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TL;DR: The author doesn't like Bootstrap.

The author says it's bloated and that it makes it seem the candidate's front-end skills are shabby.

If you're hiring for a project that uses bootstrap might it be a good idea to hire someone who doesn't mind working with bootstrap? How would they communicate this? Perhaps by including it on their résumé?
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If I remember correctly they use Cloudflare quite a bit. This probably decreases their actual traffic by a tremendous amount, since they vast majority of their bandwidth comes from easily cacheable images.
How is this not a honeypot for copyright lawsuit generators?
Not to minimize the issue, but receiving death threats is rapidly becoming part of being a public figure on the Internet. Columnists, reporters, celebrities, and many others receive them all the time. It's definitely unacceptable, but it's not like we have shown an ability to control it, and I can't think of any assassinations of high-profile Internet figures. I'm surprised you're surprised at people, though! Death threats are regularly meted out over FAR more inconsequential things. I haven't received any myself but colleagues have... and then again I didn't look too closely at the comments on my gun control article. Anyway - it sucks, but it's pretty much the norm for people like Eich to receive death threats pretty regularly.
Yup. http://tim.dreamwidth.org/1845008.html
Ok as with all discussions about introduced latency, randomized latency, etc. The issue is not so much about latency, it's about fill priority when there are more people on one side of the buy/sell book at a given price point than on the other. Who gets left out?

Most (but not all) markets currently use price then FIFO for the matching algorithm. If you don't change the matching algorithm all the fake latency in the world won't make a difference to the game. If you are going to change the matching algorithm, what are you changing it to?
Ugh, I'm getting real tired of these snotty drive-bys masquerading as insightful criticism. Many job posts call for familiarity with Twitter Bootstrap, so is it proper to call out the applicants (or "kiddies," as the author derides) for responding in kind? It's bogus. And trashing applicants for internships is a bridge too far.

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> this isn't something you can do in an afternoon.

How about in 5 months? Don't get me wrong I'm not falling on either side of this argument, but I think it seems at least slightly plausible that this process could have been initiated or at least accelerated by the new CEO.
Wecome to Corporate America.
Speaking of which, have the patent concerns about ASP.NET, ADO.NET and Windows Forms gone away yet?
So...

Bullying: tweeting/emailing/blogging an opinion on Mozilla's decisions

Not bullying: taking significant monetary action to push for discrimination against 5-10% of the country
This really saddens me.

It is a black-mark on the gay rights movement.

Eich made a mistake when he supported prop 8. History will clearly show this, like history has shown those who opposed interracial marriage were wrong.

Being on the right-side of history isn't about stomping out those who opposed you when you finally win. It's not about retribution for past slights.

Did we learn nothing from Nelson Mandela?
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The short story of our failed startup Wisdomly
In this case the "mob" that was outraged was a small, very vocal minority.
Not sure why people always bring up "freedom of speech" in these types of scenarios. You can say what you want without going to jail; that's freedom of speech. It doesn't mean you won't feel social consequences.
I generally agree with you but I think the problem here is that being against gay marriage is more than just a "political view." Being for low taxes is a political view. Being for smaller government is a political view. Believing a certain group of people don't deserve to live their lives like other simply because of who they love is not a political view. It reads as extremely hateful and that makes people uncomfortable. I would be uncomfortable if the head of the company I worked for felt that way.
Will we get a new "it's ok that you're using Firefox page from them now"?
Throughout this saga, and with religiously motivated bigotry in general there has been a politicization of the language and the issue as though it were not a moral concern, merely something a "social conservative" and a "social liberal" can disagree about with mutual tolerance.

This isnt whether taxation is 38% or 35% this is whether people of a different sexual orientation are to be treated as people. I have very little patience with spineless calls for "respect" for those who which to preserve institutional disrespect.

Tolerance is over-rated and has done very little for any one.
There are probably very few founders over 50. Given that there is at least one success in that bracket, I'll bet that founders over 50 have the best odds of any age group.
All he had to do was learn.
Familiarity with a variety of named frameworks is a staple of many web development job posting requirements, and a lot of developers like to nip the inevitable questions in the bud by listing their framework experience up front.
i'm pretty sure hes quitting.
The problem I have with all of this is the manner in which it occurred. The "mob" here had a disproportionate voice and thus disproportionate political power. This is a real problem with our culture today, instances of which can be seen at all levels of society. Any group who can "hack" the media to create a narrative that suits their cause (whether through quirk of politics or through large amounts of money) can have nearly unlimited power in our society. There must be a line somewhere. The fact that there doesn't seem to be one is terrifying.
I feel bad about this because several good people did defend the principle that an employee's personal views should be allowed to remain purely personal, that we should be able to get along in society even with those who we are vehemently opposed to in the political sphere.

I worry that this will now be seen as a defeat for that principle, as proof that your political views will be held against you if you become prominent enough, and given the data trails that we all leave behind us, that could get ugly. Some (but not all!) of the people who campaigned for him to quit were themselves dismissive of this principle, and if they 'won' then I can't really say I'm happy about it.

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>Flying faster means less time in the air, where meteorite strikes are particularly dangerous (as opposed to strikes while taxiing, or sitting idle).

That's a very good point: for a plane, reaching the ground is the equivalent of a runner reaching shelter from the rain.

But I suppose planes generally spend about the same amount of time in the air, no matter how fast they go. The faster plane just travels further in that time. There's no obvious reason a fast plane would spend more time safely on the ground than a slow plane.

Perhaps flying faster is safer for individual passengers, but more dangerous for the plane?
Also works well in politics, apparently.
Exactly. Mozilla is about at the end of the day "openness" unfortunately for some people at mozilla, that means working with people who's views you might not be comfortable with. This is the whole point of working in and pushing for an open society.
His (and Mozilla's) handling of the discovery of that donation contributed, AFAIK.
Anything raising team cohesion without jet lag is definitely worth trying. Thanks!
strongly disagrees
The two sides of opinion are not "the majority opinion" and "people too stubborn to admit they're wrong".

It was once unacceptable to hold the opinion that different races were equal, and more recently it was unacceptable to hold the opinion that different genders were equal.
https://www.projectwonderful.com/privacypolicy.php

Seems reasonable to me. If you feel it isn't, I'd suggest you just try to start your own ad network. It would be more work...but you'd have complete control.
As CEO, part of his responsibilities include the overall corporate culture. You don't see why people might be concerned that someone who put money forward to support a measure with the goal of actively discriminating a group of people might not be qualified to ensure an inclusive, non-discriminatory corporate culture?
In that case, your goal isn't to hire the best developers, but good enough. You're managing risk. Perfectly valid, but not what the article was titled.
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There is a touch of irony in being inclusive. You can't allow people who have exclusive views into your group!
You want the best and brightest?, just pay more money, word will spread out, the best and brightest will come to you.
When I saw the title I thought, "oh another article by someone who has no idea what they are doing complaining about advertising on X platform not working and being a waste of money.

Except I have been seeing the same thing.

Google has all of the data. They know that publisher X's inventory performs at 1/100th (or less) of the competitions. They should be smart priced accordingly, at about a penny per click.

It was initially shocking. I have used a lot of ad platform in the past (nearly) decade and Google was the only one that consistently delivered high quality traffic that was obviously real people.

Here are a few other really dirty tricks Google will play on you:

#1 If you are selling ads from the publishing side, Google will sell you your own ads by running ads on your site unless you explicitly exclude your site from every ad campaign.

#2 Engagement ads. These are video ads that play on a mouse over. They report a mouse over as a "click."
I am curious about how this thing compares to something like Amazon Redshift.

Briefly skimming, it looks pretty similar, except for the data compression part, which uses RCFile. It also supports more data types. If this being adapted by redshift or something else, I will be thrilled.
This isn't a new thing. It's not even a recent thing. Public opinion has always been a potent force. For an organization like Mozilla I don't think it's at all surprising that public opinion has a big role in shaping who is at the helm. It's also not overly scary to me that issues of equality related to sexual orientation are now prominent enough to be a major factor in issues like the leadership of the Mozilla Organization. Indeed, personally I think it's somewhat heartening.

There are, and should be, limits to how much we allow politics to influence business, but in this case we're not talking about issues of small import. This isn't about monetary policy or minimum wages, this is an issue related to the civil rights and equitable treatment of millions of human beings. It's OK to take that issue extremely seriously.
Hotel bars work in a pinch as well.
It's very hard to lead when you always say what's convenient rather than what you actually believe. I know executives like that - every word out of their mouth is a sales pitch - and their people don't trust them, the rest of the company doesn't trust them, and the public at large doesn't trust them.
Strongly agree here. Prototyping is an increasingly important part of a developer's job, and Bootstrap is a great tool.
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What? That's quite silly. [...] I'm sorry, but your assertion isn't borne out by thought.

This comment would have been better without its hostile preface and its hostile appendix. Please don't use such language on Hacker News.

All: Please re-read what you've posted and, if it contains phrases that contribute hostility to the discussion, edit them out.

This is really important, because (speaking metaphorically) our brains are all programmed to pick up on the agitation in such language. That leads to bad things, like the comment getting less reflective attention, and threads getting provoked into a downward spiral.
This is sad. I wish I lived in a world where your personal beliefs, even very unpopular ones, could be kept separate from your professional life. Unfortunately we seem to need to put people in a single box.
Its sad this guy is losing his job over an unrelated personal choice.

But:

Who donates money to stop same sex marriage? I mean I have much bigger things on my plate than stopping someone from making a lifestyle choice. And I have MUCH better things to do with my money.
First, i want to say to Eich,that he is entitled to his opinions and noone is going to go after him with pitchforks and torches for that.

Next, I believe that was the right decision. Because it put Mozilla into a difficult position. You might think all this anger was excessive perhaps it was, yet it casted a negative image on Mozilla,since the CEO is a public figure for a company.

I hope this event will open up a real debate about gay rights and why it equal rights matter, because more rights for gays doesnt mean less rights for straight people,like civil rights for blacks did not end up reducing white people's rights, and then we can move on to other things,like you know , technology.
As an applicant, you'd be stupid not to target your resume with buzzwords based on trends you see in job descriptions. You are trying to get past the recruiter, who is literally going to crosscheck buzzwords on your application with those in the description.

To call applicants kiddies for playing that game the way it's supposed to be played... well, it's just seems naive.
> the community has pressured him to step down because he expressed an opinion not held by the majority.

That's not true. The fact that the majority believe the idea was necessary for the pressure to be applied, but it is not why the pressure was applied. The pressure was applied because his views trample on others' rights, and equal rights is philosophically closely tied with the entire mission of an organization like Mozilla. There are many other things which the majority believe, but which most people would acknowledge an individual's right to disagree with. This issue is different because Eich's personal opinion negatively materially affects another class of people without any justification.
Have you considered that customizing Twitter Bootstrap without rewriting the entire framework is a skill?
Julia is another such language.
So set the business up, make LONG_MAX dollars, then offer to hand it over to Colin lock, stock, and barrel if he will admit that it was a good idea all along.

If Colin does not accept, start giving the profits to the OpenBSD foundation.
He supported an anti-gay marriage candidate with campaign contributions. Essentially, if he'd not had the Prop 8 donation, and only the campaign contributions, no one would have made a connection. His donations would've shown that he supported Republican candidates (since he, outside a response to the Prop 8 donation, made no statements regarding gay marriage that anyone ever linked to) and nothing else.
> We can’t let that happen here: the open internet is not more important than gay rights or any number of other progressive causes, but it should and must be a broader movement. The moment we let “open internet” become synonymous with progressive causes—inside or outside Mozilla—its many conservative supporters will be forced into an impossible position.

This is such an important point. Please, let us not put all our eggs in one basket.
Ask HN:Besides Mozilla, which CEOs have policy positions you disagree with?
This could be a good time to force the change you want to see.
Burden of proof is on you to prove that "every sufficiently notable LGBT individual" has received "wildly disproportionate abuse, like death threats".
Any opinion is ok as long as you don't support slavery. There is always a range of opinions that people consider acceptable.
If you have ~1TB of free space, just create a regular tar archive of your data and compress it -- maybe factor in another 10% for dedup (as seen anecdotally by others with large image collections -- this assumes you have raw images+jpegs -- for just jpegs, maybe nothing). Should be (bounded by) 500 USD first month (storage and upload), and 250 USD/Month after that (and ~250 USD to restore).

I'm not sure what's difficult with these calculations?

The dedup (as I understand it) is mostly relevant for incremental backups "adding up" -- so that you can (mostly) run weekly backups without worrying too much about storage cost ballooning out of control.

Note: I'm not affiliated with tarsnap, nor am I a customer -- partly because I'm in a similar position: The data (emails etc) that I can afford to backup in a similar fashion to tarsnap (I use backupninja as a front-end for duplicity) is almost trivial to backup -- the rest (photos, media) I cannot currently afford to backup to the cloud (nor do I have the upstream bandwidth for it).
Ask HN: How do you replicate/initiate a USSD session in a web app?
I am trying to replicate a mobile money top-up session in which a user dials a USSD number and then chooses an option from a USSD menu and enters an amount, followed by a PIN. I'd like to replicate the top up process on a web app such that a user could say, enter their number and amount and then enter their PIN which would also result in the same top up as a USSD session. I know USSD is somewhat, if not native to a handset and also that I'd need some info from the network/service provider. I want to know what I'd have to ask them for.
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What's sickening is how brainwashed you are.

Personal attacks like this are absolutely unwelcome on Hacker News. People who do it repeatedly—or even once, if they don't have a history as a valuable contributor—will be banned.
Anders has already demo'd this at Microsoft on Channel9 some months ago.
So what is the place?
Imgur has been profitable since the beginning[1]. There are massive differences business and infrastructure-wise between Reddit and Imgur. Imgur has much better ad/pageview ratio than Reddit and is much less dynamic and infrastructure heavy.

1 http://www.neowin.net/news/from-rags-to-riches-the-story-of-...
Really torn about this. On one hand it seemed pretty clear that Brendan was not letting these views carry over into his professional life. On the other hand, using his power (in this case, money) to actively stand against equality makes him, in my mind, an active and willing participant in the overall power structure that denies and marginalizes gay people. If I were gay I can imagine that being a bitter pill to swallow from someone who is the head of an organization that I worked for or supported. And likely not a great match for an organization that specifically prides itself on inclusiveness.
Erin's article is the least mob-like thing I can think of:

"I don’t see there’s much to gain by asking Brendan to resign."

And then:
"Beyond that I guess I only have one more thing to say, which is to Brendan, who is doubtless also having one of the most challenging weeks of his professional life.

Brendan, I grew up in a very conservative religious home and many of the people I love the most can still be described as very religious and very conservative. I think your views on this issue are wrong, and that your actions have done harm, but I can no more caricature you as a terrible person driven by homophobia and hatred than I can break off relations with my cherished family members because they take actions similar to yours."

Why are you completely mischaracterising her post (and, by extension, her)?
The vast majority of the population did not know that after the revolution they were getting Communism. As is a common result throughout history after a revolution the people who take power are worse then those before. Batista was a bad guy, he was oppressive, but what they ended up with was a guy who was even more oppressive, their economy was even worse etc. Things did not go up and to the right after the revolution.
Why is Twitter Bootstrap not a skill, but JBoss, Hibernate, Django, heck even Node.js, etc. a skill (perhaps I'm putting words in the author's mouth, but I doubt he'd have the same opinion of a resumé with those skills listed)?

According to this guy, you're only allowed to list the languages you use as skills, not the tools you use within those languages.
"Removing existing rights"? two years before that, this "right" never existed. For a right to be enshrined it has to survive, a majority of californians voted to approve prop 8...
I suspect that "being right", at least in the eyes of a lot of people not actively in the "mob" certainly made it much easier for this to happen and thus I don't see any clear "People from the Internet get what they want" precedent.

It's a large group lobbying a nonprofit to persuade it to have someone who represents the ideals they supposedly uphold. That Mozilla is a company that shouldn't stand for X political position is something lots of people agree with. That the CEO is the company face and can be held to a different standard than an ordinary employee is clear to a larger group than just activists for cause X (even if some large group on HN don't seem to grasp it).

For example, some movement to force the CEO of company X take a positive position in favor of political cause Y would have a lot harder time because it would seem much less reasonable to a larger group.
So what's the next step at Mozilla? Going through all department heads and eliminating those that are conservative cristians as well? Also those that don't agree with Obamacare?

Considering I've lived in a socialistic country where political party you belonged to was critical to attaining any leadership position... I'd really rather not return to that world. It was toxic, inefficient and downright unfair. Politics, religion and personal beliefs shoud NOT be a factor when choosing a person for position at a company.
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Sad and wrong. But I guess Mozilla didn't want to deal with all that flaming directed at them.
I do worry about requiring a one-week project from someone.

However . . .

Sometimes I worry "what if I lose my job today?" It really could happen, even today, through no fault of mine.

People who live in Silicon Valley will say "well you have five other jobs waiting for you." But people not in a top-5 area don't have a job market 5 deep. It takes time to get hired again.

If I were to suddenly be unemployed, I would really love it that there are some companies out there willing to hire me for a one-week project at a much lower activation energy than taking on a full-time hire. It would 1) give me a chance to prove I can do the job, and 2) even if it failed it would give me money in my pocket right now which would be a very nice stress reliever. (In fact, it reduces my stress right now knowing that I could find a few short jobs like this. I'm happier even if I never need to use it.)

I certainly wouldn't want all companies to hire like this, because most of the time when I am searching for a job I am employed. But I like knowing that there are some employers out there that it would be easier to work with being unemployed instead of the reverse.
I do not think anyone won here as Mozilla had an opportunity to call both BE and the other parties into some type of meeting with real dialogue..but instead will still have thins not solved..

Here are the still smoldering issues:

1. Religious right still wants to hold the marriage license as their property..Separation of Church and State occurred over 500 years ago in Western Cultures an governments..
2. Bigotry and Ignorance