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No, the three board members resigned before I was appointed. They did not resign to try to push me out, since I was not "in" yet. Two of them did not resign because of anything about me in particular.

One (Ellen Siminoff) had planned to leave at the end of 2013, and since she wasn't staying, she didn't want to vote to appoint me only to depart right after voting. That was a clean situation.

I'm bound by non-disclosure not to comment on the other two cases, but this much I'll say based on public info disclosed by others: John Lilly left the board rather than appoint me, as he implied with some tweets at the time. His leaving had nothing to do with Prop 8; he never mentioned it.

Here's what I think happened in the press: Alistair Barr of the WSJ was working on a story about Mozilla being in trouble because Google would not renew its search deal for Firefox, which was due to expire later in 2014 (a highly unlikely claim, but a good link-bait thesis); and also because Mozilla had run for over a year without a new permanent CEO since Gary Kovacs left (true, and a cause for concern among many).

Barr's story was under construction at least as early as February 2014, and it got hot and neared publication later in March as board members resigned. Those of us at high levels at Mozilla believed someone at or near board level who had recently left the company was sending rumors to Barr.

This WSJ story broke on March 28th, and it was summarized at that end of my first week as CEO as "board members resigned a week ago", but then one more week passed, and the Prop 8 story grew bigger due to okcupid, and the "week ago" became bogusly rewritten ("retconned") in many online accounts and comment threads as "three board members resigned over Prop 8".

That never happened. No board members resigned over Prop 8. Mozilla's FAQ on the whole affair says this plainly, and it's accurate on this point.
Sugar is an odd substance. It's made up of glucose and fructose. Glucose tells your body to store fat and "use me" while your liver is converting the fructose to fat.
"Clojure would be a nice environment to work with if it wasn't running on JVM. It renders Clojure a resource hog, and the startup time is awful. A big no-no for most of my use cases."

Then don't use it, right? There are plenty of use cases for which Clojure makes sense, and where running on the JVM is a perk.
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Except it won't - it will end up in the general taxation pool, and spent on anything, including foreign aid, unemployment, defense
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That trailing question mark isn't in the original title for a very good grammatical reason, the title isn't a question, it's a statement. So, please can you remove it?

If the title were:

Why is BlackBerry Exiting Pakistan?

Then all would be well with the world.
why introduce a financial penalty on sugar consumption itself if it is not a major factor in rising obesity and other health problems?
Absolutely I agree that you can host your own GIT repo, and people do do it. But you ca not deny that a lot of people use Hosted services.

So again I don't see a difference between GiTHub and Codeanwyhere in that aspect.

Of course if you don't use GitHub you people by wont use us...and that's OK.
Mob programming – The mob rules, OK?
On pt 3: Perhaps cheap x86 would have killed Sun anyway. But it could be possible that this Ultrasparc-ii disaster and the subsequental loss of huge clients were the killing blow.
use rdns, spf and dkms, luke.
I used to do all these things (not that I am a sysadmin by trade, but after 15 years you get to know the job). Even doing all this the big email players (Microsoft in particular, but Yahoo and Google are also guilty) will just ditch your emails without rhyme or reason if it is not coming out of a known email service.

This didn’t used to happen, but it looks like they have now outsourced their spam filtering to the email service providers who now act as the gatekeepers to email ecosystem - email from a known service == good, email from business that has been around for more than a decade == spam.
"literally" in front of "strip... rights" is a red flag for b.s.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9748538
I agree that this would be a good use of new funds. But perhaps a deeper problem is that these areas are so underfunded as it is. We treat road transport as "essential infrastructure" whilst provision for healthy options are treated as an expensive luxury.
WOW ! this code is impressive - do you have more examples like this?
Love it! This is why we build what we do :)
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* Mail you want to receive:
Your server can be down for a few days (if I remember correctly, 5 days, according to postfix defaults) and still receive all emails when it goes up again. More downtime and the senders will receive permanent error bounces.

If you fear longer server downtimes, you also have the option of secondary MX servers.

* Mail you send:
Just display the mail log (/var/log/mail.info) and see if you get 250 OK responses when you submit messages. What happens next is not your responsibility anymore (except for spam filter rules of course, you need spf, dkim...)
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Why don't you do it like Chrome/Firefox sync?

There's one thing I really hate about coding and that is getting my environment up and synced.

This is why I would consider using CodeAnywhere.

Throw your IDE into Electron and make offline counterparts to the online stuff and it would be a nice package.

But writing a config sync plugin for Atom would be enough for many, I guess
Why do you think it is important that the use of the tax be ringfenced? My view would be that the aim of the tax would be to nudge people into changing their behaviours, and it will do this whether the resulting income goes into funding obesity related treatments or just into the general taxation pot.

Also, hypothecation doesn't really seem to me to rise above the level of a PR labelling exercise -- if sugar tax income is all spent on NHS obesity programmes, then the government will simply reduce the amount of NHS funding from the general pot correspondingly. Further, you get awkward effects if peoples' behaviour really does change where obesity programmes could end up underfunded because the sugar tax income falls. Better to just fund them to the right level from the general pot, I think.
if anything.. that's confirmation they're right. 2 of the 3 custom jean makers in that article are gone:

here's a blank page for one:
http://thimbler.com/

And indiedenim is now Indie Internet Marketers:
http://www.indidenim.com/

The 4th mentioned in the article was a site that ranked premade jeans from major manufacturers based on a questionaire.. so i'm not counting that one.
My email address is willhinsa at google's email service. Yours?
I'll have to concede the losing sharing. There are still some frustrating things there, the DAV ACL model doesn't map very well to the Cyrus model which is based on IMAP permissions and there were a couple of bad bugs in there until recently. We're still running patches that I'd like to remove, but at least we finally understand the cause of lost acls and fixed it.

I'd love to know more about deliverability issues - that's something we monitor closely, and we want to know if there are any silent blocks/drop rules anywhere that we can't monitor for!
BlackBerry Changing Corporate Values to Shoot for CrackBerry Once More..?
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Hardest natural maybe, but not the hardest man made.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superhard_material
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SketchUp

You can sit down and do 3d without knowing anything about the program. Things like Maya, Blender or 3ds Max require training to achieve almost anything.

Fireworks

I can only wonder how amazing it could be if it was split out from Macromedia before it was bought by Adobe.

IntelliJ Idea

Type hints were amazing. For the first time I felt like having actual conversation with the computer about what I want to achieve. Too bad it didn't progress at all since then.
I have been running my own email with nothing but a real certificate (maybe that matters) and SPF with no (delivery) issues.
I'm so happy to learn the term kebab-case (and agree that it's very usable and supremely typable)
I like the idea of a cloud-backed IDE that has an Offline/Cache mode, but is it even possible to provide the non-editor part of the dev environment (things like the terminal and all of the associated state in the container) while offline when they live on the server? That non-editor part of the dev environment is really the main appeal of a cloud-backed IDE for me.

Also, I have yet to find a cloud IDE that has proper support for building iOS apps. Sure you can delegate the builds to some external build service, but sometimes you do need the flexibility of a local build environment for advanced debugging and working around certain issues.
We do have file storage via WebDAV or ftp, though it's not as full featured as companies that specialise in it. I wrote that up last year as well. It works OK, though it will be nicer one we spec out jmap file storage api.
Symbolic calculations are great. I learned about them (I think in highschool) with http://www.chartwellyorke.com/derive.html
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... and sign up and monitor every FBL you can get your hands on, have outgoing spam filtering gateways, procedures to rotate subnets in case Microsoft/Outlook/Hotmail receive a single complaint about any message relayed by your MTA and take their sweet time "conditionally mitigating" you. Pray daily that none of your users get their email creds stolen on a coffee shop wi-fi.

It's a very lame part-time job.
Learn one subject after another or all in parallel (like at an university)?
There are a lot of things I want to learn.
It's really hard to prioritize them and even if I do - a lot is left to undefined time to the future.

What I've realized is that at an university we used to learn everything in parallel, in small steps.

What if I apply this approach in my self learning too?

Would it be too slow for fast changing fields (ML, Big Data for instance)?

I am gonna give it a try anyways, just wondering if someone else here has similar experience.
Public transport isn't a "healthy travel option". This just goes to support the worry of another commenter that this will just go into the general taxation pool to support various programs that may or may not have anything to do with sugar and/or health.
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Hi guys,

I made a little iOS app inspired by technique described by Keith Rabois called calendar audit - https://youtu.be/6fQHLK1aIBs?t=43m37s How it works is you basically go through your calendar and sort your events into different categories. This way you can see if the time allocation matches your priorities.

What I've done is an app for iPhone which connects with your calendar, has a super simple sorting interface and automatically generates graphs for you.

The app is now ready on Testflight and I'm looking for a few early beta testers and any helpful feedback. Here is a super simple landing page with a signup button for a beta access: http://bit.ly/1MO8N09

Thank you :-)
Both Orion and Che can be run locally (or behind a firewall) without any problems.
I only occasionally had problems with outlook.com, I contacted them, their spam system is an outsourced blackbox. They advised me not to send mass emails... Which I don't of course. Gmail and Apple never gave me any problems. Yahoo banned me after my first mail, no idea why but it seems to work now. I feel like I'm fighting the good fight (decentralize all the things!) so I'll just accept the shortcomings, which are in general, not that many. There are even some nice things like I can have mail addresses that go to both me and my wife, unlimited spam addresses etc.
What if ET discovered UWB before us and that is their primary means of communication?
Hang on a sec before dismissing this notion: this is precisely how Petraeus fell.
you could check the links in his/her HN profile
Disclaimer: I am not a physicist.

Maybe gravity will turn out to be just a computational artefact. The more energy and states in a volume, the "slower" progression of the [local] system. An effect like this could appear as curved space at energy concentrations. Perhaps GR could be derived from something like this?
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The issue is that if the tax is successful, and revenues start to fall from that particular source due to fewer sugary foods, there may be an instinct on the part of politicians to make up that money elsewhere.

A good example in the US is cigarette taxes - while originally designed to fund cancer treatment and anti-smoking initiatives, a lot of states have come to depend on the revenue from those taxes. As more people switch to e-cigs, which are not taxed and offer big cost savings, states are talking about taxing e-cigarettes similarly.

If the goal of the cigarette tax was harm reduction, presumably there's some incentive to have people smoke e-cigarettes instead of regular tobacco - but the real concern is the loss of the tax revenue the state has come to depend on. Ringfencing (theoretically) discourages this.
Uhm, surprised no one has mentioned https://invoiceplane.com/ yet, which is the first thing that comes up if you google "open source invoice".

For my purposes free doc templates (in my case Google Docs) serve my invoicing purposes perfectly well though. Plain docs are also nice in that they're more flexible than a web based app.
> Why do I have to sacrifice all that valuable vertical space for information that is always stacked in the 20% left side of that huge panel?

You don't, hide it via CSS[1]. Entire Eclipse UI is customizable. Install CSS Spy[2] to experiment live before committing changes.

My Eclipse setup actually looks like VIM with split buffers, there is nary a wasted pixel. To get to that point that though (e.g. hiding right side gutters and always-on scrollbars) is a bit more involved, need to take custom plugin route for that.

[1] http://stackoverflow.com/a/17027501/185840
[2] http://marketplace.eclipse.org/content/eclipse-4-tools-css-s...
I also don't understand what is surprising here or why do they think there is some "conflict" in this case.
Companies can comply with laws and regulations while being against them in principle this is how most politics works.
Companies may also find that some "surveillance" laws benefit them as they might allow them to gain protection against attacks by foreign state actors or organized crime as well as some protection against liability for cooperating with the US government which they have to do so anyhow.
So yeah the whole proving a negative part is kinda silly, but so is the entire premise. Microsoft, Google, Facebook can work on thwarting surveillance while having to continue to cooperate with the US government and while still be in need of it's protection and knowledge to thwart attacks against their own corporate resources and interests, or in short politics.
And yes the criticism of Greenwald for saying, yes most likely US spies care about national security and do their job rather than attempt instituting some shadow government on the behest of shape shifting lizard aliens is also pretty stupid.
A lot of fantastically great ideas seemed like terrible ideas until they were executed. That is why a lot of people say that ideas are cheap, execution is what has value.
Damn people, ever heard of sarcasm?
What new programming paradigms have been developed in the last decade? I can't think of any.
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They should probably just copy whatever we've been doing in the US. Our sugar consumption has been falling since the late 90's.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CUsIUgdVAAA-pu3.jpg

(Obesity has continually increased, however.)
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<sarcasm>Isn't this a very cynical pov? On the same grounds I could argue for trolls to be euthanized instead of feed. </sarcasm>
Public transport usually involves a short walk to a stop, making it a healthier option than private cars.
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> The problem is as always telling the truly good ideas from the just good.

Not only telling the difference, but defining it. The difficulty is avoiding post hoc evaluation, ie. the idea that looks very good in hindsight because it succeeded and the great implementation makes it look compelling.
I like this list:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Non-rocket_spacelaunch

Some ideas seem rather sci-fi :D
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We compared Flow and Typescript for our projects, you can see the articles https://blog.wearewizards.io/flow-and-typescript-part-1-flow and https://blog.wearewizards.io/flow-and-typescript-part-2-type...

TL;DR: Flow inference is super nice but community and tooling is lacking compared to TypeScript imo so we ended up using TS
Do you have link to evidence to backup that claim?

In my view sugar has been used more and more as an extra ingredient in other foods. Additionally, there are different kinds of sugar, which may influence your statistic: http://thatsugarfilm.com/blog/2015/03/16/added-sugar-vs-natu...

I thoroughly recommend watching That Sugar Film.
Which still is used and works even on cosmological scales.

Relativity is only really useful in certain scenarios, people still calculate the motions of stars and galaxies with Newtonian physics:)
I see the parallels you are trying to make, but I think the human body is orders of magnitude more complex than a car, and its still possible that we don't know everything about how electricity functions inside us - how it influences our development from a single cell jumping through millions of years of evolution.
Does that chart include the corn syrup and other substitutes?
What a surprise: a Government-appointed committee recommends increasing taxes.
This looks like well executed deal for good reasons.

Nokia and Alcatel-Lucent have little product overlap but significant customer overlap. This deal produces value for their current and future customers.

Nokia bought Alcatel-Lucent cleanly. It was not merge or fusion. Some managers are kept, but Nokia is clearly in charge.
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Yeah. Valid point. Removed it.
I think the low value given to ideas is at least party due to 2 reasons:

1. History has demonstrated that you can't really tell how a good an idea is until you actually try to execute it. ("Dig here, there might be gold.")

2. The potential "buyers" for these ideas already have plenty of ideas that they would rather work on.
Thanks for your support. One small corrective point that I think is important:

I know of no LGBT employees who worked for me and said they couldn't keep working for me. I had conspicuous support from some really good LGBT-identifying folks (who've all since left, if I'm not mistaken).

The Mozilla Foundation (not Corporation) employees who tweeted asking me to resign in the first week (on March 27, 2014) never worked for me. I don't know and don't care who among them identified as LGBT or anything. They too seem to have mostly left.

I was at Mozilla from founding onward for over 16 years, by the way.
I disagree on Uber for Cleaning Services being the same.

For a cab company, I want a large fleet of cabs, so that I can get the closest one fast. I dont need huge levels of trust in my cab driver. Get me where I want to go, dont kill me in the process, dont rob me.

For a cleaning company, I'm letting those guys inside my house. I need a lot more trust, and I dont want new guys every time. I want a reliable guy that I can use over and over again.

One of those is well suited to a distributed model with interchangeable parts. Uber provides that distributed network, and that is a moat of kinds. Yes they can be replaced, but you still need a comparable distributed network in place to be competitive. That isn't free.

Their power is in their existing network, and the fact that being a network is a value add to what they provide. For a cleaning service, being in a network isn't a competitive benefit - I'm not looking for the closest cleaner, I want one I really trust.
I think they'd be much better off launching an independent Android store, with CyanogenMod, which doesn't rely on Play Services. Signing up to Play Services basically means signing up to being an Android OEM manufacturer.
> It won't work if each method returns a new instance, such as methods of immutable collections.

TS' this type does not allow that either. You have to return `this`, and nothing else.

This can be explained by inheritance. If you extend a class with a method returning a `this` type, but not returning `this`, somehow you should be forced to override that method. But you probably don't want that.

Also, the `this` type introduced by TS is basically equivalent to Scala's `this.type`.
It's not the bitstream format that is stopping you. It's the comprehensive tooling in this field that is not open which holds you back. Bitstream formats are nothing. It's like not having access to GCC but complaining to Intel about their microcode. There is so much more to the process of creating something useful with an fpga. Worrying about open bitstream formats is like worrying about Intel not disclosing how their microcode affected a single chip. It's not useful for much beyond a single chip, in the same way that many cpus in a family have different microarchitectures.

The most useful tools in fpga dev have little to do with the part of translating the Verilog/Vhdl into something the fpga understands.

Just going to add this:

I had to install VMware (on OS X) and load an Ubuntu ISO just to play with Xilinx's tooling. I dev on win, Ubuntu, and OS X. Primarily Ubuntu. But just a heads up to anyone reading this that can positively affect this: if even I am on a Mac, it's time to expand your offering.
Could you provide sources? I am interested in this topic and would love to read more then just a stated "fact" as an answer to missing "evidence".
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Specifying a Vagrantfile and Dockerfile is usually the first thing I do for any non-trivial project these days. I find there's tremendous value in having a fully reproducible dev environment on all of the different OSes and machines I work on, and I suspect the benefits would be even more pronounced in a team environment.

The cloud IDE takes this concept even further by only ever having a single source of truth for the dev environment, but this comes at the cost of offline access and choice of editors, which is a compromise I'm not willing to make yet.
In this case there is no action at all on the users part.

> As soon as he clicked that debug link or the detail link, he was intentionally accessing information without authorized access

No he was not, he was accessing information because he did not know what it was (not explicit enough) and have been authorized to do it by Gmail. In both cases you are quoting, there is work done on the user part to access the information, in this case there is not.
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I upvoted you, because you are right.

We would be better off, adding optional typing to JavaScript 6/7. They already added "class" syntactic sugar thanks to them.

Dart and TypeScript just divide the devs and open code base. It's like finding a great project on Github only to figure out it coded in language XY.
Running asynchronous standups with Zapier and Asana
The hero banner literally says "Next Generation Eclipse IDE"
Odoo ( used to be OpenERP) seems like a complete invoicing stack with stocks, purchase orders, estimates, warehouse, ...

It's free to install using the community version and some technical knowledge.