Let's say that "http://www.cocos2d-swift.org/" isn't that complete with content..

Very interesting read. As italian, I agree with our "exotic" gestures which follow the spelling of email addresses when it comes to 'chiocciola' (@)

At first sight I really thought it was somehow related to Apple..

Once upon a time, a feature called "Pagination"...

But you still use it. I remember the struggle for catching invites and then the magic happened. Never used any other account from that.

I had a Hotmail account back in the day, which was great, but switched to gmail pretty much day one (modulo timezone).

I remember quite a few acquaintances saying they would never switch to something like gmail because they wanted to have a 'real' address linked to a 'physical' service, so they used an account provided by their ISP. I wonder how many of them are still with the same ISPs.

> But you still use it.

Out of inertia. I'm 'decoupled' from GMail interface wise. Unfortunately, everyone knows my GMail address, but it's slowly getting transitioned to my personal domain.

Fastmail isn't free, but it has everything which made Gmail good in the first place. And since you're paying, you know email is the product and that you won't become collateral in a user-hostile Google+ like strategy.

For those interested in checking it out, feel free to use to use the following referral link while doing so.

http://www.fastmail.fm/?STKI=11413330

Obvious disclaimer: The link above is a referral link. I will benefit if you use it.

At the very least Fastmail is terribly fast :), which you immediately see when you're using their web interface. They keep hot and recent data on SSDs.

Also, since they actually implement IMAP correctly (they are one of the major contributors of the open source Cyrus IMAP server), things like MailTags work[1], whereas they don't on Google Mail.

The only thing that is missing are push notifications (e.g. via ActiveSync), but they are working on an app. In the meanwhile, using pushover is also an option.

They actually have a two month trial, so they're definitely worth trying out.

[1] http://www.indev.ca/MailTags.html

I moved from Gmail to Fastmail last month, and man is it nice. The import process smoothly pulled over 30K messages and folders over IMAP in a few hours. As an IMAP server behind iOS and Apple Mail, no problems at all, and their webmail UI is hands down the fastest cleanest Web app I've ever seen. Just stellar so far.

I have no knowledge of fastmail, but it's certainly possible to be both the customer and the product.

*Edit because of no markdown.

Not exactly ;-)

Many people used Hotmail (originally Hotmail) but many people also used Yahoo Mail (originally Rocketmail), which was generally as good or better.

Unfortunately for those people (eg me), Yahoo Mail is now unusably horrible while the new "Hotmail" is generally as good as Gmail and sometimes better. (The web interface is slower, but if you're concerned about speed then you're not using the web interface.)

It's a bit of a shame that outlook.com doesn't support CardDAV and CalDAV. But they do provide ActiveSync for mobile devices.

Perfectly agree with that. And that's exactly what I'm doing so far: working for someone could be useful for improve yourself not only in what you'd like to do: side projects will benefit from this, believe me. I noticed improvements event in terms of analysis of problem solving.

I absolutely agree with you! After 10 years of work I only realized in the last few ones that those things you listed are the only to care about. Personally I always try to learn and apply to new projects, and not giving over 100% makes me feel quite comfortable even in those difficult relations expressed in the main thread. It's really important when you work for a company for a long time: you may learn all the dynamics between your colleagues but you cannot avoid some kind of behaviours...

very well written and refreshing as others said. +1 absolutely!