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The pseudo-science and pseudo-feminism of Women Don't Ask(fdiv.net)
1 points by mbrubeck 13y ago|0 comments
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Microsoft submits Pointer Events patch to Mozilla Firefox(msopentech.com)
2 points by mbrubeck 13y ago|0 comments
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Lawsuit Filed To Prove Happy Birthday Is In The Public Domain(techdirt.com)
4 points by mbrubeck 13y ago|0 comments
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by mbrubeck 13y ago
> (Mozilla is building with 2010 now.) Also note that the problem still exists in VS2012, and in fact is even worse because the linker memory usage has gotten higher in general. Fortunately we now have a fairly good workaround (devel
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by mbrubeck 13y ago
It's not just Firefox; other large projects like Chromium also exceed this limit when using MSVC's profile-guided optimization (PGO) on 32-bit Windows. (Chrome's solution is to build without PGO; Firefox's is to limit PGO to only a portion
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Deep Wizardry: Stack Unwinding(blog.reverberate.org)
6 points by mbrubeck 13y ago|0 comments
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by mbrubeck 13y ago
Of course, a large portion of laptop users have actually been tapping on trackpads to "click" for a long time now...
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by mbrubeck 14y ago
Chrome and Firefox both correct for fixed-position headers to make pageup/pagedn/space work correctly in pages like this one. Some details: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=780345 https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id
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by mbrubeck 14y ago
User interfaces matter. Optimization matters. Design matters. The same software that's ideal for a laptop or minicomputer isn't always ideal for a touch-screen mobile phone, whether they are both running "Unix" or not.
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by mbrubeck 14y ago
"Supports" maybe (is it up to date with WebKit security fixes?), but definitely no longer maintains or develops. Safari 6 is not available for Windows. There have been no updates to Safari for Windows in almost a year, and no new feature
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by mbrubeck 14y ago
Maxthon and Qihoo are both major browser vendors in China who provide dual-engine (Trident and WebKit) browsers for Windows. I don't know whether they contribute code to the Windows WebKit port, or whether they do/will use Chromium/Blink.
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Mozilla's Robert O'Callahan on Blink(robert.ocallahan.org)
3 points by mbrubeck 14y ago|0 comments
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by mbrubeck 14y ago
This Unreal Engine3 port uses WebGL and asm.js.
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Fixing appcache: a proposal to get us started(lists.w3.org)
3 points by mbrubeck 14y ago|0 comments
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by mbrubeck 14y ago
Firefox actually does break ABI compatibility with every release (for the minority of extensions that use binary code that links to Firefox libraries). So according to traditional version numbering dogma, Firefox is doing exactly the right
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How OCaml's type checker works - or what polymorphism and GC have in common(okmij.org)
4 points by mbrubeck 14y ago|0 comments
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by mbrubeck 14y ago
But according to the evolutionary biologist quoted in this article, neither the organisms in the photos nor the known species they look like have been dead a long time. > "1) they are, for the most part, in great shape. There certainly
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App patterns applied: calculator key journeys(design.canonical.com)
1 points by mbrubeck 14y ago|0 comments
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Mozilla, Y Combinator, Reddit Back Effort To Repeal DMCA Anti-Tampering Law(forbes.com)
2 points by mbrubeck 14y ago|0 comments
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Xiph.Org Video Presentations: Digital Show & Tell(xiph.org)
6 points by mbrubeck 14y ago|0 comments
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Nate Silver: Did Democrats Get Lucky in the Electoral College?(fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com)
3 points by mbrubeck 14y ago|0 comments
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by mbrubeck 14y ago
IE9 auto-updates have been enabled for over a year, and IE8 has yet to fall to a single-digit percentage of page views... (Of course, IE8 share is kept high by the large number of users still on Windows XP, which won't be the case for IE9.
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by mbrubeck 14y ago
"5% market share" might be roughly true on a global scale in terms of unit sales, but it doesn't tell the whole story. For example, Mac OS X is used for about 15% of desktop web traffic in the US: http://gs.statcounter.com/#os-US-monthly-
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by mbrubeck 14y ago
You should submit the permalink directly.
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Lovebird for Thunderbird: The newest thing usually isn’t the most important(jonoscript.wordpress.com)
1 points by mbrubeck 14y ago|0 comments
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by mbrubeck 14y ago
Firefox OS does use Spidermonkey's JIT compiler to run apps, but it runs each web app in a separate low-privilege process, to mitigate damage that a compromised app might do: https://wiki.mozilla.org/B2G/Architecture/Runtime_Security
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by mbrubeck 14y ago
Don't be so sure. Google is also one of Opera's biggest clients, paying a significant sum to Opera for search traffic from their desktop browser, despite its much smaller desktop market share: http://www.zdnet.com/opera-google-extend-sear
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by mbrubeck 14y ago
Remember the clamor for Gmail invitations back when it launched in early 2004? http://www.wired.com/techbiz/it/news/2004/06/63786 (The service remained invite-only until 2007, though invites quickly became less scarce.) For a while afte
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by mbrubeck 14y ago
This is to be expected from giant images like this that are assembled by automatically stitching together hundreds of smaller images. You'll see the similar artifacts or errors on sites like Google Maps, for example http://www.moillusions
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Is program speed less important than X?(yosefk.com)
4 points by mbrubeck 14y ago|0 comments

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