Mozilla lays off 250 employees while it refocuses on commercial products

Issue #127 — August 12, 2020

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Mozilla lays off 250 employees while it refocuses on commercial products blog.mozilla.org \| points: 899 \| comments: 913

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Uber and Lyft ordered by California judge to classify drivers as employees theverge.com \| points: 745 \| comments: 720

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Planet Ceres is an ’ocean world’ with sea water beneath surface, mission finds theguardian.com \| points: 602 \| comments: 243

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Single Page Applications using Rust sheshbabu.com \| points: 570 \| comments: 295

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I accidentally built a nudity/porn platform elazzabi.com \| points: 432 \| comments: 296

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Belarus has shut down the internet amid a controversial election wired.com \| points: 419 \| comments: 184

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Celebrate Woz’s 70th wozbday.com \| points: 373 \| comments: 147

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Emacs 27.1 lists.gnu.org \| points: 348 \| comments: 169

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How to stop procrastinating by using the Fogg Behavior Model deprocrastination.co \| points: 315 \| comments: 121

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The case for why Google should be regulated as a public utility rankscience.com \| points: 262 \| comments: 347

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Creating a QR Code step by step nayuki.io \| points: 261 \| comments: 32

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The tragic physics of the deadly explosion in Beirut wired.com \| points: 260 \| comments: 172

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Developer won’t get hit by a bus, they’ll get hired by Netflix neomindlabs.com \| points: 254 \| comments: 394

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Mozilla is laying off 250 people and planning a ‘new focus’ on making money theverge.com \| points: 233 \| comments: 3

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Never use a dependency that you could replace with an afternoon of programming blog.carlmjohnson.net \| points: 232 \| comments: 223

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React v17.0 Release Candidate: No New Features reactjs.org \| points: 217 \| comments: 116

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TikTok to Sue U.S. over Ban npr.org \| points: 210 \| comments: 329

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U.S. Marshals Service online auction – Fyre festival fraud scheme txauction.com \| points: 197 \| comments: 167

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Bevy: A data-driven game engine and app framework built in Rust bevyengine.org \| points: 195 \| comments: 35

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The Three Bay Areas (2017) thebolditalic.com \| points: 192 \| comments: 82

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