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Re:Mozilla's lapse in judgement causes clash with uBlock Ori... by arp242 on Tuesday October 01, 2024 @06:58PM (#41715225)
The problem with these types of things is that the people who are qualified to do good reviews are also the sort of people who can typically get a far more interesting job building stuff, rather than just reviewing code. It's work that does require a certain level of skill, but at the same time is also quite boring.

And that more interesting job will probably pay better as well.

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Re:Mozilla's lapse in judgement causes clash with uBlock Ori... by ozim on Tuesday October 01, 2024 @07:20PM (#41715408)
I think that is one way that “tragedy of commons”.
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Re:Mozilla's lapse in judgement causes clash with uBlock Ori... by boopdewoop on Tuesday October 01, 2024 @11:41PM (#41716945)
Id rather hire a senior dev as a reviewer and a mid dev as the coder at a company. pay the reviewer more since they will be dealing with shit practices and having to train the dev.
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Re:Mozilla's lapse in judgement causes clash with uBlock Ori... by I_AM_A_SMURF on Wednesday October 02, 2024 @12:09AM (#41717074)
Not only that, but properly reviewing code would take forever. Heck I don't know how many senior engineers at my fancy tech company could do it and reliably spot problems.
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