Come on guys, at least ask a question if you don't understand the bug report/feature request.
Also when you close bugs you sometimes just hope it went a away with time... When I do this, arguably smaller projects, I try to close with a "Reopen if still relevant" comment... But sometimes forget.
Managing bugs is a lot of work... Sometimes it's calls for a non-perfect solution... Also a bug thread can grow so big that reading up on it is hard. I see quite often people mixing 3-4 issues into one... Just google for something about NetworkerManager gnome-shell and password dialog
One can easily be heard and still be professional if he wants to.
Have you had much luck with that approach in a major open source software project?
Most large open source project don't have that much to argue about... having worked on LibreOffice and Firefox, I can say that if you do the work, you can quite often decide how to do it too..
Sure there are fundamental things in these project for which patches and major changes are hard to get in... but when refactoring some code, or fixing a bug, adding a minor feature; people are generally fairly polite and try to be helpful.
But who am I to say that a project like Linux, doesn't need a high level of technical excellence, I don't know...
Mozilla is not a political organization. It about building a better free and open web.
That's hilarious.
How so... I'm not afraid to say that I support Mozilla, and that I'm very very very very far from agreeing most Americans on serious and important political issues. You now the kind of issues where America murders innocent civilians. I could go on... But Mozilla is not the platform for these issues.
Once you have a couple dozen actual cases on your hands, this method is quickly overwhelmed.
Lol, if it ever became a matter of national security, they could just ask the NSA to do contact tracing...
But I'm sure the US could easily mobilize a lot of people to do contact tracing.
Nigeria did the right thing and was lucky.
Give me a break, they weren't just lucky, they made 18k face-to-face visits... Let's give them credit for working hard
In my market for me to subscribe to HBO it costs somewhere north of $130 a month,
And out of those 130 USD, HBO makes maybe (maybe) 10 USD, or so... if not less...
After what the Firefox board....
Where to start, where to start... First off there is no firefox board. Mozilla Corporation has a board, as does Mozilla Foundation.
Having followed this, rather closely, I can assure you that Brendan made the decision to resign, the message was delivered by internal email.
Later in an internal meeting the board explained that they had strongly recommended and hoped that Brendan would ride out the storm.
Any allegations that the board force Brendan to resign is pure fiction. Sure, I can promise you that there wasn't an elaborate conspiracy to lie to all employees and community members, but if there was Brendan was in on that "conspiracy"
The truth is that given the storm and the level and amount of personal attacks, I understand how someone does not wish to ride it out.
All being said and done, let's move a long... Mozilla is not a political organization. It about building a better free and open web.
...before finally deteriorating into an insignificant third rate state in the EU. That's what real Western democracies are.
I'm sorry what nations in the EU are deteriorating?
Sure the financial crisis hit some of countries hard, but that is short term, in general most poor EU member countries are getting dramatically better:
http://www.theguardian.com/com...
I don't think you can claim that long term EU member countries are deteriorating, northern Europe all the way down to Germany and France aren't doing bad.
Google's approach to this is reasonable.
Absolutely,
Also note that the results are not fully removed, they just won't show up for some keywords.
It's really quiet reasonable that a rape victim can has not to have an article about incident show up, when you google the victims name.
In particularly important when the victim decide to look for a job 10 or 20 years down the road.
Keep in mind the article may still show up googling the perpetrators name...
My lady and I have been together over ten years, we have an eight year old daughter and are completely happy.
Well, I hope you'll enjoy hell!
- Just kidding
On-topic, if you're not religious and don't think the symbolism is important, then the only reason left is the legal framework. Such as ability to visit your spouse in the hospital, making decisions of behalf of your spouse if he/she is incapable or declared incompetent from for example: brain damage, psychological illness or dementia (which is likely to eventually happen). If you don't marry or manually setup advanced health care directives, you can end in a situation where you or your partner is declared incompetent and guardianship/custody is award to a state appointed representative. This all depends on where you live, from what I understand mental patients in the US are left to die on the streets, but in other countries custody will be assigned to someone trustworthy by the state, if there is no other arrangement like advanced healthcare directive or marriage.
If you're not religious and don't care about the symbolism, marriage is still a common reasonably well understood and internationally respected legal framework for people who trust each other and lives their lives together.
If you're not sure you want to code for a living or if you think you do but all you've ever done is make it through a couple of basic python tutorials then you probably want to get some experience coding before you go and major it in.
+1,
Besides don't take a course to get credit... Just like you shouldn't choose the courses that are easiest to pass...
If you're not studying in order to learn something you're better off dropping out.
It's surprising in my experience how many students cares more about grades, credit and getting a degree rather than learning something useful, or at least just interesting.
Either way, a CS degree takes hard work, trying it out in high school is a good idea. And having extra skills/knowledge when you start is only going to allow you to climb higher (schools that don't facilitate that shouldn't be attended).
The NSA is a spy agency. Its job is to spy, which involves secretly doing illegal things in other countries.
Really? Intelligence gathering is more about reading records from parliament (the ones nobody reads). Or showing up at political meets to hear what people say. In transparent democracies (unlike the US), you don't really need to do anything illegal to find out what is going on.
And if you think that's hypocritical, think again I expect European and Asian countries to spy on us too.
Thief thinks every man steals. Most countries don't have offensive intelligence capabilities.
And they certainly don't conduct mass surveillance of civilians, just because you're not an American citizen, doesn't mean you're not civilian.
It's part of international relations, and it's good for countries to be able to check up on each other, instead of having to rely merely on official statements.
Or you could send someone to takes notes at a political meeting..
In real democracies governments rarely lies to their constituents. I know the US has a long and proud history of lying, but most other western democracies don't.
Work is the crab grass in the lawn of life. -- Schulz
