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by bzbarsky 8y ago
You're welcome!
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> But they also stood firm against some of the more egregious standards that Microsoft were trying to push. Can you give a specific example? I'm not saying this wasn't happening; I just can't recall a case where it really
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by bzbarsky 8y ago
> Parsing XML is such a hassle? Have you ever tried parsing RSS as produced in the real world? If you try to parse it with an actual XML parser, you are going to have a _very_ bad time.
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> Or, what about a spare tire? There's one spare tire. If cars were carrying around spares of 10 different things, you bet people would be looking into cutting some of them out. There is a real cost in terms of technical debt, comp
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by bzbarsky 8y ago
> But Firefox refused. This isn't quite true. Firefox refused to do some things (explicitly violating some standards to fix some kinds of cosmetic issues, adding some APIs that seemed bad for users and the web). Firefox definitely
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by bzbarsky 8y ago
If there's even a single 70-80k income involved, then I expect that household is no longer in the "can’t afford a basic monthly budget for housing, food, transportation, child care, health care and a monthly smartphone bill"
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by bzbarsky 8y ago
The big one there that jumps out at me is "child care", in terms of things that are somewhat discretionary (in the sense that stay-at-home parenting is a thing). And at $10-30k per year per child depending on where you are in the
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by bzbarsky 8y ago
> Does for..in actually require that keys be returned in a specific order? It's complicated. The spec says order of for..in is not defined, browsers all implement the same order, and there keep being attempts to get the spec change
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Assuming "competently" means "not using them when the grammar is not regular".
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Unlike NaCl, Wasm doesn't require building an entire separate (undocumented and unspecified) API to make it work. Accepting NaCl without accepting PPAPI would not have been very useful. Accepting PPAPI was a non-starter without a lot
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by bzbarsky 8y ago
What exactly are the risks with these features that don't already exist with web workers and SharedArrayBuffer? There's the obvious Spectre issue; anything apart from that?
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Youtube is using Polymer v1 as far as I can tell.
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For what it's worth, https://caniuse.com/#feat=element-closest is supported by everyone except IE (and Opera Mini, I guess).
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Just to be clear, Audio Worklet is not "a standard spec". It's an earlyish-stage spec proposal which might well change as it goes through the standardization process.
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Amusingly enough, plants have way more heritability of acquired traits than humans do. Epigenetic effects in plants are stable across multiple generations to a much greater extent than in mammals, as far as recent studies can tell. Of cour
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by bzbarsky 8y ago
Keep in mind that "Bob" in this threat model is Facebook (because they are one of the entities that tries to track what everyone is doing everywhere). So it only needs to get the Github nonce. Collusion on the part of Github is,
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by bzbarsky 8y ago
The smallpox vaccine used at the time of eradication had two main issues: 1) In some (fairly small) fraction of recipients it lead to severe side-effects, including death. 2) It was a live-virus vaccine, which meant a vaccine recipient co
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by bzbarsky 8y ago
That "age of 40" number is years out of date. Routine smallpox vaccination for children in the US stopped after 1971, after the disease was declared eradicated in the Americas. The vaccine was given at age 1, so people born in 1
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Google Tier 1 Search in Firefox for Android Nightly(miketaylr.com)
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I'd think that in all those languages, -0 == +0 tests true, though. In JavaScript even -0 === +0 tests true. The only way to tell them apart in general is to divide by them. In some languages you might be able to type-pun and examine
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> all commits there should be merges from dev branches Either they need to be squash+merge or the dev branches need to end up with working commits before the merge. Otherwise your life will become hell the first time you need to bisect.
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> because if the impact of monetary supply increases on business and asset prices is different This is why we have https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consumer_price_index vs https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki&
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by bzbarsky 8y ago
Thank you! Please let me know how things look. I agree that if it's a leak on the Ubiquiti side they would be best placed to deal with that aspect, but there might be things we can do better on the Firefox side to handle pages leaking
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Thank you! I'll give that a shot.
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Not that I've seen. There are some browser-specific tools that will do something like that out-of-band (e.g. in Firefox about:memory has a "Save GC & CC logs" option that outputs data about what the GC and cycle collector
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Was it getting captured by a closure being returned from the function, with that closure never getting gced? But yes, in general tracking down leaks in JS is a huge pain...
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Would it be possible to get access to the page in question to try to diagnose this problem? If it would, please let me know at bzbarsky at mit dot edu. If not, would you be willing to use a Firefox nightly and follow the steps at https:&#x
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Are you in a position to file a Firefox bug with a link to a page showing the problem? If you can do that and tell me the bug report url, I'll take a look.
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60 + 47 = 107, not 127. > How much did Atlassian spend in marketing, or GitLab? Are they competing with companies that are spending hundreds of millions of dollars a years on marketing the competing product? > but I hope you realise 3
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by bzbarsky 8y ago
That's fair, now that I reread his comment, but he was responding to a comment that was talking about browsers, not apps...

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