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Sitting-Duc

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  1. Have I Been Pwned was created by Troy Hunt who is a widely respected and trusted security expert
  2. I wonder what they were doing on my profile to hit 70,000.... now that is disgusting.
  3. 165Hz - I went with three of these: https://www.asus.com/uk/Displays-Desktops/Monitors/TUF-Gaming/TUF-Gaming-VG27WQ1B/
  4. It's about time as my old setup was around 10 years old but I now have a new setup and thought I would share. I don't like flashy colours so there is little point showing a picture of the case/contents (all lights are off and it is as plain as they come). I went with: Asus ROG STRIX X570-E GAMING AMD Ryzen 9 5900X 12c 24t @ 3.7Ghz AMD Radeon RX 6700-XT GPU 2x16GB Corsair Vengeance LPX DDR4 @ 3600 Benchmarks are pretty good: https://www.userbenchmark.com/UserRun/42811231 https://www.3dmark.com/3dm/61598111 Hasn't broken a sweat yet with any of the games/development I have been doing. Very good at the multi-threading heavy tasks I have set it. Also upgraded my desk to a standing desk. The top is solid Black American Walnut trim with a (English or French - can't recall) Walnut veneered board in the middle. Then added three 27" curved monitors: Excuse the grubby feet marks on the wall...
  5. I do - I currently get 1.25 million a month in interest
  6. I really enjoyed this one - binged it in a day! Currently watching Colony
  7. Personally my start into programming was gaming and allot of that was XI. I somehow got involved in Crysis server mods; I think it was in looking at the mods for the previous community I was in. We were trying to solve an in-game issue with the mod and it needed some slight scripting changes, it was an easy change but that ease inspired me to look into it more. I then got involved in that modding community and ended up becoming a developer for the mod. XI allowed me to expand into messing with other types of programming and to 'solve' problems with it. My initial code was shit and I remember Steve (Ph4nt0m) telling me about threading and how to instantiate threads so not to lock up the UI etc. I ended up going to university and yes I learned a load of stuff about "data structures and algorithms" whilst there but the true experience and knowledge came from what I have done in XI. That is what I discussed in my first job interview to be a trainee software engineer at the UK MoD, less so the University course. My XI projects have generally been a way for me to learn a new technology/tool/stack and then use that to excel in my professional career. I was lead software engineer of a team (two at one point) responsible for some pretty substantial services and projects for the MoD before I left a couple of years back to start my own company and I now work on a consultancy/contract basis brought in to be an expert in certain topics. So my advice; find a problem you want to solve and give it a shot - choose a language that comes up in Google when you start researching around the problem. Be a polygot developer; I usually am Microsoft stack but have implemented personal, XI and professional solutions in many different languages on many different stacks.
  8. Nope and we can't use the app for this site because of the boobs etc.
  9. I did work on a mobile app project back a couple of years. The app wasn't anything special, just a load of forms etc. to allow users to submit data on marine wildlife. However part of the project was about building a mobile capability etc. The stack has changed a little since then as Microsoft bought and open-sourced a load but it was using Xamarin: https://dotnet.microsoft.com/apps/xamarin Language choice for us was C# as that is what the team used. For backend/web apps or APIs I usually go asp net core and host on Azure. Generally I like to keep the stack all Microsoft for ease however the solutions would also host well on AWS etc. I haven't done any mobile development since but still actively work on mobile-first websites etc. Same stack etc. Bootstrap handles keeping things pretty and consistent across the different device sizes. Duc
  10. Honestly can't remember.. beets, strips of green things (perhaps courgette) - was good though!
  11. Thanks for the feedback so far - has been pretty useful. To be fair - the fact that you are discussing the validity of words does imply that the actual 'game' is working? and you are managing to place tiles etc. This for sure will not meet the requirements for all and so far meet most the the requirements for which it was created. The game engine has been built in a way that makes implementation of additional 'game rules' and features such as dictionary selection/enforcement fairly straight forward. That is something I may pick up on in the future. Thanks again for the feedback.
  12. Made this one earlier this month - pork and black pudding pie in a cake tin. Then had a nice meal with the family all together (first time in a while due to Covid..) I decided I would like this more than a traditional birthday cake
  13. Good idea - done The brief for this was to emulate the same process as playing in person so there is no validation on words. The Scrabble club usually play the games on Zoom so there is more discussion etc.
  14. I have played around with the board sizing trying to be a bit more dynamic for screen size. Love the idea of being able to play on a popup without the clutter of the browser and removing navigation etc. Will push some changes this morning. Account is needed for session management, ability to play against another person etc. Password is needed as accounts with no passwords can be messed with by anyone. Email address is needed for notifications and also to reduce bot impact. I did initially create a complete anon game system however for the target audience (elderly) having an account means that I can do lots of seamless 'magic' so they stay on a single page for the whole game and don't have to have 'special' links. I named the site... Talk with tiles.. I guess cards are kind of tiles, just really thin ones!
  15. Here's the link: https://www.talkwithtiles.com/ Have at it any any feedback would be good. A fair amount of the 'standard' game is working which is what the requirements were for. Some ideas on expansion etc. Will see where it ends up Thanks
  16. Probably the wrong audience but thought I would ask all the same. I have been working on an 'online Scrabble' app for my mum and her Scrabble club to use as they have been unable to meet in person. A little too late as we will (hopefully) soon be out of lockdown! I am aware there are other Scrabble apps and websites that are around but my mums friends and her struggle with them and don't like them so I took their list of requirements and made them something. Is there anyone here interested that would be up for doing some testing of what I have created to aide the development? Here's the link if anyone is interested: https://www.talkwithtiles.com/
  17. Sometimes you know.. the error message is correct
  18. I haven't heard any other issues with he redirect so it is unlikely to be an issue that end. The 'redirect' is simply a http server that allows downloading of files - super simple. I can provide you a OneDrive link if you PM me for all of the files if you want?
  19. Which upgrade? the upgrade of the site did not remove any awards.. it more looks like you have started using this profile instead of your old one... In either case - speak to ROCK
  20. I posted the URL after, got the name wrong it wasn't Daemon but DemonWare. In any case I wasn't discussing publisher or producer but the company behind the master server/authentication. The Treyarch, DemonWare and Infinity Ward companies are owned/subsidiaries of Activision anyway..
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