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Check out the local TV interview of "Eric Ramen" :D : http://marc.merlins.org/linux/refundday/videos/abc.mpg

That's definitely 1999-era HTML and layout, except for the "This is an archived page" header, which is the only CSS on the page. The rest is all well-known tricks from the time: ta…

The term I've heard for this phenomenon is "mathwashing."

Heh, I could almost tell that story. We had a bug in a React app that started when a new Chrome release came out. I boiled it down to a small piece of JS that V8 was clearly misint…

From twitter user @XMPPwocky: - each precinct got a PIN to report their results - the PINs were printed on the paper result worksheets sent to precinct captains - multiple precinct…

Thanks for your perspective, very interesting. I'm really surprised that all it takes to be declared qualified is the signature of someone else who's qualified. That leaves lots of…

By "majority" he may have meant majority of Linux distributions, not majority of Linux users. There are a ton of distributions derived from Debian: https://wiki.debian.org/Derivati…

I really wanted Bourdain to become a salty, profligate old man, throwing barbs from behind a stiff drink and an ever-craggier face. Sad news.

Here we go. We'll now have the first traffic fatality trial where it's not drivers-trying-drivers but people-trying-a-megacorp. (Disclaimer: I'm a bike advocate, so I may have a di…

Perl 6 feels like what happens when your answer to all bike-shedding questions is "both!" and your answer to the follow-up question "how will we tell them apart?" is "we'll add a s…

That's not Linus' position. The "API contract" for the kernel is "we don't break userspace code," not "we don't break userspace code that follows the specs." He would bounce (and f…

.find() and .findIndex() are new in es6, but the others are all es5.

Just throwing my side project, Surplus, out there as another example of this strategy ( https://github.com/adamhaile/surplus ). Surplus compiles JSX into optimized code that produc…

US divorce rate is lower than it's been for 40 years.

>> much, much faster to load > I would love to see some data backing it up. In Stefan Krause' js-framework-benchmark, the vue implementation starts in 55ms vs 89-113ms for the vari…

Sort of. Strict null checking now lets you distinguish between the types Foo[] and (Foo | undefined)[]. The first will type with the assumption that there are no out of bounds indi…

The TypeScript team's philosophy* is that they want to incorporate features that have either ~0% or ~100% chance of making it into ES. Types they put in the 0% bucket. Once a featu…

BTW if you're curious, browser DOM operations have advanced now to the point that doing work in dom fragments is often slower than just doing it right in the main tree. See, for in…

If I understand what Glimmer is proposing, they want to slice a long update process into a set of batches, so that they can pause in the middle to let the browser render a frame. M…

Yeah, I was just looking at the Glimmer opcodes format. I'm a bit surprised it's an array of arrays, rather than a flattened array. It looks like it goes `[[1,"id","bar"],[2, ],...…

For 1) and 2), some frameworks solve the size issue by creating functions for the basic DOM ops, which then get minimized to single character names in production. So in your exampl…

Ah, my bad. Are you aware of any benchmarks comparing v8 to LuaJIT? Looks like LuaJIT got removed from the alioth site (?).

There's a branch of node, vee-eight-lkgr, running the new v8 5.8 compiler chain. You can read about how to try it out (and help test it) here: https://medium.com/@bmeurer/help-us-t…

> multiple times faster You sure about that? In the alioth benchmarks, v8 wipes the floor with lua: http://benchmarksgame.alioth.debian.org/u64q/compare.php?lan...