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by foobar20198 9y ago
Article makes a false premise: that speed of writing the first version is important. Much more time is spent maintaining software than writing the first version. Some poor sob is going to have to go and fix all those "silly" mista
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by foobar20198 9y ago
My equivalent is to use incognito/private browsing (depending on browser of choice). However, once again, browsers are opinionated, and don't offer to save passwords in private/incognito mode (with no overrides). Which means
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by foobar20198 9y ago
Switching between profiles in Firefox is the most painful experience ever. Running multiple Firefox profiles simultaneously requires using a terminal command. Switching between profiles in Chrome involves clicking on an easy to find button,
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by foobar20198 9y ago
To be completely fair: many projects at many companies turn out to be failures. Rust could've been bad and Firefox OS could have ended up ruling the world, and suddenly your comment would look very different. There's just a fundam
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by foobar20198 9y ago
My comment wasn't specifically targeted at your blog post, more the general impression I've been getting of Mozilla. And sure, Mozilla is more open than Apple and MS, and probably a bit more open than Google. But fundamentally, Fi
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by foobar20198 9y ago
It seems a bit awkward to me when Mozilla keep asking for contributors. They're profiting from Firefox (via the huge search engine deal), it's in really poor taste when such organisations then beg for contributors. They have enoug
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by foobar20198 9y ago
So does that mean Mozilla don't use 2FA?
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by foobar20198 9y ago
Firefox does try to make it easy to build. However they're quite opinionated and want you to use a "bootstrap" script which downloads some stuff into ~/.mozbuild regardless of you potentially already having it. It is how