ikrima

I'm trying to find a place like hackernews but for VFX/CG developers/research folks. Where do you guys usually hang out online? My list (all focused on the art side instead of the technical side):

3d total cg channel evermotion cg society fxguide it's art reddit.com/r/vfx

I'm trying to find a place like hackernews but for VFX/CG developers/research folks. Where do you guys usually hang out online?

My list (all focused on the art side instead of the technical side): 3d total cg channel evermotion cg society fxguide it's art

I'm traveling all the time (every 2-3 months, I'm in a new city or country), with no real permanent address. I've managed to work out all the kinks...except having a good backup/sync solution.

I have a macbook pro & a thinkpad w701 (which runs two different VMs). It's a pain in the ass because making changes on one machine (such as adding some new music or updating some presentations) requires me to keep track of what changed where. And then every couple of weeks, after syncing the three different images, I try to manually sync it out to a backup drive that I carry around.

It's pretty much the most annoying thing ever...especially when I sometimes make changes on the backup drive and I have to remember not to override them.

What I'd really like is something simple that has more of a version control like workflow: -I can push out changes to some central server (like a commit. Example: I add some changes to my music directory and then I can just commit those changes to backup) -Before the backup happens, I'd like to see a "diff": what files will be overridden, which one's newer, etc -I can access my files off the server (if I'm making an audio mix and need to pull out some songs, I'd like to get them from the server. All the backups can't just be one big binary compressed zip blob)

Dropbox comes pretty close but it lacks the "commit" & "diff" functionality. I thought about using Amazon AWS but that falls short because I can't see diffs and can't access my files directly off aws.

Any ideas? Or any other solutions? I guess what I'd really like is TimeMachine in the cloud or maybe even a NAS that's securely accessible through the internet

I've come across lots of articles on how VCs invest in startups, but never came across on how people invest in VC funds. Is it like investing in a hedge fund? What are the mechanics for all of that?

I'm a seasoned developer (mainly VFX & desktop apps), but I'd like to learn how to make web apps and would like to learn by making a simple flickr clone. What advice/resources/technologies would you guys recommend for starting out?

Dunning-Kruger effect aside (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunning%E2%80%93Kruger_effect), I'm hoping it will be easy to ramp up since I'm not new to development. (Altho I hate database work so i'm sure this will get interesting really fast)

Here's what I gleaned from fellow programmers: Python, Google Apps, NoSQL: plus. MS ACS/Azure: expensive.

Thanks in advance