davidascher

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by davidascher 4y ago
So few people use Metapost, it's undervalued! Feature request: add the output to the github repo so we can see the result?
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by davidascher 7y ago
See https://voting.works
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by davidascher 9y ago
Reminds me of this ancient Firefox bug about the performance cost of the throbber: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=437829
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by davidascher 10y ago
HTTP only sign up page? really? in 2017?
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by davidascher 10y ago
As others have said, management (in my experience) never has the full picture, it has its own perspective. I'm curious about the breach of trust you feel -- surely investors in a company don't relinquish their values or place unco
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by davidascher 10y ago
CZI is focused on disease. A focus on biomed research is reasonable...
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by davidascher 10y ago
Out of curiosity, have you looked at Mozilla's Pontoon and if yes, can you compare/contrast the goals of Parrot w/ those of Pontoon? https://github.com/mozilla/pontoon
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by davidascher 10y ago
Yup. And such a chef probably wouldn't publicly berate people for eating meat, or expect being called out if they did.
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by davidascher 10y ago
Somewhat funny to have an FB employee complaining about overly centralized systems.
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by davidascher 10y ago
This was done in partnership with the Internet Archive folks -- they _want_ the traffic, in part because this helps people know about the Archive, but mostly because this is a public benefit feature, which is what non-profits strive to prov
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by davidascher 11y ago
Good questions. At this point, we're trying to identify user value with prototypes. We're a long way away from defining things like the software update model on as-yet-unspecified devices.
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by davidascher 11y ago
Sounds interesting. Do you have any references for approaches and possible benefits that we could look at?
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by davidascher 11y ago
MDN is powered by Corp staff but also a large # of awesome volunteer contributors.
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by davidascher 11y ago
Check out the code here: https://github.com/mozilla/donate.mozilla.org TLDR: stripe for donations, custom software for the forms.
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by davidascher 11y ago
Correct. (note: I believe none of our users have asked that ;-), but I appreciate that HN cares about that.
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by davidascher 11y ago
Hey all -- David Ascher here, from Mozilla. Thanks for the interest. We'll put up a technical write-up of Webmaker soon, we've been busy getting the app ready. As to some of the questions already asked: This is an open source proj
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by davidascher 11y ago
Hi there. David Ascher here, from Mozilla. * No Real Names requirement. * I think we have a single account per email address, but I don't think that's what you mean. Also, you can likely use +whatever on your email addresses if
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by davidascher 11y ago
I love the spirit of this -- A real "public service". thanks.
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by davidascher 12y ago
The importer data is way more provocative to me than the exporter data, which met my expectations.
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by davidascher 12y ago
Ugh. Thanks, will get folks to look at what happened.
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by davidascher 13y ago
so that non-devs can do edits via editing, dropbox syncs, push using web UI, and have the magic happen w/o needing devtools everywhere.
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by davidascher 13y ago
This is one path: http://www.mozilla.org/careers Partial proof: https://github.com/mozilla/repositories https://github.com/mozilla-b2g/repositories (that's 30 _pages_ of gith
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by davidascher 13y ago
Crawling is certainly a complementary data collection strategy, but it's harder to avoid IP-based "filter bubble" effects w/out also deploying something akin to a bot. The hope is that by using real people using real br
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by davidascher 13y ago
Thanks, great set of feedback. A bunch of these need to find their ways into our issues list!
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by davidascher 13y ago
True, but most of all we value working in the open so that we can both do user testing and find people who might want to contribute. In my book our mistake was not to prioritze issues 306 and 386 until we showed up on HN. Oh well!
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by davidascher 13y ago
Filed: https://github.com/mozilla/appmaker/issues/389
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by davidascher 13y ago
I love this comment. "Get it working". Roger wilco!
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by davidascher 13y ago
Ha. It's intended to look like a FirefoxOS phone if anything =)
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by davidascher 13y ago
Indeed, we're inspired by AppInventor. We're aiming at higher level components and a more simplistic model.
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by davidascher 13y ago
Indeed, we have a weird intermittent failure on component loading that we haven't figured out yet. A few reloads tends to work, as a temporary workaround.

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