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> Also DDJ, Byte (before got too commercial, aka ads over 70% of content)

Wasn't this just how even good magazines were back then? I frequently read old scans of Byte magazine (they're all on archive.org), and while the technical content is really good, the ads probably take up 70% of the page count. I don't mind, since the the ads are themselves an interesting slice-of-life from the early days of microcomputers.
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The entire company is lost the moment they started diversity hiring they have engineers that have no clue what they're doing tweeting about being badasses moving up the high Life ladder. Just take a look at some of the Firefox team"leaders"Twitter clearly culture problems there.
It does, but what you see is not a portscan, it is a lookup from the Shodan database and they store information about known services on the public Internet.
Yeah, who cares if migrants are having their uteruses removed, the guy isn't woke enough.
Formerly known as "Read It Later", it's a reading list service. You save pages for later reference. There's subscriptions to unlock features.

I loved RIL but Pocket is but a shadow of what it once was.

Similar to Evernote web clips, or Instapaper. I now use OneNote instead with the webclipper plugin, mostly because it puts the clips in a place where I can also add my own notes.
Time for Firefox Origin ?
That's open source, not FLOSS. Open Source is a pragmatic movement that simply believes in open collaboration. FLOSS is a much more activist movement, many of who's proponents believe that proprietary software is inherently wrong and an abuse of users. That's not really a tenable position to take when the FLOSS ecosystem so regularly fails users with assisted needs.
This argument doesn't make sense in the Indian context, where historically there has been so much scarcity. In any society where there is so much scarcity every one hoards as much resources as they can for the bad days.

This being the case the individual and the peer groups maximize for their gains at all costs. Its a race condition like scenario, where you have to acquire resources before others do, or others will prevent you from acquiring resources.

This is basically the root of all the problems facing in the Indian system. This system plays out at the level of a language, state, religion, even caste. Once a group acquires power they will ensure even systematically, other groups don't.

Its not just about economically uplifting 1 individual person anymore. If a particular groups holds power they will starve the under privileged person off resources at the first chance. This is why you need a reserved set of opportunities in a pool to avoid resource starvation through bias.

The easy way out of this problem is brutal equality. But even the upper castes, forwards states, progressive linguistic groups, majority religions will refuse to comply to this because it now means vacating a superior social position and being dragged to the level of the under privileged position.

Any scene where we discuss absolute freedom of lifestyle choices, equality and liberty is a net negative to the groups that currently hold power.
> He is macho, and that is popular due to evolution.

This biological essentialism is something that has become popular on both poles of the political spectrum.

Libertarianism isn't the smartest choice in my opinion, but a solid defense if discussions seem to get derailed.
You also have

error "foo" :: Void

Ultimately the issue is that Haskell programs are not guaranteed to terminate. You could write a similar function in F# too. Most (all?) theorem provers require that all functions probably terminate.
I've switched between IDE's and "lighter" editors like Sublime Text and VS Code so many times now (and I can't get used to vim and co, I'm too young I guess lol).

IDE's helped me so much writing Java code; refactorings, autocomplete, code generation etc are features that never became as good in 'lighter' editors.

Then the JS era appeared, and IDE's couldn't really do much with it - in part due to its unstructured setup, lack of importing code, lack of namespaces. Autocomplete and jump-to-definition was non-existent. I switched to Sublime Text for web work, and relied heavily on the powerful and fast global search and cmd+p navigation for a good while.

Over time, things changed; JS got modules, JS got types (or type inference) through projects like Flow and Typescript, and JS got richer with e.g. JSX. Still mainly used VS Code (by then) for front-end though; heavier editors didn't seem to offer enough added value to warrant the switch.

But every time I did back-end work I would switch back to a proper IDE. Java / JVM languages are things I never did in a lightweight editor. Go (which I use as a back-end language currently) support was rough for a good while in both editors and IDEs, but it's getting there.

In my current job, I handle four languages over two projects; there's the legacy project, PHP and JS / Dojo, and the new one, Go and TS / React. I've fully switched to using an IDE again; intellij's JS / TS support is good enough, and honestly for the legacy codebase I need it. The codebase is nearly 10 years old, and the 'hip' editors simply don't support PHP 5 or 13.000 line spaghetti messes. But intellij does; I configured it for PHP 5.2 specifically (so if I use the shorthand array syntax it flags it up) and ES5, it struggles a bit but it can make sense of the huge files, and it helps me a lot in making sense of it. It's a safety net that the codebase and language itself doesn't give me.

VS Code and co wouldn't come close.

Anyway I still switch to VS Code from time to time for one-off tasks, quick edits, formatting, etc.
He donated money to a political cause directly against some of his employees, got called out on it and refused to compromise. I'm sure those are admirable characteristics in some situations, as the CEO of an organisation like Mozilla they're suicidal. He doesn't seem to get that even to this day, based on some tweets linked to in this chat and in the article.

"Don't be an asshole" is a pretty good philosophy if you're going to be a ceo of an org like mozilla, and donating to an organisation which seeks to deprive a subset of your employees of their rights then refusing to compromise on it sounds pretty assholic to me. I know in the US it's all unlimited free speech, "but I have conservative views" etc etc, but that has real consequences in the same way that going up to a homosexual person in the street and telling them that you don't think they should be allowed to get married would have consequences - maybe they punch you, maybe they shrink off and feel terrible.
Libertarianism leads to socialism? What in the fuck, man?
Ok so those are common tropes for people who are appealing to a particular group who interpret those phrases as "this person is on my side"? A group that presumably believes men are in some way the victims of unfair critique of their behaviour...

The difficulty for me is how can I distinguish between a dog whistle and a statement of authentic opinion. Unless one spends time in constant engagement with this type of rhetoric?
>There's a quote from the CEO saying that they looked at the market and felt like they were being underpaid.
And they can't reduce their salary now because it'd be unfair on their families. Firefox has a problem.

Yes. The exec team and CEO.

They should be ousted.

"Unfair to their families"? What BS, what about the families of the laid-off?
It was this event that actually led me to stop caring about Firefox and allow myself to default to Chrome, and I downloaded Phoenix from Blake's blog the day he posted it.

The root of Firefox's problems start with San Francisco. It's inflated salaries and political sideshow have caused an existential threat to Mozilla.
WTF. Lie, if needed, because the world wants it? Hell no. Sticking to your principles if a fundamental idea in every single hero story.
> Does Linux have a CEO?

https://www.linuxfoundation.org/about/leadership/
Reuven's column always had neat tricks about Perl.
I get the point you're putting across, but you chose a terrible example. Mozilla cut thunderbird loose years ago, after neglecting it (Thunderbird remained XUL-based long after Mozilla decided that XUL was a technological dead-end). Yes, Mozilla's mission to to make the internet better for all users - not just the web. But I think they forgot what their mission is sometime back.
From your first article: "In 2019, she earned $1 million in base salary and a $1.2 million performance-based bonus.".

So not 4x, but 2x based on base salary.
It's easier to change from a "No" to a "Yes" than from a "Yes" to a "No". For instance, someone promise to take part in an event then at the last minute backed out. This is deal breaking. Compared this with saying "No" first then at the last minute indicating you will be able to take part. Saying no first is always better, you can always upgrade.

I also agree that things get done by saying "yes". But, there are only 24 hrs in a day, and if you want to accomplish great things you need to focus, that requires saying no a lot.

To quote Warren Buffet : "The difference between successful people and really successful people is that really successful people say no to almost everything."
> From a performance standpoint, Firefox is not better.

Neither is it worse. Firefox is faster at some problems, Chromium is faster at some others. I don't agree that Gecko/SpiderMonkey are doomed, and they certainly aren't doomed on the grounds of performance.

https://arewefastyet.com/
There's a very interesting parallel to your technical debt, and an implicit choice you're not making explicit: One can instead opt to accrue feature debt. Instead of "finishing" the complex system with meh-it'll-do quality, maybe one should focus on finishing the quality even if that only results in a meh-it'll-do system.

Sure, the system will be underfeatured to begin with. But it'll be high-performing, rock-solid reliable, easy to work with, quick to iterate on. So by time, you can start paying off the feature debt and add more and more things to create the complex system you're going for in the end.

I'd even argue that paying off feature debt taken out on a simple system is much cheaper than trying to pay off technical debt on a complicated system.

(This is the premise of "worse-is-better" software development.)
> Is it ridiculous to suggest we should just ignore what people think and do in their private lives?

The problem is that Eich was supposed be leading a team that prides itself for being supportive of the causes that Eich donated against. Bridging that gap became impossible once he was on public record for that.

Having any leadership position requires at least a fundamental trust of the people you’re supposed to be leading.
> It is a problem that she is both on the board and CEO, which effectively makes her impossible to hold to account

Is this really a problem? The CEO is often a director, and even as chairwoman I doubt anything in the bylaws prevents the board at large from removing her if they wanted to.

Instead, it seems like the board itself is the issue, since they allowed Mozilla to stray so far from its core mission.
It really depends how things work over there. Castes are associated with jobs and I have seen some articles that some 'teacher' cast has higher intelligence, just like eg ashkenazi jews. It could be that being pretty unsuccesful at your caste-assigned job would have left you unemployed and thus not being able to support a family, thus not being able to marry. thats obviously speculation, of course.
But this kind of consequence is just way over the line. We have a legal system where everyone sat down and agreed on very clearly defined appropriate consequences, while cancel culture is just emotionally driven people taking matters into their own hands, not really different from medieval witch hunts.
Not only are problems on desktop that linger for years they change stuff on a whim on mobile and when the users complain about it on Twitter they tell you to shut up and are not very nice about it at all don't want to hear your opinion
Same thing happens in Greece, where if you want to build a house in, say, Athens, you run the real risk of finding ancient artifacts when digging the foundation and having your build halted so archeologists can come in and take them.
Rogan is no different than Larry King or Phil Donahue. They're all talk show hosts, entertainers at best. Nothing of substance is gleaned from talk show entertainers. Besides the ways and means to fiddle with "view" numbers is well known to anyone who makes the effort to investigate it.
It's not about you and me. It is about Eich's ability to effectively lead Mozilla while being on the record about this stance regarding gay marriage. How many of Mozilla's employees are gay and/or in favor of gay marriage? If you alienate roughly 55% (possibly much more) or so of a group you are supposed to lead you have just made your life quite impossible. Eich probably did the right thing to resign, he would have had to either come around on the subject (which he did not) or he'd have to walk.

OkCupid is not a part of FireFox, they were simply trying to virtue signal at Eich/FFs expense, and the empire behind OkCupid (not the original founders) has done a lot worse than anything that Eich ever did.

That would have been easy enough to ignore. But the Mozilla employees were another matter.

Money in politics is a problem in and of itself, that doesn't mean that CEOs living in glass houses should not be aware that if they start throwing stones there will be consequences.
> Except not doing ctrl-c ctrl-v easily. Or standard keybidings.

I used to think like that but imho when you learn Vim registers it totally makes sense, plus if you're using it in a terminal emulator you can use ctrl-shift-c ctrl-shift-v. Now about Emacs I don't have much experience, but Doom-Emacs and Spacemacs use the System's clipboard by default.
From QMake to CMake: A story on why CMake is pretty nice in 2020
This is how the divorce lawsuit in America works.

Typically a husband must pay a high powered lawyer for his wife, if his salary is higher.
stay/stray.
$2000 for a small EV battery is about price of an iPhone. That is cheap.
What's wrong with being kind and speaking to people with respect while you disagree with them?

One of the big problems with the "politically incorrect" or "radical free speech" crowd is that your words can hurt people's feeling. And your tone can hurt people's feelings. And there's no good reason to tell someone "fuck off" when you can politely say no other than maybe you have things you're angry about that you haven't dealt with well. And those things you're angry about are lingering around your subsconscious giving you a latent urge to tell someone to "fuck off." But other people shouldn't suffer because you haven't figured out how to deal with your anger issue.
Where is the consumer harm in giving a discount for buying more? Are people really complaining that Office 365 with 6TB of storage costs the same as DropBox by itself?

But actually, Ben references his prior article about the benefits of bundling

https://stratechery.com/2017/the-great-unbundling/
> The real problem is not the royalty cuts, though. Mozilla has already received more than enough money to set themselves up for financial independence. Mozilla received up to half a billion dollars a year (each year!) for many years. The real problem is that Mozilla didn't use that money to achieve financial independence and instead just spent it each year, doing the organisational equivalent of living hand-to-mouth.

Imagine a world where a non-commercial open source browser has billions of dollars in the bank, and through the interest alone, achieves total financial independence to pursue development purely on behalf of its users.

I personally don’t think that world exists because any such situation would get pilfered away exactly like this one.
I didn't sign up to fight a huge internet fucking hate mob.

Dudes an out and proud homophobe and accepted a position of public interest in California. That was always going to be a showdown between the only the tech matters and social justice types. There's no way he didn't know it and there's no way the board members didn't know it. A board member resigned about it before he took the position.

He signed up for and was sent out of the gate as a champion for team tech only and promptly fled the battlefield. Team tech only refuses to accept their defeat.
Brave did everything perfectly imho. You can't improve on the product for their market. If it works it'll establish a new model for funding. If it doesn't, we know there are lots of liars out there who said they'd pay if "some laundry list of unlikely requests".
He would've had an iconic brand, elite staff, an established business model & userbase, etc. I'd posit he'd have been a much better technology focused CEO then the leaders of Mozilla's current titanic trajectory into obsolescence.

Instead of Brave where he's having to build a product, brand & userbase from scratch & try to force a niche unproven VC business model with Brave.
Ah, another overpaid CEO trying to cash in on the relics of pre-existing browser technology (chrome).
Bookmark-Workflow in Firefox (and probably all browsers) sucks. It's far to much hazzle to manage all the crap for the low benefit it gives you. Because Session-Managment in Firefox is now working so well, there is not much benefit for bothering with bookmarks.

If they would improve bookmark-handling it might be a different story. I thing it would probably not even so hard doing this. There are already many addons implementing significant improvements on certain parts. Just combining them and streamlining the whole stuff might be enough.
Yeah, I see all of these people implying Eich leaving was the "end" of Mozilla, but what Eich has been up to after Mozilla hasn't been amazing either.
I've been donating to Mozilla for years because I truly like their products and the fact it makes cutting-edge technology more open and accessible to everyone. But paying so much to execs in an NPO is just plain bullshit, especially in light of recent events. It makes me sad to see they dropped Thunderbird and laid off people in order to save money, but at the same time pull this crap.

I'm not someone who generally thinks high exec salaries should be regulated or anything - but in the case of Mozilla it's just dishonest: The slogan on their home page is literally "Internet for people, not profit".
The concept of data privacy exists, the difference is that there are no legal framework to protect that concept so it's moot.

It doesn't mean that the concept itself isn't possible to be disrespected, there is a lack of respect (and even considering the informal definition of disrespect to be an "insult") to data privacy in the US, there are no legal consequences to it though.
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I tried it for a while; I think the browser extension needs work, but my main gripe with it is that I don't really have a use case for it. I've got a list of browser bookmarks but I don't really do much with it other than the frequently accessed ones. I get on with my day job and don't really spend too much time on more 'academic' work, i.e. gathering resources and collating them or whatever the use case for building a collection of bookmarks is.
>I don't think you'll be able to attribute that quote to me. Eich fucked up, and should have realized that you can't be leading a flagship of diversity on the one hand and be a bigot on the other

Who asked Mozilla to be a "flagship of diversity"? What we wanted off them, and what their mission statement was, is a FOSS browser that supported the open web.

Plus, one can be/believe whatever on their personal life, as long as they don't bring it to the office.

Not to mention that penalizing people because they supported one side in a public vote is anti-democratic.
In July, /e/ said that they were funding the MicroG developer. The blog on their website appears to be down, but here is a copy of their press release:

https://oldwww.e.foundation/e-foundation-announces-official-...

MicroG also accepts donations through Liberapay and GitHub Sponsors, if you want to contribute directly:

https://liberapay.com/microG/

https://github.com/sponsors/mar-v-in
That looks pretty straight forward unless you have trouble understanding there are 4 different governments policies presented.

England's policy is "you can't be in groups bigger than 6, stay 1m or more apart".
Men are still the choosers and women the chosen... as it always has been. Surprisingly enough, sex wasn't reinvented this time like the youth thought it was
Honestly? Most companies are like that I think. Just look beyond the top 10 / 25 of listed companies, beyond the 'angel investor' companies, beyond SF.
> Missing that was his crucial mistake, he could have made the donation anonymously, but decided to do it in his own name making it a given that this would be associated with Mozilla. That was stupid.

So I guess this means no Mozilla leader should be making any private political donations at all, because if they do, Mozilla is at risk of losing half of its (US) leaders in red or blue states.

I sure hope the employees still have jobs, and if not, they have vetted their new board & CEOs past donations.

> Whether a proposition has a 50/50 split or not does not matter, if half your country is made up of bigots that doesn't mean that it isn't bigotry, it just means that you have a very large problem.

Do those employees/volunteers feel equally strongly about their "bigoted" user base? Or are they more morally flexible since that directly impacts their incomes?
They weren't all treated horrifically. Slavery is wrong in principle, but that doesn't mean it was all horrific in practice. It wasn't all as depicted in 12 Years a Slave.

Colonialism wasn't slavery, plain and simple. There's no argument to be had here. Calling it "basically slavery" is diminishing the seriousness of actual slavery, something which still exists in the world today.

There were good things and bad things about colonialism. As it happens the British colonies tended to maintain local customs and laws instead of steam rolling everything as some other colonial powers did. We all live with laws and customs, many of which are chosen by other people. Does that make us all basically slaves?
While back Twitter recommended me a tweet from one of Firefox female engineers saying that she was responsible for pocket and updating pocket. many people complain that pocket sucked she claimed them all being misogynists so there's clearly cultural issues at Mozilla.
Because no significant user base asked
Hey Microsoft, i have a Idea:

Buy Mozilla, fire all the CEO/Staff, bring all the lost Devs back and let them work on the Browser and Rust (and just that), if anything happens with the Chromium development you have your own second browser at hand...and by that way rust itself.