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POLL: Does this improve your impression of Anonymous? http://www.wepolls.com/p/4088470/Now-that-Anonymous-has-take...

Chrome dev tools should this type of UI in their CSS editor.

What's the general consensus on whether or not this was actually debunked? http://www.wepolls.com/p/3873491

I think this is a bunch of BS. Google didn't have to create a platform, it took control of the world's biggest platform. Google benefits from most things built on the web sans Facebook. Now it's leading the way in the most promising platform of the next few years with Android. Chrome is a platform. Google+ is a platform for content creation that solves the problem of the Facebook crawl wall. It also sets the stage for a more complete solution to your problems (aka searches) via increasing its knowledge on individuals.

I don't think Google will accomplish its goal with plus however, because it's not being aggressive enough in collecting user data and integrating it with search. I think the Universities are in the best position to do this as they did with email and the web. The killer app will be a light bulb that makes extremely useful suggestions based on context.

This rant expounded here: http://www.wepolls.com/p/3740179

Even physical micro-hubs like coworking spaces where I live in Phoenix do not capture the serendipity of interaction that Silicon Valley provides.

Here you have to consciously decide to go where other startups are at. In Silicon Valley I just get a cup of coffee and there's a conversation at the table next to me about startups.

Although, I have to say Twitter enabled more fluid communication in the startup scene here. Enough to where I have been able to spot a couple people not at the typical hotspots.

The patent is from 2004. http://www.google.com/patents?id=zi8SAAAAEBAJ&printsec=a...

I hope their greed gets the best of them. Here's a poll I created to get general feedback on this subject. It's so infuriating to me, but a lot of people seem to be indifferent on the subject of patents: http://www.wepolls.com/p/3363896/

54% in this random ass poll say "No way (e = mc^2)" http://www.wepolls.com/p/2879014/Do-you-think-scientists-at-...

Also: https://www.popvox.com/bills/us/112/s968

and

https://www.popvox.com/bills/us/112/s23

You'd have to proxy Facebook which is a TOS violation (I believe). Some German site recently got busted for doing something like this.

Google Custom Search (two page) with Adsense. http://www.wepolls.com/search?q=hacker%20news.

For that you'd have to have a standard API with indicators of content importance. Even then it would be akin to keyword meta tags which are bad representations of site content in general.

This open source characteristic is also vital for search engines, data aggregators, and general interoperability on the web.

Sweet test video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2TBndcBjQFM&feature=relmf...

In python nested functions must be declared before calling them. Also stuff like this seems to crop up on me when I ry using closures: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2516652/scoping-problem-i...

I think he has a great point that the value a person creates is not easily compensated in an information economy. Right now the information economy makes up less than 5% of the total in the U.S.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/9632169/EconomicCensus2007.html

from

http://factfinder.census.gov/servlet/SAFFEconFacts?_event=&#...

So advertising for the other sectors in the economy works well to support most of the information sector right now. What happens as those other sectors become more automated though? The smaller and smaller amount of people in charge of those sectors will become disproportionately compensated for the value they create. This is already happening in Wall Street for example. So we're going to need to find some way to compensate people for their digital contributions to things like open source, online communities like this, and other informational public goods or we'll be left relying on the government and/or super rich to distribute the abundance of wealth. Neither of which sound very appealing to me.

I've been developing for app engine since 2008 when it came out and absolutely love it. The price changes are a result of turning a successful and massively growing product into a profitable one a la search, youtube, etc... Google should be praised for this. The changes in price also accompany an SLA that guarantee developers will receive three years notice before a breaking API change or service shut down.

The SSL problem is a limitation in some browsers that causes the type of certificates that GAE needs to use a CNAME, not IP, based routing to display huge warnings.

There's a setting for the latency threshold causing a new instance to get spun up.

Cross site poll: What do you think will happen to Apple now that Steve Jobs has resigned? http://www.wepolls.com/p/2073012

veetle.com does a really good job at this. I have a six year old media center box that doesn't run anything that well besides veetle and 1080p at that.

Cross site poll: What would you pay to get something like Google Fiber?

http://www.wepolls.com/p/2028308/How-much-would-you-pay-for-...

Thanks. I think it's a matter of getting out more. You're right, we can choose what we want to be. It may just take some time to get there. :)

I find not caring about what people think ends up hurting my personal relationships. I have to try really hard to be aware of my identity and how that fits in with the people around me. Naturally I am aloof. Is that what this article is saying I should be?

For example, say you wanted an extension to be able to take a screenshot of Amazon, but not get access everyone's private data on Amazon. This is not currently possible in Chrome. To get the screenshot, you need to allow access to Amazon.com in the permissions list of the extension config, i.e. manifest.json. This, however, gives you permission to request resources from Amazon that the user did not load into the browser, like all their previous purchases. And if there's another URL in the permissions list that the extension developer hosts, they can set up an API for the extension to phone home the users private data on Amazon.

Here's a sample that demonstrates this: http://src.chromium.org/viewvc/chrome/trunk/src/chrome/commo...

Note that "tabs" and "code.google.com" must both be listed in the permissions.

The extension requests permission to access "Your data on all websites" and "Your tabs and browsing activity". I guess what I'm saying is that there should be a distinction between permissions for accessing stuff in the browser and accessing external data through AJAX and other resource requests. Besides cutting off extensions themselves from the outside world, Chrome would just have to prevent extensions from injecting scripts or elements that made external requests into loaded pages by disallowing <script>, onclick='', src='' etc... from being added to the HTML and DOM of those pages.

There should be a permission for contacting external sites. That's where the biggest security threats lie and most extensions, like a screenshot extension, don't need to be making requests to other sites (like Amazon).

The IE guys are saying this needs to be kept for backwards compatibility. http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=11960#c8

Why can't it be kept for old doctypes and quirksmode like Gecko does? The HTML5 doctype should get rid of this. Surely that wouldn't break top sites as MSFT is saying: http://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=11960#c12

Poll: Should the USPS be allowed to go out of business? http://www.wepolls.com/p/1900483/Should-the-USPS-be-allowed-...

Interesting. I'd hate to lose that file/db. I guess I could keep it in my dropbox...

Right, maybe if you use the first letter of the words in a sentence, like "Hey Jude, don't make it bad, take a sad song, and make it better." -> "HJ,dmib,tass,amib." Then you can add in some characters that make it different for each site without it being obvious which characters you added. I wrote a blog post on how to create different passwords for sites that are easy to remember: http://craigquiter.com/post/8668237043/creating-and-remember...

Since I quit my job I've been working more than twice as much and loving it (on my startup). I ran into a problem after about two weeks with my eye twitching from too much screen time but took a week vacation and have been fine the two months since. I now sit by a window so I occasionally glance out and exercise my eye focus muscles.