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> Google says that the pain in maintaining their separate, non standard, process architecture is too much of a burden to continue to contribute into WebKit proper, so they must fork.

Actually, they didn't say that the pain of maintaining their own work was too much of a burden, they said the pain of maintaining their model within the constraints and obligations WebKit had was too much of a burden (and, imposed too much of a burden on WebKit with regard to what WebKit wanted to do), so they decided fork so that WebKit can do what it wants to do without worrying about Chrome while Blink does what is needed for Chrome without worrying about WebKit.

> Why can't Chrome implement WebKit 2?

Implementing WebKit 2 wouldn't solve the problem going forward. Changes to WebKit to serve Chrome's needs would still have to meet all of the commitments WebKit has, and Chrome would still be placing demands on WebKit.

> This seems like a failure of open source.

Forking isn't failure. The purpose of open source isn't to create a monoculture, it is to enable groups to share effort when they have common goals, and to allow groups with divergent goals (including where those goals diverged after a period of shared work) to continue to benefit from the shared work without having to start back at square one. This is a success of open source.
It's back at $126 now.
>So any repositories that don't have public commits enabled are 'not really open'? A ludicrous suggestion.

WTF, have you even read my comment before answering?

I explicitly said that those: "might still be open source but it's not a community or a multi-company project".

And I never said anything about "public commits" being necessary for something being open, if by that you mean anybody to be able commit arbitrarily.

Restricted commit access is perfectly fine. What I said is not "really open" are projects tightly controlled by a company and mainly developed by its paid employees.

Those are not really open EVEN if they have publicly available source code. Nothing "ludicrous" about it.
Since Mono still seems to be going strong and seems to be one of the official platforms for F#, I'm not sure that something that happened seven years ago is necessarily great proof that they're smothering Mono.
A stunningly reductive question deserves to be responded to in kind :)

I don't know much of this history, but was integrating Chrome's processor model into WebKit feasible at the time that WebKit2 was built? What were the reasons for not doing so?
Moving to a Mars orbit would have a significant effect on the surface temperature.

More of a problem is the bulk of the atmosphere being carbon dioxide (breathing even a 5% mix is excruciatingly painful for humans), but the real challenge would be dealing with the rains of sulfuric acid... at least Mars wouldn't be trying to dissolve your hermetically sealed environment.
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And tubes based on the honor system at that.
I haven't grown them, but only tasted them the Kassenhoff tasting (linked below). I believe they got them (at least initially) from Kitazawa:
http://www.kitazawaseed.com/seed_111-125.html
I'm a woman. And I say, if Adele wants to end her time with Iain this way, let her. Wikipedia says they've been "together since 2006". In her position, I'd rather remember six years with a wild last year or so of doing all those crazy things that got put off than six years with a last year of just sitting there watching the man I love die.

Also it is quite possible that Adele would pretty much consider herself a widow for a good while whether or not she married Iain.

I mean, really. I don't think this is a thing being "done to her". I don't know anything about her, but if she's <em>anything</em> like the kinds of women Iain writes about, she's perfectly capable of making her own decisions, and is quite aware of what she's gotten herself into. And is, as you urge in your second sentence, trying to be strong and live life to the fullest.
As a counterpoint, Microsoft employees have contributed to libgit and parts of the ASP Web Stack are open-source under the Apache Licence - see http://aspnetwebstack.codeplex.com/license
We're aware of the random H12s problems. Some apps are affected pretty badly, others not at all, and we're not sure why yet. Sorry that you've had such a bad experience with this. We're continuing to investigate. If we're not able to find a solution in a timely fashion, I'll completely understand if you no longer want to use our product for this app.

Knowing how many dynos you need is definitely a problem. We have implemented autoscaling in the past... but it always sucked. It's hard to find a one-size-fits-all-solution. Rather than ship something sub-par we chose not to ship anything at all.

I understand a lot of people do well with autoscaling libraries and 3rd party add-ons. Would be curious to hear your experience with any of these.

I completely agree that it shouldn't take complaining in public to get a company to listen to its customers. That's was our biggest mistake in all of this, IMO — not listening.

For dyno load, have you tried log-runtime-metrics? https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/log-runtime-metrics It provides per-dyno load averages.

I gladly accept your compliment that our git deploy remains the best on the market. :)

I'm sorry we haven't been able to serve you better. Let me know if you'd be willing to talk via skype sometime — even if you end up leaving the platform (or already have), I'd like to understand in more depth where we went wrong so we can do better in the future.
We started the company on volusion but have since switched to Get Fwd (http://getfwd.com/) because we had to customize order and fulfillment logic due to the time sensitive nature of our live animal shipments.
Nope, DRR is still dead :)
okay, that is indeed a good point. one dissenting pov is that the "hollywood model", where a group of people come together, create something, and then dissolve, has produced some great stuff, but i can see how a company can accumulate shared vision and synergy that is lost when it is acquired.
Not sure of the particulars of your situation, but my family was by no means "rich" but had Sega Channel for the entire length of its existence. Sure beat renting games at Blockbuster (and before that, Home Vision Video, a New England chain that got pummeled out of existence) for $5 a pop, and it lasted the whole month.
iBooks does not use a separate fork of Webkit - I've talked to some Apple engineers about it in the past.
> Firefox will be using Servo.

Maybe, someday. Servo is a long-term, high-risk effort.
But only on x86_64 and not on ARM, right?
I'm really sorry to hear about your disappointing experience with the tank. We can set you up with some suppliers in Europe that you might not have tried yet. The jellies definitely should not die within a few days! If you want to email us I'll make sure you get taken care of.
The difficulty of diagnosing H12 errors is really challenging. One thing I can recommend is using the http-request-id labs feature: https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/http-request-id With this enabled and some code in your app, you can correlate your app's request logs directly against the router logs and trace what happened with any particular H12.

I'd be happy to help you do this if you're game. Contact me via adam at heroku dot com.

Could you also email me some links to your support tickets so I can check out what happened there?
Has Google ever modified other websites' pages like this?
Nature:

http://www.english.rfi.fr/node/142835

That was a very public case. I'm sure there are other not so public.
You seriously just registered to post that?
Open source Jenkins plug-in speeds mobile app development
InfoWorld’s Paul Krill writes about a new open source plugin for the Jenkins continuous integration system that lets developers automate testing of mobile devices. It’s one more step in the march towards Continuous Cloud Delivery, featuring cloud-based development, testing, and deployment in to speed up the development cycle.
Heh, here in Australia it used to be $50, now it's $90-110
> With an economy on the ropes you have to wonder in what kind of parallel universe are those guys living?

One where length-of-play matters to a minority of gamers. I'll give you a hint, though: it's not a parallel one.

> Give me a game at $10-$15 and I'd definitely buy it. Otherwise, well there are other ways to get them.

"Give me a game for under a buck an hour, or fuck you, I'll just take it."

Fortunately, you are something of an outlier.
No one can never touch my coins? Uh oh!

Blockchain.info can't touch my coins. But if there servers are compromised, a hacker could inject a tiny, tiny amount of JS and have my ID/password sent to... anywhere... and then the hacker could access my account. I'm curious to know how you'll get around that vulnerability.
It's not exactly a novel idea: https://twitter.com/opvard/status/319572079215255553.
Chrome Developer Tools adds "Copy as cURL"
If the Earth radius was 100 pixels, the average depth of the ocean (~4km) would be less than 0.1 pixels. I once had a professor hold up piece of paper and say "this is my scale model of the pacific ocean". Took me a while to realize he wasn't joking.
It also works against anonymous criminal networks, because the "turned" defendant can take actions that will result in the disclosure of the identity of the other anonymous participants. See: Sabu.
Dear Google: Please fork WebKit (2010)
That should be your motto all the time, for everything.
I like the optimism, however, you'd expect the same factors would be at play as you move backwards into the past (while funding amounts continued to rise).

I don't think any major event happened around Jul-Sept 2012 (about where it started to trail off) that precipitated significantly cheaper cost of founding a startup.
Asperger's != Asshole
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I think I just always bring it up since your tool moves directly to data mining operations and I know my presentation of so many results will be highly likely to have false positives.
In practice you won't actually be able to drop them from the compiled stylesheet for a very long time, of course.
Just curious, what other form of entertainment can you get for $1.50 per hour?
The amount of energy you'd have to expend to fix Venus would be far more costly than trying to keep Mars warm by using baseboard heaters on every square metre.

One of the largest issues facing Venus is that it is effectively a dead planet. Mars is a dead planet too but it's far easier to make it warmer than to cool down Venus so we can live on it. On top of that, Mars has water frozen at its surface and perhaps in liquid form beneath; Venus only has water vapour that accounts for less than 0.01% of the total atmospheric make up.

And if it is size that you want to take into account, then think about this: it's far easier to fix a smaller planet that is geologically dead than it is a planet of our size.

Venus is never going to be colonised. Mars maybe not, but at least that is less of an impossibility.
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> adds extra unneeded overhead by encrypting everything

Baloney. :-) Or rather, please cite something in the last 5 years showing that the overhead of the symmetric encryption is a significant cost in HTTPS.
After working on a few startups, my experience is that when you operate in crunch mode for a long period of time the line between "crisis" and "normal" blurs and you simply can't distinguish or effectively scale your effort to the situation. This is especially harmful for entrepreneurs when they have to deeply consider their strategic options or programmers when they are trying to refactor code.

I can't tell you how many hours of development I've wasted simply because I didn't want to spend an extra hour thinking through the implications and instead tried to "get 'er done."

I DON'T agree that this means you have to work less than 35 hours a week and take long walks on the beach. I've had really productive times working 100 hours a week. But when you feel burned out or stressed, when you have trouble prioritizing your efforts, when everything feels like it's "way behind" you are going to make mistakes and put effort in the wrong place. It's important to stay balanced, but "balanced" means different things to different people at different points in their career.
When your kid tells you this:

"Most of the time this young person thinks their qualifications come from the fact that they really, really, like to play video games a lot; and I mean like a LOT."

It gives you an opportunity to help them discover things they may be passionate about. Many times (not always of course) it isn't any game they like playing alot, it is a particular game or genre they like. The goal of exercise then is to think about what features or mechanics of that particular game make it so fascinating, and then looking for that same feature/mechanic in something that people pay for [1]. Is it the economy? Solving the mysteries? Developing the story line? Role playing and acting? Devising tactics? Optimizing dozens of variables? All these things are mechanics in computer games that can be found in non-game activities.

It may be that the kid likes all sorts of games, but help them to see the thing they like over the delivery mechanism and they can make smarter choices down the road.

[1] I did know a guy who liked playing WoW a lot and supported himself by selling gold and various and sundry rare and epic items. Again, more the exception and not the rule.
Little known fact - most MRI machines are always on because they are made via a superconducting magnet, I know some residents who climb into them at night and scan themselves for educational purposes.
Located at a large academic institution? I had not realized the weight of your authority. Please forgive my naive pedestrian musings ;)

"What about bubbles that took place before central banks existed or were powerful?"

Quoting wikipedia: The term "bubble", in reference to financial crises, originated in the 1711–1720 British South Sea Bubble, and originally referred to the companies themselves, and their inflated stock, rather than to the crisis itself. This was one of the earliest modern financial crises; other episodes were referred to as "manias", as in the Dutch tulip mania.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_bubble

I am a bit rushed and cannot respond to all your questions immediately, but I will say that definitions are tricky things, and I admit there are many nuances we can spend years exploring.
The distinction, before about 1998 or so, was pretty much immaterial: Totally Games was "independent" but was composed of ex-Lucasfilm Games people and only published through LucasArts. I cannot say for sure, but I wouldn't be surprised if Lucasfilm (then LucasArts) had an ownership stake in it at one point, as Nintendo did with Rare during the mid-90's.

Contrast this to, say, Raven Software doing Jedi Knight 2 and Elite Force right on the heels of one another. (Of course, Totally Games did do Star Trek: Bridge Commander, but that was seven years after they split from Lucasfilm Games.)
Hmm, isn't it true though, for example, that without that we'd have had to wait a long time to get simple things like border-radius that were supported in all the browsers but hidden behind vendor extensions?

Having experimental features available to developers creates pressure for all browsers to move forward. Without that we won't know what is important to developers because they'll be stuck using what the browser maker's deign to make "official".

Just playing devil's advocate here ...
It was meant to be a jab at DNSSEC, so yeah it's probably nonsensical if you try to read it as a real HTTP proposal.
About 20 minutes and I'll kick it out. Had a great productive spell in a cafe.

Over 15 kilowords, though. I doubt many people will read it in 1 sitting. :)

ETA: http://michaelochurch.wordpress.com/2013/04/03/gervais-macle...
I may be spending a little karma in saying so, but this is exactly what DRM would be most useful for, when utilized by individuals in their own interest, as opposed to corporations using it to exercise power over individuals. This is exactly where being able to detect if an iPhone is non-jailbroken would be useful.

Or, we can dispense with having DRM on hardware we personally won. How about a protocol for providing a secure bitcoin wallet in the cloud? Basically, everyone runs their own open source mini-OS in their own obfuscated VM (1), which a smartphone app sets up for you and to which a smartphone app only acts as an interface. The wallet information is never on the smartphone, and the DRM is never on your own hardware.

Such an infrastructure would have many other uses, not just bitcoin.

(1) The security of each VM instance would be on an economic basis. Each one might be breakable within a week, say, but the system could be set up in a such a way that the week old information isn't work enough to motivate the effort.
Yes. Announcing this especially today seems like a "fuck you" at Samsung.

Downvotes? Anybody thinks that two companies that are in some heat over Android/Tizen et all, just coincided to release information about new rendering engines on the same day?

As if rendering engines are announced every other day, right?
i want to be an Entrepreneur too, is anyone hiring?
Unspinning the FairTax:

"With the prebate program in effect, those earning less than $15,000 per year would see their share of the federal tax burden drop from -0.7 percent to -6.3 percent. Of course, if the poorest Americans are paying less under the FairTax plan, then someone else pays more. As it turns out, according to the Treasury Department, “someone else” is everybody earning between $15,000 and $200,000 per year." [1]

No thanks.

[1] http://www.factcheck.org/taxes/unspinning_the_fairtax.html
I plan on using Javascript crypto. I've spent many hours reasoning over this idea, also studying security community reactions on mega.co.nz and I think it is possible to do now. I don't want to disclose all details now for obvious reasons, but all I can tell that I will not reinvent the wheel here - all parts needed are already available and mature, you just have to assemble them into a complete solution.
I believe the data was in the pregap and other than that it was just a normal CD. The physical distinction was probs something else.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pregap
Mixed signals on Apple Inc. from Goldman Sachs
This echoes my experiences in the game industry to a T.

And I am conflicted, because my son is one of these goobers who want to make video games. :) But if I can use that desire to get him to focus on skills that would enable him to succeed there (and, by association, anywhere), then I'm OK with it.
The starfield should not move anyway, because of parallax. The stars are really far away and the sky looks the same on Mars and Earth.
If you do upfront disclosure is the best way, if you can imply that the funds go towards something cool you are working on or towards even better. Alternatively you can just say its an experiment and direct people to comment here. But yes tell visitors upfront if the links are affiliate.
The name doesn't make it clear, but I believe the answer is "no". My understanding is that WebKit2 is actually just a part of the whole WebKit platform. It's the process model, but all the other parts of webkit (the rendering and javascript, for instance) are the same as they were before WebKit2 was introduced.
Well, hopefully things might get through quicker. But that is indeed a problem.
Yeah, I struggle with design. I've been working on that page, but don't have anything to push yet. Thanks for the advice, it doesn't fall on deaf ears. I've been thinking of offering a trade in hours...maybe post to craigslist.
Like foreign country few hundreds revolutions of our planet around the Sun ago.
Hey guys, Dave here, made the site.. Really amazed by how much coverage this thing has got, and really surprised by how poor my maths were. Not surprising given I failed both maths and physics at college. Really happy to be inspiring debate, I've gone over my sums and given it another shot

Thanks!
My OS is 135,000 lines of code:

http://www.templeos.org/Wb/Accts/TS/Wb2/LineCnt.html#l706

Apple has 64K address space. It probably had a 20K ROM. Since each instruction on a 6502 is 1-3 bytes, it probably had 10,000 instructions, or 20,000 lines of code.

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Brian Pokorny Returns To SV Angel As A General Partner After Airbnb Talent Deal
A leap of faith
The one my teacher used was the billiard ball, and told us "if the Earth were the same size as this, it would be smoother". A quick google suggests that is indeed true, but it would not be rounder. (http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/badastronomy/2008/09/08/te...)
There really aren't. Developing screening tests that are actually useful is hard, because unless you can achieve an absurdly low false positive rate you inevitably find that most of your positives are false ones. In fact, the NHS tends to be a lot more cautious about funding universal screening programs than the US is because most of the time they're a net negative.
Mozilla's Robert O'Callahan on Blink
Should have switched to warp 1.
It's relatively common for people to keep small reef aquaria without any fish at all. Just corals and other invertebrates like shrimp, snails, urchins, etc.

I keep some very small fish in my reef tank, but I find my non-fish livestock generally more compelling.
Generally, I think WebKit2 and Chromium simply disagree about where to hook into the platform, and what the responsibilities of the embedder should be. The description at http://trac.webkit.org/wiki/WebKit2 is written from Apple's point of view, but I think it's broadly fair.

The position we're taking is that the Content layer (in Chromium) is the right place to hook into the system: http://www.chromium.org/developers/content-module That's where we've drawn the boundary between the embeddable bits and the Chrome and browser-specific bits.

Regarding the history, I'd suggest adding some questions to the Moderator for tomorrow's video Q/A: http://google.com/moderator/#15/e=20ac1d&t=20ac1d.40&... The folks answering questions there were around right at the beginning... I only hopped on board ~2.5 years ago. :)
OpenSUSE Linux — A real alternative to Ubuntu?
Correct, hence "all of the mirrors" :)

But it is a good point that it's surprising not to have Project landing page.

There was a mailing list discussion on it a while back, can't remember what the maintainers said was their reason for this.
> On the other hand, there's virtually no community for whom it would be reasonable to ask to make config changes to view a site, so you you simply can't use cutting edge features. Experimental site designs will be harder to show off and we'll have less public consideration of the implications of new recommendations since there's much less joy in putting together projects that few people will see.

Showing off demos leveraging experimental browser features that don't happen to be CSS features has often been done with requests to make config changes, because the "put it behind a config flag until it is ready" is pretty standard for everything other than CSS (and, actually, browser vendors have also done it for plenty of experimental implementations of CSS, whether or not the features themselves are standard or vendor-prefixed experimental extensions.)
no, we're not going to IPO any time soon. But, we're a lot more than 1% of $100mm in revenue. We actually did $1mm in revenue in our first year, and we're supporting our team growth based on revenue.