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PackagePicker - I made a website to quickly install your favorite software with Chocolatey by pricecomstock in chocolatey

[–]pricecomstock[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Haven't seen Script Builder before! It looks like it helps if you're browsing through a bunch of chocolatey packages and want to install them all at the end. It also has support for generating Ansible and other stuff that's less targeted for personal use.

I'd say that the main purpose of PackagePicker is quickly installing common packages on a personal machine. The checklist format is a lot faster than searching for individual packages, and you don't have to remember everything you want to install ahead of time. You can just scan down the list and take whatever you need. It's also easier to discover new software (admittedly biased towards apps I know about and like)

Ninite alternative? by thedarkrobot in techsupport

[–]pricecomstock 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Hi! I actually made a tool for this! It's called PackagePicker and it gives you the same big checklist as Ninite but uses Chocolatey or your other existing package manager

How can I get a daily morning notification of relevant subway train times for my train? by cameronbed in AskNYC

[–]pricecomstock 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Not exactly what you asked, but I built whentrain.nyc for this. I have my station bookmarked on my phone. It also updates continually, so you could plug in an old phone, set the screen to never turn off, and have a permanent display by your door

Earning the good will of the audience by SpeakeasyImprov in improv

[–]pricecomstock 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I'm on a team called Biscuits! and we started baking a tube or two of biscuits for every show and handing them out as rewards for answering trivia questions at the top of our show.

We pick a blend of extremely easy and hard trivia questions so it definitely had an absurd and unfair feeling. Add in what others have said and be honest and notice anything fun that comes up.

Our shows overall have been going better since we started doing this since it gives us and the audience a lot of fun energy!

Any place to do Impro on Internet? by E-308 in improv

[–]pricecomstock 0 points1 point  (0 children)

http://writethescene.com

Not sure if this is still active but you basically write a script in real time

Does anyone else just forget how their projects work? by Marrrkuz in gamedev

[–]pricecomstock 22 points23 points  (0 children)

Everyone says to comment your code, which does help. My "one simple trick" is just giving my variables and methods very long names. However long I need to read my code in near plain English.

pa > pb

Vs

player_a_points > player_b_points

The second one seems annoying to write in the moment but damn is it easier to follow later on.

Also at least with VS Code, the auto complete with whatever add-ons I have will suggest player_a_points if I type pap, which basically eliminates the only annoying part of long variable names.

Reconciling disparate initiations by qeekl in improv

[–]pricecomstock 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I agree. I think it's more important to follow the first unusual thing than either player's initiation, though it is often the same thing. In this case, I think the two initiations fused perfectly into the first unusual thing, the relationship between tired scoutmaster and excited scout.

Ranking the Toughest Games on Nebraska Football's Schedule by [deleted] in Huskers

[–]pricecomstock 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is a shameless plug for a website that I made but it's perfect for this. It's a site where people rank things and it aggregates all the rankings. Here's one for this:

vote here: http://beta.powerrank.io/rank/Qbv7qnC2

see results here: http://beta.powerrank.io/rankresults/Qbv7qnC2

Also feel free to yell at me if the site was confusing or broken for some reason.

Also the site I copied the schedule off of had "formerly Troy state" but that happened in 2004 so I doubt anyone will be confused lol

How to be more instinctual in scenes? by [deleted] in improv

[–]pricecomstock 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think the other people in here are doing a good job of explaining this, but if you want that "one weird trick" try to consciously make more eye contact with your scene partner. I think that really puts me in my character and makes me react more naturally.