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jcfiala

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About jcfiala

Web developer working in open source, most recently with Drupal and working for Examiner.com.

Recent public activity

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    Comment #39543618

    Thanks! This is a lot of fun. I enjoy tumbling the ideas in my head.

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    Comment #14501370

    Having worked here for the last two decades, since I arrived in '94, I've never had real trouble finding a computer programming job. (I don't count the time period when all I knew …

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    Comment #10159707

    Me too, but then the form wouldn't submit until I added a few more.

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    Comment #9799610

    I do know that families with small children often board between the A and B groups. Which is nice, because families often want or need to sit together, but it still makes having an…

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    Comment #9799609

    I do know that families with small children often board between the A and B groups. Which is nice, because families often want or need to sit together, but it still makes having an…

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    Comment #8752606

    As a parent, I fly Southwest so that I can take advantage of the two free checked-in bags you get per ticket. Not having to wrestle several overfull bags of clothes on and off of t…

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    Comment #7529222

    The mob on the internet got it this time due to some rather specific circumstances. There are plenty of companies out there that Brendan Eich could have been promoted to CEO of, wh…

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    Comment #7463768

    Well, if donating money is political speech that's covered by the first amendment, then he shouldn't be surprised if his money talks.

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    Comment #7151990

    The Pragmatic Programmer website uses this system to allow you to prove that you bought a hard-copy of a book, so they can offer you a discounted ebook.

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    Comment #6560013

    It seems to me that if you could somehow solicit comments on the picture, you then could do text analysis on the comments to see if someone thought they were porn or not. (Well, I'…

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    Comment #6489594

    You could, but now you're just forcing the attackers to fork an existing project and push some nonsense code to it before they can attack.

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    Comment #4848624

    My 15 month old daughter has started being a little destructive to books as well.

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    Comment #4476074

    I think my One Page Dungeon Codex came out fairly quickly, although this was before they made you estimate delivery: http://kck.st/9oJ3jq And the Miskatonic School for Girls was ac…

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    Comment #3045031

    I missed it - I don't even know which email account it went to. I didn't authorize them to move anything, but they seem to have moved it anyway.

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    Comment #2842177

    GAMES magazine usually has a few cryptic crosswords per issue, so if you want to give it a try pick up an issue. I'm sure they've also got collections out there... or you could pro…

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    Comment #2721956

    "We sometimes need your permission to do what you ask us to do with your stuff"... " or publicly display that stuff to the extent we think it necessary for the Service." So, they n…

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    Comment #2383695

    I'm not sure how to answer that - I do my work hourly, usually. For that, I'm usually at $85/hour, although I discount it for projects that will take several months where I don't h…

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    Comment #2258524

    I'm glad to hear I'm not the only one having that problem - site is nigh-unreadable with both firefox and chrome. Also, there seems to be a continue reading link on the page that d…

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    Comment #1930822

    I'd love to work for dropbox, if it weren't for the fact that I'd have to move. Great work, though, I'm a big fan.

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    Comment #1681855

    Hmm... a bit of a survey? I've been working in Drupal for three years, starting with version 5.x. I think Drupal development is moving forward in a positive direction. I don't know…