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| May 19, 2020 | » | Chrome vs. Everybody
3 min; updated Feb 12, 2023
Browser Market Share Worldwide (2009 - 2020). Source: [statcounter | GlobalStats](#browserShare20092020) At the very least, Chrome is worth studying. Something worked out. I’m biased, I only plan to deeply explore Chromium-based browsers and Firefox. Stability, Testing and the Multi-Process Architecture In a single-threaded browser, devs use asynchronous APIs - which may sometimes hold the browser up. Instead of multiple threads, Chromium chose multiple processes: isolation, independent crashes, better asymptotic memory management, identifying expensive sites, etc.... |
| Oct 1, 1974 | » | 03. The Surgical Team
4 min; updated Feb 12, 2023
The Dilemma There are wide productivity variations between good programmers and poor ones. Sackman et. al. found 10:1 ratios. The data showed no correlation between experience and performance. The idea of a 10x developer is mostly ridiculed in my online circles. That said, some jobs have X years of experience as a requirement. How can we resolve these contradictions? The major part of the cost of large teams is communication, and system debugging to correct the ill effects of miscommunication.... |