I like playing and composing music, and sometimes I'm coding. But I am not a professional musician nor professional programmer, may be that's why I don't like solving puzzles.
- Anton
Music came first, programming is my job and playing music is my hobby. But I know plenty of programmers without a shred of musical talent and many musicians with minimal computer skills.
- Mark Philpot
I'm more of the opinion that it's with poets we are closer, stressing over every single word and how much one little thing can change the whole program, and interpretation is so vital to us
- Justin Yost
The amount of time saved by not having 10-20 people standing around at your birthday party at work probably makes it worth it :)
- Sam Pullara
The only company that ever gave me my birthday off (with pay) went out of business.
- April
Oh, and statistically speaking, you don't want to give IT people their birthday off. You might run into huge problems in February, with being seriously under-staffed.
- April
Interestig to see how adding DOM operations evens out John's benchmarks (first has DOM ops and Safari beats Chrome, second is Google's apparently slightly biased benchmark, which relies heavily on recursion).
- Bret Taylor
from Bookmarklet
It is time to optimize for DOM. Faster JavaScript is fantastic..... great for games and crypto.... but what about the real world? NOTE: Ray Cromwell's Chronoscope benchmark http://timepedia.blogspot.com/2008...
- Dion Almaer
These tests are very insightful. I was initially very excited about Chrome being 10 times faster on javascript. As usual with any such claims (not just from Google), they are skewed. However, I do think that Chrome entering the market will cause all browsers to get better more rapidly. Competition does drive innovation.
- Robert Felty
Thanks for sharing this detailed knowledge. Very useful.
- Edwin Khodabakchian
we're working on DOM work now. believe that the tracing technique has applications; working on getting the DOM acting faster soon.
- John Lilly
granted all beta-quality of Chrome and zero-day securiity bug, i think their current *speed* shows only lack of exception handling. Once it matures, it will be same or evenn worse than FF - it is tough to beat long-standing code without rounding corners on usual code glue...
- A. T.
As I age (mature?) I am finding that even a glass or two of booze reduces my effectiveness the next day significantly. Not hungover exactly - just dumber somehow.
- mattpovey
@Mattpovey, I second that observation. I definitely can't pound them anymore like i did when i was 21. I think at some point in our 40's (at least in my case) we hit the inflection point on loss of brain cells vs those required to function the next day...
- Jeff P. Henderson
yeah we're all getting old, what can we do !
- Loic Le Meur
One thing that I would say regarding alcohol is that cutting it out completely is unnecessarily puritan. I just cut out the 'mindless' food and drink that I consumed during the week.
- mattpovey
Congratulations! that's really great news. RWW has been a great blog for ages now. back then you came on board it really became stellar. best techblog out there. hands down.
- Marcel Weiß