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From my experience, it's almost impossible to divide a whole software project into a hierarchical view like a mind map.

Take for example a simple website. What will be your first level? Server-side and Client-side? What about pages? Do you repeat every pages on each side because you have code on both? OK so maybe the first level is all the pages then? Now, do you repeat client-side and server-side work for each pages?

I know. It was sort of a jab at TDD, implying that people following TDD only care about their tests. Oh well.

This is called TDD.

So seeing this, I'm wondering, could we get a "continuous" 3d projection with a cone-like shape instead of 4 planes?

This is interesting because what you are basically doing is what your VCS should do. However, even if you write good commit message (why) and make localized commit (what, where, who, when), the visualization that you get from your technique is not matched by the VCS. Plus I guess it's more high-level than what the VCS gives you. You probably don't add something to your change log if all you did was fix a typo.

Also, a changelog only documents the why of modifications, not the why of existence of a class, function, etc.

I foresee inductive charging pillows.

They missed the chance of calling that SQL.

Hopefully, in the next 10-20 years, we will be able to heal spinal cord injuries.

I find the lack of octocat disturbing.

My feeling is similar as your, that is, I consider my IDE to be something that helps me understand and inspect my code. Language features, on the other hand, helps me write code.

What about doing actual work? This revolution of touch, which has come to desktop with Windows 8 and Ubuntu, scares me a bit. First because I feel that professionnals that use computers daily are not really considered and second because with touch devices, the emphasis is on consumption rather than creation.

Looks good. Any plans for mercurial?

I'm going to guess something like C - (r)oach - (f)ella.

I usually listen to The Prodigy (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTw2YvutJRA, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVefPPr69NU) or some drum and bass, like http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=au_BUnGWquA. Basically, anything with high energy, exactly the opposite of what this site suggests. I feel like I'm typing faster. It's like a race between the song and my fingers.

Great! Pandora(-ish) for the rest of us.

Something you might want to address : I've searched for The Prodigy, and I got "Amanda Bynes' 2010 Maxim Cover Shoot". I'm not sure where that came from!

I think the Unix philosophy jab is about data. Instead of using string/text file with no form, I think he's suggesting that a standard format (like JSON) could be much simpler.

HTTP is just that, a protocol : a standard way for two entities to communicate. In Unix, there's no protocol, its just text without any standard form, which makes it difficult to write tools.