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> All of this is part of the organization’s plans to become less reliant on income from search partnerships and to create more revenue channels. In 2018, the latest year for which Mozilla has published its financial records, about 91 percent of its royalty revenues came from search contracts.

This raises the question of what products Mozilla plans to make that will generate revenue. The article doesn't address this.

I found these after a quick search, all of which appear to depend on Firefox to some extent:

- VPN/password manager called Lockvise

- Pocket recommendations and sponsored content

- Firefox Monitor, "a free service which allows people to check whether their email address has been a part of a recent security breach"

- "DNS over HTTPS" and "Encrypted Server Name Indication", "... both of which we’ve partnered with Cloudflare to test in the U.S. market."

https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/foundation/annualreport/2017/
Interesting article but is just abruptly shifts from the fate of Pliny the Elder to Pliny the Younger...
Thanks, it's nice to hear from people who know.

In Germany - once you finish medical school (6 years) you can practice medicine and be paid for it but you're not yet specialized. Specialization is achieved via a 5-year hospital residency. During that time you're considered an "Assistenzarzt" (assistant doctor), which is hilarious. She was handed her own station 2 months into her residency - a station with a capacity of 15 patients that's very often at 20, with extra beds crammed into what used to be 3 person rooms. That residency rewards you with a lower middle class salary for days that consist of 8 hours of frantic clinical work and 4 hours of clerical work. There's a serious overall doctor shortage, especially of senior doctors, so on-the-job training and guidance is very thin. Never enough time and always too much responsibility is the name of the game.

My girlfriend has a therapist who supports her and isn't afraid of any stigma. That part is easier here because the system is so desperate for doctors that no one has reason to fear for their job. But, I just don't understand what any therapist can do to help anyone survive 60-80 hour underpaid weeks with occasional night duty, in a context where serious medical mistakes are simply inevitable. She knows she's doing her best and she knows she's being set up to fail, but in her mind, understandably, none of that negates that in the end, it was her that made that mistake.

Where did you land? Did you find a sustainable way to practice?
Sounds like you just had bad luck, I can't imagine your own body-weight affecting the ACL in any sort of negative fashion. This article rates a full 140 degree unweighted squat - much like you were doing, at 66N, which is 1/5th of just walking, and in the < 2% range of maximum ACL strain.

https://www.jospt.org/doi/pdf/10.2519/jospt.2012.3768
>Probably not but that is what the market cost is.

Is it really? The average pay for the CEO of a company of Mozilla's size is somewhere around $800,000 according to [1]. And a pretty large chunk of that is performance related.

Of course salaries may vary a lot between industries, but given Mozilla's performance, their CEO's salary appears to be on the high side.

[1] https://chiefexecutive.net/ceo-and-senior-executive-compensa...
The thing is they should see what they CAN have and they should wonder WHY they can't have it. Then maybe they can do something about it. Because simply one of the main reasons why Mexico does not have a higher standard of living is absolutely not becasue the Mexicans are lazy or dumb. It is because of the immense amount of corruption in their government; I think once they start to learn the source of their state of being they might decide to to try and really change it.
I respectfully disagree. I have seen many of these antipatterns in production in many medium & large size orgs, and I think the six scenarios presented in this doc are more common than you think.

The "browse-up" scenario is extremely common because engineers/administrators usually prefer to remote directly onto the systems their working on from their main machine rather than endure the inconvenience of needing to securely connect to another host first. Many of these admins/engineers would think it's inconceivable for their machines to be vulnerable but have no issues downloading dev tools, libraries and dependencies onto their machines from third party & untrusted sources (e.g. Github, NPM, etc).

'Docker, blue/green, staging/cert environments" - believe it or not, these are seen as emerging trends in many orgs rather than the norm as you suggest here.

And regarding designing systems to be patchable, you say: "sure, that's again a basic engineering requirement anyways", but again I'd counter that I've come across many systems that haven't been patched in months or years because it's deemed too hard. Another similar issue I've come across is where an org's DR processes have not been properly tested because it's too hard to failover without causing significant disruption. Both can easily be designed for early on, but for legacy systems that were implemented without this foresight it still remains an issue.
Also it feels like a slippery slope. Let's say the cut off is $25m in revenue. So you have some business ideas based on violating user privacy that are profitable, until the company reaches the size where it has to comply, and all of a sudden its unprofitable.

Clearly the next step is to lobby for raised limits, rather than companies planning in advance for what they'll do when they cross the threshold.
I've been using a lot of this library with Firestore and it's great.
Exactly. I hope MS will also take Android and release an MS version of it. Privacy oriented, no Google apps (that can't be removed either).

This would put more pressure on Google than privacy fines from EU. Competition works best. I'm not an MS fan (using Linux at home, with vscode), but I'll happily switch.

I wondered why MS didn't do this or partnered with Ubuntu instead of closing their Windows Phone business, fully giving up the mobile market.
Awesome, glad to hear! Keep up the good work!
I witnessed what seemed like a severe case of hypoglycemia in a passenger a few rows from me while stuck in a plane.

The idea that someone might die because people cannot just listen is somewhat scary.
Also Punch-Out VR...the most intense VR workout I've gotten.
It's almost as if Google is a massive organization running hundreds of initiatives spanning decades, making it difficult to simplify things with a single description.
Not really any different than having assigned seats for people.
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Adhering to crossing lights is a very cultural thing. There was a thread that came up about this a week or two ago. Even within the US, perhaps especially within large northeastern cities like Boston and New York, people will cross if there's no traffic (or even if a driver has hesitated for a moment). Whereas on the West Coast people mostly obey the lights.
Ah, thanks for the clarification. So they became worth $1mm/year, that wasn't the fair market value when they were granted?
The big problem I saw with the Kinect One was that it wasn't any better in practice than the Kinect 360 was even though it was a lot better on paper.

I've been disappointed with depth cameras so far. I have one on my Alienware laptop that works well for face recognition but doesn't have an API to do anything else with it, probably because characterization of what the devices sees would be the first step to defeat it.

I've thought about getting a RealSense camera but have never quite pulled the trigger.
React Firebase Hooks (mentioned elsewhere in the thread) works great with Firestore: https://www.npmjs.com/package/react-firebase-hooks
That wouldn't explain the perceived increase in QA layoffs; you would need something else, such as worse economic conditions.
This fits my experience. But then I am only an average engineer.
> I'd say 50 or so people would be fine.

With 50 or so devs (let's forget for this example about managers, UX researchers and designers, HR, etc.) you'll get maybe a JavaScript VM and a small UX.

Not nearly a browser :(

> Around 60-80 people judging from the names listed under the various Blink teams (Rendering, DOM, Memory, Style, etc).

That sounds like a really, really vast underestimation. To the best of my recollection Chromium embedding teams inside Google that are 30+ developers (again, let's forget managers, UX researchers, etc.). I know that there are at least 4 such teams at Google.

I would be very surprised if Google didn't have at least 1000 developers working on Chromium.
Assuming that Chrome team have thousands of engineers, designers and PMs (which is a pretty reasonable number as a modern browser is comparable to OS), I expect them to spend more than a billion each year. Mozilla is really in short of resources.
Bill Joy predicts:

Unix rewritten in C++

Overall however its remarkably how well he saw the future.
That's a common misconception quoted by the medical cartel (i.e. MDs), among other ones such as "we should pay doctors 3x the amount Europeans get[1] because they study and burn out so much", which is a self-imposed problem. Congress funding for residency slots is a small part of the puzzle. The larger issues is the medical cartel making it so expensive to go through residency in the first place through excessive requirements. Here's an incomplete list of anti-competitive behaviors of medical cartel that push healthcare prices up in the US:

1. Restricting scope of practice for NPs and other midlevels

2. Restricting new facilities through Certificates of Need

3. Restricting immigration of foreign medical professionals from OECD countries through NCFMEA

4. Increasing costs & duration of medical education

5. Restricting patient's ability to obtain their open record digitally with the purpose of switching providers, or taking control of their health (good luck getting your imaging data from Kaiser if you ever want to leave them and seek better alternatives)

6. Restricting OTC availability of simple drugs available without doctor middlemen in other OECD countries

7. Restricting development of AI systems through data BAAs

8. Restricting scope and speed of processing for de novo and breakthru devices that automate work performed by physicians

None of these have a valid patient safety counter-argument because essentially in every case there is a precedent of safe operation in other OECD countries.

Other honorable mentions include:

1. Fighting against surprise billing legislation

2. Fighting against government's ability to negotiate rates

3. Fighting against public option

4. Fighting against any mention of moving away from fee-for-service

[1] https://www.medscape.com/slideshow/2019-international-compen...
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If we are talking engineering there are OT systems that are not patchable. You cannot blue/green docker deploy machine that is running industrial system. It is all nice and easy if you run web farm where you can just balance stuff to other server.

For the first one, I would say you could make admins use "clear Chromebooks" but probably no one is going to pay for that.

For other banal ones, I would say it is good to remind people about "management bypasses" are not good idea.
She. I don't usually focus on the pronoun thing, but I'll make an exception for once.
To be fair, Edge has a good feature support (check caniuse.com). It would be interesting to know what the exact issues your app has with the browser. Otherwise it sounds more like your devs like to use some vendor-specific hacks and blame Edge for it. I know there are some Flexbox things to consider, but nothing a small team can't handle.

IE11 is another story, though.
So the suspense is killing me :) ...if you insert a memory stick formatted this way into a Linux box, which one will show up?

(Forgive my ignorance if the answer is obvious -- I've only ever used Linux as servers, never as a desktop.)

And are there any other OS's that can read ext2? Neither Windows nor macOS seem to be able to, out of the box.
Considering residency is the post-educational training you're referring to, I think the argument is relevant and valid.
Sadly that kind of work ethic (and honor) is not present enough in the west.
Southwest has sort of figured this out. First of all, they use random boarding, which is almost the fastest, and the fastest of the viable options (good luck getting people to board alternate rows).

They also interleave slow and fast passengers. They let handicapped people board, then the first 1/3 of passengers, then families with kids, and then the rest of the passengers.

By the last 1/3 of the passengers, it's mostly center seats, which means high parallelism for those passengers.
It should take much less time and money to become a doctor than the current status quo. We don't have to look too far - most OECD countries have a much easier path to becoming a doctor, with significantly lower prices and better population outcomes.
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> But it is extremely rare that a university publicly disavows its staff.

And they didn't even do that in this case. They retracted the study because it was flawed. The researcher has had an opportunity to revise the study, which happened; updates in [1]. The retraction spells all this out; here's an excerpt, my emphasis added. You'll note that the researcher didn't lose her job, she just had to do a little more work to address concerns raised. Universities have to do this once and a while, when they publicize faulty research -- retract it, and if the researcher is willing to patch issues, post a revision.

> The University feels it is important to make the following three points about this incident:

> 1. This is not about academic freedom, as some news outlets have made it out to be. This faculty member — and, indeed, all Brown faculty members — have the right to conduct research on topics they choose. This is the case even for research that leads them into politically controversial territory. Brown gives its full support to this faculty member to conduct her research and publish her work.

> 2. This is about academic standards. Brown can publicize only a small subset of the great research conducted by our faculty. As a research institution, we feel we must ensure that work that is featured on the University website conforms to the highest academic standards. Given the concerns raised about research design and methods, the most responsible course of action was to stop publicizing the work published in this particular instance. We would have done this regardless of the topic of the article.

> 3. Academic freedom and inclusion are not mutually exclusive. This paper has attracted wide attention due to its politicized nature. Brown is steadfast in conveying to people who object to the content of the research that we stand by academic freedom, and will not do anything to thwart this (or any) faculty member’s research.

This is the problem with publications like The Federalist and Huffington Post: they mix editorializing and fact without making a clear distinction between the two. They've got agendas, and their primary focus is on reader enragement.

[1] https://news.brown.edu/articles/2018/08/gender
It is interesting to ponder why we do either.

We hammer nails because we want a flat surface. We grease wheels because we want quite wheels.

If you get the hammer or the grease depends upon what is needed to fix the problem. Do you need a punishment or a reward.
One of your examples further proves my point - nobody can categorize Taiwan as a high-cohesion, high-trust society, despite not having a 1966 moment.

The other's not a very close parallel.

Korea was under Japanese occupation in that same time period, which was no picnic, but it at least had a functional, centralized government, and at least, was not an active warzone through most of it. (It is more similar to post-war Eastern Europe in that regard.)

It also did not go through a multi-decade-long civil war.
> You're not entitled to dictate terms to the vendor here in any sense other than "I'll buy that" or "I won't buy that."

Society, as a collective, does reserve that right through anti-trust laws.

> Computer developers don't get to choose which computer their customers have, either.

Both Microsoft, and Steam monopoly powers have been called into question previously. Microsoft was specifically required to unbundle Internet Explorer from Windows.
Well, Mozilla is selling VPN services (in some countries). Are you a user?
You keep mistyping Clojure as Closure
Deplaning is not a very significant problem because there are other things that are being taken care of while it is happening.

However, you can't start boarding until a certain point and from there until the plane leaves the gate, a lot of resources are locked.
So drinking 0% milk should reduce age an infinite number of years. Yea, I know that's not how it works but I'm always suspicious of these milk studies since you never know if there's a positive bias towards the organization that funded it. I think all food studies are hard to trust. There's just no way to isolate the variable you are trying to test.
I think the Wii was successful despite the Wiimote as opposed to because of it, but people didn't understand that at the time.

Nintendo's first party games added a few fun details using the motion controls, but other than Wii Sports and a few novelty titles there weren't many games for which motion control played a pivotal role.

There was a SimCity game that tried to use the WiiMote like a light pen, but between the poor accuracy and the physical difficulty of holding your arm up and pointing at the screen it was unplayable.

The most interesting things going on with motion control these days have to do with fitness trackers and similar devices.
Unfortunately the practice is as old as the republic itself. It comes from British law where the owners of vessels are unreachable by the courts but their property (the ship) is attainable. The case law on this is very extensive. A law permitting the practice against ships smuggling contraband was one of the earliest acts of the continental congress.

Even if your an originalist it's extremely difficult to argue the founders didn't intend to permit the practice.
Business/1st class passengers (at least on international flights) almost always have access to lounges, rather than waiting in the gate area. As good as the plane seats are, I'd still rather spend as much lounge time as possible.
10 direct reports on average is a lot. It might be okay at the highest levels where you mostly make strategic decisions, but it's too much for a manager that's involved in day to day processes and decisions.
If there's anything they need to axe, it's the Gecko team. Just replace it with V8. The whole layout engine too--replace it with Blink. It is inevitable, so might as well get over with it now and save the wasted human effort and $$$.

I tried to use Firefox recently. It leaked 28 GiB of RAM on x86_64 GNU/Linux with no extensions except uBlock Origin. Happened a few times over the month whenever I visited JS-heavy websites. Never had that happen with Chromium, which runs through megs of JS like butter.

Wouldn't it be nice if an experienced browser dev team maintained a privacy-oriented libre version of Chrome (without manifest v3, sync, and all that trash). Or should they keep doing what they've doing and make the best pro-privacy browser that no one ever uses except indirectly through Tor Browser.
"We kill people based on metadata" - General Michael Hayden

Also this bit from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civilian_casualties_from_U.S._...: "Between 2009 and 2015, out of 473 strikes between 64–116 non-combatant deaths occurred. However during that period, the Obama Administration did count all military-age males in strike zones as combatants unless explicit intelligence exonerated them posthumously."

I don't think I trust the US military to determine what a "high-value target" is based on their track record. I also don't think more data will help, since the one of the basic steps for understanding data is to understand how limited and/or detailed the dataset you are working with actually is. If they haven't clearly understood the dataset they are working with now, there is basically no chance that more data will help. There needs to be a culture shift, not just a refinement.
That sounds like an issue a close friend of mine has and he refers to it as a blank page problem. He can modify existing projects but has issues starting a new one. And the approach you suggested works for him - he starts with a very rough and broken poc and then fixes it bit by bit.

I believe my problem is different. Once everything is figured out I lose interest. So if there problem requires a lot of thinking and investigation where you end up changing few lines of code, I love it. But if I see a ticket, the solutions is obvious to me and the rest of the time has to be spent coding, it just feels boring.
Intel SSDs are known for advertising graceful degradation to Read Only mode, when in reality simply suddenly die during endurance tests.
It can actually be 100% higher in some countries.
It’s not mentioned but I’m assuming that they built their own OIDC/OAuth backend and not use existing ones (eg okta, Auth0 etc).

It would be interesting to know the details of how they’re doing authorization. It appears that it’s all or nothing but I might be mistaken.
A colleague JUST told me about this:
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Mozilla should provide products and services that are one level above the cloud providers (AWS/Azure/GC) since it doesn't have the scale and datacenter resources to compete. Mozilla should provide at the product level that's consumer facing.

Mozilla can focus on online related communication and collaboration products. Some examples: email, messenger & audio/video conference, online identity, and security.

Email - make a web-based and an offline version.

Messenger & audio/video conference - can be easily tied in with the browser.

Online identity - people and company pay to have verified online identities and brands.

Security - encrypted communication/email/message, anonymous services, vpn, etc. SSL, domain name, DNS.
That was on Louie.
Ironically, Haskell pioneers exactly in programming scientific research while the rest of the languages focus more on the linguistics rather than the science.
Thanks for the tip! I'll definitely do that in the future!
Because otherwise they're almost entirely reliant on search partnerships for funding. Which means Google, i.e., their biggest competitor.
An average 1 bedroom in Hoboken is probably closer to 2500-2800
The AMA is not without culpability, especially after they shut down medical schools in the 90s.

Non-matching graduates constitute a miniscule percentage, and almost none are from US medical schools. And something like 96% of them (cannot find the journal study at the moment) find physician work within 3 years of graduating.