BrendanEich

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by BrendanEich 1y ago
Why are you commenting about part of my time at Mozilla to try to put me in a bad light, then when I challenge you, suddenly dragging Mitchell in? I was not attacking her, but you were definitely attacking me. Changing the subject to someon
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by BrendanEich 1y ago
Brave rejects that extractive mindset. People see crypto in Brave and shout "hype", but this is false: we started with the premise that blocking ads by default would require a way for users and creators to get paid or pay, especia
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by BrendanEich 1y ago
I grew Mozilla and then Firefox from zero (not 2005 CTO title, from 1998 public [late 1997 inside Netscape] in tech leader role for Mozilla, rainmaker and exec sponsor in 2001 for mozilla/browser which became Firefox) to their heights.
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by BrendanEich 1y ago
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43336441 (ladybird) You go build a web engine. I've done it enough and the fight for user rights is a level up now. Brave would have died on the Gecko or Servo hill, and quickly, if
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by BrendanEich 1y ago
> Brandon Eich To be an elite HN hater, you need to spell my name correctly. > it's his career at Mozilla that most intersects with the period of major collapse in market share. This is completely wrong, since I was a founder of
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by BrendanEich 1y ago
I never worked for Sun. I liked how Bill Joy signed "Founder" and seemed to go against others at Sun. I did not want LiveScript, and it too was under trademark threat. Mocha seemed to me more defensible, but Netscape Marketing wan
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by BrendanEich 1y ago
Mocha before that. No going back.
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by BrendanEich 1y ago
It was never an Oracle or Sun "product". Not ever.
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by BrendanEich 1y ago
Yes, Mozilla and I agree that I was not fired -- which would have been illegal in California under CA Labor Law 1101/1102. Why do a relative few on HN insist on this false claim? It seems to make them feel better about Mozilla (one rep
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by BrendanEich 1y ago
We project Brave MAU (going up) will pass Firefox (going down) this October.
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by BrendanEich 1y ago
Just FYI, I was reliably informed that jag did java.util.Date as shipped in JDK 1.0. Ta!
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by BrendanEich 1y ago
The name change to JavaScript, via a trademark license from Sun to Netscape, was on Dec. 4, 1995 -- still within the Netscape 2.0 beta period. There was no stable release of Netscape launched with LiveScript but not JavaScript support.
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by BrendanEich 1y ago
Brave doesn't support Oracle, what were you thinking? I'm second signatory to https://javascript.tm .
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by BrendanEich 1y ago
Find Kagi's logo in the "Used by some of the biggest names in Tech..." gallery below the fold at https://brave.com/search/api/ .
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by BrendanEich 1y ago
As I said to Lex Fridman, I was influenced by AWK. Ragrets!
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by BrendanEich 1y ago
I had a stray "was" after "wasn't". If you mean it's wild to slam USAID, I humbly disagree. Doing so may now seem polarized by U.S. partisan politics, but I gave an example of USAID perfidy (one of many) witnes
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by BrendanEich 1y ago
You may be crushed to learn that, while I did stop working on standard JS in Sept. 1997 when we finished ES1 (started in Nov. 1996), turning to found Mozilla and then Firefox to restart the browser market, which enabled restarting JS standa
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by BrendanEich 2y ago
What's wild about it (other than the typo)?
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by BrendanEich 2y ago
I mean both active NOCs and also those who (they cop to it later) "worked for the CIA" at some point.
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by BrendanEich 2y ago
Yes, please read https://brianbondy.com/blog/174/the-road-to-brave-10 .
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by BrendanEich 2y ago
Firefox reborn will be a tough turnaround job —- Ladybird could be the better path.
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by BrendanEich 2y ago
Separate reply that ritual impurity or blind black-box rejection of open source Chromium/Blink seems also to suffer from emotionalism over reason. See https://github.com/brave/brave-browser/wiki/Deviation
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by BrendanEich 2y ago
No, we started with Gecko (on Graphene, a sandboxing multiprocessor framework from b2g/FirefoxOS). We switched for hard-nosed wins of Chromium (as part of Electron) because out of the box vs. Gecko, most rows in the spreadsheet favored
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by BrendanEich 2y ago
Your attacking me on false grounds as if doing so defends what Mozilla did is the only unbecoming thing I can see here. I'm a founder of Mozilla (not latecomer or looter). The McKinseyites now running it into the ground deserve critici
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by BrendanEich 2y ago
We would not do that on principle, but imagine we're the mustache twirlers you fantasize we are: we'd light our brand on fire doing any such thing, lose all our lead users, stop growing and start shrinking. Think / Type &#x2F
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by BrendanEich 2y ago
Blink is a fork (April 2013) of WebKit, and Apple keeps Google from monopolizing the engine market. "If there's no solution, there's no problem." - James Burnham, IIRC (sounds cruel but it's a brutally pragmatic, no
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by BrendanEich 2y ago
It's hard to know what would have happened had I stayed. Mozilla had a number of late layoffs, some cut good people, none helped. Cutting earlier could have helped more. The "NGO" die was cast in 2003 when we spun out of AOL
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by BrendanEich 2y ago
I'm a co-founder (for real, from the start; not someone who did critical legal work creating the MPL and then joined in 1999) of mozilla dot org. We didn't found it or get to Firefox 1.0 by lack of focus or mediocrity. The breadth
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by BrendanEich 2y ago
No, not as far as I know. And definitely no tax-deductible way to do it.
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by BrendanEich 2y ago
Andreas Gal was already CTO after I got the CEO appointment. No "gone back to CTO" and stomp on Andreas in that role. I had been SVP Engineering too, but that was not in the new org chart I set up as CEO. As I've written else

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