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How do you develop on this?

I'm used to using Linux, command line, text editors, local installs of the product I'm developing for, virtual machines, etc...

Are you simply forced into using ALL websites to actually develop and unable to use anything else?

Seems strange to pay $1250+ to develop on a machine that cannot even run or test the code you write.
Either after flipping the dev-mode switch and running a chroot or such (thus being outside CrOS's use case), or using it entirely as a thin client (which doesn't need this kind of horsepower).
Thanks. I appreciate it!
Maybe they are just trying to shake things up and see what happens?

Sometimes you can't see the use for something, but others will in due time...
It creates barriers to use patents offensively. I'd guess that relatively few offensive patent litigations are initiated by the company that created them. Of those, very few of the inventors would agree to offensive usage. The only way that I can see to convince inventors to use patents offensively would be if they got a significant cut from the litigation proceeds. This cuts down on the appeal of an offensive litigation.

So no, it's not perfect. It uses incentives to control abuses. Even though it's not perfect, I still like it's simplicity.
And yet Microsoft has magnetic power connectors on the Surface tablets.
This is neat. My only suggestion is to remove GoDaddy as the default registrar though.
The labeling on the spine is a nice touch, I rather like that. Otherwise, most of them have been woeful copies.
In response to both you and dragonwriter, those are all totally fair points. My thought is this might be a case of poorly-managed expectations.

Specifically, people generally think of petitions as things where, given n signatures, some kind of action is going to be taken (as in 'the right to petition government for redress of grievances'). In that context, it's easy to forget that the most you can 'win' is a response. Hence, 'victory' feels hollow, which can take more energy away from a movement than not having had a petition to rally around in the first place.

Hope that makes sense. I'm not arguing against the system itself, but I think it's overplaying its hand by calling itself a petition system.
That's 7 seconds waiting for JSFiddle, not Highcharts. In my Chrome browser, Highcharts renders 800 bubbles in under 200 ms: http://jsfiddle.net/highcharts/hAyzq/
What happens if bitcoins are purchased with a credit card? Who will be responsible for the chargeback in that case? Coinbase?
I'm surprised the part on combatting friendly fraud (4.2) didn't include a part about contacting the customer directly, most likely via phone. If you are in an industry where this occurs more often, you might even want to invest in telephone authentication. While it won't stop the friendly fraud, it will be a deterrent.

Anyways, contacting the customer can usually get things resolved as well, even if they went straight for the chargeback.

Never underestimate human contact. You might be surprised why they went with a chargeback. Some just thing it's the way to get a refund for something that was wrong. Yes, sometimes the person is just being a douche, in which case you can assure the person that you thank them for reporting the case, and that you will be following up by filing a police report. When they realize what information you have available, some are quick to want to work something out, usually that involves calling the bank in a 3 way conference call and canceling the charge back.

It won't always work, but the nature of chargebacks means every little bit helps.

Again, this also depends on the nature of the industry you are in.
[Now, after having written this, I don't think its possible that any of the three languages is strictly simpler than any of the other ones.]

Me too, great comment, thanks.
I'm using jqplot: http://www.jqplot.com/
It's free for 3 years which is supposedly "the lifetime of the laptop." Which, I dunno, I would think part of the attraction of a Chromebook would be that it would have a longer life due to everything happening on the cloud, and thus the local CPU, etc. being less important. Ergo, it should have a longer life.
The last thing the world needs is more bubble charts. I'd like once to see one in a true scientific paper. Bubble charts are just like dowsing rods. That's why marketers and managers love them. They'll show you whatever you're looking for.
You give up a lot moving to a cloud solution.

http://blog.serverfault.com/2011/03/23/performance-tuning-in... is my go to "we couldn't do things like this in the cloud" example.

Not to say the cloud is never the right choice, it's just never made sense for us.
People are happy using Chromebooks as development platforms because they're $250 for an ARM laptop with long battery life, and you can hack them to run Ubuntu, not because Chrome OS has any merit on its own.

Things that are cute on a $250 machine are not so cute on a $1,300 machine...
I am pretty sure Apple patented magnetic power connectors, and that this is the reason no one else uses them.
>The ChromeBook Pixel has a 4:3 display.

That would be 2560x1920. ChromeBook Pixel has a 2560 by 1700 display, which makes for a wider aspect ratio of almost 3:2.
> Pixel also comes with one terabyte of Google Drive cloud storage, free for 3 years,
I wonder if existing Chromebook users would want to pay for a Chromebook Pixel, or if they're content with what they have.I thought Chromebooks were about low price points, an alternative to expensive machines which people primarily used for web browsing. I guess there's going to some people who don't care about the number of gigabytes on their laptop. They just want sharp graphics and constant online access.
But in the same respect, I'm not paying $1300 for a 16gb iPad, and it's serving a purpose that lends itself to cloud storage.
Found this on its page, though I don't have the chance to check it out:

> monitor applications connections , block outbound connections
> to unwanted services (block chat, p2p...)
I'll never use your service not just because you deal with GoDaddy, but because you even considered dealing with GoDaddy. Never.
But given coal has perhaps 500 kg/m^3 of carbon while pure CO2 at ambient pressure has about 0.5 kg/m^3. A thousand fold difference.

How are you going to dig something up from the ground, expand it thousand fold and put it back in to the same hole?

I don't understand this carbon storage business. Clearly coal is the best carbon storage method by far, and it doesn't cost anything as it's already stored.
My mom is in her 60s, speaks very little English, has great difficulty using computers... but she's gotten down the routine of how to access her 'addresses of contacts' list (basically just a document in Google Docs, with names of people and their addresses/phone numbers). She can do that anywhere, anytime -- she logs into Gmail, clicks Google Drive and there you are.

She cannot do this with normal desktops (she doesn't know how to use file explorers).

You're underestimating how valuable it is to have your data be available anywhere, anytime, you're underestimating how much of a burden very basic desktop usage is for the average Joe out there. Sure, that's probably not as true for the newer generation, but lifting the burden of system administration (managing data) is a pretty significant deal.

Personally I hate the idea of anyone but me being the guardian of my data -- to me this is just an excellent method for Google to introduce their ads into everything. Even to access my own static data I will keep getting served with ads, I hate that -- but it looks more and more that this is how things will be in the world of tomorrow.
Um, that's barely narrower than a standard 16:10 aka 3.2:2 display, or a 16:9 / 3.55:2 HD panel. There's be minor letterboxing on a 16:9 DVD, but it would be barely noticeable.
For a much slower CPU and 1/4 the disk, and an OS that has no apps.
I like it. Just saying.
What I find interesting is how much benefit you get from being one of the guys who get asked for help with this kind of thing ("I can't figure it out"-problems).

It was the main way I studied in university. People would come with some "difficult" problem thinking that I'd know the answer. They'd proceed to explain the problem, teaching me a ton of stuff while doing so, and there would inevitably be some small obvious thing they'd missed, I'd point it out and they would be super happy. I'm sure I learned way more from those interactions though.

It's the same in work as well, if you're "a troubleshooter" you end up learning an amazing amount of things from people coming over to explain something so that you can help them find the (usually) obvious thing they missed, or if it's not obvious you get to do some interesting research with them which teaches you some new stuff.
Maybe what they meant is that power users can install some real OS on this model?
> "Unlike previous Chromebook versions, the Pixel is aimed at power users who fully live in the cloud."
> I thought that was always the point

Supporting users who "fully live in the cloud" has always been the point of ChromeOS (and, therefore, Chromebook).

The idea that those users would include "power users" has always been a Google goal, but hasn't been the focus of the design of previous Chromebook devices.
Cohort Analysis Workshop at Google Ventures Startup Lab (slides & notes)
This is cool, useful, and good news but there's a "but" coming. There are far better options for PHP hosting than Heroku. Other technologies like Ruby, Node, and Java require what less technical developers would consider "extra" work and consideration. What I mean by that is that you can't just plop your Rails or node or Django or Java app on a server, visit it in a browser, and have it run. But PHP is different. Most PHP applications save for some very complex ones only need PHP installed then developing and running them is honestly as simple as creating static HTML pages.

So with that said, why use Heroku when you can use AppFog FortRabbit or, dare I say, shared hosting for cheaper and with the same amount of convenience?

Don't get me wrong, the fact that they're supporting these stacks for PHP is cool and I'm one of the minority that doesn't think PHP is going anywhere soon. I'm sure it's a pretty great learning experience for some people to deploy their PHP app on a service like Heroku - there's no doubt about the value in that. I just wonder "why support PHP on Heroku"? I mean, if Heroku one day made it impossible to run PHP apps I don't think many would miss it and may make things easier on the Heroku guys. There's no shortage of platforms that support PHP out there.
Care to expand on why Lift is crap? (I still have paltry experience with it, but I also still feel it has the best template mechanism out there.)
I don't care. I don't follow LivingSocial. The question I answered was, "how do I know PrivCo is the one being dishonest?"
Try cloud-based development environments like Action.IO
Always good to be skeptical. what caught my eye is the EROI ratios which are in the ballpark. As pointed out below living with 3:1 ratio as compared to 15-20 : 1 is something people will feel. And this could be a trend since OPEC net exports are dropping due to more internal use of their own oil.
A Tale of Two Cows
No maintenance of the underlying machine. Responsibility for updates and security is punted onto google.
Action.IO... Cloud9... Koding...
Imagine a government-run website where you could pledge money to running candidates, up to a cap of $100 bucks. Or better yet, the government supplies the $100 per citizen, and the citizen decides which campaign it goes towards. No other fundraising is allowed by candidates, and the only way to get onto the ballot is through signatures (also doable from the government-run website, each citizen is granted the ability to endorse n candidates).
Good read as I'm currently entertaining a 1% stake in a seeded company for 1/2 my market rate, with a valuation of $5 mil.
Discliaimer: I work for Google, but don't know about real strategy decisions about this.

I think it's all about establishing more demand for web apps.

Already I can do everything I need to in Chrome except for a nice development environment, though Cloud9 is getting closer, and music apps like Logic. Those are quite doable though, especially with the Chrome App APIs, someone just needs to get the ball rolling.

The current crop of Chromebooks were really inexpensive and nice for the money, but they weren't going to appeal to the cutting edge tech users who will loudly demand and use better web apps. Chrome needs something that inspires, and I think the Pixel will do that. I've used it for a while now and the hardware is incredibly nice. It'll also create space between the $200-300 Chromebooks and the Pixel for some decent mid-range devices.
Isn't that the Nexus 10?
yeah, i thought about bookmarking that service, then i realized that they link to godaddy...
The importance of price anchoring...

$100 more? Is it better than a MacBook?

$200 less? Wow...MacBooks are so overpriced.
Yes, it's just webapps, Chrome extensions and Chrome Apps from the Web store. If you feel strongly that you need to install other software then the Pixel is probably not a product for you... Just keep in mind that it's pretty much the same for all tablet users, since they can also only use webapps and install apps from their vendor's store.
Absolutely. I tweeted them a few hours ago. It's bothered me forever!
Hrmm. I don't know. I was just curious and looked it up. It appears that microsoft has their own patent for a magsafe-like connector:
http://www.engadget.com/2012/06/14/microsoft-magnetic-patent...
from http://www.engadget.com/2012/06/19/microsoft-surface-power-c...
... which you will pay your ISP out the nose to access.
Yes, if a bitcoin exchange accepted credit cards, they'd be on the hook for any chargebacks. Hence why most of the existing exchanges want a bank transfer instead.

In theory, a bitcoin exchange should have a near-perfect defense against chargebacks for faulty or missing products or similar, by showing via the public block chain that they delivered the purchased product as requested. However, there's no defense against chargebacks claiming that the cardholder didn't make the purchase (stolen card number, etc).
People are cashing out Quora credits ($10/6k credits)
Great topic!

Daedelus (http://daedelusmusic.com/) is one of my favorite artists, not only because of his tunes but because of how much fun he has just rocking on stage with his Monome/various toys, and how it faces it towards the audience to show what he's doing, even if that's a personal positioning preference. He's also in a documentary about circuit bending available on YouTube that's worth watching called Glitch (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PvlYM5Js450). Your ears won't thank you, but your geek will.

Other artists that are entertaining to watch fiddle with their digital instruments are Side Brain (hacks gaming peripherals to make music), No Sir E and the ever-wonderful Shigeto.
Oh boy. If only they gave it 128 GB drive.

The way it is it's useless for me (and I guess most people on HN, though I think basic Ubuntu could fit into 32/64 GB), but it still makes me cautiously optimistic that after years of stagnation and perhaps even regression, the 1366x768 era might be nearing it's end. I can hope that in a year, "reasonable-resolution" (as Linus called it) laptop like the Pixel will be not outrageous or top of the line but simply normal.

And the screen aspect ratio is just a cherry on top.
The best way to control the future is to invent it.
Apple’s Next Generation iPad Mini Leaked Photos
...given that the web still focuses on content that is meant to be displayed horizontally...

What is this nonsense?
I'm always mystified when I see people's fingers move that quickly. I can see myself typing on the keyboard, but it's a simple letter that comes out when I press it. It might just be that it's so normal that I don't think it's cool anymore, but people who can mix music like they type is just awesome to me.

Here's two more videos of people mixing/making cool music on the 'fly'

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=baWlIzwksHs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lTx3G6h2xyA
You're telling me you've crowdsourced your editing for marketing materials?

Tell me you're not serious.
100mb/month LTE? Awesome. Lets see... for a 1TB google drive, that would take......... 873 years to fill up that google drive.
If you mean you wish that Apple were not always the first to market with obvious good ideas such as higher pixel density, then you should welcome their competition getting in on the act.
Aww, it's so sweet! Whatever next? DJ's learning to play an instrument?
Hilbert's Grand JavaScript School
Implement a 3¢ tax on plastic grocery bags
Where are the real specs? Google have gone and copied what Apple do, and just dumped marketing blurb everywhere.

"Intel® Core™ i5 Processor (Dual Core 1.8GHz)" - What's the model number? There are numerous Core i5 processors and their performance varies, which one am I getting? http://www.cpubenchmark.net/laptop.html

32 GB SSD - What kind of read/write speed? Standard SATA or mSATA interface?

4 GB DDR3 RAM - Is the RAM soldered or user upgradeable? How many ram slots? What's the maximum capacity?

Perhaps I'm in the minority, but at that price, I do actually want to know if I'm buying an appliance or a computer.
If you are asking how do you do DI with Play in java, I can't answer your question. If on the other hand you are asking for how to do it in scala, it is quite easy.

Scala's language support for traits, implicit conversions, implicit parameters etc. make dependency injection trivial. Once you get used to it, things like test mocks or IOC containers seem like obvious language smells.
When I hear a comparison made in that manner my fraud antenna goes up. 'Higher radiation doses than those living near nuclear power plants!' Is the sort of breathless thing you can say without considering that people living near nuclear power plants might not have much of a radiation dose to begin with?

Clean energy begins with honest conversations about the cost/benefit of each type of energy.
I'm guessing coinbase will be able to reverse the charge since they provided their service of giving you bitcoins properly?
(I'm a Balanced employee)

My personal views are my own and NOT Balanced on this topic. I agree, I think bitcoin is a great solution -- for some things. More and more I feel that it's the right strategy going forward.

We actually have an open github issue to support it: https://github.com/balanced/balanced-api/issues/204. You should take a look and read the comments there -- they're very interesting.

Something I'm trying to figure out though is something along the lines of this comment: https://github.com/balanced/balanced-api/issues/204#issuecom.... How can we tackle on risk in a reasonable way?

Jon Matonis, CEO of Hushmail, wrote a pretty interesting article on Bitcoin for Forbes, where he mentions Balanced: http://www.forbes.com/sites/jonmatonis/2012/11/26/payments-s... but he just didn't answer or ask the _right_ questions.

Another reason - there just hasn't been enough demand for it.
Can you provide any specific, actual, practical evidence that it is a bad thing to use a dynamically typed language to write a web app? Or is this just a personal prejudice?
Very impressive. Good on you for reporting it to Facebook first.
> I always thought that power users use native local apps and casual users live in the cloud.

Allowing native apps that run locally to be delivered via the web has been a long-term Chrome (browser and OS) goal (hence Native Client), and, from a broader perspective, enable browser-based apps (whether "native" and running locally, running in the cloud, or a mixture of cloud and local components) has always been the overarching Chrome goal.

IOW, making it so that all users, including power users, can live in the cloud has been a long-term, strategic focus of Google. The Chrome Pixel release is an indication that Google thinks that that vision is ready, if not for prime time, at least for early adopters.
Facebook screws app developers on notifications
I like Apple's design because they've managed to pack a really good keyboard and an excellent trackpad into something that is relatively light and thin. The problem with most of the knock offs is the okay keyboard, but terrible trackpads.
So clearly Google needs to get their own, or license Microsoft's. :P
You are assuming most consumers make buying decisions through reason, which is not the case since many years now.
Vanity Growth: Why Blind Traffic Pumping Doesn't Work?
Play actually has a really nice plugin system, which we used extensively to integrate Play at LinkedIn. The plugin system offers lightweight support for DI. For example, to use a FooPlugin, you don't use it directly, but ask Play for an instance of it:

FooPlugin foo = Play.current.plugin(FooPlugin.class);
foo.doSomething();

What instance you get depends on configuration (typically, a play.plugins file), which makes it easy to swap out implementations at test time. Much of Play's built-in functionality is implemented as a plugin too, including the DB code, so writing unit tests is pretty simple. There is strong support for "fake applications", integration tests, etc: http://www.playframework.com/documentation/2.1.0/ScalaTest

We'll blog more about Play plugins in the future.
What if the buyer does a reversal of the bank transfer -- usually possible up to 60 days afterward. (I swear I'm not trolling. I'm new to bitcoin exchanges)
The Cohort Visualizer tool is here: http://bslatkin.github.com/cohorts/
Why is Google calling it's products things they aren't? Google Chrome was the first browser which basically eliminated the Chrome. Google Drive replaces a Drive with an online service. Chromebook Pixel is the first Chromebook which doesn't let you see Pixels.

Is this a common naming strategy or Google specific?
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I really don't understand all of the negativity aimed at the 3Doodler. They don't appear to be claiming it's revolutionary, so perhaps everyone could stop acting outraged that somebody had the nerve to put an interesting product in a consumer friendly package and market it effectively.
Jesus. That's approaching SSD prices for storage that's slow and patchy to access unless you're sitting at a desk plugged into a fiber connection, that Google is going to rummage through to sell you ads.
I believe that is Limor Fried from Adafruit (a Raspberry Pi manufacturer) who asks the question, unless I am mistaken.
NBC Website hacked
Access all your docs, wherever: Doo debuts OS X app after 2 years of R&D
Are they going to update their routing? Or just make sure their customers know it's doing it the naive random way.
So who's going to spend 3x the price to buy a Chromebook? This thing is just flat out weird.
Better not tell the Pebble watch people then, they might get sued.
It would cost me $20,000 to transfer that amount of data over 3G, and almost ten times that on another common carrier. The amount of "cloud" storage is irrelevant in most countries.
Play predates the Android store rebranding by several years. They're not related.
I think that's exactly right - this wouldn't be a story if PrivCo wasn't mostly right about the big picture. The big picture is one of impending doom at LS, and yes, if that comes to bear, the little guys will get nothing.

Sure, they come off as slimy (and maybe they are - I have no idea). But the details matter less than the overall story here.
I spent quite a bit of time evaluating Lift for some fairly significant (2 man-year+) projects. My final conclusion is that while it is technically brilliant, and many of the concepts make a lot of sense, it's just very hard come up to speed on and be productive in, especially if you aren't already a Scala wizard. Any Lift project is likely to have a fairly low "bus factor" if you don't already have multiple strong in-house Scala folks.

I had some technical concerns as well - in particular the database connectivity stuff is a bit painful.