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Wood 2.0: mass timber and the tall buildings of tomorrow(arstechnica.com)
3 points by mbrubeck 14y ago|0 comments
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by mbrubeck 14y ago
Hi, I'm on the mobile Firefox team at Mozilla. We have been talking about the iOS situation for years now [1], though it's not likely to make the news these days because nothing has changed. Windows is also different because there are q
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by mbrubeck 14y ago
It actually turned out to be only SDK versions older than 1.4, which account for fewer than 500 add-ons (including only about 100 that are "fully reviewed" and are displayed in search results): http://bugzil.la/751466 And not all of those
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by mbrubeck 14y ago
And since Firefox has already supported both var and let for several years now, and most Firefox chrome code uses let exclusively, this approach is pretty well proven in a large code base. As a Firefox developer, I now find it quite
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by mbrubeck 14y ago
What I really miss from the T60-era laptops is the 4:3 (non-widescreen) display. Widescreen is fine for watching movies, but a taller display can be really nice for reading, writing, and coding.
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by mbrubeck 14y ago
SPDY isn't enabled by default until Firefox 13 (currently on the beta channel, scheduled for release in four weeks).
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Faster jQuery.event.fix with ES5 Getters(bitovi.com)
2 points by mbrubeck 15y ago|0 comments
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Has the fat lady already sung about CSS vendor prefixes?(kevinjohngallagher.com)
2 points by mbrubeck 15y ago|0 comments
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Deep Copy In JavaScript(oranlooney.com)
1 points by mbrubeck 15y ago|0 comments
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Duh: A shell one-liner courtesy of GNU(plasmasturm.org)
2 points by mbrubeck 15y ago|0 comments
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Turning up the heat: windfarms lead to local nighttime warming(arstechnica.com)
4 points by mbrubeck 15y ago|0 comments
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Soviet Moon Mystery Solved By NASA, 50 Years Later(motherboard.vice.com)
125 points by mbrubeck 15y ago|16 comments
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Functional programming is a ghetto(michaelochurch.wordpress.com)
6 points by mbrubeck 15y ago|2 comments
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Is Psychology About to Come Undone? The Reproducibility Project(chronicle.com)
2 points by mbrubeck 15y ago|0 comments
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by mbrubeck 15y ago
Yes, the Firefox updater uses SSL and other mechanisms to prevent man-in-the-middle attacks. The update payload itself is signed with a private key controlled directly by Mozilla, to avoid vulnerability to CA compromises [1]. The connecti
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OMeta#: What if you could subclass your favorite programming language? (2008)(moserware.com)
2 points by mbrubeck 15y ago|0 comments
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by mbrubeck 15y ago
Correct, Firefox 14 will be released in 12 weeks. (Or you'll get it in just 6 weeks if you switch to the beta channel!)
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by mbrubeck 15y ago
Both Firefox and Chrome increment their version number every six weeks, so it's easy to see that at this rate in a year we will have Chrome 26 and Firefox 20. :)
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by mbrubeck 15y ago
Lion fullscreen is coming in Firefox 14: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=639705 You can use it today on the Nightly builds from http://nightly.mozilla.org/ or in a few days on the Aurora channel: https://mozilla.org/firefo
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by mbrubeck 15y ago
The major change to updates in Fx12 is that the Windows UAC prompt will no longer appear for every update (by default). Some additional changes (like finishing the update in the background instead of at the next startup) are coming in a la
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by mbrubeck 15y ago
In other words, the average lit major spent 50% more time unemployed than the average engineering major. That actually shows that field of study does make a major difference, even when times are hard for both.
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by mbrubeck 15y ago
That language is OMeta. There are several implementations; the latest JavaScript compiler is just a few hundred lines. http://www.tinlizzie.org/ometa/ The compiler is self-hosting; much of that JS code is actually compiled from OMeta sou
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by mbrubeck 15y ago
I worked at Amazon for several years; one of my team's biggest projects during all those years was expanding certain partner programs to new international locales. I think Amazon generally prefers to launch quickly in one or two big locales
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How We Nearly Lost Space Shuttle Discovery(waynehale.wordpress.com)
2 points by mbrubeck 15y ago|0 comments
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Monet's Ultraviolet Eye(downloadtheuniverse.com)
10 points by mbrubeck 15y ago|0 comments
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Gladius, a Modular 3D Game Engine for the Web(blog.mozilla.org)
3 points by mbrubeck 15y ago|0 comments
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by mbrubeck 15y ago
"Combinatorial Sketching" is a surprising technique that does something close to this: http://people.csail.mit.edu/asolar/papers/asplos06-final.pdf
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by mbrubeck 15y ago
I should have clarified that the pieces of the implementation landed starting in Firefox 11, but key bugs like https://bugzil.la/730318 weren't fixed until Firefox 14. It won't work correctly on all pages in earlier versions. [I'm a deve
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by mbrubeck 15y ago
We've actually been discussing this recently, especially for mobile Firefox and Boot2Gecko, but also possibly for desktop Firefox: https://groups.google.com/d/topic/mozilla.dev.platform/jFAOP...
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by mbrubeck 15y ago
The about:config setting currently works only in Firefox 14, available on the Nightly channel: http://nightly.mozilla.org/

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