Carter1984

I'm in Portland grew up in Medford. Where you from?

Let's get together in Portland! Comment on this thread and let me know your interest.

You the man James!

I want to make a game to release on Steam, Desktop, or Android. Games are a passion of mine and always have been. All of my co-workers enjoy cruising on their six figure salaries putting in 8 hours a day and have no interest in pursuing side projects. I am mostly self taught and believe that even someone with no experience can learn to be proficient very quickly when paired with an experienced developer. If you want to join me in iterating through ideas, concepts, game mechanics, and the like I can share what I know about programming. We can both learn how to make a great game and make some money in the process. This would be a 50/50 partnership. Although having some skills already would be a plus, they are not required. Any experience with Photoshop/Illustrator, graphic design, writing stories/comics, or anything else creative are also great skills to bring to the table but are not necessary. If you are short on cash, I can teach you quickly how to make a few bucks freelancing while we work on the game project. I need someone who is willing to go all in and be dedicated to making a great game. I am currently a senior programming analyst for a large company with experience in C++, Java, PHP, Javascript, MySQL, and too many libraries/frameworks to mention here. I've developed enterprise web applications as well as automated systems for large and small businesses. My other work experience includes: *Becoming a commercial loan officer at the age of 19 where I was responsible for an $80k/year marketing budget, established a co-operative marketing campaign with a small commercial bank which had more than $1 billion in assets, published several investment articles, guest speaker at an investment conference for the author of Commercial Investing for Dummies, and arranged more than $20 million of financing for commercial property. I trained junior loan officers whom I am still friends with today. *Started with no experience as a network technician and became a system supervisor and then the training manager within 1 year where I covered all systems across Oregon/Washington. I created a new training manual, developed the best practices, and brought the training time of new technicians from 3 months down to 1 month before they were considered competent to begin installations. Other ideas I've had include quadcopter security system, and embeddable hosted fully styled web site widgets. I'm not married to any particular idea yet, just looking for some good people to team up with.

Hey Robin. Glad you found the notification icon in the tray. Unfortunately Google offers developers only a very limited set of capabilities for controlling the behavior of the notifications. They are still going through different iterations of the API and this may very well change in the near future. I'll be keeping up with those changes and providing better support when it's possible.

I just made a new chrome extension. It's only my second extension so don't judge me too harshly. It gives you a quote of the day desktop notification from Stef when you open your chrome browser. I will add more quotes when I get a chance. Feel free to make a list and post them (hopefully in a programmer friendly way). I'm tired, so maybe I'll post more later. Here is the link: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/fdr-quotes/iieoeeedgkhnjfemmlndfpenhkfpaggk Feedback appreciated.

This should be easier to use than the above posted code which needed to be pasted into your console. It's a Chrome Extension! This is my first Chrome Extension so just be aware this is considered alpha! I've tested it quite a bit though and it seems to work pretty well I think. Just make a note: *Once you install the extension you will need to refresh your browser for this to work. *Whenever you close your browser and open it back up, you will need to click the extension button in order to start blocking your saved list of ignored users (why run the blocker when there is no need?). *If you remove a user from your ignore list you may have to refresh the browser. Here is a link to install the extension via the Chrome Web Store: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/fdr-chat-block/mglableldfdmgfmfjhlcfnmnbabjdoeh This file is the source code: block/mglableldfdmgfmfjhlcfnmnbabjdoehFDRChatBlock.zip

I found what you are talking about Mike. There is a "chats" checkbox in the "ignore preferences" section of the "edit profile" section. It is buried rather deep. I never would have found it unless you pointed it out. I'll see if I can add the option as a context menu item available from the chat room. UPDATE: I did test the ignore functionality. Checking the chat ignore check box does not actually block messages from appearing in the chat window.

Here is a screenshot. Some people say that I should be able to add friends, but I cannot. Also the menu is way off from where it should be positioned.

I think there should be a way to ignore a person in chat. To that end I made a small script you can insert into the console of your browser. Simply copy/paste it and hit enter. Then just type: block('USER_NAME_HERE'); It is case sensitive. It basically just polls the chat and anytime a comment is made by the person you enter, it removes it from view. Have not tested this over long periods of time, but I think it is performant enough to work well in most use cases. Once you refresh your browser you'll have to repeat the process. Don't worry about screwing anything up as you can always refresh page and start over. I would be curious how it works with multiple ignores. Maybe I'll make this into a chrome extension if anyone else finds it useful. function block(userName){ window.setInterval(function(){ var items = jQuery('li.post'); items.each(function(){ if(jQuery(this).find('label').text() === userName){ jQuery(this).hide(); if(jQuery(this).next('li.post').length > 0){ checkNext(jQuery(this)); } } }); },500);}function checkNext(theItem){ if(theItem.next('li.post').length > 0 && theItem.next('li.post').find('label')){ theItem.next('li.post').hide(); if(theItem.next('li.post').next('li.post').length > 0){ checkNext(theItem.next('li.post').next('li.post')); } }}

12 years of propaganda during a youth's most impressionable stages of development might have something to do with it.

Mall Cops and Security Agencies as they currently exist might be a good place to look to understand how things might operate in a free society. Insurance is another place. The important thing to remember is that nobody really knows for sure how things will play out in a free society and what services will look like. We can only speculate. No one would have predicted automated machines taking the place of slavery as a means to pick cotton, yet that is precisely what happened. Stef has done some good videos on the subject of security. Hans Herman Hoppe has also done quite a bit of extensive research and explanation on the subject as well. Recently there has opened a business called Shield Mutual which provides some measure of security service in the form of an organization designed for protecting people after the fact of violence has occurred. Stef: http://shieldmutual.com/ Hoppe: http://youtu.be/zmSCh_w0B3A Just searching: DRO, Protection Agency, Free Market Security will yield many results.