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by cyberferret 7y ago
Interesting. A good family friend of ours is a maintenance supervisor in the RAAF. Last time he invited me down to the hangar to let me see the F/A-18s up close, he was lamenting how the first batch that the RAAF purchased (which I a
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by cyberferret 7y ago
A businessman and aircraft collector in South Africa has one of the last flying examples of a Blackburn Buccaneer [0] and English Electric Lightning... Paint scheme on both: Jet Black! [0] - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j
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by cyberferret 7y ago
Nice work! That first graphic on your page instantly brought back memories of playing 'Battlezone' in the arcades as a kid - one of my favourite games! :)
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by cyberferret 7y ago
Just to clarify - the article mentions that he put everyone in the company on a minimum salary of $70K. I would think that high level technical staff on $100K+ would have been more than a little upset to have their salary slashed. Junio
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by cyberferret 7y ago
Decades long user of Apple devices, and a long time developer, and I learned a few things from that article. Have designers lost sight of the fact that 99% of people use their eyes when working with an interface? You cannot simply hide th
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by cyberferret 7y ago
dBase II, III+ and (ugh) IV developer here... Nice to see some of these earlier interviews with the likes of C. Wayne Ratliff and Anders Heljsberg etc. I remember one of my favourite interviews back in the day was reading a Wayne Ratliff o
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by cyberferret 7y ago
I've found lots of scripts online to do it, but the issue is that we shouldn't really resort to scripting for this. CodePipeline already has a nice interface where I can choose the Elastic Beanstalk environment where I wish to de
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by cyberferret 7y ago
I've always wondered why Amazon's own CodePipeline service could not deploy a commit of a HTML/CSS static sites straight to S3. They can deploy from CodeCommit straight to Elastic Beanstalk easily enough, but for years I hav
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by cyberferret 7y ago
Wow - that tea house has been operating for 900 years? I thought the previous record was a Japanese temple building company that was around for 400+ years before having to close during the global financial crisis a decade ago?! There is th
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by cyberferret 7y ago
I found SoundCloud great about 5 or 6 years ago - engagement was high, and I was getting lots of comments and interaction on my music, but lately, it has nosedived. Not sure if because there is just a lot more noise (pun intended) on there
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by cyberferret 7y ago
Yep - I've been a Pro plan member since almost the beginning (Spotlight is a PRO only feature), so this isn't me simply railing against a +free+ service. BTW this bug totally crashes Chrome - all tabs, not just the tab that SC is
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by cyberferret 7y ago
And they still haven't fixed the bug that doesn't let you drag and drop to rearrange the songs in your 'Spotlight' list on your profile in Chrome. I reported it about 6 years ago, and repeatedly re-report it at least ev
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by cyberferret 7y ago
Make sure you flush and clean the pens every now and then (I do mine every 3 or 4 refills). The climate where I am means ink normally dries in the nib or ink channels if I leave them too long without using them, so a routine flush with tap
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by cyberferret 7y ago
+1 for the Pilot fountain pens for newbies to the fountain pen world. Great way to learn how to write properly with one without ruining expensive nibs. Honestly, my writing fatigue has gone way down since I switched back to fountain pens y
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by cyberferret 7y ago
Nice design, look and feel. However I found it quite slow when clicking a job and the loading of the job detail page. I know you have the progress bar indicator at the top of the page, but it moves really slowly and it takes a while befor
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by cyberferret 7y ago
Am I incorrectly remembering that Twitter (Twtr) v1 was primarily to share tweets via SMS text messages? Hence the limit of 140 characters (+20 for the username to be added to the message)? Is this just the wheel gone full circle?
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by cyberferret 7y ago
This is one of those classic songs that sounds easy, but is really hard to pull off effectively. I clearly remember learning it in one of the bands I played with decades ago. Getting that right 'swing' feel in the opening quarte
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by cyberferret 7y ago
I found a few sites that described how to build the LUT out of standard pieces. There was a guy selling a 'kit' on eBay which comprised of some instructions as well as the standard parts all bagged up, but it was super expensive
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by cyberferret 7y ago
I built the Saturn V model a couple of years ago when it came out - a lot of fun and it now stands in pride of place in the corner of my office. This model intrigues me, but it would be a b*tch to store/display once made though... I wo
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by cyberferret 7y ago
Condolences to his family and friends, but for an entertainer, I can think of no better thing that you remember last in the world, and that is to be entertaining people and to be in the middle of your craft when the reaper taps you on the s
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by cyberferret 7y ago
Kudos to the crew for trying to clean the windshield @ 8500 feet and ~200 knots, but I don't know how effective that would have been anyway. I once drove through a thick locust swarm in the Kimberley region of Australia and my car was
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by cyberferret 7y ago
This thread makes me miss the old Posterous service. I used to enjoy emailing shot blog posts, and only having a few friends of mine knowing what my blog address was. It was a form of journalling that I enjoyed until they inexplicably shu
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by cyberferret 7y ago
I always associate this word first and foremost with the device in Asimov's short story sequel to "Marooned off Vesta". EDIT: Oops, in the story it was "anoptikon" which was a play on the misunderstanding in the fir
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by cyberferret 7y ago
From memory, most of these casualties are from landmines that are still planted in South-East Asian countries during the Korean and Vietnam conflict? I am thinking that Afghanistan etc. may also figure quite high in the statistics. Sadly,
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by cyberferret 7y ago
This is a really cool and informative article. I had head of the 'pattern' attribute before, but I hadn't come across 'inputmode' before. This will solve a ton of headaches for my future development work.
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by cyberferret 7y ago
The author seems adamant that blog.domain.com is a worse setup than domain.com/blog - I've seen this argument go back and forth a lot, with both sides claiming advantages and disadvantages. I am interested to hear the consensus fr
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by cyberferret 7y ago
We are careful to use throwaway email addresses like randomusername @mailinator.com on our dev and staging servers so they still get delivered, but we can just forget about them. Really interested to learn about the SES simulator address t
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by cyberferret 7y ago
Well, I am working (mainly coding) for about 6 hours a day these days on my SaaS startup. Never work weekends. Travel a fair bit with my family. I guess in one respect, that is “success” to me, and a work/life balance...
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by cyberferret 7y ago
Thanks. I guess the biggest mistake in the early days was doing 'scattergun marketing' and not focusing on where our users actually were. Once we narrowed down and marketed to HR managers and business owners via LinkedIn and Cap
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by cyberferret 7y ago
I singlehandedly built a small business HR SaaS - https://www.hrpartner.io - over the past few years and grown it to a stage that I can now take a salary from it after 3 years of living on savings. I DO have a co-founder now wh

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