Who is this person?

kentbrew 9 hours ago | parent | next [-]

That would be JR Conlin, national treasure. Worked with him on YDN in 2007 and Netflix in 2009; veterans of the Netflix API team will never forget his hack day entry, which was "Mac and Me" playing on a toaster oven.

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abcd_f 9 hours ago | parent [-]

What is he notable for in the context of Mozilla?

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altairprime 4 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

[delayed]

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flohofwoe 9 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Maybe read the blog post? Crazy suggestion, I know.

	▲	abcd_f an hour ago \| parent [-]
		Skimmed it before asking. It's written for people who already know who the author is. Hence the question.

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shevy-java 10 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Some mozilla software developer I guess.

They still have not fixed their build system. Meson/ninja or cmake would be alternatives. Nothing to have them abandon mozconfig ... this is legacy code. The rest of the world moved on. Mozilla lives in the past.

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flohofwoe 9 hours ago | parent | next [-]

> They still have not fixed their build system.

FWIW the Firefox build instructions [1] look a lot saner to me than the Chromium build instructions [2].

[1] https://firefox-source-docs.mozilla.org/setup/linux_build.ht...

[2] https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src/+/main/docs/l...

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userbinator 8 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Mozilla lives in the past.

And one would hope they stay there, because all the newer stuff is far more user-hostile.

	▲	goolz 7 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Could not agree more. I am honestly confused by the need for more than what FF/Librewolf offers and have been actively doing frontend for a long time. Plus no hassle with uBlock. And their Focus mobile browser is nice. I have the same complaints about their leadership as most but at least I feel I have some autonomy with their browser.