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Refactoring with LZ77: compression is compilation(pvk.ca)
4 points by mbrubeck 13y ago|0 comments
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by mbrubeck 13y ago
"e ink" is a trademark of the E Ink Corporation. Other vendors of e-paper displays can't use the same name, regardless of what type of display technology they use.
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by mbrubeck 13y ago
Acid2 was designed before high-density screens were common; it has known bugs when one CSS px is not exactly one device pixel: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=580920
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by mbrubeck 13y ago
Fortunately, even the backward-compatibility quirks modes have a spec now: http://quirks.spec.whatwg.org/ Just having more and more of this stuff documented (instead of having to reverse-engineer it from existing browsers)
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by mbrubeck 13y ago
> I really hope that Servo helps to identify parts of the HTML/CSS specs (if any) that unnecessarily prevent parallelism. This is beginning to happen; for example Servo work on running <iframe sandboxed> documents in paralle
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Hacks all the way down(dolske.wordpress.com)
1 points by mbrubeck 13y ago|0 comments
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by mbrubeck 13y ago
It looks like the presentation is still a work in progress; many of the later slides just have "TODO: example" or similar. But it does contain some interesting content.
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Against Tolerance(tim.dreamwidth.org)
17 points by mbrubeck 13y ago|10 comments
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by mbrubeck 13y ago
Geeksphone provides nightly (1.4pre) builds for their B2G devices. Mozilla announced plans to sell a reference phone that will also have nightly builds available, though it's not on sale yet.
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by mbrubeck 13y ago
Firefox OS uses sources based on Android repos for the HAL, the bionic libc, some of the development tools (like "repo" and "adb"), and some other low-level libraries. Firefox OS doesn't use the Dalvik Java VM or a
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On Brendan Eich as CEO of Mozilla(subfictional.com)
78 points by mbrubeck 13y ago|73 comments
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Concurrency Primitives in Intel 64 Assembly(davidad.github.io)
14 points by mbrubeck 13y ago|0 comments
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by mbrubeck 13y ago
We (the staff) asked for a public statement of some sort, and he seemed open to that.
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by mbrubeck 13y ago
For the record, Mozilla does provide employee benefits that cover same-sex domestic partners, and I would be shocked if any CEO attempted to change this. (I am a Mozilla employee.) The Mozilla community is governed by participation guideli
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Apple celebrates indie titles with new Indie Games Showcase hub(polygon.com)
1 points by mbrubeck 13y ago|0 comments
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by mbrubeck 13y ago
The software industry has been growing rapidly in recent decades, and the growth has been concentrated in a few geographic areas. So employers in those areas (especially Silicon Valley, and also smaller hubs like Seattle and Boston) have t
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by mbrubeck 13y ago
About a month. Threes! came out on February 6 [1], while 2048's git repository started on March 5 [2] and the game was first published about a week after that. [1] http://www.theverge.com/2014/2/6/536170
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Python to Scheme to Assembly(davidad.github.io)
7 points by mbrubeck 13y ago|0 comments
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LogicGrowsOnTrees(github.com)
2 points by mbrubeck 13y ago|0 comments
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by mbrubeck 13y ago
We did do things like pop up a notification about the Metro app to Windows 8 users on our pre-release channels, though I wish we'd done more: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=918107
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by mbrubeck 13y ago
Note that browsers like Chrome and Firefox aren't allowed on Windows RT. Browsers for Windows RT can use IE's rendering and JS engine, but other existing engines won't work within the restricted "Windows Store app"
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by mbrubeck 13y ago
First, note that the project was cancelled before the first version shipped. This would have changed if it had made it all the way to release. Second, some details about the store... "Windows Store apps" can use the IE rendering
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by mbrubeck 13y ago
We used "Firefox for Metro" only as a code name for the project; it doesn't appear in user-facing strings in the product. We've been using that project name for a couple of years, and haven't seen a good reason to c
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by mbrubeck 13y ago
Yes, lack of awareness was definitely a major contributor to lack of usage. See my other comments on this post for more on that topic. Firefox for Metro has been a testbed for graphics/scrolling/touch technology that we want to e
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by mbrubeck 13y ago
Firefox for Metro was pretty much what you described -- at least, that was our goal. It has a very simple UI, which is very similar in spirit to IE11 for Metro. However, this meant adding entire new input/graphics/widget backends
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by mbrubeck 13y ago
Hi, I'm one of the developers who built Firefox for Metro. It's true, we don't know what the usage would have been like if we did some real marketing of the Metro feature. We briefly had a "what's new" page th
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FIB(themoreyouknow.github.io)
1 points by mbrubeck 13y ago|0 comments
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Introducing Chaos Mode(robert.ocallahan.org)
54 points by mbrubeck 13y ago|7 comments
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Fans raise cash for Dorian Nakamoto, irrespective of his link to Bitcoin(arstechnica.com)
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by mbrubeck 13y ago
The quote does sound odd, and I wouldn't be surprised if it were an embellishment or paraphrase. But you know, the New York Times has been running stories on Bitcoin for a couple of years now. It's been all over CNN and other ma

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