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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 »

nategraves wrote: post #49
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? ;)

yes that's also a funny side of the story. As I was going trough the border on tethering, with barely any cellphone reception, I was trying to fill out the "one-time" form without any U.S. address in mind ;-) Luckily I have a cousin in Houston so gave him a quick call to get his address and I submitted the form as soon as I got my data link back up :)

generally speaking, it's extremely frustrating for an european startup to see these regular U.S. only launches from Google. (come to mind Google Voice, ebookstore, google music, and now Cr-48...) But well, small price to pay to enjoy living in Paris most of the time :)

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

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Post by brown9-2 »

LordLandon wrote: post #38
simonsarris wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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."

I've been leaning back towards firefox recently due to how chrome handles large number of tabs: poorly. It'll squeeze them down to the point that they wont even show the favicon, making finding an open page annoying - compared to firefox, which has a minimum tab length, and scrolls the tab bar if it grows too large to fit. The rest might be a personal prefference, but I rarely use the mouse to close tabs anyway, ctrl…

Just curious, but if you have that many tabs open why not split them into different windows?

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

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Post by brown9-2 »

swah wrote: post #40
listic wrote: post #27

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How is mouse-closing tabs in Chrome different and what is "smart positioning"? Didn't notice myself.

When you close a tab, tabs could become larger because there is now more space for each one. But in Chrome they aren't resized until your mouse leaves that area. This way you can close multiple tabs with clicking, no movement required.

This design quirk is so useful and amazing how others haven't though of it before (once you see it it seems such an obvious idea) that some days I think about looking through the Chromium source and finding the name of the developer who created this interface feature so he/she could be properly thanked.

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

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Post by redthrowaway »

v21 wrote: post #42
randallsquared wrote: post #29

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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.

Shift-cmd-t makes you wonder what the hell everybody else is doing that it took so long to get this feature.

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

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Post by sylvinus »

p206 wrote: post #50
sylvinus wrote: post #43

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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.

thanks p206.. we'll fix that ASAP :) Hope you found some music you love! cheers

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

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Post by gmurphy »

brown9-2 wrote: post #53
swah wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

When you close a tab, tabs could become larger because there is now more space for each one. But in Chrome they aren't resized until your mouse leaves that area. This way you can close multiple tabs with clicking, no movement required.

This design quirk is so useful and amazing how others haven't though of it before (once you see it it seems such an obvious idea) that some days I think about looking through the Chromium source and finding the name of the developer who created this interface feature so he/she could be properly thanked.

It was designed and implemented by Ben Goodger, the front end lead.

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

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Post by Splines »

sp332 wrote: post #48
Raphael wrote: post #33

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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.

Thanks, this is the UI I'm referring to.

I also sort of wish I could press Alt+Tab, and have clickable close buttons in that UI.

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

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Post by sraquo »

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…

While you're fixing UI please consider fixing Jamendo PRO search interface. Your database seems to have more information than you allow to filter by (I really need to filter by tags, e.g. I want something fast, dark and agressive). I spent days trying to find music for my game on multiple websites and I can definitely say that pretty much everyone's music search sucks. If you make yours awesome, you'll definitely stand out.

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

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Post by tlrobinson »

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 ?

Chromium/V8 specifically, no. Recent versions of Chrome/Chromium, Safari, or Firefox are all acceptable IMHO.

I would hate to have to go back to browsers older than 1 or 2 years though. Or IE.

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

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Post by d0mine »

boredguy8 wrote: post #24
simonsarris wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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."

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…

For a common task such as closing tabs mouse gestures should be used. There is no need to hunt buttons you just use your muscle memory.
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