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by dblohm7 6y ago
"Recommended Extensions" on addons.mozilla.org still get the full human-reviewed treatment.
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by dblohm7 6y ago
Yeah, IME Windows really excels if you build a TCP server using the async winsock2 APIs + IOCP. Where people get into trouble with it is when they try to code against it like it's another Unix variant.
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by dblohm7 6y ago
> I've always found it funny that MS would publicly distribute these, since they get you probably 90% of the way to actual source code from the perspective of understanding how Windows works. Most of the public symbols only include
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by dblohm7 6y ago
> Using competing teams for this purpose seems like a waste of money to me. That's not how it was done.
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by dblohm7 6y ago
2017 is when Stylo first shipped by default in Firefox. It's not like everything has rotted since then!
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by dblohm7 6y ago
As a Firefox developer, I'm not sure why we'd want to do that. Forking isn't cheap if you want to make significant changes to that fork. We'd be better off staying with Gecko. (Oh, and we're still all-in on Gecko)
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by dblohm7 6y ago
False. (I am a Mozilla employee) This is what I know about what happened there: There were two enterprise IT teams with similar duties but different purviews. When management was deciding on layoffs, they decided to unify those two teams. U
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by dblohm7 6y ago
It wouldn’t be useful to them. Among the modifications they made to pad 39A, SpaceX built their horizontal assembly building right where the crawlerway approaches the pad.
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by dblohm7 6y ago
This is correct. These binaries are downloaded from specific update servers. EDIT: I stand corrected thanks to a colleague on the media team: the EME CDM update servers are known Google servers.
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by dblohm7 6y ago
Also, pandemic, remote workers, etc. gcp and the engineers who worked on this do not live in SV.
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by dblohm7 6y ago
The thesis of this article is pure hyperbole. “Oh noes, one of the RS-25s failed, the whole program is a failure!”
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by dblohm7 6y ago
Sure, but that just requires them to finish migrating the UI; it does not require yet another UI overhaul. (And in fact, the latter is probably worse for completing the migration!)
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by dblohm7 6y ago
> Developers don't like having to have their work parceled out so specifically. But it's not for them. It's for managers and stakeholders who have to report progress and who are responsible for budgets. So much for Agile!
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by dblohm7 6y ago
This isn’t exactly an apples-to-apples comparison. Mozilla has a lot of security concerns with respect to Google’s Fugu efforts.
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by dblohm7 6y ago
I use it to run Ghidra. I haven’t seen anything like what you’re experiencing.
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by dblohm7 6y ago
A lot of that stuff isn’t necessary anymore in Modern C++ either.
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by dblohm7 6y ago
How well do they support it? Do they fix security bugs in the parts that are now effectively abandoned by upstream?
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by dblohm7 6y ago
> "Quantitative improvement" is table stakes that I worry have been abandoned with the jettisoning of the Servo team. I can assure you that perf has not been abandoned.
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by dblohm7 6y ago
Indeed. This is very true, but I've become exhausted from repeating it ad infinitum. Six+ years is a long time in tech, and yet we're still talking about this nonsense.
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by dblohm7 6y ago
(I work for Mozilla and was there when this all happened) That is false. Only one of them quit "because of" him. You don't need to take my word for it: Stephen Shankland's piece [1] is the least-inaccurate account of wha
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by dblohm7 6y ago
Though it is embeddable on Android via GeckoView.
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by dblohm7 6y ago
about:about is the fastest way to look these up. :-)
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by dblohm7 6y ago
I've heard that Microsoft doesn't have as solid a position at the standards table as they used to have pre-Chromium.
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by dblohm7 6y ago
Yes. Or Pocket Premium.
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by dblohm7 6y ago
Your best options are: * Use Firefox; * Consider Pocket Premium; * Subscribe to Mozilla VPN.
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by dblohm7 6y ago
Organizationally they were part of the Emerging Technologies Group, not the Firefox Group. And contrary to popular belief, there were no plans to replace Gecko with Servo wholesale, so I don’t really think it is accurate to think of it as “
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by dblohm7 6y ago
They did, unfortunately. But the rest of the Firefox group was left mostly intact.
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by dblohm7 6y ago
> including the devs who work on their core product (Firefox/Browser Engine) Ummm, no, in general those were the devs who weren’t laid off. (I am a Mozilla employee)
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by dblohm7 6y ago
Obligatory: https://ubiquity.acm.org/article.cfm?id=1513451
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by dblohm7 6y ago
I think this quote is much better if we modify it by s/optimization/micro-optimization/

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