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by rmaccloy 17y ago
Indeed; I kind of did the spec a disservice in calling it multithreading. Moz states it uses OS-level threads, though, and I expect that's what all the common JS/DOM implementations will use.
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by rmaccloy 17y ago
I would not pick either HBase or Hypertable as an option for most of the uses people are switching to non-relational DBs/KV stores for (which I think is driven more by simplicity than needing multi-TB scalability.) They're not particularly
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by rmaccloy 17y ago
I think the support for web worker threads (OS-level, presumably preemptive multithreading for JS) is potentially the most interesting part of this release, although I don't know how lock-free they are. Moz: https://developer.mozilla.org/E
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by rmaccloy 17y ago
You can turn autocomplete off or have it only complete history/bookmarks (I just upgraded and checked.) This turns all completion off though, even URL prefix matching (as opposed to the awesomebar 'anywhere in the URL/page title matching'),
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by rmaccloy 17y ago
I wrote a thing like this (less pretty, but same information + cache stats) in PHP ages ago when I still did web frontend work, based on some ColdFusion thing someone demoed to me. Total hack, but our site's response times went down a few h
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by rmaccloy 17y ago
Real profilers are better for directed optimization, but things like this are super useful for getting ambient awareness of how fast/slow things are and encouraging people to keep things speedy.
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by rmaccloy 18y ago
Almost all of the occupations you list require graduate degrees to practice professionally; two of them are primarily practiced in academia. Most of them are hard-science degrees whereas CS is at least partially a liberal art. (The exceptio
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by rmaccloy 18y ago
I never knew this, and stand corrected. (+1)
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by rmaccloy 18y ago
Summarized: parsers are better than heaps of regexes, and idiomatic OCaml is pretty fast.
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by rmaccloy 18y ago
That's interesting, but it doesn't really have any bearing on the thrust of the article; none of those things are cause for the slowness of current Markdown implementations. (Also, numbered lists are one of my pet peeves with Markdown, sinc
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by rmaccloy 18y ago
From page (quoted in some other comment below): "Very accurate. The database is updated during the first week of each month." This is also the frequency at which Maxmind releases updates. So...
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by rmaccloy 18y ago
I don't believe this is what Maxmind does; I have no direct knowledge but I believe their data is based on IP registry data (location of the registering org) along with inference from per-user registration data (surveys, social networks, pa
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by rmaccloy 18y ago
http://sonicliving.com does this. Full disclosure: I'm friends with the founder + most of the team.
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by rmaccloy 18y ago
In fact you could condense all of these into "know your tools extremely well", and you can take it further to "optimize yourself/your environment relentlessly". I've known great hackers who used Eclipse, sam, acme, Brief, UltraEdit and ever
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by rmaccloy 18y ago
This is the killer app for this sort of thing, cf. "useless use of cat", pgrep, etc. You might want to have some sort of field for platform, since these things are going to vary from GNU/Solaris/*BSD.
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by rmaccloy 18y ago
You can hide data fairly selectively on Quantcast, FYI. (As of one of our more recent releases people can ask you for access to your hidden data, which is nice if you sell ads.) Full disclosure: I work for 'em so obviously I'd encourage you
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by rmaccloy 18y ago
There's a source directory included in the tarballs. fasm is a pretty well known project, I think.
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by rmaccloy 18y ago
I don't have any deep knowledge of the case, but I think it's worth noting that he apparently built the thing while working at the precursor to SGN, FreeWebs, which has a different business entirely. It's possible he built it while they wer
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by rmaccloy 18y ago
Penthouse bought AFF from the founding company for ~400mm -- if you glance at the S1: Long-term debt classified as current due to events of default, net of unamortized discount(3) 411,019 (in thousands) "In their repor
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by rmaccloy 18y ago
Well, in the case of GCC/egcs and KHTML/WebKit, it's not quite a precise merge; egcs and WebKit won .
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by rmaccloy 18y ago
CL is pretty definitive, although walking around and looking for signs or working your network can yield results. If you have a smart HR department they're often helpful as well. Especially in San Francisco it's going to be brutal and prett
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by rmaccloy 18y ago
As noted, the merge strategy(-ies) git uses is less prone to causing conflicts-- but TBH, you're always going to encounter some. (DVCSes in general produce fewer conflicts due to various tree merge shenanigans. Darcs and Codeville in partic
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by rmaccloy 18y ago
'Grasped the immense value of...' isn't any more of a personal attack than 'apparently a lot of git users haven't heard...' :) Branches (in the sense of SVN, p4, etc) are a subset of the functionality that distributed development entails (l
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by rmaccloy 18y ago
Branching is much, much more expensive in SVN than git (or any DVCS.) If you haven't grasped the immense value of cheap branches, nothing is going to make the inherent added complexity of DVCS (of which git has more than most, to be sure)
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by rmaccloy 18y ago
It's exactly the opposite in my experience: people will either commit untested junk to whatever the working tree is (usually trunk) or keep a bunch of untested code unversioned in their working copy and hopefully get it checked in at some p
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by rmaccloy 18y ago
Ivy is an addon of sorts for ant that does dependency management (e.g. libraries, etc.) It sort of jacks the Maven dependency resolution bits and leaves the rest. It's definitely not a 'system for managing build artifacts' (and it's pretty
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by rmaccloy 18y ago
Git isn't very good for large files, unfortunately. In my experience large is quite over >100MB, though. I'd love to convince everyone to switch to git, but I want to note that SVN's branching/merging capabilities are at par with p4's
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by rmaccloy 18y ago
Ditto on the 'Create Blog' / 'Sign in' confusion. Actually, on the whole you have way too much administrative debris in there. I actually bothered to sign up, and it took 3 or 4 steps before I could actually do anything useful. Most people
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by rmaccloy 18y ago
Is it? Most of the use cases I can think of don't require SSL at all. FWIW, I always found dealing with Akamai and HTTPS a bear.
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by rmaccloy 18y ago
Space + power? Also, AU and SE Asia will be routing to HK or Japan, and that would tend to be more expensive.

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