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Great piece, but it makes me feel like I'm atypical in my field, and perhaps that as the product field has grown up it's become super boring. I have no doubt that some PM jobs are …

The "3x your salary" is a correct ratio of stock to flow: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stock_and_flow#Comparing_stock... The direct comparison of Apple market cap (stock) to count…

I dreamed of working on Firefox in 2004, took some scenic detours, and got here in 2014. It’s absolutely amazing now. But my first year was extremely difficult, especially as a new…

> In summary.. The best way to become a PM is to start doing it. This is great practical advice. If you're trying to cross over within a company, put yourself in the line of opport…

Currently PM on Firefox, formerly PM at NPR Digital and other past companies. Breaking in to PM is hard because it's such a squishy a role, and therefore hard for hiring directors …

AP is a member-owned organization (owned by national/regional papers), that's why they can't really go direct to consumers. NPR is the same way. NPR's board is owned by member stat…

Hey Touche, I work on Firefox at Mozilla. We launched EME on Win32 (Vista+) first because that is by far the biggest share of Fx users. We will keep rolling out new platforms, the …

My brother worked at Questbridge for a few years. They place low-income and disadvantaged (but brilliant kids) at top schools, for free rides. The top schools can't get enough of s…

The rank and file and core management stay the same, at at agency, it's the political appointees at the top that change for new administrations. This can be dramatic -- at the EPA,…

I spent 7 years in Washington and can attest the change has been incredible. Civic-minded hackers, non-profits, and startups went from being outsiders to permeating agencies. Much …

Thanks schoen! This EFF document was invaluable to Mozilla's legal team and helped us get this project to approval in record time.

We haven't made a decision on either running a hidden service or exits. We do plan to come back and do the analysis and legal review, however we don't have a timeline for this yet.…

I work at Mozilla, and the folks at Torservers.net were extremely helpful in helping us get up to speed quickly. We're hoping to contribute to the public body of knowledge on how t…

That's right. The Mozilla platform technology is great, we are still working out a few kinks. The blocklist we're using is a customized version provided by Disconnect.me. Mozilla's…

Hi, I’m on the Polaris team at Mozilla. I understand your reticence on tracking. The news and other content we all enjoy on the open web is mostly underwritten by ads, as are the s…

Agreed. I think it wasn't just his humor and his knowledge, but his approachability and willingness to share. I worked at NPR for 6 years. I never met either of the brothers, but w…

I love the intention of making the shows affordable and peg costs to a per-user basis. The reality in the U.S. is that big urban markets like NY, Boston, SF, LA, Washington, etc. a…

I was going to put this into a thread below re: public vs. private NPR APIs, but it seems more relevant here. Content programming fees are NPR's main form of revenue. When your sta…

These are public NPR API endpoints, most have changed little since their launch in July 2008: http://dev.npr.org/ There are about 2 dozen endpoints that aren't public, either becau…

They have to play all sides. Replacing FM listening is like replacing oil: there's no one platform that big. Half of listening occurs in cars, and as the fleet turns over to TCP/IP…

Both can. Every service that runs under the hood (recommenders, raters, story fetching, login, etc.) is an agnostic API that can be used elsewhere. Some of the auto manufacturers a…

Concerns around disintermediation and what they stations call "bypass" ( NPR delivering audio direct to consumers and bypassing terrestrial FM) is what prevented this from launchin…

I worked on this at NPR back it when it was called the Infinite Player. We'd envisioned NPR branded apps as well as integrations into other platforms (mobile, connected cars) and p…

First, I'm so sorry. We were broken into in October 2012. The big fear as we waited outside for the police to say we could enter (they dusted for prints) was that we'd lose photos …

tl;dr. Do not sign the document. Beyond this case, it could also affect your future employability. VCs fund good teams, not ideas, which are cheap. If your partner doesn't realize …