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by evmar 13y ago
I recently dove into this area in an attempt to find something like strace that didn't cost as much (as the slides mention, it's hundreds of times slower to run something under strace). It seems like dtrace can likely do what I w
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by evmar 13y ago
If I'm reading that graph right, the red line is at 10kmsec, i.e. 10 seconds? Incremental build times are near and dear to my heart; I spent a lot of time making the Chrome incremental build fast, resulting in this tool: http://martine.git
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by evmar 13y ago
Anatoly is too modest to say it, but he deserves credit for being the author of memcached as people know it today. Which isn't to say Brad stole the credit or anything like that, but rather to note most successful projects involve more tha
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by evmar 13y ago
With the caveat that I am an engineer and don't make UI decisions, I can guess for you some probabilities. Patches that add hidden options are always rejected. Chrome has hidden options in about:flags but in principle they're all just hidi
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by evmar 13y ago
(I used to work on Chrome.) When we sent the very first Chrome out to reviewers, one reviewer sent back a draft of a review that said Chrome seemed like a nice browser but it had the strange additional feature of popping up ads inside the p
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by evmar 14y ago
To answer my own question, I got: gcc 4.6.3: 3.554688 +/- 4.786550 clang trunk: 3.593750 +/- 4.798172 Chrome: 41.03515625 +/- 9.331709130062185 Which puts Chrome at about 11x these native compilers, consistent with the blog pos
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by evmar 14y ago
I'm curious whether the performance varies if you used a C compiler from the last five years -- GCC 4.2.1 was released in July 2007. (I'm not claimed the author of the post is unfairly biasing the results, I'm just honestly curious.)
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by evmar 14y ago
The docs for user pages appear to have been auto-rewritten to name the repository with a .io suffix, but the cited URL doesn't seem to work. See https://help.github.com/articles/user-organization-and-proje... , click the defunkt demo link
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by evmar 14y ago
Many people outside of Google have contributed small patches to both projects. A small set (maybe 20) of regular contributors have given commit access and an @chromium.org account. E.g. http://blog.chromium.org/2008/12/welcome-pawe-to-te
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by evmar 14y ago
Briefly, no. You can read more about on our site (it's mentioned at the end of the article), but: we (try to) survey a representative sample of people in the US, and external validations have found we do a pretty good job of it (comparable
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by evmar 14y ago
Walmart recently ran a survey about expected costs of engagement rings and found Americans' expectations have been changing. http://news.walmart.com/news-archive/2013/02/04/walmart-surv... (Disclaimer: I work on the tool they used to cond
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by evmar 14y ago
In case you didn't see it, I commented above with a link to a bug.
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by evmar 14y ago
It seems so. https://code.google.com/p/go/issues/detail?id=4056 An interesting point raised there is that if they instead used a limited thread pool for all goroutines to share when making OS calls you could produce deadlocks.
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by evmar 14y ago
I somehow noticed it included stat.livejournal.com in its list, which is funny because they must've assumed it's something related to statistics when in fact that's where static resources were hosted. (A user had already grabbed "static.li
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by evmar 14y ago
What I read into this is a feeling I have to fight in my own work: it's easier, in an emotional sense, to fiddle around with your tools than it is to face the real problem. The amazing things you're imagining creating don't really need a r
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by evmar 14y ago
I used a user stylesheet that added max-width: 50ex; to <p> and <li> tags for a long while, but found too many sites ended up funny (especially those that mixed <p> and <br>). These days I just make my brows
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by evmar 14y ago
It's still nearly unreadable for me. http://i.imgur.com/Xu13n7j.png The typophiles here will surely yell at me for getting the terminology wrong, but my experience is that fonts are heavier on OS X and whenever I see a site with whisper-t
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by evmar 14y ago
I worked on Chrome for most of its life. The internal bug tracker was closed when the product went public (we manually migrated some bugs we were actively working on, and the rest got comments of the form "if you really want this fixed, we
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by evmar 14y ago
My understanding of politics is that bills like these tend to have expiration dates so politicians are on a perpetual cycle of gathering funding/PR for the same issues repeatedly. So while the end result may be good, the reason it's even u
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by evmar 14y ago
Diffs for pbxproj files are also not especially readable, so just a merge tool wouldn't be enough to make collaboration easy. Here's a recent diff of adding some files: http://trac.webkit.org/changeset/138661/trunk/Source/WebCore... and t
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by evmar 14y ago
I'm not excusing it, but it seems plausible to me that the Android charge is separate from the Chrome charge because they are different projects that probably have completely different systems. It's the same poor experience you sometimes h
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by evmar 14y ago
I tried for nearly a year to get Google Chrome into the Ubuntu store. Each time I asked about it I got answers like "the relevant person is on vacation", "we'll get back to you", "sorry, forgot to respond". I eventually gave up. While I
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by evmar 14y ago
Re switching: I did the same thing. After a year or two of doing my best to use Emacs as it was intended -- to ensure I "got" it -- I recently switched to evil-mode (another one of those vim-in-emacs implementations) and have been quite ha
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by evmar 14y ago
I also saw that, cringed, and then idly pondered for a bit on whether is more or less awful than the common "eek out every bit..."
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by evmar 14y ago
Here's a query for [\w{60,} lang:java] on Google Code Search: http://code.google.com/codesearch#search/&q=%5Cw%7B60,%7... E.g. TraversableResolverSpecifiedInValidationXmlNoDefaultConstructorGwtTest , DeleteContentTypeXmlDocumentRespon
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by evmar 14y ago
Thanks for taking the time to read and think about my comment. I myself didn't take my uncle's advice seriously at the time, which is all the more reason I can still remember it now (over a decade later). To clarify it slightly: I enjoy m
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by evmar 14y ago
My uncle told me: you're going to be working for the rest of your life -- five days a week, with minor breaks for vacations. Enjoy school while it lasts, make the most of it; there's no rush to get into work because there's no getting out.
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by evmar 14y ago
I find Python to be one of my least favorite languages in terms of the design of the language, but the one I end up using the most for the reasons you mention.
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by evmar 14y ago
This is way too many needlessly rude words for what it's actually trying to say, but the underlying issue is one I've experienced. I find it really interesting how a the success of programming language (or project) is a combination of multi
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by evmar 14y ago
6 days ago the poster was calling it their "language of choice" and saying other nice things[1], so perhaps they're just having a bad day with debugging a deadlock. [1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4677022

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