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Dupe ...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12775974

Interesting project and congratulations.

Seems like a simpler version of scssphp (and associated WP plugins based on it).

Loads of us use nano.

Simple light editor without the overhead (read learning curve), of all the other big editors.

Sure, I might not write code in it, but when I need to edit a conf file or two, both on a server, and my desktop, it really hits the spot.

This looks incredibly interesting.

Open source, and pluggable too? Nice!

Ran into this problem a couple of months ago.

Could not figure out why Docker would not install on a stock 14.04 bare metal server from OVH.

Turns out it was their custom kernel.

With a little flag in the corner giving the option to install the stock kernel. Trying to do that gave no end of problems. So reverted to the stock Proxmox, and ran my 14.04 in a VM that uses pretty much all the resources.

True, it cost me a small %age in overhead, but it was the easiest/quickest fix.

With email, you want simple, turnkey, and ideally self service.

Free::

http://modoboa.org/en/

http://www.iredmail.org/ ... also has paid version

Paid::

http://www.afterlogic.com/mailsuite/linux-email-server

https://www.atmail.com/

With each of the options above, you get the complete stack.

::Email server (IMAP + SMTP + POP3)

::Spam protection etc

::Web Client.

And for each of them, you also get a decent web admin panel out of the box.

Trust me, you really don't want to be spending the next week putting the individual components together and getting them to play nice yourself.

Prenups are strange in that those who are mature enough to get them, probably don't need them, and those who aren't, do need them.

If I had my way, prenups would be a mandatory requisite for anyone applying for a marriage licence.

Here's why.

On Maturity, Frankness, Honesty & Disclosure:: I'll call the decision to get married, Peak Love. You are about to spend a chunk of money on a party, so I'm thinking you are pretty loved up.

This is the time to be having the hard conversations. I can almost guarantee that if you are not able to agree on what happens in the event of a divorce at this time, there is no way you're going to agree once you decide to divorce.

As other posters have indicated too, both parties are forced to disclose their financial positions. No more "oops, I forgot to mention my $100k in credit card debt" conversations once you're already married.

Divorces can be messy and acrimonous. With a lot of bitterness, anger, and all the other emotions that will make what should be a rational discussion seem like a Mid East peace negotiation summit.

And once you go guns hot, it can get very very expensive very quickly.

Cost is totally worth it:: Even allowing for the fact that your marriage will never fail, the fact that there is a non trivial chance it will, makes the cost of lawyering up for a pre nup totally worth it.

Put slightly differently .... Prenup lawyers are cheaper than divorce lawyers. Especially if the other side decides to get nasty.

Document the vulnerability. Document your attempts to contact the bank.

Contact your local[1] newspaper. Particularly one that is big on investigative journalism, and technology.

A good hint is if they covered the recent SWIFT bank heists.

[1]Local is relative. If it is a big national bank, go national.

The idea is for them to do an article, not necessarily exposing the vulnerability, but how processes (or lack thereof) in the big banks allow security holes to go unfixed.

Use Adaway ..

https://f-droid.org/repository/browse/?fdid=org.adaway

It blocks at the Hosts file level.

Sentences like this exist in other languages too.

My mother tongue is Shona, and this would be a grammatically correct sentence.

Vana vana, vana vana vana, vana vana vana vana.

Translates to ...

Four children, have four children, who have four children each.

But Azer was right on the money.

A request, by definition requires a binary response.

A polite request, by definition, means that you can live (however badly) with either a Yay, or a nay.

Kik's attitude (whilst claiming to be polite), was that anything other than a "Yay", would be met with lawyers.

On this one, #IStandWithAzer.

>They are trying to protect US citizens from losing their jobs (or getting wages cut) due to a sudden availability of cheap labor.

Mmmm. I hear you. Sort of. Your argument though, is not very different from the "women are taking jobs that rightfully belong to men" spiel that was all the rage after WWII.

I suspect that my argument is fundamentally based on wishful thinking. That said, you can't have your cake and eat it. The 'race to the bottom' you alude to is already happening with offshoring though.

But my central argument remains ... foreigners (based on borders determined by middle aged white men a couple of centuries ago), remain the last 'minority' group that you can still discriminate against, vocally, in polite society.

Can someone please remind me again why USians should have a god given right to jobs in the US? Or put another way ... should an accident of birth(place) be the most import decider on whether someone should get a job or not?

I realise that this is probably going to get stupidly downvoted, but I am a die hard libertarian.

Why is it, in 2016, still OK to pick on the foreigners? Replace the word "foreigner" with Black/Woman/Jew/Gay/White/Whatever, and it would be totally unacceptable.

Way I see things, in a hundred years or so, picking on foreigners will be seen in the same light as picking on some minority group today.

I just worry that I won't get to live to see that day.

I have been following this project, and it makes so much more sense to me.

As another poster mentioned, going all the way down to the bare metal does not make sense to me.

Or maybe I have lived through too many hardware upfrades to not want to worry about whether the APP will run if we upgrade the RAID controller or something.

Almost reminds me of the Lingua Latina method I used to learn Latin.

You basically read a text that is totally in Latin, with occasional images to guide you.

It starts off very simply, and gradually introduces new vocabulary and grammar. You intuitively learn as you go along.

The books are out of print, but you can still get them on Amazon. http://www.amazon.com/Lingua-Latina-Pars-Familia-Romana/dp/1...

The Sherlock Holmes Museum is not located at 221b Baker Street.

That address does not exist, but any mail addressed to it is redirected to the Museum, which is technically 239 Baker Street (since it sits between 237 and 241).

They do have a special dispensation from the City of Westminster to display their address as 221b Baker Street though.

I agree. Python 3 will not see significant uptake till it is the default on most distros.

It is the usual chicken and egg problem. Distros won't upgrade if there is no reason to. In fact, many are reluctant to upgrade to 3.0 since it breaks a few mini-apps developed in 2.x (as happened to me on ArchBang Linux a few weeks ago).

You need a killer app to force through the migration. Viz Rails and the number of hosts who now have Ruby hosting (if only in name) even on their cheapest hosting packages.

Ahh, I forgot to add the 'solution'.

The 'sex' bit, will be marrying google search results with other sources, and breeding a search ranking algorithm specific to you.

For example, the Facebook 'like' button could turn out to be very useful. Stuff liked by more people gets ranked higher. Since webmasters are already gaming Facebook though, then stuff liked by people who are one or two degrees of separation from you on facebook could count more. Any social network that allows you to indicate some sort of trust in an individual could work.

I bet you though, that if Google did this, the very same people complaining about the bad results now, would be the first to complain about the privacy implications of all this, and how google seems to know so much about us .... sigh

I have been thinking a lot about this problem. If indeed it is a problem.

Google is in the business of serving ads. The vast majority of those spammy sites display google ads. So, there is little incentive for google to change things just yet. Joe public is not complaining, yet. It is only the digerati, and a whole bunch of other webmasters who think their sites should be ranking higher because they are just better, who seem to be up in arms over this.

The interesting thing is that half the spammy do provide content that is 'just good enough' for what most people are looking for. The quickest exit from one of these sites, is via a google ad, so google wins, the site wins, and the advertiser targetting a specific niche wins.

The only problem will be when the advertisisers stop getting the bang for their buck when their ads are displayed on these sites. Until then, Google has little incentive to change.

As a Zimbabwean myself, I would have to say that most of the posters here totally missed the point of the site.

The site was not a critique of quantitative easing. It is a commentary on the Zim government's attack on a newspaper that dared to criticize their fiscal policy (in this case a whole lot of printing money, or ... ahem quantitative easing).

The paper then fought back, using this effectively worthless money (available in huge quantities, and cheaper than paper), to front their guerrilla campaign.

Looking at the box of Zim dollars under my desk, you can see how the currency got steadily worse (physically), as the currency got steadily worse (economically). The last straw was the EU sanctions that then prevented the German company from exporting banknote 'paper' to Zimbabwe ... the notes after that were sad. Really sad.

Interestingly, at the height of the Zim crisis, a friend of mine in Germany sent me a couple of notes from the hyper inflation days in Germany (apparently, even now, there are still so many of those notes around that they are not worth much). The 1919 '50 mark' note feels like real money (quite oily too), while the 1923 '500 million mark' note, is just a plain paper bill, printed on one side, with just a bit of colour.

When the govt starts printing money on paper, instead of cotton, then you know you are in big trouble.

I suppose the point I was trying to make, was that while you can debate the similarities between the Zim situation and the Fed's quantitative easing, the site is really about the fight between one paper and the Mugabe government.

Incidentally, the Zim Dollar died a couple of years ago. The only currency you will find in widespread use, is the South African Rand, and the US Dollar.

I wish I could upvote this more than once.

I have been screaming for a long time, that the housing boom and subsequent bust were directly caused by government action.

Thomas Sowell wrote a very interesting and insightful book on the subject ... http://www.amazon.com/Housing-Boom-Bust-Thomas-Sowell/dp/046...

This is really bad maths.

Imagine diagonal of X cm.

Imagine screen so tall and thin, that diagonal approaches vertical. Area is tiny.

As you swing same diagonal downwards, area increases. Till diagonal is 45% from horizontal.

As you keep going, area begins to reduce, until, when diagonal is almost horizontal, area is tiny.

Needing to get out more ...

Another useful method of opinion getting I have found to be useful, is to directly beg/ask for criticism.

"Please tell me all the bad things you can think about this idea." "Please tell me all the reasons you think this idea will not gain traction and will fail" "Please tell em why quitting my job to pursue this idea is a bad thing"

Questions that openly invite criticism are useful, since I think people think more imaginatively when they are being critical ... there are only so many ways to say nice things about something, but the insults can come from anywhere.

More than just finding fault with the idea, you will find assumptions you had implicitly made being challenged. So even if the idea is good, it might still be a bad idea to pursue it, lest you end up with a "the operation was a success, but the patient died" scenario.

If you have a cofounder, take it in turns, over two days, to defend/attack the idea. Defend your idea like Fort Knox on day one, and then attack it like it owes you money on day two.

My biggest problem with most of the "I just need $1m" people I have met is twofold.

One, most of them would have no idea how to use that million in a sustainable way. Take a look at all the lottery winners that end up broke. The article does touch on this ... you don't need a million dollars to do half the things that many people feel they will do when they miraculously land that million.

Secondly, most people are not prepared to put in the kind of work that leads to a million dollar payoff. No, playing the lotto does not count. Getting a big payoff takes hard work, luck, and more hard & smart work.

Far too many people are not prepared to pay the price of success.

I think it is a combination of many things.

a. The curious will always learn. Books have been around for a long time. In the west, the books are cheap/affordable. Still you find many people that cannot be bothered to pick one up and read. Online education material is the same.

b. Most people need structure in their lives. It is very easy to procrastinate with online learning. Very easy. Without a set syllabus, and deadlines, it is far too easy to park the lessons.

That said, I still think online education efforts are if not disruptive, democratising. Individuals who were previously interested in a topic, but could not afford to go to college/private lessons, can now do so.

You still need to get individuals fired up about learning, and learning on their own steam, with no deadlines, and possibly no expectations of certification at the end.

As the old addage says, you can lead a horse to water, but you can't make him drink.

I think the post should have been titled 'How I destroyed my startup by competing for the only girl in the office with my cofounder'.

Small offices are no places for dramas. A bit different in large organisations where you are in different departments/buildings. Still a very tight rope to walk though.

Michael Moore has already posted pointing out the falsity in this 'leak'

http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/mike-friends-blog/viva-wik...

Please take the cloudflare off.

I clicked. Got the landing page. Figured you had been hacked. Did not bother going through the captcha. Closed the browser tab.

I am sure I am not unique in this regard. There is far too much content on the web, and not enough time. If the content is not there when I need it, I go somewhere else.

You have basically put up a version of the "free signup to read the rest of the article" ... you see on so many big sites. I cannot even remember when I last completed such a free signup.

The short version, you will lose readers, and just so cloudflare can try and flog me some Windows anti-virus software when I am clearly running linux! Take it off.

I think it really depends on the type of product you want to build.

My take on the matter is to learn just enough tech to be almost dangerous. Or put another way, you need to understand enough about technology to (a) understand that it is hard. This alone will make you a better manager/cofounder. (b) be able to sift the wheat from the chaff. The problem with business only types is that they are more likely to pick 'coders' who promise the earth than those who can deliver.

Learning to code is great. Learning a lot about the various technologies out there is great. Building simple programs is great.

That said, programming is hard. You will not be a great coder in 6 months, or a year. If your problem is non trivial you will need far more knowledge than you can pick up in a year of dabbling.

I suppose my point is that you need to balance the need to come up to speed with technology with the need to actually deliver a working product.

The one good thing to take out of this is that Facebook made a measured decision, and ran with the best technology.

So easily (as many companies do) they could have taken a 'not invented here' decision and run with Cassandra.