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I used to pay for a subscription, but I canceled it because I was using it for two hosts only. They are now offering a subscription for 20 dollars, which I think is very expensive considering the two hosts I need.

Oh, well. Time to move on.

To me it's really a matter of symmetry. Having lines of code that do similar things look aligned is readable and beautiful.

Hence in Ruby, for example, I love how the "case" statement makes it easy for several conditions to be aligned:

  case
  when a == 0
  when b == 0
  end

In C++, "a == 0" and "b == 0" don't align:

  if (a == 0)
  {
  }
  else if (b == 0)
  {
  }

Now imagine that on a much wider scale. With variable-width fonts the only thing that would ever align would be the beginning of lines. A visual nightmare that affects readability.

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This article was very relevant to me. I've been writing bash script for so many years, yet I didn't know you could just "set -u" to make bash stop when I accidentally use an uninitialized variable. "set -e" is also incredible useful (bash quits if any statement fails).

When you have bytecode, you have programs that run using them. I understand how these are a good thing in fonts or in PDF, but what is running i this ACPI machine the author described?

Once again, people's productivity is not linked with their salary. There are better ways to encourage them to increase the quality of their output, while making them happier.

28,000 questions? Isn't that a bit of an overkill? Their claims would be much more credible if they had taken their questions from a smaller set.

I'm not an iOS user, but doesn't it sound a bit unprofessional for them to write such post on their main blog? Won't it piss off iOS users, who are not responsible for Apple's bad practices?

I think such rants should indeed be made public, but maybe there was a better outlet for FastMail to do that.

I use org-mode extensively, and personally I don't experience any of the problems the author mentions.

I agree wholeheartedly. I'm a paid customer, I'm loving the service (support too), and this is the only thing keeping me from telling people how great FastMail is.