Ray Cromwell

I started porting the 7zip C++ code a few months back, but it was pretty slow going. It's some of the worst code I've had to parse. Had to give up eventually- it was easier just to exec() the native ones. - Matt Mastracci from iPhone

Have you seen http://code.google.com/p... ? Is LZF the same thing? It's EPL licence, which might be ok? - Nick Lothian

Why you don't use Fusion? We use a lot it also with multiple machine opened at the same time on our MacBook Pro. Sometime we just stop the OS without suspending the VM and after that everything is still working fine...Fusion is really a great product. - Alan Lugiai

Yes, they both use the VT-x stuff, but I think the crashes might come in some of the virtual device driver stuff, e.g. mapping gfx calls to OSX. This was definitely the case with 3d support. - Ray Cromwell

Me too. I've slowly started setting it as default on all my VMs as well. Latest dev build has the development tools upgrade as well. - Matt Mastracci

Me too and loving it - Andrew Bowers from iPhone

Imagine this story: "Japanese Head of State visits White House and refuses to shake hands!" or in Japanese Media "Japanese Emperor shakes hands with US President. How long will we grovel before other nation's hand germs?" Why is bowing any worse than any other greeting? - Ray Cromwell from Bookmarklet

"The verbosity of the Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) remains one of its main weaknesses. This problem can be solved with the aid of HTML specialized compression algorithms. In this work, we describe a visually lossless HTML transform that, combined with generally used compression algorithms, allows to attain high compression ratios. Its core is a transform featuring substitution of words in an HTML document using a static English dictionary, effective encoding of dictionary indexes, numbers, and specific patterns. Visually lossless compression means that the HTML document layout will be modified, but the document displayed in a browser will provide the exact fidelity with the original. The experimental results show that the proposed transform improves the HTML compression efficiency of general purpose compressors on average by 21% in the case of gzip, achieving comparable processing speed. Moreover, we show that the compression ratio of gzip can be improved by up to 32% for the price of higher memory requirements and much slower processing." - Ray Cromwell

I've been running all of our static content through the validator.nu parser, then using the Java transformer code to output HTML4. There's a lot of repeated close tags in the output (</li> is a big one). Might make for an interesting experiment to see what sort of savings you could see. - Matt Mastracci

I took a look at this a while ago. It seemed obvious since Flash can do it HTML should do it too. The good news is that there is a W3 workgroup for it: http://www.w3.org/2009..., with some relevant requirements: http://dev.w3.org/2009.... The bad news is that it's a W3 workgroup, AND the only browser rep. on it is from Opera. - Nick Lothian

I'd be happy with a way to get local video into the browser, even if there was no sensible way to post it. At the moment you need to do VLC + stream to HTTP, plus the video needs to come from the same port any JS is served from to do video+canvas manipulation. That means you need mod_rewrite, too. I wonder how Palm/WebOS handles it? - Nick Lothian

Great point, Ray. I'm going to steal that one. - Bruce Johnson from BuddyFeed

I've always wondered why it's not humiliating to these people that their notion of marriage is so weak and unstable that it is jeopardized by what other people do. Isn't that ultimately a vote of no confidence in their own institution. - Kelly Norton

I've seen numerous comments calling this act a violation of "do not evil". If you've had free online driving directions for the last 10 years, and a phone with GPS that can run complex apps, then all you need to do is add in ubiquitous bandwidth/connectivity to bring the cloud based mapping ($0 price) to the car device, obviating the need for a single function device. The ecosystem trends already pointed to the eventual doom of these devices, the writing was on the wall. Google just moved first on Droid. - Ray Cromwell

couldn't agree more, wasn't "no turn by turn using google maps api" a big enough clue for people? - lypanov

Man, the japanese don't mess around when they punk someone. - Ray Cromwell from Bookmarklet

Wow, this one is just as bad, even more over the top: http://www.youtube.com/watch... - Ray Cromwell

Hilarious to see only the scenes that punctuate the action spliced together. - Ray Cromwell from Bookmarklet

Jesus Christ this is a broad patent. - Ray Cromwell from Bookmarklet

I wonder if anyone patented the "buy/develop bullshit submarine patents, wait until someone else does all the hard work to implement them, then sue" business method? Perhaps counter-suing them based on that might work? ;) - Nick Lothian

"However, even if there were a last-minute u-turn at the Louvre, statistics suggest the battle of Le Big Macs has already been lost. France has become McDonald's biggest market in the world outside of the US, according to the chain. While business in traditional brasseries and bistros is in freefall, the fast food group opened 30 new outlets last year in France and welcomed 450 million customers – up 11 per cent on the previous year." - Ray Cromwell