How a 23-year-old first-time Firefox coder fixed a 22-year-old bug

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• crawley@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  this feels relevant

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  • superduperenigma@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Reminds me of another good joke:

    I got a job at Comcast and completed training so I could fix my own cable because it was faster than being on hold with customer service.

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  • eager_eagle@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    “I’m leaving this company in a better state than I’ve found it. Don’t make me apply for this position again!”

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• grabyourmotherskeys@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I remember finding a bug in the Linux kernel re AMD processors a very, very long time ago. I documented and reported it and later saw the report in a changelog or something. Still riding high off that 25 years later (I think, it’s been a while).

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  • QHC@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    You should, sounds like you definitely contributed more to the benefit of human society than I ever have!

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  • Candybar121@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Some guy made a mod of pokemon called uncensored edition with 18+ jokes, if you look at the credits I’m like the 4th name even though I don’t think I did anything at all lmao

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  • bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Reminds me of the small feature I did for PHP 8.1. Felt really good to see a whole article about that in a more or less official preview post.

    Now I wonder what the girl is doing who was the youngest Linux kernel contributor because she saw “a sad little s” not being underlined in the Readme.

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• autotldr@lemmings.world [bot] ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  This is the best summary I could come up with:

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  Back in June 2002, Ubuntu founder Mark Shuttleworth was experiencing space for the first time, the Department of Justice’s antitrust case against Microsoft was reaching its final arguments, and Adam Price, using what was then called Mozilla on a Mac, had an issue with persistent tooltips.

  “I just searched for ‘tooltip’ in the entire code base, examined stuff for possible candidates, and inserted debugging print statements to follow the execution,” Zhu wrote.

  The timer would be canceled on a mouse-out event, which Firefox wasn’t getting when I used keyboard shortcuts to switch windows or virtual desktops."

  Zhu pushed a commit that made tooltip display based on Firefox losing focus, rather than the mouse leaving the application.

  Cobos Álvarez, who shepherded Zhu’s fix into a commit, wrote to us that “this area is rather tricky,” given various Firefox configurations and how they respond to different operating systems.

  On social media, especially the Mastodon instances where you might expect to find people with opinions on Mozilla’s XML User Interface Language, there was much rejoicing.

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  The original article contains 864 words, the summary contains 172 words. Saved 80%. I’m a bot and I’m open source!

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  • glimse@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Really bad summary

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