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Stoo

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    Comment #48294017

    Morrowind, without a doubt. It looks and feels janky now but the storytelling is amazing. Far more interesting and unique quests than later TES games.

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    Comment #47780819

    What do you mean by value based billing?

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    Comment #46808828

    I'm hosting some static sites on Bunny and I've found their service to be superb.

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    Comment #46497192

    Are you flexible on the onsite part? Only I'm based in Glasgow and going to London every Tuesday and Thursday wouldn't be feasible, but I would otherwise be interested in applying.…

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    Comment #46145541

    It'd be great if you could input the monthly sacrifice as a percentage. I know off the top of my head how much I put into my pension as a percentage but I'd need to work that out /…

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    Comment #46070364

    But an emdash is incredibly easy to type on a Mac — it's shift+option+minus, or option+minus to type an endash

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    Comment #45978424

    They've recently introduced bunny.net Shield to add a security layer. I've not made use of it yet so I don't know what the coverage is like or how effective it is: https://bunny.ne…

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    Comment #44572654

    It is, but they don't make it obvious on the home page. They have self-hosted getting started docs here: https://ghost.org/docs/

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    Comment #44508772

    Having said that, I did just get marked down for having filter(num => num % 2 === 0) when the correct answer shouild (apparently) be filter(x => x % 2 === 0) so it's not great.

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    Comment #44508760

    Your button answer is wrong though because the input tag can't have content. The version using input should be .

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    Comment #44116106

    It used to be update keyboard language and watch as they tried to figure out what was going on. These days I walk on by.

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    Comment #42863446

    I've been using Sublime Text since version 2, so probably close to 15 years, and I love it! It's my go to editor for code (mostly front end web dev but I've used it for C# as well,…

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    Comment #41721232

    I applied for a similar role a few months ago as I've worked on a similar tech stack and product, are you open to people reapplying?

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    Comment #40572504

    I applied for a frontend role with you last year, which I didn't get. Are you open to people reapplying?

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    Comment #39591022

    PrinceXML is expensive but I feel it's worth the money. I've used it to layout several RPGs with Markdown source files and HTML and CSS for templates and styling. RPG layouts can b…

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    Comment #18485390

    To be absolutely correct it should be United Kingdom, not Great Britain, as you also have Northern Ireland marked as England.

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    Comment #18247149

    Have you seen https://drawshield.net/create/index.html ? It can be a bit hit and miss but it will attempt to display your shield based on the blazon text.

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    Comment #14400181

    I remember the Anglia TV knight! I didn't realise it had such a fascinating story behind it.

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    Comment #14348970

    I use Twonky for media streaming movies / music over the local network. It supports DLNA/UPnP so should work with most players. I use either a blu-ray player or Xbox One to play mo…

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    Comment #13764492

    And the interface is fundamentally the same, no matter who made the car.

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    Comment #13337060

    Writer for roleplaying games. Either as a game / setting designer or writing adventures.

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    Comment #11266642

    Storytella: https://storytel.la/ An online writing tool aimed at authors who self-publish. It's awesome because of the database back which means you can store people / places / any…

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    Comment #11266620

    Ooh! I started reading this a month or so ago, but never finished. Thanks for reminding me. I will also checkout the Patreon page.

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    Comment #10988330

    Working on a component / module / piece of functionality and now you're the person to turn when it doesn't work. Even though a dozen other people have worked on it and it's changed…

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    Comment #10908922

    Round-robin email spoofing. Set up an array of people to email, each person in the array sends an email to the next person saying "Can you come over when you've got a minute, pleas…