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  1. Re:Debugging Is the Next Frontier in Faster Browsi by DusterBar · · Score: 1 · on Firefox 15 Coming With Souped-Up, Faster Debugger

    I wish that were the case. As web pages make use of more complex layout and dynamic data, the browsers have become key to not just rendering speed but debugging. Firebug was, for a long time now, key reason to use firefox.

    Take a look at http://sinz.org/Maze/ for what turned into an interesting benchmark of layout and js/dom manipulation. (It was not the intent but it sure shows significant differences). Since I did that page, Firefox actually got much slower than it was but it still beats IE but loses badly to Chrome.

  2. My rather old one... by DusterBar · · Score: 1 · on 30 Creative 404 Error Pages

    Many years ago I did this page and I almost never see it but every once in a while I do mistype a URL and see it again.

  3. My rather old one... by DusterBar · · Score: 1 · on 30 Creative 404 Error Pages

    Many years ago I did this page and I almost never see it but every once in a while I do mistype a URL and see it again.

  4. My accidental benchmark by DusterBar · · Score: 5, Interesting · on First Look At Chrome 10

    Last year, my daughter and I did a web page that generates mazes because she loves mazes and was amazed that I told her that the computer can be made to make one.

    Trying it on IE8, I thought the page was broken. It took almost all day to complete what FF and Safari and Chrome did in seconds.

    I then added some instrumentation and other HTML/DOM layouts to test the browsers. You can see this at http://sinz.org/Maze/

    By the way, IE9 RC is much better but still an order of magnitude behind Chrome.

  5. I accidentally created a benchmark... by DusterBar · · Score: 1 · on Mozilla Unleashes the Kraken

    I ended up converting a web page that I built with my daughter (back in March for her Birthday) as a benchmark when I happened to have tried it on IE and it was basically unusable. I accidentally created a benchmark when I did not want to.

    Then, with lots of playing around, I got IE8 to run the page significantly faster than the original IE8 but still a few orders of magnitude less than other browsers.

    You can try it our at http://sinz.org/Maze/ - it is a simple page that generates a maze that fills the browser window. Do this in a "maximized" browser window for most dramatic impact. Part of the problem is the performance of the layout engine in IE8 since it seems to do another layout when changing the background color. Chrome is actually rather good at this but Safari and Firefox are also relatively good.

  6. I would love to see how well Insurrection works... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative · on KDE Switches to Subversion
    I have build Insurrection, an enhanced web interface to Subversion, that is very closely tied to the way Subversion works. I would love to see how well it handles a repository as large as the KDE repository. (Plus I think it is a good tool, but then I wrote it :-)

    You can play around with it at http://www.sinz.org/Michael.Sinz/Insurrection/

    Note that I am still in somewhat active development but the code is also in active use. It can be checked out with:

  7. The Amiga connection by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0 · on Dartmouth Project Combines Linux With TCPA

    Could it be that the Enforcer developers didn't know about the classical tool for Amiga, Michael Sinz' Enforcer? It now comes with source, if you haven't noticed.

  8. Re:Why are slashdotters so hostile to NASA? by Black+Parrot · · Score: 3 · on NASA In Financial Trouble
    > Fact: Good engineering is EXPENSIVE. Building, testing, and operating a manned spacecraft is a tad more complex than writing a perl script or configuring a linux kernel.

    The groaners might do well to read "They Write the Right Stuff", which includes this notable claim -
    What makes it remarkable is how well the software works. This software never crashes. It never needs to be re-booted. This software is bug-free. It is perfect, as perfect as human beings have achieved. Consider these stats: the last three versions of the program - each 420,000 lines long-had just one error each. The last 11 versions of this software had a total of 17 errors. Commercial programs of equivalent complexity would have 5,000 errors.
    Compare that error rate to privately owned ventures, where the competitive pressure to turn a buck is routinely cited as if it were a legitimate excuse to produce crappy software.

    > Alas, I've pretty much resigned myself to the fact that modern American culture is probably incapable of supporting a serious and useful space program, and I can only hope that I am still alive, and useful, when other nations get their act together to pick up where we left off.

    No problem; China will launch a manned lunar mission some day, and the public will suddenly decide that men on the moon are even more important than tax cuts, and we'll be back to the space race again.

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