EdwardMSmith

I do this, but I don't do anything special. I just take a snapshot, enter and exit the view, say 5 times, then take another snapshot. Switch over to showing deltas and look for your objects in the list.

I can answer this from personal experience.

After working 9 hours at a full time job, a 45 minute commute home, helping make dinner for the family, cleaning up, playing with the kids, getting them cleaned up for bed, reading with them, putting them to bed, cleaning up the house a little bit, its 9pm.

All I wanted to do is spend a little quiet time with my wife, any motivation to work on personal projects, which may have been fairly strong during the drive home, is now gone, and all I really want to do is spend quiet time with my wife before we had to go to sleep.

So, it had nothing to do with making the day longer, and it had everything to do with the reality that by the time I actually got to the point where I could work on something, it was the least important thing in my life.

Ya know, as a father of a 7yo boy and a 9yo girl who together have put in about 40 hours of lego building in the last week alone, using lego from my childhood as well as a dozen kits purchased in the last 5 years or so, this simply isn't true.

Its not true that the pieces will only ever fit in one way.

The reality, I've come to realize after playing with these things quite a lot recently, is that they're simply 'higher-resolution'.

For instance, I have watched this brick (from a Star Wars ship)

http://cosmicbricks.ecrater.com/p/11804345/lego-dark-bluish-...

become variously, a foot, an ear, a beak, part of a dragon's wing, part of a temple, part of half a dozen spaceships of completely bespoke design, part of some sort of epic death dealing mechanized tank/robot thing, and probably several more models where I didn't even notice it.

Whereas I had to be content with "8-bit" round shapes with my old Lego brick pieces, my children and I are able to produce models with much higher resolution - and that're pretty satisfying.

My kids play with these "model" kits by building them as per the instructions, learning a few new construction techniques in the process, playing with the finished model for a day or two, then tearing them apart and applying any new techniques they discovered into their constantly evolving storyline.

Just like Dad did... does...

It needs to be coupled with question votes, as it would be too easy to game by writing a terrible question with a false account, letting it sit for a long time, then answering it with your real account.

Check out backbone-modelbinding: https://github.com/derickbailey/backbone.modelbinding

(not relevant to the article, but...) when you fill a pool, generally you call the water company and they'll hook a meter to a fire hydrant. This will fill a lot faster then a 1" home service, and you also won't be charged for sewer as well as the water. This can save significant money, since, at least where I live, sewer fees are about 8x the actual water cost.

To paraphrase your own statement, Node makes it easy to develop an increasingly popular type of app, highly concurrent, scalable, realtime streaming applications, in a popular, widely used language, with ease at a level that has not seen before.

Really, its the same trajectory as Rails, but targeted at a different problem.

Just bought the combo - looking forward to going through the beta! Thanks!

Hmm, no beta. Love to see a sample chapter.

Wow, I have a few cd32 discs in the basement somewhere - want them?

We would distribute burned CDs containing graphic, sound, and video/animation assets to the customers. This was '94, and if I remember correctly blank cds were something like $8-10 each (and the burner must have been close to $1000), and the burning process was so fragile that I'd burn discs at night just to try to prevent any possible issues due to vibration, or power fluctuations, or whatever other gremlins caused burn failures. I think we still had only like an 75%-ish success rate.

Fun time, though.

Hmm, I wonder about the accuracy of this, specifically about CD32s not being imported.

I worked, at that time, for the largest Amiga dealer in the US, and we built a couple hundred multimedia display kiosks using CD32s and Paravision SX-1s. We had no trouble getting them (well, other then the usual Commodore supply issues of the time).

Oh, wow, found an old email about this:

http://www.howtomakeanimations.info/cd32sx1mm300-problems

freaky.

hmm, despite the downvotes, you're right. They're really a lifestyle company - for a lifestyle that deeply embeds usable technology in all aspects of your life.

But, the actual technology is 2nd to the experience of the lifestyle.

Oh, its not all that long ago. There were plenty of flat panels in 2004, lots of all-in-one printers, and "cloud computing" had already been around for several years in the form of 'Akamai Edge Computing'.

"and the moon based shield generator got blown up"

Taken down by a flaw in their hosting environment.

$9k is not realistic. As a relatively young couple with 2 kids, our out of pocket medical expenses (on an HSA plan with $5k deductible) have been running about $1500 per year for the last several years - that's medical, dental, ortho, and vision.

My (now 8 yo, but 7 at the time) daughter found Scratch to be mildly interesting, but not really compelling. She'd use it every now and again. But, she's pretty addicted to Kodu. I think the 3d aspect of it, as well as a more narrow topic (game/world creation and interaction) made things a lot more understandable for her, and allowed her to focus. She's still learning the same concepts, I believe, in the end, and that's what I'm after. I think of it as really a 3d Logo.

She's into 3 and 4 page programs now, with multiple actors, and fairly deep storylines.

http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/projects/kodu/

Many (most?) large cable providers, such as Comcast, have co-location and hosting businesses. After all, they have significant server facilities and a serious traffic deficit to make up.

Except, both L3 and Comcast have said that they had a settlement-free peering agreement, in addition to the transit agreement. And that peering agreement is the one that they're having the spat about.

In all the discussions of "startup culture" we've had here in the Twin Cities, this lack of mentorship by seasoned startup veterans always comes up as the main thing that we're lacking.

Agreed - based on the first slide, I thought, "that's an awesome idea". The rest of the slides killed it.