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by mccr8 12y ago
He commented on this DRM thing on Twitter: "I supported this least-worst EME plan when I was at Mozilla. I'm still working on no-DRM solution w/ @OTOY + some content "bigs"." https://twitter.com&#x2F
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by mccr8 12y ago
This is a separately published version of the article being discussed in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7744771
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by mccr8 12y ago
That is roughly the design that OdinMonkey, the Firefox asm.js compiler, uses: verify the type information, then dump it all onto the high performance JS compiler backend. Two big advantages of an AOT approach like OdinMonkey are: 1. Consi
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by mccr8 12y ago
If you look in about:memory, you can try to diagnose a bit where the memory is going. This may or may not result in anything that will be useful for you. I appreciate that it is frustrating when your browser is misbehaving, but your generi
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by mccr8 12y ago
The SafeBrowsing implementation does not send every URL you visit to Google. There's a local database of bad URLs, but stored in a way that can have false positives, to improve efficiency. Only if you get a match with the local datab
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by mccr8 12y ago
Search suggestions do in fact benefit the user, though of course there is a privacy tradeoff.
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by mccr8 12y ago
> HN should ban new users from moderating for a year. You actually need quite a bit of karma (maybe 500?) on Hacker News before you can downvote things, so anybody downvoting you can't be that new of a user.
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by mccr8 12y ago
If you have search suggestions enabled, when you type things into the address bar it has to send what you are typing to Google in order to get suggestions. I don't recall if that's on by default. https://support.google
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by mccr8 12y ago
The memory numbers reported on OSX by the system are a little weird, and include shared libraries in some kind of odd way. If you want to see the breakdown of how much memory the browser is actually using, go to about:memory and click on &
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by mccr8 12y ago
It sounds like Blink and WebKit are actually removing display:run-in, according to the Gecko bug: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2056
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by mccr8 13y ago
These issues are all very similar to the difficulties with interaction between JS and C++ in web browsers. A lot of engineering and specification effort has been expended in browsers to improve these problems, on things like WebIDL [1], co
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by mccr8 13y ago
No, it currently ships only on iOS and OSX.
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by mccr8 13y ago
There's nothing particularly technically focused about Quora's content. I think of it as a sort of directed mini-blogging site, where instead of being oriented around following everything that a person said (though you can do tha
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by mccr8 13y ago
The digest seems to be custom created based on topics that you follow. If you decided to follow the generic "Relationships" topic, you'll end up with things like that in your digest. I'd guess questions like those attr
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by mccr8 13y ago
Tiny regressions are hard to track down, but over time they add up.
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by mccr8 13y ago
I haven't seen any mention of Facebook participating in the hiring cartel in these various news reports, including the one you linked to.
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by mccr8 13y ago
If you notice such sites, please file a bug about them so they can be investigated and fixed.
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by mccr8 13y ago
There are more specific goals for engineering in other places, like the Platform quarterly goals: https://wiki.mozilla.org/Platform/2014-Q1-Goals
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by mccr8 13y ago
A proof of type safety of a language, which I think is what pcwalton is talking about, is a different beast than the proof of the correctness of a compiler, which is what you are talking about.
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by mccr8 13y ago
Servo is not using Quark, and is not formally verified. I assume the link on the Servo page is along the lines of pointing out another cool project in a similar space of writing safer browsers. Formal verification is cool, but speaking as
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by mccr8 13y ago
Plenty of individual subreddits ban memes and pics for precisely this reason, because there is a broad recognition that they will tend to swamp more in-depth content. The nice thing about Reddit is that if you want some low-brow content, yo
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by mccr8 13y ago
That is very unfortunate, but there is ongoing work on making Firefox multiprocess and sandboxed. https://wiki.mozilla.org/Electrolysis https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security/Sandbox
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by mccr8 13y ago
For what its worth, it looks like v8 has had incremental GC since 2011 ( http://blog.chromium.org/2011/11/game-changer-for-interactiv... and generational GC for longer) while Firefox has had IGC since 2012 ( http
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by mccr8 13y ago
Work on generational GC has been proceeding in parallel with the exact rooting work. You can see what the current generational GC performance is on standard benchmarks like Octane by looking at the "Firefox (Ion, GGC)" line on
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by mccr8 13y ago
It is a different group of people that are working on multiprocess Firefox. There was an update about the status a month ago: http://billmccloskey.wordpress.com/2013/12/05/multiprocess-f... Making e10s wor
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by mccr8 13y ago
The professors I had at Yale were all pretty good. Of course, I was a grad student, so I didn't take all that many classes.
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by mccr8 13y ago
> What I don't understand is why Mozilla didn't define a bytecode and a to-JS compiler for it If nothing else, Mozilla does not have nearly as much money as Google, and really cannot afford a "tear down everything and rebu
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by mccr8 13y ago
It should be noted that Charles Stross wrote a book, Neptune's Brood, where a bitcoin-like currency is used to finance interstellar colonization, so a lack of vision is not really a problem.
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by mccr8 13y ago
If you look at about:memory, it can give you information about where the memory is going. If you file a bug on bugzilla with the [MemShrink] whiteboard, we can look into it and try to figure out what is happening.
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by mccr8 13y ago
Yeah, this IEEE link is just a blogspam wrapper around the NYT story.

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