Not sure why you're being downvoted. Most of the vets in Europe wouldn't suggest neutering, only if it's a medical necessity or the dog's being overly aggressive. And if you really need to, wait until he's grown up.

Our dog is a rescue and was neutered at a very young age before he came to us. His development was rather delayed and he's definitely behind. I really can't imagine doing this just because it makes your life "easier". I would never do it without a good reason.

Thanks! The "design" is mine, and I still use Octopress because I haven't found the time to switch to something fancier.

Small clarification: As Ryan Sleevi pointed out over Twitter, it may sound a lot like I'm giving advice and discouraging the use of session tickets. I don't want to encourage anyone to disable session tickets and make TLS so slow that they're switching back to HTTP for good. Having TLS without PFS is a lot better than having no TLS. The post was mainly written to explore options and show that there are tradeoffs to think about with current setups, especially if you're interested in going all the way and provide PFS.

For non-binary data in general you would have to create your own serialization mechanism. For everything that can be represented textually you can however use the TextEncoder/Decoder API: "var buffer = new TextEncoder("utf-8").encode(text)".

Thanks for the response. What I wouldn't give for a built-in equivalent of python's pickle.

TART stands for "Tab Animation Regression Test".

And I still don't know what is actually meant under the "tab animation." That when I click on the "new tab" it slowly appears? Or something else?

Yes. It measures the time taken to open a new tab, in various configurations. [0]

[0] https://wiki.mozilla.org/Buildbot/Talos/Tests#TART.2FCART

If everyone switched to one browser engine competition would surely rise again after a couple of months or years. Engine features will differ and WebKit forks will compete even more. The market would roughly be at the same point it is now, it just started off of one engine.

I think this really makes sense given that in Germany we have a quorum of 50k with a much smaller population. The same thing is probably true for other smaller countries as well.

I was surprised to learn that the population of Germany is 80 million, the same "order of magnitude" as the United States.

(By contrast, the U.S. has 30X the land area of Germany.)

What can a quorum of 50k people accomplish in Germany?

Your petition might get a reading in the Parliament and you're allowed to speak. However, this is not a guaranteed outcome, the Bundestag or rather the committee in charge of petitions may deny you the public reading with a 2/3 majority.

However, on the state level there is a "Volksentscheid" where the people can directly vote or enforce a vote on an issue. The quorum and the topics that are eligible for a Volksentscheid depend on the states legislation. Berlin for example allows a vote on general topics of interest while other states only allow votes on proposed laws.

Have there been any particularly notable uses or outcomes of this process?

The most notable outcome was probably the petition against internet blocks in germany [1] which was signed by more than 130 000 persons and was a crucial milestone in gathering public attention which ultimately brought the law to a fall.

[1] you know, against child porn. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zugangserschwerungsgesetz for a short summary.

What do you mean? It doesn't use Firebug at all.

He means that Firebug is better than this new toolbar in his opinion.

Oh, I misread that. Well, apples and oranges.