I fully agree with you. After a few happy experiences in development, I started to work as a developer for an ERP service company. I was served functional spec that I had to implement. I only had to look at the technical of things, and I quickly became bored.
So I transitioned to a client-facing role which was more interesting in a way, but with too much stress and too much management to do.
Now I try to find my niche in between, staying client facing but still handling the technical tasks. I find it's a really interesting position, it's very efficient since it reduce the amount of necessary communication, and it's very satisfying.
Thunderbird has access to all the mail locally in my case. POP3.
But I think this is on point, Google has the infrastructure to index that massive amount of data while my thunderbird still deals with mbox (I think) and can only index when it's running (and god forbids that indexing hogs up my celeron and my 3gb of RAM !).
I've been using thunderbird for years and I still find search to be bad. I've never really made experiments to see why it's bad, but often I type the name of a correspondant to find a particular message, but I don't find it.
I guess I am used to the fuzzy search magic that happens in other software.
Ctrl+Shift+F and "search all of the following" with multiple filter lines returns me what I need most of the times. It required switching my workflow though, yeah, the Google's fuzzy email search is really good.
I'd be interested in resources you could share for baroque guitar playing. I play guitar and I love baroque music, but I didn't mix these two hobbys so far. I can read music, but I am a bit slow.
I'm completely self-taught, so while I am teaching myself to read music I'm learning baroque music through tab. It's just too frustrating for me to try reading complicated standard notation at the moment.
My main resources for baroque tabs would be:
- classtab.org
- classclef.com
Of the two I would say classtab is the more accurate.
Scroll down to the drop-D one, that's the one I play.
With baroque music I find legato is so incredibly important so really concentrate on fingerings that let the notes ring out. There may frequently be an easier fingering to grab but which means you have to stop the bass note too early, so it takes a bit of experimentation to figure it out.
It's very difficult but incredibly rewarding when you manage to produce the counterpoint yourself, I'm smiling to myself the whole time while playing.
Not to sound dogmatic but I would suggest learning notation also at some point so that you can read the original sheet music. It will open up an entire world of what the composer wanted to express apart from just the notes.
Yeah I am learning standard notation and I do look at the standard notation for pieces to look at the instructions from the composer. I mean, I can read music but and I could figure out how to play baroque music from standard notation, I would just be glacially slow.
I'm still working my way through Sor etudes so I learn the fretboard.
Welcome to Canada. The checking/saving account statement is in csv. The credit card statements are only provided as pdf by my bank. That's where most transactions are.
I would make a difference between "design" and "a lot of small and convenient functionalities that makes your life easier".
People prefer gsheet to calc not because of one big missing functionality, because as you say, you can always find a way. It's more that excel/gsheet makes your life way easier, and saves you a lot of time.
I use both gsheet (for work) and calc (for personal stuff). I really want to give calc a chance so I accept the excess time it takes me to use it, but I understand that some people don't. And I would not say that it's related to "feelings", it's more a problem of "ease of use" and "doing things fast".
So I transitioned to a client-facing role which was more interesting in a way, but with too much stress and too much management to do.
Now I try to find my niche in between, staying client facing but still handling the technical tasks. I find it's a really interesting position, it's very efficient since it reduce the amount of necessary communication, and it's very satisfying.
It does not work for big projects though.
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