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GWT + LLVM + Chrome Native Extensions...

You take Google GWT technology, apply it to Android applications or let them run as Chrome Native Extensions as more and more developers program for the Web/Chrome...

I feel like Google may have a plan in mind.

If your information is PUBLIC, what the HELL do you expect? There are so many good reasons to be irritated with Facebook's privacy debacle. This is not one of them.

Is it possible to get all of them?

I can't choose to hide my ID/name/timezone/friends or friends' wallposts....

Infuriating. When a piece of content doesn't make supplementary, albeit secondary content, easily accessible, it ruins part of the readability and relevance of the article.

It's not a shared account... You remove it from their device and revoke their access to the shared folder. So, the same way you'd do it if they had a branch checked out, etc.

Truecrypt volumes aren't striped...

They need to redesign their site. I clicked it, thought it was a placeholder domain/seo page and closed it.

Dos Equis sucks. It's like they took a bad beer and poured run off water in it and bottled it.

I suggested that a while back but was told that due to spam, you can get lots of false negatives from this technique and others.

The best way to validate an email remains to be a test email apparently.

The thing is, none of these comments are ever unique to the iPad. People are realizing that a portable tablet is a complimentary computer. Personally, my laptop and my phone span all of my computing needs. If I ever felt that I had the cash on hands or use-cases that demanded a tablet, I would consider it; but on a matter of practically and experience with both platforms, I'd certainly be choosing an Android (hopefully Tegra) tablet.

Wow, that article was terrible. iAd is going to "slay Google"? Right. Apple is going to replace all internet ads with iAd content? This is a joke right?

The sad thing is, people will indict the poor economic situation as a result of marijuana when its a result of every major "rush". People having no sense of how to plan financially.

Why would I use this instead of Native Client? edit: I really don't understand this either. How does this fit in with the Chrome style of extension? What is NPAPI? How does it relate to Native Client? ActiveX? Firefox Extensions?

Clearly I know very little about the current browser plugin ecosystem. Anyone care to enlighten me?

I have never clicked 'Like' on a non-Facebook page. Ever. The only content I have liked is other users' statuses or content. I even unliked all the things that it wanted to link to my profile to further farm usable data about me. Also, I'm rather convinced that the 'Like' ecosystem exists independently of the Instant Personalization -slash- "Selected Partners" stuff I'm more worried about.

Yes. It has been revealed that Facebook shared info behind the scenes with select partners. I believe that the Instant Personaiiztion feature (that was turned on without my consent) would allow app installs. Pandora doesn't even have Facebook Connect.

Trust me, when I opened Pandora and saw "Kyle Blahblah" likes the same music as you, I was furious. Which is when I found out I now had apps on my profile I had never approved.

The only app I ever wanted on my Facebook was Twitter, and oh boy, did I have more than that. Trust me, I know what I'm doing and I know that I can say with 100% confidence that I did NOT agree to install those apps. I understand how hard is is for me to convey my sincerity, but I know full well how an app is supposed to be presented for access to my profile, and that never happened.

edit Just checked Pandora. It definitely is piggy backing on Instant Personalization which is now turned off. Apparently Pandora even kindly gives one a way of shutting it off while still on a Pandora.com page which is nice. I must have missed that in my rage to go shut it off in my Facebook profile.

Here are the principles under which Facebook operates:

-- You have control over how your information is shared.

-- We do not share your personal information with people or services you don't want.

-- We do not give advertisers access to your personal information.

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Ahahahahahahahahahahahahah. This is why Queerty and Pandora silently installed applications on my profile and had access to my data without me opting into anything (I've never used Connect or anything like it). Or why Instant Personalization was turned on automatically.

You pissed off a population of users, arguably who are tuned-into this discussion and many of which are technical enough to call you on your BS. The candy coated, lets see how little we can get away with, isn't going to work. In fact, it's only going to make things work.

If the new settings are good, good. Maybe they will avert some of the mistrust that many view towards them. I certainly won't forget the shit that went down on my profile w/o my permission in the last 2 months. Maybe an apology, an admission of a bad idea, etc would be more convincing.

At least Google had the stones to say, rather quickly, Oops, sorry, we shouldn't have done that.

Especially since everyone has their opinion which is in some way tainted by which phone they have, which platform they like, or ultimately what things are more important to them day-to-day. Fundamentals and ideology - they will likely side Android. If it's all about UX then its Apple. There are merits to debate still and there are interesting arguments about how it will affect their market share, but everyone in these topics has pretty much already made up their mind. The conversation plays out the same way everytime...

iPhone OS will never have the ability to do the things like Android like push-intents until Apple admits that what iPhone OS 4 brings is not even remotely close to multitasking and that their model wouldn't allow for push intents. They claim battery and stability but my phone is stable now with multitasking and my battery lasts a full day.

An iPhone application has no way of having a long living listener for something that would resemble a push intent. The only thing you can do is register small bits of code as video/voip/audio services that can run in the background. Anything more advanced than that is reserved for Android or true multitasking OSes.

It's so expensive, they're not coming out with a CDMA iPhone this year.

Oh wait. They are? Huh. They must just have decided that the masses want iPhones. If they have to lose money on them... oh wait, you mean that isn't how business works?

Why is this so proud of using HTML5/CSS3 and no images, when the site General Metrics seems to imply that they value Photoshop over non-PS methods.

// We help design agencies build websites and web applications.

if ( Photoshop > (TextMate || Coda) ) { contactUs (”email”); }

Yeah. Enjoy the slow flow of users from reddit. From /r/technology to /r/android to /r/iphone, the general level of technical knowledge is pathetically low seen by the posts that were upvoted on android the last few days that ranged from fake twitter accounts to lies about the froyo platform and such

Right downmods because font-face, DnD and REST APIs are hard and new things.

I just switched to Google Voice and now there is an open competitor? Oh well, so far I can't complain about my Android + GV integration and plus VoIP is coming...

Funny, the Engadget insider story indicated that Foxconn is not nearly as hellish as people have assumed given the suicides, etc.

Also, I find the use of the word "implement" on this page hilarious. It's dropping the same font-face crap thats been in HTML5 for months into a webpage. The only difference is that it's hosted by Google.

Then again, Twitter was abuzz with everyone freaking out about DnD in html5. Guess if Google's not holding peoples' hands they might as well be useless. I also saw a tweet where someone asked if the REST API would be available for the iPhone. I facepalmed.

Google, usability! I should be able to go from a font page to your really nice configuration page that lets me control it even more: http://code.google.com/webfonts/preview

Dammit Google, why did I have to search my history for a link to this awesome page. Sometimes, I swear people ignore intuitive things that are just too obvious.

They could always do a Wine thing or just have a commercial(ly supported) version.

What if I'm running Ubuntu on a MBP. Can I run OS X as a VB guest?

My VB has been Oracle branded for a while... oh wait, I was running a prerelease. Never mind me.

"easier to use". I have absolutely no problems using Ubuntu 10.04. It's better in almost every way in terms of openness and functionality and I can be much more effective in terms of getting things done quickly and efficiently than you ever could on a touch screen device lacking a dedicated keyboard and mouse.

My only point is that the desktop space and mobile space are very different and I don't see them converging.