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It's not just WebDAV that's an abomination (returning HTTP status codes and messages in XML, WTF were they thinking), but vCard and iCal as well. The vCard "group construct" (see r…

There's actually not that much to write about. It's a regular company with share holders, the share holders just happen to be some of the staff. Fortunately the owners all get on v…

Have you tried FastMail.fm? It's not free, but has a fast web UI, excellent IMAP support, customer service, etc. Search other HN threads to see what others think of it. (disclaimer…

SSE is great. We wrote about it in quite a bit of detail a while back. http://blog.fastmail.fm/2012/01/09/building-the-new-ajax-mai... There's a couple of annoying caveats 1. The "…

Yep. But that's why we've unified the family plan levels to be the same as the personal ones. So the only difference now is it's $5/y extra to have the family "container", which le…

Stick to IRC for the internal chats guys. Wait, I meant email... ;)

I really wish companies would get SSL vs TLS vs STARTTLS right. I wrote about this on our blog a while back and ended up turning it into a help page because people still seem to ge…

Similar approach to what we took. http://blog.fastmail.fm/2012/02/20/building-the-new-ajax-mai... Used the CSS syntax to easily set class/id on a newly created tag. Benchmarks incl…

So you're still saying that maybe they didn't start that way, but right now they are bad people, who have lost their way morally. I think that's an incredibly harsh accusation for …

> The Spamhaus people are bad guys. I gradually realized that during the time I worked on spam filters. They presumably started out with good intentions, but the position they're i…

I'm one of the main developers and was one of the (now previous) owners of Fastmail. Fastmail has always been a small company, there are just 3-4 main developers (myself, Bron, Ric…