Comment Re:Lets organize a boycott .. (Score 1) 204
Uh.... Christie Koehler explicitly said she thought Brendan would do a good job as CEO. So I'm a bit confused about why you're lumping her into your list.
Uh.... Christie Koehler explicitly said she thought Brendan would do a good job as CEO. So I'm a bit confused about why you're lumping her into your list.
Three board members didn't quit over Brendan's presence as CEO. But the Wall Street Journal _did_ make up a story to that effect, which has gotten widely quoted, and refused to retract it when it was pointed out it was false.
https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/... has a Q&A on the issue, but basically two of the board members had wanted to move on to other things for a while but stuck it out until the end of the CEO search (because that was the board's primary job at the time). They left the board as soon as a CEO was chosen, a week or two before the choice was even announced.
The third board member who left did leave because he did not think Brendan would make a good CEO, but for reasons that have nothing to do with the Prop 8 mess.
Just for context, a number of Mozilla employees spoke up in support of Brendan during the goings on (twitter, blogs, etc).
Further, he explicitly asked people to keep working on the Mozilla mission, even without him. Keep in mind that Mozilla is not just a company; most people who are there aren't there just for the paycheck...
Now obviously they (we?) could have gone ahead and just imploded the Mozilla project over this issue by leaving. Would that have made Brendan feel better? I sort of doubt that.
There is a difference between "self determination" and "referendum performed under armed guard, with no international election observers allowed into the country", but it's a subtle one, I grant. That said, it's the sort of difference that can give you a 95% "Join Russia" vote, with 80% turnout (76% of total voters, if you do the math) in a region where at most 60% of the population is ethnic Russian and at least 10% (the Tatars) are _extremely_ unlikely to have vote for union with Russia.
If you think those referendum results are fair and represent self-determination, I have a bridge I'd like to sell you.
You need an account if you want to use Mozilla's sync service.
If you don't want to use sync, or if you want to run your own sync server instead of using Mozilla's, then you don't need an account.
Uh... They do have gas. In Crimea. See http://www.reuters.com/article...
Assuming the extension works on Chrome on iOS. Which it may not, since that uses a fairly different architecture and rendering engine from Chrome on other platforms...
For what it's worth, "millions of dollars" is a pretty low bar. A million dollars in the US will get you _maybe_ 5 person-years worth of work from anyone at all competent (using the normal rule of thumb that an employees cost to the employer is about 2x salary once you take into account benefits, employer taxes, equipment, office space, etc).
So 10 million dollars will get you a 10 years worth of work from 5 developers. As an example, the PyPy project is 10 years old....
For JS, between the various browser vendors, the right number is probably closer to 300-500 person-years (see https://news.ycombinator.com/i... for an attempted breakdown). Figure $100 million as a low estimate. Chances are, the people involved are being paid more than $100k a year, so adjust the estimate up accordingly...
The other option is to review updates to extensions before pushing them out to users. That's what Mozilla does with Firefox extensions.
Because most of the packages that do something useful involve interaction with the OS.
Sandboxing the python runtime, say, means breaking most of the packages python developers take for granted, no?
It depends.
Once you're in steady state, and if you don't use workers and don't use the new parallel processing primitives people are proposing for JS, you're right.
But during JIT warmup, and any time you have to JIT a new function or new codepath it matters because on multicore hardware you can do background compilation.
Mozilla fully supports single-line flexbox (that is, flexbox in which the child flex items are all layed out in a single row or column), which is what most flexbox use cases want, and has for a while.
What's missing is support for multiline flexbox.
As far as I know, in Colombia, Venezuela, Spain, Poland, so far.
Make sure your code does nothing gracefully.