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Trying to right click and save page as in Chrome crashes OS 10.7.4 for me. Pretty cool stuff.

It appears that where he is going is only as far as a small blog stylesheet. I appreciate his argument about context being important in styling, but it creates a very fragile stylesheet that could crumble with a simple change of the context. If you're updating often, this would just be too difficult to maintain.

The author was referring to contrarian anecdotes in reply to statistical data, not someone's opinion.

- He is only arguing that there is universal truth in proxy by arguing that the scientific method is more valuable than anecdotal evidence. If you don't agree with that, you probably disagree with most of HN (pure conjecture, does anyone else here think anecdotal evidence is more valuable than statistical analysis?)

- I agree with you on this point. I don't think we should downvote comments because a fun discussion is what the comments are for, not to try to prove or disprove a study.

- Statistical analysis is not a specialized form of anecdote. That's a stretch.

Did anyone else find it strange that Ruby only beat Python and PHP in the median range? On both ends Python and PHP are both quite faster. I don't really know how to read this thing, but I feel like this title is probably misleading?

Yeah, I'm a little surprised this bit of vitriol made it to the top of HN.

VC's aren't buying into an idea. They're buying into talent and a vision. If Pinwheel succeeds, that does not mean that SkyChalk would have succeeded.

I would expect the opposite to happen. What you just described is exactly why sales work. An item is perceived as being better because of it's price, but hey look, I've been lucky enough to get it for less than it's worth. I imagine this will just bring them down into more of a budget clothing line.

On the other hand, it could be that the JC Penny name will retain it's feel of being worth X, while costing X*0.6 so consumers really will feel like they're always getting a deal at JC Penny.

Does anyone else have a lot of trouble getting logged in? I don't just mean that the form doesn't provide any feedback, but that even after logging in (I just reset my password and successfully logged in), when I go back to a petition page I get logged out again (yes I'm refreshing the page).

I'd much rather see a petition for a better website. :/

Can't sign in or register in Chrome 15 ?

HN reply of the year.

The debugging problem is definitely the biggest strike against CS, so it's weird that most of the article focuses on stylistic options (all those parens, brackets, and ampersands are optional!).

I'm still feeling CS out in terms of what style works best for me (for instance: should I always wrap arguments in parens so that all function calls have parens following them?) but it's nice to have that flexibility and be able to find what I think is readable and clean. For instance, I prefer '==' because it parses better at a glance, but I find that 'is' is much faster for me to type. :/

Also the white-space argument meaning it will always be compiled is not necessarily true. CS's brevity over JS would probably make up for the significant whitespace difference.

Wow, lots of doom and gloom on here. As someone who doesn't use AdBlock Plus (not particularly to support websites, but that does factor in) I think this is move should be applauded. They continue to serve their customers with the same product they always have (an adblock list manager) and might be able to pull in some money from it as well.

The obtrusiveness of the ads they let through will directly affect the number of users they have, so their interests are still aligned with their users. But they are simply more aligned with the 75% who don't blanket oppose all ads.

Seems like a good way to do some experiments with what catches people's eyes and how much they're willing to pay for a white noise generator. If Apple's going to let him do it, more power to him.

He makes a great point in favor of CoffeeScript: making your JavaScript look nice takes much more work without CS. The fact that he is lining up the multi-line string line breaks says loads about how CS will more easily make your JavaScript look good. How many times have you tried to line up your equals signs or colons only to then later add a longer key or var name that required you to further tab over your = or : to keep things lined up.

But feel free to correct me if I'm wrong, but I doubt vanity is the primary reason people are using CS. My number one favorite feature is the list comprehension, and if it didn't have that, I might not be bothering with it.

Finally someone is asking the right question. Thank you Ms. Waters.

+1 Standard time makes me bummed out.

"Lion adds Emoji support to Mac OS X. So that happened."

:D

That's funny, I could have sworn she already did work for them...

Compensation for whom then?

I'm using my MBA (no upgrades, lowest end model) for my daily routine as a designer, and it's holding up perfectly well. I am mostly just running Photoshop, Illustrator, Textmate, and a few browsers. Hell, I was even able to play Portal 2 on this thing. It's definitely the best $1,000 I've ever spent on tech, and I'm a Windows guy.

The only downsides are if I have a bunch of large files open in Photoshop and Illustrator, I might have to save and close some to keep things running smooth. When I'm plugged into a 27" display, some things are not quite as smooth.

So yeah, I'd rather be working on a faster desktop system (though the benefits would be minimal), but I can close this, bring it home, and continue working with the same workspace.

And the monitor is better than my Dell 22" I have at home.

Sequoia did not give them 41 million.

It looks like they wanted to simply flatten the Chrome logo, but the gradients radically change it from a sphere with a central "node" facing us to an unappealing doughnut shape with some sort of "nipple" in the center.

And while the gloss of the original may have been a bit much, it allowed the colors to be a bit more vibrant. Now they've been diluted down to these pastel colors which are also very unappealing.

The original Chrome logo isn't perfect, it looks a little too slick, but it was the best visual design to come out of google (besides some amazing google doodles of course) and now it seems that they've dumbed it down to match the more simple and design-agnostic approach that is typical for google.