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Alabama would have been the first (and default) option in the list.

It's not unusual for "silicon" to be used as an all-encompassing term for computers and computer hardware.

Other things that TechCrunch has declared dead:

* Phone calls

* Computer mice

* The Web

* The physical book

* Apple TV

* Software

* Music DRM

* CDs

I think that AT&T, Microsoft, Facebook, the library in every single city in the US, Apple, and Apple's App store would disagree.

This reminds me of "wars" kids in my neighborhood would have when I was about ten years old. Each group of kids would think up highly elaborate plans of subterfuge, sophisticated camouflage, and spying, that, when executed, basically consisted of throwing some moldy walnuts over a fence at the other groups of kids.

What they both have in common are groups of children with too much time on their hands.

Changes noticed on Mac since Beta 6:

* The stop/reload button has moved to the right end of the URL bar.

* The status bar is gone; URLs appear in ghosted text on the right side of the URL bar when you hover over a link.

* You can enable an "add-on bar", which appears to be a replacement status bar that add-ons can add icons to. None of the add-ons I have installed (about 20) are making use of it, so the transition from overlaying the status bar to overlaying the add-on bar must not be automatic.

* In the Add-ons Manager, an explicit "Remove" button has replaced the small "X" icon that used to be used for uninstalling an add-on.

* A more colorful throbber.

The importance of the <popular movie person> mentioned in the movie preview is directly proportional to how good the movie is going to be. e.g., "From the director of Avatar..." is probably going to be a good movie. "From the sound editor of Forrest Gump" doesn't have quite the same chances.

I can't recall what movie it was, but I once saw a trailer that touted itself as "from the company that distributed <not very good movie>." The movie proved to be terrible.

Certainly; I've had good success so far in life with long-term goals.

Achieved:

* Graduate college in three years.

* Get a job in the tech sector that I enjoy.

* Marry the girl I love.

In-progress:

* Pay off my house in the next three years.

* Buy a large parcel of land (50+ acres) where my wife and I can build our dream house.

Still to be determined:

* Retire by 35 so I can spend my time on my terms.

There's nothing like the feeling of setting a big goal and eventually checking it off your list.

As I understand it, arewefastyet.com was created as more of an internal/community dashboard specifically for the JIT team at Mozilla rather than to reflect on the browser as a whole to the userbase.

Agreed that most of these would be good components of an overall browser benchmark, but the linked benchmarks are JavaScript benchmarks only, so things like browser start-up time and chrome dimensions wouldn't apply.

Based in part on the tax brackets shown here: http://www.moneychimp.com/features/tax_brackets.htm and several years of adjusting my estimated taxes in order to get as close to a zero-balance as possible when I do my taxes in April.

To supplement the comment I left regarding TurboTax (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1783200), I thought I'd lay out exactly how and when I interact with the IRS. About 50% of my income comes from freelancing; the other 50% from a full-time job.

January 15: Send the IRS a check for 28% of the gross freelance income you made between September 1 and December 31 of the previous year along with a 1040-ES (http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/f1040es.pdf) Also send an estimated payment to your state of about 5-7%, based on your state's income tax bracket for your income. (My state, Minnesota, has easy online payments, so there's no paperwork required.)

Between March 1 and April 15: Do your taxes. Use TurboTax; it will simplify your life. Take appropriate deductions for everything that TurboTax asks, but make sure to have documentation.

April 15: Repeat what you did on January 15, but for income received between January 1 and March 31.

June 15: Repeat January's step again, but for income from between April 1 and May 31.

September 15: Repeat January again, but for income from between June 1 and August 31.

Note that you only really need to make estimated payments if you expect to owe more than $1,000 on tax day if you were to not make estimated payments. If you owe more than $1,000 when tax day comes, you may be charged a penalty if you didn't make estimated payments. (I'm not an accountant, so your mileage may vary.)

I've used TurboTax for my return for the last five (?) years; I have a full-time job (W-2), but I also do a fair amount of freelancing (1099).

I doubt that I would be able to do my return on my own without TurboTax; it walks you through all of the deductions you can take if you have contracting income - the portion of your mortgage that applies to your home office, any whole-house improvements you made to your home (heating/roofing/etc.), any improvements you made directly to your home office, depreciation of assets used solely for your job, etc. I'm sure that the ~$50 I spend on TurboTax each year is more than offset by the money it saves me.

Business idea: Have people in the US proxy 4.5% mortgages to UK residents at 4.75%.

> most users wrongly assume that Facebook Contact Sync only syncs user pictures.

Why would you think that an app called "Contact Sync" would only sync pictures, and not your contacts?

If one of AOL's goals was to announce multiple acquisitions in a single day in order to get exponentially more coverage than if they had announced them all days apart, then I'd say mission accomplished.

The OneRiot RiotWise Ad API might be right for you:

http://oneriotdevelopernetwork.com/riotwise-api/

You have the option of text ads (typically trending news stories, so they're less spammy than typical ads), small display ads, or full ad units. Additionally, OneRiot's whole approach is real-time/trending information, so it's well within the Twitter-ish sphere.

I have some friends who have used it and reported good CTR and positive (or non-negative) user reactions to the ads.

What's wrong with 9am?

Or you could just update the cache when the data changes.

For some reason, I started reading the story with the assumption that it was a "don't do it this way" tutorial, and I got very nervous towards the end. ("But that's exactly how I use memcache!")

> What's wrong with the Chrome method of opening new tabs right next to the current tab?

Firefox already does this.

Wikipedia has the answer: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anal_retentive

Yeah, Google could be pretty successful if only they didn't focus so much on engineering.

.tk already did this: http://dot.tk/

No legitimate employer would ask for paystubs from previous jobs.

Age is a meaningless metric for a bug; "age" + "severity" perhaps, but an old, low-priority bug is less likely to be fixed than a new, high-priority bug, given a non-infinite amount of development resources.

Case-in-point: Mozilla bug #350 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=350 was open for 11 years: that means it predates Netscape Navigator 4.06, but it wasn't fixed until Firefox 3.

Should Mahalo's investors be concerned that the Mahalo CEO, former Mahalo CTO, and now-former Mahalo Community Director are all working for ThisWeekIn? Wouldn't there be a contractual clause preventing Calacanis from hiring away Mahalo staff for his new business?