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Re:Ask HN: Who is hiring? (October 2023) on Friday October 13, 2023 @11:47AM (#37871915)
Out of curiosity, what skills or experience are your recruiters optimizing for while reviewing resumes?

Having a decade of experience and nearly 100% match with a fullstack job description (even down to microservices/event-driven systems) and getting a rejection without even a screening call means I either presented myself poorly or there's something else they're looking for that might not be advertised (or emphasized). In either of those situations, I would appreciate even a hint so I could improve my odds in the future, because rejections are getting tiring.

Re:I no longer build software on Monday September 21, 2020 @10:38AM (#24543996)
> So we've mostly solved trivial non-problems if/not regressions?

This. I get called a Luddite because I rant about the vastness of useless tech, but I love tech. I simply think most of what people focus on is useless and that "the immediacy to which I can do anything" now is actually very psychologically harmful.

Re:Google tracks individual users per Chrome installation ID on Tuesday February 04, 2020 @11:46AM (#22237734)
That's... interesting.

Does being a "trending project in-network" mean they received money from Mozilla?

Re:Google tracks individual users per Chrome installation ID on Tuesday February 04, 2020 @11:39AM (#22237623)
Owns, yes. That is radically different from "funds", though.

Not going to dispute anything about executive structure or Baker's compensation and (mis)management, but a lot of people here are acting like donations either go directly to the corporation or funnel to it through the actual recipient of the donations, but there isn't really any evidence being presented.

Re:Google tracks individual users per Chrome installation ID on Tuesday February 04, 2020 @10:26AM (#22236578)
Which ones? Eich donated like $1000 to a political group that (I would hope) most of us disagree with, but Eich != Mozilla, and he was removed because of the backlash
Re:Google tracks individual users per Chrome installation ID on Tuesday February 04, 2020 @10:25AM (#22236568)
Donations go to Mozilla "the non-profit organization" rather than Mozilla "the corporation".

Mozilla (the corporation) has the typical/bad corporate structures and ridiculous executive compensations. Mozilla (the corporation) had the layoffs. Mozilla (the corporation) bought Pocket with money that comes from deals with search engines.

That being said, though...

> Donate to smaller developers of software you use, it'll go a lot further, and they'll probably put it to better use!

... is still a great point.

(Updated this because "Mozilla, Org" and "Mozilla, Inc" were inaccurate)

> There are so many nice little touches in Rust that having nothing to do with it's "safe + low-level" USP.

Exactly this. I generally get met with skepticism when talking about Rust for web dev, because so many people say "you don't need that performance" (which is itself pretty arguable if one cares at all about energy footprint), but it isn't just the performance that makes Rust such an attractive option.