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Somehow haven't seen this before. Thanks!

This applies to ops as well. Most problems we look at have been solved before so it's a case of identifying and integrating (aka opinioinating) the solution not necessarily creating something from scratch.

Their UI is not my cup of tea either. I find browsing channels and the way personal chats are listed not to work well. I've also seen a bug numerous times where the UI shows a notification for a message when there isn't one but that's not a UI problem per se

That's a good idea, better than just throwing random knowledge into Evernote.

I'm seeing an internal 500 for all pages. Will try again later or tomorrow I guess.

Oh geez, some people have a lot more spare time than me

No-one is good anywhere, why is it crashing ;)

I used to think this, however now I think for a lot of users iPhone is easier. Fwiw I use android..

Ah this reminds me of a fellow at work. He's always correct, and the worst type of correct: technically correct.

Don't know about you, but I'm glad to see the back of hipchat; the product was unloved for years

My wife has helped me to put things in place to prevent burnout, mostly little things outside of work

What are people using these days for data sanitization? I.e. to remove PII data from dev snapshots

I've been using Evernote. One feature I really like about it is the web clipper. Doesn't do any form of analytics afaik as it's designed for memos.

Good article thanks for sharing

sshdautoban is useful for preventing ssh brute force attacks - hosts.deny ban for any ip address with 5 failed connections in less than 15 secs

I wouldn't really care if a company had access to my address book, different if they were reading my memos or something though.

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Readability works just fine

RE points 2 & 3, part of the Australian government's agenda for the NBN is probably for nationwide Internet censorship.

kudos to you sir, whirlpool is great! (and it has no ads)

for a few seconds there I was worried that Microsoft might have teamed up with FB to create some strange web portal that included social media, email and documents. nightmare stuff...

still, I didn't expect FB to be using Exchange

my fav is probably sorl.thumbnail, followed by template_utils

one more url i found interesting: http://www.bankers.asn.au/Default.aspx?ArticleID=610

"Even self-service banking is expensive to provide. An ATM costs cost on average $40,000 and it then has to be installed, maintained and stocked with cash."

a little OT I guess, meh :P

Interesting topic. if only it was as easy as Barnaby describes, wouldn't all the different banks use different hardware/software configurations? also consider CCTV recording, dye technology, etc.

In Australia, physical ATM attacks are preferred apparently

http://www.smh.com.au/national/move-to-thwart-atm-gas-bomb-a...

http://news.ninemsn.com.au/national/701017/explosions-at-two...

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/08/13/2654709.htm

as I was searching for those old articles I also came across:

http://www.crimes-of-persuasion.com/Crimes/InPerson/atm_scam... - ATM Cash-point Scams using "Lebanese Loop" Plastic Sleeves / Skimming Devices (which I initially thought was a joke) and

http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2006/09/programming_at... - from Schneier which is a good read.

Good post, thanks :)

I have a similar point to this relating to young children (under the age of 15 and over 5 I guess), allowing a child to have what they want, go where they like and do what they want (within reason), this gift of freedom seems to make the child mature faster or think/act differently.

For example a child given the opportunity to go out late at night before being old enough for nightclubs, who isn't worried about rules that say 'be home by X' or 'no alcohol!' is more likely to find what they enjoy naturally instead of breaking rules just to spite their parents.

Another example, given the option to drink fizzy drinks all day or water, a child doesn't take long to realize water is a better option most of the time.

Most of this is from first hand experience, I think these ideas rely on a reasonably smart child/parent and an open & trusting relationship. The parent must still provide direction on what is right/wrong and communicate ideas.

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interesting info in that url, thanks

initially I thought "The Invisible Things" was referring to the security model