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Re:Quit Social Media, Your Career May Depend on It by EdSharkey on Wednesday November 23, 2016 @12:41PM (#13024210)
Hi Brendan, just in case it wasn't clear to people who pity gaur, I upvoted to keep his messages alive so everyone could see how effortlessly the crybully drifts into tyranny.

Of course, you're right on, and that level of injustice he lusts for invites a cruel backlash. Your ominous parenthetical sidebar is not lost on me, and we may be heading to ugly places under Trump.

I am glad to hear you speak well of the Mozilla board. I know you all were put in an awful bind, and you did the most honorable thing you could.

Take care, I pray for you and for the country.

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Re:Quit Social Media, Your Career May Depend on It by BrendanEich on Wednesday November 23, 2016 @02:50PM (#13025300)
Quick reply to say I cited what the board said, not to praise them (I have no comment on the board then or now) but because they independently stated that I resigned, _contra_ gaur who wrote that I was fired. Facts matter.

Thanks for your other words & thoughts.

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Re:Quit Social Media, Your Career May Depend on It by EdSharkey on Wednesday November 23, 2016 @10:03PM (#13027689)
Facts do matter, and I will always be grumpy at your board for not more strenuously arguing in favor of you and against your detractors.

I hope you took good notes during those times and write your memoirs someday. What was it like to become a public figure after having such an impact on our industry? And then, I'm convinced you were just at the wrong place career-wise at the wrong time, what was it like to be a public figure caught up in a media firestorm? That's a story I'd like to read someday.

Also, what are you going to do next, if you're in a sharing mood?

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Re:Quit Social Media, Your Career May Depend on It by BrendanEich on Wednesday November 23, 2016 @10:59PM (#13027932)
https://brave.com/ - check it out.
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Re:Quit Social Media, Your Career May Depend on It by EdSharkey on Thursday November 24, 2016 @12:36AM (#13028413)
I like it!

I've been bummed not to have Privacy Badger on my Android Firefox. I will give Brave a tumble, thanks!

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