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No one's developing for userspace—the "application" developers for GCOS will be writing web apps.
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You must be talking about some other comment, because I don't mean to deny any of that. I was merely pointing out that on Google's largest (public) OS project to date (Android), Google evinced a strong desire for a copyleft-free userspace and succeeded in building a non-GNU Linux distro. This is clearly a different project with different goals, so we'll see how it turns out.
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Of all the things that "giggle" could represent, "front end to a version control system" wouldn't have been my first choice.
Ah, I thought DreamIt was in Chicago; seems to be in Philly.
I'd enjoy replacing the "instant-on OS" partition on my notebook with this.
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Dear Examiner.com writers (and CubeGuy),

Go spam another site. You are not welcome here.

I empathize with you. Examiner.com has brought you on to cover topic X for them, in this case "Cubicles." If their sales pitch is similar to the one their Chicago coordinator tried to use to poach away my writers, they probably promised you exposure across a large, growing, national audience and told you that several of their examiners are making thousands of dollars each month.

However, the reality is that they pay you less than $5 per thousand impressions you receive on your articles and they're recruiting so, so many writers for inane topics like "Chicago Christian Fiction" and "Chicago Cult Classics" not to mention such great topics as "Jonas Brothers" and "Howard Stern" that there's no way anyone can get much of a push from being featured on their already crowded front page. You're on your own.

So you guys spam reddit. And you spam it hard.

Examiner.com writers spam Reddit (and Digg) so hard and consistently that I can only assume their editors explicitly direct their "examiners" to post their stories to the site. If that's the case, it's not much of a distribution system.

Case in point: The New page of the Chicago Reddit features 26 stories. As I type this, 11 of them are from Examiner.com. I often go over there looking for interesting local news and links. Over the last 6 months, as it has been overrun by "Examiners" I've found less and less there. You've killed that Reddit for me.

And so tonight I notice a linkbait headline on my beloved hacker news...with the dreaded "Examiner.com" source tag next to it. As a news junkie, that tag has become synonymous with blogspam and low-quality writing. So that's one strike against it.

Then I click inside to the comments and see someone else is wondering how this received any votes at all.

And then I see that the submitter has only submitted Examiner.com articles to HN.

Stop spamming us with your spammy content. It's not our fault Examiner.com has no way to help you get readers so you can make a few bucks a month.
If you are thinking of local directory traversal (src="jar:http://kaioa.com/b/0907/test.jar!../../somefile) then I think you are underestimating browser coders. Introducing that security issue would require a dedicated effort.
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A large number of applications today have some kind of a notification mechanism built-in. More often than not, an email is used to send these notifications. Typically, while developing these applications, developers use their own inbox to send notifications to. Or they setup some dummy account to send test emails to; or sometimes they might send test mails to real users (it’s been known to happen).
Okay, here are my observations:

1. That screenshot on the homepage should be click to enlarge.

2. The bar wth the home, about, help login etc. should be bumped up in text size by atleast one point.

3. It's nice that you are offering a way to track people who have javascript disabled, but what features/data will I miss when tracking using noscript as against tracking using javascript?

4. The site design is quite clean and to the point. Thats a huge plus for your usability.

5. From looking at the demo account, the stats seem to be quite detailed and informative, and the graphs are also quite clean, in keeping with the overall look of the site. Another plus.

6. Real time stats is a very handy feature.

7. I don't know if it is by design but the whole page seems to jump to the right and back when I click on the buttons on the landing page. It's mildly distracting, so you should look into it. It makes the site appear a bit unprofessional.

Overall, it's a pretty nifty service and I'm quite impressed with it. It has just about everything, I would be looking for in an web analytics tool. Kudos to you.
The banks got in trouble by giving credit to people who were not creditworthy. It is not clear that California is creditworthy at this point, and they are only offering a 3.75% coupon. These bonds mature in three months. In order to believe that these are as good as cash, you have to believe that there is a 99% chance that California will be good for the money. That is clearly unreasonable given what has happened with the budget so far.
Clarification 2: I, like Jeff, also have a pricing matrix for my product. Sometimes people don't read it properly and are confused - although I'm nice about it, I tend to feel unsympathetic. This is because it's hard for me to really see from someone else's point of view, since we only actually ever see from our own...

It reminds me of the founder/maintainer of a very successful programmer's website who said, "People will not read what you write [for a web-app GUI], not matter what you write, or how you write it". His frustration was maxed out. It occurred to me that one solution is to only provide buttons (i.e. actions) for what you actually want users to do. This constrains their choices to only valid ones. This amounts to a kind of "wizard" - but they've been very successful, so this isn't a bad thing. It also obeys the "don't make me think!" imperative, provided the GUI is designed-well... It also helps if the pricing options are also designed well. In fact, I believe it is worth sacrificing profit/benefit to the customer (or other efficiencies) if by doing so, you can make the choices clearer and simpler for the customer (eg. clarity can come from obvious patterns in the pricing, even if they totally don't fit the true demographics).

To apply this to successfully communicating the limits of each pricing option, where "successfully" means that the customer hears what you say, you could have a button for each limit. By consciously selecting the limit, the user would know what it is. Unfortunately, this can lead to frustrating backtracking when one choice constrains other choices in unexpected ways. One can muck around with different orderings of the choices, but I think that ultimately, the only real solution is to make the options match what the user would expect.

That is, change your pricing model to accord with what the user expects. Not vice versa. This is a kind of "pricing positioning", where the goal isn't to sell more, but to communicate better, by associating your product with a category, and then following the standard pricing approaches for that category - whether they suit you or not. The purpose is to communicate, and doing it well makes everyone happier.

For me, it's intrinsically valuable: successful communication is a joy in itself; miscommunication is suffering.
I thought the same thing. For my desktop, I don't see why I would replace Ubuntu with this, but this is exactly what the crunchpad needs. Great news.
TomTom seems to be taking the safer approach (with an iPhone app etc.) while Garmin seems to be taking a riskier approach (by adding cell phone functionality to their navigation device).

It will be interesting to see which approach does better or if both approaches fail.
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Then MS will make it $40, $25, $5, $1.

Some people would say it's anti-competitive, but Google can only provide a free netbook OS because of its ads business.
It's not like they have a whole lot of devices to drive. They know up-front what small set of hardware platforms it will have to support. Handy, I'm sure, if they want things like hardware-accelerated H.264 decoding.
Interesting that the link text is fully black, and not faded out as normal text would be for "-7" worth of downvotes.
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Apart from HN:

- Engadget

- ReadWriteWeb

- Venturebeat

- GigaOm

- Mashable

- Coding Horror
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Netbook acceptability checklist:
1) Runs a web browser
2) Has k hours of battery life
3) Has "big enough" screen and keyboard

These things don't compete on features, they compete on binary "good enough" and price. They're practically commodities, which is why the industry doesn't like them -- ECON 101 rules about efficiency apply.

Of course, you can still decorate the case to differentiate on fashion.
They're not going to compete with Windows XP on number of features or software compatibility, but I think Chrome OS has a chance to carve out a niche for itself. It can focus on being absolutely the best gosh darn web browser available for a netbook: zippy, no performance degradation over time, booting up in seconds, reliable, and running on ARM processors. That could give better battery life and lower costs if they're careful about tweaking it.

For broader-purpose use, Android may catch on. Chrome OS is different, and I don't think it's supposed to compete directly with Windows XP.
Web browsers will evolve until they are operating systems. Those that can't will be replaced by those that can.

Their aim seems to be instant web-access, which benefits google. Linux compatibility would seem secondary - and perhaps even deliberately omitted, as Google wants you to use web-apps, not desktop-apps. And if Google Chrome is fast enough, and offline operation is seamless enough, that might not be a problem at all.

This is the thing that Microsoft feared from Netscape and Java. It got away that time. Round 2: the game has changed, but the outcome, even if preordained, remains as yet unknown.
The math doesn't work. 116,000,000 matches x 5k is 580 GB. It fits on one big disk, and with 5800 machines holding 100 Mb of plain text each you could search all of it naively in real time. (Grep searches 100 Mb in 50 mSec.)

5800 machines is practical for a real product. Hardware probably costs Google $40/month/CPU, so $230k / month, about equal to 10 engineers. So if a more clever solution needs a whole team to maintain it then it's probably better to just use grep.
I find Google Groups awful in terms of usability too !

It's extremely difficult just to find your own post, then you have to understand why you can't post here, that you must subscribe to this group first there etc etc...

No wonder they're switching to getsatisfaction (http://getsatisfaction.com/google/products)
I just wish that they would enable the keyboard profile in bluetooth so that I could use a hardware keyboard if I wanted to. that seems like the best of both worlds. an onscreen keyboard when I'm on the go, or a real one when I need to type something out longer.
I hope someone will wrap it as an application on Windows.

That would be fantastic to have a OS to handle all web related activities for general users.
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OpenDNS is not 'open' in any meaningful way, and it's not DNS (poisoned on an opt-out basis).

It's not fast either: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=497959

I don't know how the hell they managed to market themselves so successfully as the answer to "my ISP's DNS sucks", especially when their entire business model is so straightforwardly evil: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Site_Finder
we believe choice will drive innovation for the benefit of everyone, including Google

This is the kind of competition that I would like to enjoy (i.e. between products that both belong to me). I wonder if it actually will work out for them, and if so, how I could use that strategy myself.
Be done with it? Quite the opposite, that means you constantly need to maintain two version.

By using an automated conversion, you only need to maintain one of them.
The whole point from the beginning was that it has nothing to do with being a laptop. It is a matter of efficient delivery of information. Paper books are too expensive in a bang-for-buck sense. Purely an economics problem.
But shouldn't they also add a version=5 in the <html> tag?

What are they going to do when we get html 6?

Is there any way to suggest it, or the spec basically done?
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> On Windows, not only do you not have any of this, you don't even have SSH or a decent terminal, or equivalents to the core Unix utilities.

Couldn't Microsoft just start doing this?
If they depend on Javascript as an applications language then I hope they add goto to the language. At least that's what another HN discussion has led me to believe.
Some may remember the Forbes ASAP article, excerpted from Gilder's book, touted with the cover, "George Gilder Thinks This Kid Can Topple Bill Gates":

http://www.gilder.com/public/telecosm_series/software.html

It's taken 14 long years -- and it's Google-Chrome-plus-Javascript rather than Netscape-Navigator-plus-HotJava -- but the browser has finally become a complete alternative to a desktop OS.

The article's final sentence: "In the age of the hollowed-out computer, the king of the desktop rules an emigrating empire."
This seems to be the only comment here written with a little mathematical sophistication.

Whether 1 and .999… are equivalent depends on how you define 1 and .999…
Not only it triggers standards mode, but that's the sole purpose of this declaration in HTML5 (well, strictly speaking you might want to use it for something else, but that may not be the best idea).
If you serve your document with application/xhtml+xml you can omit it — this MIME type itself triggers standards mode so doctype becomes redundant.
still looking for 27....any furhter hints??
I seriously doubt that Obama would allow these IOUs to actually be worthless so what's the risk exactly?

Well, hop on Craigslist and start picking up a few of the smaller denominations that got issued to individual vendors. You'll be doing your part to help Californians in a cash crunch and earning free money at the same time -- what could possibly go wrong.
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Looks like Fennec on Nokia 810 is the first target:

http://iloapp.mikek.dk/blog/developer?Home&post=44
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Like so many other tasks, coding requires a certain amount of knowledge, experience and craftsmanship. Over the years I have come across many developers who don't even know the common best practices of their respective bread & butter language. Even worse, when they don't even suspect that there could be concepts beyond what language syntax and semantics provide for.

As a first step C/C++ developers should have read Scott Meyers' books and Java developers should know Josh Bloch's Effective Java by heart.

WRT to the (ultra-short) post this item links to, IMHO designing everything up front is neither feasible nor possible at all for any but the most trivial projects. That is something that at least the advent of agile methods even within the most conservative corporations should have taught us.

What is lacking in software development are neither the tools nor an atmosphere of less pressure. Much rather it is the sensibility for decent craftsmanship and engineering - and the knowledge of the means on how to acquire such.
If Russell Cox wrote it, it must be good. I programmed competitively with him at USACO and in college (we got to 8th best college team in the world), and he was a consistent ass-kicker. Hardcore and disciplined and fast.
Being Microsoft-centric, in itself, is inertia - it can change if there is a sufficiently superior alternative in terms of businesses' actual needs.
Google OS can start off in low-end markets (like Toyota did...), and then move up.

jeffspost notes a startup opportunity: webapps for creating webapps (actually webapp clients, but that's less memorable)
I suppose equipping spam filters with crawlers that actually go out and classify the pages linked in an email, rather than just treating URLs (or parts of them) as regular words, would remedy this.

This has been proposed for a while (for example in http://www.paulgraham.com/spam.html). I'm actually surprised it isn't common yet, especially as more and more email tends to be hosted and processed by companies like Google.
Quit modding the poor guy down. See these two initial explorations from a core Linux plumber:

Android: http://mjg59.livejournal.com/100221.html

Palm Pre: http://mjg59.livejournal.com/111453.html

"...overall the Pre has the appearance of being a well-engineered distribution. It's recognisably Linux in a way the Android isn't."
The stated reason for that was that Carriers and Telcos wanted to build on Android and were put off by the GPL. (Though obviously not put off enough that they'd reject the GPL'd Linux that runs beneath it)

Google's approach to licences is far more nuanced than blind adherance or avoidance of any particular licence.
Yes, as soon as it becomes open source later in the year. I'm not sure how fantastic it would be, considering it would be Yet Another Windows System which only runs on these netbooks.

Instead, I'd be really impressed witha good windowing systems impemented using the canvas tag, something like:

http://research.sun.com/projects/lively/
I think this is a counter-productive attitude. The difference in the US between the 1850s (blacks in slavery, many women in abusive relationships with no legal protection or recourse because they were considered property, chinese and mexicans used as cheap labor but discriminated against mercilessly, gays all in the closet because their lives would be at risk if they came out, etc.), and the 1950s (gays nearly all closeted still, women’s lib movement not yet off the ground, Jim Crow and frequent lynchings, many top universities hardly accepting anyone not a WASP male, rampant discrimination in housing, hiring, politics, the mentally disabled brutally institutionalized against their will, and the physically disabled not guaranteed equal access to public infrastructure and instututions, etc.) and today is dramatic, and the trend is overwhelmingly obvious.

Sure, we still have problems with racism and sexism, and groups like transpeople and undocumented Mexican laborers are sometimes treated despicably by our society and its institutions, and we never managed to ratify the ERA, and various groups are still stigmatized and held back from various positions of power, so we shouldn’t stop the fight for justice and equality, especially equality under the law, but you can’t wave away all of the progress we’ve made with “Times hasn’t changed much.... This is the nature of our pyramid-like society.” That kind of defeatist attitude is not just sloppy reasoning but also damn poor public policy.

Shit, we have a black president, a female secretary of state and speaker of the house, numerous high-level officials and corporate execs and prominent ministers, etc. who are openly gay, a soon-to-be Latina supreme court justice, etc. Times have most definitely changed, and the changes run deep.
I think that our exposed thoughts would fall under freedom of speech in America. That, and the 5th amendment ("...nor shall be compelled in any criminal case to be a witness against himself...").
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That sounds cool, but I don't know exactly what you mean... I think you might mean that you could create a Java applet front-end (using "Swing API"), and drive something in GWT with that, if "GWT can handle Swing API input". But how would you create the Swing front-end? What would driving GWT do you? Please join the dots - doing this often reveals gaps that weren't clear before, so it's a good exercise.

Taking another view: any Java app can be an applet (if you take care of things like access to the file system). Therefore, we already have then, since Eclipse and Netbeans can be an applet, and thus a web app. Theoretically, anyway. :-)
It was actually a pretty cool little assembly line. At one end were pallattes of SNES's that had come in for service. They'd get dropped onto the belt and dissassembled completely by the first 10 or so people, then the individual parts would be tested as they moved along the line. Good parts were collected in bins and eventually moved down the line to assembly stations. Bad parts, stickered lids, and cockroaches would be allowed to roll down the belt and eventually off the end.

Once the pieces were collected, the machines would be re-assembled from scratch as they moved down the line. Some jobs, like screwing on the razor-sharp "tins" were terrible. Routing wires and screwing on lids was OK. My second summer there, I got the prime job on the line: Testing.

My job for the entire summer was to essentially play the first level of Super Mario all day, every day, on every machine that came past. That, plus some simple control tests, plus 8 hours of sitting on a rack running the intro demo of Zelda was enough to verify that a machine was good. Every once in a while the line would stop for whatever reason and I'd keep on "testing" away. I got REALLY good at Super Mario that summer.
The problem is not just the license. It's also the hardware requirements.
Port knocking doesn't use open ports. It acts as a packet sniffer, and doesn't do anything to the port.
No, omitting version is intentional (and version number did not mean much in the past). HTML5 spec defines parsing algorithm what should be used for all html versions and will never require browsers to do anything different for different versions of html.
If the future browser will be capable to parse HTML8 it will be able to parse HTML5 just fine.
It's so fast OS X is unable to register it as a recently launched application for the magic folder in the dock...

Anyone knows why?
Wait, let me get this straight:

They're evil for providing global DNS you can use from anywhere because of something verisign did? And their service is terrible because its not quite as fast as your ISPs DNS which is much closer to you? Bitter much?

People like OpenDNS because you can set and forget it, as you move around networks. Its nice. If you don't like it, don't use it. But spare us your outrage, mm-kay? ;)
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