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> ...accumulating a sizeable enough endowment to sufficiently fund operations isn't an option for most orgs.

And one of the claims / complaints of TFA is that Mozilla had a massive income for many years, and could have built up an endowment; but instead chose to live "hand-to-mouth", spending their income on useless failed projects that have nothing to do with Firefox. (And CEO pay of course.)
Maybe we shouldn’t have canceled Eich after all...
The first thing I'll say is that the beginning of the article kind of violates the spirit of the journal. I looked at the about section of the website, it looks like as the name suggests, they believe in persuasion and arguments and reason and connect it with their defense of free speech. Unfortunately, the tone at the beginning seems to be in a derisive tone to those I assume it wants to reach, which makes it not very effective in that effort to pursade.

That said, if you can wade through it (which is difficult as most of the comments here suggest), the take away is good I think, and even moderate. It makes the point that all relationships can be dangerous with respect to the possibility of finding one's heart broken. "Intimacy requires vulnerability; the joy of human connection always comes with the risk of being hurt," and that some people who engage in metoo discourse tend to wrap real power imbalance and consent issues in with things that don't really have that, like the example of Warren Ellis cited here. She argues that some of the rhetoric around metoo has created a culture that treats all relationships as something potentially dangerous, and also critiques some of the rhetoric as being dis-empowering of women.

These are all reasonable critiques I think. Hopefully they won't be lost in the snide tone of the opening.
There are plenty of opportunities provided by the armed forces that do not include any of those things.
> There's a quote from the CEO saying that they looked at the market and felt like they were being underpaid.

afair AMD CEO is paid 4x less than Mozilla CEO.
Your post is so incredibly naive.

If we cared about a corona vaccine, it should have been started in 2003 after corona-1. It would have cost almost nothing to do it then, but no funding was provided.

The top 10 leaders of the CDC should get the firing squad for that alone.

We don't have 200,000 deaths from corona, we have that many attributed to corona, most with co-morbidities. Not the same thing.

And covid-19 has deep military implications. China has been in an undeclared war with the US for 40 years, resulting in the world's largest navy. Around 50% of experts consider corona somewhat likely to be lab-released (not wholly man-made, but crossed in a Wuhan lab.)

It makes sense to me that we'd always be working on the next generation fighter, and also hypersonic missiles, which we're behind. (One reason we're behind is that the US was the only real target until recently.)

Regarding universal healthcare, yeah, the US can't and won't do that without a revolution of some kind at this point. The initial Obamacare proposal was single-payer, and that was killed almost instantly.
Mithril.js is a pleasure to use, thank you for it.
It's pretty apparent that his resignation was not voluntary.
Designing for meaningful human experiences, not vacuous simplicity
Ask yourself what you would expect Indian communist party positions on caste to be, bearing in mind that India has democratically elected (year on year) Marxist state governments with populations larger than many western economies.

It's complicated. What I read, admittedly cursorily, suggests they are still grappling with caste issues.

I hoped for clear answers. The problem defies class based analysis. There are wealthy industrialist from the scheduled classes, there are jains and khatri who choose to live in poverty.
That's a good point. As a men, I am always like in total shock when I read about some of these stories. I always think? What who does that? I never ever even thought of doing that? And wondered like, am I the outlier? Do everyone else just call their coworkers to their office waiting for them with their member out? How come so many women have had that experience?

But I think it is very possible like you said that a few can impact a lot of women by just repeated behavior. Somehow I hope so at least.
I suffered from this in way I can barely explain. Recently I came to a place where I thought that 'if' you live your life like an adventure where anything you do has to be very exciting, than a yes means you really want to do, not just a 'why not' but something that tickles your soul. And a no was the reflection of that, "I could come, and do that, but it will be boring in a way and I'll only be a ghost which would be a shame for my existence and yours". Kinda like a contrast amplifier to filter out the noise in the middle. Well now that I think of it.. it's a bit like analog vs binary.

ps: it may sound maniacal to always strive for deep excitement, but you can suffer from the dullness of things you don't enjoy .. you lose yourself seriously and socially people start to see you as the dull thing making half smiles. It's a 10fold loss at every stages.
Why is that not a valid position to take? Sure you can have good non-specialist or non-technical leaders. Are they better or worse?

I would say without a personal understanding of the challenges of the core business, their judgement would lack that influence. This lacking will absolutely effect the direction of the org. The numbers don’t lie as to the effect.
He had the support of the board and a couple of dissenting employees. Could have cleared house and you know, actually lead if he wanted to but instead fled and surrendered Mozilla to the SJWs.
Are you sure about that?
I was testing some web app earlier this year and everytime I opened a new icognito window I was able to log in again as an other user. Opening another tab in the same window shared the state of the window.
Is there a point where a CPU stops being RISC and starts being CISC, or are there fundamental differences in the two?
This article seems to me as if we are in free fall, but someone is relieved because we have failed to predict exactly when we will hit the ground. We are falling anyway, man.
If the code is truly opensource, it isn't embargoed.

The only issue with Android is that it isn't really opensource - users expect the Google apps, and those are closed source.
If you're unsure, he is sometimes a podcast guest. The book shares the same honest and vulnerable tone of his conversations.
I can recommend you read the book Skunk Works by Ben Rich and he'll tell you that overpriced useless planes are a government corporate welfare program designed to keep military contractors in business and skilled workforce employed.

His case in point was the B2 which was supposed to got to Lockheed as they had the better tech and could have made it cheaper but instead they gave the contract to Northrop to prevent Lockheed having too large share of the defense pie and to keep Northrop afloat as they were denied other lucrative contracts in the past.
> "If you are curious, you will find the puzzles around you. If you are determined, you will solve them."
There's about a 10 to 1 ratio between non combat and combat roles, and of combat roles less than 1 in 10 of them will actually see combat. The overwhelming majority of the military are people who just want to get a leg up on a career that can support themselves and a family.

That said, I know several people personally that joined up due to lack of options, saw combat, and are now profoundly broken, so I don't mean to belittle that point. Just don't oversimplify things to thinking it's the only thing.
We need to stop treating accessibility as an afterthought. Adding accessibility in a late stage of product development leads to suboptimal results, both in term of developer time needed and user experience. This is exactly why Google took so long to do proper Android accessibility.
Most of these Americans - vast majority I’d guess - aren’t even in a combat role.

On the balance of the last 70 years, if you live in a developed country you need to thank the US military for allowing you this unprecedented stability and peace for so long (I’m not an American so I’m one of those grateful).
here's my CEO plan:

- make firefox UI snappier than chrome

I'll take a symbolic dollar per year, thank you
> a parser/compiler does to represent a language is its own completely independent thing

This isn't really true of JSX; I'd suggest giving it a try to see exactly how the system works.

To summarize, there are 3 parts of this discussion:

1. The JSX syntax (part of the JSX spec.)

2. The JSX transform (part of the JSX spec. & what parser/compiler must represent the language as)

3. The template function implemention: 100% independent and can represent nodes any way they want

In your comment you're imagining a system where 2 & 3 are coupled, whereas this isn't how the JSX world works. With JSX, 1 & 2 are coupled, only 3 is independent.
> t wasn't long ago that comments were shouting that this was the absolute most qualified person to lead Mozilla when others were questioning having a lawyer lead a tech company.

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. But he resigned (he wasn't forced out, though it might have come to that, contrary to various strong assertions in this comment thread, both Eich and the board are on the record about that). I can't imagine there isn't anybody to be found who is more qualified than Baker but the window of opportunity for turning this around is closing rapidly. FF usage is the only thing that keeps the whole circus alive, when that goes Mozilla will have officially failed in their mission, no matter what the balance on Baker's personal savings account.
I've done the opposite. I used to do a lot of stuff I didn't want to just because it was a social norm I was afraid to break. I thought I valued the friendships so much that it was worth it but it made my life a misery.

I've realized that social relationships are simply not that important to me.
The fear is that an incremental improvement that doesn't solve the major problem (the inability for a more representative party to gain traction) will cause people to revert back to FPTP.

The justification for this is that America did exactly this (not at a national level). As well as that Ireland and Australia are still dominated by two parties, and Australia has had IRV for 100+ years.

Sometimes incremental improvements are actually a step backwards. Specifically when people get over hyped and put too much faith into it.

But I also have to ask, if we already have a better tasting cake and it costs as much as the plain cake, why not take the better one? It isn't more expensive and doesn't take more work. It is just better.
Great comment. I would add that this ties in with goal setting, which is an activity where you set the priorities for your life. If it's fitness for example you will skip the drinks and go to the gym instead. If it's money you will work on your business and so forth. You decided it's social connections, but it will be different for everyone. It's important to sit down and decide what we want out of life, imho.
Aye, I mentioned that a bit further down.

Also if working with network attached storage you have an extra set of considerations that will change the optimal block size to work with.
How long do they get to "make money" if they nuke their product's market share by 85%?
Stupid question perhaps, but I thought Firefox was an open source project?

Why does it need a company with highly-paid executives and HR departments and all that to exist?

If Firefox/Mozilla the company goes out of business then .... nothing changes? Apart from of course a bunch of people sadly lose their full-time jobs and development speed slows dramatically as people are no longer working on it full-time and only volunteers contribute. Maybe some slick marketing goes out of the window and there are no more budgets for server farms to run Pocket (Oh no...</sarcasm>) and other centralised servers for distractions from the main Firefox product etc, but I am sure donations will cover the cost of a few .com domain names to keep those going (I'll stump up the $20 for the first year registrar costs if they need it)

Can everything go back to normal OSS development and distribution with almost-zero overhead (host on github, distribute over torrent/dat etc) if the business fails?

Don't get me wrong: I like Firefox and use it as my main desktop & mobile browser.
Hi @simonhamp, founder/CEO of Akita here. :) It sounds like you have good internal discipline about what could potentially break your API and that's great. The point you bring up, that surely the code can't be the only documentation of an implicit contract, is exactly what we've been observing, in that the code is often the only documentation. The example we gave (service/service dependency) was an extreme case of this, though we have seen this. More subtle examples would be changing an error code, or changing from one specific type of string to another (for instance, two datetime formats). Propagating these changes to dependencies, especially in larger systems, can cause some real headaches. Would love to talk more to understand how you've gotten around some of these with good process!

Shopify has this great blog post about their solution for change management in their external APIs that also makes the point that change impact analysis is not easy: https://engineering.shopify.com/blogs/engineering/shopify-ma...

Also, quick point: we don't proxy for precisely the reason you brought up. Akita works without sending any user data back to our servers, just the metadata.
>>I knew of an economically backward class person who wore woodlnd shoes. My parents couldn't afford those shoes, his did yet he had woodland shoes.

Woodland shoes last years, in most cases the only reason you thrown them away because you are bored, they refuse to wear out no matter what you do with them.

I come from a fairly lower-middle class, poor background(Dad was a truck/bus/cab driver over years). I was donated used woodland shoes by a relative during my engineering days. I wore them for years, like even years after I had a job. And I used to walk kilometers during my college days every day.

If you are poor/lower mid income class student. Woodlands is some thing you should consider buying. Its really buy and forget. Also wear jeans, even if you buy cheap ones. I had a pair, I wore them so much the pockets started tearing out. Do this and you can go expense-less for years. This is my version of ramen profitability.

If you are thinking frugality invest in quality. Lower mid class students must invest in woodlands.
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Both he and the board say otherwise and his stance was known prior to his appointment. Hell, one of the board members resigned over his coming appointment and that wasn't enough to get the others to not back him.
It takes 6 minutes for a fighter jet to cross the whole of the longest possible stretch of Swiss territory. How many defense missiles for the price of one F35?
I don't really see tweets from people I don't follow (outside of retweets and likes). I don't know which ones help with your problem.

Here are my settings:

1. Timeline in chronological order.

2. In settings->content preferences->languages. I have turned off everything.

3. In settings>content preferences>personalization and data, I have turned off everything.

4. I have Turned off Retweets for certain people (go to their page and click the three dots), as they retweet crap, but tweet good stuff.

5. Every time Twitter shows me any recommendations, I click "Show less often".

6. I have blocked pretty much every politician who are retweeted by my follows. I have also muted their names.
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My Cousin who worked in tech though that having a Brummie accent was a disadvantage and this is the normal Birmingham accent not the full Yam Yam (Rural Dialect)

Though I assume he didn't mention that his family had been fairly well known off course bookies (pre legalisation)
It is a placeholder name. The previous name was Eelo, but it was in conflict with an already existing brand.
Very good point. Your other workers may even be supportive, but ultimately scared; this isn't what they signed up for.

I applaud you for looking to hire people others would overlook, it's just that sometimes it is harder to help people than it seems.
Firefox needs to lose Mozilla and refocus: features, bug fixes, developer ease (simpler build, better debugging, ability to embed anywhere through modularity), and most importantly browser privacy.

Get rid of the Google support, let people donate directly to Firefox, provide corporate support contracts, integrate with everything you can like CI, phone, IOT, ...

At this point we as devs (with time) should hard fork the project.
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This article is misleading,... it's suggesting there exist a correlation between executive salary increase and popularity decrease. The reality is that people are - as always - supporting monopolies because it's easier for them and they are lazy.
For those unfamiliar, confused, or otherwise opposed to the naming of the Windows Subsystem for Linux, I would highly suggest reading chapter 2 of Windows Internals: Seventh Edition, which describes how Windows supported POSIX and OS/2 through its "subsystem" model, and how WSL fits into that model and what additional changes were required. The naming of "Windows Subsystem for Linux" makes perfect sense in this Windows OS centric context.
Meh pay doesn't bother me - that's an internal problem for them. What does bother me is firefox on a mac (2018 15inch pro), it just trashes the battery life. Too many tabs open and the fans go haywire, energy usage spikes etc. My mac is at 140 cycles with approx 72% of the design capacity of the battery left, I'm convinced this is because of firefox's bad performance. Might not be but it's the biggest suspect.

I've been using firefox since the really early days and I eventually gave up on mac and started using Brave. Still use it on windows work machines or occasionally on ubuntu where it doesn't have these problems.
You take loan for a mansion that can suck such an income dry. Or two, or 5. Add some luxury lifestyle (cars, clothing, vacations, gadgets, expensive restaurants) and you are losing money.

That excludes purely burning cash ie on drugs/alcohol, hookers or living in super-high rental place.
>A recent (2018) survey[1] found that 81% of women had experienced verbal sexual harassment, and 27% reported physical sexual assault.

Sorry but this stats does not support your claim...? If the stats phrasing was "81% of men had conducted" it would support your claim, but experienced doesn't in any way means that every woman that experienced harassment experienced it from one unique male each time (which is probably the least likely implication of all).

It is sexist to point it out, just at it is racist to point to incarceration rate (weighted by population) of blacks to call a black person more prone to disobedience. (or male incarceration rate, for that matter)
It is a classical classroom example case of misrepresentation of statistic to make discriminatory remark, or shift the blame to a group.
The basic idea of Firefox OS was actually great, they just didn't quite get the market right. Kai OS is a very successful fork which runs on feature phones.
> Many times, no is a polite way to say f-you.

I feel you here, there is too much sugar coating of everything, it's spread to the UK too. We are pleased to serve you at another checkout. We will be pleased to help you on another occasion. The weird thing is some people genuinely seem not to realize that the content of these messages is simply 'no' and actually respond differently to them. Conversely I get more wound up when people try to dress up no as yes.

As to a literal f-you however, there are of course ways to say no without resorting to verbal abuse :)
There is actually a related system in place at the Olympics which few people talk about. Only 3 people of each country are allowed to compete in a given event. This has led to many athletes in the top 10 worldwide to not be able to participate because they are from a dominating country. For example Kenyans in 3000 steeple.
Some widely unknown analogy from the movies: Natural noises make the very best horror sounds for the non-expert moviegoer.

Natural wind or wave noises were introduced into modem horror movies by Kurosawa Kyioshi in the late 80ies, and had significant impact since, whilst Hollywood and elsewhere still use unnatural noises like screeches, cracks or the neverending Ridley Scott sirene from Aliens. Still in fashion, even if worn-out long time ago. Tenet had some new reverse sound effects, but still very noisy.

A Kurosawa horror movie is much more silent, but the ambient noise, used as enhanced athmo, is much more thrilling and horrific than the much louder screeches.

Natural silence can be horrific.
The mere act of having someone insane on a podcast elevates them and gives them attention. Makes them look like you could consider taking them seriously.

Most people are not capable of critical thinking. To pretend like every viewpoint should be given equal attention and people will sort it out for themselves is astonishingly naive. You must know people in real life who believe in insane conspiracy theories propagated on, for instance, facebook. When Joe Rohan hosts Alex Jones, this is the kind of thing he’s enabling.
yes,... websites like google meet, that opportunistically penalize firefox users in order to expand chrome user base...
Still unsure how they got that suffix, does cover prefix's.

The only explanation I can work out would be that the EX is the manufactures code, though I can't find any association of EX with Boeing.
Interesting idea, but I think it could use a few more examples. What are some other good candidates for half-arsing?
He was a co-founder of Mozilla. What the hell? He had been CTO before he was made CEO.
> Mobile browsing numbers are bleak: Firefox barely exists on phones, with a market share of less than half a percent. This is baffling given that mobile Firefox has a rare feature for a mobile browser: it's able to install extensions and so can block ads.

This is true, and indeed very strange. I use FF on mobile and it works perfectly. So Mozilla's problems aren't only technical, there's also a question of market awareness.

That said, there are also technical problems. Some bugs on the desktop linger on for years and are never fixed.

As described in the article, Mozilla spent a lot of energy into side projects that never went anywhere and were only loosely related to the browser.

This is all, obviously, a management problem.
The article explicitly talks about the Warren Ellis case which is not about consent at all but something that sounds like an unscrupulous man.
it works all the time. If you want to maintain superiority you didn't want peace in the first place.
So in this case the EX suffix is just a marketing thing chosen by Boeing. It more or less means "extended." The F-15 is an obsolete aircraft from the point of view of procurement, but Boeing has sold the AF on buying a few more of an updated model to extend the life of the F-15 in the fleet for a few more years via the acquisition of new planes directly as well as reducing hours on existing airframes. There's considerable debate whether this is a sensible decision financially for anyone besides Boeing.