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I'm a FastMail customer. Here's some things I like and why I switched from Gmail and Google Apps:

- better shortcuts in the web interface
- the mobile web interface is actually good
- can import email by IMAP
- POP links actually work, Gmail's POP links are broken
- IMAP is better implemented
- Gmail limits IMAP to 15 max connections and
each folder ends up being a connection
- CardDAV works and has good picture resolution,
when I was on Google Apps they were limited to 80px
- FastMail's Sieve filters are very flexible
- on folders vs tags, I like folders more, because then
I can import my huge work email as a backup without
polluting my searches and my archive
- Google Apps email aliases limited to 30 per user, which is
pretty dumb and insufficient if you have a couple of domains
- FastMail does sub-domain email aliasing, which is awesome,
as now each user account I have has its own email; Gmail
only does "plus" aliasing, but that's obvious and problematic

Part of this decision was also a switch from Google Drive to Dropbox: Dropbox supports Linux, Google Drive does not.

On the matter of privacy, Google is simply too big and has access to too much info.
They have your searches, often representing your secret desires, your video/music preferences, your favorite locations and habits, your travel itinerary, your voice, your chats, your G+ likes, your email, your purchases, etc.

And don't get me wrong, personally I've never seen many big companies as competent and as non-evil as Google. I also worked with their AdX and I can tell you that from the advertiser's perspective, Google discloses much less information than others in the business. But they don't have to be evil right now, they simply have to store that info and analyze it later, sell it, etc. And consider that the info in question is enough to determine with accuracy if somebody is pregnant, male or female, black or gay, as in things that in the right context can get one injured or killed.

In other words you can use Google's stuff, but reducing their area of knowledge and not placing all your eggs in the same basket is always wise.
>Singapore: 16000%

So the takeaway from this is you should aim for high biocapacity deficit, right?

I mean, I live in a deep green country, and it's a filthy dump.
how is giving them what they want a punishment?
Thanks, I got mine from a friend, I'll check if he have any invites left.
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Funny how you think that they would not have considered this.
It’s the top comment right now because it was only posted 5 minutes ago.
For some engineering tasks, the work and the planning are almost the same thing. Once you've explored the problem, the code is the small part.

When asked to estimate, the answer is "I'll let you know when I'm getting into it". Then you're made to do a 'spike', which is indistinguishable from doing the task. Except do it in a day now. So the Engineer thrashes around trying to figure it all out in a day, and comes up with some number. The planning phase is now over, so they're supposed to just execute, regardless of what (bogus) number they found. So they start. At the end of the sprint, they've done less than if they'd just started the task the first day. They get 'measured' as a low performer. Of course its the process that's performing badly, not the Engineer. They get frustrated, resentful and stop cooperating with the scrum master.

I've seen this so many times at so many places its just exhausting. No amount of discussion can convince the evangelical Scrum experts that something is wrong with the process.
I don't remember, but when we were taking the tour the guide did mention that the tested the batteries and generators on some schedule. I bet there's some industry standard that has a minimum testing frequency.
I live in rural Oregon. I have fiber to the house delivering gigabit speeds.

The local co-op exists because the phone companies didn't want to wire the area so the farmers did it.

Then they put conduit in the ground and started putting fiber in everywhere.

Oh, and when I have a problem they come out the same day. Once was a bad switch, once was a bad termination both on my end, but no run around.
Migration to Mars would require such an enourmous amount of energy that it would make the problem worse - each person moved to Mars would use far more than an average Western lifetime's worth of energy in the move.
There's a free one from Microsoft, or InstallShield LE.

https://visualstudiogallery.msdn.microsoft.com/f1cc3f3e-c300...

http://geekswithblogs.net/TarunArora/archive/2014/04/24/visu...

That said: I use WiX and I find it works adequately.
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Yes, but Google spam filters are too aggressive. It is worthwhile adding that once in a while I keep running into a message lying in Spam that ought to have been in Inbox.
> 15 GB is free over at Google. Does that mean my data is really worth $40 a year to them. I do realize this is oversimplifying things...

That's not a valid comparison, the economies of scale Gmail benefits from means it can't be compared with a smaller email provider like Fastmail which has to ammortize the fixed overhead costs over a much smaller user base.

Gmail has over 1B monthly active users, at $40 /user would generate $40B a year on gmail alone, they made $75B Revenue in 2015 (16.3B profit). Google don't break their revenue numbers down but they have 7 properties with over 1B Users where I expect an overwhelming majority of their revenue still comes from Search when users are in the "actively searching" frame of mind and are more likely to purchase goods rather than in Gmail where their primary use-case is email.
No need to. You can have a different email account than Google account on your Android devices.

Android allows you to have almost unlimited accounts fort unlimited things, and you can yourself control what gets synched for each individual account.

Just keep using the old Google Account for play services and the like and your new email account for fastmail email.

Android is nice that way.
> One doesn't need the knowledge of a systems administrator to use free software instead of proprietary software.

That's not my experience, nor is it reflected in what I hear from people who do still use Linux on their personal machines. Indeed, Dr. Stallman himself was unable to get VGA output working when he was on the stage at HOPE last month - in the end, the AV staff had to point a camera at his laptop.

It's also unreasonable to conclude, from the experience of programmers who actually are prepared to invest considerable time and effort into reworking the software we use, that free software is at, or indeed, near, a point of readiness to support the needs of "average users". One of Dr. Stallman's examples was a comparison between Photoshop and the GIMP; although he chose not to cast it in precisely those terms, it was obvious to which software packages to which he referred. Unfortunately, this comparison, while well suited to the ideological requirements of the Free Software Foundation and those of Dr. Stallman's talk, is not well founded in fact; the reason Photoshop remains the de facto standard for image editing is not, as Dr. Stallman would have it, mere foolish and contemptible intransigence on the part of "average users", but rather because Photoshop has for many years had capabilities which the GIMP still fails even to approximate. Even in the realm of text handling, a task central to the requirements of any graphic designer and almost any other sort of user, today's GIMP falls far short of the mark set by a version of Photoshop from well over a decade ago.

This sort of failure cannot be explained by a notional "intelligence gap", or by conspiracy theories around class warfare and capitalist propaganda. If a problem like this were of sufficient concern to the Free Software Foundation to be worth solving, solved it would be, and if achieving such a solution required some modification of an ideology which had proven too strict in its purity to address the needs of reality, such modification would have long since occurred. That it has not, and that fundamental issues of usability and functionality remain in the software FSF advertises as being ready in all respects to replace its proprietary alternatives, demonstrates that, for Dr. Stallman and his organization, ideological concerns are paramount, and outweigh to negligibility the concerns which matter to the same "average users" on whose behalf FSF partisans purport to work.

The occasional populism of FSF rhetoric is thus exposed as nothing more than an empty claim, trivially made when convenient and just as trivially discarded when it conflicts with the weird, chilly ideological "hackers uber alles" elitism which, while appealing to few, is at least an honest expression of Stallman's and FSF's true position. Unfortunately, as I said before, the price of purity in such an ideology is irrelevance, and indeed irrelevance is precisely the position in which FSF finds itself today. As long as ideology remains paramount, this will not, indeed cannot, change.
I fell a few time into some stupid traps that installed bloatwares in my computer : I clicked too quickly during the install process of the software I originally wanted, and spent much more time getting rid of the unwanted ones. It made me mad, but I'm tech savvy enough to get rid of these horrors: that might not be the case for many other users (yep, my grand-parents use the internet).
very interested in the answer to this as well.
> Why even assume it's a spaceship and not an asteroid or a rogue planet?

Specifity bias. It "feels" more probable to have object going here because someone send it here, than to just have object going here.
Socialising the losses couldn't work with us customers. Since bitfinex' biggest market is in the US I don't see how this (bitfinex tokens) could fly without many lawsuits
The common stock might be worthless if the last money in had a 2x or greater liquidation preference.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liquidation_preference
As a passenger on the west coast flying to another west coast city, I give no shits about the number of concourses in ATL. LAX still has electricity but delta's poor infrastructure planning has left a single point of failure in the deep south affecting flights everywhere in the world.
I still think about it when it (albeit VERY rarely) marks legitimate emails as spam.
You can't make this stuff up. You're even excited about it.

(See my response to the sibling comment on koolba for the discussion if you wondering what I am talking about)
Is anyone here using Jet on a regular basis? I tried it once a few months back and dismissed it as nothing innovative enough to be a sustainable Amazon competitor.

I must have been very wrong. I don't see how Jet justifies 3B from Walmart.

I will credit them on one point - They do seem have great employee sat that is a result of investing lots of time and energy to create a healthy environment.
I think the argument for scrum is something like "Our big organization has complicated politics and scrum is one way of dealing with those politics." However, I often wish the management would directly address the internal politics that undermine productivity. I realize that it is awkward and uncomfortable for managers to talk honestly about the differences they have with other managers and other teams, but that is also their profession. That is, working through any relationship that undermines productivity is the job of a manager.

I wrote about this here: "The Agile process of software development is often perverted by sick politics"

http://www.smashcompany.com/business/the-agile-process-of-so...
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Some scenarios (in no real particular order):

- A Zynga-like order: give back unvested stock or you're fired

- There were "hidden" bank loans / lines of credit that need to be paid back first. These may not be known to employees, but generally they are the first in line to be paid back.

- If the cash acquisition is assuming they hit some earn-out targets, there's a very, very good chance that they won't get 100% of the money, and in fact could get a lot less.

- If the investors had some sort of very tough terms where they get a 1-2x return before participating in the common stock, that could make this worth very little to employees.
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Critical analysis of neoliberal economics is not likely to be found in the pages of one of its primary mouthpieces, though sometimes the Economist does surprise and actually mentions an externality or two.
Actually, the Mill uses just the forwarding network which I completely ignored in this explanation.

The really short explanation about the forwarding network is that writing/reading the PRF takes too much time for you to read it and do work on the same cycle. If you operated on it alone, all operations that were dependent on each other would have multi-cycle latencies.

Since this sucks, in addition to the PRF the machines have a forwarding network, where the result of every instruction is broadcast to all the execution units of a similar type. If the broadcasted PRF number matches the register you want, it's read from the forwarding network instead of the PRF.

AFAICT, the Mill works by completely eschewing the final register file, and exclusively using the forwarding network with some local storage at each execution unit for the past values on the network.
With the amount of software you likely run on a desktop machine, your implicit web of trust is already pretty huge. Does trusting mtier really make that big a difference? How does it compare to the maintainers-and-build-bots infrastructure of other open source operating systems? I think this sort of hang-up is an example of letting perfect become the enemy of good, and it's something I have to push myself through from time to time.
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World's longest April fools joke? 'We have tentatively planned for the migration to happen on the first Saturday of April, next year'. 4/1/2017
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Thanks for the reply pravula. I'm on a greek passport.
Since Vista Windows has transactional NTFS and registry e.g. CreateFileTransacted and RegOpenKeyTransacted, so it should be possible...
Mostly because it doesn't defeat the issue with data collection. Google Apps doesn't, as far as I've ever been told, bar Google from using it's privacy-invasive "features" on your data. And while you can justify Gmail as a free service that violates your privacy to pay for it, Google Apps offers no such justification.
Venus might be more survivable than Mars, just not on the surface. It is also closer.
You don't update core/packages when there are security issues? How do you deal with this? I'd like to know alternative approaches to applying patches and recompiling. Thanks!
A big contributor to the GFC was pension funds ("dumb money") buying CDOs with rates that were way too low for the risks. Do I need to be worried about the same thing for cat bonds?
Everything I Need To Know About Agile I Learned From Reading "Extreme Programming Explained: Embrace Change, 2nd Edition (The XP Series)", by Kent Beck and Cynthia Andres.

Oh, and from working side-by-side with the best practitioners in the business at ThoughtWorks for three years. But the book is sufficient.
Most of what you describe is external to TUF (authenticating, logging, the specifics of the data you're protecting and how you transfer it once it's validated).

A couple things you pointed out are definitely hard with TUF right now:

> For instance, administrator approving registration is not a single person, but group of administrators, each with different permissions on streams

TUF is being actively developed and this type of approval pattern is planned: https://github.com/theupdateframework/tuf/issues/346

> Client cannot download stream of some other client, and cannot get any information on overlays used by other clients, etc.

This is currently a limitation of TUF, but it is known and there are some tentative plans to address it. If you have specific use cases you'd like to contribute to the discussion, there are GitHub issues and the mailing list.

I think it's worth pointing out that even if you don't use TUF, you need to be thinking about the vulnerabilities it's designed to protect against. Once you start doing that you'll probably end up with something similar modulo formats and transport.
Drives me bonkers every few weeks. I set the task bar to "auto hide" and then it decides, at random, to never hide, pushing my Emacs mode line and the bottom few lines of text in the editor down under that useless thing.

I usually reboot at that point. This issue has been in Windows since at least Win2000.

[Some peer post says that killing explorer.exe fixes it. I'll try that next time]
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The idea that we outsiders have to research mtier to decide that it's not very much of a third party after all is just odd.

I don't want to seem adversarial, and I want to like openbsd, but it's hard.
One of the most essential part about Scrum is that it aligns the understanding across all the stakeholders, including business owner, customer, designer, developer etc. Hence the meeting, prioritization, backlog, daily standup/daily write up as development process artifact etc to focus on the priorities that create the most business value under flexible scope, fixed time and fixed money.
scope, time and money are the three variables of a development process. At the end I think the author is proposing with the process for a flexible scope, flexible time and flexible money, which often is a internal project that doesn't have direct business applicable value. In this case, the author should really just break into another side team without business owner and, or even without project owner and simply use Kanban as the solution, instead of sticking around with Scrum.
I believe every process has its shortcomings, but instead of pointing the wrongs, I'd appreciate more if the author describe what the situation/stage/type of this project, and why scrum doesn't work in this case, and how a different approach can optimize the outcomes.
To me, NSIS is awesome and ridiculous at the same time. It's very practical and down to earth, and it's definitely miles ahead of anything that existed when NSIS got popular (hello, InstallShield!).

But the NSIS scripting language was modelled after Assembly. I mean, what? I really wonder, with delighted amazement, what went on in the heads of the people who decided to model a high level domain specific scripting language after the lowest-level language that's still human editable.

I mean, hand-editing LLVM IR is easier.

The good part is that assembly is actually good fun to write if you don't need to do large projects in it, and so is NSIS scripting. It sure is documented well enough. Nobody scripts installers fulltime for a living I guess, so it's a nice way to spice up work :-)
Excellent description! Thanks.
This doesn't happen for me, so I assumed there must be a setting to turn that off. But looking through the FastMail settings I cannot find anything like that. Still, I don't see any yellow smiley face icons in FastMail when I send or receive ":)" in emails.
I see this as Wal-Mart buying their place into the online market. It's hard for a company like that to be able to spin up an entire division, and do it right.

A cynical person might also believe Jet created itself to be sold off in this very way, too.
Town is always London in this context.
At this point, it's a generalized online marketplace that has been successful enough that some of the general public has heard of it and used it. 3B is QUITE a bit of money, I agree, but from a name and branding perspective in the age of Amazon, Jet has already made an impressive amount of progress where SO many others have failed.
The spam folder is the only place I can find email personally addressed to me these days. (Always from that nigerian royal member, unfortunatelly...)
I think the "speed" part is that once you realize it is bad code cause you didn't know how to do it better, you don't have the time to scrap it and start over.
Or ship compiled static binaries.
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I'm still trying to find the time to complete Piketty's Capital, but one thing that I was surprised to learn from it thus far is that global population growth has a much greater impact on GDP growth than you might think. I'm loath to leave a comment like this without citing some of his data (not at my disposal, atm) but if I recall correctly, it's like more than half of GDP growth (roughly). As global population growth slows, and it is, invariably economic growth is going to slow down. It sounds like a common sense thing, but the numbers Piketty put on it were very surprising.
The tax only really affects landed immigrants who live and work in BC, and foreign capital investments in new developments as the Chinese speculators with billions who want to park money in Vancouver have already found ways around it because they can deposit millions to set up national corporations and have it do all the land holding/flipping. For example my sister who has lived here 30yrs with American citizenship will have to move to another province or back to the US if she sells her house since she will be eligible for the 15% tax buying a new place, on top of all the other existing taxes so is looking at +20% tax when her family outgrows their home.
I wanted to get this setup going a while back but I'm usually stuck on Windows for most of the day. I got Bash on Windows setup this weekend and I think I'm going to give it another shot.
Delta being down for four hours is not an issue of "systemic importance". Safety-related issues are already (and rightfully) publicly dissected, but it's hard to see what a post-mortem showing (what is likely to be) the interplay of a couple of subtle and individually benign problems which when hit by the power outage became a big issue will do much except enable a large chorus of armchair experts to pronounce on how this is obviously the fault of evil cost-cutting management/because they didn't use the cloud/because they used the cloud/fixed in the latest version of node.js.
It's like how some of my relatives immediately suspect a "virus" whenever they suffer any sort of computer failure. Nope, no malware, just typical buggy software.
Ah I see. The distinction wasn't clear until you brought it up. In that case, it makes sense
You don't need a post-mortem when you already know what the problem was.
Just to add my non-sociopathic agreement, a friendship based on mutual respect is probably stronger than one just based on strongly liking each other (which is what most people mean by love).

Without getting too philosophical, I would say mutual respect is a more sincere form of love, anyway, so there isn't much difference.
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The single most reasonable comment to this submission and it has been voted to the bottom. Can't upvote it enough, it's actually a shame for HN.
Except most of the 'stakeholders' don't give a fig for what the Engineers value. Like technical debt, robustness of the solutions, relieving bottlenecks both in code and in development.

So Engineers get herded into little incremental projects that management can swallow as having 'business value'. And the herd marches toward the cliff as the code base wanders around the solution space but never gets fundamentally sound. Anyway, that's my jaded (from experience) view.
> Her official title is US planetary protection officer

It's amusing that "US" has made it into her title, but it's pretty cool that there's a Prime Directive office.
Calling the Atlantic "the pond" is so cringe worthy. Why that ever caught on.