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As someone who writes a plugin for Outlook as his day job, I can think of many, many better questions than this.

For example, at the moment it's, "why is Outlook ruining my life?"



I think you might need this link: https://news.ycombinator.com/jobs


On the contrary, I would believe. Outlook extensions is probably a great niche market, considering Outlook is the third most used client [1].

[1] - http://emailclientmarketshare.com/


More for his mental health....


Ha. As someone who had written synchronization applications against Outlook and Exchange, I can totally relate.

Programmatically rescheduling an instance of a recurring meeting that has users on different timezones and daylight savings time adjustments. That's pain that I will never forget.

For bonus points be that guy who had to implement such things on Lotus Domino.


I will never again in my life write code that deals with timezones. It was far and away the most wtf-dense thinking and coding I have ever done.


We should do a support group... I haven't done recurring meetings yet, but that timezone stuff is bad enough on it's own.


I'd say it's giving you a job rather than ruining your life.

If it was perfect, people probably would not need plugins for it.


Getting a bit tired with all the downvoting going on at the moment. I also have downvoting rights, but I hardly ever use them unless I see something offensive.

Give it a rest, people.




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