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by larsberg 12y ago
I agree completely with your library statements. > I think one of the biggest mistakes in the life cycle of SML was premature specification. I disagree. There were some earlier Successor ML efforts ~10 years ago (see: http://s
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by larsberg 12y ago
My intern, Laleh Beni, gave a talk last week where she compared the performance of Servo on a synthetic benchmark to that of Firefox on Android: https://air.mozilla.org/servos-power-struggle/ We're not publishing
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by larsberg 12y ago
I'll be very interested to see how this goes. In a former life, I worked on developer tools and as part of that we did some extensive on-site filming of experienced developers, in order to do some new product development (I think we us
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by larsberg 12y ago
Hey! I was the one running the build environment stuff in VS at the time. IIRC, CoreXT didn't handle some really oddball scenarios we had that involved self-hosted compilers and runtimes. e.g., rerunning the build with the compiler you
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by larsberg 12y ago
Is there a way to search by the status flags? It's now harder to see them since they're no longer in the same column, and I use the "has passed tests" filter frequently to check which PRs might need shepherding on Servo
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by larsberg 12y ago
Real-time transcription can be excellent for distributed meetings as well. We do this on some teams at Mozilla (e.g., Servo and Rust) for all of our group meetings, which allows people who either couldn't make it, don't dial in to
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by larsberg 12y ago
That's fantastic - thanks much!
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by larsberg 12y ago
Zura, I doubt we will open a new batch of full-time positions for Servo before the start of Q4. That said, I'm always willing to see what I can find for candidates with an exceptional background!
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by larsberg 12y ago
This would be more useful to me (as a hiring manager) with something that encouraged better links to somebody's accounts / portfolio / etc. instead of just their usually-empty HN profile. e.g., I'm currently looking to c
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by larsberg 12y ago
I was very confused for a few minutes here, since Sparkle was the original name for Microsoft's visual design tool, now called Expression Blend ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Expression_Blend ).
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by larsberg 12y ago
My guess would be that it's an automated build / deploy system that required some addon installed to run, so they had to run `devenv /build` instead of using msbuild. Then they saw this behavior on one of their build machines
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by larsberg 13y ago
> A good solution might be to introduce a new 'mid-tier' class between economy and business. I would happily pay an extra 10-20% for an extra bit of space. United's Economy Plus is huge for me for this reason. An extra 3-
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by larsberg 13y ago
Mozilla Research (Servo) - Remote or any of our global offices Servo is a new web browser engine. It is designed to be more memory safe (far and away the #1 cause of browser engine security bugs!) through use of the new Rust programming lan
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by larsberg 13y ago
Thanks for the tip! I had no idea that feature existed.
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by larsberg 13y ago
Ugh. That reset procedure did not play well with LastPass. I logged in (old password), hit change password (old password), then had LastPass generate a new password, which it handily saved over the old one in LastPass. Hit Save. And then th
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by larsberg 13y ago
True. There are a few each in Australia and New Zealand, including some very senior contributors working in core engineering roles (i.e., it's not just "marketing for SE Asia").
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by larsberg 13y ago
Mozilla is _incredibly_ remote-friendly. I believe that less than 40% of our paid staff is in the traditional "US West Coast" timezone. For example, on Servo we have about a third of the team in the SF area, but then I'm in C
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by larsberg 13y ago
If you visit #servo on irc.mozilla.org, there is a "crowbot" that will dig up the github link if you reference a pr/issue number and will correct you if you link to an outdated web platform spec :-)
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by larsberg 13y ago
We're certainly planning to investigate it, particularly with the advent of vector units that reduce the latency of data transfers, such as AMD's new Opterons and Intel's Knight's Landing. The challenge here is that whil
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by larsberg 13y ago
Yes, we've been both following and collaborating with the rest of the people who do research in this space. In particular, Ras Bodik's group (first link) has been partially sponsored by Mozilla Research for several years. We'
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by larsberg 13y ago
The basic result is that if you just CPS-convert a language without first-class continuations (so, no call-CC), all of that is interchangeable with SSA and any optimization written against one IR can be rewritten fairly mindlessly against t
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by larsberg 13y ago
For those who are curious why CPS is such a great compiler representation for implementing optimizations, it's because the passes require less analysis complexity. You only have to handle the "call" portion and don't hav
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by larsberg 13y ago
That said, a quick glance over the PC/ERC to ensure you cite-and-compare is a good idea. It's always easier to answer questions in your paper than the rebuttal. Or next year's submission.
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by larsberg 13y ago
As bjz points out, my background is from CML, so my experience has biased me a bit towards synchronous send for same machine/process programming models and async for distributed models. But I tried to give them both a fair shake in the
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by larsberg 13y ago
> Fascinating stuff, though I do not what IRs are used by the modern > compilers like LLVM, GHC, Java, .Net? There are a couple of things going on with CPS as implemented in this style of compilers that make it particularly nice for
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by larsberg 13y ago
And Jonathan had some small amendments: http://mumble.net/~jar/tproject/
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by larsberg 13y ago
Those bugs will definitely get you started working with a larger Rust codebase. You might want to at least scan the Rust tutorials on http://www.rust-lang.org/ , though, as just reading Servo code is probably not a good way
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by larsberg 13y ago
> 7. Fix a bug Many open source projects (definitely those at Mozilla) even have specially-labeled bugs in their database that are good for beginners. For example, in Servo we mark those issues "E-easy" and provide support for
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by larsberg 13y ago
From lkuper (on the #rust IRC channel): If anyone here has an HN account, perhaps you could comment and clarify that I wrote that thing in April 2011, when Rust was a very different language, and even then, I only modeled a tiny subset of t
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by larsberg 13y ago
There are meatier technical presentations around about the formal bounds, but I always recommend Manuel Serrano's early work, which is much more accessible than more modern presentations (my own included): http://dl.acm.org&

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