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I haven't commented here in years. I watched the steady decline as the bros slowly took over. I tried commenting, only to be flagged and downvoted. I tried sharing articles, only t…

I love that it took facial expression software for people to understand this. All anyone had to do was talk to a dozen internationally competitive athletes to understand this. Happ…

This is the exact sort of feedback shared privately among experienced entrepreneurs - it's just finally accessible to everyone. From my look at the reviews I'd say it's about 80% t…

You can understand why, here on Hacker News, we might have interpreted your statement that she "directly authored many foundational pieces of Mozilla and (arguably) the internet" a…

Mozilla Corporation is a for-profit business

Sorry, but you've misunderstood. I am merely correcting the (common and frustrating) claim that Mozilla is a non-profit.

It's clearly wrong to market yourself as a non-profit when you are a for-profit company.

Again... The Mozilla Corporation is NOT a non-profit.

Mozilla Corporation is NOT a non-profit.

What "foundational pieces of Mozilla and (arguably) the Internet" did Mitchell Baker "directly author"? If you make a claim like that, you need to provide some evidence or citation…

To be clear... this charts the comp of ONE person at Mozilla (the Board Chair - and now interim CEO).

Many of us in SF would like to PREVENT this city from turning into a place like NYC. Yes... there is a problem with capitalism (or, more accurately, with unfettered "market driven"…

"I find it difficult to distinguish what tech is doing to the valley and SF from what Wall Street has been doing to New York and London for decades." I couldn't have said it better…

Actually.... I would argue that the "TechCrunch / HackerNews" mentality (as you describe it) is more common OUTSIDE of the Bay Area than it is within it. In the Bay Area you are su…

Just because you don't NEED to be in Silicon Valley to build a successful venture backed start-up doesn't mean your odds of success are not IMPROVED by locating there.

So in other words you're saying that your time is so incredibly valuable that you should be made exempt from the generally acceptable standards of behavior? (I've spent 20+ years i…

Anyone interested in putting something together so that we can start aggregating the worst violators? I know I'd use that list not just to filter out the time-wasters but also to a…

probably a combo of mysql drivers and connection pooling.

Sure... as long as you have the migration and rewrite plan done and ready to go, and have engineered the product for that rewrite. Otherwise you're gonna be wishing you'd failed ra…

If you do research and analysis NOT to find out the answer to a question but rather to JUSTIFY the answer you have decided (without evidence) is correct then the value of the resul…

Fantastic response. Thank you so much for writing and sharing. Cuts through all the spin and FUD effectively.

The comment thread here is incredibly sad and depressing and perfectly illustrates how deeply misogyny is threaded through this community and industry. You might want to go and fin…