I’ve been posting recently about food and nutrition and I feel like the information in this video was a huge piece that I was missing.
In this video, Dr. Robert Lustig goes through the science behind how sugar and its component parts, glucose and fructose, are processed in the body and what that means for everything [...]
A new phrase that I learned yesterday. Probably something that’s been around computers for a long time, but it was my first exposure to it.
Basically a “skid mark” is something you leave in code as a signature so that in a crash dump you can figure out how you got there.
We’ve been doing a [...]
Today at the Mozilla all hands I saw two cool things:
1. A decent sized (600×400 or so) Theora video playing on a Nokia N900, decoding on the DSP with the main CPU kept at around 50%. (Pulseaudio is about 10-15% of that, and the rest of Vorbis decoding and some work to get the [...]
Original Video with full context.
A few weeks ago Vlad had the chance to do performance tests across a variety of different devices. He’s picked up a Droid as part of his Android work, also has access to an N900, and I also know he’s proud to admit that’s he’s a Zune HD owner.
Firefox for Mobile has been getting [...]