MikeTV

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by MikeTV 2y ago
Would you mind sending me an email (address in profile)? I'd love to pick your brain about some of the trickier ones I'm running into.
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by MikeTV 2y ago
Do you happen to have links to any good documentation/articles on this topic? I'm working on what amounts to a dark theme for Win32 controls and largely making it up as I go along, relying on tidbits and off-hand mentions from de
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by MikeTV 5y ago
My experience also. This is particularly bad in the SQL Server space, since Microsoft essentially dropped source control integration in SQL Server Management Studio 2016 and later (there's an official workaround[0], but it's not w
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by MikeTV 5y ago
I've been filling a tiny gap in Microsoft tooling with https://www.versionsql.com/ It's something that seemed small and simple to implement, but has filled a not-insignificant portion of nights and weekends for
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by MikeTV 8y ago
I'm casually experimenting with this too, to improve AQ in my home office. Do you recall the surface area in the 6-inch-deep bioreactor (or total volume)? The only hard numbers I've found are from the Russian BIOS-1,2,3 experime
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by MikeTV 8y ago
I've noticed that with single-question responses such as Amazon's "why are you returning this" drop-down, and it makes total sense there. A consistently random arrangement means that users picking just the top answer wi
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by MikeTV 8y ago
Today Google popped up a little survey in the corner of my account page, with questions like "I trust Google to keep my data private", "It's easy to find out what data Google has on me", that sort. Answers were one-
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by MikeTV 9y ago
This one suggests so: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/biorxiv/early/2016/05/26/055... Released as a partial report last year; a quick search didn't find if it had been completed yet or not
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by MikeTV 9y ago
Check out NaNoGenMo [1], a yearly challenge to write computer-generated novels. Each year gets 100-200 entries (see the GitHub Issues tab) using various techniques. The resource links are treasure troves as well. Other relevant links I&#x
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by MikeTV 9y ago
FWIW I have the 6290 (2016 model) and haven't run into any annoying misfeatures. Crisp and smooth at 60Hz, UHD color mode. Was stuck at 30Hz and perceptibly laggy until I forced it to 4:4:4 in the nVidia control panel. Everything onl
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by MikeTV 9y ago
Earlier this year (~May) they shut down their API endpoint that rendered handy little stock chart images with a surprising amount of useful features. Any alternatives out there, other than tying together a charting lib and data API?
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by MikeTV 9y ago
The only killer use case I've encountered so far is being able to yell "hey Cortana! Next track!" across the room while playing with a toddler, since either walking over to push a button or pulling my smartphone out to advanc
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by MikeTV 9y ago
I've been dogfooding my own SQL Server Management Studio add-in, VersionSQL [0] Priorities in its design and why I prefer to use it: It lives where I work, in SSMS. It's as close to zero-friction as possible, so I'm not gett
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by MikeTV 9y ago
Use AutoHotKey to remap CapsLock to function as an Enter key. Or dig into the JS and figure out how to execute the send manually?
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by MikeTV 9y ago
Several mirrorless and pro compacts at least have focus peaking built in. Not perfect, but something that can be worked with.
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by MikeTV 9y ago
I just ran across Language Tool[0] recently. Free, open-source proofreading lib, can be run totally locally. Uses Google Ngrams to check for often confused words. Didn't correct "doe snot" in my synthetic test just now, bu
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by MikeTV 9y ago
Cortana has that as an option in Settings, but it's not on by default.
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by MikeTV 9y ago
Mine are in a bookmark folder. Middle-clicking the folder opens all of its contents in new tabs.
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by MikeTV 9y ago
"Value must be 10 characters or less"
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by MikeTV 9y ago
Primarily video game soundtracks. They're made to play in the background while you perform tasks and come in all sorts of moods / intensity levels. Favorites: - FTL - Crypt of the Necrodancer - Shatter - Skyrim - Deus Ex (all) -
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by MikeTV 9y ago
AFAIK they only run the DMCA checksum when the file/folder is shared. Keeping it inside your own account is OK.
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by MikeTV 9y ago
Unless you do it the other way around: Generate a list of all passwords similar to the one the user just entered and see if that matches any previous hashes. This is how Facebook's password check works [0] [0] https://secur
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by MikeTV 9y ago
Tendon stretches a couple times a day [0] Whenever I start feeling pain in my hands/wrists, it's because I've been slacking on doing these stretches. [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cD8BGa3p1Ms
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by MikeTV 9y ago
You might be interested in "Code Katas" - small, targeted programming exercises. Check out codewars.com, codekata.com, codekatas.org, etc. Also check out ACM Competitive Programming problems [0]. They're small projects, usu
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by MikeTV 9y ago
Two that I listen to every week are Giant Robots and Startups for the Rest of Us - they have a lot of broadly-applicable startup info, but are also primarily focused on SaaS. I wish there were podcasts on building/growing/running
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by MikeTV 10y ago
KeePass with the KeeFox and chromeIPass browser extensions. Synced in dropbox, using password+keyfiles that aren't in the cloud anywhere. A bit slow on mobile, but can adjust down the rounds of encryption if it gets too annoying.
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by MikeTV 10y ago
Jabber here too. Works decently well, except they run URLDecode four times on all messages. Makes chatting about URL encoding errors very difficult.
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by MikeTV 10y ago
https://www.versionsql.com Version control add-in for SQL Server Management Studio.
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by MikeTV 10y ago
> DeepStack becomes the first computer program to beat professional poker players in heads-up no-limit Texas hold'em Whether any others have been made before now is anyone's guess. Botting is a known problem in online poker.
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by MikeTV 10y ago
Thanks, didn't know about that one!

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