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Very clean and polished site, well done.

It would be great to be able to see the full name of the stock, currency and last update time.

Yahoo stock alert only works on U.S., Canadian, and Australian markets.

Yours seems to work on european markets.

Well that's very misleading, even Wikipedia thinks that : " Google confirmed that the RLZ tracking token [...] [is] not in versions of Chrome downloaded from the Google website directly or in any versions of Chromium."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromium_(web_browser)#Differen...

Agreed that this is not a reliable number, they also say 2M businesses and not the detail of end users.

But what I meant to say is that they do have other sources of revenue outside of ads that are not negligible.

I wouldn't say they have not managed to make money on anything except ads.

For example, you have to pay for Google Apps for business and they say they have more than 2M customers. At 50$ per year per users, that's not negligible.

Reminds me of a blog post from J. Fried : http://37signals.com/svn/posts/1555-learning-from-failure-is...

I couldn't disagree more with what Fried has to say, which surprised me because it doesn't happen very often, this interview expresses why quite good.

Took me a while to understand the concept because of this confusing title. I first thought those buses would move the cars around, like giant ferrys.

Not that I disagree with the benefits of a long walk but driving in a car really helps in my opinion because of the white noise (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_noise#Applications), general silence with closed windows and change of scenery.

I don't know if white noise has really been proven to help concentrate but some people believe that. Alone in the car I've come with interresting thought and came up with good problem processing.

Showers are supposed to produced the same kind of environment (white noise and isolation from much of the external stimulus).

I am disapointed by their last album (Heligoland) some of the best new songs are missing (All I want,..).

Here on reddit : http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/c1rcu/iama_person_with...

An ex Googler says he moved from CS to the lumbering industry ! Hope this helps.

Yes auto repair is a big problem for me and for a lot of other people too I guess.

Just last week the garage that took my car misdiagnosed the problem and charged me much more than necessary.

Usually I try to get a grasp of what the problem could be and try to fix it myself if I can. This time I was under pressure to get it fixed quickly so I directly brought it to the garage. Had I tried to identify the problem (which I did later on with a lot of web browsing), I would have fixed the problem under 72h and $20 vs one and a half week, a lot of hassle and $150 at the garage.

I wish there could be a robust platform to help you identify a problem. The forums are often full of people that really don't know what they are talking about but they still come and confuse you.

I'm thinking about a website where you could identify you car's problem with community approved answers (based on their own experience or solid references from the repair manual).

You could even get a G4 at 499€ in 2005

There's been a steady increase in the price of the Mini, unlike the Macbook. You had an iBook G4 for 999€ just like you can have a Macbook now for 999€. The Mac Mini went from 499€ to 799€.

The Mac Mini's pricing strategy is weird.

Several reasons at random :

- Less noise

- Less heat

- Smaller

- Faster boot time

- More bandwidth

It looks really nice, I wonder how well it handles the overheating with its smaller size.

No SSD ? No intel I3/I5 ? That's disapointing.

Do you mean the spotify.com frontpage or the content loaded in the Spotify app ?

Well I genuinely think that it must be a difficult decision to leave years of personal work behind, the decision making on your own project and the potential of an higher bid. But that's just my personal perspective, a more rational point of view is of course obvious.

In my opinion the aquisition didn't benefit the Flickr project very much (for the users), I have the feeling that it is stagnating right now.

In this article in really sounds like Catherina Fake regrets her decision of selling Flickr. It must be a very hard decision : accept 40 M$ or keep growing very personal work.

What I found interesing is that she underlines the fact that Flickr has been (is) very popular because of special circonstances, the fact that digital cameras began to be cheap and widespread, more and more people blogging...

It seems like Flickr became successful in a large part because of a lot of luck.

I'm pretty amazed that he gets his own TV show thanks to Twitter. He found one of the few useful use cases of Twitter.

He also did a "Ask me anything" on reddit http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/9pqjl/i_am_justin_from...

I'm still wondering if his dad is actually saying those tweets or if he's just a good writer.

I don't get it. The explanation is confusing to me, on the one side they say they don't rely on the browser as they used to : and the browser takes care of letting the user edit that text and yet they talk about the new GDocs entirely in JavaScript. JavaScript runs on the browser.

Can someone explain how the new GDocs is different technically speaking ?

Less than an hour to fix it, without any major data loss or collateral damages that I can see. That's pretty good !

Reddit's source code : http://code.reddit.com/

I'm far from being done and don't intend to read all of it, it isn't easy because it's huge !

It reminds me of The Prisoner an old british series http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Prisoner

The main character is held prisoner in a perfect but isolated village where he can eat perfect breakfasts and meet friendly people. Except that the village authorities expect from him "information" ;-)

Animal communication is definitely very complex. They all have their own language and it's often not just oral.

I've read an interesting theory that cats meow a lot at us humans because they see that we don't perceive their body language well enough. Out of frustration and because they see and hear that we speak a lot they adapt.

We're not to the point where we are able to translate live human communication smoothly. Even contextual text translation is terrible (Google translate).

I guess we're a long way from being able to translate animal communication effectively but I think it's a very intersting subject.

Yes it depends on the way you handle the response of the CRC, you could say "give me the data I don't care" or "please try to read it again it's wrong".

In my opinion that is just the proof that it's not as simple as "it just works or not" but rather : depending on muptiple factors such as error correction and the way your algorithm works on the receiver it may "half work" no matter what kind of cable you plug in.

I was expecting some comparaison of the renewal interval from users buying cheap cables vs users buying expensive cables.

I think that "it either work or doesn't" only if the receiver has some kind of cyclic redundancy check before processing the signal.

My guess is that very few digital A/V systems implement this. Proof of this is the weird sound you may hear on a damaged compact disc, it half works.

This trend is really depressing me. Most of the time it's cheaper to buy new stuff than to actually repair it.

This weekend I was trying to repair some bike's wheel, some spokes (4) were broken and needed to be changed, I called the bike shop and the guy told me he doesn't keep a stock of spare parts anymore. That he would have to order them by a box of 100 for me. If I let him repair the wheel (having only minor damages) it would cost me more than to buy a new one.

Annnd another useless feature of Google Reader.

I can't understand the way they decide how Google Reader evolves, I mean they just have to pick up one of the many feature requests : http://productideas.appspot.com/#16/e=22493

GR lacks many basic features (read an item later, filters, views per feeds...)

Would you mind sharing any conclusion(s) ?

I just noticed that I'm instinctively using 3-4 browsers too at work and at home on a single machine.

At work I'm using Chrome for everyday browsing, Firefox/Firebug for heavy development and Opera for personal stuff (Gmail).

At home I use Safari for everyday browsing, Chromium for news/social web and Firefox for Google Reader.

i really like the fact that if the browser crashes or wants to update I don't loose everything I'm doing, only a part of it. It also allows me to focus on a task rather than a bunch of unrelated websites.

Is that a general trend ?