dblohm7

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by dblohm7 5y ago
This post describes the entire web browser peanut gallery in a nutshell.
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by dblohm7 5y ago
I work on Gecko, so I have a bit of context here: A big reason is probably because Gecko no longer officially supports single-process mode.
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by dblohm7 5y ago
That's fair, however there is no guarantee that JS is the issue there. (And for anybody interested in actually helping to diagnose and report these issues: https://profiler.firefox.com )
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by dblohm7 5y ago
You're putting way too much emphasis on benchmarks vs real-world usage, IMHO.
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by dblohm7 5y ago
This can backfire horribly no matter which citizenship you are renouncing. Conrad Black renounced his Canadian citizenship so that he could take a seat in the British House of Lords. Then he was convicted of fraud charges in the USA. He had
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by dblohm7 5y ago
We might not work for Google, but we know a thing or two about web development and its surrounding ecosystem. Pushing the implementation details for a replacement down onto web developers is terrible idea from an accessibility standpoint: I
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by dblohm7 5y ago
The maintenance service is used to avoid UAC prompts during upgrades. That feature has been around for over a decade now. The background update stuff uses the Windows task scheduler to schedule update checks, not the maintenance service. (I
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by dblohm7 5y ago
That's not how it works, actually. The checks are done by a scheduled task.
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by dblohm7 5y ago
Ha! When my dental hygienist was asking me about Bitcoin, that's when I knew it was time to sell! (This was around its first peak at the end of 2017)
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by dblohm7 5y ago
In this industry, it never ends.
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by dblohm7 5y ago
If instructors are going to ask their students to do this, they need to make sure they are doing so meaningfully. At Mozilla we can tell when each semester begins because our bug tracker receives an influx of bogus bugs that were obviously
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by dblohm7 5y ago
> Half of their board stepped down when he was about to be appointed. You mean the same board that appointed him? Yes, a number of board members stepped down around that time, but a couple of those were coincidental timing.
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by dblohm7 5y ago
Unfortunately that demand is sticky. In North America, we have built our entire societies around plentiful fossil fuels. We cannot just turn that ship around on a dime.
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by dblohm7 5y ago
I don't know about your second sentence, but your first sentence is absolutely correct. I am an Albertan who lives in Calgary, where TC Energy is headquartered. I am by no means a shill for Big Oil and am thankful that I do not work in
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by dblohm7 5y ago
> didn't even manage to tread water in relation to other browsers How do you figure?
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by dblohm7 5y ago
The UK was already heading down that route with the public surveillance cameras, IMHO.
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by dblohm7 5y ago
I've been privy to the discussions at Mozilla about this topic. I can assure you, things are not the way they are out of either laziness or ignorance.
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by dblohm7 5y ago
Completely possible, but that's not how it works ATM. EDIT: And at the risk of stating the obvious, the fact that it doesn't work this way should be a hint that there are complexities involved that make it more complicated than
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by dblohm7 5y ago
They make it pretty clear from the post that its support is currently limited, and that they plan on adding more hooks in the future.
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by dblohm7 5y ago
> Agile is more suited toward software maintenance IMO, not building new software. One other learning that I've taken from big-A Agile is that it is only suited for teams where everybody is a "generalist" within the team.
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by dblohm7 5y ago
It’s been available long before that, it’s just that MSDN compatibility listing often drop EOL’d versions off the list.
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by dblohm7 6y ago
> In fouth grade we had "time tests" where you had to do a page of sums and were graded based on how quickly you completed it. I never finished them in the maximum time allotted because I had to count on my fingers. Even today
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by dblohm7 6y ago
Binder has been the source of a number of Android security vulnerabilities.
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by dblohm7 6y ago
This is a big f'n deal for Android, IMHO
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by dblohm7 6y ago
I prefer Android's XML mechanism for declaring UI over XAML.
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by dblohm7 6y ago
Thunderbird already was written using JavaScript; all Gecko-based applications are.
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by dblohm7 6y ago
(Mozilla employee) Yeah, but how much of what Firefox collects is PII? (And no, Telemetry is not PII)
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by dblohm7 6y ago
> hobbyist programmers give way to highly paid employees of these giants They all learned C++ somewhere, and I doubt that most of them had access to the official ISO standard while doing it. (Yes, I'm aware of the final drafts etc)
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by dblohm7 6y ago
Most of the Gecko group was left intact.
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by dblohm7 6y ago
I made the mistake of pointing this out on Twitter, and was promptly and aggressively told that, as long as anybody is upset, etymology doesn’t matter.

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