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by sayrer 16y ago
even worse, some clients (e.g. Adium) will show invisible users connect and disconnect if you have a conversation open with them.
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by sayrer 16y ago
They said caching wouldn't work, but they could be wrong. You can't change the Cache-Control header to public for HN responses, because the same URL can appear different to different users. There may be some ways around this, including givi
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by sayrer 16y ago
(disclosure: I work for Mozilla) Is any JavaScript engine faster with GCC than with MSVC? Most of the difference I've observed has come down to compiler quality on 32-bit Intel systems. I don't think Linux vs Windows has much to do with Jav
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by sayrer 16y ago
> Most public golf courses I know of charge fees... enough to pay for staff, upkeep, improvements, etc... I don't think you read what I wrote, and I doubt you play golf. The fee at a decent public course where I grew up in Oregon is $37
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by sayrer 16y ago
(disclosure: I work for Mozilla) I've never found the argument you're making very compelling. It's "open" in the same way that golf course with a $500 greens fee is open. What it really constitutes is a way for existing market players to co
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by sayrer 16y ago
Current state of support for strict mode: WebKit nightly: yes Firefox 4 nightly: yes Chromium Nightly: no Opera 10.6: no IE9 beta: no
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by sayrer 16y ago
This article reminded me of RescueTime. I think RescueTime might be OK, but not for me. I tried clicking the unsubscribe link in the emails, which did indeed unsubscribe me instantly. However I did not get to opt out of paying them another
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by sayrer 16y ago
wow, I couldn't believe it either. A scare quote headline with a full suicide note republished. I did notice no one at the Huffington Post would attach their name to this trash.
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by sayrer 16y ago
Verizon is a Dow Jones Industrial Average component, like the AXP and KFT stocks the author mentions. Its P/E ratio is well over 200. http://www.google.com/finance?q=VZ I don't know very much about stocks, but this leads me to believe tha
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by sayrer 16y ago
yeah, I've read this blog post before, and this bit has always stunk to me. The pattern might be 0xDADADADA, 0xCAFEBABE, or 0xDEADBEEF. But it seems perfectly reasonable to ask what one might use this for. In fact, you'll find 0xDEADBEEF in
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by sayrer 16y ago
Smells like a PR plant by the headhunting firm.
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by sayrer 16y ago
(I work on Firefox) Beta 9 is not available. You are linking to nightly builds that will eventually become Beta 9. That SunSpider score vs Chrome is nigh impossible in the default configuration. Maybe you have Firebug turned on? I'd expect
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by sayrer 16y ago
Generating and caching can be intertwined. For example, HN seems to generate an inline script at the top of every page. The script doesn't change nearly as often as the posts do, so that script is sent redundantly at the top of every page.
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by sayrer 16y ago
I liked it. I was expecting to read yet another "entrepreneur" post by some khaki-wearing dickhead. This post was actually interesting, and contained data!
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by sayrer 16y ago
This seems like what to expect at this stage. Something to dismiss as a toy because you can't create anything serious on it... yet. There has to be a reason Google is bundling Flash on this thing, and I bet the reason is not that Google thi
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by sayrer 16y ago
he signs every email, bugzilla post, and blog comment that way.
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Firefox Live (baby red pandas)(firefoxlive.mozilla.org)
2 points by sayrer 16y ago|0 comments
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by sayrer 16y ago
It's standard knowledge that your second leg will be canceled if you miss your first leg. It's been that way for 30 years. I thought that was standard as well, but I fly usually fly United or other big carriers. I flew JetBlue recently, a
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by sayrer 16y ago
random code comments on content_script.js: The indentation is crazy (subjective). Use spaces not tabs, choose 2 or 4 spaces. I prefer two, but don't really care. there's a lot of repetition: All of the textboxes could be initialized with a
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by sayrer 16y ago
For code, the best way is a URL to the bug tracker or commit log which shows all of your contributions. Use bit.ly if need be. A surprising number of people will list projects they've barely contributed to, using languages they barely know.
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by sayrer 16y ago
disclosure: I work for Mozilla. Chrome is trying some aggressive tactics in its developer builds (I think that is cool). What they're doing is speculatively opening sockets to servers, and also opening a second socket if their first attempt
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by sayrer 16y ago
All mainstream US politicians are fairly right wing.
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JS Benchmarks: Closing In(blog.mozilla.com)
38 points by sayrer 16y ago|7 comments
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Doctor JS - Static Analysis from Mozilla(brendaneich.com)
31 points by sayrer 16y ago|0 comments
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by sayrer 16y ago
Twitter legitimized and monetized spam. Since you allegedly don't see messages from accounts you don't follow, spam is more socially acceptable. In the extreme case, it's a platform for spam bots to subscribe to messages from other bots. We
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Ask HN: How horrible is the SF to Silicon Valley commute?
8 points by sayrer 16y ago|10 comments
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by sayrer 16y ago
Not skewed when compared to crashes inside Firefox itself, though. Last I checked, over 50% of OS X Firefox crashes had Flash involved.
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by sayrer 16y ago
Actually, they showed it running under the Unity plugin, but said they had a NaCl version somewhere else. Then, the VP said "it's a full 3D game, it's very rich, and it leverages a lot of HTML5 APIs". I wonder which HTML5 APIs the Unity plu
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by sayrer 16y ago
Our public crash stats lend some support to Jobs' claim. Flash is by far the biggest cause of crashes on OS X Firefox. It is the largest problem on Windows as well, but the proportions there are more even because a lot of Windows installati
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by sayrer 16y ago
Well, I wouldn't say it's funny. (disclosure: I work for Mozilla) I don't like these sites because they mislead developers about which technologies are standards and which are not. But don't strawman me here: I actually have no problem with

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