Given how different their missions are, I'm surprised to see Facebook on this list.
A job is a job.
Mozilla Lifeboat
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#12It's very weird that Mozilla is laying off 25% of its workforce while at the same time spending oodles of cash on its Fix The Internet incubator. I'm not a business major; maybe this is normal.
I don't know the details, but the Mozilla Foundation and Mozilla Corporation have different budgets and legally have to spend the money on different things (since the Foundation is a non-profit). They can't just move money around like a normal company can.
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#13fyi for the people involved in this: use of a mozilla trademark in a domain name is subject to the mozilla (tm) trademark policy:
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/foundation/trademarks/policy/
I hope your project doesn't run afoul of this :)
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#15It's very weird that Mozilla is laying off 25% of its workforce while at the same time spending oodles of cash on its Fix The Internet incubator. I'm not a business major; maybe this is normal.
As someone who's been involved in setting up a corporate incubator, this is a pretty common dilemma.
The way that we viewed it at my previous company was basically it's two different businesses, two different P&L's and two different sets of metrics and KPIs. You could see them as two different business units that can succeed or fail independently.
If one Business Unit is struggling, you can't just fill the holes by taking funds from another BU to fill the gap. You need to solve the inherent profitability problems in the struggling Business Unit in some other way, typically by selling more, increasing the price/mix or reducing the cost.
Don't know if this is how Mozilla reasons, but this was definitely the way we reasoned in the last two large corporations I worked for.
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#16It's very weird that Mozilla is laying off 25% of its workforce while at the same time spending oodles of cash on its Fix The Internet incubator. I'm not a business major; maybe this is normal.
I remember reading another comment on HN somewhere that broke down how project costs are different from employee costs. Something to do with employees being recurring expenses vs projects being somewhat fixed....I'm not going to do it justice. If I find the comment I'll link to it.
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#17Does anyone know how the 3d effect in the header was achieved?
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#18Given how different their missions are, I'm surprised to see Facebook on this list.
The CTO of FB is an ex-Mozillian. There are quite a few ex-Mozillians here, including myself. Despite Mozilla's public posture that FB is enemy #1, the internal technical culture is more similar than different.
They'll probably work with the same customers too, except instead of helping them fight Facebook tracking they will help Facebook track them better.
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#19This is good effort.
SideQuestion: Given that most of MDN were laid off, Would MDN continue? It was good imo.
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#20I hope a few of them go to Element. That's gotta be one of the worst UI/UX's I've ever seen in a chat app and it's 2020. I don't understand why we are perpetually going backwards.
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