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My Summer at Mozilla

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Re: My Summer at Mozilla

#31

Post by staunch »

Am I out of line thinking Mozilla should be far more conservative? It seems vaguely irresponsible for a non-profit to be so lavish in the number of employees they have, their office, their perks.

I'm not suggesting they need to be extreme in the other direction, just somewhat conservative.

That Google money can't last forever and it seems like they should be stockpiling a large portion of it for the long term, not blowing every dollar -- living, effectively, paycheck to paycheck.

I wonder if the employees/interns there have a sense that it's all eventually going to come crumbling down. Because I get that sense every time I hear about how they operate, and I really hope it never happens because I think they're a good thing in the world.

Re: My Summer at Mozilla

#32

Post by [deleted] »

ryanseys wrote: post #30
whatts wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Pure's stylesheets are already minified, the only result of re-minifying them is that the copyright will be removed: http://yui.yahooapis.com/pure/0.2.1/pure-min.css

I squash all my stylesheets into one giant .css file to serve rather than a bunch of individual stylesheets. A side-effect of squashing + minifying (which is done every time I generate my website) is that all comments are removed. You are correct, that notice is not present, but I did not remove it intentionally. To be honest, I didn't read the LICENSE.md of Pure CSS. Shame on me :) Feel free to file a bug against th…

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Re: My Summer at Mozilla

#33

Post by gkoberger »

staunch wrote: post #31

Am I out of line thinking Mozilla should be far more conservative? It seems vaguely irresponsible for a non-profit to be so lavish in the number of employees they have, their office, their perks. I'm not suggesting they need to be extreme in the other direction, just somewhat conservative. That Google money can't last forever and it seems like they should be stockpiling a large portion of it for the long term, not bl…

No comment on most of that, but to clarify: he worked for Mozilla Corporation (for-profit), not the Mozilla Foundation (non-profit).

Re: My Summer at Mozilla

#34

Post by cgag »

not_rhodey wrote: post #9
fennecfoxen wrote: post #4

Congratulations. You've officially been spoiled. :) You will take a job somewhere else some day and experience great anguish when it is significantly less awesome. :P The plus side is that you can use that anguish to effect change.

This, this is a really lame. You're a software developer which means you have the opportunity to work virtually wherever and whenever you want. You can write software on a sunny day in the local park, inside a tent in the midst of an Arctic storm, or aboard a boat in the middle of the Atlantic. A laptop can be purchased for $200 and internet can usually be found free. There is no reason to compromise on a less than e…

Time to stop showing up to the office and move into a houseboat.

Re: My Summer at Mozilla

#35

Post by staunch »

gkoberger wrote: post #33
staunch wrote: post #31

Am I out of line thinking Mozilla should be far more conservative? It seems vaguely irresponsible for a non-profit to be so lavish in the number of employees they have, their office, their perks. I'm not suggesting they need to be extreme in the other direction, just somewhat conservative. That Google money can't last forever and it seems like they should be stockpiling a large portion of it for the long term, not bl…

No comment on most of that, but to clarify: he worked for Mozilla Corporation (for-profit), not the Mozilla Foundation (non-profit).

Which is kind of a meaningless distinction since the Mozilla Foundation wholly owns the Mozilla Corporation.

Re: My Summer at Mozilla

#36

Post by zheng »

ryanseys wrote: post #30
whatts wrote: post #28

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Pure's stylesheets are already minified, the only result of re-minifying them is that the copyright will be removed: http://yui.yahooapis.com/pure/0.2.1/pure-min.css

I squash all my stylesheets into one giant .css file to serve rather than a bunch of individual stylesheets. A side-effect of squashing + minifying (which is done every time I generate my website) is that all comments are removed. You are correct, that notice is not present, but I did not remove it intentionally. To be honest, I didn't read the LICENSE.md of Pure CSS. Shame on me :) Feel free to file a bug against th…

TBH, I don't think you're in the wrong here, but expecting someone who has already brought something to your attention to file a "bug report" against your personal website is a bit arrogant.

Re: My Summer at Mozilla

#37

Post by acuozzo »

not_rhodey wrote: post #9
fennecfoxen wrote: post #4

Congratulations. You've officially been spoiled. :) You will take a job somewhere else some day and experience great anguish when it is significantly less awesome. :P The plus side is that you can use that anguish to effect change.

This, this is a really lame. You're a software developer which means you have the opportunity to work virtually wherever and whenever you want. You can write software on a sunny day in the local park, inside a tent in the midst of an Arctic storm, or aboard a boat in the middle of the Atlantic. A laptop can be purchased for $200 and internet can usually be found free. There is no reason to compromise on a less than e…

... or if you have a wife and kids and six-figures of student loan debt.

Re: My Summer at Mozilla

#38

Post by simanyay »

staunch wrote: post #31

Am I out of line thinking Mozilla should be far more conservative? It seems vaguely irresponsible for a non-profit to be so lavish in the number of employees they have, their office, their perks. I'm not suggesting they need to be extreme in the other direction, just somewhat conservative. That Google money can't last forever and it seems like they should be stockpiling a large portion of it for the long term, not bl…

Mozilla is more conservative with money than other companies. No corporate credit cards, no daily travel allowances, no daily breakfast, lunch and dinner (only lunch and only once a week, after all-hands).

However, being too conservative doesn't work in Silicon Valley because you have to compete with companies like Google, Facebook, Twitter etc. for talent with their perks and benefits. Whether it's good or bad in the long term I do not know but it is a fact.

Re: My Summer at Mozilla

#39

Post by sambeau »

staunch wrote: post #31

Am I out of line thinking Mozilla should be far more conservative? It seems vaguely irresponsible for a non-profit to be so lavish in the number of employees they have, their office, their perks. I'm not suggesting they need to be extreme in the other direction, just somewhat conservative. That Google money can't last forever and it seems like they should be stockpiling a large portion of it for the long term, not bl…

Surely a non-profit, who have no shareholders to pay, should be more able to behave in this way?

Re: My Summer at Mozilla

#40

Post by sambeau »

simanyay wrote: post #38
staunch wrote: post #31

Am I out of line thinking Mozilla should be far more conservative? It seems vaguely irresponsible for a non-profit to be so lavish in the number of employees they have, their office, their perks. I'm not suggesting they need to be extreme in the other direction, just somewhat conservative. That Google money can't last forever and it seems like they should be stockpiling a large portion of it for the long term, not bl…

Mozilla is more conservative with money than other companies. No corporate credit cards, no daily travel allowances, no daily breakfast, lunch and dinner (only lunch and only once a week, after all-hands). However, being too conservative doesn't work in Silicon Valley because you have to compete with companies like Google, Facebook, Twitter etc. for talent with their perks and benefits. Whether it's good or bad in th…

No shareholders to pay.
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