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i've stood my ground for my beliefs when people were ridiculing me for doing so. it's a lonely position to be in.

i didn't share eich's views here, but he's free to have them, and the reason for the problem is, ironically, the intolerance of other people (people forcing their "tolerance" down his throat).

he has my respect. not for his view on gays. but for staying true to what he did. i think this is a shame.
on the other hand we just showed that when a mob on the Internet wants something - they get it.

I don't think that this follows. In this particular case, someone was promoted to a role which many felt was incompatible with his personal views; they made that known, and the person in question stepped down. That's kind of how things should work in a community enterprise.

That said, I understand he's received wildly disproportionate abuse, like death threats. That's totally unacceptable, and frankly I'm surprised that anybody feels that strongly about the issue.
When they first started talking about Roslyn a couple of years ago, the plan was always to open-source it, when they felt good about the quality.
Oh, just folks like Erin Kissane: http://incisive.nu/2014/thinking-about-mozilla/
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This is an example of what a hate-driven vocal minority can do. It's scary.
So Mozilla supports diversity and freedom on many vectors -- as long as they are the correct positions.

Certainly not a very courageous stance.
I agree with this. His last interview was just embarrassingly bad, no kind of leadership at all. Leadership is taking responsibility and owning your actions, not hand waving and vaguely pushing away.
I find this whole ordeal disappointing. Eich's personal beliefs should have only been criticized insofar as they impacted his ability as CEO. I'm not sure how much that would have been, but the attacks targeted Eich as a whole, and shouldn't have.

Regardless, his stepping down seemed to be the only way to move Mozilla forward, which is a shame.
Yes. You're welcome to ask for money for e.g. an "Aryans for Rails" fund. That's very different from lobbying for apartheid laws.
This is an app to guide you through the entire process of Design Thinking in an (interactive) online course.

It was originally build as an iPad Webapp.
Now i ported it to the web to see if there is any response and interest in this app.

For now it's only in german. I am planning in proper refactoring an l18n if there is a good amount of (positive) response.
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Despite its unfortunate name that unnecessarily limits the audience which might find it useful, you might want to check out http://www.rustforrubyists.com/

It's basically a tutorial for people coming from typeless, pointer-less dynamic languages, whereas the official Rust tutorial assumes familiarity with the concepts that a C (or C++, C#, Objective-C) developer would know
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One thing that has really helped me is picking a project that I really wanted to make and learning Rust while making the project. A read through of the tutorial also went over my head at first, but when the concepts started to show up in my program the tutorial also started to make sense. There is the documentation which you can also look through for specific examples, and also there are lots of small resources to read here http://static.rust-lang.org/doc/master/index.html Probably the best resource though is the IRC where you can ask just about any question and they'll usually answer it in a very short time.
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The architecture of the digital ad industry was created with computers in mind; it was only ported to touchscreens out of convenience. You just can't assume clicks imply intent on such inaccurate devices.
If you have HBO, you're not an HBO customer. You're a Comcast (etc) customer. HBO doesn't have to deal with billing, customer support, they probably don't even know your name. Heck they don't even have a database to put your name if you told them! They just don't deal with any of that.
Who persecuted Eich? His detractors were merely engaging in their freedom of speech. You know, free market and all that.
The thing I really am starting to dislike about KS is the emphasis on these ridiculous promo videos. With the crazy side glance answering of questions that nobody asked like a Jony Ive "interview" before they cart him off to a mental ward.

Anybody can make these kinds of videos, and they are proof of nothing. In fact I think they are so important that half of KS is just promo vids with nothing behind them. Is it only me that thinks this kind of high gloss windshield washer on the median kind of begging is getting a little ridiculous?
I had someone come in the other day with Netscape Navigator listed as a skill.

If you have a separate Skills section, I probably wouldn't list it as a skill, but perhaps in the detailed description of your job. Ex: Created websites using Bootstrap and CSS.

I hate writing resumes where your job basically becomes a bunch of buzzwords, but that is what tech employers are expecting.
HBO's model is not broken...they have millions of subscribers who generate hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue.
Three board members did step down [1] so it's not just the internet.

[1] http://blogs.wsj.com/digits/2014/03/28/three-mozilla-board-m...
I think Patrick's comment still applies if you think he described "Dropbox with an open source client." Since it's still tarsnap, it still retains all of the security benefits of tarsnap. Saying "open source client" does not capture that.
"All he had to do was lie".

Are you suggesting this would've been better, in the grand scheme of things?
To me this is a win for freedom of speech and free markets. You're free to express your close minded opinion, but the market is free to reject it and you.
Are you concerned that every employer would begin do follow these practices and require auditions? How likely do you think that is?
"any opinion is ok, as long as you're not conservative" I used to get this constantly in HS and now in college. This type of thinking is extremely toxic and I think can be very damaging for an institutions reputation. Mozilla is no longer about "openness" it's now about a much more generic liberal world view.
HN has seen bigger stories: http://www.mattbearman.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2011/10/hn-s...
Goodness me. I have seen it all now. I do hope peer-to-peer poo sharing finds its way into an episode of that new HBO Silicon Valley series.
I am a strong supporter of gay marriage, but I have to say that I find this very unfortunate and worrying. Apparently many Mozilla supporters seem to think it is okay to bully a qualified person out of his job only for his political views, even if they had absolutely no effect on his qualification or his actions on the job.

I can't help but feel like this campaign has done a lot more harm to him than his $1000 donation could have ever done to anyone.
Yes. Good luck to Microsoft trying to be relevant in HTML5 space.
>"pro homo"?

It appears that Jugurtha is not a native speaker of english, so take that into account before you start taking issue with their word choices instead of their points.

>The rest of your post is exactly why people want to take a stand.

Asking why hypocrisy is on display in the campaign to shame Eich into resigning is why people want to make a stand? Really? I thought it was because the LGBT community are being denied equal legal frameworks for marriage, and that many are being discriminated against, abused, disowned, lynched and executed around the world because of their expression of gender identity. Or is that just a Social Justice Warrior tactic, to take a stand because someone "tone-shamed" them?

Their main point that many unfairly dismiss any and all on the "anti-gay marriage" side as homophobic bigots is a valid one. Someone believing that their idea of the institution of marriage being trampled is ignorant, a product of their upbringing and the communities they find themselves in, but not homophobic in and of itself.
Extremely saddened by this. I hope "activists" with misguided anger will realize the web is worse off today than it was yesterday.

Why I supported him as CEO: https://medium.com/p/5f43d452bd89
Nah freedom of speech is alive and well. Freedom of speech does not mean you're immune from other people exercising their freedom of speech.
Competency be damned! He held controversial opinions and supported like-minded causes! Destroy him!

Edit: Downvotes, but no replies. Come on, kids...if you think I'm wrong then explain.
Large bid/ask spreads benefit buyers and sellers if they are allowed to keep the benefit of trade trade for themselves.

If I would pay $10 to buy, and a seller would accept $8 to sell, and the clearing price is $9, we each benefit.

If The seller sells at $8.01 to a middleman, who sells at $9.99 to me, only the middleman benefits. He has captured almost the entire benefit of trade from us.

Spreads do not matter here. The buyer and seller agree to trust a third party cartel enforcer to keep their trade information secret for the express purpose of excluding arbitrageurs. They do this because they can then get higher prices for what they sell, and lower prices for what they buy.

If the earnings report is scheduled to be released in the middle of an auction interval, yes, you might want to wait before using the system. But you might not care. Your numbers might be based upon research rather than speculation. This system is designed to be more friendly to the people who trade based on what the goods at hand are worth to them, rather than how much money they can make speculating on movements in the price. That's the whole point.

Your objections seem to be that the people who make a lot of money in the current system can't do that as easily here. Again, that's the point. As I see it, the people making the most money are providing the least value, while also trying to pretend that no one could live without them.

What if they could all be replaced by a very short shell script?
The doctors Cuba sends to other countries, The cuban government gets paid for, it's a business. They keep armed guards on them to keep them from defecting. My father in law was sent by the Cuban government to Libya in the 1980s under the same type of "work exchange" system.
As were gay people in California.
His last interview was the point where I started to call for it, as he buried his head in the sand with everything that's happened.
Personally I don't know what to think when organizations mix their core business (e.g. making a web browser) and politics (e.g. support for free speech). I'd like to see politics and business as separate as possible. What do you think?
I don't appreciate the condescending tone the author uses, both in the title of this article and in the article itself.
This is why I think we don't truly have a democracy anymore. Instead we now have an Ochlocracy[1]. Ruled by mobs and groups of people (super pacs and multinational corporations)[2].

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ochlocracy
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_action_committee
The article is not clearly saying it but he is leaving Mozilla, not just stepping down as CEO.
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For example, if the mob tomorrow decides that it's OK to give up privacy for "security", mozilla will happily have to oblige to become a state security tool. That's why strong leadership with values is needed.
maybe he needs someone else to show him how to be happy.

shrug. in my experience, people telling me how to live my life tend to be a pain in the arse. but maybe i am projecting.
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First, please re-read what the HN guidelines say about not complaining when you're downvoted.

Second, you are mistaken. Your comments' negative scores are because users, not moderators, downvoted you. Moderators don't have special downvoting powers.
Instead of talking about how you would run it, actually build and run it. If your "fork" addresses the needs of an under served market, congrats you've just hit step 3. Profit!

Otherwise talk is cheap. More so, talk about how someone who has actually done something successful is doing it wrong.
I don't think he's suggesting that at all. He's saying that might've resolved the controversy while allowing Eich to remain as CEO.
Sure, but in the context of code and complexity, minimalism is your best bet.
I think Eich as the CTO directly refutes that statement. It's not even clear whether he's just going back to being CTO, or leaving entirely.
The amount of times I have heard: "You don't need to write CSS, just use Bootstrap" or some variation is uncountable. Some thing that just adding a "class='btn...'" to an input instantly makes it a button (without linking the stylesheet or adding a "type=".
Comments here are pretty supportive of Brendan but I see this as nothing but a victory for Mozilla and a victory for consumer activism. It should be clear by now that you cannot run a large company in the public eye while you espouse vitriolic and discriminatory views that belong in the last century.
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So the ideal CEO is someone who will lie about his beliefs the second it becomes inconvenient for him?
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Assuming you can't leverage any 3rd party API, but have access to a hose of URLs, how would you create a Google Alerts substitute that would scale for 10,000 + keywords?

Would you:
1) Import all the documents into a search index, and have a Cron Job that iterates through all the keywords and searches for it in the index?

2) As soon as an URL is received, iterate through all 10,000 keywords and see if the contents of the URL contains that keyword?

3) Another efficient way?
It speaks a lot to his integrity that he didn't. Would you rather have a CEO who says one thing in public and then goes and does another thing surreptitiously, or one who stands up for his beliefs even when they're unpopular?
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I've been using retargeting (perfect audience) for the last 2 months and find it useful.

First of all, it is extremely inexpensive and highly qualified. Compare to LinkedIn or Twitter where the CPM is 5x to 10x greater and, in my experience, less qualified than people who have already come to our site.

The dollar amount is quite low. In the last 30 days, 176,333 impressions were served for a total of $377.68 That's a lot of eyeballs for less than $400 a month.

To me, even if no one ever converted, that is worth it simply as an investment in brand building.

We have also done a special offer only available as a retargeted ad, that is converting very well (17 in the past month directly from the ad / special).
co-opting a word is not a right
"Keep in mind we built GitBook in our spare time over the past 3 days."

That's impressive!
Stolen from my buddy Abe. Poor journalism.

http://abe.is/the-best-age-to-raise-money/
The mob is definitely an emotional child but it doesn't have anywhere near unlimited power.
Yes. I was waiting until he had the opportunity to actually put out a good response (despite the initial waffle). That interview destroyed any faith I had.

But I blame this entire trial and failure on the Board. It is their responsibility to vet candidates, and their inability see how this could blow up shows a horrible lack of judgment on their part.
It wasn't just bad press, someone here posted a link to a "biggish" organization in, I think, Australia where they were asking people to boycott Mozilla by not using it's software.
touche. touche.
Oh, the naiveté!

I doubt anybody in their right mind and with enough information about Cuba could actually think that the Cuban government could be subverted by a social network. The government controls all communication in Cuba and they listen to it ... all the time! The minute something smells a little anti-government, it gets shut down immediately and people go to prison and are made an example on national TV.

It really does not matter where the money came from to create this network. At the end the Cuban government controlled it and there was no way it could be used for subversion. I really doubt that was the original intention of the project.

The other interesting point is this:

"... the 2009 arrest in Cuba of American contractor Alan Gross. He was imprisoned after traveling repeatedly to the country on a separate, clandestine USAID mission to expand Internet access using sensitive technology that only governments use."

This is a disguised exaggeration. The equipment Alan Gross brought to Cuba was completely normal (radios, blackberries, routers, etc) with the only alleged exception of some protection against geo-location for satellite phones.

I have to suspect the article for its bias towards Cuban propaganda.
Except he didn't stand his ground at all. He never once explained his beliefs. If he had done that I think people would've been a lot more tolerant of him. I don't think it had to end this way.
There are many types of paranoia. Micro-managing is one. Eg,

> if you believe you must check on every detail, your style is symptomatic of insecurity or paranoia - http://www.adams-hall.com/micwilstrany.html

In any case, my ";)" from before stands.
Do you have any evidence of that? There's a wide gap between "ordinary employees", and a CEO position that includes responsibility for diversity and ensuring a workplace free of discrimination, as well as the public perception of the organization.

There are many views that can easily be reconciled with other roles that are very hard to reconcile with those responsibilities.
In business the "Mob" is usually right. If the mob of people are saying they won't buy into your product, you usually conform to the mob.
Well, I won't use Firefox anymore and I won't use anything related to Mozilla, I can't tolerate this injustice.
This has nothing to do with "freedom of speech". Freedom of speech means the government can't legally punish you for expressing your views.

It doesn't mean that nobody is allowed to criticize you or your views.

In order for speech to mean something at all, it has to have consequences.
The statement was intentionally vague in this. I wouldn't be surprised if he stays in a C-level position.
He can say what he likes, doesn't mean he isn't free from the consequences. Views that are wrong should be allowed to be held and said, but not be supported; especially by a company like Mozilla
The kernel does have bypass APIs, or APIs that can be used for that purpose. However, you can't use just a little; once you start down that path you need to bypass everything.

To be clear, while the bypass APIs are simple to use you actually have to know what you are doing since you become responsible for doing things the OS used to do for you. I/O scheduling, disk caching, process scheduling, memory management, etc all have to be reimplemented in userspace.

It is why I mentioned that the skill set required to do bypass kernels is fairly rarified. You can't just reimplement what the OS already does, you need to implement something that is different than the OS design but also better at providing functionality the OS provides for the use case. You are essentially writing a purpose-optimized OS without the device drivers.
They didn't step down because of Brendan, but for different reasons.

"The three board members ended their terms last week for a variety of reasons. Two had been planning to leave for some time, one since January and one explicitly at the end of the CEO search, regardless of the person selected."

[0] http://arstechnica.com/business/2014/03/three-mozilla-board-...
"All he had to do was lie"

This speaks volumes.
You know what, maybe they're not. Having a philosophy of progressivism is a valid policy, and as long as you're not denying someone a job specifically because of their race, creed, party, skin color, disability, etc, it's fine. In this case, the man appears to be an unrepentant bigot whose ideas are not in line with much of the company.
>We are excited to open source our columnar store extension for PostgreSQL and share it with the community

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> If I would pay $10 to buy, and a seller would accept $8 to sell, and the clearing price is $9, we each benefit.

That's not how bid/ask spreads work. You have it backwards. A big spread is when the highest anyone willing to pay is $8 and the lowest anyone is willing to sell for is $10.

Large bid/ask spreads hurt both buyers and sellers because as soon as they make a trade they are already in a hole (that they hope to make up by overall movement in the security).
Unfortunately I think what this encourages is being less genuine.. hiding your personal feelings when they go against the current tide. Was the problem truly that he felt this way, or that he publicly+financially felt that way? If there was no public record of his position, there'd be no controversy.

I completely disagree with his position, but I don't think shutting him up or vilifying him is the answer.
Hiring employees is not angel investing. You want to minimize risk, not maximize it. VCs and angels are in the business of assuming massive amounts of risk.

Startups and small businesses.. aren't.
This could not have less to do with the situation. Mozilla is not a democracy.
This was the opposite of a win for freedom of speech.
Cassandra does not have a SQL interface. CQL (Cassandra Query Language) provides none of the aggregation, grouping and dearth of other features an analyst would depend on from a SQL-like database.

Not to say there aren't tools to get SQL ontop of Cassandra (Datastax has a hadoop/mr driver, that you can probably put pig/hive/presto(?) on top of).
It depends if lying as such would be "ethical", but of course that too is open to interpretation.

Although this not exactly written for the audience of CEO's here's one viewpoint on this:
http://michaelochurch.wordpress.com/2014/04/02/the-right-and...
So basically he took another persons feces and put it in himself. Cause he had read about it in a completely different context. and it had almost no effect.