Common Lisp, Scheme and Clojure. Try each three and see which you like. I prefer CL, but that's because I develop programs in the large.

Reading some of these comments, I wonder how much astroturfing goes on HN these days

I was thinking every response is almost incredulously high. Also makes me wonder about the source of all the anti-self-host email posts.

There's a specific comment here that is especially suspicious to me, but I didn't want to pry.

The source of those posts are likely people who got burned trying.

I understand why you might be sceptical but your comment has motivated me to decloak and respond. Fastmail really do provide an excellent product. Like many of the other commentators I moved over to them from Gmail and am very glad I did so. Sometimes things truly are as good as they seem.

Yes it’s good to maintain a healthy dose of skepticism and I could (more than likely) be equally wrong, but I hope my comment encouraged others not to take comments online at face value always.

For what it’s worth, I signed up to fast mail yesterday, onboarding vs my cloudflare managed domain was a breeze and so far no issues (it’s email hosting (and their iOS app isn’t great), so there’s not much to get excited about on a day to day basis - apart from a long term appreciation of privacy first email).

I have just started using the Spark Mail App - now that I am excited about…if it lives up to its hype, it will be a great addition to my workflow.

idk I'm a legit happy customer :\

I think he/she misread but one could argue what you wrote is anti-DEI in terms of those who don’t have kids, etc but I can’t imagine anybody proving it.

FWIW your approach is the most sound one I read on this thread and how most successful companies probably do it. I do feel it is slightly discriminatory though against those with un ordinary paths

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Unfortunately on the internet the onus is on the defendant to prove innocence. I hardly buy the top comment as true but everyone eats it up here since it goes with their narrative

Serious? It is entirely true, why would I share that otherwise? I've been on HN for a long time, see my background :)

Your account is totally blank and joined in 2021. You also submitted an article about rethinking app development at FB. In a comment you also post you work for a large company.

Do you work for Facebook?

I don’t work at facebook but based on your response I am more likely to believe you now. Sorry if it caused any angst, wasn’t intended.

However doesn’t change the fact that a lot of things get accepted at face value if they align with what someone’s view of things is

No worries, I just was kinda stunned you would imply I had any motive to not share something accurate. It was a convo I had this morning with an author who is a friend.

(It it is just one piece of data, and people are good at finding data that supports their viewpoint of course. Given all the scandals FB is under and problems on this thread, I do think it supports a narrative of FB having massive problems around ethics and moral actions.)

Here is a fun story :)

I have an ad account at FB for a company I closed in early 2020 due to Covid.

I wanted to delete the account, but FB makes it impossible to do that. I message their support and they tell me they can remove it, but they need my ID and a handwritten letter. I am stunned. A handwritten letter??? How does that achieve anything :)

So I write out a short note with a bit of snark about a tech company needing a handwritten letter, take a picture and send it to their support chat/ticket along with my ID. They do not like that I was snarky and refuse to do anything, even after I remove some of my snark and resend it.

Thus, I still have the account and 14 support replies later they still refuse to help me.

(note, they didn't want a letter send to them via the post office, they literally wanted me to write it and send it to them. So weird...)

That’s crazy to hear! It really feels like the wild Wild West with these large tech companies - consider in contrast how much regulatory and compliance scrutiny a bank would have, they would never dream to behave like petulant little kids. I guess the more fines big tech get and the more regulations enter the space, the faster they will clean up their act.

You should make a Shown HN for yourself!

Thanks for sharing

Do Share when you have a moment.

Others I have (personal) - Alignment of Headers should match that of content (centre aligned headers = centre aligned content) - Headers should be bolded or another color - Subtotal & grand total should be bolded - Keep same font for both headers & content - Try to keep columns and rows equally sized and spaced - Table heading at the top (IMO) - Avoid using cell (0, 0) that the article talks about

All of the above IMO aids in simplifying the table and hence makes the content stick out more. But granted they are more design principles vs. UX so I too would be keen to learn more about UX guidelines to apply

Given the author of the post and it’s target, indeed the date is very important (but I appreciate it’s an easy oversight to make)

Marvellous language