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drawkbox

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About drawkbox

entrepreneur, programmer, engineer and creative developer.

I work at Drawlabs Game Studio where I make web games, mobile games and game middleware from network servers/clients to stats tracking and community tools for contract, white label and internal products.

http://drawlabs.com

I work with and have worked at 2XL Games, SupaSupa Games, Cheyenne Mountain Entertainment, and Prizelogic / eMarketingInc / Nomadic Agency making web, interactive, mobile (iPhone/iPad/iPod/iOS/Android) and multi-platform desktop games, apps, web interactives, APIs and tools for entertainment/promotion.

"There is no subject more captivating, more worthy of study, than nature. To understand this great mechanism, to discover the forces which are active, and the laws which govern them, is the highest aim of the intellect of man." -- Nikola Tesla

http://drawk.com/

http://drawlogic.com/

https://github.com/drawcode

http://www.linkedin.com/in/drawk

http://stackoverflow.com/users/71690/ryan-christensen

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    These systems also came from tinkering. Most programming languages even are really the investment of one person for a long time, doing apparently what you aren't supposed to do. Wh…

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    Comment #41688625

    I dig WebComponents because I love building on standards which promote interoperability across frameworks and have long term lifelines. Standards reduce platform + dev lock-in and …

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    Comment #41562559

    I like that it mimics SQL queries/filtering which is straightforward. Typically I use something like JSONPath [1] (basically XPath for JSON) [2] or jq for this but having more opti…

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    Comment #41562385

    Looks like they have until January to change to fully on-site. That isn't much time to make life changes that allow using 2+ hours extra per day that was typically remote. > The de…

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    Comment #41562145

    End of an era. TouchArcade was one of the better review sites and it was great to get featured there. Going for 16 years was a really good run. I hope the people involved land in g…

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    Comment #38378413

    Developers are clearly the weak link today, have given up all power over product and it is sad and why software sucks so bad. It pains the soul that value creators have let the val…

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    Comment #38356982

    Again with the ad hominems and strawman arguments in your shadowboxing diversion... I knew you wouldn't answer. You fail to even acknowledge evidence, what do you know about it? No…

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    Comment #38354144

    A "conflict" or false opposition can also be used in a theater like play. Maybe this was setup to get Microsoft to take on the costs/liability and more. Three board members left in…

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    Comment #38332052

    No evidence doesn't mean it didn't or won't happen. There is a very large canyon between something happening and evidence. There you have to go off of history, timeline, motive (la…

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    Comment #38332024

    Something is up with the timing of that, the dev day and this event. GitHub Copilot is made with OpenAI's Codex model, a descendent of GPT-3 though. Anyone putting anything into Ch…

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    Comment #38311200

    I mostly agree but Web Components is a web standards as is templates/custom elements now. Web Components are a standard. You did ask. heh. As I mentioned, I prefer direct standards…

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    Comment #38310575

    I wonder if it is related to this: [Microsoft briefly restricted employee access to OpenAI’s ChatGPT, citing security concerns]( https://www.cnbc.com/2023/11/09/microsoft-restricts…

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    Comment #38278167

    You fail to acknowledge again. We already agreed to disagree on that point. We are getting your take on things now. Answer these, let's get you on record: Do you think encryption m…

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    Comment #38256604

    I mostly agree but Web Components is a web standards as is templates/custom elements now. The others like React/Vue/Svelte etc are all going more for platform/framework lock-in ove…

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    Comment #38256552

    Yeah agreed, that is why I said "if you like the component style of other frameworks but want to use Web Components, Google Lit is quite nice" Lit is just a lighter weight version …

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    Comment #38253345

    I completely disagree with your limited focus take on this, aside from the main point of the comment, and you still are not taking into account what others are saying which I share…

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    Comment #38253035

    Staying closer to web standards is always best for maintainability and portability. I personally like custom direct standards but that doesn't always work in a team for some reason…

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    Comment #38252928

    I am more a fan of the augmented style because it doesn't entrap you in dev lock-in to platforms. The problem with frameworks, especially web frameworks, is they reimplement many i…

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    Comment #38077899

    Now you are into ad hominems. You are completely lost. You can't acknowledge the topic nor the point of concentration in currency, which was 80% percent of my entire point. You are…

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    Comment #38062962

    This was my main point "Bitcoin, and other crypto in general even more with higher concentration of early owners, will always be precarious because of this concentration. Whoever h…

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    Comment #38053757

    > find a cryptography expert that agrees with you Do you think they'd be biased to answer in a certain way? Additionally every cryptography expert know the system is only as good a…

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    Comment #37993662

    Exactly... we don't know yet.

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    Comment #37989996

    Blast from the past, the Excel easter egg. Solid.

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    Comment #37982756

    > You originally said that "quantum computers will be able to break satoshi's keys" I said "Eventually with quantum computing or other advancements, someone will break the encrypti…

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    Comment #37976718

    > I was talking about what it takes to brute force a single key. If you have some insight to the tool that created the key you could, lots of systems have doors by design, typicall…