http://robarnold.org witty tagline Mon, 22 Dec 2008 03:12:04 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en TL;DR: Dates are terrible; use timestamps. Don't expect good Date.now() resolution from Safari/Opera/IE on Windows. Introduction A common testing method in benchmarks, including our own Talos tests, is to measure and compare performance by recording how long it takes to run a given set of tests. In JavaScript, this is often done ... http://robarnold.org/measuring-performance/ My friend Dan Schultz is currently taking a course called "Science of The Web". For one of his assignments (see problem 2), he needs as much help as he can get. Here's where you come in. It's quick and easy: 1) Go to http://boom.aladdin.cs.cmu.edu/cgi-bin/ipaddy (the server might encounter an error, just ... http://robarnold.org/science-of-the-web/ Since I'm only a few days away from the end of my internship, I can't really start any large projects so I went looking for little projects I can get done. This one originated from my dislike of pushing patches from bugzilla. My steps so far have been to go ... http://robarnold.org/hg-qimport-my-bugzilla-patch/ Yesterday, I pushed my patch to add glass support to chrome windows for Vista (see bug for some implementation discussion). For those who don't use Vista on a physical machine (virtual machines don't support glass): it is a fancy blurring effect rendered using the system's graphics card. It is part ... http://robarnold.org/initial-glass-support/