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Sure, why not? You're not in a professional relationship. You aren't in a position to influence a hiring decision. You're two humans with common interests.

If I had a programmer who refused to document the company's core money-making algorithm, that programmer would be out the door by 5pm, and I'd hire a sensible, smart programmer to …

Example: x = {'foo':34,'bar':[1,2,3],'baz':'quux'} The headers alone for STL maps are hundreds of LOC.

How does this reduce comprehensibility? In cases where you're doing matrix muls, "a @ b" is way clearer than "a.dot(b)". In other cases, infix "@" won't appear.

The standard implementation of Python is compiled to bytecode, like most modern mainstream languages, not interpreted.

For starters: * Members of a couple (same-sex or opposite sex) have family obligations to their partner's extended family. * A surprising number of same-sex couples have biological…

The idea that homosexual relationships "have nothing to do with families" is simply laughable.

That's my point.

That's a really interesting definition of "lynching".

You'll forgive me if I find expanding the definition of "marriage" in state and federal law to be a more reasonable approach than having to fight separate battles for each of the 1…

I was comparing Shepard's murder to the persecution of Eich.

Tell that to Matthew Shepard.

Reasonably legit news reporting on threats would probably contain the word "threat"; that's what I was looking for.

Why would anyone else get threatened?

All he had to do was learn.

Yup. http://tim.dreamwidth.org/1845008.html

What extreme action was taken?

Were there actually threats? I just googled "Brendan Eich threat" and didn't see anything relevant.

Oddly, I have little problem with him staying as CTO. CEO is symbolic.

Were there actually threats? I just googled "Brendan Eich threat" and didn't see anything relevant.

Or we could just say that Federal law shouldn't engage in sexual discrimination re. legal marriage.

Seriously? That's your dividing line? Incidentally, you mentioned threats to Eich above; I haven't personally seen any but I don't support threats of violence to him. I don't even …

What legal rights has Linus Torvalds tried to take away from minorities?

For the record, you can still use OKC with Firefox; you just get a lecture when you do it. Is it okay to discriminate against Nazis, or is that hypocritical?

What problem is created by OkCupid dissuading users from Firefox, exactly?