(Are you allowed to call it a meme if you’re trying to start one?)
1. Open your fancy Firefox 3 browser.
2. Click on the awesomebar and type in ‘youtube’.
3. Post the first four videos that come up.
Here are mine. So f-ing random.
Taras has an update on his blog about some of the outparam deletion that he’s been working on. This is a great snippit:
Cool part about these patches is that after various outparamdel special-casing and manual cleanup the line count is reduced by 10-30% while maintaining existing functionality!
Love to see this stuff making a difference [...]
Via John.
1. Take a picture of yourself right now.
2. Don’t change your clothes, don’t fix your hair…just take a picture.
3. Post that picture with NO editing.
4. Post these instructions with your picture.
Then I strongly suggest that you take some time out of your day and listen to this 40 minute episode of fresh air with Michael Greenberger. He talks about the underlying mechanisms in play, why they are so nasty and takes a stab at some of the underlying root causes. And, most important, [...]
Vlad has been doing some of the integration work to get TraceMonkey working on ARM. He’s posted a first set of performance numbers which are more or less in line with the x86 numbers that were originally posted. Here’s the graph we care about:
The ARM backend is about 2,000 lines of code and [...]
Lawrence Lessig has a post up about being listed on a Republican web site about Obama. It’s a great little discussion, but I love the closing, which I will quote here:
and I was proud to support him from the very beginning of his political career
because from the first time I met him I knew [...]
A quote from a Microsoft guy:
“I think that the next 18 months we’re going to see a 100 to 1,000 fold speed increase in JavaScript as Google and the guys at Mozilla are going to kick us all in the arse and make our JavaScript jittered,” Microsoft senior program manager Scott Hanselman told the audience, [...]
So, V8. Well-hyped. It’s got a cool logo. And many claims are being made about its performance. But it is not the only kid on the block. As we blogged about a couple of weeks ago, Mozilla has been investing over the last couple of months in a super-fast JS [...]
Google chrome is public and I thought I would write up some initial thinking on it as it affects the world that I live in.
I love what google chrome represents. The work that we’ve been doing inside of the Mozilla project over the last ten years has really paid off. The fact that [...]