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by lxt 8y ago
Hi! My team developed the extension. The Ad Analysis extension uses two data sources: 1. It locally (on your machine) collects the ads you see as you see them on Facebok and analyzes and aggregates the targeting information for each of thes
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by lxt 10y ago
Reminding myself that perseverance is the only thing that works. "Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is
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by lxt 10y ago
Let's Encrypt was founded by a group including Mozilla, EFF, and the University of Michigan. Mozilla is also a platinum sponsor. So yes, it is a Mozilla project. Source: I am a Mozilla employee and a board member of ISRG (which operate
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by lxt 10y ago
We have several different mechanisms for running experiments. The e10s one specifically runs through what we rather poorly named a "system add-on". e10s code is present in all builds. The system add-on contains logic that decides
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by lxt 10y ago
The basic shape of the contract is the same. The publishers I have worked for are both fans of plain language and relatively short contracts, which helps. (Tech publisher is Pearson, fwiw, and they have been wonderful to work with over the
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by lxt 10y ago
I have written some tech books, one of them best-selling, tech edited others, and written a preface for one. I am also the author of published novels. The amount of money and contract terms vary widely with the publisher. This is where a co
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by lxt 10y ago
If you are going into a book contract, familiarize yourself with cross-accounting or basket accounting clauses, and get them stricken from the contract. (This is the clause where you need to earn out all the books before getting royalties f
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by lxt 11y ago
The ads in Tiles specifically don't track you in the way that regular ads do. It's an experiment in ways to do advertising without being creepy. More info: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/about-tiles
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by lxt 11y ago
Definitely this. I fought depression (originally PPD, but didn't go away) without medication for three years. Tried exercise, sunshine, B vitamins, volunteering, etc, etc. When I finally went to the doctor the medication working was su
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by lxt 11y ago
This is kind of what we have in mind. The model is that we want to make Firefox itself more webby in the way it ships. Features should be independently updatable from the core browser, and we should be able to do phased rollouts to help us
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by lxt 11y ago
It's mentioned only briefly here since the email is mostly about XUL/XBL. I'm working on the Go Faster project. We hope to deliver a 1-2 features this way by the end of 2015. We have just started on building out needed change
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by lxt 12y ago
This is one of my all time favorite essays. Great to see it linked here. Best part: 'To nine out of ten of you the choice which could lead to scoundrelism will come, when it does come, in no very dramatic colours. Obviously bad men, ob
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by lxt 12y ago
Selling user data would be completely against our mission and values, and I think it would be extraordinarily hard for such a change to make it through the internal immune system for such things. I think Mozilla is less likely to do bad thi
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by lxt 12y ago
I've been using T-mobile with my FxOS phone for nearly a year.
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by lxt 12y ago
Because they blogged about the situation.
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by lxt 12y ago
I work at Mozilla. I don't know about Brendan, but other employees definitely received multiple death threats.
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by lxt 13y ago
I can't upvote this enough! It's why I find jobs where what I do (engineering) is not the core product less rewarding on the whole.
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by lxt 13y ago
Wow. A billion dollars in profit, 12 million in his pocket each year...but the 7 million for health care has to come out of the employees' other pocket. Also, the fact that he's blaming two babies - I find it highly unlikely, stat
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by lxt 13y ago
I don't know if we count as big, but Mozilla fits all of your criteria.
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by lxt 13y ago
Some ideas, from one with a small child: Lunch breaks are great for side projects, even if you have to go work in your car in the parking lot, or the cafe down the street. Also, if your commute is via or can be via public transportation, or
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by lxt 13y ago
As mentioned in the article, give up useless timekilling activities (TV, Facebook, etc). The other big thing for me is cache warming. If you are doing non-mental activities such as showering or driving, use that time to plan what you'r
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by lxt 13y ago
It's worth noting that yes, it's changed pretty radically since 2009. There is some amazing stuff going on in the PHP ecosystem these days.
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by lxt 13y ago
I think most hackers are NT - abstraction and thinking. The E/I and J/P varies.
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by lxt 13y ago
I apologize in advance for the hand waving vagueness, but here's how I think of it. N=abstract thinker, likes ideas and concepts and big picture S=concrete thinker, likes real things and details J=likes rules and systems and binary par
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by lxt 13y ago
The stub itself pulls down the full installer, and you can always get that from download/FTP if needed. The intention is to provide a better download experience: there was a gap between the number of people who begin downloading Firefo
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by lxt 13y ago
Thank you for your contribution!
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by lxt 13y ago
I run the Web Engineering team at Mozilla, which is responsible for our crash reporting infrastructure. I was pretty happy to see this outcome from Sauce Labs :) Stability is something we take very seriously. If you have questions I'm
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by lxt 13y ago
Re the headline: duh, I'm reading HN. Anyone who has convinced themselves that this is work is in denial. I do agree with TOA though. You have to learn to call yourself on this stuff, or get a buddy/mentor/manager who will. D
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Minimum Viable Bureaucracy(speakerdeck.com)
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by lxt 13y ago
I note a Mozilla developer has commented on this bug today: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=843310#c3

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