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by evmar 14y ago
FWIW, there are two Harfbuzzes: the old one that is derived from Qt code that many people have collaborated and hammered on over the years, and the new one that Mozilla uses that was rewritten from scratch by one person. The new one is lik
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by evmar 14y ago
One time I was working on a MapReduce that processed a lot of XML found on the internet (I can't remember why anymore (edit: I remember now why I can't remember, it was a friend's program that I was helping out on)) and I found it crashing
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by evmar 14y ago
Warnings are compiler version dependent (and even optimization level dependent, surprisingly). It looks like that one was introduced by gcc 4.6, so perhaps the author of the patch was using a different version. Chrome builds with -Werror o
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by evmar 14y ago
It was ll1-discuss. It was a good list but I think it's gone now.
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by evmar 14y ago
I feel like a creep digging through her flickr to find a picture, but I honestly was just curious about the clothes. This one seems most like what was described in the post. http://www.flickr.com/photos/meatstravaganza/5793064302/in/g...
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by evmar 14y ago
Thanks! The other guesses are correct. The code is here, but it's undocumented and specific to the site. https://github.com/martine/cms It's pretty straightforward to write your own such thing (though you must be careful about the detail
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by evmar 14y ago
n here is "generation". Start with one engineer, n=0. They refer 2, n=1. They each refer 2, referring a total of 4, n=2. Etc. (It works out such that the total number of people follows the same curve. Think of the total number of engin
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by evmar 14y ago
(I am a former Chrome developer.) Whimsically flipping flags leads to random inexplicable browser misbehavior a week from now after you've forgotten you changed something. The reason these flags are off by default is because they have conse
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by evmar 14y ago
I'd be very surprised if Chrome didn't blacklist nouveau; perhaps you're overriding this behavior with a command-line flag? Visit about:version to check.
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by evmar 14y ago
From within the article: "Summary: Did My Study Really Burst the Facebook IPO bubble? No. I don’t actually think I ruined the Facebook IPO (apologies for the sensational headline, guys!)." ಠ_ಠ
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by evmar 14y ago
Amusingly, I found this thread when I was looking for the same thing. Then I dug the link out of my email (I had saved it there) and came here to tell you the result, only to see others had posted it.
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by evmar 14y ago
I had a similar reaction to libpng and attempted to write the simplest orthogonal decoder: https://github.com/martine/sfpng
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by evmar 14y ago
Linux Chrome attempts to follow your system settings for subpixel vs not, which means the behavior in this area is system-dependent. (I write "attempts" because the rules are complicated: http://neugierig.org/software/chromium/fonts/ )
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by evmar 14y ago
You are correct. I sent them a pull request for one of the other themes that has this problem but got no response. https://github.com/mattgraham/Midnight/pull/1
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by evmar 14y ago
This, like other github themes, has bad CSS that makes the monospaced text come out as serif on Linux. I know the github crew uses Macs but it makes me a little sad to see they don't test on the system that spawned their namesake. :(
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by evmar 14y ago
Another potential possibility: Ubuntu Firefox is Mozilla's Firefox coupled with arbitrary modifications by the Ubuntu developers. In principle I respect Ubuntu's position and desire to make things right by their users. But in practice, hav
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by evmar 14y ago
I hate to ad hominem, but this guy is a known troll of the Haskell community. (I don't know the back story but I believe it's related to him running an OCaml consultancy; many former OCaml fans, myself included, discovered Haskell as "that
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by evmar 15y ago
The Linux problem is a limitation of Linux. (I worked on some similar code in Chrome, which only works 90% and is full of workarounds and hacks.)
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by evmar 15y ago
Now that I think harder about it, surely HN has a non-representative sample of Googlers. So my experience (and that of the people voting up the grandparent comment) is likely to be atypical. I think Steve's comment below might be a fairer
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by evmar 15y ago
I read these articles about crazy work intensity at Google sometimes and wonder if I'm really working at the same company. I've been at Google since 2004 and have never felt the external pressure described in this article (80 hour work wee
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by evmar 15y ago
I (the author of Ninja) think tup is a fine choice for your project. Ninja was designed to work within a specific pragmatic context: a very large project (Chrome) that had existing constraints on how the build works. (This design also make
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by evmar 15y ago
I'm not sure I completely followed your example, but note that the straightforward syntax for multiple outputs from Make does the wrong thing. Here's a discussion of how to make it do what you really want. http://www.gnu.org/software/auto
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by evmar 15y ago
What's up with all the Coding Horror posts on HN lately? Has the userbase of the site really slid to that point? I'd even prefer Daring Fireball to this...
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by evmar 15y ago
While visiting Israel I picked up the alphabet from the street signs and found it useful for identifying which sherut went to Jerusalem (their signs were in Hebrew only).
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by evmar 15y ago
Probably more technical than what you wanted, but here's a bit about how memory works from the "how much memory is the app really using" perspective. http://neugierig.org/software/blog/2011/05/memory.html
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by evmar 15y ago
In linguistics, the study of human languages, a big deal is made about how while there are supposed rules about how languages work ("you must never end a sentence with a preposition"), the real object of study is how humans actually use l
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by evmar 15y ago
(I'm yet another Google engineer.) Personally, in my interviewing I don't care at all about schools or GPAs. (I think the only time I've even considered the school is when candidates are from a big name school like MIT, where I will modify
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by evmar 15y ago
At least as best as I can gather from the TPL docs, they block "all third party content", which includes iframes (the mechanism used for ads). http://ie.microsoft.com/testdrive/Browser/TrackingProtection...
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by evmar 15y ago
After Microsoft introduced cookie-blocking features in IE they've been dancing around how to get users to block ads without telling users to install the blockers directly. Here's the blacklist they suggest in their post, which they recomme
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by evmar 15y ago
The comment about "everything that's happened, has also already happened on LiveJournal" really rings true for me. Recent instance: the breast-feeding protesters recently descended on Facebook, which is mostly amusing to me in that they ha

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