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by sciurus 7y ago
You can see the bugs filed for past and upcoming studies at https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/buglist.cgi?list_id=14712186&re... When the study involves an addon, I think the bug will link to its code. (Disclosure: I work fo
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by sciurus 7y ago
First of all, the base fried chicken is usually much better than you'd get at a fast food chain. Second, it's legitimately spicy. At higher heat levels the chicken is dark red from all the cayenne. Eating it is more akin to eating
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by sciurus 7y ago
Not unless you consider lard plus cayenne to be hot sauce. https://quietlife.net/2014/11/16/nashville-style-hot-chicken... is a nice breakdown on the variations. https://www.nashvillescene.com&#x2F
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by sciurus 7y ago
It's too dry! I do miss living in walking distance of both Bolton's and Pepperfire. cwage's ranking at https://quietlife.net/2015/07/27/the-best-hot-chicken-in-nas... is older but still pretty
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by sciurus 7y ago
I'm even lots of Nashville Hot Chicken but am not familiar with Nandos. From googling it looks like chicken marinated in a peri peri pepper based sauce then grilled. Nashville Hot Chicken is fried and coated in a cayenne pepper based p
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by sciurus 7y ago
This started before my time at Mozilla, but I think several different systems grew out of the "go faster" initiative. Of them I believe the fastest and most flexible means of shipping changes is Normandy, which is primarily used f
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by sciurus 7y ago
In case you're curious, that other one is part of https://blog.mozilla.org/services/2018/10/03/upcoming-push-s... (Disclosure: I work for Mozilla)
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by sciurus 7y ago
> I think it is a reasonable expectation that the marooned Firefox should continue to run indefinitely without failure. I personally agree this is a worthwhile goal. The blog post talks about "tracking the status of everything in Fi
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by sciurus 7y ago
This is a good point; I'll try to make sure it's raised when we conduct our postmortem. (Disclosure: I work for Mozilla)
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by sciurus 7y ago
Just to be clear: supported version or not, this sucks, and I hope we'll have a fix for you. I wanted to point out this wasn't remotely broken, however. Even if you had no internet connection, your addons would have stopped workin
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by sciurus 7y ago
I think this is covered in the blog post, but I'll take another stab at explaining it from my perspective: Republishing was one of the options we were investigating early on. However, the problem is that it only fixes things once you c
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by sciurus 7y ago
FYI that should read "we have developed" instead of "we are developing". Firefox 66.0.4 and later have the patch. (Disclaimer: I work for Mozilla)
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by sciurus 7y ago
There is a related blog post about what Mozilla is doing with the data collected from users who enabled Studies in order to get the hot fix. https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2019/05/09/what-we-do-when-thi...
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What we do when things go wrong(blog.mozilla.org)
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by sciurus 7y ago
Ah, I wasn't familiar with the security problems in the SCP protocol. Thanks. I had misread the recommendation on the blog post as " SSH agent forwarding is insecure, so use rsync instead of SCP", which didn't make sens
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by sciurus 7y ago
Slack isn't equivalent to putting a chain across an existing river. It's equivalent to dredging a canal as an alternative to the river. You might think people are foolish to pay to use the canal when they could use the river for f
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by sciurus 7y ago
How does using rsync instead of scp help? Isn't the default behavior of rsync to use SSH for transport, just like ssh does? Thus you'd still rely on forwarding keys or another ssh authentication method.
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by sciurus 7y ago
Presumably Slack's customers pay for it because they get value from it. That's not "extracting rents".
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by sciurus 7y ago
And can you believe some people use Gmail instead of Pine?! Heck, why is Hacker News even a website? We should be posting on Usenet instead! ;-)
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by sciurus 7y ago
Disclaimer: I work for Mozilla on the operations team responsible for Firefox's backend services, including Normandy. TL;DR you are not sending us your browsing history. If telemetry and studies were turned off, your browser wasn'
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by sciurus 7y ago
Nothing at https://www.githubstatus.com/
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by sciurus 7y ago
Why is a release from March 22 on the front page today?
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by sciurus 7y ago
This is marked as a dupe, but searching I don't see another discussion. https://hn.algolia.com/?query=Announcing%20WSL%202&sort=byDa... Edit: it's https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19842817
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by sciurus 7y ago
That interview with the Pocket CEO never mentions RSS. (Disclaimer: I work for Mozilla but not on any functionality related to this)
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by sciurus 7y ago
The new version is there now.
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by sciurus 7y ago
They're published now.
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by sciurus 7y ago
See https://blog.mozilla.org/addons/2019/05/04/update-regarding-...
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by sciurus 7y ago
Please don't lower the value of run_interval_seconds like suggested there. If many people do that it will cause those of us on the ops team for Firefox's backend services some headaches.
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by sciurus 7y ago
Nightly updates are currently frozen until we have a fix for https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/1549075 https://t.co/etOWyG4aqh
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by sciurus 7y ago
You missed the second paragraph. It's "Mozilla’s experiment with a new approach to code review that lasted from about 2014 to 2018". This post isn't about the technical details.

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