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Damn, it was nice knowing you Sparrow. I seriously hope they don't let Google's UI/UX designers anywhere near Sparrow.
First Thunderbird then this, what's a native-email-app user to do? I wonder what ever happened to that Letters email app for OS X that people were wanting to build? There was a flurry of activity and complaints about Mail.app and then nothing.
I was not aware at all that Sparrow was inspired by idea of Letters.app, but I was never a Sparrow user and I'm not a Gmail user.
http://5by5.tv/hypercritical/77 - the podcast itself http://www.cultofmac.com/82172/sparrow-was-born-from-letters... http://arstechnica.com/apple/2010/01/rage-against-the-mail-m...
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Then move. Living somewhere that costs that much is a luxury good.
The Bay Area is the center of the universe of software development. Not that you can't work as a software engineer elsewhere (I have) but you have a limitless amount of interesting work here. And while costs are higher, salaries are much higher as well. It's absurd to act like a $500k payout puts you on easy street.
It's absurd to act as if it's pocket change. Upon receiving that kind of money, you just leave the valley and move elsewhere doing the work you want to do, living off the interests.
Well, unless all you want to do is working for somebody else on the valley :)