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I don't know, I see this as a good sign but for me it's still "too little too late". At least release it under a copyleft license, make it usable with previous versions of Visual Studio (it only works with 2013) and I'll feel more confident that you aren't setting a trap.

Non-copyleft licenses can easily align with the "embrace, extend, extinguish" strategy. The value of .NET for most developers is closely associated with Visual Studio. They can make the next version closed source and have Visual Studio only accept that one and we are back to the same old Microsoft. Sure, you'd still have the previous open source version, but who cares when most people will probably just move on to the next.
Perhaps, but realize, that the 'truly paranoid' would not use GitHub's paid offering. They'd have their own private behind the firewalls of an open source product with source code they could examine.

At least in my opinion.
The guides are up-to-date and maintained, but the tutorial itself is long, bulky, and ill-maintained. There is a contractor working on rewriting it.
"I don't want to do business with a company which has Eich as a CEO" is rather not the same as the Stasi. It's closer to US sentiment during the Red Scare of "I won't do business with any company which employes a member of the Communist Party." (The US still has a number of anti-Communist laws still on the books that I consider reprehensible.)

Or even closer to people in Northern Ireland still who will choose or avoid a Catholic/Protestant-owned store because of strong Unionist/Nationalist beliefs, even when the store itself has no basis.

Or a boycott on a chain of stores in the US where the owner contributes to anti-immigration policies, even when the chain itself has taken no political stance.

These later ones fall squarely under a right of free association. The East Germany comparison does not. That's why this comparison is malarkey.
That’s the wrong IANA link; you want this one:

https://www.iana.org/assignments/service-names-port-numbers/...

There are not three, but thousands of protocol names registered.
What I still can't understand is how Eich was ever approved by the board to begin with. His qualifications aside, the very fact that this had already become public before and was clearly antithetical to the ethos of Mozilla's position as a company should have excluded him from ever getting the job.

As CTO, people might have disagreed with his opinion, but it's hard to make a salient argument that he should be forced out for having that opinion.

It's a bit different when your job entails overseeing an entire organization -- including HR -- and you financially contribute to causes that aim to exclude some of your current or future employees.
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On a scale of 1 to 5, how strong of an argument do you believe you're making right here? That an individual assuming a position of high leadership being pressured to leave that leadership position, is equivalent enough to people withholding civil rights from a minority group, to use the word "oppress" to refer to both, to make a rhetorical point? Do you feel like you're really nailing the issue here?

Also, now I have to take back that line anyway. Maybe it does take the ability to categorize well.
There's an open issue for this: https://github.com/mozilla/rust/issues/13289
I wouldn't be surprised if this scenario will be repeated within the free software tech community for other contentious issues. As we see with recent Supreme Court actions taken by Hobby Lobby, company leadership's personal viewpoints do influence people's relationships to those companies.

It appears the most vocal against Eich view, I imagine, same-sex marriage as a fundamental human right.

Will other topics go this way, like, for example, the "climate change" debate, especially as those topics evolve? There seems is a rising group of people who view skepticism/denial of catastrophic anthropogenic climate change akin to that level.

Mozilla's Manifesto doesn't speak to holding any particular viewpoint outside of promotion of a free, accessible Internet and free, open software.

However, the principle of "transparent community-based processes promote participation, accountability and trust" must have influenced both the internal culture and its users, who felt that Eich's actions didn't reflect their views. Chick-fil-a is in the reverse scenario but doesn't seem to experience this kind of thing.
I was talking about a different blogpost actually.

While I agree with you that the HN crowd is not YouTube, there are still many people reading this and sharing with others etc., and since the blogger I am talking about has already been harassed, I don't see a point in drawing more attention there. It doesn't help our discussion anyhow, there are only downsides.
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What I love about the concept of metered pricing is how direct it is. You pay exactly for the resources in use. No strange statistics, heuristics and assumptions have been applied to your data, whatever it is, that's what you're using and that's that. You can then look at your month-to-month usage and do the statistics yourself.

I do like the proposals in the article, but I wouldn't make the metered pricing that invisible. I'd call it Elastic Tarsnap, put it in the same table before Tarsnap Professional, give it a faded background and put the language with the picodollar pricing on it. This will communicate that that's the intended product for the truly paranoid power user who needs their personal data backed up. Maybe even put that exact sentence under it "Backups for truly paranoid power users (or unix geeks)". Because it's not just corporations that have specific needs, we unix geeks have specific needs too.
You keep saying "was" and "opposed" like his opinion has changed. For it to be a mistake, you have to first own up to it, and second, apologize and try to make amends.

Brendan has don neither, and in fact has pretty much doubled-down on his opposition with his clearly crafted non-answers.
If this were true, then all religious bigots would simultaneously be "pro civil unions", which is like never the case.

I agree with you, they are two different tunes, but never sung simultaneously in practice.
It certainly doesn't necessarily mean ever. Who even knows who will be leading the project ten years from now! But it does mean that it will be quite a while before the hypothetical 2.0 where we could consider breaking backwards compatibility. How long "quite a while" will turn out to be, I can't say. But it will certainly be an improvement over the current situation, where the language breaks about once a week. :)
You may be thinking of Artsicle [1]. Art.sy on the other hand has always had their sights set on a Pandora model.

1. http://www.artsicle.com
Interesting to see what @mhartl thinks about this since he recently launched softcover.io
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I really hate when people default to percentages to display data for incredibly small sample sizes. I know by the very nature of the data there is not that much individual information available but the sample size is 41 companies. Really?
As inventor of javaScript, working for Netscape and later for Mozilla, without Brendan Eich the project is dead.

Homo or hetero... You all have problems with your sexual fantasies. Did I miss to say "fucking"? Should I give a "fuck" about you? Back in your pants, stupid!
It's only not realistic because everyone uses this exact same argument every time someone brings this up. We could move slowly towards the correct solution by acknowledging how incorrect the current situation is and fixing it little by little.

Why can't I have an easy way to pass on my estate to someone with all the same tax benefits without having to have sexual relations with that person? Why can't I get insurance options that can be extended to those I cohabitate with regardless of the nature of the relationship beyond the fact that we live together. Why are there not citizen affordances for other relationships such as extending rights to siblings as well? I'm talking exactly about all those same rights the gay community wants. Just like there is no reason many of those rights should be restricted to straight people, there is also no reason that many of those rights should be restricted to two people in a long-term sexual relationship. There's also no reason why we shouldn't be able to pick and choose which rights and obligations we want to opt into or which rights we may want to share with person A and which rights we may want to share with person B.

There is absolutely no reason in this day and age that we can't switch over to a la carte packages over 10-20 years. All you need to do is start offering those options on each of those rights individually and to let all the rights for married couples expire and for those that don't expire, you can work on sunsetting them once a suitable a la carte solution is available.
right for whom?
Fu*k You!

:)
Yeah, it always amazes me that MS fans would be using the term FUD to refer to people wary of MS vendor lock-in given that there is plenty of historical precedent for MS using exactly that approach.

This current move from MS suggests that they may not be being evil in this case, and that's great, but it doesn't make people with concerns about MS FUD-merchants at all. In fact, that's kinda insulting - most people accept that past behaviour is a good predictor of future behaviour so being cautious and sceptical about MS was not an unreasonable stance.
It's really not, but people choose to see it that way.
Or, to paraphrase, fast-food and big box stores might not be viable business models in such a world?
Why not? I don't care if my neighbor believes aliens built the pyramids and some deity created all animals in their present form in six days. I do care if they pressure the school board to teach those things to my children.

In the same way, I don't care if somebody believes that different races shouldn't intermarry because of dilution of racial purity or that people of the same sex shouldn't marry because of Adam and Steve. I do care if they try to put that into law.
We don't know that. He didn't lie. For all we know lying about your beliefs works fine at Mozilla.
I'd really love to see an update to your "Calling Rust from Ruby" post detailing these new features.
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> But the ballooning cost of the software and dwindling research budgets have prompted scientists to turn to R instead.

I know some people using R, though at least in my field (Computer Science/Bioinformatics), Python seems to be more popular. Both of which happen to be free. That said, I don't know any research groups that chose R or Python specifically because they were free.
Does the Reddit community/admins also tend to downvote any picture not submitted via imgur?
A lecture on category theory and ZFC ignores my point.

To run with your example: why must a definition of natural numbers have to involve sets of certain cardinality? You're telling me that because some people came up with a more general definition for natural numbers after the fact, that makes one definition of natural numbers more 'natural' than another.

I claim you're just reinforcing my point: the definitions were chosen to make natural numbers a specific instance. Everything here is chosen in some way to further some goal (usually mathematical aesthetics), and eventually you get down to the bottom and what do you have? A bunch of definitions that one may choose to use or not.

So whether I want to impose 0^0 = 1 by fiat is equivalent to whether I want to assume enough foundations of category theory to prove 0^0 = 1 in that system. You (and mathgrad) are just under the spell that because there is a whole lot more mathematics floating around (and big words and important people working in those fields) it somehow makes the latter less arbitrarily motivated by a desire to make theorems work out nicely. It's certainly pleasing that it does, but that doesn't make it somehow deeper or more natural than a different formalization in which 0^0 = 0. It just serves a different purpose.

This is the entire point of the OP and the original comment: you can generalize the meaning of 0 and 1 and a^b to make it suit your need to express certain theorems and patterns, and that is a key part of the power of mathematics. Whether it's a "truth" or an "axiom" just depends on how far down the rabbit hole you're willing to go, and the distinction is irrelevant because as far as deciding what 0^0 should be they're equivalent.
Whenever I read Patrick, I'm reminded I have bad thinking about how to price something. My idea of a fair price is = COST_TO_MAKE x 2 or something like that. In reality, it's VALUE / 2. Meaning, if a backup service provides $100 worth of value (reduction in risk), I should be ok with paying $50 for it. I shouldn't reject a backup service because I know that it costs $1 and they're charging me $100.

Consumers are pretty price sensitive, and business that sell directly to consumers must cater to this. This is why Patrick is always advocating that you start a business that sells to other businesses. A business doesn't mind paying for something as long as the cost is below the value it gets them. Isn't that the basics of business? Buy low, sell high? Buy a service that provides $X value as long as the cost is < $X?

I first can across this difference when I was a newbie DBA. We needed to upgrade our SQL Server cluster to the latest edition. I reviewed the differences between the various editions, and decided we could use some of the features in Enterprise vs. Standard. I did a little estimation, and showed how much time we could save between the DBAs and the developers if we got Enterprise. It was nowhere near the difference in the license costs, but I passed my findings onto the IT manager and the CEO. The CEO said buy Enterprise. I was stunned, and thought it was a bad decision. The reality was that we got so much value out of SQL Server, it didn't matter that we paid more than what was absolutely necessary.

Developers have the consumer pricing mindset as well. They complain about IntelliJ, Xamarin, or Visual Studio licensing, or worry about SQL Server costs. Even if an IDE provides you with a 1% performance gain, I'm pretty sure that's worth it for most companies. Who cares if a language/framework/database/server is free if reduces your output by even 5%. That's just bad business. You can claim a license fee on your taxes, but you can't claim an opportunity cost.

Consumer tight-fistedness for consumers can also be a bad thing. I live in a relatively cheap area of the US. When I travel, I'm shocked at the prices. In order to feel comfortable, I have to ask myself not Is this a good price? but Would I rather pay $15 for a pina colada or go without? Often the answer is, Yes, I'd rather sip a coconutty concoction on the beach in Hawaii than have an extra $15 when I get home.
I am confident that the creative and intelligent users of Hacker News can figure out how to retain "flavor and diction" while making their writing more substantive and less rude.

Meta discussion is bad on HN. My current stream of meta comments is a special case, and temporary. Sometimes one prescribes medicine that is toxic because the disease is worse. Hacker News' disease is unsubstantive and hostile language in comments. We're pushing hard against this problem from several angles. Providing clear feedback to the community is one.

I don't want to jinx it by commenting on how well it's going so far, but I would definitely like to invite any of you who notice a change, for better or worse, to tell us about it at hn@ycombinator.com. We'll read it with interest.

(Edited for less risk of jinxing.)
More important than his morality and/or religious views?
" seller of the house has every right to reject my +500 bid in order to wait for a better deal if they think one is coming along"

You know that someone else just said they were going to offer 1000 over asking. The seller doesn't know that. You have an advantage.

" you are assuming that there is a fixed price for the things you are buying when there aren't."

When Bob offers stock X for 5.00 that is fixed until he cancels that order. Just like the milk, it is 5.00 until the store changes the price.

Your analogy implies that I need all the properties on a block. That would be similar to a hostile takeover where someone needs to buy 50+% of a company to take control.

Are you aware that HFT are not making their money by detecting hostile takeovers?
I tried to build the python version of PlanOut with portability in mind. It took only a few minutes to port the base class that does all the hashing from PHP to Python. The the interpreter + a few core operators took about two hours. Developing the Experiment and Namespace classes to work in a way that we were happy with took a lot more time. I suspect that if you knew node / js, and just wanted to do a direct port, it shouldn't be too hard.

We have a little more background on the project at:
http://facebook.github.io/planout/docs/about-planout.html
and I'd be happy to review any ports to other frameworks.
you know the saying "a square peg in a round hole"? well: round peg, round hole.
Right, and the fact that no CEO could safely utter racist sentiments is another sign of how we're living this Orwellian nightmare.
> I am a mathematician I don't need examples.

Falser words were never spoken.
Wow. I've just got the highest score i've ever made using this method. Very awesome! If i get the hang of this i'll try to wrap it into the autoplay >:) :P
I thought mozilla exists mainly because of google?
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It's the socially respectable homophobes in the suits and ties that politicians and people in power listen to, not the thugs shouting "cocksucker!" at people coming out of bars.
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Yes. The "many people" here is a small but shrill collection of single issue voters/activists. Through slick PR these individuals were able to convert his employment status into a referendum on a political issue, even though one should have nothing to do with the other.
> I can say you owe me money for reading my posts (which, by the way, are also under copyright!). That doesn't make it wrong for you to not pay it.

Reading? No (you agreed to allow your comments to be read when you posted them). Using your comments elsewhere without attribution? Yes. You never agreed to that.

And it was an agreement, and no it was not unjust. Yes, it is a monopoly, and no it doesn't rest on force, but does that matter?

You don't have to have every song or movie that's ever been made. You are not entitled to them unless you strike an agreement with the owner of the property.
Mozilla's stance on respecting people's private, personal decisions (as a company working on a communication medium) is way more important to me than its stance on same-sex politics. Where did all the privacy advocates suddenly disappear to?

I'm staunchly pro-gay-rights and would've debated Eich vociferously on the issue of gay marriage back in 2008 if he had chosen to make his opinion public (which he didn't), but frankly Mozilla firing somebody based on a private donation to a political cause makes me want to boycott it more than the donation ever did. This seems like a textbook case of the privacy abuse that the tinfoil-hatters are usually getting so worked up about.
The most enticing feature of C# is the .NET Framework, and if Microsoft fully open sourced the .NET Framework it could start a cross compatible version of the framework. This would be a dream come true for a software developers who like C#/opensource.
"non-profit which exists due to the donations of primarily liberal and libertarian internet people"

Citation needed.
Apple isn't dominating any market.

You're obviously going by the number of units sold, not the profit share. And you're not technically wrong. But isn't that a little bit like measuring the number of swings a baseball player takes instead of the number of times he gets a hit?

In the PC market Apple is absolutely destroying all comers: 45% of the profit share in 2012. HP, Lenovo, Dell, Acer and Asus combine for the remaining 55%. (I couldn't find numbers for 2013) http://www.forbes.com/sites/timworstall/2013/04/18/apples-ma...

They're dominating similarly in the mobile market. http://www.businessinsider.com/apple-smartphone-profit-share...

I mean, if you want to say their products are crap - that's subjective and we can't argue that.

But if you don't think they're doing incredibly well in their key markets, that's diametrically opposed to the truth.
I mean that prop 8, the thing Eich supported, was overruled. Anti-gay marriage laws are being overturned across the country.

No, not every injustice has been thwarted. But Eich isn't responsible for every injustice, just the one he participated in. He is not, to my knowledge, actively oppressing anyone today.

I asked someone else this elsewhere in this topic and I'll ask you the same: What is the victory here? What does this change, positively for the cause of equality?

And I ask again, how did Mandela treat his opponents after his cause was won, and why do we not strive for those standards?
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I thought of the very same idea, but never even built it, I still think it would be cool. The main problem is that you have to have enough people on the network to make it useful.
As a contemporary artist you've got to be increasingly sure that your work looks damn good in .jpg form

(see: markets current preoccupation with bold, flat abstract works)
Do young people really believe this?
Put together with this "Parsing Microsoft’s Decision to Cut Windows Fees"[1] It may well be that MS is feeling enough pressure from Android and to a lesser extent linux to give it a go.

1. http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/04/02/parsing-microsofts-...
>>It will automatically discover Google Glass users near you.

Assuming, the Google glass's bluetooth is ON (discoverable). Otherwise it won't work. Right?
NUMA can absolutely ping you in virtual servers, but without access to the hypervisor you'll never know why it's happening (JVMs straddling NUMA regions have caused me pain in the past, when the guest was split across memory regions).
Trust takes years to build, but moments to lose. MS has a long way to go.

Not depending on them for anything is, has been, and will be a fine strategy.
Last time I tried to run airbrake-js, the airbrake script itself was throwing errors in IE8. The github repo says nothing of browser support. Would love to know if this is still the case.
Many oppose companies that push a "gay agenda" or support abortion.

In 1986, 7-Eleven stopped selling Playboy and Penthouse magazines after a two-year boycott by the AFA.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Family_Association
If you are someone who believes gay people should be allowed to form civil unions, but are offended by the idea that those unions be called marriages, supporting prop 8 is consistent with those views even though it doesn't mention civil unions.

I have no idea why Brendan donated $1,000 to support prop 8, and I'd be skeptical that he'd do so if he didn't actually have much stronger beliefs than the civil unions point. But I still feel like this entire situation where a donation to a widely supported political cause, context free, can cause your life to be ruined is chilling.
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Eventually, you will, it seems.