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by reubenmorais 13y ago
>And if you can't see your helmet Properly worn bike helmets are invisible to the person wearing it (except for the head visor extension if you use one, and that's above you so doesn't really get in the way). >it's
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by reubenmorais 13y ago
There's an important (but not always obvious) difference here: individually, you're strictly safer with a helmet, but when you start forcing people to wear helmets, the disadvantages outweigh the benefits. That's why lots of
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by reubenmorais 13y ago
>I search in vain for a browser whose "view in desktop mode" actually works. Have you tried Firefox for Android?
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by reubenmorais 13y ago
This is more about responsiveness. It's not just about slow script, if you open a very large text file in a tab, the entire Firefox UI stalls. If you have some moderately heavy operation happening in a different tab, scrolling gets cho
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by reubenmorais 13y ago
Once you have a multi-process setup in place, running in a single process is relatively simple, IPC just routes messages internally instead of across processes. Having a single-process setup and going to a multi-process one is a way, way,
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by reubenmorais 13y ago
The article explains it. Moving things off the UI thread (and other responsiveness related fixes) is what has been done so far as part of Snappy. This project is about putting web content in a different process than the Firefox UI.
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by reubenmorais 13y ago
> Keep in mind that most people who play games (and I'm not talking about Angry Birds or Facebook games but people who use Steam) tend to build their own PCs. Do you have a source for this?
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by reubenmorais 13y ago
While reading this I realized most of the times when I've been complimented for my smell, I was far from being perfumed – getting home after a busy day, arriving somewhere after having to run to catch a bus, things like that.
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by reubenmorais 13y ago
FxOS runs at 50+ FPS for pretty much all of the built-in UI, even on lower end phones like the Geeksphone Keon. Higher end phones are actually really fast, like the LG Fireweb (released in Brazil a couple weeks ago) and the GP Peak.
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by reubenmorais 13y ago
Similarly, the open source implementation of the Firefox OS RIL daemon can be read here: https://mxr.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/source/dom/system/go... (Sadly, it's not used in all production devic
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by reubenmorais 13y ago
While the reasons stated by the gp might not be the best ones to justify his assertion, browsers are an environment for running arbitrary untrusted code, and have a lot of similarities with operating systems (like job control, memory manage
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Mozilla, OTOY and Autodesk Deliver High Performance Games and Apps on the Web(blog.mozilla.org)
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by reubenmorais 13y ago
Regarding 1) and 2), that's why the author suggests XMPP. It would mean you can aggregate Google and Facebook chat in the browser, have your existing contacts lists, etc. Of course, users of Facebook chat can't add arbitrary XMPP
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by reubenmorais 13y ago
That's a very conflicting message. You don't want "bloated code", but you use Firefox for its extensions. You think browsers should focus on 4 things, but one of the main factors keeping you away from Chrome is not in th
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by reubenmorais 13y ago
Note that this is still not even close to the pixel density on the Thinkpad you described. The 32" Dell monitor has 140DPI, 2880x1620 has 220DPI, which is a huge difference (compare today's high resolution desktop displays with a
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by reubenmorais 13y ago
What? It already happened. That's exactly what happens when you do something that is not part of the asm.js subset in "use asm" code.
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by reubenmorais 13y ago
At least give the author the benefit of the doubt. I've never lived anywhere near Washington D.C. but a quick search reveals the station is anything but "plebeian": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L%27Enfan
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by reubenmorais 13y ago
Chris Wilson works for Intel and is currently the maintainer of the xf86-video-intel (hint hint) driver project.
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by reubenmorais 13y ago
Here! https://careers.mozilla.org/
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by reubenmorais 13y ago
I, and all OS X users I know, use the thumb to press command. I rarely need to use home/end, since control-A and control-E work in all text fields. PgUp and PgDn are fn+up/fn+down, but I never use those.
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Mitchell Baker on Total Surveillance(blog.lizardwrangler.com)
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by reubenmorais 13y ago
That's why I love Mercurial. The API is great, people build great things with it, and it has a policy of "default to sane, simple and working; let users tweak stuff easily".
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by reubenmorais 13y ago
Re. Firefox: 1. https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=558882 2. This is being worked on. Gecko is a very old and complex codebase, and doing that without breaking every existing addon is hard . > You do not need to have every
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by reubenmorais 14y ago
You seem to use words like "multiprocessing" and "multithreaded" without knowing what they actually mean. A multiprocess Firefox in the way envisioned by the original Electrolysis project would be a huge undertaking, and would break all a
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by reubenmorais 14y ago
You might be interested in this spot: https://careers.mozilla.org/en-US/position/opLgXfw7