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David Rajchenbach-Teller
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David Rajchenbach-Teller writes Il y a du thé renversé au bord de la table, a personal blog at dutherenverseauborddelatable.wordpress.com about programming and systems. Since 2008, 16 different Hacker News readers have linked it 43 times, most often “The Gecko monoculture”. The last post was in 2016, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (6) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
A Mozilla-related blog that HN commenters cite on Firefox's temporarily hung interface, the 2014 Mozilla CEO departure of Brendan Eich, and embedding in Gecko. Comments cite it as a source.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 6 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
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Most-linked posts?
- /2014/04/07/a-curse-and-a-blessing/3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2014-04-09
- The Gecko monoculture3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2016-03-08
- One Pot Application2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2009-11-29
What Hacker News says?
If my memory serves correctly, Session Restore doesn't use sync()/fsync() at all. Edit Double-checked in the code: I'm right, it doesn't. Edit If you're interested in how Session Restore improves the safety of its writes without using sync()/fsync(), the details are on my blog: https://dutherenverseauborddelatable.wordpress.com/2014/06/2...
Comment linking /2014/06/26/firefox-the-browser-that-has-your-backup/
on “Heavy SSD Writes from Firefox”Submitted Web development is just broken as a story · 111 points
HN discussionAlternatively, you could help us improve the responsiveness of Firefox: https://dutherenverseauborddelatable.wordpress.com/2013/10/0... I am willing to help you get started, if you are interested.
Comment linking /2013/10/08/making-firefox-feel-as-fast-as-its-benchmarks-async-programming-on-the-mozilla-platform-part-1/
on “Firefox 25 is released”Submitted Unbreaking Web Development, One Loc at a Time as a story · 43 points
HN discussionThe "temporarily hung interface" is definitively one of the worst things about Firefox. Fortunately they recently set up a project dedicated to fix it, next releases will probably behave much better. A few links for those interested https://dutherenverseauborddelatable.wordpress.com/2013/04/1... https://dutherenverseauborddelatable.wordpress.com/2013/04/2... https://dutherenverseauborddelatable.wordpress.com/2013/05…
Comment linking /2013/06/05/project-async-responsive-issue-3/
on “Here’s Why Firefox is Still Years Behind Google Chrome”Submitted Crowdsourcing the syntax as a story · 13 points
HN discussionThe Mozilla FAQ on CEO Resignation says "Brendan was not fired and was not asked by the Board to resign. Brendan voluntarily submitted his resignation. The Board acted in response by inviting him to remain at Mozilla in another C-level position. Brendan declined that offer. The Board respects his decision." [1] "Another C-level position" definitely means not CEO, and probably means CTO. So Brendan is not disagreeing…
Comment linking /2014/04/07/a-curse-and-a-blessing/
on “Mozilla CTO: Andreas Gal”Submitted Pythonisms vs. JavaScriptures: what's your favorite? as a story · 11 points
HN discussionHe may be but as he says himself, that's not much involvement: http://dutherenverseauborddelatable.wordpress.com/2014/04/07...
Comment linking /2014/04/07/a-curse-and-a-blessing/
on “Mozilla CTO: Andreas Gal”Submitted Call For Classrooms: Teaching and Studying with Mozilla as a story · 9 points
HN discussionThis is incorrect (odd, since you're a Mozilla employee) -- at http://dutherenverseauborddelatable.wordpress.com/2014/04/07... Brendan says: "No one tried to convince me to stay as CEO."
Comment linking /2014/04/07/a-curse-and-a-blessing/
on “Mozilla CTO: Andreas Gal”Submitted One Pot Application as a story · 7 points
HN discussionUnfortunately, this technique is not guaranteed to work. Even if you write, flush then rename, the OS and disk may decide to apply these operations in a different order, breaking your guarantee. A few years ago, I had to fix this behavior on Firefox, because it was actually causing data loss. The only techniques I found that seem to work are journaling and rolling backups + transparent recovery (which can still lose…
Comment linking /2014/06/26/firefox-the-browser-that-has-your-backup/
on “Show HN: AtomicWrite: cross platform library for atomically writing data to disk”Submitted The Gecko monoculture as a story · 6 points
HN discussionI was glad to read this, but then today I noticed a new comment by Eich clarifying that no one tried to convince him to stay as CEO. http://dutherenverseauborddelatable.wordpress.com/2014/04/07... Perhaps your understanding is a little off. Maybe it's a prudent position to go back to not really knowing what happened between Eich and the board. Anyway, I'm done being angry at Mozilla. You guys are doing an important…
Comment linking /2014/04/07/a-curse-and-a-blessing/
on “Brendan Eich”Submitted The Gecko monoculture as a story · 3 points
HN discussionTake a look at http://dutherenverseauborddelatable.wordpress.com/2011/05/24... - not complete, but it's a start.
Comment linking /2011/05/24/a-few-opa-applications/
on “Opa: one language for all the web app stack”Submitted Introducing JavaScript native file management as a story · 3 points
HN discussionWe'll publish some in the days&weeks to come. There are also a few additional details at http://dutherenverseauborddelatable.wordpress.com/2011/05/23...
Comment linking /2011/05/23/unbreaking-scalable-web-development-one-loc-at-a-time
on “Opa: one language for all the web app stack”Submitted The Future of Promise as a story · 2 points
HN discussion(disclaimer; it's my blog post) I don't think it is - this post by yoric goes into some detail as to why killing embedding in its previous form was a good idea: https://dutherenverseauborddelatable.wordpress.com/2016/03/0... I do think it was a poor decision not to support EmbedLite more fully, but looking at bugs in Bugzilla, that appears to have been down not only to Mozilla's general direction, but also the decis…
Comment linking /2016/03/07/the-gecko-monoculture/
on “State of Embedding in Gecko”Submitted How Firefox persists your data without explicit flushing as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Making Firefox Feel as Fast as its Benchmarks as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why Firefox OS matters to me as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Beautiful Off Main Thread File I/O as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted How To: Calling into Mozilla C internals from JavaScript as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Just a question about ACTA as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted JavaScript, this static language (part 1) as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Helping Bugzilla Help Newcomers Help Mozilla Help Users as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Living in a Go Faster, Post-XUL World as a story · 1 points
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