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I really seem to have selected a poor example, sorry but Spanish is my native language and some subtleties of English (such as etymology) are sometimes elusive to me.

As to decorate with another amusing fact, while researching about "don't be a pussy" I found that Google translates it to Spanish as "no seas marica", which would be "don't be a marica", marica being a derogatory term to refer to homosexual men. I know Google Translate uses statistical analysis and not fixed rules... but what amuses me a little is the idea of how this fact alone could start a whole new inflammatory thread if posted on Google+ by some Internet celebrity.
> How on earth does that deserve a ban?

That does not deserve a ban in and of itself. Repeated instances of that following warnings of unacceptable behavior, on the other hand, does.

It would seem Richard here was in the second situation:

> You've been warned repeatedly about the Bugzilla Etiquette rules, and you're still failing to respect them.
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No, if there's a track record of obscene bug reports, then the person involved shouldn't be given even the slightest bit of slack.

edit: if I were dmose, I'd have banned him a year ago for https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=579372#c2.
That's all nice to hear, but the truth is that the (popular and unpopular) culture of western nations drives behavior to be outright hostile and racist to those with even minor genetic defects. And people herd themselves like sheep.
If there is a win here for the environment, it's super-tiny.

Presumably the higher environmental costs of the LED bulbs are reflected in their higher retail prices, which are still offset by the savings in electricity (the price of which should eventually come to reflect the environmental cost of generating the electricity).
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A simple thing, like carefully tracking where do you spend precious minutes of free time, can get you far.
Sorry, I was just describing the last guy that actually did this to me, and those were the aspects that I found physically unattractive... If I had described him as 'totally fit, washboard abs, young guy with handsome square jaw', most people wouldn't understand what I was complaining about!
>which is true of very few people in this case; how many Google+ users have used the feedback option?)

I have, but for more mundane UI issues. Though I suspect that Mr. Munroe has considerable amplification power of his opinions. I have multiple reshares of that post at this point.
This, exactly. I don't know Richard but this thread has triggered my curiosity, so I've looked at a few of his bug comments and the pattern is that they are funny and strongly worded, but the strong language isn't directed at a person - it's squarely aimed at the problem.
It took Mozilla 10 years to get Sunbird to version 1.0, not to mention how long it took them to iron out Thunderbird's "imperfections". As for FireFox, if it weren't for the extensions and the "open source" sticker no one would care about FireFox. They need all the Richard Mlynariks they can get.

And I am..er... WAS a hard core FireFox user (switched to chrome a year ago) and still am a heavy Thunderbird user. Mozilla needs to haul ass.
Richard Mlynarik is one of the developers for XEmacs and has contributed to coreutils in GNU. open up your terminal and type in man whoami.
It's my opinion that when you call a Thunderbird developer "some simian" and when you tell them to "Die die die die" and "Seriously, screw you" and you say things like "You know, every time I see a comment from [a specific Thunderbird developer] I just want to reach out through the intertubes and cut off his damned fingers to prevent him ever writing any code..." and when you're warned in a very civil tone with a clear explanation of why your approach is hurting rather than helping https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=579372#c3 and you still come back with more of that same approach, I think being banned from Bugzilla is a perfectly reasonable thing.
They should do that too, but surely preventing a problem is better than looking to address it after the damage has been done?
Agreed. Any bug report from a user is valuable - the fact that he was frustrated enough to report it means that there is a problem that needs to be addressed.
In fact, my educated guess is that far more women die from
car accidents than from crazy murderers.

That's true. However, if I'm doing my math right, the statistics for rape and sexual assault are an entirely different story. The US isn't on both of these lists[0][1], so we'll take a proxy and compare: Germany has 6.5/100k deaths/year in accidents and 8.9/100k rapes/year. Note that that's per 100k people, not per 100k women. Then note that, in the US, we have 28 rapes per hundred thousand people, more than three times the rate in Germany. Then note that something like half of rapes are never reported to the police [2].

[0]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rape_statistics#UN_Statistics

[1]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Automobile_accident#Statistics_...

[2]: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rape_statistics#Under-_and_over...
Let's make a point about the iPhone in Europe
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If they need to punish obscene reports, punish for those, specifically. When they happen. Don't punish a mild, non-obscene report some other time.

edit for your edit: Thanks for finding an earlier clearer example. That comment was unnecessarily personal and abusive. It deserved reprimand or censure. And if the reprimand(s) are responsible for the less-personal tone of the 2011-06-30 comment, compared to the 2010-07-21 comment, they're working to increase the signal-to-emotional-noise ratio. But the controversy of a hard ban for a lesser transgression now introduces new emotional noise.
We're staying at a local state park just across the river to try to see it go. My kids are young but I want them to have a chance to see the last flight of an interesting chapter in American space exploration.
The "offender" could/should be more polite, but enforcing etiquette mustn't stifle progress.

I don't mind the downvotes, but could you add why you disagree?
For the last three days: iOS = 19.98%, iPhone = 15.14% , iPod Touch = 4.76% , iPhone + iPod Touch = 19.90%.

The difference is only 0.08% of mobile usage, so either they don't count iPad usage as part of Mobile at all and that's just a rounding error, or they count it as drastically lower than the 1% (of all browsing, not just mobile) that other sources are quoting for iPad browser share.

Actually, you can tell they do count iPad as part of the normal, non-mobile, browser graph. It's small enough that it gets bundled into "Other" on the browser versions graph, but if you download the CSV data it's called out separately, currently at 0.73% of all browsing and the total they give for all versions of Safari combined wouldn't add up unless they counted the iPad versions in with the desktop versions.
You're right, he is being a little abrasive there, but I'd take it in stride and enjoy; this sort of thing is normal on the Internet.

And besides, he's right. Why did they replace cmd-f like that?
While we might disagree on the exact mechanics, I think we can agree that any open-source community would be better without such people.
Well, Google+ and many social networks feel designed to be opt-in so interaction between people that aren't directly connected somehow is limited and suboptimal. For example, some people I don't know have added me to a circle of theirs on google+ and have shared some bizarre pictures and things I don't care for, and I have to purposefully seek these out if I cared to look at them. That solves a lot of problems right there.

Some networks don't always work like that. It's the general idea of the thing more than it was google+'s implementation I was referring to by the end of that paragraph. I personally just want it in google+ out of habit, because I have it set that way in Facebook and all my dating site profiles and such. Inevitably I have a guy hitting on me and I don't want them to have a misunderstanding or to waste their time. It also helps to search for other people to talk to, and that benefits more than just me or my friends.
Morendil, his comments are often very much directed at individuals and not at features or bugs.

Calling a developer a "simian" and shouting "screw you" and actually saying "You know, every time I see a comment from [a specific Thunderbird developer] I just want to reach out through the intertubes and cut off his damned fingers to prevent him ever writing any code" are all direct and personal attacks that should not be tolerated in any forum.

There's nothing "funny" about that. It's the behavior of a bully and someone who thinks that because he's big bad programmer with a long history that he can verbally abuse other programmers when ever he feels like it.

There's nothing funny about bullying.
Why should we accept unnecessarily abrasive behaviour as acceptable anywhere?
I agree with you on most point except this one.

> When you're a fat, bald guy that does exactly that, you don't get to be treated like it's all okay and the girl is obligated to spend time with you because you bought her a drink or ten.

Where I live right now, women (and some men) surprisingly often offer me drinks in bars. Most of the time I'm not attracted to them but yet, I find it only fair and nice to spend some time with them. I even sometimes dance with old and fat women. I don't see anything wrong with this and if I don't feel like spending time with a stranger, I respectfully decline the offer and pay for my own drinks.
I've always wanted to build something like your NIST reference. I'd like to have a lighting system in my home that allows me to select color temperature in addition to intensity (as well as some other less-obvious parameters I can think of), without sacrificing CRI and subjective light quality.
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RequestPolicy is a great addon for stopping this sort of tracking (amongst other things). Takes a little while to get it trained on the sites you visit most, but it's a lot safer to use the web with it than without.
I'd call this "how not to deal with customer feedbacks". If it were paying customers, they'd have none left with this attitude!
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You're right, he is being a little abrasive there, but I'd take it in stride and enjoy; this sort of thing is normal on the Internet.

That doesn't mean it needs to be tolerated. While such behaviour might be common on places like Xbox Live, I haven't seen anything like that on HN, for instance.
Totally, and it gives me the one percent hope that it may also inspire game companies to make new forms of games. Every major game looks exactly the same to me these days.
Wait, he just left you there?!
The range of answers you get when you give a free text entry field is wonderful, and proves why this is the best route.

On matters like forced revealing of gender, my gender is rage.

I'm in the process of trying to convince an genderfork academic I'm friends with to actually put a 20 marks question on an exam "what is your gender?".
But you could look if you wanted to. How about when he called Thunderbird developers simians and said he wanted to cut off their hands so they couldn't program any more? Is that out of line enough for you? What about saying "screw you" and calling developers children. I consider all of that out of line. He was being a bully and he got banned for it. Good on Dan Mosedale. Bullies suck and we shouldn't let them pollute our communities with their abuse.
Would you like your customers saying "screw you" and "I want to cut off your hands so you can't program any more"? I wouldn't.
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I'm off to a company code camp with a group of 30 to 40 web developers (Front-end and back-end) - we're a digital advertising agency, and have the opportunity to do a 15-20 minute presentation. I want to present about work efficiency and would love some ideas/examples.

Some of the things I want to talk about are the use of existing APIs to get things done quicker rather than building from scratch - such as Face.com API's mood detection to determine moods in photos (for instance), or adapting CoffeeScript instead of using JavaScript for faster coding.
And that gives him the right to be a bully? To say he'd like to cut off a Thunderbird developers hands so he can't program any more? To call developers simians? Nothing gives anyone the right to come into Mozilla's Bugzilla and behave like that.
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Larger firms (ie. those you want to be acquired by ;]) will have a focused corporate finance team whose sole role is to seek out growth through M&A.

This M&A team does all the number crunching to make sure that they're adding value to the firm when they do deals. M&A also seek out the deals. They may do this directly (i.e. a team of research analysts within M&A) or indirectly (i.e. 'feelers' throughout the firm who have incentives to forward possible deals).

My suggestion is that you identify which firm/s you would offer the biggest value to (i.e. the greatest synergy), and contact their M&A team directly (even if it's a distant deal).
If someone writes that kind of bug report for code that I write, the first thing I would do is take my shoe and beat myself to death. The man being frustrated is your fault. High chances there are million others who feel the same, at least he is conveying it to you. You're shooting the messenger here.

If your critics give up on you and stop telling you how much you suck and how much they hate you, that's a very bad place to be in.
Calling people names and saying you'd like to physically maim them so they cannot program any more is being a dick. Yes, it really is.
Right, but I was really objecting the "American killed in Baghdad" vs "woman murdered/raped in the US" comparison. What I meant is that the risk of a woman getting raped/murdered in the US is much closer to the risk of getting killed in an accident than of walking at night in Baghdad. I'm still sure there are far more than 8.9/100k deaths in Baghdad.
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I think you mean Windows para-virtualization.

This is never going to happen though. Not because Windows PV is not possible. Windows was ported to Xen PV in the distant past because Cambridge University had a Windows source license.

The reason it's not going to happen is because with the latest chips and 64 bit, hardware full virtualization is faster than paravirt. Paravirt on x86-64 can't use the i386 segmentation trick, because x86-64 (long mode) doesn't have full support for segment registers. So it has to use some other trick which is slower.
Different behavior for left/right alt is a must for me:

- Left-Alt = Meta/+Esc

- Right-Alt = OS X Alt

I built an .inputrc/.zshrc so that text/word/line movements behave the same as in Cocoa text fields, like Ctrl+Left/Right and Alt+Left/Right.

Had I done that under Terminal.app, I would have given up on being able to type characters like | (Alt+Shift+L) or ~ (Alt+N) on my French keyboard, which would make a terminal much, much less useless.
Yes, I saw one in a link posted above. Definitely out of line. No second thoughts on that. If the ban had happened in reply to one such post, it would have been unquestioned by many.
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Wow. They've finally decided to act like the gateway they're supposed to be and will allow me to pay who I want?

That's rich.
You missed the reports where he called developers simians, shouted "screw you" and said he'd like to cut off a specific developers hands so he couldn't code any more. (by the way, bugzilla is totally searchable, so if you want, you can see this stuff for yourself before you step up to defend a bully.)
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Again, my original comment was in reply to this particular report. I've not read any of the old reports at that time.
The article would be far more readable if he split it up in two:

1) An article about why the Project Harmony contracts are considered harmful.

2) A separate article about why the seemingly similar contracts used by the FSF are acceptable.

Also, some words and a link about what "Project Harmony" is and who is behind it would be nice.

http://harmonyagreements.org/

From what I gather, Canonical (Ubuntu) is the driving force.
Because sometimes actually helpful bug reports come packaged with snarky people. I see little problem with that. There's guys like zedshaw who always flame and get flamed, yet still provide lots of value. Plus it livens things up a bit. Nothing wrong with a little sarcastic banter here and there. Some people have their panties in a tight knot sometimes over some silly things.

Not everything has to be so srs bznss all the time folks.

From this banning, Mozilla has just lost a useful bug reporter and one of the founding fathers of GNU.
Yes, abrasive behavior exists. That does not mean that any project has to tolerate people who bring it regularly. Normal on the Internet is not the standard by which I want the projects I work on to be managed.
That already is the definition of "gender".

The issue here is whether there should be an option to make the data non-public.
Film and video have the benefit of being primarily sensitive to specific wavelengths (likely red/green/blue). It seems the problem with LEDs is that certain surfaces are not very reflective in those wavelengths. I have a somewhat similar problem with the CFLs in my kitchen: they put out too much orange light, making things like raw meat, cheese, and orange juice look decidedly odd. I wouldn't be surprised if they look identical to equally-luminous incandescents on camera.
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Being a founding father of GNU does not give you the right to be a bully. Telling a developer that you want to cut off his hands so he can't program is not helpful and people who behave like that are not useful bug reporters. They are bullies and they are toxic to an open source project. No project should tolerate personal attacks like that.
Your response is disturbing. You seem to think that the fact that a man has bought a woman a drink gives him the right to initiate unwanted physical contact. It does not, and I suggest that you avoid any temptation in life to act as though it does. Buying a woman a drink gets the man the right to start a conversation that the woman can terminate at any moment if she so wishes, and nothing more. I note in passing that you can 'purchase' the same right much more cheaply by finding a witty line, or just having the courage to walk up and say hello.
Then why not announce the ban after those blatant transgressions, or the next blatant one if they arrive reliably, rather than after a mild one?

BTW, a simple Bugzilla search for [Richard Mlynarik] returns "Zarro Boogs found". Similarly, a Google search for [site:bugzilla.mozilla.org Mlynarik simian] returns nothing.

I'm sure I'll find the right kind of search eventually – I did find a Mlynarik 'screw you' comment via Google – but if the action is justified by examples with exact quotes, you might as well supply links rather than leave many people searching.

And why personalize this by accusing me of "stepping up to defend a bully"? I've addressed the exact action and manner of action taken in the above-referenced report, with the caveat that other examples would change the analysis. I've defended the precise comment in the 'compact dialog' report, not the person's history.
Of course not, but the one time they are acceptably civil isn't the time to bring out the ban hammer.
I feel like we're on the same page yet not.

I believe the key to the situation is will and interest. It is not drinks or attractiveness or grinding. All of that is awesome if everyone is okay with it. I too will also regularly talk to, dance with, and spend time with people that I may not want to sleep with but that I find interesting and comfortable to talk to. I will let them know this in advance, and most of the time they're completely fine with just the brief companionship and otherwise accept my declining their offer. This is basically the old bald guy chatting away with a woman and maybe even having a dance together, with no expectation of sex. Or the old bald guy that walks away from a woman that just said "thanks, but no thanks" to him.

What I am never okay with and what I believe is wrong and worthy of public shaming is the old bald guy that tries to grind up against and buy drinks despite the woman pushing him away. It doesn't even have to be the old bald guy. It could even be a ripped young guy with a nice suntan, a significant other or a friend or anybody to anybody else. You're not showing that person any respect by ignoring their boundaries.

I don't know if I'm doing a good job explaining this, but thanks to said skeptic brouhaha someone else has a very eloquent piece on this subject: http://kateharding.net/2009/10/08/guest-blogger-starling-sch...

While I don't care much for the statistics, the situations created to illustrate the third and fourth points is of particular interest to this conversation.

Lastly about drinks, I think that declining the offer and buying your own drinks is the right thing to do. Some people don't understand that and like to freeload, which is rude but what can you do. The person buying drinks needs to understand that there is no obligation attached to buying someone else a drink.
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Reminds me of Eric Naggum on comp.lang.lisp in the late 1990s. Although I have no memories of Eric's ever threatening anyone with violence, he wrote hundreds of very long very angry harangues, most containing insults and ad-hominems -- and (unlike Richard Mlynarik) he seemed to believe deep down that his debating opponents wanted to harm him.

As in the present case, people argued that for Eric to continue his abuse would harm Lisp by driving away contributors and adoptees. Difference is that it was very difficult to ban someone from a newsgroup, and Eric never was.
I've seen a video of Randall talking about a variety of stuff (I think it was "Google Tech Talks" or so), and I got the impression that he just talks to people, and listens to what they say. While reading his comics I also thought multiple times that he must be a very good observer.

That doesn't necessarily make him an expert in the sense that conducting a scientific study would make him, but it's still worth listening to him.
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Randall Munroe is unfortunately often a professional white knight.

Really bizarre how he understands that people differ in programming ability, but cannot countenance the possibility that there is not a completely uniform distribution of ability across all conceivable human subgroups.
Or the mailing list archive software they use, which must be the worst of a bunch of very bad ones. It seems incredible that there is no halfway decent way to view mailing list archives (mailman's html pages don't count).
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