howellnick

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by howellnick 3y ago
> Yeah, that one is rock solid. The best compliment to receive, thanks! (I’m the author)
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by howellnick 3y ago
It’s supported by donations (via Patreon).
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by howellnick 3y ago
Happy to see something I made showing up in the comments! I do still maintain Exo, but it doesn’t have all of the features I would have liked to build (like automation) built-in. Maybe someday, or for SpaceTraders v2. Cheers!
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by howellnick 5y ago
https://cognitohq.com/ is another YC company that's already in this space. I haven't tried either service, but I wonder how they compare.
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by howellnick 7y ago
C# 8.0 introduced "Nullable Reference Types" ( https://devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/embracing-nullable-ref... ), which, if enabled, can help solve this problem.
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by howellnick 9y ago
Doesn’t RDP use Ctrl+Alt+End for bringing up the password screen?
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by howellnick 13y ago
I don't use Backblaze, so I don't know what kind of upload speeds they have on restores, but 12+ hours for 6gb seems very slow (or the bottleneck is your download speed). It doesn't seem all that unreasonable for someone that
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by howellnick 13y ago
He's not even sure that Chrome.exe was at fault. Why are you so quick to assume that it's Backblaze's fault in this one customer instance? He could have just reinstalled his machine, did a lot of weird configurations, etc. an
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by howellnick 13y ago
Coming from working in IT support, it's frustrating to me that you've made a big public ordeal over something that, firstly was fixed by rebooting your PC, and secondly you haven't tried downloading the file a second time. I&
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by howellnick 15y ago
In a way I think this is less intrusive (and clever). These are merely "suggested defaults" that never actually get displayed on the user's profile. Actually using bad defaults may have the undesired effect of people not changing the bad de
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by howellnick 15y ago
They did not add any content whatsoever. facepalm It's simply a mind trick to get a much higher percent of users to add their skills to their profile.
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by howellnick 15y ago
It's just a motivator to "correct" their skills and enter real ones. Who wants to say they "love IE6"? Hah, I like it.