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twobraids is a personal blog at twobraids.com about programming and career. Since 2013, 9 different Hacker News readers have linked it 14 times, most often “The Mozilla CEO”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2024-12-06, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (5) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link this blog in discussions of the 2014 Brendan Eich resignation at Mozilla, including posts by a Mozilla employee. One commenter calls it the only post on the topic without linkbait headlines.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 5 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
tales of complexity
Most-linked posts?
- The Mozilla CEO3 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2014-03-31
- Back Into the Light 2 people · 3 mentions · first linked 2014-04-05
What Hacker News says?
> and the employees of Mozilla More precisely, a few employees. A similar number of employees are clearly on record as saying they don't agree with Brendan's position but don't think it's incompatible with him being CEO. A vastly larger number of employees didn't say anything in public at all, not least because many of them (e.g. all the non-gay ones) could not do so without being accused of supporting the views in…
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on “Brendan Eich Steps Down as Mozilla CEO”Submitted Finding the Air Cannon as a story · 125 points
HN discussionKinda adorable how people keep arguing back and forth, but fail to take notes on how the actual Moz employees act or think on it. And most of them think he is entitled to his beliefs and acts, and he should not be banished for it, even if they do not agree with him. Please, try to learn this approach, pro-gay activists. http://bholley.wordpress.com/2014/03/31/on-brendan-eich-and-... https://staktrace.com/spout/entry…
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on “OkCupid urges users to abandon Firefox”Submitted A call for source code CSS as a story · 18 points
HN discussionThere were no such comments on HN, thankfully. I didn't follow the story on reddit or twitter much myself, but I _did_ talk to a fair number of people at Mozilla during the goings on. (I work at Mozilla, if that wasn't clear.) There were certainly mails or blog comments (I'm not sure which, and the two are equivalent anyway when comments are moderated) with such threats in response to Lars Lohn's blog post (quoted n…
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on “Mozilla CTO: Andreas Gal”Submitted My Grudge with the Redmond Racketeer as a story · 3 points
HN discussion> but apparently it was enough people to tip the scales Tip which scales? You seem to be under the misapprehension that there was serious internal pressure for Brendan to resign. There was not. The problem, of course, is convincing you of that. I can point you to https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2014/04/05/faq-on-ceo-resignat... but of course you can decide to not believe that. I can also tell you that I'm a Mozilla em…
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on “Brendan Eich”Submitted Losing My First Programming Job as a story · 2 points
HN discussionIts fairly sad that the only post about this whole situation that isnt writing linkbaiting headlines to the point of lying is filled with fairly weak arguments. Its a divisive topic, and it deserves to be, but I would really love to see more thoughtful conversations being given attention, despite them not having catchy titles like "employees revolt" * http://www.twobraids.com/2014/04/back-into-light.html * http://ry…
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on “Brendan Eich”Submitted Judge the Project, Not the Contributors as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted What Is Pythonic? as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted 0077 Drought Maze as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted Back Into the Light as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Mozilla CEO as a story · 1 points
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