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by javaun 5y ago
Great piece, but it makes me feel like I'm atypical in my field, and perhaps that as the product field has grown up it's become super boring. I have no doubt that some PM jobs are the way you stereotype web2, especially at big tec
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by javaun 8y ago
The "3x your salary" is a correct ratio of stock to flow: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stock_and_flow#Comparing_stock... The direct comparison of Apple market cap (stock) to country GDP (flow) is invalid. (E
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by javaun 9y ago
I dreamed of working on Firefox in 2004, took some scenic detours, and got here in 2014. It’s absolutely amazing now. But my first year was extremely difficult, especially as a new remotee. The Brendan Eich thing happened on week 3. Chrome
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by javaun 10y ago
> In summary.. The best way to become a PM is to start doing it. This is great practical advice. If you're trying to cross over within a company, put yourself in the line of opportunities. Tell your boss to look out for new initiati
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by javaun 10y ago
Currently PM on Firefox, formerly PM at NPR Digital and other past companies. Breaking in to PM is hard because it's such a squishy a role, and therefore hard for hiring directors to know they’re getting someone who can deliver. There&
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by javaun 11y ago
AP is a member-owned organization (owned by national/regional papers), that's why they can't really go direct to consumers. NPR is the same way. NPR's board is owned by member stations, which is why you only hear Morning
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by javaun 11y ago
Hey Touche, I work on Firefox at Mozilla. We launched EME on Win32 (Vista+) first because that is by far the biggest share of Fx users. We will keep rolling out new platforms, the work will be long and hard. Streaming providers want to mov
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by javaun 11y ago
My brother worked at Questbridge for a few years. They place low-income and disadvantaged (but brilliant kids) at top schools, for free rides. The top schools can't get enough of students like you, but they're hard to find. Questb
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by javaun 12y ago
The rank and file and core management stay the same, at at agency, it's the political appointees at the top that change for new administrations. This can be dramatic -- at the EPA, Republican leaders tend to dismantle the agency and ce
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by javaun 12y ago
I spent 7 years in Washington and can attest the change has been incredible. Civic-minded hackers, non-profits, and startups went from being outsiders to permeating agencies. Much was organic, and some was top-down mandated. Obama saw what
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by javaun 12y ago
Thanks schoen! This EFF document was invaluable to Mozilla's legal team and helped us get this project to approval in record time.
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by javaun 12y ago
We haven't made a decision on either running a hidden service or exits. We do plan to come back and do the analysis and legal review, however we don't have a timeline for this yet. Right now, we're just wading in and will see
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by javaun 12y ago
I work at Mozilla, and the folks at Torservers.net were extremely helpful in helping us get up to speed quickly. We're hoping to contribute to the public body of knowledge on how to operate servers efficiently, both in terms of effort
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by javaun 12y ago
That's right. The Mozilla platform technology is great, we are still working out a few kinks. The blocklist we're using is a customized version provided by Disconnect.me. Mozilla's UX for Tracking Protection needs a lot of wo
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by javaun 12y ago
Hi, I’m on the Polaris team at Mozilla. I understand your reticence on tracking. The news and other content we all enjoy on the open web is mostly underwritten by ads, as are the social networks activists use to coordinate. These sites need
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by javaun 12y ago
Agreed. I think it wasn't just his humor and his knowledge, but his approachability and willingness to share. I worked at NPR for 6 years. I never met either of the brothers, but we were all a gog the day Doug the Old Grey Mare came in
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by javaun 12y ago
I love the intention of making the shows affordable and peg costs to a per-user basis. The reality in the U.S. is that big urban markets like NY, Boston, SF, LA, Washington, etc. are flush with cash, while stations in in small rural markets
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by javaun 12y ago
I was going to put this into a thread below re: public vs. private NPR APIs, but it seems more relevant here. Content programming fees are NPR's main form of revenue. When your station WXYZ holds a fundraiser, you donate to them, not t
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by javaun 12y ago
These are public NPR API endpoints, most have changed little since their launch in July 2008: http://dev.npr.org/ There are about 2 dozen endpoints that aren't public, either because they have little use outside the bu
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by javaun 12y ago
They have to play all sides. Replacing FM listening is like replacing oil: there's no one platform that big. Half of listening occurs in cars, and as the fleet turns over to TCP/IP listening over the next decade, NPR has to be the
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by javaun 12y ago
Both can. Every service that runs under the hood (recommenders, raters, story fetching, login, etc.) is an agnostic API that can be used elsewhere. Some of the auto manufacturers and TV apps were already using a scaled down version, albeit
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by javaun 12y ago
Concerns around disintermediation and what they stations call "bypass" ( NPR delivering audio direct to consumers and bypassing terrestrial FM) is what prevented this from launching earlier, not the tech or UX concerns. They had t
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by javaun 12y ago
I worked on this at NPR back it when it was called the Infinite Player. We'd envisioned NPR branded apps as well as integrations into other platforms (mobile, connected cars) and potentially other apps. We architected the underlying AP
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by javaun 12y ago
First, I'm so sorry. We were broken into in October 2012. The big fear as we waited outside for the police to say we could enter (they dusted for prints) was that we'd lose photos of our kids. They took laptops, but not the backup
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by javaun 12y ago
tl;dr. Do not sign the document. Beyond this case, it could also affect your future employability. VCs fund good teams, not ideas, which are cheap. If your partner doesn't realize that, she also has a hard lesson in front of her. Anoth