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>Unfortunately 25% at mozilla, 25% at booking, 25% at uber, 20% at linkedin, more at airbnb (obviously) shows how internal management teams are seeing revenues HUGELY shrinking.

Of course some companies will struggle during covid. There are others though that have grown and are beating their forecasts. The covid proof tech companies will absorb this talent and grow larger.
Yeah, let that American "Due Process" show China how they should really be banning apps.
Do you know what Mozilla Corp's 2018 revenue was? $451 million. Do you know what their gross spend was? $451 million.

So that CEO's salary represents half of one percent of their total spend.

They could cut exec salaries to zero and they'd still be bleeding to death.
Mozilla should have diversified into CDN static web app delivery/JAMStack or similar on top of existing clouds or something. Plus additional instrumentation tooling with backend services to monitor frontend performance etc could be an area which could bring decent amount of revenue.
Indeed, that's what I took away from reading the answers !

This thread has been a great help, I'm thankful for each response.
We need democracy in the workplace :)
Don't forget serving as the bag-man for foreign money being funneled to the GOP; the NRA is a straight line to GOP coffers.

The NRA hasn't represented the rights of gun owners for years, but sure is happy to push for gun manufacturers, and anyone else willing to donate money.

My money says that, while Ollie North is a hard-right former USMC officer who is willing to bend rules for the CIA -- "exitus acta probat", etc. -- he wasn't down for blatant corruption and shilling for foreign powers.
How else do you justify their salary. Increasing revenue? please.
Not at all applicable here because these mechanisms are still valid for suggestions like this. The "cities of the future" is a theme that is as old as I can remember and as I said, very likely wrong.

You have these institutions to evaluate the will of voters and implement it as best as they can after careful evaluation.
Thanks. Still feels like a pretty big loss from that.
I wonder, could GNU/Linux change its license (in a substantial way) that would allow it to get revenue from Amazon for deployments like AWS, similar to how it was done by Timescale? Would seem fare to get a good chunk of revenue to Linux development.

p.s.: could Postgres change its license to make Timescale share their revenue? :D
The historical links to minstrel shows are valid grounds for the offensiveness.

But sometimes you have to wonder about the validity of the outrage when a case has no links to this whatsoever, and where it is done out of pure admiration and celebration of a person of color.

A few years ago in Australia, a young kid and his mother were nationally shamed when the kid went to a school dress-up day as his favourite footballer, who is a dark-skinned man of Fijian descent [1].

He wore dark skin paint and a dreadlock wig, obviously because he idolises this footballer and wanted to look as much like him as possible.

The footballer then had to comment on the matter, and admitted that he himself had endorsed people dressing up this way in the past, and that even he had to be educated that it was not a cool thing to do.

[1] https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/its-a-shame-nic-...
>Wikipedia is a weird special-case.

Is it?

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/7x47bb/wikipedia-editors-...
It is also two games, not one. Squadron 42 is being developed separately and will release separately to Star Citizen.

They also had a failed attempt at Squadron42 developed by a partner agency that was thrown away.
That's quite true in physical science. However, physical science is a fairly new endeavor. The "why" may not be entirely psychological, but mathematical, at the end of the day.
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What is are the rationales for hiring sales reps? Would it be easier for one or more of the founders to continue to do sales and hire people to fill the other rolls of the founder(s)? For example, if the founders are mostly engaged in engineering, then hire engineer(s) to free up the founder(s) for sales.

To me 30k/MRR shows the founders have some sales ability. But it's not enough money that it looks profitable for a sales rep. A 20% commission is only $6k a month if the sales rep doubled sales and a good salary would be half of existing MRR.

The motivation for the question shows that getting the right hire would be hard even if there was enough money coming in due to the founder's unfamiliarity. To me, it sounds like it might be a distraction with a low probability of success at this time. Good luck.
Wow. Will others be looking at moving away from Firefox soon? I moved to Firefox because of the devtools! It sounds like they have leadership that’s out of touch with community.
> That's the price of a CEO,

No it isn't. And maybe it's time for these executives at the top to take a pay cut given the state of their business, in order for the latter to survive.
A while ago they established an advisory board with members from institutions with deep pockets so if Mozilla were to abandon MDN entirely, chances are we might see a more democratized version emerge, which is a good thing. I'd wait till the board meets again this month. But hey if that didn't happen, MDN content so far is fairly open - CC-BY-SA, public domain and MIT, so some kinda fork is bound to popup.
> Laws are very much subjective.

Maybe I'm being pedantic, but laws themselves are objective. At least, they are crafted to be an objective description of what is "right" and "wrong". Said another way, laws exist to objectify the morals of the law's author.

I think what you are trying to say is that laws are not self-justifying. Laws draw an objective view of the world, but we can subjectively agree that we don't like that view and then change it.
On the other hand, Brest is right on the border with Poland so point to point links would be very possible. The country is generally quite flat so you might even have success connecting other cities with a few hops.
I've tried EpocCam Pro [1] which is good at the basics. The biggest challenge with these "phone as webcam" setups is getting a good mounting system. A tripod is hard to get in the right spot, and stacks of books are fail. Neither EpocCam or this software solution mention mounting which makes me think they're all not putting themselves in their user's shoes. My sense is the team that wins here get the "basics" right of this -- flawless connection to computer, good awareness of Do Not Disturb/it's a phone, and suggestions for mounting. Very practical. Phone camera is way better than webcam so the rest takes care of itself.

[1] https://www.kinoni.com/
This is not a competitive amount to pay a CEO of a company that is pretty substantial and integral to the web as we know it today. Additionally, there is no comp related to a successful IPO or acquisition because Mozilla has no shareholders, which is how many CEO and C-suite executives are compensated.
I'm in a similar situation to the original poster, and I've chosen Rust. Tim McNamara wrote a compelling post making the case for why Rust is a good choice for your 'novelty budget': https://tim.mcnamara.nz/post/621040767010504704/spend-your-n.... Rust has also made me a way better engineer in the time I've been learning it. I've used it for some dabbling in embedded dev, and the cortex-m support (especially for STM boards) is very good. I think the Rust Programming Language (the Rust Book) is a great intro, but I found that making the jump from JavaScript to Rust was daunting in some places. I put together a little intro blog post that approaches learning from that angle: https://tndl.me/blog/2020/introduction-to-rust/
I dislike these tweet links with no context. I am supposed to know who the person tweeting this is and how reliable they are?
All very well, but each new extension adds to "waiting on extension". I tried moving the cache and chrome profile to tmpfs to speed things up. Could some developer embed such functionality into the executables?
For networking on msdos I recommend mTCP. Although it's C++.

The biggest problem however will be compiling the code. The only viable compiler for msdos is openwatcom so the question is if the code uses any fancy extensions or gnuisms. Also the only version of openwatcom that didn't produce broken binaries is the Windows version (or at least was about two years ago).

Happy porting :-)
> Flink allocates operators to slots, while Jet uses green threads/cooperative multi-threading. This means you can run many concurrent streaming jobs on the same cluster, with very low overhead.

How does the shift to cooperative multi-threading change the way that the cluster is used? In the "slot" approach, Alice and Bob can run concurrent jobs with relatively little coordination needed to "share" effectively -- e.g. they might use different branches of the same shared repo. In exchange for the lower-overhead, does Jet's approach require that multiple use cases are more carefully planned?
This is sad. I remember back when Firebug came on the scene and all of a sudden it wasn't just possible it was easy to debug your website. That, more than anything, I think is why Firefox took off the way it did. Then Chrome came out with its developer tools which eventually, I thought, surpassed Firefox. But Firefox's native dev tools are quite good, too.

I switched back to Firefox as my personal browser a year or two ago when they had the big rendering overhaul (I think "Quantum" or something? when they included the rust code to do layout in parallel, or something like that). It seemed like Firefox was finally moving in the right direction!

But now with the news that they let go of the dev tools team and Servo, I worry about the future of Firefox. I, personally, don't care about Mozilla other than Firefox, so this seems bleak. I'll continue to use the browser because I like it so much, but I imagine eventually it will fall behind newfangled CSS/JS features that developers will use and I'll have to switch eventually.
I'm looking to go into this field too and would also like to hear why
The distribution mechanism is different. The Stories can't be hosted on the web but, you can embed them in the app itself and give people access to it with a dev mode flag.

https://github.com/storybookjs/react-native#optionally-run-s...
I was amazed the first time I used the MongoLinq driver. It makes sense intuitively, but the idea that you can use the same Linq expression and it will be translated to either Sql or MongoQuery based on the provider you send it to was amazing.

I was able to hire a four or five contractors who never used Mongo just by requiring Entity Framework/Linq experience and less than 4 hours of training.
https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2020/08/11/changing-world-chan...
Given HUD still hasn't released the relief funds for Maria in 2017, I'm not holding my breath on any other help coming here.

There was an episode of Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. set in San Juan, though. So now there's something else mainlanders have heard of.
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You mention background segmentation - is there any way to replicate a shallow depth of field/large aperture with the iPhone's dual lenses?

I'm sure this is quite challenging to get the segmentation accurate in real-time.
You can use scramblers for satellite communication, that why you have to register your satellite phone in Russia otherwise it barely works.

Source: Myself, in a very bad situation without a working Sattelitephone
That’s a blog post from 2017. I wouldn’t be so sure it will continue under the Mozilla umbrella without them dedicating any people to it.
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I can echo what this article recommends for business tags. When we migrated to IaC (terraform) we tagged nearly all of our resources and set up quite a few budgets and budget overrun alerts.

It gives great insight into infrastructure costs, makes budgeting a lot easier, and saved us a decent chunk of change by letting us know where savings would have the most impact or alerting us when we had unintended cost increases.
That's fair. I mean if he wants to change that he has to be in the board. But I think investors like less risky ways to make revenue (i.e. by cutting costs)
MDN is extremely useful, something I cannot ascribe to Mozillas management. There seems to be some kind of ridiculous transformation in process. Maybe they know that Google will stop sending money?
Open a local seed bank/marketplace then?
Yes, that would be awesome!

I wonder how they render the components - I see that the the component previews [1] are rendered inside an iframe, maybe they render the component to string and insert it into an iframe? If so, should be straightforward to implement if the wasm frameworks support render-to-string or equivalent apis.

[1] https://5d28eb5ee163f6002046d6fb-paaagcevde.chromatic.com/?p...
Or their CEO's pocket.
In luxury goods, pandemic shows bigger is better
Because only 42% of Americans have a passport and that number is by far a record high.
This duscussion is cute, but but situation in belarus is deteriorating and people are being beaten and tortured in jail. Open this with google translate yo get an idea: https://news.tut.by/society/696375.html

I would say that if you want to help, first reach out to your representative / government and put pressure on them to put pressure on belarus. It's a small country that depends on trade with the free world.

Secondly, we need a crowdfunder to support people who've suffered grevious bodily harm at the hands of this regime.
+1 on karabiner and BTT; if using karabiner, perhaps check out goku: it gives you a much nicer language for writing karabiner profiles than just slogging them out in pure json.

https://github.com/yqrashawn/GokuRakuJoudo
Is this court arguing that it's legal to scrape a website regardless of theirs ToS? That copyright is the only law that matters on the web for this sort of thing?
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> Increasing revenue?

Yes. Mozilla Corporation, The wholly owned subsidiary of Non-profit Mozilla Foundation, is a for-profit organization and taxable entity. [1]

For any for-profit organization, increasing profit is one of the major responsibility of the CEO.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mozilla_Corporation
Careful, that's a federal felony, committed under the watchful eyes of a federal agent.

I know that when federal Probation Officers are monitoring the computer activities of probationers, they hand the USB stick to the person and have them plug it into their computer. That way if something malicious happens, its the felon who gets charged.
I understand your point. However I don't think there are any effects right now that warrants changing browsers just yet. There is still a security team and Firefox is actively tested. When over time Firefox can't keep up with its only competition and performance suffers noticeably, then I might consider changing.

Until then, the Firefox container tabs feature is invaluable for software development, software testing and privacy.
The stock market hit all time highs in the Great Depression, too, no?
This is the nature of any community platform [0]. Most people will just fix small issues they see or contribute a little in an area that appeals to them, and aren't interested in becoming heavily active. I don't see Wikipedia as special in this case, it's just so large that the 1% has enough critical mass to maintain it (well, mostly).

0: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1%25_rule_(Internet_culture)
This is absolutely bonkers - if the Firefox dev tools stagnate, then devs won't test their sites on Firefox, leading to even more users ditching the product for Chrome!
Creating a better version of The Go Playground
https://twitter.com/withoutboats/status/1217558588857544704?...
Do you have a source for the Servo team claim?
This new world of safe, approved, and powerless browser extensions sure is great, isn't it?
It is for one that is laying of a quarter of its staff.
This. I think it's pretty good practice to check out what's going on under the hood in libraries you use, or plan to. Sometimes you find interesting libraries or techiques, things you could improve and in rare instances that you need to stop using it...
"Stworzona je koza" reminds me of yak-shaving. Maybe it should become the coders' folk song?
Typical HN kneejerk emotional drivel. Might as well just say “Business people bad, engineers good” and save our eyes from having to read anymore.
Why would they do that. These guys are generating revenue by offering managed service, not by selling opensource software.
Can't say for Lisboa, but in Algarve, half of those AL numbers aren't the actual owners. AL numbers actually work with residents/landlords and they rent the place, but it isn't owned by them, and give a cut to the owners.

(Know a few friends that would bunch up together in a house for July/August as 'entrepreneurs' would offer them 1-2K for their house for those two months to manage it and rent it themselves in AirBnB and other platforms)
Mozilla's whole purpose is Firefox (and Thunderbird).

If Mozilla exists without Firefox it has totally and utterly failed in its one purpose.
I honestly don't see why he would offer to resign, seems totally innocent?
Holy shit dog, that could have fucked you hard; your panic is justified.
I would love to see something like this with pricing that also competed on the lower end with various RDS and Cloud SQL offerings.

Just using Timescale instead of RDS or Cloud SQL PostgreSQL would be a virtual assumption, but with the starting price points so much higher it makes the decision to START with Timescale a lot harder.
Not to derail this conversation, but I wonder how much this can be attributed to the ousting of Brendan Eich. Political views aside, Eich was a technologist first and foremost. His replacement, Chris Beard, is a business/marketing guy at heart. It's hardly surprising that Mozilla has since trended more towards business/marketing priorities, as opposed to engineering excellence.
I think people are talking about w3schools, where you're talking about the specs that the W3 (in some cases) maintain.
3d print an edison bulb that can clamp on to the phone, then you can use an adjustable Ikea lamp at the camera mount. Might jiggle a bit though depending on your setup.
Actually, if you donate, literally none of it will go to Firefox.

You'd be donating to the Mozilla foundation, not the Mozilla corporation, which develops Firefox.

P.s the Mozilla foundations CEO makes 2.5 million dollars a year, and said "it would be too much a financial burden to cut C suite salaries to 500k"

https://mobile.twitter.com/steveklabnik/status/1293233620711...
I did not mean to imply that the CEO should cost less, simply that they are able to pay that much, conclusion is that they are not poor.
> do not copy content from source for presentation

That alone makes too different an experience.
I think it's an unfair comparison only because they make it clear that a "pledge" is to support development of the game. Like getting a keychain from a patreon artist.

But it's ultimately unprecedented, and we are all learning as we go. I doubt there will be a crowd funded game like this again for a while.
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It's not just deeply cynical, it's paranoid and incorrect.
And then you end up inventing your own ORM and “helpers” because eventually the results end up in objects.

I do hate most ORMs. The only oneS I like are Linq based ORMs. The “ORM” is actually well integrated into the language.

You might as well use something like Dapper.

But yes agreed about ActiveRecord.
This has been posted 21 times already.
It's true, but nobody force them: if they chose to do business there they can't vex the customers.
You have all the skills needed to succeed in a technical level. Maybe look into expanding your expertise in sales, marketing, or running a business.

If that doesn’t float your boat then I suggest getting into woodworking with hand tools.

My point is that you don’t need to spend all your time focused on tech skill development - you might burn out on it.
I dunno, it looks like they cover the differences between groups in enough detail.

I was wondering if, for instance the well-being of some people lowered during pandemic, but then the many who's life improved once they received pay to stay home and chill just outweighed all those who were diminished by the pandemic earlier.
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I would be curious about the works you find confusing on this matter. To me libertarianism (big L and small l) is very acutely aware of tradeoffs. This is sort of the entire "point" of libertarianism. I think your article is essentially a core libertarian message, so i think you may be confusing libertarianism with the American Republican Party (which is definitely not libertarian but occasionally adopts some of the language of libertarianism).
I'm sure you have seen the graph showing productivity increases aligned with incomes suddenly diverging in the 70's and incomes flat lining while productivity continued to increase linearly. Given the stark change, I don't think it was necessarily due to increased global competition. Where did the money that would have gone to improve salaries end up going? Having incomes flat line for the middle class for the last 40 years is not a good sign. Perhaps the money has gone to the billionaire class, but I am not sure. What is your take on that.
It's a bad habit because of separation of concerns.
I think part of the issue is that a huge chunk of Mozilla's revenue comes from their deal with Google, which expires in a few months is unlikely to be renewed with similar numbers, if at all.
OK, so coming back to the original point, are you going to want a hotter, more power-hungry phone for 10 minutes of non-mobile Excel on it?
I'm based in France.
> Mozilla's whole purpose is Firefox (and Thunderbird).

That's certainly not Mozilla's position on the matter.
For the same reasons MongoDB and Redis changed their licenses to avoid AWS et al offering it as a managed service?
I hear ya on that! We've found that a lot of orgs just want to go straight into "how do we save money?" However, without having that visibility through tags and organizing your cost with tags....where do you even start.
Wrapping Rust Types as Python Classes
It's kinda a mix of things. Webcams built with IR sensors and emitters (like the Logitech BRIO 4K) don't use the indicator while using the IR, though you can clearly see the pulsating near-infrared LED while it's on.

On Linux at least, if you open the v4l2 device for a device like this, it will turn on the indicator directly, and I don't think you can attach to it with libusb while it's otherwise in use by v4l2. In practice, I think the worst you could do from userspace on Linux is show the indicator while not recording.
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You are correct about Genius also scrapping in the beginning.

It's much better now, but that's only because of unpaid volunteer editors who do most of the corrections and annotations in their site.
That's how I interpreted it as well.

This is how I understand the anxiolytic effect of mg works:

>It acts as the gatekeeper for the N-methyl-D-aspartate (NMDA) receptors, which are found on your nerve cells and aid brain development, memory and learning.

>In healthy adults, magnesium sits inside the NMDA receptors, preventing them from being triggered by weak signals that may stimulate your nerve cells unnecessarily.

>When your magnesium levels are low, fewer NMDA receptors are blocked. This means they are prone to being stimulated more often than necessary.

Maybe this is why I experience more rumination without magnesium?

https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/what-does-magnesium-do#...
I am constantly surprised to see Google ranking W3 Schools so highly. Does anyone know how they have managed to be ranked so high up?