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> but it was replaced with.. nothing. and there is still a gap in that market for novice creators that all the webgl/html5/toolkit-of-the-week has yet to cater towards. The reason …

Thanks for the link to the movie - will check it out on the weekend.

You comment about 'expressions of emotion' reminded me to tell this story. We have had wild Rainbow Lorikeets visiting us for over 20 years. In our recently previous home we were u…

I think Metroworks Codewarrior was before Eclipse as I used that for quite a while before Eclipse.

Anyway, this HN story is about Atlassian screwing up cloud hosting Let's not get away from the story

Isn't that because you weren't hosting local 10+ users in the first place?

Another reason to run things locally 'that just work for you' Especially when you are a smaller company/team.

I think I originally found it on a /. story sometime in 2012 and tried it out as more organised local txt file documentation system. And I loved the fact that I could write out the…

Sure. I use freemind but there are lots of other mind mapping programs available these days. http://freemind.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page I have mentioned freemind a lo…

> It taught very valuable lessons, Especially not to type rm -rf without checking multiple times. "Measure twice, cut once." One of the many uses I have for a mindmap in my daily u…

Great read.

> Honestly, I almost prefer to start with a blank slate these days This is about Technical Support training (not programming) and is from my recent experience. When I was running a…

I loved MacroMind (later Macromedia) (later Adobe) Director. Delivered dozens of educational CD's, corporate CD's and many of my own 'experiments'. One of those was a map for EverQ…

As an older full-stack/full-cycle developer for many years, this article made sense - and gave quite a bit of hope. If you can't dog-food your product, IMHO developers need to be a…

One of the things that really pops out to me in the interview on arstechnica is his love of writing 'tools' - so do I.. I had a similar issue when I was working on educational CD's…

I prefer my use of MindMaps, and remembering the index

In my last year of primary school a teacher brought in a mate he had to give the class a lesson on computers for an hour or two. He brought in a TI99 and we spent the afternoon lea…

For an up-to-date comment from Louis Rossman (amazing component level Mac repairs) hit this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPRjVvccQVM

Awesome - can't wait to try it over the weekend.

'Customer Support' is treated as a cost-center in far too many businesses. Good customer support can be used as a marketing tool - a differentiator to competitors. But in the case …

I used to work for an Australian h/w and s/w company that manufactures in South Korea. Our office was attacked within 10 minutes of going online from ip addresses allocated to Chin…

I found FreeMind (a mind-mapping program) back before 2011, and have been using it as both a daily task tracking system as well as for project planning, and task mapping. I have in…

We made friends with a lorikeet (parrot) we named 'Percy' 11 years ago, our first one. Him and his 'wife' (we named her 'Cruella' for obvious reasons) stayed with him for years. We…

Absolutely agree with mastering SQL. Out of all of the languages I have learned over the years, only one has stayed important in every job and mostly static - SQL There are many la…

Deep knowledge is important but I think I can add a few more thoughts: - DON'T 'make-stuff-up' If you get a tricky question about something you don't know, just say you don't know …