musiccog

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by musiccog 3y ago
> 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 Flash (and Director before it) was so popular i
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by musiccog 3y ago
Thanks for the link to the movie - will check it out on the weekend.
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by musiccog 3y ago
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 up to 5 generations of birds, then we had to move.
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by musiccog 4y ago
I think Metroworks Codewarrior was before Eclipse as I used that for quite a while before Eclipse.
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by musiccog 4y ago
Anyway, this HN story is about Atlassian screwing up cloud hosting Let's not get away from the story
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by musiccog 4y ago
Isn't that because you weren't hosting local 10+ users in the first place?
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by musiccog 4y ago
Another reason to run things locally 'that just work for you' Especially when you are a smaller company/team.
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by musiccog 5y ago
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 'plan', test it, and then copy/paste in
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by musiccog 5y ago
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 lot in my posts, but I guess I have
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by musiccog 5y ago
> 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 use (Freemind 0.9.0!), is as a place to write ou
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by musiccog 5y ago
Great read.
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by musiccog 5y ago
> 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 small customer service team on a Linux based product, an
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by musiccog 5y ago
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 EverQuest to help find dead bodies (it was a
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by musiccog 5y ago
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 as close to the coal face of their 'product&#x
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by musiccog 5y ago
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 back in the dark ages - 660MB just wasn&#x27
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by musiccog 6y ago
I prefer my use of MindMaps, and remembering the index
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by musiccog 6y ago
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 learning about programming, graphics and 'sprites'(ye
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by musiccog 6y ago
For an up-to-date comment from Louis Rossman (amazing component level Mac repairs) hit this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GPRjVvccQVM
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by musiccog 6y ago
Awesome - can't wait to try it over the weekend.
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by musiccog 7y ago
'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 of bugs and feature enhancements, this requires a
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by musiccog 7y ago
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 China. Thanks to OpenNMS, nfsen and nfsight. Great pro
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by musiccog 7y ago
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 introduced many people to FreeMind, and the interesting thing
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by musiccog 7y ago
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 then have had - and contining
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by musiccog 7y ago
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 languages and libraries, but at this moment in time, all of t
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by musiccog 7y ago
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 - you will screw up and get caught
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by musiccog 8y ago
+1 for freemind have been using it for years as a daily work sheet to allow me to switch between tasks quickly