dblohm7

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by dblohm7 12y ago
Being a regular Firefox user helps that cause :-)
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by dblohm7 12y ago
I have never denied anything and I do not appreciate you making such accusations toward me. Having said that, I have a few remarks about this post: 1) People making vague complaints on discussion forums or social media is not going to get t
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by dblohm7 12y ago
I work on the desktop performance team and my job is to address performance issues. It is mistaken to suggest that we don't care about performance and responsiveness.
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by dblohm7 12y ago
Yes, please! Many of us Mozilla devs read HN, but HN is not a bug tracker!
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by dblohm7 12y ago
It's item #3 in the release notes. http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/30.0/releasenotes/
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by dblohm7 12y ago
"...and a more complete OS." That doesn't suggest to me that this person is intending to develop Fx OS on it.
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by dblohm7 12y ago
What good is a reference phone for development of Firefox OS itself and app development on that OS if you're running Android or Windows Phone? I think you've missed the point of the device!
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by dblohm7 12y ago
That's not a very high risk. It's trivial for users to switch to another browser that does work with Netflix.
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by dblohm7 12y ago
That was a misinterpretation of Jonathan's blog post.
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by dblohm7 12y ago
+1. I try to figure out where the "Port all browsers to WebKit!" crowd is coming from, but the only reasonable speculative theory that I can think of is that they weren't there for the first go-round.
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by dblohm7 13y ago
It's a lot easier to implement multiprocess when you're building a brand new product without a decade-plus old add-on and plugin ecosystem that you need to support.
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by dblohm7 13y ago
OTOH by linking statically you cannot distribute CRT bug fixes without building new binaries. Ideally the CRT DLLs are installed with Windows Installer and can then be updated via Windows Update.
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by dblohm7 13y ago
I don't think that's very fair. Every office that I've been to has an open reception area and community spaces that may be used by guests provided that they sign in. Mozilla is still a tech organization whose offices are fill
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by dblohm7 13y ago
Mozilla's Performance Team is doing a lot of work on eliminating I/O from the main thread which is the cause of many of these problems. We're also assisting other teams with this as well. In fact, right now I am working on ad
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by dblohm7 13y ago
The results may be "mixed," but it does happen. MCSE was renamed in Canada, thanks to the Quebec case as well as intense pressure from Professional Engineering associations across Canada. Source: My dad has served on local APEGGA boards and
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by dblohm7 14y ago
I took that exact course nearly 10 years ago at Waterloo. Part of the problem when I took that course was that neither of the two professors who taught it actually knew C++ themselves. Our final exam contained syntax that wouldn't even comp
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by dblohm7 15y ago
Read-write locks also have involve more overhead, so the work that must be done while holding the lock had best be significantly more costly than what's required to take the lock itself.
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by dblohm7 15y ago
Once upon a time I was working with a psychologist who wanted me to do a take-home exercise. Knowing that I was a software developer and an excellent typist, she insisted that I perform the exercise while writing by hand. She said that it w
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by dblohm7 15y ago
By the studio "losing," in the majority of instances it's because the studio settled. They don't want to actually have this kind of stuff exposed and proven in court.