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but you do need one to get a decent paying job at FAANG
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Anderson's analysis feels very straw-mannish to me, giving the impression that Mitchell disagreed with Gerv being a Christian in the first place. > I'm sure was a great comfort to his surviving wife, children and friends, in their time of grief. Well, maybe - you'd have to ask them. Quite likely they share Gerv's faith and outlook and possibly don't see anything negative there. But the point of the piece was obviousl…
I dare you to read all through this, and think those were the words of comfort Ruth deserved. https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/lightandmomentary
All I get is "You do not have permission to access this content. (#418)"
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I dare you to read all through this, and think those were the words of comfort Ruth deserved. https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/lightandmomentary
All I get is "You do not have permission to access this content. (#418)"
Oh. It's the newsletter his wife sent out, as he was dying, and she was taking care of him.
You can watch some videos she put up for the Thanksgiving event they held 9 months after the funeral. https://vimeo.com/user97457269
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Mozilla is good at everything except making browsers. rr is the best debugger I've used. I wonder if there's a way for them to monetize Rust. It seems impossible to monetize a programming language without owning a platform e.g. Microsoft (*.NET), Apple (Swift), Borland (Delphi), JetBrains (Kotlin). FirefoxOS for mobile with Rust as the first-class citizen would have been huge for them. Maybe it's not too late. Take n…
Mozilla is already in the history books for Firefox, any way you slice it. Firefox has been the only serious refuge from proprietary browsers and their vendors for nearly two decades, and has made history in many ways. It would only be omitted if the book was written by a competitor's PR department. Quality and popularity are rarely correlated, but such metrics are even further confounded when you have monopolistic f…
Indeed, and if you count the value of in-kind support for Chrome, such as constant "switch to Chrome" advertising on the most important Web real estate in the world, we're talking billions, not millions.
I would love someone to estimate an actual figure for total Chrome marketing spend including in-kind. I'm guessing it would be well over $10B.
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#565To the 70: Thank you for contributing to such incredible software for all these years. Your contribution to my life is not insignificant. Good luck on your next chapter.
To Mozilla: Let's figure out this monetization thing. Heck, I'd pay for Firefox to keep it as great as it is and independent.
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#566Only in fairy tale land does CEO/Executive compensation reflect performance.
Many CEOs derive a significant portion - often even the majority - of their compensation from performance-based bonuses. Compensation not only reflects performance, it is directly tied to it.
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It's crazy how much FF's marketshare has dropped. It's such a great browser.
The decline of Firefox is largely due to Mozilla's incompetence. If you look at their own statistics [1], you will notice that (worldwide) usage started declining after the introduction of Quantum (November 2017), and dropped substantially after the April 2019 addons outage. This would suggest, IMHO, that Firefox loses market share when beloved features - customization, addons - stop working or got worse. This is uns…
Keeping XUL extensions would have meant continuing to sacrifice performance, security and stability. That could never have worked long-term.
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#568Mozilla should just ship Chromium with privacy oriented features. There's no reason to reinvent the wheel and keep iterating on Gecko when its obvious there's less and less demand for it, especially when it costs them so much money. If Firefox was actually gaining share I'd feel differently, but I'd rather see Mozilla switch tech stacks than fizzle out and die.
Firefox is our last bastion of hope against the browser monoculture. If you think that the new browser monoculture would be any better than the previous one (IE5-6), you are horribly, horribly wrong.
Google controls web standards and Mozilla, so Firefox won't save the web. Mozilla didn't make anything to fight against DRM.
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It seems about median. > Thirty-seven percent of PETA’s dedicated staff earn between $30,000 and $44,999, including President Ingrid Newkirk, who made $31,285 during the fiscal year ending July 31, 2016. Seven percent of PETA’s dedicated staff only earn between $16,000 and $29,999, and the remaining 56 percent make more than $45,000 per year. Most staff members give a portion of their earnings back to PETA’s lifesavi…
Eh. > the remaining 56 percent make more than $45,000 per year So the median is more than $45k. I would say the difference between $31k and $45k is pretty significant, at least depending on where you live. In San Francisco that would likely not be enough for someone to live comfortably alone.
Sure but you can live plenty comfortably on 100k. I don’t think we would be having this conversation if she was making that.
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It's crazy how much FF's marketshare has dropped. It's such a great browser.
Firefox eats memory. 4GB of memory is barely enough to run browser and show few tabs.
Using Nightly on Linux (Bunsen Helium), 360 tabs, using 1.5 GB, but that will grow if I fire up dormant tabs. Starts going out to swap if I run it too long, then I kill it and update Nightly.