scottlilly

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by scottlilly 3y ago
Several years ago, I wrote a chess-like game where the shape of the pieces showed their potential moves ( https://github.com/scottlilly/mogrichess ). This was needed because the a capturing piece gained the movement abil
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by scottlilly 3y ago
I remember a version named "dBrief", for those of us programming dBase/Clipper code. It was a great tool back then.
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by scottlilly 3y ago
The same for me. My current car is a 2014 model, with 42k miles on it. I probably drive less than 2,000 miles a year. The car looks great, drives great, and has plenty of safety features. Unless there's some life-changing event that re
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by scottlilly 3y ago
I've been using a Manta Sleep mask (no speakers) for the last year and half, and love it. Unlike the cheap eye mask, it doesn't have an elastic strap that eventually gets out of shape. And it blocks 100% of light for me. As a side
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by scottlilly 4y ago
I'll second Siteground. My WordPress sites were gradually getting slower on DreamHost - with support saying there weren't any problems. I switched to Siteground a few months ago, and so far, I've been happy with them. Sitegro
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by scottlilly 4y ago
I've been streaming some of my side projects on Twitch, with OBS. During the stream, I keep up a fairly constant spoken description of what I'm doing, what I'm thinking, what problem I'm stuck on, etc. I've noticed
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by scottlilly 4y ago
For my WordPress site, I replace Google Analytics with Koko Analytics. It provides list visitor information. But, I really just care to see which pages are most popular.
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by scottlilly 4y ago
I'm also not a lawyer or CPA, but I believe if a US person is a partial owner in a foreign corporation, the company is required to do their accounting by GAAP standards. So, if the company is in a country that follows IFRS standards, i
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by scottlilly 4y ago
I've had my personal domain since 1999. It was originally hand-coded HTML, but has been WordPress for at least the last eight years. Back in 2014 I wrote a beginner's guide to C#, with the lessons building a very simple (non-graph
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by scottlilly 5y ago
Several years ago, I wrote a Greasemonkey script to do this. I haven't used it in years, and am not sure if there's an alternative for Brave browser (my new standard). It basically looked for all the "a" elements in the
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by scottlilly 5y ago
I've been working on something (probably) similar in C#. The idea is to tag files/documents with attributes like "auto", "insurance", "2022", encrypt the file locally (using your manually entered key)
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by scottlilly 5y ago
Intuit forever lost my business when they tried to run my QuickBooks Payroll from a bank account I deactivated, after moving to a new bank (and updating my bank information in QuickBooks). They then charged me a $100 non-sufficient funds fe
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by scottlilly 5y ago
https://github.com/ScottLilly/MogriChess It's a variation of chess where the capturing piece acquires the movement capabilities of the piece it captured. I originally wrote a version seven years ago, but never got
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by scottlilly 5y ago
It's frustrating, the number of recruiters who don't provide the job description and compensation - even when directly asked for them. I keep "Can you please send me the job description and pay rate, so I can let you know if
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by scottlilly 5y ago
These are my uBlock settings for YouTube. They actually make using YouTube pleasant. www.youtube.com###secondary www.youtube.com##ytd-browse[page-subtype="home"] #primary www.youtube.com##.ytp-show-tiles.ytp-endscreen-paginate.vid
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by scottlilly 5y ago
On my Windows 11 desktop, with an RTX 2060 Super, I'm able to use MSI Afterburner to adjust values and improve performance for Ehtereum mining.
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by scottlilly 5y ago
I've generally followed the article's outline for some programming tutorials I created. The lessons are based on building a simple role-playing game. They try to quickly get to something to make the students feel, "I wrote a
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by scottlilly 5y ago
Not a programming language, but I just installed Linux on an old laptop and plan to learn how to do my development work in Linux. I've been a corporate C# programmer for years, working in Windows. But, I should be able to do a lot of m
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by scottlilly 5y ago
My gut feeling is that there's still good value in frequent demos/checkpoints/etc. It does create a sense of urgency to complete tasks and lets the owner know that progress is really being made. Besides undercommitting for th
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by scottlilly 5y ago
It has its positives and negatives - but I'd say mostly positive. It's a little difficult to hold conversations with chat while trying to remember what I'm doing with the program. It also feels a little awkward talking to an
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by scottlilly 5y ago
The channel is https://www.twitch.tv/codingwithscott . I don't have a schedule yet, especially with the holidays, but I'm going to try to stream at least a few times a week.
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by scottlilly 5y ago
I did some live-stream programming this morning. It's something I started trying out recently. There were a few people to chat with, and I made a little progress on a personal project.
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by scottlilly 5y ago
I assumed it was a thinly-veiled reference to Global Warming.
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by scottlilly 5y ago
I'm also a fan of using Kanban for most corporate line-of-business development. In almost every Scrum team I've worked with, they get close to the end of the iteration and start doing bad things - just to fit their interpretation
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by scottlilly 5y ago
I added this, to get rid of the carousel of channels they're currently promoting. twitch.tv##.front-page-carousel
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by scottlilly 5y ago
Yes. I was a repo man in the 1980s. When we'd get the repossession paperwork from the bank, we'd also get a copy of the car's title. We'd take that paperwork into a dealership and they would cut us duplicate keys.
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by scottlilly 5y ago
I have a mechanical IWC watch from 1947 that still works well, and some other, newer mechanical watches I expect to last for decades (with proper maintenance). During the lockdown, I've replaced most of my kitchen items with things I e
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Ask HN: Where do you find weird and wonderful future tech nowadays?
102 points by scottlilly 5y ago|52 comments
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by scottlilly 5y ago
I left my last contracting project around six weeks ago because of encountering this attitude - yet again. I wrote my first custom business program 40 years ago. Since then, I've only been on two teams that didn't exhibit this att
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by scottlilly 5y ago
I did a 23 & Me test, pulled down my raw data, and ran the data through some services that check more things than 23 & Me. One of my SNPs (Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms) indicated I have a higher chance of a psychotic reaction to

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