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by celticjames 15y ago
I suspect that none of those employees were planning to stick around after the IPO anyway.It's sounds like a terrible place to work.
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by celticjames 15y ago
Some extra scorn via Bill Hicks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDW_Hj2K0wo
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by celticjames 15y ago
> you can build relationships with all the things you care about - from local businesses to global brands Do people in marketing even hear themselves? I'm going to be charitable and assume this is ad copy aimed at other marketers becaus
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by celticjames 15y ago
Something like 40% of Mozilla code is written by community contributors, which is quite remarkable. How many of those non-employees are paid by someone else specifically to work on Mozilla I don't know. i.e. I don't know if IBM pays people
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by celticjames 15y ago
3. It's like the Mozilla Firefox vs Debian Iceweasel controversy. Or Redhat vs Centos. The code is open, but the trademarks are copyrighted. If Growl is a trademark and the brand artwork is non-free, then forks can't use it without permissi
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by celticjames 15y ago
Off topic: Certificate Authorities are a plot point in Vernor Vinge's "Rainbows End". He's really the first novelist to grasp how dramatic revoking a certificate is.
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by celticjames 15y ago
I'm not sure I understand the real name policy of either Facebook or Google+. Isn't the whole point of a social graph that it is personally curated by me? The identities of my friends/circles are verified by me.
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by celticjames 15y ago
With G+ it's possible to filter your output (into circles) but there's no way to filter the input. I've put all my hacker friends into a hacker circle, but when I browse that stream I get all their public/extended posts plus the posts for w
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by celticjames 16y ago
If I might reframe the issue slightly, I don’t think the problem is that coders are expected to make FOSS contributions. The problem is that coders are expected to do significant amounts of unpaid work. We all laud Google Summer of Code bec
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by celticjames 16y ago
Articles that compare the market share of free products are always a bit weird. If you are selling something, you naturally want it to sell best. But for a free product (free as in free speech) the main concern is giving users choice. There
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by celticjames 16y ago
The Android emulator is a full ARM processor emulator. Very slow and probably always will be. My experience is that Android development is mostly impossible without the real hardware. This Android x86 port looks promising though: http://ww
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by celticjames 16y ago
1. If it was part of trunk, you'd have to wait longer for new updates. As it is, Firebug can push updates without waiting on Firefox updates. 2. The Firebug developers and core mozilla developers overlap a lot. There is work done in trunk t
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by celticjames 16y ago
This Nokia/Microsoft deal is really terrib... Hey, look at those shiny phones!
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by celticjames 16y ago
This announcement doesn't say anything about versioning for the underlying mozilla platform (which moves from 1.92 to 2.0 between Firefox 3.6 and 4.0). The versioning for the platform only changes when the api changes and breaks binary comp
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by celticjames 16y ago
Three points for a link that advocates quack medicine? Not what I come to HN for.
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by celticjames 16y ago
You know who else shares my phone number and address? The phone book!
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by celticjames 16y ago
One thing that helps Chrome release often is that the api for building extensions is all javascript. By comparison, Firefox extensions can have binary components. This means there needs to be a certain amount of platform stability or extens
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by celticjames 16y ago
Multiple meanings for 'tits' are also a consideration. (Maybe my monitor or eyes suck, but I had to do a tits vs fuck only ngram search to see that the big spike is in fact tits.)
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by celticjames 16y ago
I don't think that's the issue. I think it is more of a case of whether or not the corporation and the foundation really are two separate organizations. Until the new director of the foundation arrived (Mark Surman), the foundation didn't r
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by celticjames 16y ago
Anyone know the technical details? DRM? Remastered recordings? Bitrates? Available in all markets? i see that Live at the BBC, Anthology, and Yellow Submarine Songtrack (not Soundtrack) are not there. So not quite compleat beatles.
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by celticjames 16y ago
Great advice, but two caveats: 1. Employers are often focused on hiring very specific skills sets. Having fixed a C++ bug in Chromium should impress them, but if they need a Django expert they still see you as a novice. It can be hard to pr
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by celticjames 16y ago
There's another company, Skyfire, that's been pushing a similar solution for the past few years. I've never met anyone who actually uses it.
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by celticjames 16y ago
FTA: > consolidating the search box and address bar seems so obvious I know that Mozilla's engineers would love to do that, but the search box is their revenue model. Google pays a lot of money for that box to be there.
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by celticjames 16y ago
Good source for a layman's explanation of how we measure where things are in the sky is Astronomy Cast: http://www.astronomycast.com/astronomy/ep-171-solar-system-m... http://www.astronomycast.com/astronomy/ep-170-coordinate-sys...
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by celticjames 16y ago
Bad reasoning: Remember the hits, forget the misses.
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by celticjames 16y ago
New GOP site looks good to me: http://hammerandsteele.com/?u=http://xkcd.com/personal/gop/
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by celticjames 16y ago
Mozilla Corporation employs 200+ people, but the community contribution, measured in commits, is substantial. But what you say about management is true. The left hand doesn't know what the right hand does. Communication between the corporat
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by celticjames 16y ago
Must use Chrome? Doesn't sound like it uses open web standards. Will other browsers need a plugin (eg. Gears) to make this work?
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by celticjames 17y ago
It's more accurate to say that Firefox 3.6 is written on top of the Mozilla 1.9.1 platform, which includes technologies such as NSPR or XPCOM for some low level system interaction. I don't think anything at the UI rendering level uses those
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by celticjames 17y ago
Is it possible to turn things around and compile an iPhone app to run on Android/Flash/etc.? I'm sure it would be a monumental task, but could the headers in the Apple SDK be wrapped in a cross platform library? Or is there a rule against t

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