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Here's my reason why I think 'ideas are cheap': About 20 years ago when I was still young and stupid I had a 'great idea'. In fact, I had several and one of those took off. Because I was young and stupid and I was rather more technical than business oriented my little company and several other companies that were active in the same space were competing in a wide open field without a definition of what success even meant. YCombinator or something like it did not exist back then, nor a HN where you could read up on similar cases to save yourself a bunch of mistakes.

So each and every one of those companies made mistakes, and most of them died. My little band of friends and me probably held on the longest but we also made plenty of mistakes but at least ours weren't of the fatal variety.

Even so, knowing it was a great idea and having all that knowledge and experience gained over those years I still would not know how we could have avoided the cap on our growth and how we could have staved off the inevitable.

Eventually lots of people made a ton of money of that same idea, with execution that rivaled or beat ours handily, or with a shift of focus to a different niche (there were 100's of those niches and some of those are super profitable).

If my team and me would have been better at the execution part, if we had been more business savvy we might have been able to lock up the market.

Great ideas I have every day, you can have them, I suspect that your ability to execute on average is about as good as mine or worse so I'm not too worried about competition in the earliest phase of an idea hitting the market. But once a market has been validated the parties that enter that appreciate the idea and that are good in execution, they'll go places.

Because you won't be able to keep your idea secret and hit the market at the same time, best case you'll be able to keep your idea secret until you hit the market, but when you do you had better be ready to lock up that market in a very short time otherwise you will just be another 'also ran'.

My story is one of a reasonably good team, reasonably good execution and a bunch of timing and other mishaps and a general problem of being 'green'. There was absolutely nothing wrong with the idea.

Good ideas have value: to the right team. Even bad ideas properly executed have value to the right team.

But good teams and excellent execution are far more rare than good ideas.
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Exactly, we are not going for devs other the web devs, that's our target, that's who we serve and in the end - that's who we are.

We in Codeanywhere are web devs, and we made Codeanywhere for us :)
"As an evangelical Christian university of The Wesleyan Church, Oklahoma Wesleyan University models a way of thought, a way of life, and a way of faith. It is a place of serious study, honest questions, and critical engagement, all in the context of a liberal arts community that honors the Primacy of Jesus Christ, the Priority of Scripture, the Pursuit of Truth, and the Practice of Wisdom."

This sounds to me more like a church than a University.
It happened before, with the transition from Mozilla Suite to Firefox. And let's be honest: XUL was just lipstick on the pig that is cross-platform development. HTML/CSS/JS are now fast enough to look like a slightly better pig, so here we go.

Also, there's a generational shift underway. You and me could find crazy that people would openly choose to use IDEs built on HTML/CSS/JS, but that's what a lot of young folks are doing (Atom, VSCode etc etc). That's their world, that's what they like. An entire generation now exists, who learnt to code from web scripting rather than C or BASIC. They have taken over. It's just how it is.

(this said, I agree that donating to Mozilla feels a bit silly, looking at how much money they make from commercial agreements. It's like donating to Ubuntu or RedHat.)
Many of the older paradigms have been popularized and gone mainstream in the last 5 to 10 years.
It's not only CPU architectures, but also operating systems.

For instance the `-akeyword`(HP/UX compat), `-z`, `-Y` (Solaris compat), `-assert` (SunOS compat) `-Qy` (System V Release 4 compat) options in GNU `ld` (http://ftp.gnu.org/old-gnu/Manuals/ld-2.9.1/html_mono/ld.htm...)

Then there's also compatibility with MRI linkers in GNU ld
Even making sure that a program keeps compiling can be a big effort. Target platforms keep moving, toolchain changes, libraries die and must be replaced, it's not trivial.

I hope they find a way to manage all of that because I don't want to use web mail and I don't know of other equivalent clients on Linux.
"Why you should donate to Mozilla" - A big thread from yesterday. This is why you shouldn't.
I'm guessing Microsoft is not keen on starting from scratch for no visible benefits for them. You could try opening another issue to see if they changed their minds though
Anyone know how this impacts the e-mail functionality of Seamonkey?

(I've actually started using Seamonkey again on a whim. The last couple of weeks. Somehow, browsing feels more snappy with Seamonkey than with Firefox.)
It is, at least allegedly, real conduct that was, among other things, the reason those Yale students were angry: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/grade-point/wp/2015/11/0.... Something real is by definition not a straw man.
That will means that there is 1 single theological theory, because then everybody that goes there will have their worldview confirmed since there is only one. Unfortunately, looks like it is also what the student in the article expected.

My experience shows me that there are as many theological points of view as believers. Everybody gets their own personal variety.
Trying to launch the docker image seems to make my laptop require a reboot.

Ubuntu 15.04, Docker 1.9.1
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> " When you take an app that's been worked on for 15 or so years and then replace it's UI you're going to lose a TON of features. "

What makes you think they'll drop XUL as soon as the first release of the HTML-based UI? It's pretty obvious they'd want to support both until the HTML UI was close to feature complete. You're finding problems where there aren't any.
What do you mean by "The concern"? What concern? The author's concern is about students complaining that they oughtn't to have their feelings hurt. I am sure that there are many other concerns out there - including physical safety - but I don't think they have anything to do with the concern raised by the OP.
Yes I know this, most of the time the "ideas are cheap” meme is just used as a way to blow off someone with a bad idea who is looking for someone technical to do all the work.

The danger with this meme is that we start to believe it ourselves and downplay the value of truly good ideas.
To be fair, i am guessing the design was in 2009'ish, when they started, rather than in the last few years.
Hi - am the project lead for eclipse che.

Everyone asks what the core value proposition. In a distributed cloud environment, it's developer bootstrapping, securing distributed workspaces, and moderning legacy build processes. These are capabilities that only exist when you have a shared distributed server system.

We took the kernel and created a new IDE out of it to demonstrate a couple things:
1. Environment & workspace portability
2. RESTful services on top of language tools like JDT
3. Production / development container interoperability
4. Extension framework for a cloud IDE

We haven't launched Che yet becuase the legal & branding review process at Eclipse is extensive. We hope to finally be done within 3 more months.

But we encourage everyone to check out 4.0 branch of git and then build that.

It is doing a few things:
1. Worksapces are quietly powered by environments, backed by machines which are docker or localhost. This enables each workspace to be isolated with a stack apart from others.

2. We will also demonstrate workspace portability. You can move an entire workspace and all of its tools from Che to Che, or from Che to cloud. And the environment will continue to run identically in each location.

3. We are running the full JDT and other language services inside of the machine. We wrap these with RESTful wrapper. And then it allows the browser to gain capabilities for maven, refactoring, and a variety of powerful intellisence, and it's generally the same speed as localhost.

4. You can then exec commands, debuggers, and ssh into the workspace machines.

5. We have also done a project with Red Hat to enable your workspace environments to have the same docker container structure as production. We will shortly release a plug-in for OpenShift and Kubernetes that let's projects move back and forth with limited configuration. Becuase they are both running on a common container architecture.

While we can solve workflow problems in our distributed system, such as a workflow we call continuous development, we wanted to have a fully fledged desktop IDE to demonstrate that this could have the performance and security of other types of tools. So we are working to have this installation be very fast and lightweight.

You guys are seeing the intermediate builds so it's got a lot of rough edges.

Note: Please if you are going to do some testing, try it on the 4.0 branch. The design is much better and the performance is very good. The 4.0 branch is when we started embedding the JDT services into the mini Che that runs inside of the workspace machines.
git clone https://github.com/codenv/che
git checkout 4.0
cd assembly-sdk
mvn clean install
Funny I should see this today, I spent yesterday afternoon reading articles about Thunderbird and other mail clients and ended up migrating from Thunderbird to mu4e [0] (purely for reasons of usability).

If this is true (and there is some reason to doubt it, as this isn't the first time Thunderbird has been declared "dead"), and considering that Geary is no longer in active development either (maybe the Elementary OS guys picked it up?), Mailpile [1] might have a chance to fill that gap. Other than that, there's always Claws Mail [2].

[0] http://www.djcbsoftware.nl/code/mu/mu4e.html

[1] https://www.mailpile.is/

[2] http://www.claws-mail.org/
The idea that people's feelings should come first (especially before truth/understanding of reality) is not uncomfortable, but a dangerous, misleading, childish posture.

University is for adults, not toddlers.
No Linux, nothing to see here for me.
Dr Piper's other public statements show that's very uncomfortable about and offended by many things - not least of which is majority support for gay marriage. Or any kind of homosexuality at all.

He's so incredibly uncomfortable with both he'd rather they simply didn't exist.

I have very little patience with anyone who runs the kind of moral racket that Dr Piper runs - which is making a career out of pretending to be a moral examplar by relying on appeal-to-authority and a lot of noisy rhetoric, and using both to justify social privilege for his beliefs.

I don't care if they're religious types, economists, or any other kind of ideologues. In my world their opinions get no respect at all.
Can you point me to the associated bug in bugzilla?
Writing device drivers in Linux: A brief tutorial (2006)
A ~350ml can of Coke contains 39 grams of sugar [1]. A ~600ml 'Vitamin water' drink has 31 grams of sugar. A single McDonalds 'McFlurry' dessert has 64 grams of sugar [2].

Yes, you should not consume these. Drink water instead and have a small ball of real Italian ice cream when available.

You probably should also not eat all of your French fries too as starch is also easily turned into sugar inside your body.

Problem is that they also add syrup inside your burger and white bread turns into sugar inside your body.

TL;DR Avoid McDonalds.
If this interests you, also read about Dashi-Dorzho Itigilov.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dashi-Dorzho_Itigilov
Vivaldi seems neat, which is essentially Chromium with a HTML5 GUI built by the old Opera folks intended to restore the best features of old Opera, with a heavy focus on customization.

My hope is that Mozilla will take the direction of using Servo to build something Vivaldi-like (instead of everybody running with Webkit/Blink) and start to restore old API:s and frameworks from old XUL-Firefox that all the best old addons relied on (things llike NoScript, Session Manager, Vimperator, uBlock, Tab Mix Plus, etc...) instead of just sticking with a blackbox rendering engine and settling with Chrome addon API parity.
> taking the charitable position

Also known as "wishful thinking". There's no room for charity when reason is called upon. Be as charitable as you want when talking about the weather with your neighbor, but when you're debating something serious you can not look for imaginary excuses for your opponent's mistakes.
We treat our universities like sanctuaries of learning, and the best ones shield their students from many of the uncertainties and dangers of life while they (ideally) spend their time learning to be valuable members of society.

Some of the cries of victimization sound way overblown. I would agree that shutting down the process of learning itself, such as when students attempt to stop professors or others from topical intellectual discussions, runs counter to the primary goal of universities.

However, many of the attacks on these students as a group looks like attempts to de-legitimize the victims of racism and bigotry. The minorities who have been revealing systemic bias, bigotry, and racism at these universities are the students who started and sustain the current protests.

Do not conflate the cause of those fighting against campus racism, bigotry, and bias with those who seek to shut down the the process of learning at the sign of the tiniest challenging or upsetting idea. The core group of protestors desire to be accorded the same protections and positive learning environment that white students have. That some have used this movement as a vehicle for lending power to their own neuroses and anxieties should not in any way detract from us from paying attention and doing something about the systemic bias that these protests and subsequent reports have revealed.
Yeah, its kind of sad isn't it. It takes right-wing fundamentalist christians to point that out, because the so called "liberals" have lost their ability to understand and respond to critique.
I am the same way. I have one failed, one "moderate hit" that as CTO I left, and now I trust no-one but myself to do product need validation. And I've become so skeptical of my results, that I have to hear the message over and over.
Except it's not a joke, it's probably true [0] :

Research by the Institute of Economic Affairs argues that a tax on fatty food could actually increase the burden on the health system and unfairly penalise the poor.

Dr Barrie Craven from the Department for Education at the University of Newcastle, who co-wrote the IEA report, said: "It is commonly assumed that obese people are a disproportionate burden on the NHS.

"By 56, the obese are the most expensive but not over their lifetime.

"We have to remember that the obese and smokers tend to die earlier and the healthy incur very expensive 24 hour care later in life for diseases such as dementia."

[0] http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/health/news/9359212/Obese-an...
You've been brainwashed about the "community" stuff. Mozilla _is_ a corporation. Linux is built by a corporation. Last time I checked, less than 18% of Linux patches were from independent contributors.

Everything big enough to be known by Joe average hobbyist is built by a corporation.

Let's see the community in action taking the lead when Mozilla drops the ball.
I've actually found the search in the web interface to be very fast and pretty good in terms of finding what I'm looking for with >70k messages.

When I switched from Gmail a few years ago (https://masnick.org/2013/07/19/fastmail/), one of the most striking changes was how fast FastMail's interface was compared to Gmail. FastMail did a huge update to their search code just as I switched, and I haven't looked back.
that's a pretty awesome summary. to that i would add:

* `iftop` that allows me to quickly check which network streams are hogging the machine (this is a little like sar -n DEV 1 but much more detailed!)

* `tcpdump -c 100 -vv`- poor man's alternative to iftop or systat if they're not available locally

* tail those logfiles, with systemd it's even easier with journald as all logfiles can be checked at once: `journalctl -xf -p notice | ccze -m ansi` (ccze colors the output, purely optional)

* probably more i am forgetting now

the great takeaways in the article for me are:

* pidstat: great to have an average, beats top for sure

* back to basics: hit dmesg, vmstat and iostat first, as you learned in the beginning! :)
This needs to be said more often, and louder. Myself, I find it disconcerting that the only counterweight to the "Friendly Spacers" are found on the far right.
Hi:

Those were concept drawings. In the finalized version, all of the panels & tabs are removable. There is a "+" in the tool bar that will let you add / remove any button, menu, panel entry. This is in the 4.0 branch that we are working on.
Hmm, that java process has 0.227 TB of mapped virtual memory and 3090% CPU..
Out of curiosity, are you against higher taxes on alcohol? It's definitely regressive, but there is also a more definite link to harmful effects (side-stepping somewhat the issue of taxes on necessary items like food).
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Geary email client is a really quite nice and fresh alternative recently. Although not that advanced and mature, but a pleasure to use...
Nokia OZO 360 Camera Selling for $60,000
University president sick of hearing about pampered students with coddled minds
Exactly. When I used the word "buyers" I was using a market metaphor to mean people that would want to execute your idea.
> "You and me could find crazy that people would openly choose to use IDEs built on HTML/CSS/JS"

Why is that crazy? Makes perfect sense to me, especially as the performance of the programming language element improves. Ultimately these IDEs are sure to make use of WebAssembly, which should take away the remaining performance concerns.
> You and me could find crazy that people would openly choose to use IDEs built on HTML/CSS/JS, but that's what a lot of young folks are doing

I'm 25 and I feel to old for this industry already.
Some images of the ledger, seeing as the article doesn't contain any for some reason:

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Popular_Science_Monthly/Volum...

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Popular_Science_Monthly/Volum...
Nobody is proposing that these people should be silenced, or not allowed to express the view. We are just saying that their view is wrong, and childish, and a danger to civilisation.
As far as I read in the linked article, nothing has been finalized yet from Mozilla's side.
It's long, it's rambling, it uses phrases like "laser-focussed" (twice). Fine, it's not corporatese at its absolute worst (there isn't a "synergistic" in there), but it's also not going to win any awards for clear communication; it could be every bit as diplomatic whilst also losing about 70% of the words.

I hope this isn't the end for Thunderbird.
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> The Buddhist monks approach him as a living person and shake hands with him. Some devotees even claim that Itigilov is still alive, only immersed in a hibernation- or nirvana-like state.

> In April 2013, Vladimir Putin went to Buryatia to "hold a conversation" with Itigilov and other lamas.
Here are some links that might interest you:

http://yaledailynews.com/blog/2015/11/02/sae-denies-charges-...

http://features.yaledailynews.com/blog/2015/04/16/harassment...

http://yaledailynews.com/blog/2011/05/17/miller-announces-dk...

http://qz.com/546403/yale-student-protests/
When you take an app that's been worked on for 15 or so years and then replace it's UI you're going to lose a TON of features. They'll slowly reintroduce some of the most popular features (hamburger menu will be priority #1!) but there will be a TON that they will not reintroduce. Why?

Hmm, that's how Firefox (then Phoenix) started in the first place in comparison to the bloated Mozilla Application Suite.
I'm all for writing new apps in HTML, I think Atom and VSCode are awesome, but I'm not for rewriting huge legacy apps to be HTML apps for no good reason. The reasons given, that XUL requires maintenance that Mozilla engineers don't enjoy doing, is a joke considering the amount of effort to maintain XUL is less than 1% of the amount of effort to move Firefox to HTML.

No one has listed the ten awesome features that we're going to get from HTML Firefox (cause there ain't many) or the 1,000 features (tons of little details) that will be lost. If users listed their 10 biggest problems with Firefox I doubt any of them would be solved by moving to HTML.

Imagine if instead of writing VSCode from scratch and releasing it alongside Visual Studio Microsoft had rewritten the Visual Studio UI in HTML, abandoned all the nonessential features, and abandoned the old native Visual Studio.

One might say that Mozilla will wait to release the new Firefox till it has all the old features of the old Firefox, but that's not been my experience with how teams work. They'll get frustrated with the rewrite and want to get it out the door. "We can add those features later" they will say, and then they'll never get added.
>But good teams and excellent execution are far more rare than good ideas.

It depends on what you mean by a good idea. Do you have any ideas that tick 10 or more off my list?
Yeah I think I basically agree. I'm not sure about physical assets though. The way to price those is to PV the future cash flows. However, if interest rates are zero, PVs are infinite.. so we need a different approach. Or, if we continue to use PV, then as rates get lower, physical assets increase in price.

But yeah, I'm pretty sure the amoeba will have zero-rates.
I am not sure it can be called an "art" nor "self-preservation." Not even sure about "self-mummification" (http://io9.com/the-gruesome-and-excruciating-practice-of-mum...). Yet, because the uniqueness of what's described, an interesting read for the curious.
I'm on my phone so I'll try to address each of your points in order (copy paste is painful on mobile).

The tools available for that task are compact and I'd imagine quite portable based on the OSes they are already supported on. Huge vendor downloads aside, I don't think the problem in the ecosystem is with those tools not being OSS.

Intel's instruction set (ISA if you will, for those reading), is at a higher level than microcode. Microcode is specific to an architecture but not the instruction set. No programmer touches microcode and as far as I'm aware, it's secret and proprietary.

The useful tools to be created that would be open are not related to bitstream formats. (This is actually an assumption that I cannot fully verify at this time.)

I'm not not sure how to address the last point. I'm not trying to be pedantic at all. I'll come back to this as I wrap my head around it.

Edit: I'm continuing to make small edits to grammar and wording.