From their about page, it seems they very much do not want to be like HN:

> Some things that are off-topic here but popular on larger, similar sites: entrepreneurship, management, news about companies that employ a lot of programmers, investing, world events, anthropology, self-help, personal productivity systems, last-resort customer service requests via public shaming

It is literally difficult for me to understand the problem through your condescension

I’m sorry I’m sounding condescending. I was trying to be funny. The point is that there are so many problems that it is even a problem to list them. Those problems are so evident to me that I didn’t thought people might not understand it.

1. Linkedin is a platform promoting a closed-garden vision of the web while Firefox is seen a the last stand against that closed vision.

2. Linkedin is owned by Microsoft. Microsoft has been the biggest opponent to Mozilla and still is, even if it may be topped by Google in that place.

3. Linkedin is known for its terrible security practices regarding personal datas. It is also a big seller of private data. Which goes against "promoting privacy".

This tells a lot from a symbolic perspective. But it is not only symbolic:

4. You need a Linkedin account to view the link. Meaning that the very first step of the news CEO is requiring users to have an account on a rival platform which harvest their data if they want to know who she is.

5. It means that the new CEO find her Linkedin account more important that any personal website, if any, which is philosophically the opposite of Mozilla self-proclaimed mission.

I hope it is is clearer and you understand that, yes, it is a big deal. CEO position is mostly symbolic. The very first move and the fact that nobody at Mozilla even realized that it could send a bad signal is enough indication that nobody there even understand the original mission anymore. Nobody there cares about privacy. Nobody there cares about the independence of the Web.

> I was trying to be funny.

You succeeded!

What he means is that as a CEO of a corporation that is supposed to defend things like openness, privacy, power to the users etc., it's ironic that the only tool to see her profile is from a Microsoft-owned company, which is quite the opposite of most of Mozilla's core values (well, mostly regarding privacy).

Is BFCM a well known acronym? I get that it’s about Black Friday but can’t figure out the CM and don’t see it written out anywhere

Cyber Monday :)

Only Cyber Monday started in July, on a Wednesday.

that acronym use became steadily more common/popular with marketers / social media in the past 5 years

Cyber Monday

I switched to c# dev from web a couple years ago and am baffled there’s no built in way to see the network requests my app is making when debugging

Right...but how would this work tho?

Since on a more open platform like the CLR, JVM Python interpreter or bare metal (as opposed to a controlled sandbox like the browser) there are many different network traffic libraries dealing with all kinds of different ways of communicating (everything from basic HTTP to binary protocols for communicating with hardware like DNP3).

How would the standard debugger hook into all these different libraries? I'm assuming they'd have to implement hooks and maintain them too, nevermind if there's more than one debugger available to be supported.

Seems like a lot of effort compared to just using a tool like Wireshark or, for HTTP stuff, a MITM proxy...

Lol been waiting patiently for that for 20 years in .Net. Such an obvious gap.

To be fair, “definitely” would not be a good answer to that question in a real interview :)

It's a direct answer to a fairly broad and vague qualifying question, intended to be a response to kick off a dialog and proceed to discuss what the real question is.

Interviews aren't and shouldn't be about regurgitating rote memorization.

As a manager you’ll waste your reports time and have them take the blame for missing dates. Where do you work?

My job is to teach them ways to work and manage their workloads and projects (as well as the skillsets of the trade). They are wasting their own time and mine by taking that tactic.

So yes, if they are clearly trying to shirk ownership of their projects and tasks and pass the buck that is on them.

Project deliverables are just one component of my job. Fostering skillsets and career progression are others.

If someone wants to try and be clever by purposefully being obtuse and shirking responsibility, that is 100% on them. I grant them the freedom of manuervability and decision making to not do that. They are in charge of their own destiny in that way.

And to be clear I have only had maybe 1-2 people that really brought that to their finish line. Most times as soon as we have some type of talk and communication opens of what I’m trying to do and why, it works out.

I get that this place is very anti-management. But the reality is in most orgs you do need some level of hierarchy and leadership.

My “we’re like a startup” experience was all the uncertainty of a startup along with all the bureaucracy of big tech which resulted in pivoting to a new 12 month roadmap every 6 months…

These just sound like opportunities to learn. If you’re on average outperforming betting odds then of course use your system. For the chess and driving examples you can analyze those recommendations to figure out the rationale and incorporate a new strategy or a new route in your knowledge (or learning the system is unreliable and avoid it).

It’s headlines posted to HN that follow HN rules that the HN user thought would be of interest to the HN community.

Right: the "HN rules" are for submissions to have unedited title from the original page. So, you know, "real web site titles".

HN sees a lot of non-techy submissions, and only some of them get downvoted out (most are simply ignored).

So while this results in a ratio of technical to non-technical "headlines" that's not representative of the Internet as a whole, it's still pretty much not very HackerNews-specific. If it included a reasonable minimum upvotes requirement (100?), then it might be.