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I use FastMail. For one FastMail offers email for your domain, which Gmail no longer does. FastMail has archiving, great search, and a superior interface. The Gmail interface is pretty bad IMO. It's cluttered with a lot of stuff that have nothing to do with email like:

1) A black navigation bar across the top that doesn't help with email.

2) 300px wide box across the top right dedicated to a social network no one uses (not email related).

3) A loading screen when the page first loads.

4) New mail compose window (no need for an explanation here).

5) Ads
Seconding Feedbin. Still missing a couple things (feed renaming...), but seems to work the best out of all the post-Reader RSS readers.
There are two types of Whey protein, concentrate and isolate.

Whey protein isolate is a more "pure" form or whey protein that does not contain lactose. Whey concentrate is cheaper, but does contain some lactose.

The site mentions that the formula is lactose free, so I imagine they are using Whey Isolate.
Two things are at play I think:

1) Very popular sites have lots of users rushing to submit anything they publish = a free upvote each time

2) Early upvotes are very important so if you can convince two or three people in your personal network you will get much more exposure
> I actually do use desktop calendaring software which will stop working this summer.

What's the software? Google CalDAV support isn't actually going away, it's just switching to a whitelist, so depending on your client, it should be fine. I don't know how that's going to work exactly (is it just an API key? how will that work with open source calendaring software like Lightning?), but if it's even moderately actively maintained software, it's likely that they've already applied for access.

> Google started by dropping XMPP invites under the questionable guise of spam protection (from the article)

Just FYI, they turned federation back on shortly afterwards. Of course, it's being dropped for the new chat system, but it's worth getting that right.

> Fastmail is owned by Opera Software and operates both free and paid tiers of service

As others have pointed out, there is no free tier, just a free trial. And if you're going to pay for it, I don't really see the difference between that and going full Google Apps, but that's just me. (edit: ah, apparently there used to be a free tier, but no longer)

Regardless, paying for the services you use is a good thing, both for getting better guarantees for service, and for teaching the market that ad-supported services aren't the end-all be-all, that we can have other business models, and maybe even a diverse market of them to support different uses and different requirements.
Personally, I closed my Google account when my CR-48 died. I don't think Google is evil, so much as they simply had too much information about me.

Still use Google for search, though.
Much of the Bay Area (and California in general) housing policy is best summed up as the ol' Republican "Fuck you, got mine" with a mild environmental gloss, combined with an inability to imagine building anything other than auto-dependent suburbia.
According to PrivCo [http://goo.gl/AW7GD], here are all the payouts of the 1,100 mn:

$286 mn: USV

$231 mn: Spark Capital

$253 mn: David Karp

$176 mn: Sequoia

$88 mn: Greylock, Insight Ventures, DFJ

$66 mn: Employees (6% of the 1,100 mn)

The math adds up to 71% of Tumblr being owned by VCs. Also Bloomberg reported that David Karp asked for as much stock as Yahoo would give him, because he sees himself working on Tumblr for the next few decades. It also reflects the sentiment that Marco Arment's blogpost yesterday expressed.

“This is something I’ve been building for the last seven years and hope employs me 30 years from now."
That's really Homebrew's problem. It's inappropriate for Homebrew to try to take complete ownership of /usr/local. That's what /opt is for.
You have to do things right away and do them very fast. When you get a new idea, it sounds good and you're excited about it. Fast forward a day or two, it doesn't seem like a good idea and you don't care so much.

There's a good book on the subject: http://executebook.com/
The assertion that Google tracks XMPP and uses it to target ads has no evidence.

Besides, use OTR with XMPP chat and it doesn't matter what the cloud provider says in their privacy policy.
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Oh. I must be here to tell you that things that are inflated can do only one thing next.. I spend half my life outdoors and even though 75D ripstop is more than most, I fear entropy will eventually have its way. Btw I use a corrugated egg box kind of thing.
I'd work on your marketing. Do you have a series of case studies explaining the benefits? Is their ROI calculated for them?

If you're providing them with that much value, maybe you just need to bring their attention to that value.

That goes double if this is a b2b.
I think Trevor's blog posts are some of the best I've seen. I always walk away knowing something I didn't. Excellent signal to noise ratio.
Sam,

Thanks for making a great product (was worried in the early days after the Reader meltdown that you wouldn't scale) into something worth paying for again and again. You're really turning NewsBlur into the one to beat and are making it easier to not miss Google Reader. One feature request: integrate Buffer :)
I have no doubt you can do a lot of powerful things with PHP, provided you have the experience and put in the man power + time. But this does not justify the use of PHP now (for new projects), it just means that if you happen to be stuck on PHP because of legacy code, you could make it work.
No, it's not evil to make or ask for money to use your product; it's not evil to discontinue services, especially not with 6-24 month advanced warning; and it's not evil to literally want to be the omnipresent center of everyone's lives. How exactly is Google evil?

Their resources have not stopped lesser alternatives from doing business, even with a core product (eg. search) of their's, so it's not that. DuckDuckGo is doing quite well with search; those conversations usually talk about quality and speed of results, not on how Google is the new Altavista and how you should switch before Google deprecates HTTP for GTTP.
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I completely agree with your sentiment.
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Just plug an xbox gamepad into the PC, most newer games will let you use it instead of keyboard/mouse (assuming it's a game that actually makes sense to play on a gamepad).
Pretty sure Dave blocks most people who disagree with him for the space of more than one tweet. People he already holds in high esteem before they disagreed with him might last slightly longer.
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Can the lower 1/3 be expected engage on the political front when they are a bit preoccupied with finding the income to pay rent and put food on the table? Perhaps pursuing austerity policies on government programs that increase income to the lower 1/3 helps check the revolution. Case in point, the Republicans -supposedly mortally opposed to taxes - did nothing to prevent the payroll tax increase at the end of 2012 from taking effect. An overwhelmingly regressive tax.
I was actually considering owncloud but there seems to be a lot of negative experiences.

Anyone know if its getting better/actively developed?
The founder needs a public speaking class. He talks like Dexter.
The founder has been doing this for 4 months and he is healthier than when he started. What makes you think this is a bad idea other than "waaahh they are not food scientists!"?
There is a component of that, but it's also dangerous to dismiss any negative feedback that way too.

Pro user since ~2005 here. I don't mind change in general, but I think the change they made here is definitely for the worse. Art needs space to breathe, and what they've done here is the equivalent of a photographic gallery plastering all the exhibited images in a wall-to-wall collage.

That sort of in-your-face layout may work for something like Facebook or Instagram, but not for something that is (was) meant to be for more serious photography.
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With Samsung trying to create their own ecosystem, you would think Google would be trying to make a Galaxy killer.
The notion of 30 year old websites seems incredibly alien to me, but I suppose there is no real reason why that should never happen.
Hm, I thought it did. Perhaps it used to. Thanks for the correction.

In terms of features, Fastmail does not do a good job of advertising its features. Just sign up for an account and check out the settings page. Its filtering is quite powerful, there's a SOAP API, and you can do stuff like automatically sort mail into folders. Eg, you could do me@bestbuy.kkinder.com and have it go into a "bestbuy" folder.
> They want to solve the entire world's food problem. Isn't that scale of vision why we're all here?

That's an amazing vision. Soylent shows little to no understanding of the actual problems of food security. There doesn't appear to be any research into the causes of food scarcity, or who is affected by food scarcity, or what a sensible solution would be.

Soylent glop doesn't seem to do anything to increase local independence. Where food could be grown and sold locally now people are importing a bunch of stuff from elsewhere.

Here are some people in Mogadishu selling food. (http://www.irinnews.org/Photo/Details/201207161308270312/Veg...)

How much Soylent does this child need? (http://pinterest.com/pin/278519558175219781/)

How do you get Soylent to the Democratic Republic of Congo?

What do you do when people don't have clean water?

Soylent have made a strong link between food waste and world hunger. They claim that waste here causes hunger there. That's clearly, blatantly, wrong.

I'm all for big ideas and thinking big, but so far this is either a cynical scam or brutally ignorant.
I was under the impression that the reason you hadn't done this already was lawyer fees.

So... find a tenant also interested and split the lawyer fees?
Agreed. Our testing at work has shown it to be fairly reliable.
YES! And Mail.app on OS X actually works better with FastMail's Archive than it ever did with Gmail's (in my experience).

Here's a screenshot from Mail.app: https://files.app.net/1/79773/aTOWGMJ-rQ2Js_Edg-CWLi5FsLEVYq...

I either never knew that existed when I tried Mail.app with Gmail or it didn't work. In any case, it works perfectly with FastMail's "Archive" folder.
So far these "talk to your TV" features haven't worked out, and is it really worth the (guessing) $300 premium over a $99 Apple TV? No doubt if there's a good way to do voice control on a TV, Apple's going to figure it out before Microsoft does.
"convinced that their special nature absolves them from social norms and responsibility."

Is it that they feel this way inherently (maybe) or that there are a large percentage of people that surround them, and/or stand to gain from them, that tolerate and allow that behavior?

My feeling is that people act the way they do because they can get away with it with little repercussions.

If you've ever dealt with a person with an anger problem you will see that many times when they deal with someone close to them they act one way (abusive) but with complete strangers they can be as sweet as pie because that person is the unknown and they aren't going to take a chance with a stranger who might react in a way to deny them what they want (of course yes there are those who act like total loose canons with everyone but most that I have observed tend to differentiate between degree of closeness).
nice. thx for this. was wanting to see some on the ground looks at what's goin on here.
> I actually do use desktop calendaring software which
> will stop working this summer.

Which software is that? If it's currently working with Gmail's CalDAV support, then it ought to continue working into the future. Google is not dropping support for CalDAV.

> I communicate with people via XMPP who are not on Talk.

This also ought to continue working. Talk is still based on XMPP, and server federation is still working.

If Google actually does shut down support for either of these open protocols, feel free to object as much as possible. I'll be right there beside you. But right now you're jumping from "Google might possibly drop support at some indeterminate point in the future" to "Google will definitely drop support in a month", which is not supported by evidence.
It's definitely being actively developed.
No, and it's really annoying. I have an "Archive" mailbox in my Fastmail account, and Mail on both OS X and iOS recognize it as special (they give it the same "archive" icon as a GMail account), but don't override the 'delete' function. I haven't found a Radar for it, but I imagine that many of same have been closed as "works as designed".
For an OSS self-hosted e-mail appliance, I've been using iRedMail. It's built on dovecot/postfix with a decent management interface for free. I run it on Ramnode for 2 bucks a month with no other costs. Works fine.
It's been sorted for a while. I've been using it for months, but if you wanted access to it, you had to either pay for it, or build it from source (I want the latter route).
Yes, it has Archive.
If you think that a sample of 1 is enough to validate the safety of this substance, then you need to just stop commenting on this article. You have absolutely no idea how science works.
Actually, no, they abandoned that convention. The PS2 slim's official name is the PS2. It just has a different part number.
>>What's "metabolically disadvantaged"? Are you suffering from a medical condition for which no satisfactory diet (in the proper sense of the term) has been developed?

In the vast majority of cases, "metabolically disadvantaged" means "lazy and sedentary" without actually taking the responsibility for it. It's similar to blaming one's obesity on "genetics" or "body shape" or being "big-boned." (The last one is especially funny. Guess why your bones are big. It's because they have to carry all your fat!)
Yes, there is an archive button. There is a difference, mail in Fastmail is in traditional IMAP folders and don't use tags as folders, I assume that you just tell the mail client not to download the archive folder.
Wow, 4 months really is a long time! I always thought drug companies were slow testing new drugs out for years!

He is healthier than when he started? By what metric and for how long will that last?
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the 2nd edition of by the bottle is out on iphones and ipads and when in landscape mode is in chinese - and in english in portrait mode - how cool
I seem to recall it not offering things like CalDav and CardDav.
And Benjamin Franklin was a printer, but he still invented the lighting rod and bi-focals.
Are you hearing what you are saying? One person with a vested interest said it works...therefore it must be good? Do you buy stuff from infomercials?
Erm, literally a few pixels under the Yubikey entry: https://www.fastmail.fm/help/login_google_authenticator.html
> I use FastMail. For one FastMail offers email for your domain, which Gmail no longer does.

I'm 100% certain Google lets you get Gmail for your domain. You have to pay for it (but you have to pay for FastMail), and you get other services alongside Gmail, but it certainly exists.
do you think that 4 months is an adequate time scale to know all the effects of switching to this type of "diet"? humans have been eating whole foods for ~100k years.
People online have tended to be more abrasive to total programming novices than to people who have more advanced questions. I don't think it would be that bad for you. But another thing is that, for large and old communities where the developers aren't hanging around, people on IRC aren't necessarily going to be experts who know more than you. Those people have better stuff to do, by virtue of their skill.

I personally think that I've picked up very useful "learning skills" because I have my own social reasons for answering technical questions without outside help. So maybe your exhaustion might also be a benefit for this reason.
FastMail removed their Guest account tier a couple of months ago. [1] Existing accounts (I have one of those) were grandfathered in, though.

[1] http://blog.fastmail.fm/2012/10/18/changes-to-fastmail-servi...
I had the same experience, this time around I'm going to give it an extended try and hopefully it will be worth parting with some cash for.
> After reading through the ingredients being used in Soylent none of them seem particularly life threatening

It's not what's in this product, it's what this product is purported to replace. I don't see anything inherently harmful in a wooden frame until it's marketed as a drop-in replacement for reinforced steel construction.

This product is being marketed as an alternative to food.
It's a great example. Cars started out needing much more maintenance than they do now, but they're steadily getting better, and so should food.
Um. One data point does not a "normal" make.
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It would be really great if somebody wrapped up all the open source material available and made an image available to AWS and other VPS users. Use the image, have email, an XMPP server, etc -- out of the box. On your own dime.

I'd pay for it.
Yes! That's the brand name. I remember the logo!
OT: great typography and design on this page.
It may yet not be there for most (not necessarily because of inherent nutrient-biology issues but because of lack of long term testing) but it will be a damn good alternative for a few hundred million across the world:
http://southasia.oneworld.net/news/food-shortage-forcing-chi...
I agree that email is scary and downright complicated, but it is definitely not an unreasonable task.

I've set up a few mailservers mostly through manual changes to the configurations and if you just need something simple and secured with SSL/TLS, it's not too bad. From my experiences, the only major headache is how intricate you want your user and password configurations to be.
Honestly, I'd question whether you've hit product market fit yet. That might sound bad, but just consider it an opportunity. Lots of products start here and go on to make (b|m)illions

The best thing you can do here is talk with some customers that you don't personally know and aren't connected with. Tell them you're going to give them 3 months free in exchange for a frank conversation about how they use your product and what they actually value.

That will guide you.
I think it is much less than 6 hours. Like 30 mins or so.
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Eh, there are just more gamers now than there were before so there's a lot of money to be made by targeting the huge mainstream audience.

If you want more interesting games there's no shortage of stuff from indie developers or even AAA devs who are not EA and co. Including almost ridiculous numbers of "new retro" games. That market hasn't shrunk (if anything it's larger) it's just now a smaller proportional piece of an overall larger pie.

Plus if you wait for Steam sales you can get games so cheap (often 50%+ off) that you don't really need preowned games.
> For one FastMail offers email for your domain, which Gmail no longer does.

You're still able to get a free one-user Google Apps for Domains account by going through Google App Engine. [1] I've used it to get catchall email addresses for any new domains I've recently registered.

[1] http://lifehacker.com/5967336/use-google-app-engine-to-get-g...
Yes actually. You can go to the store and buy high-fiber cookies with images of people doing Yoga on them. You can go to a McDonalds and read how their chicken burgers are low-fat and fit in a healthy diet and you can buy Red Bull whose commercials constantly claim it improves focus and cognition.

Not to mention all the 'regular' non-fast preprocessed food people all over the world believe to be fitting for a regular diet.
You are right. Why can't more high-rise condo projects get going on the peninsula? Is it b/c of earthquakes? Why not build lots or hi-rise condos along the bart/cal-train corridor?
> After reading through the ingredients being used in Soylent none of them seem particularly life threatening

Please, stop commenting on things you clearly do not understand. Human biology and nutrition is a tad more complicated than creating an iPhone fart app. There's a lot more to nutrition than examining a list of ingredients.
I'm severely tempted to join and start trolling these jerks.
There's no reason why it wouldn't work. If a multivitamin works then this works too.
Hopefully, we will have layers of safeguards so you would need bugs in many programs to conspire allow a problem happen. For example, even on my personal laptop, I can play around with fan/CPU_speed without worrying about making a potential mistake, even if I am playing around with them in kernel space. The reason for this is I know that even if I make a mistake that would melt my CPU, the BIOS is also monitoring the temperature and, if nessasary, will scale back the CPU to minimum, kick the fan up to maximum, and possibly power off the machine.

Granted, I could disable these protections, however then we go from me having a "oopsie", to me having disabled critical safety features.

Note, I'm not sure how much the BIOS actually overrides the kernel. I was able to override the BIOS safties just by passing in some parameters to the Linux kernel. However, you could imagine a system where such would not be an option.
...opportunities for start-ups to exploit to gain a foothold against the likes of DropBox, Google Drive, SkyDrive, ect...

One could almost read your wording to have said, "...opportunities for start-ups to do something that the likes of DropBox, Google Drive, SkyDrive, ect wouldn't allow you do and likely won't ever allow you to do." The problems of going against these behemoths is that no company will trust you over them, which means you'll have to fight for B2C. Which is fine, except that Google and the others are marketing the crap out of that to their email customers all day long. That's the 'wrong row to hoe' as they say.

So back to the "interpretation" of what you said - the only opportunities that I can see are serving content that the big guys won't touch: porn, piracy, encryption, etc. But that puts you square in the middle of two groups: aggressive law enforcement types and "unethical" groups of others. That's just not a place I'd want to be.
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Google used to support openness, and now it is being less open, and therefore less "good". A step in a direction that is less "good" is a step towards "evil". It's not unreasonable to say that Google is being more evil.

It's not a stretch to say that Google can't be trusted not to be evil if they've moved in a more evil (or less good) direction.
Thanks for pointing out some of the finer details on pet food, very informative.

Still, my basic point still stands, that our pets do just fine on essentially a single source of food. Why would it matter if it was blended into a glop? My cat has food allergies so he's been fed a single high-quality hypoallergenic food for over 3 years now. It stopped his excessive itching, made his fur softer, and he generally shows all signs of being very healthy according to the vet. I'm sure all the lab research contributed to the cat food's effectiveness and it would be great to see the same happen with Soylent.
Thanks for the tip. I don't have case studies or even testimonials yet, so that may be hurting me. This is what my sales page looks like: http://cl.ly/image/1a21191A2U16
In fairness, we are going to die either way.
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