I have multiple Google accounts + one Fastmail account, and I use IMAP and TB3.x with them all. The Fastmail + one of the Googles have about 10,000 emails each. I didn't notice any issues at all when I first fired TB up and it ran the sync. No issues thereafter either. I do find it odd that sync is turned on by default though. I'd have expected at least a "do you want to sync now" pop-up at some time.
The only problem that I've had with it is a bug where, if using the TB "secure" password container, it asks me for about 100 passphrases for it on startup despite the fact that the first one I give it is the correct one. This only happens on one machine though so go figure. Nevertheless, if webmail clients all had skins as beautiful as GMail Redesigned I wouldn't use a local client at all.
I'm an old techie too, old enough to have once been hacking out device drivers on 16 bit cpus. The bad news is that the industry has gone to hell since your last experience in it. Remember how you were practically revered by non-tech people for the magic you could do with those machines? How you made almost as much as the suits? Well, no more, the vast bulk of developers are just commodities now. And as another poster remarked, companies seem to want fresh n00bs right out of school who can do a seemingly passable job and are willing to work for nothing.
Oh, and remember working independently, doing things from A-Z your way and doing it fast and well? You can forget that too, developers today are pretty much harnessed together to the same wagon via a "software development methodology". Every few days it will spit out a morsel of work for you to program and you'll get another one when you're done. Welcome to the machine.
Pretty much the only fun place to work anymore is at a start-up and good luck getting a gig at one of those if you've got a gray hair on your head. Now the GOOD news is that programming is just as damn fun as ever, more fun than back in the dark ages. There are a lot more interesting languages to choose from. The more popular (lucrative, corporate) ones such as Java and C# share much of their syntax with C.
My recommendation however, if you don't need to make $ ASAP, is to get going with a so-called scripting language. They're just plain FUN! I love programming in Python but Ruby would a reasonable choice for you as well. Your main tool will just be a text editor of some sort, no compiler, no virtual machine runtime. If you feel the need there's good IDE support for interpreted languages these days. And don't think that these languages are toys. They power a whole lot of commercial and OS applications
I find that the best way to approach what seems to be a challenge is to find a way to make it fun rather than a grind. Exercise is the same way. If you hate the gym and those treadmills, just go for a relaxing five mile walk every evening. If you want to get hip to programming again, pick a lightweight, FUN scripting language, get an intro book to get started with, and you're off to the races.
Right on, I'm from the east coast & my quaffing experience has vastly improved since coming to the left coast. But in my experience the goodness is not limited to the PNW - CA has some very good breweries too. Lagunitas, Anderson Valley, Stone, Lost Coast. There's something about the hops I think.
Mmmm Lost Coast Indica IPA.
But yes, our mugs runneth over with primo brew in WA/OR.
Yep, I've got a very Conservative (read "staunch Republican") friend who's all about "do what it takes to keep up my standard of living, including vast personal wealth, and let's not worry about this environmental nonsense". In fact, he outright blames environmentalists for causing this disaster. He claims that if there weren't these environmental regulations that we have, the oil companies could be drilling on land or near offshore, hence our environmental horrors are all government's fault, too much regulation. Similarly of course, the financial crash was *caused* by the SEC and government regulation. Basically regulation that might cause some sort of degradation in his lifestyle, even if minor, he hates. But generally he's OK with regulation that *directly* helps him, like drug safety laws, although I'm sure he thinks these are too extreme and probably cut into corporate profits and "innovation" and therefore are undesirable in that way. Recently my area banned phosphate detergents because it was causing hell with algae blooms downstream from the sewer plant. He went on and on about the evil of the regulation when it merely affected the brand of dishwashing detergent he had to buy at Costco. He fussed that it wouldn't wash his dishes as well as the polluting stuff. Not that he'd tried it of course. The ban was just ipso facto evil to him, simply because it *was* a government regulation, environment be damned.
I don't know how many people in the population are like this. But the "Conservative" camp, which is huge, seems to be full of them. His kind makes me want to vomit.
Funny you call them "Flatlanders". I grew up in VT and we called Them that too. We groused about their rudeness, driving incompetence, and their fondness for buying all the real estate in the state thereby driving prices up beyond what natives could afford. My town had/has a population of around 12K and it must have passed the anonymity mark because in general you didn't know other people around town unless they were related to you, you worked together, or you lived in the same commune.
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I have multiple Google accounts + one Fastmail account, and I use IMAP and TB3.x with them all. The Fastmail + one of the Googles have about 10,000 emails each. I didn't notice any issues at all when I first fired TB up and it ran the sync. No issues thereafter either. I do find it odd that sync is turned on by default though. I'd have expected at least a "do you want to sync now" pop-up at some time. The only problem that I've had with it is a bug where, if using the TB "secure" password container, it asks me for about 100 passphrases for it on startup despite the fact that the first one I give it is the correct one. This only happens on one machine though so go figure. Nevertheless, if webmail clients all had skins as beautiful as GMail Redesigned I wouldn't use a local client at all.
I'm an old techie too, old enough to have once been hacking out device drivers on 16 bit cpus. The bad news is that the industry has gone to hell since your last experience in it. Remember how you were practically revered by non-tech people for the magic you could do with those machines? How you made almost as much as the suits? Well, no more, the vast bulk of developers are just commodities now. And as another poster remarked, companies seem to want fresh n00bs right out of school who can do a seemingly passable job and are willing to work for nothing. Oh, and remember working independently, doing things from A-Z your way and doing it fast and well? You can forget that too, developers today are pretty much harnessed together to the same wagon via a "software development methodology". Every few days it will spit out a morsel of work for you to program and you'll get another one when you're done. Welcome to the machine. Pretty much the only fun place to work anymore is at a start-up and good luck getting a gig at one of those if you've got a gray hair on your head. Now the GOOD news is that programming is just as damn fun as ever, more fun than back in the dark ages. There are a lot more interesting languages to choose from. The more popular (lucrative, corporate) ones such as Java and C# share much of their syntax with C. My recommendation however, if you don't need to make $ ASAP, is to get going with a so-called scripting language. They're just plain FUN! I love programming in Python but Ruby would a reasonable choice for you as well. Your main tool will just be a text editor of some sort, no compiler, no virtual machine runtime. If you feel the need there's good IDE support for interpreted languages these days. And don't think that these languages are toys. They power a whole lot of commercial and OS applications I find that the best way to approach what seems to be a challenge is to find a way to make it fun rather than a grind. Exercise is the same way. If you hate the gym and those treadmills, just go for a relaxing five mile walk every evening. If you want to get hip to programming again, pick a lightweight, FUN scripting language, get an intro book to get started with, and you're off to the races.
Right on, I'm from the east coast & my quaffing experience has vastly improved since coming to the left coast. But in my experience the goodness is not limited to the PNW - CA has some very good breweries too. Lagunitas, Anderson Valley, Stone, Lost Coast. There's something about the hops I think. Mmmm Lost Coast Indica IPA. But yes, our mugs runneth over with primo brew in WA/OR.
Yep, I've got a very Conservative (read "staunch Republican") friend who's all about "do what it takes to keep up my standard of living, including vast personal wealth, and let's not worry about this environmental nonsense". In fact, he outright blames environmentalists for causing this disaster. He claims that if there weren't these environmental regulations that we have, the oil companies could be drilling on land or near offshore, hence our environmental horrors are all government's fault, too much regulation. Similarly of course, the financial crash was *caused* by the SEC and government regulation. Basically regulation that might cause some sort of degradation in his lifestyle, even if minor, he hates. But generally he's OK with regulation that *directly* helps him, like drug safety laws, although I'm sure he thinks these are too extreme and probably cut into corporate profits and "innovation" and therefore are undesirable in that way. Recently my area banned phosphate detergents because it was causing hell with algae blooms downstream from the sewer plant. He went on and on about the evil of the regulation when it merely affected the brand of dishwashing detergent he had to buy at Costco. He fussed that it wouldn't wash his dishes as well as the polluting stuff. Not that he'd tried it of course. The ban was just ipso facto evil to him, simply because it *was* a government regulation, environment be damned. I don't know how many people in the population are like this. But the "Conservative" camp, which is huge, seems to be full of them. His kind makes me want to vomit.
Funny you call them "Flatlanders". I grew up in VT and we called Them that too. We groused about their rudeness, driving incompetence, and their fondness for buying all the real estate in the state thereby driving prices up beyond what natives could afford. My town had/has a population of around 12K and it must have passed the anonymity mark because in general you didn't know other people around town unless they were related to you, you worked together, or you lived in the same commune.