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Why was your comment flagged? @dang I honestly would request that you look into who is voting down reasonable comments in this thread. They do not deserve voting rights.
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This is cartoonishly circular: exec needs millions/year because that's the only way to attract a person worth millions/year.
Correlation can be because of causation
Does there exist a "market" for CEOs of failing browser companies? I'm not aware of it. Her position would roughly map to that of a junior VP in Google or Microsoft nomenclature. I strongly doubt those people make anywhere near $2.4M/yr.
The article compares it to UK based NGO's that don't pay over $1.3m USD.

What about US based NGO's? I don't know where to find this data.

Lastly, a FAANG may or may not pay more, but they're certainly in a much better financial position than Mozilla to pay a high salary.
Not sure about that, even if I have to admit correlation is quite strong in this case.

Firefox decline in the past decade can also be partly credited by chrome eating the world. Firefox has a huge responsibility too because it became bad (at least performance wise?) at some point (or was it a little over 10 years ago?) and lost users because of this and has trouble recovering even if it has become better at this again, because people either moved on, embraced chrome (or a chromium-based browser) or I don't know what.

I want mozilla to survive and can't really say I support them if I don't use firefox so I came back to firefox after years using vivaldi. But I can see myself going back to vivaldi any time actually. I'm missing vivaldi features, firefox is slower for some/many use cases (mostly because things have been optimized for chrome).

I want to believe but I don't see how firefox can get back its market share. Now everything you build for the web has to be optimized for chrome, many don't even care if it is utterly broken on firefox because it's so niche.
Firefox OS never made sense unless Mozilla was prepared to pay the backroom bribes and incentives to get it preinstalled on hundreds of millions of phones. And they weren't.
At least one thing: containers don't have separate settings. I.e. one can't disable adblocking for the shopping container. Or, the very contrary, have a special no-cookies casual browsing container for very limited tracking.
1) Compete Within Your Caste https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apples_and_oranges

2) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Economic_mobility != https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_mobility

3) Reservations is not a Poverty alleviation program https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Rural_Employment_Guar...

4) In 1932 British regime offered a separate country to Lower caste where Upper caste can live on a Visa https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communal_Award

5) marks != merit
"Everybody is a genius. But if you judge a fish by its ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing that it is stupid" --Einstein
The article suggests that Mozilla should invest in building financial independence. One suggestion would be to build an endowment. Would you have other suggestions on how Mozilla and open-source organizations in general could do to achieve that?
Why is that circular? If someone is worth that much then you must pay what they're worth to get them.

Whether they need someone that expensive is up to the organization to decide.
Could Mozilla exist without Firefox? It's not like that's the only thing they do there. It's by far the easiest thing for them to generate revenue from (by driving Google searches) but the corporation could still exist by monetizing Bugzilla, Rust, Gecko, etc somehow.
One the system I’m most familiar with, the system won’t start. But as it’s sourcing it’s data from a Raft protocol data store, that server wasn’t going to start anyway. The source of that data could fall behind though.

So yes, you do want to generally be careful and occasionally use an antonym of the most obvious flag to guarantee that true is on and all other states mean off.
> And they can't reduce their salary now because it'd be unfair on their families.

This kind of bullshit infuriates me to no end.
You should just run nmap yourself I reckon.
It's amazing how prevalent the Rubik's Cube was for a while back in the 80s-90s despite the fact that the vast majority of them just ended up sitting on shelves. Statistically only 1 out of every 20 Rubik's Cube owners can actually solve the puzzle[0] that took Rubik himself an entire month to solve.
[0]https://www.ontheclock.com/Blog/Business-is-like-a-Rubiks-Cu...
If you want to read more about this, please look at the 11th chapter of James Tooley's book https://www.amazon.in/Beautiful-Tree-James-Tooley/dp/0670083... on "the uprooting of the Beautiful Tree". Tooley was researching low cost private schools in different parts of Asia and Africa.

He follows up the references in Dharampal in British Home Office records, which catalog the reports sent on native education by collectors to the governor Thomas Munro (including 'caste' statistics).

Tooley also read the work of Andrew Bell, on how mass education in Britain and later Europe was strongly influenced by what Rev Andrew Bell(who had come to Madras to manage a school) learnt about the methods of peer learning in native schools in Madras.

Dharampal's book is available online for free, and Arvind Neelakantan has a review of Tooley's book.

Some other disagreements, its not just 'few kings' but majority. The 'priest' claim is also not true. Majority of the mathas in say Karnatak and TN are run by non-brahmins, and there are plenty of pujaris from other jatis, not that that is a position of social privilege given how poorly paid they are and difficulty in getting married.
The only thing that's been preventing me from fully adopting this is that I don't have my local shell environment (autocomplete, syntax highlighting, etc.) anymore. Maybe I'll have to look at getting that setup in a container sometime, and then copy that over to every container I use.
I tried really hard to make FF my main browser. I really did. But I was disappointed by their "hybrid" approach to memory use, and I think that continues to make the difference between FF and Chromium-based browsers (to FF's detriment).

And now they switched back to shared memory again, and the moment they did, the browser started hanging again, like it used to do pre-Quantum days.

Chromium's "per process memory isolation" is the right approach, despite all the cries about memory use. I'd rather have that than have the browser hang on me, or have more security issues.

If anything, I think even the future of operating systems is complete process isolation and separation by virtualization tech and encrypting each process in RAM with a different key. The hardware is coming, but it may take another 10-15 years for this to be fully realized.
So which languages do you prefer?
This is an actual case of billionaires buying votes, even if the system that disallows voting for inmates is kind of archaic.
Simon Peyton Jones said that lazy evaluation was a mistake.
She, looks like Mitchell Baker is back as CEO as of earlier this year.
That may be true, but it sounds like you particularly want to pin it on the 'woke' aspect even though there's a lot of other things involved.
On the contrary I kinda see the point in the pocket and send to bridge the gap between desktop and mobile for the users that own both.

But the small brainless degradations of the UI in Firefox make me worry about its future.
For example it’s not possible to permanently add exclusions to the privacy shield. Because of it the sites are often broken.
And this is a feature that is directly user facing on the main screen!
Having been to Peru, I can tell you that there are Inca ruins everywhere. A few are signposted and tourist attractions, but many many more are just abandoned in the mountains. There are enough that if you take a hike off the footpath, there's a good chance you'll just come across one.
There are no breaks on the exec comp train, only the end of the line. If the company is doing well the comp goes up, if it fails the comp goes up as a reward to compensate for the risk and attract talent. Until the company goes belly up.
To make it a smart argument, you’d need to prove (or at least attempt) that being further away from a worthwile goal is better than being closer. Personally, for a lot of these “social systems”, I’d argue the opposite is true; a bit of democracy (Russia) is better than no democracy (DPRK, Soviet Union), and even for the counterexamples (e.g. China vs India) personally I’d still prefer to live in a democracy. Same with meritocracy, making each step towards a worthwhile goals is worth it.

By attacking the goal, you collapse the whole argument. Meritocracy is bad because it results in super-inequality. Representative democracy is bad because it collapses all policy dimensions into one. Of course, it’s also helpful to propose an alternative; I’m a big proponent of direct democracy; no idea what’s better than meritocracy.
Employees are judged routinely (quarterly, bi-annual, annually) all the time with high confidence, WITHOUT such "objective" data you are referring to. It seems like OP is simply applying the same measuring stick every other average employees are measured on.
She laid them because there was not enough money to pay them. Focusing on the core product is only option left when the company no longer has manpower to do everything.

It would be an achievement if she shifted focus as soon as she became CEO, but several years later is probably too late.

Also she killed MDN, and that’s a big loss for the internet.
The problem is not that they get most of their revenue from Google. The problem is that they have 5% share of the web now.
Did you even read the article, dumb fuck?

Why is this the top rated comment on here? Jesus christ.
A big part of the film is how isolated he is, since he only recently moved to New York from the midwest
Perhaps I am suffering a failure of imagination, but in what circumstance does "ranking someone too high .. cause them to lose"?

Edit: Found this[0] talking about it; what remains unclear to me is whether this should be seen as "this hurts my candidate" over "this result better reflects the electorate".

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JtKAScORevQ
Even though it's how it is currently that's not how it should be. Chrome is extinguishing the web browser right now. This is netscape territory done in a smarter manner than utilizing exclusivity deals with websites and software makers.
I was under the impression he was let go not because of performance, but because of controversy and lack of confidence and/or respect from a significant and growing portion of staff. At least that's how I remember it being presented.
Another clown asking questions which have answers in the fucking article.

This place is becoming worse than reddit. Read the articles, dumb dumbs.
Read any HN thread here talking about containers. People love it, but want more features and flexibility - which is only available through third-party extensions at moment (which aren't always easy to find).
My experience is that this takes an absurd amount of time to learn anything. Sure you can probably learn Japanese in one year by staying in Japan but only because you have effectively spent 5000 hours doing nothing but Japanese. My learning efforts haven't even scratched 10% of that yet I am much further along the journey than 10%. My own estimate would be that I'm 50% the way to fluency.

If it works for you then fine, but it doesn't work for me.
Are they the ones sinking the ship though?
I'd imagine that 2,000 mile number isn't taking aerial refueling into account? When Australia bought their fleet of F-18s, many of them were flown nonstop from the US to Australia. Autonomous refueling is relatively mature, and I'd imagine gets even more valuable when the receiving aircraft isn't limited by human endurance
The Brave market share is completely minuscule compared to Firefox. If success is measured by market share, it is a failure.
How did you come up with that comparison? Running a standalone company from the top is very different than the responsibilities of a junior VP in a trillion-dollar organization.
No, because the group that decides on raising the salary is not a shareholder meeting or something like that, but the same people who get that salary. See Mozilla's bylaws: https://static.mozilla.com/foundation/documents/mf-bylaws.pd...
> I completely disagree with the idea of a national popular vote subverting the interests of an electorate.

Citation needed. The electoral college does not represent the interests of the electorate more than a popular vote does.

We don't go ask, say, Catholics which presidential candidate they prefer, and then award the winner the entire Catholic vote (including those who have been disenfranchised from voting, or who didn't vote). Yet we do that with states.
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I stand corrected, did not read the chart properly.
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I doesn't matter, literally the the buck stops with them.
That's a solution to a different problem. College could be free, it wouldn't solve this problem.

Which of these three options do you propose?
The solution to being underpaid is to find a new job. Not to suck the organization dry...
> That sounds like modern slavery.

During his lieutenant-governorship, Raffles placed some restrictions on the local slave trade in line with wider British policy across its Asian territories, although slavery remained widespread and Raffles himself was served by a large retinue of slaves at his official residences in Java.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stamford_Raffles
Interesting. Could you give an example of rephrasing and being tricky/evasive?
containers in firefox changed the game for me. as well as lttp multithreading. it’s unfortunate that they appear to being mismanaged out if existence, as right now as a mac user, I have by far the best experience with it. really disappointing.
Or maybe they where just too early.

Look at the Chinese Manufacturers having trouble to deploy Android due to tech embargos.

If those could just install a free os made by an indendent Organisation...
Especially since the leadership is just plain bad. Mozilla did develop in the complete wrong direction in my opinion.
I work on TS only project but VS Code doesn't highlight my SQL queries and what part is significantly better? Genuinely want to know. I would switch if it really is.
Linked from another discussion but these seem well worth putting up in their own thread - very impressive !
Like when the Amsterdam city center, in addition to made in china pot leaf trinket stores, all of the sudden was overrun with Nutella Ice Bakery waffel stores, peddling some vague idea that tourists have about waffles and Nutella being local culture, making these businesses completely irrelevant to locals.
Repeat after me: saying "correlation is not causation" "slippery slope fallacy" or "survivorship bias" doesn't amount to an argument. They are thought-stopping words primarily used by midwits who think it makes them sound smart. I see this all the time on HN and it's annoying. Furnish evidence or a solid argument for why he is wrong, otherwise you're no better than him.
These birds are so much fun to watch! We have oaks in our yard, and there’s a telephone pole out back that seems to be their primary base of operations. There is always a group of them sitting on the top of the pole. They will fly off to the trees and then regroup at the pole to “chat” for a bit before flying off again. This will keep happening all day.
No it shows that the leadership is happy with their leadership.
What I see here is Apple stating "please do the needful".
“And the answer [to] why we aren’t going faster is simply money. We can push the accelerator down more today because the digital technology allows it.”

Gong to burn some internet points here but this should not be what we are spending money on right now as a nation.

We have >250k (200k official) people dead (excess deaths) from COVID and many more overdosing on opioids or dying from preventable diseases. Handouts to the military-industrial-congressional complex are exactly what we do not need right now.

We need to get Medicare for all and Universal Basic Income passed or otherwise more people will realize that this country does not care about them and only cares about giving the military new toys.
Especially in terms of potential liability.
Pro-tip: if you work for one of the Big Tech companies there may be a spreadsheet somewhere where you add your email and get LWN access, which I assume also increases the amount of money they get paid.
That page works fine in my FireFox (v81 on Windows, also with uBlock Origin enabled). Have you checked the behavior with a clean profile?
> I tried migrating to neovim a lot of times, but their syntax highlighting is always so damn broken even with a plain vimrc that I stopped bothering anymore.

I haven't encountered highlighting issues in neovim, but the treesitter feature in the upcoming neovim 0.5 improves highlighting a lot. (It's a plugin at the moment that requires a bit of configuration. This is the simplest setup explanation I have found: https://www.reddit.com/r/neovim/comments/iw9nx5/moonfly_nigh... )

I tried kakoune out for a while but missed Vim's window management, had the same struggle fighting muscle memory that you describe, missed the ecosystem from Vim, and I think some of the criticisms of Kakoune here are also valid: https://github.com/noctuid/dotfiles/blob/master/emacs/editin....
Thank you for sharing your thoughts on this. I have already spent more than a few hours with the two large enterprise SaaS boilerplate frameworks that I mentioned above and, while I understand most concepts, it still feels quite overwhelming.

Now the question becomes whether it is worth spending time and effort learning more in terms of design patterns, DDD (maybe even CQRS and Event Sourcing) and specifics of these large third-party frameworks as well as practicing working with all that with a benefit of developing really solid enterprise-ready SaaS platform from the start VERSUS moving much faster by developing a more lightweight MVP in Python/FastAPI stack (with PostgreSQL / GraphQL / Vue in both cases) - still with basic/core enterprise features like cloud-native scalability (using Docker swarm mode) and multi-tenancy (using PostgreSQL row-level security) - with a disadvantage of having somewhat less solid architecture and/or some technical debt initially.
They had Telefónica on board. I think with better planning and execution it could be made to work.
Same. I am in the industry for 20+ years and thankfully none of my jobs have involved anything close to ads.
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Upper caste Indians are operating an Organized mafia in America which was evident in CISCO https://archive.is/YLVtE and ORACLE https://archive.is/XTZ5f and hence the petition to US Congress http://www.petition2congress.com/20324/expel-indian-american...
You also run into the issue of finding a replacement. Given that firefox appears to be sinking who will come in? If someone chooses to come in your going to have to pay a lot more them, and the team they want to bring in. So it will cost a lot more than keep the current staff, and you want the current staff to avoid the increase costs. The only reason firefox staff would be thrown out is if they can't turn it around after everything they tried. Look at yahoo, they were a sinking ship, current staff had no vision, then they hired a new CEO, who spent a ton of money, and it didn't help their situation, and bam a few years later you are sold. It works only if you bring in the right people, like AMD did. It is an uphill battle too. Imagine your career, now in 5 years, your career is gone, now what are you going to do? (This is how mining towns, etc died).
Mozilla is literally owned by George Soros 501(c) bull shit NGOs these days. I wish I was joking or schizoid, but I am not.
I have definitely seen something make the browser extremely laggy, but only the last few weeks. It does seem to be related to certain tabs/sites though, but I haven't figured out which.
This:

"Mitchell Baker, Mozilla's top executive, was paid $2.4m in 2018, [..]. Payments to Baker have more than doubled in the last five years."

and this at the same time:

"Mozilla recently announced that they would be dismissing 250 people."

It's shameful. Specially for a "non profit".
I can cite much much more people there if they want to discuss fairness, they better forget and act this line of argument never existed!

I believe they should justify the value they create in this high paid positions compared to all other people making and disseminating the product. There is no justification for this level.

There are lots and lots of families there living on a less fair level of salary but produce much more value (and no damages).
Yeah, that's also my take: if you introduce a weird new voting system and voters don't like it, it's not just one step in a progression of incremental reform that will eventually lead us to a smoothly-functioning democracy. Rather, voters will just demand we revert back to the old system because (as far as they can see) that fancy voting nonsense is all junk. Then we'll be stuck with FPTP until either democracy fails outright or the previous attempt at reform has been forgotten, perhaps in a hundred years or so, and someone tries again. When you're changing the basic mechanisms of voting, you don't get any do-overs.

I am optimistic that within the last couple of years, it seems that any online conversation about RCV among even moderately technical/nerdy groups of people seems to almost always include someone bringing up the downsides of RCV and the better alternatives. I used to kind of dread RCV discussion threads because I felt like I ought to explain the problems, but it's very technical and abstract. Now I usually find someone has already written what I would have said, often in a more concise, clear way.
Previous discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24493698
Exec pay is usually tied to some metrics. Like market share or the revenue in case of Mozilla. (In the corporations it is usually done by offering CEO options with nonzero price.) If the company is not performing well, CEO only gets the basic salary (which is higher than engineer salary, but not too large.)

When Mitchell was given a raise for no reason, it is a sign of corruption in Mozilla board.
Objective-C was already like that since NeXT exists, stuff like protocols did not exist originally in the version that NeXT licensed from Brad Cox's employer.
How can you even spend around 2.5 million A YEAR (okay, before taxes, whatever) if you're not BURNING the cash?

I don't get it.
I believe x platform ui is planned for net 6, ie nov 2021
I am thinking about the bigger picture: what if functioning societies need people pleaser? For the individual it is not so good, but there should be an evolutionary reason why it exists (can also be a side effect of something else important of course).
Not sure The Guardian is the best example of economic success.
It's the organisational equivalent to tech debt.

A clear problem, should address it, but probably won't. And will make up some phoney reason to justify it.
Those inmates can vote for whoever they want and it probably won't be for the guy who wrote the 1994 Crime Bill.