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Seeing the comments here talking about ancient codebases got me wistful for when Chromium was new and everything seemed possible. That triggered a flash of feeling extremely old re…

United seems to like to hang onto extremely old airplanes even as the number of these disruptions mount. We can argue how statistically they're safer etc but these events are extre…

I too have nostalgia for a time when prices were reasonable, politicians didn't philander and children respected their elders. And yet here we are :-) For what it's worth, despite …

Genuinely curious - what do people want to see from a new/different rendering engine? The web is crazy complex these days because it is an entire app platform. The incentive for an…

Incognito clearly states how it works every time you start it, including what it doesn't protect against. If we're saying that developers can't clearly and obviously state how thin…

netscape.public.mozilla.* The hierarchy there was basically a reflection of the company's browser team org chart. You could find a group for every team working on the browser where…

I'm about a half hour into this, and listening to Marc talk about newsgroups brings strong pangs of nostalgia. These days I'm a bit of a greybeard (salt-n-pepper beard?) of web bro…

Have a BMW X5 with this auto-steer nonsense and have had several incidents where it's abruptly turned the wheel, where if I weren't grabbing it it would have caused an accident. En…

Most Americans don't travel abroad. Those that are accustomed to frequent travel for business or leisure are acutely aware of the current situation because it's already blown up th…

Quality can be worse in a long-time cycle project: - Engineers are motivated to slam their feature in, because if they miss the train the next one's not for 12 months. - You get on…

Is anyone concerned that even in the face of re-training, that two aircraft could find themselves in this position within the first year of operations? Let's say you were on one of…

It takes special effort to configure a variable width font in a code editor. I have to wonder if they do this to troll observant people like you :p

One maybe interesting anecdote. May 2015, a few Chrome old timers reacting to the complexity of the code, decided we should try and build something new. This is nothing new for me …

Chrome team co-founder/engineer/etc. here. Glad you found it useful! Some components like our net stack are particularly cleanly factored. Others have more room for improvement. I …

Throw some potato chips on there.

This seems kind of crazy to me. Why not just treat the touch strip as a second display? That would seem to afford a smoother integration.

My house is nearly 120 feet wide end to end, split across three levels. My wife & I use IM/SMS to communicate from the extremities. The struggle is real.

Have you seen the latest Civic? It's far less conventional looking than past generations. Electric car styling must reflect a desire from the target audience of small city cars, ot…

I look forward to someone discovering a line of discourse that'll de-antagonize the legions of Sanders supporters writing hateful comments across the internet. It is truly sick.

I've owned three cars with automatic cruise control for the past decade. This isn't exactly new technology, perhaps only at this price point. The first car I had with this, an '06 …

I know most consumers don't really care about this stuff until it bites them, but products like this are supposedly (I guess) marketed to consumers who care about security. I think…

I don't know if this is the case, but I definitely understand how it could happen. Chrome's Incognito mode has the exact behavior of not supporting things like session restore and …

IMO it's foolish to think the laptop form factor is going anywhere, barring a fundamental shift in UX. Anything that requires productivity, e.g. content creation, is better done wi…

Funny story. I wanted to buy a cheap iPad for my son. I could have got one from Amazon but after hearing so many stories about scams or refurb devices or devices with someone else'…

To some extent. But we have a diversity of architecture in California, we're not all adobe mission huts and mid century modern homes. Old Palo Alto for example has a preponderance …