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There is ample evidence that he never once espoused his views at Mozilla. So much so that his own co-founder didn't realize he had such a position until it came to light 13 years into their working relationship.

What the LGBT community needs is true victory where they're treated no differently from anyone else. This is only a victory for the righteous indignation that is rampant on the Internet.

It is pretty sad that those who were most vocal about Mr. Eich stepping down because of his beliefs no doubt have little problem giving their money to the likes of Orson Scott Card who I would submit is considerably more harmful to the cause than Brendan Eich has been.
I work at Mozilla. I don't know about Brendan, but other employees definitely received multiple death threats.
"Mob" wasn't to be taken literally. Partly, responding with scarcasm but I guess it didn't come across that way. She has some good commentary on the issue - it's not black and white.
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Why would anyone else get threatened?
Additionally, have interesting work.

Don't complain about not finding the best engineers if you're not an engineering-centric company; by definition, you don't need the best, you just need good enough. There's nothing wrong with this.
This line of reasoning is very troubling to me, because 20 years ago it was pretty much unacceptable in the U.S. to hold the opinion that gays were entitled to full legal rights, let alone the ability to marry. That changed only because some very courageous people stuck their neck out, weathered all the flack and negative personal repercussions towards themselves, and gradually made the point of "Why not?"

I fully support gay marriage and I personally think Brendan is on the wrong side of this issue, but I also fully support the right of people to hold their own opinions, even when other people find them unpopular. If they weren't allowed to hold unpopular opinions, then pretty much all the social progress we made in the last century - racial equality, feminism, gay rights, etc. - would never have happened.
While this is a good first step, we're also going to need to boycott JavaScript and the companies that use it until JavaScript is replaced with a non-discriminatory alternative.
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Similar annoying thing with video pre-roll ads on Youtube: I'm used to pausing videos by clicking on them but when the video is an ad then it opens the link of the ad instead of pausing the video.
I'm kind of conflicted. On one hand, there's Chrome, but it's used by Google to help US government spy on you. On another hand, there's Mozilla. Both good browsers but are being developed by pretty evil people.
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The difference for me is that we all have to work to live. Racists, sexists, and homophobes running workplaces have a direct effect on the standard of living and the effort it takes to preserve it for groups of people who are already besieged and disadvantaged.

In the US, that's why the federal government steps in and requires at least the appearance of fairness. If they hadn't, my family would still be sharecroppers.
Except that personal beliefs are just that, personal. You don't have to explain them.
Eich didn't make that donation yesterday, you know. But I agree. He made a small donation to a political cause. Are we going to start ritually sacrificing people who don't line up with our personal causes and opinions? I think this sets a draconian precedent. If this is where the culture in the Valley is headed, I'm incredibly glad I'm not a part of it.
Just as a heads-up, the font 'appNormal' looks like this on Windows / Chrome 33:

http://i.imgur.com/mXfy7NR.jpg

Looks great on OSX etc, so as this is about beautiful books wanted to say. Hope that helps, and good luck with the idea - looks really interesting.
Reasonably legit news reporting on threats would probably contain the word "threat"; that's what I was looking for.
There was at least one mozilla employee that reported on their blog that they received death threats when they blogged about support for the new CEO (despite initially conflicting feelings, the blogger is gay). I'm not linking to the blog because they might end up getting more abuse.

When controversial stuff like this happens, it is sadly common to receive death threats on the internet. Given that employees merely voicing support received death threats, I would be surprised if the CEO did not receive such things as well.
It makes me happy that tarsnap exists, just like it makes me happy that things like prgmr.com or FreeBSD exist. The world is a more interesting place.
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I support legalizing gay marriage. But two things, first, supporting prop 8 does not mean you "believe a certain group of people don't deserve to live their lives like others." It means you don't believe that the government should recognize same sex marriages as marriages. There are a large gradient of views here, and on one extreme are the bigots who hate homosexuals and on the other there are people who simply have hangups about the word "marriage" vs "civil unions." As far as I know Brendan has never articulated his opinions on the matter, they have just been extrapolated from a $1,000 donation.

Second, support of prop 8 would have been a mainstream viewpoint less than 10 years ago. In many parts of the country, support of prop 8 is a mainstream viewpoint. People who have different upbringings in different geographic areas are of course going to be biased towards certain views, and it's a bit unfair to chastise them for not completely realigning their viewpoints overnight for something that has probably been the fastest and most productive civil rights movement, maybe ever. People love to talk about tolerance except when tolerance means they have to deal with people who were raised with fundamentally different views, or people who may even have the same views they did a decade ago but failed to "evolve." This could have been an opportunity to attempt bring someone, a powerful CEO, to the side of being informed and support gay rights but instead it was a witch hunt and an embarrassment.
What I dont like about Angular: "it is built on the idea of adding HTML attributes to make it powerful enough to build applications. This is not a solid theoretical foundation and results in lots of neologisms -- scopes, transclusion, directives, reliance on dependency injection (in JS? really?), its own module system, its own idea of model/view/controller, etc etc.". Quoted it from pete hunt. When I studied CanJS or React, I felt the design made more sense.
A little difficult to do when part of what made the Mozilla Foundation what it is is supporting equality.

It would be hard to see a Skinhead leading a Kosher brand for the same reason.
So Barack Obama, the President of the US, was against gay marriage in 2008; I'm confused as to why he gets a pass here, but the head of Mozilla doesn't?
Note that the C# compiler being open-sourced now is not the one used in Visual Studio. The open sourced one is called currently the "Roslyn C# compiler."

See Locke1689's comments here, especially:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7524722

"the native C# compiler (that's what we call the old C# compiler that everyone's using in VS right now)"
No, those motivated by money will come to you.
Python is doing the same thing. It's great!
See, that is a really good description that would be useful in a README. Right away I know what it is, what it does and whether I should use it.
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Facebook is worse. If you use FB promoted/boosted posts you can not untarget mobile/tablets, which especially sucks if your ads are for desktop centric products.

Anyways- Is there a easy way on adwords to ONLY target desktop users? No tablets, no smartphones, no dumbphones.
You call it "rhetoric", I call it "evidence that what you're focusing on isn't important".

All this focus on economic inequality is misguided. The focus should be upon breaking chains of economic mobility.
One person losing his job, compared to millions of people not being able to marry the person they love? Even if you figure that $1000 as a fraction of the money raised by the campaign, you're still talking about significant emotional harm to hundreds or thousands of people directly affected within CA.

But the effects are actually much greater, because the CA decision was not made in a vacuum: it affected public sentiment all over the country, and the world. Delays in full marriage equality in CA mean delays in general societal acceptance of gay people, which means more bullying of LGBT children and teenagers, more suicides, more people getting disowned by their families.

Equating the harm done to him to even a fraction of the direct and follow-on effects of the prop 8 campaign seems almost offensive, to me.

[Edit: Even so, I think the reaction was a little over the top and this outcome was unfortunate. However, I don't feel bad for him.]
> people with socially conservative views

The fallacy of this statement is that it conflates a citizen's unilateral restriction of freedom on another citizen as a "view".

Don't fall for the argument due to soft labeling of what amounts to anything but equality.
Really sad about and disappointed in the way the whole internet reacted to Mozilla choice of CEO. To the homophobic it's wrong to be gay and to the gay it's wrong to be homophobic. If we accept LGBTQ as a circuitry of the mind, why don't we treat homophobia the same? And if it's ok to publicly admit to being gay why isn't it the same for homophobic? Where's the tolerance of political views?
CloudFlare doesn't bring your bandwidth costs down, it just makes them get sent out faster. It is indeed impressive that they can serve so much based on ads that many people never see (due to embeds and the like).
Are you kidding me? He lost a job because of having bigoted views and financially supporting legislation which disenfranchises an entire class of people. He will never suffer 1/10th of what the average gay person goes through in a lifetime. Comparing the consequences of his personal actions to the systematic discrimination against the entire gay community is laughable. You might as well say I'm just as bad as Charles Manson because I once swatted a fly.
Science has been benefiting from open source for quite a while now?
My grandparents did indeed work their asses off. And in china, people are now working their asses off.

But robots are only going to get better; this process has already started and is having a huge impact. Manufacturing is only going to get cheaper; this process has been going on for centuries and will not stop just because we want to have more jobs.

The total comfort available in the world today requires less total off-ass-working than it did in my grandparents' day, and it will take even less work in my grandchildren's day.

Let's begin a gradual transition instead of just assuming the status quo is a fixed constant.
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This isn't what "open society" means. In your view, what would we do with people that discriminate based on gender, or skin colour? We cannot tolerate this. Any society must strive to ensure equal rights to its members.

Edit: we're not going to have this debate for every minority group. This equal rights thing is happening, whether you like it or not.
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It speaks to his integrity as a hateful bigot that he didn't have the human decency to change his beliefs based on the fact that he was completely incapable of coming up with a valid justification for them, and refused to justify himself or apologize for what he did. And no, his non-apology apology was not an apology.
People tried to ruin his career? Did you not see the OP?
The Mozilla Manifesto should not be taken to be the total sum of what Mozilla, as an organization, believes. Their Manifesto is about how they believe the internet should behave and be treated, not how the company itself should behave and act with regards to its own employees.
curious to know if you have ever done a double blind test to determine if it's just a placebo effect?
"Twitter Bootstrap is a skill in much the same way as Wordpress is a skill"

Oh honey...
I'm an openly gay male, I came out at 15.

Why should there be social or employment consequences - in my mind this is just as bad as when employers fire employees for being gay.
He's partners with Joel Spolsky, whose old article on hiring [1] set the stage for a lot of the modern hiring era. Even though almost all of the questions are considered unfashionable today, I think the gist of "find any excuse not to hire" still holds in a lot of people's minds. The more people you reject, the better your candidates are, right?

[1] http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000073.html grep for "no hire" just to get a feel
True, but Mozilla does not typically operate as a standard business. They have a different goal, and that goal and quite frequently be at odds with the "mob". The majority of people and certainly the political inclination of the day is taking power and freedom away from people in the context of the Web. If Mozilla went with the mob rule instead of the smaller but passionate group that feel that is wrong, it would quickly be just like every other browser vendor out there, and it wouldn't be attempting to make a difference in the web, despite whether it is the most profitable stance.
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What a silly silly post.
Not everything in the world must be "enterprised" and "commercialized". You seem to be on an absolutely different planet to the idea and ideology of Tarsnap.

Your re-design template is so awful (and so bland, so tasteless $25 template), comparing to the original one, which is unique, light and with a thought-out UI.

Colin is happy to provide a useful service and there is a target market for this service (i.e. - other geeks).
It is not his intention to bring the service to the "next level", because running (and dedicating even more time) to this service is not what he wants to do to make a living.
Except that "Twitter Bootstrap" isn't a buzzword at all; it's a collection of CSS, Javascripts, and HTML coding conventions that make it possible to quickly build websites.

We put things in our job listing like, "familiarity with Backbone required". Is Backbone a buzzword? Is someone who uses Backbone less of a developer? Should I just automatically assume that anyone with developer after their name knows Backbone? Will this list of dumb, rhetorical questions ever end?

The author of this post gets it completely wrong:

"Claiming Bootstrap as evidence that you 'know' development is like claiming that changing your oil means you 'know' automotive engineering."

Knowing Bootstrap does count as knowing development, whether Paul likes it or not. There's quite a bit to Bootstrap, and even if it only takes someone a couple of days to come up to speed with it, maybe I don't want to pay for those couple of days. Maybe I don't have a couple of days.

Knowlege is a continuum. Once you gain a little, it's easy to look at everyone beneath you with a sense of contempt, but what's the point? What do you gain? Better yet, what are you giving back to the world? If we accept the author's message in whole, what action can we take to better ourselves? Sorry, but I can't see any dramatic improvement if we all stop asking about Twitter Bootstrap tomorrow.

Atacrawl nailed it when he called this a, "snotty drive-bys masquerading as insightful criticism".
I don't know about that -- I saw a lot of vitriol amongst the anti-Eich crowd in the last couple of weeks.
Exactly. Interesting work goes a long ways. Some [boring] things you can't pay me enough to keep doing.
Your [5] is broken. Looks like it should be http://smallcultfollowing.com/babysteps/blog/2014/01/09/rval....
Not a joke, possibly heartfelt, but certainly a great marketing coup for IAC.
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Diversity as a concept cannot legitimately be defined to include intolerance as an attribute to be protected. Swap out "anti-gay-marriage" for "racist" or "anti-semitic" – it would be difficult to argue that calling for the resignation of an active campaigner against racial equality was "anti-diversity"; the same applies here.
So, why doesn't anyone set up a payment service dedicated to topping up tarsnap accounts? If this is something people want, and colin doesn't care to implement it -- just pay someone else 1.5 the price with the added (mutual) guarantee that you won't run out of funds (possibly with a max, and/or complicated rules for when payment should cease) ?

Sounds like easy money all around, and colin won't have to deal with the support fallout (nor get paid to deal with it, which is ok).
I'm kind of confused why a software project has to have any values about gay marriage. Should they also have values about abortion, gun control, marijuana legalization, single-payer healthcare, contraceptive funding, stem-cell research, fracking? You know, we have a lot of hot button topics here and a lot of groups who would like nothing more than make national news by attaching themselves to something or somebody famous and making a nice juicy controversy. Having nothing to do with what Mozilla foundation was supposed to do, but who cares?
It speaks to the fact that he really, truly feels that way... which is a big problem. Sticking to your beliefs is not a virtue if your beliefs are reprehensible.
Sure it did. The knives were out.

Is it a requirement to explain what you believe? You can't just state it? I mean, there's no rational reason to oppose gay marriage, so attempting to rationalize it just comes off sounding stupid. Should we force a person to say stupid things?

Maybe what you mean is to demand a conversation. Forcing someone to participate in a conversation doesn't seem right either.

Does a person have the right to be close-minded?
This is classic "Stop oppressing my oppression!"

If you don't want to be treated differently for treating people differently, you can't treat people differently.
I feel like this could have been completely avoided if Brendan Eich said "I'm sorry. I was wrong. I supported a cause that I no longer believe in."

Since that was in 2008, and people can change their opinions & beliefs.

This assumes of course, he no longer believes that marriage only applies to straight couples.
From what I gather, one of the things holding mercurial back is support for python 2.4, although the support of %-formatting for bytestrings will move the port of mercurial forward.
It's also a religious view for many. For someone who belongs to a religious community, publicly renouncing canon has serious impacts on you and your family's social standing. Many people are able to balance their personal beliefs against their professional obligations. Is a defense attorney who defends a rapist at trial assumed to not be capable of working with women?

People should be judged by actions, not thought. If he was mistreating gay employees, that's a totally different matter.
This is not correct. If you set the correct headers, Cloudflare routinely caches files on their edge servers and serves them from there. My traffic dropped noticeably after activating Cloudflare, and I am not doing any file hosting.
How can it be a right if it's subject to a majority vote?
To me this is a win for freedom of speech

How exactly was this a win for Eich's freedom of speech?
Not least because any entrepreneurs of that age are probably successful serial entrepreneurs. Otherwise, they wouldn't even be able to get any funding at that age.
> Yes, those who support gay marriage are "right" and history will show this.

I prefer the term 'equality'. This particular fight is just one example of a large group of people trying to prevent a smaller group of people which they dislike from enjoying the same benefits as the larger group. There are many others, and they're all equally important on principle.

It's not about being gay; it's about being equal no matter who you are or what you do.
And here are the reasons for that: http://michaelochurch.wordpress.com/2013/12/14/vc-istan-6-th...

Text search for 'chickenhawking' to get to the meat of it.
Haskell has significant contributions by folks at Microsoft and is a beautiful functional language with state of the art concurrency, decent GC, and a hardcore fan base.

And here's some notes on bridging between Haskell and Unity http://lambdor.net/?p=321
> political views

Labeling one's belief in fundamental inequality among citizenry as a "political view" simply serves to make the argument for inequality sound OK.

It's not OK.
What, getting ousted as CEO for unrepentant bigotry? I'm not that scared.
The way I see it, the exact opposite happened. There was no "free market" action that corrected for a bad choice of CEO. It was a minority of people with a large voice who were able to create and control a narrative and thus force a CEO out. This is the exact opposite of "free market".
Security remains the most important difference between those two options.
I would like to know what's going more low level, Ktap gives a good break down how they differ from SystemTap, dynamically typed, byte-code design... etc

http://www.ktap.org/doc/tutorial.html#faq

Is Sysdig design similar?
What evidence is there that he's a "homophobe"?

7 million other Californians also voted for Prop 8. Does that make them all homophobes?
Also, OkCupid called them out on it extremely publicly.
Your idea that human rights are about social consensus is really dangerous. The argument that homosexuality is acceptable is not based on cultural attitudes, it's based on science and ethics.

Why don't you let Brendan Eich play the victim and feel sorry for himself, he doesn't need any of your help.
s/checkout/check\ out

"Checkout" is a noun. "Check out" is a verb.
I thought grandparent's "fear-based" stuff was over the top, but why are you so sure that your current strategy is the proper one, enough to dismiss other interview methods with talk of "B.S. puzzle questions"?
As an intern, I don't think this is true. I had an employer express an interest in me because Bootstrap showed that I was passionate about working on projects in my own time (since it isn't taught in schools). They also used it internally.
Because it's private property, and the owner says you can't have it.

Every single person who has legitimate access to it has given the owner something in return for a license to use the product, with the agreement that they're not going to share it with other people.

So that's why. Now explain to me why you're exempt from that? You're knowingly benefiting from someone else breaking their word. How are you not acting immorally?
Well obviously if you fix the price of Bitcoin at a certain point in time, later on it's gonna be a lot more expensive, especially if someone throws 5B at it.

Besides you are trying to find an edge case to argue about common cases, which is stupid and lame.