Engineer on @googlechrome. Involved in CSS and W3C standards. Previously @mozilla, @w3ctag. Mastodon: @dbaron@w3c.social

Rockville, Maryland, USA
Joined March 2008
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@divya @mattur The HTML working group wanted sequences of empty <p>s to add the same space as one so authors wouldn't use them for spacing.
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Replying to @TedMielczarek
@TedMielczarek That's just ivy. Wisteria grows quite a bit faster, at least near Philadelphia. (Had both along the driveway as a kid.)
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Replying to @LeaVerou
@LeaVerou Moz will still maintain and ship Thunderbird releases; employees won't build new features (others might). blog.lizardwrangler.com/2012…
Replying to @jprosevear
@jprosevear If it's important, I put a patch in my mq for it, or an entry in a plaintext file. (Not helping the count, eh?)
@sgalineau More education can be a permanent cultural shift.
@sgalineau unemployment? early retirement? extra education? jail?
One of the most informative graphs of employment in the US: slate.com/blogs/moneybox/201…
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Replying to @cbarrett
@cbarrett Is that what happens when using Google Translate from your native language instead of to it?
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Replying to @BrendanEich
@BrendanEich @adipan Is this a Firefox thing or a Google thing? (Usually Google's geolocation overrides all, but maybe not in India?)
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Replying to @tabatkins
@tabatkins @bz_moz It works inside a function, but doesn't work at toplevel since |var foo| overwrites window.foo before reading it.
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Replying to @Binarytales
@Binarytales @rem Actually it's a vendor-prefixed implementation that predated (ca. 1999) the specification. New impl. coming soon.
Replying to @morgamic
@morgamic I like Long Ridge OSP in the summer, though it can get hot. (Monte Bello and Russian Ridge, nearby, are better in spring.)
Replying to @joedrew
@joedrew I'd rather have 33°C (91°F) than 33°F (0.5°C).
I'd like to see world map colored by gov't runs health care vs. gov't pays for health care vs. insurance mandate vs. no universal HC etc.
Am I reading correctly that 4 of the 9 justices said that the *entire* Affordable Care Act is unconstitutional? (p. 191 of opinions)
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A Roberts has been a swing vote on the court before: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Owen_R…
Replying to @jswalden
@jswalden I was expecting Roberts to stick to Kennedy either way, out of concern for the institution. Maybe I got the motive right?
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Old and new reading on red states and blue states: fiscal transfers economist.com/blogs/dailycha… and the generation gap nytimes.com/2012/06/24/opini…
Interesting article on needless higher education being like a guild system: nplusonemag.com/death-by-deg… (via @mattyglesias)
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