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by bengoodger 14y ago
Ducktales inherited much of its sophistication from the comics on which it was based. Carl Barks, creator of Scrooge and most of the rest of the Duckburg universe, was an avid reader of National Geographic and sought to expose his readers t
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by bengoodger 14y ago
Product naming can be ridiculously hard. Even if you have something you personally think is clever, everyone else can think you're a dork. Related anecdotes: When trying to come up with a name for Firefox (after having two other names rejec
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by bengoodger 14y ago
I also think this applies more broadly. When I was in university, one of the mandatory classes in engineering was Professional Development, and one of the threads in that was writing. They stressed "Soon enough you'll be communicating with
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by bengoodger 14y ago
PA city council is already hard at work at this, choking off key arteries like Arastradero/Charleston Rd for "safety" (their attempt at lowering speed was to choke bandwidth, worsening traffic jams at peak hours).
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by bengoodger 14y ago
I see the sets as a way of defining constraint, i.e. establishing what an approved construction standard is. It then becomes possible for someone with extra bricks to invent a new model that fits in with the same scale/standards. Look at th
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by bengoodger 14y ago
On my team, most of the disagreements that come up are still technical issues. That's pretty good IMO, considering company size. Yes it has its fair share of issues, but having worked at some companies several times smaller, this one is pre
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by bengoodger 14y ago
Aside from the things mentioned in the video (offline by default, fully customizable UI, <browser> tag etc) one of the most interesting things about this is the change to application architecture that makes Chrome apps mirror tradit
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by bengoodger 14y ago
It would be funny if people were switching to Chrome because they were tired of updates. Chrome updates _all_the_time_. Also no one gives a hoot about version numbers. I don't think people hate the updates, they hate the nagging popups. The
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by bengoodger 14y ago
Text shaping is hard? How about a browser? If these guys think they've got something innovative, more power to them. We got this comment a lot back when we started Chrome, but fortunately we didn't let it stop us :-)
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by bengoodger 14y ago
We used to do this in Chrome in our pre-release days. It was annoying to use so we turned it off. The downside is that our session restore startup time could definitely be better for large numbers of tabs. We could do a better job of prior
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by bengoodger 15y ago
It's not just a new X WM, though we do still use X (at the screen level). Basically, we render everything inside the X root window. It's all composited, using the same compositor we use for web content ("CC"). http://dev.chromium.org/devel
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by bengoodger 15y ago
I owned a Nissan Altima once that had this feature and loved it there. The technology was simple - 7 segment display in the dash reflecting off the screen above. Now I'm driving a '11 550i that also has this feature - with the beautiful ful
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by bengoodger 15y ago
Given the trend towards bundling and a changing internet population (away from savvier early adopters and towards people more inclined to stick with the defaults), Netscape was always going to have a really tough time competing. Microsoft c
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by bengoodger 15y ago
A sizeable chunk of people on the team are developing Linux because of the build/link speed advantages. Some of us stick it out with Windows because we either like the UI better or because that's where most of our users are right now :-) I
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by bengoodger 16y ago
One interesting thing to note... Chrome operated with a 4-releases per year schedule from beta launch until late 2010, before switching to the interleaved 12-week cycle mbrubeck mentions. While the quarterly release process represented a de
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by bengoodger 16y ago
Not true. The core elements of the number are major and minor. Major represents a new stable release from the trunk. Minor is a subsequent release from that branch. We almost never do minor. The notable exception was 4.1, which came off the
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by bengoodger 16y ago
I am the engineer that added much of the behavior described in this post, and also the manager of the Chrome frontend team. We are always looking for engineers excited by design challenges and who have an intuition for user experience. With