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novax81

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About novax81

Andrew Quackenbos. LAMP developer, currently doing eCommerce, mostly Magento. Learning some JS MVCs for the hell of it. East coast.

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    Comment #37978069

    In fairness to the algorithm, Autism, ADHD, and OCD have significant core presentation overlap, and often get talked about in the same spaces online. There's probably a high relati…

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    Comment #37896174

    I've written about some hierarchical manager system with some friends when exploring how to use AI for larger set tasks. While the easy answer is simply using something with much l…

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    Comment #36562353

    Based on the comments (I'm also unfamiliar with emacs), you may also want to look into Obsidian. It keeps a local vault of files with some file structure magic to basically let you…

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    Comment #36562265

    I've been exploring this concept a lot myself. It's more than just the physical (im)permanence of the output. It's how every letter is a purposeful, even the mistakes. Every mark r…

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    Comment #36091978

    As a web developer, I'll be perfectly honest in expressing shock that anyone would assume it wasn't being recorded. Even in far less important spaces, basically every click and key…

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    Comment #33158953

    Man I hate this line of thought because I completely fall into it too, haha. For a really, really long period of life, I had just awful dental hygiene practices. Honestly don't eve…

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    Comment #32650582

    It's harder to get people to switch browsers nowadays. When Chrome first came out as a breath of fresh air (IE was IE, Firefox was better but a bit "heavy", Opera was... Opera), no…

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    Comment #19780882

    I lost my brother-in-law a few years ago, and it was awkward and painful to continue seeing his name in places like Steam [You both play this game] and other media. I had a damn ne…

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    Comment #6090537

    The amount of "Not knowing what people are doing" in large companies is rather alarming. I used to work at a company with about 700 employees just in the building I was in, and had…

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    Comment #5932985

    If you're looking for more meat on the subject of starting off with Ember-data, Tom Brandt has an excellent post that still (mostly) applies to the latest builds. http://twbrandt.g…

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    Comment #5623498

    As someone who struggles with good color selection, this is amazing. Thanks.

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    Comment #5293955

    The difference between working with bad bosses and good bosses really shows itself when there's a disaster going on. A mere few months into my current job, I ran an SQL query that …