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bradfitz's brackup supports securely backing up data to S3 (and elsewhere), including incremental backups. http://code.google.com/p/brackup/ I don't actually use this, I just followed its development. For my backups, I have a script that
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I hadn't heard they were C&D'd, I'll have to ask jbp about that. Thinkgeek apparently still has some stock of them: http://www.thinkgeek.com/homeoffice/supplies/db91/ Also these sticky variants apparently haven't been C&D'd yet:
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This is the only sort of UX, interaction design and usability "top ten" list that should ever receive upvotes: one that cites references and only publishes information that has been validated in some fashion.
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http://diveintogreasemonkey.org/ suggests http://wiki.greasespot.net/ which has a Tutorials section: http://wiki.greasespot.net/Tutorials Browsing http://userscripts.org/ and finding something similar may also be useful.
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I would shy away from this. For "enterprise collaboration," there's no way to have "enterprise management" with multiple, disparate tools. That means no centralized access control, no fine-grained permissions, etc., across all the tools.
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I used this phone for over a year. Texting is incredibly awkward, all lower-case, and you can only see seven characters at a time. I got used to it, but I preferred not to. Address book is stored only in the SIM, which I think is fairly
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Unfortunately, I've found articles on this site to be poorly articulated opinion pieces, written from broken premises and with incorrect information, rather than actual UX practice documentation. Comments that disagree and point out errors
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Short answer: I use Fossil on Windows for source control for multiple projects ranging from a handful of files to hundreds of megabytes of sources: http://www.fossil-scm.org/ Long answer: It depends on what you're going to do with it. Ar
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Some anecdotes from running multiple forum sites over the years: Most forums end up using flat replies because normal people don't understand threaded replies. A friend at YouTube recently said that their research backed up that anecdotal
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There isn't a library in Cambridge which carries SICP?
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In a previous workshop, we talked about what's necessary to call yourself a UX. Part of the problem is that UX is the evolution of the original "web designer" catch-all role, and many designers with a current title of Senior UX or IA or so
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I started my design workshops because they were the kind of thing I wanted to attend: a sort of Toastmasters for UX where I could do exercises in different parts of UX and eventually become an expert across the board. Instead, I learned a l
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40-60+ hour weeks for a year isn't solid? Even if you weren't brought on full-time, all the Drupal shops in Austin can't fill their demand, so I don't think you'd have a hard time finding a job afterward. We're not just one of the biggest
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You wrote: "casual users." Did you mean: "free hangers-on?" This blog post sounds like the perfect example for why services need to charge up-front. The author acts like they deserve a greater level of service than "none," when the high c
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What if I don't want to learn an instrument? I'm interested in composition, not traditional performance. Is there a route to learning and making music without learning to play a physical, analog instrument?
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BioWare Austin is still hiring web/PHP developers to help build the game/web integration for Star Wars: The Old Republic MMO. You need to be in Austin, TX, or willing to relocate yourself. Imagine 1-2 million players feeding game events re
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I was active in the wearable hardware community several years ago, and all the hardware I had collected made the blog rounds when I put it up for sale. I realized that hardware is pretty much a solved problem, and has been for years. You
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One of the processes I fall back on when I'm stuck, creatively-speaking, is sketching according to LATCH. LATCH is Wurman's idea that information can only be organized in five (six) ways: by location, alphabetically, by time, by category an
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During SXSW this year, I had a discussion with someone about domain reselling. They said that rather than try and resell just the bare domain, they went to an inexpensive logo design service and had the domain branded first, with the landi
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HN reader DaniFong is working on compressed-air energy storage at her Lightsail Energy startup. I wonder if she could tell us if it's really a myth or not. Also, totally disappointed that they decided against actually producing their scoot
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Please report back on how these "proxy neighbor office hours" work for you. I've been considering doing something similar for user experience and interaction design. There's also Design Community Twitter Hours (@DCTH) but Twitter doesn't s
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One of the things that has come out of some of the workshops I run is that even "design" is so broad that "designers" can't know everything about design, either; we have to specialize into visual design, testing, print, web, etc. What is
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I'm not so sure that "any open source project would be very receptive." The ethos of design is very different from that of open-source development and they are, perhaps, incompatible. There's the example about putting every option in there
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BioWare Austin is still hiring local Drupal/PHP developers to help build the game/web integration for Star Wars: The Old Republic MMO. Imagine 1-2 million players feeding game events real-time into your web site from day one. There won't b
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BioWare Austin is still hiring local Drupal/PHP developers to help build the game/web integration for Star Wars: The Old Republic MMO. We've had something of a hard time finding people, so we're considering training up junior people, now, t
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It might be worth browsing the list of "women I'd like to hear speak at a conference" assembled by Balsamiq: http://tweepml.org/Women-I-d-like-to-hear-speak-at-a-confere...
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He's spot on that designers don't always have a language of critique. Jesse James Garrett talked about that last year: http://www.jjg.net/ia/memphis/ If you didn't learn it in school (see my previous comments for rants on modern "designe
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You don't have to attend to get value out of classes. Just look at the reading lists from design classes. You'll find introductory texts new and old, like "Design Basics, 7th ed." and "The Art of Color and Design (1951)," but they'll all c
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You don't often get the chance to build the infrastructure for a site that will (re)launch and have to immediately serve two million-plus users, handle a never-ending influx of real-time data from those users' actions, and support commentin
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After thinking about this a little more, it's not strictly true that all the other tech would be avoided because of NIH. The game industry is always several years behind research in some levels, most notably around content creation. A mo

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