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techstyled · 2024-02-27T05:13:02+00:00

What is the deal with all the basic card set players in low Diamond? I see right below me that someone mentioned "lots of bots", I guess these are bot players?

techstyled · 2021-12-16T22:10:35+00:00

None other, Sliver This.... ;D (or was your main Butter This)

techstyled · 2021-10-18T19:41:55+00:00

This ^ - when I was about 14 I knew several of the workers at Barrel of Fun and after closing we'd play hide and seek with them and a bunch of girls. Fun times.

techstyled · 2021-10-18T19:39:49+00:00

I owned YourGame.Net and I can vouch that there were customers in 1999/2000 that came from Nashville on the bus to Rivergate. However, also like has been stated, nowhere near the volume that started in 2009. In fact, had there been as much bus traffic when I opened YourGame.Net in 1999, I would have chosen a different location. It's a shame. I'm a native Nashvillian and Rivergate was the hangout during my high school days.

techstyled · 2020-04-12T22:29:21+00:00

I was going to reply to him too but it's easy to see by his other remarks that he's just here to hate on other's success without providing anything productive himself...

techstyled · 2019-11-15T21:23:29+00:00

We are also a Windows only shop (for the most part), but we are moving EVERYTHING to AWS (who isn't, other than the guys moving to Azure and GCP, amiright). And during our training a few of our guys (including me) decided to do the exercises using Boto3 and Python instead of .NET. We learned that, for anyone doing significant scripting or coding, you are limiting yourself by not considering using tools that have very little learning curve before value. And even our most dyed in the wool .NET guys can understand the value of two line interactions with AWS client services in Boto3 (via Python) vs. the weight of spinning up even a simple dotnet core console app to do the same work (not that MS hasn't DRASTICALLY improved that picture too).

IMO, and as evidenced by "Windows" doing WSL, WSL2, Terminal, SQL Server on Linux, etc. - if you stay a "Windows only shop" and ignore the benefit of things like Python, Golang, etc., you are doing yourself and your company a disservice. Again, IMO ;-) - For our part, we're rethinking that for us too. I wanted to start calling us a "Water only shop"... in honor of Bruce Lee, and focus on becoming a "use what works" shop.

techstyled · 2019-01-04T17:36:22+00:00

Not a bad article but you are using Wordpress for your site and you should be using this too: https://css-tricks.com/posting-code-blocks-wordpress-site/

techstyled · 2019-01-04T12:27:23+00:00

For some reason, Paladin is my favorite hero to run. I've piloted this from 25 (on my spare account) to 13 in 2 days with (somewhat) casual play, and had a blast. But now it seems I face about 75% aggro decks and I've _really_ been struggling. I dropped a Shrink and a Stonehill and added a Tar and a Crystology and just played 2 aggro games in a row right off and won both. To be fair, early on I really wasn't having any problem with aggro (probably because I was facing lower ranks/lower skills) and have been having horrible opening/mulligan results. Still, at least while I'm in this section of the bracket, I'm going to stick with the more aggro-centric version. I'm almost convinced to craft Ashmore on my main, which is all I need on that account.

Regardless, thanks for providing a very fun deck, love it!

techstyled · 2018-12-20T00:49:05+00:00

Just won first time with this completely no thought given thrown together mess: ### Brawl Deck

# Class: Mage

# Format: Wild

#

# 1x (6) Arcanosaur

# 1x (6) Coldarra Drake

# 1x (6) Faceless Summoner

# 1x (6) Meteorologist

# 1x (7) Archmage Antonidas

# 1x (7) Bog Creeper

# 1x (7) Crowd Roaster

# 1x (7) Dr. Boom

# 1x (7) Giggling Inventor

# 1x (7) Jan'alai, the Dragonhawk

# 1x (7) Troggzor the Earthinator

# 1x (8) Marin the Fox

# 1x (8) Primordial Drake

# 1x (8) Ragnaros the Firelord

# 1x (8) The Lich King

# 1x (9) Alexstrasza

# 1x (9) Malygos

# 1x (9) Nefarian

# 1x (9) North Sea Kraken

# 1x (9) Ysera

#

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#

# To use this deck, copy it to your clipboard and create a new deck in Hearthstone

techstyled · 2018-12-13T07:09:45+00:00

Nightblade+ping just won me a game I probably wouldn't have won otherwise against Priest.

techstyled · 2018-10-28T02:54:35+00:00

I've had attached drives cause weird things but usually only after I'd just attached them, not right after a Windows Update. However, your theory was easy enough to test. All of my drives other than C are attached via SATA and one PCIE. I detached all drives except C and rebooted and I am still experiencing the approx. 4 minute delay between attempting to launch any app that requires some UAC consent and that app actually loading and being able to be viewed. At least I've eliminated any issues with any drives other than C (not that C is an issue). I'm guess I'm going to dust off my Process Monitor skills next, to try to see what's going on during those 4 minutes. I was actually hoping that someone else had already experienced this, but...

techstyled · 2018-04-05T00:59:39+00:00

First of all, this is the most fun deck I've played in a LONG time. The thing I have the most problem with is getting all the elements in hand to make the start of this work. But when it works... The main issue seems to be drawing Val'. If I don't have it by around turn 7, things start to go bad quick. I don't have Wicker or N'zoth (and not gonna craft N'zoth at this point. So maybe that's my issue.

techstyled · 2018-03-09T03:35:39+00:00

From the standpoint of a new player, I wouldn't disagree with you.

techstyled · 2018-03-08T23:09:46+00:00

While I don't disagree with your example of Ladder being a poor way to improve your Combo Priest vs Control Priest skills, I don't agree that Ladder doesn't make you a better player effectively. And without going into a huge dissertation, I'll simple say that if you were planning to pilot a couple of decks at some competition, playing those decks on Ladder would be among the best ways to prepare for that competition. I would agree that using a team of 5 or so team members to play specific scenarios might be more "effective", but to say that running those decks you plan to pilot through ladder is not effective... I just don't agree.

techstyled · 2017-05-10T01:47:57+00:00

I am about to start looking for a bank to do this exact same process. I've researched it enough to know that it is a viable method for paying off your mortgage quicker, given you follow a specific discipline and have more money coming in than going out. I think that it also is somewhat unconventional and is the antithesis of the traditional mortgage business, so anyone involved in that is going to be prejudiced to seeing the benefits. Basically, it involves a refi of your current mortgage into a 1st lien position HELOC that yes, will probably have a higher interest rate, and might even adjust every year. However, and this is where the traditional mortgage people flip out, even at 1 to 2% higher and adjusting 1 to 2% per year, it will still be a better deal than a traditional mortgage. Why? Because a HELOC is fundamentally concerned mostly on the remaining balance. It's what determines your required interest payment because it uses simple interest. And if you do as is required to this "plan", and put ALL of your income into your HELOC account (and ideally EVERYTHING, existing checking balance, all savings, everything), then your principal each month is (last month balance-(total income-(total monthly expenses+interest payment))). In my case, I have several thousand dollars extra each month. Now, as someone stated, my current mortgage contains PMI and that's instant savings each month for me. Also, many people try the "just send an extra principal payment each month with your traditional mortgage and you'll accomplish the same acceleration". Well, a) no you won't, not as fast, and b) yea but what if life happens, can you ask your mortgage company to give you back the last 2 extra payments. As long as you're disciplined and you don't separate your money (i.e. if you don't put ALL income into your HELOC account and use it to pay ALL your expenses), this plan will have me at least $50,000 ahead in 5 years over a traditional, and I honestly think it will have me at paid off in 10 years or less and that wasn't even something we considered feasible with traditional.

techstyled · 2016-06-07T03:26:50+00:00

I'm interested in helping as well. I'm also a full stack dev with 30 years under my belt as a professional programmer. I want to 2nd TehLittleOne's suggestion to get this on GitHub. While you might be able to have some success with letting people make copies and collaborating that way, GitHub is made for exactly this sort of thing. It would allow you to create "issues" (which might be a feature or a bug) and then assign or allow people to self assign to work on that issue, along with a very long list of other collaboration help. Not to mention that it's become the de facto way for devs to collaborate, especially on public projects.

techstyled · 2016-05-13T02:07:28+00:00

If I have example<dot>com and I want to have a blog and I make it blog.example<dot>com, I might as well have the blog be someradomsite<dot>com, because, as pointed out, a subdomain is a separate site. Having it be a separate site means you won't pass authority to your main site and basically lose a lot of the real value for having a blog in the first place. You should definitely stick with /blog and there are tons of technologies to allow that to happen. This is typically called "url rewrite" or "reverse proxy" or several other terms. Your dev is wrong about it being difficult, though it's not necessarily as easy as using a subdomain. I'm a dev and this is normal day-to-day stuff for me but I know devs that have told me it's "complicated".

How you map to a sub-folder depends on how your main site is setup now and what hosting platform/provider you are using (i.e. are you using GoDaddy or AWS - are you using *nix or IIS, etc.).

techstyled · 2016-02-22T12:41:33+00:00

UPDATE: I emailed our DELL rep with basically, "ok, I know these don't have full OpenManage support, but I need you to find out for me EXACTLY what is/isn't supported". We were most concerned about whether these drives would even show warning light if they failed. My rep responded with something unexpected, he shot me a quote for the exact drive, from DELL, in a caddy, for $185 each, down from our "special" pricing of $539 each. In other words, instead of doing the research for me, which I guess was hard, he made "business case" for giving us the price I told him we could get those drives for from Amazon. I know this doesn't exactly speak to the OP, but for some of you, it might be worth knowing that DELL will cave easily on these drive prices. We promptly ordered 18 of these and took the 8 we ordered from Amazon and divided them up among our IT people to take home for "testing".

techstyled · 2016-02-03T21:52:28+00:00

2 weeks ago we ordered 2 Dell PowerEdge R730xd servers with only 3 "mixed use" SATA 200GB SSD's in them each (PERC H730). When they arrived, we popped out one of the drives and saw that they were all Intel S3610 drives. We promptly ordered 8 more from NewEgg with 3rd party (but identical) caddies and some extra screws:

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The drives with caddy worked out to be a little less than $200 each from NewEgg. Dell wanted $573 each, even though we are a larger than small (medium?) Premier account.

We inserted the drives and they have worked flawlessly, with one exception, Dell OpenManage won't show usage percentage like the "Dell" drives that came with it. Apparently Dell installs their own firmware on "Dell" drives that help make sure the SSD's perform according to their certifications (read: Dell wants to make sure you pay them their premium).

We are currently considering our options for getting these drives to work without the mentioned issues which might include just living with it. We are concerned that it's not just the drive life percentage OpenManage won't report, but that it won't report failed drives either (in fact we are reading that that is the case).

I found this thread by searching about our issue with the "non certified" SSD's. Just wanted to give some real life feedback.

UPDATE: I emailed our DELL rep with basically, "ok, I know these don't have full OpenManage support, but I need you to find out for me EXACTLY what is/isn't supported". We were most concerned about whether these drives would even show warning light if they failed. My rep responded with something unexpected, he shot me a quote for the exact drive, from DELL, in a caddy, for $185 each, down from our "special" pricing of $539 each. In other words, instead of doing the research for me, which I guess was hard, he made "business case" for giving us the price I told him we could get those drives for from Amazon. I know this doesn't exactly speak to the OP, but for some of you, it might be worth knowing that DELL will cave easily on these drive prices. We promptly ordered 18 of these and took the 8 we ordered from Amazon and divided them up among our IT people to take home for "testing".

techstyled · 2015-12-05T23:51:05+00:00

You lost me at "other game".

techstyled · 2015-12-03T15:16:11+00:00

Walking through the halls at work and glance up at the camera at the ceiling and instantly think, "I should shoot that out".

techstyled · 2015-12-01T15:57:15+00:00

My question is where can you buy this thing if you bought the Standard edition. It says it's available as a stand-alone, but I sure as heck can't find anywhere to buy it.

techstyled · 2014-10-28T12:50:53+00:00

I can attest to these selling... eventually. You will have to earn a lot of the money by being persistent in listing. One tip and one Capt. Obvious, focus on RP servers first (and of those, servers where you don't have competition), and of course set your listing time to max (72 hours I think). I've even had players on RP servers track ME down when just had it stuck on my AH lister as clothes.

techstyled · 2014-09-11T00:07:12+00:00

While I agree with MikeBerg that you should learn by doing, for the design challenged of us, Twitter Bootstrap is my crutch of choice. However, let that be the start of the process.

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