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When I was looking for a new Mail client a few months ago, I wanted to pick Thunderbird, but did not because I believe I read that Mozilla was sunsetting it which is why I did not go for it. Is that not true? It was extremely disappointing news since Thunderbird was an awesome mail client and with the recent interest in mail clients, I thought it was a great opportunity for Mozilla to provide an O/S alternative to the Mailbox, Sparrows and Outlooks of the world.

If you will be programming professionally (or for significant amounts of time) learning either of emacs or vim is absolutely worth the effort.

You will be very glad you did.

It's the first part in a series of articles. I'm sure he will mention this, especially considering he hints at the densoty issues right at the beginning.

The Netflix experience seems to have become increasingly user hostile.

No Netflix, I don't want to watch Marco Polo. Wait what? You "updated" the XBox One app and now I have to give voice commands such as "Watch Item 1" instead of "Watch Arrested Development"? How is it that everything you recommend to me these days, unlike in the past, reflects popularity more than my preferences?

The difference between today and before is that old money is rarely parked in a single business model. The sophistication in finance, and the spread of public companies means the Waltons don't only stay rich as long as Walmart is successful. In fact, I'd bet their wealth is affected far less by Walmart than it is by the tens or hundreds of hedge funds and VC firms they are invested in.

Money is rarely parked at any one place today, but rather, is largely distributed throughout the economy.

Getting more stuff done with less human effort is a good thing. However, combining that with an economic system which sets your ability to feed yourself and your families based on the effort you put in is a bad thing.

Capitalism which was a great 2th century economic system, is not suited for the 21st century where there really aren't any jobs left for humans to do.

The benefits of automation only accrue to the owners of capital, while everyone else gets completely left out. Since the owners of capital are an increasingly smaller number of people (not surprising since capital accrues capital exponentially while labor only accrues it linearly) our economic systems are headed for collapse.

Why would you compare C# (although they keep adding functional programming concepts to it) to Scala, instead of comparing F# (which can commingle with C# wherever you need it) with Scala?

I haven't looked into F# or Scala too much, but I bet F# comes out looking far better, because it was so deeply inspired by Haskell (but made practical).