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Re:Google Fonts Redesigned on Tuesday June 14, 2016 @07:17PM (#11906135)
how so?
Re:Microsoft Edge Platform Data on Thursday April 07, 2016 @12:08AM (#11444640)
I actually worked on this project. This is just an issue with how browsers give back the parsed data (which is what it is reporting, rather than the authored styles). This is covered in the FAQ - https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-edge/platfor...
I work on a major browser. The key thing to keep in mind is that modern javascript engines have an optimized JIT. That means that they are able to optimize code paths for the most common paths on the web. Since its much less likely to see code in the wold that uses the "new Array" pattern, it will most likely be slower than the much (MUCH) more commonly used literal version.

also, microbenchmarks like this are silly, since you probably will never need several million new arrays to be allocated.

having worked within the enterprise, and on open source with Eran (the author), both can be very tiring. When it comes to the enterprise, however, it was easier to fix these sort of things, or at the very least prevent them from happening again in the future. People can be repremanded, teams reorged, etc. When it comes to OS, you have the possibility of human garbage coming in and dumping all over the project with little the no recourse outside of banning (which does not stop them from creating new accounts and starting all over again).

The concept of a troll inside of the enterprise is more or less unheard of compared to what a popular piece of OSS can get

Re:Why an Ex-Google Coder Makes Twice as Much Freelancing on Thursday January 21, 2016 @12:47PM (#10946885)
This was flagged previously as spam, since it is basically an ad for toptal.
Re:Firefox's Share Falls Under 20% in November 2015 on Monday December 28, 2015 @01:01PM (#10802372)
20% of the users that browse to w3schools.com. Not the Web, or any other actually meaningful metric
Re:My friends who like Donald trump on Wednesday December 16, 2015 @12:24AM (#10742556)
That isn't the same 500 error
Re:Sweaterify on Tuesday December 15, 2015 @02:09AM (#10736386)
Mariko Kosaka, aka @kosamari, created this. She also regularly uses javascript to create real world knitted objects (i.e. no screen printing)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X1Cc1vrvjdY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nydh_2NRn-c

Re:My friends who like Donald trump on Friday December 11, 2015 @12:33AM (#10715608)
happened to me until I logged in
Re:Road to Robotic Parking Is Littered with Faulty Projects on Monday November 30, 2015 @12:22AM (#10647891)
philadelphia has had one for years - works great. http://liftparking.com/
Re:Ask HN: What happened to Express.js? on Saturday October 31, 2015 @04:10AM (#10482158)
I would guess a fair amount of their effort is being spent on their new project, koa - https://github.com/koajs/koa
to encourage others to start contributing to open source

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