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Will Demographics Solve the College Tuition Problem? (A: I Don’t Know)(mathbabe.org)
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by mbrubeck 12y ago
As a member of the Servo team, I think the gngr team deserves congratulations on how far they've come. For perspective, Servo only recently (in the last month or so) became usable for browsing Hacker News (though this is largely becau
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by mbrubeck 12y ago
Ah, got it. I hadn't noticed the lack of a Mac binary link in the post.
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by mbrubeck 12y ago
It also includes a link to msysgit for Windows. If you need some type of binary not listed, it would help if you mention what type of binaries you need.
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by mbrubeck 12y ago
The announcement includes several links to binaries. Is there one you need that's missing?
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by mbrubeck 12y ago
If you click the "Usage relative" button, then the bars do resize to reflect usage. The numbers here are based on StatCounter measurements, which show Chrome with a 42% page view share (about 3 times higher than the next most pop
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by mbrubeck 12y ago
I made a credit card donation through Stripe, but it was declined and flagged as potential fraud by my credit card company (Amex). I was able to donate successfully after logging into my credit card web site, verifying that I had attempted
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Ancient doodle hints that Homo erectus was smarter than we thought(arstechnica.com)
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UIWebView vs. WKWebView(mail.mozilla.org)
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by mbrubeck 12y ago
You can give scripts names using the sourceURL pragma: http://fitzgeraldnick.com/weblog/59/ And I'm not sure what you mean about the source. I see the correct source when I debug evaled scripts in Firefox Ni
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by mbrubeck 12y ago
Firefox for iOS won't be based on the main Firefox repo ("mozilla-central"), which remains on hg.mozilla.org. A lot of Mozilla projects have their main repos on GitHub, including Rust, Servo, and Firefox OS.
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by mbrubeck 12y ago
The previous iOS app was called Firefox Home, first released in 2010: https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2010/07/15/get-firefox-home-on... Development stopped in 2012: https://blog.mozilla.org&#x2F
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by mbrubeck 12y ago
That's fixed in Firefox 36, which will be released to the Developer Edition channel this Friday. (You can test it on the Nightly channel now.) https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=865313 https://www
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by mbrubeck 12y ago
Firefox also has a built-in HSTS preload list, which I believe uses the Chrome list as one of its inputs: https://blog.mozilla.org/security/2012/11/01/preloading-hsts...
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Microsoft and Yahoo vie to become Safari’s default search option(arstechnica.com)
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by mbrubeck 12y ago
NeoVim is an independent, parallel fork started by vim contributor Thiago de Arruda Padilha. The original fundraising page has some more background: https://www.bountysource.com/teams/neovim/fundraiser
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Systems software research is still irrelevant(trmm.net)
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Within this instrument, resides the Universe(blog.plover.com)
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by mbrubeck 12y ago
Me too. Since it crashed without showing the Crash Reporter dialog, I think it probably ran out of RAM or texture memory or something similar.
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by mbrubeck 12y ago
Code that relies on SIMD or other processor-specific performance features is often written in hand-coded assembly, because even the best compilers do not reliably produce optimally vectorized code. This includes numerical simulations, grap
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Mozilla CEO: Yahoo Was the Better Strategic Partner for Firefox(marketingland.com)
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Whatever happened to overtime?(politico.com)
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by mbrubeck 12y ago
I don't know of any actual projects to that end, but certainly people have thought about it. I know from personal conversations that Asa Dotzler in particular has given it some very detailed thought, though I don't know if or whe
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by mbrubeck 12y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Criticism_of_Google#China has a short summary. You're correct that since 2010 they've refused to assist with government censorship; I had been thinking of what came before that.
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by mbrubeck 12y ago
The "new tab" page in recent versions of Firefox uses whichever search engine you select in the search toolbar. So it's easy to switch it to Google, Yahoo, DuckDuckGo, or others.
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by mbrubeck 12y ago
Note that Mozilla has had revenue arrangements with Yandex and Baidu previously. And Google doesn't exactly have clean hands in China itself.
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by mbrubeck 12y ago
I'm a Firefox user and contributor, but I'm happy to agree that Chrome advanced (and continues to advance) the state of the art in all sorts of ways. But that still doesn't explain why Google thinks that building a web browse
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by mbrubeck 12y ago
Economically, all the options - including a renewed Google deal - were stronger than the old Google deal. (This contradicts "Google wasn't willing to pay what they were before.")
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by mbrubeck 12y ago
It has been for the last three years, but Mozilla decided to go with Yahoo/Yandex/Baidu rather than renew the deal with Google. So Yahoo (and others) will replace Google as the main revenue source.
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by mbrubeck 12y ago
I'm not sure that will affect this. I believe that's for updates to user-installed search engines, which are distributed and updated separately from the browser. Default search engines are part of the browser code itself, so the

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