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It's incredibly selfish to leave huge amounts of money on the table when your customers would both a) increase and b) not mind paying it and then you could e.g. give it to charity or something.

It's not like it would have to stop being tarsnap. Most of these suggestions are simple common sense. I'm a fucking nerd and need something like tarsnap and the thought of "picodollars" means I'll never give him my money (even if he reprices) because it means I can't rely on his business to not do completely nonsensical things.
The inventor of JavaScript will have to find something else to do. Woe unto him.

It's not a witch hunt if we really did catch him red-handed using his magical powers for evil.
Should we stop using Javascript?
Theodore - I reached out and asked her for you. I'll edit her response in here when she replies!
Did Brendan Eich (@brendaneich) close down his Twitter?
> A great many people temporarily couldn't get married because that one man paid good money to make it so.

That is not remotely true. There were thousands of people stumping and many people donating tens and hundreds of thousands of dollars. Eich's donation wasn't even a hundredth of a percent of Prop. 8's support.
You can do pretty aggressive spam detection in way less than 100ms.

Source: I wrote a system that can do it in less than 10ms at Grooveshark.
1.0 is planned for this year. To the rest I don't know the answer. But you should use Rust so you might find problems and report them, because after 1.0 they can't do breaking changes.
Why haven't you white-listed them? The problem with the "delete after 14 days" is that it can be hard to predict on your side how long it will take to exhaust credit. But here what you're asking them is to work around a possible misconfiguration on your side. That's a different class of error.

If tarsnap is really a G2G business, then it makes sense to assume you know how to white-list an email address.

How many other misconfigurations should they deal with? What if the battery is dead on your cell phone when they try to call you after several missed the emails? (Or you're out hiking where there's no reception, or on a cruise, or in another country and didn't want to pay high roaming charges, or ...)
The language will still change a lot before 1.0, so I don't recommend serious usage in production, unless you are prepared for updating your codebase every now and then. However, many people have already started using Rust for personal projects, and their feedback has been invaluable to the development of the language!
I doubt that very much. Just because the church has caused suffering in the past does not cause people to lose their faith.
I think portfolios for developers is a great idea, but it is difficult to ascertain if its really the developer's work, and what their contribution was.
Interesting that the third highest investor In-Q-Tel is the investment arm of the CIA.
Commit history only goes back to Mar 18 [0]. Presumably, to hide code that needed to be cleaned up before the release. Would've been interesting to see the full history, mistakes and all; a full view of their dev process.

[0] - http://roslyn.codeplex.com/SourceControl/list/changesets?pag...
>I don't want to live in a society where people have to fear for their jobs or a public mob action because they espoused an unpopular opinion.

And I don't want to live in a society where we tacitly accept discrimination because it is labeled as political opinion.

There is a huge difference between politics and science. It is a terrible analogy. Scientific hypothesis, by definition, can be tested. If someone is wrong, that can be proven. Even if an entire body of work has been built on a wrong hypothesis, that work can be tossed out or modified in the face of new evidence. It can be painful, sure, but there is a mechanism in place for just such an occurrence.

Law and policy are made of pure, sloppy human thought-stuff. Some things might be testable but, in general, that is not the rule. If we allow a body of work to develop under bad ideas they take on a life, an inertia, of their own. We do not have any generally agreed upon or foolproof mechanisms to dismantle such an edifice. In fact, most of the mechanisms are designed to make them as permanent as possible -- to bolster the image of institution and consistency. We do not have the luxury of suspending our judgement in the political realm.
What's the next civil right? Health care! It's only a matter of time before someone is berated and chastised into resigning from a top post because he/she doesn't believe that society should pay for their health care. After that?
When I first heard the news, I was very angry and confused. After reading the Recode[1] writeup, it made a little more sense. The key point was the interviews where he refused to back down from his opinions or apologize. Some could find that respectable (and ultimately I do), but if you take on the position of CEO you need to be prepared to eat your words. It would have been very easy for him to just apologize and have everyone go back to their business. It's sad that people are so shallow, but that's just the way it is. I'm not upset that he was fired.

That said.

I have nothing but fury for the people instigating these kinds of senseless whichhunts. The key point here is that Eich has been CTO of Mozilla for years. CTO to CEO, while a big transition, is much smaller distance in executive representation than this controversy calls for. What I suspect is somebody in the Gawkerati saw a news piece on "somebody something new CEO of Mozilla", Googled his name, and dug up one political contribution from 5 years ago to create a controversy out of thin air. This kind of behavior sickens me -- not just the media publications that stir this pot, but the individual people boiling at the seams to crucify everyone with a different opinion. In 2014, people that contribute nothing to society other than digging up controversies have the power to bring down historic figures from pushing the envelope of innovation and opening the Web to allow to allow this very kind of expression.

At the end of the day, that is the ultimate irony. The technology that Branden worked his life on gave voice to those who destroyed him. The entire point of the web is to allow this kind of radical expression, and the moment we get it we use it to tear down and villanize the people who make it run.

Absolutely disgraceful.

If you're glad Eich resigned, I really only have one question for you: What do you hope to gain out of this? Do you think this will push the envelope toward greater acceptance of homosexuality? Is the idea that if we villify ideas enough and those that express them, they will eventually go away? Or does it just, I don't know, feel good?

[1]http://recode.net/2014/04/03/mozilla-co-founder-brendan-eich...
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Yes, lots of people have started using Rust for hobby projects [0] and their feedback has been invaluable to the development of the language.

[0] http://rust-ci.org/projects/
Looks to me like it's gone now. Still in Google cache, but now gone on Twitter.
from the actual press release:

“All manuscipts digitised through this operation will be released on the Vatican Apostolic Library's website as high-definition data. As a result, numerous researchers in the fields of academia and in various fields of knowledge will be able to interpret the valuable manuscripts, to which access had long been restricted, in their original form”, declared the president of the NTT Data Corporation.
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Shit website for exchanging shitcoins, not related to bitcoin or real technology.

Coin cloners and their services are just that, copy paste crap.
try ipython w/ pandas and yhats ggplot plotting tool. as ggplot becomes fully functional, this combo will replace R for visualizations IMO
I don't know. Part of the normal use case of Twitter is people mindlessly retweeting something or posting the exact same thing as everyone else. That's just trending stuff. With something thousands and thousands of people are sharing, it would take quite a few flagging it to raise any red flags.
I'll be posting more about this, but the short answer is that I've been demoting (or killing) some of the threads as duplicates.

I don't even remember the NYT one that logn mentioned, though. Many users have been flagging as well.
and now they'll sue you for libel ;-)
This is so upsetting, it's infuriating. Here we had a wonderful chance for someone brilliant like Eich to lead one of the most important organizations in defending us against looming omnipresent state surveillance, and a bunch of social justice warriors went and ruined it. Pat yourselves on the back guys, you won!
Excel for Mac doesn't have the "Evaluate Formula" function and the Name Manager is crippled... (to name a few issues) Makes it really hard to do complex and robust development.
LGPL. But, it's still a core Apple technology. WebKit is far more popular than KHTML.
I try to kill Zeus.
Untrue. If you read Judge Walker's decision against Prop 8, or the recent judgment against the Michigan Marriage Amendment, you'll see that both Prop 8 and the MMA failed because they violate the 14th Amendment's grant of equal protection: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Equal_Protection_Clause

In particular, both Prop 8 and the MMA failed to meet the Rational Basis test: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rational_basis_review

That is, both courts found that there was no rational basis for keeping gay people from getting married. The rationales offered by proponents didn't measure up.
What about crashing it into the moon? Higher cost, but much less chance of earth contamination. We could then check it out with cheap robots.
This is very sad and unfortunate. Brendan was basically forced out of his own job because of a political view he supported. No matter whether you agree or disagree with someone's views, a discussion should be reasonable and fair, not a lynching in the court of popular opinion. We should respect others views, and their freedom to support any political position, if we wish those same freedoms for ourselves.
The .com used to be in use, but appears to be defunct now. In any case, we have no money, so we can't buy it for the usual cost of a squatted domain.
They do – they deleted a tweet from my timeline.
Your point rests on the premise that institutions carry some kind of permanent guilt with them that delegitimises what they stand for. There's a number of issues with that, not least of which is the fact that institutions are not neat abstractions that behave uniformly without contradiction or change.

This creates two issues for an institution as old and decentralised as the Catholic Church. Firstly, the church is not a corporation where processes and orders dictate the behaviour of employees and people are fired for insubordination. In practice it is highly decentralised, and the idea that it is centrally run by a single old man at the end of his life in Rome without access to a computer is farcical.

Secondly, the church is the oldest institution in the world. Even the United States, a 'modern' institution by historical standards, has to contend with the slaughter of native peoples, the enslavement of thousands of innocent human beings, countless wars (many of which have little to no serious justification), the destruction of the environment etc etc etc. And the US is by far the most just superpower by historical standards. In spite of all those things most people will agree that it has been an unprecedented force for human progress in its (relatively) short history.

Your comment was probably just a throwaway insult that didn't warrant such a detailed response but comments like it really irk me for some reason.
> Is the idea that if we villify [homophobia] enough and those that express them, they will eventually go away?

Yes. It's been generally working with racism, sexism, classism, and a bunch of other bad -isms. The needs of oppressed groups outweigh the needs of their oppressors to express their views free of consequences.
If he had funded some sort of anti-climate change thing then I'd guess there would be a similar sort of controversy. Although in that case, he would have been more ridiculed than anything else.
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The price of Two Scoops of Django has dropped, from almost $40 to less than $15. Price graph below:

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Thank you for commenting. I still say access is equal. It doesn't discriminate based on sex, it discriminates based on preference. It seems there are two camps that disagrees whether its acceptable or not to discriminate by that.

(Update: your point about race is great and forcing me to rethink my stance by the way.)

What is the purpose of marriage benefits? How does having them benefit society enough that government wishes to recognize it? I'd guess its to encourage offspring in order to continue future prosperity. I'm proposing we step back and ask, what's the purpose of recognizing marriages? What are we trying to incentivize and is it working?

Rather than blindly extending things perhaps we should consider repealing or scaling them back? Look at the war on drugs, we thought banning marijuana would be beneficial, we're now questioning that.

The second point of burden pertains mostly to giving tax breaks to married couples.
Is it in the realm of possibility that XP could go the same way? I can imagine why Microsoft might want to release that albatross, but I have no idea whether or how they could contain the damage due to leakage of their IP.
Well yes, a dynamic interpreted scripting language will have all the drawbacks of a dynamic interpreted scripting language. If you are trying to build a large scale application that requires a lot of debugging using R, you have chosen the wrong tool for the job. R is not Python or C++, it's intended for writing data analysis and visualization scripts.
Um, the project would not give gun or marijuana benefits to its employees.

Yes, government-sponsored birth control is a hot issue and many CEOs are having a hard time reconciling it. And, yes some people have quit over it. So, yes, it's similar.

Being pro-diversity does not mean being morally obligated to accept racism or hate-induced views. That's pretzel logic.
any way i could pick your brain for 20 mins? we're dealing with a lot of it at whisper... would buy beers or ... whatever you want.
I can almost guarantee the opposite, if you want. If he'd not got involved at all, nothing would have changed.

That's really not the point is it, though? You can't say "Hey, this guy was campaigning for policies that objectively harm a group of people. But we can ignore that, because it wouldn't make a difference if we wasn't involved." If you did, there would be almost no personal moral responsibility for any action you took, subject to the condition that the outcome wasn't really altered by your participation.

To take it to an absurd extreme, it'd be a bit like saying "Okay, he was a KKK member, but he never actually beat anybody to death, and the KKK would still have existed, so it's okay."

So, the views he held and the campaign he actively helped caused objective damage to people. The rights and wrongs of that are irrelevant; the point is, it's ludicrous to claim that those people who were harmed should shut up and respect his "right to free speech" by way of not objecting to his appointment.
The courts played the role that the majority allowed them to play, just like they did for the hundreds of years during which even same-sex sexual activity was illegal, let alone gay marriage.

Like a diet that sometimes prevents people from eating what they crave, the system is nothing more than a mechanism of self-control for the majority.
actually the idea is not the learn C++ or unix. Most of those books have great introductory chapters and I am hoping that piques their interest.

As of now they know only the basics of markup language.
Send him to the concentration camp of tolerance!
What if he were a black woman and the political group she donated to was one that sought to prevent white men from becoming engineers? They can still do engineering, of course, but they can't have the state title and benefits that go along with it. Would you feel the same way?
Well, it's not going to be a popular opinion but I think it's a shame he's been forced out. Simply having the wrong views shouldn't make him ineligible for a job.
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I thought it was called Chinese Gooseberry?
My spam tweet had "Twitter for iPhone" API access as the source, and I wasn't using an iOS device at the time it was posted. It's unclear what actually happened.
I have a hunch that successful start-up founder that did not come from affluent families would share the same sentiment expressed by the game devs in the article.

I'd like to hear some opinions on this issue. Being a first generation born in the U.S. myself, this cognitive dissonance in terms of higher tech-job salaries compared to my parents, resonates with me deeply. This really bothers me now since my parents spent their whole lives providing to get me here. I had a highly parsimonious upbringing, which has helped me spend wisely and save money. I can totally relate to these guys feelings.
Didn't know, thanks! Also didn't know that (from Dropbox help) "Your files are stored using 256-bit AES encryption". You have to trust them with the keys though.
It's also very much a part of our present, perhaps Silicon Valley not withstanding.
It's not hard to understand: replace the word "gay" with "black". Now do you see the problem?

Aside from that, much of the job of being a C-level executive is about perception and trust. People need to see you're a "good person" who is frictionlessly aligned with the company's public profile. Weird outliers, like denying gay people the right to get married, cause friction.
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That flies in the face of the idea of a Democratic Republic where minorities Rights are protected from the whim of the majority.

If the majority can simply redefine a Right, what is the point of elevating these things to the status of a Right?
KSP is intentionally a lot easier than actual Earth-based rocketry. Orbital velocities in KSP are much lower than in reality, and because the rocket equation is exponential that makes everything in KSP expenentially easier to do.
Consider what would happen to a CEO who held the political view that profits should be minimized.
Neil Young's player does thing like add in fake record pops to make things sound retro. It may or may not have a good DAC, but is mostly a gimmick device.
It's sad that Mozilla is losing someone of Eich's technical ability, but having him as CEO simply wasn't tenable.

His appointment was a misjudgement.
Then of course you would want to see what is the percentage of startups that failed at any specific age. Maybe it is cheap to start a startup when you are 20, but you fail more than when you are older and know what in the world you are doing.
Would you support a company whose CEO was a dazzling, intelligent, brilliant racist? Or anti-semite?

I don't understand how being brilliant means that everyone should ignore that you're also a bigot. Presumably if he had no talent then he'd be fair game?
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Very young, fast-growing companies will often have negative EBIDTA, in part because they are growing so quickly. When this is the case, using a multiple of EBIDTA does not really make sense.

For an older company that is not growing or is growing slowly, an EBIDTA multiple makes more sense.
Okay, that's fair, I'm clearly exaggerating.

But that actually makes the comparison even better! Lots of people pushed for prop 8, which in turn affected lots of people. Lots of people complained about Eich, which in turn affected... Eich.

Yet the GGP is focusing on the masses who tried to pass a constitutional amendment to prevent Eich from being CEO. Wait, no, I must be confused.
There was plenty missing from that Mozilla post, but yeah, that was a big one!
>>> it's reasonable for gay employees and business partners to be concerned.

Unless Mozilla has entered into business of organizing gay weddings while I wasn't looking - no, it's not reasonable at all. No more than gun owner should be concerned if his CEO donated to a known anti-gun politician, or a medical marijuana user should be concerned if his business partner donated to a politician that opposes drug legalization. There was nothing in Eich's actions that would concern his employees and business partners in their capacity as employees and business partners. As far as it is known, he didn't say he would fire gay people (and he didn't do that either), he didn't say he would deny them benefits if affording such benefits were recognized by the law, he didn't refuse to enter any deals because opposing side was represented by gay person - in short, he did absolutely nothing of the sort that may raise such reasonable suspicion. The only base for that is "he's for prop 8, so he must be despicable person, so he's evil, so we have reasonable suspicion he would hate us because that's what evil people do". It's not an argument, it's a series of stretches, one worse than the other.
Why? Doesn't it happen all the time? I'm not just talking about "culture fit," either.
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I think he just deleted/deactivated his Twitter account, @BrendanEich.
You know, if Erich had stated "Hey, I'm not pro gay-marriage, but I'm really behind equal civil partnerships that offer all the same rights" then the backlash would be much milder. But there is a vanishingly small number of people who hold that opinion, because it's pretty ludicrous (boils down to 'this word is so important that it must not be changed, despite the fact that I don't object at all to equality')
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pagination and breaks can be problematic in e-books,
especially in conjunction with illustrations/captions.

but one shouldn't need to move stuff to indesign, as
most e-book viewer-apps support css "page-break" now.

another good tip is to create small chapters/sections,
recognition that screens tend to be smaller than pages.

-bowerbird
Too many christian apologists around?
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> But sometimes treating symptoms is the only usable treatment.

This is the argument of the mental health establishment as they continue to offer drugs that haven't been proven to have a connection with the actual condition, only its symptoms. The result is that an absurdly high percentage of people are on drugs of high cost, serious side effects, and questionable effectiveness.

An example, not about depression, but ADHD:

http://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-news/number-young-adult...

Quote: "The number of young adults taking drugs for ADHD has soared in five years, particularly among young women, whose use of the drugs is up 85 percent, according to a new report."

An 85% increase in five years, for a drug that only treats symptoms, and not very effectively at that. I guess the program is working.
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