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by brongondwana 4y ago
By far the hardest part of that transition (at least for me!) is going from being able to create measurable impact on the order of days to most things taking months or years to create real change. As a coder, I could get a bug report, build
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by brongondwana 4y ago
I have also written a tar format extractor, which is still in use for the backup system at Fastmail: https://metacpan.org/pod/Archive::Tar::Stream It's capable of reading and writing tar files, and the big benefit
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by brongondwana 5y ago
To be fair, my "interview" for Fastmail was debugging a real production issue in realtime with one of the founders.
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by brongondwana 5y ago
Yeah, but at this point you're not left with many other options other than sticking your finger in the air and hoping you can detect if they know how to write code.
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by brongondwana 5y ago
Fastmail gave 1 month free service to about 2/3 of our customers after a major disk failure that led to about a week of downtime for them as we recovered from backups in... 2005ish I think. Long time ago - it was a pretty major hit an
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by brongondwana 5y ago
If they invent a cure and it's forgotten by future generations, then it is a failure. If their cure is remembered and passed on, then their memetic output is not lost, so they contributed - just not genetically. Sure genetic material
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by brongondwana 5y ago
Not strictly necessary, but neither is the dismissal of serious usability issues as "well actually, it's this way because of reasons" which basically boil down to "not designed with the kind of use-cases in mind that man
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by brongondwana 5y ago
Is there any data on how many people care about said promises as opposed to care about not having an actively hostile and prickly interface? Because I enjoyed tinkering with this kind of thing in my 20s, but in my 40s I just want something
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by brongondwana 5y ago
This sounds like an unpleasant UX. Am not compelled to try.
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by brongondwana 5y ago
The important mental change, and it's a real challenge - is to realise that your knowledge of how the system works in your head is cache rather than live data, and that you need to check the document for how to do it. So if you change
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by brongondwana 5y ago
There's also no such thing as a clean house, but there are certainly livable houses and painfully hard to live in houses...
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by brongondwana 5y ago
Laundering a pre-arranged plan, aka "brainwashing"
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by brongondwana 5y ago
Yeah, unfortunately that's exactly the kind of thing that a hacker would do upon getting access to an account. sigh .
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by brongondwana 5y ago
That's more for sending email. There's two APIs for sending: SMTP and JMAP. Both work completely fine, and have the same overall sending rate limits. We (Fastmail) are set up for human-to-human emails rather than bulk mailing, s
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by brongondwana 5y ago
Yeah, likely - I've answered a few tickets here and there :)
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by brongondwana 5y ago
If I set up a nice shopfront and invite customers in, and then start kneecapping everybody who walks through the door, you gonna bet the city will have something to say about it. I'm not kneecapping the city, just its citizens, so why
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by brongondwana 5y ago
The danger with this pattern is that it encourages overeating - stuff in the vegies so you get dessert as well, and wind up eating way more food than you need.
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by brongondwana 5y ago
Fastmail | https://www.fastmail.com/ | Multiple rules | Full-time | ONSITE | Melbourne AU and Phildelphia US At Fastmail, we’re bringing the human touch back to email. We have three email services, Fastmail email, Topicbox
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by brongondwana 5y ago
Agree - the really big providers are pretty good because you can get in contact with somebody who gives a shit at the other end and can fix things up. They do so much volume that they can afford somebody who cares about it. The really pain
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by brongondwana 5y ago
It's pretty bad - nobody is really doing it. On the plus side, since it's all pretty fresh - you can do things like "MUST be DKIM signed from an aligned reverse DNS" on IPv6 and have a chance of it working.
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by brongondwana 5y ago
> Have you memorized pi to nine significant places, or how did you even notice? Not the OP - but, yes. My memory runs to 3.1415926535 and gets a little fuzzy after that, I think it's 2949 or something without looking... hrm, nope;
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by brongondwana 5y ago
Australia is pretty good about allowing continuity once you're settled into a school if your parents move, so long as you didn't just move into the district for a few months to get into a school.
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by brongondwana 5y ago
Interesting... I gotta get back to Prague, it has been as couple of years now! Do you have children of your own in the school system? I found that my expectations didn't always match the reality either in Australia or in Norway when it
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by brongondwana 5y ago
Interesting. How do you decide which school a child goes to? Presumably there are limits on how many places are at each school, and you need some way to make sure that a child doesn't wind up with the only place left for them being o
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by brongondwana 5y ago
> so there is no such thing as a "good school district" Is this actually legit full true? It might be less of a gradient than other places, but in our two years in Norway our children went to two different public schools which
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by brongondwana 5y ago
I used to think as you outlined here, and then I realised that I would only care if they made a Third Reich comparison that I disagreed with. If they said Milo is literally Hitler, I'd... well, I would have been very confused because
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by brongondwana 5y ago
Unfortunately that last point is not strictly true so long as the mob can get their hands on the list of 24 people and then badger them to each make a public condemnation of the speaker or be assumed to be a wrongthinkist like the speaker,
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by brongondwana 5y ago
Like Fenchurch with Douglass Adams!
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by brongondwana 5y ago
My daughter is named after one of Vinge's characters! Big fan of his work.
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by brongondwana 5y ago
And of course it's all just JMAP under the hood! ["MaskedEmail/set", { "create" : { "k1" : { "state" : "enabled", "description" : "Hacker News", "url"

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