kinetik

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by kinetik 17y ago
"The iPhone introduced a new model. A true great leap forward in the state of the art. Not a small screen that shows you things which you manipulate indirectly using buttons and trackballs occupying half the device’s surface area, but inst
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Starting JägerMonkey (method-at-a-time JIT for SpiderMonkey)(blog.mozilla.com)
6 points by kinetik 17y ago|0 comments
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Yet More on the Unfolding Future-of-Flash-and-the-Web Saga(daringfireball.net)
6 points by kinetik 17y ago|1 comments
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Comparing Colour Space Conversion Libraries(bluishcoder.co.nz)
4 points by kinetik 17y ago|0 comments
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Connecting GitHub updates to Buzz(community.livejournal.com)
2 points by kinetik 17y ago|1 comments
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Fast division by multiplication(ridiculousfish.com)
66 points by kinetik 17y ago|8 comments
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by kinetik 17y ago
The IETF has its own set of problems: http://www.0xdeadbeef.com/weblog/2009/07/royalty-free-codecs...
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by kinetik 17y ago
Yes, all that's necessary is for the content author to provide a Theora encoded version of the video.
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Trace Compilation and Recursion, Part 1(bailopan.net)
2 points by kinetik 17y ago|0 comments
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“No-else-after-return” considered harmful(blog.mozilla.com)
16 points by kinetik 17y ago|32 comments
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by kinetik 17y ago
Firefox already uses bsdiff to generate binary diffs for update distribution. Courgette looks like a promising way to shrink those updates even further. (Details in the discussion linked from: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id
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ZFS, btrfs, and copy-on-write b-trees(lwn.net)
130 points by kinetik 17y ago|4 comments
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by kinetik 17y ago
What is it about additional database files in the user profile that bothers you? Regarding the untrusted TLS certificate warnings, it seems to benefit the users who need the most help: http://www.goodgearguide.com.au/article/312438/securit
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by kinetik 17y ago
GCC 4.5 adds support for plugins that allow this sort of thing. Mozilla have been making use of it for quite a while already: https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Dehydra
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by kinetik 17y ago
The image dimensions are 1120x13800, so it's 59MB uncompressed in memory.