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Hi! My team developed the extension. The Ad Analysis extension uses two data sources: 1. It locally (on your machine) collects the ads you see as you see them on Facebok and analyz…

Reminding myself that perseverance is the only thing that works. "Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful…

Let's Encrypt was founded by a group including Mozilla, EFF, and the University of Michigan. Mozilla is also a platinum sponsor. So yes, it is a Mozilla project. Source: I am a Moz…

We have several different mechanisms for running experiments. The e10s one specifically runs through what we rather poorly named a "system add-on". e10s code is present in all buil…

The basic shape of the contract is the same. The publishers I have worked for are both fans of plain language and relatively short contracts, which helps. (Tech publisher is Pearso…

I have written some tech books, one of them best-selling, tech edited others, and written a preface for one. I am also the author of published novels. The amount of money and contr…

If you are going into a book contract, familiarize yourself with cross-accounting or basket accounting clauses, and get them stricken from the contract. (This is the clause where y…

The ads in Tiles specifically don't track you in the way that regular ads do. It's an experiment in ways to do advertising without being creepy. More info: https://support.mozilla.…

Definitely this. I fought depression (originally PPD, but didn't go away) without medication for three years. Tried exercise, sunshine, B vitamins, volunteering, etc, etc. When I f…

This is kind of what we have in mind. The model is that we want to make Firefox itself more webby in the way it ships. Features should be independently updatable from the core brow…

It's mentioned only briefly here since the email is mostly about XUL/XBL. I'm working on the Go Faster project. We hope to deliver a 1-2 features this way by the end of 2015. We ha…

This is one of my all time favorite essays. Great to see it linked here. Best part: 'To nine out of ten of you the choice which could lead to scoundrelism will come, when it does c…

Selling user data would be completely against our mission and values, and I think it would be extraordinarily hard for such a change to make it through the internal immune system f…

I've been using T-mobile with my FxOS phone for nearly a year.

Because they blogged about the situation.

I work at Mozilla. I don't know about Brendan, but other employees definitely received multiple death threats.

I can't upvote this enough! It's why I find jobs where what I do (engineering) is not the core product less rewarding on the whole.

Wow. A billion dollars in profit, 12 million in his pocket each year...but the 7 million for health care has to come out of the employees' other pocket. Also, the fact that he's bl…

I don't know if we count as big, but Mozilla fits all of your criteria.

Some ideas, from one with a small child: Lunch breaks are great for side projects, even if you have to go work in your car in the parking lot, or the cafe down the street. Also, if…

As mentioned in the article, give up useless timekilling activities (TV, Facebook, etc). The other big thing for me is cache warming. If you are doing non-mental activities such as…

It's worth noting that yes, it's changed pretty radically since 2009. There is some amazing stuff going on in the PHP ecosystem these days.

I think most hackers are NT - abstraction and thinking. The E/I and J/P varies.

I apologize in advance for the hand waving vagueness, but here's how I think of it. N=abstract thinker, likes ideas and concepts and big picture S=concrete thinker, likes real thin…