on a regular display. If the Pixel renders it the same way, it is a nicer experience.
Possibly. I've been hoping to find some candidates who can help train other developers here on Rails. We do pair development, which has proved to be tricky to do remotely. Anyone with experience doing remote pairing/remote training?
> That's $100 more than a 13" MacBook.

Some will see that as "So Chromebook is better than a MacBook then? They wouldn't have priced it that high if it wasn't. I want one".

Kind of how some expensive wine is sold. Sell it for $15 / bottle and it gets lost on the shelves among others. Put it in a special glass case and sell it for $120 / bottle and surprise people will buy, taste it and think it is really the best one they've ever head.

Not only this, now a cheaper Chromebook will seem like a really good deal.
I haven't used Spotify in a long time, but I've known it was p2p since the last time I used it in 2010, this is nothing new.

But, I almost exclusively use http://www.grooveshark.com and http://www.songza.com

Both are web based, the latter has a mobile app, both absolutely brilliant and FREE! I'll have to check out Rdio, that looks real interesting.
There are only three meaningful things you can do with a computer with specs like this: development, design, or gaming. And yet ChromeOS can't do any of these things.

Perhaps this is a vanity product for the wealthy. But wealthy people are going to just surf the web on an iPad.

I really don't get this product.
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:) hehe - the video is a little silly, but it was a pretty fun show to do.
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Isn't youtube "instagram for video"? Or any of the many other video sharing sites? Even facebook has a built in video sharing feature now, too.
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Most computers are $1,300 web browsers.
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I wonder if they have short bets (in systems like InTrade or similar shadow trading systems) on the companies they drag through the dirt.
I think madmaze is correct about the difference between "ubuntu" and "ubuntu for phones".

You might also be interested to know that Canonical is going to release their "Porting Guide" tomorrow. It looks like they are going to help people port it to other devices, even if they aren't going to do it themselves. So, if it doesn't support the Transformer yet, it might soon. See https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Touch/Porting
Aside from asking about internal company details such as financing valuations, you should also do research on similar companies that are a bit more mature. Find out details on their financings, revenue, exits, etc. It'll give you some idea of what could happen.
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I once was peripherally involved in a large commercial real estate deal in a major city. The press (a major paper- I forget which one, specifically, but you'd recognize it) reported the value of the deal without including the debt, which was most of the financing. It is hard to be more wrong about financial matters than that, but that is the state of financial journalism.
Dollar voting is not about buying literal votes. "Voting with your money" means you spend your money on the "best" choice and are essentially endorsing what you pay for.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dollar_voting

I'd disagree with the notion as applied here, though, because buying an unlocked phone is rigged to be a bad choice because so few carriers offer cheaper service prices for unsubsidized handsets.
Someone call Stripe.
Is it just me, or is Google's Play Store also having a greenish triangle (set at the same exact angle) sort of confusing? I've never heard of the Play Framework, is it related?
Who cares. Next.
It's not really limiting though. Between NaCl and WebGL you can do everything from 3D gaming, to Remote Desktop clients (an RDP client already is in the Web Store). It's true that a lot of the software still needs to be created, but what is going to spur that to happen if not hardware that is tuned for it?
Oh man... Thanks for this. I just bought a home that has structured network wiring that needs to be cleaned up. This should be handy for some tips.
There are lots of factors to consider. I joined an early-ish startup as an employee (still < 10 employees). My previous job was Dilbert-esque, so this has been awesome. Working in the same room with the entire company is great. Sure, I took a bit of a salary/benefits cut, but it is totally worth it. I'm having a lot more fun, and if I'm spending 40+ hours a week somewhere, I'll take actual happiness over material happiness.
One of the things Apple avoids is $1,300 products that are conceptual beta-tests. It's blatantly obvious that "life in the cloud" isn't feasible for most people yet, not when 10 GB of Verizon LTE costs $90 here in the US, then $10/GB. But with that tiny 32GB of flash, that's clearly what the Chromebook is designed for.

It's bold, but it's not going to sell. The reviews are going to rip this to shreds ("nice screen, but doesn't run anything.") In the end, it's going to be a "what the heck were they thinking?" product that will dilute the brand.
This was done years ago.... http://www.thingiverse.com/thing:4156
This is pretty cool, I was thinking that the next Macbook Air would be a iOS device kind of like this.

I find it really amazing we've got these choices, MBPro, MS Surface Pro, Google Pixel. All of the variables are getting cover (high res / low res) screen, local/net storage, local/remote compute, attached/detached keyboard, cellular/wifi-only connectivity.

PCs and laptops had gotten so boring, but now, they are interesting again.
Just needs to run Ubuntu on it well and I might just get it. Having a nice resolution screen for coding is worth it for me (but keyboard has to be good as well!).
All but one previous Chromebook has shipped with 16 (exception being the Acer, which uses an ordinary HDD), and the amount is almost entirely a non-issue for normal use. Which would add to my theory ChromeOS could be moving past the "just a browser" paradigm it's been going with all this time.
Use digital cash- no chargebacks, no middlemen.

The best option today if you don't want chargebacks is adopting Bitcoin for payments (like how Reddit did for Reddit Gold with Coinbase).

http://blog.coinbase.com/post/40131065845/hosted-payment-pag...
This is great from a sheer silly-factor. I typed in coffee and got:

coffeeprick.com
coffeehymen.com
coffeemucus.com

...and more! At the very least, it does come up with some unorthodox names that might work out well if you want people to remember your site.
Two cool things to see on this topic: anything by beardyman (who uses a mic and processors to emulate just about any genre you want) and imogen heap's magical music gloves (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6btFObRRD9k)
Just out of curiosity - do you mean a longer track record for us? You don't need to consolidate to use the site, but we've been getting positive reviews from some industry leaders since we launched after YC in S2010: https://www.readyforzero.com/praise-and-press

If you have any specific questions, email contact@readyforzero.com.
They might become the Microsoft of the mobile market.

You buy a PC (as opposed to a Mac) -> It runs Windows

You buy a phone (as opposed to an iPhone)-> It runs Android

I hope that doesn't happen, though.
LinkedIn is primarily a JVM shop. We believe that type-safe languages like Java and Scala are a good choice for building performant and reliable systems that scale to huge numbers of users as well as huge numbers of developers. We aren't constrained to the JVM - for example, we use node.js for our mobile server - but it has significant advantages and we have years of investment in it.

Unfortunately, we found developer productivity in the Java/Scala world to be a huge problem. We also found that most Java/Scala web stacks, based on servlets, were far behind other web frameworks (RoR, Django, etc) in terms of keeping up with the requirements of modern web development. Play helps on both fronts: it dramatically improves developer productivity and handles all the requirements of a modern web stack (MVC, web sockets, powerful routing, easy JSON handling, DRY form handling, etc).

Is it better than RoR, Django, Node? In some ways yes (e.g. Play's reactive programming model is dramatically better than JavaScript's callback mess), in some ways no (e.g. it's hard to compete with dynamic/interpreted languages for pure reload time). Is it better than everything else in the Java/Scala world? We think so.
Great - I'm interested in more QNX related stories if you got'em.
I wish the screen folded 180 degrees around so you could use it as a tablet.
People get by with 16GB iPads just fine, think you're wrong here.
So this idea was hatched under Jobs then. We can continue to speculate how much influence he had on the product pipeline for the next few years.
Cool, that applies in this situation, how?
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the cloud part was the point; the old hardware was supposed to be cheap enough for casual use, or for casual replacement for that matter.
Considering that this is actually competing against the Retina MacBook Pro, it's actually $200 cheaper...
It's a very evil standpoint for Microsoft, and should bring a couple of red flags to great efforts like wine and mono.

Hopefully Oracle will lose the appeal and we will keep a little more of sanity on the software world.
This has an interesting effect on warrantless border searches of electronics too. I wonder what the response will be.
> The WiFi version ($1,299 U.S. and £1,049 U.K.) will start shipping next week(...)

Uh, will there be a non-wifi version?
>And yet ChromeOS can't do any of these things.

Am I just imagining all the posts I've seen on HN from people talking about being extremely happy using Chromebooks as development platforms?
Same thoughts here. It's Intel-based, I wonder whether one could just install a Debian into this beast...
As other's have pointed out, it's not a replacement for UDP or "improved version of UDP with some extra features such as encryption" as mentioned in the original article but a reliable, encrypted protocol using UDP as transport layer. That makes sense because most NAT boxes etc. have to let UDP packets get through because they have to support DNS, VOIP protocols et el. I suspect the encryption part has more (or at least just as much) to do with keeping the middle-boxen's dirty hands off of the the protocol innards than MITM security.
There's the famous framing story about the company that invented the bread maker. Everyone was interested in their product but hardly anyone bought it. They brought in a product specialist who told them to release a second, high-end version of the bread maker. Once they did this, the base model started flying off the shelves.
I think it is much more dangerous if Oracle wins.

You made your DWG clone? Get sued.
Made a PDF clone? Sued!
Made a insertRandomProprietaryFileFormatHere clone? Sued!
Made a Wine, DOSBOX, Mono, any other sort of compatibility layer? Sued!!!

If Oracle manage to reverse and win this, it means that Oracle, Microsoft, Adobe, Autodesk and Apple will just bash everyone else (including Open Source stuff) to oblivion.
The Verge has more pictures.

http://www.theverge.com/2013/2/21/4013480/google-chromebook-...

It looks an awful lot like a Macbook: Just witness the aluminum-like color and the black bevel around the screen. Where it looks different, it's uglier. The hinge looks particularly bad. And judging by the pictures it's an awful lot bulkier than a Macbook Air.

Chrome OS strikes me as an underpowered OS. That is, there's a lot it won't do and it seems mostly suitable for underpowered machines.

UPDATE: this paragraph is wrong; I stand corrected! -- The ChromeBook Pixel has a 4:3 display. Now, I recently came across an old laptop of mine that had a 4:3 display and it looked off. I'm not saying that 4:3 aspect ratio a bad choice in an objective sense, but it strikes me as a bad choice from a marketing point of view.

For one hundred dollars less you can get a 13" Macbook Air. For two hundred dollars more you can get a 13" Macbook Pro with Retina Display. Both these machines seem better than the Chromebook Pixel in every way, including battery life (7 hours versus 5).

In conclusion, I think this is going to fail badly.
I don't think the Amazon document conversion service works for non-kindle devices.

EDIT: Nevermind, seems to work now. Just sent a .mobi file to my kindle android app using http://www.amazon.com/gp/sendtokindle/pc
Why didn't they just turn it into a tablet? The trackpad seems almost extraneous, and the keyboard could be an add-on. Not to mention the square form factor that makes it look bulkier than it really is.
Videos? On a 3:2 display? Don't get me wrong, I've been begging for laptop and display manufacturers to bring back displays with usable vertical resolution for writing code, but it's definitely not for watching video.
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Maybe this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MagSafe

Apple exclusively owns US Patent No. 7311526 ("Magnetic connector for electronic device", issued in 2007) and does not license the MagSafe connector or the patent.
Good point. Just the fact that tar sands is ramping up is a bad sign. We will feel pain because we're used to cheap energy.
Versus the wifi-plus-LTE version.
You can't build for NaCl from CrOS, and as it stands you don't have the toolchain (editors, debuggers, shells, etc) one's used to on other platforms. I understand a $400 phone not being able to run it's own toolchain, a $1300 computer less so.
did you guys try to stitch in batches, iteratively? like a few k at a time, then stitching the larger ones together? it seems like there is a lot of room for improvement if you can feed the photos in a pre-sequenced order also, rather than just throwing the full batch in and treating them like a giant jigsaw.
Am I missing something here, or did they build a machine that even their own developers cannot use? When you go to the Google campus, will everyone still be toting around a Macbook?
I'd think Vine is Instagram for homemade animated gifs. Maybe instead of photo filters, they can have ways to add in text to turn gifs into memes.
"I also feel like it is somewhat easier to master electronic music production (I know that it's still hard but compare how much one knows after playing piano for 6 months with learning Ableton for 6 months). I think that this is awesome since people will be able to concentrate on making interesting music as opposed to learning the instrument."

The thing is that Ableton isn't your instrument, it is just a way to arrange what music you've already created. If you're going software based you would have your synth(s) and then other plugins (VSTs) to modify your sound, each with their own learning curve. Then you would have to learn Ableton or whatever Digital Audio Workstation (DAW) you choose. Plus, since sounds are being created from scratch there is a lot to learn about the theory of sound so that you don't get frequencies overlapping. I know that I thought it would be really easy going into it, but I have found that it is much harder than it seems and I have a new found respect for those releasing their music.
Does anyone know what this actually is? Is it just a local stack that delivers requests to PHP in the same way that Heroku does? Or did they do a custom buildpack?

I am not sure what "Heroku on your local machine" means...

I have a custom php buildpack that I made (forked from heroku, borrowed some other ideas...) but to run it locally I just use PHP-FPM and there's nothing more to it...
I wish Google would come up with a unique design, they have the talent for it, this looks very much like an Apple product to me.
They also provide "One terabyte of Google Drive cloud storage, free for 3 years"
"Some questions: Why replace UDP? Why not work on top of UDP?"

It's not replacing UDP. It is built on top of UDP. It's all there in the source code.
> Coders obviously can't use this machine.

Depends what they are coding; developers working with PaaS platforms using one of the many cloud IDEs can certainly use it.

> Writers are not gonna migrate from Word to something like this, because either they were already using Google Docs and are fine with their crappy old netbook, or they like Word and are gonna stay with it, because writing is still just plain better in MS land.

If they are using Google Docs on an existing laptop/netbook, well, eventually its going to need replaced, and if that's their main use, ChromeOS presents a lot less distraction than traditional desktop OS's for that use role.
People who "live in the cloud" with a 16GB iPad have very un-demanding needs. They're people like my mom, who take some photos and send some e-mails. They're not going to buy a $1,300 machine to do those things when a $500 iPad does them just fine.
I sure hope so, but I just wanted to be clear that it's not part of the workflow for one of these things to pass in front of any elected member of congress.

I have this fear that people will think signing these petitions is "enough" (or "anything" really) and won't do more to push their particular issue. This literally does nothing but solicit a response from the White House, and 99% of the time (likely 100% but I don't know that for sure), the response could have been written by anyone familiar with the White House's already-public stance on the issue.
I think I am just used to hardware lagging the demands of software. This just seems, odd. Especially considering how much more this computer can do with something other than chrome os. (Correct me if I'm forgetting something, but is there anything chrome os can do that another OS can not already do?)
Is the 1TB Google Drive account complimentary with the purchase? And for how long? Cuz that's $600 in the first year, right there.
I'll assume that's sarcasm but I haven't personally noticed that trend. The only way I made my cr-48 useful was by flashing the BIOS, adding a bigger SD, and running ubuntu on it.
It's a PC laptop. I'm reasonably certain desktop Linux distros will be running on it in the very near future.

The screen is magnificent. And I love the move to a taller aspect (it's slightly larger, vertically, than the 13.3" screen I'm using now).

The board itself is pretty meh, though. Dual core Ivy Bridge with 4G. That will run desktop stuff, but it will do virtualization poorly. Big software builds are going to suffer a lot vs. my quad core laptop (which looks to be about 3x faster). And the 32-64G of built-in storage is mostly a joke; that just isn't going to cut it for serious development work.

So I won't buy one. But wow, I like that screen.
How do you do DI with Play? It seems as if everything is oriented towards writing static methods:

- controller methods are static

- DB access using the framework seems to involve calling play.db.DB.getDatasource()

- Play's Cache API involves calling Cache.get(), Cache.set()

Are Play applications easy to write unit tests for? Does it involve reconfiguring the framework to use some sort of stub services rather than the real DB/Cache implementation?
Have you entered the tablet world yet?
> And it is sad it does not support Ethernet... I like Ethernet! It is faster and more stable!

Most ultrabooks don't come with ethernet either. But it has USB ports, and USB ethernet adapters are not too expensive.
Sorry about that! Just did a proofread for obvious errors and I think I got them all. I'm omw out now, but I'll take another look when I get back.

It's open source, you're welcome to contribute a fix: https://github.com/balanced/balanced.github.com/blob/master/...
It has 4GB of it. https://www.google.com/intl/en/chrome/devices/chromebook-pix... scoll down, click 'full specs'
mobile clients have their own set of bandwidth issues. I play 1 playlist on my phone, it is available locally (all downloaded long ago), and yet spotify has used over 2gb of bandwidth in the last 20 days. There's a huge thread about it on the spotify forums somewhere.
The author asserts that JRuby would consume more than 15GB of memory without providing any justification. Perhaps it would be better to actually try it rather than just making sweeping generalizations.
Aren't most of those folks replacing the os on their machines?
I'm really impressed with the way Heroku has been communicating with their customers and the quick action they have been taking. It goes a long way to restore my faith in their long term plans to make this better.