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Since the 1990s, IMAP (an open standard with hundreds of implementations covering virtually all platforms) has allowed you to access all of your mail, from anywhere, on whichever device you want.

You don't have to use just one IMAP client, you can use many clients, just as you might use several different web browsers or text editors. They all access the same mail store, and the message state (read, flagged, replied to, etc) is synchronized among all the clients (this is what the IMAP protocol is for).

On a decently powerful computer, searching is typically faster than any online service, including Gmail (though it depends on the mail client).

Thunderbird's search is fairly poor. On OS X, I mainly use MailMate and Apple's default Mail.app client software. Both of these can search through my 500,000-message email archive (all my personal email in/out since 1995) much faster than any online service I have seen.

With a dedicated mail client, you can also have all your mail without being online -- to me, this is essential for working on international flights.

Being able to use multiple standards-based clients also lets you avoid keeping all your eggs in one basket. You can use the best client on each platform that suits you.

I only ever use Thunderbird on Windows, where there are not many good email clients. OS X, Linux, iOS, and Android all come with better (for my needs, YMMV) email clients than Thunderbird.

Finally, IMAP is a real standard with a huge body of work behind it. I look forward to even better standards emerging, e.g. something like JMAP[1] maybe, but for now we do have IMAP, and it solves every single problem that web-based email solves (indeed there are many webmail UIs that give you online browser access to your IMAP email store). But with native clients you also gain several advantages over typical webmail service from Gmail, AOL, Hotmail, etc.

Plus no ads.

[1]: http://jmap.io
Oooh. List mode alt-tab looks interesting. One of the features still keeping me on WindowMaker is the fact that I can pin windowlists, which makes tracking down a specific window (across multiple desktops) far easier.

And after WindowMaker, xfce remains my preferred full-desktop environment. I like that it's avoided the feature-bloat and power-user hostility of GNOME and KDE.
I haven't used Linux for a few years now (KDE was always my go-to GUI), but after reading this article[1], I've decided to go back.

What is the hot new Linux distro on the block? Elementary OS? Tails? Steam OS?

[1] https://medium.com/backchannel/why-i-m-saying-goodbye-to-app...
Bitcoin is not viable. A centralized fiat crypto currency, with the same mechanism as bitcoin except centrally authorized by government authority rather than mined is very viable for a government. All transactions become trackable and every cent in circulation can be accounted for.
> Congrats on 4.12! Hopefully it'll be in Debian jessie soon...

Isn't it too late to be included in Jessie? As an XFCE + i3 user anxiously awaiting Jessie in stable, I'd be very happy to hear that it'll be included, but I thought all major packages had been frozen already.
it is community developed.
Yes Splice uses Go for everything backend related (web APIs, file parsers/decoders, audio processing) AngularJS for the frontend, ObjC & C#, C & C++ for native desktop/mobile apps.

We are always looking for talented backend engineers to join our exceptional team.
It inevitably breaks and freezes up in VS2013 (haven't tried VS2012), particularly when defining screen transitions.
> But my takeaway was that it's better to define your own passion projects and make it work than to be someone else's mercenary.

That's the beauty of being able to set your own price! You can increase your hourly rate/project estimates until some clients will decline, and then spend the free time to work on your own project.
It took me some getting used to it, though, because losing out on a project feels like a defeat, even when it isn't.
We did our best to build something both readable and extensible, borrowing the syntax of numpy, matlab and scikit-learn:

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Doing so within a rack might be quite handy.
You do know that there's a negative interest rate in the Euro financial zone right? They are charging you to hold on to cash to force you to spend (or "invest") it now.

How can the future hold value when technology continues to drive the cost of living down? Can capitalism continue when I have all of the world's information available on my $300-700 smartphone? When I can connect with anyone in the world for pennies?
The rumors of thunderbird's death are exaggerated.

https://blog.mozilla.org/thunderbird/2014/11/thunderbird-reo...
Well first off you can serve thousands of phones with attenuated signals with reasonable speed.

Also I guess you can run at SSD speeds over local wireless.

Things like wireless monitors/TV are already doable.
Manjaro looks pretty cool.
Yes, my favorite chocolate cake ever was vegan (from The Green Planet in Houston, an incredible but now defunct vegan restaurant). But, I've never been able to make one that good. I'm not saying it can't be done, just that I haven't gotten it right yet.

Brownies, on the other hand, are a nightmare to veganize, for me. It may have to do with the kind of brownies I like, and it may just be that I've had enough bad luck that now my baking mojo is broken for making brownies. I've tried three batches in pretty quick succession, using quite different seeming recipes, and they all turned out awful; and awful in roughly the same way in all cases. Kinda like overly oily fudge, with some flour mixed in just to make it even more gross. I'm not sure, honestly. I've not tried it again lately, but will eventually. I love a good brownie. But, I was so disheartened by the first several attempts, that I've been avoiding it.

And, I can't think of a really good vegan brownie that I've ever eaten, and I know some quite good vegan cooks, and tend to frequent vegan restaurants and bakeries while traveling.
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Presumably. There's always backports...
I'm curious to give it a shot at work and see how it copes with large inboxes / mail rates.
YMMV, but I eat low-carb (I wouldn't call it either paleo or Atkins) because it's the most effective way I've discovered for me to lose weight. I do it 'cause it's the only thing that doesn't make me hungry and makes me lose weight.
All roads lead to Rome.

I assume this article was posted because it was mentioned in XKCD[0] , which also ends on the grape plasma tangent.

[0]: https://what-if.xkcd.com/131/
Would you not preauthorize the card again right before shipment? What if their card is no longer valid, closed, or is past their credit limit?
Recently moved into a house without a microwave, but we do have a toaster oven, so it evens out. I often wish I had a teeny tiny microwave to melt a stick of butter quickly though.
C's strength is all the ways you can't blow your foot off.
Is there a purpose to this comment, or are you just mining downvotes now?
Remember http://distrowatch.com/ was the place to go look at recent distros.

I used to be a distro geek, test all kinds of various ones, various window manager, twiddle driver settings and all.

Now just use Ubuntu for the last 7 years and like it. It just lets me get the work done.
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SteamOS is only made for Gaming though. You can go back to desktop mode but nothing's really added versus Stock Debian there.

I'd recommend Mint, they use Cinnamon as their Windows Manager and it's pretty cool.
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amdahl%27s_law Making one input cheaper has limited benefits. Sure all your digital entertainment might get really cheap, but your still going to want heat, food, and a bed etc.

Anyway, 'finance' is more or less a meaningless part of the economy. Print more money and the nominal GDP goes up except that does not build a house etc. MMO's are an interesting way to study a lot of this stuff, and even there deflation does all kinds of bad things.

PS: My entertainment budget has been close to zero for a while now spening less on entertainment is not going to effect me much.
I've not attempted it, but my understanding is that the secret ingredient in vegan chocolate cake is vinegar.
> Give them quotes per project or part of project, not per day, or heaven forfend by the hour.

But if you do this, definitely have a strategy for when the project explodes, or when a client keeps asking for "just one more little fix" for months. I tend to summarise every new project (usually discussed over the phone) in an email, so that I can refer to what is and what isn't part of the quote later. I wonder if it comes across as lawyer-y, though.
Agreed. Same with the comment about using "chemicals".
I would recommend always using Ctrl+F when trying to search in a mail/page/document, in any software. Have ran over few places where that didn't work.
Wow, good article.

In a way (from a financial point of view), going to medical school is taking a bet. If you end up in certain well paid specialties (dermatology, radiology, etc), you can have a remarkable salary without a bad work schedule. Emergency medicine is also a good choice. Problem is, you have to go through med school and run up that debt before you know if you'll be getting one of those residencies.

While the article is positive about nursing and PA, I actually think the article underplays the possible compensation in these fields. Check out US News Best Jobs and look at compensation for nurses and Pas in high cost regions. In SF, the median salary for nurses is $127,670 a year! PA's tend to make a bit more. Certain nursing specialties (such as anesthesiology) are also very well compensated, often above GP physician levels, though these specialties do require a lot of training. Actually, in SF dental hygienists earn at the median 112k a year.

Just for comparison, software developers at the median in SF earn 114k a year.
I had heard that there were many Japanese folks working in Patisseries in France, but I was surprised to read that in that one it was mostly run by a full Japanese staff! What's the Chef doing ?
The central European (Belgian, German, Dutch, Swiss, Czech, etc) also make amazing cakes and pastries.
Remember that Spock is half-human, and tends to be at his most compelling as a character when he is struggling with his two halves.
i actually think this is a good idea -- wouldn't it encourage people to save money, if the government can't deflate it away, as many do, today?
> The owners are French, so I go there to touch-up my language skills, order a montainard

Just a small correction since you are into French, it's spelled Montagnard.
I'll go as far as Belgium (and only the french speaking part of it, la Wallonie as well as Brussels), but German and Dutch cakes, seriously ? Their cakes are horrible (and they know it).
120 W? I thought sunlight was more like 1 kW (but perhaps not much of it in 428-750 terahertz?).
I enjoyed Gnome 2 as well, back on Debian 5 and 6. Did you try MATE (http://mate-desktop.org/)? It's an active fork of Gnome 2.
Actually, the fact that young Spock was an outcast was already established by the early '70's thanks to the animated series’ episode “Yesteryear”, written by D. C. Fontana. For the most part, this was only episode of that series that was considered canon until ST: Enterprise incorporated more of that series into official lore.
http://jobs.splice.com/ has nothing listed for backend

where should i reach out?
hmmm... seems to me your reasoning rests on the reasoning of Keynes?

what if Keynes is wrong?
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Good article, although his use of the word "chemicals" as a negative is pretty silly. Particularly, in this sentence "Fermentation and curdling involve hundreds of chemical reactions that produce a multitude of complex flavor compounds with a depth that can't be replicated by chemicals."
You don't need or want Bitcoin in that model - the whole point of Bitcoin is that it's decentralised and all transactions are trackable by all parties (but not necessarily destinations). A government would just want essentially our current bank account system, except without paper cash.
That'll probably happen sooner or later.
I'm aware atheism isn't a doctrine - I said within atheism. Albeit said with an annoying double-word typo. :/

Anyway, if you don't think 'freethinker' is linked to atheism, throw the word into google and skim the results.
perhaps this is what they are actually talking about -- creating their own cryptocurrency. how would they prevent people from across the world from creating Greek Bitcoin? perhaps this would crete (I almost corrected that typo, but I'll leave it there haha) a strange secondary market whereby people not in greece mine bitcoin, and then sell it to ordinary Greeks for some fractional rate?
In my mind the big selling moment was the "free weekend" during alpha that occurred because of a bug with the auth servers. He just decided to make the game free until it was fixed. During that time, it got a decent amount of publicity on reddit and tons of people got hooked. Come time that the auth servers were fixed, everyone bought the game instantly.
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A quick google shows an Xfce blog post from November stating that it won't make it in, as the Jessie freeze had already passed. I had no idea! But as a sibling says, hopefully it'll make it to backports.
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I have used http://www.phpsh.org/ for years.
I had exactly the same reaction as well.
What are your reasons for preferring Xamarin? I've been meaning to try it out but have not gotten around to it
We don't actively advertise this position, maybe we should. You or other candidates should feel free to contact me at matt/at/splice.com and dont forget to attach your challenge solution.
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The definition of a crater has nothing to do with climate change.

I thought there was some "interesting" conspiracy theory thatI'm not aware of about how we are being bombarded from outer space but it's being covered up.
I'm so sad to say this is looking worse for every release. And by looking, I mean looking. I'm starting to think this is going to be just as unbearingly ugly as the current iterations of GNOME and KDE in a few versions. It might be getting more functional, but I don't know.

Xfce was the option I was so happy to have. It used to be a no frills, minimalistic (but not conceptually minimalistic) interface that simply did the job. Now the interface is getting more complicated and innovative. More complicated designs requires better designers, and they don't seem to be around except for in the Elementary OS community.

I haven't looked into MATE yet, perhaps I'll do that.
The same way they currently work in a system everyone gets burned by? The main benefits of the current system from my perspective are that fraud detection algorithms are really good now, in the cases of credit card fraud the CC companies usually just credit back the stolen amount to the customer (which unfortunately hurts sellers since buyer fraud is still common), and when events like $300m-$900m getting stolen from banks happen, the overall system generates so much profit that it mostly gets swept under the rug and the average person isn't hurt. (FDIC helps too.) Despite all these benefits, the elderly are still routinely scammed out of money. (Some reports suggest increasingly.)

I haven't heard anything about outright bitcoin thefts from privately owned wallets with a password protecting them, but then again I don't follow bitcoin too closely. The typical drama I hear is an exchange shutting down (why would the elderly have their btc on an exchange when their bank account funds aren't on an exchange?) and occasionally someone's unencrypted wallet backup on a compromised server being taken. There was also the issue with the android wallets a while back generating insecure keys. I'm not convinced the elderly would lose any more than they already do on average given they're using bitcoin (which I think they're fully capable of using if they're already using online payment systems). Anyway this is kind of a fruitless discussion for this instance. Grandmas don't use MEGA.
Have you tried fluxbox? Did XFCE offer something beyond fluxbox?
If you use lvm snapshots (which are very well documented in the arch wiki), you can try horrible system-destroying changes and just roll back if you don't like it or want to have another go. I had a lot of fun doing that when I first tried arch.
Linus Torvald disagrees. (His best argument for using C over C++ is to keep the people who prefer C++ over C at bay.)
Just like they are still writing new COBOL.
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A certain video comes to mind: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVkLVRt6c1U
I like them---but perhaps I've lived in Britain for too long. Everyone else's food seems good in comparison.
No, I mean, I actually searched for "open house" in quotes. (I tried the terms without quotes as well, but when that first set of results turned up useless I tried the quotes).

The results were literally what I describe, just a random sample of emails from the last few years. I keep using the search hoping I get something useful returned, and even when I do things like put in exact phrases I know are in the message, I get a random pile of junk back.

I should just learn my lesson and stop trying to be honest.
What is "scary dangerous" about a switch in the kettle that isn't about a switch at the socket?
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You can receive the texts when you are anywhere in the world.
I don't think the OP has a problem figuring out how to try a new DE. The question was whether it's worth it. The nuanced answers of users with considerable experience is more valuable (IMHO) than just firing up Xfce for a session or two.
"Find me any company that doesn't have a difficult time sourcing well-qualified Rails developers, or experienced JavaScript experts. There is huge demand, not enough supply"

My problems with this statement is that you didn't mention pay or working conditions. Are they hiring for general talent, offering 200k a year with a nice private office? Are they offering 100k, forcing people to work in a loud open office where everyone can see your screen, requiring that you live in SF where the median priced house is over a mil, and demanding immediate plug and play developer with a a very narrow specialty skill set? I mean, they say they can't hire, but doesn't that mean they can't hire at the price they think they should get to pay?

I do agree with you that one shouldn't conclude a person isn't high talented in software if he or she doesn't have a grad degree. Obviously there are ludicrously talented developers who don't have grad degree, or even any degree of that matter. Software is like that.
I use outlook.com - it's good for an email website.
But I think you're mis-characterizing this specific instance of the blocklist ping as "covert, opt-out surveillance" and the arguably fairly readable privacy policy as "legalese small print".

For a long time, I didn't even know Thunderbird had a privacy policy, and I've been using it for years. Why would anyone expect software they installed locally to need one? Thunderbird is a mail client, so why would they expect it to send data to anyone other than e-mails to their chosen recipients? And even if they knew the privacy policy existed, did anything suggest to them that they might want re-read that policy to find these changes when they were added? I assume the details were also on display in my local planning department in Alpha Centauri.

Incidentally, if you're reading this and thinking that I'm naive and/or over-reacting, you might want to stop and consider the company you're keeping. What other types of people use software that does things the user doesn't expect, collect data without advertising it, and make arguments about implied consent, the relevant disclosure being available somewhere hardly anyone will ever look, or how it's all done to improve the user's experience somehow? How many of those people do most of us like?

In any case, from both a practical and probably a legal perspective, anything that is not actively presented to a user is the electronic version of small print at best. You can rationalise this as much as you like, but the facts are:

1. Thunderbird is phoning home.

2. The user is not informed of this explicitly.

3. The user is certainly not actively giving their consent.

4. This still appears to be the case even if the user has explicitly opted out of sending telemetry when the software was first installed.

IMHO, any such policy is indefensible in 2015 if you want to be taken seriously as an organisation that protects privacy. This particular behaviour may be a minor infraction, but it's the general principle (and, frankly, your enthusiasm for defending it) that is of greater concern.

Edit:

the risk to the user of rogue plugins/extensions was and continues to be serious. (Plugins probably more than extensions; Thunderbird tends to pick-up all the plugins that Firefox would see and most adware/malware implementors seemed otherwise unconcerned with Thunderbird.)

WTF??!! Thunderbird is apparently automatically running a whole bunch of plug-ins that I only installed for Firefox and have long ago set (in Firefox) not to run automatically, or in some cases that I didn't even voluntarily install at all. None of these things have any business being in any sort of e-mail client at all. When and how the [multiple expletives deleted] did this happen? I thought you (generic 'you') were concerned about someone installing an extension that had a buggy update and caused a hang on start-up or something. The idea that someone could send, say, an HTML e-mail with something like Flash/Java/Silverlight embedded in it and have it run by default is moderately terrifying.
> Find me any company that doesn't have a difficult time sourcing well-qualified Rails developers, or experienced JavaScript experts. There is huge demand, not enough supply

If any of that were true, wages would be going up, wouldn't they? Is there any company that couldn't hire someone by paying higher wages? Why are developer wages absolutely flat?

I find that the supply of brain surgeons for $10,000/year is quite limited. There's huge demand for brain surgeons at $10K, and not enough supply of brain surgeons willing to work for that wage. We've had the job ad ("Brain Surgeon Wanted: $10K/year") posted on Monster for months. Whatever shall I do? If only there was some solution.
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Does that mean I can legally make digital copies of the infringing book?