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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How would online security change if people thought government might perform one of its basic functions?
Lazy Authentication is still the norm. krebsonsecurity.com/2015/12/… < story about how my PayPal account was hacked on Christmas Eve
Replying to @estellevw
@estellevw History is in bugzil.la/1199204 and developer.mozilla.org/en-US/… , I guess, though not informative (yet, anyway)
The sad results of trying to find technological solutions to problems that should be solved by government.
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Replying to @eparillon
@eparillon After Asiana 214 a theme on pilot forums was SFO "slam dunk" approaches, maybe risking safety for noise pprune.org/rumours-news/5185…
Long-term probability of Christmas being a Friday is 58/400, not 1/7, since the 400 year Gregorian cycle has 146097 days (a multiple of 7).
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Replying to @hsivonen
@hsivonen @mpt Also the "Intel Mac OS X 10.11" in the about dialog!
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Replying to @mpt
@mpt @firefox Seems pretty broken. Is there history behind this problem that you're aware of?
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Replying to @khuey_
@khuey_ @kimmaicutler Presumably a judge wouldn't allow the literal interpretation of the "or" in 2.5 (d)(1) that should be an "and".
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Replying to @khuey_
@khuey_ @kimmaicutler If businesses have incentive to be in mixed-use buildings, at least it's an odd distortion with interesting upsides.
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Replying to @khuey_
@khuey_ @kimmaicutler And to be clear, I'm asking for details because I couldn't think of any remotely reasonable split.
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@khuey_ @kimmaicutler How do you tax a building that has ground floor retail and residential above?
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Replying to @khuey_
@khuey_ @kimmaicutler Splitting the roll on what criterion?
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Replying to @luis_in_brief
@tieguy But it's one of the best sources of information, in English, about Chinese characters!
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Replying to @bcrypt
@bcrypt Does it help if you mark them right before each garbage collection pass? (Probably not with permanent marker, though.)
I didn't think there were supposed to be mosquitoes in Philadelphia on Christmas Eve, but there are...
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Replying to @jhford
@jhford @bhearsum Well, you should get a ThinkPad with Intel graphics if you want to run Linux. It's the known supported hardware. :-)
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Feels a bit weird that part of the experience of using Windows 10 is "but this works fine on Ubuntu" (today, plugging in headphones)
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Replying to @patrick_h_lauke
@patrick_h_lauke @FremyCompany In trunk Gecko, the list of properties is backgroundValues and borderValues in hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-centr…
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Replying to @patrick_h_lauke
@patrick_h_lauke @FremyCompany Styling certain properties on form controls is equivalent to appearance:none; this is required for compat.
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