mbrubeck

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by mbrubeck 14y ago
Yes, yes, yes! Browsers, even mobile browsers which are still fairly rudimentary[1], have evolved a whole host of useful interactions like loading new tabs in the background to "fork" your session, using bookmarks and history to return to
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Errors vs. Bugs and the End of Stupidity(celandine13.livejournal.com)
5 points by mbrubeck 14y ago|1 comments
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The watery Big Bang and the 32-step power steering fluid check(thetruthaboutcars.com)
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by mbrubeck 14y ago
While it's a different data set, StatCounter's numbers show Firefox 3.6 accounting for 0.86% of page views last month: http://gs.statcounter.com/#browser_version_partially_combine... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Template:Firefox_usage_s
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by mbrubeck 14y ago
Note that StatCounter counts page views, while most other reports count unique visitors. Both are useful, but they can't be compared directly. The StatCounter numbers reflect which browsers have users that do more (or less) browsing than
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by mbrubeck 14y ago
The CSS 2.1 spec was last updated in 2011 and does not include any mention of this new stacking context behavior (which was only proposed on the CSS mailing list in May 2012 and has not yet made it into any spec).
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by mbrubeck 14y ago
It's less common but hardly unprecedented. 1. Charles Stross (one of the four examples above) used to point readers to BitTorrent for his free book downloads: http://web.archive.org/web/20090514034859/http://www.antipop... (And he complai
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by mbrubeck 14y ago
From StatCounter's measurements this month, IE9 accounts for 18% of all page views worldwide; older versions of IE are another 15% of page views: http://gs.statcounter.com/#browser-ww-monthly-201209-201209-... The number of people using I
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by mbrubeck 14y ago
Your impression is completely accurate; the language is in development and is not ready to use yet. It shouldn't be used in any shipping products. There's nothing to "dispel" here until the 1.0 syntax is is finalized; fortunately that s
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by mbrubeck 14y ago
Oh, come on. Rust started as an open-source project in 2010 (with the release of the preliminary design and OCaml compiler that Graydon had written as a hobby project). At that time, work started on the self-hosting compiler, leading to i
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by mbrubeck 14y ago
The "Harmony" proposal for the next JavaScript spec includes Number.isNaN, which is meant to be a less-confusing version (with no type coercion). It's currently implemented in Firefox Nightly builds: http://bugzil.la/749818 Number.
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Patent Office tries “Stack Overflow for patents” to find prior art(arstechnica.com)
55 points by mbrubeck 14y ago|23 comments
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by mbrubeck 14y ago
Hi, I work for Mozilla and I co-edited the W3C Touch Events standard. Some personal opinion follows... Mozilla previously (before my time) did some work on multitouch events for early Windows touch PCs, but we don't have much influence in t
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by mbrubeck 14y ago
IE10 will run on Windows 7. http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2011/04/micros... http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ie/archive/2011/11/29/html5-for-appl...
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by mbrubeck 14y ago
This isn't 8 weeks notice. It's a reminder about a policy that was announced fifteen months ago. Administrators have had plenty of time to migrate away from Google Apps or figure out how to deploy newer browsers on time. http://googleent
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The physics of giant mecha(dansdata.com)
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by mbrubeck 14y ago
UX design guidelines are coming; the designer who is working on them gave a talk at MozCampEU last week. (Only the slides are available for now, but a more detailed write-up should be posted soon.) https://wiki.mozilla.org/MozCampEU2012/D
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by mbrubeck 14y ago
Since azakai is too humble to mention his own qualifications, I want to point out that is the author of the Emscripten LLVM-to-JS compiler, and the BananaBread first-person-shooter demo linked above, so when he talks about the limits of JS
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by mbrubeck 14y ago
That's pretty common when an "Ask PG" post gets an answer from pg. A lot of HN members are highly interested in pg's thoughts.
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by mbrubeck 14y ago
http://news.ycombinator.com/classic is a version of the front page sorted only by votes from accounts over one year old. Generally the ranking is not too different, at least for top items. (I know this is not the same thing you're talki
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Incremental Garbage Collection in Firefox 16 Beta(blog.mozilla.org)
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by mbrubeck 14y ago
Not really, but here's why it might seem like it: https://blog.mozilla.org/nnethercote/2012/08/29/debunking-a-...
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Google: Time to ditch our current software patent system?(news.cnet.com)
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Measuring performance benefits of hyper-threading(blog.stuffedcow.net)
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Why Google Is Making A Mistake In Filtering Searches Based On DMCA Notices(techdirt.com)
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by mbrubeck 14y ago
> in the litany of First World Problems... This is what we might call a "Fourth-World Problem." :)
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by mbrubeck 14y ago
This doesn't do a very good job of explaining the tax consequences, but: "Wal-Mart, which said it canceled its policies in early 2000 because it was losing money on the arrangement, says the program was intended to reduce its income taxes
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The Fortress Programming Language team is wrapping up(blogs.oracle.com)
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by mbrubeck 14y ago
Here you can see video of self-driving cars handling Lombard Street, as well as dirt roads, off-road driving, pedestrians and bicyclists and other obstacles in the road, plus tons of information about how they work: https://www.ai-class.co
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by mbrubeck 14y ago
It's closer than you might guess. According to Alexa statistics (which I know aren't perfect), WordPress.com is one of the top 20 web sites in the entire world, even though it is visited by "only" 4% to 5% of all Internet users each day [1

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