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sampling | 2 years ago | on: Thunderbird Is Thriving: Our 2022 Financial Report

> We began 2022 with 15 core staff, and now employ a team of 24 in these roles:

    Product and Business Development Manager
    Director of Operations
    Product Design Manager
    Engineering Manager
    Staff Engineers (3)
    Sr SW Engineers (2)
    Sr Security Engineer
    SW Engineer, Add-Ons Ecosystem
    Sr UI/UX Developer
    UI/UX Developers (2)
    Android Project Lead
    Android Developer (1)
    Build & Release Engineers (2)
    Full Stack Developer
    Front End Developer
    Community Manager
    Marketing Manager
    Bug Triager
    Support Engineer
I've never seen "Bug Triager" listed as an advertised role. Isn't this a subset of what a product owner/manager typically does?

sampling | 3 years ago | on: Ask HN: Software testing usually sucks. Did you ever see it work at scale?

I've seen software testing work at scale when there's a company-wide mindset to quality, as opposed to 'quality is the job of one person/department':

- Shift left testing: quality can be implemented at all stages of the development process, from requirements gathering to deployment. Issues are easier and cheaper to fix the earlier they are discovered, and it does not necessarily take a software tester to discover these, although testers can advocate for a mindset of quality - Quality as a shared mindset/goal, not just one team's job: every team member seeks to quality control their bit of work, this inevitably involves developers doing a basic level of sanity testing on their code. When done right this should reduce the long feedback loop to discovering issues when a team completes a piece of work, hands it over to QA, then context switches over to another piece of work.

sampling | 3 years ago | on: Bitwarden Acquires Passwordless.dev

I have a very similar self-hosted Vaultwarden set up, for the same reasons.

My other concern, which may be unfounded is that Vaultwarden [1], which is an unofficial Rust rewrite, may also be developed to different, or lesser security standards than the official client. However I don't have any real reasons to suspect this.

[1] https://github.com/dani-garcia/vaultwarden

sampling | 3 years ago | on: LineageOS 20

Can anyone confirm if the Aperture camera app is still fully functional when LineageOS is installed without GApps?

sampling | 3 years ago | on: Ask HN: How do you discover new music?

Bandcamp. The "x items in common" subheading on other profiles has been a very strong indicator of other people with music taste I may also vibe with. As a plus, they seem to be one of the more fair companies with artist distribution payments and their "Bandcamp Fridays", so buying music has a bit more of a feel good factor.

sampling | 3 years ago | on: About communication safety in Messages

I'm struggling to understand what exactly is "bad" about homosexuality? Why does a consenting same sex relationship between two adults need "scrubbing" from Disney?

sampling | 4 years ago | on: uBlock Origin review

Was worried about running all my web history through this extension for privacy reasons, has anyone gone through the source code to verify uBlock Origin’s privacy policy?
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