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In my view, the key difference is how a position touches 'human rights'. If it restricts it, like anti same-sex marriage, or racism, it is wrong, period.

The concept of human-rights is quite recent and not fixed, that's for sure.

Political, economic, or other personal positions, those should be fine as long as they don't affect your work conduct.
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Let them, then. I'm just calling it how I see it. Anyone who says "homosexual acts should be banned" is either trolling or they're a horrifying throwback of a human being. Either way, they're an asshole.
Politics necessarily creates divisions
I was about to sleep but definitely had to add my contribution to bum washing. Most Indian toilets have a water faucet next to your seat. You always wash with water using your left hand(Right one is reserved for more auspicious occasions like eating food or shaking hands). I still remember the horror of my first trip to US and finding that you have to use rough sheets of paper to essentially scrath it off. But on the flip side, toilets in India are always damp and dirty with filthy cess pools of mold and .... God help you if you ever have to use a public toilet in India.
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And you don't think that trade has anything to do with that? Just mysterious external factors?
How about giving it a rust instead? wink wink
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Exactly. And, you can still fallback to text, email, or a phone call...
He quit Mozilla completely. I am guessing he is sick of all of the pressure. If he came back, there would be an unprecedented shitstorm, probably the exact opposite of what he wants.
> Water consumption by agriculture and industry dwarfs that for personal use.

Yeah, but Japan does not need to make their own crops. It's very much a policy that can debated. Surfaces for agriculture in Japan are very well, mainly composed of small-time farmers, and that kind of activity only exists because it's heavily subsidized by the government, and the country applies huge tariffs and trade protections to prevent importing food from other countries around (at the expense of Japanese taxpayers and consumers).
See, there's your problem. Labeling people "reprehensible" who don't agree with you about the limitations of what defines "marriage", but who otherwise might completely support the legal rights of same-sex couples in regards to health benefits and so on.

The bullying tactics and manipulation of the argument by pro-gay marriage activists is what's reprehensible. Including forcing CEOs to resign, attacking web browsers, and generally accusing people who believe in a traditonal definition of marriage as "anti-gay", which in most cases they are not.
Big fan of the way Nadella is starting out, Microsoft may reverse the polarity of developers from disengaging back to attracting to Microsoft if they keep this up.
The modern indie "movement" is largely defined as being a reaction to the large, corporatized state of game development around when--wait for it--Braid came out. So using that as a signpost is both valid and sensical.

And many games have questionable moral and artistic value. Maybe even most. That makes the ones that reach past that so wonderful.
Pragmatically speaking I think you are right.

I'm going to leave this post up though, because I hope some people will see it and reconsider their viewpoint.
I'm one of them. For me it's because I made some token efforts before to understand it, and it seemed far more complicated than source control should be. I have very simple needs, and correspondingly don't really have a desire to learn non simple tools.
Here's an anecdote. I have a friend who worked at a tech company in the bay area (not Mozilla). He met and fell in love with a Canadian. They got engaged. At one point after a visit to Canada, they're both headed back to California for a visit. On hearing that the couple is engaged, the border agent refused the Canadian entry to the US: risk to overstay tourist visa.

Now, a straight couple could get a K-1 visa for the fiancé and marry within 90 days, but that was not available to my friend and his fiancé. Instead he was forced to leave his tech job in the bay area, uproot his life and move to Canada to be with the person he loves. That's the effect of Prop 8. That's what Brendan Eich was campaigning for.

There's a difference between working for someone who's different from you, and working for someone who's literally spending money and campaigning to break apart your family. Whose actions stripped away rights you had, and forced you to flee your birthplace to be with the person you love. So no, it's not the same thing. I'm tolerant of people who are different than me. I am not tolerant of people whose actions harm my brothers.
Expanding on: "Meritocracies are like democracy: "the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.""

Assuming the goal of any system of government (e.g., democracy) or marketplace (e.g., meritocracy for society, opportunity etc.) is the advancement/ progress, a meritocracy fails where the value it attaches to certain events/ attributes is flawed. It rewards something more than it contributes to progress, and insufficiently rewards something that brings greater value.

Bringing it back to the original post, I have often shared the opinion that currently providing entertainment, is rewarded more than it deserves in the current state of our meritocracy. One could contribute more to the advancement of society e.g., by improving energy efficiency but the person would not really be rewarded as disproportionately for doing so.

I find it sad therefore that so many smart people are driven to game development and not solve other more pressing problems. Or probably that society currently attributes so much value to entertainment.
Mmm, reading that now actually. I'm enjoying it, and I could easily see that if I was younger I'd be enamored by it.
My understanding is that Bell's inequality is a little more devastating for hidden variable theories. To make hidden variable theories work, you don't just need spooky action at a distance: you need that spooky action to travel faster than light.
It is logically impossible for there to be more cancellations than enrollments, while the percentage of uninsured falls dramatically.

Methinks you've got your facts wrong.
The key is "human rights". The only way to coexist is to respect each other's rights.

A person has the rights to follow whatever religion he/she wants. But that does not give him/her the right to restrict someone else's rights.

A person being homosexual does not restrict the other person religion. It is the same as not agreeing on a personal/political position.
Mozilla CEO “resigns” after uproar over his opposition to gay marriage
For some, it's not an option.
Any idea if that article is still available? Or do you have any good resources for implementing FTT? I'm working on a project to compare sound clips for similarity, but I haven't grasped an effective way to accomplish that yet.
I fully support gay rights including that they should be able to marry, etc, and it's shame on the human condition the way some people have been and still are oppressed because of their beliefs and resulting actions.

But this seems to be a case of the abused now becoming the abuser. A very capable and dedicated CEO forced from office because of personal beliefs. This is at the very least, hypocrisy.
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Prompted a thought: bits are always either there or not, ultimately, correct? (meaning you can either recover it, or never can) Whereas with printed or written text, you can recover partial data - a partial single letter for example - and conclude what it was. With the potential of written text also being generally far more restricted in possibilities (given you know, eg the language and time frame), than what's on a data disc.
Your argument is absolutely absurd.

Were black people who fought against separate-but-equal segregation policies "bullies" to you, too?
Neither person in my example is infringing upon anyone else's rights, senor.
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Happy to hear that you've joined the good fight in favor of legalizing polygamy.

I'm not even exaggerating. I personally am very much in favor of legalizing polygamy. And legalizing gay marriage. For the same reason.

Point is this: I don't feel the need to go around getting everyone fired who doesn't want to legalize polygamy.
We're selling our awesome side-project
Me and my partner were forced to leave our project on which we worked for almost a year (we have over 25,000 publishers using it).
We don't want to simply discard it, so we decided to offer it for sale for limited time.
it's on SideProject.com : http://www.sideprojectors.com/project/project/709/kejek-social-sharing

Here's a summary:

Social sharing tool for websites, that pushes visitors to share more by showing them exactly how many people have watched what they share.

It is currently installed on more than 25,000 sites, including premium paying clients.
I'd agree with the article if normal citizens actually had the power suggested in the article. That our voices and votes have equal power to evoke change in government. That what corporations do won't outweigh our collective voices. However, the author admits that this isn't the case:

> ...when what was left of the Tillman Act (a law passed in 1907 to restrict corporate campaign contributions), was essentially destroyed, virtually unrestricting the corporate world from holding politicians in their back pocket through financial contributions.

> What corporate America is doing today is robbing Americans’ of their ability to be heard and to count, and replacing those Americans with the echoes of big business and the massive lobbyist machine at work.

> Unfortunately, everyone’s playing that game thanks to our impotent Supreme Court today.

People are trying to find different ways to make their voices heard, and one way is via their power as consumers. In this instance, Eich ended up as a casualty (rightly or wrongly, I don't care) and he probably won't be the last. If that is the cost of swinging the power back to the people, of weakening the corporate stranglehold on government, and forcing the Supreme Court to actually act on the pitiful state of politics today, then I'm not going to complain.
> If you think that work defines you [...]

I don't, and I've never implied that.

> We will see an increase in automation for jobs that we didn't expect to be so.

We've seen increases in automation for hundreds of years, yet there was never a depletion of jobs for people. There's more jobs now that there has ever been before (not talking about short time scale here). Industry automation has led to the creation of the expansion of the Services industry. And there will still be tons of professions where you can't automate stuff - at best you can improve people's work using computing aids, make them work more efficiently, but at some point of the supply chain you still need human action. For the services industry, there's also the bias that most people want to deal with other people and not with computers, so automation will face cultural limits as well in some areas. I'm not worried.
At the level of donation in this example, that probably works. Consider though a donation of say, $1 million. Is it important to know who donates that amount and thus potentially exerting a great deal of influence?

Maybe the notable difference is that while votes are anonymous, every vote is equal.
but one shouldn't need to move stuff to indesign, as most e-book viewer-apps support css "page-break" now.

If I were only targeting epub/mobi I wouldn't have bothered with InDesign, but getting the PDF just right was important to me.

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

Since the user can set the font and text size the idea of page size goes pretty much out the window.

Using CSS page-break doesn't quite help, since it presumes what has come before and how it fit on the page. What's needed is orphan/widow control and "keep with next" so that, for examples, related sections can be rendered on one page or the next but not split across pages.

In practice, though, I found I needed to aim for some sort of highest common factor across popular devices, keep test-viewing the results, and drop anything too clever.
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Equivocating pressuring Eich to step down with oppressing AN ENTIRE CLASS OF PEOPLE is incredibly insulting and makes it really hard to take your claim of supporting gay rights seriously.

Applying political pressure to get a bigot to resign from a largely political organization is not abuse. Contributing to a campaign to deny equality to, again, an entire class of people, is.

People need to cut it out with this faux-academic Devil's Advocate crap and use some common sense.
> I'm hoping that the tooling and integration gets a lot better in *nix, but nod sure how the Mono license (MIT iirc) and this new C# license (Apache) will jive together.

The MIT license is a lot more permissive than the Apache license. However I see no reason that you can't have different components under each license which work together harmoniously. If nothing else, the MIT license can be easily changed without consulting other contributors because of the sublicensing grant.
Yup - and I think it's overpriced. If it was a consumers' market this would be way cheaper, but in Japan it's very much a B2B thing, therefore you don't get good prices if you want to buy your own.
The article title is why I came, the book you mention is why I stayed. Very interesting read, I wish more was available!
Here's the thing: I've got a job and degree too.

I actually agree with you, it doesn't respect a person's time and energy. It sucks. But the status quo doesn't respect it either, and it in fact requires even more time and energy (several years, several thousands of dollars), but we just don't account it as such because its just the societal norm. I'm not proud of my degree. I view it as essentially a societal bribe i had to pay to the indentured institutions to be considered for 99% of decent paying jobs. So it goes.

I can't think of a way to accurately measure someone's abilities that doesn't require significant time and energy from both parties :( But i'll take such solutions over the current alternatives...

There are of course some ethical problems when companies literally try to get you to do their work during the hiring process which i can't pretend to support.
Are you sure it is optional? [1]
In any case Mozilla does offer them. So what exactly is the problem? What would change with or without gay marriage recognized by California? If anything, this shows that while Eich may be opposed to gay marriage, he is not at all opposed to equal benefits (unless of course you could point to instance where he tried to remove that policy).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Domestic_partnership_in_Califo...
My original comment was more about how you excused yourself out of providing proof, rather than stating that there were no such people. For anyone curious about the contents of your link, here's a TL;DR of the people listed:

Rhazes - Muslims beat him over the head with his own book. Crazy stuff.

Sevetus - Executed for theological reasons. Ironically beaten to his scientific discovery by a Muslim, Ibn-al-Nafis who figured it out some 300 years earlier. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pulmonary_circulation

Galileo - Well known, put under house arrest.

Domagk - Nazis kept him from getting his Nobel prize.

Einstein - Nazis got mad at him after he left the country.

Turing - Given hormone injections.
And another thing that gets overlooked is that the toilet is always in a separate room from the rest of the bathroom (washbasin and tub). It seems weird at first that you have to go down the hall into a phonebooth-sized compartment to do your business. But then you go back to visit family in America and can't stop noticing that you poop 3 feet away from where you brush your teeth...
As long as your friends are not the kind of people who organise their lives on those services.

"Oh, you didn't know about the party? I told everyone on the whatsapp group chat (that you are not a part of)".

When these walled-garden communication channels become the de facto way of socialising then not being on them is a massive handicap. (As I know from my friends moaning at me for not having whatsapp)
I am not sure about this. I 100% think Mozilla should accept technically sound patches from racists and misogynists and people holding otherwise disagreeable views. I don't think Mozilla should elect such people as a CEO.
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"Fiduciary Duty" exists pretty much only in name. I can't even find a story of someone being fired for violating it.
Link for the ggplot python port: https://github.com/yhat/ggplot/
Yeah holy crap, talk about an injustice.
> why would anyone ever wash their hands with cold water.

Well it depends on the time of the year. In winter, you certainly don't use them that much because water is freezing cold. But as soon as it turns april-may, water becomes lukewarm or even relatively hot in summer months (summers are excruciatingly hot in Japan), so then it's not an issue anymore.

> And maybe I am illusioned by the effectiveness of warm water.

Do you mean warm water is more effective at washing ? There's actually no basis for that. Surfactants matter more than temperature.
Yelp is pretty much no better than the Yellow pages at this point.
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You can't really compare large scale oppression to individual inconvenience. Besides, being denied equal rights and being denied the opportunity to be CEO of Mozilla are obviously not even remotely comparable.
YC company to make a self-powered washing toilet (maybe using the water flow to turn a generator?)
In a few days you'll be able to add http://www.JustGoneLive.com to that list. It'd be live already if I wasn't using it as an excuse to learn Haskell...
Societies can not have rights, as society is nothing but many people. People have rights, but I don't see how many people can have the right to regulate somebody's private behavior. Where would such right come from? Why do you think I have the right to tell you what you can and can not do, even if it doesn't concern me at the least? Why do you make special emphasis on sex - why do you think I have the right to say how you can have sex? Sex is one of the most private affairs in our culture - why do you think it is especially appropriate for me to intervene in it when you engage in it without my participation?
Have you ever tried a Chinese shower that is combined with a squat toilet? You have to be careful to not walk into the toilet when you are showering.
Firefox is a very good product and I will continue to use it, unless you tell me some worthwhile branches from the code compatible with its plugins.

Also if we look at its market-share is at pars with Chrome's, and here it can be a spin so I am careful with any kind of boycotts.

That's why I will still use Firefox/(Waterfox)
> keep on stating that one event of six years ago is all we need to know of the man

- He donated to Prop 8.

- He donated to Pat Buchanan, who has largely made his bones on hating anybody who isn't WASPy[1].

- He donated $750 to Thomas McClintock[2], another politician who makes a show of being anti-gay. Eich was living in Santa Clara--not in McClintock's district.

- He donated $500 to Linda Smith[2], she of the "morally unfit inclination" opinion of gay people. She was running in Washington, while he lived in California.

The reason I list these is to dispel the notion that it's "one event". He has a pattern of going out of his way (out-of-district donations) to give money to causes and politicians who are particularly strident in their anti-gay stances (and even Ron Paul, who he also gave money to, is notably anti-gay-marriage and remains static in that despite having vacillated on marriage privatization).

This is, by my lights, who he wants to be known to be. Should that not be considered in the light of Mozilla's self-described values? (I do not believe there exists a coherent, moral worldview where it's not important to prioritize the inclusion of the less privileged ahead of the comfort of the privileged. I say this while thinking of multiple communities of which I am a part that sometimes make me uncomfortable in the effort to make those less privileged feel respected and safe. The actions that result in this piss me off sometimes, but I am an adult and I recognize that it's for the net benefit of everybody.)

[1] - http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/apr/02/controvers...

[2] - OpenSecrets donor query - it requires a captcha, though, so I've omitted the link.
The reproduction itself is still a protected work, but you are free to reproduce the content if you copy it from the original or a reproduction that is no longer protected (i.e. older than 50 years in most jurisdictions I know about).
Some observations

sudo sysdig -w file1.log

file1.log contains lots of junk characters (fix this)
^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^@^

Better alternative

sudo sysdig > file2.log

file has proper logs
How about LLVM?
Thank you for taking the time to make this highly thoughtful reply, which at first sight looks excellent. I'm going to need time to re-read it and reflect on it.
Given that it involves a kernel module, I was kind of skeptical- but Greg KH seems to have looked it over and fixed it up, which I'd call a compelling seal of approval:

https://github.com/draios/sysdig/commits/master/driver
Neglecting your domestic agriculture industry kind of sucks if war comes around or some other problem with imports arises, since it takes awhile to regrow your capacity to replace imports (and everyone starves in the meantime).

Food security is worth some subsidies, at least, just as a back up in case there is a problem with trade.
But bits are abstractions encoded in the physical world which is not at all 'either there or not' anywhere near the scale of writable CDs. For starters for every 24 bits of data 56 bits are written on the physical media (8 to 14 encoding and a redundancy byte for every 3 data byes) and then the pits and lands are written into dye ... much like a written page if you language consisted of a very long straight series of lines of varying length.
Consider a different angle: can luck be created for others? Is it already? Is there a benefit in expanding the amount of luck in the world? Consider the possibility that a subtext of a lot of these discussions is the hoarding of luck.
`less -R`?
dang (mod) has stated explicity that this kind of name-calling is zero tolerace.
Not really. You still need a male-female sexual partnership. Science just cobbles it together after the fact.
InnoDB was Oracles long before Oracle bought Sun (and MySQL with it). If they wanted to hurt MySQL they had that opportunity before acquisition.
False dichotomy.

"Not given death threats" != "Giving a free pass".

If you want to kill people who you disagree with, are you any better than them?
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