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What value does a blockchain serve here? Is anyone asking for a distributed meme ledger?

Honestly? Meat tastes good and it's way easier to maintain a complete diet by eating it. I'll often pick the vegan option when it's tasty and available.

There is a substantial amount of astroturfing on Glassdoor. Best to read the neutral and negative reviews, and ignore the positive ones and overall rating.

In V8, small machine integers are signed 31bit integers on 32bit architectures and signed 32bit integers on 64bit architectures.

Background music is much too loud in the introductory video. Makes it difficult to hear the presenter.

It could still be better, but C++ compilers have never been as compatible or interchangeable as they are now.

As others have pointed out, it's not quite a quine and just some silly JavaScript that reads out its source from the DOM and feeds it back into a copy of Itty Bitty's URL generation algorithm.

A quine: https://itty.bitty.site/#/?XQAAAAIPAQAAAAAAAAAeGEPDwwAoaS2Sj...

Content changes based on whether a cookie is set. The network panel of your browser's inspector shows the actual page source.

We should also remove airbags and seatbelts in automobiles. Surely then better driving habits would form.

As of iOS 11, cookies are no longer shared between SFSafariViewController and Safari or instances of SFSafariViewController in other apps.

Caching the length property appears to have only a small impact on performance across Chrome, Firefox and Safari (caching is faster in Firefox, slower in Chrome, and about the same in Safari). Perhaps it's better to recommend the non-cached loop iteration instead?

The quick microbenchmark I checked this on: https://jsperf.com/for-to-length/1

It's relatively straightforward for self modifying code to manually flush instruction caches when necessary and JIT compilers that target other architectures already satisfy this requirement. Only backwards compatibility with existing x86 software requires a coherent instruction cache.

The device under discussion does not have a camera.

Does Comcast's implementation of this system respect Cache-Control: no-transform as specified in RFC 2616?

Thanks for writing it! Reading the source was an easy intro to babel for me when I was writing a trampoline-based TCO plugin.

Seems hardly legacy if it's the rendering pipeline used in all browsers' current release versions.

(and I say this as a WebRender enthusiast)

This appears to be the metric that Chrome for Android uses to track how long it takes to verify code signing on downloaded APK's. Or possibly does, rather—open source Chromium doesn't reference the metric at all and it would take decompiling Chrome for Android to know for certain if it's used there or not.

Ah, so it's merely a machine that implements a virtual version of the Java runtime.

Whatever codec is hardware accelerated on the device you're playing it back on.

The CDN could be on a subdomain.

It's defence in a war of patents, but offence in a war against patents.

But they aren't free and if the file size is sufficiently small, the overhead of the constant overhead of the additional syscalls will dwarf the variable overhead of the extra copy. FreeBSD/OS X's sendfile allows specifying a header and trailer in a single syscall to avoid this limitation.

4KB is the size of a page on x86 and most architectures, the smallest unit of memory the OS can dispense. SSL termination is definitely a function you don't want the kernel to swap to disk, therefore each connection would get at least 4KB of physical memory under a process-per-connection model.

Apple is slowly migrating a massive amount of system features out of private frameworks and into background daemons protected by entitlements or privacy prompts. The end goal is that all sensitive data or hardware features are completely inaccessible from inside the sandbox, neither by private API, nor IOKit, nor syscall, nor direct filesystem access.

Retrieving the application list is a particularly poor example as there used to be a public API that did exactly that: CFPreferencesCopyApplicationList

Those who title-inflate do so at their own peril; doing so selects for employers that have poor ability to hire competent people.

Perhaps they're doing both?

Oddly enough, the team that built Slack first worked on a MMORPG.

The link at the bottom of the blog post leads to a 404

The uncompressed data generally doesn't