hex1848

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by hex1848 5y ago
My first development gig in high school was at the NHMFL working with the photo microscopy guys on various projects. It was a great experience that got my development career rolling. This was the mid/late 90's. We went from deve
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by hex1848 6y ago
I just shut down a VB6 app that had been running since 1998 at the company I work for last month. The leadership team finally decided they didn't want to sell that particular feature anymore. We still have a handful of apps from arou
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by hex1848 7y ago
Authorize.Net is what we've used for online payments and our internal subscription processing for over a decade. API is easy to use. Never really had any downtime. Rates are competitive. No one has come along and given us much of a re
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by hex1848 8y ago
At this point if anyone in your family (including cousins) submit dna to one of those sites, they can use it to track it back to you with basic sleuthing skills. They've solved a handful of cold cases this way.
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by hex1848 8y ago
I am tired of people calling me a "victim" of identity theft. I'm not the victim. The companies and government agencies that allowed themselves to be defrauded by someone posing as me are the victims. If you didn't do
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by hex1848 9y ago
TIL that eggdrop is still being developed / maintained.. I had a few bots running around EFNet and Undernet in ~96. Hadn't heard this reference in years. http://www.eggheads.org/
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by hex1848 9y ago
I am using PhantomJS for a similar project running on AWS Lambda - running into all sorts of rendering bugs / crashes. Wanted to make the switch to puppeteer, but as of now it requires a higher version of NodeJS than what Lambda suppo
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by hex1848 9y ago
Friendly reminder that building a wall isn't going to keep blue collar jobs around. Automation is going to kill them much quicker than immigrants will.
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by hex1848 9y ago
I've been using MotionEyeOS for several months now. I setup a a couple of Pi3's with some cheap Logitech USB webcams. Works great from inside the house - I used velcro to tape the cameras pointing out from various windows around
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by hex1848 9y ago
You can usually easily figure out someones connect the dots password simply by looking at the smudge marks on the screen.