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Nice idea but windowless flash are also more cpu consuming, so ads would use more cpu. I wonder what's the environmental impact of a change like this would be ;)

What's strange was that performance was my original thought when seeing that title, flash is breaking the web is so many ways.

I'm not sure it would change anything for Chrome though, the plugin in a process seems to use the windowless model by default. I'm not sure about that, but the rendering speed while doing my experimentations with http://swiffout.com seemed to suggest that.

Potentially related threads :

Math for hackers : http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=672067

Good books on mathematics for somebody who's only taken high school math? : http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=299687

Recommendation for (re)learning Math Skills : http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1449799

do you mean that's a bad idea ? why ?

It inspire me an app :

- I'll give it the task I'm going to do

- 1H after I start the task, it asks again

Now I can work in 1H period and it fills my hourly log...

It's weird to see the assistant closer from the top of the page than the developers...

I always install a us keyboard configuration as well in addition to my french keyboard for those kinds of issues. There is no need for two keyboard. Then you can just switch by pressing ctrl-shift simultaneously on windows.

This is a nice list on why ideas get viral from the point of view of the one who propagate it. As often things get more sense when you look at them from the point of view of a single person.

Luck plays a role in building a billion dollars company, otherwise billg, stevej, would be building billion dollars company every 10 years which is not happening.

Building a million dollars company is hard work (I mean 10 million at least ), but still billion dollars company are mostly about being lucky and exploiting it. I doubt that billionnaire entrepreneurs seriously worked much more, or much smarter than millionnaires. Billionaire companies landed there because they exploited ideas inherently more monopolistic, more able to spread.

If you take the sivers multiplier http://sivers.org/multiply, ideas still have some potential : a x20 multiplier is a huge boost.

People aren't stupid in entering the same password on every website. Passwords ARE stupid : Having a password for every website is completly unrealistic. According to lastpass I have a hundred accounts on various websites. If you can remember that amount of I'm very admirative.

Before that, I had three series of passwords : One for email, one for paypal and one weak for everything else.

lastpass completly solved my password problem. I don't know how I lived before, I can generate new profile in 2 click, strong password and autologin everywhere I need.

Excel formation and consulting looks like an interesting niche. It is really business oriented, quite large, with a lot of people probably willing to improve. How did you reached your initial customers ?

This very good start seems to prove it. I wish you good luck.

I'd love a service that does english to english translation. It would fix my english and I would learn what I did wrong as well and improve.

The article seems to focus on Flash. Adobe has more products than that, and has a quasi monopol around graphism tools. Acquiring Adobe could help MS with design, something MS is really bad at. Since XP I don't really think that windows looks particularly good. More design focus is something that could benefit MS especially since Apple is so much into it. Or may be they could hire a really good designer (or trust one they have ), that would be cheaper...

It could be very nice for blog posts, and website infos. I'm not a native speaker, I'd love to have an army to fix my mistakes.

(estimated time - implentation) time over the course of the project + an interest rate. Older hacks tend to cause more hacks, so interest rate would be necessary (and more scary, which is a good thing )

We could have a pretty accurate debt precision in time, that time could be used to fix things ?

Almost every time I implemented something where my guts said no was a disaster. Business types need to learn if we say no at first, insisting to get a yes is a really bad idea. Tech is not negociable, we aren't doing a deal at that point. Sometimes we are too tired to find detailed and convincing arguments why it's wrong and explain the little tiny details to convince you :

Yes programmers should give options, and learn to works with business guys. Don't worry we know that lesson. But, we are all on the same boat and as scary as it is, you have to learn to work with us too ... If you get a no, try to understand why is it a no, but never try to change it to a yes.

Actually even if you get a yes you should probably give arguments against too, because sometimes we can miss a thing too.

You are looking for something computer related, because it's the last change. The world is probably not going to evolve twice in the same way. That would be ungeek ;). Alpha geeks seems to be in space rocketship and biology today. May be this is where we will see the big changes in the future ?

Might be it could be expanded to a combination of two words, like amazon does for basket checkout.

I didn't know about it, it's really great. It's sort of a synchronized keepass with better browser integration. Thanks.

This isn't exactly news. There is a page that include several HN related services here : http://resourcey.com/site_details/2/news.ycombinator.com/

I think that it's already the case : some articles are nofollow on HN homepage. They usually are 3 or 4 upvote at the bottom mixed with upvoted dofollow links.

But they probably did it by mistake or at least inadvertently. If they had known what would occur they probably won't have done it.

And a contact field, sometimes I wish I could talk with someone who commented something I posted, but it's difficult to get in contact.

- Ask your teacher if he use some book and get this book. It's better to get the original than the copy

- If you don't like that book, get another one

Quantic mechanic was a really boring subject to me, until I got a book that was more interesting than my teacher. It really worked for me, but I'm a book person.

One of the hardest thing I found trying to sell something online is that you actually have to learn to spend on intangible goods.

It's difficult to spend money on things you don't know whether or not you'll see your money back.

Believing that you can make money by investing only $10 for a dns won't help you.

the title is misleading, it's how to start a blog and put it a domain name

I thought that until I began listening podcast while commuting. Don't listen to podcast at you desk, listen in the bus, while driving, running, etc... You don't need a iPod, I got a $30 mp3 player and it's great.

mediawiki it also a very complex wiki, and as it somewhat became the standard, non programmer got afraid by it and didn't want to edit anything by fear of breaking something or not knowing how it work.

There was times where the digit was written, other times where the digit wasn't. Only some people got the password then by word of mouth.

Ward was really willing to do something that could work for blind people as well and there wasn't really audio captcha at that time.

In my mind it didn't work really well as the community was too large, and as a wiki require a great deal of people to have it maintains such a large wiki it essentially collapsed under it's own weight and word of mouth never arrive to me (I was just a lone french with no connexions )

Not knowing whether you were going to be able to modify or not modify it at a time was also very annoying.

Under windows you can also get minidump which are a mini core dump with the current state of variables

You have to ponder this picture with what people look like at that time. If you take an old picture, almost everybody look completly out of fashion today.