I'm getting a 255 return code when I try to run it. php v.7.4.3. Permissions are all ok. Anybody else have this problem?
Standard error said there was a call to undefined function mb_strlen(), which apparently isn't available by default on php.
H-m-m: Hackers mind map
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#42Dave Winer of RSS and blogging fame created Think Tank, a text mode outliner, back in the 80’s. Was a single binary for MSDOS. Haven’t seen an outliner that came close.
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#43Looks cool. A bit strange with a 2.4k single php-file implementation though.
If it works, it works I guess.
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#44I showed up to a company wide strategy offsite with an iPad and whipped out a mind mapping tool. For the first ten minutes I could see my boss vibrating because he thought I was fucking around. By the end of the meeting he wanted a copy, and for me to CC his boss and a couple of his peers.
Why would a mind mapping tool cause such a reaction? Are diagrams considered not serious where you work? Was the tool heavily ornamental/stylized? Or was it seen as writing down things that are obvious?
Pretty sure it's the fact that GP was on an iPad that made boss unhappy
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#45I keep trying mind maps and getting frustrated because my mind works differently. Anybody know of ones that let you start out non-hierarchical? For me, key nodes are often obvious long before relationships are. E.g., if I'm working with post-it notes, I might write a bunch of notes, cluster them, winnow, and only then want to start locking in relationships between items. Has anybody seen something that's pretty strai…
The best tool I've ever used for this no longer exists, as far as I'm aware. It was circa 1991, a spectacular lightweight Macintosh application called "Inspiration." There currently exists software in the same lane with the same name - but if there's any blood relation between the two, the current bears little resemblance to its progenitor.
I will mangle the terminology since it's been so long, but the basic idea was that on an infinite canvas you would create nodes representing concepts; these nodes were just UI "bubble" objects, like the ovals you might find in slide deck software. Relationships could be added after the fact by linking these nodes, and there was a fast way to create linked "sub-nodes" from an existing node. Also, very strong UI for arranging the node diagram.
Maybe the big problem with mind mapping tools these days is feature creep. A complex UI with too many options will absolutely get in the way of the thought process it serves.
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#46I'm getting a 255 return code when I try to run it. php v.7.4.3. Permissions are all ok. Anybody else have this problem?
sudo apt install php7.4-mbstring # Fixed it. There's also package php-mbstring
Re: H-m-m: Hackers mind map
#47Dave Winer of RSS and blogging fame created Think Tank, a text mode outliner, back in the 80’s. Was a single binary for MSDOS. Haven’t seen an outliner that came close.
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#48I showed up to a company wide strategy offsite with an iPad and whipped out a mind mapping tool. For the first ten minutes I could see my boss vibrating because he thought I was fucking around. By the end of the meeting he wanted a copy, and for me to CC his boss and a couple of his peers.
Why would a mind mapping tool cause such a reaction? Are diagrams considered not serious where you work? Was the tool heavily ornamental/stylized? Or was it seen as writing down things that are obvious?
If the boss can't see what is being done on the iPad, it just looks like someone playing candy crush.
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#49I showed up to a company wide strategy offsite with an iPad and whipped out a mind mapping tool. For the first ten minutes I could see my boss vibrating because he thought I was fucking around. By the end of the meeting he wanted a copy, and for me to CC his boss and a couple of his peers.
Why would a mind mapping tool cause such a reaction? Are diagrams considered not serious where you work? Was the tool heavily ornamental/stylized? Or was it seen as writing down things that are obvious?
I have experienced this hate
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#50OK, cool idea, but.. - Why is this written in PHP? Who builds CLI applications in PHP? Everything looks like a nail, I guess? - Why did you choose your own custom serialization format instead of using something universally supported, like JSON? It's literally more effort for you and everyone else involved for zero benefit. - I love CLI applications and CLI navigation(vim-style, etc) but it really feels like a missed…
Near the bottom of the README, it says: Programming is not my career, but rather a hobby, and I developed h-m-m because I wanted to have something like this and couldn't find one. Therefore, what I've done here may have a lot of room for improvement. It makes sense to me that a hobbyist might well build a CLI in whatever is convenient for them, and not know to look for standard serialization formats.
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