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It was indeed. A friend of mine liked it enough to replicate as a Java applet - http://brokout.org/ My site, but his app. Oh and for amusement value note the specs that it was tested against...…

Maven's main strength is standardization of the build combined with the dependency management that makes it easy to get a build going instantly without having to explicitly download libraries. "slow" …

The Bedford Incident in an oblique sort of way.

Pedantry: That was his wife, Arlene. (Edit: Though I guess she was a Feynman too at that point...)

"Generally speaking his company sells 3-day usability testing workshops for $23,000." Don't you think that the selling of $23,000 usability testing workshops might constitute an incentive for him to …

"But has Nielsen ever addressed this?" Since the point of a substantial number of his articles is that quick and dirty usability testing is the only reliable way to make usability decisions I don't th…

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/GuerrillaInterviewing... 'Never say "Maybe, I can’t tell." If you can’t tell, that means No Hire. It’s really easier than you’d think. Can’t tell? Just say no!…

New Scientist fell prey to the N Things meme a couple of years ago - or I started noticing it a couple of years ago. Either way I wish they would concentrate on more pithy articles instead of these, s…

Learnt to dance. Ok, I'm still learning (and always will be) but I went from absolutely hating dancing to being a competent social swing dancer in a year - just coming up to the anniversary of my firs…

This is one programmer's opinions dressed up as a definitive list. We might as well be discussing bracing preferences - always futile without evidence . For what little it's worth: 1. Minor benefit a…

I've used this stuff and can heartily recommend it. It's convenient for living spaces and the like where you might not want (or be allowed by the SO/Landlord etc) to put up "real" whiteboard.

Not an angel funding article... The Wikipedia article is informative too: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_angel_problem

Speaking as the owner of ChromeServer.com I just wish they'd stop naming their stuff after my stuff! That aside I guess they're building a brand and want to populate it with some related products. I'm…

There don't seem to be any pertinent facts in that article, so it's a bit of a misnomer. I'd be interested in seeing some actual research into the relative usability and other factors of the various a…

To be more specific (since I have been downvoted), Kipling was an early adopter of the motor car . At the time he wasn't impressed enough to include them in his list of "great things" quoted by the a…

Kipling was an early adopter...

More probably a font-transliteration issue. J in Wingdings is a smiley. I often see it in Outlook emails received in Thunderbird where the sender typed a smiley, outlook converted it to a Wingdings sm…

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Ok, I found the article (issue 3) but I'm slightly off in my recollection: it's for an Apple 1. http://www.brielcomputers.com/wik/index.php?title=Replica_1 …

One of the early Make magazines mentioned a modern Apple II kit. Perhaps a fun side project? Assuming I'm not mis-remembering I'll fish out the reference and post it later.

Simon?

Short UK cultural digression: The "blue plaque" mentioned is normally emplaced by National Heritage. They commemorate individuals rather than events, and the individual must have been dead for 20 year…

I disagree. It is a conspiracy theory about the implications of the naming conventions currently being used by Sun. The "argument" between Apache and Sun is hardly well documented. He cites a two year…

Sun were always a bit wary about the Java trademark after their tangle with Microsoft. That may be part of the issue, but honestly I think it's more likely to be down to the random bureaucracy of the …

I don't think it's of general interest, but I can drop you an email with a precis if you like.

"One university computer center kept a teddy bear near the help desk. Students with mysterious bugs were required to explain them to the bear before they could speak to a human counsellor." - The Prac…