I wonder what the reasoning was behind branding the author in the URL path as opposed to as a subdomain. It seems like a very strange approach to take from guys who have done the latter before.
If nothing else it sure makes posts from Medium very annoying on HN because I can't actually tell which blogger's post I'm going to read until I click the link (primarily read on iPad so no hovering).
I love the idea of being able to autofill a form on page load using the browsers own history! Also, I'm highly impressed if indeed this is being added to chrome based on something Alex asked for.
The comments on this post are pretty interesting to read, there is such a divide between those who think this is a terrible story and those who are inspired by it. Quite fascinating.
I'm not sure how I can see Guido having the effect at Dropbox that he had at Google. Dropbox's engineering difficulties, while large, are not near that of Google's. Is this more of a Matz being hired by Heroku scenario, in name only sort of thing.