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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
#62From the screenshot of the secret page: "Also, we can only give you a Chrome notebook if you live in the United States and ... "
I find it such a shame that these types of conditions are so popular for most contests / easter eggs, etc.
Are the legal issue regarding this that complex?
I'm assuming Google is not really that cheap regarding postage costs, since we're also only talking about 1 notebook here.
Also interested how it all worked out for Jamendo, since (from what I see) they're based in Luxembourg.
Re: I solved the embedded Chrome OS ad equation and won a Cr-48
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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 sta…
As a European working at Google (and there are plenty of us), I feel your pain. However, although so many things are easy to scale internationally, products with licensing and regulations are not in that category. We do work actively on making this less and less the case, though.
Re: I solved the embedded Chrome OS ad equation and won a Cr-48
#64From the screenshot of the secret page: "Also, we can only give you a Chrome notebook if you live in the United States and ... " I find it such a shame that these types of conditions are so popular for most contests / easter eggs, etc. Are the legal issue regarding this that complex? I'm assuming Google is not really that cheap regarding postage costs, since we're also only talking about 1 notebook here. Also interes…
It appears to be an issue with wireless regulations.
Re: I solved the embedded Chrome OS ad equation and won a Cr-48
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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.
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Re: I solved the embedded Chrome OS ad equation and won a Cr-48
#66Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
holy shit. you just made my day.
Re: I solved the embedded Chrome OS ad equation and won a Cr-48
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Or he needs to implement caching on his Wordpress site. Almost every day there's a popular blog post that misses a large portion of its audience because the author wasn't caching. You'd think that more authors would plan for a traffic spike from aggregators, since that's sort of the holy grail of blogging.
In the same vein as caching (and why caching is good) but the less DB activity each page request can generate, the better. Shared hosts seem to be very conservative with how many concurrent DB connections are allowed to be open at any one time, HostGator's limit is I believe 25. But persistent connections are usually available; PHP has mysql_pconnect and mysqli_connect('p:' . $host).
I've always had a lot of issues with mysql_pconnect in PHP. Hung connections, connection reuse causing data corruption, and various other random issues.
Generally using just mysql_connect is faster than using mysql_pconnect. On the server I admin for a large website with millions of hits a day we don't use mysql_pconnect.
Re: I solved the embedded Chrome OS ad equation and won a Cr-48
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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 sta…
As a European working at Google (and there are plenty of us), I feel your pain. However, although so many things are easy to scale internationally, products with licensing and regulations are not in that category. We do work actively on making this less and less the case, though.
yes, indeed. I can imagine carrier or licensing deals being complex... that's why I said we were just frustrated, not angered against Google :)
Cool that you work on the Chrome team. Can you share more insider info with us about this story and its makeof ? ;-) thanks!
Re: I solved the embedded Chrome OS ad equation and won a Cr-48
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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…
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 sta…
yes, good catch. we can improve the interface but also one of our main problems is the reliability of the current tag data, which is too low. We're considering a process with mechanical turk to fix it.
Anybody here with experience with mturk and this kind of metadata tasks ?
Re: I solved the embedded Chrome OS ad equation and won a Cr-48
#70I can only view the cached version. Looks like he needs a mirror.
Or he needs to implement caching on his Wordpress site. Almost every day there's a popular blog post that misses a large portion of its audience because the author wasn't caching. You'd think that more authors would plan for a traffic spike from aggregators, since that's sort of the holy grail of blogging.
> that's sort of the holy grail of blogging.
eh, I've lived through several spikes in the 6 years I've been blogging - the real holy grail is watching your search engine traffic increase bit by bit, month on month. I've been on digg's frontpage (back in 2007ish), linked to from xkcd's blog, I had a 20000 visit spike from reddit just this week. The spikes are fun, but they fade away after 2 or 3 days. The xkcd traffic lasted longer but that's because Randall didn't update his blog for weeks after the update that linked me.
But yes - even so, it's not nice to have your site die in the middle of a huge spike. It's just possible that that's the day Larry Page would have decided to tweet about you.