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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 crocowhile »

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."

I have been using Chrome since it came out but this month I am trying FF 4.0 and it's pretty good.

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

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Post by crocowhile »

jonhendry wrote: post #83
chris24 wrote: post #64

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It appears to be an issue with wireless regulations.

I doubt it. It applies to most giveaways of any kind (free posters, free calendars, etc). They usually only accept entrants from one country or equivalent legal entity. I expect it's because of variation in contest-related laws between countries, tax laws, etc.

Yes, in some countries if you advertise a public contest you first have to register it and vet it with your government, who then make sure everything is done fairly. That is something google simply cannot afford to do.

I am sure they will find a way to reward jamendo somehow. They'll invite the guys for a formal visit and give them business cards in the shape of netbooks, at the very least.

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

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Post by redthrowaway »

mashmac2 wrote: post #71
redthrowaway wrote: post #54

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

Actually, its been in Firefox for at least as long as Chrome has existed... I can't remember a Firefox build without it, but... it's been a while.

You are, of course, correct. I don't know what I was thinking. I haven't really used ff since switching to chrome, although I find I do need to boot it up to make the occasional flash application work. Also, webkit-based browsers have some wonky css handling. I guess my brain has some sort of cognitive bias where I unknowingly attribute everything that's awesome about Chrome to Chrome itself.

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

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Post by flawawa2 »

sylvinus wrote: post #69
sraquo wrote: post #58

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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 ?

Just finally let us Jamendo users tag the music. Maybe weigh it less than the artists' own tags.

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

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Post by ra »

patio11 wrote: post #86
cd34 wrote: post #25

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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.

Any out-of-the-box Apache setup on, e.g., Ubuntu will , with absolute certainty, appear to crash if you subject it to several thousand pageviews in a short amount of time. KeepAlive is on by default, and that essentially amounts to turning any group of five or more interested people who share a 3 second window into denial of service attack. This used to drive me freaking bonkers -- I was installing caching plugins, o…

You mis-understand keep-alive. Keep-alive is good and should be used. The real problem is elsewhere in your configuration.

Perhaps I should write a blog post about this.

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

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Post by jonovos »

riobard wrote: post #44
Soupy wrote: post #9

The equation - http://img545.imageshack.us/i/chromeequation.jpg/

Some symbols are hard to see, but I hope it is right. LaTeX'ed version: http://yfrog.com/gyegnp

Yes, this is what I saw. HOWEVER, when you run he numbers, you can NOT get the same values that Google represents. The value for "C" is WRONG! It should be 8338041. This changes everything. ===> http://goo.gl/fpJsJ
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