tutwabee

Why must the alphabet have a "canonical" order? It seems like the alphabet has an order for recitation purposes and for convenience when ordering things.

Recitation seems unnecessary in teaching alphabets and as long as numbers are well-known and are distinct from letters, then they could be used to order items in daily life.

Maybe Chrome needs to change the name of their browser.

If you end up using vim, here's my vimrc file. It's got soft tabs enabled, a color distinction between soft tabs and hard tabs, and keyboard shortcuts for creating and removing comments for various comment styles.

http://dotfiles.org/~tutwabee/.vimrc

This actually might not be a custom product. The website that is hosting this map could be using the Google Maps API with their own map of China.

Would you call the special Google News censorship for China a custom product?

Unless 30% drop out during the second month.

Allowing a terminal or window manager to manage terminal sessions often feels more natural.

However, screen is awesome when combined with ssh. Being able to resume an ssh session exactly where you left it is very useful.

"The response that I try to lob into these discussions, reduced to its crudest form, is: Mark Zuckerberg is the CEO of one of the largest web sites on the planet, and his web site is beautiful, and it brings joy to a lot of people, so apparently being a good programmer isn’t what makes you design beautiful things that make people happy, in which case being a good programmer sounds like a fucking waste."

Mark Zuckerberg is the CEO of Facebook. His coding abilities cannot be judged unless it is known how much of the Facebook code he actually wrote. I assume the majority of it was not written by him.

Hasn't this been around for a while now? Are there new features now or something?

Cool site. You should add some tiles where the edges seamlessly repeat so there is no blank space between the end of one tile edge and the beginning of another.

Oddly, most introverts I know have a problem with much of the "my tribe is better than your tribe" stuff in our society.

Is this article meant to be satire? It's strange that this guy is so passionate about being introverted. It almost seems like he's proud of it.

He may have hurt the reputation of Amazon, but not through his crime. Publicizing vulnerabilities in Amazon's ranking system is what may hurt Amazon's reputation. The "crime" of messing with Amazon's system didn't hurt Amazon's reputation let alone their website much at all.

California is progressive because they have banned non-hands-free cellular phones while driving, banned text messaging while driving, banned the sale of alcohol after 2am, banned gay marriage explicitly through a constitutional amendment.

When did the words "liberal" and "progressive" become synonymous with "government regulated?"

Was it really necessary to patent the built-in battery design? That doesn't really seem original enough to warrant a patent.

What is the difference between Raymond's proposed non-restrictive open source software licensing plan and unleashing software into the public domain? It seems like the authors of such software would have absolutely no control over their software under these licenses, effectively forfeiting their intellectual property rights.

It seems like you are not arguing against circular navigation in general, but specifically the navigation on songza.

Your problem with the unpredictability of the menus in the songza-style navigation could very easily be fixed by simply adding an arrow to each item that contains a submenu, just like the typical context menu.

An arrow could be added on the tip of each leaf of the songza navigation circle that uses has a submenu. The arrow would visually indicate that a menu will pop out if the mouse hovers over leaves with these arrows. This would function exactly as the arrows on the typical context menu.

There are builds of Chromium for Linux. It's just in pre-alpha and lack everything except for very basic functionality (no tabs yet). So far, the omnibar works, pages render well, and it feels very fast.

Ubuntu builds repository to keep up on the progress: https://launchpad.net/~chromium-daily/+archive/ppa

I find using key modifiers for mouse actions awkward sometimes.

Middle clicking or clicking both buttons simultaneously also opens links in new tabs.

Health and useful work that brings enjoyment.

I have a 64GB SSD in my laptop and I love it. Upon a clean Ubuntu install my system booted in 28 seconds. After tweaking my system some I got my boot time down to 12 seconds.

I tried opening OpenOffice after watching this video and found that OpenOffice writer opens in less than 1 second and opening all Office applications except for database and impress takes less than three seconds 3.

The difference between SSDs and HDs is definitely noticeable.

The DMCA seems to legally broaden the intellectual property rights of mega-corporations in nasty ways. The RIAA, MPAA, and many electronics corporations frequently abuse these rights, while staying within the law.

Maybe the RIAA and MPAA are the good guys. They're just stress-testing the system to work out bugs. Legal loopholes and kinks will be discovered, abused, and patched up much more hastily this way.

Opera 9 seems to render this much faster than Firefox 3 on Linux, but it's still not nearly as fast as Chrome on Vista.

Where will the advertisements go?

It depends on how you are counting "majority." According to w3schools, IE6 & IE7 combined make up 46% of browsers right now and Firefox makes up 44%.

If IE had taken Opera & Firefox's lead a long time ago we would not still have this problem. CSS is not the problem, support for CSS is the problem.

Hopfully the IE8 will swallow the IE6 & IE7 market because we really need to take advantage of these great "display: table" properties that have been around for the last 11 years.

The background color of the logo is gray in IE6 and the Add Game page is messed up in IE6 also. Although, I can't blame you if you aren't planning to support IE6.

Also the OpenID button does not load in Opera 9 and slows down the loading of the rest of the form greatly.