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techtalsky

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About techtalsky

I've maintained web applications for The Jones Group, Big Fish Games, Serials Solutions, and The Orchard. I've written web applications for dozens of smaller companies. I use Ruby, Python, PHP, C#... ok almost everything but perl.

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    It's more like `ruff` for PHP.

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    Comment #44192935

    I was really excited when I read your post. I've long looked for a good MarkDown -> PDF or RTF workflow, so I gave KeenWrite a quick try. At first glance I really thought I'd be ex…

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    Comment #43656810

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    Comment #43115213

    A note that if you have "uv" installed you can execute arbitrary python packages with the "uvx" command without needing to clone a repo: uvx --from git+https://github.com/beala/xkc…

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    Comment #42215790

    There's proof! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vskQsSJ_IJg&ab_channel=hirud... Watching a playthrough I was surprised to see I'd never seen anyone get past level two.

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    Comment #41778523

    The author clearly needed to write the article they pitched, even if that wasn't supported by this source.

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    Comment #40456122

    Probably not. PillPack is MDP: multi-dose packaging, which is little packets containing multiple medications. All they're advertising here is regular bottled medications, which is …

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    Comment #38634188

    At the same time, Reddit exists, and this is a community of people created by a VC company explicitly to have wonky tech discussions with other professionals called "Hacker News". …

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    Comment #20437387

    Good call on Inform. It's certainly both novel and useful.

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    Comment #18906743

    Your anecdotal experience isn't an effective counterpoint though. Here's a citation in the neighborhood: http://www.pewsocialtrends.org/2017/12/05/americans-see-diff...

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    Comment #18906681

    It's actually really common for women who have experienced sexual assault to take steps (gaining weight, wearing loose baggy clothing) to avoid the male gaze.

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    Comment #18621606

    Technically, yes, as I understand the legislation.

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    Comment #16781926

    However this is something you can put in /use/local/bin and use alongside other command line tools with pipes

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    Comment #15504439

    OWASP guidelines are a good start.

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    Comment #15431907

    Muliline style /

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    Comment #13880186

    Even though the second Keen trilogy had richer graphics, I really loved the first Keen trilogy for the gameplay. The jumps and movement felt so much more physical. Keen would make …

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    Comment #13089389

    +1 for using Vagrant. This lets you bring instances up and down much more easily. Also, for most things you need (like say a Rails/nginx stack, or a LAMP stack) there's a prebuilt …

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    Comment #11524973

    Yeah, some aspect of Spelunky's spirit are obviously pulled from NetHack (Derek Yu, the creator, explains so specifically in the book about Spelunky).

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    Comment #10348698

    I'm sure they don't cost Amazon $200 to produce, and assumably they can just bill corporate customers for them if they're not returned. Some amount of loss is probably included in …

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    Comment #10080759

    Looks like the advantages as listed are: - Very simple visual configuration software - Ability to view a graphical representation of device usage and prioritize a device - Ability …

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    Comment #9624887

    You know, the age of ACTUAL pop-up windows really sucked, and it was amazing when browsers rendered them largely obsolete by limiting how websites could launch another window but a…

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    Comment #9452740

    I "extensively monitor" both channels and find that they have their own advantages and disadvantages. When an important technology is announced, or there's some important tech even…

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    Comment #9355298

    The main limitation is number of clients here. If you have a RESTful API, some ETL loaders, and several webservers running on EC2 all talking to your database, then you need a real…

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    Comment #8930414

    That would be wonderful. I have several friends who really struggle with CSS right now, and this kind of illustration is super useful. Floats are such a fundamental and confusing C…