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by sitharus 13y ago
From a recent Gmail -> Fastmail switcher, who imported all emails from Gmail - Fastmail's UI is far faster to use, viewing emails is instantaneous, loading a folder with 30,000 emails takes a second at most. They have infinite scrol
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by sitharus 13y ago
Funnily the spam filter is what finally got me off Gmail. It developed a serious false positive problem with a couple of mailing lists I'm subscribed to - and yes the address was in my address book and all the other usual 'fixes&#
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by sitharus 13y ago
I've actually found Fastmail is better at spam filtering. I had a problem with many false positives on Gmail, but Fastmail is doing alright. You can configure the spam filter to be more aggressive as well.
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by sitharus 13y ago
I've always found Gmail reliable, but I've seen plenty of performance issues in the last year. I now have personal email on Fastmail and work on Google Apps. The difference is quite striking. It'll take a good 20 seconds befo
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by sitharus 13y ago
I have recently made the switch from Gmail to Fastmail as well, and I couldn't be happier. They don't have all the features (calendars are coming soon!), but they also don't have Google+. In my experience it's a lot fast
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by sitharus 13y ago
> > We know we have to take action and have begun a full investigation. While that’s ongoing, and effective immediately, the relevant founder has been put on leave, as has the referenced GitHub engineer. > Pretty much a full admiss
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by sitharus 13y ago
> In New York, it is illegal for you to rent out your apartment while you are gone. Pretty sure that's the reason. Also NY state has laws requiring a minimum stay in a property that isn't zoned as a hotel. In any case, if you b
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by sitharus 13y ago
If you try it in Safari with developer mode enabled it does tell you how to enable it
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by sitharus 13y ago
I just purchased a Toyota Yaris. The official figures for the 1.3L engine give 5.7L/100km for manual and 6.3L/100km for the automatic. Now in a high-end car with a sequential gearbox this is different, but for a small town car whe
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by sitharus 13y ago
Certainly not! However, its WTFs per minute count is far lower than MySQL. I started off my career as a PHP/MySQL developer. PostgreSQL is definitely years ahead of MySQL. It used to be that MySQL had far superior read performance for
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by sitharus 13y ago
I guess I should have put more than 10 seconds in to my first reply, but I totally agree. That's the hard part. Now I'm in a senior role I spend most of my time explaining what has to be done. All the hows and whys take a long tim
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by sitharus 13y ago
After 10 years in the industry I relate to that second paragraph far too well. What makes programming hard is that people who aren't programmers don't understand what we do.
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by sitharus 13y ago
Most bullies are power-tripping on the effect they have. Standing up to them is unexpected, they don't know how to react, and quickly back down. It's not worth the risk to put up a fight when you can just pick on someone else. It
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by sitharus 13y ago
malloc_size won't give you the size of the array though, it'll give you the number of bytes malloced. malloc is free to return any number of bytes, so long as it's at least the size requested.
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by sitharus 13y ago
As someone who recently bought, if the decision is an investment in housing vs an investment in other things don't buy a house! On the other hand, if what you want is a place to live that you can redecorate, remodel and change however
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by sitharus 13y ago
It really depends on the number of customers. If you have 1 million $10 customers and 10,000 have a problem the cost of losing their business isn't amazingly huge, especially as most of them probably won't switch vendors. When you
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by sitharus 13y ago
As a .NET developer, I can confirm this is the case with VS 2013.
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by sitharus 13y ago
Really? Name one non open-source company that will jump on forum threads and fix it, rather than just putting it in their internal bug tracker to investigate. I have a Logitech gaming keyboard. Their drivers are shockingly bad and freeze up
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by sitharus 13y ago
Odd, on my Mid 2012 rMBP a quick press does nothing. Doesn't bother me though, I've never accidentally hit the power button, but my normal typing position keeps that whole row of keys outside my finger range.
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by sitharus 13y ago
At home I have a NZ$150 single-boiler espresso machine and a $80 conical burr grinder. I buy 50g bags of coffee for $10 from the local coffee roaster, which works out to around $0.50 per coffee, around half the price of the nespresso pods.
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by sitharus 13y ago
They wouldn't wait, they'd preform an emergency re-entry on one of the Soyuz (there's normally two docked these days). Even if there was only one Soyuz the ISS can run automatically with the MCC controlling all functions for
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by sitharus 13y ago
My sources say the spacewalk finished early as Mastracchio was feeling unwell, the issue with the spacesuit was found after the EVA finished. Just remember that spacesuits are amazingly complicated devices. http://www.nasaspacefl
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by sitharus 13y ago
The symptoms are credible, but the NY Post is not. It's like claiming the Daily Mail knows what the real effects of immigration are in the UK.
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by sitharus 13y ago
It is amazing, but the diodes down my left side hurt all the time.
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by sitharus 13y ago
Ah, there's some classic Drepper. It's so easy when you get to vet every line of source and never have to worry about inexperienced or careless programmers. Personally I much prefer APIs that will fail safe until you know you need
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by sitharus 13y ago
This whole series has been fascinating. I've never had the inclination to write my own OS, but I love seeing what it entails.
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by sitharus 13y ago
In NZ, yes. Given how different contract and company law varies between countries, I doubt it's portable. Someone could adapt the idea though.
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by sitharus 13y ago
I signed up for 23andMe, got the results, had a brief chat to my GP. She said it's interesting, but only useful if you're looking for the source of a problem. Even my health insurance doesn't care, they only worry about diagn
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by sitharus 13y ago
It scares me that we now have 6 blade razors: http://www.dorcousa.com/sxa1000-6-blade-system-for-men/ I'll stick with a single blade.
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by sitharus 13y ago
There's a mild concern here, but it does rely on two things - having a known image and having it uploaded to a web service. Judging by the information in the article an original image wouldn't be matched, and it is in the ToS (goo

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