metajack

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by metajack 6mo ago
I expect you'll be seen as the problem for slowing an obviously productive person down. What a time to be alive :(
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by metajack 9mo ago
When I was at LinkedIn we definitely cared about this. It probably wouldn't be enough to knock you down a peg during your review if you had none during a particular half/quarter, but if you never did anything in this bucket it wou
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by metajack 9mo ago
This isn't that hard. There are various employee groups around identities (Women in Tech, Asian Pacific, Black, LGBTQ, etc). Membership is not exclusive to those groups but also open to allies. As an example, I used to participate in t
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by metajack 10mo ago
Many blogs are completely dynamic and grab content out of a database on every request. The static site generation style fell out of early fashion when wordpress took over from moveable type, and didn't really return much until jekyll.
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by metajack 2y ago
Level 59 is the entry level software engineer position. Similar to E3 at Meta or L3 at Google. Levels.fyi does a pretty good job at this kind of context at least for the big companies.
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by metajack 3y ago
The money tends to be on one side of these things, and money amplifies the message substantially. You can argue that the election was fair all you want, but who is going to pay to run all the ads to impress that message on everyone? It&#x27
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by metajack 3y ago
This is probably because of Apple's App Tracking Transparency (ATT) rules, which prevent personal data from leaving the device for ads without consent. This means YouTube on AppleTV can't target you at an individual level, and thu
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by metajack 3y ago
This isn't even the first time this has happened. Remember when they renamed Libra? I think they just assume it doesn't matter, and if it does, the settlement will be a blip. It doesn't always work out that way for them.
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by metajack 3y ago
You can’t control who buys your mortgage from whatever bank you originally got a mortgage with. Even if you refinance to another bank, they can just resell it again. I assume this is true of other kinds of debt. Not all their customers are
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by metajack 3y ago
While I'm happy to hear you are leaving Reddit, please consider reinstalling Apollo until Christian is able to shut down the app. He is planning to ask folks to forgo the refund much like Twitterific and Tweetbot did[1]. He will give r
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by metajack 3y ago
Christian Selig's post covers this in detail and includes references to other app developers with similar concerns. https://www.reddit.com/r/apolloapp/comments/144f6xm/apollo_w... I think some impor
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by metajack 3y ago
That is only true when flying. When on the ground during boarding, it's pretty awful and stuffy.
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by metajack 4y ago
How can you watch Ms Marvel and think this is copy paste or looks generic? The characters, culture, and art style are pretty unique and make the show quite enjoyable, and I am generally uninterested in the Marvel universe. Loki was also ver
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by metajack 4y ago
There is a long history of this including multi-protocol clients. You see this now for example as people want a single "chat" for the many places they publish live streams (twitch, youtube, discord, etc). Unfortunately, because yo
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by metajack 4y ago
> In 2005 Google added XMPP support to Google Talk/GMail Chat and they were federated, but nobody federated back and they closed off its successor (Hangouts). I don't think "lack of federation back" was a big driver i
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by metajack 5y ago
Didn't the metaverse always suck? It's the setting for dystopian science fiction.
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by metajack 5y ago
I used oops to help someone I knew several months back. It still exists and worked amazingly well.
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by metajack 5y ago
> I am well aware (and have been for decades) that I've been the beneficiary of white male privilege Excellent. Either you got this training at some point or you figured it out yourself. The point of such training is to make sure th
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by metajack 5y ago
It's hard to separate gut feeling from unconscious bias. Those times you remember not listening to your gut and regretting it are susceptible to confirmation bias. Personally, I've had great gut feelings about people that turned o
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by metajack 6y ago
Music rights are split into two traditionally, the songwriting copyright and the mechanical reproduction right. Previous to the internet, media sales mostly went to the labels who held hte mechanical rights and songwriting copyright was ear
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by metajack 6y ago
> But I also had one boss who did not want to hire one woman because " what happens when she gets pregnant" This is perhaps an example where extending parental leave benefits to both parents solves both ends of the problem. Men
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by metajack 6y ago
> Some places I've even seen a "diversity quota" for tech recruiters that's tied to a bonus. It makes sense if you want to increase diversity to have the beginning of the funnel get lots of diverse candidates in. The
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by metajack 6y ago
I can confirm that I personally advocated for namespaces before Cargo existed. I failed to convince the decision makers. Meanwhile, just a few days ago some of my project's crates were freshly squatted. Sigh. Maybe someday they'll
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by metajack 6y ago
Diane wrote an analysis of how many bugs would have been avoided had the Servo style system been in Gecko all along: https://hacks.mozilla.org/2019/02/rewriting-a-browser-compon... "There’s a significant over
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by metajack 6y ago
One reason to use Rust is speed. For example https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Facebook... Of course, not all projects have this as a high order concern, but some do, and it can make sense to use Rust
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by metajack 6y ago
The CTO of FB is an ex-Mozillian. There are quite a few ex-Mozillians here, including myself. Despite Mozilla's public posture that FB is enemy #1, the internal technical culture is more similar than different.
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by metajack 6y ago
At a certain point people will move to the bay area for the higher paycheck, so that keeps it adjusted pretty high. Companies are not competing against local-to-the-employee employers, they are competing with all employers globally. Even wi
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by metajack 6y ago
When someone points out that someone did something bad, clarifying they only did it to 1% of one country's users isn't a super strong defense. I don't think this was a good decision by Mozilla, especially as Germany is very p
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by metajack 7y ago
They added a new explanatory line to the 2018 form 990. It clarifies that the compensation comes from the subsidiary. That seems quite odd to me, but at least it isn't eating the foundation's budget.
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by metajack 7y ago
> If I recall correctly, that twitter post is not entirely accurate. The CEO was exercising their stock options. Mozilla Foundation is a non-profit, and Mozilla Corp is private held wholly by Mozilla Foundation. No one is getting compens

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