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Poking around your Chrome OS notebook(chromium.org)
10 points by jlees 16y ago|1 comments
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by jlees 16y ago
Self-selecting. People on the Chrome OS forums are more likely to have applied for the pilot program.
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by jlees 16y ago
There is a very restricted terminal, basically allowing SSH and a couple of other things. If you flip the developer mode switch, you get full VT and shell access: http://www.chromium.org/poking-around-your-chrome-os-device
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by jlees 16y ago
Some small things, like the screenshot thing, just tells you that this os isn't finished yet. Screenshot functionality is there, though. It's just pretty hard to discover unless you visit help.
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by jlees 16y ago
The fonts are fine, the rendering is an issue simply because we can't replicate 10+ years of proprietary work in fewer months. We're actively working on this. Be glad you didn't see the alpha ;)
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by jlees 16y ago
They won't be shipping to the UK. Sorry.
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by jlees 16y ago
There's a free plan built in (100MB every month for two years) but you do need to manually activate it.
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Touchscreen vending machines that guess your age and gender(core77.com)
3 points by jlees 16y ago|0 comments
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by jlees 16y ago
Telling your counterparty that you're about to get on a plane to meet them is one way to qualify a deal: they may tell you not to. Ah, again we see the parallels with dating? (I did very nearly do this once.)
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by jlees 16y ago
I was using it more in the sense of "Long story short". I suppose I would usually use it to make a related/contiguous point, but I didn't want to imply that I rejected the application purely because he had woken me up at 3am (which was part
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by jlees 16y ago
Oh yes, it was partly my fault for leaving my phone on non-silent mode, but that doesn't sound half as good in a story.
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by jlees 16y ago
One thing I have learnt since joining Google: everyone inside Google is always infernally busy. I'm British, so my concepts of bothering people, being a nuisance, and being impolite are already vastly out of skew with the American work cult
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by jlees 16y ago
You can hit the right/left arrow keys, and up/down to navigate between sections and articles. I hadn't actually discovered this before reading your comment. Whether it's better or not than horiz/vertical scrolling is a debatable issue.
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by jlees 16y ago
It's built in. http://code.google.com/p/chromium-os/issues/detail?id=5152
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by jlees 16y ago
I believe that's the reason this entire site exists. (Portfolio building).
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by jlees 16y ago
Thank you.
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by jlees 16y ago
Ctrl-? opens the help application. We had to add another modifier for the shortcuts.
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by jlees 16y ago
Bang on; Cr-48 was chosen precisely because it's an unstable isotope of chromium.
619.
by jlees 16y ago
You can map it to Ctrl.
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by jlees 16y ago
I'm not Matt, but I work on Chrome OS, so that probably counts for something. However: I don't know the answer to this question. Sorry. We do want to get pilots their devices as soon as possible though.
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by jlees 16y ago
You'll be able to do that within Chrome OS.
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by jlees 16y ago
Pilot selection is US only for now .
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by jlees 16y ago
There's a lot of work available - I did freelance PHP and other platform development during university. The issue is aligning customer expectations. "Make me a facebook for $200" etc.
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by jlees 16y ago
Some more spare time. Please. Failing that, a ton of books -- my Amazon wishlist is pretty up to date (if anyone's interested: http://amzn.com/w/OW6V76NBR5HF ); An iPhone 4, which I'm avoiding buying for myself since I have a perfectly awe
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by jlees 16y ago
An interesting question and if there's one takeaway from this: startups, please could you mention on your jobs pages (not just this thread!) whether you will look at non-US candidates? It's time consuming applying to places that either won'
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by jlees 16y ago
I mental block sometimes on UI design. OK, got a great idea, I can see how to implement the code, but the UI...
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How to get better at UI design(ui-patterns.com)
84 points by jlees 16y ago|20 comments
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by jlees 16y ago
I'll just jump in now before the rest of HN gets here and say "Leave your job". See, among others, http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1960437 for an excellent discussion of "why". (Specifically: you will suddenly find time to devote to t
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Thiel Fellowship: $100k grants to 20 under-20s to fund innovative ideas(20under20.org)
3 points by jlees 16y ago|0 comments
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by jlees 16y ago
How did you become a referrer? Is there any benefit to being one (other than the warm glow of watching an awesome company get funded)?

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