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by rattray 6y ago
Maybe the political system is broken enough that people who are doing things mostly wrong still get re-elected. (Not specific to California)
902.
by rattray 6y ago
Interesting... I would argue JetBrains doesn't make most of their money from individual developers (consumers) but rather from businesses (who in some cases may be freelancers or solo founders). Firefox offering a browser to companies,
903.
by rattray 6y ago
Someone with a deep passion for building an amazing browser could reasonably be assumed to also be head-hunted by the Chrome team (and Edge, and Brave, etc...) as well as probably other, non-browser companies that just want their competence
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by rattray 6y ago
Sure, they could fuck it up. Lots of people fuck obvious things up, and Mozilla hasn't been lucky in several of their recent investments. But if serious money came in through donations, and everyone put "for firefox, keep it simpl
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by rattray 6y ago
> The current CEO is well remunerated Average tech CEO pay in 2018 was $6.6mm, probably not including stock appreciation: https://www.vox.com/recode/2019/5/2/18522927/ceo-pay-ratio-t... . I'v
906.
by rattray 6y ago
Yeah, it really stings when CEO's get paid a lot while their company struggles (especially layoffs, etc). In the case of for-profit companies like Nintendo, the CEO typically owns a ton of stock. If they turn things around, the financi
907.
by rattray 6y ago
This is a pretty unfair article. The author presents firefox market share (a relative term) on one axis and CEO pay (an absolute term) on the other. The sad reality is that the CEO pay should be a relative metric to tech companies of simila
908.
by rattray 6y ago
> $20k. And give him a bonus depending on the companies performance. How do you define company performance? For a non-public corporation like Mozilla, you'd have to use a metric like market share. Okay well in the first year, how ca
909.
by rattray 6y ago
It sounds like you're arguing that Mozilla could attract a more competent CEO while paying them much less. How? Who? Would you find someone who hasn't previously run a large, innovative tech org? How would you determine that they&
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by rattray 6y ago
Honest question - do you? I assume it's easy to set up a monthly donation. Or would you rather they start demanding or pleading for money? EDIT: To be fair, I don't either, and I do use FF. I donate to wikimedia and the internet a
911.
by rattray 6y ago
Lots of people on this thread are complaining about Mozilla doing too many "unrelated side projects". Honestly as a dev that sounds to me like a culture where engineers are too able to run free. If anything. But of course swiftly
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by rattray 6y ago
Hmm, has Mozilla ever spent big on advertising? I wasn't aware of that. I do share your wish in retrospect that they'd saved more cash...
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by rattray 6y ago
Agreed! I played the star wars opening track on the conclusion of a script I wasn't sure would terminate. Very exciting. But turned out to have been triggered on an unexpected error case :(
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by rattray 6y ago
Curious - is anyone using this via polyfill, or engaged in its ideas? Thoughts on Temporals quality? Will people still want date/time libraries once it's out and stable?
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Temporal TC39 Proposal(github.com)
1 points by rattray 6y ago|1 comments
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by rattray 6y ago
Perhaps I was unclear, the implicit typing is so: const result: FetchResult | Error = ... if (_.isError(result)) { // Here TS knows that result is of type Error return } // Here TS knows tha
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by rattray 6y ago
Totally agree. In cases where the error type matters, I like to return rather than throw the error. type Success = string type Result = Success | BadInputError | NotFoundError | IncalculableError const foo = (input: I): Resul
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by rattray 6y ago
Reminds me of a pattern I've wished would take off in TS, but hasn't (yet): const result = await fetchData().catch(e => e) if (_.isError(result)) { return "some failure" } return (await result.
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by rattray 6y ago
Same! There's https://github.com/dps/remarkable-keywriter but its author is, ah, busy, so may need another person to adapt it to work with bluetooth and the rM2 (if possible)
920.
by rattray 6y ago
Proton Native claims to be working on a wxWidgets-based native component backend for its React-syntax desktop engine: https://proton-native.js.org/#/?id=native-components Sounds exciting, no idea how far along it is. H
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by rattray 6y ago
I haven't seen React Native for Windows and MacOS mentioned much - https://microsoft.github.io/react-native-windows/ Have folks used it? Is it any good?
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by rattray 6y ago
There's a lot of discussion here about ways to use web technologies for performant desktop applications. A PWA that opens as its own Chrome "window", but shares resources, and runs any non-ui code in a web worker or localhost
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by rattray 6y ago
> If you treat shell as a DSL for files and streams, nothing can beat it. That sounds exactly like the approach of this crate - easily let you use "the files and streams DSL" directly from a general purpose programming language
924.
by rattray 6y ago
These sound like easy documentation fixes - maybe open an issue?
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by rattray 6y ago
Bit of a side note, but the author mentioned https://GitHub.audio , which I'm quite enjoying. However, that site says it plays "string plucks" which I'm not sure I can hear, or at least discern from "bell
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by rattray 6y ago
Worth noting that Google now allows you to request that it not store any web, app, or location data from any of its services, including Android. https://myactivity.google.com/activitycontrols You can configure it to delete
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by rattray 6y ago
Apple has Wall Street by the bulls, if you'll pardon the pun. Its cash and profitability relative to the market give it a ton of negotiating power with investors who might see things differently when it comes to business decisions. App
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by rattray 6y ago
Fair enough, thanks for the data!
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by rattray 6y ago
Huh? Texas and California both have high quality of life, and also both have large amounts of oil: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_oil_and_gas_industr... Not sure what you're trying to say here.
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by rattray 6y ago
Totally disagree; this is a courageous action to show that they really mean what they've been saying all along. The California government is the party that's been acting like a brat here. The rideshare drivers of California overwh

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