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by mbrubeck 12y ago
For normal extensions that use supported JavaScript APIs, most releases will not break any APIs. The blog post you linked to is talking about the compatibility process for these normal JS extensions. But there is a special class of extensi
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Every date-based Firefox update breaks compatibility with binary add-ons (ones that link to the libxul.so C++ library). According to both SevMer and traditional library versioning practices, incrementing the major version is the correct th
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Even before that change, I don't see any code that automatically reconstructs construct quads from pairs of triangles. But maybe I'm missing something?
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"Helped create it" might be an exaggeration, but they definitely had a hand in its creation and have trumpeted its use: http://www.uspto.gov/news/pr/2012/12-60.jsp From the Stack Exchange blog post,
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by mbrubeck 12y ago
Does that reconstruct quads as the Zynga post described? From the source code, it seems to just draw the triangles individually: https://github.com/mrdoob/three.js/blob/1769fbfc6c994b51a54c... I also don&#x2
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Ask Patents is actually explicitly supported by the USPTO, who help to create it: http://blog.stackoverflow.com/2012/09/askpatents-com-a-stack...
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Note that the current developer/reference hardware is quite different from the $33 Spreadtrum/Intex phone launching in India. The "Flame" developer phone retails for US$170 (after shipping): https://developer
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Reddit actually says "Feel free to post links to your own content (within reason)." http://www.reddit.com/wiki/reddiquette See also "What is spam?" on http://www.reddit.com/rules
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Understand and Implement Laziness with Examples in Scala, JS, Swift and Racket(matt.might.net)
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Let's build a browser engine, Part 4: Style(limpet.net)
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Let's build a browser engine, part 2: Parsing HTML(limpet.net)
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Thanks!
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Let's build a browser rendering engine – Part 1: Getting started(limpet.net)
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An Empire of Stars: Forgotten history of the the British Space Programme(lapsedhistorian.com)
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My history with Forth and stack machines (2010)(yosefk.com)
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The HN guidelines say to "resist complaining" about downvotes. (I guess it's open to interpretation whether "asking about downvotes" falls under the same reasoning.) https://news.ycombinator.com/new
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Chris Beard has already been (interim) CEO of Mozilla for three and a half months now: https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2014/04/14/mozilla-moving-forw... I would assume, though I could be proved wrong, that
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He used to be a Linux kernel hacker. In 1998, he entered the business world by founding a consulting company around his kernel porting work. His company was acquired and he continued leading related work at the new owner (Linuxcare). Fro
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Elm Library Design Guidelines(library.elm-lang.org)
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Belgium's population has a natural rate of change (i.e., excluding immigration) approaching zero (0.2% per year in this decade, and even lower in the previous one). Neighboring countries already have negative natural growth. Since po
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What does this perl one-liner do?(blog.plover.com)
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Do Markets Work for Bees?(conversableeconomist.blogspot.com)
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"Text" posts on HN are always displayed in gray. pg said this was to discourage making long text posts directly to HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=468231 For example, the text in this post by pg is also
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Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8008168 Despite "NSA" being penalized (along with some other high-volume topics, I believe), there are still regular NSA posts that make it to the front pa
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Static checking of units in Servo(blog.mozilla.org)
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Also cross-origin images, which would affect a large number of sites. And visited link coloring [1], although I supposed the browser could re-render the page without it for screenshot purposes. 1. http://dbaron.org/mozilla&
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Knight-Mozilla OpenNews ( http://mozillaopennews.org/ ) includes several full-time Mozilla Foundation staff members in addition to the fellowship recipients and any Knight Foundation staff who are involved.
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You can use !bc to jump to a blockchain.info search.
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Some of the APIs you list (like Bluetooth[1]) are available on Firefox OS, but only for system applications and not yet in Firefox for Android or desktop. This may change if the API becomes a web standard in the future. [1]: https:/&
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The new part is that the app is automatically packaged into an APK (Android Package) file, so you can manage it (launch, restart, uninstall, reset data, switch between apps) just like other Android apps. Android and iOS both offer "boo

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