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You are not alone.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Strangely enough, we were going through some old videos yesterday and came across a show of him doing "An Audience With ...". Just him on stage and a load of celebrities in the audience asking him silly questions. But, I have to say, he was really funny, just doing simple stand up comedy being himself.
Use the best guess
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I'm new to Macs and had been using Notes to keep track of things at work. It worked for a while, but I ran into some limitations after a few months, like the inability to nest items more than a folder deep.
I did a little searching, and I came across Scrivener, which has some really neat capabilities (chief among them being the ability to nest items without limit). I loved it after using it for 5 minutes, but after a couple days of using it I've run into some issues that seriously reduce my confidence in it:
- Crashed. I opened it one time and I got a dialog saying it crashed the last time it was closed. Pretty sad for a glorified note taking app to crash with a fairly minimal file, and it makes me wonder if I'll end up with a corrupt file at some point.
- Invisible formatting. I created a text item, and every time I tried to make a bullet list, the entire contents of the text item became bulleted. Ran into issues trying to fix it, and eventually had to create a new text item from scratch. I really don't want to be slowed down by invisible behavior while I'm taking notes.
I'll probably keep using it since it (in theory) does what I want and I already spent $40 on it (not to mention I backup frequently), but it's a shame to see something with so much potential be ruined by flaws in basic usage scenarios. 
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Another one I just remembered:
- Link uncertainty. Links, even if they begin with "http://", will sometimes be linkified and sometimes they will be left as plain text. Some links will even change their state without any other changes to the file. Weird, and annoying.
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$40! Have you found that you've spent a lot of software since moving to a Mac?
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Not too much, but having an app store where I can instantly buy and easily install items means I buy more apps on my Mac than I would have on my PC.
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What a shame. Tried it quite a while back after a recommendation from Henry and I really like it but ended up with TreeDBNotes.
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Looks pretty useful. And it reminds me of ErgoNotes, which I used when I was in Windows.
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ErgoNotes does look very similar. When I was looking for a notes app don't think I ran across it?
Strange thought I had looked at them all and tried quite a few.
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One of the things I really liked about ErgoNotes was that it saved as an XML file. That allowed me to write a utility that converted the file into HTML, for easy sharing of my notes with those who didn't have ErgoNotes.
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Yeah it would be easy to write a utility to convert to a format that could be imported into other apps, to search, etc..
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When I looked up "Scrivener" the following words jumped out :
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Scrivener was developed by a writer, so it works the way a writer’s brain works.
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original[^]
I'd prefer it to have been written by a Mac developer !
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Indeed. I'd rather not suspend my disbelief and pretend there are no bugs, but then I guess I did read the same quote as you and I ignored the foreshadowing. 
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I've worked on too many accounting systems written by accountants, education systems written by teachers and medical systems written by doctors!
It's funny - you don't see many offices built by accountants, doctor's surgeries built by doctors or schools built by teachers - so why do they think they can build good software? Maybe us pros don't make it look hard enough?
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Just had a thought - why not write a cloud-enabled note-taker of your own?
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Why not indeed! It was already on my list of ideas. 
Will have to see if I get around to building that one though. My plan is to build a bunch of sites... however many I can manage by the cutoff date for challenge 2.
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I wish I wasn't so busy with other (non IT) stuff - it would have been a fun challenge..
I did some stuff with Azure at a BizSpark technical weekend - and quite enjoyed it - but just didn't have the time to do it justice for the competition (although the prizes look pretty good - I wish I'd looked a but more closely!)
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My friend's son is going to be one year old next week... After thinking too much about what should I get him for his first birthday I bout him http://i42.tinypic.com/6fmjiq.jpg[^]
I hope kid would like it...
Zen and the art of software maintenance : rm -rf *
Math is like love : a simple idea but it can get complicated.
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At 1, the kid will probably spend more time playing with the box.
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I think you and the Dad will have more fun with it than the kid will. Hope it lasts long enough for the tyke to enjoy. 
Cool gift BTW. 
It was broke, so I fixed it.
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For my daughter (of 10 months) something similar lasted 2 hours 
all the best
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For a one year old? I second a previous comment, give the kid a box.
There are only 10 types of people in the world, those who understand binary and those who don't.
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I would suggest a child's rattle-box. Makes a sound when lightly shaken, and also has some small amount of movement. Can catch the attention of eyes and ears of the child, in a gentle and safe manner.
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You bought a remote control car for a 1 year old???
Let's see. Chewing on tires. Poking his eye out with the antenna. Crying when the thing crashes into him and makes loud scary noises. Does the kid even walk or talk yet?
* Walk any where from 8 months to 18 months
* Talk 6 months to 3 years
However, on a positive note, enjoy the RC car yourself! 
Marc
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The idea is to take the car to the park ... strap him in the car seat .. and use the RC to get it going..  .. Both his parents ( specially my friend ) and he can enjoy the ride....
Zen and the art of software maintenance : rm -rf *
Math is like love : a simple idea but it can get complicated.
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