I wonder if Michael Woodford (Olympus scandal) would be interested in having this brought to his attention.

Creepy sleepy drinky spider cider.

I feel a children's book coming out of this.

Normal users don't have the ability to give themselves an unlimited number of email aliases. You need to own your own server/domain to do that. Gmail has a nice feature, but it doesn't obscure your real email address and it is trivial to strip away the extra tag.

The issue here I think is that the average mail user needs some kind of filtering language to control their own inboxes.

There is no standardized way to do this, which is a shame. I would really like for their to be a standardized server-side mail filtering language for mail services, where you can take your rule set from one mail server to another.

Personally, I have my own mail server and it has it's own mail filter system and language, but I am not always on the command line with my mail client to modify those filters.

Outlook, Thunderturd/Seamonkey, and other clients have some client-side rules, but those rules don't work if my desktop is offline I am reading those messages on my phone.

I hope in the future well-regarding developers who don't have a private interest will take a look at email again and make the improvements needed to continue to support this standard communication format.

Egos and private-self interest is not what made the internet great, but there is little shortage of it these days amongst us. Where will the Tim Berners-Lees, Richard Stallmans, John Postels of the future come from? These people didn't get rich. We did.

> Normal users don't have the ability to give themselves an unlimited number of email aliases.

I don't agree. No one said it had to be on the same domain as ones regular address. Sign up for a new account with Gmail or Yahoo or any of the others. Use that address when filling out a "please spam me" form. Check it for a while. Then forget it when its usefulness ends.

Same here. I blacklisted their domain after awhile.

If you don't 0wn your phone, you don't own your phone.

I tried listening to his podcast a few times. Way too much arrogance all around, and the constant use of marketing and weasel words during the interviews made my blood pressure go up. It's a common personality type in SV/SF tech area that I really don't like, which is why I live and work outside of it.

I consider it a personal fault of mine that I have a low pretentiousness tolerance, because in between all the pretentiousness and clumsy embedded commercials (free version only?) there really is some great business knowledge in these interviews.

I could have said something similar of Russ Roberts' Econ Talk a few years ago. He started off as a faulty interviewer; constantly interrupting his guests to get his own very important opinion in. But, he has improved dramatically since then. I can remember one particular interview he had with Bill Black, where he just wouldn't shut up and let Bill finish his statements, and ultimately half the episode was just a jumble of incoherent back-and-forth over minutia.

I'll download a few recent episodes and give them a try to see if things have changed in the last few years.

Really?

I've found him to be honest and sometimes cutting with his interviews.

Anytime someone is bullshitting or using weasel words he tends to call them out, if not directly then at least making them squirm.

Maybe you started listening before I did but I feel like I've listened to almost all of them.

Also +1 on Russ Roberts being a great host, I just wish there were more episodes with Mike Munger.

One example: the Rand Fishkin interview. Definitely not accusing Rand of weaseling, but that moment where Andrew asks "What are you feeling right now?" cut through to the honesty of running a business. And huge kudos to Rand for being so honest about burnout on camera.

Another example might be where Steve Blank called out Andrew during the interview, and they kept that in the podcast. There's something really honest & genuine about leaving that moment in.

Mixergy has improved so much over the years. Really shows the value of practice & persistence. Congratulations on the 1000, Andrew.

I've seen zero pretentiousness from Andrew in all the years he's been doing interviews. If I had to rate hime on a pretentiousness scale, I might even have to give him a negative rating. Humble-bragging about your low-pretentiousness-tolerance being a "personal fault" is laughable.

This interview is absolutely damning.

Eich repeatedly uses the Mozilla Foundation as a shield to protect himself, saying that Mozilla is being threatened, when it is he who is the cause of these actions against Mozilla. He is showing that he has no qualms about using the foundation to protect himself.

There is no longer a question that the man is a homophobe who believes in using state power to enforce religious persecution on a specific minority group. He says, "This group of people can't do this religious thing because it offends me, and the state must prevent them from doing it." And, he voted for it with his wallet, and affirmed that vote with this interview.

Marriage is a religious institution. My personal opinion is that the state has no business being involved in marriage, including for reasons of taxes and other special privileges. There are good historical reasons for these laws, but they are no longer valid and we will need to change them, and can do so without harm to any particular group (except for those who want to enforce their own beliefs upon others, which is sadly common.)

CEO is a very particular position. It's the moral and character leadership role of a company, and having a homophobe in this position is a serious problem. For me, an intolerable problem.

Are there any known allegations or just flat-out known instances of Steve Jobs getting physically abusive with any of his employees or in the workplace environment?

It's obvious he was verbally and emotionally abusive person and he was generally an all-around asshole, but I've never heard of him getting physical, and that sort of surprises me.

Physical and psychological abuse are morally equivalent.

Morals tend to come from a body of ethics. It seems like what you're saying is "I think they should be considered equivalent" and therefore if you were to propose a set of morals that some society would adhere to, being mean to people would constitute property damage or something. Of course, that's bonkers, but you should distinguish between what you think should be the case and what is.

Downplaying emotional abuse as "being mean" is disingenuous.

I don't think so, it's all mental and non-physical. That's the point.

SMS is terrible for this. It is completely insecure. You can fake transmissions easily, and nothing is encrypted, so you can't discuss any private info. There are very good, and obvious, reasons why organization do not use SMS for support.

While it's great to have a simple text-based medium to do this, SMS is awful.

I agree with the sentiment, but it's hard to take this guy serious when he suggests something so obviously bad.

So, how about using WhatsApp or WeChat or Line? These apps are as convenient and cheap as SMS for many people, but don't suffer from the same ease of spoofing.

Both email and POTS / mobile phone conversations suffer the same security disadvantages.

This isn't reddit, and if you are five, then you should be in day care.

You shouldn't insult people who are curious to learn and/or shun them.

I agree that the response was disrespectful. But I also don't think the original post showed much intellectual curiosity.

Hacker News is a marketing implement for a business development company, whose primary mission is taking inexperienced people and giving them a leg up.

The idea that you have to be an expert in everything before you ask anything runs counter to the point of the site.