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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Filed (with a little delay) as github.com/rust-lang/rust/is…
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Some interesting (or disturbing) things that might be in future offices economist.com/news/business/… via @TheEconomist
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Yeah, I think I sorted it out now with lifetime parameters, but the error message was probably the least helpful one I've had so far...
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I seem to have lost a fight with the @rustlang borrow checker, trying to compile gist.github.com/dbaron/0c0ee…
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If they did it symmetrically, I'd hope the US-based engineers would be more inclined to make remembering the user's choice work better.
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I think Google also does it asymmetrically, redirecting away from google .com outside the US, but not to it in the US.
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Maybe it was bugzil.la/424423? @vvuk might remember.
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If the goal is replacing characters without doing layout, I'd think he'd want wide emoji to just overflow their grid cell, no?
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Not sure managers should know how to do all their reports' jobs. And they can also learn important things from open-ended questions.
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Have a look at this stylized 雞 (jī, chicken) character, the third character in the name of a chicken restaurant in Taipei.
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Yeah, our original policy was to whitelist registrars with good policies, but that ended up incompatible with other browsers (& no .com!)
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Specifications for Web tech should not introduce new meanings of “element” or “property”. If you can't think of a better word, try “item”?
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Taronga Zoo, Royal Botanic Gardens, Museum of Contemporary Art, Art Gallery of NSW, Hyde Park, Manly without an “e”?
Looks like lack of #6 and #7 in Gecko is covered by bugzil.la/1288941
I didn't know all of those were emoji. Also, twitter is offering to translate from Dutch. (But if I ask it to, it fails.)
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In the same vein (as was nitter.vloup.ch/davidbaron/statu…), @nytimes reports on Chinese Maoists' admiration for Trump: nytimes.com/2017/04/03/world…
Important thread on potential loss of US scientific leadership today, with comparisons to Germany under Hitler, and to China under Mao.
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