Joel Webber

They changed the name of this gas station to "Gas & Gulp" for the movie. I hope they keep it. - Joel Webber

What was it called before they dressed it as Gas & Gulp? - Stephen Mack

Is the old Quick Trip still there? - Maxamad

My impression of the previous commenter was that he basically said "your results don't jive with my assumptions, so I'll quote the spec at you". The test page linked from the second page is 404ing for me though. - Matt Mastracci

Doing a search for Garrett Smith turns up several articles, Amazon reviews, and comments that are basically the same as what he posted on your site. It seems he's made it his life mission to tell everyone that they're wrong about JavaScript, but I haven't figured out where he gets that authority yet, though. Your article seemed reasonable, but I admit that I lack the knowledge base to provide constructive criticism on what you may or may not have gotten wrong. - Mark Trapp

Thanks, all. I really shouldn't let the trolls bug me, yet somehow they always do. @matt: whoops, thanks. Forgot to upload the file. Will fix that momentarily. - Joel Webber

Fixed. - Joel Webber

I think your methodology and tests are fine and test exactly what you are looking at. My Chrome numbers are surprising (closure sometimes beat locals!) but I wouldn't but it past the JIT. My only thought here would be that you could up the # of tests an order of magnitude to help remove some of the timer jitter. - Matt Mastracci

Yeah, I was surprised by the fact that closures sometimes beat locals on Chrome as well. But as you say, that JIT is pretty sneaky, so you never can tell. I may try bumping up the numbers at some point, but they don't jitter too badly averaging over 100 runs, so I'm guessing the variance isn't too high. If I weren't so lazy, I would set it up to calculate variance and confidence, but I *am* lazy :) - Joel Webber

Hah yeah. I don't get much in the way of jitter on OSX. Maybe I missed the high-resolution-timer revolution, but browsers seem way better at timing these days. In the past I'd only ever get 15ms resolution on setTimeout() or Date stuff. - Matt Mastracci

Interesting conclusion from your test: if you use a non-local more than twice (insert exact hand-wavy justification here), stuff it into a local. - Matt Mastracci

I was pretty shocked. I actually didn't even know about the battery improvement when I bought the thing. I knew about the sealed battery, and assumed it was a bit better, but that "5:13 remaining" is actually discharged about 10% or so. That's just scary. Now my biggest problem is that the screen resolution's so high that I keep having to zoom web pages. Or maybe I'm just turning into an old man... - Joel Webber

Time to lobby for the Google Java code standards to change the line length to 120. ;) - Matt Mastracci

Yeah, and to make matters even worse, we stuck with 80 in the GWT code base because that's what it was when we started. But I will say that I now believe line-length standards should really be based upon how wide it is in a tool like Rietveld (http://codereview.appspot.com/) when you've got two pages lined up horizontally to diff them. - Joel Webber

Good point. If Rietveld understood Java and could re-wrap it appropriately, you could just split it based on the browser size and have readable, reformatted code. - Matt Mastracci

how come this is in 'the age' ? - Rob Schonberger

That was my immediate reaction as well. At first I assumed it was just picked up there, but that appears to be the canonical version. You never know with Carter -- maybe the big US papers are peeved at him for telling inconvenient truths? - Joel Webber

Show off. Hmph. - EricaJoy

I'm interested in how you like it after some time. Clear is in Portland, but I'm so used to wired internet I'm skeptical to try it out. I'm interested in the usage cap question, too. - Mark Trapp

Ah, but what is the ping latency? I won't take anything over 75ms, as it makes killing people online in first person shooters extremely difficult. :) - Ray Cromwell

I wanted to get Clear, but they don't work in my immediate area. I was all excited about it too :( - Rahsheen ™, Coach of FF

Play some Quake Live and tell me how it goes :) - Rahsheen ™, Coach of FF

I think it shows up in the lower-left corner of the UI. It should say something like 'N invites left'. - Joel Webber from email

I'd like one, please! - jldupont

I would like one too. Thanks for sharing - Thomas RICARD

Hmm, maybe they're not giving me any because I don't use it that much (yet!) - Ray Cromwell

What's so cool about Google Voice. BTW, I live under a rock. - Noah Gray

I'd love to have an invite! - Rick Kaiser

@Thomas, Jean-Lou, Rick: If you can DM or post your emails, I'll send out the invites. @Noah: I don't know that it's unusually cool, but it's pretty useful. - Joel Webber

I Would like one please - Holly is Happy from iPod

I just sent these out directly to FriendFeed email addresses. Please let me know if you have any problems accepting them in that form. - Joel Webber

@All (except Rick, who already accepted): I've sent these to the @friendfeed.com email addresses. If that doesn't work for you, please send me your regular emails and I'll resend. - Joel Webber

zjkzjk1987ATgawab.com and thx : ) - Mr.Tsang

Sent, Mr. Tsang. Enjoy. - Joel Webber

It would be nice to have Google Voice (actually, I got invite to it earlier but can't start to use it in since I'm not living in USA). I'm from Finland and while Google has their office and datacenter here, still no sign of Google Voice here. - Daniel Schildt