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by metajack 7y ago
> If I recall correctly, that twitter post is not entirely accurate. The CEO was exercising their stock options. Mozilla Foundation is a non-profit, and Mozilla Corp is private held wholly by Mozilla Foundation. No one is getting compens
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by metajack 7y ago
I think people are more bothered by the fact that compesation drastically increased during a period of poor performance with respect to market share. Also, please provide some evidence that the board chair of a non-profit with an annual b
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by metajack 7y ago
Rust is not a Mozilla product, but it was certainly initiated by Mozilla. Its momentum and governance have long since been with its community. I think starting Rust, not Firefox, will be what Mozilla is remembered for in 50 years.
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by metajack 7y ago
They were not the CEO until a few months ago. They aren't even Executive Director of the Mozilla Foundation. They are the chair of the Mozilla Foundation board of directors.
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by metajack 7y ago
Thanks for the chart comparing it to many alternatives. It both makes it clear what new things Kodiak does and what alternatives one could look at.
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by metajack 7y ago
Sequentializing landing so that you can ensure passing tests is the main feature of bors. The normal GitHub CI flow is already what you wanted apparently. In a bors workflow, bors is the only thing allowed to push to master, so master canno
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by metajack 7y ago
At this point there are like 4 implementations of Graydon's bors. Which one did you use? The Servo and Rust projects have used a bors* for many years and have had few problems. * Servo uses the https://github.com/servo&
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Opus Came to Be(jmvalin.dreamwidth.org)
68 points by metajack 8y ago|4 comments
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by metajack 8y ago
Yes. It will be the pre-installed default browser on Vive devices.
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by metajack 8y ago
The first of the four freedoms of the free software definition is the "freedom to run the program as you wish, for any purpose (freedom 0)." This would include using the software for commercial purposes. https://www.gnu
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by metajack 8y ago
Those are entirely different buckets of money. Money the foundation spends on things like the IHR, do not come out of the revenue from the Google search deal. Mozilla Foundation and Mozilla Corp are two different entities (though MoFo owns
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by metajack 8y ago
Since Vorbis, we've all worked to make the codec code as restriction free as possible because we need wide deployment for success. It's more important for a royalty-free codec to win than for these codebases to be copyleft. Once A
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by metajack 8y ago
If you see such behavior, I encourage you to look for personal relationships. Many of those situations that I have observed the grifting new hires were friends of the investors or founders, etc.
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by metajack 8y ago
If you're interested in this, I recommended reading about Patrick Walton's work on Pathfinder: https://pcwalton.github.io/2017/02/14/pathfinder.html
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by metajack 8y ago
You are using the "she asked for it" argument to rationalize this behavior. Stop. Harassing people is wrong.
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by metajack 8y ago
When did voting security advocates stop raising alarm bells exactly? I think people just stopped listening.
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by metajack 8y ago
A few hotels already have tablets pointing cameras at the room (including a recent Marriott I stayed at). This just adds more crap I have to unplug or disable. Lovely. I can't wait until we all find out these things have all been syste
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by metajack 9y ago
It's not going to be decipherable without some help to point you to what to compare and how to read the charts, but https://arewecompressedyet.com/ contains many such comparisons and is what they use to evaluate branch
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by metajack 9y ago
For a few things. These days most of Servo rendering is done on the GPU by WebRender. I think we only use Skia for canvas right now. Hopefully we'll drop it altogether once Pathfinder is completed.
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by metajack 9y ago
The CSS engine does not have a very modular boundary, because abstractions would kill the performance. It would not be very easy to use it in another browser. However, lots of pieces of the CSS engine are modular and published as their own
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by metajack 9y ago
Stylo is about 10x faster than the old style system on a four core machine, and about 4x faster than Chrome's style system. This feature alone is worth 30% of initial page load time on amazon and youtube. So yes, Quantum is faster as a
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by metajack 9y ago
My recollection is that it was acquired by Yahoo and promptly stopped receiving any attention. At least one of the founders left Yahoo a few years later. Not unlike what happened to Flickr, except Flickr had enough momentum and traction to
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by metajack 9y ago
You send display lists to it over IPC, and it's easy enough to generate those from C++. It has a well defined API boundary, which makes it easy to use. This is in stark contrast to the style engine in Servo which relies on memory repre
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by metajack 9y ago
We're not as other people have said in other comments. On normal content you can often see WebRender hit 200+ fps if you don't lock it to the frame rate. To see this for yourself, run Servo on something with -Z wr-stats which will
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by metajack 9y ago
I addressed your first paragraph in another comment, but for the second one, compositing is currently on GPUs in most browsers. Layers are painted on the CPU and uploaded as textures to the GPU, which are then composited together. Manipulat
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by metajack 9y ago
To address your second point, you seem to be saying that missing the frame budget once and then compositing the rest of the time would be better than missing the frame budget every time. That is certainly true, but a) the cases where you ca
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by metajack 9y ago
WebRender is retained mode, not immediate mode. It will only repaint when repaint is needed, but if any repaint is needed, we will paint every pixel. There are CPU and GPU side caches for intermediate results like glyph atlases, so that doe
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by metajack 9y ago
We specifically target integrated GPUs, and several of the main developers work on linux using Intel GPUs with open source drivers. There's every reason to think this will be amazing on Linux.
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by metajack 9y ago
For WebRender, we targeted the integrated GPUs. You still need some logic to ensure you don't accidentally kick the discrete one into gear, but the integrated ones definitely have enough performance for almost anything WR will throw at
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by metajack 9y ago
Pretty sure they don't allow you to download and execute code even if not using a JIT, unless it is an educational app. There are multiple policy reasons browser engines can't be on iOS.

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