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by Mahn 14y ago
Now if only we could get every single IE user to upgrade, including IE7/8 users, that'd be perfect.
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by Mahn 14y ago
It's true Google has yet to sell a hardware consumer product that is wildly successful, but that's also why this is exciting: unlike with nexus tablets or phones, the possibily of becoming the "iPhone" of a new product category exists here,
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by Mahn 14y ago
Exactly this. I remember the feeling of being very surprised to find out that life could meant so much more after I finished school. Suddenly bad things didn't happen because you were unlucky and that's it, but as a result of your choices t
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by Mahn 14y ago
You forget that you are kid when you are in school; you barely scratched the surface of understanding how people think, what motivates and what drives them, heck you don't even know how would you take care of yourself alone. And yet you're
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by Mahn 14y ago
There should be a video in the background full screen, try with another browser.
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by Mahn 14y ago
Can European startups sign up aswell, or this is US only?
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by Mahn 14y ago
We have all sorts of discussions here on HN that derail a bit from the topic of the main article linked, e.g. discussing smart TVs in a thread about webOS; I don't see how this is negative as long as there is still connection.
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by Mahn 14y ago
Maybe because early adopters don't care for TVs. I'd be willing to bet most folks here in HN don't really watch TV for instance, other than for the occasional news, and for something to eventually catch on and become mainstream having a bas
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by Mahn 14y ago
I was wondering the exact same thing. I guess it's very likely LG abandons the open version of it though.
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by Mahn 14y ago
Initial thoughts before clicking: "Oh, I bet it's an effect inspired on Quora". Bingo.
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by Mahn 14y ago
This won't be a popular comment, but I have to admit I never really liked CoffeeScript. I've tried to like it, and it does seem more concise, but what's the point, it always seems clearer (to me) what something written in vanilla javascript
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by Mahn 14y ago
> But I am afraid that the existing solutions have soaked up all the customers I used to think this aswell, and I was proven wrong. I think this assumption is almost always wrong. Unless you are building a facebook competitor, you will
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by Mahn 14y ago
Great point. But: > if you allow the languages to coexist in the same page What if we didn't? Perhaps each site could decide whether to use the JS VM OR the "new" VM; it's not ideal, but this could work. You know, much like what one wou
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by Mahn 14y ago
That's why I didn't literally said nothing at all, and it's great that there's something going on with the language, but it would be even better if we were to start new language from scratch, rethought for today.
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by Mahn 14y ago
The sad part is that there is little effort into changing this. Javascript was clearly not designed for what is being used nowadays, but browsers vendors don't believe in introducing a new client language because apparently it's hard to get
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by Mahn 14y ago
Sourceforge feels a little bit like the Geocities of developers now. Funny how things go.
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by Mahn 14y ago
Also, it's just me or does MIDI.js have the potential to lead the renaissance of midi music on the internet? I had almost forgotten midi files existed if it weren't for this lib.
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by Mahn 14y ago
http://song-of-github.herokuapp.com/?username=antirez <- best one I heard so far :-) this thing is fun.
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by Mahn 14y ago
Doesn't seem to work anymore, I guess the autor removed it?
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by Mahn 14y ago
Well, at least it's true there are some expectations now that there were not before: you can't show up with a "personal homepage" full of silly animated gifs, random midi music in the background and a photo as a repeating background image a
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by Mahn 14y ago
This is pretty epic, thanks for making it.
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by Mahn 14y ago
It's a start. Browsers were not getting any faster before because no one was pushing their boundaries, but nowadays it's a different story. I think we can expect browsers to get a helluva lot faster within the next 3-4 years, specially when
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by Mahn 14y ago
It's not just you, it's a pretty oddly designed layout for a landing page.
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by Mahn 14y ago
Thank god JSON has taken over XML. I'm sure XML still has its uses, but it simply is way too verbose, and frankly I have yet to find a data structure which representation fits better in a xml like format (besides html, obviously)
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by Mahn 14y ago
According to his profile: Member, Technical Staff Google, Inc. January 2006 – January 2008 (2 years 1 month)
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by Mahn 14y ago
Right, here's the summary he has on his profile verbatim then: "Mr. Nelson invented Google Chrome OS while working at Google in 2006. He has 19 years of experience in cloud computing and Big Data analytics. He has written two books and many
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by Mahn 14y ago
Here's his LinkedIn profile by the way: http://www.linkedin.com/in/nelsonjeffrey It looks like he's pretty sure of his connection with Chrome OS.
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by Mahn 14y ago
My impression from what I've read is that Jeff did work on a linux fork which was known as Google OS internally (I think there were even public news about google working informally on a "Google OS" in 2006-07), but that never really catched
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by Mahn 14y ago
It's absolutely realistic. Firefox was very, very bloated in 2006, but we still used it because the next best thing was IE.
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by Mahn 14y ago
Great read, but I'm not sure why he keeps using the term of Chromebook/Chrome OS. It was more the story of a Google OS which eventually a few years after someone else turned into Chrome OS.

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