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So few people use Metapost, it's undervalued! Feature request: add the output to the github repo so we can see the result?

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Reminds me of this ancient Firefox bug about the performance cost of the throbber: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=437829

HTTP only sign up page? really? in 2017?

As others have said, management (in my experience) never has the full picture, it has its own perspective. I'm curious about the breach of trust you feel -- surely investors in a c…

CZI is focused on disease. A focus on biomed research is reasonable...

Out of curiosity, have you looked at Mozilla's Pontoon and if yes, can you compare/contrast the goals of Parrot w/ those of Pontoon? https://github.com/mozilla/pontoon

Yup. And such a chef probably wouldn't publicly berate people for eating meat, or expect being called out if they did.

Yup. And such a chef probably wouldn't publicly berate people for eating meat, or expect being called out if they did.

Somewhat funny to have an FB employee complaining about overly centralized systems.

This was done in partnership with the Internet Archive folks -- they _want_ the traffic, in part because this helps people know about the Archive, but mostly because this is a publ…

Good questions. At this point, we're trying to identify user value with prototypes. We're a long way away from defining things like the software update model on as-yet-unspecified …

Sounds interesting. Do you have any references for approaches and possible benefits that we could look at?

MDN is powered by Corp staff but also a large # of awesome volunteer contributors.

Check out the code here: https://github.com/mozilla/donate.mozilla.org TLDR: stripe for donations, custom software for the forms.

Correct. (note: I believe none of our users have asked that ;-), but I appreciate that HN cares about that.

Hey all -- David Ascher here, from Mozilla. Thanks for the interest. We'll put up a technical write-up of Webmaker soon, we've been busy getting the app ready. As to some of the qu…

Hi there. David Ascher here, from Mozilla. * No Real Names requirement. * I think we have a single account per email address, but I don't think that's what you mean. Also, you can …

I love the spirit of this -- A real "public service". thanks.

The importer data is way more provocative to me than the exporter data, which met my expectations.

Ugh. Thanks, will get folks to look at what happened.

so that non-devs can do edits via editing, dropbox syncs, push using web UI, and have the magic happen w/o needing devtools everywhere.

This is one path: http://www.mozilla.org/careers Partial proof: https://github.com/mozilla/repositories https://github.com/mozilla-b2g/repositories (that's 30 _pages_ of github rep…

Crawling is certainly a complementary data collection strategy, but it's harder to avoid IP-based "filter bubble" effects w/out also deploying something akin to a bot. The hope is …

Thanks, great set of feedback. A bunch of these need to find their ways into our issues list!