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This isn't a witch hunt. Publicly professing your convictions has ramifications.

"these folks are abusing the freedom they have to attack somebody..."
What abuse? These people are exercising their freedom. Their freedom of speech, their freedom of association. There is no abuse here, this is exactly what people have a right to do.

"politics and sex and gender and bullshit..."
There is more to life than technical ability.
Did you read my entire comment? Notice how I said "over the past 3 years".
Keeping Office off the iPad until now hasn't prevented millions of customers from buying them, or pushed any significant number of users to Windows 8 (RT) tablets instead. Microsoft's indispensable programs haven't been sorely missed for the last four years.
> So they changed their name to Gonzales.

In the 1960s there was a joke in Readers' Digest about how Teddy Kennedy wanted to change his name because he was tired of being pigeonholed as Jack's and Bobby's little brother. So the judge asks him, "what do you want it changed to?" The senator replies, "Roosevelt."
I wasn't really talking about 'schemes' and 'initiatives' here. I wanted something more material. Very specific policies that could have a positive impact. I definitely didn't mean eye-catching new mechanisms that would radically disrupt the free-market, like corporate giveaways.

One might be Intellectual Property reform. Another might be the introduction of computer science into the UK/US curricula. Another might be the liberalisation of immigration policy. Then there's superfast broadband infrastructure roll-outs. Maybe strengthening competition law in some online markets. Etc. Etc.

Couched in a different terms, I might say: I agree that the Government should get out of the way. But /how/ does the Government get out of the way?

I wanted to understand how to organise the traditional hierarchy of digital policy priorities.
What I meant is that if I needed to switch from Java to a language that is oriented towards functional style, I would not consider Scala -- not because it wouldn't be a good choice regarding FP (I'll leave arguing about how well a language is suited to FP for others) but because considering all it has to off, and how its promise was not fulfilled for me -- or maybe it was me what changed.
I expect this was heartening: http://arstechnica.com/business/2014/03/mozilla-employees-to...
Sure, and congrats for Zapier!

My own feedback: include a feature to perform a task with a timer, not a trigger. It Google spreadsheet didn't have this "script tool" with a timer for running functions, this wouldn't be possible, even with Zapier.
My personal server isn't, no. It's not "omg it's making me money critical" but it's also not a temp dev box. :)
I actually consider it worse for an individual to have contributed to the marginalization of a group (in this case financially) of American citizens than to just have a documented instance of disparaging comments towards the group. In the former the individual is actively involved in marginalizing the group whereas with the latter the individual is stating an opinion. Your opinion matters, but what you do with your opinion matters even more.
This is exactly the same as asking a person to resign because they're gay. Personal politics do not belong in the workplace, and shame on anyone who would take away someone's position because of who they are or what they support in their private life.
I'm adding the foot operated pump to my list. I completely forgot to mention a pressure gauge.
For those of you defending Eich, what if he monetarily supported white supermacy instead? Would you still feel comfortable about his position?
The "random" reboots are the update process completing. If there is no update available, your machine will not reboot. Following those instructions will still enable the update to download, but not to be applied until you choose.

Our release cadence through the alpha has been about once a week, so 1 "random" reboot a week.
This was posted to reddit a couple weeks back, and I'll repeat the same comment I made there.

"I spend about 90% of my time in Lightroom and only 10% in Photoshop."

This is why he was able to do this. He isn't using the functionality that Photoshop provides, he's using the functionality that Photoshop Essentials provides. Look at his parity instructions - every feature is found in Photoshop Essentials. If that's all you use, then great, by all means switch over to Gimp. The bigger the userbase it has, the better off it will be.

But don't think that it's going to replace Photoshop in the near future. Non-destructive editing is the biggest thing GIMP is missing in my opinion, but supposedly the move to GEGL will allow them to start development on this ( https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gimp-user-list/2013-December... ).

Smart objects are another huge feature it's missing - not only the ability to downscale losslessly, but also the ability to edit all replicates at once. This is huge for designers. If I'm defining a user control for a design mockup, and I need to make a change to that control, in Photoshop all I have to do is edit the singular smart object source. The source edits will propagate to all the copies automatically. In Gimp I have to do this by hand.
There are some minor features too that bug me. The inability to add a mask to layer groups is a big one for me. Layer effects (while often overused and gaudy) can be really helpful for design work - need to change the color of an icon that's raster art? Just drop a color overlay on it. If you have style swatches, it can be really easy to do fast mockups using this. This in conjunction with Layer Comps (also something missing in Gimp right now) can really help in switching between two or more alts.
A great way to see what Gimp is currently missing in comparison to Photoshop is to look at the development roadmap ( http://wiki.gimp.org/index.php/Roadmap ). If some of your heavily used features are on that list, it might not be worth switching over to Gimp. If you don't see yourself as a user of those features though, give it a shot.
Yeah I guess I was thinking about that when I wrote this, but for instance with Python I can instantiate a batch of transformations, and integrate other libraries, other programs, and share inputs and outputs among all of them. I'd be excited if there was a CS scripting whereby I could take an AI file, apply layer effects, and then position that in a 3D transform in AE, and render an MP4 all in one script.

I can do that with Linux and open source utilities, but I can't with CS. Also AI is horribly leaky in memory when dealing with advanced computational design where you have billions of points, whereas open source SVG renders take such a thing in stride.
Before anybody thinks this is weird, or unusual. Microsoft has quite often been more pragmatic about the platform offerings for their office suite than elsewhere. After all, Office exists and has existed on Apple products for a very long time. It's more unusual that it hasn't been on the iProducts than anything.
However, the Texas Courts are complaining because this man is utterly ridiculous and ignorant on how the US Court system works.

You've completely misunderstood the situation. No Court has ordered him to attend a deposition in the United States. The Plaintiff (a normal everyday person) has filed a Motion to compel the Defendant (Karpeles) to attend a deposition in the United States.

The Court has not ruled on that Motion. The Court will eventually either deny or grant the motion. If they deny the motion, then Karpales doesn't have to come to the U.S. for the deposition. If they grant the motion and he refuses to come then you might have an argument that he is flouting U.S. Courts. But we're not there yet, and since compelling someone who lives thousands of miles away to appear for a deposition in person is not a common practice, I imagine we will never be there.

Imagine I live in Alaska and you live in Florida. Now imagine I sue you because you left a comment disagreeing with me on Hacker News. I file a motion to compel you to fly to Alaska so I can ask you a bunch of questions in front of a court reporter (i.e. a deposition). You file a response to the motion saying, "That is ridiculous. I'm not flying to Alaska for this. I believe this lawsuit has no merit. I can be deposed by video conference just as easily."

That is precisely the status of this matter in the Karpeles case.

I'm not from that state, but I imagine that Texas has more respect for people who actually put forth the effort to appear in person in court.

Again, you totally misunderstand this situation. He's not being asked to come to Court by the Court. He's being asked to show up to a deposition by the Plaintiff. A deposition, if you are unfamiliar, is typically done in the office of a private attorney. Not in the Court.
It goes to show a lot about the situation in Microsoft that they didn't manage to ship this last year for Surface RT, where it might have done the platform a lot of good.
Voting for a person who does a variety of good and bad things is very different than taking a specific action whose only person is to strip gay people of their civil rights and harm gay families.
CEO is inherently a political role - a CEO is the face of the company. If the CEOs political views are at odds with most of the employees of the company as well as the company's product's userbase, it's hardly surprising that there would be a movement to get him out. He's the face of the company. If that face is ugly / mean, then he's probably the wrong choice for CEO.
It's that or gradually become more and more irrelevant to a very large segment of the computing market. I think there more to this than just 'accepting their fate' to never be a successful mobile devices company.

If their mobile software succeeds and becomes as near-essential as Office once was, that could well create a halo effect for their mobile platforms. After all if you use MS software every day on your phone or tablet, why not buy an MS phone or tablet next time you're in the market for one?

Their first order of business in mobile is to become relevant again. Today took their best shot at that in a very long time.
Yes, I would expect the government to protect his right to free speech and political opinion. However, that doesn't mean anyone has to respect his opinions, much like neo-nazis don't garner much respect in public opinion (but the police will work to protect their safety when expressing their opinion).
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He expressed his views publicly. They are subject to public criticism. It's absurd to characterize any form of criticism, especially something relatively mild as this, as a witch-hunt.

Anti-gay bigotry is socially unacceptable. Honestly anyone who thought about it at length ought to have realized we were heading in this direction. And the bar for denying an entire category of people's rights out to be relatively high, personal religious beliefs or not.

He might not have personally expressed bigotry, sure. But putting up $1K to a cause is almost worse, given that it's one of the more efficacious ways to support a cause. That cause happened to be in favor of denying civil rights.
By that logic, I'm sure no one working at Mozilla voted for Barack Obama in 2008 when he publicly held a position you now consider in the same ethical category as that a "racist" would hold.

This is not so far removed from saying Mary Jones shouldn't be CEO of Mozilla because she donated to a campaign against CO2 emission restrictions: Again by analogy with a settled political issue, "She's denying Global Warming. You'd be OK if she denied the Holocaust?"
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I agree that's their strategy, and I also agree that it may be their only play. However it feels like they're going all-in a little bit early.

With a $23m/quarter burn rate and a raise of $250m, they only have a few years to "win" the market, and start moving in the direction of profitability.
Regulation E only applies to specified forms of electronic funds transfer. For example, it would not apply to prepaid cards. It is not clear that Regulation E would apply to Bitcoin transactions, and so far most retailers and BTC payment processors have taken the stance that Regulation E does not apply to BTC transactions.
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Hmmm I'm waiting for this either.

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This looks very well done. This is exciting. Honestly, I've almost entirely transitioned from Office to Google Docs. I could see this pulling me back in.
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Not to mention that if you click on any of the images to view the larger version of the images, hitting the back button resets you to the top of the page and you have to re-navigate to where you were. And this is in the latest version of Chrome on a Mac.

What's old is new again.
Why?

Marriage has always been about community and religion, in many countries people never bother registering it with the government. In some countries like Canada, common-law partners get the same benefits as married partners.

Personally, I'd be all for doing away with the entire government institution of marriage, and simply have 'civil unions' for all, with each community and religion being able to decide for themselves what 'marriage' means.
Mozilla, much more than most is a political organisation (about freedom and openness) not just a commercial one. It has a mission, it will succeed with community support and goodwill. The political views of the CEO matter.

People are not saying (as far as I have heard) that there should be no place at Mozilla for Brendan Eich due to his political views but they are clearly uncomfortable with him leading a political organisation. A commitment and career somewhere does not entitle you to be CEO of the organisation if that is not what is best for the organisation.
Freedom of speech is not freedom from consequence. He is free to express his opinions of gay people. They are free to express their opinions of him. See how that works? Everybody's free to say their piece.

Of course, the problem here isn't his view, which nobody actually knows. It's that he helped strip a civil right from a bunch of people, including some of those he will now be in charge of.
> strongly affected by his convictions

These sorts of convictions, that people hold on controversial topics, are like the (modern, non-fundamentalist) practice of religion: something you speak about to espouse your identification with a group, but which holds no sway one way or another with your day-to-day decision-making. They are, in Robin Hanson's terms, "far-mode beliefs."

And, as with the (modern, non-fundamentalist) practice of religion, the best attitude to follow, I think, is "as long as it doesn't affect anything important [like someone else's life], you can think whatever you like." This attitude allows people with diametrically-opposed far-mode beliefs to get along.
But if you could pause your brain and make a perfect duplicate, with the same neuronal connections, and then "wake up" both you and your neuronal clone, would you experience yourself as two different entities?

And if you only woke up the clone, would it be you who was experiencing the clone's life? Or a different entity?
Please articulate how they are being bigots. Also, how exactly are they fascists? I don't see any of them advocating for the subjugation of individuality or economic freedom for the furtherance of the state. Fascism has an actual meaning, it's not just some mud to sling around.
Tarsnap's deduplication makes it even cheaper than it would seem. Considering what you're buying, Tarsnap is already ridiculously underpriced.
> chinese medicine usually fares relatively well when put in clinical trials as well.

You gotta be kidding me! Do you really believe that?

Traditional Chinese Medicine is based on an incorrect understanding of the body and an incorrect disease model.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traditional_Chinese_medicine

>With an eye to the enormous Chinese market, pharmaceutical companies have explored the potential for creating new drugs from traditional remedies.[126] Successful results have however been scarce: a 2007 editorial in Nature said that while this may simply be because TCM is largely irrational pseudoscience, advocates have argued that it is because research had missed some key features of TCM, such as the subtle interrelationships between ingredients.[126]

http://www.quackwatch.org/01QuackeryRelatedTopics/acu.html

I am not saying there might be merit in some of the practices, however to say "usually fares relatively well when put in clinical trials" is incorrect.
Office started its life on mac so its not unprecedented like a nintendo release for other platforms.
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So all this time satoshi has been at example.com; who would've guessed?
+1 to BIP70. Very exciting that a payment company as capable as Stripe is entering the bitcoin space. Much better for everyone if the Stripes of the world are at the center of the bitcoin ecosystem rather than the Gox's.
I recently tried buying a something online with a credit card, and the transaction was declined due to a fraud alert. I happened to have a few bucks worth of BitCoin, and the merchant accept BitCoin, so I used BitCoin to make the purchase. Making the purchase felt like cash, and it felt oddly satisfying.

For some purchases, there is MasterCard. For everything else, there's BitCoin.
Sure it's possible, and of course legal. But it behooves your employers, employees and customers to remember that we live in a civil society, and banishing the heretics rather than gracefully tolerating and persuading them is poisonous for that society.
Just so you understand, you're comparing the KKK to Prop 8 supporters.
https://cryptanalys.is is my recently launched HN clone dedicated to cryptocurrencies, cryptography, privacy and security.

My original submission was a complete dud without a single upvote ~23 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7339368

I went to sleep feeling defeated after 2 months of work and went back to the drawing board in the morning.

I've been experimenting with various forms of advertising over the last few weeks since a one markmassie submit this to moderate traction ~19 days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7364288

Unfortunately I was completely unaware of markmassie's submission (I was under the impression that it was impossible to submit the same URL twice to HN) trending on HN and was only able to defend my site and encourage adoption of it about 14 hours after the submission had made the front page and trickled down to the 3rd or 4th page on HN.

So no, I wouldn't say I have "succeeded" yet, but readership and commenting is slowly building: https://cryptanalys.is/newcomments.php

And we seem to have peaked some interests in india apparently: http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/cryptanalys.is
CTO is a technical role. CEO is boss of everybody, and organizational figurehead. So yeah, it's very different.
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He didn't "profess" anything--there was a note in a public ledger saying "so and so donated thus and such to this cause".

That's a far cry from hopping up on a podium and decrying the evils of the homosexual agenda. Had a muckrake not come across it, nobody would've known, and fewer still would've cared.
His site has a whole lot of chastity belt images and drawings- I'd say that's why this site has been marked as adult.
I think you're a little on the leading edge of this and, most importantly, it seems you don't use office heavily in your job.
It might just be cookies or some kind of tracking. I got the login requirement in chrome (my default browser) but don't see it in IE (which I rarely use)
Mary and John aren't the CEO. There was disappointment over Brendan Eich's position on gay marriage when he was CTO, but I don't think anyone was calling for him to resign, and even now I'm not sure anyone is calling for Eich to leave Mozilla. CEO is the ultimate leadership role, and if you are gay or have gay friends, having someone in that role who does not believe in gay marriage hurts.
When you consider how quickly opinions have shifted on this issue. Prop 8 was relatively a long time ago.
(touching this issue with all due care as not to call in the activists; read all the way through before replying)

Redefinition of marriage is not a human right, sorry. I can't decide I'd like to marry my work and have society accept that as marriage. Marriage has a definition, that up until now hasn't included gay couples. Changing that is not trivial, is not a law of nature and is not supportable on human rights grounds.

Let's, for the sake of argument, assume that gay couples are already free to live together and enjoy the protection given to married couples: inheritance, hospital/prison visiting rights, IRS deductions, [whatever social right I may be missing]. I know that is not the case; bear with me.

Now, imagine that a group wants to reserve the right to call marriage limited to a long term commitment between man and woman. Also imagine that gay couples want to call their long term commitment a marriage.

Now, you have an unsolvable problem. Both groups may argue that it is their right to define what marriage is all the way to the end of times. The problem is mostly with the naming of the concept; it is not with rights attributed to gay couples. Framing the discussion around the concept is actually hurting LGBTQ movements.

My personal opinion? Grant all, and I mean all rights to gay couples that classic couples have. Use the first-come-first-served rule and maintain the term marriage to mean a classic family. Create a new term for gay couples.

Give it two generations and this whole shout war will subside, and by then everyone will naturally call gay couples married couples, just like any other. In the mean time, important goals can be reached faster (like visiting rights).
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When did Buddhists say "you can not observe an experience"?
Last election, I voted for Stella Creasy. So far she's been pretty good value and low on the vilification factor.
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It's great to hear that more female founders are applying. I hope this will have a snowball effect.
As a female University Student in Software Engineering, I have seen the interest and enrolment of female students in CS programs grow exponentially over four years. When first year and high school students have role models in upper years, they can imagine themselves in similar paths.
"This argument can obviously be applied to any employee in the company, but it's severely exacerbated when it's applied to the CEO"

So, you're saying then, that they should go through the donations of every employee, ever, and fire anyone who donated to a cause that a sub-group of employees disagrees with?
Unless you're Apple in which case everything is locked down to your platforms.
There're any number of reasons why someone might visit those countries. When you put up $1K towards a political campaign whose raison d'etre is to deny gay people the right to marry, it's rather well defined what the expectation is.

I don't understand what charities have to do with this, though. Surely there are charities which would be morally objectionable. If he'd donated to a charity with similar aims to the Prop 8 campaign, I imagine it would change people's opinions rather little. Or how about a charity which campaigned against interracial marriage?
I use InkScape on the Mac. To get the most recent builds running, you need install XQuartz which is not bundled with recent OS X versions.
Also Mac OSX "prebinding" and (in later releases) dyld cacheing. Though just skipping the cache entirely is certainly the quickest way to get something running --- and quite a few plausible server workloads will pay the penalty mainly at startup, when it might not matter so much.

(But yeah, keep it in user space, if only to make it easier to debug!)