MikeTV

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by MikeTV 10y ago
Worth noting that the limits are different between Roth IRAs and Traditional IRAs, though, if you have a retirement plan at work. A married couple making between 119k and 186k wouldn't get any deduction for the trad IRA, so might as w
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by MikeTV 10y ago
Hopefully will be able to drop ColdFusion and Flash. Have a legacy site using those that I'm working to replace. Too many security concerns with both (surely made worse by the spaghetti mess the code's in), and Flash is very p
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by MikeTV 10y ago
A sub-vocalization microphone and speech recognition system that puts silently-spoken notes into OneNote.
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by MikeTV 10y ago
Anecdotally, I think a lot of my vocabulary came from reading older novels. J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Issac Asimov, Arthur C. Clarke, Agatha Christie, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, etc. Recently I've started reading modern scifi/myst
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by MikeTV 10y ago
As I've become more involved in meetings at work, I've noticed a myself speaking like you describe. It's as though I've trained my hind brain on the topics being discussed and can just let it pattern match the conversat
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by MikeTV 10y ago
Commodore 64 M.U.L.E, Frogger, Q*bert, Commando, Royal Rescue, ...
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by MikeTV 10y ago
For me, yes. Has to be instrumental, though, or I can't think. Faster beat to grind through mapped-out tasks or for a final push at the end of the day. Downtempo for thinking through a problem or mapping out tasks. Discussion about
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by MikeTV 10y ago
I've been doing these stretches a few times a day for the past several years, since I first felt RSI coming on. It's helped significantly. Whenever I start to feel wrist/hand pain, I know I've been slacking on them. h
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by MikeTV 10y ago
I carry a pocket-sized notebook everywhere. Moleskin and Leuchtturm brands are good, but the $2 knockoffs at Wal-Mart/Staples/etc are fine, too. An added benefit: Jotting down a note on paper appears to be more socially acceptabl
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by MikeTV 10y ago
I wonder if there's enough interest to run a webinar on the topic? Or offer a higher tier that gives access to one-on-one with you if they get stuck during the course?
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by MikeTV 10y ago
As an addendum for #2, discern whether it is just the current phase of the project or cycle in the company that's boring, or if it's everything. Most projects have at least some drudgery that you have to power through. Where I wo
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by MikeTV 10y ago
Fantastic =) Recreation of one of my favorite games, having fun with it this morning. Noticed that you have to keep a high cash balance -- once the population reaches a tipping point every citizen will be unhappy if there isn't enough
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by MikeTV 10y ago
What about code in a bitmap-based language like Piet? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Esoteric_programming_language#...
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by MikeTV 10y ago
FYI: beter -> better
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by MikeTV 10y ago
Firefox Developer Edition, Chrome, and occasionally Edge. Web development in Firefox, because I like the basic dev tools better. Performance testing in Chrome because I like its dev tools' network tab and profiler better. Primary soci
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by MikeTV 10y ago
Hadn't thought about it until now, but this feature may be why I don't see "I wrote you a long message but accidentally closed the tab / hit the back button / my computer crashed and I lost it, so here's the hi
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by MikeTV 10y ago
Doing just this. For me, a Monolithic Dome figured out to be the lowest maintenance. Concrete, for all the reasons you mentioned, plus an added benefit of no roof needing repair. Exterior maintenance is yearly power washing, only if it l
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by MikeTV 10y ago
I, Robot and other Asimov books inspired an interest in AI and taught me to explore all the ways a system could go wrong. The Ship who Searched by Anne McCaffrey and Mercedes Lackey introduced me to the stock market.
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by MikeTV 10y ago
Switched everything over to Microsoft, because Google is evil now and Microsoft isn't. Will switch back in a few years when they trade places again.
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by MikeTV 10y ago
Just what I was thinking. It doesn't actually prevent the user from downloading the image, just makes them think that they failed to download the image (since it saves with a .htm extension). The HTML file could be one that admonish
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by MikeTV 10y ago
Someone had written a C# interpreter for Windows Mobile 5. I used that occasionally to noodle on algorithm ideas or brute-force math problems.
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by MikeTV 10y ago
https://www.versionsql.com - Version control add-in for SQL Server Management Studio. Built it for myself after lamenting a lack of affordable source control options for SQL Server -- turns out there's other people in the
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by MikeTV 10y ago
Every hurdle vs. proper security has been non-technical. Slowly making progress :-)
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by MikeTV 10y ago
In our user management portal, whenever tech support opens the Create New User or Reset User Password page Chrome helpfully fills their administrative password into the user's password field.
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by MikeTV 10y ago
It's unbelievable until you actually start searching for a job out here.
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by MikeTV 10y ago
Yes. 3 senior devs or 5 junior devs would fit cleanly in $250k, at least in the part of the midwest I'm at.
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by MikeTV 10y ago
Same here. I carry a pocket notebook to jot down ideas and non-work to-dos. Writing it down lets me clear it out of my head and get back to work. Then, whenever I have some downtime waiting in line or whatnot I can go over old ideas and
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by MikeTV 10y ago
Something old: /r/TodayILearned Something new: HN Something coding: StackOverflow / Pluralsight Something coo: youtube.com/SmarterEveryDay
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by MikeTV 10y ago
Changing all your passwords and enabling 2FA was the right step. Make sure all the passwords are strong and that you set a different password for each site (a password manager like KeePass makes this easier). As to where it came from, chec
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by MikeTV 10y ago
Japanese Pixel Art GIFs http://1041uuu.tumblr.com/ Somehow these little clips of everyday life convey a massive amount of atmosphere.

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