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I solved the embedded Chrome OS ad equation and won a Cr-48

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Re: I solved the embedded Chrome OS ad equation and won a Cr-48

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Post by sylvinus »

simonsarris wrote: post #23
jacquesm wrote: post #8

From the article: > most people I know including myself couldn’t live without Chromium/V8 anymore. Is this a common sentiment ?

I can relate, though maybe he is being a tad sensationalist. I expect (say) my bookmarks to be synced between all my computers. I'm sure plugins do this on other browsers, though. The biggest reason I don't consider Opera or FF for daily use anymore: Non-chrome browsers drive me crazy due to the way they close tabs. It is very stressful compared to mouse-closing tabs in Chrome and its "smart positioning."

true, it was a bit over the top. I've edited to "can't go back to any other browser than Chromium/V8 anymore." which is closer to my actual feelings :)

And this comes from a former hardcore Mozilla fan :)

Re: I solved the embedded Chrome OS ad equation and won a Cr-48

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Post by v21 »

randallsquared wrote: post #29
boredguy8 wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Using Chrome is like driving a luxury car for the first time. I remember when I got in a '93 Mercedes SL 500 in the rain and when I slowed down so did the windshield wipers. I know others replicated the behavior in later models, but driving that car made me realize that every other car was designed by people who didn't, apparently, drive cars. I love using the 'smart tab positioning' example: how many times have peop…

I love using the 'smart tab positioning' example: how many times have people moved the mouse to close 4 or 5 tabs? I would expect that most people close multiple tabs with [cmd|ctrl]-w, precisely because of the back and forth mousing otherwise required. One thing I've worried about while using Chrome has been accidentally closing more than one tab at once, since, being a klutz, I don't have wonderful control over my…

If you accidentally close too many tabs, Shift-Ctrl-T will reopen them. And will remember content in forms.

I like Chrome.

Re: I solved the embedded Chrome OS ad equation and won a Cr-48

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Post by sylvinus »

flawawa2 wrote: post #17

Well, now please make Jamendo a joy to use...

true... we're not happy with the current state of the jamendo.com website. 2010 was mostly focused on getting close to breakeven thanks to jamendo.pro (which we did). We also did a management buyout from our former VCs, laid of a lot of staff, so all in all, we're just happy to still be there, growing, and hiring again :)

Now we have several ongoing usability projects, we released a HTML5 player a few weeks ago (replacing the old Flash crap) and are now working on layout and stability improvements on the main pages. It will definitely make Jamendo a complete joy to use again, if we can just spare some time from breaking Google easter eggs ;-)

cheers!

Re: I solved the embedded Chrome OS ad equation and won a Cr-48

#45

Post by boredguy8 »

randallsquared wrote: post #29
boredguy8 wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Using Chrome is like driving a luxury car for the first time. I remember when I got in a '93 Mercedes SL 500 in the rain and when I slowed down so did the windshield wipers. I know others replicated the behavior in later models, but driving that car made me realize that every other car was designed by people who didn't, apparently, drive cars. I love using the 'smart tab positioning' example: how many times have peop…

I love using the 'smart tab positioning' example: how many times have people moved the mouse to close 4 or 5 tabs? I would expect that most people close multiple tabs with [cmd|ctrl]-w, precisely because of the back and forth mousing otherwise required. One thing I've worried about while using Chrome has been accidentally closing more than one tab at once, since, being a klutz, I don't have wonderful control over my…

  I would expect that most people close multiple tabs with [cmd|ctrl]-w
If you think most people use keyboard shortcuts, we're working with completely different customers ;) Finding someone that uses the keyboard to copy/paste is decently common, but I rarely see use of shortcuts beyond that.

I find I use mouse close most often when I'm "info dumping", as mouse scroll and cmd+click to open a new tab are, for me, mouse operations. Rapid open/close of several pages is normal. Once I have 3-5 on a topic, I go "info diving" and nothing gets closed 'till the end, at which point cmd+w is how I tend to close out of the extra pages I had open. But cmd+w by even power users is, in my experience rare.

Re: I solved the embedded Chrome OS ad equation and won a Cr-48

#46

Post by sudont »

cd34 wrote: post #25
jlongster wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I still really don't understand what's so hard about a couple thousand views. I've had a couple posts hit the front page (even #1 on HN and #5 on prog.reddit), and my server was fine. I use Apache to serve the resources and Clojure to handle web requests. Nothing fancy.

Wordpress without caching on a VPS that is probably not configured well. w3tc or wp-super-cache would probably fix his issues. Installing it while the site is hammered.... will be fun. Perhaps as challenging as solving the easter egg.

Apache redirect to a static page, while he gets the cache plugin set up?

Re: I solved the embedded Chrome OS ad equation and won a Cr-48

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Post by sylvinus »

cd34 wrote: post #25
jlongster wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I still really don't understand what's so hard about a couple thousand views. I've had a couple posts hit the front page (even #1 on HN and #5 on prog.reddit), and my server was fine. I use Apache to serve the resources and Clojure to handle web requests. Nothing fancy.

Wordpress without caching on a VPS that is probably not configured well. w3tc or wp-super-cache would probably fix his issues. Installing it while the site is hammered.... will be fun. Perhaps as challenging as solving the easter egg.

exactly what I did... tried to switch apache to port 81 to be able to configure the cache plugin. But even this way, all the disk accesses were taking 30 seconds each...

The real error was posting it there in the first place and not directly on the Jamendo blog... Never again! :)

Re: I solved the embedded Chrome OS ad equation and won a Cr-48

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Post by sp332 »

Raphael wrote: post #33
Splines wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Compared to closing several tabs in Chrome, doing a similar thing in the Win7 shell (close several open folders) is infuriatingly difficult. The target size of the close icon is so small , and missing it is doubly bad: it makes you start the task all over again, plus a random window is now positioned to the front destroying your work context.

Eh? Window close buttons are larger than tab close buttons.

In Windows 7, you can hover over the taskbar icon for a browser and it will show a preview of all your tabs. Clicking on the tiny close button on a tab's preview will close the tab, but if you miss it, you will switch to that tab (and window) instead.

Re: I solved the embedded Chrome OS ad equation and won a Cr-48

#49

Post by nategraves »

sylvinus wrote: post #37

hi guys. I'm Sylvain who solved the thing, thanks for relaying the info here! :) The blog indeed crashed, it's on a very small VM with a remote filesystem and even with a WP cache plugin.. not so much luck, even with apache stopped. However our company blog has a proper sysadmin ;-) So after I setup a redirect there no more issues... until we get on slashdot maybe ? :) Cheers!

From the screenshot of the form you got after solving the equation, it looks like you need to have a U.S. address to receive the Cr-48, and it would appears poor you're located in Paris/Luxembourg. You need someone to forward it on to you? ;)

Re: I solved the embedded Chrome OS ad equation and won a Cr-48

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Post by p206 »

sylvinus wrote: post #43
flawawa2 wrote: post #17

Well, now please make Jamendo a joy to use...

true... we're not happy with the current state of the jamendo.com website. 2010 was mostly focused on getting close to breakeven thanks to jamendo.pro (which we did). We also did a management buyout from our former VCs, laid of a lot of staff, so all in all, we're just happy to still be there, growing, and hiring again :) Now we have several ongoing usability projects, we released a HTML5 player a few weeks ago (repl…

I think the site is great! One minor annoyance: the volume gets reset to about 75% when I close the player completely and re-open it (but not when I switch to a new album with the player still open). The problem with that is that it is too loud for my setup, and I end up having to lower it each time. It would be great if it could remember its last value.
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