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by fhd2 5y ago
I don't think the name matters, what matters is that they built the brand early on and were daring enough to build separate brands for their products. Sure, "Meta" _means_ something, but Apple (now) does, too, by association.
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by fhd2 5y ago
I'd argue Apple started this loooong ago. Their first few products where literally named "Apple", but then they quickly moved towards establishing independent brands for all products, starting with the Macintosh, I believe. T
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by fhd2 5y ago
Reminds me of how I solved some of the hardest problems I've ever worked on (all in side projects) while being on parental leave, pushing around strollers. During that time I had something of 1-2 hours at the keyboard each day, but end
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by fhd2 5y ago
I doubt anyone needs this, but I want to buy it just for the product description! It's full of gems, e.g. "Sort of sleek mobile design experience with colors, numbers, and wobbly eyes that will turn heads". Can't tell if
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by fhd2 5y ago
I literally trained the correct technique as a child because I was so into computers. I'd argue children today are far less exposed to keyboards than people (well, nerds) my age were.
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by fhd2 5y ago
Some cool stuff I had no idea exists! But I can't see anything I feel like picking up, I do like to keep it simple. I switched to Emacs after something like six years as a vim user, primarily for the more beginner friendly key bindings
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by fhd2 5y ago
Well, I believe there's something in-between what the author asks for, and what you describe. I certainly don't want to have a "move fast and break things", "post privacy" kind of car. I prefer solid engineerin
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by fhd2 5y ago
I think it's pretty much choice-supportive bias, thanks! The more costly it is to make the wrong choice, the more is invested into rationalising the decision, the stronger the bias.
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by fhd2 5y ago
I can relate, I have three and I feel it does give my life more meaning. But I still feel like pointing something out: Know that phenomenon where users that paid for software are typically more satisfied with it and give better ratings than
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by fhd2 5y ago
I suppose the author is - in business language - describing the problem that data driven goal setting makes an organisation chase local maxima. I definitely agree! Seen more than one company go down from this. I guess part of the issue is t
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by fhd2 5y ago
Yup, in my experience any data driven goal setting steers teams towards short term wins, with potentially disastrous long term losses. Long term value creation is a lot harder to prove, but I still always try to push for it. But most organi
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by fhd2 5y ago
As much as TFA reflects how I think, it reminds me of how I thought about Dropbox - I never had a need for it because for reasonably technical people, it was always trivial to set this kind of thing up using ancient technology. I suppose si
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by fhd2 5y ago
Funny enough, as a guy hiring in house developers deliberately and regularly, I got the impression that salaries in previously "cheap" countries are normalising to what folks earn in US/Europe - which could make offshoring le
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by fhd2 5y ago
As a CTO for a good decade now (mid sized and small companies), I agree. At my previous (big-ish) company I maneuvered myself into a position where, before I left, I largely had to make business decisions and build bridges based on what my
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by fhd2 5y ago
I suppose parent's argument is in relation to number of units produced, not revenue. From a comment below, Toyota sold about 7-8 times as many cars as Tesla on the US market. _Almost_ an order of magnitude, I'd argue.
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by fhd2 5y ago
Did you try telling them that that is _absolutely_ how "agile" works? Even Scrum, the way most companies adopt it meticulously, is just a list of recommendations. The key is that the team finds a process that works for them and ke
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by fhd2 5y ago
Why I downvoted: It sounds like you're talking about a non-toxic organisation. I believe the author is talking about what they've experienced in toxic organisations. I guess the problem is that everyone brings different experience
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by fhd2 5y ago
To me daily stand ups, and most other rituals, are an OK way to _train_ desirable behaviour. If nobody knows what their team mates are working on and nobody says anything when they're blocked, you probably want to change that one way o
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by fhd2 6y ago
With a combination of some actually good improvements over Firefox, and incredibly shady bundling practices. There was hardly anything you could install a few years back without it forcing Chrome as a standard browser on you.
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Adblock Plus owner Eyeo launches browser extension to combat fake news(venturebeat.com)
2 points by fhd2 8y ago|2 comments
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Firefox Extension Security Update(blog.lastpass.com)
2 points by fhd2 10y ago|0 comments
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by fhd2 11y ago
I agree, my definition of a (good) "developer" matches TFAs definition of an "engineer" rather closely. I've mostly seen the terms being used interchangeably. Most well known software companies I've checked so
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Compiling C++ to JavaScript: Emscripten vs. Cheerp(palant.de)
22 points by fhd2 11y ago|0 comments
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by fhd2 11y ago
REMOTE or on-site in Germany (Berlin or Cologne) Eyeo, the company behind Adblock Plus and Adblock Browser, is looking for developers. We're mainly looking for Android developers to work on Adblock Browser and its underlying technologi
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by fhd2 11y ago
Note that TFA is about using a style tag rather than a separate CSS file. It actually discourages the style attribute.
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by fhd2 11y ago
Those are all essentially infrastructure projects that (one way or another) add value to end user products that (not always, but quite often) are monetised somehow and in turn contribute or donate back, because they can. Firefox OTOH is an
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by fhd2 11y ago
All the CLAs I've seen so far give the project the right to license the code under a proprietary license, as long as it (and derivates of it) remains available under a free license as defined in the CLA. I would also have concerns sign
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by fhd2 11y ago
REMOTE or in Cologne, Germany Eyeo, the company behind Adblock Plus and Adblock Browser, is looking for developers, mainly for: - Frontend developers to work on our websites, and the UI of Adblock Plus: https://eyeo.com/en&#
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by fhd2 11y ago
We have proper job ads for all positions now: JavaScript developer: https://eyeo.com/en/jobs/javascript-developer Python developer: https://eyeo.com/en/jobs/python-developer
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by fhd2 11y ago
REMOTE or in Cologne, Germany Eyeo, the company behind Adblock Plus, is looking for: - Web developers to work on our websites ( https://eyeo.com/en/jobs/senior-web-developer ) - Android developers to work on Adblock

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