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That. Exactly. Nothing to add. Anybody without a personal ten years old website using some hand-made HTML should probably not be CEO of Firefox.
by ploum 3y ago
That. Exactly.
Nothing to add.
Anybody without a personal ten years old website using some hand-made HTML should probably not be CEO of Firefox.
- xethos 3y agoBeing in love with the tech doesn't make someone a good CEO. Notably, sometimes standing too close to a problem prevents one from seeing solutions. Let's maybe start with actual admonisions against her (and her replacement's) relevant qualifications, achievements, or character (or lack thereof), instead of grabbing pitchforks and venting about how she's the wrong person to get a greenfield browser off the ground; simply put, that's not where Firefox or Mozilla is at right now.
- ploum 3y ago"Being in love with the tech doesn't make someone a good CEO." I never said that this was a sufficient condition. I said it was a necessary condition. We have spent decades trusting tech-illiterate CEO’s because "they knew the business and knowing the tech was useless". See the result for yourself in every single company.
- littlestymaar 3y agoIt has nothing to do with tech. It's about a “pivot to data privacy” linking to one of the worse offender is terms of privacy invasion, that's just insane. It's as if say announced pivot to cloud computing and did so on a website hosted on AWS.
- dylan604 3y agoI have more respect for people that use hand-made HTML over some JS library that makes unreadable code
- Gualdrapo 3y agoThe HN hivemind sometimes likes vintage web development and web design so much it becomes really weird.
- ploum 3y agoWhat I find weird is how many professional web developers contact me to ask what theme I’m using on my blog, a straight HTML website with 42 lines of inline CSS. I even was asked once with JS library I was using. (there is no JS, it’s a blog !) None of those sending me those emails bothered to even look at the code. None even thought it was possible that this was NOT a "theme" somewhere on the web. Yet I’m seen as the weird one in the industry.
- sergiomattei 3y agoI don't understand how a couple of naive emails translates to the disrespect of an entire class of people.
- palata 3y agoWell the parent expresses surprise at how many such emails they receive. I don't think the disrespect an entire class of people, they just say "it's not a couple naive emails, it's a lot more than I would expect".
- AnarchismIsCool 3y agoIt's a humble brag, not substantive.
- maxloh 3y agoYou mentioned "professional web developers", not "professional UI designers". That's the point.
- maxloh 3y agoI always find it frustrating to read HN comments expressing hatred towards mobile and whitespace-rich designs. These designs exist based on user research, as most people find them pleasant and intuitive. I don't understand what's wrong with these design patterns.
- pas 3y ago
- micromacrofoot 3y agoI'm not sure why people think tech asceticism would grant people the ability to successfully run a large company. The decline of Firefox's popularity didn't happen because the CEO uses LinkedIn, arguably one could say that the resistance to trends would be more harmful than helpful if you're aiming to improve browser marketshare. The problem for Mozilla is that the internet is not mostly weird nerds anymore. During Chrome's rise to popularity I don't think focusing on privacy was the popular thing to do, but the tides do seem to be turning and Mozilla could benefit from riding this wave again.
- SiempreViernes 3y agoReally hard to tell if this is sarcasm or an extremely niche elitist.
- palata 3y agoWhen you pay 6M, I think you have the right to be slightly elitist. Isn't that the whole argument for such indecent salaries? "But they are one of a kind! We have to pay them that much otherwise we're screwed".