EvanK

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by EvanK 15y ago
I've been a programmer for about 11 years. I've been doing it professionally for about 6. The fact that you're writing code because you want to makes you a programmer, not whether you're doing it professionally or whether you're any good a
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by EvanK 15y ago
Zend Framework (1.x), and Symfony2
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by EvanK 15y ago
Very interesting idea. Though, this seems like it would be much better suited as an Android/iOS/etc app to live on the phone itself.
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by EvanK 15y ago
Step 1: Talk to a mental health professional. I know you probably think that whatever's bothering you isn't serious enough to talk to a shrink, but when you have no friends to confide in, that is EXACTLY what you need. Step 2: Find people
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by EvanK 15y ago
PHP/Other. Zend Framework, and work stuff includes Symfony more and more.
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by EvanK 16y ago
On my (frankenstein) desktop at home, I use a Logitech G5 mouse. At work, I use a MBP and have become quite fond of the touchpad.
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by EvanK 16y ago
It all depends on how you view your life. You will spend the majority of your life trying to simply survive the coming day/week/month/year. How you do so is what determines what kind of life you lead. Work has never been my purpose in l
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by EvanK 16y ago
yeah, that is retarded. getting exercise is good. exerting yourself is good. even learning some kind of self defense is good. but that is just completely retarded. speaking as someone who DID get in a lot of fights growing up, the "it l
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by EvanK 16y ago
1) I'm not ready to make a move to California yet, and 2) I really do prefer small companies more than mega corporations with millions of employees. And 3) I don't know that they'd hire me anyway.
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by EvanK 16y ago
About goddamn time.
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by EvanK 16y ago
Correlation != causation. Despite the title submitted here, what the article actually says is that people are trying to subsist almost entirely on ramen, foregoing other nutrition that they need like fruits and veggies. I eat ramen every o
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by EvanK 16y ago
The first thing I thought was "great, something else I have to create a new username and password for". Supporting OpenID, OAuth, or some other kind of federated login would be a major improvemnt, IMHO.
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by EvanK 16y ago
If you've never had someone contact you to stop (spamming|scraping|crawling|DOSing) their web service, then you're not experimenting enough. That said, once they ask you to stop, it's the decent ethical thing to simply stop :)
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by EvanK 16y ago
I don't do anything unencrypted (no sites that don't support ssl, no ftp or telnet, etc). If I absolutely have to do something potentially insecure, I set up an ssh tunnel through my vps slice...I tend to avoid this if possible, because it
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by EvanK 16y ago
Capistrano + Git. Works beautifully, and rolling back bad deployments is a breeze
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by EvanK 16y ago
I will probably swap out my two 1TB HDDs when there are reasonably priced SSD equivalents. Right now, there's still way too high of a pricing premium and way too few choices for terabyte SSDs
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by EvanK 16y ago
Honestly, TrueCrypt will stop all but the most determined and sophisticated criminals. So unless you have state secrets on your laptop, TC should be sufficient. Unless they have a wrench: http://xkcd.com/538/
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by EvanK 16y ago
You may not always have your optimal tool set, such as when you're remoting into someone else's environment (common for sysadmins or contractors), or when you're stuck using someone else's computer rather than your own.
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by EvanK 16y ago
At work: 27" iMac + Textmate + Virtualbox + Transmit + ExpanDrive + Shimo + Navicat At home: Custom PC w/ 24" Samsung monitor + e Text Editor + Virtualbox + PuTTY + Filezilla + ExpanDrive + Navicat
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by EvanK 16y ago
That article, for being so wordy, is remarkably slim on details. If the issue is that he refused to use a condom, then that doesn't constitute rape if they decided to have sex with him anyway. If he actually did force himself on someone w
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by EvanK 16y ago
I already use free fonts from FontSquirrel, so I don't know what extra value they add?
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by EvanK 16y ago
Even then, we still have options that people haven't always had, like adoption or surrogacy.
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by EvanK 16y ago
Because they can. We live longer now than we ever have...We don't have to be married and having kids by the time we're twenty, before the plague or dysentery gets us. A female friend of mine just turned 30 and she's just getting into an
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by EvanK 16y ago
This would be awesome if the website hosting the strips was actually up. Poor little sad broken image icons...
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by EvanK 16y ago
"How can you tell if a CEO is lying?" Easy. If words are coming out, he's lying.
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by EvanK 16y ago
In high school. I joined an online community and started building a (hideous) website related to it on Angelfire. Went from HTML to Javascript to Perl to the Wonderful World of Linux, all within a year or so. Now I'm primarily a PHP dev
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by EvanK 16y ago
Thinking of getting a GeekDesk. You can buy just the frame, then find your own desk top piece (and a hollow-core door from home depot will work just fine)
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by EvanK 16y ago
Not exactly what you're asking, but I took a chance on replacing my chair entirely with an inflatable exercise ball, and I'm quite happy with the result. It took a week or so to get used to, but my balance has somewhat improved and my lowe
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by EvanK 16y ago
Slicehost for my personal website (plus $5 extra a month for snapshot backups). At work, we use Rackspace dedicated servers & managed hosting...its expensive, but it means we don't need to hire a sys-admin
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by EvanK 16y ago
The Flashbulb. Good ambient music, doesn't get in the way when you're really focusing on your thoughts...

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