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I would have considered him a worse person if he'd done that. I disagree with his opinions on marriage, but he has the right to have those opinions, and to provide support for causes he believes in.

I'm not shocked the he is stepping down, or that others in the organization appear to have applied substantial pressure on him to do so, but it makes me sad. Their statements about supporting freedom of speech are hollow: the community has pressured him to step down because he expressed an opinion not held by the majority.
it was fine as long as nobody noticed. They didn't stick to their guns once he was at the top.
Actions bother me, not beliefs. And this guy donated $1000 to help hurt other people. That makes me angry, and it makes me not like any corporation he's head of. When that corporation cares what its customers think of them, they'll make a change in leadership. I don't know why everyone is making more of this than it is.
When is equal rights not a good thing?
Python 3 is still very much not ready for a variety of complicated things, and some large stacks will likely take years of effort to be ported.

Mercurial is an example, I think twisted is another.
Wow, what a great service! I've heard of several other cases like this which is why I brought up reddit's unusual leniency towards imgur at all. As we can see by reddit's investment there was clearly some kind of out of band discussion that helped legitimize imgur on the site.

In their defense, before imgur came along, image hosting was a pretty terrible affair, front to back. Imgur was such an obvious improvement over what came before that it was hard to argue against.
>Or just sell the same product through two different channels. Call it "Tarsnap" and make it work via a CLI and low-fi Web site for the geeks who appreciate such things, and call it "Super Secure Backup Pro XP" (or whatever name appeals to normals) with a GUI and a lickable Web site for the non-geek population.

See, this is something I have thought a lot about. I can understand the value of the 'enterprise' pricing tiers (and yeah, if I have to do a bunch of paperwork, it's totally fair for me to charge you more.) So I can see where pricing tiers could be a good thing.

However... the bit I'm questioning here is how far you distance your 'enterprise' product from your 'geek' product- Especially if you have a strong 'geek' following already, I would argue that you don't want to start over in the 'enterprise' space. You want to carry over the name. Either, as Patrick suggested, move the 'geek' product to a less-accessible URL and professionalize your primary brand, or build a "tarsnap enterprise business edition" url.

Either way, there is a whole lot of value in a brand valued by nerds. I agree that brand needs to change some (and the product needs to change more) to be marketable to the enterprise, but... the boss basically respects his or her geeks... enough to pay them a lot of money. Sometimes I even find the business folks emulating the geeks when dealing with computers. A MBA where I worked saw how paranoid I was about ESD and asked for one of my wrist straps. He used it while he was typing emails on his mac. The "business edition" of the thing his geeks say is awesome is going to have a lot more pull than just some random new brand.
Agreed, I'm in Atlanta and I'm know there are folks a few miles further in town that I'd bump into with a slightly larger radius
I don't think so, pal. There is absolutely no evidence that Eich would be a real threat of freedom of speech inside Mozilla. He stepped down because of pression over his political views, which has nothing to do with his competence or the way he treats people.
> All he had to do was lie

I may be diametrically opposed to Brendan's views, but he has earned my respect by being honest and sticking to his values.
I honestly feel like Brendan is the victim here. He might have religious or moral views on gay marriage that some of us don't agree with, but being forced to step down as CEO because of those views... well that's something I don't think any of his critics should be proud of.
All of this over a $1,000 donation, apparently. I think it's a bad cause and a bad donation, and I don't have any sympathy at all for the anti-gay-marriage types, but it's crazy to me to hang someone over a thousand dollar donation. What percentage of the total money donated to prop 8 do you think that represented?
Bullshit. Any opinion is okay but if you are actively working to remove existing rights from other people, you can expect opprobrium. This applies especially when leading an organization with values like Mozilla's.
So don't optimize your campaigns simply for clicks.

A lot of people here are complaining that Google is doing something "shady" by making ads available to mobile platforms (mobile ads are here to stay regardless of how people feel about them - and that's not Google's fault) and optimizing by default for clicks (there's not much else that would be better as a default).

If it's not just clicks you want, then optimize for whatever you care about - conversions, sales, whatever. Mobile has simply made that distinction more clear than before.
Without any doubt in my mind, Google has switched from optimizing for user experience to optimizing for revenue. This should be appalling, amazing, and a major red flag for investors -- because it means Google is fighting hard to keep their revenue growth.
Were there actually threats? I just googled "Brendan Eich threat" and didn't see anything relevant.
If Batista was so great, then how was Castro able to win?

It's practically impossible to guerrilla movements to succeed without the support of the general populace. Even accounts of the revolution written by the CIA show that the majority of the population wanted the revolution to succeed. That wouldn't be the case if Batista was well loved.
Is this talk online?
No. If we're being honest, we label those countries based on evidence.

Two years ago, it was a "conspiracy theory" to suggest domestic dragnet internet surveillance by the NSA. Now it's "naive" to not assume everyone is doing it.
Claiming there's no longer any freedom of speech is rather foolish. This is about proportionality of response. When is it OK to take direct, personal, and extreme action against an individual? Did Eich's conduct rise to that level?
I don't know of any systems that implement equal % matching algorithms but I'd expect it would encourage games where you just send in more smaller orders (hiding their relation to each other if you are particularly shady) so that you would improve your fill rates.

Your hidden book time auction idea is not one I've seen implemented. Again I think it would be very detrimental for price discovery but can't prove that.

Just trying to think of it as a market participant, how do I determine what price I should bid or offer?

I can also think of all kinds of ways for this system to be gamed. The first thing I would try if I were making markets in this system is to ladder small quantity orders right around the last trade price. Then when you get filled on these orders they would act as high/low water marks letting you zero in on the correct price.

Not sure why I would want to encourage this sort of gaming instead of an open book, but I'd certainly like to try it if you ever create your exchange.

[Edit] re-read original comment and realize it is not pro-rata matching.
Essentially then it's a contract-to-hire position.
What death threats?
It's about being a gracious victor. Yes, Eich was on the wrong side of history when he supported prop 8 those years ago.

Yes, those who support gay marriage are "right" and history will show this. But the graceful thing to do when you're right is not to curb-stomp those who were wrong. It's not to rub it in their face. It's not to ruin their lives because they made a mistake.

The graceful thing to do when you are right is to let those who were wrong to get away with it. To let them pretend like it never happened.

Because "winning" history is not about destroying those who opposed you.
Oddly, I have little problem with him staying as CTO. CEO is symbolic.
This is true. I've always liked the distinction made here: http://stumblingandmumbling.typepad.com/stumbling_and_mumbli... between extremism and fanaticism. Extremists are those with views beyond the mainstream, and fanatics are those with views that, mainstream or otherwise, are so strongly held that they cannot accept disagreement.
It seems, from the comments here, that speaking and donating against equal rights is a protected freedom but as soon as anyone is called out for it then that isn't allowed.
Mozilla Co-Founder Brendan Eich Resigns as CEO, Leaves Foundation Board
So one error justifies another?
If someone asks if you know it (or anything else) in an interview, then yes it is. A quick search on Dice shows over 200 job results listing this in the hiring req, including firms such as Deloitte. Hell, Gartner even lists an intern position and Twitter Bootstrap is a job requirement:
http://www.dice.com/job/result/gartner/2604576300902
Are there any SaaS apps that people recommend for managing online advertising?

The Google ads UI is overly complex for a typical small company, and that obfuscates what it really going on with your ads. In addition I would love to see a UI that automatically handled experimentation and A/B testing with display ads (by automatically generating the ad images based on set of possible captions and background images).
Don't take my "anecdotal experiences" go, find the facts with an open mind. Many will not like what they find.
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I think this showed Eich is insufficiently dedicated to Mozilla's mission. If Eich believed he can help Mozilla's mission by being a CEO (otherwise, why bother?), is lying about an issue more important than how much you could help Mozilla's mission? Utilitarian 101.

On the other hand, Eich probably didn't make such utilitarian calculation, and followed "do not lie" deontology instead. Pity.
While this was probably inevitable, has anyone noticed how Mozilla seems to refer to itself as some sort of holy entity thats completely entitled to its position in the universe?

Which is interesting for a company which is basically the equivalent of NPR, wholly supported and funded by Google.

Im a little sick of their schtick in general and while it would be better for them to have a CEO who is not a douche, I have to wonder why Mozilla thinks they are so important and worthy of industry subsidies.

What have you done for me lately, Mozilla?
cperciva asked him to write it https://twitter.com/cperciva/status/451262554069663744
There are beliefs in this world that you cannot publicly hold and still expect to be taken seriously. If Eich were arguing against interracial marriage there would be very little debate about this issue; believing that humans cannot marry between races is not a belief modern society continues to respect.

I think this controversy is an indication that -- to the tech community at least -- believing that discrimination based on sexual orientation is one of those illegitimate beliefs.
"On the one hand, Brendan Eich had some beliefs that were against Mozilla's core values."

Care to elaborate this? Last time I read, the Mozilla Manifeto[1] says nothing about marriage rights or anything marginally related.

[1] https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/about/manifesto/
One thing has nothing to do with the other.
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I disagree with the premise. Twitter Bootstrap is a skill in much the same way as Wordpress is a skill, even if its a less significant one than wordpress.

Familiarity with bootstrap's internals, its less mixins, their sass equivalents, its inventory of javascript plugins, and how to integrate with it is a skill worth having in many situations.

The article's closing statement "make something happen from scratch" is almost the antithesis of what it means to be a good developer. Not re-inventing the wheel, learning to integrate with existing solutions, is a skill you will find among the best developers.

On its own, Twitter Bootstrap is not enough of a skill to get any job. It is worth something, though.
No. A bunch of people, many who were members of that community, felt that Eich's personal views were incompatible with a relatively important and visible community position. It's not persecution to object to the appointment on that basis.
You can have socially conservative views. You cross a line when you actively engage in oppressing other people because of your views.
I completely agree, and thank you actually for saying "All he had to do was lie". We may not like that said option exists, but lying was an option. As was simply saying "I'm not going to lie {comment about personal beliefs}" - which may wouldn't have helped him keep the job, but might have given me more respect for the guy[1]

[1] As an out and proud queer, I'd rather someone be honest than obviously skirt around issues without addressing them. At least then we know were we stand
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> I saw no reason to believe that he would use Mozilla to further an anti-gay agenda.

I agree. However, it's a little weird if you say you are a company who values diversity and different lifestyles but you have a CEO who is openly against a particular group of people. That kind of contradiction at the very top makes things weird.
I don't think 'integrity' in the face of an opinion that is becoming more and more unacceptable to hold in our culture is a good thing. Changing your views, and admitting you were wrong is the best thing you can do.
From Eich's position, and assuming he wanted to lead Mozilla, and assuming Mozilla wanted above all else for Eich to lead Mozilla, yes. Lying would have been the best move.

In a greater societal context, I'm not sure. I think it is naive to say being 100% honest and transparent 100% of the time is always the best solution, as theoretically appealing as that is. I think it depends on whether you personally think the greater good Mozilla could have done with Eich as CEO, if any, outweighs the (positive?) message that we send when we force people with unpopular beliefs out of their positions. I purposefully ignore the actual monetary contribution, since the Supreme Court struck down Prop 8 anyway.
I think it would be better to just acquire unity since they already use mono / C# as their scripting engine anyway.
Any way we can get some clear story on Mono or where the direction is going? Maybe this has already happened as part of this Build event.
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"Freedom of speech means the government can't legally punish you for expressing your views."

Well, if the government is illegally punishing you for expressing your views, that seems like it's a free speech issue too. Individuals changing their reaction to you, not so much though - especially when that reaction is further speech.
On top of it, the resignation shines a bad light on gay-marriage activism, nobody likes a bully.
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What extreme action was taken?
Diversity of character, upbringing, viewpoints, or personality only counts if you first meet the "different skin color or gender" requirement. If you want evidence of this just look for the lack of companies that celebrate the diversity of their workforce of white men who come from poor economic backgrounds. And then notice the companies who celebrate their gender ratio or minority ratio without acknowledging that many of those people likely had economic privilege.

If we are going to celebrate diversity we should do so based upon the diversity of ideas and opinions unique people bring to the workplace. Quantifying this by superficial things about a person's appearance, while perhaps a decent proxy, is overall a poor way to do this. Someone who supports prop 8 (something I vehemently disagree with, but many Americans support) yet thrives in the engineering community is almost by definition a unique individual who likely brings alternative viewpoints to the table. I wouldn't be surprised if 1 in 100 engineers agree with him on this point. But no, because someone disagrees with us on a political or moral issue we can't compartmentalize it and try to appreciate what they bring to the table otherwise.
There's no need to editorialize. "You're free to express your opinion, but the market is free to reject you." Remember that a generation ago, many of the opinions that we believe are simply open-minded were unthinkable, and people who thought them faced severe rejection by "the market".
If you pronounce it "Naught point Ten" you should understand how it comes after "Naught point Nine".
Looks nice. Here's a few suggestions:

- The green "finished" bar on the last page should behave as a button. Take me back to the ToC.

- The section/chapter number should be displayed on every page.

- Not a fan of the green progress bar being animated. I think it makes the page loading seem slower than it is.
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dtrace and any other instrumentation tool for linux require a kernel module as well. Ours has the advantage of being very simple and (in theory!) more stable, because decoding, filtering and scripting run at user level, so you have less chances to crash the kernel.

I would also like to point out that the sysdig workflow is quite different from the drace one. In addition to supporting real-time investigation, sysdig lets you take a rich "snapshot" of the machine activity that you can analyzer later. From this point of view, I don't think sysdig is less powerful than dtrace. Quite the opposite. But we're eager to know what you think.
Mozilla is perhaps a special case. In other organizations, I might understand that argument. To me, it feels like a case of cognitive dissonance when the organization promotes free speech, free expression, etc., while its CEO donates to organizations which restrict it.

(Whether or not one agrees with that is besides the point. Mozilla's board does, which is what matters with this decision.)
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"unless I really want to work at exactly your company"

And that's exactly what Jeff, Discourse, and Discourse coworkers want. Someone who really wants to work at Discourse and not someone shopping for a new "best" job.

EDIT: No, this doesn't address the situation where a potential person who wants to work for Discourse can't because of current obligations.

EDIT 2: Wanting to hire the best and brightest is just marketing fluff that really means We Hire Very Talented People*

*Who want to work with Discourse.
I don't think it's particularly fair to lump Apple with the rest since 14 years later [1] the core OS is still open source [2], and they're actively working on several high profile open source projects (e.g. Webkit, CUPS, and clang). They're not exactly irrelevant either.

[1] http://www.apple.com/pr/library/2000/04/05Apple-Releases-Dar...
[2] http://opensource.apple.com/
Thanks. That was a well written post by Erin.
The issue here is that one side believes this is a civil rights issue, while the other side believes this to be a cultural issue. For the former, this is about repression, but for the latter it is about the moral fabric of culture. The latter is considered a political issue (like, say, prohibition), but the former is about human rights, which many believe raises the issue about the level of "mere" politics.
Not really. JPEG encodes by 8x8 blocks, thus, for the DCT transform at the beginning, the first component after the transformation is always the mean value (of the 64 elements). Therefore, if your resizing target is more than 8x smaller, you can use the mean value directly without doing expensive DCT transform and the whole decoding process.
Nah, not concerned at all. I'm just pointing out that auditions like this necessarily rule out a large subset of the population right off the bat. Maybe that's okay for your business objectives, maybe it's not. Maybe you're looking for "the best" and not qualifying "the best what." Maybe you're ruling out the best senior developers (who may not have time for this or have little to prove) and picking up the best junior developers (who may have spare time and everything to prove). Maybe that's acceptable to you. Or maybe that's exactly what you want.

I'm not saying "don't do it." I'm saying that from my perspective, I think it's a flawed interviewing technique and it's not something I would be interested in when applying for a job.

If it works for you, then by all means go for it.
I'm just saying it doesn't work for me.
That said, I understand he's received wildly disproportionate abuse, like death threats.

It must have been difficult for him to receive the same treatment as every sufficiently notable LGBT individual.
From the first few graphs I've seen in the links, the shading is discrete and not continuous (e.g. p 40). Discrete shading does address my first point, and it can help somewhat with communication too. Personally, I prefer simulating from the implicit model and plotting, say, 1000 hypothetical sample paths; but I agree that discrete shading can be effective too.
Which really make one question the valuations that are out there. If reddit isn't at least a billion dollar company by this measure I don't know what is... Yet they continue to struggle to make operating expenses.
For me the simplest way to work for from EU to a USA company would be to register a mini-company for myself. I don't have one, but many freelancers do it just for local customers, because you can get a bit of tax savings that way.

The process then is simply making a periodic invoice from my company to yours; the ongoing costs involved would be whatever an international money tranfer costs for you, + I'd pay something like $50/mth to a local accounting company to handle all the taxes&reporting for that.

I don't know of any full "remote employment as a service", but there are a lot of outsourced accounting companies who'd do the taxes & paperwork - most local small businesses do it this way, since there's not enough work to have a full-time accountant/finance person on board. Actually executing payments and managing days off is a bit trickier, since the first requires full access to the company funds, and the second involves managing people, which is hard to outsource - you probably could get them to calculate 'what is owed to whom' by the local laws, but you'd have to pay salaries yourself & schedule vacations directly with the employees.
I, for one, hope there are many more minor releases before any 1.0 - as many as it takes, and then some. Given the rate of breaking changes and how awesome they turn out to be, I would really hate to see this extremely promising language get stuck with warts for the sake of expedience. By the time 2.0 is on the horizon, everyone will have gotten used to and even depend on them.
You know what? great. I'm glad that there was so much political pressure that someone who does not support gay rights simply could not hold the position of CEO at a tech company. That's absolutely fantastic.
"Do not lie" is a pretty great attribute of character. Lying to keep your position is pretty much the opposite.