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The "Brendan Eich club" is actually a small inside joke, as the sign was one of the official "features" of JSConf.eu 2011, where Brendan was an invited speaker
by ondras 8y ago
The "Brendan Eich club" is actually a small inside joke, as the sign was one of the official "features" of JSConf.eu 2011, where Brendan was an invited speaker :)
- topynate 8y agoYes, but that was seven years ago, and Things Are Different Now. (Just leafed through their twitter. I'm seeing a lot of the same clique as were involved in the node.js brouhaha last year. Is this conference really worth the fuss?)
- EGreg 8y agoThis whole thing is a bit amusing. So Brendan Eich invented JS, and then led Mozilla. And being in the Brendan Eich Fan Club in 2011 probably was a positive thing and a cool thing for JS people. Then much later, Brendan Eich donates $1000 to some political thing people strongly disagree with So retroactively, being a fan of Brendan Eich means you are a homophobic hater and must be blocked? I am quite sure this ain’t it :)
- jmmcd 8y agoYou understand the timeline, but the virtue-signalling mob on Twitter probably doesn't.
- pseudalopex 8y agoEich made the donation in 2008. It became widely known in 2012, when he was still CTO. Nothing came of it until 2014, when he was promoted to CEO.
- BrendanEich 8y agoI also spoke in 2013.
- downandout 8y agoFor the record, I think that what happened to you over a years-old, minor donation - regardless of what it supported - was ridiculous. Whenever someone suggests that I move to the Valley because I am in the tech industry, I bring up your story as an example of why I want nothing to do with most of the people that live there.
- communist_ 8y agoYou prefer to live where homophobia is tolerated?
- ygaf 8y agoHe prefers to live where people actually are tolerant.
- downandout 8y agoExactly this.