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by dblohm7 8y ago
I'm a Mozilla employee who was there at the time, and I can tell you that there are a lot of misconceptions about how all of that went down. The least inaccurate coverage that I've seen on the topic is https://www.cnet.
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by dblohm7 8y ago
I'm a Mozilla employee who was there for this whole thing. There are a lot of misconceptions about how that went down. This article IMO is the least inaccurate of the press coverage from around that time: https://www.cnet.co
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by dblohm7 8y ago
Considering that both WebVR and A-Frame originated at Mozilla, this is unsurprising.
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by dblohm7 8y ago
We actually had a prototype of an Electron-style embedding solution for Gecko called Positron, but I believe work on it was stopped.
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by dblohm7 8y ago
My understanding is that Hangouts has finally been fixed.
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by dblohm7 8y ago
Canadian here: it's just as bad even with universal healthcare.
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by dblohm7 8y ago
They're not dead yet. Sure, they stopped working on their next phone and are searching for a buyer, but they also just pushed out a new Android P beta for the PH-1.
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by dblohm7 8y ago
>Anyone here ever work with a genius who wasn't an asshole? Absolutely. Those are the people we should want to work with and strive to become.
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by dblohm7 8y ago
Bug reports welcome! https://bugzilla.mozilla.org
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by dblohm7 8y ago
Report your broken websites to webcompat.com
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by dblohm7 8y ago
Umm, it should be working. Can you provide more details, please?
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Is Canada really facing a brain drain?(theglobeandmail.com)
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by dblohm7 8y ago
My question is: Is this just a parking lot for employees until they get their US visas sorted out?
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by dblohm7 8y ago
Calgarian who works remotely for Mozilla here: If I were to stay in Calgary and work for somebody else, I'd probably have to accept at least a 40% cut in total comp. I am effectively priced out of the local dev market at this point.
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by dblohm7 8y ago
It's great, but there can be long wait lists for specialists, even for urgent things.
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by dblohm7 8y ago
Well, the Canadian employees are moving south. They clearly aren't accepting it.
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by dblohm7 9y ago
It's there as a group policy, fyi.
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by dblohm7 9y ago
I love this! Thanks for sharing!
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by dblohm7 9y ago
I can't believe I just read this. I hope to never work with you.
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by dblohm7 9y ago
Agreed. I suffer from Generalized Anxiety Disorder, and the environment of the technical interview immediately throws me into a fight-or-flight state. I've never applied to Google and I never will, because it would be nearly impossible
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by dblohm7 9y ago
> quit pushing for pocket and other proprietary nonsense Mozilla owns pocket and is in the process of open sourcing it. Some parts are already on GitHub.
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by dblohm7 9y ago
> These may seem like big asks but Mozilla is taking in 1/2 billion a year It takes a huge amount of money to build and maintain a modern web engine and browser.
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by dblohm7 9y ago
Creation of those objects is also implicit on checking the current thread's access token and the current process's job (if present). So I think it has the same concerns that you outlined in an earlier comment about Fuchsia's
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by dblohm7 9y ago
https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/ms7...
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by dblohm7 9y ago
> The focus on handles overall is good though. Some capability security lessons have finally seeped into common knowledge! Huh? NT has done this for 25 years.
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by dblohm7 9y ago
"Welcome, Dr. Knuth! Let's see if you can invert a binary tree..."
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by dblohm7 9y ago
This reminds me of "How Microsoft Lost the API War": https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2004/06/13/how-microsoft-lost...
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by dblohm7 9y ago
>Wasn't old windows desktop technology the one proven to be bad? I mean I can say this because I like windows, but people have made fun of windows bugs and viruses for three decades now. A lot of that stuff could have been (and is n
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by dblohm7 9y ago
It already has provided a huge advantage via components that are already shipping (Stylo) and soon to be shipped (WebRender) in Firefox.
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by dblohm7 9y ago
Those APIs will probably be deprecated soon enough.

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