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Sort of reminds me of his "Death Stare" interview with Kara Swisher. http://live.wsj.com/video/d9-video-andrew-mason-death-stare/...

But really, hopefully it's a move in the right direction for the struggling company. There's opportunity to open new revenue streams especially considering that businesses are still creating new Groupon deals.

I'd highly recommend Object-Oriented JavaScript by Stoyan Stefanov. Really any JS book by Stoyan is pretty high quality.

http://www.amazon.com/Object-Oriented-JavaScript-high-qualit...

What about Code School (http://www.codeschool.com)? I'm pretty sure that it's a well known place to learn programming, etc.

Maybe I misread the article but I don't recall him saying he's trying get rid of his goofball image altogether. I'd say he's trying to gradually tone it down and keep it controlled to certain situations (i.e. although it may be a part of who he is, it doesn't need to apply to Groupon).

I'm glad he did this interview since it is putting faith back into investors and the general public. It's pretty apparent that he is looking to do more than just sell daily coupons or sellout to a company offering him billions of dollars. He seems genuinely interested in doing something good with Groupon. Though he still has a ways to go, I give him respect for doing it for the right reasons.

Back when I switched from Firefox to Chrome, FF was a very heavy browser that took up a lot of memory. Chrome was very light-weight and nimble. Clearly, that has changed since then but it was a big competitive advantage.

One process per tab is a feature. If a tab crashed in FF, typically the whole browser would need to restart whereas in Chrome the tab could be closed and re-opened without affecting the other tabs. I think that's a pretty significant feature.

Auto-updating every 6 weeks is another feature. As a developer, I don't have to worry when an update comes out since I know 90%+ will be on the new version.

While I think part of the reason Chrome has a large market share is clearly because of Google, I don't think it's the main reason. There are many other factors.

It's not really "in the wild". It's a part of the Svbtle network (http://svbtle.com/) started by Dustin Curtis. Check the link in the lower left corner.

> I don't want my stream filled with junk the way my Facebook stream is.

I always wondered why the Google+ team didn't implement that from the get go but after reading that, that's probably the biggest reason as to why they haven't.

Serious question: What viable options do they have besides being acquired?

Definitely recommend Stefanov's JavaScript Patterns. I'd suggest reading both concurrently since JavaScript Patterns covers best practices with JS as a whole while Essential JS is focused almost exclusively on design patterns.

Hm, maybe we're not reading the same thing but:

Under 'How do I keep up with what’s landing in browsers?' it says 'IE Blog - Updates for IE'

Under 'Follow them on Twitter' they provide the Twitter handle for the Internet Explorer dev team.

There are a couple more instances but they're clearly not excluding IE.

From the landing page:

"Click to interact with the environment, keep the button pressed to fly faster."

Try clicking at different speeds and on different elements and you'll see the interactivity (works better with an external mouse). Contrast it to sitting back and watching it go.

They do:

"You can also choose to operate Amazon Silk in basic or 'off-cloud' mode. Off-cloud mode allows web pages generally to go directly to your computer rather than pass through our servers. As such, it does not take advantage of Amazon’s cloud computing services to speed-up web content delivery." [1]

[1] http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html/?nodeId=...

To be fair, Amazon is doing what our ISPs do already: cache sites to deliver it faster.

Also, Amazon's privacy statement says you can make Silk a normal browser by selecting the "off-cloud" mode [1]. Off-cloud mode allows web pages to go directly to the device rather than pass through their servers. I'm sure most users won't know of this option but at least it is an option.

[1] http://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html/?nodeId=...

It's powered by a WebKit engine. Amazon Silk jobs are asking for Webkit engineers [1]. Presumably, they've modded the underlying Android browser.

[1] https://us-amazon.icims.com/jobs/152694/job?in_iframe=1

If you kept reading the paragraph you quote, it also says "since Microsoft began breaking out that unit's finances in 2007, the company has lost a total of $9 billion." While the title of this post is not stating a clear timeline for the loss, it still is technically correct.

And the original comment you're referring to isn't stating a clear bias against Microsoft, per se. It's more that they're stating a general perception: that Microsoft is Windows and that it's mostly a desktop software provider. I think we can all agree that the general public agrees with that.

Don't worry - not all of us are out to get Microsoft.

There seems to be some inconsistencies across the site including support for IE6. The demo page (http://demos.kendoui.com/) says it does while the overview page (http://www.kendoui.com/kendo-ui.aspx) says IE7+.

Weird.

I could be wrong but I don't think Chris Dixon and Caterina Fake were together. They co-founded Hunch together but that seems to be it. And stop worrying/thinking about why she left. She did what she wanted. There's no need for tech soap operas.

The breakup fee may be what T-Mobile was looking for all along since Deutsche Telekom AG has said it's not willing to invest more in the venture. $3 billion isn't chump change and I'm sure they'll take full advantage of those agreements (e.g. spectrum rights, etc) should the deal fall through.

It's a breakup fee as explained here:

http://www.avc.com/a_vc/2011/02/ma-issues-breakup-fees.html

I like the idea but someone technically minded enough could scrape the article from the source (at least from the demo CNN page they have up) [1]. But then again, that would be a lot of work especially compared to typing in two to three words.

[1] http://cnnmoney.transformer.doublerecall.com/2011/08/24/news...

>So why are they after the small people like GetJar??

To be consistent. They're not out to get Amazon. They're out to own the term "App Store" and are proving it by going after anyone who tries to use it. So in court they can say that it isn't just the big guys that are infringing but also smaller players.

Xerox Star 8010 came out before Apple's Lisa. In fact, Jobs had his team grab sneak peaks in Xerox PARC prior to the release of the Lisa.

While I respect your opinions in support of Parsons, I'm going to have to disagree with you on a lot of your arguments.

>Bob Parsons has always run his company the way he wants, and he has particular freedom to do so since he has zero investors and is the sole owner

Parsons does have the freedom to do what he likes but there are consequences to those actions. No one is questioning his freedom to do what he chooses.

> He does certain things for shock value...

True but I think killing an elephant and then posting a video about it is a bit different than showing scantily clad women dancing on the hood of a convertible. Both can be equally demeaning and morally questionable to certain parts of the population but let's be real here, killing an "innocent animal" is much more controversial than what is shown on TV almost every night.

> Slaughtering an elephant might offend some of your sensibilities, but hunting in Africa is wide spread and as long as the elephant is not endangered, I don't think your outrage has a leg to stand on.

Not sure if you read the article but Jacques specifically states there's a clear difference between a rich dude shooting the Elephant and a native Zimbabwean game warden doing it to protect his crops (which btw, there are many other ways of going about that than shooting it). The psychology behind the former doing it can be extremely powerful (and enraging) compared to the latter.

> There are much worse things going on in America's food industry then this.

Agreed. But that's missing the point.

> I can understand how this might offend vegetarians but even then, it's not like the animal was wasted.

I'd assume this statement was more offensive to vegetarians than watching that video. I'd assume that b/c I am one.

To be fair, he didn't write that. But by copy+pasting someone else's advice, he is advocating it which is a bit irresponsible. In any case, he makes up for it with his other zen habit advice.

Why not require them to be on LinkedIn and verify through that? Or verify through Facebook? Granted there are trolls on both but it's better than requiring ppl to send a scan of their gov't ID.

There's a pretty detailed article (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1022822/Incre...) that explains what anthropologists assume they're thinking. It's basically "Stay Away" since the plane is a foreign object. In fact, you can see the tribesmen readying their weapons in case the flying object veers towards them.

This happens in the US as well. China and India do it although using different techniques. But I'm wary of using chemicals/technology to induce rainfall (I'm no scientist but is the water safe then?). Also imagine the resource wars that will start once countries start using this regularly.

That is really cool. I only read the transcript so maybe I missed it but I wish they talked more about the technical aspect of developing the app. Learning Objective C isn't the easiest thing in the world especially with no programming experience.

Completely off-topic (perhaps not) but at the top of the sidebar of SeeingInteractive's site, there is a sign-up section for a support group. The fields are _incredibly_ tiny. Checked on both Firefox 3.6 and Chrome.

Not to knock them but it doesn't really inspire confidence in them helping small businesses conquer the web.

dude! totally what i thought when i was reading the convo.

Total giveaway - "I will be happy to chatting with you all day."

nb: I am Indian and spent my last year there i.e. I know the "Inglish" dialect pretty well.